i turned this amazing tweet into an animatic. botnik studios took a predictive keyboard to write a chapter of harry potter, and this is what it came up with.
me throughout the entire week between boxing day and new year’s: *beatboxes hedwig’s theme*
I—wait!”
Malfoy halted, his fingers on the door handle, but he didn’t turn around.
Unsure just what the hell he was doing, Harry crossed the length of his office to stand beside Malfoy. “What was that? I mean—it was—why?”
Malfoy only shook his head without meeting Harry’s eyes. “It’s New Year’s Eve,” he said. “You’re supposed to do stupid things you regret on New Year’s Eve.”
“Oh,” Harry said, stung. He took in the stiffness of Malfoy’s shoulders, the whiteness of his knuckles where his fingers curled around the champagne bottle neck, the still faintly labored rush of his breathing. This close, he could feel Malfoy’s warmth. He could still taste him.
“Well,” Harry said slowly, “the thing is, I’ve never been particularly good at doing what I’m supposed to.
It happened in a flash of steely talons; Malfoy let out a high-pitched scream and the next moment, Hagrid was wrestling Buckbeak back into his collar as he strained to get at Malfoy, who lay curled in the grass, blood blossoming over his robes.
“I’m dying!” Malfoy yelled as the class panicked. “I’m dying, look at me! It’s killed me!”