I Did It For You

“Why him?” Ron asks.

Oh, Ron. You always were far more clever than people first took you for.

“Intimacy.”

“I give you intimacy.”

“Intimacy is about more than just sex.”

I think about the time Draco found me crying in a broom closet; of when the tension was high, and the space too small, and I was so certain he would kiss me.

He embraced me instead. He looked at me, at my waterfall tears and broken expression, and his only thought was to take me into his arms.

Or: a choice.