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Scatter the truth. Wear no crown.
Before Aisling "Ash" Blackwater ever set foot in Slytherin, a vow tied her family to the sea and to secrecy. This canon-adjacent collection braids the Blackwater line from the child Helena smuggled out of Albania to Ash's parents-Ciarán, a too-young investigator with a fox Patronus, and Nerida, a merrow whose songs listen more than lure.
Told through letters, case files, songs, and even the voice of a silver pendant, these stories chart holidays at the Burrow, a July night in St. Mungo's when a boy named Harry is born, the lakefront moment that costs Ciarán James Potter's friendship, a midnight brew that begins a wary alliance with Severus Snape, and a rain-slick bridge where Ciarán shows care to a marked man anyway. They carry us through Nerida's murder when Ash is eight, Ciarán's final investigation before her eleventh birthday, and the day a pale boy in a Ministry lift offers Ash a sugar quill she'll never forget.
Every Blackwater dies between twenty-five and thirty. Still, the oath endures-passed palm to palm like a warm coin: Scatter the truth; wear no crown. For readers who love character-driven HP AUs, found-document storytelling, quiet loyalty, Irish sea-magic, and the kind of hope that survives the tide.
Content notes: bereavement; implied/briefly described violence; war themes; compassionate handling.