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Chapter 43: Another Year at Hogwarts


Breakfast the next morning might have been like any other day at Hogwarts except for Luna. The blonde entered the Hall and rather than joining her Housemates for breakfast, she made her way to the Gryffindor table and kissed Harry on the cheek as she sat down getting confused and annoyed looks from most of Gryffindor and half the other tables. Dumbledore and the Heads of House save Snape, were all smiling at the head table however.

"Morning Lu, already shaking things up I see." Harry said with a smile.

She nodded as she fixed herself a plate. "I interpreted the Hats song to mean we needed to come together rather than being separated by house divisions. I hope you don't mind?"

Those within earshot nodded and quickly ignored the interloper at the table, going back to their own conversations. Before long Minerva began passing out schedules, she had to search through her stack to find Luna's since she had not yet made it to the Ravenclaw table. She gave the girl an approving smile before she continued on with her task. "Hey, no more double classes!" Ron said at first glance.

"Most of our classes are double periods now Ron, they just combine all four houses since not everybody continues on in each subject for NEWTs. Look, first period every day is a double." Ron's face drooped. "You mean we spend more time in class than we used to?"

Harry shook his head as he read the schedule. "Not really, look at today. We have Charms this morning, then a free period until Herbology from noon until lunch. After that we have the rest of the day off." Ron was smiling once again.

"Wicked!"

Hermione was not looking quite so happy. "Not wicked Ron, I am taking Arithmancy and Ancient Runes which fall during your free periods. You should be studying during those times not playing chess or napping. You realize that you are going to need all that free time later in the year for studying and homework?"

Ron was still smiling, "Yeah, but we're not taking either of those classes and for today we get to relax!" He said sitting back.

Harry consoled Hermione slightly; "Well you aren't taking Muggle Studies so at least you get the last period free." She nodded in thanks. "How about you two?" He asked the two fifth year girls.

Ginny looked down at her schedule. "Lets see here, we have a Free Period and then Divination first thing, icky. Then Transfiguration together as well as Ancient Runes after that and then it looks like I have DADA with the Slytherins followed by Muggle Studies. Only the last period free for me." She said sadly.

Luna nodded, "Same here, except Potions rather than DADA and I happen to like Divination, though I admit Professor Trelawney tries to make it much more flashy and difficult than it needs to be. I suppose that is because you can't really teach the subject to those born without the gift..." She looked back down at the schedule. "I do wish we had Firenze, he is much better since he sticks to things you can do and observe without it. I'm guessing they give us a free period ahead of Professor Trelawney's class due to the extraordinary hike to her tower."

Hermione looked at the girl strangely, "What do you mean you can't do it without the gift? Why would they nearly force us to take it then?"

Luna shrugged, "Possibly to awaken those who have the sight but don't know it? There are not a great number of True Seers after all."

Hermione had to force herself to hold her tongue. She thought the whole business was wooly but had to admit that Luna seemed to see things and half the time they seemed to be true. Luna stood up along with Ginny, "Well, we are going to try to get there early, maybe you should as well." The redhead commented.

Luna leaned down and kissed Harry on the cheek getting wolf whistles from Dean and Seamus as well as a few of the lower years. "I'll see you later Harry." He smiled and wished her luck with her first class before he too stood and picked up his book bag. Ron and Hermione followed him and they made their way out of the Hall Headed towards Charms. When they reached the third floor he watched as his girlfriends hopped onto the moving staircase which took them all the way around to the landing where they waited for the next staircase up to swing back for them. Harry, Ron, Hermione and Neville turned and headed down the charms corridor toward the classroom.

Charms was one of the more popular of NEWT level courses and so the classroom was much more full than usual, luckily there seemed to be some sort of automatic expansion charm in place that made sure there was always enough space. Harry wondered briefly if that charm was related to the way the room of requirement worked, but knew those secrets had been lost to time. Most people had separated themselves by houses leaving bands of color intermixed with the black of their school robes except for one small section around Harry.

"Hey Harry...um can we sit with you?" Susan said with Hannah behind her.

He was at a loss for words so instead just nodded dumbly. Susan sat on the other side of Hannah who sat down nearly in Neville's lap. In front of Harry were the Patil Twins who greeted him in unison as they sat down. He smiled and greeted them back, trying to completely ignore Susan sitting only three seats away. It didn't really hurt any more but it was uncomfortable to be so close to her and not able to be with her. Before he could think too deeply about it Professor Flitwick came in with a smile and climbed a dais that sat in the middle of the room surrounded by the students and backed by the windows.

"Good morning class, it appears we are all here so why don't we get started. Please pull out your textbooks and turn to chapter three." They all did so and Harry and Hermione at least were unsurprised to find Basic Wards as the chapter subject. "Now I see some of you are surprised that we will be covering warding this year. To you I say the NEWT level Charms may not be for you. OWL level spells are those used in every day situations, which is the reason you are required to pass your OWLs before you can leave school as a qualified witch or wizard. NEWT level spells are specialized and difficult, this is where you will find out what your true strengths and weaknesses are. It is my hope that all of you expect to attain a NEWT for every course you take this year, however it is important to remember that you should be using your sixth year to figure out what works best for you." He looked around the room at the stunned faces of the students.

Last year all of the Professors had made certain to emphasize just how important every single OWL was. This year it appeared that they were being urged to consider carefully what they would be able to learn effectively. Basically rather than treating them as children and shoving the material down their throats, they were being treated as adults who had tough choices to make. Harry had already read over most of the wards discussed in the chapter when brushing up on the Fidelus and other wards over Grimmauld Place. So he made a quick review, suddenly cursing his perfect memory after skimming the chapter, so he sat back and started going over lesson plans for the DA in his head. They had not yet set a date for the first meeting, having decided to let everyone's schedule settle first, he was brought from his revelry by Professor Flitwick.

"Lord Potter-Black?" The little man asked quietly.

Harry jumped in his seat having been caught unaware. "Uh, please Professor, feel free to continue calling me Mr. Potter as long as you show me the same level of respect as you have in the past."

"Thank you Mr. Potter. Now I notice you seem rather bored, I take it you studied ahead?" Hermione perked up and leaned in to listen to the conversation. "You might as well join this discussion Ms. Granger. I already know your level of work and assume you too have read ahead."

She blushed prettily getting a smile from Harry, "Yes Professor, I believe both of us are already at seventh year or above in most of the source material. What we need is practical experience."

Flitwick nodded and motioned for them to follow him to the corner of the room. There stood Padma Patil and Daphne Greengrass looking as confused as he felt while they approached. "Now you four seem to show great potential for my subject, if you can promise to stay up to date on the reading then I will instruct you in the practical applications during the entirety of our sessions each week. Though I might expect you to help me demonstrate when the rest of the class is ready for the second half of the period."

They all nodded and he smiled. "Very well, you will see here five doll houses. What we are working on today is the fireproofing ward, this is one of the most simple to start because it is basically a widespread and long lasting flame freezing charm." They all nodded having read the section already. "Do any of you need me to show you the incantation and wand movement?" Most of them shook their heads but Harry spoke up.

"Actually, the diagrams in the books are never as good as direct observation, could you please demonstrate the wand movement?" The others nodded when they couldn't find any fault in his logic.

"Very well," The man said as his wand appeared in his hand surprising most of the others in the group, Harry shared a secret smile with Hermione recognizing that he was wearing an Ollivander HW holster. "Now when you reach a high level of warding ability it becomes almost second nature to cast such spells without a wand movement, or to combine wand movements into long and intricate strings of spells called spell chains. However to begin the wand movement is like the flame freezing charm but with a small difference. When casting that charm you make three small circles while pointing downward toward the object followed by a stab in the direction of the object. For the ward however it is three large circles pointing toward the ceiling followed by a stab roughly at the center of the building or object." Harry raised his hand. "Yes Mr. Potter?"

"How are we going to cast such a large spell on such a small house?"

The Professor smiled, "A very good question. Two points to Gryffindor I think, intent is very important in the casting of Wards, you must know the area you are warding very well If you are to cast a lasting and strong ward. In the case of the dollhouses it is going to end up as a sort of hybrid wand movement. You will do the large circles however it will be followed with a sharp stab downward as though you were casting the flame freezing charm, you must remember that the size of the area does not matter as much as directing the center of your ward to the center of the area to be warded. However there are always limits on the casting ability and magical core of the person."

Flitwick left them to it with a wave and headed back to observe the rest of the room, he remembered his promise to Wood Parkinson and decided this was the only opportunity he might have to talk to Daphne. He moved over toward her getting odd looks from both her and the others in the group. "Uh, Hi...we haven't ever been introduced but I believe your family are good friends with the Parkinson's?"

She looked at him a bit oddly but simply grabbed her dollhouse and carried it a few feet away; he grabbed his and followed, stopping a short distance away so that he would not hit her during the wand movements. "Are you following me Potter?" She asked.

"Mr. Parkinson asked that I put the children of the clan under my protection." She took a sharp breath and looked up at him.

"So the Blacks are going to rejoin us then? I don't think the Potters would approve."

He shook his head, "From what I have heard of my father while he was at school, he would not have had a problem. And I hope my mother would just want me to be happy."

She smiled for the first time and he realized just how beautiful she really was. "Well then welcome to the family Lord Black, I don't believe I need your protection at the moment, but if you keep talking to me..." She looked up and he followed her gaze to where Malfoy was looking at the two of them suspiciously.

Harry looked back to her and winked getting a curious look from her. He then spoke loud enough for Malfoy to hear, "Fine then, I didn't want to go to Hogsmeade with you anyway you prissy snake!" As he turned his back to Malfoy he winked again and smiled at her, she just looked at him as if she were dissecting him layer by layer before winking back. She sneered at him as she turned back to her house and began attempting the spell.

Harry turned to his house as well but was in quite a conundrum. He could not just cast the spell non-verbally, nor could he cast it without holding his wand unless he wanted people to ask him unwanted questions. Hermione saw him thinking and came over whispering quietly. "What is the problem Harry?"

"You remember my demonstration on the train? That is how I have to learn the difference in power level I need to cast something verbally and with my wand in hand... I don't know how I am going to perform the practical in classes..."

She looked thoughtful for a few moments before replying. "You are carrying both wands right?" He nodded. "So cast it the first time with your off hand but do the wand movement with the other... I don't know enough about whatever it is your doing but that is the best I can come up with for now. Sorry."

He nodded and she went back to her own place as he stared down at his house. Sighing he raised both hands but concentrated on his left where he knew the elder wand was hidden. He called out "Igneous Extundo" and felt the tug on his magic as usual; he smiled and reminded himself to thank her properly later. He then closed his eyes and set the power levels as usual before he began attempting to cast the spell non-verbally. Once that was done he reset the power levels once more until he could comfortably cast verbally with his wand without overpowering the spell. All in all it took him about twenty minutes to get it right and he was soon concentrating on committing the wand movements to muscle memory by repeating them over and over for the next half hour.

Finally the tiny professor called a halt, or rather he called the rest of the class to attention as he demonstrated the wand movements and incantation and asked everyone to stand. As they did so dollhouses appeared before each of them on the desks, he explained to them almost word for word the way he had for the smaller group and got them started before he headed back to the corner where they were practicing.

"Now, I take it each of you has gotten the hang of it?" They all nodded, "Excellent, 2 points for each of you I think. Just a quick test then if you will?"

He produced his wand once more and removed all traces of the spells from the dollhouses. They each cast the spell without any trouble and the Professor nodded before pointing at each in turn and casting flames. None burned and he beamed proudly at them. "Excellent work, your homework is to be able to cast these spells nonverbally. Each of your instructors should be stressing this skill in their classes. The rest of the class will be doing three feet about the charm and it's uses, if you feel you need a better understanding please feel free to complete the assignment for extra credit. They will all be asked to learn to cast nonverbally as well but I do not expect them to pick up the skill needed until later in the year and though we stress it, we do not require it. I expect more from my honor students however, is that understood?"

A chorus of "Yes Professor." Was heard and he smiled once more. "Very well then, for the remainder of class please walk through the room assisting the other students. That is all for now." And with that the little man seemed to skip away, much more spry than his age would suggest.

Hermione looked a bit bothered for some reason so Harry bumped her shoulder with his own. "Penny for 'em?"

She was startled out of her thinking long enough to reply. "Oh, sorry. I suppose it feels like cheating, not having to do the homework and all..."

He shook his head. "Maybe for me, can you cast that spell nonverbally though? Can you even cast nonverbally?"

"I have managed a few times but it's difficult, they do not require it to pass NEWTs but you do get more points on the practical portion of the test if you can cast without incantation so I have been studying, thanks to you getting me permission to practice at home." He smiled and opened his mouth to speak but she cut him off.

"So you are saying that I am being offered an advanced class that requires less written homework and I should stop complaining?" She asked him with a smile.

"If you insist on putting words in my mouth, something like that yeah." He smiled back. "Now lets go see how the others are doing..."

They walked back to their section and found Padma already helping her sister out, Neville as usual was having difficulty and Hermione went straight toward he and Hannah. That left Susan and Ron for Harry to work with and he suddenly felt a bit betrayed by his incognito girlfriend. He made his way over to them where he found Ron struggling as usual. "Hey you two...so uh, how's it going?"

Susan smiled and performed the charm satisfactorily, which Harry thanked his stars for. "That's great Susie...er Susan. You should just keep practicing so you have the wand movements in muscle memory..." She nodded and turned away from him so he took a deep breath and turned to Ron who was angrily waving his wand at the house.

"Ron, I'd be careful, the first part of that spell is Igneous which is the same spell you use to light the fireplace if your not careful you might..." But before he could finish Ron had set his house ablaze. Cursing Harry cast a flame freezing charm over the house quickly followed by an Augemeti to douse the flames. Ron was not happy.

"What'd you go and do that for?" He shouted in a whisper.

"What? Put out the fire you caused?" Harry asked a bit annoyed.

Ron looked like he was about to retort but took a deep breath instead and released it slowly, Harry saw the red leave his face along with the breath. "Yeah...sorry I snapped, this spell has me all sorts of twisted."

"Why don't you show me what you were doing in slow motion? Don't say or think the incantation though." Ron took another deep breath and nodded as he brought his wand to bare and performed the charm.

"Ah see, you are doing everything correctly except for the last step, you have to point toward the dollhouse rather than the center of the room. I am fairly certain Hogwarts is already shielded against flames." Ron looked a bit sheepish as he suddenly remembered Flitwick telling them almost the same thing only moments ago.

He performed the charm once again finishing with the downward stab rather than the upward one and the house glowed with a blue aura for a moment before dimming once again. "Good job mate! See that wasn't so hard..." Ron was panting rather heavily and sat back down.

"Easy for you to say, you weren't warding the classroom for the last ten minutes!" Harry grinned.

"I supposed not, I don't think the professor will mind if you take a quick break." Harry quickly cast a finite at Ron's house earning him a slight glare before turning back toward Susan.

"Uh, so still going alright over here then?" He asked shyly.

She looked up startled but nodded. "I think so...would you test it though? It looks good but I don't know if it's actually flame proof yet."

Harry quickly cast an Igneous charm and watched sadly as the roof of the building caught on fire. He extinguished it quickly and looked to the girl whose face had fallen. "I thought I got it right...what happened?"

Harry decided the same approach would work as with Ron. "It's alright Susi..um, Susan just take it slow."

"You can still call me Susie Harry...I'm sorry I've been avoiding you...its just..."

Harry nodded, "Alright Susie," he couldn't help smiling as the knot in his chest loosened just a bit. "Now try doing the wand movement as slow as possible without saying or thinking the incantation. That was Ron's problem, maybe we can catch something alright?"

She nodded and performed the movement again slowly Harry noticed that her last circle was more of an oval and when she stabbed at the house it was toward the center of the object through the wall instead of the ceiling. "Alright, your circles are a little loose, and when you make that final wand movement you should point down through the roof instead of through the wall. Not sure if that makes a huge difference since you are still pointing at the center but it's worth a shot."

She smiled and turned her back to him to perform the actual spell once more, he noticed that the oval still persisted just before she pointed downward to finish the movement and his teaching mode kicked in from the DA as he stepped up behind her grasping her hand in his own and placing the other on her waist. "No like this." He whispered in her ear as he directed her arm above her head. He noticed that she was trembling slightly and realized just what he was doing as he sprung away from her.

"Uh..sorry, I.."

"No its okay, I was just..."

"So looks like you have it down now, um I'm gonna go see how Ron's doing..." He quickly fled from her presence after seeing how violently she had reacted to his touch, the knot that had recently loosened tightened up again and he felt the bubble of pain pushing against his ribs again. It was like he couldn't quite take a full breath, but he forced himself to do it anyway and soon the pain lessened somewhat, he risked a glance over his shoulder and found her smiling at him before she realized he was looking, at which point she promptly blushed and turned away again. He was smiling once more by the time he reached Ron.

"How goes it?" Ron was still sitting in his seat looking like he might go to sleep. Harry kicked his foot and the boy stopped whatever daydream he was having and looked annoyed for a second before he realized where he was.

"Huh? Oh! Sorry, guess I drifted off for a second there...um so the charm..right..." Harry shook his head and reached into his pocket pulling a fun-size snickers bar and handing it to the redhead. "What's this for?" Ron asked.

"The chocolate should help restore your magical energy, they really need to figure out just how it does that anyway...um, and the nuts and stuff should help keep you full until lunch. Its been what, an hour since breakfast? You have to be starving!"

"Prat!" Ron said but picked up the candy bar and quickly ate it. "You know, this is actually helping...they should serve these in History of Magic!" They both laughed as Ron finished the last of the candy and stood up. "Alright lets try again shall we?"

Harry nodded and watched as Ron performed the spell perfectly, although his wand movement looked like something a Muggle magician would do, big and flashy. "Really good Ron, but I think you should work on making your wand movements smaller. It will transfer over to DADA as well, can't go telegraphing your next spell to your target now can you?" Ron nodded and cast the spell again trying to make his movements smaller. Harry watched for a while before nodding and going back to Susan.

"So uh, everything better over here then?" He asked, honestly just looking for an excuse to be near her again. It was pathetic but he couldn't help himself.

She quickly cast a flame charm at the house, which engulfed it without burning it before she cancelled it. "Much better, thanks again Harry."

He smiled back at her, "Anytime Suse...uh, I should go check on some of the other students." She nodded and he walked away, glancing around the room to see anyone else who needed help. Mandy Brockelhurst was sitting in the Ravenclaw area and Padma was making her way through the group but Mandy seemed to blend in. Harry decided now was as good a time as any to get to know her a bit.

"Hey," He said quietly after he watched her performed a failed ward once more.

She jumped slightly and turned to face him, her face suddenly going white. "Uh...hi?"

"You looked like you could use some help. Can you do just the wand movement in slow motion for me?" She nodded and turned away from him to hide her blush before slowly showing him he wand movements. "That actually looks pretty good, can you say the incantation for me without doing the wand movement?"

She nodded and took a breath to steady her voice. "Um...Igneous Extundo"

He smiled at her remembering Hermione arguing with Ron in first year. "It's ExtUndo not EXtundo, give it another try."

She sighed and looked down at her dollhouse and performed the charm and smiled as it glowed for a few seconds. She jumped into his arms and hugged him before she realized what she had done and pulled away with a blush that looked very pretty extending from her black hair down to her neck. "Um, thanks..."

He smiled. "No problem...shall we test it?" She nodded and he cast a quick flame charm, which he let die on its own, as it didn't catch on anything. "Good job Mandy, keep practicing now that you know what you were doing wrong. " He cast a quick Finite and turned to observe the rest of the class.

Hermione had moved on to the Hufflepuffs who as a whole were doing reasonably well. The Ravenclaws were doing well and Padma headed over to join Hermione. Ron was actually helping other Gryffindors now and Susan and Hannah were both helping out Neville. That meant there was only one section left where Harry was needed and he felt extremely uncomfortable trying to work his way into that crowd. He saw the Daphne was helping out a small group toward the back of the room and Malfoy was looking rather bored as he stared off into space, likely planning as far as Harry was concerned. Pansy was at the edge of the group struggling with her spell work; Harry took a deep breath and mustered up his Gryffindor courage as he walked toward her. He did not see the smile on the little Professor's face as he walked by.

"Miss Parkinson...you look like you need some help." She looked up at him sharply before looking quickly around to see who was watching.

"What are you doing over here you idiot?" She hissed at him though the fear he saw in her eyes did not seem to be fear of the crowd, but fear of him.

"Um, Flitwick asked a few of us to help out the others and you looked like you needed help...now do you want to fail Charms on your first day or do you want some help?"

She seemed to wrestle with herself for a moment before nodding. He repeated his usual spiel and noted that her wand work was a little sloppy in the circles just like Susan's had been. He pointed it out to her and she sneered at him before she tried again to cast the spell paying attention to her circles, however they were no longer fluid and the spell failed once again. With a sigh he walked behind her and grasped her wrist lightly as he spoke into her ear. He felt the same tenseness and shaking from her that he had from Susan and was disappointed a bit that Susan seemed to find him so revolting but was just happy she was speaking to him again. He directed her wand in the proper form a few times before stepping away from her, noticing how heavily she was breathing.

"Potter! What do you think your doing pawing all over my girlfriend?" Came a voice that was only too familiar.

"Draco despite any fun we may have, I am not your girlfriend, would you please get that through your thick skull?" Pansy snapped surprising Harry and apparently Draco as well.

He was only taken aback for a moment however as he moved closer. "Listen here Potty, despite what she says she..mmmfph?" Harry had locked his tongue to the top of his mouth drawing some attention from the surrounding Slytherins, thinking quickly he keyed the Langlock curse to Blaise Zabini as a trigger to release. One would not normally be able to do such a thing, but after talking to Ollivander Harry had started working on being able to tweak magic to suit his needs.

"Malfoy, I believe on the train I told you to refer to me as Lord Black if you must refer to me at all. Do I need to remind you of the consequences for pissing me off?" Malfoy's eyes narrowed and his wand twitched in his hand but no spell's came forth. "Good boy, now I believe Mr. Zabini should be able to help you out with that little problem. I'm glad you decided not to talk back to me. Wouldn't want to take half your money, even if I make more than that in interest each year."

Malfoy looked about to swing at Harry but Crabbe and Goyle each wrapped an arm around his shoulders, he looked daggers at them before he saw Professor Flitwick standing behind Harry. "Is there a problem here Lord Black?"

Harry shook his head. "None Professor, Draco thought better of slandering my family name is all. I appreciate his self control."

Crabbe spoke up surprising everyone a bit. "Potter cast some sort of curse and Draco can't talk now."

"Is this true Lord Black?" Flitwick asked with a raised eyebrow and stressing the title.

"Not at all Professor, Harry didn't even draw his wand!" Came Hermione's voice from behind him in the Hufflepuff section.

"I will need to see your wand Lord Black, if you please?" Harry nodded and snapped his Holly wand into his right hand before disengaging it and handing it to the little man butt first. He quickly cast Priori Incantatem and saw that the last ten spells were all Wards from this lesson. Harry noticed the man's eyes dart to his left wrist and a small smile appeared but he said nothing as he handed the wand back. "Very well, Mr. Malfoy, if you are unable to speak for some reason perhaps you should visit the hospital wing. As for the rest of you, your homework will be three feet on this ward and its various uses and origins due next class tomorrow. You are dismissed!" He said and turned his back on them.

Draco looked nearly homicidal but Harry just smiled and waved as he was dragged from the classroom by Pansy followed by his two goons. Blaise stopped by him on his way out of the room, ostensibly to tie his shoe. "Nice one Black, I don't know how you pulled it off but I would like to know why you tossed my name in there?"

Harry smiled but did not look down at him as he spoke. "I thought when no one else was able to remove that spell and you were it might help up your standing in the house. I would like to take Malfoy out as peacefully as possible."

Zabini smiled as he stood and locked eyes with Harry. "Very Slytherin of you Black...that could indeed be useful. Though I don't approve of your choice in friends, I can approve of your methods. Thank you." He then left quickly as Hermione and Ron joined him.

"What was all that about mate?" Ron asked.

"I was just keeping Malfoy from losing half his money to me is all."

Hermione looked put out, but her mutinous smile was overpowering her anger. "And I defended you! You cast that nonwandlessly didn't you?"

Harry looked at her a bit cockeyed. "Non Wandlessly? Are you feeling okay?" He said as he put a hand to her forehead.

She whacked his hand away from her with a slight smile. "What would you call it? Besides supermagic I mean?" He had to concede the point to her and bowed slightly. Just then the bell rang and she quickly started for the door. "You two may not have anywhere to be but I need to get to Runes!" Harry caught up to her and Ron was walking confusedly beside them.

"Where we going mate? We don't have anything this period?" Ron asked.

Harry sighed at his thickheaded friend. "No we don't, so I thought we could accompany her to class. Unless you need to go start working on our Quidditch strategies, I'm sure she would understand." Hermione who was biting her tongue physically to keep from going at him nodded.

"That's fine Ron, I will see you in Herbology?" Ron nodded and stopped as they continued on.

"See you in a few then Harry!" He called out before heading back the way they came.

Harry saw Hermione to her door on the fifth floor and left her with a smile before racing to the stairs that led down from the Divination Tower. An out of breath Harry arrived just in time to catch Ginny and Luna at the stairs. "Hey...you...two..." He said with a grin.

"Harry did you try to kill yourself in order to walk me to class? Please don't die on my account." Luna said as she kissed him quickly on the lips, Ginny looked a bit distraught but held herself in check.

"I...thought I could...walk you to your next class....since I'm off." He said still catching his breath.

"That would be lovely, thank you Harry." Luna said wrapping an arm around his bicep and throwing a look to Ginny. "He is escorting you as well, perhaps you should take his other arm?" Ginny blushed but nodded as she took his other arm lightly and the three made their way down to the second floor and toward the Transfiguration classroom. They got a few strange looks but Ginny kissed him quickly on the cheek before diving into the classroom with a deep blush causing her female classmates to smile. Luna on the other hand wrapped her arms around his neck and kissed him rather deeply to a chorus of "ooooo's" from the classroom. Cat-Minerva jumped from her desk and transformed in mid-air as she approached.

"Miss Lovegood, Mr. Potter. I do not wish to deduct house points for a public display of affection, please use a little more discretion!"

"Yes Ma'am." They both said but both were smiling. "I'll see you at lunch Harry." She said before heading into the classroom. Minerva smiled quickly at him before closing the door for class to begin. Harry walked whistling back up the stairs to the Gryffindor common room where he found Ron pouring over parchments covered in Quidditch Plays. They spent the rest of the afternoon going over plays and strategies before rushing to Herbology, which ended up being rather uneventful. After lunch Harry was torn between escorting Hermione to Arithmancy on the seventh floor, Ginny to DADA with the Slytherins, or Luna down to Potions in the dungeon. In the end Mione and Gin had shooed he and his designated girlfriend away toward the dungeons with a smile. He dodged away before Slughorn could corner him again and afterward he was completely at a loss as to what to do. So he slowly made his way outside and began to walk around the lake, thinking of Luna, wishing he could be with Susan, wondering how Gin was going to get along without him that night, and whether Hermione could be persuaded to join him for a night cap later in his rooms.

He was lost in thought about the DA once more when Hedwig landed on his shoulder. There you are! I have been waiting for you! he heard her thinking.

"Hey girl, sorry I haven't been up to see you, it's only been a few days though. You know you are welcome to come visit at breakfast even if you don't have mail for me."

She butted her head against his in thanks before holding out her letter. "What's this then?" He got a flash of Blonde hair and perfect blue eyes and smiled. "You've been all the way to France? Such a good girl." He said stroking her feathers and feeling her purr in his head.

He opened the letter and began reading as he idly stroked his owl.

Master,

It feels like too long since I have had you next to me or inside me, I miss you every day. Things are going as well as can be expected at the school this year, my classes are not too difficult but they are already hounding us about our OWLs next year. I absolutely love this bird, she found me just as my letter is being started and I was wondering how to sneak to the Owlery.

I am hoping you are well and that you are enjoying yourself and your witches, I spend much time thinking of you as I lay in my bed and pleasure myself. I hope you are taking care of and being taken care of by all of these witches that have lined up to date you. Without me there to greet you properly in the morning you must be going through withdrawal. As an adult student can you not take leave of the school on weekends? I would love to see you this weekend if possible; I need you inside me as much as I need air. I need to pleasure you, and to feel your lips against mine. However I understand your order, and I do have many friends here to keep me occupied in other ways. I look forward to a return letter and to seeing this beautiful owl once more.

With all my love, your pet,

Gabrielle

Harry pocketed the letter and made a note to ask Hermione if he could leave the school to visit her this weekend. A visit to his first love seemed like just the thing to get his mind off of Susan for a while. "Thanks again Hedwig, you have no idea how much this note means to me." He pulled her head against his for a moment in a strange sort of hug but he felt her contentment and knew she enjoyed it as much as he did. She then took off and back up to the Owlery for some well-deserved rest.

He headed back inside just as the bell rung for the last period to start. He quickly headed to the stairs just inside the entrance hall that led down to the Dungeons and pulled Luna to him as she passed. She smiled as if she had known it was about to happen, even before she saw him. He guessed she probably had but let it go rather than dwell on it. "Hey you." He said with a smile.

"Hello Harry. So are we heading to your room then?" Harry was suddenly struck speechless. He had just been thinking that but not exactly the way she made it sound.

"Uh, well actually I thought we could pick up Mione and Gin as well since they have this period off. And I guess Ron as well."

She smiled and patted his cheek. "That is what I meant silly boy, there will be plenty of time for fooling around later. Unless of course you want to watch me fool around with Ronald?" Harry thought about it for all of three seconds before dismissing the idea.

"Uh, no Luna that holds no appeal to me at all. I hope you don't mind?"

She shook her head, "Not really, he wouldn't be very much fun, I just thought after you let Hermione play with him..."

He cut her off quickly, "That was a mistake on their part and they know it, I did not let her do anything, it was her decision. And just so you know, if you decide you do want to uh...fool around with Ron you are allowed, I don't own you or anything...but I don't know if we could still be as close..."

She smiled again and kissed him quickly, "I know Harry, I don't want any other males at the moment since my current mate is the Alpha of the pack, but knowing you would let me makes me want to stay with you that much more. Now we better hurry to the fourth floor if we are going to catch Ginny. Something tells me Hermione will be waiting there for us as well."

Harry simply dismissed his doubt about her prediction as it really did make sense for Ginny's girlfriend to meet her after classes. So they headed up to the fourth floor and found the two girls talking as they headed back for the "UP" staircase where Harry and Luna caught up to them.

"Hey you two, how about we head to my room instead of upstairs?" Harry said.

They looked at each other before shrugging and following him onto staircase and waiting for it to move. "Harry what about Ron?" Hermione asked.

Luna smiled as she pulled a sheet of parchment from her book bag and scribbled a quick note before pointing her wand at it and saying a quick incantation Velox Aer Vindico. The parchment folded itself into a paper airplane and headed off up the stairs. "I just let him know where to find us."

Hermione was staring at her. "I thought that was a secret Ministry spell, it is really useful!" Luna just shrugged.

"Daddy has sources inside the Ministry, this is the least of the information he had gleaned from them. Did you know that besides eating Goblins, Fudge was also secretly amassing an army of Heliopaths?" Hermione made as if to comment but closed her mouth and nodded.

They reached the portrait and Hermione gasped. "Harry, what is that thing doing to those girls?" Ginny was giggling as she watched and Luna just looked on dreamily as normal.

"I beg your pardon Madam but I am not a thing, I am a Satyr thank you very much!" The portrait replied as he released his recently captured Nymph exposing his overly large erection to the girls for the first time.

"Oh My!" Hermione exclaimed.

The Satyr smiled, "Thank you, it is nice to know one is appreciated!" He bounced his boner up and down a few times using just his muscles causing Ginny's eyes to widen. Harry had enough but was smiling at their reactions.

"Alright Bernard, each of these girls has access to my rooms without restriction. I might like to be notified of their arrival if I am inside, but password or not you are to give them access, is that understood?" The man-goat nodded.

"Alright then ladies, the current password is 'Gabrielle'" The portrait clicked open and they all entered closing the door behind them. Harry heard a voice from above the mantel call out to him.

"Harry?" He turned and found Bernard poking his head into the portrait frame.

"Yes Bernie?"

The Satyr smiled at his new nickname. "Is anyone else coming? I really was in the middle of something...er..."

Harry laughed before answering. "In a few minutes Ron Weasley should be here, once he is inside you should be safe to 'Er' all you want for a while. Alright?"

Bernie nodded and disappeared from the frame, much to the relief of the female occupant. "Thank you Lord Potter-Black, I don't know how you stand that..that thing!"

Harry made sure the girls were okay in the seating area before walking over to examine the portrait closer. "You can call me Harry if you like, Miss..?"

She blushed prettily, "Wenny is fine Milord. I must say it is rather nice to have an occupant in this room again, it must have been half a century or so since it has seen use. And I just don't like to travel the castle any longer. After a thousand years the whole of it is a little boring when I cannot teach classes or interact with people on a personal level."

Harry began to wonder at the portraits identity but did not say anything of his suspicions. "Very well Wenny, well you are free to leave your frame if you wish but I am always happy to converse. However I might warn you about my er..." She began laughing outrageously at him.

"Yes well you are a young man with private rooms and apparently plenty of female company, if you wish to 'Er' I will not disclose anything to anybody on the condition you let me watch." She said with a smile. "Those that cannot do, live vicariously through observation and all that."

"You know Bernard may be a bit crass, but he was just complaining about chasing the same Nymphs around for a few centuries, I'm sure I could talk to him about...'Er' If you wish." She blushed again but was smiling.

"I am not quite that hard up Harry. I am not even certain that I could, having been painted by a different artist..."

"May I ask who the artist was?" Harry asked.

"Well, my husband.."

"Then it would be my guess that you would be perfectly able to 'Er' if you wish, I'm certain he was thinking about you in that way while he was painting if your beauty is any testament to the real you."

"You flatter me Harry. Go to your female companions, I shall not bother you any more this evening." She waved him off before her portrait went still once more.

He joined the girls in the seating area; they had left him the middle of the couch open with Mione and Gin on either side. He sat down and the girls snuggled into his shoulders and Luna sat sideways on his lap and wrapped her arms around his neck. "You know what's missing from this picture?" Harry asked.

"Cartoons?" Ginny asked, he chuckled and nodded.

"I was going to say Telly but yes, cartoons would be nice right about now." He replied

"Whom were you talking to in that portrait?" Hermione asked.

Luna took Hermione's place on his shoulder as the other girl sat up. "Oh that's just Wenny, she really is a wonderful lady though I had never actually spoken to her before."

All three of them looked at the blonde who was content just to look back. "You know Wenny?" Harry asked.

"Eventually yes." She responded. After the roundabout on the train all three of them knew better than to question her.

"So what shall we do until Ron gets here then?" Harry asked to change the subject.

All three of the girls groaned and got up grabbing their book bags. "Ancient Runes." Ginny said getting a nod from Luna and Hermione.

"Arithmancy as well." Hermione said claiming the desk for her own. Harry looked at the arrangement of the room and had a sudden thought.

"Dobby?" The elf popped in. "Dobby can we rearrange this to make room for two or three more desks? Or figure out some way to..." Just as he was speaking Bernie popped into the frame with Wenny surprising her once more.

"Harry, Mr. Weasley is outside, should I let him in?" Harry nodded and the door clicked open not long after the Satyr disappeared.

"What on earth is that thing?" Ron asked, Harry heard a growl from the other side of the door and quickly explained what a Satyr was to Ron. "Well, he looks like he is happy enough, he has to have six or eight of those girls to choose from."

"It's a lot harder than you think." Harry murmured, getting a giggle from Luna who was the only one to hear his comment. "So what's up? This is your place then?"

"Yep, we were just discussing trying to fit a couple more desks in here for study sessions, you have any ideas?" Ron's eyes lit up as he suddenly began walking around the room taking mental measurements and turning to Dobby, the two of them spoke in low tones for a few moments before Dobby nodded and disappeared. He popped back in a few moments later with three more shrunken desks.

"All right everybody up please?" They all complied and Ron nodded to Dobby who clapped his hands. The desk by the wall centered itself in the middle of the room with the three others as they regained their normal size. The soft seating moved from a ring configuration to seating along the walls and the four desks in the middle made a rather large work surface with four chairs. Ron nodded to Dobby who clapped his hands again and the furniture moved itself once more, the other three desks were shrunken again and Harry saw them sitting on the top shelf of the book case neatly stacked to take up minimal space.

"That is really impressive Ron." Hermione said honestly.

Ron's ears turned red but he controlled the rest of the blush admirably. "Just a little planning is all."

Harry shook his head, "I had no idea how to accomplish my goal and you figured it out in just a few seconds, you really do have a knack for this stuff. Are you sure you want to be an Auror?" Ron thought about it for a minute before shrugging.

"I don't really know what else to do, I don't think there are Wizard Interior Decorators, plus I don't want to be thought of as a pouf you know?" Luna shook her head.

"Ronald you are good at this, do you know how much paperwork the Aurors have to do?" Ron paled as he thought about it.

"All right, but what on earth am I gonna do then?"

Harry pondered that for a moment. "The Twins started their own business and they are doing well. You might think of doing the same thing, maybe talk to McGonagall about it some time. I would keep the classes you have now to fall back on rather than drop out or drop half of them. You might end up being an Auror anyway, or some other ministry job." Ron nodded and took a seat in one of the comfy chairs.

"Well I've got two years to figure that out then don't I? So where's the refreshments?" Before Harry could ask Dobby popped away and returned with Tea and Biscuits, as well as a shake for both Harry and Ron.

'Thank you Dobby." Harry said gratefully, the elf smiled and popped away. They all snacked a bit but the atmosphere seemed a little strained with Ron in the room for some reason. Luna was still sitting on his lap with a girl on either side, but they did not snuggle with him as they had earlier much to his disappointment.

"Well, I suppose we have some studying to do, how is that paper for Charms going Ron?" The redhead in question suddenly looked around warily.

"Uh...I haven't started on it. You?"

Harry shook his head, "You saw me and Hermione helping everyone else out today?" Ron nodded, "Our homework is to learn the spell nonverbally since we already demonstrated that we know the material."

Ron's look grew dark again as his jealousy surfaced but one look at Luna and he took a few deep breaths. "So you can help me with it then?" Hermione nodded glad he hadn't gotten angry with them. "Well lets get started then shall we? Dobby?"

The elf reappeared and Ron clapped his hands to demonstrate. The elf smiled as he once again rearranged the furniture and popped out. The girls each took a seat at the work center and Ron took the last one, Hermione let Ron borrow her Charms text book while Harry sat on the couch and began mentally preparing for the Charms class the next day. After quickly reviewing the information from the entire sixth year text he sighed and stood up before heading over to Ron, secretly trailing his fingers across Hermione's back as he passed causing her to shiver as she tried to pretend nothing had happened. Harry found that he rather liked the power he held over Gin and Mione when it came to this. He knew and they knew that he could have them any time he wanted, they were just choosing to behave.

He was still a bit lost in thought until Ron cleared his throat. "You with me mate?"

"Uh sorry." Harry said with a smile. "Reading that much information always makes me a little light headed." Ron looked at him funny for a moment wondering what book he had been reading but quickly shrugged it off. The two of them got to work going over the required material once more with Harry in teacher mode. Ron seemed to pick everything up much better than normal and commented on it.

"You know mate, you're much better at this than Hermione. She is all facts and whatnot but you give it to me in a way I can actually understand."

Harry pondered that statement for a moment and glanced over to see that Hermione had indeed heard what Ron said but was pretending to ignore it. He put a hand to his eyes and pressed with his fingers to stop the headache before it could start. "Uh, well Mione is the smartest witch of our generation, of course she talks on a whole other level! Me on the other hand, I was a complete dolt like you until I cheated by learning Occlumency. I can recite the text to you word for word if you like?"

Ron quickly shook his head, "No thanks mate, I can read just fine by myself. You sure you wanna be an Auror? Your pretty good at this teaching stuff."

Again Harry had to pause for thought, he really did like teaching and he seemed to be pretty good at it no matter what subject as demonstrated in Charms earlier that day. He wondered briefly if he could teach by day and be a Hit Wizard by night but quickly dismissed the thought for the time being. He had to get rid of Voldemort first, that required HW skills. After that he could think about what else to do with his life. "Right now I just want to get rid of a certain pain in my forehead. But thank you." Ron nodded and sighed hugely as he unrolled three feet of blank parchment and started writing.

"You wanna help me write this too?" Ron asked hopefully.

Harry shook his head and smiled. "I will help you review it, but the writing stuff is Mione's bag not mine. I hope I can find a way out of written work for all my classes, though I doubt Slughorn or Snape will be easily swayed."

Once the work was done and Hermione had read over and corrected Ron's paper for him they all sat back and looked at one another. Ron spoke up first.

"You know, I don't know how you can do two subjects work in the time it takes me to do Charms Hermione...so uh, thanks for the help I guess." Hermione beamed at him, Harry wasn't sure but that might have been the first sincere gratitude that Ron had ever offered her for homework help.

"Not a problem at all Ron, when you actually apply yourself I am happy to help you along. Keep up the good work and I bet you could be number three this year." Hermione replied.

"Number Three?" Ron asked.

Hermione nodded, "Padma is very smart but she tends to fly under the Radar a bit just like Parvati who mind you, is just as intelligent but seems to enjoy applying makeup more than applying herself to her work. I of course am the top of all my classes except for one." She said with a look at Harry.

"What?" Harry asked.

She shook her head in amusement. "Harry, even with all of the bollox you have to go through every year you still somehow end up right behind me in every class except for DADA in which you have outperformed me since the Tri-Wizard. You have always been better at the application of magic rather than the theory behind it. This year I am having to work extra hard to stay ahead of you because of your...unnatural advantages." She was smiling, which told him she was not especially upset about that fact.

"Um, thank you?" He said and she nodded before turning back to Ron. "In any case Ronald I think you could easily displace Daphne Greengrass from the number three spot if you apply yourself this year. It would look really good on any application."

"Daphne is number three? Wait! You mean I really am number two?" Harry asked.

Ron nodded, "It makes sense Harry, what she said about the way you apply magic combined with having her for a best friend to help you with the theory stuff. It's no wonder really. I honestly thought you would be prefect instead of me." Hermione bit her tongue to keep from agreeing wholeheartedly with him, which felt rather ironic.

Harry pondered that for a moment, "Dumbledore told me he thought I had enough going on in my life that I didn't need to worry about prefect stuff as well..." Harry suddenly went quiet and the temperature in the room dropped a couple of degrees, enough to be noticed.

"Uh, Harry mate?" Ron asked quietly.

Harry looked up and took a few deep breaths. "Sorry got carried away for a second...Just more evidence of him meddling in my life. I really don't want to be Prefect any more than I...uh, anyway it would have been nice to have been offered or at least told up front that I was the first choice..." Hermione and Ginny knew that he had given up the Team Captain spot for Ron but also knew that Ron did not need to know that.

Ron was oblivious as usual as he stretched. "Well, think its time to head for bed. We have Slughorn first thing tomorrow." He got up and headed for the door. "You guys coming?" He asked the females in the room.

"We'll be along shortly Ron, if you have gone to bed I will see you before breakfast?" Hermione asked. Ron nodded and waved as he walked out, closing the portrait hole behind him.

Harry smiled and pulled her from her seat into his embrace and kissed her quickly on the lips. "I have wanted to do that all day. Since last night actually, I think you are trying to kill me woman!" Hermione hugged him but pulled away with a smile.

"I really should be going Harry, as much as I want to be with you we do need to keep a low profile and it will be too hard to have a secret physical relationship with you...besides after Luna is Lavender's turn and I don't think she plans on sharing you."

"I already told Gin that it doesn't matter to me what those girls want, I know I want you. They can deal with it." Harry said pulling her back toward him and kissing her neck lightly getting a sigh from her as she laid her head on his shoulder.

Ginny stood and wrapped her arms around him from behind. "No Harry, Mione is right. We need to give them a chance, Mione and I promise you are the only man for us until this is all over, but you need to try and have a real relationship with these girls...Luna included." As she finished she grasped Hermione's hand and pulled her away from Harry slowly. Hermione still had her eyes closed and was in lala land until Ginny pulled her into an embrace and kissed her on the lips.

"Oh my! Sorry, I suppose I lost myself there...that wasn't fair Harry!" She chastised him playfully.

"You know I am not going to be able to stay away from you two right?" Harry asked with a smile.

Gin shook her head. "You are going to try to behave, and so are we. If at some point we pull you into a broom closet and have our way with you that is our fault. But we are going to give the other girls a real chance with you!"

Harry sighed and walked up behind Ginny running his fingers through her hair and down her back before kissing her on the cheek. "Have it your way, my mission is to make you drag me into a broom closet. But I will also give the other girls a chance alright?" Ginny shivered from the whisper of his voice in her ear and nodded.

This time it was Hermione who pulled Gin away. "Alright, good night you two. Don't do anything we wouldn't!" She grabbed both book bags from the desk and pulled a pouting Ginny from the room just as Tonks came through the portrait hole. She yawned and waved at the other two as it closed and turned back to the others in the room.

"Wotcher kids, don't mind me, I'd forgotten what a drag all these stairs were and I'm bushed." She walked over and kissed Harry on the cheek. "Have fun lover." She whispered before disappearing into the guest room.

He stared at her door for a few seconds before turning back toward the blonde on the couch. "So..."

She simply looked up at him dreamily though he could see her struggling to stay lucid. "Will you touch me again Harry?" She asked quietly.

He pulled her to her feet and into a kiss. "I think that can be arranged. Would you like to see my room?" She nodded and he pulled her with him back through his bedroom door.

"Oh, it looks like your room at the other place, how wonderful. Do you think Dobby brought any Humdingers with him?"

Harry just went with it, knowing it hurt her to try not to say such things. "I'm sure if they were around he brought a few over, what do they do?"

"Blibbering Humdingers are breeding right now and the pheromones they secrete are quite an aphrodisiac."

"Aphro..?" Harry asked.

Luna leaned in and pressed her chest against his as she ran a hand down his back and kissed him. She pulled away and looked up at him, "They make you horny..."

Harry felt his erection bounce against the inside of his trousers and Luna smiled up at him as she felt the same thing. "We don't have sex tonight Harry but we do."

He smiled as he was beginning to make a game out of these statements. "Oh we do?"

She smiled as she unbuttoned his shirt. "Eventually."

He kissed her softly getting a small moan from her as she stood on her tiptoes trying to press the kiss deeper. He smiled against her lips and guided her backward toward his room. He closed the door behind them and turned around a bit nervously now that they were at ground zero.

"Uh, hi." He said with a shy smile.

She looked at him with her big dreamy eyes and smiled. "Shy suddenly? You've seen me in a bit less than this, rather up close and personal actually."

He approached her cautiously and placed his hands on her shoulders. "That's true, but we weren't alone then... and uh..."

"And we never did get around to playing much with each other?" Luna whispered as her lips came within millimeters of his.

"Yeah..." He breathed as she leaned in and kissed him, taking the lead and deepening the kiss.

She pulled his hands from her shoulders and placed them against the buttons of her blouse before she finished undoing his shirt. He caught on quickly as they continued to kiss softly but each kiss was getting more urgent and soon they were ripping each other's clothes off until he pulled back and they were both naked. He gazed upon her once again with awe.

"You really are a goddess you know that right?" He said breathily.

She smiled, "The oracle at Delphi was considered to be almost a conduit of the Fates."

"Please don't make me think about, pardon my language, that Bitch, while I am appreciating your beauty." He begged before slowly stepping closer to her and pulling her toward him for a soft kiss once more.

"Touch me Harry?" She pleaded when he pulled away.

He lay her down on the bed and placed small kisses on her stomach before making his way back up to her breasts where he nipped and massaged with his mouth. He kissed her quickly on the lips before trailing his lips down her chin to her collarbone. She parted her legs for him as he leaned in and his member brushed against the golden down nestled at her apex. He remembered what she said about sex but decided they could have more fun anyway, so he slowly ran a hand down her body as he kissed her before wrapping his hand around his erection and placing it at her entrance.

She bucked a bit as if trying to temp him to enter her but he held back, he dipped his crown just inside her wet center and began making circles, spreading the moisture. He then brought himself back up to her clit where he began making tiny circles getting a moan of pleasure in response. "You know Luna, that is one of the sexiest things I have ever heard." He whispered in her ear.

Her eyes were closed and her head thrown back but she nodded to let him know she heard him. He decided to continue talking as he teased her toward orgasm. "Do you like the way that feels?" She nodded again and moaned lightly. "You like the feeling of my hard manhood pressed into your soft folds?" This time she was only able to moan as a tiny foreshock ran through her system. He kissed her lightly and began trailing kissed down her body once more until he was level with her now dripping sex.

He dipped his head toward her and ran his tongue along her length, enjoying her sunshine taste once more before slowly pushing two fingers inside her as he attacked her nubbin with his mouth. In almost no time he had his fingers curling toward his chin pressing rhythmically against her spot in time with his tongue. She came hard enough to crush his fingers but surprisingly quiet as her back arched up off the bed before collapsing back to the mattress panting. "Here Harry...Please..." She panted at him.

So he crawled back up until he was poised over her once more and she reached between them to grasp his member. She then began teasing herself with him once more only this time she was concentrating on stroking his entire length as she rubbed his engorged crown against her warm wet folds. "Cum for me Harry, please?" She asked him before leaning up and catching his lips in a kiss. She did not let him pull away as she increased her efforts, she continued to kiss him until he was nearly starving for air as his climax approached. Finally me moaned into her mouth as she pulled him up toward her stomach and locked her lips to his. He sucked in a breath through her nose into his mouth as he began spewing forth his seed onto her glistening sweat soaked body. She released him from her lip lock and let him lay down beside her before reaching back under the pillow where she had somehow stashed her wand and vanishing the mess.

She then spooned herself against him and sighed in contentment. Harry chuckled softly and she turned her head toward him. "Have the giggles caught you then?"

That caught him up for a second. "Uh, giggles? What are they?"

"I am not sure what the textbook definition is, but giggles are normally small uncontrolled bits of laughter. Are you feeling well Harry?" That got a real laugh out of him.

"Sorry Lu, I'm fine I'm fine, I was just giggling at the fact that Gin would kill you if she saw what you just did." He pulled her closer against him trying to remove any air between them.

She nodded, "Yes I imagine she would be disappointed, I did invite her to join us so it is her own fault she missed out."

"Goodnight Lu." Harry whispered as he doused the lights with a wave of his hand.

"Goodnight Harry. Thank you for letting me stay with you. This is wonderful while it lasted."

He decided not to question her odd use of tenses and just agreed with the general idea. It was indeed wonderful while it lasted.

The next morning she kissed him awake before heading back to her dorm just as curfew broke at six so she could change and get the books for the day's subjects. Harry expressed his worry to her about perception, but she replied that her dorm mates were unlikely to care in any event, and if they did she would simply tell them she had been observing the effects of Blibbering Humdingers and leave it at that.

He was still grinning as he headed for breakfast two hours later.






A/N:

Sorry for just over a week since the last update...I think...anyway it got a bit busy here and the chapter was longer than usual so I hope it makes up for it. I promise to try my hardest not to go longer than a week between.

Would you like to vote on who is in line afer Luna? I have someone penciled in but can still change it if you like. Unless it is a few specific people I can work with anyone you suggest.