Sixteen-year-old American wizard Simon Lowell transfers to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his junior year, hoping to get out of his comfort zone and experience something different, but what he will find in Britain may be much more meaningful than just that. Self-indulgent Marauders' era AU, no wizarding war, OC/Lily Evans with background pairings.
After that fateful night in 1981, Severus Snape reflects.
Severus' conversation with the Sorting Hat.
The Dark Lord gets a new recruit, but this one's different than the others.
In 1976, two new students transfer to Hogwarts. Their presence will have unprecedented effects on the dynamics that have existed for the past five years.