Stories don't always begin with stolen glances or promises. Sometimes they start between the lines of a book, behind a Potions desk or in an overcrowded train carriage. Seléne Montrose is a brilliant, competitive and charismatic Gryffindor. With her sharp humour and hidden anxiety about always having to prove herself, she built a solid reputation: a girl who knows how to stand up for herself, even when her heart races faster than her confidence. Blaise Zabini, instead, spent six years in the silvery shadows of the Slytherin dungeons. Elegant, reserved, unapproachable, with an aura of detachment that makes him difficult to read but impossible to ignore. The son of a feared yet admired mother, he learned early on not to trust others, to protect himself behind a controlled smile, to hint at a lot and say very little. They'd never really spoken to each other before being the Slug Club. Sitting a few seats apart, forced to share the same air and conversations, Seléne and Blaise suddenly found themselves adversaries. Two opposing worlds. Two characters destined to clash. But behind provocations and glances, there was common ground that neither of them wanted to acknowledge: the fear of showing vulnerability, the intolerance towards those who took everything for granted, the awareness that growing up in an ancient family did not mean feeling understood. It wasn't love at first sight or fierce hatred - but something more subtle: a balancing act, a tightrope that risked breaking with every sharp remark, every challenge thrown down, every silence shared for too long. As the war approached, two seemingly incompatible students would discover that attraction doesn't always arise only from the opposite that fascinates, but from that unexpected reflection that forces you to see yourself in the eyes of the other. blaise zabini x fem!oc blaise zabini fanfiction

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Florence Love Ramsey doesn't remember who she is-not her past, not her family, not the cold, sharp girl she used to be. After a brutal, mysterious attack erases her memories, she wakes up in a life that feels like it belongs to someone else. But memories have a way of clawing back. Strange flashes return-glimpses of magic, secrets, and emotions that don't feel like hers. She finds herself drawn to a boy with haunted eyes and a silence heavier than words, and in him, she feels something real. Maybe even love. Yet the more Florence uncovers, the more she fears the truth. The girl she once was might not be someone worth remembering. But fate doesn't care who you want to be. When she stumbles upon something ancient and dangerous, Florence realizes she may need to become the very person she's afraid of-the girl who once walked the edge between power and ruin. Because some decisions are made out of selfishness. Some are born out of fear. But the worst ones-the ones that hollow you out-are the ones made to protect the people you love, knowing they'll never understand.

"From the day you arrived, I've remained by your side, in chains, entombed." Lara Radley is forced to move on and cope alone with the trauma after the events that happened in her fifth year. Just when she thinks she has found peace in her final year at Hogwarts, her life is turned upside down once more. Contains: violence, alcohol use, sexual content and adult language.