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Of her lover’s many faults and arguable virtues, he's never late. So when 8 o’clock runs into 10, 12 ticks into 2, and Hermione's third note of rationally tempered concern flies unanswered back to sender, she panics.
“He's probably sick,” says Harry. “You both work in a hospital. The place where diseases live.”
“When has he ever,” says Hermione, “failed to advertise a twinge?”
Outside the Malfoy Manor gates, the grass is green.
Inside the fence—
“Go home,” says Harry gravely.
“Go to hell,” Hermione replies.
And because that is that, they plod up the drive and strain open the door to a landscape of ominous white.
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18 Feb 2025
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"All her growth was the conveying of a corpse of hope."
(From 'The Rainbow', D.H. Lawrence)This is a story about coming into one's own, a meditation on the twilight of girlhood and the violence of crash-landing into womanhood. Follow Hermione as she navigates through the quagmire: Saving the world, getting top grades, falling in love, lust, and a whole lot of trouble, and comes out of it hopefully (at least) partially sane.
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- Part 1 of Here We Go Round The Prickly Pear
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26 Aug 2024
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Hermione has found a way to get what she has wanted for years. It only took a bit of deception. Nothing illegal of course. Well, not really. It's a really good idea too. Too bad Draco Malfoy is doing his best to ruin it. Even if it's not on purpose.
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25 Oct 2023
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“What is it that you want?”
So many things.
“Books,” she said.
He watched her for a long time before he slowly shook his head.
“Try again.”
Hermione huffed, irritated beyond reason that he’d seen through it.
“I want somebody to read a book I told them about,” she said, picking at her nail bed. “Just because they want to feel close to me.”
It came out horribly vulnerable, a needy and naked thing that ought to be clothed. Confiding in Malfoy of all people probably wasn’t wise, but he was a man transformed, no longer hollowed out by fear. He didn’t haunt the halls in penance; he lived it through his interest in his Muggle-born students, in her.
If anybody was the ghost here, it was Hermione. She’d left behind her body once the War was over, severed the nerve endings of every emotion when it all became too much.
Draco leaned forward.
“Are you lonely, Granger?”
“Are you?” she shot back, scowling.
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21 Oct 2023
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Draco Malfoy's Halfway House for Wayward Hens by ChaosAndCrumpets
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Apr 2021
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A story about Draco Malfoy, Hermione Granger and 562 ex-battery hens.
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13 Oct 2023