Author: Meltha
Rating: G
Feedback: Yes, thank you. Meltha
Spoilers: pretty much AU
Distribution: Fanfiction.net and the Bunny Warren. If you're interested, please let me know.
Summary: Draco has his own regrets.
Disclaimer: All characters are owned by J.K. Rowling, a wonderfully creative author whose characters I have borrowed for a completely profit-free flight of fancy. Kindly do not sue me, please, as I am terrified of you. Thank you.
Author Note: Written for challenge three of round three at Dramione_ldws. One hundred words, a funeral, and regret.

Regrets

Years had passed since he cried. The last time was the day of Charity Babbage’s murder. When the Dark Lord dismissed them, Draco went to his room and sobbed, fist jammed in his mouth to muffle the sound, thinking what it might be like to see Hermione killed. Not until then had he admitted the truth to himself: that he loved her.

Now he was one more anonymous face in a crowd beside a fresh grave, reading her tombstone.

Hermione Granger-Weasley
1979-2021

He’d never told her, and he realized he was shedding tears over his foolish pride, his greatest regret.