Hogwarts expected many things from its final year Slytherins Becoming protective older brothers to a tiny first year with sad eyes and a stuffed toy was not one of them.
Eden Hart has learned two things since growing up in a wizarding orphanage: stay quiet, and don’t expect anyone to protect you. At Hogwarts, being an orphan only makes her an easier target. She’s too soft, too shy, too easy to hurt — the kind of girl other students shove aside without consequence. And after one particularly cruel night leaves her bruised and bleeding, Eden makes a desperate decision. She goes looking for the boys everyone fears. Mattheo Riddle, Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini, and Lorenzo Berkshire are infamous around Hogwarts for bloody knuckles, sharp tempers, and trouble that follows them like shadows. They’re cruel, dangerous, untouchable. Which means they probably know how to patch up cuts and bruises. What Eden doesn’t expect is for the terrifying sixth years to let her stay. Or for them to become fiercely protective over the tiny second year with oversized sweaters, trembling hands, and doe eyes too trusting for a castle full of monsters.
Everyone at Hogwarts knows the Slytherin boys are dangerous. Nobody understands why they suddenly keep appearing around a quiet Ravenclaw girl who barely speaks above a whisper. After a Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson leaves Lilia Vale sobbing over the memory of her dead mother, strange things begin appearing outside her dormitory door: enchanted paper birds, sweets, handwritten notes reminding her to eat. She never finds out who’s leaving them. Not for a very long time.
A Slytherin girl arrives at Hogwarts already known for all the wrong reasons — she is the daughter of a Death Eater. Even though she has done nothing to deserve it, the entire school watches her with suspicion, fear, or curiosity. She struggles to separate herself from her family’s legacy while trying to survive a school that has already decided who she is. At the Slytherin table, she becomes entangled with a group of boys who each react to her in different ways — some cautious, some observant, some openly hostile, and some quietly protective — as her presence begins to disrupt the expectations around her.