Amelia Bones, the current Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and a member of the Wizengamot, is thirty-one, yet her hair has already turned silver-gray. Cautious in her work and rarely swayed by others, she is almost stubbornly devoted to evidence and procedure, and has the magical ability to back up that stubbornness. As for power, she lost interest in it long ago.
It was an old case that eventually brought her back to Hogwarts, seventeen years later.
Back then, she was not yet the Ministry of Magic’s “Iron Lady,” just the most unremarkable little girl in Gryffindor. Everyone said she didn’t seem like a Gryffindor. Only Black, famous throughout the school and insufferably proud, once told her offhandedly as he passed by: Don’t let them decide who you are.
He had probably forgotten all about it long ago.
But she wrote down everything she had never managed to say in her diary.
A girlhood crush, hopeless and quietly held; the devastation left behind after the war; and, twelve years later, a trial that finally came too late: as the investigation unfolds, they will all be pieced back together.
And it would be a long time before Sirius learned that, back when he didn’t even know who Amelia Bones was, she had truly, truly liked him.
Note:
Sirius Black x Amelia Bones.
Kingsley Shacklebolt is the second male lead and has a substantial role, so readers who wish to avoid that should take note.
The original third-year timeline has been rewritten.
Amelia Bones’s age, appearance, House, school experiences, and some of her relationships, none of which were mentioned in the original, are the author’s inventions.
Theme: Procedural justice is not about letting the guilty go free. It is about preventing anyone from deciding another person’s fate based solely on power and conviction. And love is being willing to open the door to someone again, even after a long time spent losing them.
It's so beautiful that I cried while watching it in the middle of the night 😭 😭 It's the first time I read a semi-original novel about the heroine. Before I read it, I was worried that I couldn't accept it. After I read it, I felt that the image in the words that lives in the original novel came alive. I particularly like Imogen. My feeling after reading it is that if you can fall in love with someone from the description, it means that the describer loves her very much. Bones' love for Imogen seen in flashbacks btw I have read every article in the author's column. I feel that the teacher especially likes to create very resilient female protagonists who are tough but also have unique softness. I really like each female protagonist's persistence in her own ideals and goals. They all have very charming personalities and have seriously fallen in love with 🧋