Hogwarts in the era of the Marauders is often remembered as loud laughter echoing through stone corridors, enchanted pranks that shake the castle awake, and friendships that feel like they could survive anything.
War never truly ends. Sometimes it simply settles into the walls of old houses, into empty bedrooms, into family names too heavy for children to carry.
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.
Everyone knows about Taylor Vale’s depression. Everyone admires Nova Vale for always being there to hold him together. No one realizes that while she has been saving her little brother, she’s been quietly losing herself.