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  1. Public Bookmark 43

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    It’s been raining for days, and Hermione Granger insists she’s only happy when it rains. Also- she claims she’s only happy when it’s complicated—which works out nicely, because Harry Potter has never done anything simple in his life.

    She wants to go to a warehouse grunge party for her 24th birthday. He wants to keep up. Somewhere between the flannel shirt, the rain, the eyeliner, and the treacle tart, things get... messy.

    Post-Hogwarts. Post-other people. Pre-everything else.
    Emotional intimacy, poor decisions, and the kind of tension that doesn't clear up with the weather.

    Written for the HP Drizzle Fest.

    Prompt:
    Only Happy When It Rains - Garbage
    "I'm only happy when it rains
    I'm only happy when it's complicated
    And though I know you can't appreciate it
    I'm only happy when it rains"

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    22 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 77

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    The war’s over but the stillness left behind doesn't feel like peace, it feels only like silence. When Hermione’s flat is attacked, he finds himself with company again; her voice in his house, her tea on his counter, her presence steady in the nights that feel too large. Harry can't help but wonder if this, too, will end, as all else seem to.

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    20 Jan 2026

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    Harry, Ron, and Hermione have pulled off a daring heist in the Ministry of Magic to retrieve Slytherin’s locket and their first horcrux, but now they’re on the run. Forced out into the wilderness, they encounter an ever-growing Dementor presence plaguing the nation and gradually tipping the country into a deadly winter. With few supplies, fewer clues, and the soulless wraiths at their back, they decide to take drastic action in the hope of surviving to end Voldemort once and for all; to become animagi.

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    18 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 62

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    "Did you two forget to tell us something?”

    “There’s nothing to tell,” Hermione explains. “It’s a dumb game we’ve been playing for months. We call each other cute things and try to find the corniest ones. I’m winning.”

     

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    Harry and Hermione make a dumb game of calling each other petnames. It backfires in the best way possible.

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    12 Jan 2026

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    “Princess!” he yelled after her. “Where are you going?”
    “Back to the castle,” she replied without stopping.
    “Not by yourself you’re not!”
    “I’m sorry,”—she whipped around—“I didn’t realize you were my father?”
    “Your father, the king, would execute me for letting you travel by yourself.”
    “Oh, so this is about self-preservation?”
    “Yes. Yours. There are monsters all over Hyrule now, Your Highness.” Blue eyes pointedly looked her up and down. “And by the looks of it, you’re not equipped to handle that.”
    She mirrored his scrutiny and scoffed. “What, and you are?” She gestured to the cairns beyond the trees. “Are you going to protect me as well as you protected them?”

    Calamity is here.
    The Goddess Hylia appointed but two children to prevent the end of the world. The powers they were promised don't come easily, and after years of failure, Princess Zelda can't help but wonder if Hylia chose wrong. It certainly doesn't help that the boy fate has tangled her with makes her seethe.

    [This story is set in a fusion of BotW/TotK, with a couple tweaks and some familiar faces'n'places from older games joining along the way!]

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    08 Jan 2026