You and Draco Malfoy grew up as pure-blood heirs shaped by the same cold world, bonded less by friendship and more by shared survival. Within your elite childhood circle, you and Draco understood each other in ways no one else could—your silences, your fears, and the pressure of expectations that never eased. At Hogwarts, that bond only deepened. You became the one person Draco allowed to see the cracks beneath his hardening exterior—his anger, his exhaustion, his unspoken fear. What outsiders