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Ties That Bind
"If you think that's an orgasm, Granger, you're in for a long night." They knew each other, even respected each other, but a marriage law, some Veritaserum, and Ministry-mandated memory exchanges will change everything. Dramione. TWOSHOT Rated Explicit for chapter 2.
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51 pages, Unknown Binding
Published May 15, 2020
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April 5, 2022
3.5 ⭐️ Solid Marriage Law Short Story
Word Count: 21,086 | Chapters: 2
Summary:
After the war, the Ministry enacts Magical Decree 547721 or The Marriage and Procreation for Population Rehabilitation Act. Unmarried witches and wizards of a certain age are forced to have their magical cores tested to find someone optimally compatible and will be bonded to that individual for life. The couple has 18 months to produce at least one child and four years to produce a second. Failure to adhere to the timeline will result in fines and/or time served in Azkaban.
With a 93% match, Draco and Hermione must adhere to the law. These co-workers work well together and respect one another, but with a little Veritaserum and a Ministry-mandated memory exchange, they’ll discover they’ve been hiding their true feelings.
Post War | Marriage Law | Co-workers | Ron Bashing | Secret Pining | Fluff | Smut | HEA
My Thoughts:
This was an enjoyable short Dramione fanfic. I loved the premise of the story, Draco is a sweetheart, and my heart melted when we learned what Draco did that night at the manor!
But . . .
Ron's insensitivity to Hermione was excessive. The stipulations of the marriage law - legit forcing them to have children within a timeframe or they face jail time - are insane and somewhat unbelievable. And some of Draco and Hermione's mannerisms and dialogue seemed a tad out of character. For example, Draco says, "Merlin's balls, Hermione, I want to say something romantic, but I think you sucked my brains out through my c0ck." Yeah, no thanks.
Overall, it's a good fanfic to read if you want a marriage law fic that's short and sweet with a dash of spice.
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. Love In A Time Of The Zombie Apocalypse - RizzleWrites
15. All The Wrong Things - LovesBitca8
16. Hunted - Bex-Chan
17. 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. Movements, Contrived and Improvised - HeyJude19 ⭐
2. Best Shot - AccioMjolnir ⭐
3. The Library of Alexandria - SenLinYu ⭐
4. The First Rule of Fight Club… - LadyKenz347
5. Until The Ink Runs Dry & Indelible Ink - AccioMjolnir
6. Break For Me - Ada_P_Rix 🌶️
7. Call It What You Want - HawthorneWhisperer
8. Under The Wings of The Shadow - AccioMjolnir
9. The Watergaw - smokybaltic
10. Amends - thelashjedi
11. Write For Me - Ada_P_Rix
12. Amateur Cartography - worksofstone
13. Blood Rights - uselessenglishmajor
14. Ties That Bind - TattoosAndHighHeeledShoes
15. Big Dick Energy - louiseob
16. Jammed - Ada_P_Rix
17. 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
Word Count: 21,086 | Chapters: 2
Summary:
After the war, the Ministry enacts Magical Decree 547721 or The Marriage and Procreation for Population Rehabilitation Act. Unmarried witches and wizards of a certain age are forced to have their magical cores tested to find someone optimally compatible and will be bonded to that individual for life. The couple has 18 months to produce at least one child and four years to produce a second. Failure to adhere to the timeline will result in fines and/or time served in Azkaban.
With a 93% match, Draco and Hermione must adhere to the law. These co-workers work well together and respect one another, but with a little Veritaserum and a Ministry-mandated memory exchange, they’ll discover they’ve been hiding their true feelings.
Post War | Marriage Law | Co-workers | Ron Bashing | Secret Pining | Fluff | Smut | HEA
My Thoughts:
This was an enjoyable short Dramione fanfic. I loved the premise of the story, Draco is a sweetheart, and my heart melted when we learned what Draco did that night at the manor!
But . . .
Ron's insensitivity to Hermione was excessive. The stipulations of the marriage law - legit forcing them to have children within a timeframe or they face jail time - are insane and somewhat unbelievable. And some of Draco and Hermione's mannerisms and dialogue seemed a tad out of character. For example, Draco says, "Merlin's balls, Hermione, I want to say something romantic, but I think you sucked my brains out through my c0ck." Yeah, no thanks.
Overall, it's a good fanfic to read if you want a marriage law fic that's short and sweet with a dash of spice.
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. Love In A Time Of The Zombie Apocalypse - RizzleWrites
15. All The Wrong Things - LovesBitca8
16. Hunted - Bex-Chan
17. 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. Movements, Contrived and Improvised - HeyJude19 ⭐
2. Best Shot - AccioMjolnir ⭐
3. The Library of Alexandria - SenLinYu ⭐
4. The First Rule of Fight Club… - LadyKenz347
5. Until The Ink Runs Dry & Indelible Ink - AccioMjolnir
6. Break For Me - Ada_P_Rix 🌶️
7. Call It What You Want - HawthorneWhisperer
8. Under The Wings of The Shadow - AccioMjolnir
9. The Watergaw - smokybaltic
10. Amends - thelashjedi
11. Write For Me - Ada_P_Rix
12. Amateur Cartography - worksofstone
13. Blood Rights - uselessenglishmajor
14. Ties That Bind - TattoosAndHighHeeledShoes
15. Big Dick Energy - louiseob
16. Jammed - Ada_P_Rix
17. 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
January 14, 2024
“Ask me if I love you.”
He froze.
He stopped breathing.
“Draco, ask me.”
His palms were sweaty. He could tell by the look on her face that she thought she knew the answer, but what if she didn’t? It would wreck him. Better to wait another month, or six, before doing this. “It’s okay. You don’t have to,” he whispered.
Hermione stepped toward him and he automatically mirrored her action, bringing them almost toe to toe. “Ask me,” she insisted. “You need to hear it this way.”
And he realized that he did. He had spent so much of his life secretly wanting the woman who stood before him- his *wife*- that now, on the cusp of finally getting everything he wanted but never believed would be possible, he didn’t believe her. It couldn’t be true. “Hermione, the things I’ve done…” His voice was pained.
“Then ask me if I forgive you,” Hermione said.
“Do you forgive me?”
“Yes. Of course I do, you silly man. I spoke at your trial, or have you forgotten?”
He was staring at her upturned face, trying to memorize every dip and facet of her features, for she had never been more beautiful than she was to him in this moment as she gave him a slice of his freedom. “I could never forget. You did homework for me.”
She nodded, the top of her curls bouncing and tickling his chin. “Now ask me, Draco, please. And then take me to bed.”
> “Happy tears,” she promised, humming as his lips kissed away each one. “I never thought I would get to feel this way.”
This is now my Roman Empire.
He froze.
He stopped breathing.
“Draco, ask me.”
His palms were sweaty. He could tell by the look on her face that she thought she knew the answer, but what if she didn’t? It would wreck him. Better to wait another month, or six, before doing this. “It’s okay. You don’t have to,” he whispered.
Hermione stepped toward him and he automatically mirrored her action, bringing them almost toe to toe. “Ask me,” she insisted. “You need to hear it this way.”
And he realized that he did. He had spent so much of his life secretly wanting the woman who stood before him- his *wife*- that now, on the cusp of finally getting everything he wanted but never believed would be possible, he didn’t believe her. It couldn’t be true. “Hermione, the things I’ve done…” His voice was pained.
“Then ask me if I forgive you,” Hermione said.
“Do you forgive me?”
“Yes. Of course I do, you silly man. I spoke at your trial, or have you forgotten?”
He was staring at her upturned face, trying to memorize every dip and facet of her features, for she had never been more beautiful than she was to him in this moment as she gave him a slice of his freedom. “I could never forget. You did homework for me.”
She nodded, the top of her curls bouncing and tickling his chin. “Now ask me, Draco, please. And then take me to bed.”
> “Happy tears,” she promised, humming as his lips kissed away each one. “I never thought I would get to feel this way.”
This is now my Roman Empire.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 9, 2024
Thanks to "The marriage and procreation law for the rehabilitation of the population", Hermione matches with Draco, so they have 18 months to produce an heir or else they go to Azkaban. For this, part of the process is to make them see the other's memories that are related to them (absolutely *criminal* the shower scene).
Ron, as always in these fanfics, is INSUFFERABLE, not him shaming Hermione.
All in all, it's a short story not the biggest plot, just H&D learning how to live with each other.
Ron, as always in these fanfics, is INSUFFERABLE, not him shaming Hermione.
All in all, it's a short story not the biggest plot, just H&D learning how to live with each other.
October 29, 2023
Marriage Law, Core compatibility, Sort of soul mate fic. Short, only 2 chapters.
****SPOILERS****
They are picked to marry each other due to the compatibility of the magical core. They are co-workers sharing the same office. In this one an auror makes them share their deepest memories of each other. With Hermione we find out that the feelings for Draco have been there a few years and that she didn't do well, sexually with Ron. With Draco, he has loved her since the early days of Hogwarts, he was Crucio'd by his father for not doing better than her in first, that he masturbated to thoughts of her in 3 year, in 6 year he vowed to "have her"(more of a protect her vibe) when the Slytherins were discussing which mudblood the dark Lord would let them have and then he used a bonding spell on her when she was at the manor being tortured by Bellatrix.
They then marry, and make love. The scene was really well done and that is where is ends. Well written, I just wanted more.
****SPOILERS****
They are picked to marry each other due to the compatibility of the magical core. They are co-workers sharing the same office. In this one an auror makes them share their deepest memories of each other. With Hermione we find out that the feelings for Draco have been there a few years and that she didn't do well, sexually with Ron. With Draco, he has loved her since the early days of Hogwarts, he was Crucio'd by his father for not doing better than her in first, that he masturbated to thoughts of her in 3 year, in 6 year he vowed to "have her"(more of a protect her vibe) when the Slytherins were discussing which mudblood the dark Lord would let them have and then he used a bonding spell on her when she was at the manor being tortured by Bellatrix.
They then marry, and make love. The scene was really well done and that is where is ends. Well written, I just wanted more.
February 9, 2025
A new magical decree is set in place for the wizard version of “fated mates”.
This version of Draco & Hermione, is one of my favorites.
Draco loving her forever, & protecting her for all their years at school, old magic to save her from Aunt Bella, using that same old magic during their first time together, & willingly going to pay fines before they even had them just because he was worried & didn’t want to rush her into anything!
Hermione’s love for him blessed different than his for her! But all the same she loved him!
This version of Draco & Hermione, is one of my favorites.
Draco loving her forever, & protecting her for all their years at school, old magic to save her from Aunt Bella, using that same old magic during their first time together, & willingly going to pay fines before they even had them just because he was worried & didn’t want to rush her into anything!
Hermione’s love for him blessed different than his for her! But all the same she loved him!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 2, 2022
Maybe the best marriage law fic ever. Dramione. 2 chapters, but they are long. Dramione. Tropes: compulsory pensieves, Ron bashing, pining Draco, Hermione I have a crush on my ministry coworker Granger.
CW: on page child abuse by Lucius in one of the memories.
CW: on page child abuse by Lucius in one of the memories.
December 18, 2022
I cannot believe all these short stories are listed on Goodreads. My luck!
February 6, 2023
So good! So romantic, so sweet, all the feels. If you are just starting your Dramione journey or you need a warm palette cleanser (with some steamy time) then this is it. It’s a short treat!!!
December 27, 2023
12 STARS UGH
January 29, 2024
Conjunctionis Ligavaris
that’s it. that’s my entire review. concept is chefs kiss.
that’s it. that’s my entire review. concept is chefs kiss.
July 7, 2024
3.5
for a short story this was chef’s kiss
loved the whole thing with the memories and the smut was on point
for a short story this was chef’s kiss
loved the whole thing with the memories and the smut was on point
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November 28, 2025Fairly average short Dramione marriage law fic. The twist is that they are forced to share memories and H has some sex related issues, which Draco helps her to work through.
March 2, 2024
“Have I given you some reason to doubt me?” he asked."
“Shit, Hermione, I’ve waited for you for so long. I would wait forever for you if you wanted me to.”
“Ask me if I love you.”
He froze.
He stopped breathing.
“Draco, ask me.”
His palms were sweaty. He could tell by the look on her face that she thought she knew the answer, but what if she didn’t? It would wreck him. Better to wait another month, or six, before doing this. “It’s okay. You don’t have to,” he whispered."
Three heartbreaking lines. All heartbreaking in different ways.
“Shit, Hermione, I’ve waited for you for so long. I would wait forever for you if you wanted me to.”
“Ask me if I love you.”
He froze.
He stopped breathing.
“Draco, ask me.”
His palms were sweaty. He could tell by the look on her face that she thought she knew the answer, but what if she didn’t? It would wreck him. Better to wait another month, or six, before doing this. “It’s okay. You don’t have to,” he whispered."
Three heartbreaking lines. All heartbreaking in different ways.
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