Volume 1: Pickpocketing Living in secret and stealing to eat is a hard life , but it's all Kuro has ever known. Fear and necessity honed him from a young age into the finest young thief in in the wizard kingdoms. Nobody can hide forever, though, and a run of poor luck lands Kuro in a place where his quick hands and quiet feet count for nothing: Avalon Academy, school of magic. Out of his depth and unable to escape, can Kuro find a place among the other misfits at the school, or will his past return to ruin the one chance he has to leave his life in the shadows?

Jocelyn Vance is NOT happy to go back to Hogwarts for her last year: Voldemort is in control of the Ministry of Magic, Snape is headmaster and her friends seem to be disappearing left and right! Luckily her new friend Neville Longbottom, very different now from the shy and indecisive boy from past years, seems to understand as he offers a way to fight back... and maybe something more. This is a story of love, friendship and resistance inside a broken Hogwarts, a school that now seems more like a prison.