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now i hang from your lips (like the gardens of babylon) by cosmic_kate
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Aug 2024
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Far in the east, deep in the desert, a king once erected a vast garden of greenery for his beloved queen. She was homesick, longing for some time or place far, far away, with rolling green hills and wet, humid summers.
Later, much, much later, historians would say it couldn’t be real. That it couldn’t be more than a myth, or poetry. The architecture was too advanced for the time. The irrigation systems were state of the art. And the beauty of it—exquisite, the poets said—was far too good to be true.
Hermione knows better. She knows the hanging gardens of Babylon very well did exist. She knows this because she knows magic. She knows this because she was there.
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22 Apr 2026
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Draco looked miserably at the low ceilings and stone walls of what were apparently going to be his living quarters at Hogwarts. The rooms were minuscule. He made one last effort. “I understand that living in the castle is a tradition here, but professors at Beauxbatons—”
Granger glared at him, arms crossed and hip cocked. In her sensible heels, she was exactly his height, yet they did not see eye to eye. “Let me guess, Professor Malfoy: you skied down to the campus every morning from your mansion above the clouds? And a dozen elf-made croissants awaited you in an office the size of a ballroom?”
“Oh, you’ve been, then?”
“This is your suite. Happy housewarming. Goodbye.” She whirled away, heels clicking on the stone floor.
Draco was left grumbling to no one, a state he found himself in after nearly every interaction with the Director of Hogwarts.
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In which Draco Malfoy obtains his dream job at Hogwarts, and Hermione Granger obtains a Problem.
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26 Dec 2025
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Hermione Granger’s Self-Defense Class for Self-Reliant Witches by parrafo
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Feb 2025
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Hermione gains an unwanted assistant for her self-defense class and gets more than she bargained for. Come for the bickering and banter, stay for Draco's forearms and Hermione's library obsession.
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“Look, Potter,” Draco said, “I either get the month off work, or I have to quit. My family responsibilities come first.”
With a sigh that turned into an exasperated groan, Head Auror Harry tapped his quill thoughtfully. Then his green eyes narrowed with a sly look.
“I’ll approve it, Malfoy,” he said, “on one condition.”
“I’m not sure you’re in a position to—”
“Until May, you’ll be aiding Senior Undersecretary Granger with her self-defense classes.”
Draco and Hermione gasped in horror simultaneously.
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25 Dec 2025
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In her figure drawing class, Hermione is paired with the last person she expected: Draco Malfoy, who is still imprisoned.
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He pointed the end of his pencil at her. How are you? he said.
“Fine,” she replied. “You?”
The corner of his mouth pulled up. Then he drew something quickly in his sketchbook—a spiky building on a rocky island in the middle of the sea. Azkaban. He gave a hearty thumbs up.
She covered her face, embarrassed. Peeking through her fingers, she saw that he was laughing, of all things.
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24 Dec 2025
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The Lady Doth Protest (in Front of Embassies) by YankingAwry
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
14 Jul 2017
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It's gym period and M.J.'s bench-pressing The Second Sex while deep in speculative thought. So, the way Peter's shirt stretches over his biceps and shoulder blades is not a joke. On the other hand, his eyebrows are always in the middle of an identity crisis, and his lips are kinda thin. His smile, though--really, really nice. First class, one might say. A solid, toothpaste advertisement smile.
Yeah, M.J's not doing great service to Simone de Beauvoir right now.
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- Part 1 of The Lady Doth Protest
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18 Nov 2025