February Event: (object) Card/Love Letter, (action/plot) Receiving a letter from a Secret Admirer

Hermione Pairing Club: Hermione/Theo

Ultimate Chocolate Frog Cards: Muldoon Cragg – Write about a trio or next-gen era character as the Head of Gryffindor.

Hopscotch: (word) bold

The If You Dare Challenge: 395 (answer)

Gringotts:

Pairings: Hermione/Theo

Compound Words: maybe, inside

Homophones: Sunday, piece, him,

Prepositions: among

Verbs: furrow, recognize, get, neglect, gather

Nouns: patch, writing, office, comment, outcome, answer, lunch

Adjectives: helpless, bold

Hermione was sitting in her office, behind her desk. Piles of unmarked assignments were scattered all around the table, some with few ink patches on it, some filled with neat writing, and some of it were empty.

The woman was leaning over one of these parchments, and she furrowed her eyebrows in concentration while she wrote side comments here and there. As the Transfigurations professor and Head of Gryffindor, she felt it was necessary to grade everything in time, but even she had to admit that sometimes, it was just a little bit too much.

That was, until she noticed a little letter among the stacks of paper. It was addressed to her, and her heart jumped a bit after she had recognized the writing. It was from him.

She had been getting these letters from an anonymous somebody for the last few months, and ever since she had gotten the first one, she has been investigating, with no outcome. This man, who claimed to be her 'Secret Admirer' never even told her his monogram, so she was absolutely helpless.

Maybe this time, she thought as she carefully ripped open the envelope. Inside laid a neatly folded piece of parchment – as always -, and she eagerly smoothed it out before reading the note.

My dearest Hermione,

I am terribly sorry for neglecting you in the last few weeks, I had a few official errands to run, which left me no time for you.

But now, I have a bold proposal to ask of you. As you know, we have been exchanging letters for months now, and it is just now that I had gathered the courage to ask you to meet me in person.

So, I was thinking, and if you have a few free hours on Sunday, maybe we could meet in Hogsmeade for a lunch. If that is okay with you, then please, send me an answer back as soon as possible.

Lots of love,

TN.

Hermione then felt like she was the happiest woman on Earth. Finally, she got a clue on whom her Secret Admirer might be, and if that wasn't enough, he had also given her a chance to meet him.

Only then, she glanced at the piling assignments in front of her. She let out a sigh in defeat.

Work always came first, and she would have lots of time to reply later on anyway.