Bill Weasley nearly ruined Adi's life-until the fearsome Potions Master changed it.
In 1990, Cho Chang's older cousin Adeline is not the only witch at Hogwarts to fall for the dashing, loaded Gringotts cowboy-with dire consequences. Now she must fight out of a fugue state to salvage her once-promising academic career with an unlikely ally in Professor Snape.
Upon graduation Adi accepts a risky position on the International Task Force stationed in China, which has been plagued for centuries by both Muggle and Wizard political strife. A meteoric rise in diplomacy finally brings her back to Hogwarts in 1996 to visit as the newly-appointed British Ambassador to the United Chinese Nations (U.C.N.)
There she finds a Severus Snape burdened by a Darkness both terrifying and alluring, and the charged, clandestine attraction between them is at last realized against an international backdrop of the Second Wizarding War. Though it may mean risking her very life, Adeline races to find a way to save the man who once was the only person who cared enough to save her.
Prologue
There are people who walk into battle helms high and breastplates shined.
And there are those whose fight takes them deep into the Dark, where the mark of the enemy covers all glory and the filth of the fight is the only thing an outsider can see.
There is often no distinguishing line between bravery and survival, despite how badly people want there to be.
This, then, is not everyone's story, nor would I ever wish it to be. This is the story of how darkness can give as much as the light, and that love sometimes evades death by mere fractions of a second.
And finally, this is a story that warns not to dismiss the ugliness in people, but to embrace it as your own, for that is truly where you will find peace.
I am Adeline, and this is my story.