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A loose Dramione retelling of the plot of When He Was Wicked (Bridgerton Book 6...but not regency era).
After the war, Draco Malfoy pays his debt in Azkaban while his closest friend, Theodore Nott, finds love and forgiveness in the heart of Hermione Granger. Draco returns to a very different world than he left behind, and he must come to terms with his place in his friends' lives as well as the world at large.
At first he isn't sure what Theo sees in the Muggleborn swot from their childhood, but eventually he comes to understand all too well. Conflicted and full of self-loathing he flees rather than see them marry.
Years later, tragedy brings him back to England—and back to her.
Widowed and untethered, Hermione is not looking for love. Draco is not foolish enough to offer it. Loving her once felt impossible; loving her now feels like betrayal.
But grief does not erase history. And second chances rarely come without cost.
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17 Jun 2026
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“You want to take care of me?” he proffered around a sip of his whiskey. Malfoy patted his thigh and then nodded toward her. “Come on then, sweetheart. Come have a seat so you can take care of Daddy.”
Hermione’s teeth clenched together tightly. She was going to throttle Harry for his asinine ‘by whatever means necessary’ principle.
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Or: A game of Cat and Mouse where both parties think they are the cat and only one of them is correct.
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15 Jun 2026
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Hermione Granger is in her graduate-level studies in Theoretical Arithmancy at Oxford’s Magical Institute. She’s pursued this goal with a single-minded focus for as long as she can remember.
Something is about to supersede that obsession. Someone new. The last person she expects.
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An age-gap Dramione text fic.
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15 Jun 2026
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She blinks some more. “You’re—I mean—you’re the worst person I’ve ever met.”“Worse than Cormac Mc-Doge-Coin?” Malfoy asks in disbelief. “Seriously?”
Hermione pauses. “That feels . . . like a trick question.”
“Jesus fuck,” Malfoy says, looking appalled.
[ALTERNATIVELY: the prestigious-but-at-what-cost summer internship au]
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09 Jun 2026
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When the Ministry guts funding for her Muggleborn Integration Programme, Hermione Granger has three months and twenty days to conjure twenty thousand Galleons—or watch seven years of work die in its cradle. Legitimate channels are closed to her. Then Ginny Weasley proposes something deliciously scandalous: bottle sex memories, price them obscenely, and let wealthy witches and wizards lose themselves inside their pensieves. All Hermione needs is a wizard who can be trusted to stay discreet. Anyone but a stranger.
Enter Draco Malfoy—haunted by his two years in Azkaban and cold to nearly everyone. Counting only Theo and Harry as his closest friends. He’s spent two years orbiting Hermione at a careful distance, wanting what he shouldn’t.
What begins as a favour becomes something far more dangerous: the terrifying possibility of being loved—and, worse, forgiven.
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03 Jun 2026