Just Another Name

by burning happiness

Freeverse. Before the war, Draco thought there to be pride in his name. Malfoy. Now, after everything that's happened, it's the opposite.

A/N: This was written for the Colors Competition: Green Negative Category.

It is also for the Almond Category of the Greenhouses Competition.

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MALFOY

A simple 6 letter word.

It used to mean the world to Draco.

It was his life.

Now, he's watched things

s/h/a/t/t/e/r

and

b-r-e-a-k

and

c

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m

b

l

e

to

p i

e

c e s

And now, the name,

It's just a

NAME.

When people heard it,

They used to associate it with things Draco liked.

Slytherin.

His parents.

Pride.

Himself.

But when the war came,

It tore a=p=a=r=t the Malfoy name.

No longer associated with pride and Slytherin,

It was just another name.

Just another name of

A deatheater in Azkaban.

The boy in Harry's year who tried to -kill- Dumbledore.

The womam who's husband will never return.

No longer a name of pride.

Now a name of shame,

All Draco wanted was not to be a Malfoy anymore.

[And he never thought he'd see the day where that was his wish.]