Little dark age // Theodore Nott

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"What if there was no right choice, only different flames to walk through?"

Avery Price, a solitary Ravenclaw with a sharp mind and a battered heart, thought she had left her past behind. She was raised between two worlds: the one of wizards who welcomed her with open arms after the brutal murder of her parents, and the other, far darker, that has always lingered around her name.

But on the eve of her fifth year at Hogwarts, as the wizarding world slips into denial and war looms on the horizon, everything begins to crack again. The air grows heavier, the silence surrounding Voldemort's return more menacing than any scream. And amidst the growing chaos, two gazes emerge from the shadows.

Theodore Nott, a silent Slytherin with a fractured soul, is the boy she once loved. A childhood friend turned distant enemy, he's never truly left her thoughts. Or her heart.

Mattheo Riddle, enigmatic, dangerous, and the illegitimate son of the Dark Lord, shatters her balance with his magnetic presence, poisoned words, and unreadable intentions.

Between the cold corridors of Hogwarts, the classrooms under Umbridge's watchful eye, and the hidden walls of the Room of Requirement, an impossible tension begins to build. Stolen glances. Heavy silences. Within the castle's halls, everything starts to blur and twist, until it becomes toxic.
A war inside her, just as fierce as the one rising outside.

Torn between two boys with opposite darknesses, she will have to choose.
But how do you love when the world is falling apart?
How do you trust when truth itself is just another mask?
And most of all... how do you save yourself when you're starting to lose who you are?

"Because sometimes, the deepest scars are the ones you cannot see.
And sometimes, it's not about choosing between good and evil...
But between two ways of falling apart."