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It's eight years after the war and Hermione Granger has taken a break from her career at the Ministry of Magic to compile an oral history of the conflict. She's interviewed just about everyone she can get her hands on but she wants to be thorough. And that means getting in contact with a very unwilling Lucius Malfoy.
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"For your information, I'm not shopping it around yet because I still don’t have access to all of the sources I need.”
“You’ve got to be joking. You must have interviewed every living person that was even tangentially connected to the war.”
“Not everyone,” Hermione said, turning in her seat to reach up for the mug of tea she’d left on the kitchen counter.
“Who’s left? The trolley lady from the Hogwarts Express?”
“Your father.”
Malfoy opened his mouth and then closed it again with a click of his teeth, shaking his head. “You don’t want to do that, Granger.”
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03 Sep 2026
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After years, Lucius Malfoy thought he could have a peaceful life, alone. He learned how to take care of himself, found comfort in the small things, and then Minister for Magic Kingsley Shacklebolt signs the Pureblood Marriage Law. Lucius is suddenly drawn back into the world, this time with a sly, seditious wife he did not ask for. The allure of the chaos of his past, and the fact Lady Malfoy wants to overthrow the government, is far too tempting to ignore. Maybe old dogs can learn new tricks, after all.
My first and only attempt on the Marriage Law trope. Slow burn, lots of political maneuvering, and Lucius Malfoy being a god of sex.
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27 Aug 2026
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At first, Lucius watches her because he wants to be sure that she’s careful. That she’s gentle. That she displays an appropriate reverence towards that which is his.
Then he watches her because she does exactly that.
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- 5/5
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25 Aug 2026
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Sixteen years post-war, Draco Malfoy has reinvented himself: Head Auror of the French Ministry, internationally respected, hero-adjacent, and absolutely not still a security risk (depending on who you ask). So when Harry Potter lures him back to Britain with the promise of power, prestige and MILD public outrage, Draco's only question is: how bad could it possibly be?
Hermione Granger-Weasley is the Ministry's golden girl: war hero, legal prodigy, and the woman most likely to stabilise the government before her second cup of coffee. With Shacklebolt stepping down ahead of the November elections and two dangerously mediocre men circling the job like vultures, Hermione is the obvious - and reluctantly willing - successor. Backed by a few loyal allies, a lot of policy and a marriage that looks respectable (if you squint), she doesn't have time for distractions. Especially not in the form of Draco Malfoy: smug, silver-tongued, and recently hired into her orbit like a bad decision in expensive tailoring. Unfortunately he's infuriatingly competent. And even more unfortunately - he agrees with her.
OR how did Hermione Granger become Minister for Magic and how the fuck did Malfoy get roped into this deluded shit show.
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- 69/70
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24 Jun 2026
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Let her hear, if she was still in the sitting room. Let her know what she’d done with her voice alone.
The air was thick with steam and static and shame.
But he didn’t stop.
His mind conjured her again—how she’d looked tonight with that stubborn tilt to her chin, daring him to fight back. She wanted heat. She’d get it.
Lucius moved faster now. His free hand braced against the counter, his hips rolling just slightly into each stroke. His skin was flushed, damp. He didn’t try to stay silent. Let the acoustics carry it. Let the house feel it.
He thought he heard something outside the door—a gasp. Light. Quick.
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After a failed sting operation, Lucius is placed into protective custody under the supervision of a vetted Ministry official. Hermione draws the short straw.
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20 Jun 2026
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The War of the Malfoys by MissiAmphetamine (Kaleidoscope)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Feb 2026
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When a pandemic of Runespoor Fever sweeps through the wizarding world at the end of 2003, leaving a full quarter of its victims infertile, the International Confederation of Wizards takes drastic action. A marriage and reproductive law is enacted, throwing the wizarding world into upheaval.
Lightly inspired by the 1989 film The War of the Roses, (but without the animal death,) and our own recent pandemic.
She was wearing one of her neat, buttoned-up outfits as always; brown herringbone trousers and a silky cream blouse that covered her from throat to wrist, her hair braided around her head but not quite as neat as usual. He stopped several feet from her and frowned. “Why do you smell of smoke, Granger?”
“Does it really matter, Malfoy?” She skewered him with a glare, arms folding across her chest. “Perhaps I took up smoking.”
“And did you?”
She gave him an ‘are you mad?’ look. “No, I burnt down my office,” she said exasperatedly, as if it should’ve been obvious, and he tried to refrain from giving her an ‘are you mad?’ look in return.
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18 Apr 2026
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Seven years after the war, Draco Malfoy is working as an Auror. His life is flawless. Beautiful fiancée and a future planned down to the last acceptable detail. Then a curly-haired woman barges into his life and refuses to stay where she belongs.
And suddenly, Draco finds himself caught between the life built to contain him and the one person capable of tearing it open.And he just might destroy everything else to keep her.
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16 Mar 2026
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A love told over two timelines.
One of two adversaries, who learn to love in secret.
One of two lovers, separated by the dividing line of war.
In the centre, the hearts that thread them together, beating in tandem.
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- 20/20
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01 Oct 2025
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05 Jun 2025
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Without A Trace by AWKwardPatronus, Slytherquills (HeyItsAReader)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Apr 2026
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It’s 1999. The war is over.
The world has moved on. Hermione Granger has not.
She arrives in Brisbane a shadow of herself—adrift in a city that is not home, with parents who do not understand her, waiting for letters that never come. She has been unraveling, slowly and methodically, and not a soul has noticed.
Until she sees him.
Draco Malfoy. A war criminal. A fugitive. Working in a Muggle pub under an assumed name, carving out a quiet, anonymous life at the edge of the world.
The chances of them ever crossing paths again were infinitesimal. He should have run the moment she recognized him. But he doesn’t.
And he just keeps showing up.
It isn’t simple. It isn’t safe. But against all logic, it becomes something that will leave traces on them both forever.
A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers story about exile, identity, reinvention, and the messy, painful, nonlinear nature of healing.
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- 155,249
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- 26/?
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02 Jun 2025
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These Selfish Vows by HeavenlyDew
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
08 Jun 2024
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The war should have ended years ago. It didn't. Instead, Hermione is captured and thrown into Azkaban, where she makes a dangerous bargain with a Death Eater in the cell next door:
She will answer one question a day and never lie.
Of course, all is not as it seems, and Hermione remains compromised by that bargain even after she escapes her prison cell. Obsessed with proving both her sanity and loyalty to the Order, she joins "The Knife"—a shadow unit tasked with hunting down Voldemort's favorite soldier . . . one with the damning ability to resurrect the dead.
But not until finding him does Hermione finally accept the answer she may have known all along.
The only person to capture her mind and heart fights on the opposite side of the war.
Draco Malfoy.
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- Part 1 of Dissonant Lifetimes
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- 285,098
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- 88/88
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09 May 2025
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Draco Malfoy and the Case of the Brighton Beach Butcher by augustaoctavia
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Feb 2025
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A serial killer is on the loose--and the DMLE is struggling to crack the case. Head of Homicides, Draco Malfoy, works closely with Unspeakable Hermione Granger as she develops a groundbreaking technique to pull the last imprinted memory from the victim's bodies, in hopes they will be able to track down the person responsible.
Meanwhile, Draco struggles to track down a one-night stand who rocked his world, then disappeared. Draco throws himself into solving these mysteries to distract himself from the growing tension between him and Granger—which is becoming harder and harder to ignore.
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- Part 1 of Malfoy Mysteries
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29 Apr 2025
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"All her growth was the conveying of a corpse of hope."
(From 'The Rainbow', D.H. Lawrence)This is a story about coming into one's own, a meditation on the twilight of girlhood and the violence of crash-landing into womanhood. Follow Hermione as she navigates through the quagmire: Saving the world, getting top grades, falling in love, lust, and a whole lot of trouble, and comes out of it hopefully (at least) partially sane.
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- Part 1 of Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear
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- 108/108
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28 Apr 2025
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Scary Partner Privilege by Nightbloom7 for Maï Maktês (maimaktes)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Sep 2023
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Hermione and Draco are forced into an extremely reluctant partnership as Aurors. Featuring deviously clever Hermione and sarcastic cinnamon roll Draco (who is hiding a hairy, overlarge secret). Together they solve crime, get in trouble and, eventually, pine for each other such as the idiots they are.
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- 112,240
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- 25/25
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19 Apr 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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- 33/33
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14 Apr 2025
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Post-war Wizarding Britain never truly changed after the war. It’s 2009 and Hermione Granger is on the fast track to becoming the youngest Minister for Magic. But power in magical Britain is precarious. In a second, Hermione's world comes crashing down. A marriage law is invoked. Hermione must pioneer it or risk everything she holds dear.
But there’s more to the story, making Hermione question everything she ever believed in.
She would be Minister. At any cost.
She just didn't expect to be doing it with Draco Malfoy at her side.
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If no one would let her be Minister, she was going to take it. And Draco Malfoy was going to help her do it.
**2024 Dramione Subreddit Top WIP**
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28 Feb 2025
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The war is over and Hermione Granger is back at Hogwarts for its first ever eighth year to complete her studies, write her N.E.W.T.s, and finally move on with her life. And everything is going more or less according to plan.
That is, until she’s paired up with Draco Malfoy for her end of year potions project, and she discovers he’s no longer the bully she once knew.
He’s something far more dangerous.
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Not convinced Zombie!Draco is for you?!
He’s not your typical zombie — not by a long shot. Think iZombie meets Twilight meets Warm Bodies.
Which is to say, our zombie boy is full of angst and longing, and puppy dog love. And providing he's *well fed* he’s perfectly capable of passing for a normal human being.
Or mostly normal.
Apart from all the smelling and licking, that is.
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25 Feb 2025
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“Do you remember when I told the minister that the Time Turner isn’t a weapon?”
“Yes.”
“I was wrong. It is a weapon. In the wrong hands, it could—it could destroy everything.”
It’s been twelve years since the war ended. Ten years since Draco Malfoy was forced from the depths of his depression by a mother and friends who refused to let him die in peace. Six years since he became an Auror for all the wrong reasons.
And for the next month, he's been assigned to protect Hermione Granger as she completes her latest invention: a new type of time travel.
You can’t change what happened, she told him. There could be catastrophic effects, cascading like ripples in a pond. So when they find themselves at the centre of a dark conspiracy that leaves them trapped in a past he’s been running from his whole life, they need to find a way home without unravelling their future.
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- 32/32
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16 Feb 2025
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After her father died in the Battle of Hogwarts, Pansy Parkinson believed she was free. Three months before her twenty-fourth birthday, however, her guardian is found and invokes her ancient family rites to issue an ultimatum. Forced to choose between the loss of any autonomy or of her magic itself, she has exactly one loophole.
Marriage to Neville Longbottom.
But as she grows to know her new husband, she realizes that he's nothing like the boy she used to bully in school. Unfortunately, some wizards will stop at nothing for revenge and Pansy has to decide how much she can ask of the man she convinced to marry her.
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- Part 2 of The Rite
- Language:
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- 208,097
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- 40/40
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28 Jan 2025