The Core of ... (new edition)

The Core is an unofficial, non-commercial transformative work inspired by the world of Harry Potter. Canon characters and settings belong to their respective rights holders. Voldemort’s daughter survived the Killing Curse—but no prophecy ever chose her. Evelyn Greenwood-Riddle grows up surrounded by stories that attempt to explain what she is: the last descendant of an ancient family, the child of a murderer, a weapon, a survivor, a danger. Each explanation contains part of the truth. None of them tells her why she is alive. Told through a post-war trial, fractured memories, lost identities, and several forms of love, The Core asks what remains when a person is stripped of prophecy, magic, memory, and the roles imposed by others. A nonlinear Harry Potter AU about the distance between being exceptional and being human. Content Warning: The story includes death and resurrection, memory loss, morally complicated relationships, a significant age difference, and a former teacher/student relationship that becomes romantic only after the younger character is an adult. Contains one explicit consensual adult scene. Draco/Evelyn is an important first-love storyline; Severus/Evelyn is the eventual relationship.