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Hermione was scrolling on the internet, many hours later than the end of her 5 minute work break. The clock at the top of the screen said 4 am but Hermione didn’t notice.
“How? Why? Do people really stay up all night reading this?” Hermione said to no one in particular. The sire she was currently on was Archive of Our Own and this was officially the 82nd tab open of Matilda fanfiction.
“Draco! I need to ask you something!” Hermione yelled at her boyfriend. Draco woke up and walked down the hall to where Hermione was still scrolling, looking for something that's not smut or graphic depictions of violence.
“What is it that you need to ask me at 4 in the morning that can’t wait 3 hours?” Draco wearily asked, rubbing his eyes.
“Look at this! Are people so messed up that they have to write sex scenes with a 5 year old children’s book character and people 30 her superior?” Hermione questioned.
“Do you want the truth or what will let me go back to bed so you don't have to deal with me grumpy later.?” Draco returned.
“Truth, you should know this by now. I’m already pulling an all-nighter.” Hermione replied, tired herself.
“Yes, Hermione, they are. You should try reading some if you care this much. I can show you where the filter settings are so you don’t read something you don’t want to.” Draco honestly said. He moved the mouse over and clicked on the filter button. He set it for g, no archive warnings apply,, filter out the smut tag, and the pwp tag, and complete works with under 20,000 words only so she would not be up for 3 more hours. The results came up and there was 1 single 1k fic word fic that came up. Hermione started at the screen in disbelief that out of the 141 fics about Matilda, there was only 1 that was reasonable.
“I- I” Hermione tried. She was speechless and just stared at Draco and then back at the screen with a look on her face similar to ‘did you know this would happen?’ Draco just grabbed his girlfriend and dragged her to their room so she could get a small modicum of sleep.