Draco & Hermione

6/57 chapters (22k words) now up on ao3!

Excerpt from this week's chapter:

“Not that I owe you an explanation, but I was out last night.” 

Malfoy raised a brow. “Were you?”

The tone! 

“Yes.” She crossed her arms. “I do have a life you know.”

“Here I thought that was your life.” He jerked his chin toward the bookcase piled with her various dusty accolades and achievements.

Hermione tilted her head. “Do you find yourself thinking of me often, Malfoy?”

Hermione Granger’s Pitiful Creatures Crusade

Chapter Four Flashback: Yule, 1994 [link] Written to "Beautiful" by Lana Del Rey

Malfoy went rigid the instant he recognised her. 

“Granger,” he managed. His hand at her waist was large and warm, the one clasped around hers slightly clammy. He looked quite dashing in his high-collared robes, their black velvet soft beneath the fingers Hermione rested lightly on his shoulder. 

“Malfoy.” She’d gone stiff as a board herself and could do nothing about it.

“You look”—he hesitated—“good.” It was a suspiciously pedestrian choice of adjective coming from him, given he’d hurled an entire thesaurus of unkind words her way in the years since they’d met. Perhaps his vocabulary was limited mostly to scathing taunts and unflattering comparisons, or perhaps he was practised at giving compliments and simply did not feel inclined to offer her a better one.

“Good for a—what was it you called me last week? A long-molared Mudblood?”

He turned her under his arm. She caught sight of his date, Pansy Parkinson, scowling at them, wearing a frilly pink gown that could’ve been made from the drapery of Madam Puddifoot’s Tea Shop. She was surely the only witch at the Yule Ball who was envious not of Hermione’s arrival with Viktor but of Malfoy’s attentions.

He scoffed. “Do you expect me to apologise for that?” 

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“Hermione, damn it!” Harry shouted in frustration. He felt as if his friend, his almost sister, was descending into madness. “You’re obsessed with the guy in the painting! Do you even know his name?! When was the last time you spoke to anyone other than me?”

He could see how withdrawn she had become since moving into the abandoned Malfoy Manor. Looking at her sometimes made him feel like he was looking at the witch he’d met in his first year at Hogwarts. Anxious and nervous. Hermione hadn’t been like that for a long time.

After a moment, he took a deep breath and asked, “Shall we start again? What’s going on?”

She looked at him wordlessly. There was something in her eyes he couldn’t name. He was about to say something more, but she finally muttered, “I feel like the painting in my bedroom is moving...”

“Hermione, all the paintings in the magical world are moving...”

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Dinner was lovely —he asked if she knew what she wanted to eat, but she had simply shrugged, not even opening the menu. It wasn’t a test. She already knew he knew what she liked. She just… wanted to sit with it a little longer. To let him do this for her. He got a little glint in his eyes and ordered for her. She liked how it felt. It was quiet where they were tucked away in that same little booth the first time he’d taken her to The Ninth Door. Intimate. Low amber lights, fine linen on the table, lush velvet cradling her in the booth. It was kind of perfect. “Don’t take offense to this question,” Draco asked quietly —which of course immediately had her tensing. “Do you understand what you’re asking of me… and what you’re asking of yourself?”

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Summary:

Hermione Granger is desperate to get Hogwarts up and running again after the war. She wants to do a full renovation, add special courses, allow new regulations for muggle-borns and more. But despite being 'The Golden Girl', she's shite at getting the elite to spend their galleons on her cause. She's blunt and lacking in the social graces expected of someone of her status.

Draco Malfoy has just finished serving a 3 year term at Azkaban for his part in the war-a sentence that was only lowered because of Hermione's character witness at his trial. He sees her struggling to make the right impression amongst the upper-class wizarding community and offers to give her lessons in manners and etiquette associated with closing the deals she needs to secure her dreams.

But this isn't just any kind of arrangement.

They have 10 lessons between now and the social event of the year.

There's only 1 rule: For each lesson he gives her on how to act in public, she must return a favor of his choice.

The Malfoy-Granger Guide to Silver Linings by applesandasphodel

Bite sized excerpt:  

“Malfoy.” Granger inched into the opening left by the muggle woman and dropped her voice into a harsh whisper. “I’m a witch.” 

Oh. Right. He’d never forgotten something like that before. 

She sighed. “You should leave. If you came here just to ruin my evening—”

Draco sneered. “Why would I do that?” 

He half hoped the Brightest Witch of Her Age would tell him, because he’d also like to know what the fuck he'd been thinking.

“I don’t know why you do anything you do, Malfoy!” She exclaimed, her voice taking on the shrill quality he quite enjoyed.

CHAPTER 5 is FINALLY posted!

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Draco came prematurely... became human that is. They are in the Ministry and Draco is naked and confused and Hermione has to get them out.