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There is a dangerous element to puberty in the Wizarding world. When a young wizard, full of hormones and prone to irrationality and excessive emotions, meets any stressful situations, they run the risk of expending all of their magical potential in one massive shockwave. This doesn’t cause much permanent damage to the Wizard, but the effects this shockwave has on the world around them can be…difficult to deal with.

So when Harry finally snaps after a particularly cruel Occlumency lesson with Snape, he reminds the school about why Voldemort went after him as a little boy. Something that Hermione has always been aware of.

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When he is nine years old, Harry Potter lies awake on Christmas Eve, feeling isolated and alone like he does in every Christmas. He hears a great rumbling outside of Privet Drive and sneaks out to see what it was. There he sees a train in the middle of the street and a man calling “All aboard the Polar Express!” What follows is a night on a strange, magical train filled with Christmas Spirit and more friendly children than Harry has ever met before. One of the nicest ones is a girl with wild, curly hair and a sharp mind. Two years later, and Harry meets that same girl on another magical train.

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When Santa came to deliver presents to Dudley Dursleys, a naughty boy who usually got coal, he was confused to find that any present he tried to put in the boy’s stocking would turn to coal. It was after the third attempt that the man heard a tiny gasp behind him.

It was that night that Santa was met with one of the few children that didn’t want many toys, but a far more precious gift: a friend. It becomes a yearly tradition for Santa to spend a few extra minutes at the Dursley’s house to share his traditional cookies and milk with Harry Potter.

When Harry goes to Hogwarts, Santa keeps up the tradition, despite Harry finding new friends. As Harry grows up, the tradition grows harder to keep, until after his seventeenth birthday, when Hogwarts is fallen to the Death Eaters. But when he travels to Godric’s Hollow, there he feels called to the ruins of the Potter house. He meets Harry once again, and by his side is a pretty girl named Hermione Granger. A new member of their traditional snack is inducted that night.

Years later, and Santa always looks forward to his pit stop at the Potter’s house. Especially this year because he gets to meet Harry and Hermione’s first born child.

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Harmony Stardust AU: Hermione is a fallen star, knocked out of the heavens when House Slytherin tries to obtain immortality for their favored son, Lord Voldemort. Harry, an orphan under the care of House Gryffindor, is nearest to the site where she falls. Having been raised on the lore of the heavens, Harry promises to help her get back home. As the pair journeys across Stormhold, they fall in love, and Hermione begins to doubt if she even wants to go home anymore.

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After a particularly brutal DADA lesson where he was disarmed and left vulnerable, Harry takes up martial arts to make sure that even if he doesn’t have his wand, he is still able to fight. His studies lead him to rediscovering an old wizard combat treatise on combat and dueling. The work details a forgotten dueling philosophy that caters more to muggleborns and those raised in the muggle world. It blends elements of muggle martial arts like evasion, blocking, absorbing an attack, and movement with spell casting and listing different spells that can be cast while on the move.

Showing his discovery to Hermione, the pair take to studying the treatise during their fourth year. Though their practice is limited due to also making sure that Harry survives the tournament, they still get some measure of competency with the style. Harry even finds that it helps him and Cedric survive their encounter with Voldemort.

When Dolores Umbridge takes over as the new Defense Professor, Harry suddenly finds himself leading a revival movement of old dueling styles along with teaching Defense against the Dark Arts. He also finds himself looking forward more and more to the sparring sessions between himself and Hermione.

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Hermione keeps getting asked out by her colleagues at university. She keeps turning them down. When asked why by her friends, she claims to already have a boyfriend. But without photo evidence, her friends don’t believe her. When the next formal event of the school year comes around, Hermione arrives on the arm of a handsome stranger. Tall, fit, and a perfect gentleman with eyes as green as a forest, Harry Potter is a standard every guy at Hermione’s university knows they’ll never match. And the less said about how Harry proposed, the better in their opinion.

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Hermione can’t for the life her figure out why the Sorting Hat considered putting Harry into Slytherin. It’s only when she finds out about his long hidden crush on her that she begins to realize how subtle he can be when he puts his mind to it. She starts to re-examine every word he’s spoken to her and realizes that he’s been flirting and professing undying love to her for weeks. It may not be the most Gryffindor way to win a girl’s heart, but Harry’s never fit into a set mold.

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There is an ancient rule in the Hogwarts charter that allows a student to briefly drop any house affiliation for any reason, which is recorded in an old time in the office of the Deputy Headmaster/Headmistress. That book has sat unused for a couple centuries until the Triwizard Tournament of 1994-1995, when Harry Potter and Hermione Granger both leave the Gryffindor house for “failing to live up to the standards of Gryffindor house.” They will not rejoin their house until that behavior is corrected. Now given isolated living quarters away from any other house, Harry and Hermione can now devote more time and effort to ensuring that Harry survives the borderline bloodsport he currently finds himself in. Minerva McGonagall is forced to open her eyes to not only the dereliction of duty she has been complicit in regarding her house, but also to many of the flaws in the way the Hogwarts staff provide for the students’ needs beyond the academic.

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