Katie barely knows Mattheo Riddle. She knows the name everyone spits like a curse. She knows the rumours, the fear, the assumption that blood decides loyalty. That should be enough to let him die. But when she finds him during the Battle of Hogwarts—wandless, bleeding out beneath the ruins of the castle—something in her refuses to turn away. She remembers only fragments: a boy who rebelled when it was safest to obey, who never spoke his father’s name without quiet fury, who chose defiance in wa