What the Silver Knows

Rated Mature: for readers 18 and over.

Mature · In progress · 15,388 words · 5 chapters

Warnings: Graphic violence

Tags: harry potter - j. k. rowling, hermione granger/draco malfoy, harry potter/hermione granger, love triangle, post-war, epilogue what epilogue | ewe, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, slow burn, mystery

October 2005, seven years after the Battle of Hogwarts. Hermione Granger is nineteen days from the vote that will make or break her career: a bill forcing the old families to surrender the Dark heirlooms in their cellars. Then a Muggle-born witch who testified for it starts turning to silver, and the cursed mirror in her hand came from the Ministry's own vault. It's Malfoy silver.

Harry, her best friend for half her life, is the Auror on the case, and he's sitting on something he's terrified to say. Draco Malfoy, curse-breaker, sardonic and still paying for his name, is the only man alive who can read the curse, and he looks at Hermione as if she were the only problem worth solving.

Someone is working down a list of names. Hers is on it.

The epilogue never happened. Slow burn love triangle. Mature for tension, not explicit.

Chapters

Chapter 1: Declared Objects (2,990 words) A silvering witch, a stolen heirloom, and an old enemy who knows the curse.
Chapter 2: The Hand the Silver Knows (2,994 words) A cipher cracked by lamplight, rain on Diagon Alley, and someone waiting under the streetlamp.
Chapter 3: Doorways (2,862 words) Sunday lunch at Grimmauld Place, an hour in the dark, and a kettle left screaming.
Chapter 4: Released for Examination (3,348 words) A too-short sofa, a smile in the corridor, and a heron at the sink.
Chapter 5: Custody (3,194 words) Two Hermiones in the vault, a cup caught twice, and a name in a ledger.

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