Percy met Audrey during a trying summer for Percy. Their relationship developed and eventually, they married and had children. This is a look at their story set over the course of events of the war and afterwards.

They don't ask. They think they have the answer, so why ask the question? Why be told something you already know? No one ever asked her why. Why she stood up in front of a school of hostile people and offered up one life to save them all.

Hermione Granger is 2x divorced, 3x a mother, hiding a shameful secret, and falling apart. Severus Snape fell apart 10yrs ago when the war ended but self-imposed solitude is taking its toll. When she puts an anonymous ad in the Prophet offering "almost anything" for 10 Galleons an hour, Severus wonders if the insufferable know-it-all might be exactly what he needs...

Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts to help rebuild the shattered castle the summer after the war. She and the other summer resident - and eventually their friends - have to come to terms with how the war broke more than just the walls of the building. Follows multiple Hogwarts students through '8th year' and one additional year of early adulthood. COMPLETE.