Hermione's Plight

The last dregs of magical ink shimmered on the parchment, the final flourish on a complex Transfiguration essay that had consumed Hermione’s evening. A sigh of deep satisfaction escaped her lips, echoing softly in the cavernous silence of the Hogwarts library. The scent of old paper and dust motes dancing in the moonlight filtering through the high, arched windows was a comfort, a familiar embrace at the end of a long day. She was exhausted, her mind a buzzing hive of theory and incantation, but it was a good kind of tired. The kind that came from a mind pushed to its limits and found equal to the task.

Packing her satchel, the gentle rustle of parchment and the soft thud of heavy books were the only sounds accompanying her. The castle was asleep, a slumbering giant whose stone corridors were now her solitary path back to the warmth of the Gryffindor common room. The torchlight cast long, skeletal shadows that danced and writhed on the walls, familiar phantoms that had never once given her pause. Tonight, however, a prickle of unease traced a cold path down her spine. The silence felt different—not peaceful, but predatory.

She quickened her pace, the soft soles of her shoes whispering against the flagstones. It was likely just fatigue, her nerves frayed from the lingering tensions of the war that had ended but never truly left them. She rounded a corner into a stretch of corridor between the Charms classroom and the disused lavatory on the third floor, a notorious cold spot in the castle. The air here was always frigid, but now it felt unnaturally so, a biting cold that seemed to emanate from a single point of darkness ahead.

He stepped out of the shadows as if he were born from them.

Draco Malfoy.

He wasn’t wearing his school robes. Instead, he was dressed in a tailored black suit that spoke of wealth and a chilling maturity. He looked older, sharper, the petulant sneer of their school days carved by some unseen hand into something far more dangerous. He stood directly in her path, his posture one of absolute, arrogant stillness.

“Malfoy,” she said, her voice tight. Annoyance warred with a sudden, sharp spike of fear. “Get out of my way.”

He didn’t answer. His silver eyes, cold as a winter sky, roamed over her, and a slow, deliberate smirk stretched his lips. It was a look of profound, chilling ownership. Instinct screamed. Her hand, already gripping the strap of her satchel, dropped, fingers curling, reaching for the familiar shape of her wand tucked into the waistband of her skirt.

She never had the chance.

He raised his own wand—a fluid, economical motion—and whispered a single, sibilant word. “Silencio.”

The breath she had drawn to shout, to scream, to cast a spell of her own, caught in her throat. Her mouth opened, but only a desperate puff of air emerged. A vacuum existed where her voice should have been. Panic, cold and sharp, flooded her veins. Before she could even process the theft of her voice, his wand arced again. “Incarcerous.”

Invisible ropes coiled around her with brutal, crushing force. Her arms were slammed to her sides, her legs locked together. She stumbled, her balance lost, and pitched forward. The heavy satchel slid from her shoulder, spilling her precious books and essay across the stone floor with a series of dull, sickening thuds. Her own wand, half-drawn, clattered from her numb fingers, landing pitifully just beyond her reach. She was bound, silenced, utterly helpless in a matter of seconds.

He advanced on her, his polished shoes clicking with unnerving calm on the stone. He stopped before her, close enough that she could smell the faint, clean scent of expensive cologne clinging to him, a stark contrast to the terror choking her. He looked down at her, at her frantic, silent struggles against the magical bonds, and the smirk on his face widened into a triumphant, cruel grin. It was the look of a predator that had finally cornered its prey after a very, very long hunt.

Cold dread, absolute and paralyzing, consumed her. This wasn't a schoolboy rivalry. This was something else entirely. This was the culmination of a hatred she had never truly understood, now twisted into a terrifying new shape.

He reached out, his hand closing around her upper arm in a grip of iron. The contact was a brand of ice against her skin. She flinched violently, a silent scream trapped behind her teeth. His grin never faltered.

“Don’t fight it, Granger,” he murmured, his voice a low, possessive drawl that she could feel vibrate through his hand into her very bones. “You’ve already lost.”

The world dissolved into a sickening, violent pull. The familiar stone corridor, the spilled books, the flickering torchlight—it was all squeezed and compressed into a vortex of nauseating color and pressure. The disorienting, suffocating sensation of Side-Along Apparition ripped her from the only home she had ever known. And the last thing she saw before the darkness consumed her completely was Draco Malfoy’s face, his eyes gleaming with victory, his lips curled into a smirk of pure, unadulterated cruelty. It was an image seared into her mind, a promise of the nightmare to come.

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Consciousness returned not as a gentle tide, but as a fractured, splintering thing. It came first as a sensation of cold, a deep, seeping chill that seemed to emanate from the stone beneath her, leaching warmth from her very bones. Then came the smell—a cloying, heavy scent of damp earth and ancient, weeping stone, so different from the familiar dust and parchment of Hogwarts. Beneath it, a sharper, cleaner note, something metallic and sterile that pricked at the back of her throat and made her stomach churn with a vague, formless dread.

Her head throbbed in time with a slow, heavy pulse. The violent wrench of Apparition had left her feeling scoured from the inside out. She tried to lift a hand to her temple, but her arm met a sudden, jarring stop. A cold, heavy weight encircled her wrist.

Hermione’s eyes flew open.

The world swam into a blurry, distorted view. For a moment, she thought she was still in the corridor, that the fall had knocked her senseless. But the ceiling above her was not the familiar vaulted stone of the castle. It was a low, oppressive arch of rough-hewn, black rock, slick with moisture that caught the single, cold light source in the room, making it glisten like a weeping wound.

Panic, sharp and acidic, surged through her. She pushed herself up, the movement clumsy and restricted. The fabric beneath her was impossibly smooth, cool and slick against her skin—silk, she registered with a jolt of utter confusion. Black silk sheets on a wide, comfortable mattress. But the bed itself was a lie. It rested not on a frame, but directly upon a massive, flat slab of stone that served as a dais, cold and unforgiving.

It was the jarring stop of her other arm that drew her gaze. Her breath hitched. Both of her wrists were shackled. Heavy, ornate silver manacles, intricately carved with serpents coiling in on themselves, were locked tight around her skin. They were attached to thick, matching chains that ran taut for several feet before being bolted directly into the stone wall behind the bed. She pulled, a desperate, instinctual jerk. The chains held firm, the only sound the dull, metallic clank against the stone. A low, almost sub-audible hum emanated from the silver, a sickening vibration that resonated deep in her bones. Anti-magic enchantments. The realization hit her like a physical blow. The hum was the sound of her own power being suppressed, smothered. She was cut off, a limb severed from her body. The core of her identity, her magic, was being held hostage just as surely as her physical form.

A wave of nausea and fury washed over her in equal measure. She forced it down, her mind, always her sharpest weapon, beginning to race despite the terror. She took a deep, shuddering breath, the metallic tang in the air stronger now, and forced herself to take stock of her prison.

It was a dungeon, of that there was no doubt. The walls were the same weeping black stone as the ceiling, the floor a collection of uneven flagstones that looked slick and treacherous. A single, heavy wooden door, bound with iron straps, was set into the far wall. There were no windows, no hint of the outside world.

Yet, this was a dungeon of cruel paradoxes. To her right stood a magnificent, dark-wood wardrobe, its surface polished to a mirror shine. Beside it, a vanity table with a silver-backed brush and mirror set, gleaming in the cold light. A plush, high-backed armchair upholstered in deep green velvet sat in one corner, looking grotesquely out of place. It was a mockery of a well-appointed bedroom, a deliberate, calculated display of opulence designed to amplify the horror of her situation. This wasn’t a cell meant for a common prisoner. This was a cage, gilded and terrifying, built for a specific prize.

The silence was absolute, broken only by the soft, rhythmic drip of water somewhere in the darkness and the faint, oppressive hum of the manacles. Every nerve in her body screamed that she was being watched. The cold, sterile light, which seemed to emanate from a glowing rune carved into the ceiling, felt like an unblinking eye. She was on display, a specimen pinned to a board. The chilling finality of the locked buckle on a collar, the click of a cage door swinging shut—she felt it all in this suffocating silence. The life she knew was over. This opulent nightmare was her new reality, and she was utterly, terrifyingly alone, waiting for the monster who had built it for her to step out of the shadows.

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The sound, when it came, was a violent intrusion into the tomb-like silence. A heavy, metallic grating—a bolt being drawn back on the other side of the iron-bound door. Hermione’s head snapped up, her heart hammering a frantic, painful rhythm against her ribs. Every muscle in her body went rigid, coiled with a primal mix of terror and defiance. The oppressive hum of the manacles seemed to intensify, a mocking reminder of her helplessness.

The door swung inwards with a low, groaning protest of ancient hinges. Framed in the dark doorway, silhouetted for a moment against some unseen light in the corridor beyond, stood the architect of her nightmare.

Draco Malfoy stepped into the room, and the door thudded shut behind him, the sound of the bolt sliding home echoing with terrifying finality. He was no longer in the tailored suit he’d worn at Hogwarts. Now, he was draped in robes of a deep, fathomless black, exquisitely cut to hang from his broad shoulders and sweep the filthy flagstones as he moved. The fabric seemed to drink the cold light of the room, making him a column of living shadow. He looked less like a wizard and more like a dark prince taking possession of his domain.

His silver eyes found her instantly. There was no flicker of surprise, no hesitation. He looked at her as if she were exactly where she was meant to be, a piece of property returned to its rightful place. He didn't speak. Instead, he began to move, his polished dragon-hide boots making near-silent footfalls on the stone. He didn't walk toward her, but began to circle the stone dais upon which she was shackled, his pace slow and deliberate, like a predator inspecting its catch.

Hermione forced herself to meet his gaze, refusing to cower. She poured every ounce of her loathing, every shard of her courage, into her eyes. She would not give him the satisfaction of seeing her break. She tracked his movement, her chin held high, the chains rattling softly with the tension in her arms.

He saw her defiance. A corner of his mouth lifted in a ghost of a smirk, one that held no warmth, only a chilling amusement. His eyes roamed over her, a slow, deliberate inventory. They lingered on the frantic pulse beating in her throat, traced the line of her body under the simple school uniform she still wore, and came to rest on the heavy silver manacles binding her to the wall. His gaze was a physical touch, invasive and cold, and she felt a tremor of revulsion shudder through her.

After one complete, silent circle, he stopped directly in front of the stone slab, standing just out of her reach. The faint, clean scent of him—sandalwood and something cold, like winter air—cut through the dungeon’s damp stench.

“Welcome home, Granger,” he said. His voice was a low, velvet drawl, stripped of all its former petulant tones and replaced with a resonant, possessive authority that vibrated in the cold air. The sound of her name on his lips was a desecration.

“This is Malfoy Manor,” he continued, gesturing vaguely to the opulent, grotesque room with one elegant hand. “It will be your world now. The only world you know.”

He took a step closer, mounting the first shallow step of the dais. He was near enough now that she could see the faint silver threads in the black fabric of his robes, the chilling lack of any emotion in his eyes save for a profound, unnerving sense of ownership.

“And in this world,” he murmured, his voice dropping even lower, “there is only one rule. I am your master.”

The words hung in the air, thick and poisonous. Fury, so potent it was acidic, burned away a layer of her fear. Before she could form a silent, venomous retort, he moved. He raised his hand, not with his wand, but his bare fingers, and reached for her face.

Instinctively, she tried to jerk away, but the chains held her fast. His touch was shockingly cold as a single, long finger traced a line from her temple, down the curve of her cheek, to the sharp line of her jaw. It was not a violent touch, but it was the most profound violation she had ever felt. It was a brand of ownership, a clinical, detached claim.

A sound tore itself from her throat, a guttural noise of pure, undiluted hatred. She twisted her head away from his touch with such violence that her hair whipped across her face.

“Don’t. Touch. Me,” she spat, the words almost soundless but backed by the full, ferocious force of her will.

He drew his hand back, his smirk widening into a genuine, cruel smile. He had wanted that reaction. He had savored it. Her hatred was as intoxicating to him as her fear.

“Oh, Granger,” he chuckled, a soft, chilling sound. “You still think you have a choice.”

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His chuckle faded, leaving a chilling void in its wake. Draco’s amusement receded, replaced by a mask of cold, clinical purpose. He stepped back from the dais, putting a few feet of space between them, and for the first time since entering the room, he drew his wand. The pale yew wood seemed to gleam with a sickly light, a stark contrast to the familiar, warm holly of her own wand, which now lay lost and forgotten on a corridor floor miles away.

“We need to dispense with these… Gryffindor trappings,” he said, his voice flat and devoid of emotion. He gestured with his wand towards her feet. “Let’s start with the sensible shoes.”

A flick of his wrist. Not a word, not a spell she could name. Her sturdy, worn leather shoes simply ceased to exist, vanishing into nothingness with a faint, silvery shimmer. The sudden cold of the flagstones through her thin socks was a shock, a prelude to a far greater violation. She curled her toes, a useless, instinctive gesture.

He continued his work with that same terrifying, detached efficiency. Her socks vanished next, leaving her feet bare and exposed on the frigid stone. Then her robes, the familiar heavy wool with the Gryffindor crest over her heart, dissolved away. She was left in her simple white blouse and grey skirt. The cold in the room intensified, or perhaps it was just the loss of the protective layers. She felt the damp, chilling air raise goosebumps on her arms.

Hermione’s breath hitched. She fought to keep her expression a mask of cold fury, but she could feel a hot, mortifying blush creeping up her neck, staining her cheeks. She was being systematically stripped, not by hands, but by his magic, an impersonal and absolute force she was powerless to resist. It was a calculated act of humiliation, designed to dismantle her piece by piece.

The white blouse evaporated. Then the skirt. She was left in nothing but her practical, cotton underwear, horribly mundane and intimate in the cold, judging light of the dungeon. Shame, hot and sharp, warred with a blinding rage. She squeezed her eyes shut, a desperate attempt to block out his gaze, to retreat into the darkness of her own mind.

“Oh no, you don’t,” his voice cut through her defense, sharp and commanding. “Look at me.”

When she refused, the air around her grew impossibly cold. The silver of her manacles seemed to burn against her skin. It wasn't a request. With a choked gasp, her eyes flew open, an unseen force compelling her to obey. He was standing there, his wand still held loosely at his side, his face unreadable.

With a final, deliberate flick of his wand, her underwear vanished.

The last barrier was gone. A strangled noise, a sound of pure violation, was trapped in her throat. She was completely, utterly exposed. Naked, shackled, and bathed in the cold, sterile light of his prison. The air was an abrasive touch against her bare skin, every inch of her on display for his clinical, appraising gaze.

And then he began to speak.

His voice was low and even, the detached tone of a scholar examining a specimen. He didn't use crude or lewd language. It was worse. It was a cold, verbal dissection. He catalogued her as if she were an object, a piece of art or a prized animal he had just acquired. He commented on the line of her collarbone, the curve of her breasts, the faint smattering of freckles across her shoulders from hours spent studying in the sun. His words traced the shape of her waist, the flare of her hips, the triangle of dark curls at the juncture of her thighs.

Each observation was a fresh violation, a new layer of shame laid upon her. His words were a violating inventory that stripped away more than her clothes; they stripped away her personhood. Under his clinical gaze and methodical cataloguing, she was no longer Hermione Granger, a witch, a scholar, a friend. She was a collection of parts, a body to be possessed.

Her knuckles were white where she gripped the silk sheets. Tears of pure rage and humiliation burned behind her eyes, but she refused to let them fall. She would not give him the satisfaction. She held his gaze, her own eyes blazing with a promise of retribution so fierce it should have burned him where he stood. She forced herself to endure the verbal onslaught, to absorb every calculated, cruel word, and file it away. She would remember every syllable. She would remember the feeling of his voice crawling over her skin, the chilling detachment in his eyes. It was a new kind of pain, a deep, psychological branding that would scar her more than any curse. And as his voice finally fell silent, leaving her raw and exposed in the echoing quiet, she knew this was only the beginning.

His inventory complete, Draco’s gaze lingered on the dark curls at the apex of her thighs for a moment longer, a faint, cruel curve to his lips. The clinical assessment was over; the possessive appraisal had begun. He let the silence stretch, a tangible thing that pressed in on Hermione, thick with her shame and his triumph. Every naked inch of her skin prickled with a cold fire, a phantom sensation of his eyes crawling over her.

He turned from her then, his movements fluid and unhurried. For a heart-stopping second, she thought he was leaving, and a wild, desperate hope surged through her. But he only walked to a small, iron-bound chest in the corner, the one she hadn't noticed before. He knelt, the black wool of his robes pooling around him on the stone, and lifted the lid. When he rose and turned back to her, he was holding it.

Her new attire.

It was a collar. Thick, at least two inches wide, and made of stark black leather that seemed to drink the torchlight. A heavy, polished silver ring was fixed to the front, gleaming with cold promise. It was an object of utter subjugation, something for a beast, not a person. The sight of it sent a fresh wave of nausea and terror through her, more potent than anything she had felt yet. This was a symbol, a brand.

“Your new uniform, Granger,” he said, his voice a low purr that slid over her raw nerves. He approached the stone slab, the collar held delicately in one hand. “The only thing you’ll be permitted to wear in my presence. A constant reminder of your place.”

Hermione shook her head, a violent, desperate negation. A choked sound tried to escape her throat, but the silencing charm held fast, turning her denial into a pathetic, soundless gasp. She pulled against the manacles, the silver biting into her wrists, her defiance a futile, frantic struggle against the inevitable.

He paid her struggles no mind, treating them as the last twitches of a snared animal. He stopped right before her, so close she could feel the faint warmth radiating from his body, a stark contrast to the dungeon's chill. He held the collar up, letting the silver ring swing gently, a pendulum marking the last seconds of her freedom.

“Don’t fight it,” he murmured, his voice dropping into a tone of false intimacy that was more violating than his shouts ever could be. “It will only make it worse.”

Then, he moved to fasten it.

He leaned over her, his scent—expensive cologne, clean linen, and something uniquely him—filling her senses, an invasion of her personal space that was dizzyingly intimate. His left hand came up, not to her neck, but to cup her jaw, his thumb pressing into the soft flesh beneath her chin, forcing her head up and back, exposing the long, vulnerable line of her throat. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic bird trapped in a cage of bone.

With his other hand, he brought the collar to her skin. The leather was cool and unnervingly smooth on its underside, a stark, foreign sensation against her feverish flesh. He didn't just wrap it around her; he slid it, a slow, deliberate caress of leather against skin. The heavy silver ring settled into the hollow of her throat before sliding down, its cold weight coming to rest directly between her breasts, a chilling metallic kiss on her sternum. Her nipples hardened instantly, a traitorous response of pure, terrified stimulation.

His fingers worked at the back of her neck, searching for the buckle. They were long and cool, brushing against her nape, sending shivers down her spine that had nothing to do with the cold. Each accidental brush of his knuckles against her skin was an electric shock of revulsion and shame. He was so close, his focus so intent on the task, his breath ghosting across her cheek. She could see the faint stubble on his jaw, the concentration in his silver eyes as he threaded the leather through the buckle. He was taking his time, drawing out the moment, forcing her to feel every second of her own debasement. He pulled it snug, the leather pressing firmly against her throat, not enough to choke, but enough to be a constant, unignorable pressure. A reminder.

Then came the sound.

Click.

It was not loud, but in the tomblike silence of the dungeon, it echoed like a gunshot. A final, definitive sound that severed the last thread connecting her to the life she had known. The click of the buckle locking into place. The sound of a cage door slamming shut. The sound of ownership.

He let go of her jaw and stepped back, his work complete. His eyes raked over her one last time, but the gaze was different now. It was no longer the look of a captor at his prisoner, or a predator at his prey. It was the look of a master at his property. He took in the sight of her—naked, shackled, and collared, the silver ring gleaming against the pale skin of her chest.

A slow, satisfied smile spread across his face. “Perfect,” he breathed, the word a venomous caress. “It suits you, Mudblood.”

He gave her one last, lingering look, a look that promised untold horrors and unspeakable acts, before turning on his heel. His robes swept across the stone as he strode towards the heavy oak door, leaving her alone in the oppressive silence.

Hermione didn't move. She couldn't. The fight had drained out of her, replaced by a hollow, bottomless despair. The weight of the collar was immense, a physical manifestation of her new reality. She could feel the cool leather against her skin, the heavy silver ring nestled between her breasts, a cold, hard promise of everything that was to come. The echo of that final click still rang in her ears, the death knell of Hermione Granger.