Ice skating queen · Y/n story by @Ramonaiswhimsy

The cold crept through the ancient stone corridors of Hogwarts like a living thing, seeping through the cracks in the windows and settling in the hollows of the castle. Snow had been falling for nine days straight—unprecedented, even for a Scottish winter. The grounds lay buried under a pristine, glittering blanket, and the Great Lake had frozen solid for the first time in over a century.

Theodore Nott

looking up from his phone, voice flat It's gone viral. The video of the lake.

Blaise Zabini

barely glancing over What video?

Theodore Nott

Some first year with a drone. Filmed it through the ice. You can see something moving underneath. Something big.

A ripple of murmurs spread across the common room. Draco Malfoy, who had been lounging in a velvet armchair with his phone balanced on his knee, tilted his head toward the window. Beyond the glass, the frozen lake gleamed under the pale winter sun.

Draco Malfoy

That's just the giant squid. It's hibernating or whatever it does.

Blaise Zabini

slowly Squid don't hibernate, Draco.

Draco Malfoy

Well, maybe this one does.

The fire crackled. Somewhere in the castle, a bell tolled for dinner. But Y/n wasn't in the common room. And by now, most of Slytherin had noticed the empty spot by the fireplace where she usually sat, still in her skating jacket, lacing up her boots with quiet precision.

Theodore Nott

glancing toward the door She's out there again, isn't she?

Outside, the frozen lake gleamed—an impossible sheet of black-glass ice. And there, alone in the center of it, a single figure moved like a knife over glass.