The Sun Before The Moon

As Alba Thorne begins her first year as Hogwarts' official Herbology professor, she believes her life has finally found balance. Her days spent among blooming mandrakes and moonlit greenhouses, where everything feels safe and familiar. But when the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, Remus Lupin, arrives, the rhythm of her world begins to change.

There's something about him. The quiet kindness in his smile, the gentleness beneath his guarded eyes that draws her in without control. An unspoken connection grows between them, fragile yet undeniable. But Alba's heart is not free. Her relationship with Professor Severus Snape has kept her tethered in ways she no longer understands, caught between obligation and a longing she can no longer ignore.

As secrets stir in the castle's shadows and the full moon rises over the Forbidden Forest, Alba must choose between loyalty and the spark of something new. Something that feels dangerously like hope.

Will she resist temptation?
Will she remain loyal?
Or will love guide her toward the moon into a light she never believed she deserved?