When everyone is invited to go back for 8th year, only a couple of people answer. Ron and Harry decide to go straight to becoming aurors but Hermione goes back to complete her education. Everyone is sick of the war and its consequences and it doesn't take long for a sense of unity and relief to wash over them, a need to move on. And when the time comes for graduation, Hermione decides a party is in order and her dearest friends must attend. When Draco Malfoy offers one of the manors' strangest artifacts to liven up the party and promote further unity, he had no idea how it would shape his fate.