When fourteen-year-old Allison Claires transfers from Beauxbatons to Hogwarts as an exchange student, she expects new classes, new faces, and a year far from home — not to become the brightest contrast in a castle built on old rivalries. Sorted into Hufflepuff, Allison is everything her new school isn’t prepared for: gentle but not weak, sweet but not foolish, endlessly patient yet quietly strong. She finds comfort in baking, magical plants, piano melodies drifting through dormitory windows, an