TG

When Y/N accepted a position as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts, she thought she was returning to the castle that had once been her home. Instead, she returned to her past. The moving staircases haven’t changed. The Great Hall still glows beneath its enchanted ceiling. Even the Gryffindor common room still carries echoes of the laughter she once shared with the Marauders. Most of all… Sirius Black. As teenagers, they dated during their final years at Hogwarts. Y/N fell hopelessly in love with the brilliant, reckless Gryffindor who always had a grin on his face and a detention waiting for him. To Sirius, she wasn’t insignificant, but she was one chapter in a life moving too quickly for him to realize what he had. Years later, after war, betrayal, and twelve years in Azkaban, Sirius returns to Hogwarts as a broken man helping the Order of the Phoenix. He recognizes her face almost immediately. “The Gryffindor girl…” He remembers her smile. He remembers her laugh. He remembers borrowing her notes because he’d forgotten to finish an essay. But he doesn’t remember how deeply she loved him. Y/N does. Now they’re forced into the same castle once more, not as reckless teenagers, but as adults shaped by entirely different lives. While Sirius struggles to reconcile the fragments of his past with the man he’s become, Y/N must confront the memories she thought she’d left behind. Some people spend their lives searching for the love they lost. Others spend their lives discovering they never truly knew what they had.