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    Forgotten, not lost. | S. S.

    The war is over. Hogwarts is slowly rebuilding from the ashes, and Severus Snape, against all odds, returns to the castle that has always been both his home and his prison. He expects many things, but miracles are not among them. Especially not this one. Because Y/N is dead. Or at least, that’s what he has believed for the past year. When Professor McGonagall introduces Hogwarts’ new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Severus’ world comes to a halt. It’s her. The woman he met during the war. The woman he fell in love with when love itself felt like the most dangerous kind of weakness. Only… Y/N looks at him as though they’ve never met. She doesn’t remember the Order of the Phoenix. She doesn’t remember the missions they survived together, the promises whispered between battles, or the man who would have given up everything for her. After her mysterious disappearance, powerful magic sealed away the memories of the war, leaving everyone to believe she had died. To Y/N, that part of her life simply never existed. Now Severus faces an impossible choice. He can tell her the truth and risk shattering the fragile barrier protecting her mind… or let her build a new life, pretending they were never each other’s greatest love. But Hogwarts remembers more than it should. And some bonds cannot be broken, even by magic. Because while the mind can forget… sometimes the heart remembers enough for two.

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