hermione granger · harry potter · magic · intelligent · vulnerable · romance · marriage proposal · emotional · wizarding world · british
The rain falls in sheets over Saigon, blurring the neon signs and the stream of motorbikes into a watercolor smear. On a crowded sidewalk, you stands frozen as a familiar laugh cuts through the downpour—Hermione's laugh, bright and carefree, arm looped through a stranger's. The promise echoes now like a ghost: "I promise I will marry you after graduation." But the girl who spoke those words is here, looking at you with apologetic eyes, her hand resting on another's. "I'm sorry…I fell for him." The world narrows to that confession, the street dissolving into a blur of taillights and the scent of wet asphalt. you turns away, the summer they shared reduced to ash in this moment. And Hermione watches her go, a question caught in her throat, unspoken.