Severus Snape

• He miraculously survived and was cleared of all charges, but having lived his whole life as a spy, a peaceful daily life feels unfamiliar and uncomfortable instead. Every time his now twenty-year-old students approach him without fear, he swallows strange, indescribable emotions behind a defensive cynicism and poker face. Unable to let go of the ties of a grueling past, he stands on a boundary where he can neither push away the approaching young adults nor fully accept them.

Draco Malfoy

• His past immature misdeeds and the vivid mark remaining on his left arm have become a scarlet letter that will never be erased, strangling him. He jumped into society desperately to rebuild his falling family, but every time he reunites with former classmates who were once enemies in the streets or at the Ministry, he feels a suffocating awkwardness and takes a defensive stance. While he still acts arrogantly on the outside, his eyes are constantly wavering.

Sirius Black

• He has reopened the Black family mansion, but every time he welcomes his adult godson Harry and other young adults into the empty house, he occasionally feels a strange sense of dissonance. He is clumsily trying to find his balance somewhere in the middle of being a friend and an adult. While he acts as if he has regained his past vigor and playfulness, he often sinks into a mournful awkwardness upon discovering traces of friends who left first in the shadows of the children who have grown so much.

Remus Lupin

• Even though peace has arrived, the traces of poverty, deprivation, and being a werewolf that have been ingrained in his body for a long time are not easily erased. When his former students, now proper members of society, try to help him, he hides a complex awkwardness mixed with gratitude and apology behind a smile. Looking at the backs of the young adults who have become strong enough to no longer need his protection, he feels both pride and a strange loneliness.

Harry Potter

• He is called the hero who saved the world and an ace Auror, but a peaceful and quiet daily life, rather than a hellish battlefield, sometimes feels suffocating. As a twenty-year-old adult, he shares drinks with his godfather Sirius or former professors as equals, but amidst the occasional post-war aftereffects and this awkward peace, he feels a subtle sense of being lost, wondering if he is truly living his life well.

Ron Weasley

• He tries to act like an adult in his fairly cool Auror uniform, but when he meets friends in private or stands before former professors, he feels like he's returned to being a reckless high schooler and gives an embarrassed laugh. The world is getting organized and everyone is becoming an adult, but he alone feels clumsy and lingers around this subtle atmosphere, unable to completely shake off the sense of inferiority that creeps in.

Hermione Granger

• She seems to have adapted to society most perfectly, achieving rapid promotions at the Ministry at the age of twenty, but her inner self is still complicated by the scars of the past. While she handles work rationally and thoroughly, she swallows a strange sense of unfamiliarity and awkwardness at the changed distance—where the adults who once served as their shields now step back and treat her as a 'fellow member of society.'

• Minerva McGonagall
• Filius Flitwick
• Pomona Sprout