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They didn’t talk about the fight or the mission or the night she’d stormed into his room full of fire and left wrung out with something dangerously close to tenderness. But the way his eyes found her now made it clear he hadn’t forgotten a single word and neither had she.
Because despite everything, she kept waking up wanting more. More of his quiet. More of his anger. His laugh, rare and crooked. His body, pressed to hers like it might hold her together when everything else kept trying to split her apart. She told herself it was proximity. Adrenaline. The slow, shared ache of surviving a war that didn’t leave room for softness. But when she lay awake at night, staring at the crack in the ceiling above her bed, it was his face she saw. She hated how easy it was, how inevitable it had begun to feel, to imagine herself tangled in him again.
And again.
And again.
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- Part 2 of The Mercy Paradox
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31 Jul 2025
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Sometimes, a simple sorry can change someone's perspective of you. And that was precisely what had happened to Hermione. From the moment Draco uttered those words, she couldn't stop thinking about him, which wouldn't be a problem only that he didn't seem to notice her existence.
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29 Jul 2025
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Those who abolished the Statute of Secrecy in 1945 never intended the horrors that came afterwards.
By 1998, Wizarding Britain—styled after a reborn Roman Empire with Imperator Voldemort at its helm—controls most of Europe. Resistance is brutally crushed, muggles are in chains, and muggleborns are martyred by dragon fire in front of screaming crowds.
Hermione Granger is a domestic slave working in the Malfoy household, dreaming of a remade world, and hiding magic in her veins. Discovery means certain death.
Draco Malfoy, a tribune and spy for the Imperial Legion, carries the weight of painful secrets. For years, the only way to live with his dark reality has been to shut his eyes to it.
…But she has a burning star inside her—the light of an entire sun…
And now he is caught between the denial which defines his survival, and the woman he cannot deny.
Trailer for The Lights That Burn by the immensely talented thistlethread
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26 Jul 2025
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"Do you think people can change?"
"I think people change all the time. If they want to."An eighth year story where Hermione and Draco must reckon with the pain they are left with after the war.
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14 Jul 2025
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To be loved is to be known.
And there is nothing more alluring to Hermione Granger than the unknown.
A reintroduction beginning in eighth year and continuing into adulthood, told through a series of standout moments, stemming from the most unlikely of bonds.
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29 Jun 2025