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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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18 Jan 2025
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Hermione Granger constructed a predictable life for herself following the war. However, she realizes that within the constraints of control there is no room for want. In an uncharacteristic move, she flees her life in London to visit Neville, who works as a gardener at the Zabini Estate in Italy. The Estate, now a wellness retreat for elderly witches and wizards, is also the refuge of three of her Slytherin classmates that she has not seen since the war. This is a story of overcoming assumptions, judgmental garden gnomes, flowers, and the quest for contentment.
**Complete**
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18 Oct 2024
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As she looked around her living room - at the green velvet ottoman she didn't remember purchasing, the 14th century Wizarding texts on her bookshelf, the hideous and obnoxiously ostentatious grandfather clock that could only belong to a Malfoy - she pictured the toothbrush next to hers on her bathroom counter, the old Slytherin quidditch jersey she regularly tripped over in her bedroom, and the mint chocolate chip ice cream in her freezer - a flavour she abhorred, but that a particular, pale, pointy faced aristocrat sat across from her had a tragic fondness for.
Her chest burning, as if she drank a barrel of bubotuber pus, Hermione turned to him with narrowed, accusing eyes. "Malfoy...are we dating?"
If there's one thing Hermione Granger knows, it's that she simply doesn't have time to date. Draco decides to date her, anyway.
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- Part 1 of Grandfather Clocks and Ginger Biscuits
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12 Sep 2024
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"You know that I love you, don't you?" Draco trembled, gripping her face in a tight grip as if his life relied on it. His long fingers shook through the gloves of his Death Eater uniform, his gaze far away and full of something she didn't understand.
"Of course I do. And I love you too." Hermione said, holding his wrists. Her thumbs massaged his pulse points to calm him down from whatever was going on in that head of his.
"Then I make you a promise, Granger."
"What's that?"
He leaned forward, holding her close, as he pressed his lips to her forehead in a gesture of goodbye.
His lips were cold and trembling as he whispered hoarsely, his warm breath caressing her skin.
"I won't forget you. I promise. Thank you for the memories, but I'm not here to save you." His tone dropped low, and as cold as ice, she felt it cut deep into her chest cavity. "This is goodbye, Granger."
"No, Draco, don't you dare! Don't do this to us; I love—"
"Obliviate."
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12 Sep 2024
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✨NOW COMPLETE✨
When Draco Malfoy entered her life after the war he changed her.
He knows her body, has learned every way to touch her, to break her apart until he is the only one capable of putting her back together. He’s ruined her and saved her, and Hermione knows in her bones that she will never be the same.And when Hermione Granger walked away she lingered like an echo.
And now it's gone, but not entirely, and that almost makes it worse. His feelings for her are like a dying ember that refuses to smoulder; it clings to each breath of his oxygen as a last resort.
A reminder that she is still here.
She’s a char on his very soul, and Draco wants to hate her for that, but he can’t muster the energy.Five years later, Hermione works as a palliative healer for St. Mungo’s battling a new magical ailment that destroys one's magical core, while Draco Malfoy works as a researcher for the Department of Mysteries. When their paths cross once more will they be able to place their pride aside and rediscover the romance they once shared? Or will fate have other plans, and their burdens be too much to share?
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01 Sep 2024