Winner of the Best Kiss, Best Response to the Prompt, and Most Creative awards during the DG Forum's Winter 2016 Fic Exchange.

PLEASE heed the warnings, which are explained in a little more detail in the Story Notes.

After graduating from Hogwarts and moving to Paris to work at the prestigious Paris Amour magazine, Ginny receives an urgent owl from her family. She finally decides to come back home to the life she ran away from and the people she cherished the most.

Chapter 13 Quote

It was when she averted her eyes to the side of the building that she saw something to make her blood run cold.

She froze, stopping dead in her tracks and letting her arms fall limply to her sides. She stared at him, eyes wide in the red light of twilight, taking in the sight of his white-blond hair and porcelain features.

“No,” she breathed.

Red and green curses were flying about her in every direction, but it seemed the world had slowed down to her and the man who had not yet noticed her.

Barely sixteen years old and fearing for his mother's life, Draco stepped up in his father's absence to take his place amongst the Death Eaters. The following year at Hogwarts School was, without a doubt, the hardest he had ever endured. Now seventeen, the young Malfoy seeks to keep safe all he loves by doing the opposite, and taking the golden advice Albus Dumbledore had left him minutes before his death.

It's an old age tradition - bestowed upon those who deserve. Ginny's experiencing an unwanted boyfriend, Hermione is completely shocked at the morals of the world, and a new tradition sends an entire school into a chaos that no one can handle.

Will things fall into place? Or will they tragically end with cirumstances unbelievable to those around them?