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Claire Wood has always lived in the spaces between - between houses, between expectations, between the chaos of war and the quiet loyalty of friendship. A Hufflepuff with a sharp tongue and a softer heart than she lets on, she's spent years at Hogwarts watching from the sidelines... and standing a little too close to one boy she insists is only her best friend.
George Weasley is loud, reckless, and impossible to ignore, everything Claire isn't. Together, they are effortless. Uncomplicated. Safe.
Until they're not.
As the wizarding world fractures under the rise of Lord Voldemort, the line between friendship and something far more dangerous begins to blur. What starts as shared laughter and fleeting touches becomes something neither of them is ready to name, especially when naming it means risking everything they already have.
And then the war reaches them.
In one night, everything changes. Blood is spilled, words are said too late, and the cost of silence becomes something neither of them can ignore.
Because in a world where nothing is promised, not safety, not tomorrow, not even survival,
the most terrifying thing isn't losing the war.
It's losing each other without ever having said the truth.
George Weasley X Fem!OC
A childhood friends to lovers story.
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