Y/N expects Hogwarts to be a school. Instead, it is moving staircases, midnight corridors, impossible magic, dangerous secrets, and three first-years who somehow become the center of everything. Thrown into Harry Potter’s first year alongside Harry, Ron, and Hermione, Y/N finds a place in the chaos of Gryffindor—and, slowly, in Hermione’s orbit. What begins as friendship grows through shared classes, library evenings, rule-breaking, narrow escapes, and the kind of trust that takes years to recognize for what it really is. A slow-burn Hermione Granger x Y/N story following the years at Hogwarts, with expanded worldbuilding, canon mysteries, found family, and a romance that starts long before either of them knows to call it one.