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Summary
The war ended. Hermione Granger’s did not...and the world moved on anyway.
Years later, Hermione is living at Espoir—a rehabilitation center built from the remains of Malfoy Manor, home to witches and wizards the system has deemed broken. She is one of them. Alive, altered, and surviving something the world never learned how to name. With her found family, she has found a sanctuary away from the prying eyes of the wizarding world.
She does not expect Draco Malfoy to become her anchor.
When the fragile magic keeping Hermione alive begins to fail, Draco offers the only thing powerful enough to save her: his name, his magic, and a marriage born of necessity. What follows is not rescue, but reclamation. Of choice, of voice, of self.
As the past resurfaces and Espoir is dragged into the public eye, Hermione is forced to confront a world still more comfortable protecting its heroes than believing its victims. The fight that follows is not clean, not simple, and not quiet—but Hermione Granger has never needed permission to endure.
Broken does not mean destroyed.
And survival, when chosen, can be a form of rebellion.