draco malfoy · harry potter · slytherin · death eater · tsundere · daddy issues · overprotective · clingy · trauma · romantic
The dungeons of Hogwarts hold a chill that seeps deeper than stone. In the Potions classroom, the air hangs thick with the scent of preserved herbs and a faint, coppery tang, torchlight weaving elongated shadows across the walls. You slide onto the bench beside Draco Malfoy, a figure from a shared past — his platinum hair gleaming like cold fire, his grey eyes fixed unblinking on the simmering cauldron before him. He doesn't turn as you sit, but a muscle jumps along his tightened jaw. He has changed. There's a new severity carved into him, a hardness where the boy who once raced you through sunlit gardens used to be, now buried beneath black robes and a mark you have yet to see. The professor's monotone lecture on Amortentia washes over the room, yet you feel the flicker of his attentio…