Beneath the Fake Smiles

by Allic Uy

If something that you had so desperately wanted your whole life was in arms reach, would you grab it? Hermione, dubbed as the mysterious new girl, and Draco Malfoy are two completely different people, they live completely different lives but they are also similar. Their fates are entwined and somehow they are going to have to make it through their sixth year of Hogwarts, together.

1. Prologue

DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the the characters or themes used from Harry Potter, those all belong to the amazing J.

Hope you enjoy! :)

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Prologue

Draco Malfoy was a lot of things; a bully, spoilt, bratty, insolent, arrogant and even a coward, but he was not a murderer. He was not someone who could look into a person's eyes and watch the reflection of the green flash that would cause their end. One would think he, who grew up with death eaters all around him, would be more abominable. However that wasn't the case, unlike at Hogwarts where he seemed proud and arrogant, Draco Malfoy lived in fear. His childhood was dark and scarring not physically but psychologically. Hogwarts was his haven, a beautiful but mysterious castle filled with laughter and joy, the complete opposite of his home, an empty mansion with the only company of screams from torture victims. Draco was in his fifth year of Hogwarts when he had first saw Voldemort, it was only a glimpse but from that day on he became a different person. Somehow seeing the Dark Lord has woken him up, he wouldn't always have Hogwarts to go back to. So he gave up on the thought of happiness and distanced himself from anyone he could possibly hurt, including his mother. Although he wasn't strong enough to let go of the thought of happiness altogether.

"Young Draco, why do you look so blank? You should be thrilled that this day has finally come, I know your father is very proud. Since the time has finally come for you to become one of us, a death eater." The cold heartless voice of the Dark Lord echoed through the room.

The only thing that Draco wanted more than happiness was acceptance, if abandoning his mother and becoming a death eater was what it would take then he would do it. He would become a murderer.

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A young girl of 16 was sitting at a desk burrowing herself into ancient texts muttering to herself as she deciphered its meaning, with only a desk lamp as her light source. When she suddenly stopped, and an eerie silence crept into her room. A tall dark figure looming above her.

"It's been a long time, Hermione"

The said girl smirked, "So you finally found me….Dumbledore"

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Allic~