Training was light that day and most of them were surprised that Daphne could follow as easily as she was. Even Harry that was aware of her doing runs everyday didn't think she would in fact lead the group. It seemed like Daphne was already pretty in shape even before starting to train more seriously. It eventually brought a little taunt from Ron as he was passing him.
"Well Harry, running is a good way to tone a body. You must be happy that Daphne is gonna tone her arse even more with that!"
Ron laughed and picked up a bit of speed to distance himself from Harry in what he supposed was a very dramatic way, taunting then leaving before the other could respond. Problem was, he forgot Harry was a wizards and received a tripping hex in the legs. Falling flat on the floor, he felt his best friend step on him unceremoniously as if he was part of the floor. His brothers were less gentle as they stepped on him at the same time while he was trying to get up. Finally getting up, he started to run again.
"Totally worth it!" He told himself with a grin even though his face stung a bit at every motion from his lips.
In the end, Harry and him started to try and hex the other for fun a few times when they crossed, inevitably starting a game as every one would try to trip, stun or hex the others, trying to take them by surprise. Harry though that it certainly was a good exercise in fact. It would also benefit both their training with Tonks and Moody.
After a while of constant running, it was stretching then showering, alternating as there were only two in the house. Girls went first while the boys, plus Ginny that would be next, got to the kitchen to snatch a bite. They always let the girls go first as the boys would take that time to decide who were the next.
"So I'm finally gonna learn how you decide who goes first?" Asked Ginny while taking a bite from a piece of bread. She had left her place to Daphne, saying she was the one that ran the most, but it was also so she could see how the boys chose the order for the showering. She and Hermione always asked but they never told, so it became a sort of grand secret that they kept on taunting them about, well mostly the twins.
"Yes... You will finally be part of our Grand Secret!" Said Fred.
"But you must promise never to tell anyone!" Continued George with an over-dramatic tone.
"Lets just be done with it." Said Ron while rolling his eyes. "The girls shouldn't be too long. So who was it last time?"
"Me." Answered Harry. "So its Fred turn."
"Alright! And... Here we gooo!" Shouted Fred before flipping a sickle.
Ginny actually banged her head on the door frame at the sight while the boys decided on a side. After a few more flips, Fred shouted victory. George and Ron grunted while Harry just laughed at Ginny's antics who never stopped from banging her head on the house structure.
"So its Fred first, Harry second, then George and me as last." Said Ron. "How come I'm last so often?"
"You were first three times in a row last week." Countered Harry. "And I ended up last almost as often as you."
"After all that mystery, the serious look in your eyes when implying it, your insistence on how grandiose it was... you were only flipping a sickle?" The red headed girl said in a desperate voice.
"Well, we did have fun making you think we had some sort of epic way to decide on order but you were the first to start guessing it was something big, we just played along." Said George.
"I must say some of your ideas were interesting." Added Fred. "I particularly liked the one where we were doing a contest of the one to boil water fastest with an Incendio spell."
"I preferred Ginny's idea of the nastiest spell sent on Kreacher." Said Ron.
"I though the idea of us doing a free-for-all with the last one standing being the first, the other three chosen by the longest they were up, to be a real good idea." Said Harry.
"Nha! What is the point to use training to decide who goes in the shower first after we just finished training?" Said George.
At all that, Ginny just banged her head stronger on the wall. "...Ow..."
A bit later, they were all dressed in muggle fashion to go and visit St. Mungo. Even after getting the clothes to her size with magic, Daphne didn't seemed much at ease in them. Hermione though she must not have wore muggle clothes a lot. A lot of wizard clothing could compare to muggle, but the Nobles families usually kept the robes even if the style differed a lot.
"Father never let me get muggle clothing or anything close... In fact, I can't remember a time where I wore something else than a wizard robe in public..." Said the Slytherin girl while looking in a mirror to herself. She had a very light blue jumper and a pair of jeans on.
"You did wear your pyjama in the Knight bus" Said Ginny with a grin.
"Yeah well... It wasn't my fault. These... jeans was it? Aren't they a bit too tight?" Asked Daphne while passing a hand on her form fitting pair of dark blue jeans.
"They're meant to be. Girls usually wear them as tight as they can." Said Hermione. "I prefer not too tight but enough to remain form fitting."
"Why? Its not the most comfortable even if its not so bad, but tighter would stop my blood from running." Said Daphne that was contemplating the silhouette it gave her.
"Well... Its how the mode is in the muggle world. The mode right now is to more form fitting clothes that brings out the girl's curves." Said Hermione while handing her friend a pair of black sneakers that gave Daphne the big eyes. She wasn't following mode that much, mainly as she doesn't pass the majority of her time in the muggle world.
"Its sexier." Resumed Ginny with a smirk. "You might have enlarged your jumper a bit too much to fit your jeans, its a bit baggy."
"You thing so?" Daphne asked while struggling to lace her shoes. "Can't you have shoes that don't need laces? And you really wear these type of foot-wear even when you're not running?"
"We're talking about muggles Daph, forget magic fitting on the foot. In fact, most wizard can't buy them either, muggle type of shoes and boots are cheaper." Said the Weasley girl while looking at Hermione showing the way to lace shoes. She couldn't help but giggle at the sight of the grown up girl being thought how to lace shoes. "And yes, sneakers and running shoes are frequent in muggle world. Seriously, most people wear muggle clothing under their robes at school, aren't you used to it?"
"Not that much, I don't pay attention to it. I always wear boots, lighter when its hot. These types of shoes are only for running normally, they don't support the ankle at all. The shirts and t-shirts ok, I have things like that for under my robes, same thing for pants. But these jeans, that material really isn't something I ever wore, they feel heavy." Explained Daphne. She did shrink back the jumper at the same time to a more normal size that hung nicely to her.
"Well, you really are from a high class family, only family like yours keep the old style that way." Said Ginny. "Wizard evolved from the cloak and robes. The younger at least did, I always have to tell my mom what to wear so she doesn't look strange to muggles."
Daphne chuckled a bit at it. "Yeah, father thinks we should all go back to the old ways so I was not allowed to follow the other kids in their interests..."
The two other girls looked at Daphne with a sad look. The dark haired girl seemed a bit down when explaining her lack of knowledge of the muggle style. She had mentioned before that she hoped she was allowed to live like a normal girl instead of being constantly reminded that she was to be better than the others and that evolution was bad.
"Don't worry Daph." Said Ginny with a growing smile.
"We'll teach you all you need to know." Continued Hermione.
"Thanks you two, I really appreciate it." Looking back at herself in the mirror, she smiled. "You think Harry will like my look?"
Two analytic pairs of girls eyes scanned every curves that were showing, just enough to be inviting but not too much to be indecent.
"I'll take a mop I think." Said Ginny while going for the door. "He's sure to drool all the way to St. Mungo, especially if you walk in front of him."
The visit to St. Mungo was pretty standard. Arthur didn't seemed closer to wake up but Molly kept staring at him as if he'd wake up any seconds from now. The rest of the family wasn't as optimistic as her, Ron even saying he doubted his dad would wake up before they went back to school. Charlie and Bill that came on the weekends were the ones looking the most like their mother. Harry could understand, their jobs prevented them from coming to live at Grimmauld place while waiting for their father to wake up so they could only come when they were on weekends, it was normal for them to hope more than the other. They stayed at the hospital and slept in some magical hotel near the hospital that serve those families that live too far to even use apparition or floo network. St. Mungo is the most well known and recognized wizarding hospital in the world so they do get lots of patients from outside of country.
Harry, Daphne and Hermione passed much less time in the room than the Weasleys. That was due to the fact Neither Daphne or Hermione felt good to intrude on that family time. Harry did stay with the redheads longer that the two girls but eventually joined them.
He was, as Hermione and Ginny expected while Daphne hoped, very pleased by the way Daphne was dressed. He didn't drool, but he certainly had trouble to keep his eyes off of her. Even in the D.A. meetings she didn't wear anything that would show her silhouette that much and he certainly couldn't "complain on the goods" as Ron said – which earned him a hit behind the head from Hermione. Daphne was really flattered by the reaction she got from her boyfriend and immediately started to like the clothes. She never thought of herself as the type to just flaunt her body but regaled in the feeling of being desired by Harry. It of course only applied to him, as the thought of doing it for any other boy made her feel uncomfortable.
Daphne's meeting with Moody and Lupin was completely uneventful. Lupin greeted her cordially, saying he was pleased to meet one of his student from his year experience at teaching. The Slytherin replied by simply saying he had been a very good teacher and that everyone in school missed him. She said that she even heard Malfoy admit that Lupin had been the only real teacher they had for the Defense class. Coming from the ponce, it was a big compliment.
Moody refrained to ask anything about her father but Harry could tell he was burning to do so. He simply warned her to be ready for some hard time in his trainings but didn't push the conversation further. None of them seemed deranged by the fact she was Harry's girlfriend and it was refreshing. Ron and Ginny joined them shortly after.
Harry could tell that even they were starting to think that the visits were too long. Sure they loved their father, sure they wanted him to wake up, but sitting in front of his still form all day, doing nothing, was maddening. The twins, surprisingly, were more patient about it and were usually the ones to keep their mother's company.
"Mom say we can go back to Grimmauld Place after diner." Said Ron. "She said Moody would accompany us so we're safe. I just can't wait to be back at school so we don't need all these escorts anymore."
"And so we can do something else than either walk in a hospital or clean and train in Grimmauld Place." Added Ginny with a sight.
The others all nodded. They were sitting in the little cafeteria and drinking hot chocolate for most or coffee for Hermione. The day was pretty freezing in the end so they welcomed the warm beverages.
"You think we could go buy a few clothes?" Asked Daphne, a bit shyly.
Hermione smiled at that but it wasn't much a happy smile. "I'd like. And I'm certain Harry would love the idea of you parading for him in various clothes."
"Hey! Why do you keep on teasing me about that?" Said Harry with small indignation.
Daphne had a hint of a mischievous smile appearing but it was rapidly replaced by a seductive look while she pushed her bust forward, a finger to her lips. "Don't you like to look at me?"
Hermione and Ginny had a freezed half shocked half amused look. That was before they saw Harry's reaction. They just burst out laughing when they saw his jaw slack and big eyes that just stared at his unusually daring girlfriend. Even Ron was blushing a bit at the sight even though he knew it wasn't directed at him.
"Ehm... eh... I... ehm..." Were the only sound Harry could muster together.
A few second later, Daphne just let out the prettiest girly laugh Harry ever heard, no comparison to Umbridge that made him shiver for a totally different reason when she had her own. Anyway, it soon bloomed into a full laugh while she developed a slight blush in her face for what she just did. At the same time, she was happy that she could do it, as it distanced her from her usual self, the one that reminded her of her father.
It took them a few moments to get back their composure but in the end, Hermione could answer Daphne's question while Harry was saved from the embarrassment of answering his girlfriend's one. "Anyway, we can't. I can't tell you much about the Order other than what is common knowledge even for You-Know-Who. The Order of the Phoenix is a group fighting against the Dark Lord and every one known as member or related to a member of that order is vividly targeted by the Death Eater. That is why we always have escorts and we avoid wandering around. Its obviously worse for Harry."
"Why is that?" Asked the Slytherin.
"We don't know everything, but I would say he want to kill Harry even more than Dumbledore." Explained the muggleborn.
Harry shifted in his place only to have Daphne's hand grab his own in comfort. It helped him but the words still came out with a bit of frustration. "I think they're over-doing it. There is as much chance of them searching for us in here than Muggle London anyway."
"Still, better safe than sorry. At least here we're surrounded by trained wizard." Concluded Hermione.
She could see the two Weasley weren't convinced either. She also knew why Harry hated it that much. He already had to live secluded with his relatives over the summer, now even when he was freed from them he was still feeling trapped. It must be frustrating but his safety came before his well-being... at least that is was she was told by Dumbledore, but she wasn't sure she really agreed to it. Since Harry explained how he would have sent Daphne to Hogwarts even while knowing his father would be able to get her there, she began to doubt the man more. She couldn't deny his goals are good, but his means aren't always.
"Its ok." Said Daphne, trying to deflate the situation. She felt there was growing tension even if she didn't quite understood everything. "Its only for less than two weeks so I can keep on borrowing some clothes then I'll have my trunk at school."
"We'll ask Tonks." Said Ginny with a smile. "She's got good taste and she can simply morph into your shape to try things on."
Harry felt a bit down for the rest of their coffee break before going back to Arthur's room. There, they were met by a scene that made them forget about their golden prison. In the corridor was Chloe that listened to a performance from the twins who were signing Robert Palmer's song "Bad case of loving you". Harry didn't knew the song but the chorus told him it was muggle.
"Doctor Doctor, give me the news, I've got a, Bad case of loving you!"
Harry couldn't help but laugh at that. It certainly fitted the situation with the pretty Healer. At least she was half-blood so she must know what is a Doctor. He was surprised how the twins could sing so good in a duo. He also wondered how they knew that muggle song as even he didn't knew it. Hermione seemed to know it though, as did Ginny and Ron surprisingly. While the duet sang the second part of the chorus - No pill's gonna cure my ill, I've got a Bad case of loving you! - Harry asked the obvious question.
"How come they know that muggle song?" He asked while turning to the two Weasley with them.
"Oh god they actually did it and we almost missed it!" Said Ginny, completely ignoring Harry.
"What?" Asked the ignored.
"You know that little muggle village near the Burrow?" Said Ron with a smile, not leaving sight of the twins that seemed to know the full song. "Well before going to Grimmauld, we went and got to listen to a bit of muggle music. That song came up and the chorus kind of stay. Well at Christmas they remembered it when a half-blood kid I'd guess passed the corridor talking about "Magic Doctors". They decided they would learn it and sing it to Tracey's sister as she's kinda hot, I have to admit, but we never thought they were serious!"
"I'm sure Tonks helped them." Said Ginny, still in awe. "They can't have become that good on their own."
"Oh god!" Daphne was laughing so bad she was folded in two. They could see Chloe blushing like mad and that she wasn't that much at ease with the situation. "Harry, we need to get Dumbledore's pensive to show that to Tracey, she's going to kill us if she miss it."
"Don't worry." Said Tonks from the side. She looked like she just arrived from whatever mission she had and joined them to relieve Lupin who wasn't there anymore. They often rotated the Aurors escorting during the day when there was visits. "I saw the whole thing and I'll gladly share that memory!"
Once the song finished, the two identical boys bowed in thanks to the applause from the onlookers. The small crowd they had gathered were cheering for a kiss and Chloe had to comply and gave each of them a kiss on the cheek. The twins victory parade was nothing short of ridiculous and seemed to help the older Davis to fight back her embarrassment.
Feeling a pull on his hand, Harry followed his girlfriend to the woman. When she saw her, Chloe's smile dropped to a frightened one.
"Oh god now I'll never live through this..." Said the blonde girl before falling in a chair.
"Of course you'll live! Tracey wouldn't be able to torment you if you died from embarrassment. She'll just make your life miserable." Said Daphne with a wicked smile.
Both girls had a laugh at the comment, even if Chloe's one was looking a bit forced. She stopped fast though when she saw their hands still interlocked. "Well that is interesting... Does my sis' know?" She asked, happy for the change of subject.
The couple both smiled, tightening their grip subconsciously. "Of course she does. Who do you thing forced me to muster the courage to tell him... and set up the good opportunity while still being undercover about being friends with people outside of our House." Daphne rolled her eyes at the same time and conversation was easy after that, the Healer being in her break anyway.
Daphne seemed happy to meet her best-friend sister again. It seemed she would often sleep over at the Davis house, his father thinking Tracey was pure-blood. That way Harry learned Chloe was in fact a very shy girl, much the contrary of what Tracey is. She was in Hufflepuff and her personality had a break out after she dated the most popular guy in their house at the time but she wasn't even able to speak up before that. She was in fact one year younger than Tonks and Harry now had a vague souvenir of the girl being in seventh year while he was in his first... that or he just imagined it now that he knew he must have seen her at least once. Most of all that he learned from explanations Daphne gave him after Chloe got back to work.
The rest of the visit passed in a blur while the twins were awfully proud of themselves and kept saying on the way back that they would cast a permanent sticking charm to the very light-pink, almost transparent lipstick marks Chloe made on their cheeks. Harry knew it was mainly for fun that they did this and maybe also to cheer up their mother that had also been softly giggling at the show. He knew they didn't felt anything for the pretty blonde other than normal attraction from boys toward beautiful girls. Also, she had an engagement ring at her finger so it kind of spoiled any chances they might have had.
As Ginny guessed, Tonks did accept to buy clothes for Daphne and after replicating her perfectly from head to toe – almost giving Harry a nosebleed from the rush of feelings and hormones, lets not talk about his imagination – she left while changing back her head only to something closer to her real self but different to stay incognito.
Harry did get his parade though and he was wondering if the girls were tormenting him on purpose. Daphne tried and paraded for the girls, including Tonks, and Harry as the only representative of the male gender. She was changing in the small adjoined bathroom to the girl's room. It was mainly comfortable clothes but Tonks did buy some things for fun, including underwear – that she tried but didn't parade of course. There was some of the pieces that the Slytherin categorically refused to wear, like a skirt so short the slightest movement would reveal her knickers colors to the world. She didn't even acknowledge the existence of the bunny suit Tonk bought from a sex shop. Even a puppy eyed Tonks – in like, REAL puppy eyes – couldn't convince her to even look at it.
In the end it was a good day. It was the first time Harry could spend so much time with his girlfriend and he was very glad she requested to stop hiding their relation. He planed on spending most of his free time with her and hoped she wouldn't get tired of him. He wasn't scared of it, but he still decided he would keep an eye on it and leave her some space when she seemed like she needed it. That was in fact an advice from Hermione in the first days of his new relationship with the Slytherin. She gave him much more advises than that, but he didn't remember most of them. Anyway, she mentioned "Be yourself" so he decided that one was a good basis.
Soon would be the train ride to Hogwarts. Harry had heard Sirius and some other members of the order talk about using the Knight Bus to Hogsmeade but they changed their mind after Harry insisted on taking the train. A small ride in that bus was already nauseous enough, a long ride certainly wasn't inviting. He much preferred the thought of riding smoothly in the train, Daphne sleeping in his arms while he exchanged jokes with his friends. He thought about it so much that he dreamt about it. In his dream, Malfoy would also come by and be so shocked at the sight of Daphne in his arms that he would faint with a girly whimper. Strangely after that, the compartment door would close and he would again see that plain black door instead of it. The compartment would morph to the black corridor leading to the door and Daphne's comforting presence would vanish. He would stare at the door for a long time before waking up, not feeling rested at all. He knew what that "dream" meant and couldn't help but ask himself the question.
"Damn, Voldemort... What are you doing?"
In the end, Tonks wasn't able to train the group for the rest of the holidays. She was sent by the Ministry to verify a lead they had just got on Sirius. Of course, the information was "gathered" by Kingsley so it was obviously a false lead, but they had to keep undercover so she played her part, looking eager to go on the manhunt. This was in fact an advancement on her part. Kingsley was the one to ask the head of the Auror corps to have her with him to check the lead, but going from regular patrol duty to actually going on the field was much like a promotion. The real reason Kingsley asked for her was that they planned on inventing a few more leads to try and lure the Ministry outside of the country and so he couldn't be accompanied by a Ministry loyal Auror. Scrimgeour first wanted to send a more experienced Auror with the black man, but Shacklebolt convinced his superior by telling him she had a big potential and that she only needed to be given the chance to prove herself. It only helped that it was actually very true. So in the end, Tonks was very pleased by the assignment. It didn't stop her to give them a full training program to follow, saying Sirius was gonna supervise it and tell her if any of them slacked off.
None of them did.
The program seemed even harder than her regular training to the ones used to it. For Daphne, it was like being used to climb a big hill at a leisure pace then be asked to run up the Everest at full speed. She actually threw up the first day but never complained. She could see that the others were having trouble following the program too but much less than her. She had thought she would be ok, thinking that she was leading the group the other day, but while they were taking it easy that time, she was in fact going at her regular pace, she wasn't used to work harder than that.
Only Ginny knew that Daphne didn't keep the light breakfast she took that morning. Daphne asked that she didn't tell the others, she didn't want to be seen as week or to slow them down. Ginny understood her so she kept the secret.
In the end, she was able to follow the group if she forced herself a bit more than them. At least it was only three times a week that they followed Tonks torture program, the rest of the week they only took a small run every morning to warm up.
Mad Eye's training was as hard as even but in a different way. Once they were better at aiming and evading – which they learned Daphne was naturally good at – they dropped the training spells, except for the dangerous ones. It wouldn't do them any good if they permanently crippled themselves during mere training, or worse, died. They couldn't deny that they were more adamant to avoid the real spells that the blunt training ones, but they didn't want to start sending real piercing hexes and actually hit a vital spot. The hard part was that he had them start on batting away the spells with their wands, not being permitted to evade.
"In real duels, evading isn't always possible." He explained. "You all know the Protego spell, but even if its useful, its a weak spell. The best way to block it to use your wand. Your wand is filled with magic yes but don't forget to put yours in it too. Think of it like doing a concentrated Protego that covers your wand and use it to strike the spell away. That is what define advanced fighters, some of them being even able to redirect the spell at someone else or even back toward the caster. But don't forget that once you deflect the spell, it start to lose its power so don't count on it to have the same effect on anyone you redirect it to. And don't even try to use that against an unforgivable unless its visibly very weak. The stronger the spell, the stronger you have to be to strike it away."
Of course, the twins were already awfully good at it, their beaters experience helped a lot in here. Still, they found out that Moody would have been the best damn beater in the world if he had used his talent in Quidditch instead of against Dark Wizards. The first night they found out he never even moved an inch from his standing place and was able to even deflect spells coming from behind him and send it toward someone else. Even with his eye allowing him to cover his dead angles, it was a great feat.
The last training of the holidays had been with Lupin, so it was easy and pretty smooth. He thought them advance uses of the Protego charm, how to expand it, concentrate it or even cast it to protect someone else farther away. He also explained them how they could be layered multiple times to enhance them enough to even stop the Killing Curse, but it needed the caster to actually cast it multiple times in a row, so it was more like a desperate move, not an efficient one to use in fighting as it was slow to build up, yet useful in some situations. Some wizards had a stronger magical core and could put more power in one spell, so the layering casting was some sort of compromise for the weaker cores. Once they had all that mastered, he had started them on silent casting. The twins were already decent in silent casting so he had them perfect themselves while he explained the theory to the younger ones.
It was a very productive Christmas in the end. They felt much more healthy and much more confident.
That was true except for Daphne.
"Daphne, you stay here." Said Ginny after Lupin's class. The dark haired witch, looked puzzled but complied. "Professor Lupin..."
"Please call me Remus. I'm not a professor anymore even if I train you." Said the werewolf.
"Remus... Daphne is sick." Said the redhead.
"No I'm not!" Denied the Slytherin. "I'm just not used to your pace that's all..."
"Sirius told me you've been pushing yourself more than the others." Said Remus, looking serious. "If you've been feeling sick because of it you should have told us."
Daphne understood that she couldn't escape it and sent a cold glare toward the younger witch. Ginny replied with a determined glare that shattered Daphne's shell. In front of both of them, they saw her face lightly contort and she just crumbled to the floor. The fastest to get to her were neither Ginny or Remus, it was Harry that had been waiting further away for her. He went far enough to not hear what the two girls would have said but the moment he saw her drop on the floor, he ran to her immediately.
"I'm weak..." She said while her boyfriend hugged her.
"Remus... I think she's overworking herself. She..." Ginny started before looking at the girl on the floor. She didn't want to break her promise but it was important. "She was sick the first day we followed Tonks program. She had told her she could follow us but she just wasn't ready for that much of a workout. She had me keep quiet about it but I could see she was struggling to even keep up. I was worried so I observed her more recently and even if she can hide it well, its obvious she's not doing any good to her body. She eats less, sleeps bad, and I can see her shaking when she thinks no one is looking."
"That's no good Daphne. You will have better results if you take it at you own pace. Tonks made that program for them because she knew they could take it. If your body isn't ready, take it easier. Overworking oneself is not a good thing, because your body don't have the time to rest itself enough to grow correctly. If you push too much, you're gonna weaken instead of strengthen."
"Yeah... I know..." Said Daphne.
"Then why?" asked Harry. He was looking at his teary girlfriend.
"I didn't want to burden you... I didn't want to be left behind." She looked down at her hands in her lap. "I don't know... Maybe I thought you wouldn't like me as much if I wasn't able to follow you. I hopped I could catch up to your pace easily."
Harry couldn't help but chuckle at that. "And you are the Slytherin?"
"What does it have to do with it?" Asked a bit irritated girl.
"Aren't Slytherins supposed to be a bit more selfish? Yet here, you knowingly ruin your body for us. I can see why most Slytherins say we Griffindors are stupid if that's really how we act." Explained Harry.
Daphne looked at him with a hard look. She was silent for a few seconds before she started to chuckle, slowly turning into a full belly laughter. "Yes... you are stupid... It seems you're bad influence on me!"
She was quickly joined by the others in her laughter. Remus and Ginny started to edge away slowly, leaving the couple alone, something they didn't have that much even if living in the same house for a full two weeks. They didn't wait for them to be out before kissing lightly.
"Promise me you'll take your time? We're not in a hurry or anything and if we could get to this level in only two weeks, then you can too since you start even better than we were at the time." Said Harry after the kiss.
"Yeah... I'm sorry. That was pretty stupid of me. You still like me right?" Said the sixteen year old girl.
"Of course!" Said Harry without any hesitation and with a big smile that woke up the butterflies in her stomach..
"Then show it to me..." She concluded before grabbing the back of his head and pulling hard so she could snog him senseless. Harry let out a low appreciative grunt before complying, a hand in the small of her back while the other played gently with her hairs.