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   What Comes After by Opheliablacksallow

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Not Rated
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Complete Work

   16 May 2025

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   • Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
   • Theodore Nott/Ginny Weasley
   • Draco Malfoy
   • Hermione Granger
   • Harry Potter
   • Ron Weasley
   • Ginny Weasley
   • Pansy Parkinson
   • Theodore Nott
   • Blaise Zabini
   • Draco Malfoy is Obsessed with Hermione Granger
   • Past Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley
   • Theodore Nott Being a Little Shit
   • Hermione Granger & Theodore Nott Friendship
   • Hogwarts Eighth Year
   • Hermione Granger Has PTSD
   • everyone probably has PTSD
   • Pansy is a whore
   • Draco Malfoy Fucks
   • Protective Draco Malfoy
   • Theo is turning 19 in poland
   • Ron Weasley Bashing
   • LITERALLY
   • Ron gets punched in the face and deserves it
   • No beta we die like Theo refereeing the eighth year soap opera
   • “Eighth Year Program” aka Magical Trauma Therapy with Homework
   • Enemies to lovers to what are we to full-blown public scandal
   • Hogwarts: now with more post-war angst and less adult supervision
   • Featuring: One (1) emotionally constipated war hero and One (1) guilt-ridden pretty boy
   • The war ended but the drama did NOT
   • Hogwarts gossip is faster than Floo powder
   • Just two morally grey disasters trying to pass Ancient Runes
   • this is a forest fire with sexual tension
   • Slow burn? Fast burn? No this is a forest fire with sexual tension
   • Draco Malfoy has hands. Hermione Granger has thighs. Do the math.
   • Smut with plot with smut with feelings with smut
   • Theo is tired. Theo is nosy. Theo is thriving.
   • Hermione Granger is holding it together by spite and caffeine
   • Theo Nott ships it more than anyone and he’s not subtle about it
   • Ron Weasley slander hours (it’s always Ron Weasley slander hours)
   • angst but make it horny
   • There’s only so much mental stability two people can fake
   • Love is stored in the trauma bonding
   • A study in mutual destruction but with kissing
   • featuring: trauma flashbacks
   • Hallway Makeouts
   • and morally questionable decisions
   • Betrayal so good it gave me a migraine
   • This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things
   • Trust issues? Oh we’re past that. This is betrayal trauma.
   • The pain was mutual. The lies were not.
   • Public heartbreak
   • private unraveling
   • Hermione Granger’s villain origin story (pending)
   • Just girly things: falling in love with your mortal enemy and then getting publicly humiliated
   • Draco Malfoy: bold of you to assume she wouldn’t find out
   • Plot twist: he meant it. Too bad she doesn’t believe him.
   • I came here to read about love and now I’m emotionally compromised
   • i promise no one dies

   Summary

   She came back to remember who she was. She never expected to lose herself to him.

   After the war, Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts for an Eighth Year designed to help the survivors rebuild their lives. The castle is familiar, yet changed—just like the people in it. She tells herself she’s there for structure, for healing. But healing doesn’t come in timetables, and closure isn’t in the curriculum.

   Then there’s him. The last person she should trust, let alone feel anything for. Cold stares become quiet truce, and quiet truce becomes something far more dangerous: understanding. Affection. Maybe even love.

   But war leaves marks, and not everyone is ready to let go of the past.

   As Hermione opens her heart, she uncovers secrets buried beneath the surface, loyalty twisted into something cruel, and love that was never meant to last.

   In the end, it isn’t the war that breaks her.
   It’s what comes after.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Of War & Wanting

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   93,192

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