she was never meant to be saved. A seventh-year Slytherin from a powerful pureblood family, she is delivered to the Dark Lord with her parents’ consent and reshaped into something useful. Placed under the Imperius Curse and handled by Mattheo Riddle, she is trained through control, repetition, and complicity—her will bent slowly, her identity preserved only so it can be overwritten. When she is given the Dark Mark, the curse is lifted. Freedom does not follow. Marked, conditioned