So you know occasionally you find a story which you can't put down, (or in this case your laptop). Which is so engrossing, and so entertaining that when half way through you realize the author hasn't updated in three years you don't give up but still claw your way through till chapter 43.
Such is the story: Blood of Mud, Wing of Bat.
Honestly, I loathe Hr/D. It's a fine pairing which tends to be horrendously abused by the inexperienced (despite the fact we all know it's the wrong member of the trio), but the story doesn't even have any of that, despite the obvious potential for it. What we have here is interaction pure and simple.
The plot and background are creative, featuring a ministry which seems so busy with infighting it's a wonder than anything gets done. A set of very believable very iffy side characters, and of course Draco and Hermione.
Hermione is characterized nicely, after being a radical for ten years she got sick of politics and devoted herself to her home life and working as a consultant for (wait for it...) Sybill Trewlaney.
Draco is characterized as wonderfully as well. You never quite can get a handle on his loyalties, despite feeling huge amounts for pity. He's a strung out torn out man living ever on the edge of paranioa (not without reason), his blood so hyped up on pain killers, battle potions, and sleep drafts that his own Healer laughs at the irony. He's cruel, and calculating, but still endlessly vain, at the same time you're never quite sure about the depth of his evil.
So. In short, for an interesting take on post-Hogwarts life with brilliant characterization and Hermione as an addicted eavesdropper read:
http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/whippy/BOMWOB.html