Introduction: Nine years after the Second Wizarding War, things are looking up for Snape's ancestral home. He has settled into a Potions Shop venture with Lupin. But why does Snape get secret letters from the Ministry of Magic? And why has he been untruthful to Lupin about his whereabouts? A story that begins from Spinner's End and staggers into the streets of London, and to places and times most thrilling and magical....