Seamus strode into the Gryffindor common room with a maniacal grin spread across his face.

"You've been off snogging again haven't you?" Harry demanded.

"What gave it away?" He asked.

"Oh, I don't know. Maybe it's the just been snogged glow that radiates from you. Or, it could be that huge hickey on the side of your neck." Harry informed him.

Hearing Harry's last sentence, and noticing said hickey, Fred and George started running around the common room singing "Seamus has got a girlfriend, Seamus has got a girlfriend!!"

"I DO NOT, have a girlfriend."

"Oh." The twins sounded momentarily disappointed. Momentarily.

"Seamus has a boyfriend! Seamus has a boyfriend!!" Now chorused through the Gryffindor tower.

" DO NOT!!" Seamus denied weakly.

"Are you sure about that?" the twins paused long enough mid-dance to ask.

"Yes?" The uncertainty in this answer was all they needed.

"Who is it? Who is it? Who is it?" They demanded.

"Has anyone ever told you two that you can be really scary when you get like this?" Seamus tried.

"Yes, and you're changing the subject. Who is he?" Fred answered.

"I'm not changing the subject, because I'm not going to tell you!"

"Oooohhhhhhh!!! Why not?!" George whined.

"Because if I tell you, you will tell all of Hogwarts."

"He has a point there." Fred conceded

"Yes, but that's still no reason to keep secrets from us!"

"That's a perfectly good reason for keeping secrets from us. It's when someone DOESN'T want to keep a secret they tell us." Fred argued.

The twins singing and dancing had attracted quite a crowd, who were all demanding to know who Seamus' mystery boyfriend was. Fred and George quietly congratulated themselves.

"I'm not telling so you may as well stop asking."

"Is it Harry?" someone asked.

"I'm not telling."

"Is it Ron." Someone else asked.

"I'm not telling."

"Is it Dean?"

"I'm not telling."

"Which house is he in?"

"I'm not telling."

"Is he in your year?"

"Look, everyone, I'm not telling, so you're going to have to work it out for yourselves." As the words left his lips, he realised his mistake too late, and groaned.

"Cheer up!" Fred ordered. "It's not all bad!"

"No," George continued "You've given everyone something to do while the weather's to miserable to go outside.

"It's a shame it means you and your boyfriend won't have any privacy until everyone knows though." Fred concluded.

At the beginning of lunch, only two students remained in the potions classroom, making the most of their rare opportunity for privacy.

"We'll do it at dinner in the Great Hall" one whispered

"I don't see why we have to do it at all." The other scowled.

"Because if we don't, we won't have a moment of privacy until someone finds out and tells the entire school." The first answered.

"And if we do, it's more than likely that my father will make me change schools."

"It'll be alright" the first boy reassured him. He quickly squeezed the others hand, and they went their separate ways.

Seamus arrived in the Great Hall after everyone had started their meals. As Seamus walked to the front of the Hall a mummer spread through the room. At least he knew he had their attention.

Seamus reached the front of the Hall and muttered, "Here goes nothing."

He stood in front of the teacher's table and faced the other students. Silence.

"I know a lot of wild rumors have been flying around about any relationships I may, or may not be having." He stared at Fred and George, accusation written clearly on his face. "As a result of the curiosity of some, no, most, of the students of this school, our privacy has suffered. So we've decided to go public in the hope that you'll leave us alone."

With that, he reached out into seemingly nothingness and dragged something towards him. He started to kiss his boyfriend. The invisibility cloak fell away to reveal….

Draco Malfoy.

There was a stunned silence.