A bullied student on her final day before leaving for Hogwarts has her hair cut off as a cruel joke while she sleeps. Instead of hiding it, she transforms the uneven cut into a messy shag and arrives at King’s Cross with a changed presence. On the Hogwarts Express and beyond, she becomes the center of quiet stares and shifting assumptions as she begins a new chapter of identity, secrecy, and self-reinvention at Hogwarts.