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    The war has ended. Some of the survivors are in the process of healing. Some others struggle to right the wrongs and protect the most innocent victims of the recent past. A garden in a quiet seaside Muggle town. A pest exterminator. A single mother with two children who do not look like her at all.

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    When Voldemort's death unleashes a curse that turns the remaining Death Eaters into vampires, Severus Snape finds all new depths of self-loathing as he attempts to fight his own body for control. Will Hermione Granger's unexpected intrusion into his life help him keep the curse at bay? Or will she push past his shields and potentially bring it onto her own head?

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    05 Aug 2025

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    [newly edited as of Feb '18]

    Sometimes all it takes to change the world is one small, simple choice. On the night the Death Eaters attack Hogwarts, Hermione Granger makes such a choice. Her life—and her world—will never be the same.

    By killing Draco, she saves Dumbledore and keeps Voldemort at bay for a little while. But evil never sleeps for long. When a Ministry decree forces her to marry Professor Snape—a cruel, cold man who’s apparently hated her since she was a child—in order to be used as a breeder of superior wizards, Hermione doesn’t think her life can get any worse. She’s wrong.

    Soon, Voldemort’s after her and her friends (again), her life is in grave peril, and all her hopes for a future at all, much less a happy one, rest on her own shoulders—and on Snape, her unwanted husband, whose heart still belongs to a woman long dead.

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    05 Aug 2025

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    Hermione returns to Hogwarts as the new Charms Professor.
    She’s determined to befriend Severus Snape, whether he likes it or not.

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    05 Aug 2025

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    There was this thing inside him, and it was an emotion, but it was thrashing and resisted him.

    You are the one resisting. Snape cast the intruding voice so forcefully to the back of his mind he was surprised it didn't protest. But yes. Yes he had to resist it, because to feel like Hermione Granger was the sole person in the world who seemed to understand him - to want to understand him - to feel that and be even a little desiring of it, was unacceptable. Finally under the canopy of the trees at the edge of the forest, Snape turned his head towards the sky. The bare branches swayed gently, strangely gently given the ferocity of the wind.

    Unacceptable


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    When Hermione is inducted into the Order of the Phoenix at the beginning of her fifth year, she finds herself working closely beside her Portions Professor. As the prospect of a Wizarding war, the stress of her academic life, and straining friendships threaten to overwhelm her, the bond that forms between her and Severus Snape becomes her lifeline.

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    05 Aug 2025