RebelWriter25
After the war, the Ministry claims it is rebuilding the wizarding world.
What it truly rebuilds is control.
A Marriage Law is enacted without consent, without mercy, and without privacy.
Students and professors alike are summoned to the Great Hall, where futures are assigned in alphabetical order-publicly, permanently.
When Hermione Granger's name is paired with her Potions professor, Severus Snape, the damage is immediate and irreversible.
She does not scream.
She does not argue.
She walks out.
What follows is not a romance born of fate, but a story of restraint, guilt, loyalty, and survival-where love is not taken, not assumed, and never demanded.
Because some doors, once closed, are meant to stay that way
until they are opened by choice.