A week had passed since that Hogsmeade saturday and Harry and Ginny as well as Hermione and Ron had gotten closer in their relationships. But Harry started to notice something through out the week too. It seemed like everyday Evan would bolt off disappearing in the distance and Oceanus would follow her and they would be gone for hours on end. Then they would show up at the quidditch practice when it was scheduled or in the common room. Harry asked Ginny if he should be concerned and she said 'No Harry, let her live her own life.' So he dismissed it, for now anyway. They all were now sitting at the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall the quidditch team in their uniforms, as there was a quidditch game today: Gryffindor against Slytherin.
"So Oceanus, are you nervous?" Harry asked, Oceanus looked up from her plate and shrugged.
"A little but it's not as if I'm trying to impress anyone, I'm playing because I love the game." She replied and Harry nodded looking down at his plate. Oceanus took advantage of that moment and glanced at the Slytherin table for a brief second. "I'm not hungry anymore, I'll see you guys down there." Oceanus said as she got up and walked briskly out the door. Ginny noticed Malfoy doing the same so she decided she would ask Oceanus about it later. Soon the rest of the quidditch team started on their way out to the pitch and as they got into the locker room they saw Oceanus stretching on the floor. Soon it was time to go out into the pitch. The crowd was cheering loudly as they all walked onto the field. The Slytherins, in their green robes, were advancing from their end of the field. They all met in the middle. Neville was saying something over the Microphone, but none of the players could hear him over the adrenaline rush.
"Captains, shake hands!" Hooch said, holding a quaffle under her arm, whistle in one hand, and foot on the crate. Harry reached and shook hands with the Slytherin captain and Chaser, Marcus Flint. You looked down the line of Slytherins. It was Marks as Beater, Parkinson as Chaser, Collins as Chaser, Zambini as Beater, Daniels as keeper, and Draco as seeker. Oceanus smiled as she and Draco made eye contact, she winked at him before her attention was brought back to Madame Hooch. "Mount your brooms!" Everyone swung their legs over their brooms, waiting for the whistle...Suddenly it blared, and the quaffle was thrown into the air. Before the audience could blink, Oceanus had rocketed at it and grabbed it, hurtling to playing altitude. She passed to Ginny, green robed Slytherins all around her. Ginny threw to Kevin, another chaser on the Gryffindor team, and he started towards Daniels. Suddenly a bludger flew out of nowhere and hit his hands; he dropped the quaffle. Flint snatched it up, headed for Ron. Oceanus straked after him, her broom an inch from his, she twisted on her broom, so one leg was in front of her but she was still straddling the broom, and let herself flip around the broom handle and her foot kicked the quaffle out of his hands. but unfortunately Parkinson caught it and threw it in the goal.
"Oh! And that's ten nothing Slytherin!" Neville said. Oceanus quickly went and intercepted the quaffle as Parkinson tried to pass to Collins. She flew towards Daniels, but a Slytherin was blocking her way.
"KEVIN!" He looked over and caught the quaffle, zooming around a bludger and scoring.
"Ten-ten tied!" Oceanus was flying around the stadium, with the quaffle in her hands. Flint and Parkinson were chasing her, but Collins was no where to be seen. Suddenly, he appeared out of nowhere, cutting her off. She stood on her broom jumping over Collins as her broom went underneath him and she landed on it painfully. Oceanus threw the quaffle towards Ginny. She flew towards Daniels, but before she had time to blink Parkinson zoomed by and knocked the quaffle from her hands. Oceanus, Kevin, and Collins dived for it, but Kevin got it first. "Twenty, ten, Gryffindor!" Five minutes later, Ginny was flying towards Oceanus. She passed, but did so a bit to hard. Oceanus lunged to grab it, flipping over so she was upside down. She caught the quaffle, and twisted upright, flying at Daniels. He was shocked that she had made such a catch, and barely lunged to stop the ball as she scored. "SCORE! That's ninety-seventy Gryffindor!" Harry was circling above the game, as was Draco. Twenty minutes later, it was two- ten to one-fifty, Slytherin. It looked like it would start snowing, soon, and the air was getting colder. Oceanus caught the quaffle that Kevin passed, zooming towards Daniels, who was circling his hoops. She threw at the right hoop, and his fingers barely grazed it. She threw her hands up in victory, going back to the game. Suddenly, Draco was diving towards the snowy ground. Harry panicked and lay flat on his broom after him. The audience watch, transfixed, before Oceanus caught the quaffle from Ginny and passing to Kevin. Collins intercepted it, and passed it to Parkinson, who flew at Ron, who was trying to pay attention but watching Harry, Parkinson Scored. "Score! The's Two -Twenty to One-sixty Slytheri-" But the crowd erupted in cheers. Oceanus and Ginny whirled around to see who had caught the snitch. Instead, they saw an impact hole in the snow, and Draco landing next to it. Ginny zoomed down to see if Harry was okay, as did the rest of the two teams. He was struggling to get out of the two foot hole, and Draco was pulling him put.
"Good game!" he said, shaking Harry's hand.
"Who won?" Oceanus asked as she came over.
"Who won?" echoed Neville.
Suddenly the crowd burst into chant. "GRYF-FIN-DOR! GRF-FIN-DOR!" The team cheered, watching as Harry held the struggling golden snitch high above his head. Draco watch trying to hide a smile as he watched Oceanus and Ginny jumping around Harry in a circle laughing and chanting along with the crowd. Then Harry caught Oceanus and swung her around in a circle, Draco felt a pang of jealousy, he wanted to be the one holding her...'Wait what? No I'm just her friend... I can't' Draco thought 'Oh my god I do, I have a crush on Oceanus!'
Weeks passed and finally another Hogsmeade trip and Harry planned on following Oceanus but Ginny had other ideas.
"Come on Harry I want to go to the book store there's a book that Oceanus recommended to me and I want to get it." Ginny pulled Harry who was resisting a little.
"But Gin you don't need me to find a book."
"Oh and what are you going to do? Stalk Oceanus?" Ginny said as she stopped pulling Harry.
"How did you.."
"I know that look, and you'll never find her."
"What do you mean she's right.." Harry gesture to where Oceanus was but it seemed she had disappeared again. He looked back at Ginny curiously. "You know where she is, don't you?" Ginny shook her head and continued to pull Harry into the store.
"No I don't but even if I did I wouldn't tell you."
"Why not?"
"Because it's none of your business!" Ginny pulled Harry over to the section where the book would be and found the book purchased and then made sure Harry was distracted from wanting to find Oceanus by grabbing his face and snogging him full on. They were getting pretty into it until a snow ball hit where their faces connected. They parted and saw Oceanus bent over laugh along with Ron, but Harry's eyes were drawn immediately to her lips, they were swollen like Ginny's. She had been kissing someone.
"Oceanus, who were you kissing?" Harry said growing angry. Oceanus stopped laughing as well as Ron and he and Ginny looked at Oceanus confused.
"No one."
"Then why are your lips swollen?" Harry said crossing his arms as Oceanus touch her lips.
"There also chapped. It's because it's cold, okay!" Oceanus glared at her brother and then ran off and Harry followed her this time ignoring Ginny's protests. Oceanus disappeared in the trees and Harry ran faster to catch up once he past the trees he saw a clearing with a grey wolf standing in the center staring at him then it started growling with it's ears back. Harry backed out of the forest the way he came and went back to Ron was.
"Where's Ginny?" Harry asked.
"She said she's going to ignore you until you start obsessing about her and not Oceanus, and then she ran that way." Ron pointing to the path that led to the castle as Harry sighed.
"I'll see you later mate." Harry said as he walk up the path to the castle.
**
Oceanus walked into the common room and sat on couch next to Ginny.
"So you want to tell me the truth about why you've been disappearing and why your lips were swollen?" Ginny asked as she looked at Oceanus who looked around the common room and saw no one.
"Promise not to tell anyone." Ginny nodded but little to either of their knowledge Ron had entered and heard that he was about to hear a secret so he stayed in the shadows.
"Remember when we were running down to the quidditch pitch to practice before tryouts?" Ginny nodded. "Well as I was trying to catch up to you I ran into Draco then Harry came over yelling at me not to talk to him ever again... so naturally after I found out I made the team I went to go find him and I finally found him in the library, he saw me and then vanished. I realized he was avoiding me so I tricked him into meeting me by the lake and I confronted him about it and he said the only reason he wouldn't be my friend was because Harry is my brother so I told him I didn't care that he was a Malfoy or the son of a Death eater so long as he wasn't one and he said he wasn't and is never going to be one then I left. Remember the day Draco ran into me and you shouted at him or the day you and Harry got together?" Ginny nodded again. " Well he dropped a note telling me that it would never work because his father would use our friendship to get to me and Harry, but the I sent a letter with Evan tell him we didn't have to tell anybody until he was ready." Ginny chuckle a little. "Anyway on that Saturday after I scared you and ran off I went to the Shrieking Shack to meet him..."
Oceanus walked into the Shack looking around at the dust covered torn furniture.
"Draco?" She called.
"Yes?" came a voice from behind her, which caused her to jump.
"Jesus, don't scare me like that!" Oceanus said at a smirking Draco.
"So you wanted to talk, so talk." Draco said as he waved his wand at the dusty furniture to clean it from the dust and sat down on a chair looking at her intently.
"Yeah okay so did you here that I made the team!" Oceanus squealed and Draco nodded. "I've always wanted play quidditch my mum and dad..." She trailed off and looked at the ground. "Well the people who I thought were my parents would be proud." Draco frowned.
"What do you mean I thought you..."
"When my real parents died apparently Dumbledore couldn't find me till it was to late so one of their friends adopted me and took me to Romania then when I was five the man I called my father died after a dragon flamed him and then over the summer Voldemort figured out I was alive and where I was so he killed my mother while I hid in the closet." Oceanus paused for a second. "Then Remus Lupin came and found me and brought me to London where I had no idea Harry was my brother and neither did he until we came here and after the feast he canceled all the transfigurations on me and told me I was... I am a Potter." Draco opened his arms.
"You look like you need a hug." Oceanus smirked.
"I would have never pictured you as the hugging type." Draco shrugged.
"Normally I'm not but at the moment... get over here would you!" Oceanus smiled and walked over to him and he pulled her onto his lap and wrapping his arms around her as she put her head on his shoulder.
"We stay like that for a couple minutes until he thought he should get going so his housemates would suspect anything." Oceanus said. "And basically every time I disappeared I would meet him and we talk about what was ever on our minds, except.."
"Except?" Ginny asked with her eyebrow raised.
"Except today I went to the Shack like we planned..."
Oceanus saw Draco pacing in front of her as she walked into the shack.
"You look as though something's on your mind." Oceanus said startling Draco. "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you."
"Your right I do have something on my mind I've had something on my mind since the quidditch match."
"It wasn't my fault you lost I swear!" Oceanus stuck her hands up in defense.
"That's not it.." Draco took her hands and lead her to the couch in the room and sat down urging her to do the same, and she did. "I realized at the quidditch match that I... You were dancing around Harry with Ginny and then he grabbed you and I..."
"Draco, what is it?"
"I think I...No I know I have a..." Draco groaned and put his head in his hands. Oceanus put her hand on his back to comfort him and telling him it was alright. He looked at her then sat up fully and stroked her cheek looking her in the eyes. He closed the distance between them and kissed her lips for a couple seconds before pulling away to see her eyes closed. She opened her eyes to look at him smiling.
"You have a crush on me?" Draco nodded. "Then why didn't you just say so?" Draco was shocked at her reaction but even more so when she pulled him in for more.
"And then when we had to go we decided that are now secretly dating." Oceanus said. "Then I walked back to Hogsmeade and saw Ron trying not to glare at the both of you making out so I jogged up to him and pick up snow and threw the snow ball at you." After she had finished Ron in the shadows was in shock before he realized 'I need to go tell Harry.' and left the common room making both girls look at the portrait as it shut. "Someone was in here."
"Come on, their probably going to tell on you." Ginny said getting up.
"Well then let's stop them from doing that."
(Mean While)
"Harry... I have to tell you... something." Ron said out of breath.
"Breath first Ron." Harry said smirking. Ron took a deep breath and then told him what he had heard. "WHAT?!" Harry yelled and stalked off with Ron following close behind.
(Back to the girls)
The girls were running through the halls when they heard.
"HOW DARE YOU TOUCH MY SISTER!" Oceanus and Ginny ran to the sound of Harry's voice. They ran around the corner and saw Draco backed against a wall by the point of Harry's wand.
"Harry stop!" Oceanus yelled as she ran in between Harry and Draco.
"Oceanus move." Harry said in a dangerous voice.
"Harry remember what Remus said mum's favorite quote was?" Everyone looked at her with confusion.
"What does that have to..."
"Love is always patient and kind; it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited; it is never rude or selfish; it does not take offense and is not resentful. Love takes no pleasure in other people's sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes. Love does not come to an end."
"What's that have to.."
"It means Harry that you should respect my decision and trust my judgement." Oceanus grabbed Draco's hand and pulled him away with her.