me_da_real_smut
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"The war is over, but the silence is louder than the screams ever were."
Hermione Granger is the Golden Girl. She's the survivor, the hero, and now, the architect of a new Hogwarts. As the head of the Ministry's "Unity Project," her job is simple: integrate the former Death Eaters back into society. Or, more accurately, save the ones who don't want to be saved.
Draco Malfoy is a ghost in a suit. He's returned for his Eighth Year not for an education, but to fulfill the terms of his probation. He doesn't want her help, he doesn't want her pity, and he certainly doesn't want the way her scent-cinnamon and old parchment-invades the cold spaces of his mind.
But when dark artifacts begin to bleed through the castle walls, Hermione realizes that the boy she's supposed to be "rehabilitating" is the only one who knows how to fight the shadows.
In a castle full of ghosts, the most dangerous thing isn't the dark magic. It's the way his silver eyes look in the candlelight, and the realization that some scars weren't meant to be healed-they were meant to be shared.