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Draco Malfoy has built himself a quiet life in Diagon Alley. He brews potions, runs his shop, raises his son, supports the small shops around him and allows elderly witches to bully him into accepting sweets he does not want. It is a good life. A life that keeps his days carefully ordered.
Then Hermione Granger begins walking past Neville’s shop every morning with her daughter and her yellow school bag. Hermione never looks at him. Rose does. One yellow school bag, one unnecessary change to Draco’s routine, and suddenly the life he thought was settled begins to shift.
Hermione has problems of her own. A marriage held together by habit. Ron is gone more often than he is home, his affairs have become poorly kept secrets, and his Quidditch career matters to him far more than the daughter waiting for him to remember her.
Somewhere between school runs, potion orders, legal threats, old grief, and two children becoming friends before their parents do, Draco falls in love. Slowly. Completely.
Hermione notices. She has simply decided someone else can do some of the work for once.