Voldemort has won. The Order has fallen. Harry Potter is dead.
Five years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Hermione Granger is pulled from Azkaban and forced to compete in the Dark Tournament against fellow fallen Order Members.
The Goblet of Shadows assigns each high ranking Death Eater a Champion. The Champion who wins the games will get to go free and their master, one of Voldemort’s Scions, will have secured their position as his Successor.
With Hermione being assigned to Draco Malfoy, the highest ranking Scion, she may have a chance.
There can only be one victor, one survivor and one shot at freedom.
I’m not sure why Peeta had to show up. I get that this is kind of based on the Hunger Games, but I’m not sure if his character was necessary. I do like the ship with him and Greyback though, which is why this is two stars instead of one.
One star, I thought it was totally unrealistic that Chandler and Monica would ever have an orgy with Draco and Hermione. I guess no one told them life was gonna be this way… 👏👏👏👏👏
I sobbed when Draco transformed into a butterfly to be with his one true love Moaning Myrtle!!!! I will mourn their love every single day of my life. When Hermione was revealed to be Voldy's reincarnated mother....just no words!
Also, don't rate fanfiction or add it to Goodreads! 😘
love the part when harry challenged voldemort for a good old fashion sing-off but lost due to voldy's secret weapon, the malfoy duo of draco and lucius belting billie jean
I would like to report this fic for crimes against my sanity, my sleep schedule, and whatever grip I had left on reality.
I went in expecting a normal Dramione experience. You know, angst, tension, maybe a little yearning. What I got instead was Draco Malfoy emotionally ruining me while (I’m pretty sure) committing tax fraud, raising a suspiciously intelligent ferret, and breaking into Hermione’s flat through a window like a Victorian ghost.
Hermione? Thriving. Unbothered. Possibly running a secret underground fight club on the side?? Unclear. Draco? Down bad. Feral. At one point I think he dueled a chandelier. No further questions.
The tension??? Illegal. Weaponized. I aged 7 years during one stare.
And don’t even get me started on that one scene. you know, the one where everything changed and I had to pace my house like I was waiting for a Hogwarts acceptance letter at my grown age.
Plot? Allegedly present. I blacked out somewhere between emotional repression and whatever was going on with that cat (WHY was the cat judging me).
Would I recommend this? No. I refuse to be the only one who suffered. Will I reread it? Immediately. Probably while taking notes like a conspiracy theorist. Don’t add fics to Goodreads when the author clearly says not to.
Story is tragic. What do you mean Draco has a fetish for the pink dragon from Shrek? “I will have as many as possible” -> I will not give context to this sentence but I cringed when I read it.
Anyways, two stars because I didn’t understand why Harry only drinks milk hot and spicy in the morning if there is Snape, otherwise he throws a tantrum?
Only genius part to me is when Snape and Ron have an affair, I feel we can truly explore the depths of a strong and complex relationship between two characters who are finding their place in a universe rejecting them. It’s like they hit rock bottom and so makes you feel better about yourself. Well, at least it’s what Sir Voldemort feels.
I can’t rate it because it’s not done… apparently it’s only 50%(ish). I could cry. The plot development has been fantastic and the pov of so many different characters is intriguing. Hunger games and Harry Potter in one series, but dark. And when I say dark..I mean pitch black. Hermione is not ok and truthfully I don’t see how this works out for anyone. And so help me god if Darryl doesn’t get a HEA…
There is not nearly enough factual information about pigeons, which is really needed to understand what is going on. Only 2 stars because the HarryxVoldemort plot was done well (a lot of mentions about pubic bones, though??)
Overall, pretty decent I guess? It was a little weird when the flamingos got involved, but the musical scene midway through kind of pulled it all together again. It's a solid Dramione story that covers a variety of seemingly unrelated topics in such a succinct and beautiful way. Really, the author has talent to surpass even Danielewski in terms of psychological writings. Really amazing.
Unfortunately, Neville’s involvement in the strawberry field arc really just brought this down. It was outlandish and had a Tom Clancy “military sci-fi” vibe to it with the MP4 and the tanks. Admittedly, when they blew up Saturn with Harry’s toothbrush and Voldemort’s left sock (RIP Dobby, you were a real one, giving back the same sock given to you :( I was surprised by the way the story really turned around.
Arc-wise I would rank each as follows (in descending order from listed to last, alphabetically and audibly, discounting the penultimate):
1. Killer Clowns (4.3/5 - Susan Bones walked so Suzie Skeleton could run. No more must be said here.)
2. Strawberry Fields (1.4/5 - Why were the grapes?? But the apples! Neville's military man moment with the AR was a bit out-of-pocket, I think. The Rambo scene on the nude beach with the baby sea turtles was definitely incredibly bittersweet (I teared up when they saluted him 'I'll be back' It never fails to get me!), but ultimately, it was a bit unnecessary and added a strange tone to the story, like stubbing your toe on furniture, but the furniture is a knife, your toe is a human heart, and everything is on fire).
3. Flamingo Flames of Fury (3.6/5 - A little heavy-handed on the metaphors about motorcycles, but Ginny's Aladdin moment with Snape really saved it. The table tennis was...interesting. The sing-off between Voldemort and Luna REALLY sold it for me, but the tension was *chef's kiss*)
4. The Mysterious Ticking Noise (4.9/6 - A direct callout to the story?? What a way to break the fourth wall, I was tickled pink (like Fred with that frisky flamingo in the seventh arc in chapter 2 LOL) I did really enjoy the teleportation technique with the filet mignon touch. Like a good flambe on a Sunday. Or a tequila sunrise on the beach. Fred could have definitely been nerfed a bit as a character-- I think his direct involvement in the Fall of Berlin was a little heavy-handed on the metaphor (a common theme I see in the story smh. Berlin is mentioned no less than 593 times (I counted.))
5. Pansy's Plato Era Arc (3.9/6 - The appearance of Bellatrix right after the strawberry fields arc into a discussion on Forms, how justice's absolute rule can be bent if applied enough pressure, etc. was a fascinating section. It was especially useful for the foreshadowing of Pansy's bicycling across the Grand Canyon on the unicycle loaned to her by Zabini (classic Zabini and his love of Scottish culture LOL!))
6. The Musical Termite Sequence (5/5 - Where do I even begin?! Incredible. Just absolute perfection. The Mary Poppins call back from the flaming flamingo leader, Paul the Cursed, was phenomenal. I'll just have the music bouncing in my head permanently. I had no idea you could embed interdimensional musical playlists directly into the words, then into my brain, but you did! And I'll be stuck listening to "Like a Clown for me, Maybe baby?" by Paul the Cursed, permanently. After my brain scan last week, surgeons said this was an anomaly they'd never seen in a brain's auditory cortex, so I'm thinking I might have been cursed from reading this arc! Unsure.)
7. 'Discounting the Penultimate' arc (3/6 - I was sort of lost when the hallucinations started and Ron saw the lunar cycles for their entirety. Blowing up Saturn with the toothbrush and the left sock after the HEAVY foreshadowing from the Whomping Willow was sick as hell. The arc was like a dream sequence without the dream; full acid trip, really. The prose was nice; I loved Harry's journey to the ice cream stand for his first shift with the twist of *****SPOILER AHEAD SPOILER AHEAD: ((((Crookshanks as his boss and love interest))))) although, I think Regulus was left out in the second half when Yaxley melted the cookie dough. - Also, side note, it's 'CCCD' not 'CC' for the 'chocolate chip cookie dough' at the ice cream shop. This detail was jarring as I had only seen CCCD, not CC, and I thought it meant credit cards. So, when Hermione ordered 'chocolate chip cookie dough' and Regulus shorten the ticket to CC, I read it as 'credit card.' Totally pulled me out of the story since credit cards were eradicated (in universe, according to chapter 15) in 1975, so I do think that's a good bit to possibly edit out. Maybe take out the whole scene- it's just jarring. Especially when Crookshanks meets Longshanks from the Shire, that was an odd editorial choice. I just think you could use the feedback truly.)
Everyone talking about dark romance and all of that missed the middle sections. They don't know what they're talking about! This was ALWAYS candy-themed, circus music, rom-com horror (the horror is from Ron's unwashed laundry when he forgot to go to the laundromat with Seamus LOL). I never even touched upon the other sections reviewers mentioned: Draco's pink dragon from Shrek fetish, The Jonas Brothers' death (during the Musical Termite Sequence), the PIGEONS!!! (Cher Ami from WWI my beloved), Snape/Ron affair, the nose job, Italian brainrot, the peacock perspective (in Pansy's Plato Era Arc), and SO much more. It was just an amalgamation of words on a page in an order I have never seen before. I think the author has potential for a twelve-book fic series on this, especially when you consider the character analysis and backstory through the exposition. It's so unique and a refreshing take on the Dramione genre.
Still a 3/5 though.
(In all seriousness, stop putting fanfiction on Goodreads you absolute muppets.)
(7/6/2025, 3:28am) This is a WIP so I’ll be back. Mostly doing this review so I don’t have to re-read when the other chapters are released. Reading this book three stars out of five because I could not put it down, but I am not sure if I would necessarily call it good or recommend it to anyone. It’s very messy. It’s very all over the place. There’s too many characters.
I hate hermione, Lucy, pansy, Ginny, Seamus, Ron, and Dennis. So whiny and repetitive. Barely any character development, same thoughts and replies- same conversations.
Holding my interest- Draco, narcissa, vold, Astoria (getting redundant though), Theo, Susan (RIP), mr obrien, phlynn
The rest can fuck off. As I said, too many characters. I don’t like the random POV changes without warning. I don’t like the elongated storylines that go no where. I don’t care for the religion aspect but I guess it’s a nice change. I do appreciate that there’s no moaning over coffee or tea, that is overused in these HP fanfics.
There are too many storylines. The hunger games aspect with tributes connected to both scions and tied to another person to keep them in check. Weird but okay I guess. The rapes and the constant refusal to expose rapists. Why did mrs wealsey need to have a knife in her vagina. So uncalled for. All of the references to her cookie knife, also uncalled for. Pansy’s drinking, uncalled for. What the fuck and where the fuck is Darryl. Who is fake Harry Potter, and why do so many characters have blue eyes. Why are the other magical creatures disappearing. Why have 15 characters in the hunger games but only show us Ginny, hermione, Astoria and Draco. Where is Luna. Where is Seamus with his half stroke and Unicorn shame. Where is teddy, why doesn’t Ginny just become a werewolf so she can stay with teddy since he was probably born one. Is Draco’s father alive, who the fuck keeps whistling. Why should we care that hermione speaks Gaelic with the O’Briens. It’s not important. The book is in English.
499 pages and they’ve only completed one task and hermione has lost her only female friend. How are they going to showcase a love affair with Draco, horcruxes, more werewolf lore, the hunger games, Darryl, and the other 48 storylines without this being 5000 pages? It’s too much.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
This story is extremely overrated. If you plan to read it for Dramione, don’t waste your time, because Dramione doesn’t exist here. What you’ll find is a weak Hermione, broken after years of abuse, torture, loneliness, and starvation, and a Draco who doesn’t care about her — he only wants to keep her alive because they’re magically linked, and if she dies, he dies too.
Hermione here is completely insane and fragile. She spent five years in Azkaban and is now just a shell of her former self. The “Bamf Hermione” tag is there, but she’s the complete opposite. The story isn’t finished yet, but so far there are 52 chapters — and they were a total waste of time. The Hermione from chapter one — broken, thin, starving, and weak — is exactly the same in chapter 52. There’s been no character development at all. I can only imagine the story will end with her giving in to madness and killing herself, and Draco as well.
Draco here is terrible too. He’s awful to Hermione, and so far this doesn’t feel like a Dramione at all — especially because the author seems to prefer writing about side characters instead of actually developing the Dramione storyline. On top of that, she takes months to post a new chapter.
I was really enjoying the story, despite its dark themes and laundry list of trigger warnings. I even pushed past the Draco/Ginny history since it seemed to lean Dramione endgame.
That was all before there was a not-so-subtle hint that some Weasley twincest occurred. I can understand wanting to be edgy, but Merlin, time and place. I don’t like feeling confused when reading Dementor smut.
I’ll file this story under “The Author’s thinly-veiled kinks” and move on. Really, this whole “book” should be removed from Goodreads; Taboo tropes that dark don’t need a platform.
3 stars because it was actually pretty well written. Makes me think there may be a world out there fit for Fred/George, after all. JUST NOT HERE WITH THE DEMENTORS.
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The chapter written entirely from the perspective of Malfoy’s peacock was weird, hilarious, and mildly terrifying, but ultimately necessary for the plot. Apart from that, the whole fic is definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Not sure I would recommend it to anyone, but you do you! Major thanks to the author who somehow manages to return from the dead every six months, drop ten emotionally devastating chapters, alter the chemistry of my brain forever, and then vanish back into the fog like a Victorian cryptid. Truly impressive.
This story is dark, I expected dark. This story develops across multiple PoVs, I’m enjoying all of them. This story has plot lines that are so tangled and knotted that I’m completely confused, and I love it. Unfortunately, I have to give this 2 stars because I was not prepared for the (g)Narly ship. I’m a come for the plot stay for the spice kind of girl, and I appreciate F/F but really-Narcissa and Molly-that was a step too far. I may revise my review and give it 3 stars if the relationship develops into a Snarly ship. Who wouldn’t love a Snape/Narcissa/Molly moment? A girl can dream.
I’m sorry but why was I not made aware that this is a WIP until right now?! I need the rest of it immediately oh my god I would have waited to read it if I had known it wasn’t finished and she only updated every few months ahhhh. Still counting it towards my reading goal since I read 800 pages and I’ll be following the updated obviously
So so good - the (spoiler) chapter where Hermione unites the tributes and negotiates dental benefits was so funny I laughed out loud
Although in the newest chapters I don’t get why it’s set in a massive ikea? It just loses the cute magic feel of the plot :( I prefer Hogwarts, hoping we get back to this in new chapters
Didn’t know I needed a Sailor Moon and Ron Weasley ship, but don’t knock it til you try it! He even turns into the moon for her. Such love and devotion. Will I ever recover?
There is some Gaelic language so be sure to have your google translate ready. If you look too hard at the words, the text will turn into rubbish or maybe that’s just me.
She went to a waterfall, hit her chamber of vapors, accidentally consumed a medically concerning amount of gillyweed, sprinted through fields of death eaters doing yoga, and ended up in Voldy's hospital wing. All while Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' played in the background for some unknown reason. Five Stars. No Notes. I'm still confused.
Bit confused as of why Draco turns into a huge ferret on every full moon and runs with the werewolves while Hermione is riding him but you do you. Had a good laugh throughout the story. It’s just a silly, sunshine-and-rainbows-everyone-is-on-mushroom (especially the author) kinda story. I loved the President Snow cameo, the tension between him and Voldemort was amazing ngl
I can’t believe Voldemort gets pegged by a shrimp cocktail in this the details were insane and unnecessary as well. Also fvck you goodreads for making Luigi Mangione’s goodreads profile private I wanted to read his opinions on Kurt Vonnegut and now I’ll never have that chance. 🥹
At first I was super into the story, it seemed so amazing and then there were 6 consecutive chapters of Draco Malfoy living as a transmutated worm, only to then have him eaten by Fawx the end after everything Hermoine did to try and save him?! Insanity.
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Voledmort falls in love with Ron and then there is a Harry/Voldie/Ron threesome...... I have been lied to by the tags and cannot believe what I read here. Pigeons clearly need loved and protected at all cost. Authors these days are truly unbelievable.
As a metaphor for the passage of time, this resonated with me. Unfortunately, thematically, it felt too similar to the film Men In Black for my taste. DNF.
Don’t post fanfiction to GoodReads and respect the author’s policies on posting their work.
Loved the story, especially when transfiguration class went awry and they all turned into pigeons! However all down hill from there bc now they just sit there cooing at each other and fumbling the wands with their wings.... looking forward to the owl/pigeon romance brewing tho!
The omegaverse was an unexpected turn... But after a reread I should have taken the clue about Greyback nesting. Harry Styles being an alpha AND the lost son of Bellatrix x Dobby might have been a bit too much.
I don’t know why the author had to use Estonian Song and Dance Festival as the main event - I do understand that the event takes place every four years, but it has nothing to do with magic. It is just a lot of people singing and dancing.