What have the Marriage Law, speed dates, beauty pageants and job-shadowing house elves in common? Dramione. Hermione negotiates the freedom to choose her own partner through a series of challenges. May the odds be with her, or with him. Mature for later chapters.

Sometimes wearing a mask is a good way to learn who someone really is. Dramione Fanfiction Forum Masquerade fest entry.

When the Ministry introduces a marriage law and Harry and Ron leave to find Voldemort's Horcruxes, Hermione is left to face her final year at Hogwarts alone. With Draco Malfoy as her appointed match, it will be a miracle if they don't kill each other, unless Voldemort kills them first, that is.

Draco and Hermione find themselves in a very unfortunate situation, one where they'll be forced to trust one another with their deepest secrets. Because how does a relationship between enemies change when they have full access to each other's mind? When they discover each other's darkest secrets? And how will they be able to use it as their advantage?

"These were the people who understood her, who loved her, who would let her grow and who would stay to the very last if they could, would never willingly desert her. They were her home. She was not going to let it be taken away. Not by a Frey. Not by her brother. Not by a war. Not by her duty as a damned lady."

When Hermione embarks on a path of revenge against Ron, she doesn't expect it to give her anything but the secure knowledge that Ron had suffered some consequences for his behavior, even if he never found out. She could never have foreseen that Draco Malfoy would be exactly what she needed. But then, who knew he had a streak of such disarming sweetness, buried under all his spite.

Modern AU: Arya Stark is well known for not thinking her actions completely through. There are five actions in her life that she would never take back because they all led her to one person.

Hermione tugged at the string holding the hood onto the boy's head, gingerly pulling the fabric back to reveal his face. Lying before her, barely recognizable beyond the swelling and the blood, but still very much himself, was Draco Malfoy.

It's New Year's Eve and there's a big celebration at Hogwarts. Hermione finds herself without a date, so decides to put in an appearance, then leave. Will she end up on the receiving end of a midnight kiss after all? After DM/HG lemon