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" Do you get on with Martin?" Sirius asked me presently.

I nodded. " I guess. Why?"

"It's just you never mentioned him." He pulled his wet sweater over his head (one of the perks of being his girlfriend- I could legally ogle his chest whenever I wanted) and shook the last of the snow from his hair.

We were in the boys dormitory after a narrow defeat down by the Forbidden Forest where James, Jazz and Max had pelted Hagrid's front door with so many snowballs that he'd chased us all the way back up to the castle lobbing snowballs the size of dustbins at us.

"It's not that we don't get on, in fact we get on really well, not that I see him that much. It's more that I've had my mother pretty much to myself my entire life and now I don't want to share."

"What's your mum like?"

"She's amazing! She works for an aqua-magi zoologist magazine. That's how she met my dad, he was a professional diver, worked in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures at the Ministry. I was home schooled before I came to Hogwarts so we were always travelling, all over the world. Mer conferences in the Amazon, the Med to see Sea Serpents. the Atlantic to look at Shrakes, Indian Ocean for Ramoras. Plimpies in the Highlands of Scotland, the Mackled Malacaw on the coastlines of Europe. Lobalugs at the bottom of the North Sea, Hippocampus in Greece. Kappa, Kelp, Gringylows.1"

"Whoa." He reached over and pulled my into his arms, "And what's Martin like?"

"He's a muggle. But his sister was a Muggleborn witch so he knows about Hogwarts."

He kissed my neck, "What about your parents?" I asked. He shrugged and kissed up behind my ear.

"I moved out last year."

"Why?"

"Does it matter?"

"That depends."

He sighed and removed his face. "I moved out because I didn't agree with their ideal, their blood racists comments and because I refused to join the Deatheaters. I live at James's in the holidays now. I'm looking for my own place for when I start Auror training but I'm always welcome for Sunday lunch."

He smiled at me and kissed my nose. I laughed and wrapped my arms around his neck, pecking him once, then twice on the lips.

"James says: 'OI! Are you lovebirds gonna stay up here all day or are you coming down for lunch?'"

"Okay, okay Pete, Keep your hair on. You can tell him we're coming."

Pete diligently memorized the message and trotted towards the stairs. Sirius kissed my forehead and wrapped his fingers around mine. I smiled soppily back at him (man I had it bad) and was about to kiss him again when there was a clack of heels from the doorway and Jazz poked her head around the door.

"Sirius-James says 'If you don't stop chewing on Arty's face and get your sorry butt down here this second he's going to dismember you from the Marauders and surgically remove you from her with a hacksaw.' Remus says ' I am attempting to stop Prongs from attacking you with a hacksaw but you better hurry up before he over powers me and tears my new copy of Hogwarts: a History in half out of frustration.' Peter says 'If it's okay with you Sirius can i go down to the Great Hall or all the food will be gone.' Arty- Lily says 'You need to get down here quickly before James destroys an innocent book.' Max says 'Get your sorrow arse down here before I come up there with a beaters bat.' Lizzie says 'Please save the book, it's Hogwart's: A History!'"

She finally paused to breathe.

"And what about Frank and Alice?" I asked.

"They're too busy chewing on each other's faces to care about a book, even if it is Hogwarts: A History."

"And what do you say?"

"I say I couldn't care less about your snogging habits and I think you're both old enough to make out with each other if you want too."

"That's big of you."

"Are you coming or not?"

"I thought you didn't care?"

"Did I say that?"

"Yes."

Sirius cut in then, pulling me towards the door.

"Erm, Sirius. Charming as I find your chest I don't want the whole female population of Hogwarts ogling it."

"Jealous Twink?"

"Yes."

And with that I threw a shirt at him, linked arms with Jazz and walked out of the room.

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