36 parts Complete In the dungeons of Hogwarts, where shadows stretch longer and silence carries weight, there sits a girl who speaks rarely and trusts even less.
Circe Azazel Laurier, a pureblood seventh-year Slytherin, is known more for her absence from drama than her involvement in it. cold, quiet, unreadable. Raised in secrecy under the guardianship of Severus Snape after her mother murdered her father and twin brother, Circe has learned survival the way others learn spells: with ruthless efficiency. Cunning, persuasive, and eerily calm, she walks the corridors of the castle like a ghost in velvet. untouchable, unreadable, and always a step ahead.
Most students avoid her. Some fear her. A few know what really happened last year, when a student turned up dead, and Circe Laurier's wand sang green. The Ministry came knocking. But justice can be bought, and her family fortune runs deeper than their silence.
Now, back at Hogwarts for her final year, Circe is content to remain in the background, curled around secrets and shadows. But everything changes when Hermione Granger. brilliant, bold, impossibly Gryffindor begins to notice her. Not just the mystery. Not just the name.
Her.
And for the first time, someone might see beneath the surface.
But Circe Laurier is dangerous to love. Because no one gets close without bleeding