He is nothing to her until he becomes the only one standing between her and an ancient group of purebloods.
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**This is an after Hogwarts AU wizarding Uni Dramione fan fiction.**
*Themes- enemies to lovers, touch her and die, bully, forced proximity.
*All rights, characters, and universe belongs to JK Rowling.
*I am not a diehard HP fan so if I have certain world/magic details wrong please be kind. I'm trying!
*Triggers: bullying (not by Draco to Hermione), explicit content, dark themes, violence, NC bullying themes, and more.
*This book has a long plot, so stick with me ;)
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Hermione has received a full scholarship to Oriel Kambria, a University that can offer her everything she desires (namely being set on the path to becoming a Psychiawitch). That is, until she comes face to face with Draco Malfoy. After the Battle of Hogwarts she hadn't expected to see him, but there he is, as arrogant as ever. It takes one interaction for Hermione and Draco to fall into the same pattern that they had before-with pointed insults and contempt.
Things change when she's taken hostage by the University's elite secret club and immediately becomes the target of pureblood bullying.
Enter her childhood nemesis, Draco Malfoy.
She's despised him for as long as she's known him, and now he's the only one who can keep her alive.
All they have to do is pretend.
Pretend that she is his and keep the game going to survive.
Hermione and Draco are drawn deeper into a web of secrets, lies, and deception as they navigate the ruthless underbelly of a university founded on corruption, all the while managing the trials of academic life.
Hating Draco has always been easy, until their forced closeness causes Hermione to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about him, revealing desperation and passion she never knew existed.
And you know what they say.. there is always a fine line between madness and desire.
*cue evil cackle*
Draco Malfoy: cold, distant, ignorant, rude, arrogant, and above all else, downright gorgeous.
Juniper Hartley: caring, intelligent, unfathomably sweet, and above all else, downright gorgeous.
As their paths cross unexpectedly and his mind bewildered with reasons he can't explain as to why he can't stop thinking about her, he's forced to examine the possibility of letting someone in, to sharing emotion with another person other than his thoughts. Dark times lie ahead in their future as Draco's family demands Death Eater, but his soul demands something, or someone, else. What lengths would you go to keep the person you love most safe?
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"I do believe such a place exists," he nodded, "and if we can't find it I would build you that white Tudor cottage with the stained glass windows, right on the edge of evergreen trees so that when the fog comes in the early morning, the air will be full of mist that carries their evergreen scent into that meadow full of flowers and grass." Draco spoke quietly and swiftly as if he could plan in his mind exactly how it would be, as if he could simply pick it up from his thoughts and place it in her hands so it could be her reality.
Completed: 18 October 2020
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#3 in #malfoy on 15 February
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Harry Potter nor the characters. I do not own the plot of Harry Potter. I own Juniper Hartley. I own various plot ideas within this book.