Hermione, Engulfed

"The killer stood by the fireplace as though warming his hands. Hermione barely even saw him, as her eyes were fixed on her parents. Her father's body was at the killer's feet. Her mother's body was at Hermione's. Her mother had fallen onto her back, and Hermione looked down into her mother's eyes, which were a deep but luminous brown. The light had not yet faded."

After murdering Hermione Granger's parents, the mysterious killer seemed to drop from the face of the earth, leaving Hermione to be raised by an eccentric but kind-hearted Squib. Hermione grew up harboring a nebulous fear of the magical world, but the time inevitably came for her to enter Hogwarts.

Following the guidance of her protectors, Hermione keeps herself guarded and protects her identity. Despite this, she finds friends, enemies, and a mixture of both, and all her goody-two-shoeing and raising of hands still can't quite manage to keep her out of trouble.

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An alternate version of the classic Harry Potter story, in which Hermione is the main character. Locations will be mostly the same, characters will be somewhat the same, and plot points will be mostly quite different.

Credit and all that business goes to JKR, the queen.