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    We love a Tav who isn't the cleverest - she's happy to leave the strategising to the more competent members of the group and she's just happy to come along for the ride!

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    He had a mission and could not fail. A chance encounter with a heartbroken Gryffindor on an autumn evening fractures his resolve. A Sixth Year tale.

    Nectere: To bind, tie, fasten, connect, interweave, attach; unite; relate.

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    26 Aug 2024

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    A time travelling necklace from his father's study sends Draco's mind flying back to his thirteen-year-old body. Already the cause of so much pain in the original timeline, he refuses to let Buckbeak die because of his past immaturity. Despite this seemingly simple task, he finds himself embroiled in Professor Lupin's past whilst struggling to keep secrets about the future hidden.

    Book Two is up!

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    21 Aug 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    This is SO good I think I will replace my copy of Prisoner of Azkaban with this, truly. Like this needs to be studied.

    Like, I came for the Dramione, but I'm staying for the relationships I see forming between Draco and Lupin, Draco and Luna, and Draco and Neville. I need him to have a dad, not just a father. I'm desperate.

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    It required a strangely intimate level of trust, assuming Draco wouldn’t willfully mistranslate her, that he accurately interpreted a conversational ebb and flow.

    It was irritatingly fascinating too, having him focus so acutely on her every word, pause for a beat, and then spin her intentions into a different language. If Hermione allowed herself the moment of indiscretion, she might have described it as a rush. A completely inappropriate rush, but a rush all the same.

    [In which Hermione discovers an affinity for seeing Draco speak several languages.]

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    09 Aug 2024

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    Draco clenched his teeth, forcing sharp, shallow breaths through his nose as he ripped open the door to his usual lecture hall only to find—someone at his desk. Well, he supposed it was technically less his desk and more the desk as he didn’t actually own this particular classroom. But since he’d taught in it for the last four semesters he at least felt like he’d earned a sort of common law ownership.

    The woman—presently possessed by what looked like a semi-sentient mass of curls atop her head—looked up, eyes widening before she graced the space between them with a kind smile that could cut through any density of grit or dust or grime. The sort of simple smile that could pulverize rocks: be them buried in the earth or caged behind ribs.

    He stared at her, belatedly and painfully aware that his mouth had curled into a sneer mostly without his consent.

    [In which two otherwise intelligent and dignified people fight over a classroom and realize they are very, very into each other.]

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    09 Aug 2024

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I so loved their chemistry (lol) in this - the story is brief but told so well with no wasted words. The alternating POVs were a great choice, and the quotes to open the chapters with are so insightful. It’s just so *chef’s kiss*

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    Torture smells like spring.

    Like daffodils and tulips and snowdrops. Like the bouquets brought inside from the manor gardens to lend their life to cold stone walls that house criminals. Easter mixed with madness makes sense in this twisted landscape; Draco’s only chance at survival is to endure it. He knows this. But that doesn’t quell the twitching in his calves, the flexing in his fingers.

    Granger lifts her hand off the floor and Draco nearly loses his lunch, stomach churning as he watches her extend her arm, reaching through the translucent cord, reaching towards him. He tries to blink it away, blink blink blink, but both she and the cord are stubborn, persistent things.

    [In which a soulmate bond appears while Hermione is tortured at Malfoy Manor. Canon divergent from that moment onward.]

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    21 Jul 2024

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