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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
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Happy Evil Author Day
A regime patrol picked up a wilder mage, first in a while -- Hermione.
The Order of the Phoenix needs to rescue the wilder and so send an agent -- Harry
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15 Feb 2026
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At Hogwarts, there’s a spell everyone’s talking about.
A timer you can summon at will. A countdown to your soulmate.
Harry Potter and Hermione Granger never meant to test it. But when The Timer reveals something neither of them expected, it forces them to confront truths they’ve spent years avoiding—about each other, about themselves, and about what “soulmate” might actually mean.
As they circle each other across a set of three days, three years in a row, they test boundaries and cross lines, name and misname what they feel, and struggle to come to terms with a truth that refuses to stay quiet.
Because some bonds don't wait until you're ready—and some people are worth sacrificing everything you know about love, loyalty, and the shape of a heart.
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12 Feb 2026
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Widow Lily Evans Potter has lived a long, full life—one that includes a marvelous son, a daughter-in-law she adores, and six much-loved grandchildren.
On a quiet late-summer morning above the apothecary she runs with Hermione, Lily bakes scones, plays cards, and listens as her family drifts in and out of her kitchen.
This "Lily Lives" AU is a fluffy snapshot of love found in the steady joy of being Mum and Nan to people Lily deeply, madly loves.
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gifted in gratitude for all the wonderful tales Lysander crafts for this fandom
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05 Feb 2026
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Harry Potter has finally found the stability he deserves. A job as Head Healer, a comfortable relationship with a girl who checks off all the proverbial boxes, drinks once a week with his best friend, and a sense of normalcy. However, when a high-profile patient comes under his care, his long-fought-for peace is shattered. And in one evening, the carefully crafted life he built comes crashing down as estranged friends retake centre stage, old enemies are re-evaluated, and feelings that had lain dormant (and were never properly evaluated in the first place) for years are revived.
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Sometimes you have to burn your world down to make it better, especially when Hermione Granger is holding the torch.
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01 Feb 2026
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Five years after the war, Harry Potter should finally be at peace. Instead, his sleep is haunted by half-remembered dreams and a sense of loss he can’t explain. When an international magic seminar brings Hermione Granger to London, their paths cross for the first time as adults. The connection between them is immediate, unsettling, and impossible to ignore. What begins as curiosity deepens into something neither of them can rationalize, even as fragments of memory and magic surface in ways that feel older than this lifetime.
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26 Jan 2026
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Doug wondered if he’d ever get the goofy smile off his face.
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07 Jan 2026
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Smut.
That's it. That's the fic.
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- Part 3 of as is (fragments)
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07 Jan 2026
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Kate versus the internet.
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07 Jan 2026
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Neither Duty Nor Honour by beakybeakybeaky
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice (1995), Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
04 Oct 2011
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Fitzwilliam Darcy was four and twenty when he married Anne de Bourgh. In doing so, he fulfilled his duty to his family. Life with Anne was comfortable, if not joyous. However, a year into their marriage she died fulfilling what she saw as her duty - bearing him a child.
Fitzwilliam Darcy was eight and twenty when he accompanied his oldest friend to Hertfordshire with his sister and daughter. It was widely known that he had no intention of marrying again. His duty was, after all, already fulfilled. But that firmly held conviction will not hold long against the charms of one Elizabeth Bennet.
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07 Jan 2026
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Every Expectation of Pleasure by charminglygrouped
Fandoms: Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice & Related Fandoms, AUSTEN Jane - Works
24 Aug 2024
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A miscommunication of a marital nature.
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02 Jan 2026
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Scottish tradition says the first person to cross your threshold on Hogmanay sets the tone for the year ahead.
Hermione Granger is ready for a quiet turning—steady, whole, and unafraid of standing still.
She doesn’t expect luck to knock at her door.
A liminal New Year’s Eve fic about first footing, recognition, and welcoming what’s meant to stay.
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31 Dec 2025
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Breaking the Ice by Elastic_Heart31 for CrediblyDisavowed
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Feb 2026
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Hermione has been assigned to stay in a remote cabin in Finland to collect a rare flower over the course of a full lunar cycle. Her mission partner is newly graduated Harry Potter, the son of senior Order Members Lily and James. A boy that she’s always heard about, but doesn’t know.
She finds herself irritated that she can't stop noticing that he's rather good looking, something she is determined to ignore.
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30 Dec 2025
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Talk to Me, Hear Me, See Me by Aeyliana for BananaCarrotFive
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Jan 2026
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Hermione makes the miraculous discovery of communication.
And it changes things.
“So, we’re good?” He asked as if there was any doubt. Hermione smiled back, though something inside her felt a little touch of longing. Ignoring the strange stirring, she nodded.
“Of course, we’re good. And… we should talk more.”
Harry’s nod in response felt like a private victory.
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30 Dec 2025
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One winter night after barely evading capture by snatchers, Hermione decides she's done running. She knows what Harry is and refuses to let him sacrifice his life. The only way to save him is to rebel against everyone else's the expectations and find their own solution.
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29 Dec 2025
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Fifty years after the battle for Hogwarts, Harry and Hermione have decided it's time to retire and enjoy their lives and family. When a strange magic stirs they realize there is one last mystery they need to solve together. One that was put into motion the day Voldemort was defeated.
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Bookmarked by Benthifer
28 Dec 2025