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Please allocate your 4 action points.
Your choices will determine where Kira Nott takes her first steps at Hogwarts.
"My dear, charm is not a talent, it is a weapon."
In 1971, the Hogwarts chessboard welcomed the most elegant chess player.
Kira Nott, the most perfect pure-blood masterpiece of the Nott family, knows very well that in this era full of legends, feelings are superfluous flaws, and people's hearts are calculable variables.
Predator? Just a gorgeous chess table.
She showed just the right amount of appreciation for James Potter and became an unconquerable shadow in his arrogant world;
She shared with Sirius Black the subtle resonance of a pure-blood defector, but buried a deeper hook in the depth of his gray eyes;
She gave Severus Snape "understanding" beyond blood and became the only ally in his dark world who did not ask for light;
She even made Lily Evans feel kind, but her green eyes could never see through the cold assessment beneath the gentle smile.
This is a war without jinxes.
She put down smoke in the corridor on the second floor, left the aftertaste of her words after Potions class, and created precise "accidental encounters" in the library. Every arc of a smile, every timing of a word of concern, is a carefully calibrated weight, pressing towards the end of the scale that needs to be tilted most.
The Marauder cracked within her, Snape's loyalty began to waver, Lily's fate line quietly deflected... Dumbledore's eyes occasionally glanced at her perfect profile, flashing a trace of doubt.
When everyone is obsessed with the fantasy web she weaves,
Kira Nott just wrote calmly in her diary:
"The chess pieces are in place. Next, which 'hero' should I let take off the crown for me?"
Core highlights:
▷ The heroine is an extremely rational manipulator, not a love brain, and all emotional interactions are just means.
▷ Parallel control of multiple relationship networks: deal with the Marauders, Snape, and Lily at the same time without overturning
▷ Low character and high IQ: weak sense of morality but self-consistent logic, elegant but indecisive behavior
▷ Reconstruction of the original plot: in the hidden corner of the era of predators, all familiar characters will move to unexpected positions
🖤 One sentence recommendation:
If you're tired of protagonists being driven by the plot - welcome to The Player's Position.
"Severus, loneliness is a good armor, but cooperation is a sharper sword."
Sirius leaned against the corridor and chuckled: "You are more dangerous than all Slytherins, Kira." She smiled back: "Thank you, that sounds much nicer than 'cute'."
James Potter had never wanted to "save" someone so much, even if he had no idea what she needed to be saved from.
On the final chessboard, she put down her wand and whispered, "Look, you can make the world bow without the Unforgivable Curse."
All the chess pieces have entered the game, but you are left. Do you choose to watch or join the game?
Motto: Character determines destiny