"Well I think that this is a load of shit!" Harmony barked at Lily as the latter attempted to help Harmony with the uses of dragon blood essay they were to complete for after the weekend was done. "Why do I need to do this now? Why are you putting me through this torture?"
Remus snorted from where he sat next to Sirius on one of the many couches in the warm Gryffindor common room as they too were trying to lessen the workload.
"Tell me, Harmony, when you were planning to complete this then?" Lily asked.
"I don't know, whenever I find the time."
"Like eleven on Sunday night?"
"Humph. Well I'd get it done eventually." Harmony crossed her arms and looked into the fire, wishing she could throw her textbook into it and watch it burn with a maniac smile on her face.
As January had slipped into February, no more attacks had been made in an attempt to kill Harmony. Yet. There had been an awful, chilling silence that fell over the world, as Voldemort decided to change tactics; kidnap people silently from their beds in the dead of night and have their bodies quickly and easily disposed of the next morning. He was doing his business, or rather the Death Eaters were, while trying not to cause attention or any more uproars. This made things much easier on the Ministry, but it arose questions within Harmony.
This was a time period of recruiting people to join his side, either voluntarily or forcefully, and he wanted to keep off the radars until his army was massive enough. To do what, Harmony didn't know. Take over the Ministry? Take over the world?
In Hogwarts, drama was beginning to circulate again. All the fights and break-ups and make-ups had all been discussed so many times that the witnesses themselves were convinced that they found Nancy Lang and Harvey Link, two seventh-year Ravenclaws, in a compromising position before they broke up a couple weeks before, instead of where they fought with all their clothes on in their common room.
Harmony even walked by a group of perfume-smelling gum-chomping hair-straightening fifth-years the other day and overheard them whispering not too quietly about herself and a certain Sirius Black. "They're awfully close, aren't they?" one girl said.
"Oh yes - and that Tianna girl, the fourth year? Yeah she was telling her friends that Sirius had asked her to Hogsmeade at the beginning of the year but she declined saying that she had too much work she needed to do so she was staying back from Hogsmeade. Then she said he'd only started to befriend Harmony Sea in hopes of making her jealous." another girl told her the group, wide-eyed.
"No, it can't be true though. Tianna went on that Hogsmeade trip. And to be honest I don't think Sirius would have asked her, after she called Harmony a drunk whore at the beginning of the year. I didn't see it but apparently Sirius flipped his lid on Tianna."
"Yeah, true. If you ask me, Tianna seems a bit of fake sometimes. Well, most of the time." a third girl decided, pulling her skin-stretching ponytail even tighter against her skull.
By that time, Harmony had already walked past the group, and could no longer hear any of their conversation. Sirius and Harmony weren't together. Not officially. It wasn't a definite thing. It was...a half-relationship type thing...sorta.
They had only kissed once more since the night of the Death Eater attack on Hogwarts and even then it was just a quick almost nonchalant peck goodnight kiss after Sirius and Harmony and gotten in late from sneaking into Hogsmeade one night.
It didn't mean that they were growing apart, either. Oh, no. Sirius and Harmony were going on strong, and Harmony found that she was spending more time with Sirius than anyone else. Even herself. And she loved it.
Now, sitting in the Gryffindor common room before a relaxing, well-deserved and desired weekend, Harmony looked around at all her friends wondering how the heck they were all so concentrated and devoted to the completion of their homework.
Harmony stood up and her textbook slid off her lap with a bang, making her mates jump and their quills to blot large, unwanted wet ink stains all over their parchment. "Disgrace. Friday night, and doing homework. What is wrong with this world?" she asked no one in particular dramatically. "Peace, lovelies, I'm going to get a coffee."
Without any further dialog, Harmony left the common room swiftly, well aware of all the eye rolls she was receiving from the group of sixth-year Gryffindors lounging in various positions studying various subjects by the cackling fire.
In the empty, dark corridors, Harmony's eyes drifted out the window every time she passed one, hoping for a glimpse of the stars above. The majority of the glittering stars were forced behind clouds, so only the odd twinkle was seen before they disappeared again.
Needing something to fill the silence of Hogwarts, Harmony cracked her knuckles but stopped mid-way because the pops and snaps were too silence-shattering, and the portraits kept grumbling about the hour (it was only nine-thirty, but the portraits were mainly old ladies skittering along with sticks up their arses forcing their love for rules, curfews and schedules on everyone else).
As Harmony went to turn a corner, she stopped herself just in time for low voices were muttering to each other. Talk about déjà-vu, eh? Harmony flattened herself against the wall painfully.
Hell no she wasn't making that mistake twice. The last time she heard low voices hissing to each other like that at night in the corridor (while Harmony was on her way to the kitchens, too), she got tortured by a bunch of burly Slytherins.
Naturally, Harmony didn't run as fast as she could in the other direction, but she stayed to listen in on this suspicious conversation taking place. She was a Gryffindor, after all.
"Isn't there any-" the more, quiet and soft of the voices asked.
"-other way to get to her? No. It has to be them. She's as good as showed us that they're the only ones she really cares about. That and-" a low, rough voice hissed.
"Yeah, yeah. I've heard it a million times over. The gossip never changes around here, honestly."
"Severus Snape, are you admitting to being a gossip?" the darker speaker asked, his voice laced with laughter.
"Certainly not. One does overhear quite a bit while sitting in front of immature, brainless mudbloods in every class." Snape said defensively. Harmony could almost picture the red blush creeping onto his sallow cheeks.
"Back to business, Severus. The Dark Lord has not given any specific dates, but I assure you it will be in the very near future. It is your responsibility to look up the correct way to break those protective enchantments on the list given to you, because without them how might we get through? The Dark Lord was far from happy last time when Avery had such a clear shot of her but got his ass kicked, so now that he has given this job to us, we cannot fail."
Ten galleons to guess who 'her' was?
"I agree. Although I highly doubt that attacking Sea's-" Snape started irritably.
Look who's ten galleons richer.
Harmony had to contain her bitter laughter.
"Severus, to doubt the Dark Lord's plan is to doubt the Dark Lord himself!" the voice hissed, full of fear, as if old Voldy was listening in on their conversation.
"I am doing no such thing. I am simply expressing my concerns about the major holes and faults in this plan. What if the Sea doesn't respond the way the Dark Lord believes she will?" Snape said calmly.
"We mustn't question or doubt. The Dark Lord said that it will all fall into place as soon as we carry out our part of the task."
There was a long silence.
"Well, if that is all, I must be getting back to the common room. Goodnight." Snape said finally, and Harmony heard him distinctly turn on his heel, his lone footsteps echoing down the corridor. Harmony stood frozen, hardly breathing for fear of Snape's fellow Death Eater finding her. There was a shuffle and Harmony launched herself as quietly as she could behind a suit of armour.
The figure passed before Harmony got to have a good look at who he was, but all she caught sight of was a glint from moonlight hitting a silver ring bearing a strange, interconnected snake-like crest upon a thick finger.
Then the panic set in.
They were going to attack someone close to Harmony? It could only be her mates or her family. In all honesty, she didn't know which was worse. Coffee could wait. She needed to pay the Headmaster a visit. Immediately.
Harmony changed course and tore through the school, finally reaching Dumbledore's office. She stopped and face-palmed herself while she panted slightly from running so fast. "Smooth, Harmony. Let's charge off to the Headmaster's office without knowing the password to get in. Lovely." Harmony muttered to herself, glaring at the stupid wall separating herself from the winding staircase.
She turned to the gargoyle and eyed it down. "So I really need to get into the Headmaster's office. Like, this is an emergency."
"Password?" He replied lazily.
"Yeah, that's the problem. I don't know it and I have to speak to Dumbledore like now. It's really urgent."
"Well I need the password before I admit you up."
"Are your ears full of stone too? Because I'm pretty sure I just told you that I don't know it."
"Then I guess you'll have to stay down, Miss."
"Useless rock," Harmony told the cackling gargoyle angrily. "I'll just write a letter, I suppose."
"What a great plan!" the gargoyle cried after Harmony as she turned and left on her heel proudly.
"I can plan the destruction of your statue quite easily." Harmony snapped back. Dumb piece of mountain, that gargoyle was.
Harmony raced back through the school to the Gryffindor tower. She could at least tell her friends. Or warn them. Warn them they could potentially die in the near future because of her.
Harmony was sure she looked like a right bloody mess; hair flying everywhere, cheeks flushed, panting slightly, undone laces of her trainers. But nonetheless, Harmony told the Fat Lady the password as calmly as she could muster the word, and the portrait swung forward.
"Guys!" she screeched to the group of sixth-years that still hadn't moved from when she left them before.
"Yeah?" Lily answered on behalf of the wondering group.
"I think this calls for a more private environment," Harmony hinted, eyes traveling very unsubtle-like to the couple students scattered around the room eavesdropping in on the conversation, as always.
"Up we go!" James hopped up and led the way to the boys' dormitory stairs.
When everyone had settled in and the door was quickly shut, Harmony plopped down next to Sirius on his bed and sighed. "Well, I happened to run into Snape and some other unknown Death Eater while on my way to the kitchens."
"What-?!" Sirius yelled.
"Don't shit a brick. They didn't see me. I saw them." Harmony shushed Sirius. "I listened to their conversation, which was about me, naturally."
"Harm-" Becca started.
"Guys! Stop interrupting. It's not a lot of information at all, so please be quiet and let me finish!" Harmony said loudly. "Okay, and anyway, they were talking about the only way to get to me was by killing or seriously injuring, most likely killing, a group of people close to me. They either mean you people or my family."
Everyone was quiet.
"Why do they need to get to you so badly?" Liven whispered.
Harmony half-glanced at Sirius. She hasn't explained the prophecy situation to them yet. Even though she had known for a couple weeks already.
"I...well, Dumbledore told me. He knows." Harmony started.
There was quiet, in which Becca shut her open mouth quickly, only to open it again while she spoke. "You knew and you didn't tell us? Harmony! We're your best mates!" she sounded insulted.
"The moment wasn't right!"
"You don't need a bloody right moment to tell your best mates why the darkest wizard of all time wants you dead!" Becca screeched.
"Ladies! Calm it." Sirius interjected, then nodded for Harmony to go on.
"There's a prophecy made about me. Well not me specifically, but the description matched up pretty perfectly to me and this mystery female. Anyway, it pretty much states that I will be the reason for the deaths of massive amounts of old Voldy's army. Not sure how I will achieve this, but yeah." Harmony confessed, not daring to meet her friend's intense stares.
"Massive-" Lily looked at Harmony with a mixture of respect and concern. "Oh, Harms..."
"Don't 'oh Harms' me. I'll be fine. I don't even know how I'll do it, if at all. It'll probably be a mistake or something. Accidental explosion. Firework gone wrong." Harmony tried to shrug it off, despite The Prophecy being a big thought-occupier within the last few weeks.
Harmony shifted her gaze to James, who had a stupid grin on his face. She could see how it didn't quite reach his eyes and Harmony was so appreciative of how he always tried to lift the atmosphere. "Well, Harmony Sea, you have officially earned a whole new level of respect from me."
"Why thank you, James Potter." Harmony cracked a grin to as James high-fived her.
"Back to this killing stuff..." Peter squeaked. "They didn't say specifically who will die?"
"No. They said that the only way to get to me was to kill someone close to me. Or they said a variation of that. Apparently Snape is responsible for looking up correct ways to break a list of enchantments given to him, which makes me believe it's my family because of all the Ministry magic put over my house. But then they were talking about gossip...and uh, they implied that there was a certain individual..." Harmony trailed off, willing herself not to look at Sirius. She cleared her throat and tried again. "Yeah, so either there will be an attack on you guys or my family in the very near future. I tried to speak with Dumbledore but that stupid rock wouldn't let me in because I didn't know the password."
"Stupid rock?" Sirius asked.
"The bloody gargoyle." Harmony clarified, crossing her arms and smiling a bit.
"Well, that's cheerful." Remus concluded. "And I have another full moon coming up. Maybe they'll kill us before so I don't have to worry about it."
Harmony had a mini-panic attack. He just said full moon in front of everyone-
Right, right. They know. It's good.
Without them, she wouldn't even have the knowledge about Remus and his furry little problem, as James put it, for it was mainly Liven and Lily who figured out the secret. The girls just didn't know about the whole animagus part yet. Only Harmony and the boys knew that.
"Moony!" James cried, smacking his mate. "You're such a downer!"
"I try." Remus said sarcastically.
"Come, Sirius. We're going to get my caffeine, finally." Harmony told him, and he rolled his eyes but followed her lead out the door, giving a half wave to the remaining sixteen-year-olds watching the pair leave the room.
As Sirius turned, they saw him slip his hand in Harmony's and trot down the stairs alongside her.
"Not too hard to figure out who that 'certain individual' is, eh?" James said. Everyone nodded in agreement, eyes still on the place where Sirius and Harmony disappeared a moment before.
Harmony dropped her bag with a slam in the middle of the empty corridor. The sound echoed loudly and made Sirius stop in mid-sentence to give a questioning look over at Harmony. "Uh-"
"I swear, the person who thought, 'hey, let's make girls at Hogwarts wear kilts!' is going to die a slow, painful death. If they haven't already!" Harmony screeched somewhat hysterically. She reached under her school cardigan and yanked her kilt up past her ribcage. "This bloody thing keeps sliding down! And I will not roll it. I refuse to roll my kilt."
"Er-why?" Sirius asked, bewildered and taken by surprise at this little outburst.
"Because that's what all the whores do. To make them shorter. You should know, Sirius. I'm sure you've taken tons of kilts off." Harmony told him, eyes on the button sewn to her kilt, holding it together and her fingers as they tried to adjust it tighter.
Sirius stopped Harmony's fumbling fingers by placing his own over hers. He lifted her chin to look up at him, their eyes meeting. Harmony was taken aback at the sudden contact and shift in atmosphere. "I need to clear this up - I have never actually taken a kilt off anyone, Harmony. Did you really think I was that much of a man-whore?"
"Well," Harmony started, blushing a little. "I just thought...wait, you're a virgin?"
"Well, no. I've only done it once. Fifth year. I was drunk. It was some girl that graduated though. It's my biggest regret, honestly. I don't even remember it much." Sirius said, scratching the back of his neck.
Harmony looked down, pulled her hands away and continued trying to tighter her kilt to keep it up. "I'm sorry, I thought you of all people would have...look let's talk about something else."
"Yeah, okay. I just didn't want you to think of me like that." Sirius said, eyes on Harmony's fingers as they brushed the skin of her slightly exposed rib. "How are you tan right now? It's February!"
"What?" Harmony glanced down and blushed because of her exposed skin, and she quickly pulled her cardigan down over her kilt again. "I'm party Italian, Sirius. I'm far from tan, but I'm always slightly tan-looking. Ish. We have the same skin tone, you little shit."
"I always thought that...ah, never mind." It was Sirius' turn to blush a bit.
Harmony laughed, holding the hem of her school skirt through her shirt as she reached down to retrieve her bag from the floor. "Let's get to dinner, yeah?"
"Right." Sirius slipped his hand in hers, and when she glanced at him automatically, he was hardly holding in a smile.
Damn it, this boy was perfect. And they weren't even dating!
Yet...
DON'T BE AN OBSESSIVE FANGIRL, HARMONY SEA.
Harmony shook her head to clear her thoughts as the pair reached the Great Hall.
Opening the doors, Harmony discovered two things. One, that everyone was silent and had stopped eating, and two, all the eyes shifted from a group the Harmony's mates, the Headmaster, and two ministry officials to Harmony and Sirius.
The atmosphere was cold, tense, on edge.
Harmony went to the group immediately, Sirius following. "What's happened? What's going on?"
"Harms...they're not dead." Becca started helplessly.
Harmony's heart started to beat. Her hands started to shake. "Please tell me it's not-"
"Your family," a bald, tired-looking ministry worker started, cutting her off with his loud, carrying voice. "has been attacked by what seems to be a group of Death Eaters. Luckily, the ministry guard came round long enough to summon backup before the Death Eaters broke all the enchantments. Your brother has been informed now and just left to take a walk, I believe."
Harmony's knees started to shake. "They're okay? Oh please tell me they're not hurt-"
"Only a little. Your sister was hit with a mild jinx and is recovering remarkably fast in St. Mungo's."
"Charlotte…fucking hell-" Harmony couldn't stand any longer. She sat down right on the cold stone floor, well aware of everybody waiting for her reaction. "Professor Dumbledore...I wrote you the letter..."
Dumbledore shifted his gaze to her face. "There was nothing we could do to prevent this, Miss Sea. I am sorry. But they will be okay."
Harmony stood up abruptly and made a beeline for the Slytherin table. She heard footsteps running after her, but she didn't stop. Harmony located the little huddle of Death Eaters crowded around a launched herself at Snape first, knocking him of the bench. Arms were grabbing her, pulling her off him. They were not arms she wanted around her.
"DON'T YOU FUCKING TOUCH ME! Get off! You could have killed them!" Harmony had never recalled being so full of pure undivided rage. She was kicking and punching against the burly Slytherin holding her, but to no avail. Sirius and James were there, and Sirius shoved the Slytherin off Harmony.
"Get the fuck away from her." he hissed, yanking Harmony away from the brutal-looking boy.
Snape stood up, nose bleeding. "You're going to die one way or another. All of you are. The Dark Lord will rise, and he'll be killing off all you unworthies. All you mudbloods and your families. Why not speed up the process? Starting with the very family the Dark Lord wants dead. But...he said he'll spare your family if you go to him."
Harmony laughed cruelly. "Thats a load of shit, Severus. You even know that. Get rid of all the muggleborns, you say? Muggleborns like Lily Evans, too? The girl you lust over? The girl who had for years ignored the fact that your heart was becoming blacker with every second you were alive? She ignored that because you were best friends! Because she loved you like a friend, Snape! And you went and called her the m-word, just to make yourself look good. Just to finally shut up your little Death Eater friends about being best friends with a muggleborn. Oh, we know your regretted it after, Snape. It was also my common room you threatened to sleep outside of.
"We had to force food down Lily's throat for two weeks, you know.You were her best friend! She was so devastated that you almost killed her, Snape. You almost killed the girl you love because of this Voldemort guy. Because of a reputation. Would you kill her family, too? Would you put the final nail in the coffin of her any lingering feelings towards you? Because you almost did that to me tonight. Maybe before this happened, if one day we were in battle, perhaps I wouldn't have killed you. I would've put off duelling you simply because of how happy you made Lily all those years." Snape was now ghostly pale. The scarlet blood flowing from his nose looked like bright red paint, a shocking contrast to his white cheeks.
"You fucking disgust me to no end, Snape." Harmony yelled as Sirius tried to pull her far away from Snape. She fought him off. Half of the student body was sitting, the other half standing and peering over each other's shoulders to get a glimpse of the scene unfolding before their eager eyes. This was going to be a gossip topic for weeks.
"Harmony-" Lily started, she had tears in her eyes.
"Miss Sea," Dumbledore said sharply, pushing his way through. "You need to leave, I'll deal with-"
But Sirius and Remus were already pulling Harmony away, and she was letting them.
Out in the hall, Harmony shook them off and started to run.
"Where's she-" James said, as he and the girls had Remus, Sirius and Harmony followed out of the hall. Sirius had started running after her, listening to her footfalls and curse words as she ran. He could hear her yelling profanities at the whispering portraits and suits of armour she knocked over.
Harmony finally burst out onto the Astronomy Tower, the cool blast of wind slapping her face. The stars were startlingly brilliant tonight, Harmony noticed as she finally collapsed on the ground. She needed to talk a breather. She was too mad, too worked up, too sick with anxiety and sadness and shock for her own good. Her mind was racing so much that she couldn't even begin to comprehend anything that happened within the last fifteen minutes.
Sirius looked at her as he came through the doorway, panting slightly from running up there after her. Harmony's hair was fanned out around her, her uniform askew, her eyes bright, the stars reflected in them. "The stars are bright, Sirius." she said calmly. It shocked her how collected those words were when her brain was a thunderstorm of chaos.
"I can see."
She looked up at him, her head moving the slightest bit as she studied the boy before her. "No, you can't. You're looking at me. Not the stars."
"Remember when you called me a star? Right before you passed out? After the first attack?" Sirius asked.
Harmony sat up, her eyes still on the stars above, drinking them in. "I didn't know if that was real. But apparently it was, so, yeah, I remember."
Sirius sat down beside her and looked up at the stars, too. "Well, ditto."
Harmony looked over to him, a light smile gracing her lips. "I'm a star?"
"Are we not the beginnings of a constellation?" Sirius asked back, eyes dropping to her face again and staying there. "Are we not slowly but surely starting to orbit around each other? We're just getting closer and closer, Harmony Sea."
Harmony smiled full out now, and her insides warmed, despite the recent turn of events. Harmony stood up and walked to the side of the tower. She leaned over it, still looking up.
"My life...it's been one dim star. For as long as I can remember. Maybe it grew a little brighter when I came to Hogwarts, but it just dimmed again soon after the excitement wore off. Then this year...I met you, the war started to get more real, more dangerous. It started to really show everyone's true colours. And now, with this stupid prophecy...and Voldemort's after me...he almost killed my family..." Harmony's voice cracked. "This year's been a supernova, Sirius. It's a supernova. It will either be the death of me or...or the birth."
Sirius trailed his fingers down her back from behind, as she had done for him at James' a month and a little before. "I'm here, we're all here, hearts beating, wounds recovering. We're going to have to fight, Harmony. And maybe this year is all you needed, maybe this supernova isn't ending you, but reigniting you, giving you new power, making your star bigger, making it shine brighter, so when the next supernova occurs, it will be the most brilliant the sky has ever seen, the one that will destroy all the others."
Harmony had turned around in Sirius' arms, and now she boldly pressed her lips against his. They moved against each other, full of passion and emotion, conveying messages that no words could describe.
Harmony pulled back, pressed her cheek against his to whisper in his ear. "What are we now?"
"A constellation." Sirius breathed out, his lips tracing the line from her cheekbone, down to her jaw.
She closed her eyes, wrapped her arms around Sirius' neck, and buried herself in him. "But that means when my other, final supernova occurs, you'll die, won't you?"
"As long as it's with you." Sirius kissed Harmony again, and she didn't object whatsoever.
Sirius and Harmony's dorm mates were frozen just outside the wide doorway of the astronomy tower, unknown to the kissing pair under the stars. They were all openly gaping at them, and had been ever since Sirius started talking. The wind was just a little too loud, though, so they could thankfully only hear the odd word that Sirius and Harmony spoke to each other.
"Guys...let's leave them to it. Harmony needs to sort herself out. Sirius will do that just fine. And even better, by the looks of it." James said a bit dazed, eyes still on Harmony and Sirius.
"Look at how he holds her!" Becca gushed, and the whole group stopped to watch Sirius' arm around Harmony protectively, his other hand holding her cheek, thumb running roughly down the soft skin there.
"Come on." Remus said quietly. They all followed, minds buzzing with everything from Voldemort and the Sea family to Harmony and Sirius.
Sirius and Harmony returned to the common room soon after. Harmony was too tired to hide her emotions anymore, and all she really wanted to do was cuddle with Sirius and eventually fall asleep next to him. Unfortunately, the Fat Lady's portrait swung forward to reveal the whole population of Gryffindor tower crowded in the common room.
Harmony left Sirius' side, her hand slipping out of his. "Ryan..." she said, spotting her brother.
"They're okay." her brother Ryan, reminded himself more than her. "It's okay."
"It's my fault. I'm so sorry, Ry." Harmony started, and she hugged her brother tight. He sort of stood there awkwardly for a moment, before hugging her back. "You're taller than me, now." she whispered a little sadly.
Ryan ignored this. "It is not your fault. Don't you dare say that it is. You can't control it. The prophecy was made-"
"Shh! How did you know about that?" Harmony pulled out of the embrace.
"You're my older sister. Dumbledore obviously told me."
"When?"
"Just after I heard tonight. He found me and let me know everything that happened."
"I'm sorry."
"You have nothing to be sorry for. Look, I'm going to see Mum and everyone tomorrow. They don't want you going because they don't want you out of the castle. Write a letter and I'll give it to them."
Harmony deflated even more at the news that she wasn't going to be able to see her family after what happened. They're muggles. Well, her parents were, but her sister might as well be one because she wasn't in Hogwarts yet. Either way, they were provably struggling to recover emotionally from this experience. "Yeah, I'll give it to you tomorrow morning."
"Sure thing. Night, Harms. I'm going up to bed, now. Night guys." he said to his mates and left toward the boys' dorms.
Harmony retreated back to Sirius and her mates, who watched the exchange with a mixture of sadness and concern. She got lots of amusement in watching all the Gryffindors hurriedly strike up conversations as she passed, as if they hadn't been eavesdropping in on every word she and her brother shared.
"I'm going to go to bed, maybe dream about how lucky I am to still even have my family." Harmony said.
"We'll come in a minute too." Liven said on behalf of the girls.
"It's amazing how fast they work, really. One week ago I heard the conversation, and now look where we are." Harmony muttered, as she felt the presence of Sirius looming behind her.
"You'll be okay?" he muttered in her ear, so no one else but her heard.
Their mates turned around immediately, but the rest of the Gryffindors didn't.
This was going to be new gossip material, surely! Look at how close they were standing! Oh my!
Sarcasm. Total sarcasm.
"I'm just going to sleep, no need to worry." Harmony replied, and she turned around so she was facing Sirius. "Not here..." she muttered as Sirius' eyes went to her lips and a smile spread along his own.
"Why not? Are we not a constellation? Let'a make it known, as everyone will find out soon enough, anyway." Sirius leaned down and pressed a lingering kiss to Harmony's lips, which left her laughing and blushing a little.
"Sirius! We have everybody staring at us, now!"
"We didn't before?" Sirius kissed her quickly again.
"Goodnight, Sirius." Harmony smiled lightly and left Sirius in the midst of gaping mouths and stares from all of Gryffindor. Their mates were badly concealing grins.
"Goodnight, Harms!" Sirius called cheerfully, waving a little.
As soon as she left, everyone broke out in whispers. "Sirius Black and Harmony Sea!" an older male student shouted, breaking the silence.
"Are you guys together?" a girl asked boldly, stepping out from the crowd.
"We're a constellation." Sirius informed them, and he stalked off to his dorm without another word, a large smile on his face. Harmony wasn't the only one experiencing a supernova this year.