331 Views 71 Favorites 15 Chapters 4 Chapters/Week 10 Readers 0 Reviews 17.9k Words Jul 14, 2025 Diablo292 I didn’t grow up believing in magic. I believed in keeping my head down, in listening when people talked, and in watching out for the signs that someone might snap before they did.
My mom always said I was sensitive, like I could hear things no one else could—feel them. I never thought that meant I was a wizard.
But then the lights in our house flickered when I got scared. A tree branch twisted in midair to catch me when I fell. And a woman in a long coat knocked on our door and told my parents I was being invited to a school called Ilvermorny.
Now I'm in a place with floating staircases,
... more>> glowing statues that decide where you belong, and classmates who come from families that have been doing magic for centuries. I’m just... me. Jesse Rivera. No magic bloodline. No legacy. Just a kid trying to understand a world I didn’t know existed.
My best friend is a pure-blood rebel with a bad attitude and a wand that likes to argue with professors. The girl I can’t stop thinking about comes from a family so famous it’s written in history books—and she can feel what people think without them saying a word. And the boy who hates me most? He comes from the kind of family that makes laws, breaks them, and still ends up in charge.
Somewhere between trying to pass my first spellcasting class and figuring out what House statue might reject me, I found myself tangled in something older, darker, and much more dangerous.
There’s a group of students—pure-blooded, powerful, and perfectly polite—who are hiding something under their smiles. Something dangerous.
And even though I don’t have a famous name or a legacy wand or any idea what I’m doing… I think I’m the only one who sees it.
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Hey everyone! This is my debut novel on this platform, but you can also find it on Royal Road under the same username and title. I’ll be posting regular updates, so stay tuned!
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