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Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
12 Jan 2026
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Voldemort gives Draco Malfoy a task, but it isn't finishing off Dumbledore. In the summer before sixth year, a reluctant Draco shows up in Hermione Granger's muggle suburb to warn her that he has been sent to kill her and her family. Everything changes.
A Hogwarts/Wartime/Aftermath three-book epic. Book I and II now complete.
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- Part 1 of you must have been looking for me
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02 Dec 2025
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Hermione arrived at Hogwarts eager for a new start as a researcher in residence. She was taking a leave of absence from both her job and her personal life, and she would be making the most of it. Until, one July morning, she was on her way into the library when she noticed there was another person in the reading room. She stopped mid-step and stared at the back of the person’s head. The white-blond hair—it couldn’t be—?
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In which Hermione and Malfoy get up to no good in the Restricted Section as they solve a riddle with mysterious origins.- Language:
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16 Sep 2025
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She lost her magic slowly, at first.
It started as a creeping deadness somewhere low in her abdomen.
It spread outward like necrosis into her chest and her head and her limbs. She had no recollection of when, exactly, it had begun.
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Hermione has made a name for herself in the Order as a gifted inventor of spells. As the war careens into its seventh year, she fights to keep Harry alive by developing a potion that strengthens his magic to the detriment of his physical health. Wracked with guilt at his rapid deterioration and desperate to save his life, she risks liaising with Draco Malfoy, the head inquisitor in Voldemort’s secret police force and a talented but dangerous Legilimens. Her risk does not go to plan, and after enduring months of brutal captivity, she loses her capacity to do magic.
To her dismay, Malfoy now seems to be her only hope of regaining her former ability.
A dark, slow-burn war AU about trauma, recovery, and reclamation of feminine power
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01 Jul 2025
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Reasons why being in love with Draco Malfoy is wholly unacceptable:
1. He is insufferable
2. He is married
3. He is her academic rival
4. Now, unhappily, he is also her colleague, and they are meant to be collaborating
5. Professional boundaries ought to be observed with colleagues
5b. Especially when her application for tenure is fully dependent on forging a successful academic collaboration with said colleague
6. It is not compatible with her five-year plan (see items 1-5 for specifics)Hermione has a deeply compelling list of reasons not to be in love with Draco Malfoy. To her dismay, when her department chair at St. Mungo's Medical School forces her into close proximity with Malfoy for the sake of undertaking an alchemy collaboration, she begins to develop romantic feelings she never meant to have.
Desperate to remedy this lamentable affliction, she invents a potion that can reverse the state of being in love. The only trouble is, she can’t seem to bring herself to take it.
Or: In which Hermione tries to force quit being in love.
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01 Jul 2025
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Frustrated with the male propensity to 'shag and run,' the girls engage in a contest to see who can go the farthest by Valentine's Day without going all the way. But perhaps they should have chosen their partners more carefully…
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Bookmarked by Hallerballer
28 Jun 2025