Malfoy & Granger and the Case of the Looted Artifacts. An Auror Partners Adventure for Silver.Hebridean for the DHr Artists Secret Santa exchange ♥️✨
This was SO much fun to put together. I wanted to make this into a story without using many words. It may not have even needed the segment tags! Also, I love using maps to tell stories.
Much love, Silver!!! 🧡🧡🧡 So very glad to know you!
my biggest achievement of 2026 so far: finally completing this Da Vinci-inspired portrait
or "girl with [H]ermine" as I've been affectionately calling it in my head, regardless of how little sense that pun makes upon examination (especially since the original piece is actually called "lady with an ermine")
inspired by Kyonomiko's Waifs and Strays, hence why that is a pine marten (and why that pine marten is secretly a wizard)
I think sometimes it's important to share my process, and in particular my mistakes, so please admire these screenshots of previous, rejected drafts (alongside the original line art, which can be viewed in full here)
this image planted itself in my brain last june and hasn't left me alone since--if I'm honest, it took me a few hours to paint the masks and then six months to figure out what I was doing font-wise and get canva to behave accordingly (I wish I were joking)
for the fabulously dead dove that is Blue Oblivion by @pleasantlyfrantic, a veritable feast of all of my favourite traumatic tropes
inspired by the angel olsen song "spring" which I have decided is entirely romantic, please don’t point out that the lyrics do not back this up, it is definitely about nice things like doing babies and not horrid things like missed opportunities and the cruel passage of time
she sang "now I'm holding your baby" and I said "great plan, angel, no notes"
(sorry, re: "doing babies")
hold on, what's that, in the picture frame?
is that...a portrait within a portrait?
oh ffs
colour version incoming but couldn't wait to post because I'm kind of on one atm (in case it isn't obvious--nothing posted for months then like 15 pieces in a week) and you do really gotta be riding that hyperfocus train until the last stop. you do not get to know ahead of time where or when that will be
Instead of sharing pics of all the WIPs I started in 2025, in various stages of completion, I've actually been on a bit of a hyper focus so am...finishing some of them?? (That can't be right.)
ANYWAY
Here is a piece I started all the way back in April, for the chief tormentor of my heart through sheer agonising tenderness, GingerBaggins! Death With Dignity was one of my favourite fics of 2025, and you must indeed read it if you have not already done so. I'll wait.
There are many beautiful moments, but I chose, first and foremost, to commemorate the scene in which Draco Malfoy--you know, the Malfoy heir? Pure of blood, black of clothes, white of hair, turgid of member--meets our dear close personal friend Hermione Granger (and, unknowingly, Theo Nott, spectral anomaly and audiobook fan) in a central London Pret a Manger at 7am. Don't think things ever got quite that bleak in canon, so be warned.
(If you think Pret is harrowing, they also end up in Milton fucking Keynes at one point! And if you're now, understandably, wondering whether or not they put the "fucking" in "Milton fucking Keynes" then you shall have to read the fic! A lady never tells!)
Ever since April 2025, I have had to think at least once a month about how this iteration of Draco Malfoy is definitely aware of the existence of the cursed Pret protein pot (the one that's just hard boiled eggs and spinach leaves and despair), and sit uncomfortably with the speculation that he might not be even appropriately repulsed by it! This is because, according to my research, tall strong boys must apparently, from time to time, consider their food through the mysterious and esoteric lens of "the gains." They are oft thinking of their one true love, the gains, and therefore unable to reflect meaningfully on whether the pot of eggs and shame they are eating should even be allowed to exist. I am but a weak and feeble soul, a stranger to the gains, who literally has a mouth full of biscuit as she types, so I cannot relate to any of this, but I do try to be understanding, especially where hot people are concerned
(Note to self: must I start a poll to gauge where the community stands on the issue of whether or not Draco would eat one of the protein pots? Feels kind of important.)
Here is 7am Pret (Draco's Version) and by that I mean Theo ain't even there oh no where is he
Anyway let's all admire the background I did because I never do them (and this in, in fact, the only thing I HAD done back in April: just a completed painting of a fucking Pret, sans people, not even a couple of Dramione stick figures to play in it--I guess I made accidental Pret fan-art?), and because I then decided to stand our bloody main characters in front of some of the best shelfy bits
It is not lost on me that I could have perhaps planned the drawing ahead of time, in order to avoid this, but you must remember that I am simply not a smart woman and my brain lacks protein
Fun fact: the woman on the left is, in fact, holding the protein pot because she loves the gains and hates having the respect of others
I'm so sorry to anyone who is fine with the protein pot and could even conceive of purchasing and consuming one. This is, of course, all in jest, and not a judgment on the eating habits of others, which are not my business. Definitely do not come to me trying to defend the protein pot, because I don't care and also you'll be outing yourself as a protein pot apologist and I shall be forced to block you
Finally, here is the secret first colour version of Dramione I did, which I soundly rejected because I did not care for it at all--partly because I desperately wanted to redraw their faces, but mainly because I was using v different brushes than I did for the accidental Pret fan art background so it all looked a bit discordant. And ugly.
(it was coloured with my iPad in greyscale so this is how I saw it before finishing--v fun exercise, do recommend, want to try it again soon with a less limited palette)
earlier today i told an acquaintance in passing that i'll often be in the middle of a novel and think "man i wish this shit were more ambiguous" and had to reiterate twice that i wasn't being sarcastic before they believed me, so this post is to say: i love when writers don't bother to explain everything, i love when stories end uncertain and unsettling, i love being required to think as a reader, i love when stuff makes no damn sense, no i'm not kidding
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
BLUE OBLIVION
Rated E, 43 Chapters, 98k words, Complete
SUMMARY
Hermione promised herself that she would fight for Harry until the bitter end, and that she would sacrifice everything for it.
Held captive by a lonesome and jaded Draco Malfoy, a Death Eater who she can barely recognize, Hermione begins to realize how much ‘everything’ will actually cost her.
They have entered into a dangerous game, and she can no longer be sure who is playing who.
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