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“First Morning After” ☕️

Best reads of 2023 - Manacled by SenLinYu

Rating: ★★★★★

“There was a part of her that felt she might somehow doom them if she said it. If there were important things left unspoken, then perhaps tomorrow would come.”

So two things. I just find it so funny the amount of times I’ve googled “students in Harry Potter’s year” when I’m trying to think of side characters for a fic. Like how do I not have them all memorized, there aren’t that many! But I always really want to get someone super duper obscure idk. (But that obscure character just doesn’t exist)

Anyway the second thing is lowkey a spoiler for Detraquee so I’ll put it under a read more

But when I just googled that list and read the name Mandy Brocklehurst. Omg……..the tension my body reacted with was honestly so overdramatic but also so real lmao. I just remember being so obsessed with how much Theo hated her in Detraquee cause everything he said about her was how I felt too ❤️❤️❤️ lmao I was like get rid of her already!!!!!!! Lmao but honestly it’s one of those ways where I love to be tortured by a slow burn.

Anyway yeah just wanted to share. Poor girl barely exists in canon but just seeing her name gave me war flashbacks

Hogwarts Halloween! 🎃🍂

One thing that will never fail to amaze me about reading fics of the same pairing over and over and over again is how of course there are certain expected lines and tropes,

(People always talk about him going from calling her “Granger” to calling her “Hermione,” but I think an underrated one is “Oh, back to Malfoy now, am I?” I clutch my pearls every time.)

But even beyond that there are just so many unique things in each fic. Like I am forever amazed how one relationship can be analyzed and overanalyzed and there are still so many new ways to compare these characters with others in canon or even in other literature. Like of course she and Ron are gonna break up but writers are still able to make the break up feel unique to the context of each story. Idk I guess what I’m trying to say is it’s just mind blowing how fan fiction has existed for years and there are still so many original ideas. Or ideas that feel original at least. Obviously these aren’t original characters and so many popular fics pull from other works of media. But idk the babies they create feel so fresh and new.

Dirty Distractions

Aspiring minister Hermione, simp Draco, a nip slip and a Ministry broom cupboard. Rated E - 2.5k words.

“You look beau—” Draco’s voice caught as he glanced down at her chest. His mouth fell shut. Was that what he thought it was? Pink-brown; familiar; looking wholly delicious and with no right to be on public show, particularly in the middle of the Ministry. Perhaps it was intentional? Perhaps it was for him?

Malfoy’s Rune Scars.

In the stacks 👀