Michelle is a bit of an oddball with a habit of being late, a hobby of collecting random things, and a gift for finding customers just the right book at the bookstore she works at. Then, after messing about with a rose cutting and a pretty feather, she receives a visit that changes her life, and the world. Set in the present time, a one-shot that both follows and ignores the books.

Hermione was known as the brightest witch of her age, but time and circumstances would soon change that. Who will survive a brilliant mind's descent into darkness? A dark Hermione fic'.