Fanfic: “Good-bye to Yesterday” by Furiosity [Harry/Draco] . [N8]
15.12.2006
11.05.2011
If the mark of great literature is to withstand the passage of time then it’s only rereading that we can find the real treasures. I don’t think iI havewaited such a long time to reread anything else and GBtY is still gorgeous.
Quotes (with SPOILERS):
He was one of the chosen, of the truly powerful. He'd let himself be caught up in fear and doubt when he'd dreaded that his shameful Azkaban behaviour would be exposed. Now he understood the meaning of the lesson his father had intended to teach him all those years ago. To a true wizard, the world was whatever he wanted it to be. In Draco's world, he was not a disgrace -- could not be. If he said that he'd allowed Davies to fuck him because he'd wanted to, then that's how it had been. He was the one who decided what was true and what was not. He was in control of his past, present and future.
"No, don't leave yet," Potter said quickly. He lifted his right arm, as though intending to reach for Draco and stop him. "Please."
"How are you going to explain my presence here to whomever's at the window?"
"Whoever's at the window is an owl," said Potter. "People knock on doors."
"My father," Narcissa said, "always said that revenge was a confession of pain. So Andromeda's complete indifference made the family feel that she did not care, that the family did not matter. It hurt worse than if she'd tried to create problems for our family, which she could have, after the first war."
Draco's mouth was dry. "What are you trying to tell me?"
"That you needn't take revenge on Harry Potter to feel good about yourself."
"But he wronged me--"
"--and he's the one who will have to live with what he did to you."
Draco remembered his face and chest exploding in a shower of blood, a long time ago, on the dirty floor of a Hogwarts bathroom. "You don't know Harry Potter. I don't think he cares about what he does to anyone unless he actually kills them."
"That still doesn't mean that you ought to exert any effort in order to get revenge on him. If he's the type of person who has no conscience, your revenge will be ultimately futile. Live well, Draco. It's the greatest revenge."
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