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.

The passage of time had become a fluid, meaningless thing, measured only by the deepening ache in her belly and the slow creep of grime under her fingernails. Days bled into nights in the featureless gloom of her cell, the cold stone floor leaching the warmth from her bones until she felt as hollowed out as the room itself. Hunger was a constant companion, a dull, throbbing torment that sharpened into a blade’s edge whenever she dared to move. Her magic was gone, suppressed by the dampening wards carved into the very mortar of the walls, leaving her feeling naked and horribly, pathetically mundane. She was just a body, a thing of flesh and bone, and it was starving.

The grating scrape of the heavy iron door was a sound that had come to signify only despair. It never brought freedom. It never brought comfort. It only ever brought him.

Draco Malfoy stood silhouetted against the sudden, blinding light of the hallway. He was immaculate, as always. His black, tailored robes were pristine, his silver-blond hair was perfectly coiffed, and the bored, aristocratic sneer on his face was firmly in place. But it wasn't him that seized her full, desperate attention. It was the silver tray he held in his hands.

The aroma hit her first, so rich and overwhelming it made her stomach clench with a painful, violent cramp. It was the scent of roasted chicken, its skin a crackling, golden-brown, glistening with juices. There was a mound of fluffy, buttered potatoes, a loaf of fresh, crusty bread still giving off a faint wisp of steam, and a cluster of deep purple grapes that looked heavy with sweetness. A crystal goblet filled with ruby-red wine completed the tableau. It was a feast. A fantasy. It was salvation, and he was holding it.

Hope, fragile and treacherous, fluttered in her chest. Had he finally tired of this game? Was this a truce? An offering?

He strode into the cell, his polished dragon-hide boots clicking on the stone. He didn't look at her, not at first. His gaze was fixed on the tray as he walked past her, his expression one of mild disinterest. He stopped in the center of the room, and with a deliberate, almost languid movement, he bent and set the entire silver tray on the filthy floor.

The clink of silver on stone was a death knell to her fragile hope. She stared, uncomprehending, as he straightened up, finally deigning to look down at her. His grey eyes were chips of ice, devoid of any warmth or pity.

"Hungry, Mudblood?" His voice was a low, silken drawl that slid over her skin like something cold and reptilian.

She couldn't speak, her throat tight with a mixture of rage and desperate, clawing need. Her eyes were locked on the food, her mouth watering so intensely it was painful.

"It's all for you," he continued, a cruel smile touching the corners of his lips. "But you're not a person anymore, are you? You're my pet. And pets don't eat at a table." He gestured to the tray with a flick of his wrist. "Get on your hands and knees. Eat from the plate. Like the animal you are."

The words struck her with the force of a physical blow. The humiliation was so profound, so absolute, it momentarily eclipsed the gnawing hunger. Every ounce of her Gryffindor pride, every fiber of her being, recoiled in revulsion. Her gaze snapped from the food to his face, and a fire she thought long-extinguished blazed in her eyes.

"Go to hell, Malfoy," she rasped, her voice raw from disuse but laced with venom. "I'd rather starve."

His smile didn't falter. It widened. "Wrong answer."

He didn't even say the incantation. He simply twitched his wand—a swift, economical motion—and a bolt of shimmering, sickly yellow light shot from its tip. It struck her high on the outside of her right thigh.

The pain was instantaneous and absolute. It was not a burn or a cut, but something far worse. It was as if a thousand red-hot needles had plunged into her flesh, each one carrying a jolt of pure, agonizing electricity. The muscles in her leg seized and contorted in a violent, unstoppable spasm. A raw scream was torn from her throat as her leg gave out from under her, sending her collapsing onto the unforgiving stone floor.

She landed hard on her hip and shoulder, the impact jarring her teeth. The hex wasn't a fleeting thing; it lingered, a searing, throbbing agony that pulsed in time with her frantic heartbeat. She curled in on herself, clutching her thigh, her breath coming in ragged, sobbing gasps. Tears of pain and fury streamed from her eyes, tracing clean paths through the grime on her cheeks. Through the shimmering haze of her tears, she could see the tray of exquisite food, its aroma now a sickening taunt. And above it, she saw his polished boots, standing firm and unmoving. The lesson was brutal, and it was clear. Her will meant nothing. Her defiance would only be met with pain.

The throbbing agony in her thigh was a relentless tide, pulling her under. Each pulse was a fresh reminder of his power and her own agonizing powerlessness. Through the watery blur of her vision, his boots were two pillars of polished black leather, immovable and absolute. He was a statue of contempt, carved from marble and malice, and she was just a broken thing at his feet.

"I said," his voice was a low, dangerous purr that vibrated through the stone floor, "wrong answer." He took a single, deliberate step closer, the toe of his boot nudging her ribs with calculated insolence. "Now, you're going to learn the right one. Get up. On your knees."

Her body screamed its protest. The muscles in her injured leg were still twitching erratically, sending jolts of white-hot pain up to her hip. The thought of putting any weight on it, of moving at all, was nauseating. But the cold certainty in his voice promised that refusal would only bring a fresh, and likely worse, agony. The memory of the sickly yellow curse was still seared into her mind.

With a choked sob that was equal parts pain and fury, she began to move. It was a clumsy, pathetic scramble. She pushed herself up with trembling arms, the grime on the floor grinding into her palms. The thin, ragged shift she wore did nothing to protect her skin from the biting cold of the stone as she dragged her useless leg behind her, forcing herself into a kneeling position. The movement sent a fresh wave of fire through her thigh, and she had to bite down on her lip so hard she tasted blood to keep from screaming again.

He watched her struggle with a detached, clinical interest, as if observing a fascinating but distasteful insect. Once she was kneeling, hunched over and trembling, he wasn't satisfied.

"To me," he commanded, his voice devoid of any emotion save for a chilling thread of authority.

Her head stayed down, her tangled, matted hair hiding her face. She couldn't look at him. She couldn't bear the triumph she knew she would see in his eyes. Slowly, agonizingly, she began to crawl. Each movement was a fresh torment, the rough stone scraping her knees raw, the pull on her injured thigh a constant, grinding misery. The few feet to where he stood felt like miles. It was a pilgrimage of shame, and with every inch, a piece of her withered and died.

Finally, her hands brushed against the impeccable leather of his boots. She stopped, her breath coming in ragged, hitching gasps, her body shaking uncontrollably. She was there. At his feet. An animal in its pen, brought to heel.

The silence that followed was heavy, thick with her humiliation and his silent victory. Then, a sharp, metallic sound cut through it: the rasp of a zipper.

Her head snapped up against her will, her eyes wide with a new kind of dread. He was unzipping his fine, tailored trousers. He made no move to hide the action, his grey eyes locked on hers, a cruel, knowing smirk playing on his lips. The dark fabric parted, and with a soft rustle, he sprang free.

Her breath caught in her throat. In the dim, ambient light filtering in from the corridor, his cock seemed to glow with a pale, menacing light. It was not yet fully erect, but it was already thick and heavy, a formidable length of flesh that hung with an arrogant weight between his thighs. A web of thick, dark veins snaked across the surface, pulsing faintly with his blood. The head was a darker, purplish hue, slick with a bead of clear fluid that caught the light like a malevolent jewel. It was a weapon. A symbol of everything he was and everything she was not: powerful, dominant, free.

He shifted his hips slightly, a casual, proprietary movement that made the heavy shaft sway before her face. He was so close she could smell the clean, masculine scent of his skin, a stark, almost violent contrast to the stench of her own unwashed body and the filth of the cell.

"Look at it," he commanded, his voice a silken whisper that was somehow more terrifying than a shout. He nudged her chin up with the toe of his boot, forcing her gaze to remain fixed on him. "I want you to see what owns you now. This is your master. This is what you will obey. Not your pathetic Gryffindor courage. Not your filthy Mudblood pride. This."

She stared, trapped by his command, by the immovable boot under her chin, by the horrifying spectacle before her. Tears of pure, undiluted shame streamed down her face, but she couldn't look away. She was forced to kneel before his raw, masculine power, stripped of her magic, her dignity, her very self, acknowledging the flesh that was to be the instrument of her final, complete degradation.

His cold, impassive gaze raked over her tear-streaked face, taking in her trembling lips and the wild, hateful fire in her eyes. For a moment, he seemed to savor her defiance, even in this broken state. It was the last vestige of the girl he’d loathed for years, and he was about to extinguish it completely. His free hand shot out, faster than a striking snake, and buried itself in the tangled, filthy mass of her hair.

The grip was brutal. He didn't just hold her; he twisted his fingers deep, gathering a thick handful of her bushy mane right at the scalp and yanking. A strangled cry of pain was torn from her, her neck snapping back at an unnatural angle, exposing the long, pale column of her throat. The sharp, tearing sensation at her roots was blinding, forcing her jaw to fall slack, her mouth opening in a silent scream. It was the opening he had been waiting for.

He didn't hesitate. With a low, predatory grunt, he lunged forward, driving his semi-hard cock into her open mouth. The invasion was shocking and absolute. The thick, slick head of his shaft slid past her teeth, shoving her tongue back into her throat with a wet, gagging sound. The taste of him filled her senses—a salty, musky, intensely masculine flavor that was utterly alien and violating. It was the taste of her own subjugation. He was already hardening rapidly, the flesh swelling and thickening against the walls of her mouth, a brutal testament to the pleasure he took in her degradation.

Her body reacted with immediate, uncontrollable violence. A powerful gag reflex seized her, her throat convulsing in a desperate attempt to expel the foreign object suffocating her. Her stomach heaved, and for a horrifying second, she thought she would vomit around him. But he was prepared. His grip on her hair tightened to an agonizing degree, anchoring her head as if it were clamped in a vice. His other hand came up, the thumb pressing hard into the soft flesh of her cheek, digging into the muscle and forcing her jaw to remain open around his burgeoning erection. He was an immovable force, negating her body's every instinct to resist.

"That's it," he murmured, his voice a low, guttural rumble that vibrated from his chest, through his cock, and into the very root of her tongue. "Take it."

Then he began to move. It wasn't a frantic, desperate fucking. It was something far more cruel. His thrusts were slow, steady, and punishingly deep. He established a relentless rhythm, withdrawing just enough for the thick, coronal ridge of the head to scrape against the back of her teeth before plunging back into the depths of her throat. Each deliberate piston stroke was a calculated act of dominance, a methodical, rhythmic violation that ground her spirit into dust.

Tears, hot and thick, began to stream from her eyes. They were not tears of pain, though her scalp burned and her jaw ached under the pressure of his thumb. They were tears of pure, undiluted rage and a humiliation so profound it felt like it was dissolving her from the inside out. They coursed down her temples, carving clean tracks through the layers of grime, dripping from her jaw onto the cold, unforgiving stone below. Through the watery blur, she could see his face looming above her. His eyes were half-lidded, his lips parted slightly, the cruel sneer replaced by a mask of intense, focused pleasure. He was watching her weep, feeding on her despair as he used her mouth, his hips rocking in that steady, damning rhythm. He held her head firm, his cock a brutal gag in her throat, a relentless invasion that promised no end.

The methodical, punishing rhythm was a torment, but it was a predictable one. She could almost brace for each slow, deep plunge. But then, something shifted. A low sound rumbled in his chest, a groan that was not of pain but of a pleasure so profound it was terrifying. His hips hitched, and he drove forward with a new, savage force, pushing himself deeper, harder, until the thick root of his cock was buried in her throat and the coarse, crisp hair at his groin was scraping abrasively against her lips and chin. The pressure was immense, a solid, unyielding column of flesh stretching her past her limits, stealing the very air from her lungs. A panicked, sputtering sound escaped around the thick shaft filling her mouth, a mixture of a gag and a sob.

He felt her struggle, heard her strangled plea for air, and it only seemed to inflame him. The detached, aristocratic control he'd maintained shattered, replaced by a raw, guttural carnality. His thrusts lost their measured cadence and became a frenzied, desperate pounding. He was fucking her face now, not her mouth. His hips slammed against her, a brutal, relentless percussion that made her head snap back and forth with each violent stroke, his grip in her hair the only thing keeping her from being thrown to the floor. The wet, slapping sound of his pelvis hitting her chin echoed in the small, stone cell, a sickening metronome marking her utter debasement.

"That's it, Granger," he growled, the words a harsh, breathy rasp against her ear. "Take it all. Take every fucking inch."

His voice was thick with arousal, the sound vibrating through his body and down the length of his shaft, a direct transmission of his dominance into the core of her being. He groaned again, a long, low sound of pure, animal pleasure. It was the sound of a predator feasting, a sound that acknowledged her pain, her tears, her humiliation, and reveled in it. This was his true victory, not just in breaking her defiance, but in taking his pleasure from the very instrument of her intellect and pride—her voice, her mouth, now reduced to a wet, gagging sheath for his cock.

Her jaw was a nexus of searing agony. The muscles screamed in protest, stretched far beyond their endurance. She could feel the joints grinding near her ears, a sharp, clicking pain that shot through her skull with every powerful thrust. Slobber and tears mingled, dripping from her chin onto the front of her ragged shift, a disgusting testament to his assault. The slick head of his cock, now glistening with her saliva, rammed against the back of her throat again and again, triggering wave after wave of useless, convulsive gags that only seemed to tighten her throat around him, wringing more groans of pleasure from his lips.

He was bucking now, his hips moving in a frantic, uncontrolled rhythm. He was lost to it, lost to the feeling of her hot, wet mouth clamped around his hardened cock, lost to the sight of her broken and weeping at his feet. The last vestiges of his composure were gone, burned away in the fires of his lust and his long-simmering hatred. He was pure, rutting instinct, using her with a brutal, single-minded focus. He drove himself into her one last time, burying his entire length so deep she thought her throat would tear, his pelvic bone grinding hard against her jaw. His whole body went rigid, a shudder wracking his frame as a guttural roar built in his chest.

His entire body went rigid above her, a taut bowstring of muscle and impending release. The thick ridge of his corona ground against the back of her throat, a final, punishing pressure that made black spots dance in her vision. A low, guttural groan tore from his chest, a sound of pure, predatory pleasure that vibrated down the length of his shaft and into the very core of her skull. His hips gave one last, brutal buck, slamming the base of his cock against her bruised lips, and she felt the first convulsive pulse of his climax deep within her, a hot, thrumming promise of the final violation.

But it never came.

With a sharp, ragged gasp, he ripped himself from her mouth. The sudden void was as violent as the invasion, and she choked, gagging on nothing as air and saliva flooded her ravaged throat. Her head snapped forward from the force of his withdrawal, a string of spit and his slick pre-cum flying from her lips. He stood over her, his back arched, his jaw clenched, his eyes squeezed shut in the throes of his orgasm. His thick, wet cock, still deep purple and painfully hard, spasmed in his hand.

Then, he erupted.

A thick, pearlescent torrent of his seed shot forth, hot as a brand against her skin. The first heavy rope of it splattered across her chin and mouth, a sickeningly warm, viscous splash. She squeezed her eyes shut, but the onslaught continued. More of his hot, thick fluid rained down, plastering her cheek, sliding in a sticky trail down her neck and over her collarbone. She felt the heavy, wet impacts against her breasts, saw through her tear-blurred vision the stark white ropes of his semen clinging to her nipples, dripping slowly down the pale, trembling mounds. Another shudder wracked his frame and a final, thick jet of it landed on her stomach, pooling in the delicate hollow of her navel like a conqueror’s flag planted on newly claimed territory.

He stood there for a long moment, his chest heaving, his harsh breaths echoing in the stone-walled silence. He looked down at her, his gaze sweeping over the tableau of her degradation. He saw her on her hands and knees, trembling uncontrollably, her face streaked with tears and his own come, her breasts and stomach painted with the evidence of his climax. There was no pity in his eyes, no remorse. Only a cold, satisfied finality. Without a single word, he calmly tucked his still-dripping cock back into his tailored trousers, the sharp rasp of his zipper a brutal, final sound in the charged air. He turned his back on her as if she were nothing more than a piece of furniture, his polished shoes clicking softly on the stone floor as he walked away.

She remained frozen, a statue of humiliation. Sobs tore from her, but they were silent, broken things, her entire body shaking with each one. The cooling stickiness of his seed on her skin felt like a layer of filth she could never wash away. It was a physical manifestation of her shame, a tangible mark of his ownership. The acrid, salty taste of him coated her tongue, mixed with the metallic tang of her own tears. It was the taste of subjugation, of utter and complete defeat. She tried to spit, but her mouth was too dry, her throat too raw. The flavour of him, of what he had done to her, was now a part of her.

Then came the final, soul-crushing sound. The heavy groan of the iron cell door swinging shut, followed by the deafening, echoing SLAM of the bolt being thrown. The noise jolted through her, a physical blow that shattered the last vestiges of her defiance. Plunged back into the dim, oppressive silence, she collapsed fully onto the floor, her cheek pressing into the cold, grimy stone amidst the leftover food he’d brought her an eternity ago. She was alone, left to drown in the dark with nothing but the feeling of his sticky seed growing cold on her body and the bitter, indelible taste of her own brokenness.