#ianthewaiting

Ten years after the fall of the Dark Lord, Hermione Granger leads a life of self-imposed obscurity, that is, until the day Headmistress Minerva McGonagall is murdered and a certain 'hero' is responsible.

Art: Studies into the Past, Laurent Grasso, 2009

Antinomian by thestarsoforion [205k, E]

He's always watched her. He can't help it. Merlin help him, he's been fucking trying though. She hates him. He's a vile, bigoted arsehole. Of all the people who have made her feel small, who have made her have to fight and scrape and claw for her place in this world ever since she was eleven, he's the worst of them all. But when things take a turn at the Yule Ball, Draco Malfoy decides he's done fighting himself, and Hermione Granger is left floored, struggling to understand this new, strange version of him.

Art: Untitled Fire Painting (F 27 I), Yves Klein, 1961

Falling Dark by scullymurphy [250k, E]

It's a year since Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy parted in Italy with promises of love and fidelity. The Battle of Hogwarts is over and Voldemort is dead. And although the price paid was high, Hermione is ready to start the rest of her life, and her eighth year studies, with Draco by her side. No hiding and no shame. But when Draco finally arrives at Hogwarts, it's obvious that things are very wrong. Why is he acting so strangely? And what happened during the long months he lived as a double agent, passing secrets from the Death Eaters to the Order? No one is talking, but Hermione will get to the truth, even if it means breaking her own heart in the process.

Art: Portrait of the Artist Holding a Thistle (detail), Albrecht Dürer, 1493

Silver by 16pennies [224k, E]

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.

Art: Trompe-l'oeil still-life, Samuel van Hoogstraten, 1664

smoke signals by blue_keyboard [364k, WIP, E]

Voldemort gives Draco Malfoy a task, but it isn't killing Dumbledore. In the summer before sixth year, a reluctant Draco shows up in Hermione Granger's muggle suburb to warn her that he has been sent to kill her parents. Everything changes. The story of how two sworn enemies learn of something far more powerful than hatred: devotion.

Art: Winter Landscape (detail), Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1811

Art: Winter Landscape (detail), Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1811

Art: Winter Landscape (detail), Caspar David Friedrich, c. 1811

Lionheart by greenteacup [822k, WIP, M]

How Draco Malfoy met a girl on a train, ruined his life, started a war, and ended one.

Art: Sir Galahad, George Frederick Watts, 1862

Crumple: Aftermath by MissiAmphetamine (Kaleidoscope) [232k, E]

What happens in the aftermath? In the wake of Hermione's capture and imprisonment, she and Draco, having escaped to the Order, must somehow find a way to heal. This is the long, painful, imperfect journey of two people in love - through their consuming trauma, guilt, the judgement of those around them, and the memories of suffering they wish they could shed. But despite the pain, Crumple: Aftermath is ultimately focused on a reverence for healing, trauma recovery, redemption, and the love of two people who are utterly devoted to each other.

Art: La Mémoire, René Magritte, 1945

How to Win Friends and Influence People by olivieblake [386k, M]

Real heroes never quit. Real villains never die. Dramione with ensemble cast, post-war, espionage AU.

Art: Hands of the Horatius from The Oath of the Horatii, Jean Baptiste Debret (after Jacques-Louis David), c. 1785-90

Détraquée by hysteracal [728k, M]

This is a story about coming into one's own, a meditation on the twilight of girlhood and the violence of crash-landing into womanhood. Follow Hermione as she navigates through the quagmire: Saving the world, getting top grades, falling in love, lust, and a whole lot of trouble, and comes out of it hopefully (at least) partially sane.

Art: Girl with a Hole in her Stocking, Michael Thompson, 2008

An Imperfect Situation by erininoctober [306k, E]

After indulging Ron’s request to take their newly-founded relationship to the next level, Hermione finds herself pregnant just a month after the Battle of Hogwarts. In a post-war society where Pure and Half-blood babies are highly desired, she finds her best option for resolving her situation lies in the hands of the person she trusts least in the world: Draco Malfoy.

Art: Get Finished Flowering or Wilted, Gabriel von Marx, c. 1870

From Wiltshire, With Love by mistresslynn [352k, E]

Hermione convinces Draco to spy for the Order and she becomes his handler. But what are his true motivations? Hard to say when he's still figuring that out himself.

Art: The Haunt of the Mosquito, Francis Seymour Haden, c. 1897

Things We're All too Young to Know by eevans [208k, M]

Hermione Granger had been asked—and agreed—to do many absurd things since learning she was a witch, usually involving Harry Potter. This long list included, in no particular order, smuggling baby dragons, being placed unconscious at the bottom of a lake surrounded by merpeople, and traveling back in time to fly an escaped convict to safety on the back of a mythical creature. But returning to a Death Eater-controlled Hogwarts pretending to be Daphne Greengrass may have been the most ridiculous yet.

Art: Saint Catherine Crowned (detail), Bartolomeo Veneto, c. 1520

These Ties that Bind by eurhythmix/wrenniver [892k, E]

“There once was a boy who made all the wrong choices.” Voldemort is dead… at least that’s what everyone thinks. A tale that spans over a decade, this is a story of innocence lost—for what happens when the hero becomes the villain? In the new Magical Empire, Harry Potter reigns supreme. The Statute of Wizarding Secrecy has been dissolved and Light and Dark must join forces to fight to freedom. But first… there’s something Ginny needs to remember.

Art: The Other Side, Dean Cornwell, 1918

Clean & MARKED by olivieblake

Malfoy's handsome face was contoured into a condescending smirk. "No faith in that giant brain of yours, Granger?" She looked up at him defiantly. "Maybe I don't have faith in you!" she said, raising her voice. Malfoy only looked at her. "You'll find I'm very surprising." Dramione AU, Year 6 with a slow burn and a killer twist. Book I of "This World or Any Other" series. COMPLETE.

Art: Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci (detail), Piero di Cosimo, c. 1480

A World Not Fit to Live In by snowblind 12 & lissadream [259k, E]

The world Hermione feared has come to be. The order has fallen, Harry Potter is dead. The Dark Lord has gifted her to the Malfoy wizards as a spoil of war. Her nightmare has just begun.

Art: The Crystal Ball, John William Waterhouse, 1902

Nocturnus by in_dreams [214k, E]

When an underground power stirs in France and threatens the fragile post-war balance in England, Draco steps into a seat of power to which he is the heir by birthright, determined to protect his family. Intent on justice, Hermione volunteers for the role of his partner and adviser, neither of them aware of the ancient and twisted web of chaos they're about to walk into.

Art: The Play Scene in Hamlet, Act III, Scene II (detail), Edwin Austin Abbey, 1897

The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy by speechwriter [289k, M]

The night that Harry and Dumbledore return from the cave, the Death Eaters are delayed from reaching the top of the Astronomy Tower for one more minute. Draco Malfoy lowers his wand. A Deathly Hallows rewrite in which Draco accepts Dumbledore's offer to fake his death and go into hiding with the Order of the Phoenix.

Art: Summer Night, Kitty Lange Kielland, 1886

Madam Umbridge Home for Wayward Girls by lovelyvillain [752k, E]

Hermione’s life takes a dark turn after the death of her parents, leaving her at the mercy of a tyrannical Matron. Her new home is more prison than sanctuary, haunted by ghosts bearing terrible, bloody secrets. And though she is surrounded by troubled young women, it is the men in her life who teach her that freedom comes at the greatest price of all.

Art: Ebb and Flow II, Stephanie Rew, 2024

Meet Me in Dreamland by sinflower81 [229k, E]

Art: L'Amour, le Désir, et la Mort, Georges Barbier, 1922

Reverse by ladymoonglow [419k, M]

During the final battle, Hermione is unexpectedly swept headfirst into a dystopian world of opposites where Dumbledore rules as Dark Lord and Muggle technology and the Dark Arts have revolutionized Britain. Light wizards who attempted resistance under Tom Riddle and the Malfoys' leadership have been left to a nightmarish fate, giving Hermione a new cause - and very different allies - as she impersonates her own 'reversed' incarnation, an elite beauty queen called "My," to survive. But can she help save another shattered world... and still get back to her own?

Art: Untitled, René Magritte, undated

House Pet by ninabinaballerina [417k, E]

After a dark curse, the wizarding world is left barren. Facing extinction, the Purebloods subjugate the muggles, searching for the rare muggleborns—the only witches able to reproduce. Raised in the Nott household as a pampered pet, Hermione is forced to enter the Trials as she comes of age—a competition created for pureblood wizards to claim a breeder. Determined to win her, Draco Malfoy only knew two things: she belonged to him, and he’d destroy anyone who tried to take her. But the cries of the enslaved muggles pierce through Hermione's comfortable life, causing her to reexamine everything she thought she knew about her world and the people in it. She soon discovers that the ancient call of magic and vengeance cannot be denied.

Things Without Remedy by onebedtorulethemall [E, 156k, 2023] It’s been twelve years since the war ended. Ten years since Draco Malfoy was forced from the depths of his depression by a mother and friends who refused to let him die in peace. Six years since he became an Auror for all the wrong reasons. And for the next month, he's been assigned to protect Hermione Granger as she completes her latest invention: a new type of time travel. You can’t change what happened, she told him. There could be catastrophic effects, cascading like ripples in a pond. So when they find themselves at the centre of a dark conspiracy that leaves them trapped in a past he’s been running from his whole life, they need to find a way home without unravelling their future.

Art: The Buildings of the Asiatic Company, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1902

Where the Broken Ends Meet by TheCorrosivePen [M, 103k, 2020]

In which Tom Riddle is a charming, manipulative mastermind, Draco Malfoy's hands are soaked in blood and Hermione Granger can't remember a life beyond suffering. Or the Time Turner fix-it attempt that goes horribly awry. With all hope lost, Hermione turns to desperate measures to rid the world of Voldemort and his crimes, but she doesn't count on a Death Eater hitching a ride to the past or her target being quite so alluring.

Art: Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Horse Skull, Alfred Stieglitz, 1931

Past/Present/Future by neilistic [E, 154k, 2024]

After a very bad week in which Crookshanks died and Ron left her via four words on a scrap of parchment, 30-year-old Hermione is forced to take a week's holiday from her job. Unfortunately, it becomes clear her work was the last thing keeping her sane. When she finds out Harry is investigating the unexplained disappearance of Draco Malfoy, now an Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries, she finally has a problem to solve. The case sucks her in in more ways than one, and she finds herself tangling with a very powerful magical object, as well as Draco's weird and wonderful subconscious. tl;dr Hermione gathers extensive material for an inevitable 'Am I the Asshole?' post

Art: The Anatomy of Melencholy, Laura Makabrescu, 2023

Once More with Feeling by Kyonomiko [M, 65k, 2018]

Sometimes taking a second look can give you a new perspective. Hermione has difficulty analyzing people once she's made up her mind, but, circumstances as they are, she might not have a choice but to try again.

Art: The Enigma of the Hour, Giorgio de Chirico, c. 1910-11

The Fool, the Emperor, and the Hanged Man by ianthewaiting [E, 227k, 2008]

Ten years after the fall of the Dark Lord, Hermione Granger leads of life of self-imposed obscurity, that is, until the day Headmistress Minerva McGonagall is murdered and a certain 'hero' is responsible.

Art: Studies into the Past, Laurent Grasso, 2009

Best Shot by AccioMjolnir [M, 24k, 2021]

It's eighth year and Hermione is trying to navigate her post-war friendship with Draco Malfoy and a relationship with Ron Weasley when she gets an unexpected visit from someone who knows her better than anyone: herself. Thrown back from the future, an older Hermione drops a bombshell on her: she has only three days to set things right, or Draco dies.

Art: Gothic Windows in the Ruins of the Monastery at Oybin, Carl Gustav Carus, c. 1828

Through the Clouds a Path is Torn by galaxy_skies [E, 39k, 2024]

Every Death Eater is allowed to make one final request before their execution. Draco Malfoy asks to see Hermione Granger. And somewhere, a butterfly flaps its wings.

Art: The Earthly Paradise (Sir Lancelot and the Chapel of the Holy Grail), Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1890

Reset by provocative_envy [M, 4.5k, 2016]

And the fear—the fear that he’s learned to swallow, choke on, bury the crushed and fragmented shards of—it's turning the space between him and her and the last six weeks, the last six months, into a gaping yawning brutally invincible chasm; a wall to scale and a cliff to jump and a step he’s never quite been brave enough to take. She takes it for him. Of course she does.

Art: Joan of Arc, Date Gabriel Rossetti, 1882

The Troublesome Thing About Time by LadyKenz347 [M, 40k, 2020]

Hermione was sick of adventure. She'd had her fair share, and taking a seat at the desk in the back of the DLME was all she could have dreamed of -- until it wasn't. One day Hermione is summoned to the bowels of the Ministry where she is met by the lead Unspeakable who has a rather odd situation that needs to be dealt with. Draco Malfoy has just arrived from twenty years in the future and insists on speaking to his wife, Hermione Granger. The only problem is that the Draco Malfoy she knows is still the snarky, button-pushing boy upstairs--and not the man in front of her now.

Art: The Morning Room, Patrick William Adam, 1916

Enekpe's Clock by sunshinesundae [T, 26k, 2017]

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?

Art: Time, Leopold Widlizka, 1898

Chronos Historia by in_dreams [M, 98k, 2018]

Hermione and Draco stumble upon a mysterious portal and find themselves hurtled back through time a thousand years. Forced to team up to find a way home, they quickly realize that much of the history they believed to be fact, wasn't true after all. A founders era, time travel Dramione.

Art: The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, Frederic William Burton, 1864

Love and Other Historical Accidents by PacificRimbaud [M, 154k, 2021]

Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy never intended to blow up their life's work, but that's rather what they've gone and done. Now they're trapped 200 years in the past, with a broken Time Turner, a missing snuff box, a handful of overly-eligible daughters, and a House-elf in a cable knit cardigan. It will require the combined power of their keen intellects to get them home, if they'd stop arguing long enough to use them. As it turns out, history is just one damned accident after another.

Art: Polesden Lacey, Surrey, from the East, John Varley, c. 1778-1842

now i hang from your lips (like the gardens of babylon) by cosmic_kate [M, 2.5k, 2024]

Far in the east, deep in the desert, a king once erected a vast garden of greenery for his beloved queen. She was homesick, longing for some time or place far, far away, with rolling green hills and wet, humid summers. Later, much, much later, historians would say it couldn’t be real. That it couldn’t be more than a myth, or poetry. The architecture was too advanced for the time. The irrigation systems were state of the art. And the beauty of it—exquisite, the poets said—was far too good to be true. Hermione knows better. She knows the hanging gardens of Babylon very well did exist. She knows this because she knows magic. She knows this because she was there.

Art: The Hanging Garden of Babylon, N. Wood, c. 19th c

Ash by artemisgirl [M, 2.8k, 2019]

The world repeats, the Final Battle replaying itself out in front of Draco's eyes each day, ending in a cloud of ash and fire. No one else seems to realize it, that they're trapped. It's only when Draco realizes that Hermione's aware of the time loop too that he begins to understand what's happening, where he is, and exactly what it means.

Art: Ragnarök, Emil Doepler, 1905

How Soon is Tomorrow? by eevilalice [T, 5k, 2013]

iIt's the day before winter hols, and Draco can't wait. Except he's going to have to because the day won't end unless he saves Hermione Granger. A lot.