Draco is a mermaid and Hermione is not. Still, malfoys often get their way 😏
Draco blinked at the muggle—for that’s what his father had said those that lived above the sea were called—and bit back the urge to dive back beneath the waves and never come back.
“A what?” he asked instead, slowly swimming closer to the girl perched atop the rock. Her knuckles were white as they gripped the edge of it and stared down at him.
“A mermaid,” she repeated, tilting her head and staring at his tail. She was looking at him with barely concealed wonder. Draco sometimes caught his parents staring at each other like that and he ignored that shudder that thrilled through him at being on the receiving end.
“Is that not what you call yourself?”
“My names, Draco,” he huffed, staring up at her.