Harmony opened her eyes slowly, only to close them again because of the blinding sunlight assaulting them so early in the morning.

Why the hell was she up at this hour? She only saw the sun out her window on weekday mornings, not weekend mornings.

As Harmony cautiously turned her head to the side away from the window, she just about urinated all over her bed when she saw the grinning face of one of her best friend, Becca Leen, peering down at her widely.

"WHAT THE FU-" Harmony started before the door was kicked open by none other than Sirius Black and James Potter.

On a broomstick.

That was flaming.

A bloody flaming broomstick.

Was she hallucinating?

"I'm sorry, who drugged my pumpkin juice?" Harmony climbed out of bed and sat up in a dreamlike fashion.

Sirius raised his eyebrows, grinning at Harmony. She looked down to see that her t-shirt covered the little shorts she wore underneath, making it look like she just wore her knickers to bed. See, she wouldn't have even blinked at this before but he was such a bloody boy.

"I have shorts on, you prick." She stuck a hip out and placed her hand on it, glaring in the boys' general direction where they were grinning widely. Harmony was suppressing the confusion she was feeling at the moment. She was awake and it was a Saturday. Sirius Black and James Potter were in her dorm. She was awake.

"Barely." Becca snorted from behind Harmony.

She then suddenly realized that she was awake and looking at real, live people before eight am and it wasn't, in fact, a dream.

Harmony spun dangerously on Becca. "Why, in the name of Merlin's hairy right nipple, am I awake? It's a Saturday! What is wrong with you, you bloody moron?" Harmony screeched at her best friend.

Becca wasn't fazed by this, as she endured it just about every morning. "Because breakfast is about to start." This didn't satisfy Harmony, whatsoever. So Becca added on, pointing at the boys, "Them. They made me come and get you!"

Harmony spun on Sirius and James who were now landed and trying to put out the fire on their broomstick.

There were many things that Harmony wanted to know, starting with, "WHY IS YOUR BROOM ON FIRE?" She demanded.

"Lily." James said as if this was the most obvious thing in the world.

"She didn't think it was appropriate for boys to go in the girls' dorms." Sirius said. "And she was afraid that James would go through her underwear drawer. I convinced him not to, though." He added, dodging a smack from James.

"WHY DID YOU WAKE ME UP?" Harmony screamed at Sirius.

"We missed you!" James said in a baby-like voice.

"That's not a good enough reason." Harmony sing-songed, dangerously sweet and quiet.

Sirius and James backed up, scared, as Harmony pulled out her wand from the waistband of her shorts.

She got close to them, twirling her wand between her fingers, fire burning in her eyes.

"You didn't warn us that she wasn't a morning person, Becca!" Sirius squeaked over to Becca who was shaking with silent laughter.

Harmony reached back and pulled her hair out of her ponytail slowly, pondering what kind of torture she was going to put them through. She wasn't even fully awake, yet, and her legs felt like jello from being asleep.

The hair that was previously in a ponytail came loose and tumbled down her back in uncontrollably curls. James reached for his wand in his pocket, but before he could even blink, Harmony had flicked her wand and James' went flying across the room. Sirius didn't even bother with his.

A cry of "Expelliarmus!" came from the doorway.

Harmony's wand went flying across the room. She turned to the door to see Remus, Peter, Alice, Liven, and a terrified Lily, her wand raised.

There was silence for a moment until Harmony dove across the room for James' wand, which was closest, and James and Sirius made a leap for the door.

Harmony's fingers closed around the sleek body of James' wand and she shot a hex in the group's general direction.

As Sirius' skin started to turn purple with blue dots, Lily and Remus disarmed Harmony again, the power of the spell throwing her backwards.

Into her bed.

She stood up, everyone staring at her with wide eyes. "SCREW YOU." She pointed to where the group was huddled by the door holding in laughter. Peter's face was purple. Much like Sirius', she mused. "I'M GOING BACK TO BED."

And then she yanked the red curtains of her four poster bed closed.

The group of sixth years stood dumbfounded at where Harmony had stood a second ago.

Next thing they knew, every single one of them was on the ground laughing so hard they thought they were going to burst. Or get an instant six-pack. Or both. Or pee. "You have to deal with this every morning?" someone asked.

"Well, this morning was more eventful than others, but usually it's something of the sort." Liven replied.

"Good God." James said through his laughter.

They eventually left the dorm when Harmony started screaming random swear words at them again.

After about twenty minutes of blissful silence, it became painfully obvious that those people had thrown a knife through Harmony's dreams of sleeping in.

She got up slowly, throwing a jumper and a pair of jeans on lazily. She willed her body to bring herself to the bathroom to brush her teeth. Harmony caught sight of her uncontrollable hair, curly and sticking up all over the place, in the mirror. She shuddered slightly and thought, It's a Saturday, I don't have to look attractive.

As she made her way down to the Great Hall, she was content with her thoughts of violent torture towards James and Sirius. But just as she was turning a corner, Harmony heard a long, drawn out meow behind her - it was the caretaker's cat.

Fear filled her but she had no idea why because she wasn't even breaking any rules. It was a Saturday morning. Harmony was just a student making her way down to breakfast. But Harmony couldn't think straight that early in the morning. Or any morning before ten am. So, she bolted before the creepy caretaker could come anywhere close to her, questioning her like he was infamous for.

As she reached the Great Hall, she leaned up against the wall to catch her breath.

Harmony heard the meow again and sprinted right into the hall, both doors opening with a bang.

The Hall quieted. Did the doors really make that much of a bang? Why were people looking at her? It was mostly the people closest to the door, as many students didn't flinch in the midst of their conversations.

But most of the whole damn school was looking at her.

Cheeks flushed from running, hair flying anywhere and everywhere, eyes huge, and no shoes, Harmony stopped dead.

Slowly, she moved her head up to see the Headmaster smiling, clearly he was in mid-sentence.

"Well, good morning, Miss Sea." He called, waving slightly, his voice echoing around the vast room.

There was more silence.

Why was no one saying anything? It wasn't that unusual for a student to arrive a half hour after breakfast started on a Saturday. Didn't, like, the entire population of girls do that regularly along with the walk of shame?

Just then applause erupted from the marauders and Harmony's dorm mates. She whipped her head over to them; they were all standing up and clapping.

Yep, someone definitely drugged her pumpkin juice at dinner last night.

"Let's give a round of applause because, for once in her life, Harmony Sea has gotten out of bed voluntarily!" Liven shouted.

Then, to Harmony's enormous embarrassment and shock, the whole hall burst out in cheers and shouts of congratulations. Even Professor Dumbledore was smiling and clapping. Ninety percent had no idea who or what they were clapping for, but if you throw one thousand teenagers in a room and start whooping and hollering, chances are they're going to join in.

Harmony's face was putting the Gryffindor banners to shame as she walked swiftly over to where her friends were seated. She sat down between Remus and Alice. Harmony had never gotten this kind of attention at Hogwarts, or anywhere really, and she was far from enjoying it. It was a good way to get revenge on her for almost killing eight people.

The hall calmed down a moment later and the normal conversations resumed again until Dumbledore stood up. "Good morning!" he said cheerfully. "There will be a Hogsmeade trip next weekend, and I was just going to go over the..."

Once again, Harmony stopped paying attention to Dumbledore. She spied the mug Sirius was holding while he watched Dumbledore speak. She needed to process what just happened.

Starting with coffee.

Harmony snatched the mug right out of Sirius' hands before he could bring it to his lips. He turned away from Dumbledore, eyebrows raised.

Harmony took a sip. "Sissy." She declared while pouring the rest of the coffee pot in the mug.

Apparently two sugars and two milks wasn't the right ratio of caffeine to sweeteners for her.

"Sissy?" Sirius asked, eyebrows furrowed.

"Two sugars and two milks?" She questioned, taking another sip. The more she drank, the more she started to feel better about this thing they called life.

Sirius nodded.

"You can't handle the caffeine." She said bluntly, taking another sip.

"No! That's not true!" Sirius said, looking insulted.

Lily shushed them.

Harmony just smirked before tipping the cup back to get the last drops of coffee.

"Shit, that's good." Harmony breathed, slamming the cup down.

Remus snorted while James whispered, "Caffeine junkie, much?"

Harmony just whacked him on the shoulder.

"So. Last night. Fun, eh?" Sirius wiggled his eyebrows suggestively while a group of fourth year girls started whispering furiously from down the table. Obviously they were listening to the pair's conversation.

"Not like that, you ninnies!" Harmony snapped at the girls while pouring herself more coffee.

They stopped talking and looked up at Harmony.

"Drunk whore." The ugliest of the group said, staring Harmony down.

Harmony choked on her coffee and slowly put the mug down on the table. The marauders whipped around to face fourth year, along with Lily, Alice, Becca and Liven.

"I'm sorry, what?" James asked, bewildered.

The ugly one suddenly turned, terrified.

Who wouldn't? Insulting one sixteen year old is much easier than nine.

"I-I just-assumed...I thought-" Her face turned red as Sirius glared at her.

"Yeah, don't. Think that is. Or breath. Just turn back around to your little group of friends. Don't pick fights you won't fight, you little bitch. How old are you? Ten? Grow the fuck up." Sirius snapped, pointing a finger at the trembling girl.

Everyone including Harmony turned and faced Sirius, eyebrows raised at his outburst.

The girl's friends grabbed her arms and pulled her out of the hall, fleetingly glancing back every few seconds. Dumbledore had stopped speaking a long time ago, Harmony noticed. The hall was chattering happily again, except for the people closest to them. They were swivelling their heads back and forth between Sirius and Harmony. Talk about an eventful morning already.

Having enough of being the centre of attention, Harmony gestured for Sirius to follow her out of the hall. Only a couple people were out in the corridors and the fourth year girl was nowhere no be seen, thankfully. Harmony didn't even know how the hell she was supposed to feel or react. It wasn't that big of a deal, and Harmony wasn't about to brood over this for the next twelve hours of her life. She grabbed Sirius' hand without comment and lead him outside into the fresh morning air.

As soon as they got out of the castle, Harmony dropped his hand then threw her arms around Sirius' neck unexpectedly. He was surprised, she could tell.

"Thanks, Sirius. Really." Harmony mumbled while he slid his arms around her waist. He was warm and smelled like a mixture of cologne and wood. They stayed like that for a couple odd moments, until Harmony felt Sirius begin to relax a bit. She pulled away and said, "It's nice to know we're good enough friends that you would tell someone off for me like that."

"It was no problem, Harmony." Sirius smiled, a real, genuine smile. Teeth and everything.

Harmony laughed, her cheeks warming up. She began walking over to the tree near the water's edge and Sirius followed. Harmony looked down and realized that she was still in her socks, completely forgetting about shoes this morning. Oh well. It wouldn't be the first time.

"So, tell me something, Sea." Sirius said, hands deep in his pockets as they both looked over to the glistening lake, the water rippling from the slight breeze. There were even some students swimming on the opposite bank, their laughter and shouts echoing around the grounds.

"What do you want to know?" Harmony asked.

"I don't know, something about you. If we're friends, I should know you're favourite colour, worst childhood experience, favourite book..." his list trailed off.

"Let's see. I love gold, but my absolute favourite is green, like emerald green. My worst childhood experience was probably when my neighbour's dog attacked my face when I tried to pet it.I was like four or something. And I honestly can't think of my favourite book at the moment. I have no idea." Harmony told him, laying back on the grass and closing her eyes. She could feel the fatigue hiding inside her and if she tried hard enough she could fall asleep again.

"You don't have an answer?" Sirius asked, eyebrows raised.

"Nope. I've read too many books to count, much less choose a favourite." Harmony said. "How about you?"

"Hmm...red. The Gryffindor red that physically hurts your eyes in the morning and is the boldest colour you will find. Ever. My worst childhood memory...I, uh...well I'll tell you that another time." Sirius avoided Harmony's questioning gaze. "And my favourite book..." Sirius trailed off thinking. "I really don't know. I haven't read very many."

There was quiet for a minute.

"What's your least favourite food group?" Harmony blurted, breaking the silence.

"Dairy. I could never get it down. How about you?" Sirius said.

"Meat and fish. I hate that stuff." Harmony said, her face wrinkling.

"Are you kidding?" Sirius asked in disbelief.

"Nope." Harmony grinned. "What's something you have a fascination with?"

"Oh, thats easy. A woman's-" Sirius started.

"Sirius Black you better not finish that sentence!" Harmony cut in.

He just laughed. "Okay, okay. Hmm...I don't really know. " Sirius thought for a second. "Well, I like muggle technology and cars. I really like motorcycles. Those muggles are geniuses, you know? That's such a clever way for transportation - a little motor on two wheels with a seat. How about you?"

"Stars. Space. Fire. Books. People." she trailed off, smiling slightly. Suddenly, Harmony turned back to Sirius. "Can I tell you something?"

Sirius looked at her, smiling. "Sure, Sea."

"When I was a kid, and I guess I actually still do, I used to sneak out of the house almost every night, especially in the summer, just to go lay on the grass, looking at the stars. I would be gone for hours at a time. A lot of the nights Becca would come with me, and we'd just lay there. Now when we sneak out we drink, most often, but there's still many nights where we just stargaze and talk." Harmony sat up and played with the grass at her feet, the blades tickling her toes. "I still sneak out at Hogwarts. I go up to the Astronomy Tower, when the castle is quiet, peaceful."

The pair was quiet for a moment, just looking over the lake.

"I like that, stargazing. I had to learn the constellations, when I was a kid. Mum made me." Sirius said sadly.

"Sirius, the brightest star." Harmony smiled as she felt the breeze ruffle her hair again.

"All my family is named after constellations. That's about the only thing I like about the Black family." Sirius said darkly.

The sound of kids splashing each other filled the pair's ears while Sirius' last comment sat in Harmony's mind as she tried to understand more about him.

She looked over at Sirius, breaking the silence. "You weren't supposed to be a Gryffindor, were you?"

Sirius turned to face her, he was sitting too, and looked straight into her eyes. "No, I wasn't."

Then Harmony asked, "When did you leave?"

Sirius hesitated, then looked into her eyes again and apparently decided he could trust her. "Just the past summer. My family is true to their name. Black past, present and future."

Harmony considered him for a moment. "But you couldn't be more different from them, and I've only really known you for about a week."

"I was always different." Sirius nodded. "Not sure if it was a good thing."

Harmony understood. "It was."

He looked back at her suddenly. "I've...never really told anyone about all this besides the marauders...much less someone who I started talking to a week ago." He smiled. "I like ya, Harmony Sea. You're really cool. Thanks."

She just smiled. "Lily would skin me if she heard me say this, but I like you too, Sirius Black. You're not bad at all. Honestly, I thought I had made friends with all the people who were worth being friends with, but I was wrong." Sirius held up his fist for a props and she bumped her hand on his.

He grinned. "Let's talk about something fun. Every burn on your body..go!"

Harmony thought for a second, "Every finger, right palm, back of my left hand, collarbone, neck, both wrists, inside of my left arm, right hip, and both legs. And the top of my right foot. That one was the most painful."

Sirius grinned and laid down, Harmony followed his lead. "That's a lot."

"It's my punishment for loving fire." She shrugged. "Okay, best dare you've ever completed?"

"Well from what I remember, Remus and James, who were also a bit, ah, intoxicated, had to light a whole box of firecrackers from Zonko's while I rode a broomstick back and forth over them, trying to avoid the fireworks. I still have that burn on my leg. So worth it though. We were laughing so hard after that we fell into James' pond." Sirius smiled, recalling the memory.

"Okay, kind of a stupid question but…have you ever been like completely drunk before?" Sirius asked Harmony.

"Ooh yeah." Harmony laughed. "But the best time, so far, was when Liven, Becca and I snuck some butterbeer from the Liven's parents one weekend. It was a good night. I fell in a lake and set a small tree on fire, if I recall correctly. And peed on someone's tent. We were up camping in Becca's muggle camping trailer. It was just us, because her parents dropped us off in a camping ground for the weekend. We were hammered. And then I remember having the worst hangover after, it was terrible. But I'm pretty sure it was worth it." Harmony grinned and watched as some kids walked out of the school and went to dip their feet in the lake, clearly oblivious to the giant squid making a beeline towards their dangling toes.

"Sounds like you're a fun drunk." Sirius stated, grinning.

"I could say the same about you." Harmony laughed.

The pair kept talking, unknowingly being watched by their group of friends from the Gryffindor common room window.

"It's an odd pairing, alright." Becca said, watching Harmony and Sirius laugh as they gazed at the clouds.

"Did you see how he blew up at that fourth year this morning? That was scary." Peter commented.

"Two weeks. Two weeks and they'll be best mates, you watch." Liven said.

"I have to agree." Remus commented, walking back over to the Gryffindor couch and opening his book. "There's something about those two…how have they never been actual friends before?"

The morning and eventually afternoon passed by, the group lounging in the common room, only leaving to bring food back for the others from the Great Hall for lunch.

Sirius and Harmony came in right before dinner, laughing about something Sirius had just told her. Yeah, two weeks sounded about right.

"We thought you got eaten by the giant squid." James said mildly.

Harmony rolled her eyes. "I'm going to get washed up for dinner. See you in a bit, kiddies."

Lily came through the portrait hole at that moment, smiling widely and a little pink in the face because she had just got back from spending the day with her boyfriend, Korey List.

"Bye, Sea." Sirius called as she made her way up to the stairs. Sirius plopped down on the couch, staring into the fire.

"I'm going up with her, see you at dinner." Becca said as she followed Harmony's lead.

As she went up the stairs, she caught the sad expression on James' face as he listened in to what Lily was telling Liven about her day with Korey. Becca opened the door to the dorm and saw Harmony in the bathroom attempting to fix her hair. She gave up and pulled it back into a ponytail.

"You smell like a man." Becca stated bluntly while leaning against the bathroom doorframe, smiling.

Harmony shrugged. "Like Sirius, probably. I don't know how, I barely even touched him." She winced as she tugged out a knot in her hair.

"I'm jealous. You just spent a day with the hottest guy in school!" Becca cried in a high pitch voice, obviously trying to sound twelve.

Harmony laughed. "We were just talking. Getting to know each other better. He's actually pretty cool, Becca." Harmony leaned in close to the mirror and wiped an eyelash off her cheek.

"Alright, now let's just get going, dinner's soon. Besides, Liven brought some firewhiskey from home, she said we can have it tonight." Becca said, grinning wickedly. Harmony's eyes lit up when she heard firewhiskey and she high-fived Becca. Two of her favourite things in the world, combined. Well the word was combined. It didn't literally have fire. It just felt like fire going down. Harmony like to imagine it was fire, though.

Soon the group made their way down to the Great Hall, the smell of mouthwatering food driving everything else out of the teens' minds.

"I fucking love Hogwarts," Peter mumbled as he opened the doors to the hall. "Love it." He repeated.

A/N Yeah, this one's a little more serious (pun intended).Thanks to my reviewers, favouriters and followers!