Harry Potter x Fem!Reader
A/N: Almost shed a tear while making this. I’m okay though. Thanks for totally asking.
Summary: They always return to one another, even when it breaks them.
As Harry walked the cobbled paths of Hogsmeade with Ron and Hermione, his gaze snagged on the Photo Booth tucked between two shops. Photo Booth 505.
It looked exactly the same as it had two years ago, when he and she had stumbled inside for their first date, laughing until their sides hurt as the camera flashed.
Now, it just sat there. A quiet and heavy reminder.
It had been five months since she was gone. Five months since the fight, the storage room, the breakup that neither of them had really recovered from. Five months since he’d lost her. And even though she passed him in the halls with only brief glances, Harry always felt the longing between them. Yearning, unspoken, and unbearable.
He couldn’t keep living like this.
So he came up with an idea that was both terrible and brilliant, which was to ask her out again. To start over, the way they had before.
One afternoon, he caught up to her.
“Hey, can I talk to you for a second?”
She hesitated, then nodded.
“Before you say no. Just… please listen.” His hand caught her arm, gentle but firm.
She sighed, eyes sliding away from his. She couldn’t look at him. Not into those eyes that once looked at her like she hung the stars. The eyes that had made her fall in the first place.
“What is it, Harry?” she asked quietly.
“Go on one date with me. Just one. If you never want to see me again after, I’ll stop trying. But… please. This Friday.” His voice cracked with desperation.
Her breath hitched. Friday. Their would-be two-year anniversary.
“Just once?” she whispered.
Harry’s hope returned like a spark catching flame. “Just once.”
She almost smiled. He might have already won her over.
Friday came along faster than he’d expected. He met her in Hogsmeade, handing her the flowers he’d bought months ago. The ones meant for an anniversary that never came.
At start, it was awkward. They hadn’t spoken properly in months. But soon, the stiffness melted into easy laughter, stories tumbling out like old times.
For a while, it felt like they’d never broken at all.
And then it began to rain.
The drizzle turned quick, forcing them to duck into the nearest shelter. Harry froze when he realized where they’d ended up. Photo Booth 505.
She noticed too. Silence stretched between them until Harry held up a Galleon. “A picture… to remember the moment?”
She hesitated, then nodded. Relief flickered across his face as he fed the coin into the slot.
The camera caught them both staring at the screen, unsmiling.
This time, their reflections showed them gazing at each other.
They leaned closer. So close he could feel her breath. That was until a sudden boom of thunder startled them apart.
They stepped outside into the rain, becoming soaked by the second. Shops had shuttered, and students hurried back to the castle, leaving them alone in the storm.
“This was… fun.” She admitted softly, almost surprised by the words.
Harry nodded, but he didn’t move. He didn’t want the night to end.
“Well, I should—” she began, turning away.
The words came out rough, torn from him before he could think. She froze.
“Harry, we can’t,” she whispered, shaking her head.
“But we can. We always can.” His voice wavered, but his eyes burned steady. “We love each other. Don’t deny it.”
Not a single word left her lips.
“Please.” His chin trembled, rain sliding down his face like tears. “Please take me back. I’ll do anything. I’ll treat you better. Just… please.”
She looked at him, and for a moment, the storm around them fell away. He was still Harry. Her Harry. The boy who once made her laugh until her stomach hurt, the boy whose absence tore her heart even more.
Her lips parted, but no sound came.
And then she stepped forward, fingers clutching his soaked shirt, pulling him into a kiss so sharp, so desperate, it felt like gravity itself had dragged them together.
It wasn’t soft. It wasn’t careful. It was all the months of silence, of longing glances, of pretending they could live without each other.
When they broke apart, their foreheads touched, breaths ragged in the cold and rainy night.
“You’ll ruin me again,” she whispered, the words more confession than warning.
Harry’s mouth curved, not into a smile but something sharper. “Then let me.”
Her eyes fluttered shut, rain streaking down her cheeks like tears she wouldn’t shed. She could have stepped back. She could have ended it there. But she didn’t.
Because no matter how wrong it was, no matter how much it burned, she knew she’d always end up here.