Writer: Azure K Mello
Title: A Bond Never Dies
Part: 88 of , or part 5 of Part Three
Words: 232
The girl this is dedicated to is frighteningly rich.
The class cleared out and Harry made a show of cleaning his workstation. Once everyone had gone he looked angrily at Severus, "You're unkind at times, you manipulative bastard."
He could tell from the way Severus was looking at him that the man wasn't going to play the fool. And when he did speak he said, "I did what I thought necessary."
"They all think you're just being a bastard. They don't realize you're downright cruel."
"Harry-"
"You're making me be alone with a death eater's son. You knew I would pick him because we can rub along well enough in a public place. But to have to study one on one with him?"
He felt the walls of silence come up around the room he knew that no one earwiging would hear what was said. "He's not a death eater."
"No but his father is!" protested Harry.
"You misunderstand me," said Severus slowly, "Lucius is not a death eater. He's a spy."
"What? Why?"
"It's nothing noble, really. He just saw that neither you nor your father died and he realized he was backing the wrong broom racer. And Draco knows that. It's time for him to get a little guidance."
"So what I'm being a double agent? That's your bag not mine. I don't want this."
"I've seen the way you look at him, Harry, I know what you want."