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Harry and Hermione have been best friends, joined at the hip since they met on that platform five years ago. They were young kids, wide-eyed and bushy tailed. Now, they're starting their sixth year at Hogwarts with more drama than they know what do with. Harry cherishes Hermione, he truly does– but for the life of him, he cannot seem to understand why his best friend insists on dating absolute twats. When Hermione is left heartbroken once more, Harry is there for her. Always. Forever, really.
And it's all okay. Really. Harry would not change one thing about them.
Well.
Except one thing.
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i know you by your heart (& i will call you by your name) by thecarnival
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Dec 2025
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Truly, in her opinion, the whole ‘hearing your soulmate's thoughts’ was rubbish. And needlessly bothersome. She’s always been against the idea of it, and even more so when she had her first experience. Like all witches and wizards, she first heard bits and pieces of her soulmate’s thoughts when she was sixteen. And it has been a struggle ever since. Especially when her soulmate seems hellbent on letting her know that they exist.
‘Now if I could just keep the peace for another hour...’
‘… I wonder who’s gonna show up to the Quidditch game tomorrow..’Merlin, Hermione hated having a soulmate.
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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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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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05 Feb 2026
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When Hermione Granger’s online hobby fiction is flagged by the Department of Magical Authenticity and Digital Integrity for being “too emotionally plausible to be human,” she becomes the subject of an official Authenticity Audit.
Harry Potter, Head Auror, is assigned to determine whether the Minister for Magic is, in fact, a person.
Unfortunately for bureaucratic efficiency—and fortunately for humanity—they’re married.
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26 Oct 2025
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After several years as Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger is used to celebrating her birthday in relative obscurity. But this year, fellow professor Harry Potter actually makes an effort.
The seemingly innocuous Rite of Equal Measures inside his gift, however, is not just a ritual of balance and calm to be completed in the days before the Equinox. Instead, it delivers an unshakable tether, the subjects of which are experiencing nothing that could be described as "equilibrium" in front of a castle full of witnesses.
Written for Hermione's Haven HavenHarvest Fest.
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• The Forgotten Equinox RitualWhile reading an old book on magical folklore, Hermione discovers a reference to an ancient equinox ritual that has been lost to time. When she attempts to recreate it in a controlled environment, she accidentally awakens a slumbering guardian spirit bound to the changing seasons. Now, with the equinox fast approaching, Hermione must find a way to complete the ritual properly—or risk disrupting the natural balance of magic.
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19 Oct 2025
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Anne Shirley-Cuthbert sends more than the town up in flames with her organised action. Something in Gilbert Blythe’s heart is set ablaze, leaving Winifred to sit alone in the ashes.
The moment Gilbert tells her the story is the moment she should’ve known — for him, there was only ever Anne.
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18 Apr 2022