Atonement

by Lunamionny

Genres: Fan Fiction

ebook

Reviews

[Angie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️ Loved the healing storyline but was missing something

Words: 108,157 | Chapters: 25


Summary:

When Hermione and Draco return to Hogwarts for their eighth year, they’re both broken and changed in irrevocable, albeit different, ways. But when the school’s new mind healer implements an innovative new treatment, it ignites the possibility that, maybe, Hermione and Draco can help each other piece together the scattered fragments of themselves that the war has left behind.

Post War | Hogwarts 8th Year | Enemies to Lovers | Psychological Trauma | Therapy | Healing Journey | Angst | Smut | HEA


My Thoughts:

This is a really sweet, healing journey story that dives into the psychological trauma of war on many of the HP characters. The author handled the trauma topic well and offered some great messages.

What I liked:


The story concept of the students being paired with someone who can help give them what they need to heal is unique. I haven't read another Dramione fanfic that does this. I only wish there was more insight into the other paired characters' progress and mental/emotional well-being. Since this is a Dramione fanfic, the focus is Draco and Hermione, but because the story dives so deep into psychological trauma, I think showing other characters' journeys to recover would have added to the story.

I like that Hermione takes a while to understand her own trauma as well as those around her. Trauma isn't something you can figure out in a book. You have to work through the emotions to arrive at a certain level of healing. This takes Hermione a while to understand, and seeing her go through this process was interesting.

The sexual tension and spicy moments were pretty great, but they're not very frequent or explicit. Adding a few more scenes would have only strengthened the Dramione relationship in the reader's eyes.

Also, the patronus stuff at the end was so sweet! 😭


Here’s what I didn’t like:

I don’t know if the author's writing isn't for me, but I felt like I was being told a story more than experiencing it. This didn’t help when it came to my attachment to the characters or feeling immersed in this world. I was very much aware I was reading a story. And about halfway through, I just wanted to get to the end.

Some of the psychological stuff was explained in a tedious way. The explanations did help with my understanding of certain topics and terms I wasn't familiar with, but it could have been done in a more succinct way.


Overall, this is a good healing journey Dramione fanfic, but I probably won't reread it.



My Current Dramione Fanfic Rankings

⭐ = Must-Reads
🌶️ = Best Smut


Novels (150,000+ words):

1. Manacled - SenLinYu ⭐
2. Remain Nameless - HeyJude19 ⭐🌶️
3. Cruel and Beautiful World - Lena Phoria
4. The Disappearances of Draco Malfoy - Speechwriter ⭐
5. Various Storms and Saints - ViridianAtNight
6. Isolation - Bex-Chan ⭐
7. Bring Him To His Knees - Musyc 🌶️
8. The Auction - LovesBitca8 ⭐
9. All You Want - SenLinYu 🌶️
10. Breath Mints / Battle Scars - Onyx_and_Elm 🌶️
11. The Right Thing To Do - LovesBitca8
12. Beginning and End - MightBeWriting
13. The Gloriana Set - ThebeMoon
14. All The Wrong Things - LovesBitca8
15. Hunted - Bex-Chan
16. The Fallout - EveryThursday (DNF)


Novellas (less than 150,000 words):

1. Hot For Teacher - MotherOfBulls ⭐🌶️
2. Apple Pies and Other Amends - ToEatAPeach ⭐
3. Thirteenth Night - Nelpher ⭐
4. Sex Ed - MrBenzedrine89 🌶️
5. Still Life - monsterleadmehome
6. A Second Look - RiverWriter
7. The Best Of Me - MrsRen
8. Silencio - AkashaTheKitty
9. Wait and Hope - MightBeWriting
10. Between Certifiable and Bliss - HeyJude19
11.Atonement - Lunamionny
12. Incomplete - Niffizzle
13. Love and Other Misfortunes - SenLinYu
14. An Indefinite Amount of Forever - MotherOfBulls (sequel)
15. Making Amends - slytherin_prince27
16. Proximate - In_Dreams
17. The List - AureliaBlack90
18. The Erised Effect - Ada_P_Rix


Short Stories (less than 50,000 words):

1. Best Shot - AccioMjolnir ⭐
2. The Library of Alexandria - SenLinYu ⭐
3. The First Rule of Fight Club… - LadyKenz347
4. Until The Ink Runs Dry & Indelible Ink - AccioMjolnir
5. Break For Me - Ada_P_Rix 🌶️
6. Call It What You Want - HawthorneWhisperer
7. Under The Wings of The Shadow - AccioMjolnir
8. The Watergaw - smokybaltic
9. Amends - thelashjedi
10. Write For Me - Ada_P_Rix
11. Amateur Cartography - worksofstone
12. Blood Rights - uselessenglishmajor
13. Big Dick Energy - louiseob
14. Jammed - Ada_P_Rix
15. One and Done - PacificRimbaud


One Shots (less than 15,000 words):

1. Your Lonely Calls To Me - SenLinYu ⭐
2. The Unbearable Tedium of Romance - smokybaltic
3. For Her - dirtymudblood
4. Because You’ll Like it - BedtimeFantasies 🌶️
5. A Patient Man - LadyKenz347
6. Between Pages - DarkoftheMoon
7. An Unlikely Companion & An Unlikely Family - happy_valley
8. Potions, Perfume, and Apples - ellywolf111
9. Les Pelerins - PacificRumbaud
10. Like A Dagger To The Heart - hxllowsandhorcruxes
11. Fantasy - krissyxkat 🌶️
12. Head over Dragonhide Thigh High Heels - rubykrishna
13. Coming Down - nikitajobson and raven_maiden
14. A Matter of Practicality - OlivieBlake
15. Mistletoe - CatmintandThyme
16. Elevator - its_banannaz
17. Preface - ephemeraltoxic
18. Red or Green - SenLinYu
19. Friends - poppyclocks
20. Familiar Faces, Worn Out Places - LovesBitca8
21. The Art of Seating Etiquette - inadaze22
22. Self-Preservation - SenLinYu
23. Height - SenLinYu
24. Minimal Risk - Galfoy
25. The Seduction - SenLinYu
26. Chasing For Keeps - In_Dreams
27. The Labyrinth - AccioMjolnir
28. Who Am I To You? - ViridianAtNight
29. Knee Socks - trix_of_bella
30. Quiver - Keii_sha

[Olivia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crying again not clickbait.

[Sarah Elaine · Rating 3 out of 5]

The plot was cute, honestly. I enjoyed the character building and the realistic aspect of trauma and coping. It hit a lot of very feelings and dealing with trauma in real and unhealthy ways. I cried several times and really did enjoy watching Hermione and Draco help each other and process what they'd been through. Simple quick read overall.

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[izzy :3 · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was so good. i loved the storyline and the character development😻😻😻 so cute

[Ceilidhchaos · Rating 5 out of 5]

8th year Dramione. PTSD and Secret relationship tropes. The author has a therapy background and it really shows in how she wrote the OC Therapist character. HEA but open ended. 1 sex scene in detail
Side pairings: Hinny, LoveNott and Blaise/everyone of both genders.

[Felicia · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the 4th Dramione book I've read. I just got into them at the beginning of October & started with Isolation, which I absolutely loved, that led me to Manacled - enough said, absolutely incredible, there are no words for what that book made me feel & how much I loved it, then Demanded goods & if u haven't read that one by Slytherin After Dark, please, please do. Like Manacled that one had my heart glowing, feeling joy, breaking, I mean, like Manacled, it buried in me & there aren't enough words to describe how much I loved it. Now this one - Atonement. I loved this one as well. It really goes into the trauma aspect of how everyone was doing after the war & ofc it was a Dramione book & the way they put them together was really creative & cool while still giving that slow burn. It has all the main favorites in there: Dramione ofc, but Harry, (not a lot of Ron but he's in there), Ginny, Luna, Neville, Pansy, Theo, Blaise, & even a tiny bit of Hagrid which for some reason all the other books it's like Hagrid never existed & that breaks my heart cuz he was so important. So even though it was just a small mention here & there, I still liked knowing that he was around & ok. Anyways I really enjoyed it & would definitely recommend it to Dramione fans!

[Tuva · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 ⭐️

I loved this book. I was hesitant bc the rating is 3.7 which is relatively low but it was so good.

There was some errors in the text but not at all annoying, and it is understandable bc it’s not a published book.

I liked the dynamic between the characters and really liked that hermoine was actually flawed. Some make her this really damaged but make her not make ANY mistakes, which is really unrealistic and not true to how she really was according to the books.

The healing from trauma and elements of PTSD was realistic and well done which also is quite rare. If you’re easily triggered by those elements I wouldn’t recommend it cause it goes into trauma treatment quite a bit.

[Ambre · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was such a lovely story! I couldn't put it down and stayed up way past my bedtime. 😆 Hermione going into a dissociative state after everything makes so much sense, tbh. And naturally, Draco's the one to pull her out of it, being a dickhead at first because he just can't help it and maybe he subconsciously knows that drawing her ire will work best first, before trying to draw out any positive emotions. I really liked the healing journeys that everyone was on, and glad they were all given that opportunity. And I really appreciate the stories where Hermione is able to get her parents back. 

*SPOILER AHEAD*

And Hermione and Draco's patronus animals being the same was just 🥹🥰. 

[Irene Nano · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5
Mi è piaciuto molto la caratterizzazione di Hermione in questa fanfiction, a volte un po’ too much (death eaters whore) ma molto interessante, non si vede così spesso hermione completamente persa, cosa importante anche per quanto riguarda i suoi genitori e la loro perdita di memoria. Carino anche Draco che sembra essere l’unico a cui importi davvero di Hermione e della sua salute mentale e fisica. Ci sono molte cose che mi sono piaciute (la parte psicologica, il processo di guarigione, il coinvolgimento degli altri studenti) ma in generale, nonostante la storia struggente, è stato tutto un po’ piatto. Mi manca qualcosa ma non saprei dire cosa.

[Rose · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think maybe I would have liked it better if I didn't go from never reading a fangic before or having ever thought of Draco and Hermione together to reading Manacled as my first.

Sometimes felt rushed.

Didn't always feel imersive. More like being told a story if that makes sense.

I was a little surprised of the dirty language used only to get to the scenes and them being barely above fade to black.

I liked the healing journey and that this story was kinda light in the themes compared to the other couple Dramione I've read.

[Lauren Turner · Rating 4 out of 5]

I loved a lot of the themes in this book and I felt like the beginning and middle was really strong! However, at the end I felt like it kind of turned more into summary and it left me wanting more detail. I also feel like it would have been nice to learn more about the other characters therapeutic pairings.

[BlueberryCherries · Rating 3 out of 5]

I felt this was hard to get into and was a bit flat in places. There were other times where it picked up and I got into it but it didn’t last. I enjoyed Draco and Hermione come the end and there storyline also how they have supported each other!

[Makayla Ihlefeldt · Rating 4 out of 5]

I would loving say, your average fanfic quality fanfiction. Nothing to write home about. The mental health side of things was cool to read and think about. Their relationship build was interesting but not ground breaking.

[zoeci · Rating 3 out of 5]

wasn't really for me. the healing part was good, their story tho...felt rushed and fast. not very interesting, deep or meaningfull tbh. at least it was short

[Samantha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rating 4/5

I loved the concept behind this Dramione fic! The journals they used reminded me of the Twinned Quills fic which I also loved! Definitely would recommend.

[Erin Seman · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[maité · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 ⭐

[Claudia Mayo · Rating 2 out of 5]

Y’all ignore this one

[Steph · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5

[Kaitlin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I needed more!! Loved the healing journey after the war and all of that but I think I wanted more from them as a couple

[Sofia Louise · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.75 ⭐️

this was unexpectedly good. i loved how it tackled how war really affected the students and how they healed from it 🥹

[kyra · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love dramione fanfics that deal with the ptsd and where both of them get the therapy they need. it was an amazinngg read

[sylx · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.9/5. It’s not horrible but it’s pretty ehhhh. However the therapy bits seemed to be well-researched.

[Karinna · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 Stars

[Sarina Grace · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5

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[Lisa Snow · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of my favorite 8y stories! Loved!

[eliza · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.7. very sweet, well thought out in regards to the therapy dynamic. very nice!

[LuLu · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was good and a light read for anyone interested into dramione fanfic.

[mel ☾ · Rating 3 out of 5]

the out-of-character moments gave me some real secondhand embarrassment but i guess this was nice?

[Taryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 ⭐️ A beautiful 8th year story of redemption and healing ✨️ The mentions of trauma were depicted so delicately and intentionally while being as accurate as possible and closely following canon. I enjoyed this , it definitely has a different vibe than other fics I've read and while it still has a good amount of angst, focuses more on the healing aspects of Draco and Hermiones story than the romance.