Bound by shadows

Bound by shadows

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Elara Snape was raised on discipline, silence, and restraint. As the daughter of Severus Snape, she enters Hogwarts with the weight of his name-and a single, uncompromising rule: **never involve herself with the Malfoy family**. Love, she is taught, is a liability. Desire is a weakness. And attachment is something that must be buried before it can take root. Sorted into Slytherin, Elara carefully builds a life within the House-forming guarded friendships with Blaise Zabini and Pansy Parkinson, and finding quiet constancy in Theodore Nott, her closest friend and the one boy who loves her knowing he will never truly have her heart. Draco Malfoy comes into her life slowly. First as a classmate. Then a reluctant friend. Then something far more dangerous. Bound by secrecy, expectation, and fear of disappointing her father, Elara and Draco's relationship grows from subtle glances and shared silences into a love that is intimate, consuming, and impossible to deny. As the war looms and Draco begins to unravel, what once felt like refuge becomes volatile-tenderness turning into possession, loyalty into fear, love into something that both saves and destroys them. Disclaimer:I don't own any of the characters besides elara snape all other characters are from JK.Rowling Harry Potter
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