Faced with the opportunity to lord his superiority, Draco finds himself wondering what the fuss is all about. Pureblood and mudblood is just…blood. Blood is blood, and blood is red. A coming-of-age Draco POV story as he returns to his eighth year of Hogwarts and struggles with living in the aftermath of the war.

Faced with the opportunity to lord his superiority, Draco finds himself wondering what the fuss is all about. Pureblood and mudblood is just…blood. Blood is blood, and blood is red. A coming-of-age Draco POV story as he returns to his eighth year of Hogwarts and struggles with living in the aftermath of the war.

From any angle, waiting one-and-a-half years for an answer wears the heart down. "It is going to be very hard for me to feel this way about anyone else, there's only so many people that can flip your world upside down. However, I shouldn't, no I can't accept simply being a consolation prize. I have to be strong." Set between Ch. 699 and The Last. Hinata-centric, eventual NaruHina.