"Don’t you think that, for once in your life, you deserve to feel something this…good?"
Voldemort has won the Battle of Hogwarts, and the precious few of his opponents who survived the culling that followed have been on the run for eight months when Hermione Granger is apprehended in the woods of Cumbria. In order to extract intel about the whereabouts of the remaining rebels, the Dark Lord commands Antonin Dolohov – still jaded and numb from the death of Thorfinn Rowle a year before – to utilize a shocking form of sorcery, of which the Russian Death Eater is the last known practitioner: the ars cupiditas, a form of pleasure torture which causes the victim to become sexually addicted to the user, and, as a result, surrender any information simply to receive the boon of his body.
But when a reluctant Antonin casts the enchantment, he is unaware that the latent pieces of his own magic still residing in Hermione’s scar will cause the spell to bounce right back to him, rendering them mutually obsessed. He must now find a way to save the brilliant witch who has rapidly become more than just a job, along with himself, before Voldemort realizes the critical error his High Inquisitor has made.
"Don’t you think that, for once in your life, you deserve to feel something this…good?"
Voldemort has won the Battle of Hogwarts, and the precious few of his opponents who survived the culling that followed have been on the run for eight months when Hermione Granger is apprehended in the woods of Cumbria. In order to extract intel about the whereabouts of the remaining rebels, the Dark Lord commands Antonin Dolohov – still jaded and numb from the death of Thorfinn Rowle a year before – to utilize a shocking form of sorcery, of which the Russian Death Eater is the last known practitioner: the ars cupiditas, a form of pleasure torture which causes the victim to become sexually addicted to the user, and, as a result, surrender any information simply to receive the boon of his body.
But when a reluctant Antonin casts the enchantment, he is unaware that the latent pieces of his own magic still residing in Hermione’s scar will cause the spell to bounce right back to him, rendering them mutually obsessed. He must now find a way to save the brilliant witch who has rapidly become more than just a job, along with himself, before Voldemort realizes the critical error his High Inquisitor has made.