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Hermione Granger loses a bet she never agreed to.
One disastrous night inside London’s most exclusive magical casino should ruin her life. Instead, it introduces her to the House of Serpents — an empire built on velvet, vice, political corruption, and the terrifyingly devoted men who rule it.
Draco Malfoy is cold, violent, and impossible to escape once his attention lands on something.
Theodore Nott is charming enough to make danger feel safe.
Together, they are the House’s sharpest teeth.
Hermione should hate them.
Instead, she finds herself drawn deeper into their glittering world of gala dinners, whispered deals, old-money power, and sins wrapped in silk. As her friendships shift, her ambitions grow sharper, and the wizarding world watches her with increasing fascination, Hermione begins to realize something deeply dangerous:
The monsters never asked her to become smaller.
And she may no longer want saving at all.
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02 Jun 2026
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The quickest way to burn a narrative is to set it on fire yourself.
After a very public betrayal, Hermione Granger finds herself recast as cold, frigid, and conveniently unlovable.
She refuses the part.
Draco Malfoy is many things, but subtle is not one of them. When he chooses to stand beside her, the whispers turn into spectacle, and spectacle becomes strategy.
They’ll own the narrative.
They’ll play the game.
They will not blink.It’s strictly mutual.
Strictly controlled.
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23 May 2026
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**Updated Fortnightly**
He had to lose everything to begin again.
She has built a good life, but the one thing she wants most is the one thing she may never have.
When Scorpius Malfoy is placed in Hermione's care, she never expects that the broken man who threw away everything precious could become someone worth saving.
This is a story about second chances, lingering aftereffects of the war, and the little boy who brings them both back to life.Bookmarked by howstrange
20 May 2026
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Hermione Granger does not need Draco Malfoy.
She does not need his polished charm, his careful hands, or the way he makes pureblood opposition to her reform bill look embarrassingly out of fashion.
She does not need Theodore Nott either.
She does not need his unsigned notes, his unsettling attention, or the way he seems to know what she requires before she has decided to ask.
She especially does not need the Prophet calling them her “Slytherin Shadows.”
But in a Ministry built on optics, old blood, and carefully buried secrets, usefulness is dangerous.
So is desire.Bookmarked by howstrange
11 May 2026
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Hermione Granger runs The Veil Division, a covert Ministry unit dealing with problems before they become visible.
Aurelius Voss’s file has been on and off her desk for three years.
Publicly, he speaks about education reform and integration, giving Muggle-born children the chance to be raised within the magical world.
Privately, he surrounds himself with former Death Eaters.
Hermione doesn’t believe in coincidences.
When people begin disappearing into a system no one can fully trace, the investigation leads to a network built on influence, ideology and proximity. Theo Nott is already inside asking questions, believing just enough to stay.
She needs an asset.
Draco Malfoy ticks every box: the name, the connections, the past, a certain skillset Voss will want to use.
As Draco moves deeper, guided by Theo and tested by Voss, the operation becomes a careful balancing act between loyalty, manipulation, and control.
Because this isn’t just an operation. It’s three people with history, pulled into something that was never going to stay simple.
Includes: a house elf with a complex, two very pervy portraits, and an unexpected number of tamagotchis.
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27 Apr 2026