While Draco could definitely understand the accusation, he still found it to be deeply hurtful. It had been exactly what Buchannan had warned him about and right in that very moment, he couldn’t help but wish that he would have listened to his warning those many weeks ago.<br/>The way that Hannah was looking at him made his stomach churn, feeling awful that her opinion of him could change so radically so quickly. In a way, it had been what he had always expected from coming out and being around people again, but it was absolutely devastating to actually see it happen in real time.<br/>“That’s not what it is,” he stated, a feeble attempt at defending himself. He knew that no matter what he told her, Hannah was never going to believe that that wasn’t how he got the job in the ministry.<br/>“He came to me in a professional capacity first,” he tried to explain but he honestly had no idea how to even explain the way their relationship had ended up the way that it was. There was no way to explain how Harry had served as a relief for the searing loneliness that he had carried with him for years and how that seemed impossible to give up, now that he knew how it felt to be desired like that.