[Double-sided agent + disguised and forbearing heroine + Snape fan]
In the Black household, the price for telling the truth is having your name burned.
Cassiopeia understood this at the age of eleven.
She chose to shut up. Be calm, pragmatic, and never take a stand. In Slytherin, he became the most inconspicuous person.
But she can't fool anyone.
Severus Snape, her half-blood, mean Potions partner, was blocked in the corridor and hung upside down by predators and refused to beg for mercy.
Two people who both wore masks in front of others discovered for the first time that someone could see through their disguises.
Not a friend, not an ally.
They are the only people in the world who can tell each other the truth.
War is coming.
Her brother Regulus spent his seventeen years replacing Voldemort's Horcrux in the cave and left a suicide note.
"Sister, I leave the meaning here. Help me keep it."
She didn't cry. She forged an escape letter to make the Death Eaters think he was a coward, so they turned around and built a safe house underground.
Three years, twenty-seven lives.
Don't leave your name, don't ask where you stand, and leave before dawn.
Snape kept the secret for her.
After the war he faced trial. She walked into the Wizengamot and laid out the evidence one by one.
For the next seventeen years, she opened a potions shop without a sign in Knockturn Alley, and sent a bottle of lily essence to the Hogwarts cellar every July.
No signature.
They are not lovers.
She just sends a bottle of flower essence every July. He just included a sentence in the order that only the two of them could understand.
There are people fighting alongside you.
Some people are silent alongside you.
