☕ ELEVEN. [video]

[femininehermes]

[Hermione is in her room, sitting in front of what looks like a small shrine. Around her, there is a mixture of items placed in a semi-circle. Her hair is down - for once - and it is neatly curled against her shoulders (thanks to a few handy spells).]

This is the only way I can remember you. [She closes her eyes and smiles faintly to herself.]

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[video]

[calamitousnaiad]

[Verity's expression is soft. It's clear this girl is missing someone too.]

There are a lot of good memories to hold onto. I like to remember one afternoon in a little rowboat on the Thames with my... well, he wasn't quite my fiance yet, then. He rowed us under a willow tree. I was terribly tired and he told me to rest. He looked so dashing in his boater hat.

[She smiles, part smitten and part heartbroken, though the balance of her emotions leans more toward content than sad.]

He watched me sleep. Just like Harriet and Lord Peter.

[video]

[femininehermes]

[That's putting it lightly. It feels like her heart is breaking every time she thinks about them. Which is often.]

Romantic. [Hermione murmurs, a pained expression darkening her features.] The one I... [love] have feelings for would never be that charming. [Then again, that's one of the reasons she likes him.]

[video]

[calamitousnaiad]

[Oh dear, she hadn't really meant to upset the girl.]

Only rather accidentally romantic. And of course I was babbling like an idiot the entire time. He actually had to get me away from the people we were staying with so I wouldn't babble on at them and blow our cover.

But a lack of charm can be charming on it's own, don't you think? Ned isn't exactly naturally suave but there's something rather... adorable about it.

...

What's he like? The one you have feelings for?

[video]

[femininehermes]

[It's not her fault.]

Blow your cover? Were you spying? [Hermione smiles faintly.] I prefer him to be himself too. When he tries to be charming, it never works.

[Tucking a curl behind her ear, she takes a moment to think.]

He's...reckless, temperamental, quick to judge and completely blind to what's going on around him. Yet... [Here that "I've got it bad for him" sigh?] He's brave and strong and surprisingly intelligent when he stops and uses his brain.

[voice]

[moarnomsplz]

My most pleasant memories of my friend-zuh are the breathing-ing spaces between battles.

[Ax has a feeling this human girl will know what he means.]

[voice]

[femininehermes]

I know what you mean. You have to hang onto those moments somehow.

[voice]

[moarnomsplz]

They are what makes the fighting-ing worth it.

I doubt we are from the same ree, reality, but it does not appear to be unusual here for people to be brought, braw-tuh, from wars.

[voice]

[femininehermes]

Yes, they are. [Her voice wavers.]

No, I've noticed that too. I wonder if war somehow prepares you for Anatole?

[video]

[wotchesyou]

I was rather fond of just sitting around at Grimmauld, just talking and the like.

[video]

[femininehermes]

I enjoyed that too. [She smiles sadly.] Do you remember those little pies Mrs. Weasley used to make?

[video]

[wotchesyou]

Yeah, I do. She was always so insistent on making sure we were all well fed. I miss Molly, I miss her cooking too. She always let me help.

[video]

[sonvisage]

The first time I really listened to music, and later, sitting on the floor...

...with Remus. Listening to...

[wait, that one's painful now, so she changes direction]

Bringing Tunny--- [...]

---bringing Gluttony home for the first time.

[Which reminds her, she needs to get Tunny back.]

[All her best memories are here. At least the ones she's sure are hers.]