TL

Y/n has spent her entire life learning one thing: people leave. After losing her mother and growing up with an abusive father, she arrives at Hogwarts carrying wounds no one can see. She is angry, guarded, and impossible to reach. Dressed in black, covered in silver, and hiding behind sharp words, she makes sure the world knows exactly where the line is—because if no one gets close, no one can hurt her. To everyone else, Y/n is just the angry girl. The difficult girl. The girl who pushes everyone away before they get the chance to abandon her. But Theodore Nott sees something different. For months, Theo has watched from a distance—not because he pities her, but because he notices the things everyone else ignores. The kindness hidden behind her cruelty. The fear beneath her anger. The girl underneath the armor. He doesn’t want to fix her. He doesn’t think she’s broken. He just wants her to understand that she has always been worthy of love. But loving Y/n isn’t easy. She doesn’t trust kindness. She doesn’t believe in promises. And every time Theo gets close, she builds another wall between them. A story about survival, healing, and two people finding each other in the middle of the mess. Because sometimes the hardest person to love is the one who has spent their entire life believing they were impossible to love. And sometimes, the person who stays is the person who changes everything.