Ashes & Aconite
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Last published Sat, May 24, 2025
The war is over. Voldemort is dead. But the shadows he cast still linger within the halls of Hogwarts.
Professor Severus Snape has survived, scarred in body and soul, now reluctantly serving as Headmaster in a castle haunted by whispers and unfinished wounds. His reputation as a double agent leaves him isolated, mistrusted by colleagues, and a target for things far darker than gossip-things that were never fully banished after the war.
Enter Professor Alera Dorne, a brilliant new hire in the field of Magical Theory, young, enigmatic, and far more powerful than anyone suspects. Her arrival isn't by accident-it's part gratitude, part penance, and entirely a secret.
Because Alera is a vampire.
She once saved Snape's life in the chaos of the final battle, and now she watches over him from the shadows, quietly protecting him from threats within and beyond the castle. But as danger creeps closer and trust begins to form between them, truths will surface-about the war, about survival, and about the line between monster and man.
A story of healing, mystery, and love, set in a world where light and dark are never truly separate.
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