"What the Heart Always Knew"_ DRARRY

After the Second Wizarding War, the wizarding world slowly merged with the Muggle one. Peace flourished. Equality became more than just a dream. People rebuilt, they healed.

But not Harry Potter.

Despite the peace, Harry carries an emptiness he can't explain. Something-or someone-is missing. The battle is over, the darkness gone, but he wakes up every morning with a strange ache in his chest, a phantom pain that no healer can mend.

He tries to live. Tries to move on. Works at the Ministry. Spends time with friends. But he doesn't feel whole.

Draco Malfoy vanished after the war-without trial, without a goodbye. No one has seen or heard from him since. Everyone thought he fled. Harry thought it was for the best.

Until one day, deep in the Department of Mysteries, a locked report surfaces during a routine audit. It's marked classified and magically sealed under Harry's own name. Inside is a memory. And in that memory, Harry sees a dying version of himself... and a terrified Draco Malfoy cradling him, whispering a forbidden incantation-magic that merges their life forces, binding them together so subtly, even death didn't notice.

Draco saved him.

But more than that-Draco forgot him. Intentionally. The spell demanded it: to give Harry life, Draco had to erase everything about himself, to disappear completely. New name. New identity. No past.

Now, Harry knows what he's missing. Who he's missing.

The search takes him across continents, tracking magic signatures, broken trails, and faded remnants.