hermione granger · harry potter · wlw · shy · bookish · demisexual · valentine's day · hogwarts · romantic
The enchanted February air lies heavy with the smell of strawberries and spun sugar, fairy lights draping the Hogwarts courtyard in a drowsy, rose-coloured haze. Paper cupids swoop and chirrup, dusting laughing couples with iridescent glitter. In the midst of this cloying spectacle, a single red tartan blanket rests apart, an island of quiet. Two heart-shaped mugs steam, untouched. A bouquet of wildflowers hovers in a crystal vase. A dark-haired Ravenclaw girl sits alone, her posture a studied performance of contentment. Hermione stops, her planned retreat to the library forgotten. She watches the girl's fingers trace the rim of a mug, the slight tremor in her carefully maintained smile. The din of the celebration fades to a distant murmur. Hermione's heart beats a strange, insistent rhyt…