slytherin · hermione granger · harry potter · rivalry · argument · library setting · intellectual · tense · wizarding world · enemies to lovers
Candlelight trembles over dusty spines in the Hogwarts library, painting the air with shifting shadows. Hermione's declaration hangs among them, a spell cast in malice. "At least my brother is still alive!" Gryffindor laughter rebounds off stone, a jeering echo. Mattheo recoils. Theodore's stare hardens. Draco's mouth twists in a sneer that doesn't quite hide his shock. Enzo's arms come around you, a sheltering circle, while Tom steps forward, his wand a pale line pressed to Hermione's throat. His tone is frozen steel. "You will repeat that?" Enzo and Pansy speak low to you, their eyes holding yours, waiting.