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    The first three chapters will be presented as Daily Prophet articles, dripping with scandal and whispers — and let it be known, Rita Skeeter is hardly a journalist one can trust.

     

    After the Battle of Hogwarts, Draco Malfoy was presumed dead—disintegrated by a strange spell witnessed by only a few. But eight years later, he is discovered alive in the dungeons of Azkaban, wearing a tattered prison uniform marked only with a number.

    Now, he faces trial for all his alleged crimes, with no one to speak in his defence.

    With his parents exiled and banned from returning to the wizarding world, his solicitor—assigned to the case for just a week—finds his hands tied when it comes to building a proper defence. But in a sudden turn of events, a last-minute witness steps forward, and long-buried secrets begin to surface.

    Will justice prevail? Is Draco truly innocent?

    And why does Hermione Granger keep dreaming about him—and a little girl with silver hair—every single night?

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    When a late-night Patronus interrupts the chaos of the Auror Office, Draco Malfoy doesn’t hesitate. Hermione Granger’s been attacked—and while she survives, the aftermath is far from clean. Her memories are gone. Not the magic, not the brilliance—but every shared glance, every scar, every sharp-edged truth between them.

    Draco is assigned to keep her safe. It's meant to be temporary. Professional. Detached.

    But memory is a fickle thing, and the threat hunting her is more deeply embedded than anyone at the Ministry dares admit. As secrets rise and loyalties fray, Draco must protect the one person who once knew him too well—and now doesn’t know him at all.

    Not yet.

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    When Hermione is betrayed by one of her closest friends and abandoned at Malfoy Manor, she receives help escaping from someone unexpected. She returns to the Order feeling the sting of their betrayal and sets out on a path of vengeance to end the war once and for all no matter the cost.

    Three years after her escape from Malfoy Manor, Hermione finally finds herself getting close to being able to end things. She's turned herself into a weapon and cultivated her alliances carefully. Voldemort might have gained a lot of ground in the years since her escape but with the proper tools and friends the tides of the war are about to turn as the Valkyries take flight.

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    Hogwarts was a prison and everyone in it was a prisoner.

    Secrets meant more than people's lives; they ran deep, so deep that they rotted beneath the stones of Hogwarts, and love—if there was any at all—was just another curse.... Hermione, Snape's daughter, was cursed by it... Draco Malfoy, the one who was under her father's protection, was her curse. They couldn't be together; they shouldn't be together but their love was immovable.

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    Some say there’s not much to life at all. You’re born, you live, and you die. But what about everything in-between? Life isn’t that simple, not in their eyes at least.

    Hermione felt life had dealt her the worst of blows. Having been through a war as a Hogwarts student, becoming a healer at St. Mungo’s hospital after, then losing the man she loved. She had become a shell of who she used to be. The bright, forgiving and clever 'golden girl' had gone, replaced by a cold and empty woman pondering if it was worth living at all. All she felt was hate and heartbreak, going about life unchecked and uncaring as she hunted death eaters and traitors alike.

    Draco is trying to turn his life around, but the wizarding community just couldn't understand he had changed. No longer a 'death eater', he now worked as an auror after losing his wife. Harry Potter has accepted him and for both their family's sakes they display a level of civility, but there are always those dragging Draco back into his past and he hated it. Would an unsolved case they were working on turn out to be the end for Draco? Or would it change the course of everything the future held for him...

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    You've been hidden from the wizarding world for Seventeen years, raised by your Death Eater parents in secret. But when they’re killed for their suspected involvement in the Dark Lord’s return, you’re discovered and forced to start a new life at Hogwarts as a Sixth-year student.

    A Slytherin by blood, you enter the Triwizard Tournament secretly, desperate to prove yourself in a world that seems to view you with suspicion. The demanding competition pushes you to your limits as each task begins to uncover hidden truths about yourself.

    Amid the chaos, an unlikely connection forms between you and your Head of House, Professor Snape. What begins as a tense relationship complicated by your parents’ legacy slowly evolves into something unexpected. Together, you must confront the weight of your past or risk losing everything.

    Starting in the year 1994, this story follows the events of Goblet of Fire and beyond.

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    Draco dragged her blade down his throat, nicking his collarbone as he went, and didn’t stop until he had the blade of Hermione’s knife pressing above his heart.

    “Go ahead, love,” he whispered, a faint smile playing on his lips. “It’s yours anyways.”

    He took a deep breath, which pressed the knife further into his chest, the tip digging into his skin.

    “Do it, Granger,” he goaded her as he let go of her wrist. “Kill me.”

    * * *

    Told in a dual timeline of flashbacks from sixth year and present day.

    A lovers to enemies.

    How they fell and how it all fell apart.

    An exploration of the fine line between passion and destruction

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    The summer of 1995 was hard, lonely, unexpected. Against all odds Raven found herself back at Hogwarts for her sixth year of magical education. Though school remained the same, everything had changed. How would she manage to stay here, to survive, when she had no one left to turn to?

    Perhaps help would find her in an unexpecting way. Or rather in the shape of... Severus Snape.

    Follow Raven on her journey of grief, growth, strength and acceptance, while spending more time with Severus Snape than she could ever have imagined.

    Eventual Snape/OC romance

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    Hermione proposes a mission for herself: don the mask of a notorious Death Eater, infiltrate Voldemort's ranks, and finally end the war that should have never begun. But as she descends into the labyrinth, her mind begins to fracture. She finds herself haunted by fragments of lives she might’ve lived, battles she cannot remember, and the enigma of a man whose presence threatens to unravel her completely.

    And the worst of it, she realizes, is the unbearable truth: he is good.

    Draco Malfoy was never meant to be good.

    He has always felt like a pendulum clock swung askew, unable to settle on which side he belongs to. He is the very embodiment of a coin with two faces, Light and Dark, destined to spin for eternity. He has never let fate play her hand. He will always bend the will of the gods to service his own survival.

    Goodness in him isn’t light, isn’t warmth. It is the precision of cut-glass honesty so brutal that when it shatters, it leaves splinters buried like cactus spines beneath her skin. He does not offer refuge, because unlike her, he never flinches at the truth’s ugliness.

    She hates him for it.

    But she envies him for it, too.

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    The war is escalating. Dumbledore is dead. The Death Eaters are growing restless as the Second Wizarding War begins. As Hermione disappears into the shadows of trees and magic with Harry and Ron to hunt Horcruxes, Draco Malfoy returns to Malfoy Manor, now home to Voldemort's most loyal supporters, hiding more than just fear behind cold eyes and tight silence.

    Ties forged in secret begin to strain and across the fractured lines of the war, one unbreakable bond hums with magic and danger.

    ~

    Or a Deathly Hallows rewrite. Sequel to Who Are We to Fight the Alchemy?

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    The Just World Fallacy
    [The cognitive bias that a person’s actions always bring morally fair and fitting consequences to that person, so that all noble actions are eventually rewarded and all evil actions are eventually punished.]

    Another Horcrux has been destroyed, but at what cost?

    In the aftermath of the Gringotts heist, Hermione and Draco find themselves struggling to survive both suffering and separation, which drive them to the limits of their endurance and beyond even as the war goes on, relentless and merciless.

    As the final confrontation with Voldemort approaches, everything is fractured; people, loyalties, and trust. But is it broken beyond repair?

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    32 y/o Hermione is a Master Healer who is also an overachiever... which means she's also working toward her muggle PHD. After her rotation on the psych floor, she's brutally assaulted by a patient while showering in the physicians lounge. Her whole life goes on hold as she struggles to heal from a trauma she feels helpless against. After 7 months of sheer despair, an unlikely friend convinces her to start attending a trauma group led by none-other than her childhood nemesis.

    Draco Malfoy attends and leads a trauma and grief counseling group each week. When Hermione shows up looking like a hollowed out version of who he knew her to be, he can't help but want to help. He becomes her dedicated trauma tether. He helps her develop coping mechanisms he had to learn the hard way. But he also becomes a source of healing that resets her whole world and builds something that bridges even the deepest craters of the soul.

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    Polyjuice. Espionage. Danger.

    It’s five years into a brutal war, and there’s one Horcrux left.

    Hermione Granger must go undercover to pose as Astoria Greengrass in the shadowy halls of Malfoy Manor. Hermione will cross any line if it means completing her mission and ending the war—even if getting intel comes at the cost of seducing Draco Malfoy.

    But what will happen when those lines start to blur?

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    Six years have passed since the Battle of Hogwarts. Six years of broken hearts, lost loves, and new beginnings.

    Hermione Granger stepped out of the magical world in 1998 and has refused to return, only keeping in contact with the Potters and Weasleys, and for good reason. Her son is her life, and she'd do anything to protect him, especially from the world and people that had wanted to eradicate her from it.

    Things begin to change when alarming attacks on Muggles begin emerging around London, and no one knows the cause or the perpetrator. Secrets long buried threaten to upend Hermione's peaceful existence as a single mother. And problems she'd distanced herself from suddenly require her attention again.

    She's not prepared herself for her son's exposure to the magical world, but she may not have a choice as a resurgence of dark magic is brought to her doorstep. And the person most equipped to protect her is someone she'd been avoiding with her departure from the wizarding world.

    Draco sodding Malfoy.

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    During the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger vanishes. She finds herself unable to cope with it all—the missions, the dangers, the trauma. For five years, no one has seen or heard from her. Now, on the anniversary of Voldemort’s defeat, Hermione secretly returns to Hogwarts to attend the unveiling of the memorial honoring the fallen, only to discover something shocking—her own name engraved among the dead.

    While visiting the castle, she encounters Severus Snape, a fellow ghost trapped between worlds. As they unravel the mystery of her apparent death, Hermione must confront the truth of what really happened that fateful night.

    Meanwhile, Draco Malfoy, now working for the Ministry as an Auror specializing in magical souls, has been searching for Hermione ever since. Consumed by regret for never confessing his feelings to her, Draco is drawn back to Hogwarts by strange disturbances. His search converges with Hermione’s quest for answers, and with Snape’s guidance, Draco may finally get the chance to bring her back—but at a price neither of them could have foreseen.

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    Five years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Voldemort is gone, the Ministry has been rebuilt, Hogwarts is back up and running, and the aftereffects of the second Wizarding War seem to mostly be a thing of the past. Until one morning, the whole facade comes crumbling down, and the golden trio is forced to continue where they left off three years prior, as different people than they were when they thought they had put an end to Voldemort's reign of terror once and for all. It turns out that when Voldemort withered away in front of their eyes, they had missed a crucial piece of information, a secret daughter, conceived for horrifying means, and now he’s back, stronger and out for revenge against those who had come so close to defeating him prior.

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    During the Blitz, a young Tom Riddle discovers fleeting comfort in a mysterious woman’s care

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    'After fifty days, he'd finally succumbed to the isolation-induced psychosis that had been nibbling at the corners of his psyche for weeks. Trust Snape to be the first one to physically manifest.'

     

    During the First War, Lucius Malfoy pledged his loyalty to the Dark Lord. While others swore to kill for the cause, Lucius offered something more—his family’s mastery of the Mind Arts.

    As the Dark Lord returns to power once more, Draco Malfoy finds himself confined to the family's Cannes chateau for fifty long days. With little more than schoolwork and Professor Snape’s Occlumency exercises to distract him, Draco wades deeper and deeper into the unknown. Without proper guidance, he risks corrupting the very foundation of his mind with self-fulfilling prophecies of darkness and deceit.

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    Harry Potter attends occlumency Snape sees his childhood severtius ensus

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    The first time Cedric died, it had been unexpected – too sudden, too loud. A flash of green, a stolen breath, a moment of confusion. No time to be afraid, not really. Just the violent clarity of an end. His end.

    But this time, death came slow, wearing the face of inescapability.

    It gave him time to think. Too much time, perhaps.

    ---

    Cedric would die tonight.

    But it would not be the peaceful kind.

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