Discalimer: I don't own Harry Potter.
A/N This is fluffy and sappy, and evil. Hope you like it. Tis a One Shot.
The couch in the Gryffindor Common room has seen better days. Yes it is still in good repair but it has seen better days in terms of those who sit on it for a nap, homework, or just to talk and hang around.
Students used to worry about lovers woes and what they had not done for homework on the couch, now they talk of 'he-who-must-not-be-named' and how there is a killing every week. There are stories of who has lost family, who has died, or who needs protection.
Talk of Harry Potter, and how he will destroy the Dark Lord, if he can manage it. Tales of victories, tales of how the world as they knew it would end. Yes, the red and gold couch has seen better days.
It shines with interest in the firelight everyday, listening to each and every student. A couch is just a couch, yes, but this couch knows secrets it will never reveal. Like Lily Evans and how she got her first kiss, Sirius black and his discovery that Remus wasn't what he thought he was, Arthur Weasley and his first 'long walk' with the now Molly Weasley.
And yet, even still, the couch knows of pranks the Weasley twins tried to come up with, Hermione Granger's relentless thirst for knowledge, Ron Weasley's thirst for showing up his brothers and becoming the best of them all.
The couch once knew a day when betrayal was to be cursed for life, not to gain power from a power hungry lunatic. The couch might have thoughts on Voldemort, but if it does, we will never know. Couches do not speak; they just listen, even if we do not notice that they are the best ears around.
The couch also knows of a blonde boy, who's thrown onto the couch nightly when everyone leaves the Common room's warm walls. The couch knows of the green eyed boy who devours the said blonde boy as soon as their bodies reach the couch.
The couch knows of their long talks after, or how one instantly falls asleep after they find release in each other. The couch knows that when they leave, they lose a bit of their hearts because soon, all too soon, they will forever be split apart. Or that's what they seem to believe.
The couch knows better though, and eventually, if not in this decade at least, the two boys will find each other again. The couch knows because one of them is James Potter's son, who would stop at nothing to get Lily Evans' first kiss.
Oh if only the couch could talk, and tell Harry this reassuring truth that he won't have to live without Draco after a month for the rest of his life. But the couch cannot tell him, so Harry might just well have to find out with time.
The couch also cannot tell him that when a decade or so does pass, another blonde boy will be thrown onto the couch, in a fight with his friends over some broomstick gummies. A blonde boy with rather vibrant green eyes and a mischievous grin will win that fight as well.
The couch will never be able to tell anyone these things, or that they will see better days, for it is a couch after all.
If only the couch could talk…
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