Dilectio is Latin for Spiritual Love ------ A recent graduate of Ilvermorny, you've made the trek across the pond from your home in America to London. You find yourself hiding under the radar from the Ministry of Magic working as a barista at a coffee shop in Victoria Station. While many of your peers have gone off in the search for their soulmate, you find yourself in search of something more sinister. ------ warnings: contains heavy explicit sexual content, vulgar language, mentions of traumas, anxiety, etc. WE ADVISE THAT YOU DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 18. ------ We decided to keep all the events in Harry Potter but set them in the future. The Battle of Hogwarts ended in 1998, but in this story, it ended in 2018. This fic takes place in 2020 minus COVID( let's be real, we are all over it). ------ Cover Art by bathtub_pirate Co-written between Kauliberry and @krod934 Edited by @emthepuff

the boy scratched at the skin on his wrist so hard it bled. he'd been doing it all summer. so much so that the skin on his left arm was nothing but scabs and irritated skin. it itched. it constantly fucking itched and it hurt. but the subtle pain was a decent daily distraction from his mind. and harry liked that. there's only so much dark magic a person can suffer before it leaves a mark. harry potter 8th year fanfic WARNING: 18+