Dramione Month 2024
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Sometimes he pulls the memory out, on quiet lonely nights when the ache bites into his bones. When the curiosity gets too much to bear.
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- Part 1 of Dramione Month 2024
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Professor Snape has been teaching them the Patronus Charm for two weeks. Most of her fellow Dumbledore’s Army students have been pretending to struggle with the spell. Not Harry, though, of course. His stag careens impressively around the classroom until Snape tells him to stop posturing or it’ll turn into a peacock.
And while everyone else is busy casting spells, Hermione has been busy watching Draco Malfoy.
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- Part 2 of Dramione Month 2024
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When she gets back to her seat, Draco Malfoy is pawing through her bag like he owns it. He looks up – for a moment guilt streaks across his features before he tamps it down with a sneer – and tosses her nightlight in his hands.
“Rocks, Granger? No wonder you always look so weighed down by your bag.”
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- Part 3 of Dramione Month 2024
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The pain in Draco’s chest wakes him. Deep lacerations that Snape had attempted to heal – that Pomfrey had blanched over – that feel as though they’re still bleeding under the thick bandages. He squeezes his eyes shut and tries not to grimace too deeply, tries not to move lest it causes another wave of agony.
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- Part 4 of Dramione Month 2024
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How could she pack up a life and store it in a neat little beaded bag? Hermione had cast the charm to expand its limits – bigger on the inside like her parents’ old favourite television show – but what should she take? What should she leave behind?
What would she miss the most if she never saw it again? If her house were razed to the ground? She hesitates for a long minute, caught in her own indecision. She reaches for the photo book – flips through it as she deliberates, the pulse of fear strumming in her veins.
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- Part 5 of Dramione Month 2024
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The first time is sort of an accident. Hermione had tossed and turned in her sleep and woken him up – and she’d been crying – and he’d been exhausted from practising and the spell had left his lips before he could bite the word back down.
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- Part 6 of Dramione Month 2024
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“What’s your favourite spell?” Draco asks out of nowhere one afternoon, when she’s curled up in his study reading a novel.
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- Part 7 of Dramione Month 2024
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At too early o’clock on Saturday morning, when she ought to be sleeping in, especially given the late night she’d had prior, Hermione wakes up to a clattering and a shout from her living room.
“Fucking – why the fuck – Granger!”
Hermione buries her pounding head under the pillows and hopes very much that the man swearing in her living room is just some terrible dream. A nightmare.
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- Part 8 of Dramione Month 2024
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Like waves crashing into the shore, they’d collided after the war. Not just one mistake, but a pattern of repeated behaviour they should have never indulged in. His breath hot against her neck while he pushed her up against the wall, the way he’d groan her name in a broken whisper when they were finished. The way she’d knot her fingers in his hair as though she never wanted to let him go.
But she had. All because he’d lost himself too deeply in the churning waters of his heart and whispered his feelings against her freckled skin.
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- Part 9 of Dramione Month 2024
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“Right.” Pansy all but tosses Hermione into the room – ignores her startled cry – and glares at them both. “Draco is in love with you.” She points at Hermione. “Hermione is in love with you.” She points towards Draco. “Figure it out.” Pansy throws up both of her hands.
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- Part 10 of Dramione Month 2024
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Draco does what he’s told. Learning Occlumency just gave him another way to compartmentalise – another way to distance himself from his own actions.
From his own bloody hands.
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- Part 11 of Dramione Month 2024
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Hermione was supposed to be enjoying her Friday evening off from work. But her telephone had rang unexpectedly at half-ten with a harried-sounding nurse insisting that she come to the hospital and pick up her boyfriend.
Flustered, Hermione had agreed and then stared at the phone receiver after the nurse had hung up. She didn’t have a boyfriend. But someone had used her name and muggle phone number to pretend that she did.
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- Part 12 of Dramione Month 2024
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It was, perhaps, karmic retribution that led Draco Malfoy to being stuck in the lift.
He’d complained about having to take one at all as Hermione rolled her eyes and explained that they were perfectly safe and they were not taking thirty flights of stairs back down from the conference room, thank you very much Malfoy, she was in heels.
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- Part 13 of Dramione Month 2024
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After two months of research and asking around, Hermione had finally settled on a tattoo parlor. She wanted something to mark the end of the war – a tangible mark on her skin that said I survived. But she wasn’t an artist and she was indecisive to a fault, so gathering the courage to actually visit the tattoo parlor took her another two weeks.
With a deep breath she pushes the door open. The store is in a dangerous part of London – dingy and unkempt – and if not for the glowing reviews scattered around on enthusiast websites, she wouldn’t believe the place was fit for a cockroach. But inside – a threadbare sofa and walls filled with black and white art – the place is clean. There’s a smell of disinfectant overpowering the faint smell of cigarette smoke, and as the bell jangles behind her a coarse voice yells out.
“With you in a minute, love.”
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- Part 14 of Dramione Month 2024
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Hermione doesn’t realise until she’s already sat down and pulled out her parchment and quills that she’s forgotten her copy of Advanced Rune Translation. She hunches her shoulders as she digs futilely through her bookbag only to come up empty-handed. It’s only the second day of term and she’s already going to fall behind.
She remembers reading it on the train and then – nothing. She must have left it – idiot – and she wants to sink into her seat as Professor Babbling calls the class to attention. With a furtive glance, Hermione looks to her left.
Of all people – it’s Malfoy sat beside her – his chin propped in his hand and a faraway look in his eyes. He blinks as Hermione carefully shifts closer, dragging her parchment with her.
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- Part 15 of Dramione Month 2024
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In the aftermath of the accident, Hermione learns all the ways in which grief was a five-letter word. It was his name on her lips when she stifled her sobs over endless cups of tea that never eased the gnawing ache inside her stomach. The five letters of his name when she signed paperwork – so much that she dreamed about it later – the parchment and ink dragging her down into the same abyss she'd lost him to.
It was the space beside her in bed where he was supposed to be. The way his tea mug – novelty, covered with curling snakes – sat growing dust in the kitchen. Those spaces in the darkness of her new life, the holes he left behind where the starlight shone through.
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- Part 16 of Dramione Month 2024
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It was supposed to be a quiet night. A date night – the kind they hadn’t made time for in so long, not when Lyra was anxious about leaving for Hogwarts and Scorpius cried at every mention of Lyra being gone. And Cassie was so little that Hermione (and Draco) hadn’t wanted to leave her alone.
But Pansy – of all people – had insisted. Had gotten them tickets for “some muggle show” that turned out to be a movie, and she’d practically shoved them out of their own house and into the crisp night air while Cassie screamed with giddy excitement at seeing her Aunt Pans.
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- Part 17 of Dramione Month 2024
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Hermione had left the book – muggle and uninteresting – behind when she’d left the library, half in tears over Draco’s constant sniping commentary whilst they'd written their essays.
He’d pocketed it as a matter of course – to hex it or throw at her head, whichever was more enjoyable in the imagined future moment – but when Quidditch practice got cancelled and Theo and Blaise were busy with their own last-minute essays, he’d found himself bored enough to read it. Draco sprawled out over one of the sofas, stomach down and his chin in his hand.
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- Part 18 of Dramione Month 2024
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“Draco,” Hermione says as she raises an eyebrow and looks pointedly towards him, “Why is my copy of Hogwarts: A History holding up my kitchen table?”
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- Part 19 of Dramione Month 2024
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It all starts, like so many other harebrained schemes, because of Theo.
More precisely because of Theo’s hangover and bleary-eyed declaration that perhaps they were all getting to the unfortunate point in their lives when staying up drinking until the sun rose wasn’t the best idea.
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- Part 20 of Dramione Month 2024