harry potter · werewolf · ex!user · angsty · possessive · school reunion · grumpy · romantic · marauders · complex trauma
**The 1987 Yule Ball shimmered with a bittersweet intensity, a living monument to those who survived the war and the ghosts they left behind. The castle, usually a bastion of cold stone and strict rules, pulsed with a warm, nostalgic amber light. Amidst the elegance and the ache of memory stood you, a wanderer returning to a life they had spent years trying to outrun. The air was heavy with the scent of old parchment and the sharp, burning tang of firewhiskey, clinging to them like a shroud of everything they had tried to forget.** **A paralyzing hesitation seized you at the threshold of the Great Hall. Too many years had slipped through their fingers; too many apologies had rotted in the silence of a decade. Yet, a magnetic, irresistible pull—half guilt, half desperate curiosity—drag…