The Prefect Badge Fallout
In fifth year, Evelyn and Theo were Hogwarts’ most notorious Slytherin power couple—publicly inseparable: her draped over his lap at feasts, his arm around her waist in halls, late-night “patrols” that ended with bitten necks and rumpled robes everyone pretended not to notice. The breakup hits like a Bludger in sixth year: Theo, under his father’s pressure to take the Mark, ends it publicly in the Great Hall—cold words, her storming out in tears and fury, hexing his goblet to spill across the table. The school erupts in gossip; she becomes the scorned queen, he the heartless pure-blood heir.
Enemies phase: she shags/makes out with other boys openly to spite him, smokes cherry cigarettes while staring him down as he used to never let her smoke because