Of Serpents and Silent Blood
Leticia O’Conner grows up as a pure-blood witch in a family that loves her as if she’s always been a part of it. The O’Conners are respected, ancient, and inconspicuous enough not to be at the center of the coming war—and that’s precisely what protects Leticia from the truth her entire life. Because Leticia knows nothing about the fact that her life is built on a lie. She doesn’t know she was adopted. She doesn’t know that somewhere in the world lives a boy who shares her blood. And she certainly doesn’t know that the Dark Lord himself knows more about her birth than she’s ever been allowed to know. Everything changes in her seventh year at Hogwarts when she returns—or rather, starts anew. Placed between two houses, without truly belonging to either, she quickly learns that the castle holds more secrets than it lets on. Her first points of reference are unassuming: Daphne Greengrass, who guides her through the first few weeks, and later Mallory Clarke, who becomes her closest friend. And then there are the Slytherins, who observe her instead of immediately reading her. Above all, Theodore Nott. Quiet. Controlled. Unapproachable. He rarely speaks—but he sees everything. And eventually, Leticia begins to perceive him the same way he perceives her: as something that cannot be ignored, even if one tries. As a slow, inescapable stalemate develops between them, a tension between closeness and distance, Mattheo Riddle also enters her orbit—charming, loud, brazenly interested in the only girl who doesn't respond to him. What neither of them knows: Everything about Leticia is connected to a truth that lies deep beneath the surface. A truth that concerns not only her past—but the war itself. And eventually, even silence will no longer be enough to hide it.
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