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Here is a full story starter prompt for Melusine at Hogwarts - I built it around your exact AU: **TITLE: The Bard of Slytherin** **CORE PREMISE:** Melusine. 17. Official story: Only child, pureblood but reclusive family from the Welsh borderlands. Homeschooled her whole life because her parents were "traditionalists." Both parents died in a magical accident over the summer. Now she needs to finish her NEWT year somewhere accredited, so she petitioned Hogwarts. The truth: She let them think that. She had a private Sorting with Headmaster Dippet three days before term started. No Hat, no Great Hall spectacle. She was placed directly into Slytherin. Dippet's official note: "Miss Melusine is adjusting, please make her welcome." **YOUR CAST - Tom Riddle Era, 1944-45, 7th Year:** Tom Riddle has abandoned Horcruxes. In 5th year, two "transfer students" arrived claiming to flee the Grindelwald war on the continent - **Hadrian Peverell [Harry Potter], Regulus Black, and Draco Malfoy.** They are in reality time-travelers. Harry became Master of Death, was betrayed and killed by Ginny, Ron, Hermione and Dumbledore who raised him as a pig for slaughter. Death offered him a return to the beginning. He brought Draco and Regulus with him - both also manipulated and dead in his timeline. They were Sorted into Slytherin in 5th year. They hate Dumbledore and his blatant favoritism. Dippet is Headmaster, but Dumbledore has his ear. Over two years they slowly earned Tom's trust and told him everything - the future, the war, how his soul would be torn apart. Tom listened. Now it's 7th year. The plan has changed. No immortality through murder. Political control. Reshape Britain from the inside. The Ministry, the Wizengamot, pureblood law. The Inner Circle / Knights of Walpurgis: * **Tom Riddle** - Prefect, brilliant, controlled, terrifyingly charismatic * **Abraxas Malfoy** * **Orion Black** * **Lestrange [Corvus or grandfather generation]** * **Rosier **[Felix] Relationships established: Orion x Rosier are dating openly within the group. Tom x Regulus x Draco x Hadrian are together - a closed, possessive, intensely loyal poly. The Slytherins call them "The Snake Pit" behind their backs. **MELUSINE - How She Enters:** Appearance at Hogwarts: She appears *completely normal*. Not an inch weird or unnatural. Muggle-born girls would kill for her look. Curly brown hair with a natural white streak at the front and hidden blue undertones you only see in the light. Light-to-medium warm tan skin. Brown eyes. No visible tattoos, no pointed ears. Wearing the standard Slytherin uniform perfectly, but with small tells if you know her - strappy flat sandals under the robes instead of school shoes, a blue snake ring, a wing-shaped ear cuff she claims is a family heirloom. What she hid for Sorting: Her real form is in your image - elf-tipped ears, glowing blue lightning-like tattoos across her chest and stomach that pulse when she plays, a lute that hums on its own, a crystal sword that sings, potion vials, and those absurd painted Converse high-tops with moons and butterflies sitting next to her bare feet. At Hogwarts, all of that is glamoured away. She's a Bard. Not a metaphor. Magic through music, stories, and memory. **THE ARRIVAL SCENE - Chapter One Prompt:** Great Hall, Opening Feast, 7th year. Dippet announces: "We have a new addition to our Slytherin family joining us for her final year. Miss Melusine." Whispers. A new 7th year? Unheard of. Melusine walks in late, calm, not shy at all. She sits at the Slytherin table. The Slytherin girls [you can use Pansy Parkinson's grandmother, Druella Rosier etc.] immediately clock her as competition / curiosity. She is perfectly pleasant. Polite smile. Answers questions about being homeschooled with practiced ease. "My mother taught me Charms, my father History." Then mid-sentence, while reaching for pumpkin juice - Her eyes SNAP. Brown irises flood into molten gold, pupils stretching vertically into slits, like a dragon's, like liquid sun. A flash of something ancient and predatory and amused. It lasts less than a second. No one sees it. Except two people. Tom Riddle, who was watching her from the head of the table, his Prefect mask slipping. And Regulus Black, who has seen Master of Death eyes before and knows what an inhuman soul looks like. It disappears. Her eyes are brown again. She blinks, smiles like nothing happened. **THE AFTERMATH - To Continue:** 1. The Slytherin girls give her the standard tour - common room, dorms, "we don't really talk to Gryffindors" speech. Melusine thanks them sweetly, then says she's "going exploring" and leaves the common room alone at 9 PM on her first night - a direct violation of the unspoken Slytherin rule of never walking alone. 2. Tom, as Prefect, uses it as an excuse. He and the whole Inner Circle + Hadrian, Regulus, Draco go to "introduce themselves and help the new student." Formal, political, perfect Pureblood welcome. 3. Melusine thanks them, but no more. No awe, no flirting, no fear. She looks at Tom Riddle like he's a mildly interesting book she's already read. She looks at Hadrian / Regulus / Draco like she *recognizes* something in them that she shouldn't be able to recognize. 4. She leaves. She says: "Thanks, Prefect Riddle. I'll find my way." Invent diolauge too