Silence filled the dormitory belonging to the group of sixth-year girls as they peacefully slept. If Harmony listened hard enough, she could just make out the sounds of soft breaths escaping the lips of the slumbering teens. That wasn't what woke her up, though. She rolled ungracefully out of bed, her eyes trying to adjust to the pitch-darkness of her dorm room. "Bloody bladder." she muttered as her hair fell into her eyes and she stumbled over to the bathroom.
After completing her business, Harmony tripped back to the warmth and comfort of her bed, looking forward to collapsing back onto the well-worn mattress and sleeping for a couple more hours. Just as she passed the window, however, a strange series of flashing lights against the pitch-blackness of the Hogwarts grounds caught her eyes.
"Wha-" Harmony started, utterly confused and trying to figure out of she was dreaming or not.
Then she noticed that there were several dark figures riding on broomsticks hovering over the castle, some just outside the Hogwarts grounds, and every few seconds a burst of light would shine though the tall wall of trees from the Forbidden Forest, showing the silhouettes of more figures for a fraction of a second.
What the fuck? Harmony was squinting out the window, rubbing her eyes. She was beginning to really wake up now, and her eyes were drinking up the scene before her in mild horror.
A low rumble sounded as Harmony stood frozen, transfixed. As a flash of light illuminated the sky for a quick second, and in that brightly lit moment Harmony caught sight of a horribly familiar face; Avery's.
Her blood started to boil, hands started to shake, heart started to pound.
"No! Those little shits-" Harmony blinked a couple times, trying to make her sleepy brain wake up even more and process that Death Eaters were trying to get into Hogwarts. To think that three minutes go she was sleeping peacefully in her bed.
"Oh my gosh - LIVEN! BECCA! You guys, get up now! WAKE UP!" Harmony screeched at the top of her voice, punching onto the nearest end to wake whoever was sleeping in it.
"What?! What what's-" Liven shot up in her bed, getting tangled in the hangings around it and clumsily toppling onto the floor.
"They're trying to get in Hogwarts! Look out the window! Liven the Death Eaters are breaking the enchantments!" Harmony ran around, rousing every one of her mates hurriedly as the panic kicked in.
"I'll go get the boys; wake all of the Gryffindor girls! Now!" Harmony screamed as she ran down the stairs. She could hear the voices of her dorm mates as they hopped out of bed and started to rouse all the other students.
Harmony burst into the marauders' dorm a moment later to find everyone sleeping peacefully. "GET UP!" she yelled.
"What-" James leaped out of bed, landing on the floor in a daze, his eyes bare-looking without glasses on. "What the hell?"
"Fucking Death Eaters are trying to get in Hogwarts! Look out your window! I need to get Dumbledore!" Harmony screamed franticly, her heart beating unnaturally fast, as Sirius shot out of bed ungracefully and went to the window. Harmony just sort of started walking around on the spot, her feet tripping over clothes and books strewn across the untidy floor. She couldn't handle her panic well.
True to Harmony's word, several dark figures were indeed slowly coming closer to the castle, and the blinding flashing of lights caused by breaking protection enchantments were appearing more frequently now.
"It's okay, guys. Calm it. I'll go with Harmony to get Dumbledore and you wake the rest of Gryffindor. Be quick." Sirius said rather calmly.
Remus was waking Peter while James was already out of the room, his voice heard through the walls as he started yelling at the other Gryffindor boys to get up.
Harmony grabbed Sirius' warm hand and pulled him down the stairs, then let go of it when they reached the bottom. The tired teens tore through the castle as their legs screamed in protest at the physical activity being forced upon them at such a ridiculous hour. Their footsteps echoed all around the walls as they sprinted, making loads of noise. Hopefully they would wake up the other houses, too.
Finally, they got to Dumbledore's office entrance.
"We don't know the damn password!" Harmony smacked herself in the head and Sirius looked at the wall then the gargoyle guards challengingly, as if he was weighing how much force it would take to break through them.
Turns out they didn't need to break any walls because just at that moment, the wall slid aside to reveal Albus Dumbledore himself striding down the stairs hurriedly, his long, deep purple set of robes flying behind him like a blanket a child would tie around their necks to play superhero. The first thought that came to Harmony's mind was, Why isn't he in pyjamas?
"Professor-" Harmony started, relieved.
"Yes, I've seen them outside myself." Dumbledore informed them. "The Ministry has been contacted, along with the heads of houses. I suggest you go to the Great Hall now. Do not create light or sound, as this is a lockdown of sorts. Quickly and quietly, now."
Dumbledore was gone in a swish.
"Common room." Sirius said immediately. And so Harmony and Sirius sprinted back to the common room, completely disregarding Dumbledore's orders as to where they were supposed to go.
As the pair ran across the entrance hall, teachers were ushering sleepy-eyed students into the pitch-blackness of the Great Hall. Harmony noticed that most of the other houses were up too, and even the matron was there in her modest nightgown.
Sirius and Harmony bumped into their mates on the staircase. "Dumbledore said to go to the Great Hall! Where's my brother? Where's Ryan?" Harmony called.
"Just saw him and his mate pass us on their way down. The Heads told us where to go. Those Death Eaters can't pull anything past Dumbledore." Becca replied.
"It's not like they really tried to be secretive about breaking into Hogwarts after all." James said. "Gee, I wonder what all those flashing lights and cloaked men are doing on brooms outside in the middle of the night? I think I'll make some tea and watch them." James added sarcastically. Peter and Lily giggled. James looked pleased at Lily's reaction to his wit.
So Sirius and Harmony changed direction and joined their friends as they hurried to the Great Hall with the rest of the student body who were making quite a lot of noise.
Harmony stumbled into the large room, where whispers filled the chilly air despite the teachers all hissing for them to be quiet. Everyone jumped when a boom suddenly sounded from outside. It shook the castle walls violently.
That was a pretty efficient way to end all the conversations.
The students sat frozen, silent and shivering slightly, not all from the coldness of the dark, un-candlelit hall. Harmony did her best to scan through the darkness to double-check her brother and his friends were there. All of them were present, Harmony noticed with great relief.
As her mind strayed to whether the Death Eaters had payed a visit to Harmony's own home prior to Hogwarts, she forcefully made her over active brain to shut up and concentrate on the enchanted ceiling, where stars were shining tantalizingly above.
Another boom sounded outside. It rattled the castle so much that the big front entrance doors to Hogwarts flew open and an icy gust of wind blew in, immediately causing Harmony to shiver violently in her thin pyjama pants and loose jumper. Sirius was shirtless, so it must have been even colder for him.
Shirtless.
Harmony tried her hardest not to glance at his bare upper half, because there were more important things at hand than a gorgeous shirtless boy and also because it would be completely humiliating if Sirius caught her, which he most likely would do knowing Harmony's luck.
Harmony groped around, trying to find another being in the heavy darkness. She felt a familiar warm, rough hand grip hers. It was Sirius'. Then several thoughts dawned on Harmony about the current situation. Death Eaters were just outside the supposedly-safe castle walls. The hall was just so dark and Death Eaters were breaking into the castle.
Why? Because of her? The conversation Harmony had with the Headmaster after the second attack rang through Harmony's mind. They were looking for her. Were they actually breaking into the castle because of her? What did they want?
Harmony started to shake, not only from the freezing draft. "S-Sirius, remember how they were looking for me?" Harmony hissed, terrified.
She watched as something flickered across his face, vanishing soon after, then he calmly said, "Harmony, you know as well as I do that Dumbledore isn't going to let anything happen." Sirius slid closer to Harmony down the cold, stone wall they were leaning on, trying to comfort her.
Despite Sirius' comforting words, Harmony's anxiety kept growing with every silent passing second in the darkness. She couldn't keep still, and every few seconds she kept checking down the wall, her head flicking back and forth all over the place frantically. Finally, Sirius pulled out his wand and muttered, "Lumos!" he pointed it right at her face in an attempt to both calm her and gauge her expression.
Everyone looked over at the sudden break in the darkness, but Sirius was forced to mutter "Nox." when McGonagall called across the hall in a yell-whisper, "Please no light, ladies and gentlemen! We don't need anyone making a beeline for the Great Hall because it's lit up like a Christmas tree! Let's be sensible, now."
"But-" Sirius tried, gesturing to Harmony.
"No exceptions. Now hush! Keep quiet!" McGonagall called again, her voice echoing. Dumbledore was no where to be seen, along with a couple of other teachers. Harmony wondered if they were fighting. If they were, she also wondered how much convincing it took for McGonagall to remain in the Great Hall.
A third, echoing bang sounded from outside, rattling the windowpanes to the point that Harmony was afraid they all should expect a rain of glass shards to descend on them any second.
"Sirius-" Harmony squeaked in fear.
"It's okay, Harmony. I'm here, we're all here." Sirius whispered in Harmony's ear. It didn't help, but Harmony appreciated the effort.
"But seriously, Sirius, what if the Death Eaters try to attack my family if they can't get in Hogwarts? What if they already have and the Ministry has yet to receive word? What if all these people in here get hurt because of me? I'm fucking-" Harmony started again, a new wave of fear crashing down on her.
Clearly she wasn't really good at coping with her brain in these types of situations.
"You really think my parents would allow that? Didn't they make it clear in the letter they sent back to you that they were making you and your family's safety most important? Dumbledore will handle the school. The Ministry will be here in not two minutes. Harmony, calm down." James interjected from down the wall.
James was referring to the letter Harmony had received in reply to her own letter sent about two weeks previously, just after the attack on New Year's. Her letter was just a bunch of apologizing for the damage she caused to the Potters' house, enclosing money for repairs, and thanking Grace and Charles Potter for their generous hospitality (of half a night).
James' parents sent one back, calling Harmony silly for apologizing, so sweet for sending a letter, assuring her that her and her family couldn't be more safe, and also sending back the pouch of money, completely untouched. The pouch had a letter attached to it in a messy scrawl similar to James', which meant that it was Charles', saying that the "pictures in the hallway that were blown to smithereens were rather ugly" and he was "very glad to get those excuses for art destroyed" because he "never could stand them in the least". Harmony had a good laugh over that little note. Looks like she discovered where James' humour came from.
She was torn from her thoughts by several yells and the unmistakeable cracking of hexes and curses being shot and blocked. There were legitimate duels happening not one hundred feet from them, and all Harmony could do was try to get a glimpse of it. The Ministry arrived, apparently.
Harmony stood in horror with the rest of the hall as the shouts of pain and wooshing of spells continued to get closer.
"This is madness. I'm just going to have to give them what they bloody want." Harmony said shakily, but strongly all the same. She stepped away from the wall, trembling, her eyes already set on the open double doors and the flashes of light just outside them.
"Are you bloody insane? Harmony!" Sirius yelped, launching at her and pulling her back to where she was before. "We're not even one hundred percent sure it's you they want!"
"I'm pretty damn sure myself, Sirius! Look at all these lives I'm putting in danger by just being here! I need to give them what they want, which happens to be me for some strange reason, so they'll leave everyone else alone!" Harmony reasoned, as people started to listen in on the argument curiously. Harmony couldn't believe she was about to do this - she was about to walk out there and give them what they wanted. She needed to, and it wasn't because she wanted to be remembered for some grand heroic action, but it was because she genuinely knew that this was the only way to keep people safe. This was a war, and wars always had sacrifices.
"Harmony, you know as well as I do that giving yourself up won't make them leave peacefully. Especially since it sounds like the Ministry has gotten involved." Sirius yell-whispered, sounding quite a lot like McGonagall earlier.
"It's worth a shot! Sirius, you know as well as I do that in order to prevent this from happening ever again, I need to!" Harmony tried, but before anyone could say anything else, there was a loud, deep scream and a body arched through the air, bursting through the open entrance way. It landed with a dull thump on the Hufflepuff table. Some of the younger students screamed in horror at the scarlet blood dripping down the man's unfamiliar face.
Harmony tore over to the Hufflepuff table, along with the entire population of Hogwarts, to get a better look. He was clothed in dark, black robes, a skeletal-looking mask on the ground beside him from where it skittered as he fell.
A Death Eater.
"Those bloody assholes! How did they break the enchantments? How the bloody hell did they get in here?" Harmony asked to no one in particular, her hands starting to shake with unconfined rage. She had tears in her eyes, and as long as she kept asking the same questions she believed that someone, anyone, would answer her eventually. No one did.
An older student Harmony didn't know the name of pushed through the crowd and used his wand to tie the Death Eater up with ropes and levitate him over to the staff table, where all the teachers were scrambling after one another to get to the Hufflepuff table as fast as possible.
Outside the hall, the voices and sounds of duelling were getting steadily closer. Inside the hall, students were screaming and the teachers were forcing them back against the farthest wall from the double doors.
Then, the fighting was inside the entrance hall. Half of the students stood frozen in terror at the scene while the other half were screaming and shoving each other about, trying to get away from the danger. Suddenly, the Headmaster appeared, and he looked mad. Scratch that. He looked positively furious.
"Albus-?" McGonagall called out weakly, although he was to far away to have heard her.
Wordlessly, Dumbledore held up his wand and performed quite a few complicated movements. A low rumble started to rise, making students cover their ears within seconds as the noise got steadily louder.
Suddenly, a blinding, powerful blue wave of magic swept over the scene. And it was like time froze.
The duels stopped as Death Eaters, ministry officials, students and teachers gazed alike, hypnotized by the sheer beauty of the scary, glowing wave of magic rising up in a beautiful arch forming from all around Dumbledore's tall frame.
It was a perfect imitation of an ocean wave for a second, before it came crashing down upon them, strangely only knocking the Death Eaters down, a couple of older Slytherins including Severus Snape, and one seventh-year Ravenclaw. The rest of the students were frozen in place, like they were chipped out of stone - all still except for their eyes flitting all over the scene in front of them.
A couple long moments passed as everybody tried to recover, for even the ones that hadn't been hit with the spell were dazed.
Everyone stared at Dumbledore in fear, astonishment, and admiration. Most of the Death Eaters remained still and unconscious on the ground, especially those closest to the Headmaster. The Ministry officials jumped on them, immediately binding them with rope and beginning to identify their faces.
There were about three or four, however, that managed to slip through the complete chaos of the Hall and out the door. They were running kind of oddly, Harmony noticed, as she wildly started pointing in their direction to Sirius. Every few meters they would fall, only to get back up, look around dazed and confused, and start running again.
"There are a couple running!" someone yelled, as the teachers and aurors whipped around and stared dumbly at the slowly retreating backs of the Death Eaters as they stumble-sprinted away across the dark lawn.
They stopped trying to match faces and sprung into action again, aurors and teachers charging after the Death Eaters, shooting every kind of hex and curse they could at their black-cloak clad backs.
"Harmony?" Sirius asked tentatively, eyes studying her as she clenched her fists, trying to keep the fury off her features unsuccessfully. "Are you okay?"
All their mates turned to Harmony, concern on their faces.
Harmony face, on the other hand, was slowly turning dark red from anger. She bit her lip so hard that she could taste the metallic blood oozing out of a fresh wound.
"Harmony, calm it. You're fine. We're all fine." Lily soothed, reaching out to rub Harmony's shoulder. "Look at all of them on the ground over there. Most of them have been caught."
Before any of them could do anything, Harmony had torn herself from Lily's grip and started to run towards the open doors of the castle, where new (mostly one-sided) duels were starting up again.
"Harmony!" Sirius yelled, and he lead the way as the sixteen year olds shoved through the crowd, eyes on Harmony's long hair whipping out behind her as she ran.
She burst through the double doors, pulling her wand out of the waistband of her pyjama pants with speed and practise.
"Harmony!" Sirius yelled again as he charged through the doors, the rest of their mates hot on his heels.
"I'm going to kill them! The whole bloody lot!" Harmony ran so fast that the stars were just streaks of light in the sky, the trees a blur of dark brown and white snow.
"Harmony - no!" Becca called in a panicked tone as Harmony got closer and closer to a lone Death Eater running just up ahead of her. She started shooting hexes. And the Death Eater, Avery, started shooting them back. Not very well; his aim was severely affected by the aftermath of Dumbledore's magic, but he was shooting them nonetheless.
"Oh! Look who has come out to play. Isn't this cute?" he taunted, and he shot a curse at Harmony. She blocked it quite easily, which surprised herself more than the caster.
"Why do you want me so badly? What does Voldemort need from me?" she demanded loudly, eyes narrowing into slits.
"That's classified." Avery said automatically, smiling a horrible, hideously knowing smile. Then he added as an afterthought, "But if you were to come with me then you'd obviously find out-"
Harmony shot another nasty hex at Avery, suddenly realizing that the smartest decision would be to find out what Voldemort actually wanted from her before she charged head-first into some sacrificial action. With Dumbledore's help, they would probably be able to find a way to prevent this. To change the situation around. It wasn't like Harmony was a coward, but honestly she needed to make decisions when she wasn't in a fit of terror or rage. She needed to talk to Dumbledore.
Avery barely dodged the curse, and it made him stumble as Harmony started sending spell after spell relentlessly at him, forcing him to retreat slowly towards the dark, shadowed edges of the Forbidden Forest.
It was a fierce, one-sided duel.
Harmony was furious. It felt good to be in control of something for once, but it wasn't enough for her. She needed to taunt. She needed to make him angry. She needed him to start fighting back, so she could feel the adrenalin pump through her veins harder and harder. It was addicting.
"You're getting your arse whopped, if I do say so myself." Harmony called casually, slashing the air with her wand like a sword as yet another hex was thrown at a stumbling, sweating Avery. As Harmony got closer to him, she noticed that his pupils were large and were darting around uncontrollably, like he had too much sugar in his tea or something. "Your arse whopped by a girl. By a muggleborn girl."
Fury clouded Avery's features and that split second of distraction is all Harmony needed. Shooting a stunning spell at Avery, he flew back a couple of feet and hit a tree trunk at the edge of the dark Forbidden Forest.
Harmony seized her chance and sprinted over to where he lay, half conscious, in the grass. "You disgust me. You're a horrible murderer and you're just asking for a one way ticket to hell. I hope you rot there, like Voldemort and the rest of his horrific followers." Harmony hissed dangerously, her hair falling into her darkened face. "While I have your attention, you're also one of the ugliest fucks I've ever set sights on."
Footsteps of her mates sounded behind her but she didn't turn.
Just then, Avery shot up shakily, and threw a punch in Harmony's direction. He was still completely out of it, and therefore missed all of Harmony apart from the very edge of her left shoulder. Even half-conscious, Harmony noticed, his punches were painful. That was going to bruise badly.
Before Harmony could retaliate or Avery could try again, arms were around her and pulling her back away from Avery.
"Let me go! Let-" she started screaming. Turning around, she saw it was James. "Get off me!" Harmony desperately tried to get back to Avery who had taken the opportunity of the attention elsewhere, was running to a safe apparation spot outside the grounds. "He's getting away! He's getting bloody away!" Harmony was turning hysterical with rage.
She wasn't the only one.
Remus and Peter were barely keeping Sirius from bolting after Avery, too. "He fucking hit her! He hit her! Let me go! He hit a fucking girl! He hit Harmony, at that!" Sirius was yelling, his frame shaking from fury.
Harmony's mates were catching up the the marauders and Harmony, shock and fear written all over their features. Aurors had taken off after Avery, the last Death Eater still at Hogwarts as the others had gotten away with barely the cloaks on their backs. Dumbledore was swiftly approaching, the battered teachers following behind. He ordered sternly, "Get back into the castle. All of you, to your dorms. Miss Sea and Mister Black - my office please."
Harmony looked back to where Avery last was, and rage filled her as the aurors walked slowly back to the group, deflated and shaking their heads.
Avery got away. He got away.
Sparks were flying from Harmony's wand, lighting the blades of dead, frozen grass on fire for a few seconds as they landed. Harmony wrenched herself from James' grip, and followed the Headmaster inside. The entrance hall was stuffed with students, eyes wide as they watched the group approach the castle.
Perfect. Just perfect. Everyone got to witness Harmony's little excursion. Take a wild guess at what the new gossip will be. A hint: Harmony Sea is a mentally disabled girl who has anger problems and just duelled the shit out of a Death Eater. They won't even know if they should admire or fear her.
Knowing the cowards that were at this school, they would probably fear her.
"There is nothing to see. Back off to your dormitories. Morning classes cancelled tomorrow. Goodnight." Dumbledore dismissed the whispering crowd loudly. Harmony couldn't feel much of anything besides rage at that point, but if she could she would probably be embarrassed.
They all trickled away slowly, throwing glances at Sirius and Harmony as they left back to their respectable dormitories. Harmony and Sirius followed Dumbledore through the castle, their mates, the teachers, and the Ministry aurors were left in the Entrance Hall.
After a quick mutter of "Gummy broomsticks!" the gargoyles sprung aside and Dumbledore lead the way up the spinning staircase.
Sirius and Harmony sat down next to each other in the two chairs in front of Dumbledore's desk. Dumbledore surveyed them for a moment, his electric blue eyes piercing them both. "I have answers." he finally said. "But before I share them, I wish to inform you of the pure irrationality you have demonstrated tonight, Miss Sea."
Harmony cast her eyes downward at her shoes, finally feeling her anger ebbing away and being replaced with shame.
"No matter how angry you felt, Miss Sea, it was incredibly dangerous and reckless of you to leave the castle walls, and to run after a Death Eater, no less." Dumbledore started.
"I had it under control! He was down-" she started.
"But Miss Sea, you couldn't have known which Death Eater it was. As you got lucky, it was Avery, a rather dim individual with morals that need improvement. Also, he was still enchanted by my magic, slowing him down and enhancing distraction in the brain. But if it were Voldemort-"
"He wouldn't come out to get me specially! That's bullsh-"
"How do you know?" Dumbledore challenged her. "You don't, Harmony. But I do. And in the matter at hand, you never know if it could be Voldemort next time."
"What is it?" Harmony said in a small and desperately curious voice, her eyes looking right back into Dumbledore's blue ones. "Why does he want me?"
Dumbledore sighed. "There has been a prophecy. A Seer was tortured and killed because of it. It states that there will be a muggleborn of seventeen this year that in the future will be responsible for the negative fates of a massive amount of Voldemort's army."
"That could be anyone! What about Lily? Not that I want it to be her, obviously, but why couldn't it? That description fits her too! Those fit tons of the other sixth-years!" Harmony burst.
"Ah, but it couldn't, because the prophecy described the traits of this individual. Traits that fit almost perfectly for yourself. It said 'a muggleborn of seventeen the coming year, an unexpected bond developing with her opposite, the opposite previously escaping from a black past life with this own family'…" Dumbledore quoted. "I was unable to hear the rest of the prophecy, but the other individual could also be involved. I am not positive."
"Sirius." Harmony said automatically, sending him a half-glance. An understanding smile graced her lips lightly without joy as she caught him studying her with an intense gaze, his eyebrows furrowed, eyes dark, hair falling into his face.
"Precisely. My fears were confirmed when myself along with a few others interrupted a rather passionate moment a couple days before in the hallway, as you surely remember. It was the final nail in the coffin, as muggles say." Dumbledore's eyes took in a light hint of humour, but his face remained serious.
"Uh-" Harmony blushed because of The Hallway Incident and cleared her throat awkwardly, still aware of Sirius' gaze on her. Harmony's thoughts were immediately stolen again by the fact that she could actually, seriously, be involved in an actual prophecy?
Dumbledore was also staring at Harmony. "I am merely curious, for I didn't hear the entire contents of the prophecy before..." Dumbledore trailed off thoughtfully, eyes sliding off Harmony's face to watch the sky's few clouds out the window.
Harmony was glad that he didn't finish. She really didn't want to know how he obtained all this information. Finally, he sighed.
"I suggest you get going back and get some sleep. Please go straight to your dormitory." Dumbledore emphasized, tearing his eyes away from the window and to the two shocked teenagers in front of him.
"Yes, sir. Thank you for telling me what you know. It makes things a little less foggy." Harmony said graciously, then added on, "And my family? Someone has been to watch-"
"Aurors are stationed there as we speak." Dumbledore nodded.
"Thank you, sir." Harmony smiled tiredly as Sirius stood up, holding the door open for her like a gentleman. "Thanks." she muttered to Sirius and together they left Dumbledore and his odd office behind.
They walked silently through the now-calm castle. A breeze lifted Harmony's messy hair off her face, and she could feel the ends of her hair as it tickled her lower back lightly.
"Didn't see that coming. I feel important. A prophecy was made about me. And you." Harmony said after the light tapping of their echoing footsteps grew too much for her.
"You're gonna kill a massive amount of old Voldy's Death Eaters." Sirius said proudly, and when Harmony turned towards him she saw that he had a full blown grin on his face. She knew that it was just for her benefit, an attempt to lighten the mood, and she was thankful for that.
"Probably blow them up or something, most likely." Harmony sighed, also grinning. "Or light them on fire. Like sneak into their secret-Death-Eater-lair and accidentally start a fire on the most flammable part of the building I stumble across. And then they can all feel like they're burning alive, like I did when I got crucioed. Except they'd actually be burning alive." Harmony finished cheerfully.
Sirius laughed, the sound projected around them, bouncing off the cold walls. "There's the Harmony Sea that I'm-" he stopped himself, looking a little shocked and pink in the cheeks, looking like he was going to say something else.
Harmony exhaled. "You're what?" she halted him with a hand on his chest. Her own chest was practically quivering from her racing heart. She was hung up on the tone of voice he used, it was so tender-sounding and Harmony just-
Sirius took a deep breath. Closed his eyes. Opened them. Looked out the window. Bit his lip in a way that made Harmony want to kiss him so badly. Looked in Harmony's eyes. Looked down to Harmony's shoulder where she had been hit by Avery.
Suddenly, with warm hands he gently slid the side of her zip-up jumper down her shoulder, exposing the skin underneath and the new bruise forming. Harmony shivered as his fingers traced her collarbone to the ball of her shoulder, finally resting on the sore spot, rubbing his rough thumb over it. Sirius looked back in her eyes.
"Falling for. There's the Harmony Sea that I'm falling for." he declared bravely, finally, and then he kissed her.
Harmony's insides warmed up instantly. She wrapped herself around him automatically, pressing her body in to fit his, arms locked around each other. She smiled against his mouth.
The only word to describe it: perfect. It was starting to get familiar, kissing Sirius, and Harmony loved the fact that she could say she was getting to know Sirius' lips, the way they moved, the way they danced along hers. The way Harmony could practically hear the music playing in tune to their synchronized mouths.
Harmony pulled away from him, chuckling lightly, eyes sliding down his features, from his dark, beautiful eyes to his pink parted lips, showing the edges of his straight teeth beyond, and finally down to his bare chest pressed against hers.
"Good thing I'm falling for you, too, Sirius Black." Harmony breathed out, running her fingers down Sirius' jaw, her other hand resting on his shoulder.
"What does that make us now?" Sirius whispered, smiling widely as his hands readjusted themselves around Harmony's waist to pull her into him more.
"The beginnings of a constellation, I believe." Harmony replied simply, leaving a lingering kiss on Sirius' lips. As she pulled away, Harmony tugged on Sirius' hand and he just smiled happily as he followed her. For the couple moments they had together before they arrived at Gryffindor Tower, Harmony forced her mind to hold off on brooding over the newfound information about her relation to the war as she tried to comprehend this boy behind her.
A/N: PLEASE READ: Look, I have no intention of changing JK's plot. I just want to state that before I get reviews asking if Harmony Sea is going to be the new Harry Potter. This will pan out nicely and I hope all of you continue to enjoy my story!