#post-war
Fic Rec #740
steady feet don’t fail us nowbytaizi
Hermione x Harry Potter x Ron Weasley
“Nearly there,” Hermione is telling him softly. “You’ve done it, Harry, you’ve done so well. We’re nearly there, and then you can rest.”
“Hell, you can check out now if you’d like, mate,” says Ron, with a lightness he doesn’t really feel. He’s counting Harry’s heartbeats, matching his breaths, compiling this proof that Harry came back alive because it’s so much a miracle Ron almost can’t believe it. “I’ll carry you to the castle like a proper knight, and everyone will be too impressed with your victory to take the piss out of you.”
“Ron, honestly,” says Hermione.
Harry’s shoulders shake, the ghost of a laugh, and then the woods don’t seem quite as dark.
COMPLETE: Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,008
Fic Rec #758
Hermione x Draco Malfoy
They swore it was over… but in the dark, loneliness of the night, resolve is hard to come by…
COMPLETE: Chapters: 3 - Words: 10,188
Fic Rec #756
Hermione x Draco Malfoy
Normalcy was an unrealistic ambition when everyone must return to Hogwarts for their final year after the war. The pretence impossible to continue as all are called on to save the wizarding world - yet again, by law, this time.
WIP as of 30/01/19
Fic Rec #753
Hermione x Draco Malfoy
Sometimes hatred is the only way to find out who you really are.
COMPLETE: Chapters: 1 - Words: 13,682
Keith works out at public gyms so he has alot of people taking pictures of him
Random “Post War” outtake of the day
Harry: “Is it bad that I’m a bit weirded out that Snape is dating?”
Hermione: “I think it’s perfectly normal. I mean you went from having an antagonistic rapport with him to the discovery of his true allegiance and love for your mother, which may have made you unconsciously cast him in a sort of idealized somewhat paternal role in your mind, given his feelings for your mother and the fact that he always protected you. To be honest, it could also be that you may feel a bit guilty in regards to all the sacrifices you now know he’s made to keep you safe, and his new relationship sort of gets in the way of the ‘martyr’ figure you created in your mind to deal with your own feelings of guilt in regards to him.”
Harry: “Can you please not psychoanalyze me?”
Hermione: “Then stop acting like Snape’s new relationship is somehow like your mum and dad broke up and you’re adjusting to the fact that your dad has a new girlfriend.”
Harry: “What are you talking about, I don’t see Snape as a father figure.”
Hermione: “No, you just really need his approval, constantly rebel against him and feel ambivalent about the fact that he may have got over his love for your mother.”
Harry: “I hate when you do that.”
Hermione: “What? Point out facts?”
Harry: “I should have asked Ron.”
Hestia Jones is the first Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to break the curse of the position.
She spends her first year, the year after the war, mostly accessing what the students already know and doing her best to repair the damage that a year either under the Carrows or in various degrees of hiding had done to a group of teenagers. Neville Longbottom, who has the best grasp on the students’ existing knowledge, helps her prepare to a curriculum.
She’s competent and well-liked, trying to bring love and empathy into her classroom each day, even with the school in a delicate balance. No one seems to know who to trust - it’s not easy to spend school days at the scene of so much death and destruction, and no one has an easy time that first year. Not Hestia, not the seasoned teachers, and not the students.
At the start of her second year of teaching, though, the students and staff stop holding their breath, and begin to treat her as something permanent within the school. She teaches for over a decade, leaving her mark as the first Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to gain tenure in half a century.