paper planes.
๑.pairings: draco x fem!reader
๑.genre: fourth year, fluff, crack, no voldy au + sfw!!
๑.synopsis: an unknown paper planes has been flying towards you, what could be the best thing could happen?
๑.wc: 3.9k
๑.warnings: typos, grammatical errors, simp!draco
๑.house + status: gryffindor, half-blood
๑.links: navigation | hp.masterlist | taglist form (general)
— lets pretend that draco changed his hairstyle at fourth year instead of third year ;)) + im still having problem with the developement of relationships here BAHAHAHAHAH
— A paper plane landed on your desk. Your chin was resting on your hand as you witnessed your classmates doing their own things, playing with the papers as they used their spells, levitating them in the air. Your mind clearly said the spell as soon as you saw the magic, wingardium leviosa.
You raised an eyebrow, you looked anywhere to see who sent it, but sadly you have no idea. You opened the paper to see a drawing of a girl with a bored expression. Soon, you realized that it was you on the drawing. You didn’t get a chance to ask your seatmate, but eventually professor Snape arrived in the classroom. You groaned internally and placed the paper on one of the pages of your book and the class started.
The next day, at lunch, everyone was busy eating, chatting with each other. You decided to sit down with your fellow trouble magnet friends, Ron, Hermione, and Harry. A paper airplane landed on the table where you were eating. Ron was the first to pick up the paper airplane, “clearly I'm eating here and this rubbish decided to land on it,” he complained with his mouth full of food. He opened the paper to see a poorly drawn picture of his friend before lunch, “Wait hold on, y/n is this you?” he asked. Soon after, Hermione and Harry stopped eating and leaned closer to the paper that Ron was holding.
“Whoever fancies you y/n, needs to be taught on how to draw,” Harry joked.
Hermione, Ron, and you did stifle a laugh. “I didn’t know that you were that mean, Harry,” you commented, “I mean that’s kind of cute coming from a guy who likes me or makes fun of me. At least they’re watching over me. How about that?”
“That’s kind of creepy y/n,” Hermione added.
“Clearly that guy was maybe too shy to approach you,” Harry pointed out. Ron gave the paper to you and you once again, kept it on your book, “whoever sends me this will tell me who they are or a clue,” you said.
“Well good luck to you,” Hermione said.
“Thanks, I will be needing that,” you replied.
The following days, you still have been receiving the same paper planes but with the sketches has been improved quite a bit. You made up your mind that you had enough, you need answers. And so, you grabbed all the previous paper airplanes you have received, laying them all on your bed and began to think.
First, the sketches, you deduced that the mysterious person who has been sending was around you. The first ever plane you have received was from the potion class of Professor snape. Which was Slytherin and Gryffindor.
You silently opened your mouth and covered it by your hand as you slowly processed the problem you had solved.
Hermione entered the dorms as she looked at the papers laying on your bed. She went near you and scanned the bed, “wow, that’s all of the paper airplanes you have received in the past weeks? Whoever that person was, they really must have been fancying you for a very long time,” she commented.
You collected all the papers, “well they are probably in Gryffindor or Slytherin and that’s for sure,” you replied. Hermione sat down on her bed, “ I kinda want to know who it was,” she laughed.
“Welcome to the club then,” you chuckled.
Monday is the worst of all. Yet, you are still stuck on the Gryffindor/Slytherin clue you found out a week ago. You yawned as you were on our way to the Great hall to eat your breakfast, but somehow you happened to bump into someone.
“Watch it!”
Your view was a bit blurred because of your poor eyesight whenever you wake up. Slowly you noticed the brightest head out of all people. The one and only Draco Lucius Malfoy. Great.
You scrunched up your eyebrows because you really can’t see it clearly, “get out malfoy, i don’t have time for your petty games, now shove off.”
His gang made a sound, “ooooh!”
You signaled a stop sign on them and grabbed your glasses and put it on, the first thing you ever saw was his face. Unlike his hair from the past year that has been applied with gel and now it looks better— since when did you ever think about this? His eyes looking straight at you making you shift your gaze on the other side, from the first time ever, you said the impossible, “you look good on your hair, it suits you well,”
They went silent, and he was too.
You were supposed to be pissed off by him and now he's the one who got struck by a different approach than he was expecting.
"You're lucky this time!" He said and immediately left and his gang followed him. You also went to your table where your friends are. They all looked at you with their mouths full. You sat in front of Harry beside hermione.
"We didn't know you use glasses y/n," Harry started the conversation. You scratched your head as you started to fix your hair into a messy low bun, "I didn't use it that much since my eyes kinda depend on the days on when I will be needing it," you replied and you took a bite from the bread.
The door suddenly opened with owls, holding letters, packages and even a howler went inside to scold a fellow gryffindor, everybody laughed at that, especially the slytherins. Then again, a paper airplane flew and landed on the tables like the last time, the trio wiggled their eyebrows in a playful manner and said, "y/n has an admirer!" They teased.
Of course, everybody heard that.
You covered your face in embarrassment, even the neighboring schools looked at the commotion. "You guys are embarrassing me!" You whisper yelled and they giggled.
—
dear y/n,
you look pretty with glasses,
it suits you well.
—
Your heart skipped a beat, it's so sudden that someone has actually complimented you. As soon as Hermione, Ron, and Harry read the paper, the trio went wild. It clearly caught everyone's attention, "that's what you call an admirer!"
You felt your cheeks getting warm, you were blushing.
Yes, you felt happy as you read the letter once again, clearly the trio was so happy for you, but to Hermione she was a bit worried about the truth that you had deduced last week. She thought that maybe it was a slytherin and that is definitely not a good idea for a gryffindor to date a slytherin because of the beef they had in history up until now. But at the same time, it's actually kind of nice to hear.
You folded the paper and kept it inside your pocket, still blushing at the letter, "a-anyways, enough about t-that," you stuttered. They all looked at you, wiggled their eyebrows, and added it up with their smirk.
You mumbled something, and began to eat. But everytime you look at them, they give you a smirk to which you pretend to ignore them for the whole breakfast.
To the trio's perspective, you immediately left after eating breakfast and went straight to your first subject. They all look at each other, "do you think we went too far?" Hermione asked. Meanwhile Ron was still eating, Hermione grabbed her newspaper and smacked it on his head, "ow! What was that for?" He asked.
Ron looked at Harry and Harry signaled by his eyes on your seat to where you left. Ron looked again at Harry and he shrugged his shoulders saying, "I don't think we went too far to be honest”, he took another bite, “ it's been a while since she felt that way and i don't know," he took a bite from his bread.
Hermione sighed, "boys are hopeless," she thought.
Professor McGonagall gathered everyone at the great hall. All tables have been removed and replaced by some chairs enough for everyone to sit. You sat down with Ginny and the other juniors, sadly you could’ve been seated between Ginny and Hermione but the others were too fast on occupying the seats, not that you did mind it. Right in front of you were the boys, Harry and Ron stuck together, since the announcement hadn't started yet, you scanned the whole room.
You happen to see the blonde Malfoy across the hall sitting beside his little slytherin gang, pointing and laughing at some students who they see fit to be laughed at. His so-called ally, Crabbe, saw you looking at malfoy.
You immediately looked away and tapped Ginny's shoulder. She looked at you with her eyebrows raised. "What's up?" She asked. You were trying to say something but too bad you didn't even think about a topic to talk about in order to avoid eye contact with his friends.
Just in time, Professor McGonagall arrived and began to explain the event to be held at hogwarts.
The yule ball.
The funny bit was that Ron was dancing with Professor McGonagall, Harry chuckled, and most of the Hogwarts students laughed. Everyone was excited about the ball, and some of them were not so happy about it, especially to some people who hate gatherings and parties. Professor McGonagall told everyone to dance with someone as a practice. Everyone followed but you stayed on your seat.
The meeting adjourned and everyone talked about the ball. The guys were trying their shot as they asked the other girls to come with them to the ball. Days passed, the talk about the ball was still on.
Malfoy himself always teases you for how you have glasses, "oh look, isn't just amazing to see potter number two," with his signature smirk plastered on his face. You clicked your tongue and almost crushed to being crumpled up on a paper plane you have received during lunch.
He took the paper plane and held it up high. "Malfoy! Give it back!" You demanded. He laughed at how you couldn't reach the paper. But instead you tickled him on the side ,with the paper was holding fell down, you then grabbed the paper and ran away from him.
And the next day, when you were with Hermione this time, you noticed that she was smiling the whole time, which made you curious about it.
"Looks weird to see you subconsciously smiling 'mione, do you have a date already?" You asked. The brunette looked at your eyes and just could help it but to smile at the memory she had a while ago. "Would you believe me if I said that I have a date for the ball?" You snorted, "why would you say that? Clearly you're too pretty that some guys fancy you, you know. And of course I would believe in that," you replied.
Just then, a paper plane flew towards you, you looked around in the hallways, hoping you could see the person who sent this. Hermione made a fake cough, "it looks like you have a date to the ball," she said.
"Don't assume too much 'mione,"
She chuckled lightly, "hm, whatever floats your boat. I need to go to the library for herbology class, my essay is due in three days-"
"But it's only three days away—"
"Exactly."
She soon left and you were now alone in the hallway. Luckily, you have free time for two hours, you don't have the guts to do your work, and might as well do them later at night. As you were walking, you slowly opened up the paper plane. It wrote something:
—
Days may have gone fast,
Reading this will surely make your heart beat fast.
And the glasses that makes you prettier day by day,
Come at the astronomy tower at the end of the day,
Oh to hear what I will say.
-after dinner it is.
—
A smile crept on your face, and your hand suddenly covered it, whoever wrote the poem, it bloody made your heart beat fast. The next thing you know is that you happen to walk past one of Malfoy's friends, Blaise Zabini. You immediately looked away and walked faster.
After the dinner, you immediately wiped your mouth with a napkin and left the great hall immediately. The trio wondered why you were in a hurry. Usually, you and Ron were always the last because both of you liked to talk and eat.
Harry and Ron raised both an eyebrow and looked at each other confusedly. Hermione hid her smile to the thought that the unknown guy who sends you paper planes has finally made a move on you. She couldn't wait for the yule ball.
You went straight to the astronomy tower, it took you seven minutes to get there since you are way too excited and at the same time nervous you know who it was. Of course, the thought you have in mind came all over you.
What if it was just a prank and made a fool out of you?
Another five minutes of doubting yourself on the wall before going upstairs. You smacked your cheeks to get a hold of yourself. "You can do this y/n, if it's just a joke, I'll punch the person who made fun of me," you encouraged yourself and began to go upstairs.
You panted as you took a final step on the stairs, you held on tightly on the railings on the side and began to fix your composure. "I need to exercise myself for this," you said.
You went on the balcony to see the view of hogwarts. Whoever said to meet in the astronomy tower definitely had a taste. The wind blew softly, you could really feel the chills of the season. You blew closely on your hand and rubbed them harder enough to create heat, then hid them in your robe. You cursed yourself for not wearing gloves and instead rushed out here.
What you didn't know is that there is a figure behind you and you didn't even feel it.
"Way too excited aren't we?"
You screamed and slapped whoever it was.
Slap!
The sound was too audible. As soon as you heard a familiar voice, and not to mention the hair, it was Draco Malfoy. “Bloody hell! Malfoy! I am so sorry!” you apologized. You cupped his cheek with your cold hands to see if there's any bruise to which you are not looking forward to it. Both of your faces are way too close. He hissed to the pain and he opened his eyes slowly meeting yours.
“Does it…hurt?” you inquired.
“Of course it does.” he replied.
The moment you realized that you were still holding his face, you blushed for a moment and let go of his face. You grabbed his robe and pulled him, “we need you to get to Madam Pomfrey.” You were practically panicking now, first the excitement/nervousness you had in the letter, second, you just slapped someone. Not to mention, the slytherin prince himself.
But he stopped, you turned back, “what are you standing for? Let’s get your cheek—”
“Do you have any idea?” he asked. Of course you didn’t get it, “idea? On what malfoy?” you raised an eyebrow.
He sighed, “as far as you can memorize spells on DADA very quickly, you can be a daft sometimes,” he looked at you. He pointed at you, “the letter,” he firmly said. The sound of his voice made you jolt. Merlin, that's kind of hot.
You took the paper in your robe and realized something. Before you pulled the paper successfully, you stopped. “How did you know about this?” you asked. He snorted, who wouldn't be by everyone when Potter and your other two friends yelled at it. Ah.
“Open the paper,” he ordered.
You followed and opened the paper, “now what?”
“Now, do you have any idea?” he asked once more. You shook your head, “I swear whoever wrote this seriously late”, you mumbled that was enough for him to hear you. Malfoy snorted, he was trying not to laugh.
You looked at him, he was trying not to laugh. And it hit you, “w-was this one of your pranks?” you said. You felt ashamed, believing over those papers. How pathetic. Never in your life you did something wrong to get tricked by someone. Tears slowly came out from your eyes, you just couldn’t help it.
Malfoy looked up to see you crying. “Hey, why are you crying?” he asked. You threw the paper on him, but the paper didn’t even reach up to him, it just simply fell down until it reached the floor. He picked up the paper.
“Why am I crying?! It’s because i get tricked falling for those stupid prank of yours!” you raise your voice. You sniffed and wiped your eyes with your hand gently.
“Prank?! Don’t be ridiculous! Why don’t you use that brain of yours and look at every first letter of the poem!” He was also enraged by your accusation. He gave you the crumpled paper and you began to read the poem once again.
—
Days may have gone fast,
Reading this will surely make your heart beat fast.
And the glasses that makes you prettier day by day,
Come at the astronomy tower at the end of the day,
Oh to hear what I will say.
—
You turned back, facing the stairs and crouched down, you whined between your knees, you were embarrassed and you felt like you were clowning yourself. “Bloody hell! I’m so stupid!” you screamed. As you stood up, you can’t even face him now, after what you've done to him. First you slapped him and you accused him of pranking you.
“Well?” He was waiting., waiting for your answer.
But before you get to say your answer you asked something, “do you really think that i look good with my glasses?” you avoided his gaze. His cold hand moved your chin to face him. “Yes,” he answered.
You chuckled, “to be honest, i’m still shocked from all of this, you being the secret guy who has been sending paper planes and has the fault of making me feel things that i can't explain." You said. You turned away from gim, you really can't face him. It's too embarrassing. He let out a small laugh, "merlin, i didn't know this side of yours." he looked away, and covered his mouth slightly and his other hand was on his hip.
"Hey!"
He slightly raised his hand to surrender, "I get it, so… would you like to go to the yule ball with me?"
You kept looking away from his eyes, "ummm… I'm not used to big gatherings but I would love to go with you," you answered.
"God, finally!" he yelled. You laughed at his reaction, between you two, you both knew each other's sides that no one has even seen. "I didn't know you could be a dork Malfoy," you commented. He had this eat-shitting grin plastered on his face, "and I didn't know you could be a ball of mess." He commented back.
"But there's one little problem." You said and scratched your neck.
"What problem?" He asked.
"icantdance."
"Come again?"
You closed your eyes, "I can't dance!" You confessed.
And he burst out laughing, and of course you look at him with a deadpan expression. You waited for him to stop laughing and he walked closer to you, "alright, i'm going to teach you, are you okay with that?" The consent was giving you mixed signals.
"yeah, totally." You agreed. The distance if his body and yours were too close. You gulped a couple times, this was your first time having someone really close to you. It's different when you say you have your parents and friends that are close to you but this, this is different.
"Put your right or left hand on my shoulder," he says. You followed his instruction and placed your hand on your shoulder. "Then I'm going to put my hand on your waist," his hand slowly went to your hand, "and just like that."
Your breath hitches, and you feel like your face is burning. The longer his hand was on your waist, you can definitely feel your face was a freshly licked tomato. "And hold my hand," he whispers. Both of your hands interlocked and you heard him chuckle, "y/n, your hands are bloody cold," he commented.
"I take that as a compliment," you chuckled. He began to slowly move sideways. You followed along with his movement. Then, after a few minutes the pace was a bit faster. He then twirled you around slowly and went back to the first position.
You both paused and let go. "That…was nice, honestly" you smiled.
"See? It wasn't so hard was it?" He says.
You shook your head as a response. "But don't expect me to memorize those steps, we only have, what? A week left before the ball." you said.
“They say time flies fast right?” he says.
Finally, the yule ball is now happening. Everyone was excited. They’re excited to show off their date, out fit and just plainly to have fun on the dance floor. Beauxbatons and Dumstrang students are also there with their best clothes. They all look charming and Dashing.
Hermione and you were still at the dorms, helping out one another. She was wearing a dress that had different shades of pink sewn on it. While you wore this dress and style your hair in your choice. “Are you ready?” Hermione asked. You nodded, “yes, and i'm very nervous.” you said.
She laughed, “and by the way, you never told me about your date, who was the mystery guy?” she asked. Oh boy.
“You’ll see.” you replied.
Draco was waiting for you before the Great Hall’s door. He then spotted Potter and Weasley. HE didn’t have the energy to make a comment to the two and instead she kept silent until you arrived. Blaise, who was on his way to the door and saw Draco.
“Draco, what are you doing here? The others are inside the Great Hall.” he said. Draco shook his head, “I'm waiting for my date. You go on ahead.” he replied. Then Blaise left. It took a couple more minutes until you and Hermione came down. The inner him cheered like a kid and probably ran a lap by now. You both locked on eachothers eyes as you both looked at one another’s outfit.
‘So Handsome’
‘So Beautiful’
You quickly walked towards him.
The golden trio was shocked. They didn’t expect that it was Draco all along!
“Come on! This is too awkward!” you pulled him away from the trio and you gave them a goodbye wave and mouthed a sorry and you’ll be explaining after the ball. He let you link your arm on his and walked towards the hall. The scenery was absolutely amazing. It feels like you’re on the outside. The lights are shining and the other professors dress up nicely for this special occasion.
The players for the Triwizard competition began and the students followed along.
“Nervous?” Draco asked. He handed out his hand. You slowly held his hand, placing it on his shoulder and his on your waist. “I am, this is different from the astronomy tower. There’s so many people here,” you replied.
He pulled you closer and gave you a smile. “Just focus on me darling. You’ll be forgetting them soon.” he says and twirls you around.
And so you did.
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hi bestieeee!!!! i came across that post abt harry not being a saint in the boks and then i scrolled yr blog a bit and im a bit confused now!!! u seem to ship tmrhp but do u like harry? is there smth u like abt him? or do u just like the ship? its completely fine if u do! just askin, sry if this is rude, im just curious!!
hi nonnie, this not rude at alllll, thank you for asking me nicely, ❤❤ i've had people ask these questions with some very colourful names attached and that just ruined my mood for answering any of them. im sorry if my response is a bit lengthy, but i just have a lot of thoughts and opinions about tmrhp :)
first off, i will start by saying that i like canon harry overall, but some characteristics of his just give me a really huge ick. these characteristics aren't even morally reprehensible, i just dislike them, that's all. mainly the unnecessarily malicious way he describes people he doesn't like and also his self righteousness. i'm a firm believer of not liking EVERYTHING about a character. just because i pointed out some flaws of harry doesn't mean i hate him as a whole.
i also simply wanted to point these flaws of his out, because in many tmrhp fics i read, harry is cleansed of all his misdeeds or even has them justified. i personally see harry as a light greyish character, and i love it when he is depicted as such.
moving onto what i like about harry is firstly, his appearance. big fan of messy black hair, green eyes, round glasses XD. i also like that at heart, he is a good person. he tries to save peter pettigrew until the end, even though he is the reason why harry's parents are dead. harry saves draco from the fire even when ron suggests that he lets draco burn to death. harry doesn't use the killing curse on voldemort even once, even though he has the complete right to do so. i like harry's bravery and his defiance (to a certain extent.)
moving onto why i ship tmrhp. i like this ship for all the obvious reasons (the parallels, the contrasts, one chose love, the other chose hate) but also because i love the trope where the main protagonist ends up with the main villain. (call me shallow, or whatever, but it's cute, albeit horrifying.) i also ship it because of the dead dovey nature of this pairing, like, it's so interesting to explore! the angst potential! the betrayal! the guilt! so unusual but also intriguing. i like the fact that this ship isn't 'sweet' or is deemed a comfort ship like most of the other ships in this franchise. voldemort is a Bad Guy, and more than seeing how he is changed by harry, i think it is more interesting to see how Harry is changed by voldemort.
the reason you probably thought i dislike harry in this pairing is because i don't like what the fandom has done to this pairing. (i apologise if i sound entitled, but these are simply my personal opinions. fic writers can write whatever they please, and they are in no way obligated to cater to me. they should write whatever they enjoy writing.)
(i won't dwell a lot here as i also have another askpost here explaining this)
fanon tomarrymort has morphed voldemort's character so much so, that it is unrecognizable to canon voldemort. fanon voldemort simps for harry, apologises to harry begs harry etc. which is something canon voldemort would simply never do even if they were canonically together.
this fandom relies very heavily on Certain Themes, such as harry being a horcrux, and voldemort's obsession with harry being taken wildly out of context. this is mostly it. voldemort views harry as his, goes crazy with possessive issues and abides by harry's every command. harry is now viewed as someone Extra Special and Powerful and therefore can garner all of voldemort's full attention even though that is not the case in canon. harry is more important than the death eaters because they were always incompetent fools, amirite? harry has now fixed voldemort hooray! /sarcasm.
it's just that this is so far removed from canon that it makes me dislike the way harry is so glorified. i am not glorifying voldemort by saying this btw, i understand that voldemort is a Bad Guy.
what i wish was explored more in tomarrymort:
overcoming the fact that harry might not always be noticed by voldemort (in the case of the time travle fics), because voldemort is a self-obsessed guy. he spends most of his time studying, in prefect duties, taming the basilisk, thinking of making horcruxes, it is highly unlikely that he would notice the new transfer student as you guys like to call it.
how voldemort treats bellatrix. (i specifically state bella because she is the closest to voldemort's lover in canon.) it is common for this fandom to brush aside bellatrix and treat her with disrespect. and i hate that. i wish people would explore the fact that in tomarrymort, voldemort would obviously prefer bellatrix before getting together with harry. and even after, he will still view her favourably.
the fact that voldemort might not like harry's defiance towards him. most of the time, in tomarrymort fics, voldemort notices harry because of harry's defiance towards him and he is intrigued. but.. like.. if harry defied voldemort after they get together, he wouldn't like that. he wouldn't like that at all. not to metion the fact that there is a Wholeass organisation called the Order that is dedicated to defying voldmort 😭😭 harry isn't the only one being outwardly defiant towards him. hell, he probably executed death eaters for looking at him the wrong way, how can harry be any different? what i think should be focused more on is how they Compromise. how they form an understanding. how harry shouldn't defy Everything voldemort says and how voldemort shouldn't always order harry around.
how voldemort gets over the hatred he has for harry. i know most people prefer harry over voldemort and thus, their fics are mostly in harry pov, which focuses on how harry forgives voldemort from killing his parents. but what you have to understand is that while voldemort took harry's family from him, harry took Everything from voldemort. Absolutely Everything. voldemort holds MAD grudges. he isn't going to forgive harry overnight. (i know voldemort did it to himself, but he is not going to view it that way.)
their relationship outside of horcrux and main soul.
the power imbalance. the fact that voldemort is more powerful than him. i know harry is his equal, prophecy, blah blah, but harry doesn't want any of the greatness and the extraordinary power whilst voldemort seeks greatness. voldemort was an exceedingly smart, prodigious kid and i don't think his intelligence and capability to scheme should be taken away just to make him equal to harry.
ahh yeah that's probably pretty much it. sorry for rambling and any repeated points. im not proofreading this monster of text, if there are spelling errors... look away!
thank you for this ask nonnie ❤❤
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