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In the Slytherin common room, loyalty is a currency, and Theodore Nott his and Y/N friendship just ended. As the brilliant, sharp-witted glue of her chaotic friend group, Y/N spent years masking her unrequited love for Theodore Nott behind dry sarcasm and oversized green jumpers. She thought she could survive it. But when Theo completely abandons her for a picture-perfect romance with Astoria, the heartbreak turns to vitriol. A screaming match in the Astronomy Tower draws a hard line in the sand: they are friends no longer. Enter Draco Malfoy. Attentive, calculated, and tired of watching Theo take her for granted, Draco claims the empty seat next to Y/N in Potions—and eventually, her heart. But Theo has always been lethal when threatened. Caught between the devotion of a Malfoy and the sudden, terrifying jealousy of a regretful Nott, Y/N must survive a war of pureblood possessiveness where the ultimate prize is her trust.