adopts Harry. You two will be…'
'Brothers,' said Harry, staring at Draco in horror.
Draco stared back with his mouth open.
Hermione couldn't restrain herself any longer. 'Brothers! The two of you!' She burst out into a peal of laughter. 'The looks on your faces!' she gurgled. 'Oh! The looks on your faces!'
Harry glared at her. 'Hermione!'
'I can't help it!' she giggled. 'It's too funny!'
And now Draco had started laughing, too. Harry had never seen him laugh like that before — not just snickering, but really laughing. He actually sat down on the ground, put his face in his hands, and shouted with laughter. Slowly, Harry started to smile, and then, looking at Hermione bent over and clutching her stomach with mirth, he began to laugh as well.
The sound of their laughter, rising in pitch, drifted out over the lake and the lawns and up to the castle beyond.
1) 'Oh, no,' said Dumbledore. 'All down to shouting, really.' — Blackadder.
2) ''Meanwhile,' continued Draco, 'I've dropped out of Hogwarts and become a hired assassin for the Ministry of Magic.' — The X-Files.
3) 'I will come back here and I will yank out your ribcage and wear it as a hat.
Understood?'
'Understood,' said Harry, grinning despite himself. 'And a big gold star for imagery.' Buffy.
4) 'I just never thought of it like that. You've always been like a part of me, like how I can do magic. I never sit around thinking about how I love being able to do magic, what it means to me. It's just a part of my life. But if I lost it — if I couldn't do magic anymore — ' I always thought Christopher's declaration to Katherine in The Perilous Gard was one of the best non-sappy declarations of love I had come across. It goes like this, 'I never thought of it like that. I always thought of you as a part of me, like my own eyes or my own hands. You don't go around thinking 'I love my eyes, I love my hands', do you? But think what it would be like to live without your eyes or your hands. To be mad, or to be blind. I can't talk about it. It's how I feel.' I memorized that speech when I was a kid and I wanted to use it again here. The Perilous Gard is by Elizabeth Marie Pope.
All illustrations in this document were drawn by Monica Starling, except for the picture of Harry and Draco cutting their hands, by Bhanesidhe, and the cover art, by Taylor.
