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Harry had been quiet too quiet, and that was never a good thing. He had the tendency to brood, bottle and then explode later on. For the last half an hour he had been staring aimlessly out the window, Tom doubted he had even heard him enter the room.
‘Harry?’ Tom asked gently coming to stand near the window ‘something wrong?’
‘I thought I was special?’ Harry whispered his voice cracking
‘You are very special why would you think you are not?’ Tom asked, puzzled as to what had brought this on
Roughly wiping tears from his eyes, Harry changed position slightly so he was facing the Slytherin.
‘You’ve been kissing other boys’ Harry sniffled ‘guess I expected too much’
‘Who in the name of magic told you that?’ Tom gaped
‘No one’ Harry answered ‘a fourth year gave me this’, he pulled a photo from his robes and gave it to Tom.
Looking closely at the picture, Tom could see how Harry had come to the conclusion that it was him kissing someone else, accept for the flash of ginger in the background just to the side of whoever was supposed to be Tom.
‘Did that kid who always has a camera with him give you this?’ Tom asked
‘Yeah’ Harry replied
Tom moved closer to Harry and rested his finger on the place where the flash of ginger could be seen.
‘Harry this isn’t me, I have not been kissing other boys, nor do I want to kiss other boys, look at this’ he countered pointing to the spot. ‘It’s that girl who is always swooning after you, her brother is in our potions class, hangs out with that witch with the frizzy hair’
‘What girl that swoons after me?’ Harry asked baffled
Tom shook his head, sometimes Harry could be so oblivious to what was going on around him.
‘She is in the year below us, ginger hair, freckles’ Tom described
Harry thought for a moment, then looked at Tom , eyes alight
‘Oh yeah, Ginny I think her name is, Ron is her brothers name I think, but what does that have to do with the photo?’
‘Harry, Pansy overheard her in the girls toilets gushing over how cute you are and how she wishes you were hers, this is just a ploy to make that happen’ Tom told him
‘Then who’s that?’ Harry pointed to the photo
Tom waved his wand over the picture it appeared lighter somehow and the colours of the robes were more noticeable. The student who was supposedly Tom, was in fact a Ravenclaw and the other was a Hufflepuff. The Slytherin deduced that the red head had talked the kid with the camera into taking a photo and giving it to Harry.
‘See?’ Tom asked
‘Yeah I do now’ Harry said quietly
Tom crooked a finger under his chin and lifted it gently, giving him a warm smile
‘You Harry Potter are the only boy I will ever want to kiss’ he said brushing his lips over Harry’s to prove his point ‘I can promise you that when I am through with her no boy will ever want to kiss her again’
‘Been waiting to do this all day’ Micheal Corner breathed, taking Ginnys face in his hands
Closing this gap between them, something assaulted his nostrils causing him to pull away and take a step back.
‘What’s wrong, why did you stop?’ Ginny asked
‘I don’t mean to be rude Ginny, but your breath smells really bad’ Micheal replied moving out of the alcove and into some fresher air
Glowering at the boy, Ginny breathed on her hand and sniffed, she was mortified to learn Michael was right, her breath smelt like the swamp in the forbidden forest, how had she not noticed?
She moved out of the alcove and Michael scampered along the corridor, calling over his shoulder that he would see her later.
When she was gone from view, Tom removed Harry’s invisibility cloak and walked in the direction of the dungeons. Served her right, no one accused him of kissing other boys and got away with it.