Sorted into Slytherin with the whisper of prophecy around her, Hermione refuses to bow down to the blood prejudices that poison the wizarding world. Carving her own path forward, Hermione chooses to make her own destiny, not as a Muggleborn, a halfblood, or as a pureblood... but as a New Blood, and everything the mysterious term means. ((Short chapters, done scene by scene))

A collection of one-shots, drabbles, and random story ideas. Updated sporadically, whenever the muse strikes.

Once upon a time Hermione Granger literally ran into Draco Malfoy in a bookshop. His mother sees a connection between her son and the muggleborn that she can't ignore and determines to get to know the girl. An imagining of how things could have gone if Hermione had been taken under the wing of the Malfoy family.

The War was won, and all was well. Or so Hermione Granger thinks, until the night escaped Death Eater Thorfinn Rowle turns up in her kitchen, her broken wand in his hands and a story she can't bring herself to believe tumbling from his lips. (Tropes: marriage law/betrothal, pureblood!Hermione, ancient conspiracies)

Glimpses into Draco, Hermione, and Scorpius' life as a family. A sequel to my story, "A Second Look."

"Can you make a patronus?" He shook his head. "They say Death Eaters can't do it," he told her, sadly. "Well, it's a good thing you're not a Death Eater, then, isn't it?" she responded with a smile. "I've got the mark, Granger. Personal feelings aside, I'll always carry his brand." "I don't care what's on your arm, Draco… I know what's in your heart. I think you can do it."

After the trauma of the War Hermione Granger return's to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to conclude her education. Though with her friends unwillingness to address the past she finds herself thrust into isolation. She would never have expected to find a spark in that darkness, or that solidarity could be born from her solitude. (Dramione - Slow Burn - Explicit Content)

She had been missing for more than ten years. But then she had dark magic cast on her in the Department of Mysteries, and that insidious curse did more than just injure her physically. It revealed a secret, a truth. Hermione Granger could finally be recognized as the girl she'd been at birth: Calliope Nott.

She walked over to the huge, full-length mirror. Staring back was her eleven-year-old self but with long, beautiful, silky platinum blonde hair and pale skin. Hermione ran her fingers through her hair, the reality of the situation sinking in. The fairy hadn't just made them switch places for a day... she sent them back in time and switched their lives. DM X HG. EWE. Slow burn.

With the Order desperate for a way to overthrow Voldemort after Ginny is killed & Harry & Ron are left comatose, Dumbledore invokes a new plan. Like the succubus, Morgana, Hermione must harvest the magical essence of the wizards around her. With eight powerful wizards frequenting her bed & sharing her magic, Hermione will find out what it's like to get a little closer than most

When Draco's wife is caught cheating and pregnant to another man, Draco must fight for custody of his son, Scorpius. Hermione, determined to ensure her son, Aurelian, grows up knowing his brother without Draco finding out, somehow winds up tangled into the middle of Draco's impending divorce. Can she help it if she also keeps finding herself tangled in his embrace, and liking it?

Antonin Dolohov had never loathed anyone so much in all his life. He'd certainly never wanted someone this much. He'd done terrible things, but kidnapping and blackmailing his favourite mudblood into shagging him was low, even for him. Too bad he can think of no other way to share his undisclosed desires.

Life is closing in on all sides and Draco Malfoy is drowning in expectations. Something has to give. A chance encounter with Hermione Granger infuses his life with something new―but she doesn't even remember her own name.

Thorfinn Rowle had a mission: Ruin Hermione Granger's life like she'd almost ruined his. To trap a lion cub is easy, but when this little lioness grows up Thorfinn will have to walk a knife-edge between hate and love to avoid her sharp claws. Revenge is a dish best served cold and unspoken promises are deadly.

Draco Malfoy never thought he deserved to be loved. He tore himself down bit by bit until there wasn't enough of him left to hate. (Or: How Draco Malfoy recovers from an eating disorder and falls in love along the way.)

The Ministry is offering rewards for having children. They've got a list of unconventional pairings and they're willing to give certain people the thing they want most. When Ron overreacts to the idea of Hermione being paired with Mafloy and does something stupid, Hermione's life is set on a new path. One that involves having a baby with Draco Malfoy.

A collection of Dramione drabbles, some prompted and some not, covering a range of themes.

Minerva McGonagall steps in on the awful night the Potters are murdered and arranges to have Harry Potter raised by Sirius Black and his somewhat cousins, the Malfoys. Draco and Harry grow up as almost brothers and everything - well, almost everything - is different. Gryffindor!Draco. Dramione. AU. COMPLETE.

There are legends among the pureblood families about Keepers-special witches who have the power to restore a fallen House. If any House needed a Keeper, it's the Ancient and Noble House of Black. Hermione/Multi (Cygnus, Orion, Sirius AND Regulus). Polyandry.

The mission should have been simple. Seduce a Death Eater for capture and interrogation by the Order, who would hold him hostage until such time that his usefulness ran out. Hermione had agreed to help with the seduction part of that mission. She didn't agree to babysitting an angry Death Eater in a remote safe house. And she sure as hell didn't agree to Thorfinn Rowle.

*ONE-SHOT* "Very well," Theo said quietly. "But fair warning, Ms. Granger. As of Monday, that excuse is also at its expiration."

An act of kismet whilst herb gathering sees Hermione interacting with an unknown werewolf. When he bites her while she is in her animagus form, he sets into motion a twisted destiny that binds them together as mates. With Remus and Sirius there to help her through, Hermione's biggest worry is finding out the identity of the werewolf who marked her.

When the wizarding war takes a dark turn, Hermione is thrown back into the past- straight to Potter Cottage in Godric's Hollow. Now she has the chance to change everything for the better, even if it means erasing the childhood she treasured and writing her friends out of her life. But when her presence alters the timeline, she has to prove to the Order the truth of her future.

The war is over and life returns to normal... or some strange, new version of normal. But for Draco and Hermione, nothing is the same. Their daughter came roaring into the world during the Battle of Hogwarts. How will these two face a post-war world, parenthood, and each other? Sequel to The Gift of Joy.

He stood abruptly. "Go ahead, Granger. Run your mouth. It still won't change a thing. McGonagall wants to help me, you want to help me," he was inches away from her face. Not yelling, no. Instead, his whisper was like a hiss that sent goosebumps all over her body. "Don't you see that there is nothing I can change? I am who I am and there's nothing you can do, but I'm stuck with you

With the wizarding world destroyed beyond repair, Hermione would do anything to fix it. In her case, 'anything' will include time-travel, monthly moon symptoms, and breaking all the rules with a certain group of troublemakers from the past. AU Marauder era. RL/HG. Rated M for language, violence, and adult situations.

Hermione has not been lucky in love. When a break-up forces her to find a new flat, she thinks she's hit the jackpot. Until she realises that she might just be falling for her new flatmate's boyfriend. Perhaps when Ginny lends her some of her steamy romance novels, her luck will change.

When a blizzard strikes, Katara is torn from Appa's back and separated from her friends. Attempting to find them, she stumbles across Zuko, similarly separated from Iroh and searching for his Uncle or the Avatar – whichever comes first. Pairing up looks like the only option, but what effect will such close contact between two enemies have in the long run? Zutara.

Hermione's destiny is altered by the Powers that Be. She is cast back to the Marauder's Era where she is Hermione Potter, the pureblood fraternal twin sister of James Potter. She retains Hermione Granger's memories, and is determined to change her brother's fate for the better. Obviously AU. Starts in their 1st year. M for language, minor violence, etc.

Hermione would rather spend the holiday at work, treating her patients than flying home to see her family. But when her plane is forced to land halfway to her destination due to the weather, she starts to think the holiday might not be so bad after all.

It was a fortunate accident that as the world burned around them, it was he who saved her. He never imagined his actions would have such far reaching consequences. But then again, magic and fate always played by their own rules. Thorfinn Rowle just never thought he'd ever get caught in the middle. [Thormione] [postwar]

Remus thinks Lily's nuts for suggesting a graduation party for a six-year-old. He thinks Sirius is even crazier for suggesting he invite Teddy's teacher. It just so happens that some of the best ideas are the crazy ones.

How did it feel? It felt like he was barely holding it together. She, of all people, should shun him. Or yell at him. Curse him. Spit at him. Take out her wand and blast him off the face of the earth. It was crushing guilt and relief and confusion all at once when he looked at Hermione Granger.

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.

She felt the rumble of his chest when he chuckled due to the fact that he had moved his chair closer to her. "I disagree," he whispered, angling himself so his lips were near her ear; his chin hovering over her shoulder. "Their words carry so much raw emotion behind them. They are artists and our ears are the canvas."

Unable to let go of Remus' disappearance like the others have, Hermione follows every lead she gets. Eight years after nothing but dead ends, she finally gets one she just knows won't be cold. But when she gets there, their reunion is unlike anything she could have ever thought possible.

"Did I ever tell you she's my mate?" Remus said so quietly that the potions master almost didn't catch it. Hermione finds herself being thrown back in time for her final year to walk the halls with non other that the marauders. Little does she know, shes been there before.

The battle is won, Voldemort is dead, but the war is far from over. In the new Death Eater regime, Draco Malfoy does what he must to survive and keep his mother safe. Now a highly trained assassin, Draco has learned to think of his targets as inhuman beings, but when he is tasked with killing someone from his past, he can no longer hide from the horrors of the world around him.

In the dead of night, Draco sees something he shouldn't. Something he should have looked away from. Instead, it draws him in like a moth to a flame. And when Granger catches him red-handed, her reaction isn't at all what he expected.

Hermione Granger had never anticipated that Draco Malfoy would be her best friend, a decade after the war. She'd also never meant to wind up trapped in a marriage pact, borne of one late night with too much wine. But as his thirtieth birthday draws near, time will either seek to drive them together or push them apart.

One of them is desperately trying to remember their past while the other is forever trying to escape theirs. It's seven years after the war and Draco has managed to avoid almost everyone from Hogwarts, living a lonely life on a small island, far away from the wizarding community. But a familiar face in a cafe window capsizes his world into chaos. Dramione. EWE. Memory fic.

Hermione's new flatmate is driving her mad. Not the one that she's involved in a friends-with-benefits thing, no. The other one. The one that doesn't actually live there, but stays over way too often. The one her flatmate claims is just a friend. And once she finally voices her assumptions, both set out to prove just how wrong she truly is. [Muggle AU]

Why has Ginny invited a certain Slytherin to her big day? And why is Hermione so flustered? 'Tell me not to' he murmured. His eyes found hers, held them for a moment, then moved down to her lips. She distantly thought this was probably the moment to stop herself from making a horrible drunken mistake. Fluff, smut and bouncy castles - rated M for a reason!

The Ministry enacts a Marriage Law, magically pairing couples who'd never in a million years agree to even speak, let alone wed. Paired off with Malfoy, Hermione has to suffer the added indignity of the Ministry banning all contraception and forcing fertility treatment and aphrodisiacs on them all. Draco's secret makes it worse.

The instincts of flesh, his legacy, awaken in the middle of war, a war that he and his kind brought upon themselves by supporting an insane megalomaniac. He doesn't know how to protect her, or if he even wants to, but to survive, he will do anything. And for him to live, she must survive. Dark/Possession/Abuse/Torture/etc etc Veela!Draco HG/DM

On Draco Malfoy's nineteenth birthday, he makes a decision that will change the rest of his life. Dramione.

In Elysium, that girl behind the white mask, begging for permission to come undone could be the Golden Girl. That man behind the black mask making her beg could be the Boy Who Had No Choice. In Elysium, anonymity is key. If you could be anyone, who would you be?

Hermione Granger is determined not to live the life her wretched mother expects of her. That includes not falling in love with the rich, powerful, sexy, clever Draco Malfoy, who also happens to be Pansy Parkinson's boy-toy. Dramione (remix of Feyre/Rhysand from ACOTAR). A/U Hogwarts era. Slytherin!Hermione. Fairy soulmate fic. 2017 Dramione-Remix Fest entry.

Sent back in time to the Marauders era, Hermione must go to school with people she only knows as being dead, her Hogwarts Professors, and an Azkaban Escapee. Stuck in the 70s living a life where she is falling in love with a Marauder, Hermione will do anything to keep the friends she's made from the fate she knows will befall them without her interference.

Cassiopeia Black wasn't the sort who was willing to just sit idly by while her House fell down around her. When Cassiopeia is given a Muggleborn witch orphaned by Death Eaters, she uses magical adoption to make the baby a true Black. Pureblood!Hermione. Slytherin!Hermione.

Slytherin!Hermione. When the Sorting Hat placed a muggle-born girl into House Slytherin in 1991, she tells a little white lie to keep safe. Going into her 7th Year during a terrifying new era at Hogwarts, Head Girl Hermione Granger has no idea that her lie is about to bind her fate with the 2 men she loves most...with tragically unexpected consequences.Draco/Hermione/Theo triangle

When Hermione Granger is caught by Snape she must fake her death and assume a new identity and appearance as the illegitimate daughter of Severus Snape. Going by the name Mina Graziana-Snape, Hermione must navigate this new world where she's rubbing shoulders with Death Eaters, forced to participate in revels, marked as a Death Eater herself and balancing light and dark.

Hermione Granger finds herself pregnant and marked as belonging to Fenrir Greyback following an unfortunate encounter with him in the Forbidden Forest after the Battle of Hogwarts. Faced with the knowledge that keeping the child may tie her to Greyback for life, but struggling with her own conscience, she must decide the fate of the child in her womb and by extension, her own fate.

The adverse effects of unknowingly imbibing Babbling Beverage while intoxicated include the urge to chatter incessantly, dizziness, short-term memory loss, and spilling your secrets to a fake version of Draco Malfoy.

Some girls got hearts and love and body positivity, and an everlasting supply of chocolates. Some girls got…Quidditch tickets. Hermione Granger's about to meet the temptation of her life: a man who wants to give her all of the above. Dramione/Draco x Hermione. Romantic comedy. 2019 Dramione-Duet Fest entry.

After the murder of Albus Dumbledore, Draco never makes it out of Hogwarts. Instead, he is captured, interrogated, and placed in the care of someone who can help him lie low temporarily. His caretaker? None other than one Hermione Granger. Stripped of his status, his wand, and his dignity, can Draco Malfoy find solace in the company of the muggleborn he once tormented?

He can't leave the room. Her room. And it's all the Order's fault. Confined to a small space with only the Mudblood for company, something's going to give. Maybe his sanity. Maybe not. "There," she spat. "Now your Blood's filthy too!" DM/HG. PostHBP. Now complete with epilogue.

What do the Golden Boy and the Silver Serpent have in common? One Gryffindor Princess. And she has them both wrapped around her finger.

The War has ended, and everyone is trying to move on. Hermione works at the Ministry and stumbles across a document that could change life for all witches and wizards in the United Kingdom. A Marriage Law buried in time is signed, and the plan set forth by three of the four Hogwarts Founders is finally completed. (Marriage Law with more substance) [Hermione x Sirius pairing]

Everything Hermione knows about the war, herself, and the wizarding world is a lie. Friends become enemies, enemies become friends, and Dumbledore is not a leader of justice and light. With Snape as her mentor and a father she never expected, Hermione will ensure Harry's survival and kick it to the ministry. Dramione. Lemons. Character deaths. Weasley Bashing. (M)

Hermione never expected she'd fall pregnant with a lovechild fathered by a mystery man to get back at Ron for cheating. Her drunken revenge leads to the birth of her son. 5 years later she is confronted by Draco Malfoy with a photo she thinks is of her son. Things get complicated when he tells her it's not.

The first time had come out of nowhere. There had been nothing; no build up, not so much as a single word to indicate that it was even a possibility. The second time was a surprise simply because there was one. Every time after that blurred together. / Eighth Year.

"Are you familiar with Time-Turners Miss Granger?" The question was the catalyst that sent Hermione back on a secret mission to stop Voldemort before October 31st, 1981. Her work with the original order was important, but clearly nobody relayed this to her partner. Young and not yet tainted by the pain of loss and Azkaban, Sirius Black was a lot harder to manage than Ron or Harry.

Upon waking up on his 18th birthday, Draco Malfoy noticed three small letters on his wrist: HJG. That same day, Hermione Granger also woke up with letters on hers: DLM. "What does it mean?" she asked quietly. "It means… we're soulmates." COMPLETE!

Going out and drinking in a crowded pub wasn't exactly what Hermione had in mind for her birthday. When the night goes south quickly, who better to step in and turn it around than her co-worker and crush? Written in honor of our favorite bookworm's birthday.

The Marriage Law, once enacted, has the power to destroy Hermione's perfectly normal life. Luckily, she and Ron are already planning to obey the horrific law together as a team... Until a Malfoy-shaped wrench gets thrown into the works. Dramione. Cover by littleneko1923 (thank you!).

"This can never happen again," he warned quietly, waving a hand between the two of them indicatively. Hermione nodded emphatically in agreement, not daring to say a word lest she be terribly rude. Or vomit. Either was an option. Hermione wondered why she had a terrible sinking feeling inside to think that it still might.

"Help me, Granger. Please" "We've got to get back to the castle. What about Harry and Ron? " "It's too dangerous. From now on they're on their own, just like us." Hermione saves Draco from the Death Eaters after he fails to kill Dumbledore. Now they're both in danger and must run, leaving their homes, friends and families behind.

This world was so different from her own, Hermione would not readily forget the shock on Blaise Zabini's face as she appeared in the charms classroom or the pallor of Draco Malfoy who looked as if he might faint… and she had some serious explaining to do. Three part story that begins in an alternate universe. Rated M for later content.

"It's not stress Miss Granger- you're in labor."

Draco challenges Harry and friends to play EROS & PSYCHE, a scandalous card game with a dark, mysterious history. It's Slyth vs. Gryff, male vs. female, pride vs. desire in the ultimate game of hearts and amour! Pairings: Draco/Hermione,Blaise/Ginny,Ron/Pansy,Seamus/Lavender,Theo/Daphne,Harry/Tracey. AU 7th yr. Secrets, romance, angst, and sex await the turning of the first card...

A series of drabbles to act as a sequel to Oblivion, based on the teased relationship from the epilogue. Exploring Hermione and Draco's relationship, where Voldemort is long dead, Lucius is in Azkaban, and they grow up as friends. Set in the Oblivion Universe. COMPLETE!

Draco escapes from The Manor with Hermione Granger's dead body in his arms. But she isn't as dead as he thought she was. Set during DH but differs a lot from cannon. NOW EDITED!

Regrets about the past can cause you to miss the miracle of the moment right now before your eyes… Hermione struggles to let go of her life in England, while making a new one with Draco half a world away. Draco x Hermione/Dramione. Romance/Drama/AU War scenario. 2017 Dramione-Duet Fic Exchange entry #1 of 2. COMPLETE!

A series of one-shots (sporadic updates): a sequel to Letters of the Past. Love is complicated on its own but for Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy, it's the only thing that makes complete sense in their world, torn apart by war and prejudices. Can they withstand the scrutiny and pressure once everyone knows they're together? 8th year and beyond.

When Hermione returns to Hogwarts alongside many of her peers to complete her 8th year, she is not expecting the course of events that will lead her into a game of seduction, lies, deceit and mind-blowing sex. She certainly never expected it to have anything to do with what Draco Malfoy did to her at Malfoy Manor during the war.

Hermione gets sent back in time to the Marauders. How can she face Sirius, the once love of her life again after he died in her arms-killing her inside. Her heartbreak over the lost war in her present day takes it's toll and can the young Sirius take his mind off of the broken witch that seems to fear nothing and not fawn over him? Mature Dark Hermione Adult Situations

They might've won the war, but the price of Remus's life is too much to bear. Hermione elects to go back in time, determined to befriend the Marauders, save lives, and win Remus's heart no matter how flighty and hesitant he might be, Hermione triggers a series of events that could alter the future she knows for good, or could unravel the fabric of the very universe.

Post-war, eighth-year marriage law fic. In a world where pureblood pomp collides with muggleborn sass not everything is as it seems. As the pairings unfold in the most peculiar matches, the current and former students of Hogwarts have a learning curve ahead of them. Little do they know that those people they called enemies might turn out to be their perfect match.

Hermione is sixty and all alone in the world when on a fateful day she wakes to read the news of Draco Malfoy's death. Not long after, his barrister arrives to tell her Draco's left her a bundle of letters and a way to rewrite their past if she wants it. Will these two be able to find love, redemption, and acceptance in their rapidly changing world after the war? Time travel AU.

When things go awry in the Department of Mysteries, Hermione incites an ancient ritual to return James and Lily Potter from beyond the grave. The catch? The ritual demands her life unless she tethers her magic to the Order's resident Werewolf. Can they really remain impartial and unaffected when their magic is forever link and when touching him feel so exquisitely good?

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. Winner of Most Creative Plot in the Granger Enchanted Awards 2018.

Draco Malfoy has a secret that Hermione Granger has forgotten. Time and fate collide as two people learn to love each other and the world learns to accept the lovers without knowing their secret, they are mated. Dramione. Post War. Veela Draco. Complete.

*ONE SHOT* Hermione and Thorfinn have what can only be called a rocky relationship, but it's not like they believe in everlasting love.

The Ministry had tossed Thorfinn Rowle into Azkaban to rot. The only problem with that was Hermione Granger. An unclaimed life debt, a worried mother, and protected status only serve to complicate the issue. M for a LOT of cursing. Thorfinn Rowle/Hermione Granger. A million words story.

*ONE SHOT* Coming to call on a werewolf hours before the full moon rises has unexpected consequences for the brightest witch of the age. Hermione never expected that Remus would ever let her get so close, but the allure of moonlight finally proves too much for the lycanthrope to resist. Remione.

A mysterious item and mischievous Marauders end up accidentally shoving Remus Lupin into another time and place where he has to rebuild his life from scratch, deal with the aftermath of a war he hadn't yet been a part of, all with the help of new friends and a special young witch. *Art by Freya Ishtar* *Indefinite Hiatus—Not Abandoned*

She mustn't be seen. It was the oldest rule of time travel yet one of the hardest to follow. Hermione is thrown back to the start of her third year and the professor who'd always been there for her. Now with Sirius escaped from prison and Remus' entire past before him again, can she be there for him? And what happens once the year is over? NOW COMPLETE!

Blaise Zabini has been in love with Ginny Weasley for years, but today she is marrying the hero of the wizarding world, Harry Potter. If only things had been different back then, during the war, it would be Blaise up there on that altar at her side! ...For a Slytherin obsessed, maybe it still can be. Drama/Angst/Romance/Dark Fic. 2015 Smutty-Claus Fic Exchange entry.

Bellatrix's torture of Hermione uncovers a long-kept secret. The young witch learns her true origins in a story that shows the beginning and end of the Wizarding wars as Hermione learns about her biological father and the blood magic he dabbled in that will control her future.

Hermione comes up with a charm that allows 'bonded soul' matches, something that has been unheard of for generations. What will Hermione do when her own magic matches her with Draco Malfoy? Unique pairings. This Hermione is a scarred war hero in a political job. She is not going to act like a brash teen and starts out in shock and reserved. Not for all readers.

"I...I love Ron." His lips brushed against her ear as he breathed softly, "Then tell me to stop." They thought the war was over. Little did they know it was only just beginning. Dramione fic (Complete Part 1 of 2)

(Complete) "There are worse monsters out there than me. Perhaps you'd like me to introduce you to some?" Voldemort promised Hermione as a war prize to Antonin Dolohov for his bravery and loyalty following the Dark Lord's victory over Harry Potter. On the run for almost a year, when she is captured by the Death Eater she learns not everything in a postwar world is black or white.

Draco Malfoy was in love with Hermione Granger. He didn't know it. She didn't know it. But Blaise Zabini, boy did he ever know it. 7th Year Dramione AU from Blaise's perspective.

Just another Pureblood!Hermione story. A hidden adoption revealed, a brother found, a new world to figure out: "What are you hoping for?" he asked as they stood ready to do the spell. "I don't know," Hermione admitted. "You?" His knuckles were white on his wand. "A sister," he said, his voice very low, "I'm hoping for a sister." Winner 2015 Energize WIP Awards. COMPLETE.

Hermione is sorted into Slytherin; how will things play out differently when the brains of the Golden Trio has different friends? AU. Darkish Dramione. COMPLETE.

*COMPLETE* Hermione Granger receives a strange and beautiful gift anonymously, and is swept off her feet at the Ministry's staff Masquerade Christmas Ball. Caught beneath the mistletoe, Hermione finds herself snogging an incredibly intoxicating young man, only to be shocked when she learns with whom she had been locking lips.

"That incident, their first kiss, always reminded her of a car crash; people often described how they could recall every moment before and every moment after, but the impact itself was lost or hazy, like when you find a new bruise and can't remember where it came from. And Hermione could genuinely remember every detail that followed the impact. Every detail." Dramione. One-shot.

Two years after the war, a young stranger pays a visit to the burrow. His arrival alone is baffling, but the news he brings of an upcoming war turns the world upside down. Hermione's quiet, post-war life will never be the same.