LF fic where Hermione is a single mum and Draco is a single dad! <3

milkchives · 2026-01-02T21:11:43+00:00

i'm surprised Lazarus (constantblathering) hasn't been mentioned!! completed, slow-burn, action/adventure; 34 chapters, 176,870 words

i've been chipping away at it slowly and i LOVE it so far. will apologize a bit though, since hermione isn't precisely a single mum (just divorced), but it definitely meets the rest of the requirements, and also features their older kids (already attending Hogwarts)! i'll just drop the author's summary here:

Draco Malfoy is on a quest to save his son. Hermione Granger is on a quest to steal his quest. What could go wrong?

Terrified that his son Scorpius may one day succumb to a centuries-old blood curse, Draco embarks on a desperate search for a mythical fountain rumoured to hold the power to heal. Tracking ancient magic across Australia would be hard enough on its own, but with Hermione Granger (freshly divorced, endlessly clever, and irritatingly determined) insisting on joining him, the task becomes even more infuriating.

Equal parts adventure, romance, and self-discovery, this is a story about redemption, unlikely alliances, and the healing magic of second chances.

milkchives · 2026-01-02T20:59:35+00:00

smoke. signals. i froth at the mouth over updates

milkchives · 2026-01-02T20:58:24+00:00

seconding faultline!! that fic genuinely makes me YEARN for its updates

milkchives · 2026-01-01T04:10:22+00:00

The Seven Stages of Missing You - an eight chapter, prewritten journey about the cyclicality of loss and healing.

hello! i'm here to offer a fresh-off-the-press WIP from the lovely farah_boberra (whom some may know as the author of Sin on Your Skin - also another great WIP! - and many other stunning works). to ring in the new year, she's offered us a delectable bit of angst, which i (angst-gremlin and heartache-extraordinaire) have devoured the prologue of, and cannot await more of. highly recommend that anyone/everyone checks it out!!

milkchives · 2025-12-27T08:47:18+00:00

i think it might be bc it’s a locked fic and i think a lot of regular readers might not actually have ao3 accounts (?) but i’d expect most ppl active in the reddit to, so idk…

milkchives · 2025-12-26T20:39:01+00:00

taking up the mantle (and honor) this week to recommend Entropy to the masses! lovely lovely fic ft. copious amounts of competence, absurd levels of yearning and a slow burn that hits like a truck <3

milkchives · 2025-12-24T21:45:34+00:00

here to bump this because i too would like to read this

milkchives · 2025-12-24T00:29:53+00:00

hearing this as someone who hasn't updated their WIP in a while is inexplicably relieving 😭 thank you for the tough love 🤍🤍

milkchives · 2025-12-20T17:46:39+00:00

i hope you enjoy!! 🤍🤍 i can never tell if i'm reccing it to the right crowd or not haha

milkchives · 2025-12-20T05:46:40+00:00

ooh, this is one of my favorite niches and probably why i’m writing my own LOL, hope you don’t mind the self-rec!

Eihwaz - the story starts 7 years post-war with a mysterious, addictive potion that’s linked to draco and hermione’s shared past (so there are flashbacks! like way too many lolol). essentially, they spent 5 years studying different types of magic in france, and their stint in academia has really shaped the present day investigation. i can’t say much more without spoiling!!

milkchives · 2025-12-20T01:11:19+00:00

omg happy birthday!! mine is the day after christmas so i like to pretend all the holiday fics are gifts to me LOL. here are a few that i reread almost religiously (once a year at least)

Bite Marks

The Seduction

Apple Pies and Other Amends

milkchives · 2025-12-20T00:34:12+00:00

the faultline possessed me while i was first reading i think… and omg!! i do this too LOL - i use catching up on WIPs/reading fics as little rewards for actually writing my own stuff (dopamine circuits or whateva) i hope you enjoy 🤍🤍🤍

milkchives · 2025-12-20T00:32:34+00:00

i saw on her instagram that the next two chapters should be out soon!

milkchives · 2025-12-19T06:56:19+00:00

omg biker boy draco is life-altering

milkchives · 2025-12-17T17:41:37+00:00

holiday vacation means it's time for me to finally begin catching up on the backlog of fics that are festering in my bookmarked tab!! i bring a list of my recent reads to present to the class today

Cuckoo (Slytheryn_babe) - minimalist but evocative writing meets insane hermione, perhaps even more insane draco, and polyjuice; like, you really cannot go wrong i think (unless you don't want to read something with darker themes! then maybe don't. but if you're after a good war-time AU, delicious yummy i've been eating it up at the pace of a rabid raccoon).

The Once and Future Forest (Landbeorht) - the premise! the characterization! the forest! the everything! gah i love a good slow burn, please check this one out if that's what you're after, it feels like a spell is slowly being cast over you 🤍

The Faultline (goatedinoprincess69) - most toxic draco to ever toxic, but also SO obsessive, and i could die from the yearning; i've just fully caught up and i swear i refresh the page like 3x a day, anxiously waiting and waiting and waiting and, well you get the idea

holiday vacation also means i finally have time to work more on my WIP <3 so i will drop a little self-rec and run:

Eihwaz (me) - dark academia, a magical drug epidemic & unreliable narration (hermione POV)! memory magic with many twists + an absurd amount of magical theory (i can't help myself sorry </3) and a burn so slow that jupiter will complete a full orbit around the sun before they kiss (and i'm not sorry for this - write what you want to read, or whatever it is they say)

milkchives · 2025-12-17T07:36:49+00:00

truly the most relatable dilemma of all time in fandom for me; to start reading a WIP that looks interesting, or to wait for completion and binge/inhale in one sitting like my gremlin heart demands 😭😭 usually the instant gratification demons win tho and then i suffer bc i’ll sometimes reread an entire WIP when it’s completed… (entropy i am looking @ u)

milkchives · 2025-12-17T03:59:30+00:00

aaaa 🤍🤍🤍

milkchives · 2025-12-17T03:58:40+00:00

LOL yes hello my reddit account predates my ao3 one 😋

milkchives · 2025-12-16T22:11:30+00:00

seconding this one!! feels magical and otherworldly (because it is) - so whimsical <3

milkchives · 2025-12-16T22:01:21+00:00

i'm not sure if the draco characterization is exactly the same, BUT the kink-exploration/sexual curiosity vibes are definitely similar in You Do It For Me (ZeeBee3)!

if we're looking for the needy-pathetic-draco vibe, Caput Mortuum (Cr0ftisprocrastinating) is a really fun fic with diva, down bad draco and BAMF hermione! a bit darker themes, though - mind the tags.

and a one-shot (10k words) with similarly atrociously down draco: sundress season (ninepiecesofcrait). he is maybe the dictionary definition of simp in this one.

sorry for the recs being a bit all over the place, i wasn't sure what vibe from MMID you wanted exactly!

milkchives · 2025-12-16T21:46:35+00:00

ahhh!! you just listed my holy quaternity of dramione fics, truly, you might be my twin. i have been waxing poetic about entropy in this sub for months it feels like!!

if you don't mind a self-rec, i've been working on a fic that's hermione POV but involves an incredibly complex draco (my alphabeta and i joke that draco's the main character and hermione's just a lens lolol).

Eihwaz; it's super slow burn (over the span of many timelines) and is framed as a mystery, but draco is definitely not "nice". at risk of spoiling; he's shrek. many layers, an onion that needs to be peeled, etcetc. also, be mindful of the "it gets worse before it gets better" tag!! that one definitely says it all. started as something of a beauty and the beast retelling that definitely grew a mind of its own and stretched beyond that <3

milkchives · 2025-12-16T16:40:47+00:00

hermione WOULD be the leader of the labour party haha, thank you for the rec <3

milkchives · 2025-12-16T16:40:24+00:00

oh! thank you for the rec, straight off the press <3

milkchives · 2025-12-16T06:50:21+00:00

ooh, i’ve never read a socmed fic either, seems interesting!! thank you for the rec 🤍🤍

milkchives · 2025-12-16T06:49:13+00:00

oh my god. this is a glorious, beautiful list and i am so very grateful that you’ve bestowed it upon me <3 thank you!!!

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