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In September of 1991, four eleven-year-olds step onto the Hogwarts Express, each carrying more than just trunks and owls.
There's Harry Potter, the boy everyone's already decided something about.
Hermione Granger, who's never met a rule she couldn't quote - or question.
Ron Weasley, whose laugh is louder than his confidence.
And Evelyn Dorne, the quiet girl with ink-stained fingers, who listens more than she speaks and sees the things no one else does.
At first, she's just the girl in the next compartment - polite, calm, easily overlooked. But as the castle's secrets unfold, and danger begins to whisper through stone walls, Evie becomes something else entirely: the one who steadies them when everything falls apart.
She doesn't chase glory, or destiny, or even friendship - but somehow, all three find her anyway.
And in a story written about courage, she proves that sometimes the bravest things are the quiet ones - the choices no one sees, the promises never spoken, the moments between words that hold everything together.
Because not every hero carries a wand raised high.
Some just hold the light steady when the rest flickers.