About the book: one year / Hermione Weasley is only twenty-three. She has intelligence, charm and power, but she no longer has parents. Ronald Weasley is only twenty-two. He is a trusted Auror, a wonderful friend and a great celebrity, but his wife hardly smiles. Severus Snape is only forty-three. He is still a young man, a great potion master and a Knight of the Order of Merlin, but he died five years ago. And solutions to problems come from unexpected places.