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Olivette Faye Rowan, a Hufflepuff with a gentle way of seeing the world, returned to Hogwarts for another year, unaware that everything was about to change.
She never meant to get involved.
He never meant to care.
But once Mattheo Riddle noticed her, looking away wasn't as easy as it should have been.
Olivette was known for her warmth: soft-spoken, kind, easy to get along with, though she often felt more at ease among animals, plants, and open skies than in the noise of people.
There was something almost like sunlight about her presence, quiet but impossible to fully ignore.
Mattheo Riddle was the opposite: a name spoken in warnings and silence, the son of Voldemort, carrying a legacy which followed everywhere he stepped, like a shadow, that made people decide who he was before he ever spoke.
But neither of them were only what the world decided.
Olivette had learned long ago that people were never only what they seemed- each one carrying hidden layers, shaped by things they never chose, truths buried too deep to be seen at first glance.
They were never meant to understand each other. And yet somehow, they do.
Enemies to lovers, slow burn. Shadows and sunlight- closer than either of them should be willing to admit, until hate and love blur into something impossible to separate.