A Flame Awakened Chapter 5. (Patreon)

Content Warnings: Collars, Semi-Public, BJs, Teasing, Cum Facial, Orgasm Denial.

“Why do we have to wait a week?”

Harry didn’t know the last time he had been this happy. There was something especially intimate about simply cuddling in bed with his girlfriends in a room only they had access to. They had waited for everyone to leave before converting the Room of Requirement into their bedroom again. Except this time Daphne had expanded it, adding a closet, vanity, and even a small bathroom.

“The bonding ritual essentially stripped your core raw when it formed a connection with Daphne.” Padma adjusted her body, snuggling deeper into Harry’s side. She rested her head over Harry’s heart and closed her eyes, enjoying the steady THUMP of his heartbeat. “You bonded with Daphne just over a day ago. You need time to adjust and recover. You must have noticed a change in your magic?”

“My spells are either too powerful or don’t work at all. Didn’t you see what happened at today’s meeting?”

“I’ve never been more aroused than I was watching you hand Justin his pompous ass on a platter,” Daphne said from the ottoman in front of the vanity. “My only complaint is that you didn’t break any bones.” She leaned closer to the mirror, carefully applying a layer of mascara to her eyelashes. The connection between her and Harry was active, the glowing red leash extending from the bracelet on Harry’s right wrist to the collar wrapped around her neck. She hadn’t tested the limits of the connection but she was glad it was flexible enough to give her the freedom to move around a large room without having to break it.

“Daph!” Padma chided.

“What? He planned to break your heart, that’s the least Harry could have done. He’s considering it.”

“He is not! He’s not as bloodthirsty as you are.” Padma looked up at her boyfriend, her lips curved into an adorable pout. “Are you, Harry?”

“Before you answer that dearest, I just want you to know I felt that surge of anger.” Daphne smacked her lips together before applying another coat of pink lipstick. It wasn’t as bold as the deep red she had used the day before but it would serve its purpose well.

“He was going to use and discard you, my pretty flower,” Harry murmured, running a hand through Padma’s sleek black hair. After her big, expressive brown eyes it was perhaps his favorite body part. “Maybe a small one. His little finger-”

“Or his skull,” Daphne chimed in cheerfully.

“You two are monsters,” Padma teased, squealing in surprise when Harry playfully smacked her ass. She reluctantly pushed herself off him, knowing that if she cuddled him any longer she’d end up naked and fucked into a coma. “I have to go. I promised my sister I’d spend the night with her. She and Lavender are hosting a sleepover and I’m invited.”

“Is it one of those sleepovers where they invite a poor young man and for the lack of a better word, pounce on him?” Daphne asked.

“Nope,” Padma answered, gathering up her hair and securing it into a loose ponytail with the scrunchie around her wrist. “Me and Hermione agreed to attend for the first time ever so they plan to keep things tame. We’ll probably drink firewhiskey and play truth or dare, then listen to Parv talk about how great Dean’s dick is for an hour.” While she loved her sister dearly, Parvati could be self-obsessed at times. Padma considered it to be a part of her twin’s charm. She often played a game where she tried to see how long Parvati kept talking without realizing she hadn’t said a word in return.

“You should too.”

“Why would I want to talk about how great Dean’s dick is?”

“Not Dean, idiot.” Daphne rolled her eyes fondly. “Talk about your boyfriend and his wonderful cock.”

“Why would I do that?!” Padma blushed and glanced at Harry, who simply laughed and shrugged his shoulders.

“Oh, I don’t know. Because you love it so much you spend a great deal of time every morning worshiping it?” Daphne teased, her gray eyes twinkling playfully as she turned to face the bed.

“Well, someone has to make sure our boyfriend starts his day the right way.”

“What, with you choking on his manhood?”

“Happy,” Padma replied primly. She hopped off the bed and leaned over to brush her lips against Harry’s for a chaste kiss. Harry groaned softly as she pulled away. He tried to grab her wrist and pull her back into bed but the curvy Ravenclaw twisted out of his grasp. “And I don’t kiss and tell.”

“As far as I can recall it’s less kissing and more sucking.”

“Ladies,” Harry spoke up, interrupting their playful banter. “I think we can all agree I’ve been calmer these past few weeks. I barely even react to Umbridge’s taunts during class or in detention. Padma’s… unconventional methods have definitely helped.”

“You’re going to go through withdrawal whenever we’re both busy and there’s no one to polish your knob first thing in the morning,” Daphne teased, carefully brushing her hair.

“He does have five other people he can bond with.” Padma glanced at the golden rings on the bracelet around Harry’s wrist.

“Do you see eligible young ladies lining up to bind themselves to our dearest, Padma?”

Harry raised an eyebrow. Neither of them seemed particularly bothered or upset by the thought of sharing him. He wondered if it was because Padma’s father had a coven himself and because Daphne was raised to expect her husband would have mistresses or whether there was more to it. It was a conversation for another time, he decided. It wasn’t like he wanted to bind someone else to him anyway.

“They only stay away because you scare the crap out of nearly everyone in this castle,” Padma said fondly. She walked over to Daphne and kissed her cheek. She blew Harry a kiss and walked out of the room, grabbing her bag on the way out.

“Are we staying in tonight?” Harry asked. He watched as Daphne cast protective charms on her knees, his curiosity growing.

Daphne stood and studied her reflection in the mirror, adjusting her tie and popping open the top button of her white blouse. Harry could spy a hint of her lacy black bra and blushed when she giggled, undoubtedly having felt his desire through their connection. She left her cloak draped on the ottoman and walked over to stand next to Harry, her cheeks pink. She kneeled next to the bed and rested her cheek on his hand, whimpering softly as his calloused thumb gently caressed her skin.

“I had something else in mind.”

“Oh?”

“Promise you won’t laugh?” She was trying to be more like Padma, to open up about her needs and desires. There were times she was jealous of the ease with which Padma communicated with Harry.

She hadn’t been raised like that. Her parents loved her but they were stuck in their ways. She had been taught her husband needed to see, not hear her. That her duty to sire his heir was the only thing that mattered in the bedroom. His pleasure was secondary (after all, he’d surely have mistresses to take care of that) and hers wasn’t important at all. Trying to forget five years of lessons wasn’t easy, and she knew it wouldn’t happen in a day or even a month.

“I will never laugh at you.” Harry turned and cupped her cheeks, tilting her head to make her look up at him.

His quiet, gentle but authoritative tone worked wonders to suppress her anxiety. She could feel her mind free itself from its worries and slowly slip away into Subspace.

“I was reading… it was History of Magic and I have no interest in goblin rebellions you see… so I thought I’d read…” Daphne stammered, her cheeks turning progressively redder as she spoke.

“Read what?”

“A new book. Padma and I have a subscription. It uh… it doesn’t matter. I was thinking maybe you could take me on a walk?”

Harry glanced at his wristwatch. “It’s nearly ten. The grounds will be very cold. Do you want to take the tunnel and go to Hogsmeade for a drink instead?”

“Harry, I don’t want to go on a walk with you.” Daphne took a deep breath and glanced at the collar around her neck, hoping he wouldn’t miss what she was looking at. “I want you to take me on a walk. I’ll be under the Invisibility Cloak. You could take me down to the Great Hall?” Daphne suggested. She was trying to be better about taking care of him. She was supposed to be his hidden strength after all, whatever that meant. “You need to eat. You skipped dinner.”

Daphne groaned when Harry stayed silent. “Sorry.”

“Don’t be,” Harry whispered, sitting up in bed. “I’d love to take you on a walk, my little viper.”

“Really?” Daphne blushed. It had taken her a single day to realize that she wasn’t like Padma. This wasn’t just a way to spice up the bedroom for her. But it also wasn’t something she wanted to force Harry into. “You don’t have to do it if you don’t want to.”

“I want to.” Harry leaned and kissed her forehead. His lips shifted lower, slowly peppering kisses along her nose until he reached her lips. Their lips molded together and Daphne saw stars. She moaned softly as he playfully nipped at her lower lip, her tongue darting out to duel with Harry’s. “I like taking care of you. And this might sound like I’m turning into Voldemort-” She shivered and he wrapped his arm protectively around her. “But I like being in control.”

“It sounds like you’ve finally stopped being afraid of power, Lord Potter,” Daphne whispered as she pulled away, breathing heavily. “Power is a tool. How you use it matters. He uses it to hurt people. You use it to protect me and take care of me.” She leaned in and kissed the back of his hand. “I like the thought of serving you. When we’re alone I’d like to be your princess, not the Ice Queen.”

Harry nodded in understanding. He pushed himself off the bed and stood, tugging on the leash to pull Daphne up to her feet.

Daphne’s eyes flickered to the fuzzy pink cuffs Padma had ‘borrowed’ from her sister’s stash for a brief second. Harry didn’t miss the glance and laughed, causing the girl to blush.

“Do you want me to cuff you, Miss Greengrass?”

Daphne’s blush deepened and she nodded silently.

“What was that? I couldn’t hear you.”

Daphne pouted and tried to imitate Padma’s irresistible puppy dog eyes but it didn’t work. She knew it wouldn’t. Harry liked to hear her beg. And the embarrassment that came with it was strangely arousing for the proud Pureblood.

Daphne pushed her thighs together, the damp spot in her panties growing bigger with every passing second.

“Can you cuff me?” she asked. “Please, daddy,” she added for good measure, batting her eyelashes at him.

“Take off your panties.”

“Sir?” Daphne blinked, confused by his request.

SMACK!

Daphne moaned as Harry’s palm made contact with her breast, the creamy mound straining against the bra holding it in place as it jiggled from the force of the impact. The sudden sting caused a gush of arousal to leak out of her.

The way Harry effortlessly took her in hand made her weak in the knees. Gone was the angry, confused young man from a month ago. In its place was a confident warlock who knew what he wanted and wasn’t afraid to take it.

In this case, he wanted her panties.

Harry silently held out his palm, waiting for her to obey.

Daphne pushed her hands under her gray skirt and pulled the lacy black panties down her slender legs, pulling them free from one ankle and then the next. Her blush deepened as she balled the fabric up and handed it to him. The tangy smell of her arousal immediately filled the air around them.

“Does the thought of me walking you around in public like you’re mine turn you on, Miss Greengrass?” Harry’s nimble fingers moved to her chest and popped open another button of her blouse.

Daphne stayed silent, her breathing growing heavier with every passing second. Her eyes widened as Harry slipped another button free. Her large bust spilled out of her blouse and her lacy black bra was completely visible. Her nipples stiffened, the rosy peaks poking through the thin fabric of her bra.

“I asked you a question, Daphne.” Harry pushed the balled-up panties into the valley of her bosom, trapping it between her breasts. Daphne moaned embarrassedly as her wetness was smeared on her creamy skin.

“Yes,” she whispered, knowing the price of hesitation would be another quick spank to her sensitive breasts.

“Why?”

“Power is all about appearances. If we are to be THE power couple in Hogwarts we have to-”

SMACK!

“Ow! I’m sorry, sir!” Daphne groaned, the sting of the sharp slap radiating through her chest. A trickle of wetness leaked out of her pink folds and ran down her leg. “Because I feel special!” Daphne admitted, hastily correcting her lie. “I want you to do it because it makes me feel special!”

“Good girl.” Harry leaned in for a quick kiss before padding over to the nightstand to grab the cuffs. “How are you going to crawl if your hands are behind your back?”

“It’s too far to crawl. I’ll walk,” Daphne said, rubbing her thighs subconsciously to generate some friction. “I can crawl in this room whenever you want me to.”

“Oh, okay. Why the protective charms to your knees then?”

“You’ll see.” Daphne bit her lip. The red leash pulsed and glowed as their connection grew stronger and Daphne was being steadily pulled deeper and deeper into Subspace. She forced herself to stay quiet and not ruin the surprise.

“Alright.” Harry grabbed the cuffs and something else Daphne couldn’t see from the table and walked over to her. He wrapped an arm around her waist and pulled her close, his hand gently pushing between her thighs to part her legs. “Our first Quidditch match is this Sunday. Will you come to watch?”

“Yes, sir. I’ll be in the Gryffindor stands with Hermione.”

“I’ll give you my scarf to wear.” Harry gently slid the vibrating snitch into Daphne’s tight pussy, chuckling at her surprised gasp when the cold metal made contact with her pink folds.

“What’s that?!” Daphne asked, moaning loudly. The wingless snitch buzzed against her tight walls, the ridges on the golden ball stimulating her in all the right places.

“A slightly modified training snitch.” Harry grinned as he pulled away. Daphne stumbled, too overwhelmed with pleasure, and he grabbed her shoulders to steady her.

“You’ll have to be a good girl and be quiet when we’re in the Great Hall.”

Daphne nodded. With what she had in mind, that wouldn’t be too difficult.

“And you’re not to cum until we get back here.”

THAT, Daphne realized, would be a much bigger challenge.

“Order me not to through the connection, please,” Daphne begged, pressing her legs together. She trembled, already feeling a familiar coil tighten in the pit of her belly.

“No.”

Daphne whined and stomped her foot but Harry had made up his mind. He circled around her and gently grabbed her wrists, pulling them behind her back and binding them together with the fuzzy pink cuffs.

“Harry, please!” Daphne moaned as the vibrations intensified.

“If you orgasm, Padma doesn’t get to cum for a week.”

“That’s not fair! I know you won’t do that.”

“Are you sure?”

“Harry!”

“I need the proper incentive to get you to behave, princess.” Harry chuckled. He leaned in and kissed down her neck. “I have a sneaking suspicion that threatening to punish you is only going to encourage misbehavior.”

Daphne knew she couldn’t disagree because he was absolutely right. She knew in her heart that she’d cream her panties if Harry ever pulled her across his knee and slippered her like she was a naughty Pureblood wife and he the exasperated husband disciplining her.

I have some very naughty fantasies, she thought, biting her lip to stifle her giggle. Daphne arched her back, pushing her chest out even further and giving Harry the perfect view of her heavy, tear-drop-shaped breasts. It had the desired effect and Daphne grinned at the sight of the rapidly growing bulge in Harry’s trousers.

“Ready?”

“Yes,” Daphne whispered, buzzing with excitement.

Harry concentrated on their connections, willing the leash to fade until it was practically invisible. A tiny shimmer was all that remained and it would only be visible in bright light to those paying close attention to the air around the leash. Harry carefully draped his Invisibility Cloak over her, obscuring her from view.

“Harry,” Daphne asked nervously as they walked out of the room. She was breathing heavily and had her face buried in her shoulder to stifle her moans, trying to make sure he was the only person who would hear them. “What if the snitch falls out?”

“It’s charmed. It won’t.”

Daphne sped up after that reassurance, prompted further by the tiny tugs Harry gave the leash attached to his wrist. The momentary increases in pressure around her neck caused her to moan loudly, attracting the attention of a sixth-year Hufflepuff.

Harry smiled and distracted him with a loud cough before hastily guiding Daphne to the stairs. They hopped on one section, allowing it to carry them down to the Great Hall.

“How does it feel?” Harry whispered. “Me taking you out on a walk?”

“Exciting… oh, Morgana!” Daphne’s knees buckled and she leaned into Harry for support as the snitch buzzed harshly inside her. The coil in the pit of her belly was ready to explode but she determinedly kept herself on the edge, not willing to see Padma punished for her weakness. “Scary,” Daphne added with a breathy giggle. “I feel very slutty,” she finished shyly, glad Harry couldn’t see the blush on her cheeks.

Harry smirked and concentrated on the charmed snitch, increasing the frequency of its vibrations.

This time Daphne gasped loudly just as the staircase came to a halt at the Atrium, drawing the attention of everyone in the large space and the people coming in from the castle grounds.

Harry didn’t bother to disguise her sounds. He simply grinned and walked to the Great Hall as quickly as he could, forcing Daphne to run to keep up with him.

Daphne knew she was invisible but from the way people kept staring in their direction she could have sworn they knew about her. That they could all sense her acting like a needy slut who wanted, nay, craved her boyfriend’s cock.

Just a few more minutes, Daphne reminded herself as she tilted her neck and buried her face in her shoulder, biting down on the collar of her blouse to stifle her moans. Harry pulled her into the dimly lit and nearly empty Great Hall. There was no one at the teacher’s table and only a few students still remained in the hall, finishing up dinner.

Harry led her to the Gryffindor table and chose a place in the center of the bench, with no one on either side of them for quite some distance.

Harry had presumed Daphne would sit next to him or stand behind the bench but he frowned when the Cloak fluttered. For a second it seemed as though it would slip away but Daphne climbed over the bench and slipped under the table without any complications, crawling on her knees to situate herself between his legs.

“Comfortable?”

“Yes,” Daphne whispered, suddenly realizing the error of her ways. Determined not to let her plan fail, she pushed her face into his crotch. It took a few tries but she managed to grab the zipper of his trousers with her teeth and pulled it down, releasing the pressure on his hardening cock and allowing the bulge to push out through the space she had created.

Harry nearly dropped the bowl of treacle tart he had grabbed, a strangled groan escaping his lips. He glanced worriedly at the Twins and at Ginny. They were seated at the far end of the table but didn’t seem to have heard him. Susan Bones, who was sitting opposite him and staring into a bowl of cold soup didn’t seem to be paying him any attention either.

“I swear you’re going over my knee when we get back to our room,” Harry growled, gritting his teeth. He looked around to make sure no one was looking at him before he leaned forward and pushed his hand under the table. It took some fiddling but the cuffs around her wrists slid down her body and landed on the stone floor with a quiet CLANG. Harry shot up and looked around anxiously, convinced that someone had heard the sound and would come over to investigate.

Daphne simply grinned. His threat of punishment and the risk of someone catching them only excited her further. The thought of a proper spanking caused a small puddle of her arousal to form on the stone floor between her legs. She grabbed Harry’s boxers with her teeth and pulled them down after a few tries, giggling as his throbbing manhood sprang free and smacked her forehead. It also pushed the cloak away from her face and caused it to pool around her neck, making it far easier for her to take care of his cock properly. The increased risk of detection only made the situation hotter.

The puddle between her legs was of considerable size by now and she blushed at the thought of someone cleaning the hall in the morning and figuring out just what it was.

“Daph, please,” Harry begged, struggling to keep his breathing in check. Ginny was already glancing in his direction and they had to stop before the redhead figured out something was wrong even though he really, really did not want to.

“You concentrate on your dinner, sir, and let me have mine.” Daphne hummed and crawled closer. Harry’s hand came under the table and buried itself in her hair. For a split second, she was worried he’d push her away but he groaned and pulled her closer to his cock, unable to resist her.

Daphne tilted her head, taking her time and slowly peppering kisses along the entire rim of Harry’s sensitive tip. She left pink lip imprints in her wake. Harry’s quiet groans spurred her on and she shifted her attention, placing a gentle kiss on the small slit on his tip before slowly swirling her tongue around his bulbous cockhead. She dragged the rough surface of her tongue across his soft skin, lapping up the precum leaking out of him.

Harry groaned in disappointment when Daphne pulled away to adjust her body. He glanced under the table, his cock twitching at the sight of her lips and cheeks glistening with his precum and a thick trail of saliva connecting his tip to her lips.

“Still want me to stop?” she teased, her eyes alive with happiness.

Harry growled and concentrated on the snitch. It buzzed harshly and started to move, the vibrating ball roughly pistoning in and out of Daphne’s tight pussy.

Daphne’s eyes widened and her lips curved into a perfect ‘O’. She stayed frozen, shocked by the sudden and unexpected fucking. Harry took advantage of her parted lips to stuff her mouth with his shaft, tugging on her hair to push her down on his throbbing erection.

“AH!” Her muffled shriek was stifled by his cock just in time.

“Are you going to cum, princess?”

“Nuh-uh!” Daphne hummed stubbornly, swallowing inch after inch of his cock. She ignored her gag reflex and the messy way in which she was drooling around his cock. She didn’t even pause when his tip hit the back of her throat. She simply allowed him to push deeper, forcing herself to relax and focus on the intoxicating smell of his body. Drool leaked out from the corners of her mouth and ran down to her chin before big drops splattered onto her blouse. Tears pricked the corners of her eyes, two steady streams running down her cheeks and leaving a trail of black mascara in their wake.

She was a wanton, slutty mess, the complete opposite of the perfect Pureblood image she kept in public. And it was exactly what she needed.

“Who’s my needy cocksucker?”

“Me!” Daphne hummed, swallowing him up to his hilt. Her face buried in his crotch and she closed her eyes. She started to suck, using her teeth to apply the barest hint of pressure to his shaft.

“Harry?”

“G-Ginny!”

“Is everything alright? I saw you talking to yourself.”

Daphne’s annoyance at the redhead’s interruption turned to happiness within seconds. She didn’t like the way Weasley just presumed she had a claim to Harry or the way she flirted with him at DA meetings. Daphne had a sudden and irrational desire for the girl to catch them and realize that Harry would never be hers.

Daphne tuned out the conversation and concentrated on the cock shoved down her throat. She hummed quietly, too soft for anyone to hear. Her throat walls fluttered and clamped down on Harry’s shaft, making it feel almost like he was in her pussy. She slowly traced the big throbbing vein that ran down the length of his shaft with her tongue even as she kept sucking.

“I… uh… oh god,” Harry groaned. He tugged on Daphne’s hair to pull her free but she held on. She ignored her burning lungs and need for air and kept sucking, determined to pleasure him the entire time he was talking to Ginerva Weasley.

“Harry?”

“I’m fine!” Harry held up his free hand to stop Ginny from moving closer. Daphne had started to bob her head up and down on his shaft, driving him crazy. His balls tightened and he knew there was a very high chance he’d be spraying Daphne’s face with his cum in front of Ginny without the redhead ever realizing it.

“I’m just… tired,” Harry gritted out, breathing heavily. “I was planning our next lesson and worrying about… fuck… worrying about Umbridge. That’s all.”

He was breathing heavily by the time he was done with his lie. Beads of sweat rolled down his forehead and he gripped the edge of the table hard enough to turn his knuckles white.

“Oh. Well, if you need to relax-”

Daphne didn’t like the way Ginny said ‘relax’. She sped up, reminding Harry that he already had someone who was more than willing to help him destress.

The quiet SHLOCK SHLOCK SHLOCK of Harry’s cock pumping in and out of her mouth was barely audible above the table and Ginny speaking was the only thing that masked it. The snitch inside her sped up and Daphne’s vision darkened. She stubbornly held on, determined not to cum until she was given permission.

Her face was a mess, her cheeks stained with a mixture of tears, mascara, and drool. Her lips glistened with saliva and precum and her lungs burned due to lack of air. But she still kept going, gently grazing her teeth against his sensitive skin every so often, enjoying the tiny groans her action elicited.

“-since Daphne and Padma aren’t with you-”

Daphne scowled and buried her nose in Harry’s crotch one last time. Harry exploded in her mouth with a relieved groan, coating her tongue with rope after rope of his salty seed.

“Harry?”

“I’m not feeling well, sorry. Umbridge,” Harry gasped, weakly holding up his hand to show Ginny his scars. “I think I’ll go to bed and join you all some other time,” he said, breathing heavily.

“Okay.” Ginny frowned at Harry who stayed frozen in place until she turned and left.

By the time Harry looked under the table Daphne had pulled away from him and tilted her head to catch the last of his cum on her face. Her eyes were half-closed, eyelashes matted with his seed. Her forehead, cheeks, and chin were white and the girl was humming happily as she licked her lips clean.

“You’re a dirty brat,” Harry growled, tugging on Daphne’s hair.

“She thinks she can have my man. I’m allowed to play dirty. Everything’s fair in love and war,” Daphne said without a hint of shame.

“Whatever happened to filling out my coven?”

“I don’t mind sharing you but not with people who think they can take my place. She thinks she’s the queen of this castle just because she knows a couple of hexes. A clever girl wins a fight without ever having to raise her wand.”

“Are you thinking about pairing with her at the next DA lesson just so you can duel her?”

“Whatever gave you that idea?” Daphne asked with a sugary sweet smile that did not fool Harry in the least. Harry watched with wide eyes as she gathered up more of his cum on her fingers and popped them in her mouth.

Harry was too distracted to realize what was happening and stiffened at the sight of Susan Bones crossing the space between the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff tables and standing directly opposite him. Underneath the table, Daphne was too preoccupied with sucking her fingers clean to notice the bench behind her being pulled back.

Susan slipped into the space opposite Harry’s, her heart thumping in her chest.

“Hey,” she said with a nervous smile.

“Hi,” Harry replied hoarsely. He cleared his throat and wrapped his legs protectively around Daphne’s waist, pulling her closer to him. “Hi,” he repeated. “Is everything alright?”

Susan glanced back at the Slytherin table. Malfoy sitting at one corner of the table, his face shrouded in shadow as he stared a hole in her back, gave her the courage she needed.

“Not really. Can we talk?”

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“Do you think this will work?”

Sirius shrugged. “Bones. Greengrass-”

“You really think Cyrus will abandon his neutrality?”

“He will if it’s to protect his son-in-law.”

“What?!”

“You haven’t been paying attention to what’s going on at Hogwarts, have you?”

“I have a department to run, Sirius. I don’t have the time for gossip and Hogwarts’ rumor mill. We’re too old for that, don’t you think?”

“It seems you and Dumbledore have made the same mistake. All our focus and attention needs to be on Harry. Protecting him isn’t enough. We need to train him. He’s the key to everything.”

“What, he’s the only one who can defeat the Dark Lord? I have an entire department full of mostly competent Aurors whose only job is to hunt dark wizards, witches, and creatures. You talk like he’s the prophesied one.”

“I’ll go order us another round,” Sirius said with a sigh. “We have a lot to talk about.”

Notes:

I'm just going to say that in-character interactions will not determine who will end up in Harry's Coven. That will be decided by your votes. Every Espresso and above tier Patron will be able to vote in the polls to decide the other 5 members of Harry's Coven. Ginny is one of the characters you'll be able to vote for if you wish to see her with Harry! But characters will still, well, behave in-character. Even if Ginny ends up in Harry's Coven, she and Daphne will have a rivalry until they get closer and work out their issues.