Memory Loss
A collection of works I've read that predominately feature: memory loss, unreliable memory, forgetting, amnesia, Obliviate spell/Obliviation.
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Sixteen years ago, Hermione Granger removed herself from Draco Malfoy's memory. She never expected to see him again.
If he hadn't kept journals of their time together, she might have been right.
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“Hello, Kit.”
Her intuition and Sneakascope had both failed her. The deep voice that reverberated around her office wasn’t that of an administrator. And it called her a name she hadn’t heard in 16 years.
One that heralded danger.
She didn’t turn. Couldn’t turn. There was no way her eyes could confirm what her brain already knew. Besides, she’d already been bled, vomited and sweated on; she didn’t need to add her own tears to the mix.
“So it’s true then?” the voice continued, “Curious.”
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- Part 1 of Before & Then
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 68,152
- Chapters:
- 22/22
- Comments:
- 1,278
- Kudos:
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- Bookmarks:
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Bookmarked by Strix_asio
28 Aug 2025
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Everyone Will Hate This
megalle
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65697271keywords — Harry Potter | DMHG, second-chance love, misery loves company
pass
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Tagged: Infidelity, hurt people hurt people, I hate writing happy people, You Have Been Warned
Nooope, not for me.
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After 15 years of marriage, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy have accepted that they'll never have children. It is something they've learned to live with and accept. In the fall of 2017, shortly after Hermione's 38th birthday, she begins to experience lapses in her memory of small things. Misplacing her wand, remembering an appointment, and other small things.
Not wanting to concern her husband, she decides against telling him. One night, however, during one of Hermione's sleepwalking episodes, Draco finds her believing that Hermione had gone to bed feeling ill. When Draco approaches her, Hermione doesn't recognize him and attacks, fearful of her safety. After this, Draco insists they meet with a renowned mind healer, Theodore Nott. At this time, they discover, against all odds, that Hermione has become pregnant. The only problem? Draco's Aunt Bellatrix carved a curse in Hermione's arm to cause her to slowly lose her mind if she ever tried to continue her dirty bloodline. In the depths of their despair, the married couple lean on Theo for comfort, and Theo finds himself slowly falling for them both.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,474
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 25
- Kudos:
- 114
- Bookmarks:
- 35
- Hits:
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Bookmarked by Strix_asio
17 Sep 2024
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Derangement
SarahFraser
https://archiveofourown.org/works/45082426keywords — Harry Potter | DMHG+TN, traumatic pregnancy, cursed memory issues, tragedy
acceptable
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Bellatrix's curse reactivates when HG becomes pregnant, eventually killing her. DM and TN form a triad with her, work together to raise Lyra. Liked the writing style. Was the kitten thing ever explained?
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When Draco falls for Hermione in sixth year, he experiences happiness for the first time…Until Snape takes it all from him in a brutal memory wipe.
Can love survive the complete loss of identity?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 124,782
- Chapters:
- 51/51
- Comments:
- 257
- Kudos:
- 815
- Bookmarks:
- 406
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22 Dec 2025
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The Blood-Traitor Prince
L_S_Turner
https://archiveofourown.org/works/59221603keywords — Harry Potter | DMHG
pass
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3090 em dashes, 3148 ellipses in 124k words, all-cap sentences for emphasis, so many italics.
Story quote
What? She hunched over, reeling, her arms wrapping around her knees.
Her neck burned from where his lips had just… the way he had…
It was unlike anything she’d felt before— experienced… before.
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Public Bookmark 7556
Mystery Work
Part of Damaged Goods
Summary
This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
Bookmarked by Strix_asio
06 Oct 2024
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Damaged Goods
slytherin_after_dark
https://archiveofourown.org/works/46351063keywords — Harry Potter | DMHG, dramatic sex hijinks, background misogyny, evil Ministry, ya-novel vibes
dnf minus
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HG and DM have an impromptu quickie, and RW, the recent secret ex, of course notices this immediately. Rumors on HG's promiscuity fly throughout Hogwarts, she's sexually assaulted over her presumed availability and nearly expelled but instead just kicked out of Gryffindor, and there is much angst on whether DM or RW blabbed.
(It was RW of course, but he didn't really mean to wreck HG's life. He only told one person, okay except HP one other person, the gossip, under one painting, also a gossip, and only because he wasn't thinking because he was upset.)
(Super low opinion of MM here, and the bit about HG being thrown out of Gryffindor for defending herself from assault didn't seem like a very grounded action within this worldbuilding, more like an author's pet to force HG to re-sort to Slytherin. (Remember how JKR didn't even hand out detentions following HP nearly killing DM? Or FW+GW imprisoning Montague, causing him to be so injured he was pulled from school for a time, didn't even get a stern talking-to?) It would have been so easy to bypass all of this by just having incoming adult students re-sort from the jump, but then there wouldn't be all this juicy drama.)
Eventually, HG gets amnesia which reverts her to thinking she's still in love with Ron.
Meanwhile, the Ministry is experimenting on Death Eaters and DM is slowly becoming a squib due to runes carved into him.
Snape lives and even survives to the epilogue, where DM and HG have a daughter, Celeste.
Reading notes/spoilers
DNF in Chapter 3, HG dramatically quitting these vague higher education courses, but skimmed a bit to see how things resolved. The AU setting has the main cast aged-up to their mid-twenties and everyone's still at Hogwarts due to pursuing this higher education (with the same secondary teachers, who all have the credentials and time and space to handle university-level teaching, on top of their actual jobs?), but the school drama felt very on-brand for early high school. I feel like the author framed much of the early angst as a way to develop strong statements about slut shaming, but I was left just really unimpressed with everyone's behaviors and reactions here.
The tags in this one include Ron bashing, and he did say very crude and cruel things to HG, but he was mostly just a selfish idiot and the plot generally gives him a pass. He gave HG a general apology (off-page) during the amnesiac phase which made her immediately forgive him for everything.
If you like the smut scenes in Chapter 1, you'll probably click well with this work.
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Hermione Granger cannot remember. Severus Snape cannot forget.
Bookmarked by Strix_asio
09 May 2025
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Her Fugue, His Lie, and Their Story
LittleFics
https://archiveofourown.org/works/65375767
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12110382/1/Her-Fugue-His-Lie-and-Their-Storykeywords — Harry Potter | SSHG, romantic tragedy, shelter in the loving arms of the patriarchy
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AO3 summary (revised 2025)
Hermione Granger cannot remember. Severus Snape cannot forget.
FFN summary (original 2019)
Hermione Granger can't remember and Severus Snape can't forget.
Summary/spoilers
Untagged HGRW endgame.
SS leaves and hands HG to RW. Sixty years later, RW has died and SS is open to maybe reconnecting. The end.
Reading notes/spoilers
It's a very well-written exploration of grief and the healing process, but it's also an exercise on how the canon Hermione and Ron relationship is the 'proper' relationship, and I found the ending depressing.
Notes moved offsite due to length.