Fanfic Recommendations Go Hawaiian

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Also by cheshire_carrol is "The Anti-Heroine." Now, I'm not going to mince words -- it is absolutely a train wreck abomination of a Villain Sue, Hermione In Name Only, edgelordy sex and violence break-fic (as opposed to fix-fic) take on the setting, packed with Snape and Voldemort apologism and Dumbledore and Weasley bashing. (And the sex gets rolling by about the end of third year, so IIRC illegal to read in Canada and the EU.) At the same time, it is a thoughtful, character-driven examination of the personalities and motivations that send it hurtling further and further into the depths, and even as I despise most of the characters' decisions and the justifications they make for them, I can't help but want to continue seeing how it plays out.

Recommended only for those with strong stomachs and/or flexible morals; with warnings for child abuse, torture, murder, general criminal behaviour, underage sex and dangerous kinks, with all but the first committed by the protagonists as well as upon them. I mean it; I really mean it. Shit gets intense.

AO3 index link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8132578/navigate

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Tom gave him a long, unreadable look. "I think," he said, finally, "that Hermione and I both forget sometimes that you spent your childhood locked in a cupboard."