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Draconia Malfoy has been given one instruction for her first year at Hogwarts.
Befriend Harry Potter. He'll be useful.
She is eleven, perfectly prepared, and very good at doing exactly what her father says. She has rehearsed her greeting. She has written a list. She has never once in her life been told no.
Harry Potter has met her twice and would very much like not to meet her a third time.
What follows is a year of refused handshakes, a midnight duel each of them swears the other skipped, a troll, a handkerchief, a great many insults that turn out to be advice, and the slow, appalling discovery that the friendship she was ordered to make is the only thing at Hogwarts she actually wants.
Her father will be so pleased. Won't he?
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Book One of a series. Year One (1991-92), told in alternating chapters from Draconia's side of the House divide and Harry's.
Harry x Draconia, slow burn and endgame. No romance in Book One: rivalry, pride, and a friendship neither of them would admit to.
British spelling.
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