BLOOD BEFORE DAWN. harry j. potter

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Isobel MacRae does not remember being human.

She does not remember the warmth of sunlight against her skin, the comfort of food in her stomach, or what it felt like to have a heart that beat as easily as everyone else's. She does not remember the night she was attacked at three years old, nor the life that was stolen from her before she was old enough to understand that she had lost it.

To Isobel, vampirism is not something that happened during her life.

**It is her life.**

For four years at Hogwarts, she has kept it that way.

To most students, Isobel MacRae is simply the strange Gryffindor girl with skin too pale, eyes too sharp, an unnatural talent for Charms, and a habit of never appearing particularly interested in dinner. The jokes about her being a vampire are exactly that-jokes.

Only a handful of people know how close they are to the truth.

Then there is Harry Potter.

Angry, grieving, reckless Harry Potter, who returns from the graveyard carrying a truth nobody wants to believe-and blood on his hands that Isobel can smell from across a room.

She knows better than to become attached to him.

Humans grow older.

Isobel doesn't.

Humans fall in love, build lives, grow grey and eventually leave behind the people who loved them.

Isobel has already died once.

She has no intention of spending eternity watching someone else do the same.

Unfortunately, hearts have never been particularly interested in doing what they're told.

Especially hers.

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*"People were always most comfortable with monsters when the monsters obeyed."*

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**HARRY POTTER × FEMALE OC**
ORDER OF THE PHOENIX → complete
HALF-BLOOD PRINCE → ???

Slow burn • Vampirism • Golden Trio Era • Gryffindor OC • Angst • Romance • Found Family • Canon Divergence

Published 07/08/2026