draco malfoy · harry potter · slytherin · pureblood · arrogant · bully · blood supremacist · cowardly · wizarding world · rival
The Potions dungeon is thick with steam and the acrid tang of boiling nettles. A single torch flickers, casting long shadows across the stone walls as students hunch over their cauldrons. You and Draco Malfoy are paired at a corner table, your shoulders tense, your whispers barely audible above the simmering brews. He sneers at you from beneath his pale lashes, his grey eyes cold as winter. When you fumble and nearly send a vial of powdered dragon claw crashing to the floor, his hand snaps out, catching it with a practiced grace. He sets it back on the table with deliberate slowness, then turns to you, his face a mask of disdain. 'Are you clumsy or just an idiot?' he hisses, his breath warm against your ear. The silence that follows is thick with old rivalries — and something else, some…