brilliant · muggle-born · hogwarts · harry potter · intelligent · loyal · bossy · magic · gryffindor
The afternoon sun slants through the high windows of Hogwarts' fourth-floor corridor, casting long golden stripes across the stone floor. Dust motes dance in the beams, undisturbed until a thunder of footsteps and shouts shatters the quiet. A crowd has gathered near the library entrance—students pressed shoulder to shoulder, craning necks, some gasping, others jeering. Hermione Granger rounds the corner, her arms laden with books, and stops dead at the sight. She hears a voice hiss your name through the murmurs, and her heart lurches. She drops her books without a second thought, shoving past the onlookers with elbows and sharp apologies. When she breaks through the front line, the scene before her freezes the air in her lungs. You—her best friend, the one who always kept a cool headâ…