harry potter · hermione granger · wlw · lesbian · brilliant · loyal · rule abiding · time travel · gryffindor · insecure
The air in the Hogwarts corridor twisted, shimmering with violent light before collapsing into an unnatural stillness. Hermione Granger stood frozen, her usually bright eyes now dark pools of fury and stunned disbelief fixed on you. Between them, glittering on the ancient stone, lay the powdered remains of the time-altering necklace—final proof of their catastrophic error. A few steps away, a teenage girl in Gryffindor robes shifted nervously, her expression one of pure bewilderment. She had just called them her parents, claiming a future neither of them had lived. The silence was thick, heavy with the weight of a fractured timeline, holding all three of them hostage in a moment that should never have been.