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Part One: Rise From the Ashes: Ch 1-11: Slow build, Hogwarts AU Years 1-7, melding canon w/ a little canon divergence in that Bellatrix, like Snape, was offered a second chance by Dumbledore and has taught at the school ever since. As the years progress and tensions build, she faces the difficult intersection of her two identities, the different parts she plays in other people's games, and the trauma of her past that often threatens to untether her entirely. Snape is still a character in the story, but Bellatrix takes on a lot of his roles/storyline in canon. As for Hermione, in her first few years, she can't help but look up to her brilliant, yet complicated professor. As she gets older, by the time she realizes her feelings have evolved into something more...it's already too late to turn away, not that she'd even want to.
Part Two: Reignite: Ch 12-?: Hermione returns to Hogwarts two years after the end of the war with Voldemort. Some things have changed, some things haven't. Bellatrix finally gets to try her hand at teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts. Attraction blooms and temptation is tested. Updates Wednesdays.
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During the first Hogsmeade trip of Sixth Year, Hermione finds a wounded Death Eater passed out in the snow. A Death Eater with no memory of anything. The trio keep her prisoner in the room or requirement to gather information from her while she heals...but maybe there is no helping the bond that inevitably forms between two brightest witches of their respective ages. But Voldemort is coming, because she is his. His. Even though she doesn't want to be anyone's anymore. What happens when loyalties are tested? Will Bellatrix's connection with Hermione last if her memories are returned?
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Three years after the war, Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts to finish her final year of school. Haunted by inner demons and a scar she cannot get rid of, she tries her best to overcome the terror and fear inflicted by the darkest of witches.
But when she discovers Bellatrix alive, unaged and installed as the new Defense Against The Dark Arts Professor, the burn of the scar becomes something far more dangerous.Bellatrix carries a secret steeped in darkness, one that ties her to Hermione in ways neither of them could ever have imagined, yet both of them come to crave.
When old hatred begins to twist into forbidden want, old wounds reopen into something hungrier, a desire that coils between them. Raw, reckless and all consuming.
The truth Bellatrix tries to hide threatens to swallow Hermione whole and when darkness finally closes in, it doesn't whisper
It devours
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08 Feb 2026
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The war left Hermione's life in shambles. Two years later, she has started building a semblance of a life in London, completely cut off from the Wizarding World, when she gets an offer she cannot refuse.Taking a leave of absence from work, Hermione finds herself back at Hogwarts, when she finds out that McGonagall left out a huge bit of information, her new DADA professor and co-teacher, is none other than Bellatrix Lestrange, the woman who tortured her.
Bellatrix is struggling. The war had taken its toll on her body and mind, her years as a spy leaving her still disliked in many parts of the world. Not to mention, she lost the woman she loved most in the final battle, leaving her a single mother of a bubbly five-year-old. She is taking up the DADA post and is hoping to find a semblance of normalcy. Then, Hermione Granger shows up, turning her world inside out, healing wounds and making new ones.
Evangeline is dead, has been dead for nearly two years. Stuck in a form she didn't want, her lover raising their daughter without her, all she wanted was to stay in the shadows, to hide. But life, like always, had other plans for her. Danger is around every corner, and love, love blooms in the most unlikely situations
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hiraeth: (noun/hɪəraɪθ/) a nostalgic longing for a home to which you can no longer return or that never was. A deep, inborn sense of yearning for a home, a feeling or a person that is beyond this plane of existence.
What happens when Hermione is forced to return to Hogwarts after the war and is faced with none other than newly released from prison Bellatrix Black - who Hermione helped prove her innocence in front of the Wizengamot.
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12 Jan 2026
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Hermione Granger, scarred and disillusioned, grapples with the Ministry's attempts at peace. When Bellatrix Lestrange, a figure of terror and hidden complexities, unexpectedly becomes Hogwarts' new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor, Hermione, returning for her final year, is forced into a profoundly challenging new dynamic with the witch.
She figured the last time she’d ever see the woman was during her trial which Hermione had testified at. However, as their paths intertwine within the hallowed, yet still healing, halls of Hogwarts, an unsettling and undeniable connection begins to form between them. Navigating a wizarding world steeped in prejudice and emerging threats, Hermione and Bellatrix must confront their shared traumas and the deep-seated societal expectations that demand clear lines of good and evil. Can a profound, forbidden love blossom amidst the ashes of war, or will the weight of their intertwined pasts and the scrutiny of a watchful world ultimately tear them apart?
This fic is based on the HP world which is owned by JK Rowling, i do not own any characters this is purely written for pleasure. fuck JKR.
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11 Jan 2026
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Five years have passed and Hermione is still struggling with the after-effects of the war. Sure, she loves teaching at Hogwarts, but, well, maybe using Bellatrix Lestrange's unconscious body as a mock-therapist isn't the most brilliant idea to deal with her trauma. The highly conservative turn taken by the Ministry and upending political turmoil all over Europe aren't helping either.
Then again, she is coping, however she can. And when Bellatrix eventually wakes up, she will be ready to face her, in court or otherwise. Right?E for later chapters
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23 Nov 2023