For Harry Potter audiobook lovers, this chapter blends heady romance with sharp character work. Hannah Abbott asks Hermione to give Neville a real chance, then quietly steps away for a Healer internship at St Mungo’s. In a hidden room, Hermione and Draco tackle a cursed Gemino amulet, solve a numbers puzzle with help from a Viktor Krum translation, and stumble into laughter, jealousy, and a fragile apology that finally sounds sincere. What follows is slow, lucid intimacy where consent is clear and Alpha command stays out of the room, which leaves Hermione wondering what is biology and what is real.
