Hermione sneaks into the hospital wing to visit Draco Malfoy after the Sectumsempra incident, to deliver a letter from Moaning Myrtle.

When Hermione is assigned to the Department of Extraneous Papers as a punishment, she discovers her new colleague is Draco Malfoy. The two of them hatch a scheme that sends the Ministry into chaos over Christmas. Luckily, their office is a magic-free bunker in the basements of the Ministry, where they can hide from the outside world.

After the war, Hermione Granger receives some shocking news about her real parentage. The ties of kinship, old and new, help her through it.