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Succumbing by Brookeends, thebreathbefore (Brookeends)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
16 Feb 2026
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A dark, devastating tale of salvation and damnation to explain how Nagini came to faithfully serve the darkest wizard of all time after bringing about the fall of his predecessor decades prior.
A villain origin story chronicling the pair's descent from strangers to a fate worse than death. One where Tom Riddle and Nagini wrought their own destruction, allowing the story of canon Harry Potter to rise from its ashes.
In canon, after his failed attempt to kill baby Harry Potter left him as a wisp of soul, Tom Riddle fled to the forests of Albania. There he encountered Nagini, a Maledictus whose cursed blood transformed her into a serpent, just as he had been reduced to something less than human.
But what if that wasn't their first meeting? What if finding the snake-shifter in the same woods Tom found Ravenclaw's Lost Diadem was not fate, but their plan... four decades in the making?
A love story that was always destined to be a horror story, where devotion itself becomes monstrous, and getting their deepest desires proves to be the ultimate curse.
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Mission Accomplished by charingfae, ETL_Echo_Audiobooks, Ivmaruva, thebreathbefore (Brookeends)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Sep 2025
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The worst part of being on assignment with Malfoy isn't guarding Neville, living in a tent for two weeks, or traipsing through dense Scottish forest. It's that Malfoy’s an incorrigible flirt intent on driving her barmy.
So Hermione does what any good partner would do.
She flirts back.
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He grabs the sleek leather straps of her wand holster. A faint brush of knuckles along the swell of her breasts makes her breath hitch. Did he just—?
He clears his throat. “Sorry.”
Is it her imagination, or is his voice more gravelly than usual?
He pulls on her straps and tugs with all his strength. “There,” he rasps. “Nice and tight.”
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Succumbing by thebreathbefore- A French Translation by Laemiana by thebreathbefore (Brookeends)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Mar 2025
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Original Story: Succumbing by thebreathbefore
Succumbing by thebreathbefore: A Tom Riddle x Nagini Story
Translated to French by Laemiana
Merci à laemiana pour la traduction française ! la fic originale est répertoriée ci-dessous, avec les chapitres suivants mis à jour en français au fur et à mesure qu'ils sont terminés.
Résumé :
Une histoire sombre et dévastatrice d'amour, de désir et d'obsession, pour expliquer comment Nagini en est venu à servir aussi fidèlement le sorcier le plus sombre de tous les temps, après avoir provoqué la chute de son prédécesseur des décennies auparavant.
Une histoire tragique sur la façon dont Tom Jedusor et Nagini sont devenus le duo inséparable qu’on voit dans Harry Potter.
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God's Favourite {A Succumbing Oneshot} by thebreathbefore (Brookeends)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Dec 2024
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Succumbing (A Tom Riddle x Nagini Origin Story) Chapter 10 to give you all a taste of the Tom Riddle x Nagini dynamic before committing to the behemoth that is Succumbing.
1948 Knights of Walpurgis Era. Enjoy the familiar faces/surnames of the ancestors of our faves ;)
Nagini agreed to join Tom Riddle back in Wizarding London, with the stipulation that he help her find a cure for the curse ravaging her blood. Her time was running out, soon she would become a snake in totality. Riddle was young and power hungry, seeming to have friends in the high places that could hopefully help her.
His storm-cloud eyes and silver tongue had absolutely no impact on her decision...
Though their chemistry appeared undeniable, Nagini's motivations were pure. But were Tom's?
Tom's closest friends, the Malfoys, offered to host them during her open-ended stay, so Nagini needed to learn to adapt in the intoxicating world of the Sacred Twenty-Eight.
Seline Malfoy throws Nagini a welcome party worthy of a Malfoy Manor celebration, but Tom seems to have his own plans for her...
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The Succumbing Universe: A Tom Riddle x Nagini Origin Story by Brookeends, thebreathbefore (Brookeends)
Fandom Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Feb 2026
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ETL Echo's September to Remember Fest 2025 by Beatificbean, charingfae, Crymsy, dracodormiensss, elliemess, emeraldsinthedark, ETL_Echo_Audiobooks, Ivmaruva, JocundaSykes, karma_cookie, LucyHyde, Molivier, MWard01, orolin, saintmlfy, SilverDragonGemini, teetorini, thebreathbefore (Brookeends), TiffyTea, Wanderingfair, wilfriede0815, Zeebee3
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Sep 2025
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The Scavenger Hunt by emeraldsinthedark
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
14 May 2024
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“Parvati Patil and Seamus Finnegan.” Both Parvati and Seamus smiled at each other widely and walked up, leaving just three more students. Hermione scanned the room: Ernie MacMillan, Luna Lovegood, and Draco Malfoy.
Please don't be Malfoy,
Please don't be Malfoy, she begged internally.“Ernest MacMillan and Luna Lovegood,”
Fuck, fucking fuck.
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Hermione wants nothing more than to never see Hogwarts again but as she tries to move forward with her life, the mandatory return of all 8th-year students and the announcement of the year-long Unity Project, called the Scavenger Hunt, adds more weight to her already full mental load. To make matters worse, she's paired with her worst enemy, Draco Malfoy.As the year progresses, unlikely partners face challenges together in various Scavenger Hunts, testing their teamwork, resilience, and eventual understanding.
Will the Wizarding World heal or will these Gryffindor/ Slytherin duos tear each other apart?
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17 Feb 2025
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Burned Hands and Dragon Tears by HeavenlyDew
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom
28 Dec 2025
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Following a chance encounter in Knockturn Alley, Hermione begins exchanging letters with the last person she ever expected to befriend: Draco Malfoy. Back-and-forth they go, trading insults and stories. While Hermione convinces herself that she's only trying to reform a misguided Death Eater, the truth is much fuzzier.
And Draco is already engaged.
To add to their impossibilities, Hermione is 1,388 miles away from Wiltshire, spending a year abroad in Romania at a Dragonology fellowship with Charlie Weasley. As the seasons change, Hermione becomes increasingly torn between her head and her heart. Falling in love through letters, yet finding freedom abroad.
Or: A post-war love triangle themed around letter writing, dragon riding, and an inescapable soulmates prophecy.
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- Part 2 of Dissonant Lifetimes
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23 Dec 2024
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On the Virtues of Inexhaustible Burning by PacificRimbaud
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Dec 2022
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In which Draco Malfoy wrestles geology and Hermione receives several gifts.
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05 Apr 2024
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Pansy Parkinson wakes in St. Mungo's unable to remember something important.
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05 Apr 2024
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Hermione Granger has a career she loves, friends she can depend on, and a nice set of hand towels for her new flat.
She's single and tired of tiresome men, but that doesn't stop her from wearing beautiful lingerie underneath her serious Ministry skirts.
Or having pictures taken in naughty knickers.
Just once.
For herself.Draco Malfoy doesn't get upset at the sight of blood, which is good, because he sees a lot of it.
What he doesn't see a lot of is Hermione Granger in her unmentionables.
Usually.A series of meetings and mix-ups in which one cannot possibly mean done.
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- Part 1 of Workplace Shenanigans
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05 Apr 2024