Grace’s kind smile awaits us, knowing this is an odd situation but one needed all the same. Since we’re obviously unable to tell them the full truth, I settled on an amnesia story for my parents when I knocked on their doorstep asking them to pretend I’m their granddaughter. After a kettle of tea, and some ungraceful ugly sobbing, I was officially Hermione Granger, Grace and Michael Smith’s only and most treasured grandchild.