IF

✨Inspired by I Found by Amber Run✨ The war ended, but healing didn’t begin overnight. Returning to Hogwarts for an Eighth Year, Y/N expects whispered rumors, impossible coursework, and one final chance to leave the past behind. Love is the last thing on Y/N’s mind. Draco Malfoy returns expecting even less. He doesn’t ask for forgiveness. He doesn’t expect friendship. He only hopes to survive the year unnoticed. Then one afternoon, Y/N sits across from him in the library. Y/N doesn’t ask about the war. doesn’t demand explanations. Y/N simply stays. Between shared study sessions, quiet walks through snow-covered courtyards, and conversations in the spaces between silence, two people learn that healing doesn’t always come in grand moments. Sometimes it arrives in the form of an empty seat saved at breakfast, a borrowed scarf, or someone choosing to come back—again and again. Perhaps love isn’t something they were searching for. Perhaps it was waiting for them all along.