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Summary
The war is over, but its aftermath is brutal.
Hermione Granger has survived Voldemort—barely. Haunted by what she’s done, abandoned by those she once called family, and broken in ways she can’t name, she returns to a shattered Hogwarts with no purpose except survival. When Minerva McGonagall offers her a lifeline—an apprenticeship under the war-scarred, voiceless Severus Snape—she accepts, too tired to resist.
But Snape has ghosts of his own. Disfigured, mute, and hollowed out by sacrifice, he agrees to mentor the last person he wants near him… under one condition: when the year ends, he walks away for good.
Neither expects to find reflection in the other’s ruin. Neither wants to need, to hope, or to feel again. Yet amid the ruins, mistrust, and bitter silences, a bond begins to form—raw, volatile, and painfully human.
This is a story of war’s quietest casualties. Of survivors. Of enemies becoming uneasy allies, and of two broken souls dragged—resentfully, desperately—toward something like healing. But not without blood. Not without cost.
And not without war leaving its deepest bruises on them both.
Series
- Part 1 of Deep Bruises of War Series