Ppl Talk About The Difficulty Of Writing Characters Smarter Than Yourself, But The Real Challenge Is

Dramione

art by @teaandtapestry 💕

''what if my writing isn't good eno--'' what if it's a reflection of your of your soul. what if it has a place in this world. what if you write it anyway

part 2: after the game

“i barely clipped him”

“you intentionally shoved him, draco!”

I know this so dumb but my favorite dramione trope is Draco being like “you idiot gryffindor stop trying to die for people who don’t deserve you 😡” but then also being like “hermione I love you I don’t deserve you and I will die for you 🙂” It gets me every time lmao

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Ch. 2 by Vladislav Pantic

So two things. I just find it so funny the amount of times I’ve googled “students in Harry Potter’s year” when I’m trying to think of side characters for a fic. Like how do I not have them all memorized, there aren’t that many! But I always really want to get someone super duper obscure idk. (But that obscure character just doesn’t exist)

Anyway the second thing is lowkey a spoiler for Detraquee so I’ll put it under a read more

But when I just googled that list and read the name Mandy Brocklehurst. Omg……..the tension my body reacted with was honestly so overdramatic but also so real lmao. I just remember being so obsessed with how much Theo hated her in Detraquee cause everything he said about her was how I felt too ❤️❤️❤️ lmao I was like get rid of her already!!!!!!! Lmao but honestly it’s one of those ways where I love to be tortured by a slow burn.

Anyway yeah just wanted to share. Poor girl barely exists in canon but just seeing her name gave me war flashbacks

Honestly I can’t even begin to describe how happy I am to have finally found a fic I really like again. Like, since I’ve become a dramione reader, I feel like after reading the big three (manacled, dmatmoobil, the auction) I’ve read others where I’m like yeah that’s nice but I wasn’t super into it. Lowkey I was thiiis close to just taking a break cause nothing else was capturing me like those did. But a game of high stakes!!!! Is soooooo good. I’m so surprised by how sweet the romance is, like I did not expect to be giggling and kicking my feet like this. I don’t even have words for how much I love the element of shared magic like idk it’s just so sweet to me the way they use it. I’m only about halfway through to be fair so hopefully I continue enjoying it but I know it’s tagged as a happily ever after so I’m not too too worried.

Manacled Draco to anyone who harmed Hermione:

Manacled Draco:

Hermione Granger by Mélaine Kenner

Hermione for Remember Us As War (but call us forgiveness)