Charlotte says goodbye to her mother and grandmother for the year and leaves to her father’s house, where she discovers more information about her family’s mysterious past, but from this erupts more questions that go unanswered.

Charlotte meets with Dumbledore, who explains what life has in store for her. On her way back to Gryffindor Tower, Charlotte's feet carry her far from her destination and literally into someone she wasn't expecting.

As Charlotte's horrific night unfolds, she finds that as soon as life seems to go well, something will always bring you down. A gift from her father helps her to cope, as does yet another visitor in her newly discovered place of solitude.

After an unfair defeat in last year's Quidditch Cup Final, Gryffindor restarts the season with a highly anticipated game against Ravenclaw. In post-match euphoria, one team member gets a surprise from a young woman in a high-risk situation.

Sometimes, all you need is to fall in order to get back up again.

Christmas is approaching fast, and tension and hormones are starting to soar at Hogwarts. Charlotte finds that passing three weeks without Lily is going to be harder than she thought, and the inevitable question still presses: what will be the eventual outcome of Charlotte and Sirius's discussion?

"This time, Charlotte had no words. Finally, he had said it, those three (or four) words she had so desperately wanted to hear from him. But this was not at all how she imagined he would say it; not after every thing they had already said to each other, not after only five months of knowing him, not at the tender age of sixteen. This was not how she imagined finding love. It was supposed to be like a fairytale, like it said it was in her books.

Not like this."

The public announcement of war sends the inhabitants of Hogwarts into a panic. Ever faithful, Charlotte waits for her father's response, but one snowy night, the Death Eaters make a bold move and unveil their Dark Mark.