Hey guys, sorry about the screw up with Chapter One :/ It's been completely changed and edited and what not, so yeah XD I hope this one's going to be a lot better.

I'm co-writing this story with britbeing18: /u/2736227/ :) She came to me with this idea, so we're turning it into a bit story XD

Anyway, this is the prologue - Chapter One is still being edited :D

Prologue

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Hermione Granger was finally happy; the war was over, Harry had won, Voldemort was dead, and all of the Golden Trio had survived.

She had mourned the loss of those that were close to her and those that she'd seen as another family, but she'd eventually learnt to accept it; a lot of people had died, and as much as she'd loved them like her own flesh and blood, she had to move on – they would want her to.

So she tried as hard as she could. With Harry's help, she travelled to Australiaand returned her parents' memories. They'd been angry with her, of course – she'd just stolen their memoirs – and her father broke down in tears, stating that if she had died he would never have known she'd even existed, which was something Hermione hadn't thought about. He also cried because he couldn't have protected her like he was 'supposed' to. It had surprised Hermione; her father never cried. He was the stone paper weight in the family compared to her and her mother. She was the book, and her mother was the binding, but her father was the stone.

Eventually they'd calmed down and both moved back to Englandto be with their only daughter. They kept their home in Australiafor future holidays and trips, but they left that life behind and picked up their old one, which Hermione had restored and put on hold for them.

Hogwarts was in the process of being rebuilt and Hermione had been helping as much as she could, clearing away the rubble the Muggle way alongside the captured Death Eaters who were serving part of their hard labour and community service trying to help fix what they'd torn apart, and giving them new blueprints for better classrooms and rooms for House Unity hang outs. Dumbledore would have been proud of her, but she couldn't think on that too hard – it hurt her almost as much as the thoughts of Dumbledore had hurt Harry. She'd had quite a pleasant relationship with the older wizard, and he was her Wizarding father figure. To think about Dumbledore was like thinking about her own father dead; it hurt way too much.

She'd already been invited back to Hogwarts to finish her seventh year, and of course, being the person she was, she'd agreed, only to be offered the role of Head Girl, which she had also agreed to. She'd also managed to persuade Harry and a rather reluctant Ron, the new Gryffindor Quidditch Captain, into joining her as well.

Harry and Ron had been to see her a few times since the war ended, but they were reluctant to leave their homes because of the paparazzi, and so the three of them hardly ever went out in public. Harry was reluctant to ever leaveGrimmauld Place, and Ron was still in mourning over Fred. Hermione didn't blame him; Fred had always been one of her favourite people to talk to.

And so Hermione spent most of her time with her Mum and Dad, or reading. It was a good life for her – calm, yet bursting with new knowledge and new opportunities. She was looking forward to walking back into that school, not having to feel the weight of the world on her shoulders. She knew Harry felt the same way – he'd had to bare so much from the first day – and that was why he was going back. He wanted to feel the experience of Hogwarts fully as a Seventh Year, and as a boy who finally had the chance to have at least a year of his childhood given back to him. From that comment, she knew that she was going to struggle to keep him in line this year – he'd been owling George a lot recently and that concerned her.

She was living her life to the max as much as she could in this new found chapter, but through all of the doors she had closed and all of the windows she had opened, she didn't realize how soon it would be until the next chapter began.

I hope that was alright XD It was just the introduction and an attempt to give you the detail behind what had happened so far, and I hope that's what it did :/

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Auralee & Britanny xx