Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue Quotes

“I'm useless and you know it. I'm no good at any of this heroic bit, I just freeze up. Potter needs you, so don't be stupid. It's the three of you. It's always going to be the three of you. So, take my spot, call the play, and win the game. And if you stick around wasting time once it's won, I'll cheer from the afterlife when Quirrel drinks your blood. Well?”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“No, you're a Gryffindor through and through, Longbottom. It'll just take you time to live up to it. But you were put there for a reason.”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“Whatever she is, Pansy," Draco said, "She is my friend. Mine. So, if you speak ill of her, you speak ill of me. And what becomes of tongues that speak ill of Draco Malfoy?”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“Yes. Exactly. I am a Malfoy. And you're not. You're not- you're not supposed to act like this. How could you be cruel like that?" Draco blurted, without a clue what he was saying anymore. "You're supposed to be better!"
"Why," Potter said stubbornly, those lovely green eyes clouded and guarded. "Because we're Gryffindors? So we're held to a higher standard?"
"Because you're Harry Potter!"
[...]
"You keep saying and saying that, Malfoy. [...] Like it means something."
"Because it does!" Draco got in Potter's face, if that was the only way to make him see him for once. "It does, Potter. your existence means something, you're the Boy Who Lived, you stand for something even if you don't want to, even if it's too much burden for a bloody first-year because tough luck, you don't have a choice! You. Potter, you're supposed to be good and kind and do the right thing and not look down on people, that's your whole thing, isn't it, that's what makes you important! That's what makes you different from people like my father! My father was a Death Eater, you worthless fool, and he looks down on that girl. You shouldn't be anything like him.”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“Where do you belong now? You lack the courage of Gryffindor, the discernment and clear thought of Ravenclaw, the faith and good-heartedness of Hufflepuff. And the Slytherin House you so desire calls for ruthlessness no longer alive in you. Do you belong anywhere at Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy?”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“Wait, Draco, how does this work? How can I be sure I don't get a wand that isn't good either?"
[...]
"You'll get a great wand. Of course you will. A powerful one."
"What do you mean? How do you know?"
[...]
"Because you're Harry Potter.”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“Are you alright?" repeated the owner of that voice, and without looking up, even with the intervening years in which that voice had been broken and become a man's since Draco last heard it this childish and clear, Draco would never not know the voice of Harry Potter.”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“You don't have to be so proud, you know,' Ron said quietly, a measure of dismay mixing with the pity on his face.
Draco spread his arms wide. 'Pride. What else do I have?' he asked with the bitterest of irony, only for Weasky to laugh and say with a shrug,
'I don't know. Us?”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue

“Oh, just wondering what these awful professors have done with my troll.”
― starbrigid, Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue