Dramione Month Day 27: Quidditch Player

Dirty Distractions

Aspiring minister Hermione, simp Draco, a nip slip and a Ministry broom cupboard. Rated E - 2.5k words.

“You look beau—” Draco’s voice caught as he glanced down at her chest. His mouth fell shut. Was that what he thought it was? Pink-brown; familiar; looking wholly delicious and with no right to be on public show, particularly in the middle of the Ministry. Perhaps it was intentional? Perhaps it was for him?

⭐️ SUBMISSION SPOTLIGHT: ‘The Pumpkin Juice Club’ by @sanichkaa ⭐️

Read now on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/HP_Nostalgia_Fest_2024/works/59624617

DRACO: you let your cat sleep in your bed with you?

HERMIONE: I’d let him represent me in court.

me reading about the same two characters falling in love over and over again in new settings

I'd walk through fiendfyre for you, Hermione. Well not FIENDFYRE, because it's dangerous. But a super humid room. But not too humid, because my hair.

Draco (probably)

I use this drawing as my banner here in tumbler, but I wanted to make a proper post of it.

Durmstrang Draco and Beauxbatons Hermione ♥️🦋

I’m planning to do Dramione studies of styles I adore and Miriam Bonastre Tur’s Marionetta is the first one I chose!

One thing that will never fail to amaze me about reading fics of the same pairing over and over and over again is how of course there are certain expected lines and tropes,

(People always talk about him going from calling her “Granger” to calling her “Hermione,” but I think an underrated one is “Oh, back to Malfoy now, am I?” I clutch my pearls every time.)

But even beyond that there are just so many unique things in each fic. Like I am forever amazed how one relationship can be analyzed and overanalyzed and there are still so many new ways to compare these characters with others in canon or even in other literature. Like of course she and Ron are gonna break up but writers are still able to make the break up feel unique to the context of each story. Idk I guess what I’m trying to say is it’s just mind blowing how fan fiction has existed for years and there are still so many original ideas. Or ideas that feel original at least. Obviously these aren’t original characters and so many popular fics pull from other works of media. But idk the babies they create feel so fresh and new.

It’s so funny how reading Harry Potter fanfic has given me so much more knowledge about the lore than just reading the books. I’m sure I’m not the only person who’s brought this up but it’s new information to me so I’m sharing it lol.

But one thing that’s crazy to me is that canonically, Hermione has a wand with a dragon heartstring core, which is a wand core that turns easily to the Dark Arts. Of course that doesn’t mean she’s necessarily a baddie but it does imply that she’s capable of it. Meanwhile, Draco canonically has a wand with a unicorn hair core, which doesn’t easily turn to the Dark Arts. Which I feel implies that he’s capable of being good. Or at the very least, he wouldn’t likely be a baddie without outside intervention which…..there’s plenty of that in his life. It makes sense that they could meet in the middle, in the grey.

Idk it’s just interesting to think about when reading Dramione. Like those little details imply that Hermione has capabilities to be darker and Malfoy has capabilities to be lighter. And like…….Miss R*wling wrote that herself it’s not fanon. Every time I see people hating on Dramione I can’t help but be like, it’s genuinely not that crazy. Most fanfics don’t even have to stretch too far from canon to make the romance work. Idk, I just feel very strongly about this pairing and I hate when people are rude about disliking it.

Is this too niche?