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When the wizarding war reaches a breaking point, the Ministry of Magic enacts a desperate measure: the Wartime Magical Cohesion Act, a law that binds powerful witches and wizards into temporary magical marriages to stabilize Britain's failing defenses.
For Hermione Granger, seventeen years old and still a student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the law is an act of violence disguised as necessity.
For Severus Snape, thirty-eight, double agent and sworn protector of secrets, it is another burden added to a lifetime of them.
Their bond is not born of affection, nor intended to last. It is a countdown-set to dissolve the moment Lord Voldemort is defeated.
But war reshapes everything it touches.
As Hogwarts becomes a fortress, friendships fracture under secrecy, the Order of the Phoenix argues morality against survival, and the lines between protection and control blur. Hermione refuses to surrender her voice or her future, while Snape refuses to allow a child to be consumed by a war she did not choose.
And when the war finally ends, the law will vanish.
What remains may be far more complicated.