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Harry and Hermione share a quiet moment a few months after the war. There, Harry is finally given the chance to do something he should have done all those nights ago in Malfoy Manor. Hermione lets him.
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Months after the war, Harry searches and yearns for a place where he feels at peace and at home. So, he turns and runs back to the one place that has ever come close: Hogwarts. But when he does step back into its halls, he quickly realises that something has shifted– too obvious for him to ignore, too loud for him to force away.
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The one where Harry searches for home
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November 9, 1992
Harry and Hermione are in their Second Year. Their friendship, though new, is something they both cherish greatly. Or so Hermione thought.
On the morning of his first game as seeker, Harry has resorted to ignoring her completely. Hermione would like to know why.
PROMPT: First fight and reconciliation
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- Part 1 of a world of firsts
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Slightly canon divergent vignettes, snippets, and scenes of all the firsts that make up Harry and Hermione's friendship and romance over the years.
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Her parents are in the kitchen of The Bear. Where else would they be? Sydney’s dicing onions, Carmen’s grating garlic. For a moment Eulalia just stands there in the doorway, watching them, letting how much she loves them fill up her whole heart. Her mother says something, too quiet for Eulalia to hear, and her father laughs, and nudges her shoulder with his own. He’s always touching her. When she was a child, Eulalia thought everyone’s parents were like that, putting their hands on each other and kissing and talking in a language even their children don’t fully understand. It was only when she got older she realized how untrue that was. She’s lucky, she knows that now. Most people are planted in dust and expected to grow.
Sydney’s baby grows up.
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- Part 3 of child with a child pretending
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“Claire left me a voicemail last night b-...before shit went down. Told me that she loved me.”
His voice is barely above a whisper like he’s telling her a secret that nobody else can hear.
“And do you? You… you know…love her?”
His eyes, blue as Lake Michigan, look straight into hers.
“I don’t think I do.”
She drops his hand at that moment, she needs to get out of this room.
What does he mean by that, and why does he keep staring at her? What the fuck is that about?“Good talk, chef.”
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- Part 1 of Simmer; Melt
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23 Jul 2026
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She’s still hunched over beside the dumpsters, hands on her knees, heaving up air because there’s nothing left in her stomach. She reaches out a shaky hand to give him a thumbs up. “Seriously, man, I’m fine. All good.”
Something inside him twists and squeezes brutally. Is this what this place is doing to her? “For fuck’s sake, Syd. I’m giving you a ride home.”
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22 Jul 2026
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“I just asked if I almost ran into you the other day. I think I did. I just wanted to say sorry, again.”
“I don’t remember.” She’s got a red solo cup caught between her teeth, and the words bounce off whatever liquid’s inside of it.
“Oh. Well, sorry.”
“You’re apologizing for an almost run-in that I don’t even remember right now?”
Or, on the anniversary of his brother's death, Carmy meets Sydney at a frat party.
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20 Jul 2026
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Carmy ran warm. She saw him strip himself of his woolen jacket and brave Midwestern cold with bare arms and miraculously be without any goosebumps more times than she could count. He surely didn’t need the fuzzy packets of warmth, but he had them. Undoubtedly, he had them for her. Sydney would complain about her constant cold fingers and dry knuckles often, she shouldn’t have been surprised Carmy wasn’t just listening but cataloging the facts about her into some place in his brain. And yet—
It made her ache, to be thought of like that.
Or, when Carmy and Sydney finally start dating, everyone knows. Everyone, that is, except for Sydney.
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- Part 1 of the sundays between