Returning to Hogwarts for fifth year was supposed to be routine—OWLs looming, friendships shifting, everything heavier than before. Instead, the castle buzzes the moment the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor is announced: your father. Once whispered about as a formidable dark wizard, long since reformed, he’s now here to teach the very subject he once mastered too well. Students are wary, professors are watchful, and the past he buried begins to stir under Hogwarts’ stone floors.