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Hermione Granger has spent years proving herself at Mr. Wimbledon’s law firm, carefully building a reputation strong enough to survive any room she walks into. But when she’s assigned to represent the Malfoy family, her professional composure begins to crack.
The past refuses to stay buried.
Because Harry Potter never knew the whole story.
While the war unfolded around them, Hermione and Draco Malfoy had formed something dangerous behind the scenes of Hogwarts: a secret alliance hidden beneath public arguments, shifting loyalties, and the careful performance of hate. Late nights spent solving impossible magical problems. Quiet moments no one noticed. Choices made in silence.
And in the end, when the war demanded sides, they chose them. Publicly, at least.
Told through alternating timelines—two chapters in the past for every one in the present—this story slips between canon moments and the spaces Harry was never looking at long enough to understand.
It was never simple.
It may never have even been love.
But it was always there.