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Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold.
Hermione Granger has a plan. She's going to return to Hogwarts, bury herself in studying for a record number of NEWTs, be an excellent (almost) girlfriend and try to ignore the growing sense that she doesn't actually know who she is when she has nobody to help.
Draco Malfoy has no plan. What he has is a powerful imagination and a propensity for burying himself in it when things get a bit... challenging. But perhaps even his imagination won't save him from the slow, inconvenient realisation that he has no idea who he actually is either.
This is a dual POV story about the painful business of growing up. And about two rivals doing it in uncomfortably close proximity.
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Hermione Granger has spent the past decade building her career as one of Western Europe's foremost experts on Curse Breaking. She's independent, in charge and completely content with the way life is unfolding for her.
Draco Malfoy is stuck down a well.
When the two of them encounter a strange fairy pool, their souls are bound and suddenly each knows everything about the other. Hermione is having none of it.
A philosophical, feminist investigation of soul bonds.
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Now complete.
Hermione Granger lives in a house with legs, with a swamp-lizard named Stripes, in a semi-sentient ecosystem that occasionally burps up lost things. It’s not ideal, but after five and a half years in the Neitherlands, she’s made it work.
Then Draco Malfoy falls from the sky. Literally.
He has questions, a missing bag, and limited patience for her deeply repressed need for human contact.
As they navigate a shaky path between physics and magic, and a shared past, they might even figure out how to save their world.
This is a story about two lonely people trying to stitch the cosmos back together.
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Bona Fide Heist by constantblathering for Ms_Tavers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Dec 2025
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On October 19, in Paris, a group of criminals led by Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger broke into the Louvre and stole some very precious jewels.
This is how they did it.
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The Fisher King by constantblathering for Landbeorht
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Dec 2025
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When the origins of the Veela comes up in class one day, Draco Malfoy tells a story of curses, transformation, and a queen clever enough to save a kingdom. He believes it’s a moral lesson and a chance to show off. Hermione Granger is not so sure.
This is the story of the very first Veela: the Fisher King.
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Look What The Cat Dragged In by horsegirlbyday (Charmuse)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 May 2026
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Lucius Malfoy and Draco Malfoy are dead. Narcissa Malfoy is a shut in with too many cats and house elves that claim abuse. Director of the House Elf Protection Agency, Hermione Granger, has her work cut out for her.
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“Poor Narcissa, she is lost without Lucius and Draco. Every time I am there, she is worse. We have raided that place more times than I can count. If Malfoy was hiding out there, we would have found him by now.” Harry took a bite of his steak.“So, you still think he’s dead? Nothing new?” Ginny asked.
He shook his head. “He’s got to be dead and buried. No magical signature, no wand use, no sightings, nothing. It’s unheard of if a magical person is alive, even if they are clever. There is always a tell eventually. He escaped Azkaban, and poof, gone like a ghost. Maybe he drowned and never left Scotland.”
Hermione doubted that. She always gave Draco far more credit than anyone else did. She didn’t know how long he survived after fleeing the infamous prison, but she doubted he let the North Sea take him out.
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30 May 2026
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The Root Will Not Hold by saltyorange (Velaaa), SilverHebridean
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 May 2026
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The second wizarding war ploughed on for eight years, only to end in an open field, with the collapse of Voldemort’s regime. Hermione Granger’s own collapse began somewhere in between, the day she found out that Draco wasn’t coming back. Grief seeded so deeply it was inherent to the root. Except on the last day of the war, Draco Malfoy does come back. Alive, blank-eyed, and completely unaware that he has ever loved her at all.
Spring is no country for the long dead
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20 May 2026
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A Psalm for the Longest Night by onebedtorulethemall
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Dec 2025
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“How far up the coast?”
“It’s unreachable. That’s the point.”
“How far, Malfoy? Could we walk there by dawn?”
To his credit, he doesn’t sneer, or say, What, without magic?
He looks at the angle of her battered hand and the pain potion she grips like an addict, and tells her, “I really don’t think you’re capable.”
And she is so thankful for the gift of outrage she could kiss him.
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21 Apr 2026
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There once was a world so wounded, its magic was depleted, its schools became training grounds, and its children became things to barter with.
There once was a boy poised for power and a girl born in a Reclamation Zone who found out where magic really lives.
Would you care to listen?
COMPLETED - APRIL 3RD, 2026
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02 Apr 2026
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Almost a decade after Voldemort's fall, a new wizarding war begins. After three long years, Hermione Granger, now a war-weary healer for the United Order, is transferred to a top-secret base in the Slovenian Alps. There, she collides with Draco Malfoy, a long-forgotten ghost from her past.
Now older, wiser, and more traumatised, can these two enemies become each other's guiding light in an increasingly dark world?
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This is a character-driven story, told through Hermione’s eyes, exploring the traumas and impact of war, as well as the tender, human moments that can sometimes be found in between.
**TLDR: Two trauma-riddled idiots fight desperately NOT to fall in love... but we all know some battles are destined to be lost.
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28 Nov 2025
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Amazing story by a very talented author.