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1. The Bishop’s sacrifice by LyraMBlack

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   09 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Hermione Granger/Theodore Nott
   • Hermione Granger
   • Theodore Nott
   • Astoria Greengrass
   • Draco Malfoy
   • Canon Divergence - Post-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
   • Death Eater Theodore Nott
   • Good Astoria Greengrass
   • Prisoner Hermione Granger
   • POV Hermione Granger
   • POV Theodore Nott
   • Angst
   • Good Draco Malfoy
   • Theodore Nott is Bad at Feelings
   • Protective Theodore Nott
   • Thisisnottacult
   • Torture
   • Implied/Referenced Torture
   • Violence
   • Dark Magic
   • dark themes
   • Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
   • Bittersweet Ending
   • Chess Metaphors
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Concentration Camps

   Summary

   To the Death Eaters, she is nothing but a pawn.
   To Theodore Nott, she is something far more dangerous: a complication in a game he was born to win.
   But in chess, pawns can become queens - and queens can cost you everything.

   (Please mind the tags.)

   A Note from the Author:
   Each chapter in this story takes its name from a chess strategy. The move defines not only the board, but the story itself.
   Every piece you meet — the pawn, the bishop, the queen — carries its own burden of power, sacrifice and consequence.

   Huge thanks to my beta and partner in crime for this story:
   beckysbooktok 💛

   I created a playlist to accompany this story — listen on Spotify:
   

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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