Dittany
Book 1: Essence of Dittany
Book 2: Veritaserum
Book 3: Polyjuice
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Estelle Ophelia Black has spent her entire adult life surviving the shadows left behind by a war that never really ended. Twin of a fugitive, survivor of a legacy soaked in prophecy and blood, and a witch who knows far too well that truth can kill just as easily as it can free—Estelle returns to Hogwarts for her second year as Herbology professor expecting routine.
The Triwizard Tournament descends upon the castle in a storm of politics, secrets, and danger. Old loyalties shatter. New alliances ignite. Students vanish beneath the Black Lake, dragons roar over the hills, and whispers of dark magic coil through the corridors like smoke. The Ministry is watching every move she makes. Dumbledore knows more than he says. Karkaroff is circling. And Sirius is out there somewhere, stirring the past back to life.
But it’s Severus Snape who threatens to undo her completely.
As the Tournament spirals toward its darkest hour, Estelle is forced to confront everything she’s buried—her grief, her history, her magic, and the brutal question of where her loyalty truly lies.
Old ghosts are stirring. The future is burning. And this time, the truth won’t set her free.
It will demand everything she has left.
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- Part 2 of Dittany
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Twelve years after the fall of Voldemort, Estelle Ophelia Black returns to Hogwarts. Not as a student, not as the girl who once carved runes into windowsills or stole apples from the kitchens with the Marauders—but as a professor. As a survivor.
Twin sister of Sirius Black, former Slytherin tangled in Gryffindor friendships, a girl caught between legacy and rebellion, and still haunted by the scent of firewhisky and ash.
In a castle full of ghosts, she finds herself again facing dangerous truths and the long shadows of war. Remus Lupin is still kind beneath his quiet, Severus Snape is still sharp behind his scowl, and the past—well, it never really left.
This is not just a return. It’s a reckoning.
Essence of Dittany is a slow-burn, emotionally layered canon-divergent epic that weaves through the aftermath of grief, the ache of forbidden love, and the cost of surviving. For those who loved the Marauders, who mourned what the war stole, and who always wondered what it might take to come home again.
This one’s for you.
And for her.
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- Part 1 of Dittany
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Estelle Ophelia Black is many things at once: a professor, an apothecary, a spy-adjacent liability, a survivor of a war everyone insists is still over. She returns to Hogwarts knowing the castle is no longer safe—not because of curses or monsters, but because of smiles, decrees, and the quiet of control.
As Dolores Umbridge tightens her grip on the school, Estelle works in the margins: tending dangerous plants, brewing for the Order, watching students who deserve a childhood see it slip away. Grimmauld Place becomes alive again. Old ghosts gather. Secrets pile up. And the war, the war creeps closer.
At the center of it all is Severus Snape: spy, professor, double agent, marked man, bound to Estelle by history, shared loss, and a love that must remain hidden to survive.
The year unfolds through lessons and late nights, Order meetings and Ministry interference, Quidditch matches and cracked silences. Grief resurfaces. Loyalties strain. Voldemort’s shadow lengthens.
Polyjuice is a story about waiting. The slow suffocation before war. It’s about choosing connection over isolation, even when love is dangerous. About what it costs to stay human when the world rewards obedience. Here’s to chapter three.
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- Part 3 of Dittany