Forbidden spell

Daphne arrives at Hogwarts at fourteen, carrying a past soaked in blood and silence. The magic that killed her parents was never healed - it was taken, shaped, and left fractured by Death Eaters who called it preparation.

She meets Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express. Cold words, careful looks, two children who learned far too early how to stand still while the world watches. He recognizes something in her - and too quickly, she recognizes it in him.

At school, she tries to disappear. To outrun what was done to her.

But Malfoy stops being just a name sooner than he should.
He becomes Draco - and that makes everything harder.

Because distance would be safer.
And closeness might cost them more than either is ready to lose.