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In the autumn of 1988, Professor Vera Caldwell crosses an ocean to accept the Defense Against the Dark Arts post at Hogwarts. Arriving with little more than a suitcase and a past she has no intention of discussing, she hopes the ancient castle might offer something she has not known in a very long time: peace.
Professor Severus Snape has long since accepted that peace is an illusion, and that one’s past never truly leaves them.
Over the course of the school year, two guarded professors settle into an unexpected rhythm of shared silences, sharp wit, and quiet understanding. But some ghosts cannot be outrun forever, and even Hogwarts cannot shelter everyone who passes through its halls.
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A slow-burn character study about loneliness, intellectual companionship, the ghosts of the past, and the inconvenient business of falling for the wrong person at the wrong time.