Best Dramione Post-War Fanfics
The best post-war Dramione (Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. War stories end at the victory; post-war fic begins there, and readers are drawn to the harder, quieter question of how broken people build ordinary lives.
Top Dramione Post-War Fic Recs
2 post-war Dramione fics matched, followed by other top-rated Dramione stories.
With Nothing But Time
Post-Warby LadyOfTheQuill
It began with a letter on Christmas Eve—an unexpected note from Draco Malfoy, penned in the stillness of house arrest and sent to the last person he ever expected compassion from. Hermione Granger’s reply arrives by Christmas morning, and so begins a correspondence neither of them could have predict
The Margin Notes
Post-Warby bbytigga84
Five years after the war, Hermione Granger returns to Hogwarts to help restore the damaged magical archives. She expects difficult spellwork, old memories, and long nights in the library. She does not expect Draco Malfoy to be assigned as her partner. When they discover strange messages hidden in th
Ouroboros
by gnomenclature108
Hermione’s life changes irrevocably when she discovers herself a witch. Follow our heroine as she…✓ balances her muggle & magical lives✓ contends with casual & deadly bigotry after being sorted to the house most infamous for it✓ shares her secrets with a diary possessed by a spellbinding, youn
Back To Black
by SpaceCowboyP
Crawling back to you…After being betrayed by Marcus Flint, Pansy Parkinson finds herself living at Malfoy Manor under the care of Draco Malfoy, unable to return to her broken home. As old feelings begin to resurface between them, Draco is forced to confront secrets stolen from him by Lord Voldemort.
The Quiet Life
by Craz45
For twelve years, Hermione Granger has been a ghost.The Ministry can't find her. Harry and Ron don't know if she's alive. Every search ends the same way with nothing.What no one knows is that Hermione didn't disappear.She walked away.Far from Britain, she built a quiet life with the last person anyo
Before This Damage Is Done
by Macska
War has ravaged Great Britain for nearly 15 years when Minister of Magic Draco Malfoy comes to collect on the life debt that Hermione Granger owes him. Hermione realizes that this might finally be her chance to change the tides of the war by convincing her life-long enemy to spy for the Order. OR Wh
Sweet Silent Thoughts
by CallMeAlyKat
At seventeen, Hermione Granger watched Draco Malfoy die. At eleven, she wakes up with a second chance. Armed with memories of a future no one else remembers, Hermione sorts herself into Slytherin and sets out to save the boy she loves. But with no idea what killed him in the first place, changing fa
Watched
by HerAlterEgoWrites
Disconcerted by the watching eyes she feel are always on her, and confused by her own longing feeling for the shadow that follows her, Hermione Granger does her best to ignore the writing on the wall as far as her would be stalker goes and continue on with her life, working as a healer as well as h
I Wouldn't Mind Right Here, I Wouldn’t Mind at All
by Ms_Tavers
Fourteen years after Draco took his own life in Vermont, someone asks to meet Blaise Zabini...
The New Generations Law
by ArtisteAnni
*knock knock knock*"Come in. Ah, Doctor Flintwood, to what do I owe the pleasure?""I'm afraid this is no pleasurable matter, sir" the doctor handed over a rather large, stacked file"... Is this a joke?" asked the nervous man"I'm afraid not. All the research has been done in multiple different ways,
Трясовина
by Wild_Witch
Це моє болото! Збірка драблів до КВАКів від Лагідної Драміонізації. Новий розділ щотижня.
The World She Chose
by CanonAndCoffee_30
Hermione Granger thought surviving the Second Wizarding War would be the hardest thing she'd ever have to do. She was wrong. After turning down Ron Weasley's proposal, Hermione disappears from the wizarding world without a trace. Twelve years later, her return forces everyone she left behind to conf
Unravelling
by Niarinn
At eight, Arya Potter survived Voldemort. Then she disappeared. James Potter, Sirius Black, and many others have spent the past ten years searching for Arya Potter, the Girl Who Vanished. For ten years, Arya Williams lived in Alders, where Death Eaters turned children into assets. During the last fi
The Things We Keep
by Black__Starr
Ten years after the war, Hermione Granger receives a letter from Luna Lovegood and finds herself standing on Draco Malfoy's doorstep for the first time in nearly a decade. They must move on from their past in order to work together to save the woman who hid them from facing charges and being sent to
What remains.
by Ghost_200
Rebuilding her life was the last thing Hermione wanted. The war had took its toll on everyone, but some wounds refused to heal. Months after the Battle of Hogwarts, the scar on her arm continues to be as raw as ever. It’s a constant reminder of all of the things she’s lost. Returning to Hogwarts for
The Obligations We Keep | Tradução PT-BR
by quietquillfics
Quando Hermione Granger retorna a Hogwarts para um Oitavo Ano obrigatório, sente-se grata pela pausa — uma oportunidade de se recuperar da guerra e dos pesadelos que ainda a assombram. Determinada a encontrar a felicidade e aproveitar seu último ano, Hermione espera que a cura seja silenciosa. Mas,
I Look Like a Fucking Weasley, Granger
by fornalesque21
It's hot. It's unbearably hot but Hermione Granger decided to host an interhouse mingling beside the Black Lake but people flee because of the heat.Except for her and Draco...
text me, maybe
by drivel_drabble
Draco Malfoy has been exiled to the Muggle world for a year without any magic or contact with the magical community. The exception is Hermione Granger, his Muggle-Liaison Officer, who is supposed to help him navigate his new circumstances. Mostly by way of texts.
What remains
by greenplaid_07
When an unclassified magical artefact arrives at the Department of Mysteries, Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger are assigned to investigate it together. What begins as a routine containment case soon becomes something far stranger. As the mystery deepens, the line between external influence and pers
Tangled Webs
by Niarinn
This side series is a collection of one-shots connected to Unravelling. It explores moments that do not quite fit into the main narrative, including past events, missing scenes, and pieces of the wider story that shape the world. Arya Potter is trapped in Alders with Death Eaters, trained and used a
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Why Post-War Dramione Fanfiction Works So Well
Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger — The pureblood bully and the muggleborn witch he tormented make no sense in canon, which is exactly the point: Dramione is fandom's great redemption laboratory. From Manacled to countless 8th-year fics, it dominates Harry Potter het and has crossed over into published romantasy.
Post-War — Set after the great conflict of canon ends, these stories ask what survivors do with peace they never expected to see. Especially central in Harry Potter fandom, where 'post-war' covers the rebuilding of the wizarding world after the Battle of Hogwarts, but the label applies anywhere canon ends in victory and rubble.
Enemies-to-lovers at maximum voltage — readers want to watch prejudice dismantled by the person it was aimed at. War stories end at the victory; post-war fic begins there, and readers are drawn to the harder, quieter question of how broken people build ordinary lives. That's why post-war Dramione fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.
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