Summary: This story takes place months after the Battle of Hogwarts. It will be through the point of view of one of the first years to start at Hogwarts after the war. I don't have anything planned for after their first year. The story will mostly just be about how people are coping with freedom, and the losses at such a young age. They'll also observe how the older students are as well, because the older ones had been at Hogwarts during that year with the Carrow's and a lot had fought in the war. Only doing one school year because it's an OC and OC's almost never work out, so I don't know how this character will work out. Hoping she'll be okay, I've tried my best to keep her from being a Mary-Sue. I've already got two chapters planned out, and I can't see it being more than 10 chapters at the most.

A/N: Short introductory chapter.


Month's had passed since the Battle of Hogwarts. For some, emotional wounds weren't healed from what had happened over the year that Voldemort had taken over. There were many who lost family members, no matter which side they supported. So although the man who had caused it all was dead, the war was still far from over.

Maria Tremson's family was one who had gone into hiding during the summer Muggleborn's were being rounded up. Unfortunately they were found almost a month before Lord Voldemort was killed, and Patrick Tremson was killed. Maria still wasn't sure how her mother had managed to fight off the Death Eater's, but she had.

When Maria received her Hogwarts letter months later, she didn't feel the excitement she should have felt. For how could she feel happy when her father had been killed? His only fault had been for coming from a family of Muggles. He'd been a good man, a father and husband, and yet he was dead. How could she ever feel happy about finally joining a world where people had looked down on him?

Yet, on September first, she would be boarding the Hogwarts express, and joining people her own age and older, to learn magic, something which had killed him.

"I understand how you feel, but magic saved our lives as well. Your father would want you to go to Hogwarts, and so do I. I may not be from an old line of wizards, but our family still has its history in this world," her mother had told her when she had complained.

Maria didn't know much about the family history, except that her grandmother had been a Muggleborn. All she knew was that past generations had survived with magic, so why couldn't she? Why did she have to join a world of prejudice. At the young age of eleven, the girl didn't understand that prejudice was everywhere, no matter what kind of blood a person had.

During the summer, Maria prepared herself for a school she was sure she was going to hate. She had seen too much already that caused her unpleasant memories.

A/N: Next chapters will be a lot longer. This one was basically just to throw the idea out, and see how many people might be interested.