Bound to Be Tragic

She came from a home of tragedy. A home with a tragic foundation, amid tragic walls and tragic rooms. Her family was harrowing, her kin instilling expectations so high that she found herself scared to fly.
He came into this world in the company of a tragedy. Left with no proper home and without affinity, he grew up with the steady feeling of abandonment; he was lost. But as he aged he decided that the world was meant to pay the cost.
The forces of nature stated that she was made for him. The very same nature called out that he was meant for her. But evermore the workings of fate are ever so curious. Though their fingertips were laced magic, it was bound to be tragic.

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Going into her fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Alena Perone is prepared for a year of going to lessons, studying for O.W.L.s, and running her rounds as a school prefect. In her desire to not only avoid disconcerting her parents, but to hopefully please them as well, she finds herself with little to do. Thus her expectations for the upcoming year are set so low that she can run her fingers along the deepest abyss of hell. However, her outlook on the year begins to shift after several continuous run-ins with ever so mysterious Tom Riddle. His uninviting exterior does little to deter her curiosities about the boy as she is determined to figure out what makes him tick. Unintentionally, she finds that her advances are slowly but surely developing into what she believes to be the beginnings of a friendship.