V_O_A_Gain
Hogwarts is rebuilt-but the students walking its halls are not.
Draco Malfoy enters his Eighth Year expecting hatred, hexes, maybe mercy.
What he gets instead is worse: silence.
Careful distance.
A world that has already decided who he is.
Until Varianne Flame collides with him-literally-and refuses to treat him like a warning label.
Varianne, with her molten gaze and quiet fire.
Varianne, half-blood by birth but royalty by presence.
Varianne, who can be soft and lethal in the same breath.
Varianne, wholly uninterested in the war he never stopped fighting inside his own head.
And Draco Malfoy has never met anyone who could disarm him with nothing but, "Sorry, I didn't see you there."
But indifference, he learns, is not the same as dismissal.
And Varianne Flame learns that indifference is a weapon...
until someone refuses to look away - and actually listens.
A story about healing scars you'd rather pretend aren't there,
facing truths sharper than magic,
and discovering that sometimes-
a loss
may be
a gain.
- Jane Austen