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A girl with wild hair and a suitcase full of books bursts into his life, and Harry can’t do anything else but fall. He falls into friendship, into love, into her tender arms and into the magic of it all. Only will it all be enough to save him?
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They find themselves lying down on their sides, their knees touching, Harry’s hand on Hermione’s waist and hers on his chest. The mood shifts so abruptly that he is giddy with it. For the first time ever, Harry thinks what it would be like to kiss Hermione. He licks his lips at the idea, and his heart beats faster. Only it won’t be fair on her, will it? He doesn’t want to break her heart more than he has to. Harry has already decided that he would die for her if he had to, and now he knows he has to. It’s okay, really. It’s okay.
He makes the thought of kissing Hermione as small as possible, until it’s smaller than a grain of sand, until it’s so tiny it’s barely there at all, and then he stuffs it into the deepest corner of his mind and builds a wall around it, just like Snape has taught him to.
“Who do you have a crush on?” Hermione whispers as she moves infinitesimally closer.
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14 Nov 2025
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Hermione Granger is just trying to get through her fifth year with her sanity intact. Of course, with OWLs on the horizon, this was going to be a daunting task already. Throw in an international championship, foreign guests crowding her study environment, and Cho Chang going spare over the cancellation of quidditch and this is shaping up to be a year to remember for all the wrong reasons. And now she has Harry Potter looking to buddy up to her seemingly in an effort to woo Cho away from her increasing infatuation with Cedric Diggory. It's sort of cute... In fact, he's rather very cute.
Oh, bother.
A slice-of-life story in which Hermione finds love against the backdrop of the Triwizard Tournament, Neville is the Boy-Who-Lived, and Harry Potter is Gryffindor's aloof seeker. Probably mostly Hermione's POV, but Harry might be mixed in later on.
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09 Nov 2025
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Harry wishes he could go back in time and tell his younger self—always so lost, desperately searching for a family and a place to belong—that the answer was there all along. Right there next to him. Post-Hogwarts HHr.
Illustrations by Hastyhand.
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01 Nov 2025
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Hermione accidentally discovers that Harry hates affection, leading her to awkwardly confess her love for him as a friend—only to have him bolt in panic. Over the summer, she’s left wondering if she’s pushed him too far, and what’s really going on with Harry.
Based on the HMS Harmony Love Language Fest Prompt: Words of Affirmation.
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15 Oct 2025
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She had asked him once before, in the frosted haze of a winter morning, to stay with her. To stay with her next to the frozen river and grow old together.
She liked to think that part of them had done as she asked, stopped where they were, turned away from the violence and terror and death waiting for them out in the world, and just lived. She hoped those parts, at least, had managed to find some sort of happiness in the twilight of their childhood.
When it all became too much, when she got scared enough to remember that, after all, they were just kids, she would imagine them together, draped in summer, laughing by the water. If she reached out, she could almost touch them.
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After almost losing Harry, Hermione decides that, if they are going to win the war against Voldemort, she will have to lead. The story begins at the Battle of Hogwarts. After the diadem is destroyed, everything changes.
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13 Oct 2025