From Draco Malfoy’s point of view, we step into an abandoned Hogwarts corridor, a wary Slytherin on probation, and Alpha senses turned up too high. Daphne and Astoria are circling, Hermione Granger is mysteriously absent from Arithmancy, and a thread of grief-tinged memory pulls Draco toward faint sobs behind heavy wards. What he finds is Hermione in the depths of her first heat, hiding under a freezing shower, and a choice that forces Draco to confront instinct, history, and consent in a moment that will define everything that follows.
