The war is over. The castle is quiet. And the girl who once saved the world with biscuits has to learn how to live in it. Faye Scamander is no longer fighting to survive - she is learning how to stay. With her grief. With her kindness. With the love she never expected to keep. Draco Malfoy has spent his life becoming what the world demanded. Now, for the first time, he is choosing who he wants to be. This is not a story about battles or heroes. It is about mornings after. About healing that comes slowly. About love that is careful, chosen, and brave in a quieter way. Because the hardest part of saving the world is deciding what to do once it's safe.

Faye Scamander was never dangerous. She was the girl who handed out biscuits like blessings, chatted with portraits, rescued injured creatures, and left wildflowers on desks simply because it felt kind. And somehow, Draco Malfoy noticed her anyway. Draco had been raised in a castle of cold rules and colder expectations. Faye had grown up in a cottage overflowing with warmth and wonder. He had been taught that softness was weakness. She had been raised to believe that softness saved people. They should have stayed worlds apart. Instead, they kept colliding-his armour against her gentleness, his silence against her small-magic courage. And somewhere between a flower she gave him, a biscuit he pretended not to want, and the moments they lingered without meaning to- everything shifted. Because some spells were loud and destructive. But the ones that changed a life? They were always the small things no one saw coming

The sequel to The House We Built. They swore loyalty would be enough. But when the storm came, even the strongest house began to crack. Now silence sits where laughter used to live - and what was once unbreakable will never be the same again.

In a world that fears snakes before it ever learns their names, Celine Auclair has built a family out of loyalty and silence. The granddaughter of one of the oldest pureblood lines, she was raised to be perfect, obedient-and untouchable. But at Hogwarts, she finds something far more dangerous than expectation: love, friendship, and the kind of loyalty that binds tighter than blood. Within the stone walls of Slytherin, Celine and her five boys-Draco, Theo, Blaise, Enzo, and Matty-rule their house with quiet power and unspoken devotion. The world calls them cold. The world is wrong. Together, they are the heartbeat of the serpent, unbreakable and unseen. As darkness gathers beyond the castle and whispers of war begin to stir, Celine must decide what she's willing to risk to protect the only family she's ever truly known. Because when the world divides heroes from villains, she knows exactly where she stands. They aren't monsters. They're the house she built Tiktok - The_house_we_built