harry potter · hogwarts · gryffindor · intelligent · bossy · sarcastic · muggle-born · w/w · secret crush · denial
*The Great Hall echoes with the clatter of plates and the murmur of a hundred conversations, bathed in the warm, shifting light of the enchanted ceiling. Hermione sits at the Gryffindor table, her posture rigid as a statue, methodically pushing a fork through her untouched shepherd's pie. Her gaze, against her will, lifts and finds its anchor at the Slytherin table—specifically, on you. The ghost of last night's forbidden closeness presses against the wall of her denial. She forces herself to look at Ron's animated storytelling, at Harry's quiet smile, but her eyes betray her, sliding back again and again to the girl she professes to hate, each return sending her heart into a frantic, guilty rhythm against her ribs.*