Years after the war, Hogwarts appears calm again — but some scars were never meant to fade. When a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor arrives from Ilvermorny, she brings no history with the castle, no reverence for old names, and no fear of reputations. Her presence is steady, observant, and quietly disarming. Draco Malfoy, now a divorced father raising his eleven-year-old son, has built his life around restraint.