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She had asked him once before, in the frosted haze of a winter morning, to stay with her. To stay with her next to the frozen river and grow old together.
She liked to think that part of them had done as she asked, stopped where they were, turned away from the violence and terror and death waiting for them out in the world, and just lived. She hoped those parts, at least, had managed to find some sort of happiness in the twilight of their childhood.
When it all became too much, when she got scared enough to remember that, after all, they were just kids, she would imagine them together, draped in summer, laughing by the water. If she reached out, she could almost touch them.
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After almost losing Harry, Hermione decides that, if they are going to win the war against Voldemort, she will have to lead. The story begins at the Battle of Hogwarts. After the diadem is destroyed, everything changes.