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It's eight years after the war and Hermione Granger has taken a break from her career at the Ministry of Magic to compile an oral history of the conflict. She's interviewed just about everyone she can get her hands on but she wants to be thorough. And that means getting in contact with a very unwilling Lucius Malfoy.
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"For your information, I'm not shopping it around yet because I still don’t have access to all of the sources I need.”
“You’ve got to be joking. You must have interviewed every living person that was even tangentially connected to the war.”
“Not everyone,” Hermione said, turning in her seat to reach up for the mug of tea she’d left on the kitchen counter.
“Who’s left? The trolley lady from the Hogwarts Express?”
“Your father.”
Malfoy opened his mouth and then closed it again with a click of his teeth, shaking his head. “You don’t want to do that, Granger.”
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02 May 2026
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Hermione Granger has been holding the Ministry together with precision, exhaustion, and the brittle kind of strength people mistake for stability.
When the MIS-3 Panel decides she looks “unsteady,” the next step is intervention — polite wording for a trap she can’t afford to fall into.Lucius Malfoy is the last person she should trust.
He’s also the only one who sees exactly how close the net is tightening.What begins as uneasy cooperation settles into something sharper: late-night strategy, quiet rooms, a dangerous kind of honesty, and two people who refuse to let the world break them the way it intends.
“I don’t want your martyrdom either,” she said.
“I am not offering martyrdom.”
A ghost of that humourless smile again.
“I am offering what I have always been very good at: being the monster other monsters fear.”Bookmarked by ghostlycries
06 Apr 2026