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dracoharry100Title: The Potions Man and the Buyer, Part 70
Author: twisted_miracle
Team: death eaters
Word count: 100x4
Rating for this post: PG
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Summary: The end of the story.
Challenge: news
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, they belong to the clever Scottish lady. I just bend them and love them. Please don't smack me for playing. It isn't like I am going to earn any money from this!
Author's note: Comments are love!
Continued from part 69: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/231285.html#cutid1
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ClickClickClick went Ori Yafet’s shutter.
“Oi, Harry!” yelled an unfamilar man, oddly dressed.
“Stop!” yelled an observant Auror, mostly unheard among the muddling, dissipating crowd.
ClickClickClick recorded Yafet’s camera shutter, ignored by everyone else. The chaos of tired people in finery churned away, toward the exits.
The unfamiliar man, oddly dressed, surged erratically toward Harry and Draco. “Harry!” he yelled, a package — lumpy and small — cradled in his arms.
“Harry!” Draco cried; terrified. He jumped between, threw himself on top of, lay his whole body over: protecting.
Aurors swarmed. The unfamiliar man was yanked away, wailing.
ClickClickClick went Yafet’s shutter.
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By the time the Aurors had the truth all sorted, no one cared about the truth. But it was all there, in Yafet’s photographs.
“Draco saved Harry!” screamed the headlines.
“Potter’s new beloved offers own life to save Hero!”
Witch Weekly was the first to offer the real story, a week later, when it had finally been carefully unravelled. But the Daily Prophet had filled all the available bandwidth already. It was useless.
Still, they tried. “‘Dangerous Man’ mere autograph-seeker,” they said.
“Sylvester Gesson offers abject apology to Potter, Malfoy,” they tried.
“Harry signs Gesson’s Memorabilia,” they said. “Photos inside!”
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A week after the Equinox Ball, Draco Malfoy was the most popular wizard in Britain. He could not leave home without being swarmed by grateful admirers.
He and Harry set their wedding for the second Sunday in June. He and Harry were ecstatically happy. Narcissa and Molly were asked to do most of the planning, since Harry and Draco both worked full time.
Still. Draco had to know. “Did you do this?” he asked his mother, one sunny morning after Harry left for Wheezes.
“I am sure I have no idea what you mean,” Narcissa said dismissively, turning the page.
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Draco put one hand upon his mother’s. She folded the newspaper. They looked at one another over a long, heavy moment.
“I am serious,” Draco finally said. “Did you set up Gesson? What if he had been hurt? Worse, what if he had not simply been an innocent fan with a Golden Snitch and three books he hoped Harry would sign?”
“I am quite sure I have no idea what you mean,” Narcissa said yet again.
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Witch Weekly published their special Potter and Malfoy Romantic Wedding Edition that June. Yafet photographed. It sold out seven times before they stopped reprinting.
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Fin
Author: twisted_miracle
Team: death eaters
Word count: 100x4
Rating for this post: PG
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Summary: The end of the story.
Challenge: news
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, they belong to the clever Scottish lady. I just bend them and love them. Please don't smack me for playing. It isn't like I am going to earn any money from this!
Author's note: Comments are love!
Continued from part 69: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/231285.html#cutid1
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ClickClickClick went Ori Yafet’s shutter.
“Oi, Harry!” yelled an unfamilar man, oddly dressed.
“Stop!” yelled an observant Auror, mostly unheard among the muddling, dissipating crowd.
ClickClickClick recorded Yafet’s camera shutter, ignored by everyone else. The chaos of tired people in finery churned away, toward the exits.
The unfamiliar man, oddly dressed, surged erratically toward Harry and Draco. “Harry!” he yelled, a package — lumpy and small — cradled in his arms.
“Harry!” Draco cried; terrified. He jumped between, threw himself on top of, lay his whole body over: protecting.
Aurors swarmed. The unfamiliar man was yanked away, wailing.
ClickClickClick went Yafet’s shutter.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
By the time the Aurors had the truth all sorted, no one cared about the truth. But it was all there, in Yafet’s photographs.
“Draco saved Harry!” screamed the headlines.
“Potter’s new beloved offers own life to save Hero!”
Witch Weekly was the first to offer the real story, a week later, when it had finally been carefully unravelled. But the Daily Prophet had filled all the available bandwidth already. It was useless.
Still, they tried. “‘Dangerous Man’ mere autograph-seeker,” they said.
“Sylvester Gesson offers abject apology to Potter, Malfoy,” they tried.
“Harry signs Gesson’s Memorabilia,” they said. “Photos inside!”
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A week after the Equinox Ball, Draco Malfoy was the most popular wizard in Britain. He could not leave home without being swarmed by grateful admirers.
He and Harry set their wedding for the second Sunday in June. He and Harry were ecstatically happy. Narcissa and Molly were asked to do most of the planning, since Harry and Draco both worked full time.
Still. Draco had to know. “Did you do this?” he asked his mother, one sunny morning after Harry left for Wheezes.
“I am sure I have no idea what you mean,” Narcissa said dismissively, turning the page.
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Draco put one hand upon his mother’s. She folded the newspaper. They looked at one another over a long, heavy moment.
“I am serious,” Draco finally said. “Did you set up Gesson? What if he had been hurt? Worse, what if he had not simply been an innocent fan with a Golden Snitch and three books he hoped Harry would sign?”
“I am quite sure I have no idea what you mean,” Narcissa said yet again.
Witch Weekly published their special Potter and Malfoy Romantic Wedding Edition that June. Yafet photographed. It sold out seven times before they stopped reprinting.
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Fin
