SUMMARY

Twenty years ago during the Goldren Trio's fifth year at Hogwarts, Professor Minerva McGonagall was arrested under a false charge regarding one Hermione Granger.

Now Hermione is grown with a family of her own. Despite years upon years of attempting to clear Professor McGonagall's name, the pain and the guilt linger still. Now as her daughter Rose begins school, the memories and the feelings return and old scars are reopened with a vengeance.

Meanwhile, Rose begins to frequent an odd bookshop specializing in restricted titles during the summer months, therein meeting the mysterious, and a bit cold, emerald-eyed witch who runs it. Following a confrontational meeting, the two form an unlikely friendship. It isn't long before the two become close, and Rose helps her new friend confront lingering demons, helps her out of the darkness and back into the Wizarding world.

As time goes on, Hermione begins to wonder just where her daughter keeps wandering off to, and why she is suddenly assaulted by fleeting glimpses of her supposedly dead professor in the corner of her eye as when she shops in Diagon Alley.

AUTHORS NOTE:
This story will be a multi-part story, with each chapter being a single year apart, starting in June and ending roughly in September.

It has elements of HGMM, HGRW, and some minor fluff involving Rose and a fellow classmate. There is also a bit of violence and minor swearing in some chapters.

I hope you enjoy, and please be sure to leave a line if you read. It makes me happy and lets me know I'm actually writing to an audience and not just sending things into the void of cyberspace.