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Hello, and thank you for giving this story a chance! I started writing ADOC at the beginning of the pandemic, and I’m so excited to share it with you.
ADOC is a wartime Dramione set six years after the Deathly Hallows. I’ve put us a bit later to allow for some ~character development~ and also a very endearing and adorable five-year-old Teddy Lupin. I’ve basically written the kind of story I like to read, and I (obvi) take full responsibility for any plotholes/inconsistencies/head-scratching moments.
What you can expect:
- Updates once a week or so (edit: life outside of writing is quite busy atm, so no update schedule, but I'm constantly writing and editing, and I update as soon as I can!)
- Typos (think of them as rewards for paying attention, you beautiful grammar aficionados)
- Angst (yikes)
- More angst (double yikes)
- But also comfort (yay)
- It’s slooooooow burn
- But I like to think it’s worthwhile
- Three parts (because of the sloooooow burn and also my anxiety)
- My favorite tropes n things, which include
- Enemies-to-lovers
- Touch her and die vibes
- Exasperated Doctor, Stubborn Patient (if it isn’t a trope it should be)
- Forced proximity
- Delayed use of first names
- Comfort after nightmares
- “Oh. Oh.”
- Hot Tom Riddle because I said so (but also for the pLoT)
- An unreasonable number of aesthetic collages and quotes and poetry because I’m dramatic thx
Since both Hermione and Draco are grieving and it’s a wartime story, some chapters are inherently quite dark. That being said, I’ve tried to situate these components within a softer narrative about devotion and friendship.
Eeek last thing, I promise - I just want to thank the online Dramione community and other fanfic authors. Without you and your stories, I wouldn’t have returned to my childhood dream of becoming an author. I’ve read too many fics to list them all here, but I want to acknowledge the ones I keep coming back to:
- The Fallout by everythursday
- Remain Nameless by HeyJude19
- Isolation by bexchan
- The Measure of a Man by inadaze22
- The Rights and Wrongs Series by LovesBitca8
- Bring Him to His Knees by Musyc
- All You Want by senlinyu
- Manacled by senlinyu
- Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love by isthisselfcare
Okay I’m done! I hope you enjoy!!! And if you are so inclined, please leave a lil comment or note with your thoughts. I will quite literally cry authorial tears of joy. Regardless, though, thank you, thank you, thank you for reading.