Estella Brood is a seventh-year Slytherin—brilliant, composed, and unapologetically herself. Half Veela by birth, she does not suppress her allure or magic, but she has learned to wield it with discipline and intent. Severus Snape, her Head of House and Potions Master, has spent years building walls around himself; Estella dismantles them without ever trying. His love for her is not sudden or reckless—it is slow, agonizing, and utterly desperate.