You Are Not Alone [Harry Potter, Drarry, Ron/Hermione]

You Are Not Alone by Juh_Nunes

Draco dreaded going back to Hogwarts after the war. He was sure this would be his worst year yet: the school hated him, the Slytherins have abandoned him, and his dorm was overrun with Gyffindors. There was no way anything good could come out of this mess, right?

I have been sitting here the past hour and trying to re-read this fic. Why? Because I don't know what I want to say about this fic. The thing is, I want to say something and tell you about this awesome story that is really slow-build (you blink and you miss it kind of thing). But at the same time, something is going forward every second of the fic.

Yea. Draco is outcast and so is everyone else. Harry is avoiding everyone and Draco just wants to study in peace. Hermione tries to fix everything. Ron is just Draco's roommate. And there is maybe going some threesome with the gang. Maybe. At least Draco is having fun with the idea and Harry is pouting.

Somewhere there are Blaise and Pansy and Greg and all the rest Slytherin students. And maybe they are just trying to live to the next day, just like everybody else. But they survived, they are trying to get better, trying to find their way in life. Something, something, something.

And maybe this is 20 000 words of peace and studying and avoiding. Maybe this is the 8th year story where everything is just quiet and nothing happens. Maybe this is the school year that every year before this one should have been. Maybe the world is so weird for them because they are not used to the normal world.

The thing is. War changes things. War affects people. And this is the story where veterans try to merge to the world without war and maybe they are successful in that. Or maybe not. But they are trying.