Sherbet Lemon

In his second year as a Senior at MLE, Harry came to work with pneumonia – got sent home, did not go, still spent the day mulling about the office, coughing over paperwork and napping on the couch. In his fifth year at the department, he left St Mungo’s with a barely-healed gash cutting his midriff in half – all the way from his belly button to his ribs – to join in on final stakeout mission. Once, he’d lied to a Healer about the hex he’d been hit with just so that he could head back to round up an investigation – and ended up having to spend a completely unnecessary week at the hospital, bored out of his mind and getting blue goop pumped out of his bloodstream. Once, he’d slept at the office because he couldn’t be bothered to go home for the night. Once, Hermione stopped by his office before heading home and said, Don’t overdo it, will you, darling? And Harry had waved her off, smiling, thinking – you can’t overdo something when it’s the only thing you want to do. Thinking that it would take a wall of blasting curses to slow him down. An army to get him to take a day off. In the end it’s nothing as dramatic as that, and all it takes is two sleepless nights and a couple dozen drug-induced fantasies to fully and completely crumble the fortress that is Harry Potter’s resolve.

Drawtober Day 4: Cherish

Like he literally and willingly joined the magical equivalent of the nazi party lololol. Omg imagine thinking “kids being assholes and getting into fights” is akin to “I think some people are inherently inferior and should be tortured and killed, actually!”

harry potter was such a pure child like he went to a ghosts death day party, he talked to myrtle bc she was lonely, he set a snake free bc it was unhappy, he genuinely was friends with luna even thought people thought she was weird, he attended aragog’s funeral, he met some lanky kid on the train and his immediate reaction was to buy the whole fucking trolly to share with him, and then when they got to hogwarts and malfoy was talkin shit about this kid he met a few hours ago he just went oh no u didnt ima protect this one