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''[[The Arithmancer]]'' is set in an [[Alternate Universe]] in which Hermione Granger isn't just frightfully intelligent, she is ''also'' a mathematical prodigy, and tests into Arithmancy starting in her first year. She becomes the protégé of Septima Vector, Hogwarts' Arithmancy professor, and before she's even out of her second year she's clearly going to be a force to be reckoned with. By the end of her fourth year she's already published a half-dozen papers on groundbreaking work in almost all fields of magic, has two magical patents, markets a line of potions kits, has invented spells that surprise and sometimes terrify the people who learn of them, and is the silent partner in one upcoming business -- but one of her biggest priorities is keeping her friend Harry Potter alive in the face of Voldemort's return.
 
Doing so makes her just as big a target as Harry, because if there's one thing Voldemort and the Death Eaters can't stand, it's a Muggle-born who knows more (and more about) magic than they do, and worse, is a creative outoutside-of-the-box innovator. The combination of Muggle knowledge and magical methods makes her more than just a dangerous student -- it makes her a direct threat to their ideology. She's also a deadly threat to a Ministry which wants nothing more than for Harry Potter to disappear.
 
But neither group knows just what it's facing -- and the trouble they will bring down upon themselves for making an enemy of Hermione Granger, who will become known to the Wizarding World as Lady Archimedes, the Arithmancer.