Persephone's first year at Hogwarts was going great. Or at least quite well. Of course if you'd ignore the whole Basilisk issue, her best friend being annoyingly social, her older brother hovering in peripheral vision constantly, and, worst of all, the fact she only got Exceed Expectations on the last Potions essay! But then someone starts leaving books that explode in people's faces, so she finally has a distraction.