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After

August 2012

Potter,

Owling to make sure you got home in one piece. Wouldn’t want your friends to think I killed you while on your supposed vacation.

Draco A. Malfoy

~*~

Malfoy,

I didn’t mention that I saw you. I know my friends and I didn’t feel up to the fight that would occur. They treat me like I can’t take care of myself sometimes. Anyway, I’m back in London and it's like nothing has changed. I miss New York. London is as close as I’ll get but it's not the same.

Harry

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October 2012

Draco,

I was in Muggle London the other day with Ron and Hermione, and Hermione wanted to go into a record store. You’ll never guess what they were playing, Hey there Delilah. I stood there grinning like a loon. Hermione wanted to know what was up but I couldn’t even explain it to her.

Harry

PS. You have an amazing voice. You’re being wasted as a barista you could be an amazing idol, you have the looks, voice and personality for it. I’d buy any record you put out.

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Potter,

We were never to speak of that again.

Malfoy

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Malfoy,

If I had a Muggle mobile phone I would have recorded you singing and let the whole world know that the great Draco Malfoy ran away to be rock star.

Harry

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Potter,

I swear to you if you breath a word to anyone I will return to England post haste and murder you in your sleep.

Malfoy

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Malfoy Draco

I hope you don’t mind me calling you by your proper name. All the letters exchanged surely warrant us moving up from pen pals to at least frenemies if not actual friends through letters. Doesn't sleeping with someone automatically make you their friend?

I don’t know why you’re making such a big deal about it. I think you sung bloody well. Much better than anyone else I know. I mean, sureHey there Delilah’s a pretty Hufflepuffy song and rather Muggle to boot

Harry

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November 2012

Potter,

Yes, I bloody well know how well I can sing. I simply couldn’t stand by and listen. It nothing else, it was a service to the kind patrons of the bar.

Malfoy

PS. It's proper to ask first before taking the liberty to call someone by their given name. But I guess being the orphan you are you were never taught proper etiquette.

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Malfoy,

Fine then. Would you be so kind as to grant your permission for me to call you by your first name?

Harry

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Harry,

Sarcasm doesn’t work on paper. And Gryffindors should leave the sarcasm to the people who handle it best.

Draco

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Draco,

I’m taking your use of my first name as permission to address you by your first name also. Bickering with you on paper isn’t the same as doing it in person. I hadn’t realized how much I missed it until now.

Harry

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We didn’t bicker when you were here. 

Draco

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I know. That’s not the point. The point, you daft prat, is that I didn’t realize that I missed you till now.

Harry

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January 2013

Draco,

I broke up with Ginny. She wanted to get married, start a family. I’m not ready for that yet. I spent so long being adult like I just want to lay about have no responsibilities for a while. I don’t want what she wants. She didn’t take it so well.

Harry

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Do you want me to feel sorry for you? I don’t. I always thought you were better than the She-Weasel, anyway.

Draco

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Harry,

It seems as though I’m destined to run into people that I know, even in a city of eight billion people. I doubt if you remember her but there was a girl in our year, Daphne Greengrass. I ran into her sister Astoria the other day. It was a great deal more pleasant than I thought it would be. We’ve been having coffee together every day I’m not working since I saw her. It's pleasant. She’s thinking of moving here but didn’t want to uproot without being sure, so she’s staying on semi-holiday while she figures it out. I’ve been showing her around.

Draco

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What’s the point of breaking up with someone if they still treat you like you’re in a relationship with them, just without the snogging and sex? It's like Ginny's trying to still be with me. I’m glad Astoria and you are getting on well. I won’t say I’m not jealous but there’s not much I can do about that.

HP

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Potter,

I thought we weren’t talking about that.

DM

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Then don’t mention your girlfriend to me and I won’t mention how much I hate her even though I’m sure she’s a perfectly nice girl.

Harry

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Potter,

If I can listen to you whine about the She-Weasel when you were dating, you can handle a few passing comments about Astoria.

DM

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February 2013

Draco,

They’ve offered me a position in the Auror Office at the Ministry. I wouldn’t have to test into or anything. I’d start field training immediately. Everyone’s saying what an honor it’d be but it feels wrong. Like I’m getting in for something that has nothing to do with the program. Its like McGonagall offering me the Defense position even though I haven’t had any real training.

Harry

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Harry,

What do you want? Even if the reason they’re letting you in isn’t one you agree with it's an opportunity. And if it's something you want you should take it.

Draco

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I wrote McGonagall back. I told her that I’d love to teach but that I had no experience and that maybe I’d be an assistant professor or something. She said we’d work it out over the summer. 

Harry

PS. Hermione’s jealous. Am I a bad friend for being amused by it?

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April 2013

Harry

Astoria found the box where I keep our correspondence. She accused me of cheating on her. I tried to explain to her that we were just friends. That we’ve been together once, long before I met her. She yelled and threw things, then she left. I expect you’re pleased with this news.

DM

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Immensely so.

Harry

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Has Granger bought you a 'word of the day'-calendar? Using adult words, I see.

DM

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Are we fighting? Because if we are, this is a stupid fight. You didn’t expect me to be upset that you two broke up, so what the bloody hell are we fighting about?

Harry

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May 2013

Harry,

What would you like me to do? I can’t move back to England, not even for you, and I wouldn’t ask you to leave England for me, no matter how arrogant you think me to be. I know it's your home and that England is where your family is.

Draco

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Draco,

My home and family may be here in England but my heart is with you.

Harry

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June 2013

Harry,

This is where I am asking you again what you want me to do? You know how I feel, I know how you feel, now what?

Draco

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Draco,

By the time you get this I will have already taken a Portkey to New York and be on my way to your flat. If you get this before you get home, I simply told Anthea to bring you this owl. I’ll be waiting for you in your flat. Four-thousand miles is too far a distance away from you.

Love,
Harry