Complete Works by Maya

Author:Maya
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance--Gen, Romance--Slash, Harry Potter
Publisher: Sans Culottes Ltd.
Published: 2018-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

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“Right,” Malfoy said, pushing violently away from the Pensieve. “I’m sure that reminds you of all sorts of good times you can go laugh about with Weasley, so go enjoy yourself, I need to get some work done—“

“Malfoy, why are you talking so fast?” Harry asked. “What are you upset about now?”

“Upset? I’m not upset about anything,” Malfoy said, staring at Harry with wide eyes for approximately one minute before they became slits of venom again. “I enjoy being humiliated at least once a day. Clever of you to guess. Thank you, really, for seeing to that for me so often.”

“Malfoy, for God’s sake—” Harry stopped. “You can’t be angry with me over something that happened six years ago. I barely remembered it—“

“Is that so?” Malfoy snapped. “I remember it quite well.”

Harry remembered suddenly Malfoy saying something about—the train, when they were in fourth year. If Malfoy had been brooding about imagined slights for six years, Harry would—Harry supposed it made sense, given that this was Malfoy.

“Look, I wasn’t the one talking about coming to the same end as my parents if I wasn’t a bit more mannerly to the precious purebloods, all right?”

“All right!” Malfoy yelled. “I certainly came off best in that little conversation! I’m sure you’ve felt burned about that one for years! And I’m not angry!”

“Then why do you keep shouting?” Harry shouted back at him. “And weren’t we supposed to do some Occlumency today?”

“Fine!” Malfoy screamed. “Yes! Whatever you want! After all, what am I doing trapped here if not to serve Harry Potter’s every whim? Go ahead, then, defend yourself! Legilimens!”

“Protego!” Harry shouted at him, and realised as he did so that Malfoy’d had no defences up at all.

Malfoy’s mind hit him and enveloped him like a tsunami, dragging him under.

It was different from the flashes of Snape’s mind, where there had been a distance that Snape had always managed to keep in place, had wanted in place when he was looking at Harry’s memories and managed to preserve even when Harry had broken through to his.

It was like it was Harry, only it wasn’t. Harry didn’t feel things like this.

It was like a storm of emotion rather than a series of snapshots. It was all so different.

A father whose face was like the face of God, which if you were deserving enough might just be turned to you with approval. And Mother who was always distant, and a teacher always at a remove even though he was supposed to be Father’s friend, and friends who believed in him and couldn’t be disillusioned, and an enemy who had somehow worked out your secret unspoken fear, that somehow you weren’t good enough. That there was a fatal flaw in you somewhere that meant you would let everybody down.

And God was taken away, as if one day the sun was blotted out of the sky, and nobody cared. They’d all been in on it, they were laughing about it or indifferent or busy with other people they thought were worthwhile but you were going to show them all.

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