A Study in Survival - Draco Malfoy x Reader

The wizarding world had always belonged to people like Draco Malfoy.

Pure-blood. Slytherin. Raised among careful smiles, old magic, and unspoken rules.

But after Cedric Diggory's death and the Ministry's growing desperation to control the truth, Hogwarts begins to feel different. Stranger. Colder. As fear spreads quietly through the castle corridors, Y/N Vane finds herself increasingly drawn toward someone she has spent years trying to understand.

Draco Malfoy was arrogant, sharp-tongued, and impossible to read, at least to everyone else.

To her, he looked afraid.

Set during the events of Order of the Phoenix and continuing through the Second Wizarding War, this story follows two Slytherins caught between loyalty, survival, and the kind of feelings neither of them were taught how to handle.