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Before memories were erased and altered.
Before Harry Potter died.
Before Lord Voldemort won.
There was a time when they carried freedom and laughter.
But if they were running out of time without realising it.
Draco Malfoy has spent his entire life preparing to become everything his family expects him to be-a proper pure-blood heir, a future Death Eater, and a son worthy of the Malfoy name. Falling in love with Hermione Granger was never part of the plan. She is everything he has been taught to hate, and yet she is the one person he cannot stay away from.
But Draco is not the only boy carrying the weight of a war he is too young to fight.
Theodore Nott knows what monsters look like. He sees one every time he looks at his father. Raised beneath an abusive hand and impossible expectations, Theo is expected to inherit a legacy of blood purity and fear. Instead, he finds himself drawn to a fiery red-haired girl who makes him forget what it means to be afraid. Ginny Weasley is his best friend, his peace and the one person he can never afford to lose. Loving her should be simple.
It isn't.
And while Draco risks everything for a girl he shouldn't love and Theo struggles to protect the friendship he cannot bear to ruin, Blaise Zabini finds himself caught between loyalty and survival. With a mother who has never truly cared for him, Draco and Theo are the closest thing he has to family. If they fall, he will be the one left standing. Yet even as Daphne Greengrass waits for him to notice what has always been right in front of him, Blaise begins to learn that loyalty has a price.
As Hogwarts enters its third year, friendships become alliances, rivalries become obsessions, and being in love becomes dangerous. The wizarding world is changing, and the children growing up within it are being asked to make choices no child should ever have to make.
Because war does not wait for adulthood.
And neither does love.