❛❜I hang around Thestrals because, unlike humans,
they don't treat me like I'm damaged.❛❜
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- in which, Gryffindor's golden boy
refuses to let go of his summer love story
but Ravenclaw's lucky charm
refuses to let him back in
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On November 1975, Blake McKinnon and Verity Hewitt announced their relationship. As soon as they walked inside the Great Hall with intertwined hands, everyone understood two of the hottest students at Hogwarts were taken. Students whispered amongst each other as Blake led Verity to his usual seat at the Ravenclaw table, his friends smirking at them. In less than a second, they became Hogwarts' main gossip.
However, one student was far from happy with this. Sitting at the Gryffindor table, Marlene McKinnon, Blake's cousin, gripped her fork tightly as she watched the couple. It was no secret that the cousins hated each other. After a prank in their first year which ended with them both in the Hospital Wing, the students understood the McKinnons had a war going on. No one knew why it started, but they didn't question it for fear of being dragged into it. Marlene, despite her friends' interrogating looks, never elaborated on it.
"You won't kill Blake with a glare, you know?" Mary MacDonald, Marlene's roommate and close friend, pointed out. "Can't you guys let the accident go? It happened five years ago. Time to move on, Marls."
Marlene's glare moved onto Mary. "You don't know Blake. He might be in Ravenclaw, but he's the worst snake in the entire school. I don't understand how he could get with Verity. She deserves so much better!"
Lily, who sat beside Mary across from Marlene, chuckled. "She looks pretty happy to me at the moment," she stated. "Listen, I know Verity. If Blake does anything she disagrees with, they'll be over before you know it. Leave them be."
"You may know Verity, but I know my cousin," Marlene grumbled. With one last glare thrown at Blake, she stood up and left the Great Hall.
Further down the Gryffindor table, Sirius Black snickered. "What's got her wand in a knot?"
The Marauders had been silently watching as Marlene fumed at her cousin. Though they couldn't hear her, James Potter and Peter Pettigrew, her childhood friends, guessed she was complaining about Blake. She used to do this when they hung out during the summers before going to Hogwarts. It entertained the boys more than it annoyed them. They still never learned the reason why.
James shook his head with a laugh as Remus pointed to Blake. He had his arm thrown over Verity's shoulders, the girl leaning against him. It wasn't the first time James saw them so close, but they weren't official until today. His eyes didn't linger on them for too long, but he frowned as he noticed two Ravenclaw students sending Blake dirty looks. He recognized them as Verity's friends, Harry Kingsley and Belle Delacour. His frown deepened, the sight of them and Verity being apart shocking. In their five years at Hogwarts, the trio always sat together. Even if they argued, they took their usual seats at the Ravenclaw table and ate silently.
