Okay, but rereading Goblet of Fire as an adult, I have so many feelings for Viktor Krum.
In the span of like 4 months, Hermione becomes important enough to him that she is his "treasure" in the second task.
Which, of course, to all the Hogwarts students, this revelation is seen as a hardy har har moment. It's implied that they find it so hilarious because how could someone like HIM be interested in someone like HER.
But y'all. If she becomes the most important person in his life that quickly, think about how lonely this poor kid is. He's still a teenager, but everyone has such high expectations of him as a student and as an athlete.
And then here's Hermione, who does not give a sh-- about any of that. As her friend or date or whatever they are to each other, he isn't Viktor Krum, youngest Quidditch star or Viktor Krum, top student at Durmstrang. He can just be himself.
And honestly, that breaks my heart.
Canon doesn't go into much detail about Hermione and Viktor because a) This is Harry's story and b) Ron is a toxic level of jealous, but I really hope they stay friends. Because they both needed a friend who could appreciate them truly for who they are.
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Hermione Rare Pairs Day
It's time for everyone's favourite heroine to shine today!
Title: A Theory of Attraction Author: DrPansyParkinson
Ship: Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson
Word Count: 4,000 Rating: Teen
Warnings: N/A
Summary:
Pansy Parkinson has made a lot of progress in her career post-Hogwarts and enjoys her work as an Unspeakable investigating and archiving potentially cursed objects. The one thorn in her side is Hermione Granger, a witch she just can't seem to ignore.
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Title: Incredibly Compelling Author: UltramarineOrchid
Ship: Hermione Granger/Viktor Krum
Word Count: 3,700 Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: N/A
Summary:
All Hermione wants to know is who her soulmate is. If only the clues were clearer --- or have they been obvious all along?
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Title: The Lions and the Snake Author: ayanadailey
Ship: Hermione Granger/Theodore Nott/Neville Longbottom
Word Count: 2,000 Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: N/A
Summary:
Theo Nott has never felt he deserved a soulmate. So when he finds he has not one, but two soulmates, he's completely stunned.
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Title: A Magical Garden Author: Aurora_Borealis3406
Ship: Hermione Granger/Neville Longbottom
Word Count: 8,000 Rating: Mature
Warnings: N/A
Summary:
When Hermione accompanied Harry to Gringotts to help him settle his godfather's estate, the last thing she expected was to be named an heiress. Now he has an estate of her own in Scotland, and it came with quite the surprise. A hidden garden, full of dangerous magical plants, and she knows just the friend to call to help.
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-Me: Okay, fiiiine. You can write a little Viktor Krum/Hermione Granger meet-cute fic for The Three Broomsticks Yule Bash Fic Fest. But let's keep it light, let's keep it fluffy, and let's keep it SHORT. Then it's straight back to working on Knowing Where to Look!
-Also me: *Opens web browser. Search: Christmas traditions in Bulgaria
-Okay, sure. But let's not go overboard on the research. This is a fluff piece.
-*Search: Bulgarian word for "father"*
-Is that really necessary? We can just call him 'Dad,' surely.
-*Search: Popular liquor in Bulgaria
-Getting a little technical there. Let's keep this simple. You have your long-fic to work on, remember? Short. Fluffy. Easy. Quick.
-*Search: Effects of scoliosis in adulthood when untreated*
-Wait... What are you doing?
-*Search: Mental health impacts on child competitive athletes*
-Hold on a sec. This isn't sounding very fluffy...
-*Search: Bulgaria's role in the Cold War*
-Stop it! Don't do it!
-*Search: The fall of Communism in Bulgaria in the early 1990s*
-STOP! STOP IT RIGHT THERE!
-*Search: Death toll of refugees attempting to escape Bulgaria into Greece and Turkey*
-...Oh, I give up...
Read about Viktor’s backstory on AO3 here
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hoping to do some good in the world (Muslim Hermione- fight me, jkr)
When a little muggleborn girl walks up to the Sorting Hat, a number of purebloods (and a number of muggleborns, to be honest) wonder why they can't see her hair- why her head and neck are covered by a dark blue headscarf.
In the ensuing months, they will learn the word hijab.
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Hermione Granger is faithful and studious. She hates breaking the rules and is a perfectionist.
(She is also stupidly, irrevocably, wonderfully noble.)
In this universe, as in most others, Hermione Granger carries these traits close to her heart, in her spine and in her head. She holds faith in things that do not have a ready explanation, believes in heroes despite all evidence otherwise.
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Hermione Granger finds a Summoning charm in her textbooks and figures it out how to perfect it before she even steps foot on the Hogwarts Express. If she is to complete her five daily prayers, then she will need a way to grab her prayer rug easily without having to carry it around all day (the Hogwarts blueprints show a school almost too large to be real- she’ll have to investigate that).
She leaves her first class and her lunch block for five minutes everyday. She heads out into the hallways, summons Abba’s prayer rug, recites a compass spell to orient herself toward Mecca, and recites her prayers.
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This is not a story about heroes and villains. It is not a story about war and destruction, about magical spells and epic climaxes.
This is a story about the strength of a single girl’s faith.
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Hermione knows fear. She knows the way that people look at her hijab with suspicion, look at her father like he’ll hurt them and her mother like she’s stupid (despite the fact that they’re both dentists, with their doctoral degrees and a wish to help others). She knows hatred, the way people sneer when they look at her and the way boys at her primary school would tug at her hijab, jeering names at her face.
She knows that Harry and Dean and Lavender and Anthony and Neville and the Patil twins all suffer from the same prejudice as she does, if for different reasons.
When Draco Malfoy spits mudblood in her face, when he curses her origins, she calls upon the spells that she can run past her lips. She summons up a righteous anger borne of years of absorbing others’ hatred, remembers pages and pages of spells. She whips hexes at prejudiced lips, smiles at the crunch of her fist against his face.
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Hermione Janan Granger does not pray to flawed mentors and old men- she prays to Allah, and to herself. She is more than just a pawn, a fount of unfocused knowledge.
She wants to do good in the world, just like her parents, but she guards her trust close. She bestows it on those who have earned it- Harry, Ron, Ginny, Millicent, Anthony, Neville, Luna- but not on men who people seem to put blind faith in without proof.
Her faith is strong, but it is not without base.
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She makes friends with Anthony Goldstein, who celebrates Yom Kippur and Hanukkah and the Shabbat prayers with the same devoutness with which she practices her own faith. In a rather secular, magical world, being able to find someone else who puts such effort into their faith is relieving to her.
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During Ramadan, her mind grows sharp and her spells powerful even as her stomach growls. Her focus increases as her hunger grows, as her faith finds its way past the limits of her stomach and into her bones.
Her dedication to her faith becomes known, and respected. During this month of the year, she is unbeatable even as her skin grows a bit sallow and her stomach grumbles during classes.
(She heads down to the kitchens after sunset and is greeted by a feast. She understands that, magically speaking, it fulfills house elves to provide food for her, but her faith does not abide by slavery of any sort. It is hard for her to process their smiles whenever she asks for food.
So, instead, she thanks each and every house elf, mentions them all by name in her prayers. Perhaps this will help them.)
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When Hermione tells Harry, the orphan boy, the forced hero of the story, that they are all heroes, she doesn’t mean that they are all saviors of worlds, leaders and princes. She doesn’t mean that they have to save the day, have to be courageous and beautiful and in love.
She means that they are survivors, and that this, in itself, is a heroic act.
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Her caftan for the Yule Ball her fifth year is modest and beautiful. A long dark blue caftan, trimmed with dark blue lace and embroidered in gold, it is just perfect. Her hijab is dark blue to match.
Viktor Krum looks at her and smiles. “You look beautiful, скъп."
She smiles. “Thank you, Viktor."
Viktor Krum is nothing like the perfect Muslim boy she dreamed of as a little girl, but he is smart, and wonderful, and perfectly kind.
He respects her faith and her boundaries, calls her beautiful. He holds her hands, but does not kiss her. He is the perfect first boyfriend.
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When she emerges from the lake, her hijab is sodden with water but thankfully still covers her hair and her neck.
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Viktor leaves at the end of the Triwizard Tournament. Cedric won, Fleur placed second, and Viktor placed third. Despite his loss, he smiles and says, "It vas vorth it, Hermione, because I got to meet you."
Hermione returns his smile. "It was nice to meet you as well, Viktor. We'll continue to write, right?"
He nods. "Of course."
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Hermione Granger is not meek. She is devout, and focused on her studies, but not meek.
She is full of faith for many things: Allah, education, and herself. She channels this faith into progress, into change.
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Harry comes to her at the end of fifth year, stomach in his throat. “Hermione,” he says, eyes downcast, “I have something to tell you.”
“Yeah?” she asks, raising her eyes from her book.
“I...I think I like boys and girls.”
She looks at him. She’s suspected for a year or so, ever since his minor obsession with Cedric Diggory last year and the way he stares at Neville’s arse sometimes.
“Okay,” she says, and flips the page. “Tell me when you finally ask Longbottom out.”
Harry sputters, and she smiles.
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Hermione’s sixth year, she breaks up with Viktor. It is an amicable split, no hard feelings between them. He wishes her luck with school and asks if she’ll mind if he comes to celebrate her graduation next year.
She smiles and says of course not.
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She walks into the Room of Requirement (a fascinating discovery when searching for an answer to Harry’s Second Task two years ago) and finds Harry and Neville snogging in the middle of the Historic Legends section of the Great Hidden Library.
She clears her throat and they spring apart, looking like they’ve been caught doing something unspeakable. “Mind handing me the copy of the Upanishads, won’t you?” She gestures to Neville, who grabs a copy of the book that she’s seen him reading on the Express and hands it to her. “Thanks,” she says, and heads over to the Muggle Sports section (the far end of the library) so she can read in peace.
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Hermione graduates top of her class, Susan Bones, Draco Malfoy, and Terry Boot right behind her.
The world is at her fingertips, and all of knowledge is within her grasp. She can change everything wrong with the world.
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When Hermione Granger is eleven, she climbs a stool and puts a hat on her head. She is told that she will do well in either Ravenclaw or Slytherin, and she smiles.
I want to learn everything, she thinks, and the Sorting Hat shouts her House to the world.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/13706415
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Padre soltero AU. Sin magia. Viktor Krum & Hermione Granger.
[...] Viktor observó a su hija dormir. Según el reloj, aún restaba más de media hora para que el avión llegara a Londres. La pequeña se aferró al conejo blanco, regalo de su tía Clara, mientras se movía en el asiento en busca de una postura más cómoda.
Pensó en la última frase que ella les había dicho a sus padres y meneó la cabeza con una mezcla de incredulidad, bochorno y un poco de preocupación. No era una sorpresa que ella mencionara el tema de las novias, de hecho, lo había hecho varias veces en el pasado, siempre acompañado de miradas socarronas y risitas de sus cercanos, pero estaba comenzando a creer que el tema no era pasajero para la niña y su hija realmente estaba interesada en verlo con alguna mujer. Se preguntó por qué, ¿no estaba feliz solo con él? ¿no le brindaba él toda su atención cada vez que estaba en casa? Malina era la niña de sus ojos, la luz más preciosa de su vida a quién amaba más que a sí mismo, ¿no era eso suficiente? Recordó su propia infancia junto a sus padres y su abuela, cómo le había parecido que su núcleo era perfecto y lo había hecho sentir seguro a medida que crecía, rodeado de afecto. Recordó el dolor por la pérdida del abuelo y el amor inmenso que la abuela vertió en él, como si tratara de compensar su falta. ¿Era así como lo veía Malina? ¿Cómo si él tratara de compensar la falta del afecto materno? Una figura que nunca llegó a conocer y a quién él mismo apenas recordaba...
Se sacudió los pensamientos deprimentes para mirar por la ventana. No conseguía nada girando alrededor de ellos, Malina era una niña sana y feliz aún cuando carecía de alguien a quién llamar “madre”. Por otro lado, no le faltaban figuras maternas en su vida: ahí estaba su madre y su abuela, Clara también, pavoneándose de ser su hada madrina. Y por su parte estaba demasiado enfocado primero en su hija y luego en su carrera como para estar pensando en citas serias.
Suspiró cansado, echando mano de la botella de agua a su lado. Era por esas dos cosas que ahora ambos estaban a bordo de un avión, a minutos de llegar a Londres e instalarse en el país inglés para comenzar una vida allí: nuevo equipo, nueva casa, nuevo colegio.
Viktor Krum no estaba interesado en conocer a posibles “novias”, pero el destino, su persistente hija y una encantadora bibliotecaria tal vez tengan otros planes.
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