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    Hermione Granger has never quite lived up to anyone's expectations of her, but, then, the world has consistently failed to live up to her expectations, too. None of that matters now, of course—

    because Hermione is absolutely, irrefutably, one hundred percent going to turn her life around when she gets to Hogwarts. She’ll go to every class, even if what’s not on the curriculum is the more important part; she’ll never talk back, she won’t go getting into any trouble at all. She’ll never even have a late fee on a book. Because otherwise…

    What’s the point? What’s the point of being magical, if she gets herself kicked out of school—again? That’s what her parents are afraid of.

    No choice is really easy, and no path safe from the looming threats of an uncertain future and the not-so-distant past. In the stretching summer before Hogwarts, Hermione begins to unravel what it means to be born in one world, belonging to another.

    [Series Update May 2022: Grey Space + sections I (Hermione), II (Ron), III (Draco), and IV (Ginny) of Glasslight now complete.]

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