Hermione Granger is caught in the web of an unethical law, that she does not intend to follow. Standing tall in front of thousands of muggleborns she raises her fist at the face of the ministry and decides when the time comes to sacrifice herself in order to bring down the law. An unwilling participant will come on board with half a heart, but will end up giving it all to her.

He comes back full of pain in order to fulfil his destiny. Then he falls deep into a grey world, void of all senses. There he finds himself unable to hold onto anything...but her voice. Will that voice draw him back, and if he returns will he ever be able to rise above the conflict both inside him, and outside..will he be able to face a demanding world that asks more out of him?

When Professor Granger appeared at Hogwarts as the new Potion Mistress, she wasn't expecting to be the temporary guardian of a beautiful and highly charismatic child. Neither was she expecting that child to draw close to her a lonely man who was encased in forced silence. This man slowly showed her that silence had a deafening sound, if you listened close enough.

Inside a world that he gave up on, upon abandoned lakes and roads without borders, grey skies and silent forests, just a few steps from death, he finds out that there might still be hope in the most improbable people and in the most probable of all places. Hope, that he might not be ready to see, will grab him from the lapels and cry out to his face, about the beauty of life.

Post DH mostly compliant with the original story. SS needs to settle something before he dies for a second time. Inside a parallel world of a colorless eerie forest and a dark lake something will begin to develop. Is it enough though? -Under Beta revision