Before she was eleven years old, Elena thought she was just an ordinary girl, until a letter flew out of the fireplace.
Living in the darkest neighborhood in London, Elena has the worst family among Muggles. Her father is cowardly and violent, and uses mental abuse to maintain the shaky authority. Her sister Emily, who is twelve years older than her, is mediocre and mean. She always suspects that her husband has evil intentions towards her, but only pours out his anger on her sister.
The only person in the family who made Elena feel warm was her mother who always cried silently late at night.
Until the day the admission notice came, her father tore up the letter and called her a monster. At that moment, Elena saw the light of determination bursting out of her mother's eyes for the first time. She raised the knife in the kitchen and pointed it at her husband. The mother was taken away by the Muggle police for intentional injury. When the man with black hair and black robes stood in front of the door, Elena thought he was coming to take away her nightmare.
Snape was struck by the fire in this girl's eyes. She was obviously bruised and bruised, but she still believed that there would be light in the world. It was a courage he had long since lost.
After enrolling in school, the senior classmate was shocked to find that Elena's face looked very much like his grandmother who died young. After some investigation, it was revealed that Elena's mother was a squib. She was expelled by the Winterston family due to the instigation of the pure-blood family in her early years, and her whereabouts are unknown since then. And her biological uncle has never given up looking for her sister for many years.
Elena finally has a family, a wizarding family that truly accepts her. At the same time, Professor Snape's cold shell gradually melted in front of her, and the two wounded hearts slowly came closer.
Concept: It is not a fairy tale in which Cinderella is saved, but a dark coming-of-age ceremony in which two scarred souls reflect each other and finally complete their self-reconstruction.
