"Why're you crying?" Draco whispered, sitting down beside Hermione in a deserted Great Hall. Looking up at him with puffy eyes, she admitted what happened earlier at the Gryffindor Tower. Without a moment's hesitation, he wrapped an arm around her shoulders and said: "Come on, you're spending the night in the Slytherin dungeon. With me."

Desperate for normality after the final battle, Hermione returns to Hogwarts to finish her education. As part of his probation for acts during the war, Draco must return as well. The war may be over, but the storm is only beginning. Confused and broken, they begin to heal where their story began.

He can't leave the room. Her room. And it's all the Order's fault. Confined to a small space with only the Mudblood for company, something's going to give. Maybe his sanity. Maybe not. "There," she spat. "Now your Blood's filthy too!" DM/HG. PostHBP.

Sometimes, the wind blows us places we've never dreamed. / Post-war wizarding society is still rife with prejudice, and Hermione intends to do something about it—even if it means enlisting the help of the insufferable Draco Malfoy, whose presence suddenly seems to have become inescapable.

Hermione Granger and Severus Snape slowly learn from each other as the war escalates and the Final Battle approaches. AU from HBP. Out of a war where children must grow up too fast, Hermione and Severus develop a beautiful friendship and more.