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  08 Oct 2025

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  • Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley
  • Hermione Granger & Daphne Greengrass
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  • Runcorn | Classmate of Harry Potter
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  • Diary Tom Riddle
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  • Hogwarts Inter-House Friendships
  • eventually
  • the students aren't sorted for first-year so they're all one big house at first
  • Fuck JKR
  • Trans Female Character
  • Author is trans
  • Canon Rewrite
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Good Albus Dumbledore
  • Misguided Albus Dumbledore
  • Both can be True!
  • No Ron Weasley Bashing
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  • No bashing at all really
  • Except for like Quirrell lol
  • Eventual Theodore Nott/Harry Potter
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  • author is american sorry
  • Friends to Lovers
  • not yet though they're 11
  • pronouns follow character's current identity
  • but the trans character will have her egg crack in the second chapter lol
  • Severus Snape Has a Heart
  • He's still kinda an asshole but he gets better

  Summary

  What if, in an effort to ease the tension between Houses, Dumbledore had decided to shift the Sorting Ceremony to the beginning of second year? That way, students could make friends organically rather than have them immediately divided into four groups at the beginning of their Hogwarts experience?

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