spiritbubbles
To the rest of Hogwarts, Liesel Ollivander is a masterclass of magical protégéism and composure. To herself, she is a girl slowly disappearing into the dark.
Returning for her fifth year after the tragic death of Cedric Diggory, Liesel finds herself trapped by her own bloodline. With her parents stepping out of the shadows as loyal Death Eaters, her surname is no longer only associated with the finest wands in the Wizarding World. It is now a target. Desperate to maintain control, she builds a perfect, unfeeling exterior, aligning herself with Harry Potter and the resistance while plunging into the depths of Hogwarts to uncover a forgotten, ancient magic in her ancestry.
But hiding your true self is a dangerous game. As the war breaches the castle walls, and Liesel is dragged down by the absolute collapse of her childhood best friend, Draco Malfoy. As she desperately tries to keep Draco tethered to his humanity, she pushes Harry-and her own sanity-away. Stripped of her identity, suffocating under her parents' dark legacy, and drowning in unhealed grief, Liesel is forced to cast a spell that will change the course of the war.
Sometimes, the only way to survive the dark is to forget the light entirely.