The Bronxsteins have survived centuries by one rule: serve the Crown, serve no one else. No allegiance to rising dark lords. No entanglements with families who do. They have outlasted every war, every shifting allegiance in wizarding Britain - not by fighting, but by refusing to. Alice Bronxstein knows this. She has known it her whole life. And she has never once questioned it. Then Draco Malfoy starts sitting next to her in the common room. He remembers her favorite sweets without being told. He says her name like it belongs to him. And slowly - so slowly she almost doesn't notice - Alice begins to understand that neutrality isn't the absence of a choice. It's the hardest choice she'll ever have to make. Because the war will ask everything of her, and Draco will be the reason she answers. Told through the pages of Alice's diary. Years 1-7.