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- Parts 11
When Harry Potter was six, he learned two things: magic is real, and love won't save you, not when you're bleeding on a kitchen floor while your relatives call it discipline. Left to fend for himself, Harry disappears off the grid by the age of eleven, resurfacing years later at Hogwarts with a cold smile, a wand that obeys like a blade, and blood on his hands from work no child should know. He doesn't wear the Boy Who Lived like a badge. It's a target and he's the one aiming.
Draco Malfoy has spent years preparing to hate Harry Potter. But the boy who returns to Hogwarts in their sixth year isn't the golden savior of the wizarding world. He's sharp, strategic, dangerous, and devastatingly disinterested in the war everyone assumes he's destined to win.
As tensions mount and alliances shift, Draco finds himself drawn to the boy who kills with quiet precision and smiles like he knows something you don't. But the closer he gets, the more he realizes: Potter doesn't need saving. He needs someone who won't flinch when the world calls him a monster.