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  1. Public Bookmark 39

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    He’d once thought the war had taken everything from him.
    In that quiet morning, he realized it had given him everything.

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    Two years after the war, Harry and Hermione have everything they once fought for — peace, safety, a life without fear.
    But in the quiet, they discover the cruelest truth of all: they were built for the storm.

    Now that the storm has passed, something isn’t working.

    A story of distance, reconciliation, and learning how to stop mistaking survival for love.

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    19 Oct 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    After the war, everyone thought peace would mean healing. It doesn’t.
    Ginny waits for a love slipping through her fingers.
    Harry carries ghosts he can’t name and feelings he can’t face.
    Hermione keeps everyone together, never realising she’s quietly breaking apart.
    And Ron — he’s watching it all happen, loving people who can’t quite love him back the same way.

    It’s the story of what comes after the happy ending — the silences, the longing, the things left unsaid.
    Told through each of their eyes, In the Time It Takes to Breathe is about love in all its quiet, aching forms — a love that lingers, even when you try to let it go.

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    19 Oct 2025

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    Half Blood Prince Rewrite (kind of)

    Harry didn’t know when he started seeing Hermione differently, but when she asks Ron to Slughorn's party, he's forced to face a jealousy he can't ignore.

    What begins as a crack in their foundation soon deepens as both Harry and Hermione are forced to confront feelings they've long denied. He's jealous of Ron, she's jealous of Ginny, and a series of charged encounters pushes them toward a truth neither is prepared for. In a year defined by secrets and a looming war, the biggest battle might be the one for each other's hearts. As they navigate their own messy feelings, they must discover if the one person they've always taken for granted is the one they can't live without.

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    27 Aug 2025

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    When the time comes, Harry Potter really wants to be a good lover. The only problem? He can’t trust anyone to show him the ropes without risking his face splashed across the Daily Prophet.

    Until his best friend makes him an offer he can’t refuse.

    “He swallowed. ‘Why?’

    Her voice softened. ‘Because it’s a gift I can give you. Something only I can. And because… I want to. I want to be the one who helps you feel safe. Desired. I want to be the person you remember helped you figure it out.’”

    Set during the long, quiet summer after eighth year, The Summer Between is the story of how Harry and Hermione — best friends, battle-forged, tender and tangled — decide to explore intimacy as practice, never expecting it to become the one thing neither of them can surrender.

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    27 Aug 2025

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    Hermione Granger has spent the last few months trying very hard not to let her best friend’s increasingly unfair forearms derail her academic ambitions.

    She’s doing a decent job of it, all things considered...right up until Harry Potter shows up at her potion station after practice, golden and grinning, and asks for just a bit of her evening. A special request.

    She hasn’t showered. She smells like dragon bile and regret. But when he says her name like that...soft and urgent and crooked-smiled... well, there’s really only one answer she can give.

    After all, being at Harry’s beck and call has always sort of been her thing.

    Written for Harmony Summertime Madness

     

    Prompt: After a bad day, Harry drags Hermione up to the Room of Requirement. She is feeling super awkward about it because she's been busy enough she hasn't exactly preened for Harry like she usually does. But Harry just wants to build a pillow fort and snuggle anyway, so it all works out.

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    26 Aug 2025