hi everybody welcome back to my YouTube channel is back talking about books I miss you guys so much it's been so long but just a lot has been happening in my life yeah I'm back now and I'm actually very excited about what we're going to be talking about today if you have read the title of this video you will understand what we're gonna be talking about it is manacled by senlin you this is basically a video on a deep dive into fan fiction why is fan fiction good is it bad what's the stigma behind it and I really do feel like there is a stigma behind fan fiction and why this book in particular was so so hyped up everywhere it has so many reads on AO3 if you don't know anything about manacled just clicked on this video just it piqued your interest I will explain what manacled is manacled is a Harry Potter fan fiction written by an author named senlin Yu who wrote this on the platform called Archive of Our Own It is a popular popular website where fans can write fan fiction about anything that they desire and basically Mana gold is a retelling of Harry Potter it uses the Harry Potter world and the Harry Potter characters to tell this story but if Voldemort had won the war so basically if you're going into this book the things that you really need to know about are Harry Potter the Harry Potter world and the handmaid's tale because this book is heavily heavily heavily inspired by the handmaid's tale which is the Margaret Atwood book written I believe in the 90s and also the Hulu series The handmaid's Tale those are the things that you really need to know going into this book I would say if you don't know any of those things it's not going to be a really good read for you to be honest it is a romance Love Story between Malfoy Draco Malfoy and Hermione Granger so it's a dramaine fan fiction and after this book was released the whole book was released I think after like 2018 2019 Mighty has been everywhere everyone loves Germany this made people turn into Germany fans okay I personally have never read the books I tried to read the books last year but I think I had the movie so embrained in my memory that while I was reading the books it was hard for me to imagine them another way than the movies so it just never happened if you're a really big Harry Potter fan this could probably be a really really good book for you how did I find this book basically if you've been living under a rock if you're not on book talk not on tick tock not on anything that has to do with books I saw that this got really really popular on Tick Tock and everybody was raving about it everybody was crying their eyes out but always hear fan fiction and they think crashy Wattpad writing with a bunch of cliche scenes but I think that this book in particular is a testament to how there's a huge stigma around fan fiction because the writing in this book is so so good and I honestly believe that a lot of the times fan fiction might be a lot better or some works of fanfiction especially really popular ones have the potential to be a lot better than even the original work that they're inspired by because they already have the basis of characters of world it's basically the prompt for their story for their original story they already have the set ideas there The Prompt all they really need is to put their own spin to it and create a reimagining of their own and I think this book in particular manacled is a testament to that I think people hear fan fiction and they toss it aside but this book in particular is a testament to the fact that there is really really good works of art on these platforms Archive of Our Own if you don't know it's basically like Wattpad and Archive of the world is basically YouTube but in writing form authors release chapters every single week of their book and it's just a platform where they can have a lot of people be able to read their book without a direct publishing company so just like how YouTube you can post whatever videos you'd like without having a Production Studio behind you right this is going to be a three-part series I'm gonna go into my overall thoughts do an explaining the plot of part one of man gold because there is three parts to this book and then after the ending of my third video slash third part I'm just gonna get into my closing thoughts overall thoughts I think the book really really really could have been condensed down like a lot I think that is probably one of the issues I see a lot with fan fictions is that there's a lot of filler and they're able to have that filler because these authors release their books per chapter per week so as a reader if you are reading it weekly it is the slowest of slow Burns and you're able to have it's kind of like anime in a way where there's a lot of Filler episodes and it's just Vibes you go do chapter and chapter of the characters just interacting with each other and in a fan fiction it's okay because these chapters are released weekly you don't have the whole book all at once even though I read the whole book all at once it's okay to have filler just like in animes they need to release an episode per week so they create a filler plot I also would highly suggest you get familiar with the Harry Potter World if you have not this book will not be enjoyable for you because there's so much that has to do with with the characters has to do with the magic even that if you don't know anything about Harry Potter you're going to be kind of confused for a bit I was very confused at the beginning of the movies or of the books certain plot points that get brought up I'm like oh I kind of vaguely remember that happening but because I wasn't a huge Harry Potter fan huge Harry Potter Stan then it did a really bode well for when I was reading it I think overall this is an insanely well written book takes a little bit getting into it if you haven't familiarized yourself with the Harry Potter world but the writing is so immensely detailed so beautiful at times and the characters go through so much and have so much depth and this does have to do with the fact that it's such a Slow Burn Right There is a lot of filler it's such a slow burn that you spend time with these characters and you really feel what they're going through so I highly highly highly recommend if this plot sounds even remotely interesting to you to stop this video right now read the book and then come back because whatever I explain to you in my explain the plot is not going to be nearly enough for you to feel how wretched it is of what these characters go through and how like horrid the the circumstances are because you really feel that through the writing and it makes you understand these characters and how much depth they have through the writing and you just understand them so wholeheartedly and who they are as people there is a lot of trigger warnings for this book there is r word scenes multiple many of them it's overall just really sad and depressing so if you cannot do that if you need happy sunshine do not read this book I would say if those things affect you just watch this video hopefully if you want to still know the plot there's a lot of trigger warnings there's like s word slavery you know these women are getting bought not really bought but they are getting captured and sold into escword slavering so they could have children because they are fertile it's bad okay there's torture there's claustrophobia there is PTSD just overall everything that the characters go through is so sad okay so if you can't do sad just stay away so this is going to be part one of a three-part series as I said because this book is a freaking honker of a book it is so long it is written on AO3 the website so you can only count up how many words the book has but if you're to add up all the words and put it into page format it has more words than kingdom of Ash let me put that into his perspective okay Kingdom of Ash is the Sarah J Maas book that is about a thousand pages long 1 000 pages long this book is longer than a thousand Pages I'd say it ranks up to be maybe 1200 pages okay this is the freaking Bible this is the Bible of Harry Potter okay that's basically what it is it is insanely long so be ready for that I would say it's basically three different books put into one there is part one the Present part two the flashbacks and then part three back to the present we are gonna be discussing explaining the plot part one which is the present day trigger warning portrait death claustrophobia sexual assault self-harm and much much more welcome to Manigold part one the present in the beginning we start off inside of Hogwarts which has now turned into a prison Hermione has been in Hogwarts for two plus years and doesn't remember how she got there all she remembers is darkness and being in the cell the tiny tiny little cell and the only person she has contact attacked with is umbrage Dolores Umbridge who was the one who brought her there and was the one to bring Hermione meals Hermione has been working out every single day in her little cell and follows a workout regimen just to keep her sane nothing but Darkness she couldn't even talk aloud to relive the unending silence it had been umbridge's parting gift as they dragged her into a cell and checked her manacles one last time then one day after being in the cell for over two years she finally leaves the cell for once someone checks up on her physical health with a diagnostic spell other witches and wizards question Umbridge because apparently no one has known that Hermione was locked inside of Hogwarts for so long Hermione overhears all this it was apparently an oversight because the dark lord AKA Voldemort would have seen her as a very important prisoner it's then understood that there is a lot of of gaps in Hermione's memory and there's something that she's hiding within her memory that is blocked out Hermione cannot remember a single that you were kept in sensory deprived isolation for 16 months the fact that you're Lucid at all is a miracle the effects of such an experience can hardly be avoided especially given the circumstances prior to your arrival I imagined you studied some healing during the war yes then you know what a normal healthy magical brain looks like this is yours a simple one manipulation drew the magically projected image of Hermione's brain interview what are those my best guess is that they're magically created Fugue States what at some point during your isolation your magic began trying to protect you since you couldn't express any magic externally it internalized itself you worked hard to keep yourself from as you said slipping however the mind is hardly equipped to handle such a thing your magic has walled off parts of your mind as a result it fragmented you somewhat normally a feud is General but these appear almost surgically precise so basically there are gaps in Hermione's memory as if she's walking something she basically gets an update about everything that went down in the 16 months that Hermione was imprisoned I was a Healer I was in the hospital Ward so many people I couldn't save I remember losing something something didn't work Harry died they hung him up off the astronomy Tower and we watched him Rock they hung Ron and his family next to him and Tonks and Lupine they tortured them until they died then they put me in that cell and left me there so this is their imagining of what happened if Harry didn't win the war the whole time Hermione is wearing these things on her wrist called manacles she looks at them and they're basically small wrist bracelets that suppress her magic Hermione is basically a muggle at this point in Chapter 2 she learns about a figure named the high Reef this person is basically Lord Voldemort's right hand man this person killed Ginny and has used the killing curse on countless of other people and this is a very important and scary fact because if you don't know much about the Harry Potter World the killing curse can only be used if you truly mean what you say if you truly mean for them to die and nobody in the history of magic can just use the curse all the time it takes out a lot of energy from you and a lot of power so the fact that it drains people and it drains wizard so the fact that this High Reeve can just use the killing curse crazily like that means he's very very powerful or she Hermione asks who the hyrieve is but nobody knows because he wears a mask every single time he kills people she meets an old classmate named Hannah who does not have her eye and Hannah tells her that there's something called a repopulation effort and basically they're going to be sold in slavery that's what she's told by Hannah there are barely any babies pure blood fertility rates have been dropping for years there were few pregnancies that set everybody abuzz most ended up squib and got terminated before the end or miscarried magic is my you know he decided to start a breeding program with all these Half-Blood and muggle-born prisoners he happened to have on hand just us girls since it's fate worse than death to have a muggle-born male touch a pure blood female whereas we're all going to be made to produce babies until readers just give out in Hermione after getting out of the cell she's taken to Voldemort who just really wants to get into Hermione's head Hermione is the last known surviving member of the order so she is very important nobody has seen her for years I'm kept her locked away she the last surviving member okay and there's something she's hiding even she doesn't know what she's hiding but she's hiding something um and Voldemort just wants to get inside her head wants to know what these cracks and her memories are he wants to know what she's hiding they find out that magic is at work those cracks in her head are basically due to the work of occlumacy occlumensy I'm gonna call it occlumensy okay it's basically when can dissociate kind of like you can compartmentalize things and she basically did that to herself in the cell Voldemort says this more vitally a great many memories from the war particularly near the end are the things that are being hidden this memory loss occurred after Potter's death after the war ended what is it that she would be hiding so this is the mystery of the whole book that you are getting so after Voldemort finds the South one of the Mind healers suggests something that might bring back Hermione's memory which is magical pregnancy it might unlock her memories because magical pregnancy has the ability to break through magical Fugue states which is what Hermione has Keeler Stroud who's the main healer says there are a few cases on record which indicates that such pregnancies have an ability to break through magical Fuchs the magic of a child is compatible but dissimilar enough to its mother to have a corroding effect on built up magic it's nothing conclusive given the Rarity if possible however Miss Granger has an exceptional magical ability you yourself noted this and wanted her included in the repopulation effort if you leave her within the program there's a chance that a pregnancy may result in unlocking her memories address this Voldemort likes the idea and pairs her with the high Reeve to have a forced pregnancy Stroud who's the main healer is supposed to get her ready and prepped for the next two weeks before she starts for fulfilling her duties to the hiring you know what fulfilling her duties means property of the high Reeve was ingrained into her manacles and the manacles not only took away her magical abilities but it also prevented her from doing things so suicide which Hermione was contemplating was out of the question the manacles also stopped girls from committing acts of violence against others and themselves they were trained for a while ingraining compulsions into their minds within these next two weeks you will be quiet you will be obedient you will not hurt anyone you will not offend anyone you will not resist when bedded after being bedded you will not move for 10 minutes you will do everything together pregnant quickly and produce healthy children she was dressed in bright red dress and a bonnet just like in the handmaid's tale and she's taken to the high Reeves house gets popped into the high Reeves house the high weave is Draco Malfoy so Hermione in her head right now she's stuck doesn't know what to do and her one plan is to either find a way to escape or trick Malfoy into killing her so that she can just die and be done with this horrible situation she reminisces about the last time she's seen Malfoy which was in fifth year now he's evil he's married to this blonde girl named Astoria and he's a mass murderer for Voldemort and he's one of the most powerful magical figures in The Wizarding World as of now the list of rules to keep Hermione healthy to have a baby there's no cursing torturing or abusing her she needs to be kept fed no more than six hours of work a day and one hour minimum outside this is to maintain her health so that she can have a healthy pregnancy and conception so at least she will physically be safe mentally not so sure it seems like Astoria and Malfoy don't really like each other that much they bicker a lot their marriage was an arranged marriage by the dark lord himself Hermione comes into the manor Malfoy Manor goes into her room and just looks around takes a look around examines it sees that there's a lot of protective charms around it Malfoy's just been very thorough with keeping her locked in there and puts a lot of protective words around it as she explores she finds out that being imprisoned for the 16 months that she was at Hogwarts has caused her to have anxiety and when she opens the door to the hallway from her room it's scary there's just so much space it's so open and she panics she's hyperventilating she freezes even if there was a means of Escape for Hermione it seems kind of unknown now because every time that she would try to leave the room Hermione would just feel like she would freeze and she would Panic so has to do with her isolation period the terror coursing through her body had Frozen her it was a hallway just a hallway she told herself she was allowed to be there there were no commands holding her back just herself after standing there for several minutes trying and failing to force herself to move she abruptly sobbed and huddled closer to the door she couldn't remember the last time she had cried long ago in her cell as she stood there shaking and hyperventilating in the hallway of the empty wing of the manor she cried over everyone who is dead now for everyone Malfoy had killed for all the girls back at Hogwarts being sent out into the world of Horror out of rage over the manacles locked around her wrists and the manacle she found had somehow locked around her own mind she went back into her room closed the door sank onto the floor and kept crying Hermione just has so much sorrow in her heart and she's grieving the loss of all of these people of Ron Harry everybody all of her friends are dead she's the only one left who's alive Harry's blank green eyes Hermione saw them every time she closed her own the expression on his face the realization he had failed and had been written into it in Death Hermione shook as she thought about it her best friends had died before her eyes by some extra cruel twist of fate she hadn't been allowed to follow that they had left her behind so all she wants to do now is just die another little detail that they put into the book is that none of the girls who get sold off are allowed to wear underwear because they have to remain accessible which is disgusting okay that's nasty then it was the day the day had finally come where Hermione is in her fertile period we all know what that means she would be our worded by Malfoy he conjures up a table and made her bend over it he magically Lubes her up and then he did it and it was very distant the way he did it he didn't touch her anywhere else besides where they were meeting after he had done it he yelled at her to get out but she physically could not move because she was compelled to stay in place 10 minutes after the deed was done so he yells at her to get out then the [ __ ] [ __ ] ass [ __ ] Malfoy magically removes the table and she falls on the floor hits her head and she runs back to her room on the way back to her room she sees the balcony and tries to jump off of it to kill herself Malfoy catches her and the dark lord still wants to know what she's hiding Malfoy the reason why Hermione was paired up with him is that he is legitimans well I don't know basically he can read through people's minds that's the reason why they paired her with him because he like Voldemort can insert himself into other people's minds so he dives into her mind right after being our worded by him right after trying to kill herself and then tries to look through her locked memories So Not only was she immediately physically R worded right after she was mentally our worded because it's it hurts it hurts when people try to rip through your mind once upon a time there had been a girl who had fought who believed that books and cleverness and friendship and bravery could overcome all things but now that girl is gone she'd been all but killed during the war now Draco Malfoy had stomped that girl to dust over the course of an evening he'd physically and mentally her every last shred of that girl to death days passed Hermione can't get out of her room she's still scared to go down the hallway alfoy has to remind her that she's supposed to go outside for an hour every day and on the way out of the house she sees the newspaper and she doesn't know anything about the outside worlds right now she doesn't even know what day it is and she sees the headline the headline basically is her she is the headline that says she's one of the first people to be part of the Dark Lord's repopulation effort and Hermione realizes that they were using her as bait for any remaining order members who might exist who might try to come save her if that makes sense um some days later she tries to go out again has a panic attack Malfoy asks about it because she's supposed to have that hour a day so he goes out with her on her little walks and on this walk it's so open it's there's so much going on Malfoy asked her about her attacks and she says that she thinks she has agoraphobia says something about Open Spaces makes me panic so Stroud who was the main healer comes to check in on Hermione shroud comes a lot to do updates she was physically five times at this point and mentally twice through the legislamency legitimency bruh I don't know what they [ __ ] call it but it's basically the mind reading shape Hermione finds out how Malfoy killed Dumbledore in the sixth year by using the killing curse to his back she gets a faint memory of Harry and her dreams and some memories come back to her but Hermione still doesn't remember anything Malfoy comes in later and gives her a potion so that she feels nothing so that she doesn't panic doesn't have any anxiety it basically makes her feel nothing the manacles also are connected to Malfoy so Malfoy can kind of read her mind in that way time moves on it's now been two months since she's entered Malfoy's Manor she is due to go see Voldemort again there he breaks into her mind Hermione asks if the torture that she just experienced with Voldemort if Malfoy has been through the same thing because apparently Voldemort does this with all of his subjects and finds out that the torture the legitimacy that Hermione goes through Malfoy also goes through with the dark lord and they just get to talking more she asked what day it is and it just puts into perspective how much Hermione has gone through how much she doesn't know about what's going on and how secluded she is Malfoy agrees to give her the Daily Newspaper every single day so that she has something to read days pass after reading the newspaper she folds them into paper cranes but she doesn't remember where she got the paper crane idea from because Hermione just doesn't remember things and she remembers making paper cranes remembers how to make them doesn't remember where or who gave her that idea Days Later a man named Montague enters her room he knows her she does not remember him but apparently they have a pass and there's a lot of protective Wards around Hermione's room so Montague enters it really curious about her and Hermione's scared this is like a strange man doesn't know this man but Malfoy intercepts brings Montague back to the main part of the house Hermione sees oh there's like a party going on so she sneaks out of her room that night overcomes her fear and kind of explores the party oh mind you Hermione's also kind of drugged up can't feel anything she catches Astoria which is Malfoy's wife cheating on him with an unknown figure in the hallway Draco was an enigma there were so many contradictions swirling beneath his cold facade what were his Ambitions 22 24 26 28 he seemed to be accumulating power without having any specific purpose for it he knew he was Shackled by orders he couldn't disobey Mary Astoria Sully his Bloodline with half Bloods keep Hermione under constant supervision he followed Voldemort's commands with devotion despite having no apparent taste for them what did he get from it what was it that drove him his power and Status seemed pointless he didn't seem to be getting anything from it that he wouldn't have as a mid-tier Death Eater so this is kind of a Hermione psychoanalyzing Draco what are his motivations it's still very very unknown we just know that he is one of the most powerful Wizards in The Wizarding World as of this point but there is no motive for why he wants this power is he a replica of Voldemort does he just want to be like him or want to take over him be the next High Lord we don't know we don't know anything about Jacob's motives and this is kind of what Hermione has been contemplating throughout all of the anxiety attacks and panic attacks and just living a horrible life the potion that Malfoy gave her to stay calm also has really really bad side effects so they just make her feel very horrible and there's basically a come down to it starts vomiting she starts getting really nauseous it's basically withdrawal symptoms so Hermione tries to stop taking it as the story progresses Hermione also gets another memory of her and Jenny and it's basically Jenny asking Hermione if she's ever been involved with anybody so this is a memory that happened maybe two plus three plus years ago of Jenny telling Hermione that she looks like she's lonely asking her if she's been involved with anybody Ginny thinks that Hermione's involving herself with Snape because they hang out a lot apparently in the past but we just don't know anything about it Ginny says this I think of it every time I'm in there in the field everything is so focused even when someone's injured you just operate them away and then head back you win some you lose some you get hit sometimes you hit back and you get days to recover if it's bad or if you're dueling partner dies but in the hospital award every battle looks like losing I'm always more traumatized after being in there than I am of fighting so this is something that we kind of get a little insight as to what Hermione has to experience every single day this is in her past memories that she still hasn't unlocked yet still doesn't really know but you can kind of see the sadness with Hermione Madness in her eyes and her Jenny in this flashback just wants Hermione to have somebody to talk to and notices that Hermione has just been really sad and it's because everybody in a war sees the military as the heroes right they see Harry Potter as the leader of this revolution of this rebellion and the actual action see all of those people as Heroes whereas I think especially in this story it is kind of talking about how the healthcare industry Even in our own Society is very much underappreciated because there's so many traumatic things that happened the hospital Ward is a battlefield within itself and that is what Hermione went into and it's something that is so so important when you go into the hospital these are the people who are helping keep the soldiers who are fighting for you alive Hermione in the past saw that where they needed a lot of people and that's why Hermione instead of going into the defensive part where all of her friends were where Ron had very Ginny everybody all of her friends went into the action went into the battle Hermione kind of drifts it apart and separated Ways by going to the healthcare field because she saw that that is where she was needed most and they needed the most assistance then there's word that Dolores Umbridge she sees on the newspaper the same [ __ ] who had Hermione hidden in Hogwarts for over a year in prison in isolation where nobody knew that she was there was killed during an attempted assassination against Voldemort against the minister of magic she was shot in the chest where it hit a necklace that slowed the bleeding and then when they pulled the arrow that shot her in the chest out she died instantly and it also hit that necklace Stroud comes back later on to check in on Hermione and it doesn't seem like Hermione is pregnant yet even after being there for months and months and months and being great many many many times over many months and so Stroud gives Hermione a new fertility potion that will make things easier that is what shroud says no idea what that means it's basically a repeat of the same things Hermione goes to Voldemort again Voldemort looks through her memories maybe time has like allowed some memories to come back and it's also revealed that in the time that Hermione doesn't remember apparently Hermione attacked a prison in Sussex after Harry had died and this thing was like a very very big explosion where a lot of people died and nobody understands how just Hermione could be a part of this explosion and this bombing that happened and how she was able to do it but apparently that is what she did that's what is revealed when she goes talked to Voldemort later after that Hermione gets talking with Malfoy again and Hermione puts some pieces together she notices some things one of the things is that in Voldemort's campaign to be a leader has progressed after Harry had died and then connecting more pieces she realizes that there was something connecting them something connecting Harry and Voldemort and that when Harry died piece of Voldemort died too basically if you read the Harry Potter books or watched the movies he's a horcrux right this universe they don't know about Hermione puts together that Voldemort's week and that the repopulation effort basically graping all these girls and putting them into s-word slavery is a ruse to cover the fact that Voldemort is dying and Hermione thinks back to what she does remember she gets home she does some thinking she thinks about how she drifted away from her friends during the war became a Healer instead of an active fighter she thought that healing is where she was needed most and she reflects that maybe if she went down the other path things could have been different a lump formed in her throat as she replied Malfoy's taunts for months before you didn't even fight during the war did you I certainly never saw you you weren't ever out there with Potter and Weasley you just hid spending all your time in hospital Wards waving your hand about feudally saving people who ended up better off dead he swallowed hard and pressed her lips together into a hard line as she stepped out of the shower and toweled off she paused the moment and stared at her reflection she hated her reflection hated seeing it she tried to avert her eyes whenever she encountered a mirror she barely recognized the person she found in the glass she looked healthy pretty even normal like a Hermione from a different life but her eyes her eyes were dead there was no fire in them the spark that she regarded as most intrinsic to who she was had gone out she was a vibrant corpse she turned away from the mirror and dressed yeah that's kind of what Hermione's going through she hates herself she wants to die she wants to kill herself can't all her friends are dead and it's just depressing as [ __ ] okay Astoria is hosting a party later that night so Hermione sneaks out and eavesdrops so it's in the Maze outside of the manor where Hermione likes to take her walks she hears disgusting disgusting talk about the other women who got sold off how they might be doing from the people who were at this party because all these people are leaders just like Malfoy they all have an s-word slave it puts it into perspective for her about how in a way obviously Hermione's not lucky but in a way she's lucky comparatively to the other girls because Malfoy has been very distant from Hermione and only uses her during the times where she's fertile and leaves her alone for everything else apparently that makes her lucky because she's not being R worded 24 7 and humiliated and Hermione's still in the bushes when Ash is eavesdropping boo Graham Montague the guy who came into her room earlier and was interested in her apparently he knew her catches her hiding he gropes her he says nasty stuff to her he says you were supposed to have been mine you know stepping back slightly to look over her again I was the one who caught you when you attacked suck six when I saw you standing under a sky full of burning Dementors I wanted to fight there in that field he ripped her breast tightly as he spoke his fingers digging into the flesh if Hermione could have moved at all she would have been gasping from pain that was how I earned my mark you know catching you my exceptional service to the Dark Lord when I saw you at Sussex I recognized you from the cave remember how I told you I'd asked to have you I was the one who reminded the dark lord about you for the breeding program he said you'd be mine but then he changed his mind and gave you to Malfoy we don't want Malfoy to come interrupt our fun now do we confundo Hermione's mind blurred as the immobilizing hex was removed and she collapsed into his waiting arms Graham immobilizes her and harasses her then he starts to assault her and she could not move she could not scream she could not do anything to stop him as this is happening luckily it doesn't get too penetration but she hears Malfoy and Malfoy throws Montague off of her he's so mad this man is feral I'm talking about Malfoy okay he is mad he literally takes Montague's organs out of his body and lets them hang that's how mad he is Malfoy is furious helps Hermione get cleaned up and offers her calming drought and dreamless sleep potion for the next couple of weeks to calm her and to get her mind off of this horrible ordeal Astoria later barges into her room angry a few days later she shows Hermione the daily prophet and apparently Malfoy had publicly killed Montague taking out the organ that didn't kill him he was in the hospital and now Malfoy visited him at the hospital and publicly killed Montague we get astoria's motives and backstory a little bit and basically we realized that Astoria is so mad and she's so jealous of Hermione I tried to be the perfect wife when I was chosen Draco Malfoy's wife there was really nothing to compare it to the most powerful General in the Dark Lord's army all the other girls were so jealous of course it was arranged but I thought he'd eventually realize that I was right for him that I was a good wife that I did everything I joined every board every charity I was the perfect wife I was perfect but he never cared Astoria Shrugged and gestured carelessly with her wand hand her nails were painted silver and caught in the light people don't know but he didn't even live here we got married and he just left me here in this house never so much as gave me a tour of the manor and on our wedding day he brought me here and left me in the foyer didn't bother to consummate it until I was supposed to be fertile then once the healer is determined I was Barren Draco didn't come here at all he just disappeared I never knew where he was I couldn't contact him I thought maybe I could get his attention if I made him jealous but he never cared what he did eventually I accepted that was how he was the bitterness of a story's expression Twisted her face into something both ugly and terrifying but then you came along and then he moved in and he turned to the entire estate upside down in order to award it and make sure it was safe took you for walks and gave you a tour of the house she holds Hermione down hexes her eye and it hurts a lot Hermione lost her eye Malfoy comes in barges in he brings Astoria down literally like flings her across the wall with magic and then immediately asks Hermione for a healing spell to heal her eye shroud comes again later again for a checkup and Hermione is still not pregnant it's getting worrisome because there's no reason absolutely no reason for her to not be pregnant and most girls in the program are already pregnant and she says that with magic if both Wizards are powerful the magic might be a little bit more chaotic therefore it's harder for a magical pregnancy so Stroud is saying that they are not intimate enough for the pregnancy to set in so she tells them that they have to start doing it on a bed because she found out that they were doing it on a table they tell them that they have to start doing it on a bed and make it a little less detached which is impossible because she's literally being graped okay um and not doggy style it was horrible so they did that and it was horrible and she cried and then right after the deed was done Malfoy ran to the restroom and started throwing up and before the next time that they have to do it she's given a new potion by Stroud and Stroud basically says like this will make things a little bit easier she takes it not realizing that it's a lust potion it's cruel she is given an aphrodisiac and it's horrible because not only are you being forced into the situation and forced to do this it warps your mind trying to like warp this horrible experience into something that she actually likes which is horrible horrible horrible horrible and she cries about it on their next time when they're doing it it says when he entered her she gave a small gas and turned her face towards the wall and despair ridding with internal anguish her body had anticipated it attuned and waiting it was ready wanting it was such a profound betrayal knowing her arousal was physiologically natural didn't ease the guilt when the rape was clinical it was endurable when the first drugged it was endurable but when it was just her her own mind and Physiology it was worst of all it twisted and tore at something inside her and being my body is enjoying it she thought bitterly and wanted to curl away she thought she might just vomit it's horrible after this experience after quote unquote I it's so hard for me to like put this into words like quote unquote enjoying being she has her own mental thoughts again and she knows that she's getting Stockholm syndrome just feels so lonely and after all this time being in isolation even in the manner the only person that she's had Direct contact with that was somewhat nice even though he's literally her rape is Malfoy she's so lonely and when Malfoy's gone she waits for him to come back from his work trips it's just warping everything that she thought about him and it sucks like she hates it and she's very aware that she's getting Stockholm syndrome she was so tired of being all alone she pressed her lips together she struggled against crying even her memory was a lonely Abyss almost all the years of the war had been alone studying alone in Hogwarts then studying in Europe there had been no time for anything but professional relationships when she'd returned she practically lived in the hospital board there was never time for friendships when she had any spare time Harry and Ron were gone on missions when they were back it was generally the aftermath of a battle and Hermione's skills had been most urgently needed she had so few memories of being with either of them in non-professional circumstances Malfoy was only bit of warmth in life for human contact she had whether he had attended it or not her body was latching onto him in her desperate isolation she couldn't he had killed everybody he had murdered or executed them all willing or not he was raped she was just a pawn to him she says this Malfoy was not the monster she had initially perceived him as being after learning what happened to the other circuits after what Montague tried to do to her after Astoria after becoming terrified of what cruelty Lucius Malfoy would devise if her surrogacy was transferred the person she perceived Malfoy as being had shifted being saved by him had affected things saved from Montague he touched her no one had touched her in so long he healed her far more than he needed to he didn't even want to because he was vomiting after one of the ordeals though he insisted his protection of her was entirely born from self-interest because he'd been commanded to she was almost certain he was Far exceeding what obligation demanded the influence of the manacles also contributed to a two there had always been intended to cultivate compliance and dependence to remove her ability to resist she could resist Malfoy's violation if you're physically forcing her down as he's here it would be easier for her to stop going resigned and accustomed to it it was the line quietly in experiencing it the anticipation of an inevitability that she had no ability to resist if the way he heard her were more voluntary and less obligatory it would be easier to see him for who he was although even then the mind was cruelly adaptive the subconscious will who survived was written into humans more deeply than most anything else survival didn't require Hermione to be intact to be decent to be herself survival would carve away any part of her that made enduring harder it would smooth away the mental anguish latch onto every glimmer of kindness it would make life cease to eight so yeah that's her little inner monologue of what she feels for Malfoy what she's contemplating how lonely she feels everything she comes to this realization she knows she's starting to have feelings for Malfoy even though she also knows that it's Stockholm syndrome Malfoy's on a work trip and she's waiting for him to come back one night he comes back and he's drunk Hermione has never seen this man drunk before he says things that don't make sense and then he kisses her like what and she likes it question mark her eyes widened he was drunk she didn't move he drew near until she shuffled backwards but he kept coming closer until she was trapped against the wall and he was mere interest from her oh Granger he sighed staring down at her he raised the hand and placed across her throat but didn't squeeze he just left it there she could feel the heat of it seeping into her skin she stared up at him even drunk his expression was a mask he slid his thumb slightly along her neck and she felt her skin prickle he sighed again if I'd known what a pain you'd cause me I never would have taken you he just stood there holding her throat she could feel her pulse fluttering against his hand she wasn't sure what he'd meant if she was supposed to apologize she could smell the alcohol on his breath but he said after a minute at this point I suppose I deserve to burn I wonder if you'll burn too his face was suddenly close to hers she could feel the air from his words brushing against her skin his lips crashed into hers him being drunk realizing what he's doing she starts to like it like literally moans a little bit and then that wakes Malfoy the [ __ ] up like what the [ __ ] am I doing and then he's like taken aback like what the [ __ ] did I just do in some sort of Trance or something like him being drunk put him in his feels his eyes widened as though he'd just become aware of himself he stayed there looking shocked for several moments before the mask suddenly clicked into place his face grew hard and he simmered apparently you have accepted your place he said with a leader then he turned on his heels and vanished into the darkness so Hermione is thinking like what the [ __ ] is going on what the [ __ ] was that why is this man being like like it's so weird so weird right I think it's very apparent from the context clues that we're getting that Malfoy and Hermione knew each other in the past in those instances that she cannot remember but it's still very confusing and we don't know exactly how they know each other or what happened right after this and after her liking Draco kissing her or Malfoy kissing her she is so conflicted like all of these emotions are just bubbling up inside her she's so conflicted in self-contradiction and tries to self-harm herself and bangs her head into the glass and she starts bleeding she's like bang bang hating herself and just it was horrible there was blood streaming into her eyes but she kept going again and again an arm closed around her waist and a hand collapsed over both her wrist and she was dragged away from the glass she fought trying to pull her hands free digging her toes into the grain of the wood floor to push herself back sobbing Granger don't don't Malfoy's voice was close to her ear she pulled feudally to free herself as she sobbed and sobbed she was so tired of being hurt and alone she wanted to be done she kept existing in that house she was going to try to find Solace anything but being cold and alone forever and ever next time that strap comes Hermione's pregnant ah congratulations I don't know mighty's scared that having this baby somebody will hurt it also conflicted with her feelings about Malfoy no one will hurt it calm down you need to breathe slowly she leaned into his hand for a moment resting her head against his chest as she tried to draw a slow breath then she froze and tore herself away from him backing up to the wall don't amuse yourself with me she said her voice trembling I don't want your promises or attention in order to maintain my environment she sobbed failing in her breath after all he made it quite clear how pathetic I'd be to mistake your mandatory care for anything she wrapped her arms around herself and slid down to the floor shaking and pressing her mouth closed as her whole body shook you you need to concern yourself further I'll take care of myself you needn't walk me again now fully stared down at her unmoving for several minutes while she pressed her hand against her mouth and tried to calm her breathing his hand twitched four slightly before curling it into a fist and gave a sharp nod and left she didn't see him again for three weeks so now Hermione's pregnant she got pregnancy hormones because of this she gets a lot of migraines gets a lot of morning sickness has seizures um and one night she wakes up in the middle of the night all out of nowhere all of a sudden she's pregnant she just remembers that there's something important that she had to remember Malfoy comes into the room all of a sudden a flood of memories come back and that is the end of part one present of Manigold by senlin you that's the end of this explaining the plot I just want to do a closing so overall I think Mike's winning the plot is a testament to what kind of work fan fiction is it's more of a serialized way of writing like watching a series than published books or like watching a movie a lot of the things that happen are very very slow burn with fan fiction they can take their time a lot of scenes are basically repeats of each other a little reveal here and a little reveal there with each thing a lot of the things that happen in this part she gets art worded healer comes to check in on her she's not pregnant goes to Voldemort there's a party she gets art worded again healer comes to check on her she's not pregnant Voldemort does the Mind [ __ ] on her it's a repeat over and over again and as she's just living life you kind of get revealed more and more and more things overall what do I think about this first part of the book and this book as a whole I think because I'm not a die-hard Harry Potter fan this book was not absolutely gut-wrenchingly devastating to me like everybody has been sick did I cry a lot yes I absolutely sobbed my eyes out reading this I just think that it was a little too long that's how I was finished with a book it took too long for me to really feel all of the emotions come to me at once where I had to contemplate my life after reading it do I think the book is good absolutely I really do believe it is worth reading and I think it is a really really well written book I have to say that if you watch this explaining the plot what I explained is not even an ounce of what you will feel while you read it the feeling that you get while reading it is in the writing it's not in the story it is in the way that the characters feel and how much you deeply deeply care for them so yeah this is just part one and part one of this over a thousand page book that was already like a book within itself that was over 300 Pages worth of words my next video is gonna be a part two it's gonna be explaining the plot part two of manacled by someone you and it's going to be the flashbacks and we are going to get all of the memories that come flooding back to Hermione that she is hiding in her head we understand what those memories are in this flashback that's basically it for this video thank you so much for watching please let me know if you liked it please let me know if you want me to do in other kinds of videos and things like that I'd love to hear it from you if you've ever read manacled let me know what you thought of it like it's very depressing and there's a lot of triggers but it's a very conflicting book to think about thank you so much for watching I will catch you in part two thank you foreign