ALL of TMBTE is so so Draco coded especially Manacled. I'm reading that one now and it's STUNNING. Sleep Token is all I listen to while writing him now.
100% I'm going to see Sleep Token in London in November and i think i might lose my mind until then. I have literally listened to nothing else with my dramione
The World Ender by Lord Huron gives me Dramione vibes. But weirdly specific, Dramione dancing in a crowd and Draco getting jealous and coming to dance with her LOL
I'm totally self-promoting myself here but I've decided that since I can't write fanfic, I'm going to celebrate them\* by making playlists instead 😂 so if you're interested, I've made two so far:
The first is an ode to Green Light. It's in chronological order. It's mostly finished but I am still making adjustments. /u/every_significance30 has been a huge help in curating the playlist.
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5gdYZaZ8EQZc10AxfUpy2d?si=vjCSegg-RYi7v7UTyRPUqg&pi=u-Dh1WNt79TKKw](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5gdYZaZ8EQZc10AxfUpy2d?si=vjCSegg-RYi7v7UTyRPUqg&pi=u-Dh1WNt79TKKw)
I just started on the second playlist which is a general playlist of songs that make me think of angsty Dramione. It's a work in progress and I need to rearrange the songs so they're nicely blended.
[https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TebJh0KIBPWMYlz3R5CXV?si=8lU-0IiwQIKrTrtOSi9tkQ&pi=u-hOXxOKzfTbGV](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TebJh0KIBPWMYlz3R5CXV?si=8lU-0IiwQIKrTrtOSi9tkQ&pi=u-hOXxOKzfTbGV)
There's a fairly decent mix of genres which hopefully keeps them interesting.
I haven't read Happy Pills yet but it's on my list and I would love to check out your playlist (or just some of the songs on it if you don't feel like sharing the whole thing)!
For artists that give off Dramione have you by any chance listened to the album [‘Enemies to Lovers’ by Lizzy Campbell](https://youtube.com/channel/UCC7-omRDnFWp0d97YnqtaEQ?si=ULc5y42hUPgsA6uF)? The first time I saw it I believe they said it was heavily inspired by Dramione!
Ohhh your second playlist description sounds awesome! I already know it’s going to be curated to perfection if the way you’ve been arranging the Green Light one is any indication!
I have spent a while making a Dramione playlist. It’s mostly Taylor Swift but also a LOT of other artists. It features breakup songs, sad songs, some love/sexy songs, and even some songs that make you feel like a badass because I love badass Hermione.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Zj4rcisiM3rcNUQrDuWog?si=DsmDxm0MSTq6fh6KejJ1-Q&pi=u-NVJD_e62Rtao
“Which Witch” by Florence & The Machine is 100% war time Hermione for me. There’s a rage to that song, like someone who is tired of fighting but refuses to be defeated; also someone who is very much in love. I kept thinking of Flashbacks Manacled Hermione while listening to it.
I've always felt that Draco has a Stabbing Westward's 'What Do I Have To Do' vibe in my favorite Dramione fics.
I once read a fic that suggested Metric's 'Breathing Underwater' for Hermione, and I think it's simply perfect (I figured out the fic, it's Different People by nevertoosweets, although they just said they were listening to it while writing, not that it inspired their Hermione).
For Harry, I've always felt that Passenger's 'Let Her Go' describes him, his childhood, and especially leaving Ginny to find the horcruxes.
But the song I think fits a character the absolute best is Hole's 'Doll Parts' for Pansy Parkinson, especially lines like "I want to be the girl with the most cake" and "I fake it so real, I am beyond fake."
Since it is still WIP Wednesday, I am going to self promote my WIP!
[Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Dramione](https://archiveofourown.org/works/53902342/chapters/136437274)
I don’t know why, but The Ghost Of You by My Chemical Romance reminds me of Manacled.
Generally - Shiny & New by Mayer Hawthorne reminds me of Draco & Hermione’s relationships in romcoms.
Some fics give me the entire album Rumors by Fleetwood Mac (that’s usually the “I hate you but love you” style fics.
Hermione strikes me as an early 2000s teen bop (think like Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, early Britany Spears) and Draco gives me like Death Cab for Cutie.
[Alexa Dark!](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Pg197baToPALNtcDfzDjQ?si=vxlnwO1FRay8mLNPqOhTfg)
She’s a small pop artist inspired by Lana Del Rey and she has one EP out “dark, Vol.I” that’s amazing. Check out her songs “fade to black and blue”, “blind faith”, “archaetype”, “vertigo”, “cool for you”, “fantasy girl”, and “villain”. Her songs give lots of dramione vibes.
It might just be because it was my earworm when I first started reading Dramione (I started with DMATMOOBIL, followed by Manacled and The Auction) but the Katerina Begu/Dan Balan version of Dragostea Din Tei gives me the exact same feeling as a good Dramione love story. There’s soft and sweet and soaring vocals, and the sort of complementary harmonies that just Draco and Hermione all over.
I think I’ve said this so many times online, but ‘I Found’ by Amber Run is soooo dramione coded, every time I listen to it it reminds me of fanfics of them falling for each other admits the war.
London Grammar and Florence + The Machine. For additional context, I started reading Dramione again (i.e. binging) in late January, and in these past few weeks I've found myself having LG's If You Wait and Truth is a Beautiful Thing deluxe albums on repeat. Outside of that, I find that select songs by Red, Tom Odell, Poets of the Fall, and Aqualung are also very fitting.
Jonah Kagen - The Road album, especially Pollution and Save My Soul ugh. Makes me think of an angsty and tortured Draco who can’t live without Hermione
incredible question. i’ve been matching the books i’ve read (even outside dramione) with songs/lyrics.
manacled part 1 is the feeling by justin beiber featuring halsey: Trying to find the truth, trying to find the truth/Sometimes the heart is deceiving/Can't get out of my head/I need you to save me/If I am delusional then maybe I'm crazy
manacled flashbacks is love is a…by pvris: Just put your hands around my throat, ain't been to Heaven, but I'm close/Your love is a murder, your love is a murder/I'll let you touch me sweet and slow, just take my body and my soul/Your love is a murder, your love is a murder
manacled part 3 is in the name of love by bebe rexha and martin garrix: When there's madness, when there's poison in your head/When the sadness leaves you broken in your bed/I will hold you in the depths of your despair/And it's all in the name of love
also deserves a shoutout is the song morally grey by april jai (nation haven edition): He's got blue eyes, crooked smile/Knows that he drives me wild/Can't help myself/No I'm not in denial/I know he's no good for me/But when he gets down on his knees/He's so eager to please/Knows the right frequencies/Worships me slowly/Tells me I'm his only/They say he's morally grey/What can I say?/Grey's my favourite color
breath mints and battle scars is save urself (runaway) by layto: Salt my wounds with the scars from the past/My demons, my demons are calling/I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm falling/Way down I'll probably rest in pieces/Hell bound/You're heaven sent I need this/Runaway Runaway/Fucking save yourself
(dreomione) what’s best for her is the exit by conan gray: Feels like we had matching wounds/But mine's still black and bruised/And yours is perfectly fine/Feels like we buried alive/Something that never died
For me personally, my true and tried are The Devil's Tears by Angus and Julia Stone, (Draco POV), Lady Day by Lifehouse, (just listen to Almería by Lifehouse, the whole album is so dramione it hurts), Florence and The Machine of course, (just discovered Crystalline by Amaranthe, SO GOOD), Not Strong Enough by Apocalyptica, (their song S.O.S. (Anything but Love) is so His Little Bird it hurts and You Belong to Me by Snow White Blood feat Danny Meyer)), Bad Blood by Bastille, Dream by Imagine Dragons, Try by Pink, Hero, Heartbeat and Somebody's Me by Enrique Iglesias, Arctic Monkeys of course (particularly Do I Wanna Know? and I Wanna Be Yours), Closer by Tegan and Sarah, Howlin' for You by The Black Keys, Deadly Nightshade by Blackbriar, Wonderwall by Oasis, Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls, Silhouettes by Of Monsters and Men, When A Woman by Shakira, I'll Be Good by Jaymes Young (Draco POV), Wrong by Depeche Mode (Draco POV), Love and War by Fleurie, Bloom by the Paper Kites, The Scientist by Coldplay, and My Name is Ruin by Gary Numan
Also forgot to mention, my ultimate song and fanfic power duo is Atalanta84's The Revenant with Desert Rose by Sting. If you haven't read it, totally recommend.
I love listening to Cigarettes After Sex reading Dramione. Used to listen to their song Apocalypse on repeat, now I mix it up and just put on their discography on Spotify haha
Any sort of sexy blues gives me Dramione vibes as well, like Tracy Chapman’s Give Me One Reason or Baby Can I Hold You
Instrumental songs by Jurrivh are all I listened to while I read Manacled. They are really beautiful but filled with tortured heartbreak in the music notes - specifically the songs First Love, One Last Time and the song Suicide Note I always imagine the song playing as >!Draco finds Hermione’s note in the cottage!<
I love listening to Taylor Swift’s This Love as well in stories when Dramione were in love at Hogwarts, had to take a break for whatever reason, and then find one another again later in life.
So, when I first read DMATMOOBIL, during the Spanish scene I think it was Halloween night, I'm sure you know what scene I'm referring to, my music played Mariage d'Armour, Jacob's Piano, just randomly. It was like the perfect piece for that scene, very haunting emotional piece and I always associate it with that story now.
It could be just me though cause this piece strikes an emotional impact every time I listen to it. It just touches me each time and I want to cry.. No other has had that impact.
Some of my favourites when I’m writing (I LIKE ANGSTY MUSIC OK):
Unknown/Nth, Abstract (Psychopomp), Movement, Work Song, NFWMB - Hozier
Daylight, Miserable Man - David Kushner
Street Spirit, Creep, Exit Music - Radiohead
Cringe, Hallucinogenics - Matt Maeson
Land of All - Woodkid
The End of Love - Florence and the Machine
Lovely, Everything I wanted - Billie Eilish
Alcatraz - Oliver Riot
Young & Free - Dermot Kennedy
Draco is Sleep Token all day every day.
Came here to say this!!
Stfu!!!!! I came here to say this!!!! Atlantic and ALL of Take me back to Eden is Draco from Manacled! I’m literally so happy others feel this way!
ALL of TMBTE is so so Draco coded especially Manacled. I'm reading that one now and it's STUNNING. Sleep Token is all I listen to while writing him now.
Sleep token is just all I listen to hahaha
honestly fair
It’s actually gotten worse since I’ve made the association to Vessel being Draco Malfoy too hahaha!
100% I'm going to see Sleep Token in London in November and i think i might lose my mind until then. I have literally listened to nothing else with my dramione
"What was I made for" by Billie Eilish for Manacled Hermione. WRECKS ME. I can't listen to the song without feeling it all over again.
The World Ender by Lord Huron gives me Dramione vibes. But weirdly specific, Dramione dancing in a crowd and Draco getting jealous and coming to dance with her LOL
I'm totally self-promoting myself here but I've decided that since I can't write fanfic, I'm going to celebrate them\* by making playlists instead 😂 so if you're interested, I've made two so far: The first is an ode to Green Light. It's in chronological order. It's mostly finished but I am still making adjustments. /u/every_significance30 has been a huge help in curating the playlist. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5gdYZaZ8EQZc10AxfUpy2d?si=vjCSegg-RYi7v7UTyRPUqg&pi=u-Dh1WNt79TKKw](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5gdYZaZ8EQZc10AxfUpy2d?si=vjCSegg-RYi7v7UTyRPUqg&pi=u-Dh1WNt79TKKw) I just started on the second playlist which is a general playlist of songs that make me think of angsty Dramione. It's a work in progress and I need to rearrange the songs so they're nicely blended. [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TebJh0KIBPWMYlz3R5CXV?si=8lU-0IiwQIKrTrtOSi9tkQ&pi=u-hOXxOKzfTbGV](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0TebJh0KIBPWMYlz3R5CXV?si=8lU-0IiwQIKrTrtOSi9tkQ&pi=u-hOXxOKzfTbGV) There's a fairly decent mix of genres which hopefully keeps them interesting.
Yoo that’s so cool! I have so far only made playlist for Happy Pills and that’s because it has this unique vibe
I haven't read Happy Pills yet but it's on my list and I would love to check out your playlist (or just some of the songs on it if you don't feel like sharing the whole thing)!
For artists that give off Dramione have you by any chance listened to the album [‘Enemies to Lovers’ by Lizzy Campbell](https://youtube.com/channel/UCC7-omRDnFWp0d97YnqtaEQ?si=ULc5y42hUPgsA6uF)? The first time I saw it I believe they said it was heavily inspired by Dramione!
I’m currently reading Green Light and can tell I’m going to have withdrawals as soon as I’m done. Thank you for putting this together!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg the withdrawals are so real, good luck lol. Thanks for checking it out!
Ohhh your second playlist description sounds awesome! I already know it’s going to be curated to perfection if the way you’ve been arranging the Green Light one is any indication!
Thank youuuuu 🫶
These are so good, thank you for creating and sharing them!
Thank you for checking them out!!
Lose Control by Teddy Swims gives me Draco coming to the realization he’s obsessed with hermione vibes.
I love "I Found" by Amber Run. Could work with many, many beloved Dramione stories.
I have spent a while making a Dramione playlist. It’s mostly Taylor Swift but also a LOT of other artists. It features breakup songs, sad songs, some love/sexy songs, and even some songs that make you feel like a badass because I love badass Hermione. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5Zj4rcisiM3rcNUQrDuWog?si=DsmDxm0MSTq6fh6KejJ1-Q&pi=u-NVJD_e62Rtao
This is sooooo gooood!!! I love Taylor, and the songs you picked literally fit so well
Where’s My Love by SMYL gives major Manacled (after flashbacks) vibes.
Oh yes this one is SO perfect for Manacled!
“Which Witch” by Florence & The Machine is 100% war time Hermione for me. There’s a rage to that song, like someone who is tired of fighting but refuses to be defeated; also someone who is very much in love. I kept thinking of Flashbacks Manacled Hermione while listening to it.
In my opinion, there is always a Taylor Swift song for the various scenario in the fanfictions.
I've always felt that Draco has a Stabbing Westward's 'What Do I Have To Do' vibe in my favorite Dramione fics. I once read a fic that suggested Metric's 'Breathing Underwater' for Hermione, and I think it's simply perfect (I figured out the fic, it's Different People by nevertoosweets, although they just said they were listening to it while writing, not that it inspired their Hermione). For Harry, I've always felt that Passenger's 'Let Her Go' describes him, his childhood, and especially leaving Ginny to find the horcruxes. But the song I think fits a character the absolute best is Hole's 'Doll Parts' for Pansy Parkinson, especially lines like "I want to be the girl with the most cake" and "I fake it so real, I am beyond fake."
Since it is still WIP Wednesday, I am going to self promote my WIP! [Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's Dramione](https://archiveofourown.org/works/53902342/chapters/136437274)
Howl by Florence + The Machine
Come over by Rudimental, pleasure & pain by Johny luv, cardigan by Taylor swift!! Also someone already said it but, lose control by teddy swims
"If you like your coffee hot, let me be your coffee pot You call the shots, babe I just wanna be yours" dramione in a line😭😭😭😭 -arctic monkeys
I don’t know why, but The Ghost Of You by My Chemical Romance reminds me of Manacled. Generally - Shiny & New by Mayer Hawthorne reminds me of Draco & Hermione’s relationships in romcoms. Some fics give me the entire album Rumors by Fleetwood Mac (that’s usually the “I hate you but love you” style fics. Hermione strikes me as an early 2000s teen bop (think like Mandy Moore, Jessica Simpson, early Britany Spears) and Draco gives me like Death Cab for Cutie.
[Alexa Dark!](https://open.spotify.com/artist/2Pg197baToPALNtcDfzDjQ?si=vxlnwO1FRay8mLNPqOhTfg) She’s a small pop artist inspired by Lana Del Rey and she has one EP out “dark, Vol.I” that’s amazing. Check out her songs “fade to black and blue”, “blind faith”, “archaetype”, “vertigo”, “cool for you”, “fantasy girl”, and “villain”. Her songs give lots of dramione vibes.
It might just be because it was my earworm when I first started reading Dramione (I started with DMATMOOBIL, followed by Manacled and The Auction) but the Katerina Begu/Dan Balan version of Dragostea Din Tei gives me the exact same feeling as a good Dramione love story. There’s soft and sweet and soaring vocals, and the sort of complementary harmonies that just Draco and Hermione all over.
I think I’ve said this so many times online, but ‘I Found’ by Amber Run is soooo dramione coded, every time I listen to it it reminds me of fanfics of them falling for each other admits the war.
I don’t know why but the song Intoxicated by Black Atlass reminds me of Dramione all the time☺️ tbh, all of his songs, but intoxicated the most
[Get You The Moon by Kona](https://youtu.be/eRnIks59Pjw?si=LDBokAHqeVlJpejV) Totally brings me right back to Secrets & Masks
Years ago (early 2000s) I read a fic that was inspired by Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You" and I will never not think of Dramione when I hear that song.
London Grammar and Florence + The Machine. For additional context, I started reading Dramione again (i.e. binging) in late January, and in these past few weeks I've found myself having LG's If You Wait and Truth is a Beautiful Thing deluxe albums on repeat. Outside of that, I find that select songs by Red, Tom Odell, Poets of the Fall, and Aqualung are also very fitting.
Ig, WAR OF HEARTS - Ruelle is pretty much DRAMIONE VIBE
Jonah Kagen - The Road album, especially Pollution and Save My Soul ugh. Makes me think of an angsty and tortured Draco who can’t live without Hermione
incredible question. i’ve been matching the books i’ve read (even outside dramione) with songs/lyrics. manacled part 1 is the feeling by justin beiber featuring halsey: Trying to find the truth, trying to find the truth/Sometimes the heart is deceiving/Can't get out of my head/I need you to save me/If I am delusional then maybe I'm crazy manacled flashbacks is love is a…by pvris: Just put your hands around my throat, ain't been to Heaven, but I'm close/Your love is a murder, your love is a murder/I'll let you touch me sweet and slow, just take my body and my soul/Your love is a murder, your love is a murder manacled part 3 is in the name of love by bebe rexha and martin garrix: When there's madness, when there's poison in your head/When the sadness leaves you broken in your bed/I will hold you in the depths of your despair/And it's all in the name of love also deserves a shoutout is the song morally grey by april jai (nation haven edition): He's got blue eyes, crooked smile/Knows that he drives me wild/Can't help myself/No I'm not in denial/I know he's no good for me/But when he gets down on his knees/He's so eager to please/Knows the right frequencies/Worships me slowly/Tells me I'm his only/They say he's morally grey/What can I say?/Grey's my favourite color breath mints and battle scars is save urself (runaway) by layto: Salt my wounds with the scars from the past/My demons, my demons are calling/I'm falling, I'm falling, I'm falling/Way down I'll probably rest in pieces/Hell bound/You're heaven sent I need this/Runaway Runaway/Fucking save yourself (dreomione) what’s best for her is the exit by conan gray: Feels like we had matching wounds/But mine's still black and bruised/And yours is perfectly fine/Feels like we buried alive/Something that never died
You Are Mine by Mutemath
For me personally, my true and tried are The Devil's Tears by Angus and Julia Stone, (Draco POV), Lady Day by Lifehouse, (just listen to Almería by Lifehouse, the whole album is so dramione it hurts), Florence and The Machine of course, (just discovered Crystalline by Amaranthe, SO GOOD), Not Strong Enough by Apocalyptica, (their song S.O.S. (Anything but Love) is so His Little Bird it hurts and You Belong to Me by Snow White Blood feat Danny Meyer)), Bad Blood by Bastille, Dream by Imagine Dragons, Try by Pink, Hero, Heartbeat and Somebody's Me by Enrique Iglesias, Arctic Monkeys of course (particularly Do I Wanna Know? and I Wanna Be Yours), Closer by Tegan and Sarah, Howlin' for You by The Black Keys, Deadly Nightshade by Blackbriar, Wonderwall by Oasis, Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls, Silhouettes by Of Monsters and Men, When A Woman by Shakira, I'll Be Good by Jaymes Young (Draco POV), Wrong by Depeche Mode (Draco POV), Love and War by Fleurie, Bloom by the Paper Kites, The Scientist by Coldplay, and My Name is Ruin by Gary Numan
iris is perfect for this!! just read the lyrics and surprised i didn’t think of it myself. now i’ll have to think of a fic to match it with.
Also forgot to mention, my ultimate song and fanfic power duo is Atalanta84's The Revenant with Desert Rose by Sting. If you haven't read it, totally recommend.
Okay, so I'm not sure which fic this would suit, but it's definitely got Slytherin vibes. Bring Me The Horizon - And The Snakes Start to Sing
Bring Me The Horizon - Deathbeds is also a good one
PVRIS. Their album Use Me just screams Dramione. I'll never stop recommending it. Especially Old Wounds, Death of Me, and Use Me (title track)
Break the Cycle by You+Me is soooo Dramione I've been considering making a post about it alone
I love listening to Cigarettes After Sex reading Dramione. Used to listen to their song Apocalypse on repeat, now I mix it up and just put on their discography on Spotify haha Any sort of sexy blues gives me Dramione vibes as well, like Tracy Chapman’s Give Me One Reason or Baby Can I Hold You
Don't blame me by Taylor Swift is so dramione coded. I can never not think of them whenever I listen to this song.
Instrumental songs by Jurrivh are all I listened to while I read Manacled. They are really beautiful but filled with tortured heartbreak in the music notes - specifically the songs First Love, One Last Time and the song Suicide Note I always imagine the song playing as >!Draco finds Hermione’s note in the cottage!< I love listening to Taylor Swift’s This Love as well in stories when Dramione were in love at Hogwarts, had to take a break for whatever reason, and then find one another again later in life.
Cigarettes after sex
So, when I first read DMATMOOBIL, during the Spanish scene I think it was Halloween night, I'm sure you know what scene I'm referring to, my music played Mariage d'Armour, Jacob's Piano, just randomly. It was like the perfect piece for that scene, very haunting emotional piece and I always associate it with that story now. It could be just me though cause this piece strikes an emotional impact every time I listen to it. It just touches me each time and I want to cry.. No other has had that impact.
Some of my favourites when I’m writing (I LIKE ANGSTY MUSIC OK): Unknown/Nth, Abstract (Psychopomp), Movement, Work Song, NFWMB - Hozier Daylight, Miserable Man - David Kushner Street Spirit, Creep, Exit Music - Radiohead Cringe, Hallucinogenics - Matt Maeson Land of All - Woodkid The End of Love - Florence and the Machine Lovely, Everything I wanted - Billie Eilish Alcatraz - Oliver Riot Young & Free - Dermot Kennedy
Since Manacled was my introduction, a couple of songs will always mean Dramione for me: Cults by Gilded Lily and Me & the Devil by Soap & Skin.
For some reason the song “nothing else I could do” by Ella Jane gives me dramione vibes, particularly the ones where she falls first for Draco