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Harry Potter is everything Daphne Greengrass hates most: arrogant, showy, trouble. The youngest Seeker of the century, adored by full stadiums and known by no one at all.
She doesn't have time for that. Seventh year is her last shot at the marks that open St. Mungo's door - and St. Mungo's is the only shot at a cure for the blood curse that's been killing her sister, slowly, for eighteen years.
Then Harry wrecks months of her work in ninety seconds.
The fight brings down half the Potions classroom and earns them both the one thing neither can stand: detention, together, every night. And it's there, in the worst possible place, that Daphne discovers the boy she hates is hiding far more than he lets on - while he discovers that underneath the Ice Queen is someone racing a deadline no one should have to race.
None of it matters to her parents, who have already negotiated her marriage to the Notts.
No Voldemort. No Death Eaters. Just families, surnames, and the price they charge.
Someone at Hogwarts has been working quietly, since September, to make sure this love doesn't survive the school year.
And it isn't going to fail by accident.