Characters
Tags
Angst
Depression
Canon-Typical Violence
Hurt/Comfort
Self-Harm
Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
Trauma
Child Abuse
Disordered Eating
Touch-Starved Harry Potter
mild Self-harm
Touch-Averse Harry Potter
Touch Aversion
touch starvation
Occlumency
Black Quill
sleep deprevation
Referenced Emotional Abuse
Occlumency lessons
Mentions of canon character death
Disordered Sleeping
Summary
" “I’m not a child,” he tells her, his voice somehow both slurred and raspy, and sounding very much like a child even to his own ears.“Yes, you are,” Hermione replies. Her voice isn’t mean. It isn’t even her usual bossy tone. It is soft. Sad. "--A study of Hermione and Harry's relationship, starting with Harry's coping (or lack thereof) with Umbridge's detentions in 5th year. Part 3 of the "The Sun Also" series but can be read on its own just fine, if you prefer.
Note
Unlike the other two parts, this one will have multiple chapters. 'Verse-specific stuff will happen in the later ones. This chapter is sort of an explanation for this scene from Order of the Phoenix:"“She’s taken points off Gryffindor because I’m having my hand sliced open every night! How is that fair, how?”“I know, mate,” said Ron sympathetically, tipping bacon onto Harry’s plate, “she’s bang out of order.”Hermione, however, merely rustled the pages of her Daily Prophet and said nothing" (OOTP, Chapter 15).Which I always found to be a callous picture to paint of Hermione. I also think Hermione's character has a lot more depth and capacity for empathy with Harry's trauma than she is given credit for. This is un-beta'd so forgive me if I have to update it to fix typos and errors later.Alright. Love you, mean it.