In a time when fewer people than ever, it seems, are reading books, the parched publishing industry has wrung some quenching juice from an unexpected source: Dramione fan fiction. “Dramione,” for those unfamiliar—as I was until a couple of months ago—is a portmanteau of, and “ ship ” name for, Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger, two characters from Harry Potter . This summer, two Dramione fics turned rewritten novels became New York Times bestsellers , and a third—arguably the most highly anticipated of the three—debuted this week. But what is it about this particular couple that romance readers are finding so interesting? Is the Dramione phenomenon just, as the Times insinuated in a recent piece about the fandom, a cheat code for aging, politically savvy millennials to keep on read

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