#provocative_envy

As Sharp as Any Thorn by Argosy [E, 8.8k]

The road to redemption is a winding one. Christmas at Grimmauld Place, Post HBP.

Art: Night and Her Daughter Sleep (detail), Mary L. Macomber, 1902

Scenes from a Marriage by hiddenhibernian [T, 5.4k]

They say love isn't about what you say, it's what you do. If you see it that way, Hermione doesn't have any reason to complain.

Art: The Lovers, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, c. 1907-1917

Grit by witchsoup [T, 4k]

Hermione attempts to diagnose a secretive patient suffering major curse damage.

Art: Hands Grasping 7, Susan Manspeizer, 2018

remedia amoris by magneticwave [M, 14.7k]

The most amazing thing about Malfoy is not that he managed to build a successful Ministry career out of the total disgrace of his family, but that somehow Hermione only despises him half of the time that they work together.

Art: Circe Offering up the Cup to Ulysses (detail), John William Waterhouse, 1891

Inside by onebedtorulethemall [M, 7.5k]

Something is wrong with Draco Malfoy.

Art: Illustration from The West Wing, Edward Gorey, 1963

With Teeth by provocative_envy [M, 5.4k]

Albus Dumbledore had been wrong about Voldemort’s horcruxes.

Art: Escape Before the Dawn, Devinez, 2023

On the Virtues of Inexhaustible Burning by PacificRimbaud [T, 5k]

In which Draco Malfoy wrestles geology and Hermione receives several gifts.

Art: Saint Augustine (detail), Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645-1650

I am Sleeping on a Time Bomb by i forgot to blink [M, 4k]

The war is over, and they go to Antarctica.

Art: Barne Glacier, Herbert Pointing, 1911

Tromp as Writ by a_rum_of_one's_own [E, 7.2k]

‘Merlin and Morgana, what’s that?’ he breathed. ‘Muggle underwear. We’re beyond chemises, you know.’ ‘Granger,’ he said. ‘Granger. You can’t. This isn’t fair.'

Art: Saturnina Canaleta de Girona (detail), Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, 1856

Reset by provocative_envy [M, 4.5k]

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, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1882

Chiaroscuro by ifyouwereamelody [T, 5.1k]

Draco Malfoy returns to Hogwarts for sixth year a changed man. Marked, dangerous, and tasked with something terrible, he finds himself haunted by memories of the year before — a bright spark of connection that now he's got no choice but to douse.

Art: Vengeance is Sworn (detail) from the Revenge Triptych, Francesco Hayez, 1851

The Street Where You Live by scullyvasan [T, 10.5k]

Muggle childhood AU. Single mother Narcissa Malfoy co-parents her son Draco and functionally parents the little girl down the street. Light homages to Books 1-4 but no wands, no wizards, no Hogwarts — just human magic and the passing years at work.

Art: Daydreams, Thomas Couture, 1859

The Running Club by winterwells [E, 10.4k]

Hermione returns to Hogwarts for the "Seventh Year Was A Cluster F*** So Let's All Do It Again!" year. The war has left its mark, and she copes in the best way she can. Running. And she might pick up some stragglers along the way...

Art: Stripes of Silence, Lu Guada, 2012

Whistle by witchsoup [T, 1.5k]

Hermione spends the majority of her time on the tube, or dashing around Sainsbury's hunting for the last of the vegetarian wraps for her two-thirds-complete meal deal. Though it would be somewhat off-brand, she feels that it's well within her rights to ask David Cameron to lower the price of a meal deal, while he's at it. Possibly her rent, too.

Art: Untitled, Isabel Bishop, c. 1940s-1960s

Lights Out by Phoebe [E, 10.2k]

She smiles, and it enrages him further. Granger is afraid of many things. She's afraid of what lies outside Hogwarts, what could be lurking within the walls. She's afraid of Voldemort, and probably of his father. And she is inexplicably, illogically afraid of the dark. But she's not afraid of him.

Art: The Woman with the Candle (detail), Cornelis Visscher II, c. 1643-1658

Salvage by storycat9 [T, 1k]

Who is Hermione Granger when there’s no one left to protect?

Art: After Igor Svyatoslavich's fighting with the Cumans, Viktor Vasnetsov, 1880

The Object Lesson by Fleurizel [M, 13.6k]

When Hermione is forced to spend a weekend at the Bulstrodes’ country estate glad-handing for the Ministry, she finds an unlikely ally in the only other house guest who hadn’t fled the country when the war broke out: Draco Malfoy.

Art: Hands of the Puppeteer, Mexico City, Tina Modotti, 1929

i think i've seen this film before by magneticwave [T, 24.8k]

It doesn’t occur to Harry until supper that night, while Luna makes a Spanish tortilla with pink and blue potatoes from her garden, that Granger might actually be his friend now. Not just a transferable friend, comfortable with him because she’d grown up with a strangely domestic alternative version of him with short hair, but a real friend. Since he’s not sure how to feel about it, he eats his half of the tortilla in a silent daze and then helps Luna go over the last of the proofs for next week’s Quibbler. 

Art: Still Life with Orange by Süleyman Seyyid Bey, c. 1900

Party Lines by PacificRimbaud [E, 10k]

As the dust settles in the 2000 United States Presidential election, Ivy League student Hermione Granger goes to three different parties, in an effort to think about something- anything- other than the state of Florida. So does that argumentative trust fund prick, Draco Malfoy. A college AU all about enemies who...aren't.

Art: Jasper Johns, Edisto Beach, Ugo Mulas, 1964

i have gone at dusk through narrow streets by i forgot to blink [T, 4k]

Draco, Hermione, and what came before and after the end.

Art: Interior Strandgade 30, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1901

Breathe by Argosy [T, 14.5k]

The war is over and everyone wants something from Hermione. But that's nothing new; she can handle it. Really.

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.

The Edge of the World by Phlox [T, 6.5k]

The only thing worse than living in the world the way it is now... is to bring a child into it.

Art: The Sea, Gustave Courbet, c. 1865

Eyes Open by orphan_account [T, 14.7k]

Granger corners him one last time, pulling that bloody envelope from her robes. He lets it fall into his open palm. "You know the rules, don't you?" "Only for when I'm at my lowest point," he says. "And after I open it, I go straight to you." Ten years later, and he's falling in love with her.

Art: General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (detail), Jacques Louis David, c. 1816

As Beautiful as Days Can Be by Phoebe [T, 6k]

It would be madness, anyway, an unthinkably slim chance that two children who hated each other, forced together in the dark of Hogwarts' endless passageways, might approach, if not understanding, something close kin to it. Might fight and fuck in that darkness. That one might, eventually, tell the other things; little things that can be very important.

Art: Villa am Meer I (Villa by the Sea I), Arnold Böcklin, c. 1864

altered states by sultrynuns [M, 1.5k]

Draco Malfoy is an omnipresent arsehole, and possibly the worst person Hermione's ever met. Naturally, she runs into him the one (1) time she tries to decompress before exams, only to find him in a chemically altered state. And maybe, just maybe, a little ego death is all he needs.

Art: Proteus, Cy Twombly, 1984

The Witching Hour by neilistic [E, 12.4k]

“I feel like—a meteor crashed into my house and I’m the only one who can see it. I feel like a sketch on a piece of parchment instead of a real person. I feel like I will curse the next person who tells me to ‘just enjoy it’.” Hermione never thought she would be a solo parent. No one told her that it would be boring, and devastating, and that she would be filled with so much joy that she might burst any second. No one told Draco he'd feel the same way.

Art: The Sixteenth of September, René Magritte, 1956

Blood Runs Stale by witchsoup [E, 2.8k]

Sacred Twenty-Eight blood is dying out, but the Malfoys never fail to produce an heir. Radiating triumph, Narcissa lifts a small, hot, red something into the air. And tears it in two.

Art: Every Night a Dream Visits Us, Alfred Kubin, 1900

there's always a straight way to the point by B_LovedHunter [T, 13.1k]

Hermione becomes an Animagus just in time for the start of her 8th year. Surprise. She's a cat. While roaming Hogwarts, she comes across a very distressed Draco Malfoy. Against her better judgement, she decides to comfort him. It turns out Draco is a cat person.

Art: Jardin Bleue, Jean Mallard, undated

you were kind of punk rock, i grew up on hip hop by perennial [T, 8k]

The lindworm shedding a skin was akin to watching a cicada crack open its husk and step out, though the thick shell he left behind collapsed somewhat, like a hot air balloon still holding air but without hot flames keeping it taut. "Ta-da," he said. The disappointment was hope-crushing. He was less black underneath, more streaks of brilliant new iridescent green, but the shape and size of him didn't look any different. Hermione breathed through her panic. After this she only had nine dresses left.

Art: The Bride & The Lindorm, Henry Justice Ford, 1897

La Belle Dame sans Merci by fleurizel [T, 14.2k]

In which Draco is Hogwarts’ triwizard champion, Hermione doesn't need rescuing, and we discover the virtues of hypocrisy.

Art: Ophelia, John Byam Shaw, c. 1900

bitter/sweet by provocative_envy [M, 5.6k]

When I finally came, it felt as if I had been flayed open, spine exposed, a cachet of fireworks set off in half-second increments along my vertebrae as he murmured my name so reverently I could not help but think that there must be some magic to it, to me, to him.

Art: At the Breakfast Table, Carl Vilhelm Holsøe, c. 1888-1935

Where the Magic is by Argosy [T, 11.4k]

After Dumbledore’s death, Draco Malfoy vanished without a trace. Ten years later he may have re-emerged as a robber of Muggle banks. Can a bushy-haired gal from Magical Law Enforcement find happiness in the arms of a grey-eyed Master Criminal?

Art: Tahitian Landscape (detail), Paul Gaugin, 1892

I'm Never Lonely When I'm With You by PacificRimbaud [M, 5k]

"I won’t take the room." She shakes her head emphatically. "Living with you is totally out of the question." "Obviously." “But if I did—" His brow furrows. "Would you?"

Art: Christmas in Madison Square Park (detail), Paul Cornoyer, c. 1910

Best Shot by AccioMjolnir [M, 23.6k]

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

Room Serviced by pir8fancier [E, 6.6k]

Post Hogwarts. Kids still at war. Angsty, angry, and men and women doing it in hotel rooms. This is obviously an AU by now.

Art: Misery (detail), Cristóbal Rojas, 1886

Admission by eevilalice [E, 7.2k]

Harry's been captured by Death Eaters, while Ron and Hermione have taken a prisoner of their own: Draco Malfoy. What is Hermione willing to do to find Harry?

Art: Camp Fire (detail), Winslow Homer, 1880

Just As It Is by Phoebe [M, 5.8k]

"Magic doesn't matter. It—" She was losing what she had to say. It was slipping away from her, when she had held it so clear and tight in the dim room, staring at herself in the mirror, and imagining another face at which she would speak. "It's not the most important thing about people," she mumbled. Tonks nodded sharply, and Hermione bit her lip. "It's not. That's all. Thank you."

Art: Wolves, Andrew Wyeth, c. 1960s

Anima Sola by storycat9 [G, 1.8k]

Draco has been a hair-trigger ball of panic, dread, rage and exhaustion all Sixth Year. All he needs is one more thing to bring everything crashing down. So of course some arsehole decides it would be hilarious to spike his morning tea with Amortentia.

Art: Closed Eyes, Odilon Redon, c. 1894

Les Pelerins by pacificrimbaud [M, 10k]

Les pèlerins: pilgrims; travelers on a journey to a holy place. Hermione Granger refused to believe in fate. She’d had enough of destiny and prophecies to last a lifetime. But try as she may, she felt, sometimes, that an invisible golden thread stretched out and away from her. All she could do was follow it.