Sent for an eighth-year with people he'd rather avoid, Harry is hardly willing to face up to what the coming year might bring him. Surprisingly, Draco feels the same; But all is not well in that house on the moors, and this could be make or break. HP/DM

"She sighed and her mouth and eyes fell shut, and she buried her nose in her son's hair and wrapped her own arms around him, and marveled at how even after 16 long years, to hold her son still felt like the most natural thing in the world."