A year after the death of Sirius Black, Hogwarts receives a student nobody expected to exist: Nova Black, Sirius’s sixteen-year-old daughter. Raised far from Britain and hidden from both the Ministry and the remaining Black family, Nova arrives at Hogwarts carrying only a suitcase, a wand, and the unbearable grief of losing the only parent she ever trusted.
The First Wizarding War is still a distant storm—close enough to darken the horizon, but far enough away for most people to pretend it isn’t coming.
Taylor Nott is everything people at Hogwarts think they understand—and everything they completely misunderstand. A seventeen-year-old sixth-year Slytherin, she carries herself with a sharp tongue, cold composure, and a glare capable of silencing an entire corridor. Most students know her as Theodore Nott’s younger sister, the girl from an old pure-blood family whose name opens doors and shuts mouths. She is clever, ambitious, and devastatingly quick-witted, always armed with a sarcastic remark and a talent for finding people’s weaknesses before they can find hers.
Sixth year at Hogwarts. Taylor Nott is the first Nott ever sorted into Gryffindor, turning her into a disappointment in the eyes of her pure-blood family. While her parents push her toward dark ideals, Taylor refuses to follow their path. The arguments at home grow worse each year, leaving scars no one can see. She carries trauma, depression, and overwhelming stress, yet keeps most of it hidden behind a stubborn grin.
Nova Ashford used to belong somewhere. In her fourth year, she was inseparable from the Marauders—James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter. They were the kind of friendship people pointed at and assumed would last forever: late-night talks, shared secrets, inside jokes, endless hours spent in corridors and common rooms. But Nova had been carrying things she never knew how to explain. Years of disordered eating, depressive episodes, and the feeling that she was always one wrong sentence away from becoming too much for people to handle. Instead of asking for help, she learned how to disappear while still standing right in front of everyone.
April Vale is a sixth-year Gryffindor at Hogwarts, known for her flawless grades, sharp wit, and an almost unsettling ability to smile through anything. A pureblood by birth, she belongs to a fractured legacy: her mother was a Gryffindor who died a year ago, while much of her remaining family are Slytherins who value reputation over warmth. At home, silence is safer than speech—her father’s alcoholism and volatile temper have made “going back for holidays” something she counts down to with dread instead of excitement.
Nova Ashford is in her 6th year at Hogwarts and has spent years being known mostly as Lily Evans’ best friend—smart, sharp-tongued, observant, and weirdly impossible to fully figure out. She doesn’t hate the Marauders because they’re bad people (well… sometimes they are annoying), but because they’re loud, chaotic, and seem to exist in a world where everything comes easy to them while she feels like she’s constantly carrying invisible things.
Ivy Vale is used to being invisible. Quiet, intelligent, and almost always alone, she spends most of her time avoiding attention — especially from the Slytherins who make her life miserable.
Sixth year at Hogwarts was supposed to be predictable: Gryffindors versus Slytherins, detentions, Quidditch matches, whispered rumours in dark corridors. But Elena Nott has shattered every expectation the moment she stopped going home.
Nova Nott is a sixth-year Slytherin at Hogwarts, the same age as Harry Potter and his friends—but she doesn’t fit the usual expectations of her house.