Marginalia in Slytherin Green

When a rare, centuries-old Slytherin grimoire appears in the House library-its margins crowded with brilliant notes in emerald ink-Draco Malfoy and Dabria are told to share it. Which is a problem, because they can't stand each other.

He thinks she cost him a coveted recommendation with a cutting remark in Potions. She thinks he tried to sabotage her Duelling Club score with a hex disguised as "help." Their feud is quiet and razor-sharp: borrowed books returned colder, essays undercut by immaculate counterarguments, seats taken one heartbeat before the other arrives.

Assigned by Professor Snape to catalog and decode the grimoire together, Draco and Dabria begin waging their war in the margins-barbed corrections, clever retorts, challenges slipped between lines. But late nights under green-glass lamps turn those annotations into something else: confessions, questions, and the kind of honesty neither of them risks aloud.

As whispers tighten around the school and loyalties are tallied like debts, two Slytherins learn that ambition isn't the opposite of tenderness-and that love, when it comes, can be written quietly in the spaces no one was meant to read.

Tropes & vibes: dark academia • rivals/forced proximity • slow burn • annotated-notes flirting • sharp banter, softer underbellies • Slytherin pride, Slytherin hearts