together - harry potter
It was inevitable really,
The switch of sides.
She was sat on a pedestal,
The purest of the pure,
The kindest of the kind.
Her wide doe eyes never failing to light up whenever he would enter the room.
And they were perfect,
Together
Seemingly.
It didn’t happen at once.
No, it was a large gradual build up,
Destined to break from the beginning.
Because when two perfect golden kids look into a glass mirror that only they can see through,
There will be cracks, small ones, almost unnoticeable …
Just waiting for the big blow at the glass for it to finally shatter all around them.
It wasn’t even intentional at first, when he would ignore their plans to recklessly run off with his mates only to be found in the morning with a barrel of apologies and chocolates that he missed their date.
But one missed date turned into three, and then five, then 7, and then 10.
Apologies still came the following day, but with time they were became less sincere.
And soon enough the good morning kisses on the lips that were never failed to be gave slowly turned into a kiss on the cheek, or on the forehead or her hairline instead.
Still Together,
Yet feeling so apart.
Then came her birthday …
Which he must of also forgotten since he was found in the library tutoring one Ginny Weasley.
She didn’t let herself be seen, she wouldn’t let him see her, vulnerable with teary eyes.
So instead she began her fast pace walk down the multiple corridors desperately searching for some silence where she could just sit and be upset without being bombarded with housemates in her common room.
Finally a dark and lonely corridor made its way into her vision, so she sat, and she cried.
She cried for the person she fell in love with, who was so much like herself in so many ways. She remembered they used to talk to each other about how the immense pressure of trying to be perfect and trying to keep up being ‘the goldenchild’ was so exhausting, feeling alone even when they had 10 other people around them. They would seek comfort in each other and let their guard down.
Now she felt so alone again, she wasn’t sure what she had done to cause harry to drift away from her and practically avoid her at breakfast and in the halls now. She felt isolated.
And at that moment, where she looked her weakest, multiple pairs of footsteps were heard coming in the direction of her dark and lonely corridor.
Not even bothering looking up and hoping that whoever it was would take a hint and just leave them be, she kept her head down lowered in her hands, knees pushed up together, so her chin had a resting place.
But then the footsteps slowed, and then stopped completely to a halt.
‘y/n?’
‘y/l/n?’
Her first and last name spewed out of their mouths, she realised now she was looking at 3 pairs of feet before her.
Recognisable voices ?
She sniffled and then decided to look up at their faces, who were probably planning on mocking her now.
There, the faces of Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini and … Draco Malfoy ?… were standing.
All together.
But instead of the usual smirks crawling up onto their faces, a mix of shock and pity were etched upon them. She didn’t want pity.
‘Get on with it then, if you plan on laughing at me and then spreading the news to the entire school that the perfect happy Hufflepuff was crying in a little corridor then go right ahead, I can’t be bothered stopping you all today’
Theodore was the first to kneel down to her level,
Placing one hesitant hand onto her shin and successfully capturing eye contact.
‘What’s got you all upset over here love?’
She knew Theodore, not well, but they were acquainted. Theo tutored her in transfiguration last year and was surprisingly kind through the whole process.
She just shrugged and looked away once again, not wanting any attention, just to be left alone.
‘Cmon, we don’t bite’
‘Really, I thought that was the whole point of a snake’
The unexpected reaction of chuckling came from one Blaise Zabini,
‘that was a good one’ he snorted
The slightest hint of a smile was etched onto Draco’s mouth, and he too knelt down.
‘What’s bothering you this much to have you sitting down moping in a dirty alley’
She looked up at him and was surprised to see his usual hard eyes a shade softer,
Before she could even open her mouth to respond Blaise beat her to it,
‘I’m feeling lonely up this tall, let me join in on the friendship circle, move over Malfoy’
‘It’s not a friendship circle Zabini’ Draco quickly interjected
‘Well it sure looks like one to me and I wanna join.’ He squished his way between Theo and Draco and sat down cross legged in front of me.
It was quite an amusing sight, all three of the schools most feared Slytherins sitting in a close huddle, looking not the slightest bit scary.
‘okay … so, what’s got you all upset hm?’
…
And that was the beginning of the end.
A new friendship formed between the unlikely group,
Whenever Harry would bail on her she would just go and hang about with her new friends.
Harry wasn’t the least bit suspicious of anything, he barely made any time to see her at all anymore anyway, so she spent most of her time up in the Slytherin dorms.
She found it a whole lot more fun than before, she got to be herself with them, unlike everyone else who expected only a certain version of her.
They weren’t supportive of her relationship, but anyone who knew the ins and outs of it like they did wouldn’t be, their hate for the potter boy just multiplied after hearing her side of what had been going on.
But It wasn’t until one evening at dinner when things went downhill …
She was sitting at the Gryffindor table for dinner as usual squished in between Hermione and Dean and across from Harry and Ron.
All separate conversations of small talk were made before Harry decided it was the perfect time to drop a bomb …
No privacy, everyone near could hear.
‘So, hey listen y/n love’
She turned her head toward him, a sweet smile adorning her face ‘hm?’
‘How about tonight, we sneak out to Hogsmeade or something, y’know, catch up. Feel like I haven’t seen you for ages’
‘Oh. Sorry Harry, I can’t tonight I already have plans, we can go tomorrow night instead though right?’
Uh- no I can’t do tomorrow, can’t you reschedule whatever you’ve got going on tonight for another time?’
‘I can’t tonight Harry, I’m sorry, how about we just go on Saturday with everyone else’ she shrugged with a small smile still present on her lips
‘Well yeah, we could but I just wanted it to be special or something’ his eyes pointed downward
‘Oh … well that’s really sweet-‘
‘Yeah. Who did you say you have you got plans with again?’
She quirked an eyebrow,
‘I didn’t?’
So, who are you seeing?’ his eyes slightly harder
‘Um … well, I-‘
‘y/n’ he sighed impatiently
‘yes.’
‘who is it you’re seeing? I haven’t seen much of you around at all actually, only ever at dinner and in between classes, who are you spending all this time with lately?!’ he became louder on every word now.
‘just some friends!’
‘what friends?! Hermione is with Ron and I, Diggory graduated last year, Dean and Seamus are in our dorm most of the time, Luna has her alone time in the forbidden forest with the thresterals, you and Cho only ever talk at the DA and Ginny is far too busy with me to ever-‘
Suddenly he stopped short, eyes wide.
Her eyes raked up and down his face,
Her head cocked to the side, tongue now resting in the side of her mouth creating a slight bulge in her right cheek.
She leaned in slightly, not paying everyone else watching the slightest bit of attention.
‘Ginny and yourself are too busy doing … what?’
Every house table now had their eyes on the couple, which included her Slytherin trio, eyes stern and clenched jaws waiting for Harrys next words.
He gulped, suddenly all too aware of the eyes resting on him.
‘y/n-‘
She gave tight smile,
‘yes harry’
…
‘I-i, swear, it was a mistake, I love you! only you, I promise-‘
She let out a sigh, face strained in disappointment and anger, furthering Harry’s sudden regret.
Feeling the string that held them together, break loose.
‘How long?’
‘I- what?’
‘How long’ she questioned suddenly a lot sterner, eyes hard toward him.
He avoided her eyes.
‘2 weeks.’
Gasps surrounded them, and suddenly a lot of the eyes moved to Ginny Weasley who was further down the table, shrinking into herself.
He scrambled to pick up his messes
‘But y/n, I swear we’ve just kissed, nothing else, I promise, I would never-‘
‘you would never what?’
‘i- well, y’know…’
Beside him Ron made a face, probably disgusted at what he was hinting at was to do with his little sister.
‘right. Well,’ she shrugged ‘I guess you can now, don’t worry, we’re over. Bye harry.’
She flashed him an overly fake smile, picked up her things and made a brisk exit.
But only Harry’s eyes noticed the pack of Slytherins following not so discreetly behind her, yet for once, made no move to investigate further.
Face hard and steps wide, she kept her composure.
Knowing who was following right behind her, she made her way to their common room.
Once they got inside the dorm, she let herself flop face first into the closest bed; which happened to be Theo’s.
‘ugh’
And in came the fuming boys,
‘how could he do that?!’
‘to you of all people’
‘you’re so sweet’
‘like a bunny’
‘so sweet’
‘and soft’
‘and pretty’
… ‘like a bunny’
‘OKAY’
Silence then occurred.
She let herself twist around so she was now on her back looking up at the ceiling.
‘I need a change’
‘a change?’ Blaise’s eyebrow shot upward in confusion
‘yes, a change.’
‘um- like what?’ came theo’s befuddled response
She begrudgingly pulled herself up on her elbows,
‘yeah, like to flip a switch, and just be completely different… or something like that, I don’t know’
She sighed and lay back down.
The three boys shared a look, which of course she didn’t notice since she was staring motionlessly at the roof above her.
The middle of the beginning of the end,
It began after the discussion that the boys and herself had about the switch.
Go big or go home, right?
The end of their 6th year was quickly approaching and then the plan would come into progression.
Joining you-know-who on his mission to destroy Harry Potter, and win the war entirely.
To rule.
When the holidays approached she came home with the Malfoys who took a quick liking to her and her … aura? , or something like that they said … ?
Through the holidays entirety she made an impression on the dark lord,
An odd match, her being an itty bitty Hufflepuff and the darkest wizard of their time.
But it worked, somehow.
She liked this a lot better,
Here she was in power, people respected her and trusted her,
While she worked with the DA she was just brushed off as the chosen one’s Hufflepuff girlfriend,
But here, she was their very own chosen one.
Chosen to blindside Potter and leave him feeling betrayed and alone.
Like how he did to her.
None of us returned to Hogwarts after that,
Not many people did.
The war had officially begun,
Dumbledore dead after the task,
The dark side rising above,
Nobody was safe.
So when Harry and his friends showed up at the Manor,
Dragged in bloody and bruised,
Its safe to say she wasn’t surprised.
It was almost bittersweet,
The 4 were close even before Harry and she started dating, best friends with Hermione, and Ron was like a brother.
But now, they were at the end.
Opposite sides of the war,
Lethal to each other.
So she let out a sad smile before Bellatrix pulled her closer to Harry’s puffed up blotchy face.
As she stared into his eyes, which she used to find the most beautiful in the entire world,
She felt weak.
This was Harry, her harry!
What was she doing, what had she done?!
The one person who they had fought together and worked to get rid of, was now working with her?
What is she doing?
But then…
She also recalled Harry not having any issue pushing her aside,
Cheating on her,
Using her,
Ignoring her,
Not fighting for her,
And suddenly …
She was emotionless,
and she felt no guilt in saying,
‘Yes. This is him, Harry Potter.’
Stepping back and removing her mask,
Harry’s eyes went glassy and wide.
Not wide with anger, but with resent for himself.
How could he do this?
What had he done?!
He pushed her so far that she felt her only choice was with the dark side…
And so he put his head down without defence, and let himself be known.
Because if he realised what he had done and the concequenses of it sooner,
They would still be together,
Fighting together,
On the same side.
But this was a lot of his doing,
So accepted his fate.
Together,
Just not quite how they’d once planned.