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.
you were twelve when you won the hunger games without killing anyone. the capitol called you a miracle. finnick odair stayed. five years later, for the 75th hunger games, they send you both back into the arena. this time, there is nowhere left to hide.
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: