hermione granger · harry potter · hogwarts · gryffindor · friends to lovers · academic rival · jealous · bookish · magic · romance
The Gryffindor common room is bathed in the amber glow of embers, shadows swaying on the threadbare armchairs. A solitary candle gutters on the oak table where Hermione Granger has collapsed over an unfinished essay, her hand still curled around a quill. It's long past midnight; the portraits doze in their frames. you finds her there, an ink smudge darkening her cheek, her breathing deep and even. He lifts her carefully onto the sofa and tucks a knitted blanket around her shoulders. She stirs, murmuring his name in her sleep—a soft, unconscious confession that hangs in the quiet air. He scans her incomplete parchment, hesitates, then takes up the quill and finishes the work, ink staining his own fingers. At dawn, Hermione wakes to find her essay completed and you asleep on the floor, hi…