Title: Late Night Wandering
Author: SnowBlind
Rating: M
Genre: Romance..?
Status: Completed (100,000 words)
Library Category: The Restricted Section or Romance
Pairings: Draco/Hermione
Summary: Determined to find out what Draco is up to, Hermione attempts to spy under the invisibility cloak. Little does she know she is falling right into his trap.
Link: Fanfiction: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12273617/1/Late-Night-Wandering

This fic is a pretty well done take on the possibilities created by teens having access to the benign 'love potions'. The prose and grammar is pretty solid, and the plot is coherent and relatively easy to follow.

The protagonist is Draco and we get to see his rationalizations and point of view, and the fact that by the end of it he's gone bat shit crazy kinda sneaks up on you.

Spoiler

The startoff point for the story is Draco and Blaise experimentally producing a potent love potion that they started using in conjunction with the memory charm.
The flow of the story is about Hermione and Co (whose PoV is alternated with that of draco) trying to figure out whose behind the attacks in hogwarts.
To that end, Draco is immediately suspected (rightly, and for obvious reasons), but lacking proof there's no immediate way to do something about it. He drops in and out off the gang's suspicion, and actually makes an attempt to romance Hermione, to the point she's confused whether it was him or not, where before it seemed clear.

There is a decent resolution at the end, but to get to the point a series of events happen which can be summed up as 'Mystery predator(s) stalk Hogwarts, staff/students investigate.

Oh and for the record, the premise and plot is pretty dark. These are the author's ramblings on the subject:

"Warning! This is Dark Draco! LEMON! Non-Con! Don't read any further if you don't like stories that venture into these dark water. I have taken liberties with Draco and made him evil. Forgive me!"

I'd rate this fic 4 stars for interesting premise, great execution and good characterization all coming together for a coherent and self contained story.

Edit: Didn't initially want to mention too much of how the story progresses to avoid spoilers, but in retrospect all that was left was Draco drugs Hermione, so perhaps not my wisest decision.

 

So, uh, 100k words of magical daterape?

Miss me with that.

 

Not gonna rate it as literally the only plot point provided is 'Draco rapes Hermione' and that in itself isn't any kind of draw, but holy shit OP we get it. No need to hit us with the bold and italics combo.

I do find it disturbing that you find this an 'interesting premise', but to each their own.

Edit: Okay, I had a look at chapter 1. I'm not even at the rape part yet, and already we have a nice checklist of things. Let's see:

'This time she was going to catch the sneaky Slytherin'.
'Accio wand'.
Hermione is literally 'what are you, chicken'd into drinking something the person who physically attacked her offered to her.

OP, you need to find better things to read my man.
1/5 get that shit out of here.

 

When I wrote the summary at first I didn't really put in too much effort into a description of the story, which in retrospect was pretty dumb cause all that was left was xyz gets raped, so uh my bad.

As someone who's read it past the first chapter, I'd say the story is primarily charecter focused, with the main PoV being that of the defacto villain.

To the other thing, I didn't really know those things were tropes, but I also haven't been reading fanfiction that long, so I guess the more you know. Probably still would have put it here, but added a trope disclaimer.

 

They're not tropes. They're just signs of someone who's terrible at writing as they are either cringy, make zero goddamn sense, or both.

Again; find better shit to read and look for your porn elsewhere.

 

I only read the first chapter, so I will not rate it, since I haven't seen the whole thing. But right from the get go, Hermione doesn't read like Hermione at all. She is out of character. That doesn't mean the story can't be good (again, I have't read it, don't know if it is) but if you like Hermione as she was in the books, this might not be the fic for you.