Characters
Tags
Angst
Hurt/Comfort
Idiots in Love
Time Travel
Minor Character Death
No Ron Weasley Bashing
Protective Draco Malfoy
Time Turners (Harry Potter)
Hogwarts Sixth Year
Pining Draco Malfoy
Oblivious Hermione Granger
Hogwarts Seventh Year
Draco Malfoy Redemption
Lucius Malfoy's A+ Parenting
Snarky Draco Malfoy
Soft Draco Malfoy
Endgame Hermione Granger/Draco Malfoy
Canon Divergence - Battle of Hogwarts
Draught of Living Death (Harry Potter)
Draco makes decisions
Nothing to Something to Everything
Draco Malfoy is Not Nice
except only for Hermione
Wibbely wobbely timey wimey stuff
Draco Malfoy is good with potions
Fred Weasely Lives
but we don't really like him here
Everyone Lives Except Voldemort and someone else
Summary
"Protect them," she murmurs, the words leaving her mouth on the weary sigh falling from her lips. "Please." He regards her silently, his gaze searching hers as if there, he could find the answer to the question on his heart--one he dares not vocalize, not to her, not now. An emotion he adamantly refuses to name twines long, constricting tendrils around his heart, squeezing the bruised muscle painfully, and he recoils, in confusion. It has no place there, he decides. Curses himself for the faltering stutter of his pulse, the physical manifestation of a fleeting hope he'd carried in his heart since their 4th year. Watches that hope wither and die, to blow away like the ashes now carried off by the wind.
It is when the tension leaves her, and she relaxes in his hold that fear colder than anything he has ever known sinks its claws into his heart. Her head lolls in the crook of his arm, and when her eyes flutter shut, something shatters within him.
Or the one where Draco decides to do things differently.
Note
Hi everyone! Looks like I found a new fandom. (If you're here coming from Shadow and Bone, don't worry. I will continue Halcyon and Nocturne and Give Me Love, but Draco and Hermione have taken over my life right now. . .so)So I started rewatching the Harry Potter films recently, and randomly thought "What is all this about Dramione? Why do people ship Dramione? Should I?" Then I started reading fics and watching edits and I fell in love. And then this happened.I firmly believe Draco isn't a heartless villain and would have been capable of redemption (especially given that deleted scene). So this is my attempt to give him that. This is my very first (and only) Harry Potter fic so there's a lot I still don't know, and please be gentle with me. If I've not gotten the characters very well, I'm still getting to know them and apologize for any ooc'ness.Just to keep in mind, this fic is set right before/in the Battle of Hogwarts when it starts and other events are pretty much parallel to canon. I put canon-divergent, because well, you'll see things happen. But it's a time travel fix, so there's gonna be some wibbely wobbely stuff going on. Hope you enjoy!P.s. Thanks to my betas! You guys are the best.P.p.s I came across this edit which very much got my inspiration going. The song just fits them so well, so it's on my playlist.