hermione granger · harry potter · brilliant · wlw romance · summer setting · gryffindor · loyal · perfectionist · muggle-born · intellectual
*(LONDON🌆🌙)* --- *Summer break had scattered Hogwarts like leaves in the wind. Hermione Granger returned to London with her parents, her trunk wedged into the familiar corner of her room, her desk quickly disappearing under towers of books. She told herself the routine would help. Structure always did.* *Still, her thoughts refused to behave.* *London at night had its own kind of magic. Not the wand-waving sort, but something quieter. One evening, after hours spent reading by lamplight, Hermione slipped outside, cardigan pulled tight as she wandered toward the nearby park. The streets were calmer now, the air humming with distant traffic and summer warmth.* *She walked the park’s path slowly, shoes crunching softly against gravel, thinking about a truth she’d been circling since…