Now that Anastasia Dumbledore's lineage has come into light, everyone knows she is Albus's daughter, an experiment, and an obscurus. Half her friends whisper behind her back. Malfoy openly mocks her. Adults pity her for a past she cannot remember. Facing her third year at Hogwarts, Anastasia must decide if her father's love outweighs his sins.
Anastasia's had enough of pretending to be someone else. She can't try out for quidditch. She can't use her real name. She can't tell anyone her pureblood lineage. All the while, muggleborn students are being petrified right and left. Anastasia will play the part for Albus, but if something doesn't give soon, the headmaster's secrets will come at a price.
After an eventful summer, Anastasia Dumbledore is excited to begin her first year at Hogwarts. Still, she feels guilty about posing as a muggle-born student to hide her identity from her classmates. As her lies accumulate, dark forces encroach on Hogwarts, and she discovers the secrets of her origins place her in more danger than she could have ever imagined.
Anastasia Dumbledore lives in the back room of the Headmaster's suite of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Of course, no one knows that except for her grandfather, Albus Dumbledore, a select few Hogwarts faculty, and a couple of house elves. At ten years old, she is quite tired of living in secrecy and is ready to explore the world, much to her grandfather's chagrin.
A retelling of the Black family fallout of 1973. In the shadow of their mother's death and the rise of Lord Voldemort, Bellatrix, Andromeda, and Narcissa Black battle family expectations, career goals, and self-preservation. Their decisions decide the outcome of a war, 25 years before it comes to an end. Three sisters, three marriages, three escape plans.