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Carmilla stood in the doorway to the kitchen a lazy smirk on her face.
"Geez leave to get a bite to drink and you're all talking about my love life."
She didn't seem offended to find them talking about her as one would expect, rather she seemed amused and they were all too busy staring at her with wide eyes and startled expressions to notice her odd word choice.
Carmilla had this way about her, this confidence, like nothing could faze her.
The only time anyone had seen her lose that composer, really lose it; more than the exasperated sighs or the eye rolls and insults, was when she had faced that boggart, and that had brought forth a cold tight anger more than anything.
Now though she wore the same kind of look cats made when they'd found something new to play with.
Her eyes pinned them to their seats sweating and her amusement only seemed to increase.
Hermione buried her face in her hands blushing furiously as Carmilla watched on with a small smirk.
Rolling her eyes she seemed to take pity on them. She pushed off from the open door frame she'd been leaning against and walked over to join Mrs. Weasley in helping to set out the food.
Harry turned what he'd just learned about Carmilla and Laura's relationship over in his head.
The revelation left him feeling rather flustered.
Smiling wanly Remus set a flagon of Butterbeer on the table before taking a seat. "I suppose you're rather shocked but I thought you knew, Carmilla can be rather... amorous."
"He means he walked in on us," Carmilla rolled her eyes as she carried a heavy looking dish like it weighed about as much as a feather.
At her words his cheeks went pink and he looked rather uncomfortable.
Ron was looking very red, and Hermione still had her face buried in her hands. Ginny meanwhile was looking contemplative and Harry himself didn't know how he felt about the whole thing. Surely love was love right? It might be deemed as wrong but it wasn't like it hurt anyone.
It occurred to him that it was the sort of thing aunt Petunia and uncle Vernon would deem to be 'freakish' or 'unnatural'.
But then he'd been once called that too.
And he knew what it was like to be treated as something different to be started at or reviled for something out of his control, Parseltongue had taught him that. Contrary to Dumbledore's original suspicions it was simply how he had been born. It was a part of him; Sirius had confirmed that from what he remembered of Harry's diaper days of babbling and hissing unintelligible baby talk.
Was it not much like Carmilla and Laura, just something apart of them that was different?
He'd never really given much thought to it, never had a reason to, but he found that it didn't really bother him, and why should it?
He decided to simply just be happy for them.
While he was thinking deep thoughts the twins seemed to take it all in their stride.
Fred and George looked at each other for a split second before blurting out in sync, "That's hot."
"Boys!" Mrs. Weasley looked scandalized at their words
A rather flustered Harry turned to his godfather, here he'd been trying to think deep thoughts about it all and now his hormonal teenage mind was going into overdrive thanks to the twin's comments.
"Is that what you meant by her already being taken Sirius?" Harry remembered him mentioning it during the dinner of his arrival.
"Yep," Sirius popped the p, a wide grin upon his face.
"Where's Laura dear?" A flustered Mrs. Weasley asked Carmilla obviously trying to change to the subject.
"She's feeling a bit anaemic so she's resting; I'll take her something to eat later."
"Oh the poor girl, she's lucky to have you though you're so sweet to her."
"Yes well," Carmilla coughed looking embarrassed by the comment.
Eager to get off the subject of her she turned to Lupin. "So Remus how goes things."
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September first found them all rushing about at the last minute searching all over the house for misplaced belonging. There was a lot of commotion in the house and the usual start of year rush to get ready and packed even managed to rouse Carmilla who usually slept like the dead.
From what Harry gathered Fred and George had bewitched their trunks to fly downstairs to save the bother of carrying them, with the result that they had hurtled straight into Ginny and knocked her down two flights of stairs into the hall. The resulting commotion had woken her and she had not been happy.
Moody had been able to reattach their buttocks eventually but a good ten minutes was spent chasing them around the house before they'd finally managing to catch them.
Carmilla and Laura ended up accompanying them at Laura's insistence now that they were already awake. Carmilla might have given in but she continued to shoot dark looks at Fred and George who twitched whenever she made a sudden move.
There was something to say about having your buttocks cursed off by and angry witch and the others gave her a healthy berth.
It took them twenty minutes to reach King's Cross by foot and nothing more eventful happened during that time than Sirius scaring a couple of cats for Harry's entertainment. He'd stopped very quickly after the looks Carmilla shot him.
Once inside the station they lingered casually beside the barrier between platforms nine and ten until the coast was clear, then each of them leaned against it in turn and fell easily through onto platform nine and three quarters, where the Hogwarts Express stood belching sooty steam over a platform packed with departing students and their families.
Sirius got several looks but most of the older students seemed to think Harry's 'pet' was "cool." Sirius had lapped up all the attention and one little girl had even wondered over to play with the "doggy".
The twenty minutes it had taken them to get to King's Cross did little to improve on Carmilla's less than happy mood.
Her glare had sent Lucius Malfoy cowering when he'd made as if to approach no doubt to impart some snide remark or other.
Thankfully Laura managed to keep things from boiling over and she waved them off with the rest.
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An:
Yes Harry was born a Parseltongue, no weird soul magic voodoo involved.
I'm leaving the time setting somewhat ambiguous for this story, Carmilla canonically is set presumably now, while Harry Potter is set predominately in the 90's.
But while I was thinking about it I did some research into when exactly the laws that made being gay illegal were repealed.
It's only very recently that homosexuality in either male or females has become legal, let alone seen as somewhat acceptable.
In both America and Britain sodomy laws made homosexual acts illegal and indeed even outside of the realm of law homosexuals were often vilified and discriminated against heavily. These laws were mostly aimed at male homosexuals but many also applied to female couples.
It was rather shocking to read about just how recent some of these laws were repealed. I don't know about the wizarding world but during the time the Harry Potter books are set some of them would still have been in existence and England's would have been only just recently struck from the list of punishable offences.