Adult Content Warning
This work could have adult content. If you continue, you have agreed that you are willing to see such content.
-
All my lines I cross for you by Cross_your_mind_just_alittle
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Feb 2026
Tags
Summary
Severus keeps a litany in his head of all the terrible things he's experienced in his life since he took the Dark Mark, so whenever something new and terrible comes along, he knows that Lily's death was his personal Mariana Trench (he can fall no further into the depths than that soul-shattering sorrow). He does not commit acts of sexual violence. He has tortured and murdered, lied and spied, but he does not touch others against his will.
It is his final line in the sand, the block upon which he would lay his neck for the executioner.
Until a day in late spring when he receives a desperate plea from Cissa, urging him to come to the Manor, desperate for his aid once more, and what lies before him is a nightmare — a single prisoner: Hermione Granger.
Suddenly, he is facing the one line he'd die before crossing. Except Hermione Granger's eyes are locked on his, and speaking words that send him reeling into the abyss: She implies she knows why he killed Albus Dumbledore.
Behind her eyes are secrets Hermione Granger needs him to know to win this war.
A prisoner incapable of consent, she's dragging them both over his last line with damnable Gryffindor bravery.