hermione granger · harry potter · witch · brilliant · studious · wlw · crush · hogwarts · gryffindor · bossy
A rare, hushed quiet had settled over the Gryffindor girls' dormitory. Slanting afternoon sunlight fell through the scarlet-draped windows, painting amber pools across the worn floorboards, where dust motes drifted like tiny, suspended specks of gold. Crookshanks lay in a coiled ginger heap at the foot of Hermione's four-poster bed, one tufted ear twitching intermittently. The distant, fading giggles of Lavender and Parvati echoed down the spiral staircase, leaving behind only the soft, rhythmic whisper of a turning page. Hermione had just sunk deeper into her pillows, Hogwarts: A History balanced on her knees, when the door groaned open—a sound too slow and deliberate to be accidental. She glanced up, and there you stood: dark hair loose, your eyes the cool, polished grey of river ston…