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Hermione Granger met Harry Potter when she was in Year 5 at Swinwearte Primary School. He was the new boy with the wild black hair and the gap-toothed grin who made his friend laugh and carried a sketchbook everywhere. She noticed him. She didn't think he noticed her back.
But Harry did notice. He always had.
Year after year, he built a life around her—holding the bus seat, staying on past his stop, walking her to the corner of Maple and Oak, stepping into her world without asking permission. Hermione experienced it all without naming it. She noticed. She filed it away. She told herself they were friends.
They were friends.
Just friends who ended up at the same university. Friends who wrote letters and met for dinner and walked through bookshops on rainy afternoons. Friends who taught each other things that probably weren't just friendly. Friends everyone else seemed to think belonged to each other.
Hermione knew better.
Or did she?
A Muggle AU spanning primary school through graduate school. Initially planned as a one-shot, but I'm not going to meet the deadline if I don't post right.this.minute. as a multi-chapter fic!
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23 May 2026
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Their friends have tried every trope in the book: only one bed, forced proximity, childhood friends, mutual pining, even co-parenting Crookshanks. But despite living half their lives entangled, Harry and Hermione remain firmly un-romantic.
Until Lavender Weasley suggests the last resort: fake marriage.
Now, tricked into attending a couples-only tropical retreat, complete with enchanted hot tubs, intimacy rituals, and enough sensual food play to make a house-elf blush, Harry and Hermione will have to keep up the act. Or possibly stop pretending altogether.
Written for the Harmony Out of the Ordinary Fest, this is a trope-twisting, resort-core love story about crossing the line between best friends and soulmates… with the help of edible shower gel.
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25 Apr 2026
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Harry’s in full-blown confessional mode—bringing Hermione breakfast in bed, trailing her through the Ministry like a very attentive shadow, and complimenting her elbows with alarming sincerity. She’s certain he’s been accidentally dosed with the same potion that has Draco Malfoy composing haiku for Theo Nott.
Harry insists he’s just ready to be honest.
What’s real? And what happens if it doesn’t wear off?Written as part of HMS Harmony's A Fool's Fest. Prompt "Strange What Desires Can Make Foolish People Do" with apologies to Master William Shakespeare on the occasion of his 461st birthday (or as near as we can tell.)
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- Part 5 of Tell Me a Story But True
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24 Apr 2026
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Five years ago, Hermione Granger left Britain, rebuilt her life in New York, and learned how to live with wanting things she could not have.
Five years ago, Harry Potter married, tried to do the right thing, and kept a secret that shaped every choice he made.
Now, when an accident brings Hermione back to Britain—and into Harry’s life again—she discovers the distance between them was never quite what she thought.
Written for the Blimey Hermione Hag Fest- a "Fluff And..."
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23 Feb 2026
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Veela maturity hits Hermione Granger hard: sudden allure, unwanted suitors, and the creeping fear that no one supports her work for the right reasons anymore.
Except Harry Potter hasn't changed a bit. No poetry, no hovering, no sudden declarations—just the same steady presence that's been there since Hogwarts.
When the truth slips out, it's not the magic talking.
It's been years in the making.
And it's definitely not the Veela thing...
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23 Feb 2026