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Rating:
Mature
Archive Warning:
Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Category:
F/M
Fandom:
Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Relationship:
Hermione Granger/Harry Potter
Characters:
Harry PotterHermione GrangerRon WeasleyGinny Weasley
Additional Tags:
Harry Potter Epilogue CompliantSlow BurnHeavy AngstEmotional InfidelityExtramarital AffairsInfidelityMental Health IssuesTraumaSuicidal ThoughtsDepressionThoughts of Self-harmAlcohol Abuse/AlcoholismImplied/Referenced Child AbusePoliticsMuggle/Wizard RelationsRacismMisogynyAuror Harry PotterMinistry of Magic Employee Hermione GrangerPOV Harry PotterOriginal Character(s)No Ron Weasley BashingNo Ginny Weasley BashingPost-War
Language:
English
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Published:2022-04-04Updated:2022-06-25Words:410,505Chapters:51/52Comments:233Kudos:1,783Bookmarks:411Hits:81,798
Unlike a Sister
madharmonyChapter 14: Promise Kept
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...maybe in our bodies there's a whole world of mythology? Maybe there exists some sort of reflection of the great and the small, the human body joining within itself everything with everything-stories and heroes, gods and animals, the order of plants and the harmony of minerals?- Olga Tokarczuk, Flights (2007)
A bright beam of light hit his eyes. Jolting slightly, Harry peered through heavy eyelids. The curtains were swaying. He'd left the windows open last night and a breeze was pushing the drapes apart, sending sporadic shocks of light through the bedroom.
Harry tried to retrieve his glasses, but found he could not. There was a weight on his arm: Ginny's head cradled in the crook of his shoulder. She was fast asleep, her lips slightly parted.
Turning carefully onto his side, he watched her. She was impossibly beautiful. Her thick lashes, almost translucent in the morning light, rested on her cheek like a butterfly's wing. Her skin was dusted with freckles, the result of many years playing on or reporting from the Quidditch pitch. Waves of rich crimson hair spread over his arm, smooth and sleek. So unlike...
No.
Hesitating, Harry lifted his free hand and trailed his fingertips from her bare shoulder to her hips. He looked at his pale hand on her paler skin and gently pressed. It left a red imprint that disappeared a moment later. Her skin porcelain once more.
Ginny stirred and Harry looked back at her face. Her delicate mouth twitched, but she continued to sleep.
He smiled. He loved her. He was sure of it.
There was a time in his life when he'd been wholly obsessed with the woman in his arms. In his sixth year, when he first started seeing her as more than Ron's little sister, his attraction had felt like a roaring monster in his chest. After Voldemort's fall, they started dating in earnest. Harry remembered this as a very happy time. Little talking and a lot of sex. He was still very much a boy then, and the rages of hormones and desire that he'd suppressed for so long finally overtook him. At times, it seemed he could never have enough of Ginny Weasley.
When he was twenty-one, she broke up with him for reasons he still didn't fully understand. It nearly destroyed him. It was then that he'd known that he loved her. How else could he explain the complete despondency that threatened to overtake him? He slept with many women after that, but none of them were her. Yet, they still saw each other too frequently. Within two years they had drawn back together, like magnets clicking into place.
He remembered learning she was pregnant with James, how he'd started crying right there in the kitchen at the Burrow. He was so happy then, he thought his heart might fail. She gave him James, then Albus, then Lily. She gave him all that he'd yearned for without knowing the words for it. A family of his own.
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Unlike a Sister (Harmione)
FanfictionNineteen years ago, Harry told Ron he saw Hermione as his sister. Now Hermione is in danger and Harry's feelings for her begin to change dramatically, jeopardizing everything he once knew. A post-war, Epilogue compliant fic. DISCLAIMER!: I do not ow...