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I Will Make You Proud
What would you give to save the person you love?
Draco Malfoy has lived a charmed life, growing up in the manor with everything he could want at his fingertips - a perfect, pampered prince.
As a teenager, he comes to Hogwarts and looks down on everyone he meets. He is cruel, vicious - heartless.
As an adult, he is merciless- a cold blooded killer.
Ruthless, inhumane, feared by those around him.
But when Draco is found dead after hanging himself from the rafters of a room in the Hog’s Head, with only a bag full of memory vials and his diaries left beside him - Hermione discovers more about Draco and who he really was.
That all he ever wanted to do was make people proud.
As she searches his memories, she slowly realises that he was never the person that he showed to the world.
He suffered so much in his short life.
Draco’s memories tell a story of true, unending love and sacrifice and as she watches, Hermione needs to decide what she is willing to do to give Draco another chance at the life he truly deserves.
’I promise, I will make you proud.’
Draco Malfoy has lived a charmed life, growing up in the manor with everything he could want at his fingertips - a perfect, pampered prince.
As a teenager, he comes to Hogwarts and looks down on everyone he meets. He is cruel, vicious - heartless.
As an adult, he is merciless- a cold blooded killer.
Ruthless, inhumane, feared by those around him.
But when Draco is found dead after hanging himself from the rafters of a room in the Hog’s Head, with only a bag full of memory vials and his diaries left beside him - Hermione discovers more about Draco and who he really was.
That all he ever wanted to do was make people proud.
As she searches his memories, she slowly realises that he was never the person that he showed to the world.
He suffered so much in his short life.
Draco’s memories tell a story of true, unending love and sacrifice and as she watches, Hermione needs to decide what she is willing to do to give Draco another chance at the life he truly deserves.
’I promise, I will make you proud.’
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Published April 24, 2024
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May 22, 2025
This. 👀👀👀
This book was very near Manacled in my mind. There was so much trauma (Draco, sweet boy 😭) and pain and longing and determination to change the way things turned out. I never once was bored while reading. There was never a dull moment. I absolutely loved Draco in this fanfic. He was so incredibly vulnerable and broken and sweet and selfless. This was a HARD HEA But man was it worth it 😭 I can’t believe more people arent talking about this fanfic. Blows my mind!
Side note: noooot a fan of the Harry/Ron relationship. Seemed *very* out of character for them. Very strange 🤣
This book was very near Manacled in my mind. There was so much trauma (Draco, sweet boy 😭) and pain and longing and determination to change the way things turned out. I never once was bored while reading. There was never a dull moment. I absolutely loved Draco in this fanfic. He was so incredibly vulnerable and broken and sweet and selfless. This was a HARD HEA But man was it worth it 😭 I can’t believe more people arent talking about this fanfic. Blows my mind!
Side note: noooot a fan of the Harry/Ron relationship. Seemed *very* out of character for them. Very strange 🤣
July 2, 2025
The way I was stressed the whole time
Want to read
November 4, 2025this sounds so awfully painful wtf
November 27, 2025
Draco still couldn’t believe this was happening. He had finally gotten the girl. It only took nearly dying once or twice. It was worth it. He thought. He’d die a thousand times if it meant he got to do this with her. He felt his lips spread into a wide grin. He was so happy.
Draco was going to do some good for the world. He was going to make them all proud.
I was so afraid to read this fic. Because how could i survive a fic where Draco's dead from page 1 ? I knew that it would be my undoing.
A lot of people told me that it was HEA, and that convinced me somehow.
But that's not the major factor. What is, it's the writing of the author. Because yeah, it's incredibly amazing.
It was so poignant, touching, hurtful, deep and beautiful.
The first part of the fic was so hard to read as it's mainly about Draco's childhood and the abuse he faced. It was so well written that i was physically in pain.
He could never imagine what the pillow might say back though, if it was his mama. He didn’t have the context for that. So his pillow always remained silent in that game too. Just like real mama.
He was just a boy ?? A little child that wanted to be loved and wanted to make his father proud. And even when he was so young he knew that he was utterly alone. And THAT was destroying.
He felt like he was being brave. Maybe he was getting stronger. As he drifted off to sleep he thought… I’ll be eight soon.
Making everyone proud of him, that's the motto of Draco. His conduct line imposed by the abuse his father inflige him. And i was so hurt to see that boy, then that man that still wanted to make everyone proud. He lost hiself in the process, he lost the life he should have had.
And oh god, i hated Lucius. And the word "hate" is too poor to describe what i felt towards him.
I'm just so sad that they had to live trough all of this. That draco had to suffer at some point in every of his life.
At some point, even if it was hurtful, i toight that it was manageable, i didn't understand why some people told me that ut destroyed them. But now i understand.
I was naive to think that i wouldnt cry, that i wouldnt be destroyed. Because i am. In the most beautiful way.
This is one of the most beautiful fic i've reas
ReadAnd i'm so happy that they got their happy ending. Still, my heart is so heavy, and i'm still so heartbroken for Draco
Because he suffered again and again.
At a moment he was finally happy, he deserved it after all he went trough, and he had to LOSE it all ?? To end his life??
It was something you did every day, putting on socks, even, apparently on the day you killed yourself.
He became a monster to the world when he was only protecting her ?????
He was a boy, then he just was a man that needed to be loved back, and even that he couldn't fully have.
And you understand that he did was he had to do.
Draco Malfoy had been a monster, yes, but so had his father. Watching Draco’s suffering, she realised that he hadn’t become one through choice, he was Frankenstein’s monster all along
It's been a few minutes now that i finished this fic and Im still crying like a baby.
There is so much lines from this fic that was opening wounds, putting salt on them. They were so meaningful, so deep. And i felt in love with that. I felt in love with that but i was hurting at the same time because of it.
When you reach the part after the flashback — first of Draco’s childhood, then of his relationship with Hermione — and you start linking everything together? That was pure torture. That was the moment I started crying again. And again.
His arms, the cufflink, the dreams… everything was painful. But beautifully painful.
The ending was the final nail in the coffin. Yes, it’s a happy ending, but oh god, how heartbreaking it still is.
Draco's job was healing injured children.
It's so meaningful and it makes me so sad and happy for him. But in the end, it was everything Draco needed, everything we needed.
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‘He’s lit up like a fucking Christmas tree,’ he said, the anger back again.
I’ve become a fucking Death Eater myself, just to keep her safe.’
‘Granger, is this real?’ He asked, his voice low, hesitant. ‘I don’t think I’ll survive it, if it’s not.’ He brought a hand to his face, to rub at his eyes. ‘You don’t know, how long-‘
‘Granger, is this real?’ He looked at her, and there was fear in his eyes. ‘Because I don’t think I’ll survive it if it's not.’
Because he didn’t want to ever look into another set of eyes. He didn’t want anyone else to ever touch him. It was only ever going to be Hermione for him. Draco had known it since he was eleven years old.
Granger spoke first. ‘So Theo, you’re one of Draco’s oldest friends, I gather?’ ‘Absolutely not.’ Theo replied. ‘He pays me to be here, like an oversized house elf. I cannot stand him,’
‘Is this real, Granger?’ He asked, his voice quiet, cracking slightly on his words, he sounded almost desperate. ‘Please, please tell me this time it’s real? That we all survived it.’ She smiled. ‘It’s real Draco. We did,’
December 19, 2025
my heart. 🥲🥲🥲. if this wasn’t HEA idk how i would have survived. what a roller coaster..
January 16, 2026
Absolutely blown away, what a rollercoaster 😭
May 6, 2025
Draco en I Will Make You Proud es uno de los personajes más complejos e interesantes que he leído en años como fan de Dramione. Desde el inicio vemos su infancia marcada por abusos, abandono y una necesidad profunda de amor. La historia lo presenta como un niño roto que, al no recibir cariño, empieza a ver la crueldad como una forma de no sentirse débil. Su dolor se transmite tan fuerte que es imposible no empatizar con él.
Los recuerdos de Draco abrazando su almohada fingiendo que era su madre, o el trauma del brazo roto por Lucius que conecta con el ataque de Buckbeak, son devastadores. También es impactante leer cómo empieza a encontrar cierto control siendo quien inflige el dolor, lo que refleja su transformación emocional. El daño físico y psicológico que sufrió (como la maldición Cruciatus) es brutal y constante.
Su relación con Hermione es una de las más intensas y dolorosas que he leído. Desde el inicio, Draco la ama en silencio y la protege en secreto. Su visión del amor está completamente distorsionada por su crianza, y eso se nota en cómo asocia el amor con el sufrimiento. Aun así, jamás la lastima físicamente, y siempre se arriesga por ella. Es obsesivo, oscuro y trágicamente hermoso.
El “dragón” que representa su poder mágico es una metáfora increíble de cómo el dolor reprimido puede volverse poder. Me pareció brillante cómo se construyó esa parte del personaje.
En cuanto a su muerte, fue profundamente impactante. Ver las memorias que Hermione presencia es desgarrador, y cuando él muere por protegerla, te parte el alma. Las líneas temporales alternas solo refuerzan esa tristeza: una donde muere como héroe, otra donde se convierte en un monstruo manipulado por su padre, y otra donde finalmente tiene una oportunidad de sanar.
A pesar de las diferentes versiones de su vida, siempre mantiene ese amor tan fuerte y tan suyo por Hermione. Aun siendo oscuro, él elige protegerla. Al final, destruir la mansión Malfoy es un cierre poético para su historia: soltar su pasado para vivir la vida que siempre soñó.
Draco en esta historia fue un personaje complejo, doloroso, oscuro y lleno de amor. Le dieron el final que merecía sin borrar su dolor ni su historia. Simplemente, lo amé.
💚Hermione
Esta Hermione que nos presentan es una de las más interesantes que he leído en un fanfic de Dramione.
Al inicio la presentan tal cual la imaginarías, inteligente, terca, que le gusta investigar y conocer, que ha cumplido su sueño de convertirse en auror y está haciendo lo posible por convertirse en la mejor del área.
Me encantó leer la dinámica que tenía con Blaise y cómo lo amaba como amigo, de verdad fue una dinámica corta pero hermos.
Pero una vez que comienza toda la trama con Draco Malfoy y su muerte fue ver una Hermione completamente diferente, y que en camiones me llegaba a desesperar sobremanera porque no comprendía el por qué de sus acciones. No me hacía sentido la forma en la que pensaba o la desesperación que sentía por saber más sobre Draco, la forma en la que ponía en riesgo su vida dejando de comer, de dormir, de hacer nada que no fuera él.
Me llegó a exasperar en más de una ocasión, peeero vamos a desglosar aa este interesante personaje punto por punto.
Primero se nos presenta como una adulta normal, que esta viviendo su vida como siempre la soñó, un poco solitaria pero que ama a sus amigos y es feliz.
Pero todo cambia cuando le toca analizar el caso de Draco Malfoy.
Primer vemos que pasa por el asombro, es increíble la forma en la ue la autora describe cómo Hermione se sintió al ver el cuero de Draco colgado, la descripción de cómo e veía hace que se te pongan los cabellos de punta, y aquí primero vemos como Hermione siente dolor porque su compañero de la escuela terminó con ese final tan trágico. Y creo que es una de las reacciones más realistas porque ha este punto lo único que ella sabe de él es que se odiaban en la escuela y en la actualidad ér uno de los asesinos más buscados del mundo mágico.
Pero a partir de eso es que vemos ahora si el desarrollo del personaje. Se maneja primero todo el impacto que la muerte de Draco tuvo sobre ella, como soñaba con sus ojos tristes inyectados de sangre, la forma en la que su cuerpo estaba suspendido en el aire y eso le generó dudas. De ahí pasamos a cuando inician la investigación, y es cuando todo comienza a irse para abajo para ella.
Las memorias forman un factor sumamente importante en el esarrollo de este personaje (al igual que en el lector si a mi me lo preguntan), porque conforme se van conociendo más detalles de la historia de Draco vas viviendo con ella la indignación de todo lo que tuvo que pasar, a su vez es increíble ver todo lo que hizo por Hermione mientras estuvieron en Hogwarts, lo cual creo que es bastante increibíble.
A partir delas memorias es que Hermione comienza a desarrollar una obsesión con todo el tema de Draco, comienza a tener sueños con él donde ya tenían una vida mucho más intíma, pero Teo eso are e poco probable dado que ellos jam´ás Inter actuaron fuera de Hogwarts, y aquí como lector no comprendes de dónde viene la obseesión tan fuerte que tiene nuestro personaje femenino por el mortífago. Te va contando como se va desvaneciendo con el tiempo y mientras más estudia el caso más parece tener más dudas que respuestas, lo cual es lo mismo que le pasa al lector.
El hecho de que de pronto parezca estar enferma, teniendo convulsiones y ataques que la dejan débil y enferma solo te hace cuestionarte qué demonios le está pasando.
Después pasamos a los momentos donde te dicen que Hermione ha sido vista con Drac, no por una, sino por dos personas que lo confirman y tu solo te quedas de “a ver, que alguien me explique qué demonios etsá pasando porque de verdad no puedo entender como es que Hermione ha sido vista con Draco más de una ez y ella no se acuerda”. Con este tema llegué a tener diferentes teorías sobre que le habían borrado la mente, pero la verdad ninguna se acercó a lo que en realidad pasa.
Cuando aparecen estos personajes diciendo que la habían visto es cuando Hermione tooma la decisión más estúpida para mi pero que es la que desarrolla toda la trama que hasta el momento solo se iba formando.
Decide cambiar el pasado y traer de regreso a Draco.
Algo qe de verdad a mi me exasperó porque de verdad no lograba comprender de dónde venía esa obsesión por él, sentía que estaba demasiado injustificado y que iba a hacer un cagadero solo por sueños que tenía y una madre de camisa que se encontró bajo su cama. En esos momentos yo quería agarrar a la Hermione y abofeteármela para que captara que todo lo que iba a hacer iba a cambiar la vida de todas las personas a su alrededor de maneras que ella no podía imaginarse.
Pero igual lo hace.
Y con esto nos damos cuenta de la determinación, amor y obsesión que tenía por Draco Malfoy.
Porque hace todo lo que es posible para lograr tenerlo de regreso con ella, a pesar que no sabe qué es lo que tendría de regreso. En esto también llegue a sentirme desesperada porque la morra de verdad ponía esta situación por encima de su salud y no se ayudaba en lo más mínimo, quería matarla yo misma.
Como va con Snape para preguntarle de las posiciones que cambien el pasado, de cómo vende una parte de sí misma (literalmente) para que le den esa posción y así poder recuperar a Draco.
Y es cuando brincamos a la primera línea del tiempo. Y la que partió mi corazón.
La posicón que tiene consiste en tomar una memoria, después ponerla en la misma y entrar. Esta te dará oportunidad a entrar en tu yo del pasado que se encuentra en ese recuerdo y alterar el cómo se manejaron las cosas.
En este caso damos un brinco en el tiempo a la memoria de Draco de sexto año, una noche antes del asesinato de Dumbledore.
En el recuerdo original sabemo que Draco pasó esos últimos momentos con sus amigos y después, cuando todos se fueron a dormir él se escabulló al dormitorio de Granger para verla dormir y después dejar entrar a los Death Eaters, matarlos a todos ellos y después salvar a Hermione de sufrir ab*so a manos de Crouch. Definitivamente diferente a la historia que conocemos.
Pero aquí, Hermione decide despertar cuando Draco está ahí con ella, le confiesa su amor y le piden que la ayude para contarle a Dumbledore todo lo que estaba pasando y así ayudar a Malfoy, lo cual salió súper contraproducente porque aunque armaron todo un plan para que saliera bien en el último momento Harry aparece, hace que todo valga madres y terminan muertos él y Draco. O sea imagínense nada más cómo hubiese sido ese futuro.
Pero gracias al señor no lo conocemos porque con ayuda de Snape Hermione logra salir de ahí con vida y va a la oficina de Dumbledore para tomar otro de esos cosos para ver los pensamientos (no me acuerdo cómo se llaman jajajajajaja) y vierte una nueva menoría para intentar arreglarlo todo.
Aquí brincamos a la que será la segunda línea del tiempo: Hermione captando el horrible error que cometió en esa línea de tiempo la señorita decide ir un poco más al pasado a lo que sería su tercer año en Hogwarts, después de golpear a Malfoy cuando iban a matar a Buckbeak; lo sigue, de nuevo le dice todo lo que sabe y que por favor él la acompañara con Dumbledore para contarle todo lo que ha pasado con él y su familia y así. Salvarlo del horrible futuro que le espera.
El problema con esta memoria es que es demasiado corta, el plan de Hermione no sale como esperaba porque cuando estaba esperando a encontrarse con Draco él jamás llega y cuando está frente a Dumbledore para mencionarle todo lo que el Slytherin ha vivido se acaba la memoria y no sabemos como se desarrolla esta.
Hasta que conocemos un nuevo mundo.
Cuando regresamos al presente de esa segunda línea del tiempo Hermione acaba de despertar de una convulsión y se encuentra en una celda. A la primer persona que ve entrar es a Blaise y cuando se acerca a hablarle él la golpea y le grita que jamás se dirija a él de esa forma. Desde aquí Hermione es capaz de analizar que el futuro que tenía pensado no salió para nada como lo esperaba.
Con el tiempo comprendemos que en ese presente Draco Malfoy jamás asistió a Hogwarts, ya que después de que Hermione habló con Ginny (prisionera por cierto) sabemos que Draco Malfoy igualmente mató a Voldemort en ese universo, pero la diferencia es que aquí Lucius Malfoy ha tomado el poder, le borró la memoria a Draco y ahora él es su primer oficial, el asesino más temido de la comunidad mágica y jamás supo lo que era el amor de amistad, el estar fuera de casa en Hogwarts o siquiera vivir cerca de Granger.
Esto cambió su personalidad demasiado haciéndolo más sanguinario, violento y peligroso. Y cuando él ve a Hermione la cosa se pone fea. Pero de nuevo aquí vemos otra de las complejidades sin respuestas del personaje que es que a pesar del odio con el que era tratada ella seguía enamorada de Draco no sabía por qué ni a qué se debía pero así era la situación.
Después vemos el cambio de Draco, cuando la comienza a cuestionar con respecto a dónde la conoce y le muestra todas sus memorias, todo lo que hizo para volver a estar con él, como se siente y en parte le devuelve los recuerdos de cuando era un niño.
Una vez más vemos esa determinación en Hermione de poder cambiar algo cuando tiene su mente en eso, algo bastante constante en este personaje y es bueno.
A partir de esto es que Hermione logra generar una conexión con Draco en este nuevo universo y por primera vez como lectores podemos leer los diarios que Hermione venía cargando y que Draco había dejado para ella después de morir.
Y de verdad está cañón ver como tuvieron toda una vida juntos, y por fin comprendes de dónde viene el amor de Hermione por él.
Porque en estos diarios se nos muestra de igual forma cómo ella descubrió el secreto de Draco por ser aprendiz de auror, como vio todos los recuerdos de Draco, todo lo que hizo por ella y eso la dejó consternada por haberlo odiado tanto tiempo y él haberla protegido de tantas cosas, vemos como vuelve a repetir los patrones de obsesionarse, de buscarlo en casa y de enamorarse rápidamente de él.
Con esto seguimos su historia, como se van enamorando cada vez más, se van volviendo dependientes el uno del otro y se dan cuenta de cómo no pueden vivir sin la presencia de su compañero. Entendemos de dónde viene esa obsesión de Hermione, esos “sueños que tenía” y vemos como están dispuestos a hacer todo por el otro.
Incluso matar.
Porque llegamos a comprender por qué Hermione tiene esas convulsiones:
Una mañana ambos estaban en la mansión cuando de pronto Draco escuchó que sus padres llegaron, quiso esconder a Hermione pero no lo logró hacerlo a tiempo, Lucius y Narcissa los vieron y comenzó una pelea. Draco no fue capaz de matar a su padre y cuando estaba revisando a Hermione su padre lo iba a atacar por la espalda, Hermione vio esto y con todo el odio que sentía por Lucius salió a la luz y asesinó a Lucius con la maldición de Sectumsentra varias veces. Pero antes de orar Lucius tiró una mldición a Hermione que haría que su amor or Draco la matara, cada vez que ella pensara en él, lo amara o estuviera cerca de él su cuerpo sangraría hasta morir. Y después de eso él falleció.
Hermione quedó tirada en el suelo, sangrando por los ojos y la boca y fue cuando Draco la lleevó a un cuarto secreto en la mmansión y ahí quedó con Narcissa, la cual le borró la memoria y la alejó de la mansión con Theodore para que nadie la encontrara. Draco se hizo responsable por ese crimen y partir de eso Hermione llevó una vida tranquila sin recordar toda su relación con el rubio.
Este contexto nos permite entender las acciones previas del personaje, como no dudó u solo segundo en dar una parte de ella para recuperar a Draco, como ignoraba su bienestar por pensar en él y todas las acciones que hizo en las pasadas líneas del tiempo.
Aquí comprendemos como estos dos personajes se mueven alrededor del otro, y es cuando comienzan con el siguiente plan que es arreglar esa línea del tiempo y salvar a todos sus amigos y a la comunidad mágica.
Hermione permite que en esta línea del tiempo Draco mate a su padre (no sin antes quitarle la maldición a Granger para que pudieran estar juntos). Y después viajan al pasado, a su primer año y es cuando nos dan el mejor final del mundo.
El personaje de Hermione ha pesar de ser complejo no lo es tanto como Draco. Es un personaje que toda su vida gira en torno a recuperar al hombre al que amó, que está dispuesta a hacer todo lo que fuera posible por él y que su amor es tan grande que no dudan un segundo en ella sacrificarse por él.
Es complejo por cómo se maneja, había ocasiones en las que la leía y no veía nada de la Hermione presentada por JK Rowling, y a pesar que creo que son muy diferentes había otras ocasiones donde la autora lograba mostrar ese rostro al que estoy acostumbrada de este personaje. Sigue siendo muy inteligente, aunque la sentí un poco menos independiente porque todo en su vida era Draco.
De igual forma es demasiado fuerte y valiente, y de igual forma esta dispuesta a hacer lo que sea por las personas que ama, entonces eso es algo que apruebo demasiado porque es fiel a lo que hemos visto del personaje.
Leerla fue sumamente interesante, difruté todo sobre este libro y ha decir verdad fue maravilloso ver cómo ella confiaba plenamente en sus sentimientos, en el hombre que veía que no se quedaba con lo que decían las demás personas.
💚Opinión
Creo que es un historia extremadamente buena, de los mejores fanfics que he leído.
La pleaneación que se ve a lo largo de la novela es buenísima, se nota quue la autora tenía muy bien pensado como serían los personajes, sus desarrollos, hacia donde irían todos y cada uno de ellos, sus problemas, sus obsesiones, la forma en la que interactuarían entre ellos y con los demás.
En cuanto a todo el giro en la historia, de verdad me tenía al borde del asiento sin poder soltar lo que leía, era una cosa extraordinaria. A lo largo de la historia hice muchísimas teorías de qué era lo que iba a pasar a continuación, y nunca le atiné a ninguna. En todo momento estaba ocurriendo algo, pero a la vez no se sentía que eran tantas como para perder el hilo.
Todas las tramas tenían sentido y no sentí que se dejó nada sin terminar, todos los hilos que habían la autora los cerraba y de una forma que no se sentía sacado de la nada, sino que tenía todo sentido y concordaba excelentemente con la historia.
A pesar de que la historia de amor es bastante tóxica hablando en cuanto a la codependencia que tenían los personajes que había entre ellos me encantó leerla, ver todo lo que estaba dispuestos a hacer por el otro y lo mucho que se amaban me calentaba el corazón de cierta forma.
La escritura era muy buena, la forma de describir los lugares, las situaciones, los sentimientos de los personajes creo que eran muy buenos y me sumrgían a la historia de una manera increíble.
Disfruté demasiado las más de 900 páginas que tiene, nunca sentí el libro demasiado largo ni tedioso, responde todas las dudas que tengamos como lectores y te permiten comprender completamente a los personajes y conectar con ellos.
En mi corazón este libro tiene 5 estrellas, pero siendo objetiva solo le puse 4.5 porque no me gustó el hecho que no nos permiten ver 100% como arreglaron la tercera línea del tiempo. Que con el epílogo (hermoso por cierto) responden todas las dudas.
En fin, recomiendo demasiado este libro, creo que tiene el balance completo entre una historia oscura y peligrosa con un final maravilloso que te calienta el corazón de una manera sumamente tierna.
Los recuerdos de Draco abrazando su almohada fingiendo que era su madre, o el trauma del brazo roto por Lucius que conecta con el ataque de Buckbeak, son devastadores. También es impactante leer cómo empieza a encontrar cierto control siendo quien inflige el dolor, lo que refleja su transformación emocional. El daño físico y psicológico que sufrió (como la maldición Cruciatus) es brutal y constante.
Su relación con Hermione es una de las más intensas y dolorosas que he leído. Desde el inicio, Draco la ama en silencio y la protege en secreto. Su visión del amor está completamente distorsionada por su crianza, y eso se nota en cómo asocia el amor con el sufrimiento. Aun así, jamás la lastima físicamente, y siempre se arriesga por ella. Es obsesivo, oscuro y trágicamente hermoso.
El “dragón” que representa su poder mágico es una metáfora increíble de cómo el dolor reprimido puede volverse poder. Me pareció brillante cómo se construyó esa parte del personaje.
En cuanto a su muerte, fue profundamente impactante. Ver las memorias que Hermione presencia es desgarrador, y cuando él muere por protegerla, te parte el alma. Las líneas temporales alternas solo refuerzan esa tristeza: una donde muere como héroe, otra donde se convierte en un monstruo manipulado por su padre, y otra donde finalmente tiene una oportunidad de sanar.
A pesar de las diferentes versiones de su vida, siempre mantiene ese amor tan fuerte y tan suyo por Hermione. Aun siendo oscuro, él elige protegerla. Al final, destruir la mansión Malfoy es un cierre poético para su historia: soltar su pasado para vivir la vida que siempre soñó.
Draco en esta historia fue un personaje complejo, doloroso, oscuro y lleno de amor. Le dieron el final que merecía sin borrar su dolor ni su historia. Simplemente, lo amé.
💚Hermione
Esta Hermione que nos presentan es una de las más interesantes que he leído en un fanfic de Dramione.
Al inicio la presentan tal cual la imaginarías, inteligente, terca, que le gusta investigar y conocer, que ha cumplido su sueño de convertirse en auror y está haciendo lo posible por convertirse en la mejor del área.
Me encantó leer la dinámica que tenía con Blaise y cómo lo amaba como amigo, de verdad fue una dinámica corta pero hermos.
Pero una vez que comienza toda la trama con Draco Malfoy y su muerte fue ver una Hermione completamente diferente, y que en camiones me llegaba a desesperar sobremanera porque no comprendía el por qué de sus acciones. No me hacía sentido la forma en la que pensaba o la desesperación que sentía por saber más sobre Draco, la forma en la que ponía en riesgo su vida dejando de comer, de dormir, de hacer nada que no fuera él.
Me llegó a exasperar en más de una ocasión, peeero vamos a desglosar aa este interesante personaje punto por punto.
Primero se nos presenta como una adulta normal, que esta viviendo su vida como siempre la soñó, un poco solitaria pero que ama a sus amigos y es feliz.
Pero todo cambia cuando le toca analizar el caso de Draco Malfoy.
Primer vemos que pasa por el asombro, es increíble la forma en la ue la autora describe cómo Hermione se sintió al ver el cuero de Draco colgado, la descripción de cómo e veía hace que se te pongan los cabellos de punta, y aquí primero vemos como Hermione siente dolor porque su compañero de la escuela terminó con ese final tan trágico. Y creo que es una de las reacciones más realistas porque ha este punto lo único que ella sabe de él es que se odiaban en la escuela y en la actualidad ér uno de los asesinos más buscados del mundo mágico.
Pero a partir de eso es que vemos ahora si el desarrollo del personaje. Se maneja primero todo el impacto que la muerte de Draco tuvo sobre ella, como soñaba con sus ojos tristes inyectados de sangre, la forma en la que su cuerpo estaba suspendido en el aire y eso le generó dudas. De ahí pasamos a cuando inician la investigación, y es cuando todo comienza a irse para abajo para ella.
Las memorias forman un factor sumamente importante en el esarrollo de este personaje (al igual que en el lector si a mi me lo preguntan), porque conforme se van conociendo más detalles de la historia de Draco vas viviendo con ella la indignación de todo lo que tuvo que pasar, a su vez es increíble ver todo lo que hizo por Hermione mientras estuvieron en Hogwarts, lo cual creo que es bastante increibíble.
A partir delas memorias es que Hermione comienza a desarrollar una obsesión con todo el tema de Draco, comienza a tener sueños con él donde ya tenían una vida mucho más intíma, pero Teo eso are e poco probable dado que ellos jam´ás Inter actuaron fuera de Hogwarts, y aquí como lector no comprendes de dónde viene la obseesión tan fuerte que tiene nuestro personaje femenino por el mortífago. Te va contando como se va desvaneciendo con el tiempo y mientras más estudia el caso más parece tener más dudas que respuestas, lo cual es lo mismo que le pasa al lector.
El hecho de que de pronto parezca estar enferma, teniendo convulsiones y ataques que la dejan débil y enferma solo te hace cuestionarte qué demonios le está pasando.
Después pasamos a los momentos donde te dicen que Hermione ha sido vista con Drac, no por una, sino por dos personas que lo confirman y tu solo te quedas de “a ver, que alguien me explique qué demonios etsá pasando porque de verdad no puedo entender como es que Hermione ha sido vista con Draco más de una ez y ella no se acuerda”. Con este tema llegué a tener diferentes teorías sobre que le habían borrado la mente, pero la verdad ninguna se acercó a lo que en realidad pasa.
Cuando aparecen estos personajes diciendo que la habían visto es cuando Hermione tooma la decisión más estúpida para mi pero que es la que desarrolla toda la trama que hasta el momento solo se iba formando.
Decide cambiar el pasado y traer de regreso a Draco.
Algo qe de verdad a mi me exasperó porque de verdad no lograba comprender de dónde venía esa obsesión por él, sentía que estaba demasiado injustificado y que iba a hacer un cagadero solo por sueños que tenía y una madre de camisa que se encontró bajo su cama. En esos momentos yo quería agarrar a la Hermione y abofeteármela para que captara que todo lo que iba a hacer iba a cambiar la vida de todas las personas a su alrededor de maneras que ella no podía imaginarse.
Pero igual lo hace.
Y con esto nos damos cuenta de la determinación, amor y obsesión que tenía por Draco Malfoy.
Porque hace todo lo que es posible para lograr tenerlo de regreso con ella, a pesar que no sabe qué es lo que tendría de regreso. En esto también llegue a sentirme desesperada porque la morra de verdad ponía esta situación por encima de su salud y no se ayudaba en lo más mínimo, quería matarla yo misma.
Como va con Snape para preguntarle de las posiciones que cambien el pasado, de cómo vende una parte de sí misma (literalmente) para que le den esa posción y así poder recuperar a Draco.
Y es cuando brincamos a la primera línea del tiempo. Y la que partió mi corazón.
La posicón que tiene consiste en tomar una memoria, después ponerla en la misma y entrar. Esta te dará oportunidad a entrar en tu yo del pasado que se encuentra en ese recuerdo y alterar el cómo se manejaron las cosas.
En este caso damos un brinco en el tiempo a la memoria de Draco de sexto año, una noche antes del asesinato de Dumbledore.
En el recuerdo original sabemo que Draco pasó esos últimos momentos con sus amigos y después, cuando todos se fueron a dormir él se escabulló al dormitorio de Granger para verla dormir y después dejar entrar a los Death Eaters, matarlos a todos ellos y después salvar a Hermione de sufrir ab*so a manos de Crouch. Definitivamente diferente a la historia que conocemos.
Pero aquí, Hermione decide despertar cuando Draco está ahí con ella, le confiesa su amor y le piden que la ayude para contarle a Dumbledore todo lo que estaba pasando y así ayudar a Malfoy, lo cual salió súper contraproducente porque aunque armaron todo un plan para que saliera bien en el último momento Harry aparece, hace que todo valga madres y terminan muertos él y Draco. O sea imagínense nada más cómo hubiese sido ese futuro.
Pero gracias al señor no lo conocemos porque con ayuda de Snape Hermione logra salir de ahí con vida y va a la oficina de Dumbledore para tomar otro de esos cosos para ver los pensamientos (no me acuerdo cómo se llaman jajajajajaja) y vierte una nueva menoría para intentar arreglarlo todo.
Aquí brincamos a la que será la segunda línea del tiempo: Hermione captando el horrible error que cometió en esa línea de tiempo la señorita decide ir un poco más al pasado a lo que sería su tercer año en Hogwarts, después de golpear a Malfoy cuando iban a matar a Buckbeak; lo sigue, de nuevo le dice todo lo que sabe y que por favor él la acompañara con Dumbledore para contarle todo lo que ha pasado con él y su familia y así. Salvarlo del horrible futuro que le espera.
El problema con esta memoria es que es demasiado corta, el plan de Hermione no sale como esperaba porque cuando estaba esperando a encontrarse con Draco él jamás llega y cuando está frente a Dumbledore para mencionarle todo lo que el Slytherin ha vivido se acaba la memoria y no sabemos como se desarrolla esta.
Hasta que conocemos un nuevo mundo.
Cuando regresamos al presente de esa segunda línea del tiempo Hermione acaba de despertar de una convulsión y se encuentra en una celda. A la primer persona que ve entrar es a Blaise y cuando se acerca a hablarle él la golpea y le grita que jamás se dirija a él de esa forma. Desde aquí Hermione es capaz de analizar que el futuro que tenía pensado no salió para nada como lo esperaba.
Con el tiempo comprendemos que en ese presente Draco Malfoy jamás asistió a Hogwarts, ya que después de que Hermione habló con Ginny (prisionera por cierto) sabemos que Draco Malfoy igualmente mató a Voldemort en ese universo, pero la diferencia es que aquí Lucius Malfoy ha tomado el poder, le borró la memoria a Draco y ahora él es su primer oficial, el asesino más temido de la comunidad mágica y jamás supo lo que era el amor de amistad, el estar fuera de casa en Hogwarts o siquiera vivir cerca de Granger.
Esto cambió su personalidad demasiado haciéndolo más sanguinario, violento y peligroso. Y cuando él ve a Hermione la cosa se pone fea. Pero de nuevo aquí vemos otra de las complejidades sin respuestas del personaje que es que a pesar del odio con el que era tratada ella seguía enamorada de Draco no sabía por qué ni a qué se debía pero así era la situación.
Después vemos el cambio de Draco, cuando la comienza a cuestionar con respecto a dónde la conoce y le muestra todas sus memorias, todo lo que hizo para volver a estar con él, como se siente y en parte le devuelve los recuerdos de cuando era un niño.
Una vez más vemos esa determinación en Hermione de poder cambiar algo cuando tiene su mente en eso, algo bastante constante en este personaje y es bueno.
A partir de esto es que Hermione logra generar una conexión con Draco en este nuevo universo y por primera vez como lectores podemos leer los diarios que Hermione venía cargando y que Draco había dejado para ella después de morir.
Y de verdad está cañón ver como tuvieron toda una vida juntos, y por fin comprendes de dónde viene el amor de Hermione por él.
Porque en estos diarios se nos muestra de igual forma cómo ella descubrió el secreto de Draco por ser aprendiz de auror, como vio todos los recuerdos de Draco, todo lo que hizo por ella y eso la dejó consternada por haberlo odiado tanto tiempo y él haberla protegido de tantas cosas, vemos como vuelve a repetir los patrones de obsesionarse, de buscarlo en casa y de enamorarse rápidamente de él.
Con esto seguimos su historia, como se van enamorando cada vez más, se van volviendo dependientes el uno del otro y se dan cuenta de cómo no pueden vivir sin la presencia de su compañero. Entendemos de dónde viene esa obsesión de Hermione, esos “sueños que tenía” y vemos como están dispuestos a hacer todo por el otro.
Incluso matar.
Porque llegamos a comprender por qué Hermione tiene esas convulsiones:
Una mañana ambos estaban en la mansión cuando de pronto Draco escuchó que sus padres llegaron, quiso esconder a Hermione pero no lo logró hacerlo a tiempo, Lucius y Narcissa los vieron y comenzó una pelea. Draco no fue capaz de matar a su padre y cuando estaba revisando a Hermione su padre lo iba a atacar por la espalda, Hermione vio esto y con todo el odio que sentía por Lucius salió a la luz y asesinó a Lucius con la maldición de Sectumsentra varias veces. Pero antes de orar Lucius tiró una mldición a Hermione que haría que su amor or Draco la matara, cada vez que ella pensara en él, lo amara o estuviera cerca de él su cuerpo sangraría hasta morir. Y después de eso él falleció.
Hermione quedó tirada en el suelo, sangrando por los ojos y la boca y fue cuando Draco la lleevó a un cuarto secreto en la mmansión y ahí quedó con Narcissa, la cual le borró la memoria y la alejó de la mansión con Theodore para que nadie la encontrara. Draco se hizo responsable por ese crimen y partir de eso Hermione llevó una vida tranquila sin recordar toda su relación con el rubio.
Este contexto nos permite entender las acciones previas del personaje, como no dudó u solo segundo en dar una parte de ella para recuperar a Draco, como ignoraba su bienestar por pensar en él y todas las acciones que hizo en las pasadas líneas del tiempo.
Aquí comprendemos como estos dos personajes se mueven alrededor del otro, y es cuando comienzan con el siguiente plan que es arreglar esa línea del tiempo y salvar a todos sus amigos y a la comunidad mágica.
Hermione permite que en esta línea del tiempo Draco mate a su padre (no sin antes quitarle la maldición a Granger para que pudieran estar juntos). Y después viajan al pasado, a su primer año y es cuando nos dan el mejor final del mundo.
El personaje de Hermione ha pesar de ser complejo no lo es tanto como Draco. Es un personaje que toda su vida gira en torno a recuperar al hombre al que amó, que está dispuesta a hacer todo lo que fuera posible por él y que su amor es tan grande que no dudan un segundo en ella sacrificarse por él.
Es complejo por cómo se maneja, había ocasiones en las que la leía y no veía nada de la Hermione presentada por JK Rowling, y a pesar que creo que son muy diferentes había otras ocasiones donde la autora lograba mostrar ese rostro al que estoy acostumbrada de este personaje. Sigue siendo muy inteligente, aunque la sentí un poco menos independiente porque todo en su vida era Draco.
De igual forma es demasiado fuerte y valiente, y de igual forma esta dispuesta a hacer lo que sea por las personas que ama, entonces eso es algo que apruebo demasiado porque es fiel a lo que hemos visto del personaje.
Leerla fue sumamente interesante, difruté todo sobre este libro y ha decir verdad fue maravilloso ver cómo ella confiaba plenamente en sus sentimientos, en el hombre que veía que no se quedaba con lo que decían las demás personas.
💚Opinión
Creo que es un historia extremadamente buena, de los mejores fanfics que he leído.
La pleaneación que se ve a lo largo de la novela es buenísima, se nota quue la autora tenía muy bien pensado como serían los personajes, sus desarrollos, hacia donde irían todos y cada uno de ellos, sus problemas, sus obsesiones, la forma en la que interactuarían entre ellos y con los demás.
En cuanto a todo el giro en la historia, de verdad me tenía al borde del asiento sin poder soltar lo que leía, era una cosa extraordinaria. A lo largo de la historia hice muchísimas teorías de qué era lo que iba a pasar a continuación, y nunca le atiné a ninguna. En todo momento estaba ocurriendo algo, pero a la vez no se sentía que eran tantas como para perder el hilo.
Todas las tramas tenían sentido y no sentí que se dejó nada sin terminar, todos los hilos que habían la autora los cerraba y de una forma que no se sentía sacado de la nada, sino que tenía todo sentido y concordaba excelentemente con la historia.
A pesar de que la historia de amor es bastante tóxica hablando en cuanto a la codependencia que tenían los personajes que había entre ellos me encantó leerla, ver todo lo que estaba dispuestos a hacer por el otro y lo mucho que se amaban me calentaba el corazón de cierta forma.
La escritura era muy buena, la forma de describir los lugares, las situaciones, los sentimientos de los personajes creo que eran muy buenos y me sumrgían a la historia de una manera increíble.
Disfruté demasiado las más de 900 páginas que tiene, nunca sentí el libro demasiado largo ni tedioso, responde todas las dudas que tengamos como lectores y te permiten comprender completamente a los personajes y conectar con ellos.
En mi corazón este libro tiene 5 estrellas, pero siendo objetiva solo le puse 4.5 porque no me gustó el hecho que no nos permiten ver 100% como arreglaron la tercera línea del tiempo. Que con el epílogo (hermoso por cierto) responden todas las dudas.
En fin, recomiendo demasiado este libro, creo que tiene el balance completo entre una historia oscura y peligrosa con un final maravilloso que te calienta el corazón de una manera sumamente tierna.
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August 18, 2025
The best work yet in the Dramionie fanfic Universe. This work had changed how I view the entire HP universe and Draco’s backstory. Quite possible that’s delusional of me? However, this work had changed how I understand unconditional love. The author talking about the Butterfly Effect was brilliant and how one small action, one act of kindness, and one moment of human connection can change the trajectory of an entire life… wow. Bravo!
August 22, 2025
This was fucking beautiful and heartbreaking
November 26, 2025
Be still my heart (gonna be honest the end kinda confused me but we’re just vibing)
January 16, 2026
Ouch 😩 this was a great one guys
May 29, 2025
This was a devastating read in ALL the ways you want a Dramione to destroy you! It had the pining. It had the obsession. It had the worshipping. I'm a millennial so to Butterfly Effect movie plot line was perfect. The story/plot was intriguing and kept me engaged the whole way through. It got a bit muddled towards the end but didn't distract. I appreciate that this WIP wasn't just a copy/paste each chapter. It felt cohesive and drawn together BEFORE writing each chapter. Even the HEA spoiler alert was not a spoiler! I will never listen to "My Immortal" in the same way now. And the non-Ron bashing was a refreshing change!
annotations:
-Draco didn't have the social skills to overcome conflict.
The only way he had ever shown was with fists, anger and with pain.
-Obviously, the only thing he could do in response to the feelings he had for Granger was to make sure he made her life hell.
That's what love was after all.
-'Granger, is this real?' He asked, his voice low, hesitant.
'I don't think I'll survive it, if it's not.'
-He didn't say anything, and she remembered that despite what he showed her, he was still her Draco underneath. Of course he'd listen.
-'I know you.'
-He saw a puff of a curl catch on the wind, and initially, he wondered if he'd finally lost the plot and started imagining Granger during the day instead of just when he was alone at night.
-Draco wanted to rip his arm away. he wanted to summon his broom and fly into a wall, to feed himself to an Acromantula, maybe wake up Voldemort so that he could Avada Kedavra him to another realm.
Because he didn't want to look into another set of eyes. He didn't want anyone else to ever touch him.
It was only ever going to be Hermione for him.
Draco had know it since he was eleven years old.
-'Absolutely not.' Theo replied. 'He pays me to be here, like an oversized house elf. I cannot stand him.'
-She wanted everything that Draco had to give. She wanted to let his fire consume her and she wanted to consume him too.
MY HEART.-He had tried, so hard. All he ever wanted to do was make people proud. He had tried to do his best.
But this life wasn't meant for him. No matter what he did, it was never enough.
He accepted that now. There was no more trying left in him. He was going to give into the darkness, get the job done and move on to the next life where maybe he could find happiness.
annotations:
-Draco didn't have the social skills to overcome conflict.
The only way he had ever shown was with fists, anger and with pain.
-Obviously, the only thing he could do in response to the feelings he had for Granger was to make sure he made her life hell.
That's what love was after all.
-'Granger, is this real?' He asked, his voice low, hesitant.
'I don't think I'll survive it, if it's not.'
-He didn't say anything, and she remembered that despite what he showed her, he was still her Draco underneath. Of course he'd listen.
-'I know you.'
-He saw a puff of a curl catch on the wind, and initially, he wondered if he'd finally lost the plot and started imagining Granger during the day instead of just when he was alone at night.
-Draco wanted to rip his arm away. he wanted to summon his broom and fly into a wall, to feed himself to an Acromantula, maybe wake up Voldemort so that he could Avada Kedavra him to another realm.
Because he didn't want to look into another set of eyes. He didn't want anyone else to ever touch him.
It was only ever going to be Hermione for him.
Draco had know it since he was eleven years old.
-'Absolutely not.' Theo replied. 'He pays me to be here, like an oversized house elf. I cannot stand him.'
-She wanted everything that Draco had to give. She wanted to let his fire consume her and she wanted to consume him too.
MY HEART.-He had tried, so hard. All he ever wanted to do was make people proud. He had tried to do his best.
But this life wasn't meant for him. No matter what he did, it was never enough.
He accepted that now. There was no more trying left in him. He was going to give into the darkness, get the job done and move on to the next life where maybe he could find happiness.
June 24, 2025
AHHHHHHH I LOVED IT SOOO MUCH, my pookies with through soo muchhhhhhhhhhh. Like honeyyyy is thiss reallllllll?
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February 26, 20264.25⭐️
Jesus, why are Dramiones so good? Goddamn. I went in wanting fluff and instead chose chaos: drama, abuse, heartbreak… and an all-consuming, intense kind of love. This one is complicated (again). It deals with time travel, shifting timelines, and the question of whether people in each timeline remain there, or if they fade away. I know I say this every time, but Dramione writers are ridiculously creative. And Blaise + Ginny? Harry + Ron?? New territory for me lol.
At first, I didn’t fully get why Hermione was so fixated on someone she barely remembered, but when the explanation came, it made sense. Draco’s suffering in this felt very much of Manacled’s Draco, which is honestly emotional sabotage after just reading that. I cried at the end of Manacled, and here I was again, crying almost at the end.. specifically that chapter showing the days leading up to Draco’s death in the first timeline.
There were a few things that I kept waiting to be addressed that didn’t land for me (or maybe I missed them?): Blaise warning her she’s running out of time in the first timeline, Hermione never checking the last 2 memory vials, the impact of creating the soul stone, and the whole “witnesses seeing Hermione with Draco” before his death. It did make me wonder if Wheredoesshego shifted their approach to time travel midway through writing. But honestly? I didn’t even care that much in the end because I loved where it landed. It’s AO3. I’m here for the emotional damage, not perfection.
Maybe it could have been shorter? Not sure how but it took some TIME to read it all.
🚨Story🚨
Original/First timeline
The story follows canon pretty closely until 1997 (minus Harry being a Horcrux), but from Draco’s perspective. His upbringing is horrible. Lucius is violently abusive, shaping him into what he believes a future Death Eater should be, while Narcissa stays distant out of fear. Draco grows up associating love with pain and control.
When he gets to Hogwarts, he fails at forming connections with Potter, but Hermione immediately stands out to him. Her loyalty, intelligence, and bravery draw him in, until it becomes something close to obsession, but protective. So when Lucius orders him to get close to her for the Death Eaters, Draco does the opposite: he pushes her away to keep her safe, even while being groomed deeper into Voldemort’s world.
During Dumbledore’s death, Draco kills Death Eaters trying to take an unconscious Hermione. Harry overhears Draco confessing that everything he’s done is to protect her and helps him. Snape obliviates Harry. Later, Draco kills Nagini and Voldemort (or Lucius might have).
He’s put on trial, Hermione (training as an Auror) is assigned to his case, sees his memories, and understands everything. They fall in love quickly and intensely. But Lucius finds out, curses Hermione so she’ll die as long as she loves Draco, and she kills him before he can undo it.
Hermione is obliviated and forgets their relationship. Draco escapes Azkaban, spends 5 years killing Death Eaters, then dies by suicide, leaving behind memories and journals for her.
Hermione becomes obsessed with understanding him. She can’t open the journals, so she watches his memories, but they stop before their relationship. Still, she feels everything. That’s what pushes her to change the past. She creates a soul stone, gives part of herself, and enters the memories with a potion that allows her to change the past.
Second Timeline:
She goes back to the night of Dumbledore’s death and warns Draco. He tries to change things, but fails. He dies protecting her, and Harry dies too. Everything still collapses.
Third Timeline:
She goes further back,l. This time she convinces Draco to go to Dumbledore, but he doesn’t. Instead, Hermione tells Dumbledore herself.
This leads to a completely broken world: Lucius pulls Draco out of Hogwarts, obliviates him, and turns him into a weapon. Voldemort is already gone, but the world is worse: Ron is dead, Harry is on the run, the Order is destroyed. Hermione wakes up imprisoned, and Draco is violent, cold, and unrecognizable.
But he’s still drawn to her.
When he goes through her memories and understands everything, their love, every timeline, every version of them, he changes. He helps her instead of fighting her. Together, they fix one thing: they remove Lucius’ curse on Hermione. They decide to alter the first memory together
Final timeline:
They’re going away to Howgarts for the first time. Draco changes his approach completely. No arrogance, no cruelty, he actually connects with Hermione’s friends. That one moment changes EVERYTHING. Their friend groups merge, alliances shift, and the base of everything that went wrong is rewritten.
They also go to Dumbledore early and tell him everything, preventing Voldemort’s rise before it even begins.
When they return, they wake up in a new, peaceful timeline. Everyone is alive. Voldemort never happened. And even though this version of them didn’t live through the pain, they still have the journals, the proof that in every timeline, no matter how broken, they found each other and loved each other.
Jesus, why are Dramiones so good? Goddamn. I went in wanting fluff and instead chose chaos: drama, abuse, heartbreak… and an all-consuming, intense kind of love. This one is complicated (again). It deals with time travel, shifting timelines, and the question of whether people in each timeline remain there, or if they fade away. I know I say this every time, but Dramione writers are ridiculously creative. And Blaise + Ginny? Harry + Ron?? New territory for me lol.
At first, I didn’t fully get why Hermione was so fixated on someone she barely remembered, but when the explanation came, it made sense. Draco’s suffering in this felt very much of Manacled’s Draco, which is honestly emotional sabotage after just reading that. I cried at the end of Manacled, and here I was again, crying almost at the end.. specifically that chapter showing the days leading up to Draco’s death in the first timeline.
There were a few things that I kept waiting to be addressed that didn’t land for me (or maybe I missed them?): Blaise warning her she’s running out of time in the first timeline, Hermione never checking the last 2 memory vials, the impact of creating the soul stone, and the whole “witnesses seeing Hermione with Draco” before his death. It did make me wonder if Wheredoesshego shifted their approach to time travel midway through writing. But honestly? I didn’t even care that much in the end because I loved where it landed. It’s AO3. I’m here for the emotional damage, not perfection.
Maybe it could have been shorter? Not sure how but it took some TIME to read it all.
🚨Story🚨
Original/First timeline
The story follows canon pretty closely until 1997 (minus Harry being a Horcrux), but from Draco’s perspective. His upbringing is horrible. Lucius is violently abusive, shaping him into what he believes a future Death Eater should be, while Narcissa stays distant out of fear. Draco grows up associating love with pain and control.
When he gets to Hogwarts, he fails at forming connections with Potter, but Hermione immediately stands out to him. Her loyalty, intelligence, and bravery draw him in, until it becomes something close to obsession, but protective. So when Lucius orders him to get close to her for the Death Eaters, Draco does the opposite: he pushes her away to keep her safe, even while being groomed deeper into Voldemort’s world.
During Dumbledore’s death, Draco kills Death Eaters trying to take an unconscious Hermione. Harry overhears Draco confessing that everything he’s done is to protect her and helps him. Snape obliviates Harry. Later, Draco kills Nagini and Voldemort (or Lucius might have).
He’s put on trial, Hermione (training as an Auror) is assigned to his case, sees his memories, and understands everything. They fall in love quickly and intensely. But Lucius finds out, curses Hermione so she’ll die as long as she loves Draco, and she kills him before he can undo it.
Hermione is obliviated and forgets their relationship. Draco escapes Azkaban, spends 5 years killing Death Eaters, then dies by suicide, leaving behind memories and journals for her.
Hermione becomes obsessed with understanding him. She can’t open the journals, so she watches his memories, but they stop before their relationship. Still, she feels everything. That’s what pushes her to change the past. She creates a soul stone, gives part of herself, and enters the memories with a potion that allows her to change the past.
Second Timeline:
She goes back to the night of Dumbledore’s death and warns Draco. He tries to change things, but fails. He dies protecting her, and Harry dies too. Everything still collapses.
Third Timeline:
She goes further back,l. This time she convinces Draco to go to Dumbledore, but he doesn’t. Instead, Hermione tells Dumbledore herself.
This leads to a completely broken world: Lucius pulls Draco out of Hogwarts, obliviates him, and turns him into a weapon. Voldemort is already gone, but the world is worse: Ron is dead, Harry is on the run, the Order is destroyed. Hermione wakes up imprisoned, and Draco is violent, cold, and unrecognizable.
But he’s still drawn to her.
When he goes through her memories and understands everything, their love, every timeline, every version of them, he changes. He helps her instead of fighting her. Together, they fix one thing: they remove Lucius’ curse on Hermione. They decide to alter the first memory together
Final timeline:
They’re going away to Howgarts for the first time. Draco changes his approach completely. No arrogance, no cruelty, he actually connects with Hermione’s friends. That one moment changes EVERYTHING. Their friend groups merge, alliances shift, and the base of everything that went wrong is rewritten.
They also go to Dumbledore early and tell him everything, preventing Voldemort’s rise before it even begins.
When they return, they wake up in a new, peaceful timeline. Everyone is alive. Voldemort never happened. And even though this version of them didn’t live through the pain, they still have the journals, the proof that in every timeline, no matter how broken, they found each other and loved each other.
January 24, 2026
Oh… wow. This was a hard read, tbh.
I really enjoyed this different timelines, and how they all came together at the end. It was fun to have so many different versions of their love story, with different trials and circumstances trying to keep them apart—but they always found one another.
You know I love a powerful, possessive, darker Draco- and this was so good.
I actually don’t know how to write a review for Lucius and Narcissa? All I’ll say is that I makes me SICK to think that any parent could treat a child like this. Bringing harm to a child you’re meant to protect is unforgivable. Allowing others to do the same is sickening. It was hard to read.
I loved seeing timeline pieces come together.. like the dreams, witnesses, cuff link, all consuming yearning!!!
I want to give it 5 stars but there are some holes in the story I’d love to know more about… especially with Theo, Blaise, and pansy. They knew that Lucius has cursed them & narcissa helped Hermione forget Draco.
I would love a full fic on the 4th timeline, where they met on the train and were inseparable from the beginning.
I love that Hermione and Draco went into the final memory together, and that they knew they were stronger as a pair.
I couldn’t seem to put this down, which is always a good sign. Hard read, but very very well written and a fantastic story.
Also, Draco is daddy, always. Obviously.
I really enjoyed this different timelines, and how they all came together at the end. It was fun to have so many different versions of their love story, with different trials and circumstances trying to keep them apart—but they always found one another.
You know I love a powerful, possessive, darker Draco- and this was so good.
I actually don’t know how to write a review for Lucius and Narcissa? All I’ll say is that I makes me SICK to think that any parent could treat a child like this. Bringing harm to a child you’re meant to protect is unforgivable. Allowing others to do the same is sickening. It was hard to read.
I loved seeing timeline pieces come together.. like the dreams, witnesses, cuff link, all consuming yearning!!!
I want to give it 5 stars but there are some holes in the story I’d love to know more about… especially with Theo, Blaise, and pansy. They knew that Lucius has cursed them & narcissa helped Hermione forget Draco.
I would love a full fic on the 4th timeline, where they met on the train and were inseparable from the beginning.
I love that Hermione and Draco went into the final memory together, and that they knew they were stronger as a pair.
I couldn’t seem to put this down, which is always a good sign. Hard read, but very very well written and a fantastic story.
Also, Draco is daddy, always. Obviously.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 16, 2026
This fic really wasn’t worth the hype for me. I could see what the author was trying to do, but the execution fell short. The constant timeline shifts were confusing and disrupted the flow of the story.
The writing overall felt superficial and generic, in some areas very unrealistic and convenient. I struggled to feel any real emotional connection to the characters. Hermione, in particular, came across as very weak for someone portrayed as a “competent” Auror—she made too many mistakes and didn’t do anything that made Draco’s admiration feel earned.
I also disliked how Draco basically fell in love with Hermione at first sight. He barely knew her, yet suddenly he’s completely devoted and ready to die for her, which felt rushed and unconvincing.
Overall, I’d skip this fic—it wasn’t worth the time for me.
The writing overall felt superficial and generic, in some areas very unrealistic and convenient. I struggled to feel any real emotional connection to the characters. Hermione, in particular, came across as very weak for someone portrayed as a “competent” Auror—she made too many mistakes and didn’t do anything that made Draco’s admiration feel earned.
I also disliked how Draco basically fell in love with Hermione at first sight. He barely knew her, yet suddenly he’s completely devoted and ready to die for her, which felt rushed and unconvincing.
Overall, I’d skip this fic—it wasn’t worth the time for me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 17, 2025
I've read this a while ago and forgot to track it.
I loved this one... Maybe because it didn't destroy me as much as Manacled did (which I read right before this one).
I loved the characters journey and the arc why Draco is dead in the beginning.
I loved this one... Maybe because it didn't destroy me as much as Manacled did (which I read right before this one).
I loved the characters journey and the arc why Draco is dead in the beginning.
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January 25, 2026Ron said “You're going to suffer, but you're going to be happy about it" describes this journey in perfectly. I actually ugly cried through parts of it but so happy i stayed until the end🫶🏼 love love love love love!!!!!!!
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July 18, 2025*squints* I feel like I was totally on board with this until the 40% mark and then it started to feel a bit… unrealistic and convenient. And just out of character.
September 22, 2025
A must read for Dramione fans. It’s a 4.5/5 star for Dramione books, but it got a tiny bit complicated storyline wise towards the end. I really loved it. All 1,000 pages. lol!
November 17, 2025
‘Just know that I have loved you in every lifetime’ 😭
I love this Draco so much! It is more of a 4.9 star for me because I just don’t believe that Hermione would do all of this without even attempting to read the journals first.
I love this Draco so much! It is more of a 4.9 star for me because I just don’t believe that Hermione would do all of this without even attempting to read the journals first.
January 10, 2026
The title is um LOL
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February 15, 2026“They were visiting family.” 😢😭
I’m gutted we never found out what the last two memories were.
I’m gutted we never found out what the last two memories were.
February 17, 2026
Time travel /alternate universes. Really good. Would recommend
March 22, 2026
I adored this book, my dramione heart feels so happy
February 9, 2026
Ma perché non posso leggere di unicorni, coniglietti e prati verdi?
January 31, 2026
I’m back in my dramoine era and not mad about it
February 14, 2026
Why did it take me this long to read this fic?!!
Butterfly effect Dramione.
Literally “everything is romantic” on repeat
I’m obsessed with this Draco. The silent protector. Sad boy yearning.
“Is this real because i don’t think i will survive if it’s not” same Draco same.
Draco is found hanging.suicide. And with only viles of memories in his bag. Hermione is tasked at watching these memories.
Draco seemed to have turned into a rouge killer after Voldemorts defeat
Poor baby Draco as constantly abused by his father. Constantly trying and telling himself he will make him proud.
Harry and Ron are a couple. Blaise and Ginny. Theo and Pansy. Hermione feels alone. that night she has a dream about Draco. Being happy that he’s there. Wanting him. Missing him but then he starts bleeding and died. She wakes up and can’t believe she’s had another dream about him.
We’re her and draco a secret?!
When Draco first started Hogwarts he felt this thing for granger. And because he didn’t know how to show love. Or his love from his parents were cruel he was cruel to Hermione.
While in the morgue going through Draco’s injuries suddenly Hermione saw him alive. Open his eyes. But it must have been a vision because then she started to have a seizure and fall to the floor.
As Hermione watches more memories she finds Out that Lucius wanted Draco to befriend Hermione so they could use her. Draco did everything he could at just 13 to protect Hermione. Without her even knowing. All while having feelings for her. I
Well there was a squib that was willing to show memories she had seeing malfoy and Hermione at the pub together. Kissing. Crying. Etc. Hermione thinks that’s crazy she never did that never saw malfoy since school. But when the squib is due to come in and show her memories she is found dead.
It finally Comes down to the memory of when dumbledoor is killed. And Draco runs to Hermione and saves her. And gives her to potter. And Harry never told her that it was Draco who had always been helping her and saved her. Harry had no recollection of this happening.
Harry is taking her off the case but before he leads her out Hermione takes the last two memory jars
Hermione confronts Snape. And he confirms that malfoy cares and even loved her. And she’s upset and thinks she could have even loved him too. She asks for a way to change the past and get malfoy to have a second chance.
The night Draco killed Voldemort it was because he looked into his mind and saw that he loved Hermione. After a failed mission to get her. And when he was going to kill him he ended up killing Nagini and the snake was the final horcrux.
But when Lucius unexpected helped Draco put a killing curse of Voldemort. Draco then decided to not kill his father even though everyone thinks he did and let him and his mom escape to France.
Hermione gets help from a dark magic witch. In exchange for some of her essence she makes her the potion to go into the past in one of Draco’s pensives. She goes back to 1997 when Draco is going to have to kill Dumbledore but he goes into hermiones room and sits at the end of her bed while she sleeps. Hermione chooses that moment to go in and show him everything. Kiss him. Tell him that she might even love him too and she wants to help him.
“She was his and he was hers. and she would do whatever it took to be with him”
She makes a plan with him on how to stop dunbledore from dying but it goes terribly wrong. Ending in Draco’s death and Harry’s in the astronomy tower. She grabs another memory from her bag and goes further into the future to try and fix it. Back to 2014 where they were 13. She tried to get Draco to tell dumbledor about the abuse from his father. Draco doesn’t show up but Hermione starts to tell dumbledor before she fades away and brought back to 2006 present but it’s completely different. She’s shameless dirtying a cell in Azkaban. With Ginny. She is told that Lucius killed dumbledor when he was accused of abusing Draco. Pulling Draco from Hogwarts homeschooling him and obliviating his memories. So he doesn’t remember helping Hermione. Lucius ends up killing Voldemort and now he in the dark lord. Ginny tells Hermione about them stealing wizard’s essence like she did to get the potion.
Hopeless Hermione thinks Draco never even remembers caring for her but when she is forced to shower and almost sexual assaulted by a guard she is saved by Draco.
He knows her. He feels like he does even though he can’t remember why.
She helps him remember. He looks through her mind. But it’s causes a seizure and he brings her back to his room in the manor. He saves her by putting a necklace on her. It’s the essence of a wizard. She’s not sure who. And Draco returns finally remembers everything. And they are finally together again. He has saved her backpack with all the memories and journals. Finally they open the locks to the journal and it’s their love story. That he killed himself to give her a chance to live and break this curse that his father put on them. The journals were written in her handwriting. But the last bit was Draco. Hermione realized she didn’t get through all the memories to the end to see it. She couldn’t remember loving him. And she didn’t see the memories though before she tried to change the past.
Now Hermione is remembering all the memories after Draco killed Voldemort. How his parents and him gave their statement. Hermione sat in on Draco’s interview and that’s when the tension began. He ended up telling her how sorry he was for everything he done to her in school. She also knew that he had purposely botched the mission to save her.
When Hermione was given permission to view his memories he knew she was finally going to see his feelings for her. He had left the office without seeing her after and was upset. He went to leave the manor that night but when he opened the door Hermione was standing there crying.
Draco invited her in for dinner. And he said FUCK IT. kissing her. Them spending the night on the couch next to the fire only for Theo to walk in on them. He’s know how badly Draco has loved her. But something happens during breakfast. Draco begins to have a panic attack and when it clears he’s panicked and basically sends Hermione out. Hermione is confused because she thought they were more than just one night. Later that day Hermione woke up to pebbles being tossed at her window. It was malfoy. And when she let him in he was on her instantly. And they only made it to the staircase before they were having sex.
They are definitely a couple. Keeping it secret except Theo and pansy know. They become their own little family.
That’s when aurora come to hermiones house to tell her they’ve been tracking malfoy and he’s been close to her a lot and thinks he might hurt her. They put wards up on her house. They also visit Draco to tell him to stay away from hermione and that she’s afraid of him. Later that night Hermione goes to the manor to find Draco destroying it. She doesn’t insert why he’s so upset then he tells her that the aurora told him she wanted him to stay away from her and she was afraid of him. She finally tells him she loves him.
And hey spend Christmas together with pansy and Theo at the manor. He gave her a trident necklace that belonged in o aunt andromeda and if Hermione is wearing it she would be able to access the malfoy library.
Draco has been secretly leaving at night to kill each death eater and member who wanted Hermione for her stone. Her essence. Snape was is informant he met at the bar.
Lucius came back to the manor. Unexpectedly and burst in on Draco and Hermione. He found out about them and tried to kill Draco. Hermione took Draco’s wanna and cast killing curses. Before Lucius died he put a spell on Draco. He couldn’t get near Hermione or she would died. His blood was poison to her causing her to bleed profusely through her nose. Narcissa hid Hermione and got her out safely and Draco took the fall for killing his father.
Draco was arrested and when his mother visited she told him Hermione lost a lot of blood and had a big seizure. She was confused. So she erased all of her memories of Draco. It was for the best. For Draco to let her live her life now without suffering like Draco will.
At his trial Draco escaped. And hid himself in the dungeon of malfoy manor.
He now went on a killing spree of all of his father’s men. When he was done be basically said by to Theo and pansy and finished hermiones journals about how their story ended. And how much he loved her. And ended his life.
Hermione now knows the whole story and why she is even now in this life still having headaches and having to wear the necklace. The curse still is effective because it wasn’t proximity that made her sick. It was their love for each other.
When Lucius came home Draco confronted him. Told him he remembers all the beatings. And before Lucius died he made his say the reversal for the curse.
They decided to use the last drop to go back in time in his memories together. To the day they first met. Their first day of Hogwarts. On the train. And then when she woke up back to 2006 she was in a.mn unfamiliar room alone but the pictures on the wall were all happy memories of Hogwarts. Draco being in them. And then he was there. He was a doctor, pediatrician. They did it. They fixed their lives. They loved together and were so happy. They lived in a world without Voldemort ever coming back.
Years later they had a son Theodore Servius Malfoy. And they lived HEA
Butterfly effect Dramione.
Literally “everything is romantic” on repeat
I’m obsessed with this Draco. The silent protector. Sad boy yearning.
“Is this real because i don’t think i will survive if it’s not” same Draco same.
Draco is found hanging.suicide. And with only viles of memories in his bag. Hermione is tasked at watching these memories.
Draco seemed to have turned into a rouge killer after Voldemorts defeat
Poor baby Draco as constantly abused by his father. Constantly trying and telling himself he will make him proud.
Harry and Ron are a couple. Blaise and Ginny. Theo and Pansy. Hermione feels alone. that night she has a dream about Draco. Being happy that he’s there. Wanting him. Missing him but then he starts bleeding and died. She wakes up and can’t believe she’s had another dream about him.
We’re her and draco a secret?!
When Draco first started Hogwarts he felt this thing for granger. And because he didn’t know how to show love. Or his love from his parents were cruel he was cruel to Hermione.
While in the morgue going through Draco’s injuries suddenly Hermione saw him alive. Open his eyes. But it must have been a vision because then she started to have a seizure and fall to the floor.
As Hermione watches more memories she finds Out that Lucius wanted Draco to befriend Hermione so they could use her. Draco did everything he could at just 13 to protect Hermione. Without her even knowing. All while having feelings for her. I
Well there was a squib that was willing to show memories she had seeing malfoy and Hermione at the pub together. Kissing. Crying. Etc. Hermione thinks that’s crazy she never did that never saw malfoy since school. But when the squib is due to come in and show her memories she is found dead.
It finally Comes down to the memory of when dumbledoor is killed. And Draco runs to Hermione and saves her. And gives her to potter. And Harry never told her that it was Draco who had always been helping her and saved her. Harry had no recollection of this happening.
Harry is taking her off the case but before he leads her out Hermione takes the last two memory jars
Hermione confronts Snape. And he confirms that malfoy cares and even loved her. And she’s upset and thinks she could have even loved him too. She asks for a way to change the past and get malfoy to have a second chance.
The night Draco killed Voldemort it was because he looked into his mind and saw that he loved Hermione. After a failed mission to get her. And when he was going to kill him he ended up killing Nagini and the snake was the final horcrux.
But when Lucius unexpected helped Draco put a killing curse of Voldemort. Draco then decided to not kill his father even though everyone thinks he did and let him and his mom escape to France.
Hermione gets help from a dark magic witch. In exchange for some of her essence she makes her the potion to go into the past in one of Draco’s pensives. She goes back to 1997 when Draco is going to have to kill Dumbledore but he goes into hermiones room and sits at the end of her bed while she sleeps. Hermione chooses that moment to go in and show him everything. Kiss him. Tell him that she might even love him too and she wants to help him.
“She was his and he was hers. and she would do whatever it took to be with him”
She makes a plan with him on how to stop dunbledore from dying but it goes terribly wrong. Ending in Draco’s death and Harry’s in the astronomy tower. She grabs another memory from her bag and goes further into the future to try and fix it. Back to 2014 where they were 13. She tried to get Draco to tell dumbledor about the abuse from his father. Draco doesn’t show up but Hermione starts to tell dumbledor before she fades away and brought back to 2006 present but it’s completely different. She’s shameless dirtying a cell in Azkaban. With Ginny. She is told that Lucius killed dumbledor when he was accused of abusing Draco. Pulling Draco from Hogwarts homeschooling him and obliviating his memories. So he doesn’t remember helping Hermione. Lucius ends up killing Voldemort and now he in the dark lord. Ginny tells Hermione about them stealing wizard’s essence like she did to get the potion.
Hopeless Hermione thinks Draco never even remembers caring for her but when she is forced to shower and almost sexual assaulted by a guard she is saved by Draco.
He knows her. He feels like he does even though he can’t remember why.
She helps him remember. He looks through her mind. But it’s causes a seizure and he brings her back to his room in the manor. He saves her by putting a necklace on her. It’s the essence of a wizard. She’s not sure who. And Draco returns finally remembers everything. And they are finally together again. He has saved her backpack with all the memories and journals. Finally they open the locks to the journal and it’s their love story. That he killed himself to give her a chance to live and break this curse that his father put on them. The journals were written in her handwriting. But the last bit was Draco. Hermione realized she didn’t get through all the memories to the end to see it. She couldn’t remember loving him. And she didn’t see the memories though before she tried to change the past.
Now Hermione is remembering all the memories after Draco killed Voldemort. How his parents and him gave their statement. Hermione sat in on Draco’s interview and that’s when the tension began. He ended up telling her how sorry he was for everything he done to her in school. She also knew that he had purposely botched the mission to save her.
When Hermione was given permission to view his memories he knew she was finally going to see his feelings for her. He had left the office without seeing her after and was upset. He went to leave the manor that night but when he opened the door Hermione was standing there crying.
Draco invited her in for dinner. And he said FUCK IT. kissing her. Them spending the night on the couch next to the fire only for Theo to walk in on them. He’s know how badly Draco has loved her. But something happens during breakfast. Draco begins to have a panic attack and when it clears he’s panicked and basically sends Hermione out. Hermione is confused because she thought they were more than just one night. Later that day Hermione woke up to pebbles being tossed at her window. It was malfoy. And when she let him in he was on her instantly. And they only made it to the staircase before they were having sex.
They are definitely a couple. Keeping it secret except Theo and pansy know. They become their own little family.
That’s when aurora come to hermiones house to tell her they’ve been tracking malfoy and he’s been close to her a lot and thinks he might hurt her. They put wards up on her house. They also visit Draco to tell him to stay away from hermione and that she’s afraid of him. Later that night Hermione goes to the manor to find Draco destroying it. She doesn’t insert why he’s so upset then he tells her that the aurora told him she wanted him to stay away from her and she was afraid of him. She finally tells him she loves him.
And hey spend Christmas together with pansy and Theo at the manor. He gave her a trident necklace that belonged in o aunt andromeda and if Hermione is wearing it she would be able to access the malfoy library.
Draco has been secretly leaving at night to kill each death eater and member who wanted Hermione for her stone. Her essence. Snape was is informant he met at the bar.
Lucius came back to the manor. Unexpectedly and burst in on Draco and Hermione. He found out about them and tried to kill Draco. Hermione took Draco’s wanna and cast killing curses. Before Lucius died he put a spell on Draco. He couldn’t get near Hermione or she would died. His blood was poison to her causing her to bleed profusely through her nose. Narcissa hid Hermione and got her out safely and Draco took the fall for killing his father.
Draco was arrested and when his mother visited she told him Hermione lost a lot of blood and had a big seizure. She was confused. So she erased all of her memories of Draco. It was for the best. For Draco to let her live her life now without suffering like Draco will.
At his trial Draco escaped. And hid himself in the dungeon of malfoy manor.
He now went on a killing spree of all of his father’s men. When he was done be basically said by to Theo and pansy and finished hermiones journals about how their story ended. And how much he loved her. And ended his life.
Hermione now knows the whole story and why she is even now in this life still having headaches and having to wear the necklace. The curse still is effective because it wasn’t proximity that made her sick. It was their love for each other.
When Lucius came home Draco confronted him. Told him he remembers all the beatings. And before Lucius died he made his say the reversal for the curse.
They decided to use the last drop to go back in time in his memories together. To the day they first met. Their first day of Hogwarts. On the train. And then when she woke up back to 2006 she was in a.mn unfamiliar room alone but the pictures on the wall were all happy memories of Hogwarts. Draco being in them. And then he was there. He was a doctor, pediatrician. They did it. They fixed their lives. They loved together and were so happy. They lived in a world without Voldemort ever coming back.
Years later they had a son Theodore Servius Malfoy. And they lived HEA
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 18, 2025
clearly one of the best thing i read this year
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