#dhr recs

[noxmalfoy]

I commissioned this piece from swotty_doodler on instagram for my fic, link above!!!

This scene hasn’t happened yet, so go read and catch up before we get there :)

I’m sooo obsessed look at my cute babies!!

[annagaw]

DOWN BAD CRYING AT THE GYM

Oh hey, didn’t see you there! Nbd, just reeling from the intense chemical changes that reading @molivierposts’ masterpiece has wrought upon my feeble flesh-prison.

I made a little sketch to cope - just something sloppy, real casual-like. Then I coloured it (to be polite, you understand). And then I thought I’d just take a minute to slap together a couple of kindle covers for myself. Which, uhhh… yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say you’re welcome to download for personal use. Go for it, champ.

I may do a re-colour of this at some point, actually refine it. But I’m happy for now with the rough and ready version you see before you. Also, saying I’ll recolour something is just actually like a cute little inside joke I have with myself. The joke is: no I fucking won’t.

Anyway, you should read this. I did a link for you, just here. You think you don’t need Alien!Draco in your life? I was like you once. A fool.

[meriyart]

hands down the funniest fic i’ve read to date

[Love and other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaud]

[orchidego]

ao3 has taken me places I wouldn't even go to with a g*n

smoking on that dramione pack

( @ailenach asked me for a dramione rec list so that's what this post is, anyone else read at your own risk )

Compiler’s note - skip down to the list if you don’t need to know why/what exactly I like in fic!

aka my dramione ethos: The most compelling dynamic in a ship, for me, is when it comprises of two people giving each other the strength to be the people they need to be.

Before he can be loved, Draco must be redeemed. In a way, he’s awfully bad at being a blood supremacist (lacking real conviction). Draco’s Slytherin morality, at least as a teen, compels him only in the direction of protecting and preserving himself and his own; he doesn’t seem to have a morality outside of this. Everything else is borrowed from his fear and desire to conform to his loved ones’s expectations. Contrast with Hermione, who has an outsized sense of morality—she knows exactly what is good and right, and she throws herself into her causes with self-righteous conviction, headstrong and beautifully off-putting.

Draco, the boy who belonged everywhere, watched his fragile worldview turn to ash and became unmoored. Hermione, the girl who belonged nowhere, bent the world towards her through obstinate radiant willpower, and established herself. Two people who could, maybe, find a home in each other.

A Draco in love with Hermione might wrap his morality around her courage, might steady himself while in the service of her. A Hermione in love with Draco might be preserved by him, may be bolstered against burning out or being misunderstood or unseen. They’re both industrious with their respective tasks (she researches! he toils!), which lends itself to them having intellectual parity. They’re both kind of intense. Then there’s the general enemies to lovers appeal, the idea that at no point in time were these two characters ever indifferent towards each other. The banter potential alone…!

So this is some of the kind of exploration I like in fic, pressed in many different tones; ff is especially unique in that we can play around with the elements (AUs, contrived circumstances, tonal shifts, narrative beats) and be more experimental because the weight of canon grounds it.

My rec list:

Before I truly begin, I feel like I have to comment on it: I did ultimately enjoy Manacled. A "Voldemort wins" fic with a Handsmaid Tale twist; it has compelling structure, with a D/Hr dynamic suited to my tastes and what I find interesting about the characters. However, it's dark (mind the tags) and I’m still not certain if the content was handled as effectively as the author meant it to be, and so I don't think it's a universal recommendation despite its staggering popularity. If you do want to read this I would recommend downloading it because she's going to delete it off ao3 once the novelization of it comes out next year.

My quintessential dramione recommendation is, of course, The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy. It's a full Deathly Hallows rewrite where Draco goes Horcrux hunting with the trio and as far as I'm concerned, it's canon. Unlike every other fic on my list, I would recommend this to everyone. Written very closely in style to the books, I think it has universal appeal and it’s the perfect jumping off point for the pairing while being convincing. Sometimes I would find myself wishing that this was the direction the books had taken. PG-13, in terms of violence and sexual content, which I find significant enough to bring up since there’s usually a lot of sex in popular ff.

My favorite humor-based rec: Bad Omens. Written in the vein of Terry Pratchett. I would describe this as a "star-crossed morons" kind of story. It's literally perfect.

Remain Nameless. Caveat that this sort of trailed off for me once the central tension with the relationship was resolved but I think in terms of an adult redemption arc it was very sweetly done. Sometimes achingly tender.

The Fallout is probably my favorite “extended wartime” fic of all time. The intimacy in this makes me want to kms, in a good way. I'm linking to a downloadable pdf here since it's been removed off other sites.

Love in The Time of Zombie Apocalypse. Zombie outbreak AU. Strays from canon characterization but. Plot goes crazy. Complex character work. Hooked me all the way through.

Thirteenth Night. Post-war, Hermione assigned to monitor a memory-charmed Draco. Less epic than a lot of the other recs on this list because the scope of the world is small, but it’s quietly good.

This is just my plug for anything PacificRimbaud has ever written, but particularly the historical rom com Love and Other Historical Accidents, the raunchy and funny One and Done, and the tender romantic one-shot Les Pelerins.

BLOODY, SLUTTY, AND PATHETIC. Listen to me. Listen to me. The title sort of explains the tone and it carries entirely throughout. I am obsessed with this version of Draco. All men should be bloody slutty and pathetic. Post-war, ministry employee Hermione, marriage law AU (which tbh I don't tend to love usually, so this really is exceptional).

She Whom He Harbors. Ok before you read the summary/tags and judge me, yes, this is basically a "fuck or die" fic. I figured I needed to make the rec in case this is a vibe anyone is interested in pursuing. But it's not just gratuitous smut, I swear, there's a compelling plot here. Lot of orgasms. But there is a plot.

Brand New World. Epic in scope. Diverges in plot while they're still at Hogwarts. Great Draco redemption arc (which is important to me!)

The Gloriana Set. ThebeMoon is my personal queen of Hogwarts Eighth Year fics. I would also rec The Darkwood Wand, by the same author. Both very fun reads.

Things Without Remedy. Time travel! Adore the serious relationship build in this one.

Tea & Necromancy. Sort of an experimental tone. Equal parts funny and morbid.

Sucker Punch. Also would classify this as experimental; you'll know if you jive with the writing within a few paragraphs.

Choice and Chance. Absolutely delicious plot divergence at the point of Hermione's torture at Malfoy Manor. Involves multiverse elements.

Beyond Recall or Desire. If you like soulmate bonds!

Malfoy Shrugged. On the shorter side; just a great two-shot.

Tromp as Writ. While I'm recommending perfect one-shots.

Mindbound. This author has a series of very short works based on fairy tales. This one is my favorite but I'd recommend the others too.

Past / Present / Future. Barbara Kruger AND a perfect adult Draco characterization? J’adore.

My very last recommendation is something that is so important to me, but I'm separating it like this because it's a WIP whereas all the others are completed fics. Please don't let that deter you, if at all interested.

Lionheart. !!!!

What can I say about Lionheart, except that its author somehow resides in my brain and created something for me, specifically? I've really so rarely read fic that is so perfectly balanced in dialogue, character understanding, narrative arc, plotting, action—when I read this, I feel like how I felt at 11, reading Harry Potter. For real. It's a whole series rewrite, truly epic in scope, asking the question: what if Draco had been sorted into Gryffindor? Currently the storyline is complete as to book four, partially through book five, and being updated. The character work is especially stunning to me. This is the sweetest slowburn friendship-to-lovers of my dreams; obviously heavy on the friendship arc since we're not all the way through, and yet I find that my emotional investment in this is so heightened it doesn't even matter to me. I want to read thousands of words of this (luckily, it's already got 600k+ of those). Thank you greenTeacup, for my life.

I obviously have read more than this so if there are any specific tropes/interests/limitations you want a rec for, I'm open to give an opinion. Also I have my eye on a few fics that I just haven't read yet, so alas, this list is not perfectly complete. The next thing I want to read....Détraquée....

[draigonboother]

The Bolt, Chapter 2

Pansy presses her lips against his, slowly, sweetly. The tip of her tongue probes his mouth.

Then — suddenly — an image comes to him, so vivid that for a moment he’s not sure where he is: Hermione in the library, her figure illuminated by a large, arched window. She’s bent over a piece of parchment, writing something, strands of her hair catching golden in the light. He’s close enough to see the peach fuzz of her cheeks, the slight knot between her eyebrows, the small ink blotch on her chin, from where she’d rested her quill there to think; he is close enough to trace the elegant line of her collarbone, smell the faint scent of clean linen, lemons, salt. She seems to be emitting a warm, white glow.

They look at each other for a moment, and her eyes are wide, endless, swallowing everything. Then she tilts her head, her lips curving up into a small, bashful smile. She shakes her head: no.

This is not a memory, but it feels like one.

She looks up suddenly, startled.

Draco takes a ragged gasp and shoves Pansy away.

[elliebyrrdwrites]

A Dream Within a Dream

So, all of those drabbles that turned into a story? I have started to add them to Ao3. The first two chapters are posted, with editing and some small additions!

Summary:

They say the creation of everything started with Chaos. That amongst the nothingness, within its vast void was undifferentiated and indistinguishable. For Hermione, it started with a bang. A jolt to her heart that was so strong and violent that she felt it throughout her entire body, heard it in her ears like the deafening bang of a gong. Or In which Draco turns Hermione into a Horcrux.

[draqo-pctter]

girl on a train // a dramione mini-fic, complete

After the war, Draco took to riding muggle trains to clear his mind. One morning, on the fifth year anniversary of the Battle at Hogwarts, he saw a familiar mountain of curls while riding the Piccadilly Line.

Hermione Granger sat across and four people down from him, reading. This wouldn’t have been so unusual, if anyone in Wizarding London had seen her since the end of the Reconstruction.

words: 11.8k chapters: 8/8 tags: old feelings new situations, soft, pining draco malfoy, alternate universe, soulmates, strangers to lovers, light angst, mild hurt/comfort, falling in love, historical references, references to the time traveler’s wife by audrey niffenegger click here to read on ao3      

artwork done by @sophiesstreet​ | please give her all of the love & attention, her artwork takes my breath away

[writetimewrongmuse]

Chapter two — ‘Two Can Tango, but Four Can Roar’ is, to this date, one of my favourite chapters from Stowaway. There are so many quotes I look at and think, omg that’s not half bad! Add a little mischief, banter and the Potters being two sides of a spectrum, and we have a half decent birthday party 🥳

Here’s a little teaser into how I plotted Hermione and Draco’s banter, and a little excerpt featuring the exasperated deputy head of the DMLE, Harry Potter (conversing with a freshly abducted child) 😂

[bia-wayne-west]

MASTERLIST

MASTERLIST HARRY POTTER

Hello, welcome to my Masterlist. Here are all my imagines from Harry Potter. Hope you like.

To make it easier for you to find the imagines you’re looking for, I’ve made a few changes to let you know what kind of story it is.

Fluffy: It is indicated by ☆

Drabble: It is indicated by the text in italic

Angst: It is indicated by the bold text

Smut: It is indicated by ♡

🦋 Credits for those who made these incredible fan arts 🦋

Updated on: 02/20/2024

Dramione:

IN YOU PAIN | Dramione Fanfiction

Prologue |

[paradigmamesposts]

Happiness of Reality by Ihateeveryone42

Hermione’s life is perpetually falling apart post the war. Ron, her ever absent boyfriend, and a brief kiss the year before from someone she previously thought hated her. When she moves back to Grimmauld Place, what sort of life awaits for her there?

[noxmalfoy]

[mydarlingklaus]

Zombies.

Chapter 1: Son of Man

My first multi-chapter Dramione fic is here!!

This is a story I've been itching to write for the past year after The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I'm nervous for the journey of this fic, but also excited because it feels like something I've been wanting to write for a long time. Chapter 1 is posted! Comments/Kudos are appreciated. Thank you, and enjoy! 🐍

Summary: Draco Malfoy is elated to be a mentor for the Red Room, an exclusive program designed to train girls into becoming assasins and the art of espionage. He has one goal: win. Throughout the challenging process, Draco's morals and objectives are put to the test after developing an unexpected bond with his trainee, Hermione Granger.

[meriyart]

"We found him warting around in the grass, and the professor conjured us a jar."

[Love and other Historical Accidents by @pacific-rimbaud]

[orchidego]

dramione rec list pt. ii

@dappledlight7 asked me to compile another dramione rec list; trying not to let it go to my head about how good my taste is (it's good).

Link to the first list, which contains mostly novel-length works and a thesis on why the draco/hermione dynamic appeals to me.

Her parameters: "quietly devastating," under 20k words. I reworked it to include short, somewhat angsty fics that made me think about Life™ in all its vibrant, tender, wretched complexities. Fics that linger. I will say I prefer happy/hopeful endings with my angst, because I don't have that dog in me.

My best suggestion with fic is find something that blows your mind and read everything the author has ever written.

aprophecygirl's A Series of Fate are fics based on fairy tales, but the source material is so well-transformed that I consider them complete separate works. Dawn + Decay has Hermione trapped in Malfoy Manor after looking for answers from a socially reclusive Malfoy about a mysterious illness. In Mindbound, Healer Draco needs to pull Hermione out of a coma by entering her mind, which is a vast beautiful terrifying landscape and where he gets to know her—an aching exploration of being seen, known, understood, forgiven. There are a couple more works in the series, of similar length. Each work is independent from the other.

Les Pèlerins. Hermione runs into exiled Draco in Paris. Gorgeous. Really one of my favorites. Author PacificRimbaud also has: Keep It Like a Secret and On the Virtues of Inexhaustible Burning, both works that I feel have a good balance of the pining kind of angst and fluff (would not classify either as devastating).

Inside by onebedtorulethemall. Dark, tragic, a slow unraveling mystery.

Kismet by TheDae. More of a pining type of light angst. This author has some other more fun one-shots, but I think this one is most evocative.

Chiaroscuro, or the Defining Contrast Between Darkness and Light. by ifyouwereamelody. Sixth year angst!

The Witching Hour by neilistic. Beautiful, intimate. Draco and Hermione navigating respective single parenthood together.

Tromp as Writ by a_rum_of_ones_own. This is on my first list, but it deserves a place here too. I just love the exploration of Hermione's being not quite in two separate worlds and how she reconciles it. Confiteor by the same author—confession and absolution, definitely has that edge of devastation.

Tact-Checking by Hystaracal. Sorry, I cheated. Humor-based rec. Use this as a chaser for something that hurts.

Queen of Heaven by riptey. Kinda haunting really.

Chrysopoeia. Hesitating to recommend this because I could never read it again, it hurt so bad. But that's a testament to good writing too. Very truthful description of what it feels like to unrequitedly love.

i have gone at dusk through narrow streets. "we grew up together. is this what you wanted?"

[draigonboother]

The Bolt, Chapter 1

"Hermione —"

"Say it."

The silence between them stretches miles and miles. He cannot bring himself to look at her. "Hermione" he says finally, closing his eyes. "Please."

The silence between them is now a razor-sharp blade. Draco's skin stings with what feels like a thousand paper-thin lacerations, each word unspoken a cut.

"You're a coward," she says quietly. Her voice is steady. Draco doesn't recognize her, the way she looks at him in that moment: as if she'd seen him fully, thumbed through every thought and feeling, felt the wet pulse of his stuttering heart — and came to an understanding about him in which he has not even begun to realize.

"You call me over here whenever you feel like it, you hold my hand, you kiss me — but you won't take me to the ball. You can't even say it directly, whether you like me or not." She releases a breath. "And I let you — I let you do that to me." She shakes her head incredulously, gazing at him, and there is a raw, bitter acceptance to her expression, entwined in the downturn of her eyes, the slight trembling of her lip.

[zugzwang-ship]

my brother's best friend (18981 words) by mrsren @mrsren 

Chapters: 5/5 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood/Theodore Nott Characters: Draco Malfoy, Theodore Nott, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Lavender Brown, Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, Cormac McLaggen, Hermione Granger

Additional Tags: Brother's Best Friend, Muggle AU, Loss of Virginity, Mutual Pining, Conveniently Missing Parents, Alcohol, Secret Relationship, overprotective Theo, Possessive Draco Malfoy, Jealous Draco Malfoy, Explicit Sexual Content, Orgasm Delay/Denial, Semi-Public Sex, Fist Fights, Liberal use of the word fuck