Harry Potter:Diamond Heart.

'When do you plan on telling them?' Harry asked. 'I should make sure I can come here to meet them.'

'I don't have a date,' Fleur admitted, 'whenever feels right, or,' she smiled into his shoulder, 'whenever Gabby finally figures out where I keep disappearing off to and tracks us down. I think she considers us her own personal romance story.'

'I shall have to give her my memories of the Room of Requirement,' Harry remarked absentmindedly.

'You are not showing her our first kiss,' Fleur ordered, straightening up and flicking her hair back over her shoulder. 'That moment is ours.'

'I meant the other memories,' Harry placated, he'd no intention of sharing something that would be so embarrassing to watch. It was bad enough that he had thought he'd been under her allure, Fleur had never let him forget that, she seemed to take great pride in it.

'That's the only time we were ever in there together,' Fleur responded, puzzled, but curious. I never told her, did I?

Now that he'd brought it up without thinking he remembered why. It was almost as mortifying as showing Fleur's little sister their first kiss would be.

'It's not important,' he smiled, knowing that Fleur would not let it go.

'No,' she smirked, enjoying his embarrassment, 'you have to tell me now.'

'No I don't,' Harry countered, already aware of what would happen next. Fleur would make him look at her and then she'd do something that made it impossible for Harry not to give her what she wanted.

A pair of cool fingers turned his face to hers, leaving him to gaze helplessly into her summer sky eyes.

If I didn't know better I would think it was her allure.

Harry knew that it was impossible for her to charm him like that now, he'd made her test him several times, just to see if he was affected at all as his occlumency improved over the summer. There was an impulse, a slight desire to impress her, but it faded the moment he began to clear his mind, something he had now advanced well beyond.

The fact that he couldn't seem to refuse her anything was entirely inexplicable.

'Fine.' He crumbled quickly, just Fleur knew he would. She kissed him gently to make him feel better about giving in to her again. 'When we weren't speaking,' Fleur shifted uncomfortably on the branch next to him, 'I would go back to the room to use it to help me, but since it tries to give you want…' He left it hanging, unwilling to explain any further if he had to. Not even his occlumency exercises were enough to stop the flush rising onto his cheeks.

'The pictures,' Fleur somehow remembered. She chuckled softly at his obvious shock. 'I nearly saw those twice,' she told him, 'you all but ran from the room before it changed back.'

Harry squirmed under her amused stare, cheeks burning.

'Gabby would love to see that,' she smiled, 'she'd find it quite romantic.'

'It's embarrassing,' Harry muttered, 'I could barely use the room.'

Fleur's hand slid up his cheek bone into his hair, pulling him across so she could kiss him. 'I like the idea of you moping about me in a room full of my pictures,' she laughed. 'Will you do it again this year?'

'If I can't visit you often, probably,' Harry confessed, kissing her back.

Of course Fleur liked the idea. She had a proud streak as wide as the willow tree, she'd love that she had had such an affect on him.

'Have you told anyone about me?' she asked, looking up at him demurely.

'Sort of,' Harry smiled. 'I don't have any living magical relations, but I mentioned you to my friends.' Salazar already knew, he didn't have any secrets from the painting of his ancestor.

'Katie Bell,' Fleur growled more than a little possessively. 'Not a threat,' Harry grinned, 'she knows you'd come and scorch her if she tried anything, but she doesn't want to. It's all in the past, like our spring of discontent.'

Fleur scowled at him, but she was only playing. He'd told her the second time they'd met here, that he and Katie were just friends and would never be anything more. Her concern about it had been touching, even sweet, but only until she'd threatened to immolate Katie if she ever had tried anything.

'Neville Longbottom too?'

'Yes,' Harry nodded, 'they both knew, Neville saw the room and Katie just refused to accept that she was wrong when I told her that there was nothing between us.' Fleur scrunched her nose up at the reminder of how they'd danced around each other. Harry knew she regretted not speaking to him, she'd said as much, sitting up here and telling him that there were daffodils in Spring and that she should have shown him. He'd told her that she could show him next year, and all the ones after that.

'I can't stay here all day,' Fleur said sadly, running her fingers along the rough bark of the bough. 'I am not able to apparate to Beauxbatons, because of the wards. I still want to know why you think you can apparate into Hogwarts, especially after you bounced off the wards last time you tried.'

'It's a secret,' Harry announced proudly. Maybe one day he'd tell her, but not until he was sure it could never be used against either of them. He looked down when Fleur didn't respond like she normally did. 'You have go now, don't you?'

'We've been here for longer than you think,' she smiled, pointing at the sun through the branches of the tree. It had risen over and passed the tree in the time they'd spent there.

'How will I know when I can meet you?' Harry asked.

'I'll enchant something to let us stay in contact,' Fleur decided, 'we'll use that.'

'I'll send you a letter when it breaks,' Harry jibed.

'It will not break,' she declared, jumping off the branch to land lightly on her feet. 'I will owl it to you, with a suitable phrase to use it, of course.'

Fleur's suitable phrases often turned out to be jokes at his expense in french, so Harry had developed a habit of translating them with an old dictionary he'd found before saying them. She hadn't taught him enough French for him to catch them on his own yet. In fact that was probably why she hadn't. Harry apparated down behind her with a soft snapping sound.

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