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As it turns out, falling behind the curtain is a bit too close to life to count as death. When his obnoxiously self-sacrificing godson turned that Resurrection Stone in the Forbidden Forest before he marched on to what he believed was his death, Sirius Black did not fade back into the afterlife along with his best friends. No, he was found in the Forbidden Forest, in the aftermath of the Second Wizarding War, shockingly, furiously, alive.
Five years later, he's built a recluse life as the reluctantly beloved Hogwarts DADA professor, seeing his godson three times a year and sustaining his irritating need for human connection by meeting women for a night in muggle bars in London, and recently, getting a puppy.
And then, he bumps into Hermione Granger on the train. She's far too young. She's Harry's best friend. She has a successful business and, last he heard, a boyfriend she loves. The last thing she needs is a miserable old dog who's still mad to be alive.
And yet. He wants nothing more than to be hers.