Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Harry Potter.

Written for the Ultimate Hermione Granger Pairing Challenge.

Pairing: Hermione / Igor Karkaroff.

She was so young and beautiful, he wanted her more than he needed to breathe, but he wouldn't dare touch her.

Dumbledore had made it more than clear that he was to keep away from Potter and his friends.

Still, he could watch her from a distant. She didn't know what power she had over men, yet because she was still innocent. Untouched by some clumsy fumbling teenage boy.

He wanted to wring Viktor's neck for sniffing around her, but he couldn't stop him, not without drawing attention to himself.

So he was stuck watching her in the arms of someone who would never deserve her.