HARRY POTTER AND THE FIFTH MARAUDER

"Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Albus Dumbledore

Third year was supposed to be simple.

A werewolf taught Defence. A murderer escaped Azkaban. A black dog haunted the grounds of Hogwarts.

Instead, Hogwarts welcomed Professor Isabella Montgomery Black, Britain's most celebrated mistress of wandlore, wardcraft, and curse-breaking. Quiet. Brilliant. Untouchable. Accompanied always by an enormous black hound named Padfoot.

Then Harry Potter inherited an old map that insisted there had never been four Marauders.

There had always been five.

Some secrets were buried by war.

Some by love.

And some had been waiting thirteen years for the Boy Who Lived to finally come home.