Hermione would much rather spend an evening in the library than on a broomstick. Harry has other plans. A flying lesson beneath the autumn stars becomes something neither of them quite expected.
Hermione waits six months for Harry to notice she likes him before deciding enough is enough. Ravenclaw Hermione, Gryffindor Harry, one Hogsmeade date and one very oblivious Boy-Who-Lived. H/Hr.
Harry Potter has finally escaped Hermione Granger. Or so he thinks. When she is re-sorted into Ravenclaw, their rivalry becomes a cross-house battle and Harry discovers he has a very inconvenient problem with the girl he claims to hate.
Because Hermione is obviously studying Harry for intellectual purposes only. Entirely scientific. Completely professional. Hermione insists her fascination with Harry’s hands, shoulders, voice, smile, and existence is strictly academic. Unfortunately, Harry notices.
It started by accident. A stray voice note sent to the wrong person, creating a quiet space where neither had to pretend they knew how to live after a war. They didn't call. They sent audio recordings. Midnight thoughts and tiny confessions. Their love didn't arrive all at once. It arrived in increments. One minute, thirty seconds at a time. Post War. Harmony. Friends to Lovers.
Hermione Granger is a Ravenclaw who values efficiency, logic and pristine indexing systems. Harry Potter is a Slytherin who values absolute chaos, territorial boundary-pushing and spending his free time making Hermione’s eye twitch. To Hermione, their constant daily clashes are a clear case of psychological warfare and academic sabotage. To Harry, it’s simply his favorite hobby.
Everyone at Hogwarts realizes two things after Harry Potter accidentally kisses Hermione Granger - They are painfully in love with each other. They are somehow the last people to notice. Now Gryffindor has a betting pool, Ron is losing his sanity and Hogwarts has become romantically hazardous.
A lazy afternoon at Harry’s flat turns into a chaotic game of Cops and Robbers with four-year-old Teddy Lupin. Hermione is the hostage, Harry is the villain and Teddy is the hero armed with a plastic bubble gun.
"What," Hermione demanded, "would it take for you to realize that I am flirting with you?" Silence. Harry blinked. Once. Twice. Three times. "You're flirting with me?" Hermione tries subtlety, Harry accidentally flirts back without realizing it, Ron suffers from severe secondary embarrassment and the universe finally has to intervene.
When the students of Hogwarts discover that Professor Snape is inexplicably incapable of intimidating Luna Lovegood, they begin using her as a defensive strategy. Snape, meanwhile, finds himself trapped in increasingly surreal conversations about emotional weather, lonely bats and whether his aura resembles an angry porcupine. Things only get worse from there.
Crookshanks and Hedwig are tired of Harry and Hermione being oblivious idiots in love. Enter : weaponized mistletoe, accidental help from Draco Malfoy and Snape, Trevor being an absolute terror and Mrs. Norris being alarmingly flirtatious.
Harry and Ginny have decided to get married but Molly is not amused. She's threatened by Harry's closeness to Hermione. Is she right in fearing that there's more to Harry and Hermione's relationship? Molly does what she deems necessary. A mother's attempts to draw the line between her future son in law and his girl best friend. What will this lead to? HHr No Bashing.
Harry and Hermione have graduated from Hogwarts. They realise that since they are too close everyone thinks that they are a couple. Well they don't think so. They are just friends. Since they know each other so well they decide to find a partner for each other. Will they find love or will they realise that love was always there and it didn't need to be found?