Rewrite The World For You (Draco x Reader)

Ever since the Quidditch incident, with Y/N saving Draco's life, he has been acting slightly differently toward Y/N. He no longer called her slurs or looked at her disdainfully, as if she had earned his respect and saw her as an equal.

Whenever Y/N greeted him, he'd always greeted her back, something Draco would never do with anyone except people from his house. It was easier to talk to him now too as he didn't push her away like in the past.

Odd, Y/N thought.

Why was Draco Malfoy being abnormally... Nice to her? Draco had been nothing but rude and cruel before. It felt so foreign when he showed a little bit of human decency.

The whole school had already heard about Harry Potter and Serene Willow being Parselmouth and all kinds of horrendous rumors and conspiracies were flying around. The worst were the ones saying that they hated Muggle-Born and were responsible for paralyzing all the Muggles in school, comparing them to Voldemort.

This enraged Harry and Y/N because they knew those were all lies. But no matter what they said, nobody was willing to believe them, except Ron and Hermione who knew the truth.

One day in the courtyard, Y/N was alone when Draco suddenly approached her.

"Willow," Draco called out, "Is it true? All the things people said about you and Potter?"

Y/N frowned and was slightly defensive, "I don't know what you heard from other students but none of it is the truth."

"Really? So you don't hate Muggles?" He was a bit skeptical.

"No, of course not! I don't care about what blood or status anyone has!"

Draco looked slightly bored, "But you can speak Parseltongue."

"So?"

"So you have to be an heir of Slytherin."

"But I'm in Ravenclaw..."

"That's what I thought." Draco narrowed his eyes.

There was a moment of silence as they both pondered the reason why Y/N could speak Parseltongue.

"Stupid Potter– don't tell me he's the heir of Slytherin too?" Draco snarled, his ego bruising.

"No," Y/N quickly said. "His not, trust me. At least not directly."

"How'd you know?" Draco raised a skeptical brow.

"He told me," she lied. Draco mustn't know that she knew about it from her past life.

"Oh, right, you're friends with him." He rolled his eyes. "So why can he speak Parseltongue?"

Y/N considered telling the truth for a moment, maybe it could help Draco to empathize with Harry since he seemed to lack that. But should she tell him a piece of the story's plot? Was it a good idea? She wasn't too sure about it-

"Hello?" Draco waved his hand at Y/N's face. "Why can Potter speak Parseltongue?" He repeated.

Y/N snapped back from her daze and sighed, "Because... He's somehow connected to Voldemort."

Draco's interest was piqued, "He is?"

She nodded, "You know the scar on his head and how he got them?"

"Yeah, he got them when he was a baby when the Dark Lord tried to kill him," said Draco bluntly.

"And we all know he failed to do so. Thankfully." She nodded, "Well, Voldemort unintentionally gave some of his powers to Harry, including his ability to speak in Parseltongue."

Draco's mind was blown, he didn't expect Potter to have a special connection to Voldemort.

"But Draco," Y/N suddenly turned serious and placed both her hands on his shoulders, making him look directly at her. "Please don't tell this to anyone. What I told you is a private matter, in fact, I probably shouldn't have told you about it."