#scullymurphy

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.