Author's Note Done for the May "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" contest over at The Hideaway. The challenge was a poem or 200 word drabble with the "What had he told her?" phrase as the first line. I went with drabble as poetry is so not my forte. Getting it to exactly 200 words was rather interesting.
What had he told her?
Hermione had never explained what Draco had done to convince her of his sincerity when he'd defected from Voldemort's side a mere month before the final battle. Draco's defection to Hermione had been the subject of many of the rumors and cruel remarks inevitable when people were forced together in hiding. It had effectively ended her already shaky relationship with Ron, and Harry had held it against her as well, never able to completely trust her afterward.
But he would have let her have all the secrets she wanted if it meant the Killing Curse she had stepped in front of to protect Draco from had missed. As his blonde former nemesis met Harry's eyes with stricken gray orbs before turning to kill and be killed by the same wand bearer who had just struck down the muggle born witch, Harry realized it had never been his confession to hear. Nor had it been anyone else's.
Hermione had been the one Draco had hurt the most in their school years, and if she was willing to give her life for his after all of it, whatever he told her must have been, quite simply, believable.
