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Q1: How likely is Harry to take the lead the first time?
Rating: 3/10.
He needed Hermione to guide him through a waltz. This is a boy who absolutely needs to be told where to put his hands in bed. He'll be enthusiastic, he'll be willing, but left to his own devices he'll freeze up like a first-year facing a troll. The upside: he learns fast when properly motivated, and he responds beautifully to direct instructions. Hermione could train him up in a week.
Q2: How does Harry react to physical touch?
Rating: 9/10.
A boy raised without affection, finally being touched by someone he actually wants? Every brush of skin will hit him like lightning. He'll shiver when she threads her fingers through that disaster of hair. He'll make sounds he didn't know he was capable of when her nails graze down his spine. He's a live wire and Hermione Granger just grabbed him with both hands.
Q3: What's Hermione's most likely approach?
Rating: Research.
She'll know the theory inside out. She could cite page numbers. And then the moment it actually starts, all that research will fly straight out the window, because Harry Potter is looking at her like she invented oxygen, and her brain will short-circuit in ways no textbook ever prepared her for. Her precious control will slip away, and she'll discover that losing it feels better than anything she ever read.
Q4: Who initiates the first truly intimate moment?
Rating: Hermione – 8/10 likelihood.
Harry will want to. Desperately. But he'll be terrified of doing it wrong, going too far, making her uncomfortable. He'll hold back until his fingers ache from gripping the sheets. And Hermione, the person in the world who reads Harry Potter best, will see him holding back and understand exactly why, and she'll take his hand and place it exactly where she wants it. Hermione Granger doesn't wait – she makes things happen.
Q5: Most likely position for the first time?
Rating: Missionary with eye contact.
Harry Potter spent his whole childhood being overlooked. He needs to see her face. He needs her eyes open on him. He needs to watch her mouth fall open and know he did that. And Hermione needs to see him watching her, because she's been the "smart and useful friend" for years, and now someone is looking at her like she's the whole world, and she wants to watch him watch her. They keep their eyes open when other couples close theirs. It will be devastatingly intimate.
Q6: What sounds will Harry make?
Rating: Quiet desperation.
He grew up in a cupboard under the stairs, learning to be silent before he learned to speak. In bed, that translates to bitten-off grunts, sharp inhales through his nose. Quiet. Intense. Sounds dragged out of him in defiance of childhood conditioning. Hermione will tell him she wants to hear him. It's okay, the walls are thick enough. When he finally tips over the edge, he'll be louder than he expected. And embarrassed about it. And she'll kiss his flushed cheek and tell him again.
Q7: Hermione's most unexpected turn-on about Harry?
Rating: His hands.
Quidditch-rough, calloused hands that grip a broom two hundred feet in the air. Hands that start tentatively on her skin and then learn the map of her body with the same instinct he uses to chase the Snitch. Hermione Granger, who's read every book in the library, discovers that knowledge is utterly useless against the feel of Harry Potter's thumb tracing her waist.
Q8: Stamina prediction?
Rating: First time – 4/10. After practice – 8/10.
The first time will be quick and thorough, and he'll apologise at least twice. But Harry Potter is an athlete. He has the cardiovascular endurance of a Seeker who flies around a pitch for hours in all weather. Once the initial nerves burn off, once he learns what makes her breath catch and what makes her arch, he'll apply the same focus he gives to Quidditch. Hermione will appreciate the dedication.
Q9: Overall compatibility?
Rating: 9/10.
They argue and challenge each other. She gives him orders and he secretly loves it.
When it finally happens, it will be clumsy and imperfect, probably involving someone's elbow in the wrong place and at least one knocked-over bedside lamp. It will be the most real thing either of them has ever experienced – because they know each other.