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Summary
1998.
Voldemort is dead, but the fear he left behind still shapes the wizarding world. In the name of safety, the Ministry begins tightening control over a population too exhausted to resist.
Auror Nymphadora Tonks (25) wants to believe the new laws will protect what remains. Remus Lupin (36) knows better.
They knew each other only in passing during the war — brief meetings through the Order, scattered conversations, the kind of familiarity born of shared danger rather than real closeness.
Now, as an investigation into illegal magic places them on opposite sides of a rapidly changing Ministry, recognition turns into distrust — and distrust into something far more dangerous.
As public fear deepens and Minister Shacklebolt falls increasingly under the influence of the quietly ruthless and increasingly powerful Septimus Hale, Tonks is forced to confront a terrifying possibility:
The war may be over.
But something else has already begun.