noellecollins
At the Valemont Institute of Magic, power does not answer to force but rather a patient listener.
When Hermione Granger is invited to attend a summer program for gifted witches and wizards in Belfast, Ireland the summer before her 4th year at Hogwarts, she expects scholarship, discipline, and theory. Instead, she finds sentient earth, oath-bound magic, and trials that do not ask what she can do, but what she is willing to endure. As ancient stone circles awaken and a buried relic begins to silently call for her, Hermione is forced to unlearn command and choose trust- sometimes in the magic, sometimes in herself.
Anchored by a fierce, tender partnership with Cedric Diggory; surrounded by a found family of musicians, scholars, and misfits; and guided by magic that punishes control and rewards humility, Hermione steps into a lineage that will change her forever. The treasure she uncovers is powerful, dangerous, and watching- but the greatest risk may be loving something enough to let it go.
A story of quiet romance, intelligent defiance, and of course, magic.