分卷阅读13（2 / 2）

“I know why Malfoy did what he did tonight.”

“You mean ‘last night’; it’s after midnight. But why did he do it?”

“Because of his Veriae blood.”

Ron frowned. “You’ll need a long explanation for this, Hermione.”

The girl nodded. “Don’t stop me until I’m done then.”

Ron flopped onto a couch and waited.

“When I saw Malfoy’s feather fall to the ground that day he went ballistic on you, I picked it up so that I could research what he was. I was very careful never to directly touch the feather itself because it was razor sharp. I found one book which had a description of a feather, but it was in the restricted section so it took a while to get permission to read it. By then the school knew he was a Veriae, but so what. I wanted to find out more about his powers. But the book didn’t tell me that, apparently the Veriae is taught by his auctor… that’s the reason Lucius Malfoy is here by the way. Anyway, what the book did tell me was the life…cycle I guess, of the Veriae. It also told me of the Veriae’s soul mate. It works almost like the Veela, in that the Veriae also look for their perfect mate. But the Veriae don’t sniff out their mates like Veelas do, they look at the aura of the soul. When they find the person that matches their own, they’ve found their soul mate. This mate is very important, but not necessarily vital to their lives. If their soul mate never rejects them, they won’t die and can live without their mate. However, if they tell their mate and their mate rejects them they die at midnight of that day. Now I was just reading about another purpose of the mate when Harry walked in. The feather of Draco’s was on the table. When Harry touched it, it reverted back to its soft silken form. This is because the Veriae instinct wouldn’t want to hurt their mate in any way.”

“So you’re telling me Harry is Malfoy’s soul mate?”

“Yes. But he doesn’t have to bond with Malfoy. He just cannot reject Malfoy openly or else Malfoy dies.”

“And Malfoy would never tell Harry, because Malfoy hates him.”

“Exactly.”

“Then that’s okay then, and we all go on as we have.”

“But tonight, Malfoy stopped an attack on Harry. We need to be ready for any situation. We’re Harry’s friends and Harry’s smarter than he lets on in Potions class, you know. If he finds out himself, we need to support whatever decision he might make.”

“You mean if he chooses to be with Malfoy. Yeah, I can almost see him doing that.”

“You know Harry has the attitude that love is love no matter which gender it comes from, and despite what Malfoy has done to him, the Veriae part of him would make sure that Harry is never hurt…by anyone or anything.”

“But you’re overlooking the fact that Harry hates Malfoy.”

“There is also that. I’m just telling you this so that no matter what happens, we can support Harry.”

“Of course we’ll support Harry. We’re his friends. I mean, sure, when he explained his views on love to us this summer I was a bit shocked, but I can deal with this.”

“You’re sure?”