The Serpent’s Heir

It began with the walls.

Not with screams. Not with fire.

With language.

Old runes, long faded into the stone of Hogwarts, began to glow — not just in the dungeons…

But in the bones of the castle itself.

On stairwells. On gargoyles. Beneath the floorboards of the Great Hall.

Only two people could read them:

Rowan.

And Blaise.

The Activation

Rowan tracked the first rune to the old Charms corridor.

"Dormant scribing," she said. "Ancient. Meant to stay locked."

Harry asked, "What happens if it's woken?"

Rowan stared at the flickering sigil — a serpent coiled around a flame.

"It doesn't wake alone.""If this one's burning, it means someone's igniting the whole sequence."

That night, six more runes lit up across the school.

By dawn, thirty-nine.

Blaise's Warning

They met again in the Forbidden Forest.

Blaise stood beside a half-dead tree, fingers tracing the glowing script carved into its trunk.

"Do you know what Hogwarts was before it was a school?" he asked.

Harry didn't answer.

Blaise turned, eyes burning.

"It was a cage.""For what the old Houses couldn't kill."

"And I'm opening the door."

The Stone Bleeds

When the 40th rune lit up — the stone beneath the library cracked.

Blood-red light seeped from the fractures.

Students began to whisper about "moving reflections" in the mirrors.The ghosts started disappearing from the halls.

Even Peeves refused to go near the lower floors.

And in the deepest corridor, just beyond the seal door—

Kaelen's voice spoke again:

"The walls remember.Let them burn."

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Trailer – Chapter 32: The Mirror That Didn't Follow

Setting: The corridor outside the original seal door — where Harry's reflection has always matched him. Until now.

Twist: When Harry moves, the reflection doesn't follow.It stands still. And smiles.

Key Line:

"You've remembered enough," it says."Now… let me show you what you forgot."

Reveal: The reflection isn't a trick.It's a memory of Ardyn — sealed into the mirror as a failsafe.

But it's been decaying.And now it wants out.

Climax: The mirror cracks.And Harry is pulled into his own past — not a vision, but a living echo where he may not come back the same.