Isolation

***Isolation*** is a non-crossover Dramione fanfic by Bex-chan available at FanFiction.net. It is rated **Mature** (although several scenes seem to be borderline **Explicit**), contains more than 250,000 words and was published between 2010 and 2020. It is set in an alternate version of the seventh year, where McGonagall kept the post as Headmistress throughout the 1997 fall term and Hermione stayed in Hogwarts to do research instead of joining Harry and Ron on the horcrux hunt.

*Isolation* has been translated into several languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Slovak and Spanish.

## Plot summary

In order to save Draco from Voldemort's wrath, Snape hides him in the only reasonably safe place he can find: Hogwarts. Of course, he can't be allowed to mingle with the other students and the professors are all too busy to keep an eye on him, but Hermione, who is Head Girl, reluctantly accepts the charge as part of her work for the Order. Thus he is confined to the Head Boy room of Gryffindor, sharing a bathroom, sitting room and kitchenette with her, and over several months they get to know one another and eventually develop deeper feelings.

Early in February the school is attacked and all muggleborn students are evacuated. Hermione, after staying some time with Tonks, eventually joins Harry and Ron, while Draco is sent to his aunt Andromeda. She has been housing a group of Slytherin students who have cut ties with Voldemort and their families – among others Blaise Zabini, who is now dating Luna. Hermione, Harry and Ron are caught by snatchers and brought to Malfoy Manor, where she is tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange and Narcissa Malfoy discovers her relationship with Draco through legilimency, but they and the other prisoners are eventually sprung free and she and Draco are reunited for a while. Ultimately, though, the horcrux hunt must continue and the animosity between her friends and Draco is too strong to let him join them.

Sitting in a safe house with nothing to do except listening to Potterwatch listing people who have been killed and hoping their girlfriends aren't among them does not sit well with Draco and Blaise, so when Tonks unexpectedly shows up to drop off Teddy before joining Remus at Hogwarts, they demand to be allowed to go as well, and in the end all the "Enlightened" Slytherin students join in the defence of their school. The actual battle is not fundamentally different than in canon, except that since it is told from the points of view of Hermione and Draco, Harry's sacrifice is not shown. The differences are in the details; for example no fiendfyre is released. Theodore Nott kills his father, but is killed in turn by Lucius Malfoy. Draco saves the life of Fred Weasley, but is quite devastated by the loss of his cousin Tonks, whom he's just recently got to know, and especially of his childhood friend Theo. However, in the end he does not kill his father in revenge when he gets the chance, preferring to taunt him and break his wand, but when Lucius then tries to apparate away he fatally splices himself in two. Narcissa joins Molly Weasley in dueling Bellatrix, and it is impossible to tell who shot off the killing curse ending it. But ultimately it ends the same way, and there is even an epilogue set eleven years later detailing the future lives and children of the main characters.

## Characters

### Main characters

* Hermione Granger
* Draco Malfoy

### Minor characters

* Luna Lovegood
* Minerva McGonagall
* Theodore Nott
* Harry Potter
* Andromeda Tonks
* Nymphadora Tonks
* Ginny Weasley
* Ron Weasley
* Blaise Zabini

### Non-canonical characters mentioned

* Virginia Fairhart
* Lewis Gibson
* Matthew Greenweed
* Grace Hartwood
* Samantha Jones
* Taura Malfoy
* Theo Malfoy
* Dominic McGrath
* Joanne Preston
* Annabelle Snowbloom
* Timothy Stephenson
* Eleanor Weasley
* Hugo Weasley
* Jonah Weasley
* Lila Weasley
* Maisie Weasley
* Maximus Weasley
* Milo Weasley
* Nova Zabini

## Other non-canonical elements

### Places

* Bryn Glas, wizarding school in Wales
* A Malfoy holiday home in Blashford
* A Malfoy property on Guernsey

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1
2. ↑ Chapter 2
3. ↑ Chapter 24
4. ↑ Chapter 28
5. ↑ Chapter 25
6. ↑ Chapter 26
7. ↑ Chapter 27
8. ↑ Chapter 31
9. ↑ Chapter 32
10. ↑ Chapter 38
11. ↑ Chapter 40
12. ↑ Chapter 42
13. ↑ Chapter 43
14. ↑ Chapter 44
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 Chapter 46
16. ↑ Chapter 48
17. ↑ Chapter 47
18. ↑ Chapter 49