A Charm Before Dawn

Daisy Evans has always known something about her was different.

She sees magic before she understands it: colors around people, threads in the air, warmth in places no one else notices. Her twin sister, Lily, is bold enough to chase answers. Daisy is quieter, stranger, and far less certain of where she belongs.

When their Hogwarts letters arrive, everything they've hidden from becomes real. Magic. Wands. Houses. Secrets. A world beneath their own.

But Hogwarts is not the dream Daisy expected.

Lily is sorted into Gryffindor. Severus Snape into Slytherin. Daisy into Hufflepuff.

For the first time in their lives, the Evans twins are separated.

As Lily is pulled toward new friends and old loyalties, Daisy begins noticing the things everyone else misses: the bruised magic around a quiet boy named Remus Lupin, the shadows clinging to Sirius Black, the dangerous hunger for belonging growing in Severus, and the strange secrets adults keep behind locked doors.

Hogwarts is full of magic.

But Daisy is beginning to learn that magic is not always safe, not always kind, and not always meant to be seen.

And some secrets bite back.