You Do Not Have To Be Good.You Do Not Have To Walk On Your Kneesfor A Hundred Miles Through The Desert

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting - over and over announcing your place in the family of things.

Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese,” Dream Work (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1986)

Always There - Ch 20 - Complete!

Summary: After breaking up with their respective Weasleys and “losing their breakups,” Harry and Hermione find themselves hanging out alone together - a lot. What starts out as friendship soon grows into more as they realize they aren’t the same people they were at Hogwarts. Post-Hogwarts / Harmony / Drama / Slow Burn / HEA.

Chapter 20 Excerpt:

“I can’t promise you much. You know I don’t have a job or a family, but I do have a house that used to be inhabited by dark wizards and a lot of baggage leftover from the war that I can offer you.”

Hermione laughed.

“But, seriously,” Harry continued, “the best thing I can offer you is me. I can promise to love you forever and to give you a happy, boring, safe life. But - uh - I don’t have much else to give. But I think it’s okay. I really hope it’s okay,” he amended.

Harry sighed and dropped his forehead against her hands. “Shit. This all sounded a lot more eloquent in my head.”

“It’s perfect,” she said. “Except - uh - I think you’re supposed to ask a question.”

“I was getting to that.” Harry dropped one of her hands and pulled the ring box out of his pocket. He opened it to reveal a small, simple ring that looked a bit like a flower. “Hermione. Will you marry me?”

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In regards to Fantasy High, I’d like to state: Baron is a dude’s name.

End of statement.

I'm going on vacation tomorrow so here's some Percy and Rachel road trip headcanons for the soul

In this scenario I'm thinking Percy takes a gap year to hang out at home while Annabeth goes to CA for her freshman year so we're talking full cross country road trip here people

They take one of Rachel's dad's cars, which they promptly cover in bumper stickers that say stuff like "I brake for MILFS" and "hot girls for Bernie"

Paul offers to lend them his car but Percy knows that it wouldn't make it back to New York in one piece and he still feels bad about the hoof marks

Constant arguments over music because Percy just wants to listen to something fun like Olivia Rodrigo or Yung Gravy but Rachel won't listen to anyone with more than 100,000 monthy listeners on Spotify so they almost crash the car trying to change the music back several times

Speaking of crashing cars neither of them can drive for shit and every time someone has to merge or get on or off the interstate they're both screaming and crying

This is made even more chaotic by Grover screaming at Percy over the empathy link every time something mildly dangerous happens

They take turns driving. Rachel draws increasingly goofy landscapes and portraits of Percy when she's in the passenger seat, and Percy either naps or makes tiktoks

They go viral for one video of him going "two best friends on a road trip! They might kiss..." Followed by Rachel yelling "I WAS 14" and then almost swerving into the car next to them

They're cheap so every time they have to spend the night somewhere it turns into a "there was only one bed 😳" situation but they're both just shoving each other out of the bed the entire night

Frequent stops at shitty diners where they will inevitably get food poisoning and/or be attacked by monsters

Apollo face times them daily just to make sure Percy hasn't killed his oracle yet and Will and Nico face time them to purposefully start arguments and then hang up

They get bad matching tattoos in every state they pass through

evan kelmp and his shadow familiar

Harmony in the Workplace REVEALS! 

[Note: If you still want to write for this fest and didn’t originally sign up / still want to submit if you couldn’t make the deadline, please send us a DM! Lots of awesome prompts still to be written and we’d love for more to be added to the collection.]

Thank you to all the incredible writers who participated — be sure to give their stories some love with kudos and comments!

Title: Charitable

Author: WinglessQuill

Prompt: Philanthropist Harry / Orphanage Owner Hermione

Rating: T

Summary: Hermione Granger was content with her life, until Harry Potter appeared on the doorstep of her orphanage.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32208631

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Title: The factor liberatis

Author: Eolith

Prompt: Lawyer Hermione / Wizengamot Legislator Harry

Rating: T

Summary: Hermione Granger lawyer trained in the old laws is the fautor libertatis or promoter of freedom stablisshed in the Lex Petronia an old Roman law that protects slaves and she is in England reclaiming the debts of the owners of house elfs.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32189842

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Title: Full Bloom Captured

Author: VanderlustWords

Prompt: Photographer Harry / Model Harry

Rating: M

Summary: The famous McKinnons have dropped a new line of perfume: Amortentia’s First Bloom No. 5. A strain of the popular but frowned-upon love potion. It’s meant to boost the most attractive qualities of the wearer, a customized harmless pheromone. In pursuit of finding their perfect model to represent the brand, they’ve opened up a competition for models and photographers to pair up and submit an outstanding photoshoot collection.

This was an amazing opportunity for a model like Hermione Granger. It would’ve been—if not for the fact she’s been publicly humiliated by her long-time photographer boyfriend, Ronald Weasley, leaving her for an A-List model. Hermione Granger is resigned to defeat when no photographer wants to work with her. That is—until the famous photographer Harry Potter wants her.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32187298

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Title: Lightning Lesson

Author: LadyBlack3

Prompt: [+Draco] Quidditch Player Draco / Quidditch Player Harry / Team Mediwitch Hermione

Rating: E

Summary: Hermione wasn’t sure how her life came to this but dealing with the English National Quidditch team on a nearly daily basis was becoming a routine. What would never become routine to her was the feelings she was all to aware of when it came to her best friend, and the feelings she wasn’t really sure what to do with for a certain blond. Fate has a funny way of forcing one’s hand though, and just this once perhaps she may not have to choose.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32177770

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Title: When Fate Knocks

Author: HappyCatTaxi

Prompt: Healer Hermione / Healer Harry

Rating: M

Summary: 1796 Miss Hermione Granger is a healer, but since women aren’t allowed to be healers, she’s had to hide her gender and don a disguise. To the world, she’s Healer Herman Watson, talented and highly respected, but when she sees something she shouldn’t have, she has to flee London immediately. Luckily, her mentor knows just the right place for her to hide: Potter Manor in Wales, a hospital for Muggles and Wizards alike.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32160580

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Title: Riding the Lightning

Author: JohnBurtonLee

Prompt: [+Tonks] Punk Rocker Tonks / Punk Rocker Harry / Band Manager Hermione

Rating: M

Summary: Much has been written about England’s most inadvertently hard core punk band Riding the Lightning, most of it absurdly wrong. Despite the sheer volume of gossip written about the members, very few people have picked up on the love triangle that formed the bedrock of the band’s history.

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32145199

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Title: The Shoot

Author: green__eyes

Prompt: Photographer Hermione / Model Harry

Rating: E

Summary: Hermione Granger has received an assignment: a photographic study of the human form. In other words, a boudoir photoshoot… and she needs to find a model. The only person she feels comfortable asking is her best friend and long-time housemate, Harry Potter. Yet she’s been hesitating, for fear that it might reawaken feelings for him that she thought she’d long since buried…

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32001724

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Link to entire collection: https://archiveofourown.org/collections/HarmonyInTheWorkplace/works