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Title: The Year in Review

Author: Draco Volatile

Rating: PG-13

Disclaimer: All Harry Potter characters, material, and logos belong to J. K. Rowling. The plot -if there is one- belongs to
me.

Summary: Harry feels incomplete after leaving Hogwarts. He writes to Draco to help him feel better.

WARNING: Profanity and m/m slash hints.

A/N: The next chapters will be their letters.
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Chapter 4 - Feelings
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Harry certainly hadn't expected a response. But as he read the letter from Malfoy, he decided that possibly he wasn't the
only one who was uneasy. Malfoy hinted with his rude words that he was lonesome.


Dear Draco,

Thank you for your response, although it wasn't exactly what I had in mind. I know I've been less than friendly in the past
seven years, but so have you. Instead of fighting like stupid prats, can we please try to work something out? Like I said, I
miss you and I'd like someone to talk to.

Sorry to disappoint you, Draco, but Hermione and Ron haven't ditched me. I don't know what you were thinking when you read my
first letter, but I'm not writing to you because they're not speaking to me.

Sincerely,
Harry


Hedwig once again disappeared out the window. Harry watched her fly off, a sinking feeling inside of him. Something felt odd
about writing to Draco Malfoy . . .

Whenever Harry spoke to Ron, they laughed and joked around together. Whenever he spoke to Hermione, they were a slight more
serious, since Hermione was far more sensible than Ron, but their conversations were occasionally filled with glorious humor
that Harry could thrive on for hours. Writing to Malfoy was different. Harry didn't know whether he should be laughing or
crying.

Then he thought of all the nights he spent alone in his four-poster, wide awake, listening to Seamus Finnigan making love to
Lavender Brown and watching Dean Thomas from the corner of his eye kissing Parvati Patil. . . . Those were lonely nights.

He thought of the school dances he had went to in his school years. At the Yule Ball in his fourth year, Harry had abandoned
Parvati and ended up feeling sorry for himself because Cho Chang was dancing with Cedric Diggory. The Fall Fest in his sixth
year wasn't much better. A great deal of Gryffindor girls had found out about Parvati's poor treatment at the Yule Ball and
wouldn't go with him. He had gone alone, and so had Ron. Cho Chang had gone with Lee Jordan, and they danced the whole time.
But the Winter Ball in his seventh year had been by far the worst one. He had asked Hermione to go with him, but she had
gotten sick at the last moment and he had ended up going alone.

One other person had gone alone, and that had been Draco Malfoy. Harry didn't suppose that Malfoy spent his nights like
Seamus and Dean did, either . . . Perhaps there was someone out there just like him. Someone completely different, but just
like him. Harry sat by the window and waited for Hedwig to return.
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