Whoever's great idea it was to birth my father on such a day should be slapped.  Then again, maybe I should be slapped for insisting to be born on the same day.

Either way, someone should be slapped and I would prefer it not to be me.

I vote for the dumb people who decided to make this day a Wizarding World national holiday.

I remember exactly what she had been wearing tonight . Why can I picture that so clearly?

I close my eyes and try to remember the last thing I'd seen Julia wearing.

Nothing.

I can't even remember what color her eyes are.

Meredith's are the deepest blue I've ever seen.

She hisses, "You're going to regret this," before storming away towards her waiting friends.

"Aww... Poor 'ickle Jamesie is tired.  Did you stay up all night thinking about how you couldn't live with your all-star seeker?"

Yes.

I just let out another moan, trying to to say anything out loud this time.

 "Where were you headed?"

"The Library."

There is a moment of silence as Teddy just stares at me blankly.  "No, seriously. Where were you headed?"

Rose pops up on my left. "What was that about?"

"What was what about?"

"Don't act daft," she says slapping my arm.  I stare at her blankly, hoping she'll drop the subject.  "The gentle embrace.  Thes soft words.  The googly eyes." She says this last sentence while batting her eyes dramatically.

 "Professor Chang thought that I was responsible for the boils on her arm."

"And were you?"

"Professor McGonagall found no evidence of my involvement."

"That's not what I asked."

 I thought it was weak to feel anything like this. I thought that it would make me into the kind of sad chump that couldn't function without their 'better half' around.

I've seen those guys.  I don't want to be those guys.

"I noticed that you were..." Fred seems to be looking for the right word, now smirking a bit. "You were distracted." I give him a get-on-with-it look and his smirk becomes more pronounced and he raises his eyebrows.

"Drop it, dumb arse," I hiss.

"Yessir, Captain."

I flip him off for good measure.

That's it?

No duel? No curses? No fight?

That is unexpected.

"We could have sent him a Howler proclaiming the good news to the entire Great Hall..."

"or charmed all his jumpers to say 'I heart Prisca Fenn'."

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