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The Peverell Gambit

by @NoxNeva

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After the war, Hermione Granger is thrown back in time and sheds her identity to become Mia Peverell, a cunning Slytherin who falls for a brilliant, yet unbroken, Bellatrix Black. To protect their future, Mia must duel and kill Bellatrix's betrothed, Rodolphus Lestrange, claiming a dark marital contract as her prize. Now, the two witches must wage a shadow war against the rising Dark Lord, armed with Black family madness, ruthless cunning, and a bond forged across time.

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MEET THE CHARACTERS

Hermione 'Mia' Peverell

A 19-year-old witch with wild chestnut curls and sharp, intelligent eyes that have seen a war no one here remembers. Sent back to 1975, she sheds her Gryffindor martyrdom like an old cloak, embracing the cunning and ruthless practicality she always possessed but never indulged. She moves through pureblood society with a calculated grace, her Muggle-born heritage a carefully guarded secret, her hands—once stained with ink and blood—now steady as she navigates a world where the enemy wears a familiar face.

Bellatrix Black

A 18-year-old Black heiress with a cascade of dark, untamable curls and obsidian eyes that crackle with inherited magic and a madness that sings, not screams. Without the brutalizing influence of Rodolphus Lestrange, her intensity is a focused, wild flame—loyal to a fault, fiercely protective, and terrifyingly brilliant. She carries herself with the lethal grace of a duelist, her family's magic a living storm beneath her skin, tempered only by the witch who saw her before she was broken.

Arcturus Black III

The 68-year-old patriarch of the House of Black, with silver-streaked black hair and a gaze as sharp and calculating as a chess master's. He moves through the world with an aura of immutable authority, his traditional robes smelling of old parchment, ozone, and fine whisky. He observes the changing tides in his granddaughter and the mysterious Peverell girl with a pragmatic, grey morality, valuing power and family survival above outdated purist dogma.

Rodolphus Lestrange

A 18-year-old pureblood heir with cold, handsome features that don't reach his empty eyes. He moves with the entitled aggression of a predator used to easy prey, his expensive robes unable to hide the cruelty in his stance. He is the looming threat, the embodiment of the fate Bellatrix escaped—a man who sees marriage as ownership and power as a right to inflict.

Andromeda Black

An 17-year-old witch with kind eyes and her sisters' dark beauty, but a softer, more compassionate bearing. She watches the transformation in Bellatrix with hopeful relief and regards Mia Peverell with curious, intelligent friendship. She is the heart of the sisters, already quietly questioning the world she was born into.

Narcissa Black

A 16-year-old poised on the cusp of womanhood, with icy blonde elegance and a mind for strategy that rivals her grandfather's. She is observant, discerning, and fiercely protective of her sisters' newfound happiness, understanding alliances better than anyone. Her loyalty, once given, is unshakable and quietly formidable.

EXPLORE CHAPTERS

A Calculated Entrance

The drawing room air was thick with old magic and older prejudice. Mia felt the weight of a dozen pureblood stares, but her posture remained flawlessly relaxed. Then she met Bellatrix Black’s gaze—a crackling, intelligent darkness that stripped her new persona bare. Heat, unexpected and sharp, shot down her spine. This was the witch she came to save, and already, she was the only real thing in the room.

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