Hermione felt the pounding in her ears again. She would see him for the first time since the Great Hall, gaunt and stricken at the Slytherin table with his mother clutching his arm. She hadn't meant to look for him. Not in the corridors, not beneath the white sheets of the fallen, not on the way to the Chamber of Secrets with Ron, but she was a stupid girl.

This is the sequel for Stay By My Side (located on my profile) so I suggest that you read that before you move on to this. For the first time, Hermione is set on experiencing a new life outside of Hogwarts. With supportive friends, Draco Malfoy as her Boyfriend whom she plans on marrying one day, and one step closer to becoming a fully qualified healer. Everything couldn't possibly be any more perfect. However, things take a shocking and sudden turn when a face from the past re-appears in Draco and Hermione's life and threatens to destroy all they have worked for. Draco's and Hermione's relationship will be tested in many ways she never thought was possible. "Happily Ever After" seems like just a saying to Hermione as Draco's behaviour changes radically in disturbing ways, leaving her fearful for the future. **************************************** DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the character's such as Hermione, Draco, Harry, Ginny, Ron etc as they all rightfully belong to the very talented JK Rowling. I am merely a huge HP fan who enjoys writing fanfic stories from my perspective. However, I AM responsible for the story-lines/character developments/scenario's etc that comes with this book and I take any cases of copying very seriously.

All Hermione wanted to do was to return to Hogwarts and finish her education with a bang as Head Girl. After that, she had her whole life sorted out. She would work things out with Ron, work at the ministry, and become Minister for Magic one day. The universe, as usual, had other plans. Draco certainly wasn't expecting McGonagall to pick him as Head Boy but Harry Potter declined and as per usual, he was the second choice. Unsure what the people back in school had in store for then after all the Death Eater business they were involved in, he returns to Hogwarts with his friends to finish their education anyway. Neither one saw the partnership coming, nor the friendship forged between their two sides. They really didn't plan for any of it to happen - the law, the friendship or the love that changed both of them. Here's another round of betrayal, forced laws and love found in the most unexpected places. v 2.0

After three years of dating, Ron admits he cheated on Hermione for two of those years with Daphne Greengrass--and Harry knew all about it. Reeling from the betrayal by her friends and family, Hermione must rebuild her life and discover new bonds with an unlikely group including Theo Nott, Blaise Zabini, and Pansy Parkinson. What happens when Draco Malfoy, her first and deepest love, suddenly reappears in Hermione's life and she finds that her feelings have only grown deeper with time? OR: Hermione and Draco secretly dated at Hogwarts, he left after his trial, and now he's returned to win her back. --------- DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THIS FIC AT ALL. THE ORIGINAL STORY WAS MADE BY Twin_Flame_Blues AND IS ON THE AO3 WEBSITE. I loved this work of art on ao3 and brought it to wattpad for those that want to read it but like the wattpad format for reading better then the ao3 format. AUTHORS NOTE (COPY & PASTED FROM AO3) 1. This world has wizards, it doesn't need heteronormativity. Everyone is a little bit queer here. 2. We stan a Slytherin redemption story arc and a deeper investigation of the type of friends Harry and Ron really were to Hermione. 3. Yes, both my username and all the chapter titles in this fic are pulled from Taylor Swift songs. 4. There will be short flashbacks to Hogwarts days in each chapter, but this fic primarily takes place 3+ years after the end of the war (and though there will be allusions to sex in the flashbacks, the only explicit sex scenes will take place when the characters are all over 18). 5. We will eventually get to alternating POV's in each chapter, but we've got to do some setup first.

"We weren't aware you were dropping by this early" Draco leaned back in his chair, amused. Blaise glared at them as he refilled his glass. "And I wasn't aware I had a bloody sister until now" ~ The Zabini Family, pureblooded, wealthy and happy. The family of 4 had no faults until they'd split. The Mother, Josephine Zabini, took their son, Blaise Zabini while the Father, Marcellus Zabini, took their daughter, Hermione. The two siblings, twins, lived without knowing the other existed... until very recently. Each lived a different life, had different friends, and different thoughts, yet blood is not the only thing they come to share after Hermione finds herself in a difficult situation. #1 in Dramione!!!!!!! #1 in HermioneGranger!!!!!! #1 in DracoxHermione!! #1 in BlaiseZabini!!! #1 in DaphneGreengrass!!! #2 in TheodoreNott!!! #2 in DramioneFanfiction!!!! #3 in Hogwarts!!!! #3 in Hinny!! #4 in DracoMalfoy!!!! #1 in HermioneZabini!! #2 in MarriageofConvenience!! #1 in Lavenderbrown!! #1 in ZabiniTwins!! #1 in Zabini!!! #4 in RonWeasley!!! #1 in AstoriaGreengrass!! #5 in GinnyWeasley!!

[ draco malfoy x hermione granger ] 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐭 𝐠𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞𝐱-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.𝐧𝐞𝐭

SLOWBURN DRAMIONE A strain of Black Death has mutated in the wizarding world. A muggle disease that has long been curable, has now mingled with magic which has devastating effects. Victims rot away until they are nothing but blackened bones; a 100% fatality rate. The magical world is calling it 'Nox' because once you catch it, the lights go out. As the Nox runs its course, leaving magical hamlets and villages in states of terror and death, Dark wizards take advantage of the countless corpses and begin to create armies of Inferi. Hermione Granger, the newly elected Director of St. Mungos is called to find a cure, and Draco Malfoy, an ex-auror, who now leads the Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes is in charge of finding the source of the disease; in the face of extinction. It's been ten years since the death of Voldemort, and ten years since they fought against each other in the war. Now that there's a new threat to the wizarding world, can they join together in saving it?

Five years into to the war, the Order is pulling ahead after ages of drastically losing. Draco Malfoy notices. He wants in. He offers himself as a double agent, but the Order requests more. They've created a new spell that binds two people's magical cores together in order to make a nearly unbeatable pair of duelists. Draco agrees to bind himself to the person most compatible with his magical core. Even if it is Hermione Granger.

When threats against Minister Hermione Granger escalate from hate mail to deadly magic, the Ministry assigns her a personal guard-Draco Malfoy. She didn't ask for protection. She definitely didn't ask for him. Six years after the war, Hermione is building a better world, brick by stubborn brick. Draco is just trying to outrun his past-one arrest, one mission at a time. Thrust into close quarters, the two are forced to confront what they buried in the rubble of Hogwarts: guilt, resentment, and something far more dangerous than hatred. As danger circles closer and old wounds begin to reopen, Hermione and Draco discover that the line between duty and desire is thinner than they ever imagined.

It started with just seven steps to try and win Potter's affection, but life and relationships are rarely as easy as a checklist on a piece of parchment.