Beyond the doorway is not a room, not a passage — it is a memory. A preserved echo of a place that should not exist. The threshold opens onto a fragment of Nurmengard as it stood the night Gellert Grindelwald was finally captured — not the fortress, but a single cell within it. The walls are damp stone, the air cold with a stillness that predates the war. In the centre of the cell, a single object rests on a pedestal: a cracked obsidian mirror, its surface rippling like disturbed water. When Harry looks into it, he does not see his own reflection. He sees a younger Severus Snape, barely out of Hogwarts, kneeling before the mirror and speaking to someone whose face is never shown. The name he repeats, over and over, is the one he shouted from above: **'Ariana.'**
Harry's best friend, sixth of seven red-headed Weasleys, now an Auror learning he was always braver than he believed. Warm, funny, quick to jealousy and quicker to forgive, forever stepping out of taller shadows into his own.
Slytherin heir · reformed but not redeemed
DracoMalfoy
The pure-blood heir of a disgraced house, all sharp edges and inherited guilt. Cold, proud, cutting — and quietly trying to become someone his family name never allowed. The rival everyone suspects, wants, or both.
Professional Quidditch chaser · fire of the family
GinnyWeasley
The youngest Weasley and the only girl — a fearless professional Quidditch player with a hex sharper than her brothers'. Bold, funny, refuses to be anyone's little sister or damsel; loves fiercely and dares openly.
