The Veiled Champion by S&S — Chapters 23 to 27

A Dramione retelling of A Cinderella Story (2004)Less than a year after the war, Lucius Malfoy is Minister for Magic and celebrated as the man who defeated Voldemort. Hermione Granger, who actually did the job alongside Harry and Ron, is back at Hogwarts for Eighth Year.Hermione did not enter the Ministry's Reconciliation Tournament to win a date with Draco Malfoy. She entered as the anonymous Veiled Champion to force the truth about Voldemort's defeat into the public record.When Hermione copies Draco's old diary for political leverage, she begins writing to him as H. It's supposed to be reconnaissance, but it turns into daily confessions, and Draco falling for an anonymous girl while aggressively complaining about the cuffed Gryffindor who keeps glaring at him. Hermione is falling for him too, which is highly inconvenient.But as the Tournament escalates to a masked ball, Hermione is running out of time to keep her identities separate. And when the veil finally drops, Draco will have to decide whether to remain his father's prince, or stand beside the witch who just dismantled his entire world.