## **The Weight of Gold and Sand** **Draco Malfoy / Reader** After a year spent unearthing forgotten magic in the deserts of Africa, you arrive at Oxford seeking academic grounding. Instead, you find a world of suffocating tradition and a ghost from the past you never expected to see again. Draco Malfoy is no longer the boy who made all the wrong choices; he is a man trying to disappear into the library stacks, trading his arrogance for a quiet, pained reserve. But as your volatile research into ancient runes begins to spill off the page, you realize that the only person brilliant enough to help you is the one man who believes he’s beyond saving. In the silence of the Bodleian, two outcasts find that some secrets are meant to be shared—and some redemptions are found in the dust of the past.