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November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“And one last thing. Given that you just found out that we were a couple—I should probably cancel the proposal dinner I had planned for graduation night, right?”

Hermione glared at him.

“I’m kidding!” he laughed nervously as Hermione kept her gaze.

“Sort of…”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Well, we can talk about how I had a boyfriend for the past seven months and didn’t know it over dinner tonight,” she teased.

“Well I guess this would almost be our seven month anniversary. Eight o’clock tonight?”

“It’s a date.”

His lips found hers before he turned to walk out of the door.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
She felt relieved, because deep down, she didn’t want to separate after graduation. Them, together, felt right to her. And she knew that she was lying to herself when she said it was just a “phase.”

“I’m sorry, Mione. We should have talked about it.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Draco eyes grew brighter and his shoulders eased. He stood up and kissed her forehead.

“Impossible,” he smiled.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
His eyes were wider and his voice was softer now. He looked almost scared as he waited for an answer.

“No, of course not,” she said almost stuttering, with a bit of a blush on her cheeks. “I didn’t bring it up because I was unsure if you wanted to be with me.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“I think the real question is, do you have a problem with us being a couple?”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“There has been more than one occasion where my friends have referred to you as my ‘girlfriend’.”

“And you didn’t correct them?”

“‘Girlfriend’ has a nice ring to it.”

Draco leaned back in his chair and started chewing his quill again.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Afterwards we just fell into this routine that felt like we were a couple! Besides, people already kind of know. I thought it was obvious!”

“Obvious? What do you mean people already know? Who knows, Draco?”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“I thought that was a date!” I didn’t think we needed to explain ourselves! I knew early on that that I was in love with you and I figured that after the sixth time we hooked up that you at least tolerated me!
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Are you serious?! We have not had one conversation about this! When have we went on a date?”

“The night after Halloween when I took you to that spot you like in Diagon Alley?”

“You said you were taking me to dinner!”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“What do you mean, ‘are we not a couple’?”

Draco sat up and continued. “I mean—we have been hooking up and dating for almost seven months now. I’m with you exclusively. I hope you’re with me exclusively. I mean, that’s what a couple is, Hermione. We’re a couple.”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Hermione frantically turned to on of the first pages with the infamous picture of them.

“Oh, we look cute.”

“What?! You don’t care? People are talking, Draco! Ginny just told me we look like a couple!”

“Are we not a couple?” he asked, seemingly confused.

Hermione felt like she had whiplash.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
“Did you get your yearbook yet? Did you see it?” She asked with a rush in her voice. She found him leaning back in his chair like he always does with the top of his quill hanging out of his mouth.

“No, I was about to grab it now. What about it?”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Hermione left Ginny and took the yearbook back to their common area where she knew she would find Draco before his second class.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
But it wouldn’t hurt to get at least some of his thoughts on the matter right?

“I gotta go,” Hermione said, packing up her things.

“Mione, I was just teasing. I know you don’t see him that way. I just think he may have feelings for you—“

“Catch you later, Gin, bye!”
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
And they were a month away from graduation. She was going to start her life and career soon. She was slowly preparing herself to accept that this past year with Draco was simply just a happy phase in her life, and nothing more.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
But nothing was “formally” defined between them. And Hermione swore to herself that she wasn’t going to be the one to bring it up. If he really had feelings for her, he would have told her by now, right? He already had several months to do so.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Nevertheless, from there, they just fell into a routine of eating, sleeping, studying, and bathing together.

And then sleeping with each other again.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
But it didn’t. Several weeks of her shamefully ogling at him walking around with no shirt on and his shorts hanging too low and him “accidentally” walking in on her in the shower on multiple occasions definitely added to the rising tension between them.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
It was Halloween night. They were on duty and the only two people at Hogwarts not partying. Draco got the “bright idea” to drink an entire bottle of fire whiskey together and BOOM—one thing unsurprisingly led to another, and they both ended up tangled in her sheets with terrible hangovers.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
She would like to say that their “relationship,” or whatever they had, came from simple happenstance:
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Upon learning that they would be Head Boy and Girl the previous year, there seemed to be an unspoken vow that they would at least be cordial given their several years of animosity. And that meant that for the first part of the year, they didn’t speak at all.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Lastly, she and Draco weren’t even a couple! She didn’t know what they were really, and they never talked about it.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Second of all, she didn’t want to hurt Harry and Ron. Especially Ron.

Harry only tolerated Draco now, and Hermione knew that despite their “puppy romance” being only a month long during their fifth year, Ron still had some lingering feelings for her. She would be an arse to rub it in his face.
November 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM