Beat : regular pulsation; a basic unit of length in musical time

She'd come to accept it. She couldn't be so blind for too long, not even if she wanted to. She liked him, liked one of her closest friends. She'd already figured out that and already knew it wasn't going to change anytime soon. She also knew, without having to think too hard about it, that there was nothing that could be done about it.

For people as different as they all were, the Marauder's were all too similar. They kept the same beat, made a beautiful harmony, kept an internal song that never went sour or hit wrong notes.

For someone like her, that beat couldn't be broken. She couldn't disrupt all their lives with something like this.