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There once was a world so wounded, its magic was depleted, its schools became training grounds, and its children became things to barter with.
There once was a boy poised for power and a girl born in a Reclamation Zone who found out where magic really lives.
Would you care to listen?
COMPLETED - APRIL 3RD, 2026
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13 May 2026
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(COMPLETE: 3 chapter novella)
Hermione Granger and Theodore Nott are curse breakers, business partners, and best-friends-with-benefits. They take a lucrative Ministry contract that comes with the unfortunate requirement to bring along Draco Malfoy, the emotionally repressed warding expert who broke Theo's heart years ago.
Now our heroes find themselves locked in an unplottable 16th-century Scottish cottage that suppresses their magic whenever they bicker, but conveniently restocks the wine cellar every day. As days of forced proximity bleed into weeks, tightly wound boundaries finally unravel even though the wards stay firm. Old wounds are broken open, hidden desires are dragged into the candlelight, and they realize what it means to have everything.
"This is the most civilised captivity I've ever experienced," Theo announced, leaning back with a glass of red wine.
Hermione stabbed a roasted potato with unnecessary precision. "You've been imprisoned often then?"
"Only consensually, you know. I do so like to be bound," he responded with a grin aimed at Draco, blatant in his attempt to get a rise out of him.
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02 May 2026
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The Wizarding World has been at war for the past eight years. The Order has fled to France and seems to have given up hope of defeating Voldemort. But determined to keep fighting, Hermione decides to take matters into her own hands. Disguising herself as a Muggle at a gentlemen’s club for Death Eaters, she infiltrates their ranks to find out where the last Horcrux is hidden. But her plans change when a certain blond wizard from her past steps into the club.
A very dark wartime fic with drama, tension, violence and emotions.
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17 Mar 2026
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Those who abolished the Statute of Secrecy in 1945 never intended the horrors that came afterwards.
By 1998, Wizarding Britain—styled after a reborn Roman Empire with Imperator Voldemort at its helm—controls most of Europe. Resistance is brutally crushed, muggles are in chains, and muggleborns are martyred by dragon fire in front of screaming crowds.
Hermione Granger is a domestic slave working in the Malfoy household, dreaming of a remade world, and hiding magic in her veins. Discovery means certain death.
Draco Malfoy, a tribune and spy for the Imperial Legion, carries the weight of painful secrets. For years, the only way to live with his dark reality has been to shut his eyes to it.
…But she has a burning star inside her—the light of an entire sun…
And now he is caught between the denial which defines his survival, and the woman he cannot deny.
Trailer for The Lights That Burn by the immensely talented thistlethread
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The Risk'verse Quartet - The Revised Edition by MissiAmphetamine (Kaleidoscope)
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 Jun 2026
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The trio's search for the Horcruxes was abandoned when Griphook absconded with the Sword of Gryffindor, leaving the three – traumatised and disheartened – to return to join the rest of the Order in the ongoing brutal war against Voldemort. Several months later a maimed, disillusioned, and broken Draco surrenders himself to the Order after his failures earn him Voldemort's displeasure, and Hermione finds herself the warder of the prisoner in the cellar.
The Risk'verse Quartet is an epic, coming-of-age wartime series that follows Hermione, Draco, and the Order of the Phoenix throughout an extended war, and then onward into the aftermath. It's a realism-focused character and relationship study, with dual POV, angst and hurt/comfort, slow emotional burn w/ glacial physical burn, bickering & banter, a secret relationship, Classical Latin as a love language, violence and gore, coping with broken families, and how the brutal toll of war and trauma changes people.
But at the heart of it all, it's about a love that eclipses everything else.
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02 Nov 2025