After the war, Harry Potter navigates the grim, methodical work of an Auror, hunting remnants of dark magic in a wizarding world still raw with loss. Working alongside Ron and Hermione, he begins to notice the distant, watchful presence of Draco Malfoy, an enigmatic figure whose eventual involvement will upend everything he thought he understood about the war's survivors and long lost chances.

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.