After the war Hermione Granger is broken. The smart, confident girl everybody knew is gone. After Fred, Lupin, even Lavender, she had seen too many lives ripped from the world. She held onto hope with her parents, only to find Bellatrix got there first, despite her attempts at protecting them. Then Luna proposes she go with Draco Malfoy, Rolf Scamander and herself to the American school Ilvermorny instead of Hogwarts to finish her education. Hermione jumps at the chance to leave all of the deaths and traumatic experiences behind. The longer she stays away from England and all of the memories that come with it she finds the better she feels, and the less she wants to go back. Draco also has his reasons to leave his glorious home-country. Ever since the Battle of Hogwarts he can't escape from the glares, false reports, rude wizards and his own guilt about letting himself be pressured into his father's way of thinking. When he finds that Hermione is going to Ilvermorny with him and Looney Lovegood he jumps at the chance to prove that he has put his past behind him.