"I wouldn't trade this kind of exhaustion for the world. But... I also won't say no to a mug of tea," Hermione replies, her cheeks lightly colored as she drops her chin in a palm. There were some people who had treated her relationship with Ron as a matter of course when they first decided to make the leap — but, Hermione reminds herself, the last time Remus saw them together was when they were fourteen.

Before Ron even began to see her as a girl.

"We've been together since the war ended, four years after your time. Though there had been some tension before that. Constantly circling one another, you know, without really considering what could happen. The shift from platonic friendship to romance is a strange one."