"Anna Karenina" is the tragedy of married aristocrat and socialite Anna Karenina and her affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. The story starts when she arrives in the midst of a family broken up by her brother's unbridled womanizing—something that prefigures her own later situation, though with less tolerance for her by others.

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...

Quelque années après la bataille, la fille de Remus et Tonks rêve d'aller à Poudlard. Thalyna, orpheline dès son plus jeune âge, elle est élevée avec son frère Teddy par sa grand-mère, Androméda. Elle retrouve une chaleureuse ambiance familiale chez les Weasley et se laissera porter par la magie de Poudlard.

Blue Stevens, une jeune adolescente avec les cheveux bleus et un passé assez chargé, arrive dans un nouveau lycée. Elle doit faire profil bas, mais comment être discrète quand le badboy du lycée a décidé de la percer à jour.