ebook cover version of this cheeky little number, because once it occurred to me, I sort of couldn't resist
shout out to the wonderful garnetsyrup, who did the original (far superior) cover art for dwd, and chaosandcodices, who produced multiple gorgeous illustrations within (I wanted to credit them on the cover itself but frankly these are dimensions I do not vibe with and it was a struggle enough to fit in the title)
It's the year of the horse! Which has also become the year of Draco Malfoy as unofficial lucky mascot thanks to the Chinese translation of his name Malfoy, Ma-er-fu, containing the words for horse and fortune.
Huge thanks to fellow artist @strandsofsaturn for the Mandarin characters:
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.
Art: Mariamne Leaving the Judgment Seat of Herod, John William Waterhouse, 1887
I’m going to keep beating the “you guys don’t understand museums at all and the memes are actively harming any work done to improve things” drum until it enters the public consciousness as much as “did you know the Egyptian gods didn’t have animal heads?” I did it once and I’ll do it again.
Don’t just post a meme or think bringing up the BM at every opportunity counts as activism. Learn about how these places work from the multitudes of museum professionals and academics that exist on the internet. They’re more than happy to tell you about all the good and bad things that museums are. Then at least if you’re fighting for change, you actually know what you’re fighting for rather than posting half baked hot takes.
Y'know, I wanted to add to this with a well thought out piece on how a lot of people don't understand museums or even how colonialism played a part in how collections were formed (the truth - not the weird game of internet telephone facts people *think* makes them knowledgeable). That sort of stuff is important information for people to have.
But then I realised what I was seeing in people's replies/tags/comments was beyond anything I could do to try to help correct the situation. Basically, most comments that were being made lacked any understand on even the most fundamentally basic level, so have this instead:
'it should have been the british museum instead' - bestie, do you think the british were the only ones with an empire? France had one too, and you're never going to guess what's housed in the Louvre. absolutely tone deaf to just think it was only one country who did colonialism and has a museum with colonial items in. please go look up what the hobby lobby is up to, or why they MET has been in so much trouble. the issue is everywhere, so every time I see this statement, I think the person who wrote it is an idiot.
'the british museum stole everything anyway' - the museum, as in the actual institution, has never stolen anything. I mean that seriously. a large part of its collection isn't even stolen because there are legitimate ways to accquire artefacts. strange, I know, but more people would know that if they didn't just parrot hot takes on the internet. this is not to say that it doesn't have stolen objects, it absolutely does, but how they got there is way more complicated. mostly it's rich old guys who did do a colonialism donating things to the british people on their deaths and the government going 'we need to put these somewhere' (again...simplistic/lacking nuance).
'if things are stolen from museums we can repatriate' - no you can't. funny thing about recieving artefacts is that you need provenance and chain of custody. those are legal things and you'll be serving the country or culture the artefact should be returned to much better by *not* handing them stolen goods with no provenance.
'uhh I thought these museums were supposed to be better at looking after these artefacts. clearly they can't' - yeah, no, see the first part of that is the racist myth that conservatives use to prevent any talks on repatriation, we all need to cut that shit out. the second part is because people have been getting more hostile towards museums, governments have been using it as an excuse to cut funding for them (you may think that museums, including the BM, are very rich...they aren't. their value is in their collections, they don't actually have much money at all) and when funding is cut, they're stretched thin. That's how what happened at the Louvre happened. The more arts and cultural institutions are devalued and defunded, the more likely it is that they will close and let me tell you, those collections will be sold and none of you will see those artefacts again. they sure as shit won't go back to their country of origin. they're more likely to be displayed in a billionare's 8th mansion.
who cares? it's funny - you are a tar pit and part of the problem
speaking of infecting my vocabulary. i saw this post and spent like three days whispering "beepeur" to myself. i don't know why this killed me but it did so i'm bringing it here.
the biggest secret that Big Fanfic doesn't want you to know is that the best way to find fics you'll enjoy is to scroll through the bookmarks of a fic written by an author you already like. people gravitate toward fics written in similar styles, etc that they enjoy. so if someone's read your favorite author, chances are they've read fics that are similar to those written by your favorite author. if i get killed by Big Wattpad we'll know why
“Do you think I’m arguing with you? I’m not even sharpening my teeth on you yet.”
NCUTI GATWA as CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
EDWARD BLUEMEL as WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
in BORN WITH TEETH
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