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Some feelings don’t die. They wait. Hogwarts was never meant to be a place of innocence. Behind the stone walls and stained-glass windows are secrets that were never supposed to surface. Friendships built on lies. Families hiding ugly truths. Promises made as children that became impossible to keep. And hearts that still ache for people they’re supposed to have forgotten. Everyone at Hogwarts has a past. Some are simply better at hiding it. Celeste Malfoy has spent years being known as Draco Malfoy’s little sister—the girl with the Malfoy name, the sharp tongue, and the perfect reputation. But nobody knows what happens when the doors close. Nobody sees the exhaustion behind her smile. Nobody hears the thoughts she keeps locked inside her head. And nobody knows how terrified she is of losing the one person who made her feel like she didn’t have to be perfect. Theodore Nott. He was never supposed to become important. He was supposed to be Draco’s best friend. The quiet one. The observant one. The boy who rarely let anyone close enough to see who he really was. But somehow, Celeste slipped through the cracks. And now neither of them knows how to go back. Their friendship becomes something dangerous—something neither of them is prepared to name. Every lingering glance means too much. Every argument hides something neither wants to admit. Every moment apart feels heavier than it should. But Hogwarts has a way of ruining beautiful things. Because while Celeste and Theo struggle to understand what they have become to each other, the people around them are falling apart too. Draco is hiding more than his friends realize. Mattheo is carrying regrets he refuses to acknowledge. Lorenzo laughs when things hurt too much to take seriously. Blaise notices everything and says almost nothing. Pansy knows what it means to love someone who may never understand you. Astoria and Daphne are caught between loyalty, family, and feelings that refuse to stay buried. And