The Politician’s Wife
The Politician’s Wife by pir8fancier
68k words, 14 Chapters
Rating: ★★★★☆
TL;DR: What you thought was your happily ever after at 20 might not be the same at 40.
Spoilers ahead...
Hermione and Ron have been in a relationship for at least two decades and their relationship has pretty much fallen apart. They have gone from being in love to just being in the relationship for the sake of the amount of years they’ve been together. Neither are happy with each other and neither can tell why. There is no communication within the relationship, no intimacy. They both just stopped trying. But they are both going through the motions.
Ron spends a lot of the story traveling due to his job and Hermione spends a lot of time at the Ministry due to her job. Due to politics occurring within the Ministry, Draco needs to work with Hermione. In private. Top secret stuff.
The usual bantering that is within a Dramione fic is present throughout the fic. Little does our little Hermione know that Draco is wooing his way into her heart. But it’s not like she is cheating on Ron. But more on that in a little bit.
Draco loves dressing Hermione and giving little insults here and there about the inadequate man she calls her husband. Although she continuously defended Ron, the jabs here and there were bringing up to the surface things that she did not want to admit to herself. Everything that was wrong with her marriage.
Not that Draco’s marriage was perfect. He married Pansy right after the war, his best friend. After having a child together, they went on having more of a friendship than a marriage. Unlike Hermione and Ron, however, they did not try to sugar coat it for more than what it was. Marriage, for them, was just a document by the time this story takes place. But they both respected each other and knew of the infidelities that occurred within the marriage.
Ronald, on the other hand. Ronald, Ronald, Ronald.
Okay, so their relationship is falling apart, I know this. Hermione and Draco have been having an emotional affair. This, I also know. However, Ron starts an actual affair, okay, I can be okay with this if he fessed up to it. HOWEVER, Hermione finds out from the other woman. Twenty plus years and he lets her find out this way. Then he tries to blame her. AHHH!!!
On the bright side, it did put the batteries in for fast fowarding the end of the relationship that was once Hermione and Ron. And put everything else on a fast track. And oh my god. The wait for Draco and Hermione to finally get together...
But that fast track... it took the author 5 years to write this, and the quality of chapters 1-12 is amazing. The way she told the story is amazing. Until the last two chapters. You can tell it was rushed, too rushed. At the end of the fic, I was disappointed that the final chapters felt so rushed, but at the same time, the quality of the rest of the story was amazing. Well worth the read. Well worth the reread one day.
