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“Granger,” he says from his shadow, calling to her when they’ve been left alone but for you and the other ghosts still lingering, a castle exceeding its phantom capacity.

She turns, curls spinning wide around her, lids blinking rapidly as if she’d forgotten she was not alone. In a castle of ghosts, she will never be alone.

[In which Draco and Hermione slowly come together in their eighth year, as observed by a ghost.]