Road To Wonder
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It's a very peculiar thing, Harry thinks, the waiting. Or how he feels as he waits. First, there had been the sense of sharp anticipation, of seeing the familiar arrogant face. But as the minutes turn to hours, it dulls to a foreboding ache in his chest. Harry starts to worry if perhaps something has happened on the way to the restaurant. Maybe he is stuck somewhere with a sudden unavoidable engagement.
It takes Harry three hours of waiting, and two bottles of champagne, to realize that maybe nothing happened to Malfoy at all and he just got stood up.
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