Athena1414
Hogwarts survived Voldemort.
It didn't survive what came before him.
After the war, the castle's wards begin to shift-doors refusing familiar hands, corridors appearing where there should be stone, riddles turning cruel. Whispers spread like rot: blood is destiny, Houses are law, and tainted names don't belong.
Lyra Narcissa Malfoy has spent her life being a headline. But when the Sorting Hat places her in Ravenclaw-the first Malfoy in living memory not in Slytherin-Hogwarts makes her something worse: a symbol. Weeks later, the truth detonates across the school-Lyra is the newly exposed Ravenclaw heir. Ravenclaw turns sharp. The castle turns sharper.
Her only constants are Lorcan Scamander, the quiet Ravenclaw who sees patterns in the shifting halls, and James Sirius Potter, the Gryffindor menace who stops teasing long enough to stand beside her.
Two years below, Scorpius Hyperion Malfoy and Albus Severus Potter are doing the impossible: surviving Slytherin together, anchored by Rose Granger-Weasley brilliant, relentless, and unwilling to let old blood politics decide who gets to breathe.
Then Scorpius disappears into a corridor that shouldn't exist.
Hogwarts isn't malfunctioning. Something ancient is waking beneath it-older than the Founders, built to enforce order.
And it's ready to decide who belongs.
Author's note: Canon-adjacentthe original story of Harry Potter and to my series Spellbound (Fred x OC) and The Reckoning (Draco x OC), but you can read this standalone after just reading the Harry Potter series.
Disclaimer: Fanwork. Lyra, Orion, and Epona are OCs; the rest belongs to J.K. Rowling.