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Elara Nott never dreamed of Hogwarts the way other children did. When her best friend's letter never came, she chose loyalty over legacy and followed her to Ilvermorny instead, believing that magic was meant to be shared, not separated by oceans and old traditions. But loyalty has a price. One mistake, one unforgiving decision, and Elara Nott found herself cast out-her past burned to ashes and her future rewritten in green and silver.
Hogwarts becomes both her punishment and her salvation. Its corridors whisper of memories she tried to forget, of a childhood left behind. And then she sees him again-her childhood friend, the boy who once knew her laugh before the world hardened it into silence. Meeting him changes everything. The girl who arrived broken begins to remember who she used to be... and who she could still become.
Mattheo Riddle never chose the life laid out before him. Born under a cursed name, raised in the shadow of a monster, he learned early that fear was safer than hope. At Hogwarts, he reigns as a prince of Slytherin, surrounded by darkness, respected because he is dangerous. But beneath the cruelty and the cold stares is a boy suffocating under expectations he never asked for. He does not want to be his father. He never did.
When Elara Nott returns to his life-Theodore's sister, his best friend's other half-something inside Mattheo fractures. She sees him not as Lord Voldemort's son, but as the boy he once was, the boy he still is. And for the first time, Mattheo dares to fight back against the destiny written in his blood.
Together, they stand at the edge of light and darkness, caught between who they were, who they are, and who they refuse to become. Some choices ruin you. Others save you. And some do both.
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