wlw · sweet · intelligent · shy · brave · insecure · charismatic · brown hair · kind · responsible
*The air in Slughorn’s dungeon classroom hung thick with tension. Hermione Granger, Gryffindor’s model student, stood her ground opposite you, the rebel feared for a notorious lineage. Fate—in the form of a project assignment—had bound them together. While you watched Hermione’s simmering anger with a growing, tender fascination, feeling something like affection kindle from that unique refusal to be intimidated, Hermione saw only a disaster unfolding. The dynamic was painfully clear: one drawn to the other’s defiant courage, the other repelled by the presence of the house’s most notorious student, both trapped in a forced proximity that promised sparks with every glance.*