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   The Dark That Remains by sinusiridum

   Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   04 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
   • Hermione Granger
   • Draco Malfoy
   • Theodore Nott
   • Blaise Zabini
   • Neville Longbottom
   • Pansy Parkinson
   • Luna Lovegood
   • Post-War
   • Graphic Violence
   • Marriage as a Weapon
   • morally gray characters
   • Trauma Bonding
   • PTSD
   • Psychological Trauma
   • Survivor’s Guilt
   • Healer Hermione Granger
   • Dangerous Draco
   • Ancestral magic
   • Cursed Bloodlines
   • magic reacts to emotions
   • Ancient Wizarding Law
   • Ministry Corruption
   • The Ministry is the Villain
   • Dangerous Draco Malfoy
   • Draco Malfoy is a Weapon
   • Voldemort Made Him a Monster
   • Draco Malfoy is a Magical Pressure Valve
   • He would burn the world for her
   • He belongs to her
   • Protective Dark Draco
   • Possessive Draco Malfoy
   • Draco Malfoy Will Kill for Her
   • Draco Malfoy is tired
   • Hermione Granger is Not Afraid
   • Hermione Granger is Done Taking Orders
   • Ron Weasley Bashing
   • Ex-Husband Ron Weasley
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • we'll get there when we get there
   • Azkaban Survivor Draco
   • Voldemort is dead
   • But So Is Harry Potter
   • Hermione Granger Knows Exactly Who She Married
   • Choosing Him Anyway
   • Not Here to Fix Him
   • A Marriage Built on Brutal Honesty
   • She Doesn’t Need Him to Be Good
   • Sins Don’t Vanish
   • But She Still Chose Him
   • Verbal Sparring as Flirting
   • Silence Is Not Their Love Language
   • Talking About the War Because No One Else Will
   • Nothing Is Sexier Than Being Understood
   • Communication kink
   • Panic Attacks
   • Theodore Nott is a Menace
   • And The Best Friend Anyone Could Ever Ask For
   • Sexual Tension
   • Slow Burn so Slow it’s Borderline Painful
   • BAMF Hermione Granger
   • HEA but it’s a long road ahead
   • Grumpy Malfoy Manor
   • The Manor is the third wheel
   • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better (But It Gets Better)
   • Slow Burn and Slow Healing
   • Healing Isn’t Linear (But They Get There)
   • They Will Earn Their HEA
   • dark au

   Summary

   After the war dragged on for years, after Harry Potter died and the world fractured, the Ministry promised peace. Instead, it rewrote the laws, buried the bodies, and sealed the records.
   Draco Malfoy—silent, wandless, and still the most dangerous man in the room—is days away from being erased.
   Hermione Granger tried to stay out of it. She really did. She tried to forget the war. She tried to play the part—healer, wife, survivor.
   But when she learns the truth, she’s left with one impossible choice: Let them erase him or marry him herself.
   He saved her life once upon a time.
   Now she’s saving his.

   OR

   How the Ministry tried to kill him, bury him, and take everything he had, but he got a wife instead.

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   English

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