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    War is hard. Wars can be won. Wars can be lost. This is an in depth study of scars left behind on those that seek them, those that carry them, those who cause them, and how it alters you as a whole. This story has a very clear understory of addiction and the depths some go to seek it out, and the struggle of those who survive the climb.

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    13 Oct 2025

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    Hermione Granger is just trying to focus on her studies after a messy breakup with Ron at the start of her first year at university. But when she wanders into a local pub for a distraction and finds Draco Malfoy on lead guitar with the band, everything starts to unravel. She never expected her former bully to be so talented—or alluring. And she definitely didn’t expect to need his help when a string of dark attacks puts her at the center of a dangerous mystery.

    Draco, attending university only because it's a mandated term of his post–War sentencing, mostly wants to enjoy the distance from his father and pull witches. But when Hermione Granger shows up looking unfairly fit at one of his band’s gigs, he decides the only way to get her out from under his skin is to shag her. What he doesn’t anticipate is how complicated things will get—or how much he'd risk to protect her.

    Set post–eighth year, this fic—book 1 of a duology—keeps most canon plot intact but spares a few characters who didn’t make it out of The War. Inspired by a fever dream and The Strokes, every chapter title is a song from their discography, and any lyrics featured belong to them, aside from an occasional edit to align with the wizarding world.

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    19 Jul 2025

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    Hermione found it particularly fitting how the start of her adult life and the end of her adult life was, and will be, marked by funerals.

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    She finally stood and made her way over to his grave. Taking a handful of the dirt, that she levitated off of the ground, she threw it onto his grave.

    It wasn’t goodbye, no.

    It was good riddance.

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    13 Jul 2025

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    Strange things, dreams. How much credence should we give to where our subconscious takes us?

    There were many things Draco did not need in his Sixth Year. He did not need Theodore Nott implanting strange dreams in his head, for one.

    In the ensuing years, he did not need to constantly remember that blissful, impossible dream. He further did not need Potter bursting into his mostly turned-around life to embroil him in a conspiracy at Azkaban. And he definitely did not need to embark on a clandestine investigation into prisoner mistreatment with Hermione Granger.

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    06 Jul 2025

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    How did it feel? It felt like he was barely holding it together. She, of all people, should shun him. Or yell at him. Curse him. Spit at him. Take out her wand and blast him off the face of the earth. It was crushing guilt and relief and confusion all at once when he looked at Hermione Granger.
    The monotony of Draco’s daily routine had become both a lifeline and a noose. But this new habit of grabbing coffee with Hermione Granger is quickly becoming a reason to get out of bed and is unfortunately forcing him to re-evaluate his inconsequential existence.
    Hermione is living her life in fragments, separate pieces scattered about, and she can’t find a way to step back and let the full picture form. Why are morning meetings with Draco Malfoy the only thing that make sense anymore?

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    30 Jun 2025