lorelai montague (twin sister of slytherin's star seeker, graham) has always known how to survive the politics of her house: ears open, mouth shut, and let everyone else waste their breath. her mask keeps her untouchable, but her honesty lives in secret letters-signed only as ember-to someone she knows only as ash. as the ministry tightens its grip on hogwarts, slytherin grows crueler and more divided. lorelai stands at the fault line: bound to her brother and her house, but pulled toward truths she can't admit out loud. in a world where appearances mean everything, the letters become her only refuge. until the embers she hides spark into something she can no longer control.