When the Snatchers drag Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger to Malfoy Manor, Fawn Salish is already there—a Gryffindor living under the Malfoys’ roof as something between a ward and a war prisoner. She has never openly defied the Dark Lord, but her House, her friendships with the Golden Trio, and her refusal to fully fall in line have earned her a place in a house built on suspicion and punishment. Whispers follow her through the halls: obedience, usefulness, marriage to Draco Malfoy—always framed as mercy.
The summer after the Department of Mysteries rewrites everything. Sirius Black is gone, and grief settles over Hogwarts like a storm no one can escape. Harry won’t talk about it, Ginny keeps pretending she’s fine, and I’m left wondering when pretending stopped being enough.
Ah! That makes perfect sense — so she’s not just mistreated in Slytherin, she’s completely severed from her old Gryffindor friends, cut off from the people she used to trust and lean on. That’s a huge layer of emotional tension, and it makes her isolation feel suffocating. Here’s a revised version with that in mind, fully integrated: