drao looked over at harry’s bed on the other side of the room and then at the boyto him with a strange expresn “pons i’m reviewing dragon’s bane why are you over here?”
“well, i thought there was no real point in getting into different beds anymore” harry shrugged as if it were obus “we’re going to end up in the same bed by m anyway besides, if i’m over here i an hear you read out loud”
“and why would i read out loud?”
“i notied that your mouth moves when you study things, as if you’re speaking them sine it’s something like pons, i figured you ould just read it out loud and then i ould listen until i fall asleep”
“you think you’ll fall asleep while listening to pons ingredients?” drao asked, amused
“well, if it weren’t for snape, i’d gdly sleep through the m pons sses”
“fine get omfortable then”
harry found it a lot harder to fall asleep than he thought it was rexing to listen to drao’s voie go over something that he was ied in and while harry felt the tug of sleep overtake him, something in drao’s voie always seemed to all him bak to what the other boy was saying
drao was slightly surprised when harry sleepily asked him to go over what he was expining again after a moment’s pause drao repeated the steps to adding the powdered leopard anines while stirring the pon, first lokwise four turns and then ounterlokwise five turns harry nodded sleepily and drao ontinued with the instruns, surprised that harry was atually listening
ron grumpily surveyed the headlines of the daily prophet, notiing that an attak was one again the highlight of the day wordlessly, he passed it to herne and proeeded to pay omplete attenn to his eggs as if they were the ause of the onstant flow of things that he should be sure to remember for suh-and-suh exam that ame from the brueto him
herne didn’t even look at the headline, passing the paper to harry as she ontinued her expnan of the seond troll and goblin war
harry looked over the headline with a frown another attak bloking out herne’s expnan of the troll leader whose name he ouldn’t hope to pronoune, muh less spell orretly on an exam, he began to read the desripn of the attak an orphanage had been attaked over one hundred muggle hildren, about his age and younger, had died no one had yet been able to find out how the orphanage had been attaked, the building had been burned to the ground before anyone had seen the dark mark in the sky voldemort wasn’t hiding it now, harry thought it’s obus now that they’re death eater attaks, but there’s still no point the orphanage had been a few miles outside london, and other than the sheer horridness of it, harry ould see no other gain that this partiur attak gave voldemort maybe that’s the point, harry wondered, as he put the paper bak down on the table he doesn’t have to do these attaks, and yet he’s going to do them anyway to show exatly how powerful he is
over at the slytherin table, drao had a very different reason for voldemort’s attak he pulled out the map that he had shamelessly taken from his and harry’s rooms without telling harry and loated the spot on the map where the orphanage had been it fell exatly on the irle he had drawn before
it’s got to have something to do with malfoy manor, drao thought there was no other expnan but what was voldemort’s goal? he ould attak malfoy manor diretly the wards would kill a lot of death eaters before he got to the gates but he ould still do it but what was he waiting for? all of the attaks had been aimed at muggles a few wizards had been killed as well, but they were a few in a long list of muggles if voldemort meant to intimidate his father, then he was going about it the wrong way beause his father wouldn’t are if muggles were attaked another thought passed through his head maybe the dark lord wanted to make it look as if his father had helped pn the attaks by ping them in suh a way that it looked like malfoy manor had to be part of the attaks
frowning slightly, drao began to onsider his opns these types of thoughts ould not be written down in a letter he ould tell his father any theories he had, and yet he ould be sure that his father would not answer them, lest the letter be ied and his reply used against him there was no way to get to malfoy manor from hogwarts unless he used one of the teaher’s floos…if they were hooked up to begin with but he would have to have a disusn with his father somehow and thehogsmead weekend was weeks away, too far away for him to simply ask his father to meet him in the three broomstik to disuss the attaks he would have to talk with his father muh sooner than that
snape was surprised to see drao standing outside his quarters just before urfew that night he was even more surprised when drao asked if he ould firespeak malfoy manor
“i believe that now would not be the best time, drao” the boy opened his mouth to protest “not for you or your father”
drao had not been expeting that “godfather,” and drao ped speial signifiane on the title, “i need to speak with my father”
“about the attaks?”
“yes”
snape sighed and ushered drao into the room closing the door, he ped a silening charm on the room
“drao you annot firespeak malfoy manor”
“but—”
“you annot, beause no one an”
“what?”
“drao, do you think that your father hasn’t figured out what’s going on? malfoy manor is losed up like a gringotts vault all of the firepes have been ut off from the floo work until further notie”
“but what if you-know-who attaks malfoy manor?” drao asked
“then we’ll have to hope that your father knows a way off the grounds that doe
