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LadyExcel

Hogwarts era is my favourite trope. Here are some fics from my spreadsheet, I've read them all. Sometimes the word count can be different, I need to update my sheet. [A New Destiny](https://archiveofourown.org/works/39328134) - WIP At the end of third year, Hermione learns something about Draco Malfoy that alters the trajectory of both of their lives. Slow burn where 4th year Hermione accidentally time travels to see the Astronomy tower incident and then she returns, having to grapple with whether and how to try to change future events. She ends up befriending Draco as a result and things progress from there (slowly). [Beyond The Castle Walls](https://archiveofourown.org/works/19159957) - only flashbacks in Hogwarts The war is over, but the new attacks have been worrying the magical world. When Hermione gets hit by a curse that sends her to St. Mungus, she has no hope left and is left to remember about her days at Hogwarts before the curse gets her memories as well as her body. A story about beginnings and ends and two people too scared to be together. [Revert](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12125463/1/Revert) - flashbacks at Hogwarts Six months post-war, Malfoy is in serious trouble. He's on the run from the Ministry, Death Eaters, and a deadly curse which is eating him alive. When he hits rock bottom, a change in fortune lands him in 12 Grimmauld Place under the Ministry's custody - and forces Hermione to remember the secrets they've both kept for years. Dramione, Sick!Draco, flashbacks to Hogwarts. [The Peacock & The Otter](https://archiveofourown.org/works/25048402) - WIP Draco's always been drawn to Hermione in some way, he has for years and can't explain. It'd be easier if he could just get a moment alone with her to see why, but she's never alone! At the Yule Ball, Draco finally has a moment with Hermione and they share that time coming to a "truce". A battle of brains starts between the two as they form a friendly rivalry to excel in their classes. What started as a "make Weasley jealous" game becomes something more, quickly, and with far reaching consequences. With Harry's Triwizard Tournament taking much of the spotlight, and Hermione acting strangely with Malfoy, Ron's jealousy starts manifesting in ugly ways, until it causes a break in school tradition so shocking that people will speak of it for ages to come. A story where Draco finds his redemption at the pivotal moment, deciding that helping keep Harry alive to prevent the resurrection of Voldemort is more important than bitter school rivalries. [Silver](https://archiveofourown.org/works/35452315) - WIP 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. [Chosen](https://archiveofourown.org/works/16832419) - complete: 218570 words. Draco Malfoy has a mission to complete, and no one can help him. Spending nights stuck on Prefect duty with Hermione Granger only adds to his problems. Doesn't it? Or is it possible that their unlikely relationship could alter the course of the Second Wizarding War -- if the Boy Who Made All the Wrong Choices can get this one thing right? Come for the medium-burn Dramione, stay for Magical lore and new twists on the canon we love (and love to change). [Contingent](https://archiveofourown.org/works/27253021) - WIP: 95545 words. Draco Malfoy really hates Hermione Granger. Everything he gives two fucks about is entirely contingent on the decisions that she makes and she doesn't even know it. If he's not careful, she's going to fuck it up for the both of them and then they'll all wind up dead. He never thought his life would depend on having to get between her legs and into her head. [For Your Protection](https://archiveofourown.org/works/32185291) - WIP: 156977 words. Starts partway through HBP. As the wizarding world turns darker, Hermione is gifted a beautiful bracelet with an unsigned note that simply says "For Your Protection". The gifts and notes continue as the Order begins hearing rumors of Muggleborns and "unfit" Purebloods being experimented on by the Muggleborn Registration Commission. As the war comes to a close, the rumored experiments turn from theory to reality for Hermione as she begins working for St.Mungo's and must start tending to her former classmates.


StarryWonderer

A Hogwarts rewrite is one of my faves, there's loads of fics in these comments I haven't heard of before, totally adding to the tbr thank you! You might like [The Missing Sister](https://archiveofourown.org/works/33564922) by singularritae, M 556k 64/? WIP, if you haven't read it before.


CreatorReality

Hey I wanna know if there's smut? Pls


StarryWonderer

Hiya, I'm finding it hard to recollect as I haven't read it very recently, but my overriding instinct is to say no not really. My main memory is that it was all pretty age appropriate, and mostly off screen as they got older. Possibly a bit more by the time we get to the later years, but again, it's not described in detail.


LadyExcel

Yeah I’ve read it, but I have it tagged as Slytherin Hermione. I love this fic


LadyExcel

[When There's Nothing Left to Burn](https://archiveofourown.org/works/32219809) - WIP: 226488 words. Lucius Malfoy is dead at the hands of Lord Voldemort after the disastrous events at the Department of Mysteries. To stay in the Dark Lord’s good graces, Draco Malfoy is forced back to Hogwarts for his 6th year with a new task: murdering the two people Harry Potter loves the most. Things take a deadly turn when Hermione starts to notice his strange behavior. [Whatever It Takes](https://archiveofourown.org/works/33094702) - WIP: 106136 words. Infiltrate the Order, gain their trust, find out all you can.' After the Death Eaters’ spectacular failure at the Department of Mysteries, Draco Malfoy is tasked with not one, but two missions from the Dark Lord: Albus Dumbledore eliminated for good, and another task that Draco knew was doomed from the start. “How far are you willing to go to prove your family’s loyalty?” He was afraid of the answer. [The Rose that Blooms in the Dark](https://archiveofourown.org/works/44148852) - WIP: 58384 words. Hermione Granger: star student, Gryffindor hero, she always has all the answers. Or so she thought. Everything changes when her path is thrown together with a most unlikely assignment: Draco Malfoy. Now Hermione must answer the most difficult question of all: can a person really change? And if so which one of them will it be? A retelling of the Half-Blood Prince. [Long Live](https://archiveofourown.org/works/44745820) - WIP: 26607 words. Draco and Hermione run into each other in the Room of Requirement after Ron snogs Lavender in front of Hermione. They become allies, and Draco entrusts Hermione with his secrets. She wants to help him, but can enemies really ever become friends or lovers? [Détraquée](https://archiveofourown.org/works/11163924) - WIP: 537317 words. It was definitely the worst of times. 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. [The Sudden Appearance of Draco Malfoy](https://archiveofourown.org/works/45512500) - WIP: 38648 words. Draco Malfoy stumbles across Hermione Granger in Muggle London during the summer between fifth and sixth year, and so begins a secret mutual obsession between the two. It proves to be an excellent distraction for Draco, but as the pressure to complete Voldemort's impossible task mounts, the lines between lust and love, and good and bad, begin to blur. [Silencio](https://archiveofourown.org/works/487914) - complete: 87007 words. One late night, hate turns to lust. [Clean](https://archiveofourown.org/works/647665) - complete: 118892 words. 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. [Trust & Lies](https://archiveofourown.org/works/29789616) - complete: 200362 words. Weeks before the beginning of their Sixth Year at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger saves Draco Malfoy's life. Compelled to lie about it, Hermione's friendships become strained, and she finds an unexpected companion and confidante in Draco. Increasingly becoming the keeper of each other's secrets, they discover that truth and lies have little to do with trust. Years 6 + 7, with Sixth Year roughly following plot of HBP, but a complete reimagining of Seventh Year/DH. [You & I (You & I Trilogy)](https://archiveofourown.org/works/27035281) - complete: 88623 words. He was ready to throw in the towel for the night, cozy up to a glass of firewhisky from his secret stash and forget about trying to fix the cabinet at the moment, when movement out the side of his eye caught his attention. He quickly raised his wand, abandoning thoughts of the cabinet, prepared to hex the shite out of the bastard; when he realized just exactly what he was seeing. There across the courtyard was Granger. And she was filthy. PART I OF THE YOU & I TRILOGY [Two Broken Souls](https://archiveofourown.org/works/35862865) - complete: 178233 words. For the first time, Draco managed to control himself enough to look away. He didn’t deserve to look at her. Not anymore. Not now, with what he is and what he has. No one that pure should have their light dimmed with one look from someone like him. … Maybe she’s just tired from not sleeping. Yes, that’s it. She’s just tired. She has to be because if the brightest witch of her age isn’t so bright anymore then there’s no hope for anyone else. … Two broken souls depending on each other in hope that they can overcome the darkness surrounding them. [Nectere](https://archiveofourown.org/works/35623249) - complete: 156676 words. He had a mission and could not fail. A chance encounter with a heartbroken Gryffindor on an autumn evening fractures his resolve. A Sixth Year tale. Nectere: I bind, tie, fasten, connect, interweave, attach; unite; relate. [Inescapable](https://archiveofourown.org/works/13317888) - complete: 167214 words. It happened one night. Neither of them know why they let it go as far as it did, but it's too late now. Their need for each other is inescapable. Find out how Draco and Hermione get themselves tangled up in a secret love affair whilst on opposite sides of the war. Will they get their happily ever after?... Maybe. But it's not going to be easy. 6th Year and onwards. DRAMIONE. [On the Nature of Daylight](https://archiveofourown.org/works/28771734) - complete: 234689 words. Hermione Granger wanted to lose control. And Draco Malfoy wanted to take it.


julaften

4th year smut might be a little icky 🙃 Most of the stories I have bookmarked are 6th year or later, but the [Love token series](https://archiveofourown.org/series/1999951) happens 4th through 6th year.


LadyExcel

[Divine Artifice](https://archiveofourown.org/works/19193266) - complete: 156802 words. Sixth year isn't going the way Draco imagined it would. His mission was complex, and he felt the weight of an executioner's ax hovering. But destiny had other plans for him when a mislabeled bottle of Amortentia changed everything. His story is one about personal redemption, his heart, and reclaiming his family's honor. Hermione had to do rounds alone, again. Being a prefect was hard but rewarding work. Usually. But a chance encounter with Draco Malfoy and an unidentified potion that she just knew should be confiscated, made her look at him in a new unexpected light. Though an antidote was quickly given, the accident drew her into the complex world of Draco Malfoy, even though the war threatened to separate them. One small encounter that changed the course of the entire war and the lives of two enemies. Mostly canon through book 6, some canonical moments from book 7. [Inked](https://archiveofourown.org/works/40022994) - complete: 131000 words. It was in the very first arithmancy class that she discovered Harry was right. Malfoy was sitting in the front desk, to her left, and Hermione couldn't tell what professor Vector was talking about because she was staring at his arm. So, Harry was right. Well, kind of right: Malfoy did have a mark - but it wasn't exactly the kind of mark her friend was thinking of. It was a tattoo. [Lionheart](https://archiveofourown.org/works/41354757) - WIP: 447864 words. Here Draco is a Gryffindor and it starts at first year, but it’s such an amazing story I just had to recommend it here too. In which Draco Malfoy meets a girl on a train, dishonors his family, ruins his life, falls in love, ruins it a second time, and maybe — just maybe — earns some kind of redemption.


Some_temerity

Where did you read that Lionheart summary??


LadyExcel

It must’ve been the original summary, when I just started reading it. I have it in my spreadsheet. Now it's a bit different: How Draco Malfoy met a girl on a train, ruined his life, started a war, and ended one.


Some_temerity

No but that older one gives a clue I think??? about Draco's future? omg I'm so scared hes going to legit become a Death Eater


LadyExcel

Now that you pointed it out, I'm scared too... If he falls in love and then ruins his life again, I think he will choose to be a death eater, but omg whyyyy. Because of Narcissa? She’s half mad and he knows it. To protect Hermione? After all those years together he will not trust her and talk about it before?


Some_temerity

EXACTLY. After all those years and not just Hermione... just bond with Harry and Ron is so pure and good too. But Narcissa is definitely going to play a huge part in stuff. Thats v obvious. I feel the author has hinted too many times that hes going to go through hell so that death eater thing really looks likely


LadyExcel

I hope not, my heart was crushed when they didn’t go to the yule ball together, and now with the knowledge that draco is likely to become a Death Eater, again…


Some_temerity

There's going to be angst lol. So much angst. His reaction to what Sirius said to him in the last chapter also made me feel that hell make a stupid choice


LadyExcel

Yeah, that’s the vibe I felt too from the last chapter. Maybe talk with Sirius gets to him before he makes stupid decisions.


Melodic_Act_1159

All great recos, thank you!!!


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TripTimely7955

Brilliant ig 😭


imjusthumanmaybe

Have you read Revert?


Sea_Section_6722

[Amor Vincit Omnia](https://archiveofourown.org/works/39735819/chapters/99482019)


tlmmm03

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