Title: Picture Perfect

Summary: Written for the "Mirror of Erised" hp100 challenge.

100 word drabble.


She saw what she always saw when she looked into the mirror. He was taller than her in the mirror, and she liked it that way.

There was nothing that made a woman feel more protected than a tall man holding her closely in his arms, kissing the top of her head, running calloused fingers down her neck.

"Why can't you be real?" Hermione asks the reflection plaintively. "Why can't we be real?"

The smiling Harry in the mirror shrugged, arms still around her reflection. Hermione hid her face in her hands and cried.

Ron snuck guiltily from the room.