You probably know that the title is from John Donne, right?

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Start here and navigate using the arrow keys at the top to turn to the next chapter. This way you get to read it in the proper order, rather than banging your head on the keyboard in frustration at the topsyturviness of it all ( Read more... )

Draco was practicing his Quidditch moves with Neville when Harry, following Dobby's directions, finally tracked him down. ( Read more... )

Of all the people who might conceivably have taken it upon themselves to visit him in the Infirmary, Ron Weasley was arguably the last person whom Draco would have expected to see.( Read more... )

Professor Snape was standing in precisely the same spot he had occupied the last time that Draco awoke in the Infirmary.( Read more... )

The first thing that Draco was conscious of was pain: a host of aches and twinges both sharp and dull were throbbing insistently and demanding his attention, and for a puzzled moment he wondered whether he'd fallen off his broom, or been attacked by another one of Hagrid's pets. ( Read more... )

It was approaching dusk when they finally landed. ( Read more... )

Harry squeezed him tightly and Draco winced in his arms. ( Read more... )

Less than half an hour had passed between the instant that Draco grabbed the snitch and vanished into thin air, and the moment that the ad-hoc rescue party arrived. ( Read more... )

Justin was not in Hufflepuff. ( Read more... )