This is so lyrically beautiful. I love the poetry which serves to bring them together (and will never look at Rowena Ravenclaw in the same way again).
Flushing, Hermione checks and double checks her translation, surprised at how fervently she needs it to be right.
This - when you discover something and you want - need - want it to be true. I could feel Hermione's need.
And this at the beginning:
Is that what a professor ought to say? Is she wearing the right type of grown-up smile? Hermione wonders how long it will be until she no longer feels like a child playing dress-up — a fraud.
SO TRUE! OMG, so accurate. Beautiful. I can imagine Hermione worrying about it and hiding it well.
Flushing, Hermione checks and double checks her translation, surprised at how fervently she needs it to be right.
This - when you discover something and you want - need - want it to be true. I could feel Hermione's need.
And this at the beginning:
Is that what a professor ought to say? Is she wearing the right type of grown-up smile? Hermione wonders how long it will be until she no longer feels like a child playing dress-up — a fraud.
SO TRUE! OMG, so accurate. Beautiful. I can imagine Hermione worrying about it and hiding it well.
This was a wonderful read.