Between Lions and Serpents
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Last published Sat, Nov 29, 2025
Arabella Vandabolt has always known her place.
As the last of the Vandabolt line and heir to one of Britain's oldest pure-blood families, her life has been meticulously crafted by her mother's exacting standards. Elegant, intelligent, and the unquestioned leader of Slytherin's elite circle, Arabella has perfected the art of being exactly what everyone expects her to be.
But third year at Hogwarts changes everything.
When a hippogriff incident forces her to choose between loyalty and truth, Arabella finds herself questioning the beliefs she's been raised with. Her friendship with Draco Malfoy fractures. Her carefully maintained distance from Harry Potter-the boy she met on her very first train ride to Hogwarts-becomes increasingly difficult to sustain. And as she navigates the complex world of pure-blood politics, marriage arrangements, and house rivalries, Arabella begins to realize that the person she's supposed to be and the person she's becoming might be two very different things.
Now in her fourth year, with the Triwizard Tournament bringing new faces and old dangers to Hogwarts, Arabella must navigate not just the expectations of her world, but the stirrings of her own heart. Caught between Draco Malfoy's wounded pride and Harry Potter's genuine warmth, between her mother's ambitions and her own conscience, Arabella faces an impossible question:
Can you be true to yourself when your entire life has been built on someone else's vision of who you should be?
Tenstions between Draco x OC and Harry x OC!!
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Born a half-blood, she grew up in the shadows of two worlds. Her Muggle-born mother abandoned the family when the strangeness of magic became too much, leaving her to care for her ailing father-once a dark wizard whose past sins still linger. While others her age studied openly at Hogwarts, she taught herself magic in secret, hiding her power and her lineage. But the ghosts of her father's alliances eventually found her, dragging her into a world she had tried to avoid. As Harry Potter's war with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named raged, she was forced to question her silence, her survival, and her place in a future she could no longer outrun. Enrolling at Hogwarts in her fifth year, she is thrust into friendships and rivalries that test her loyalties-and into a love that began as anger, sharpened with lust, and deepened with every stolen glance. Haunted by the love she left behind and torn by the one she's falling into, she must navigate the dangerous truth of who she is and decide whether she will shape her fate... or let it consume her.
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