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2025-07-03
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2025-07-03
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The Penpal Project

Summary:

In an effort to rebuild post-war unity, Professor McGonagall implements a “House Empathy Project” during Eighth year. Students are paired anonymously across Houses and required to write letters weekly for the duration of term.

Hermione receives a letter from someone witty, intelligent, infuriating, occasionally kind… and maddeningly familiar.

Draco quickly realizes that his partner is none other than Granger. He wants to stop writing. He doesn’t. He can’t.

As their anonymous friendship deepens, truths are shared that neither would dare speak aloud in person. But when their identities are revealed, will pride threaten to unravel what they’ve built? Or will they see each other for the people in the pages and not the masks they’ve carried for years in public circles.

Notes:

I will be dedicating this work to Z's Reading Corner on TikTok. - For introducing me to an amazing community of likeminded individuals also obsessed with reading the same two people fall in love over and over again - Thank you - truly.

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