Voldemort values his Slytherin ancestry and secures an heir, just in case. His child Marvela suffers a life of inherited but not invited evil traits; and she fears that new DADA professor Potter will want to kill her when he finds out who she really is.

All the searching, the spying, the scheming, the smiles. All the learning, the loving, the leaving, the lies. They all came down to this. "Matsumotoooo...!" seethed Hitsugaya Toushiro, door snapping off its hinges in his fist. The air filled with electric rage and ice. "WHY are you harbouring a traitor in your sake cupboard? !"

Neville's most spectacular Potions failure ever. 'You have twelve minutes to complete your cackhanded concoctions and hand them in to me.' Snape is going to wish he never said those words...

Draco becomes the crux of Voldemort's quest for immortality, but first his soul must be broken by Greyback. Can the Order put aside their differences and save Draco in the name of defeating Voldemort, or will they just eliminate him from the equation?