The Otter and the Bear
In the years since the war, as a ministry employee and personage of some note in the wizarding community, Hermione Granger has put much of her energy towards fostering reconciliation and reform, helping those once under the thumb of Voldemort find redemption, and even growing close to a family she once despised – but how far will her forgiveness extend? When Antonin Dolohov somehow returns from the grave and, literally, waltzes back into her life at a Yule masquerade, bearing a new name, a new mission, and a new promise – to restore her parents’ memories, albeit with one extreme condition – she will have to ask herself how far she will go for her own blood, and how long she can avoid her rapidly changing feelings for the man she once thought a monster. But Antonin is not the only ghost at large, and the stakes get higher and higher as the two of them get closer, week by week, to success – and to each other. Audentes fortuna iuvat.
(Canon-divergent; timeframe, present day. Antomione story. Possessive Antonin. Magical contract.)
***COMPLETE.***
POVs: Hermione, Antonin, Lucius.
Fancasts: Michiel Huisman as Antonin; Iwan Rheon as Rabastan; Michael Fassbender as Rodolphus.