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Draco has returned to Hogwarts oddly quiet. Witness to the chaotic last days at Malfoy manor, but unable to confide in anyone, he's slowly coming apart at the seams.
Harry has also returned for his final year, dismayed to find that in the aftermath of the battle, the castle is not only damaged, but continuing to decay.
And naturally, he's determined to find out what Draco Malfoy is hiding.
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I'll meet you after, Harry had said, with that characteristic cocksure confidence that his word was all that was needed against the Ministry's witnesses, but there was no after, only the cold salt air of the North Sea and the endless beating of the waves.
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Ten years after being sentenced to Azkaban, Draco takes a portkey to Romania, because there's something he needs to know.
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All that's left are 15 letters, and then those are gone too.
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06 Nov 2025
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Harry and Draco write to each other. A lot (110 letters). For years (10). Until they figure things out.
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23 Oct 2025
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From the lake in the Room of Hidden Things, Draco knows three things:
- Mirror universes exist, and he’s going to find the best one—the one where he did the right thing.
- Harry Potter and him are awfully cosy in some of these other universes, whereas Potter in real life is starting to act very odd around him indeed.
- Draco’s reflection—the mirror version of him, the worst version of him—seems to be growing crueler. And stronger.
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16 Apr 2025
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Potter is utterly livid. He turns on himself, but stops at the door’s skirt. There’s a beat of silence and Draco doesn’t look, clamps his eyes shut, holds his breath. Potter says it on an exhale, so that it rings true and honest and crystal clear to Draco’s ears.
“You’re not worth it, anyway.”
It’s another blow to the head, a contravention with Draco’s name on it, a new poison to be served at breakfast. Draco doesn’t think he could shrink into himself any further if he tried. Potter walks away and he must be halfway gone already when Draco hears him say, low and resentful, in a manner that reminds him of his own father.
“Your father said: forgive me.”
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Or: Draco does time in Azkaban. The aftermath is legendary.
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20 Jan 2025
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The flowers keep coming back.
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06 Dec 2024