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No one who knew Harriet Kohl would say she was someone out of the ordinary, strange or unusual. Born and raised in a half-blood family, with a muggle father, she hadn’t stood out at her old school; a modest institution located in Eastern Germany that held less than a hundred students and provided the necessary magical education until they were sixteen years of age.
In Germany, wizards were supposed to leave school at sixteen and start working right away, but that didn’t apply to every other country, and especially not to England, where the Kohl family had to abruptly move due to Harriet’s grandmother falling ill.
The young woman had gotten the choice to either start working or to continue her education for one last year, as it was required in England, and so, after a long conversation with the famous wizard Albus Dumbledore, she had obtained a place at Hogwarts School of Magic and Wizardry, seventh year, one year younger than her future classmates. One year of preparation for the NEWTs, and then she would be free of schooling.
No one had taken into account the dark shadow that loomed over the wizarding word.