Rose in Chains

Rose is Chains was originally published by Julie Soto in 2019 on the fanfiction site Archive of Our Own (AO3) as a Harry Potter fanfiction titled “The Auction,” which centered on the romantic relationship between Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger (Dramione). The fanfiction imagined a universe in which Harry Potter died and his friends lost the Battle of Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters, resulting in the surviving members of Harry’s rebellion group, the Order of the Phoenix, being enslaved and auctioned off to the Death Eaters. In the fanfiction, Draco Malfoy purchases Hermione Granger after she is captured and enslaved, and he attempts to keep her safe from the rampant exploitation other members of the Order of the Phoenix face. “The Auction” was the third part of Soto’s “Rights and Wrongs” series, each of which reimagined the ending of J.K. Rowling’s series and the future of Rowling’s characters through the lens of an invented romantic relationship between Draco and Hermione, which is not a component of Rowling’s original series.

Soto is open about her penchant for fanfiction. Her author website has a tab labeled “fandom” that includes a link to her AO3 page, which includes her 19 published Harry Potter fanfiction works and her 10 Star Wars fanfiction works.