maybe someday we will find that it wasn't really wasted time

It's 1978 and Mary's anything but prepared for what lies beyond Hogwarts. She ends her final year with an unexpected heartbreak and she's set for an apprenticeship at St Mungo's, where she's going to start training to be a healer. Her friends are all determined to join a secret organisation to fight against Voldemort and hard as she tries, she doesn't get it, their insistence on risking their lives for something that's bigger than any of them. She loves them, but she's determined to stay out of it and focus on her career as a healer. That is, until Emmeline Vance comes along.Or, more simply put, The Hand That Feeds and The Heart That Bleeds by Rollercoasterwords from Mary's perspective.