❝Your second mistake was telling me I can't do something. Your first mistake was being born.❞
❝That was...harsh.❞
Elara Merle Potter often came off as rude, mutinous, cynical, and incredibly unsubtle. Needless to say, she was all of those things. Elara was quite proud of her place in the universe, and even prouder of being a Serpent. Despite her initial joy of being sorted into Slytherin, there were a few downsides;
and one of them was Regulus Black. Or, as Elara like to refer to him, "the arrogant, entitled brat without an ounce of purpose!" The threat of him overtaking her rightful spot at the top of her classes kept Elara Potter up at night.
The two most noticeably clash in Potions, Astronomy, and Transfiguration, and started an unspoken competition of repeatedly one-upping each other.
When the two Slytherins decide to take their rivalry a step farther, it can only lead to chaos.
Celestial chaos.
Disclaimer: I clearly don't own Harry Potter or the HP universe, so..yeah. Everything besides the original characters and the plot rightfully belongs to J.K. Rowling.
"You're different from what I expected," she said softly.
"How so?" he asked, glancing at her.
"I don't know," she replied, searching for the right words. "You just... have this way of making people feel like they matter. Even here, in this... nightmare."
He was quiet for a moment before responding. "You matter, Y/n. Don't forget that."
OR
Y/n wakes up in the deadly Squid Game, surrounded by strangers and fighting to survive. What she doesn't know is that the mysterious Frontman is watching her every move through the cameras- and she's caught his attention.