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The Lion and the Dragon

A Harry Potter Retelling

The Harry Potter series, retold in seven books with Dracaena Malfoy (known online as Malfoid). Enemies to lovers. By Dakini.

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Book One · 1991 to 1992

Dracaena Malfoy and the Mirror of Erisedor Harry Potter and the Three Wishes

Harry Potter is an orphan who taught himself magic tricks in the cupboard under the stairs. He can walk a coin across his knuckles and turn two foam rabbits into four. Dracaena Malfoy is the only heir of Malfoy Manor. She can tell your blood from the cut of your robes, ice you with one look, and has already decided she’ll be Seeker. Neither of them will forgive the other for the train.

A retelling of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

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Pairing
Harry Potter/Dracaena Malfoy
Rating
General audiences
Status
In progress · 5 chapters so far
Length
11,012 words · about 0 h 48 min
Updated
21 Oct 2026
  • Female Draco Malfoy
  • Enemies to Lovers
  • Slow Burn
  • Canon Retelling
  • Multiple Points of View
Content notes
  • Childhood neglect and bullying
  • Talk of Harry’s parents’ murder
  • Blood-purity prejudice
  • Peril and fantasy violence
  • The death of a unicorn
  • A villain’s death

Contents

  1. Chapter One
    1. Dracaena’s LetterPart one · 2 minDracaena
    2. The Three WishesPart two · 5 minHarry
  2. Chapter Two
    1. The Magician of Privet Drive12 minHarry
  3. Chapter Three
    1. Goblins Run the Banks12 minHarry
  4. Chapter Four
    1. The Girl in the Robe ShopPart one · 4 minHarry
    2. Hawthorn and Unicorn HairPart two · 3 minDracaena
    3. Holly and Phoenix FeatherPart three · 6 minHarry
  5. Chapter Five
    1. The Dragon of Malfoy Manor4 minDracaena
  6. New chapters every week

Sneak peeks

A Song About UlyssesThe Yule Ball, from Book Four ›

The Lion and the Dragon is a seven-book retelling of the Harry Potter series in which Draco Malfoy is a girl: Dracaena, the only child of Lucius and Narcissa. The cupboard, the letters, the train and the castle are where you left them, and the story keeps to canon as closely as it can. What changes is everything she touches.

The books move between Harry and Dracaena. He is a boy who taught himself magic tricks from books and judges people by how they treat others. She has been raised to be the right sort, wants her father’s approval more than anything, and has never been told no. They begin as enemies, and for a long time they deserve to be.

It is a slow road from enemies to lovers, and she does not change for him. What changes her mostly happens where he cannot see it, and she has to choose it herself.

Can she be redeemed?

Book One covers their first year, 1991 to 1992.

Author’s note. Slow burn. In Book One they are eleven and loathe each other.