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On the Nature of Daylight

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Fandom: Harry Potter
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Hermione Granger wanted to lose control. And Draco Malfoy wanted to take it. Takes place in HBP.

516 pages, Online Fanfiction

First published January 15, 2021

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431 reviews5,516 followers
November 7, 2022
3.999 stars. It's a guilty pleasure, except that I don't feel any guilt.

He had this habit of staring at her and sometimes Hermione felt like he could see right through her. She would catch him sometimes, in classes, in the corridors, staring at her, watching her. He would sneer and his eyes would flick away most of the time, but sometimes… they would stay.


In fact, this is my second time reading this fanfic. I enjoyed it back when I read it for the first time, but I wasn't entirely convinced that I liked it enough to read the sequel, especially taking into account how long this first part is. I accidentally stumbled upon a very complimentary review of a friend for this book and its sequelThis Bitter Earth, and the next thing I remember is me fully engrossed in the story, rereading it with keen enthusiasm that would scare a normal, non obsessive person into oblivion (instead of skim reading the story to pay tribute to my bad memory as initially planned).

❥ I have to say that I loved both Draco and Hermione in this fanfic. I loved how they both fell equally hard for each other. I loved how fast their feelings developed and how slow their relationship burned.

I loved the intensity of Draco's feelings, the way he battled his conflicting emotions and impulses on the inside — disdain, distaste, interest, physical pull, attraction, jealousy, tenderness and, finally, rapt fascination, trying to rationalize and weaponize his contempt toward Hermione only to wind up falling victim to her charm xx.

I loved how much Draco loved taking control and how eager Hermione was to render it.

Loved how conflicted and troubled and anxious he turned whenever he acted on his ignoble urges or carried out his mission realising full well that he also carried the risk of being exposed and losing Hermione. The moral dilemma, born from the ashes of the last remnants of conscience and burning infatuation with that one special person, of wanting to act really bad but also not willing to be caught red-handed by the only person whose opinion truly matters? Hits differently. Who even cares about concepts as redundant as ethics and morality?? Their intrinsic value approaches zero. As long as Hermione is clueless about his misdeeds, my boi Draco can sleep in peace and let others worry about the consequences. 😌

❥I loved how much Draco's mental state depended on being in Hermione's good graces.

Drinking himself into stupor, picking up fights, lashing out at friends, saying the nastiest shit and having sleepless nights, jerking off to the memories of her tits or her mouth... all because she said another no. He couldn't take no for an answer from her, he couldn't stomach her contempt, he simply couldn't lose her... what about that? 😌

Such a pleasant development from the haughty fuckboy ready to spew lies to get into her panties, the one who perceived her as nothing more than a nuisance that has to be fucked out of his system to the faithful simp begging on his knees for a small sliver of his little whore's affection. 🥺

It just warms my little heart when deep down I know that if anything happens to the heroine or she leaves the hero, he's not gonna just move on with his life. He's gonna die from alcoholism, a stab wound or depression. 😌😌😌 Moving on is for losers, we die like real men.

❥Of course, each and every time my boi was a sad and hurt boi I was thrilled and excited beyond any measure. Draco's feverish agony was so fun to watch. 🥺 The way he'd viciously lash out at Hermione when we all know how much of an angel he is, how obsessively he loves that girl and how much he agonizes over each moment they're forced to be apart. My boi was literally dying on the inside. 😋 Her influence. 😩

He'd turn from a doting alpha, guiding her to the heights of pleasure while worshipping at the altar that is her body (🤡), into a nasty toxic fucking twat in a span of a millisecond without batting an eye. My multifaceted king adapted his vocabulary and facial expressions so quickly.
"I guess we finally found out what you really are, Hermione," he spat her name out like it was rotten. "Nothing but a Mudblood whore who likes sucking Pureblood cock."


And then Hermione would dangle a promise of reciprocated feelings in front of his face, and he'd run straight into her arms like a sick lost little puppy desperate to finally come back home. 😌

He'll behave as long as he has his little slut by his side. He's not asking for much. 🥺

On another note, why did each time he call her tenderly his little slut or whore I felt somewhat giddy inside? Argh, they were so cute together. 🥺
"Get out," she repeated. "Of my Library, of my life, of everything."
He leaned in slightly, eyes cold and hard like iron. "Gladly. Fucking used you up anyways."


The circle of whore in affectionate and whore in malicious was vicious and toxic and so, so wholesome. Just like everything else about their relationship.

❥I'd write a poem dedicated to Draco's deliciously unhealthy possessiveness and jealously, but I've got no talent in that department so you'll have to bear with my prose and believe it when I say that those feelings are an absolute must in each and every romance book. 😌
"So his hand just broke itself then," Hermione countered.
Malfoy dropped his gaze to the dark floor between them. "Shouldn't have touched you," he mumbled.


An eye for an eye, a hand for a hand. 💀💀💀

Touch his girl and we'll find your fresh corpse somewhere in the filthy dark alley. 😌 (OMG, I ACTUALLY PREDICTED THAT SHIT HAPPENING, LMFAO)

❥ Obviously, Dramione romance was so very sweet here, and as you might know, as anything sweet, it was extremely unhealthy.

Was I rooting for this couple? Yes. I was also waiting rampantly for something to go wrong because Draco served toxic bitterness on a silver platter, and that's my favorite dish. My sour, pouty boi's control would then slip for a few beautiful moments, and it's difficult to say which one is better: him losing control or him taking it.


Draco's sour mood swings inevitably lead to so much trashy enterta angst that I wished Hermione, as the only person that truly mattered to him 🥰, hurt his little feelings more often.



Don't be shy, Hermione. Fuck up his mental health for good, will you? Asking for a friend. 👉🏻🥺👈🏻

❥Also, I just realized that the sub/dom undertones in this story didn't annoy me in the least the second time around. I was actually revelling in the dynamic: it didn't sound formulaic or forced. Quite the opposite, it seemed very intuitive and natural for this couple.

(Normally, I don't like sub/dom vibes because they can be mostly found in BDSM romance, which always comes across as rule-driven and lackluster for me. Anything done in accordance with some regulations and stipulations bores a lover of chaotic spontaneity in me to tears #don't_make_rules_break_rules)

On the downside

❥— don't tell me I'm reading and enjoying teenage smut because my brain seems to be unable to handle the reality of it. You kidding me, bitch?? A 16-year-old kid can't be on my list of fictional daddy doms. 🤡🤡🤡

Can't have those 16-year-olds exploring Kamasutra on my conscien mind.

Bestie, literally no one forces you to follow their canon ages. 🥲

❥— too much smut (it had enough dialogue and substance to it, no questions, but sometimes... less is more).

❥— one has to be in the mood for soapy, cheesy melodrama to appreciate this little gem. 👁️👄👁️

Book two — This Bitter Earth — 4.5 stars (gets darker and more toxic)
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1,570 reviews
November 21, 2022
Soooo… I really liked this! I loved how jealous/possessive Draco was. So angry. So fierce. So mean. So reluctantly in love with Hermione. 😍😍

This was fanfic and I had to kind of let go of some of my normal issues of published books. There were lots of scenes that didn’t really make sense and were obviously just scenes that the author wanted to write for fun… and they were fun, even if they didn’t really make much sense in the story. But those quirks still didn’t make me bail, since I was so invested.

The only other drawback was that I struggled to get the little middle school faces of the Harry Potter movies out of my head. 🥴 At one point they mention being 16 and that really threw me. Draco is a dirty dirty boy for his age. 😬 I just decided to pretend I didn’t know their ages. I mean they *could* be at Wizard College… right?! 🤡

Any way, I was bummed they didn’t get their HEA, but thankfully there’s a sequel!


Bottom Line - this was way more entertaining than I expected. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️



⚠️SAFETY SQUAD SPOILERS⚠️

- no cheating or sharing
- OW/OM drama - Draco’s ex bed buddy is forever around to cause Hermione angst and Draco is crazy jealous of all of Hermiones male friends
- Draco gets a bj and Hermione kisses someone else after they’ve had a physical encounter but before either had real feelings
- h is a virgin
- H is a manwhore
- no condoms
- no dubcon - but Draco is very aggressive and doesn’t really ask permission
- lots of manhandling
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1,095 reviews284 followers
March 13, 2023
"I told you not to fucking SAY SHIT LIKE THAT!" he roared, jerking forward.

Hermione jumped back, hitting the shelves behind her again. She lifted her wand and saw that he had done the same. The pain and anger storming in his eyes like a hurricane.

"You're mine," he growled and slowly lowered his wand back down.

"You don't get to just decide that-"

"And you don't get to just end it," he snarled.

-Draco Malfoy & Hermione Granger

***

Ah my heart. It just hurts. So damn much because not only did i finish this book and its sequel This Bitter Earth with a broken but excited heart but now i gotta explain my thoughts for BOTH books in one sitting now because i was to eager to read the sequel instead of writing a review directly after i finished the first. Oh dear. I loved this one to pieces. Its Hermione Granger with her smart wit, courage and vulnerability and her deep found fascination with the silver eyed and blond-haired and wicked as hell Slytherin Prince Draco Malfoy who is chasing after her and refuses to stop staring at her. They are enemies. They are supposed to hate each other. His filthy mind and dirty thoughts. How he cared zero f*cks. How he pushed her to her limits, and how he made her and himself go mad with agony and passion. Its just bloody brilliant.This author writes beautifully, just totally blew me away with how incredibly this story was done for a fan-fiction.
The last chapter is pure epic poetry by the way.

"He felt as empty as the dark sky above him without even the light of the moon to glisten off of the black waters."

***

Now there was only one way to keep her safe. He had been a fool, a stupid love drunk fool, to try any other way. And look where that got him- sitting on a shitty beach. Alone. Far, far away from her.

"I'll come for you," he whispered to the weak fires of the stars. "I will come for you, Hermione. I promise."

***
And Draco Malfoy always keeps his promises. He is such a romantic Anti-hero (that almost turned into a villain) and he broke my heart to pieces with how broken he was and how out of his mind he was going. His Granger turned his whole life,heart and soul upside down...he came to completely adore her. Ahhhh now i gotta write a review for the sequel as well.This is to much for me!!Its to bloody awesome!!
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833 reviews1,897 followers
October 30, 2022
"What? I'm bored, you're here…" He raised his eyebrows and shook his head a little as if that explained everything.
"So that's it?" Hermione frowned. "It's just because you're bored?"
He rolled his eyes. "If you want flowers, I'll fuck you in the greenhouse."


when he's a romantic 😩 >>

also why was draco sparking up a friendship with moaning myrtle just so he had someone to talk about hermoine with so cute
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885 reviews398 followers
November 15, 2022
great writing. same old draco and his antics, yet not. i mean theres only so much u can varies in malfoy without actually changing his characterizations the ff readers love, but this one was a bit boring. still attractive at times coz fr look at who we’r talking bout, but yeah rlly couldve been better. some examples of the dracos (& dramione full of angst circumstances) i actually adore and always looked for in these ff are the ones from manacled, breath mint battle scars, dont look back & the fallout. overall not much to write home ab. they just kept fucking the whole time and this shits no ordinary 400pgs book. if ur into eating the same stuff for bf lunch dinner everyday for the rest of ur life ur gon love this. the connection just wasnt enough for me to stay
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552 reviews134 followers
February 19, 2024
Ok so I think GR deleted my original review but upon a reread this was more so a solid 4 stars for me rather than my original rating of 3.5 stars.

This fic has one of my favorite versions of Draco Malfoy in it. I could really feel based off of his POVs, how torn he was in his feelings between his duty to his family and his love for Hermione. Which I loved 🥰.

Original dates read: October 18 2022 to October 20 2022

Reread: February 12 2024 February 19 2024.
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953 reviews10 followers
July 18, 2021
4⭐️ SOLID enemies to lovers fic here. I’m not a fan of this trope bc the relationship can be toxic but I actually really enjoyed this one! The author took a loooooot of time to help us follow along the POV of both Hermione and Draco in coming to realize their thoughts and feelings during their 6th year. This work is complete but the story has a sequel (This Bitter Earth which is currently a WIP…. but it better be HEA!) to finish off the story, so expect a semi cliff hanger. Go in knowing that Draco is HARDCORE and dark. He will do *anything* to keep Hermione and him together.

“He makes all the wrong choices but for all the right reasons.”

He’s insanely possessive, the term mudblood is used, alcoholism, sexism etc. but also love and looots of explaining to get us to understand. Expect lots of spice 🌶🌶🌶🌶 and angst too since this is just pre-battle of Hogwarts.
Worth the read?: YES
Reread?: NO (the angst)
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383 reviews235 followers
March 7, 2025
☆1.5 DNF 14% Ew, Draco. Be warned: this version of young Mr. Malfoy continues getting *extensively described* BJs from Pansy in between his secret makeouts with Hermione. ✋ SO FUNNN 🤡
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440 reviews55 followers
June 12, 2021
I thought since it said it was completed that I would be satisfied with the end. But it's a freaking first book and the author is only 2 chapters into the sequel.

;-;-;-;

I hope Draco and Hermione get together 3

It was so cute and ajsdlfjaslkd i need to know what happens.
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669 reviews47 followers
October 31, 2023
4.45

Toxic dramione at hogwarts. It's giving slight bm/bs vibes but 6th year instead of 8th year. I really liked it and I need the sequel ASAP.
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211 reviews2 followers
June 27, 2023
I’m only here for the smut and there’s A LOT. I am guilty of skimming through some of the plot but 🤷🏻‍♀️ I did enjoy the retelling of 6th year. The sneaking around and hiding out in the room of requirement is exactly how I pictured their relationship in Hogwarts. There is a squeal in progress not sure if I’ll read. I’m not a WIP girly.
Profile Image for Meryem Koylu.
131 reviews4 followers
July 11, 2025
Well that was it 🤣

TOXIC draco incoming

This is most definitely a dark romance ff

A bit too long for my liking (and there’s a second book 🫠)
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97 reviews9 followers
November 17, 2024
I could read about these 2 falling in love for the rest of my life and never get bored.

This fic is criminally underrated and was exactly what I needed. it honestly filled the void that breathmints and battlescars left. Although it did end in a cliffhanger, I can’t wait to read the second part and all the heartbreak that will come along with it. Will I probably end up needing therapy afterwards? Yes. But luckily I have other dramione fics that will destroy me even more 😃

"𝙁𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚 𝙪𝙥? 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙𝙮 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙨𝙚!
𝙄 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙, 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠, 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚!" 𝙃𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩. "𝙔𝙤𝙪'𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖 𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙚!”

“𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙨𝙬𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙣, 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙢. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙙𝙖𝙮𝙡𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩, 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙢.”

“𝙄𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙣. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙨𝙖𝙞𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙞𝙧𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙩... 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙚𝙡𝙨𝙚. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣'𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙨𝙩, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙢 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧.”

“𝙃𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧.”

5☆

17/11/24
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328 reviews1 follower
March 30, 2025
No idea how to rate this one, cause from afar it's basically 75% possessive, toxic dramione smut, but if you look closely... it's 90% smut - right, I don't think it's the argument I meant to make....

I would prefer if they talked more, and there were less of smut, but I guess it's not really their style. There were parts, that were infuriating, but at the same time, they somehow made sense?
I liked Draco pov's more, can't really explain why, but it was like being in a mind of utterly insane, unstable person - one time you wanna kill this motherfucker, and the next you sympathize with him - something like that.

I think, that the most ridiculous thing in this fic, is that they're 16, cause ain't no way (in my head they are 25), but I guess it's kina impossible for them to be both at school, and be (and do) that at the same time (I am still gonna pretend they're 25).

For like 5 minutes after finishing this one, I didn't know, there is a sequel - it was a very painful 5 minutes, cause wtf was this ending??!?!
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76 reviews10 followers
August 3, 2023
Rating - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Spice - 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️
Pairing - M/F 👩‍❤️‍👨
Genre - HP fanfic
Drama - 🎭🎭🎭
Timeline - Linear
POV - Dual 3rd person
Kinks - Too many to list
Ending - Cliffhanger 🧗‍♀️
Triggers - Please, read the triggers!!

Welp…. What can I say about this book porn fest?

❇️ I went through so many different emotions reading this I had whiplash but I got… strangely acclimated by the end? Idk how to explain this other than to say that by the end, riding the wave of Draco and Hermione’s toxic relationship still gave me an ulcer but I learned to enjoy the pain… sounds about as twisted as it gets

❇️ In case you missed it, this story was essentially just porn and toxicity meet unhinged and possessive male character. At first I was annoyed because there wasn’t much plot and literally the story is 300 pages of them fucking and I have never understood the appeal of degradation… but eventually… well… I’ve come to find out I would likely sell my youngest sibling to have Draco call me his good little whore so… do I have a problem? Maybe, probably. Does that mean I want to fix my problem? No, absolutely not. For every insane thing Draco did/said, my cold dead soul rejoiced!

🟡 I did get a little bored at some point because it was the same repetitive routine of
- things are great,
- someone blows up out of nowehere,
- there is little to no communication to bridge the issue
- and we’re going through yet another heartbreak

❇️ BUT, once I accepted that this was just how the story was going to go, I started thinking this is actually brilliant. If you consider Draco and all his bigotry and prejudices, it was never going to be easy to get him to be a halfway decent person. At some point, I wanted the author to do more to get Draco to question his bias… until I realized… this story isn’t about Draco choosing good, it’s about him choosing Hermione and Hermione only, the rest of them be danmed… andddd queue the part of the story where I promptly compromised my good morals yet again.

🟡 I’ll say, I wanted maybe a few more conversations between the two of them… because that was a LOT of smut to digest and i’m not 100% sold on why they love each other but toxicity being what it is, who cares, imperio your girl Draco, I’m here to support you in any way you need! 🪩

❇️ About 70% in, I found out this long ass book had a sequel and let me tell you, I was FURIOUS! But then I realized… this isn’t such a bad thing. I’m accustomed to the roller coaster now. All I want is to see Draco become a war criminal to get his girl back and that wouldn’t have been possible in the little time we had remaining. I might have liked to have known about the sequel beforehand but by now, I’m good and well on the bandwagon, it���s almost a god send that I get a whole other book as toxic as this one 😅

❇️ Honorable mention for Zabini in this story, he was barely there but his character gave me the feels. Good little friend he was even when Draco was but a gigantic asshole

❇️ I also liked most of the other characters honestly. They weren’t written as typically as usual, Pansy was there but not screeching every other page. Luna was her strange quiet self and the author really showed her dreamlike nature. Ginny was a good friend without being obnoxious. Neville had one scene (maybe two?) but he was very Neville like… and Moaning Myrtleeeee 🥹🚽 I loved that she got some screen time

❌ Ron, that’s all i’ve got to say. Annoying as ever, almost reasonable even… except i’m on Draco’s side so I’m hoping he gets his nose broken in the sequel 😮‍💨

❇️ The writing was also without fault, flowed right from the page to my brain without any hiccups. We had some prime banter between Draco and Hermion. The Veritaserum scene = me swooning

In summary, I fucking loved this book even when I hated it. Sure, the plot was just about how many times Draco could get under Hermione’s skirt, but the slow unraveling of Draco’s possessive nature (read insanity, close at least), the filthy talk (which started off making me cringe and ended up as prime spank bank material), the toxic dependency between Hermione and Draco… it all breathed life into me! 🖤🗡️

Sure, it won’t be for many people, but boy, was it an experience for me, it definitely expanded my repertoire for depravity anyways!

"If you want flowers I'll fuck you in the greenhouse."

I don’t know that i’ll ever want flowers again! 🥹
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610 reviews216 followers
July 16, 2023
I honestly believe I was tricked into reading this. I found this on TikTok and everyone was saying how good it was and that it kinda felt like Breath Mints / Battle Scars, and no, it certainly didn’t.

First of all, this is a 2 part story and when I found it on ao3, it didn’t said anything about it. Had I known it would be a 2 part story I certainly wouldn’t have read it.

This Draco was so bloody toxic, like you have no idea how toxic. I barely could stand him. Most of the time he was drunk, insulting Hermione or being kinky.

Which brings me to the fact that this fic is mostly smut, it has little to no plot. It is a fic settled on their 6th year and it led me nowhere. Multiple times I considered abandoning it but I’ve already abandoned 2 other way too long and way too boring fics in the last month and refused to keep delaying my reading challenge like that. By the last few pages I gave up and read over most paragraphs, I couldn’t be bother with more of it.

I will most likely not read the second part.
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114 reviews
July 24, 2021
The smutt was amazing and those lucissa crumb in the epilogue got me soo hyped for book 2!


“Narcissa bent over him, brushing her hands over his hollowed cheeks.

"My love, oh my love," she said tearfully. "You're safe. They can't get you here. Not here. Not with me beside you."

Draco felt the fight leave his father and let go of his arm. He watched his mother smooth his father's hair, whispering softly to him until his mumbling stopped. Lucius looked up at her with pale grey eyes, blinking them as he recognized her.

Then his thin arms reached up, latching around her and pulled her down to him. Narcissa held him back and buried her face in his neck, muffling the sound of her cries against his shaking body.”
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2,334 reviews306 followers
November 10, 2023
3.5 stars

Listen, this is toxic Dramione at its finest and I ATE IT UP. Is it my favorite? No, because there are better, but it was fun, angsty, and steamy.
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January 31, 2025
non trop c’est trop (j’ai pas fini en vrai mais c’est finito pour moi en tout cas #yenamarre #ctguez)
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35 reviews4 followers
July 19, 2023
minha primeira fanfic dramione e a partir do momento em que o draco perguntou para a hermione "quem a fez chorar" minha romione stan morreu tão rápido que até hoje estou de luto.

acompanha os momentos secretos deles foram uma experiência! principalmente com as personalidades opostas da garota de ouro da grifinória e o príncipe cruel da sonserina 🆘️
e mesmo assim eles deram tão certo juntos.. foi tão lindo ver que pro draco sempre foi a hermione mesmo antes de ele realmente terem algo e que por trás de toda implicância com ela na verdade tinha muito interesse reprimido.

amei muito a gatinha grifinória, ela aos olhos do draco então a forma como ele descreve os cachos caramelos, grandes olhos de chocolate derretido e sorriso doce.. ele meio que sempre esteve caidinho por ela, príncipe!

eu não esperava que iria amar tanto o draco mesmo ele sendo literalmente assim 👉🏽 devil works hard but draco malfoy work harder! ele roubou meu coração.. eu amo tanto o jeito brincalhão dele mesmo que viva em contraste com seu jeito cruel, eu me divertia tanto nas narrações dele, a cabeça dele devia ser estudada! ele quebrando a mão do cormac porque tocou na mão da hermione MENINO DOENTE AMO ELE, ele é o #1 drama king e delulu boy do mundo acredita fielmente nas coisas que cria na cabeça me diverti, o amo muito esse menino é uma peste mas é tão querido não poderia não ama-lo.

estarei fazendo castigo de silêncio com a luisa até a continuação ser lançada, sim!
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June 9, 2023
i am really really happy with this ff. i am obsessed with it and that it was a sixth year fic - it was so fun because we all know how half blood price unfolds in the canon series, but seeing this other side was too fun and interesting.
i’m obsessed with draco’s character progression throughout the fic and his inner struggles.
when i started this i didn’t realize it was only the first book, but it seems a lot of the sequel is out. will most definitely pick it up once it’s closer to being complete.
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