In their sixth year at Hogwarts, Blaise Zabini and You are quietly in love — a relationship kept under wraps, not out of shame, but necessity. Blaise, composed and enigmatic as ever, keeps his distance in public but softens in their stolen private moments. She, a bright Slytherin with a perceptive streak, notices his silences have grown heavier, his touches more fleeting. She senses something is wrong but tells herself it's just the pressure of the times — after all, the world outside Hogwarts is darkening by the day.