RebelWriter25
After the war, Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts for her seventh year at eighteen, determined to finish what she started. To the world, she is brilliant, composed, unbreakable.
To a very small circle-Ginny, Harry, Ron, Lavender, Cho, and Draco-she is surviving minute by minute.
Severus Snape is forty, sharp-edged, watchful, and done with pretending that the war did not leave wreckage behind. He does not know Hermione's secrets. No one tells him.
He learns them the hard way.
When a single lesson recreates Hermione's worst trigger, she leaves without permission. Snape follows-not in anger, but in alarm. He does not demand explanations. He does not force confessions.
He simply makes certain it never happens again.
This is a story about trauma that is not announced, love that does not demand disclosure, and a man who learns that accountability can be quieter than apology.