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Title: Friday Night Secrets
Author: yesterday4
Length: cca 21,000
Rating: R
Warnings: EWE or as the author says “my way out of the epilogue, so it does include Draco/Astoria and past Ron/Hermione, although it all ends up the way it should. Ahem”. Couldn't agree more. Without “ahem”. I'm dead serious.
Summary: After the war, Hermione and Draco meet at a Muggle pub, and it’s the start of something unexpected for both. Then, what good are expectations anyway?

dianoram's Thoughts: Details. It's all in the details with this one. This story has won me over from the start and I return to it every few months to read at least a portion of it. It's one of those stories that are warm, wonderful and make your heart swell. Well, mine was quite filled in the end.

Hermione and Draco start talking in a Muggle pub and it's awkward, beautiful and strange. And filled with humour. What starts as an anomaly becomes a pattern; thus the most unlikely friendship develops. The secrets they both share during those Friday nights aren't huge, but they are life-altering. And what is most striking of all – their secrets fit together. It is the slow development of their friendship that captures the attention. Both are real – Hermione is not perfectly proportioned and Draco is still pointy, though his attraction is undeniable, on more levels than one. Read it a leisurely pace and enjoy every small revelation they share with each other.

Now, I'm certain every reader will find details of his/her own that they will appreciate. Mine are countless but I'll mention just a few: first and foremost, Hermione's self-ironic voice that leads you through the story, relaxed Harry, shrewd and supportive Ginny, lovely Astoria, trading barbs across the pub table, finding a guy for Granger, inter-house unity, letter from Malfoy, Braveheart references that made me almost cry and then grin the goofiest smile in the history of mankind... Freedom, indeed.