

( Kotaku did a huge write-up recently on how this classic Harry Potter fanfic has held up to the test of time. Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs, The Shoebox Project has had a huge following for over a decade, resulting in extensive amounts of fan art and even spinoff stories.

The Quintessential Marauders EraĬhronicling the correspondence and adventures of Messrs. Started before the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, this story jumps more than twenty years after Hogwarts, to a future in which Draco Malfoy and Hermione Weasley (though he refuses to call her anything but Granger) work for the Ministry of Magic. The Politician’s Wife holds a special place in my heart as one of the first Wizarding World fics I read in which the main characters were no longer teenagers. “Epilogue? What Epilogue” (EWE) (AKA For The Person Who Wants To Wipe Cursed Child From Their Brain) If that sounds like your thing, have at it. Two tropes in one! Hogwarts Is Over And The World Is Terribleīetter Off Forgotten is some serious darkfic with some serious dubcon (what with the whole, “she’s been obliviated and I’m going to pretend to be someone else because I can’t procreate with purebloods” thing). In this particular Harry Potter fanfiction, not only do Hermione and Draco have to share a common room as school Heads, but here, our buddy Draco has Amnesia. Turn sees Harry living a not-quite-HEA with Ginny and the Kids, and after a surprising evening, waking up to see what one different choice might have changed. What’s better than an Epilogue-compliant story that goes awry? An Epilogue-compliant story that goes awry by creating an Alternate Past. Okay, so not really (no vampires in this one), but if you want to read a Draco-Slash-Harry fanfic set in an AU Seventh Year in which two boys accidentally end up married after arguing in a doorway, you’ll want to read Bond. How can it be sweet when one of the main characters is a bigoted asshole? Well, read it and find out. Nominated for a bunch of fanfiction awards when it came out, this story is long and hard and somehow sweet.

When you ask anyone who’s been in fandom recently about Dramione, even if they don’t read it, they probably know about Isolation by Bex-Chan. Via GIPHY That One Dramione Story That Everyone Has Read Think that can’t possibly be a thing? You should read The Green Girl, and see how well the author takes that familiar Granger personality and puts it into this very extenuating circumstance. The Hermione Granger Can Do Anything StoryĮven be sorted into Slytherin. But when you do come across a beautifully thought out and fleshed out one-shot “what if” story about a family that might have been, you make sure everyone you know reads it. Tumblr is a hard place to find Harry Potter fanfiction because it’s not searchable the way that ffnet and AO3 are. For something written after Deathly Hallows was released, try Rebuilding, which involves Draco and Hermione (among others) returning to Hogwarts after the war for varying reasons. Since it was finished before Order of the Phoenix, it feels very nostalgic to read a hopeful, canon-ish story about the Wizarding World. After the End is another Old School fanfiction, completed in 2003.
