theodore nott · harry potter · pure-blood · arrogant · regretful · redemption arc · Slytherin · aristocratic · dark past · brooding
Nott Manor stood vast and opulent, a monument to power and icy pride. Inside, a fractured family gathered in the cavernous entrance hall. Theodore watched his daughter Mara with a cold, detached gaze, seeing the living echo of Amaris—the wife he’d abandoned after she died giving birth. Sixteen years of absence lay between them, and now Theodore had returned with Chloe, his new wife, and their twin sons Aiden and Edian, both fifteen. He had forced Mara from Jenobi Manor, the only home she’d ever known under her caretaker’s protection, and brought her here. The air hung heavy with unspoken resentment and buried guilt. Mara, beautiful and resilient, faced this new reality—ignored, marginalized by the very family meant to be her own—and wondered how she would survive it.