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It’s 1999. The war is over.
The world has moved on. Hermione Granger has not.
She arrives in Brisbane a shadow of herself—adrift in a city that is not home, with parents who do not understand her, waiting for letters that never come. She has been unraveling, slowly and methodically, and not a soul has noticed.
Until she sees him.
Draco Malfoy. A war criminal. A fugitive. Working in a Muggle pub under an assumed name, carving out a quiet, anonymous life at the edge of the world.
The chances of them ever crossing paths again were infinitesimal. He should have run the moment she recognized him. But he doesn’t.
And he just keeps showing up.
It isn’t fate, but it feels like it. It isn’t easy but they can’t seem to let go of each other.
It isn’t simple. It isn’t safe. But against all logic, it becomes something that will leave traces on them both forever.
A slow-burn enemies-to-lovers story about exile, identity, reinvention, and the messy, painful, nonlinear nature of healing.
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Without a Trace: The Intangible Era by AWKwardPatronus
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Mar 2025
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Draco Malfoy is dead—or as close to it as one can be while still serving the Ministry as a ghost-like enforcer. His latest assignment, a high-priority reintegration case, brings him face-to-face with Hermione Granger, the target he never expected.
Ten years off the grid have given Hermione the freedom to live as a Muggle, protecting a secret that could dismantle the Ministry’s oppressive surveillance state. But their confrontation in the present is only the beginning.
As old wounds resurface and loyalties are tested, Draco and Hermione must reckon with the weight of their past and decide whether they can build a future worth fighting for.
Together, they must navigate the thin line between duty and rebellion to fight for freedom—not just for themselves, but for a world where magic can truly be free.
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Mystery Work
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04 Jul 2025
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He and Granger had abided by their clearly established roles for the last 7 years, and now suddenly she had not only changed the rules but upended the metaphorical game board. Draco had enough on his mind, enough to deal with, without adding a potentially volatile Granger into the mix.
She had been despondent, yelled at him, backed down from their typical tête-à-tête, apologised to him, accused him of being nice, laughed like she was unhinged, thanked him, smiled at him, touched him, then collapsed inward and fled.
She was a living, breathing tornado. He didn't know if he was supposed to be offended, grateful, concerned, or intrigued by the whole situation, but he was pretty sure that he was all of those things and some others he couldn't quite put a finger on yet. It was all dizzying and incredibly distracting.
Or... The war is over. Hermione and Draco both find themselves back at Hogwarts for eighth year — alone in a castle full of people, haunted by the past and present — their wounds still unhealed. For now.
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21 Jun 2025
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Hermione Granger has never been what you’d call “normal”, but after a year on the run and the defeat of Lord Voldemort, she returns to Hogwarts for an eighth year of study, hoping to find just that: a shred of normality after seven extraordinary years.
Instead, she finds herself living on the Slytherin floor of the new eighth-year tower—and falling in love with former childhood bully Draco Malfoy. Dating Draco plunges her into the glamorous world of the wizarding aristocracy: dazzling vacations, opulent parties, and the unspoken rules that govern it all.
Between the hysterical tabloids tracking their every move, his disapproving family, and the scrutiny of being potentially the first muggleborn Malfoy bride, Hermione begins to crack—and gets herself into trouble. Now, on the eve of the wedding of the century, she looks back on the sacrifices she made and wonders—will it all have been for nothing?
_______OR: A Dramione retelling of The Royal We, by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. This story contains direct and altered quotes, storylines, and characters from The Royal We.
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29 Mar 2025
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At the very cusp of a much-longed-for shift in their friendship, Hermione Granger vanished. Draco Malfoy, ever-devoted and painstakingly adept at dismantling mysteries, would spend the next seven years and a day seeking for his disappeared witch.
And then Hermione—ever-contrary, hauntingly remote, aggravatingly withholding, in possession of disquieting power—ends his hellbent search by storming his study and demanding that he give her access to Malfoy family lore.
Draco untangling the mystery of Hermione’s disappearance and just-as-maddening return plunges him into a quest that breaks realms, magical jurisdictions, standing warrants, sacred bargains, ancient truces, the demands of space and time—and, rather importantly, his already tenuous grasp on his restraint regarding his long-lost, brilliant, terrifying, distressingly brown-eyed witch. But, then again, Draco prides himself on being highly adaptable.
If he could not make Hermione stay put, then he would make her keep him.
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13 Jan 2025
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Hermione Granger has enough to deal with: a prestigious Ministry position, werewolves acting oddly across Europe, an itch to duel everything in her path, and a bitter ex-boyfriend to Boot (pun intended). The last thing she needs is the infuriating presence of Draco Malfoy everywhere she goes. He’s been blissfully absent for nine years and can please proceed to disappear again.
Lord Draco Malfoy has enough to deal with, too, thank you very much: a resentful father stripped of his titles, a Potion Masters' Guild that won’t give him the time of day, a charity operating from his cellar, and a chaotic best friend with a web of secrets he cannot possibly parse. The last thing he needs is Hermione Granger self-righteously popping up everywhere he goes and driving him to madness.
A slow-burn Dramione epic in which two indifferent former enemies face their own abundant issues and each other, reluctantly fall in love, and save the world once or twice along the way.
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13 Jan 2025