Blood & Bind

Originally written under the name "Let's Be Enemies (But Secretly Friends)" on FF years prior (welcome back if you're familiar!)Loosely following the original Harry Potter series; there's a secret storyline surrounding our heroine, Golden Girl, Hermione Granger, and our favorite, cunning Slytherin Prince, Draco Malfoy. Let's starts back in their first year....Malfoy made it a point to challenge her at every opportunity, rather than blindly accepting everything she said, and Hermione did the same in return. Even when he scowled at her or insulted her blood out of bad habit, his irritation never lasted more than a few minutes, and he would still answer her incessant questions. His brain seemed to work the same way hers did, which made for some rather fast-paced and amusing conversations.It was fun, inexplicably interesting, and above all, it was actually easy to get along with Draco Malfoy. When they weren't bickering, of course. Some things couldn't be helped.And yet here they were. Friends. Secret friends, at that, and they selfishly reveled in it.

A/N: HELLOOO !! It’s been forever since I thought about this story & it would be truly amazing to find some old readers who know of the original fanfic I posted over a decade ago (SO crazy!!) — I’ll keep this author’s note short (HA a lie already), but as you may assume already, there have been significant changes from the original story I posted forever ago (it actually does not exist on FF anymore, to my knowledge. Maybe there's an archive online somewhere that I know nothing about) & I truly hope you enjoy this reboot! I wanted to have a few chapters ready to go before officially rebooting this story so my readers didn’t have to wait ages to get to a good chunk of the story.For all of you, thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for the support this story once received before. I dedicate this story to my beloved readers, new & returning. I have chapters kind of all over the place and unfortunately cannot guarantee a steady posting schedule - however, I intend to treat this as a fun, creative break from the real world so I do hope to post somewhat regularly, if not perfectly on time. As always, thank you for your patience in the meantime!SYNOPSIS: The HP series reimagined, only this time the story revolves around Hermione and Draco – with a friendship to love story (and more), there is an entirely alternate storyline of our favorite Golden Girl and muggleborn witch & powerful heir and pureblood prince to explore in the background of the original story we know well.The story primarily follows Hermione’s whereabouts, with some of Draco’s woven in throughout. **BE MINDFUL: this story takes pieces from the books AND movies :) this is kind of how I plan to skirt around copyright issues from the books, while also recounting the movies a bit as well AND AND AND creating my own scenes that would have involved Draco & Hermione secretly meeting whenever they can. Let's have some fun with it ;)The first few chapters will have the "set up" fluff, if you will - because we're starting from Hermione's POV, instead of Harry's; bear with me till we get to the less context-heavy parts.SO, IN SHORT:Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN the Harry Potter series nor its characters! All rights belong to J.K. Rowling & her publishers; good portions of this story are easily formatted to the original books or movies for canon purposes, HOWEVER, with my own storylines woven in. Without further delay… please enjoy! :)