Hermione's world was filled with pain and suffering. Certainly more than any child should have to go through. Everything changed the day two men came knocking at her parent's door. Will Hermione finally be able to have a life without horror, or will it only get worse? AU DM/HG, other couples.

Nim was dying. In a morphine induced dream, two people come to her pleading for her help. Don't they realize she's burnt toast? How do they expect her to help them? She says she'll come. Nim dies. And she returns to a world she left long ago. A world now filled with darkness and hate. Nim feels the power flowing through her. Time to take out the trash, she thinks with a smirk.

It was the end of the war. Hogwarts was filled with laughing and happy people. There was healing to be done, but they had survived the worst, and now hoped for new beginnings. Hogwarts had become a headquarters of sorts. To protect those still sought by rogue Death Eaters. But one, once part of the light, had turned to twisted rage. This rage would reveal secrets long buried.