Inked in Gold (OC x Fred Weasley)

Voldemort has died in the first wizarding war

Hogwarts glows different in the evenings-candlelight through stained glass, vinyl humming somewhere above the Ravenclaw Tower.
Aurelia Vale walks those corridors like a daydream made of sunlight and ink. Everyone looks; no one really sees.

Fred Weasley does, though he tries to laugh it off with jokes and smirks that never quite hide the sincerity underneath.
They aren't friends. Just orbiting bodies pulled closer every term by something neither of them can name.

Behind the quiet perfection of Aurelia's life lies a truth she was never told: her father isn't dead, he's teaching her Defense Against the Dark Arts.

Remus Lupin has spent years pretending distance could count as love. When the truth breaks, it shatters three lives and pulls the past back into the present.

Selene Vale, the artist who paints her heartbreak in gold; Sirius Black, still loud and loyal; James and Lily Potter, the proof that survival can look like joy.

Through art shows, Quidditch matches, midnight tea with professors, and the slow burn of something real, Aurelia learns that beauty isn't her only magic and that family can be built out of broken light.

It's a story about the girl everyone sees, the boy who finally looks closer, and the man who learns that love is worth staying for.
Gold and moonlight. Music and laughter. Forgiveness that hums like a charm.

She was sunlight in raven-blue, and he was laughter in scarlet.
Somewhere between them, Hogwarts kept breathing.