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“The worst isn’t what I hear,” he said. “Not usually. It’s the contradiction. The grief tucked under rage. The affection laced through resentment. People think things they never say. They feel things they never act on. And half the time, they don’t even know it. But I do. I hear all of it.”
His voice dropped. “And it doesn’t make me hate them, Granger. It makes me ache for them. Because everyone—everyone—is fighting a war inside their own head.”
She didn’t speak. Didn’t need to.
“I didn’t switch sides because I realized the Death Eaters were evil,” he went on. “I switched because I realized they weren’t different. Just louder. Angrier. More broken. And I couldn’t keep pretending we weren’t all tangled up in the same mess.”
Draco has a secret, and it’s not just that he’s a spy for the Order. When Hermione is assigned as his interim handler, she intends to remind him that trust is earned, not freely given. But instead, she is faced with the reality that trust and truth are not so black and white.
This is a story about who we truly are—neither our actions nor our thoughts, just humans trying to find our way. And sometimes we find each other along the way.