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Children’s hair sometimes changes color as you grow. When he’s young enough for it not to be unusual, but old enough to know he’ll get in trouble for doing something ‘freakish’ again, Harry's hair goes from his father's dark locks to his mother's bright, most-likely-magical red hair.
It changes everything about who he identifies with, who he wants to grow up to be, and who he thinks he is. Instead of having James Potter as his idol, Lily turns out to be a much better influence.
So instead of seeing a scruffy, most-likely-muggleborn boy standing beside him in Madam Malkin's before their first year, Draco only has eyes for the scarlet-haired, green-eyed creature who just walked into his life. Not that Harry will ever notice, given he's trying to simply survive Hogwarts.Story Discord: https://discord.gg/8b7zt5PBHp
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the day i discovered red (and decided it was a personal attack) by eastmare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Apr 2025
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Draco Malfoy had long since come to terms with the fact that life was unfair.
He had come to terms with it when, at the tender age of one, his dear Aunt Bellatrix had given him a gift — which turned out to be a colorblindness curse, because she thought it would be “funny” for him to see the world the way she did.
He had come to terms with it when his father dismissed his lack of color vision as “an excellent way to focus on more important things than frivolous aesthetics” (a statement which Lucius would later contradict by being absolutely livid when Draco failed to coordinate his dress robes properly for an important gala).
And he had especially come to terms with it when, time and time again, he heard people wax poetic about Potter’s brilliant green eyes — which, as far as Draco could tell, were just as gray as everything else.
Seriously, what was the big deal?
But life, as he knew, was unfair. Which was why, in his Eighth Year at Hogwarts, surrounded by former enemies who had somehow turned into friends (a whole other mess he was still figuring out), his deepest, most humiliating secret was about to be exposed.
And it was going to be Ron Weasley’s fault.