After the Battle of Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall asked all surviving students to return and complete their seventh year.. but for some the war had ended in the world, not in their hearts, where still hatred smoldered like dying embers and the ruins within were for more twisted than the ones left behind... Draco Malfoy returned not as the boy who once strutted through the corridors with pride, but as something quieter-fractured, hollow-eyed, and followed by the ghosts of choices he could never undo.....He saw her on the first day back, standing tall and proud, just like always-but there was something different in her eyes, something colder. She looked strong, like someone who had survived more than anyone should. And as he watched her, Draco felt a sharp ache, knowing he had once called her a name she never deserved. To their suprise, they both were selected as Head boy and Head girl.