Snakes and Martyrs
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Twelve years after the war, Hermione Granger becomes Head Archivist of the Ministry’s memory vault—a sentient structure buried deep within the Department of Mysteries that catalogues history and anomalous artifacts.
Then it starts behaving strangely.
It begins with minor clerical errors like false dates on paperwork and a subtle shift of corridors but then escalates to people themselves forgetting. Or worse yet, remembering what isn't theirs to remember.When the Minister forces a "consultant" on her team, it’s the last person she wants poking around. Draco Malfoy is an expert in sentient architecture. He's brilliant, restrained, and far too observant. Together, they’re forced to dig into a history that’s literally rewriting itself, chasing a connection that neither of them remembers, but both of them can feel in the air between them.
Excerpt: She'd seen magic go wrong. She knew the price of remembering and the cost of forgetting. She'd paid both in blood and time. But today—The Archive had behaved like a house that missed its inhabitants. She didn’t know which frightened her more: the dreams she couldn’t fully recall or that the Archive had begun to remember the shape of him for her.
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- Part 1 of Snakes and Martyrs
