How to Lose a Wizard in 10 Days

by GracefulLioness

Hermione will do anything to prove to her boss at Witch Weekly that she's ready to take on more serious topics, including dating a man just to drive him away for the sake of her next column, How to Lose a Wizard in 10 Days. But pushing Draco Malfoy away proves to be a challenging task, perhaps because he's got ten days to make her fall in love with him.

Inspired by How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Genres: Fan Fiction, Romance

139 pages, ebook

Published October 17, 2020

Reviews

[Matilda]

20% DNF. I only tried this one because of the cover. It’s pure ART. Unfortunately looks can be deceiving.

[Jackie L · Rating 4 out of 5]

How to Lose A Wizard in 10 Days by GracefulLioness

If you love the movie How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, you will love this Dramione fanfic. It’s just like the movie but with HP characters and magic. It’s just as hilarious.

📕 Rating: 4⭐️
🎧 Rating: 4⭐️
🎧 Narrated by Paper Crane Audiobooks, good

TROPES/ THEMES: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days x HP

Read on for spoilers…

CHARACTERS (more or less in order of appearance, please excuse typos in name):
Hermione: writer for Witch Weekly
Serena Vacuariel: editor for Witch Weekly, Hermione’s boss
Cormac: Hermione’s colleague
Ginny: Hermione’s colleague and best friend
Parvati: Hermione’s colleague and friend, recently had a break up
Pansy: Auror, Draco’s colleague and competitor for a promotion
Draco: Auror
Phillip Warren: Draco and Pansy’s boss
The Frosted Phantom: one of the country’s leading suspected crime bosses, responsible for a string of magical diamond heists (jewel thief)
Blaise: Draco’s best friend
Theo: Draco’s best friend

QUOTES/ SCENES (please excuse typos, transcribing either from audiobook/ ebook):

[N.adin.e · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was so very cute and funny. A nice light hearted and quick read, exactly what I needed. Laughed out
loud a couple of times.

[Layla · Rating 4 out of 5]

solid 4 star read!

[Faia · Rating 5 out of 5]

I looove this movie 💛

[Sara Saif · Rating 1 out of 5]

Dramione fanfiction is not a rabbit-hole as I formerly considered it. It's a supermassive blackhole; it's trying to suck me in, and I am TERRIFIED of it.

I caved in and picked whatever this was up, not because it sounded particularly enticing but because I needed something quick to read and I had just come off of reading and reviewing Alchemised. Honorable mention goes to the Dramione fanfic recs and art that have regularly begun appearing on my fyp these days. And so I downloaded it and read it.

We're talking about the faaaaaaaar fucking fetched side of fan fiction here.

I kinda already recognized that most fanfic is sheer fucking delusion, but this, er, particular version of events really drove the point home.

My 5 stages of denial while reading:











Why couldn't they create new characters set in the Harry Potter world and write stories about THEM? Why take two perfectly established and thoroughly incapabale-of-falling-in-love-with-each-other characters and put them through a veritable comedy of never-in-a-million-years situations while ruining the reader's existing feelings/perceptions regarding those characters? Was it really that difficult to make a brand-new Malfoy, a distant cousin perhaps? Was it really that far-fetched for another Muggle-born witch attending Hogwarts to exist? Why do people insist on twisting and ruining something that DOES. NOT. NEED. IT?

You're telling me that Hermione Granger, one-third of the golden trio, a war-hero, brightest witch of her age, ended up at Witch Weekly, writing articles about sex? That she saw Draco after all those years and was like, hmm, I could bang that!? Why am I wasting my breath, no one actually cares about things aligning with the original books because people eat this crap up. They've been doing it for the last 2 decades and will continue to do so long after.

Ugh.

[Elowen Delaney · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was so cute. Romcoms aren’t something I really gravitate towards but this was so for me. I love how they were both driving each other mad and couldn’t understand what was going on with the other. Draco was hilarious while he was going insane and Blaise was great too. I love when Blaise is the serious one out of the Slytherin boys but this new light hearted playful Blaise was great. He had some of the best quotes. This was one of the easiest fics for me to visualize. I literally had a movie playing in my brain the whole time I was reading. Love love love it.

[sabrina_readsandrambles]

3.75; such a fun and fast paced read, loved being back in the dramione world and LOVE the concept of how to lose a guy in 10 days, combines two of my faves. This was funny and just overall a lovely time. Definitely a recommendation for any dramione and romcom lover!

[mmosaiic · Rating 3 out of 5]

i liked you have a cupcake

[Weronika · Rating 5 out of 5]

my favorite romcom and my favorite ship, what could go wrong? lovely read

[Kayla · Rating 3 out of 5]

The chapter that consisted of the parents' weekend trip was very well written. Mixing her background with her parents in and how they handled being oblivating. Loved ut.

[Cilla Jade · Rating 4 out of 5]

Goofy I loved it

[nini⋆₊ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've never laughed sm like this one😭😭😭💕

[Florence Neron · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐
La chimie entre les deux , j'ai adoré!
Le concept, comme le film avec Kate Hudson (how to lose a guy in ten days) très bien exécuté :)
Trop court à mon goût, j'aurais voulu + !

[Scouty · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fun fluff

[Manuela · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the reason I love this fandom. The creativity and talent is just *chef’s kiss*.