The year following the battle of Hogwarts; Thomas Scheer, a third year Slytherin, finds himself the youngest in a support group for students who fought in the Battle of Hogwarts. Befriending the others in the group; Stewart Ackerley, Derek Jennings, Romilda Vane, Sophia Roper, Jimmy Peakes, and their leader Luna Lovegood, Tom discovers that not all wounds are physical.