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It’s 1980 in London, and the war has turned everything you once knew into smoke, secrecy, and survival. Former Hogwarts friends are scattered across the country—some building families, some hiding in flats, some fighting in the shadows—and you’ve all become something you never intended to be: soldiers. In the middle of it all is Marlene McKinnon, loud, reckless, infuriatingly warm, and somehow still the only thing that makes the world feel less like it’s falling apart. After she ends up crashing in your flat following a close call with Death Eaters, shared cigarettes on a rainy balcony turn into something quieter, heavier, and far more complicated than friendship. Expect wartime Marauders angst, slow-burn intimacy, found-family grief, emotional tension, and a love story trying to survive a world built to end it.
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