The Dark Lord won the war. Now, Frank and Alice Longbottom are just trying to keep their family together - no matter the cost. This isn't exactly a simple endeavor. (Or: In one world, it is Augusta Longbottom taking a tearful and unsure boy tightly by the hand as she leads him onto the Hogwarts Express for the first time. Augusta is snappish and sharp and still grieving for the son and daughter-in-law she lost to insanity. In another, it's not.) Sequel to A Lament of Flowers and Green Light