Cover of Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

Draco Malfoy and the Mortifying Ordeal of Being in Love

isthisselfcare

romantasy(41k)

An Auror forced to protect the witch he can't stand — slow burn, sharp banter, and denial for days.

Content Warnings
violence/gore

Description

Hermione straddles the magical and non-magical worlds as a medical researcher and Healer about to make a Big Discovery. Draco is an Auror assigned to protect her from forces unknown -- to both of their displeasure.Features hypercompetent, fiery Hermione and lazy, yet dangerous, Draco. Slow burn.Rating: ExplicitFandom: Harry PotterRelationship: Hermione Granger/Draco MalfoyTags: Healer Hermione Granger, Researcher Hermione Granger, Auror Draco Malfoy, Slow burn, unresolved sexual tension, eventual smut, POV Draco Malfoy, Forced Collaboration, Romance, romcom, Action/Adventure, EWE, HEA, reckless overuse of author's favorite tropes, oblivious idiots, All aboard the SS Denial, late-stage pining, what is pining if not denial persevering, no first names we die like men, do not look too closely at the plot you will only hurt yourself, scandalous ankle touching, misuse of whirlpool baths, graphic depictions of competent women, eroticized arithmancy, Crookshanks will fight god or become him, human on mushroom violence, Schrodinger's ethics, nuns

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