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    The summer after first year, Hermione Granger’s parents meet Harry Potter and realize something is deeply wrong.

    What follows is not a rescue fantasy, but a reckoning: with institutions that failed, with the limits of protection, and with what it means to raise children in a world that never intended to keep them safe.

    Canon divergence beginning in Year Two. Multi-year AU.

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