Category: Harry Potter
Rating: T
Language: English
Characters: Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger
Genre: Drama/Romance
Summary: Seven years of war has taken its toll. When her childhood nemesis offers her a way to end the war, Hermione takes it without a second thought, even if his way out doesn't necessarily mean a happy ending.
Shadows of Ourselves is my magnum opus of Harry Potter fanfiction. The first chapter went live on April 3, 2006, more than five years ago. Though it was canon when I started writing, it has since become AU (Alternate Universe) after the release of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," so I suppose it can be considered canon up to Harry Potter 6.
Shadows takes place seven years after the trio graduate from Hogwarts. The United Kingdom has been abandoned by wizards and Muggles alike, but what is left of the Order remains holed up in Grimmauld Place, a bitter, exhausted and jaded handful of survivors.
A strange, skeleton society has sprung up, revolving solely around Voldemort. It observes a rigid system of patronage and hierarchy as those few who could not leave England cling to the hope of climbing the new social order. At the top rules Voldemort's aging inner circle, his faithful Death Eaters, who dole out favors to the "underlings," the rest of the hangers-on not branded with the Dark Mark. Only one person has been given the Dark Mark since Voldemort fell from power more than 20 years ago, and that person also bears the strange distinction of being inducted into the Order.
Draco Malfoy is the Order's double agent. Branded at age 16, he sought out and joined the Order two years later and has been informing them of Voldemort's movements ever since. Though the Order remains guarded and suspicious of Malfoy's ulterior motives — and not a little of the childhood animosity thrives between him and our three favorite heroes — they have more or less accepted him as one of them ... until he proposes something that throws the Order into turmoil and threatens to break the already tenuous bonds holding them together.
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