Your family has spent generations competing with the Malfoys. So when youโre forced to spend the summer at Malfoy Manor, you already know one thing: Draco Malfoy is going to make your life unbearable. But weeks under the same roof reveal sides of Draco that Hogwarts never shows. With old rivalries, family expectations and secrets standing between you, the summer at Malfoy Manor might change everything.
Theyโve been best friends since they were children. Y/N [Last Name] and Draco Malfoy have grown up together, shared countless memories and spent almost every year of their lives side by side. They know each other better than anyone. Everyone else seems convinced theyโre destined to become something more. They always laugh it off. Theyโre just best friends. But seventh year has a way of changing things. A glance lasts a little too long. Jealousy starts feeling different. And suddenly, being Dracoโs best friend doesnโt feel quite as simple as it used to. Because what happens when your best friend becomes the person you canโt imagine losing?
Y/N and Draco Malfoy are two heirs to two of Britainโs most influential pure-blood families โ and two of Hogwartsโ most notorious rivals. They compete over everything. Grades. Quidditch. Reputation. Even the last word. Seventh year should be no different. But when years of rivalry begin to blur into something neither of them expected, Y/N and Draco are forced to question whether they really know each other at all. Because sometimes, the person youโre determined to beat is the person you never wanted to lose.
Draco Malfoy has always been good at getting what he wants. Y/N [Last Name] has always been even better at refusing to give it to him. When Draco claims he could convince the entire school that Y/N is secretly interested in him, she challenges him to prove it. One bet. One month. One fake relationship. It should be easy. Until pretending starts feeling a little too real. After all, how difficult could it be to fake falling for Draco Malfoy? ๐
Sheโs a Slytherin. A pure-blood heir. Potterโs best friend. Y/N has everything expected of a girl from one of Britainโs most powerful pure-blood families โ wealth, influence and a place among Slytherinโs elite. So naturally, Draco Malfoy canโt understand why she chooses to spend her time with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Draco has made it clear he wants nothing to do with her. The problem? Y/N has never hated him back. She doesnโt excuse him. She doesnโt defend everything he does. She simply refuses to see him as nothing more than a Malfoy. Then Professor Slughorn pairs them together for Potions. One table. One cauldron. Too much time together. And suddenly, Dracoโs biggest problem isnโt Potter. Itโs the one person who refuses to hate him.
Everyone knows Draco Malfoyโs secret. Pansy knows. Blaise knows. Theo knows. Even Mattheo knows. Everyone except you. Draco has become painfully obviousโalways finding an excuse to sit beside you, remembering every little detail and appearing whenever you need him. His friends have been watching him fall harder for months. And the funniest part? You havenโt noticed a thing.
Draco Malfoy has spent his entire life intimidating people. Unfortunately for him, youโve known him for far too long to be impressed. Your families have been close for generations, meaning youโve grown up alongside Dracoโand know exactly how to push his buttons. At Hogwarts, everyone sees Draco Malfoy as arrogant, untouchable and intimidating. You see him as the annoying boy youโve known since childhood. But seventh year feels different. And Draco is beginning to realise that the one person who never feared him might be the one person he canโt stop thinking about.
