His love was a tragedy from the very beginning.
She was a soul from the future, an accidental visitor to this long-buried past.
Friends by chance, lovers by choice.
From then on, no matter how long he walked alone in the dark or where he went, she would always be the tenderest, brightest little moon in his heart, shining there from the days of his youth.
At sixteen, they parted, one bound for life and the other for death.
The most painful thing is not never having had someone, but finding them and then losing them.
Eighteen years later, at Hogwarts, her face still looked exactly as he remembered.
"Have we... met before, Professor Snape?"
[Reader's Guide]
✦ Snape + original female lead;
✦ Marauders' Era transmigrate into a book: childhood friends, a little matchmaker becomes the one who got away, with a focus on redemption. The story turns angsty later, ending in death by conspiracy;
✦ Next Generation reborn: a reborn American girl with the same face enters the wizarding world and meets an awkward professor who feels strangely familiar. A sweet romance;
✦ GGAD storylines woven throughout, concealing important clues;
✦ Expansive worldbuilding connecting the Marauders' Era and the Next Generation;
✦ Definitely a happy ending!
