Winter's Rose ▫️T. Lupin

Hogwarts was a castle with many mysteries: hidden passages were around every corner, and nobody could say for sure they had seen everything it had to offer. It was perfectly fine to find someone looking at a corridor in wonder - it didn't seem peculiar for them to have seen that specific corridor for the first time.

Teddy Lupin was one of the few students to claim they had seen most of the castle. Always eager to explore and learn about something new, Teddy would boast to those who were willing to listen that he knew the castle better than most.

That's the case, until the day he finds himself in a corridor he hadn't seen in his seven years in the castle before. It is a dusty corridor, evidently not used in a long time, and believing he has discovered a part of the castle nobody but him knows, he looks around eagerly to discover its secrets.

At least, that's the case until he reaches a door, half-concealed by a huge painting of a rose, and hears laughter from inside.

WARNING: This book contains angst and covers (briefly) themes like illness and death.

▫️1st in the 1989 Harry Potter Awards - Next Generation Era.

Current cover by @lectiophile_wholived