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It’s 2008 and Draco Malfoy is a secret assassin. It's legitimate - he gets paid for it, and some higher ups in the Ministry (probably?) know he’s out there… killing people. He’s quite good, but that tracks with his dubious accounting of rights and wrongs and his penchant for self-preservation. During his downtime he does a great job of acting like a pureblood in penance... mostly by drinking and shagging his way into oblivion.
This double life helps to numb Draco to the constant feelings of shame and guilt from his formative years in which he was an utter cunt- but everything is upended when his team (assassins can have coworkers, alright?) dies in action and he does not. Suspended and forced to go to therapy, Draco is adrift.
When Hermione Granger re-enters the fray, their hateful relationship that was once fraught with swotty bickering (erm, and the occasional slur) is suddenly tense in a very different way.
How will these two come together? How often will Theo say something terribly charming? Do we hate Ron or is Ron just, meh? Oh, and what’s going on with that one murderous witch who’s out to kill them all (forgot to mention that part…)?
Find out all this and more in: A HARD ROW TO HOE!
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11 Jan 2026
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Marriage, Murder, and Other Misfortunes by Spookyandcooky
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Oct 2025
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Five years after the Battle of Hogwarts, the wizarding world is what you might call “a godsdamned mess.” The population is dwindling, the economy is suffering, and Hermione Granger has decided to pursue an arranged marriage—but only so she can be nominated to the antiquated Wizengamot, of course. After all, the Wizengamot is ignoring the world’s problems, and Hermione is determined to fix them. Granted, she never expected to be matched with Draco sodding Malfoy—the newest DMLE consultant who wears his Azkaban tattoos as proudly as his childhood sneer. But admittedly, between the turbulence of her farcical relationship, corrupt politicians, and a serial killer on the loose, nothing in Hermione’s life is going according to plan. Maybe hate sex with her husband will help?
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11 Sep 2025
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At the very cusp of a much-longed-for shift in their friendship, Hermione Granger vanished. Draco Malfoy, ever-devoted and painstakingly adept at dismantling mysteries, would spend the next seven years and a day seeking for his disappeared witch.
And then Hermione—ever-contrary, hauntingly remote, aggravatingly withholding, in possession of disquieting power—ends his hellbent search by storming his study and demanding that he give her access to Malfoy family lore.
Draco untangling the mystery of Hermione’s disappearance and just-as-maddening return plunges him into a quest that breaks realms, magical jurisdictions, standing warrants, sacred bargains, ancient truces, the demands of space and time—and, rather importantly, his already tenuous grasp on his restraint regarding his long-lost, brilliant, terrifying, distressingly brown-eyed witch. But, then again, Draco prides himself on being highly adaptable.
If he could not make Hermione stay put, then he would make her keep him.
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08 Jun 2025
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Love Me, and Let Me Go by Leannin_Ayanian
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, haladriel - Fandom, saurondriel - Fandom, The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
31 Dec 2025
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For eleven years, Galadriel has lived in hiding, calling herself Galwen, tending to the wounded, and hunting for the people of Arnad-Dûn. But shadows gather at the edges of her quiet existence - unnatural killings in the woods, whispers of orcs moving south, and the unshakable truth that she has stayed too long.
Then comes a man on the North Road. A man with haunted eyes and an enigmatic nature - Halbrand. He is running from his past, just as she is, but neither of them can truly escape the fates that chase them. Against the backdrop of a growing war, they find solace in each other - two souls bound by longing, by grief, by a love that was never meant to be.
But Galadriel is not who she claims to be, and Halbrand is not just a lost wanderer. And when the truth comes to light, they will have to face the cruelest question of all: Can love win out? And is it worth the pain of losing it?
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03 Apr 2025
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“Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate./ Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.”
-Euripides, Medea
Or: what happens when they use knives instead of words
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- Part 5 of Grace's canonverse
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03 Apr 2025