Ron Weasley and Draco Malfoy use Hermione's time-turner to whisk them back in time,but something goes wrong and the two find themselves in the middle of nineteenth century France. There they stumble across a fugitive named Jean Valjean and his apparent daughter Cosette,and their paths intertwine,one pair running from Javert and the other seeking him out. But both agree that he's bad news,and both want to get to their respective wizarding schools.