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    Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts determined to prove that she is fine.

    She is Head Girl, top of her class and the person everyone expects her to be. The war is over. The future is waiting. She should be moving on.

    Instead, she is exhausted, isolated and quietly losing pieces of herself she isn’t sure how to get back. Harry and Ron have chosen different paths. Her parents remain strangers wearing borrowed memories. Every day feels like another performance she has to survive.

    Theodore Nott notices first.

    Draco Malfoy notices soon after.

    Neither of them intends to get involved.

    Unfortunately, Hermione is very difficult to ignore.

    A post-war Hogwarts story about grief, healing, found family, learning how to be cared for, and discovering that sometimes strength means letting someone else carry the weight for a while.

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