Mallory Black, ward of the Malfoy family enters her fifth year of Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry with an overwhelming feeling of being an outsider in her own family. Without a brother to depend on, a father who is proud of her or even a mother who always tells the truth, Mallory finds herself seeking anybody who can be candid. Amidst the Triwizard tournament, OWLs and
Lily Evans enters her sixth year determined to feel like she belongs. She's unbothered by the mutterings of mudblood but bothered by the overwhelming feeling that perhaps mudblood is all she ever will be. James Potter has made a pact with his best friend Sirius Black that this year he'll concentrate on anything, anyone, other than Lily Evans.