True Fear

The Golden Trio return to Hogwarts for their eighth year to find things are a little different to how they were before. One thing, for example, is the strange new Draco Malfoy who sits alone with sky blue hair, muggle clothes, and wildflowers tattooed in strange places all over his body.Everyone thinks it’s just an act but when their first DADA lesson rolls around and Draco is forced to confront his worst nightmares in front of the class, everything the wizarding world thought about the Slytherin Prince is shoved out of alignment.-They’re covering the old material. The first lesson? Boggarts.There’s a sharp, angry teacher who takes no nonsense and despite Draco’s calm and polite requests to please do the exercise after class he is coldly denied and sent up first.He sighs but he doesn’t argue, doesn’t fight- he thinks he knows what it’s going to be.He’s wrong.It isn’t Voldemort’s frayed robe that peeks from behind the door, nor his father’s elegantly polished shoe.It’s his own.

Okay so this is a purely self-indulgent thing I wrote a year ago for fun!This chapter is pretty much just angst and Draco's trauma being aired to a room full of people but I intend to flash back and explain how we got here in the following chapters...For context, Draco has had one hell of a summer since escaping Voldemort's influence and has pretty much done a 180 from his old ways (but doesn't expect anyone to believe or accept that). He has been allowed to return to Hogwarts and graduate but his wand has been confiscated since the Battle of Hogwarts until further notice and is only allowed to be returned to him for temporary periods, in the presence of a teacher... Draco has also had a BIT of a desperately repressed crush on Harry for a while.