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Static by Galfoy
Summary: The Order rescued Draco and Lucius Malfoy after Lord Voldemort turned on them. All the safe houses are full and Hermione Granger is the only one who can take them in. Will she agree after having suffered a drastic nervous breakdown?
Location: FF.net
Rating: M
Length: 79K
Time Period: Post
Smut: 7/10
Status: Complete
Pairing: Dramione

This fic makes me think of the classic Dramione stories. Yet, instead of Draco and Hermione as Head Boy and Girl at Hogwarts eventually falling for one another, we've got a typical snarky Draco with a calmer Lucius, and a truly catatonic Hermione.

The Fallout

I admit, I have yet to finish this fic. It's been my first venture onto Hawthorn & Vine, but I'm glad that I joined to read this! I'm quite a ways into it, and it has a very slow buildup (which I appreciate when I need something for the long-haul). It tells a somewhat epic story of the war, told from Grimmauld Place.

The Fallout by everythursday
Summary: Hermione learns about growing up through the redemption of Draco Malfoy
Location: H and V
Rating: M
Length: 233K
Time Period: War
Smut: 8/10 (It isn't extreme, or raw. It's very 'just' and appropriate)
Status: Incomplete
Pairing: Dramione

The Arrangement

If it seems like I'm overloading on Lumione--sorry! I'm working backwards. They are all very good quality fics though, you won't be disappointed. 

I could not put this story down. It's so sexy and endearing--the things an inmate would do for just a 'peek'... and the things a visitor would do for information... 

The Arrangement by laurielove

Summary: When a prisoner is allowed no other visitors and no gifts, what can be offered to him in exchange for information? Hermione and Lucius come to a very personal arrangement, but will it develop into more than they bargained for?

Location: FF.net

Rating: M

Length: 20K

Time Period: Post War

Smut: 8/10

Status: Complete

Pairing: Lumione

Three Courses for Mr. Malfoy

I read and posted this one a week ago on @igotafanfic! It's an easy, fun 2-day-or-so read for some quick smut from Lucius and the girls.

Three Courses for Mr. Malfoy by laurielove
Summary: When Lucius Malfoy one day comes across three disgruntled witches, he is only too happy to help improve their mood.
Location: FF.net
Rating: M

Length: 27K

Time Period: Post War

Smut: 7/10

Status: Complete

Pairing: Lucius + Hermione, Pansy, Ginny

Out of the Depths

After having stored all of my reads on my tumblr blog, @igotafanfic, I can finally put them on here! I'm working backwards, and many will be posted on Secret Slash and Scenes By Days Twilight. Thanks to all who've stuck with me despite the long lapse! I didn't stop reading, I only stopped until I could get a set way to post these again!

Out of the Depths by laurielove
Summary: A tale of emotional and erotic dependency. A nineteen-year-old Hermione is back at Hogwarts, dissatisfied with life, and her bewildering new feelings for her Potions Master confuse her even more.
Location: FF.net
Rating: M

Length: 146K

Time Period: Post War

Smut: 8/10 

Status: Complete

Pairing: Snape/Hermione

This isn't my favorite pairing, but this is currently one my favorite writers and she's done very well! I haven't finished it, but it carries an amazing bit of desperation that her fics are known (by me!) for. 

It took me--and Blogger a while.

But I'm back! And with new content! Thanks to a new series of fanblogs on Tumblr, and the greatness that has become Hawthorne & Vine, I'm here again to give in-depth reviews (yet surprisingly sans spoilers) of my favorite fics. Look for Dramione, Lumione, and a few random but amazing pairings. I will never post anything that I dislike and don't highly recommend. Do you wonder why this site isn't exclusive to Dramione, hence the name? With the rate that I read, and the fact that I tend to stick to completed fics, I'd run out of stories in a few months! I'm always taking suggestions. Want me to review something? Have a favorite you want posted or mentioned? Comment and I'll get on that straightaway! ~Fanfiction is my life.

Stupid

I thought It'd put this review in both places since... well, it was amazing. I haven't cried this much in years, and that's saying something.

Pairing: HHr
Summary: Hermione's wandering train of thought as she washes the dishes. 'Ron will kill me if he sees me cleaning without a wand. You're a witch, act like it! he'd say. He doesn't understand that I need the distraction...'
Rating: soft M
Length: 8 Chapters, 77K
Location: FF.net

I just finished this, moments ago, and I've still got that pain in my throat and that tiredness in my eyes from their dripping. Stupid by The Seamonkey was a complete surprise for me. When I don't like something immediately, or I can't see where it's going, I'll usually go back to searching without much thought and it's final. Every time I see the story again I'll remember that I couldn't read it before and move right along. I was so close to doing that.

I was maybe 3 paragraphs in and I just couldn't catch on to the writing style, or the phrasing, or the tone of Hermione's POV. I remember a while ago when I couldn't even STAND a story written in first person... I'm sure it's in one of my rules lists on Loves Dramione from 2008. The first instance of "I" and I'd run back to searching again. And with this one I went right back to the search, but read the summary again (bit elusive, isn't it?) with the HHr pairing and the Ron/Hermione descript. But then the word caught, "distraction" and the title "Stupid" and I was determined to figure out what that could mean in this story. Did she cheat? Was she this close to tearing off Harry's clothes at the very sight of him? Did they make some sort of mistake and she was living a lie?

Of course, any of these things could apply and more. So typical, so common in fanfiction are these types of stories that I can usually predict how they play out. I'm just good like that. But no, I was seriously wrong!

This is a story about long lost love, with it standing right in front of you and your very soul dedicated to protecting that person and your life from your feelings. Barely living and going through the motions so as to not mess up the perfect life around you whilst knowing that it is in fact the most imperfect, sad, grey life that's been carved out for you and the slightest touch can set it off. It's a story about self-denial and restraint and just so much goodness for the benefit of others that, although I didn't get it at first, is just so characteristic of both Harry and Hermione.

I'm crying again just thinking about it.

I have searched long and hard for an HHr worth mentioning, and have found few. I can't get away from HD and DHr, but this is just something so amazing that I doubt I'll ever be able to read another in the pairing without comparing the two. Please give it a read, you might not get it at first but.... wow.