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The war is over and Hermione Granger is haunted by loss. She spends her days going through the motions, following routines to keep it together. The sounds of her neighbor's nightly piano playing slowly stitches her broken heart back together. When she musters up the last of her Gryffindor courage to thank them, a familiar face opens the door.
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23 Jan 2024
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Notes of Melancholy is a beautiful, short fic about using music for healing and contrition.
Hermione is broken after the war, and finds solace in the music she hears through the wall from her next door neighbor. Her therapist encourages her to meet and thank her neighbor. When she does, they can finally start to heal, together.
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5th year is underway. Voldemort is back. The Order is straining under the pressure, and Hermione is honoured when Snape chooses her to brew the Wolfsbane Potion — with Draco Malfoy. Now, forced to work together over a cauldron nearly every day, Hermione thinks she might go mad — if they don't kill each other first.
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17 Apr 2026
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Just finished Silver, which is a nice, long story starting out in fifth year when Hermione and Draco are asked to brew Wolfsbane potion, first under Snape’s tutelage, later on their own, spending many evenings each month brewing. Initial hostilities are eventually diffused to form a truce… and more.
The story is refreshingly original, almost none of the stations of canon happens here. No Ron-bashing, and a functional foursome towards the end.
Highly recommended, especially if you like fics that deviate significantly from the books.
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When it becomes clear the path his father has chosen for their family will lead to nothing but pain and suffering, Draco Malfoy decides to change course, to do so he realises he must ask for the help of the last person he ever imagined. In his quest for survival, he is forced to question everything he's ever been taught which will lead him on a journey of transformation and self-discovery, that will ultimately change the very foundations of his identity.
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What if Draco Malfoy decided he did not want to be a servant to the Dark Lord long before he was forced to join his ranks?
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20 Jan 2026
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Just finished reading Metanoia, which is a long, great story of Draco’s slow redemption, from the start of fourth year through the war. He slowly goes through the stages, from automatically spewing racist slurs, to having some doubts, to reluctantly seeking Hermione’s help, to developing a partnership, friendship and relationship. I particularly like how Draco never really backtracks on this journey.
The plot slowly diverges from canon, and the war is told in refreshingly new ways, with a great ensemble of characters.
Highly recommended if you like rewrites and slow, but sure redemption of Draco, and equally slow, but sure building of a strong Dramione relationship.i
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The day after his infamous victory at the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry Potter disappears without a trace.
When the rest of the world gives up their search, Hermione Granger, an up-and-coming investigative journalist, is determined to do what they couldn’t: find him.
After years of searching, she finally stumbles upon a clue that might just lead her to her best friend. She is determined to journey across Europe to solve the mystery and, naturally, write about it along the way. But when her intolerable co-worker Draco Malfoy is also assigned to the case, she must learn to set aside old grudges and accept their dysfunctional partnership in order to bring Harry home again.
A slow-burn enemies to lovers fic with mystery, adventure, and our two favorite idiots in love.
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06 Dec 2025
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Just finished Soft As It Began by rubber_soul02. After the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry suddenly disappears without a trace. Four years later, Hermione works as an investigative journalist, but she is still searching for Harry whenever she can. After some clues are uncovered, her boss sends Hermione and her irritating colleague, Draco, on an expedition to find Harry.
It is a great story; a slow burn romance growing from Draco and Hermione spending hours alone in a cottage, investigating the mystery of what happened to Harry Potter, and why a junior Death Eater is following him.
And I have a new entry to my favourite Dramione quote list:
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An Order mission gone terribly, terribly wrong leaves Draco dead and Hermione trapped in a time loop, doomed to relive it. Can she save his life, or is fate a force too strong to fight? War AU. Romance.
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15 Nov 2025
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Just read Enekpe’s Clock, which is a short (26k words) story where Hermione finds herself in a time loop - a loop that each time ends with Draco being killed. Hermione has to use her wit, love and magic to fight fate. A nice, underrated story.