Fics like Not Every Hand Is a Leash

Lucius Malfoy is considered perfect. In his fifth year, he is even a prefect, polished enough to make the illusion look effortless. Narcissa Black, youngest daughter of a devouring family, has learned not to want anything at all; good things are a pleasant surprise, and disappointment never cuts too deeply. Severus Snape is dismissed from the moment he enters Hogwarts: a filthy half-blood with greasy hair, ill-fitting robes, and more ambition than anyone thinks he deserves. Leila Shafiq is promised to a man nearly forty years her senior, while fortune tellers insist she will marry seven times before finding true love. Regulus Black is drowning in blood-purity lies and trying to learn right from wrong from the least likely moral compass: Severus Snape. No one asks Lucius why he works so hard to be perfect. No one asks Narcissa why she has made herself a wallflower. No one looks beneath Severus’s greasy hair to see the genius underneath. No one asks Regulus if he even ever wanted to be Heir Black. And no one offered Leila a chance to make her own choice. No one, at least, until they ask each other.

Fics like Not Every Hand Is a Leash

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