Manacled

"This book ripped my heart out and stomped on it so many times. It was dark and full of gore but I loved every minute of it. I wasn’t a dramoine fan before but this surely convinced me otherwise. I just needed MORE AFTER"

"This is the deathly hollows epilogue I never knew I needed! I don’t even know where to begin, “dramione” was never even an INKLING of a thing in my mind all those years back when I finished the series. And then this FanFiction came out of nowhere and swept me off my feet. I could not stop thinking about this and the more I read the more obsessed I became. SenLinYu is a genius at writing, granted there are the average mistakes of what feels was an “unedited book” which would kind of break my focus but overall this was amazing. The ingenuity of the story, the plot, the twists that NEVER STOPPED, the spice (check your trigger warnings bookworms)! I also really enjoyed that for once the happy ending wasn’t focused on Harry Potter, but on what was considered supporting characters in the story. "

"First and foremost, make sure to check the TWs on this. I was expecting this to be very dark and while it’s not as bad as I imagined, there is definitely some disturbing imagery. Secondly, this story blew my mind. It’s the Harry Potter “what if” I never knew I needed. Officially obsessed with “Dramione”. If you’re interested in this fanfiction I suggest reading it soon, the author is being published and is having to remove all HP references. "

"This read definitely isn’t for everyone, it covers a lot of really dark topics that could be triggering for some people. That said, I really really enjoyed this book after I got through some of the more gruesome chapters. The writing was amazing and I cried multiple times throughout. This read definitely destroyed me! I’m not sure I’ll ever forget this fic, it just has a vicious grip on your mind and heart after finishing."

"⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 (4.75/5) This story will haunt me, possibly forever. It’s shocking to sit here feeling so strongly about a Dramione fanfiction. This isn’t your run of the mill Fifty Shades/After fanfiction written without guts and emotion. Manacled will break you and rebuild you in ways you never thought it could. This book is very dark, has several depictions of violent scenes, and is set in a bleak universe. Bad things happen to the main characters, at each other’s hands, and often. But, I implore anyone on the fence to please give this story a shot if you want a story about hope, and survival, and a desperate love that will break your heart. Draco is a very true morally grey MMC, and Hermione’s background and role incites gut wrenching emotion. These two were broken down, whittled to the bone, before they learned to rebuild each other with kindness and love. If you loved (TOG SPOILER) Aelin’s and Rowan’s love story, you will love Hermione’s and Draco’s. The first part of this book wounded me, the second part broke me, and the last part sealed me up - pain and all. I only deducted .25 stars because this is still a fanfiction, and while written excellently for being one, there is a lot of telling not showing, a lot of repetitive phrases (thin, bitter, sob), and I didn’t always connect with Hermione’s thoughts and actions. But, this story is still written 10x better than some published books I’ve read. I’m glad Draco and Hermione have their HEA. I hope they continue to be at peace in our hearts <3"

"It was as good as they all said "

"Hopefully this is the right manacled. But pretty good. Pretty traumatizing. I haven’t read fanfiction since I was in highschool. So I was glad to find out that I still can thoroughly enjoy it if it’s written well enough. By SenLinYu I believe. Set in an alternate reality where Voldemort won and the order is dead. Draminone meets handmaiden’s tale. Read the trigger warnings please! "

"✨ Spoilers✨<br/><br/>This is something the author wrote online about the ending… <br/><br/>“The idea of ending the story with the line, “She was a non-active member of the Order of the Phoenix and did not fight,” was something that occurred to me in June of 2018, which was when I was about 10 chapters into publishing Manacled. But I didn’t write it down until I got to that epilogue. I felt like I couldn't put the words down until I got there, that I had to earn it in some weird way. Which resulted in my having nightmares about being hit by a car or something and losing my memory.<br/><br/>I always planned for Hermione and Draco not to have their story known, that they would choose peace and safety rather than try to live through the endless battle of trying to legitimize their wartime choices. They’d already given so much of themselves to fighting for other people and for each other, I very much believed that a true happy ending to them was finally being allowed to have something good without having to constantly defend and struggle to keep it. <br/><br/>But the decision to end on the explicit note of Hermione’s wartime contributions being erased was something that occurred to me more gradually. ✨✨Manacled isn’t supposed to be a comfortable story. I didn’t want people to ever be comfortable with it. I wanted readers to be angry at the end of it, even if that meant that they were angry at me, because its not the kind of story that a happy ending should be allowed to paper over. There were horrible things that happened, that the characters did, that they will never fully move on from, events that have ripple effects the way that all wars do. ✨✨<br/><br/>I’m two generations removed from WWII, but the trauma of it affected my parents, and by extension profoundly impacted my life and has informed my decisions and my parenting as a result. And compared to what happened to Draco and Hermione, what root trauma is almost nothing. <br/><br/>I didn't really feel like it was appropriate to end a story like Manacled like it was a wholly happy ending. “ -Sin Lin Yu <br/><br/>The ✨✨ is a perfect way to explain why it needed to end the way it did. <br/><br/>This book is all I could think about for days"

"literally a masterpiece. stayed up over 24 hours to finish it. hermione in this is so cool."

"Absolutely incredible there were times where I was in genuine shock and had to stop. 10/10 go read it. "