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HARLOW AVERY WAS sitting peacefully in her garden, reading a book about dark magic. She didn't necessarily want to participate in her parents acts of cruelty, she just found the subject rather interesting. Her dark brown curls fell softly down her back, occasionally blowing into her face due to the soft summer breeze. The back garden of the Avery household was calm and relaxing–if you didn't count the noise heard from the garden beside them of course. Harlow knew who her next door neighbour from school, but obviously she was forbidden to talk to them– the Jordans were half-bloods and her parents couldn't put into words how much they resented them.
Just as she finished her book , she heard a loud noise, behind her so she– being the curious woman she was– turned to investigate. To her suprise, her next door neighbor ( Lee Jordan ) was standing awkwardly with a sheepish smile, his wand still raised and the garden wall smashed down to his feet.
"What the bloody hell do you think you're doing!" Harlow snapped, glad that her parents weren't home to see the situation.
"Bombarda, why? got a problem?" Lee smirked, tucking his wand away into his pocket.
"Yes! You almost killed me, you wanker!" Harlow shouted, brushing the small amount dust out of her hair with her fingers, "Don't you have those ginger twins to play with?"
"Nah, they're on holiday I think? I'm not sure, they didn't tell me," Lee shrugged, his face falling momentarily, "I didn't mean to blow your wall up. Don't tell your parents, please?"
"I'm not that stupid, Jordan," Harlow rolled her eyes, desperately wanting to get back to the house in case her parents arrived home, "I don't want anyone to get hurt."
"Yeah, that would be– Hey did you say hurt?" Lee spluttered, his eyes going wide.
"Yeah, voldemort wants to get rid of all the 'dirty blood' in the Wizarding world and if my parents found out that you just basically destroyed my house, it would just be another excuse for them to do something. Or kill you." Harlow pointed out, ignoring lee's shocked face.
"You said his name? You believe he's back then?" Lee frowned. He just couldn't understand how she was so calm about the whole Voldemort returning thing, "And I didn't destroy the house, just the wall" he added on quietly.
"Of course, I've seen him. Once I'm married, I'll become a death eater- I don't want to be one, though," Harlow sighed, desperately not wanting to be attacked by a gryffindor during the summer holiday. She got enough shit from them in school.
"Oh. Well I'm sure you could just run away? Or just never get married?" Lee suggested, his hands now deep in his pockets.
"I'm already engaged–montauge–And anyway, its not that simple, if it was then I'd be out of here before you could say 'slytherin'" Harlow pointed out, "New subject! I'm still trying to work out why you thought it would be a good idea to cast bombarda in your back garden"
"Fred and George asked me to test some things for their joke shop, it didn't work if you couldn't tell." Lee grinned, finding himself funny for some reason, "what about you? That book is about dark magic?"
"Yeah? What's wrong with that? Did you know bombarda is in that book?" Harlow lied, "The spell you almost killed me with is classified as dangerous."
"No it's not! I'm not that stupid," Lee stated, a smile still on his face,"And I didn't almost kill you, you were over there!"
"And there's still bits in my hair? Was that just a coincidence?" Harlow pointed out, "You should be glad I'm getting my hair done tommorow."
"I actually don't care that you're getting your hair done," Lee shrugged, "I'll get my mum to fix the wall."
"Yeah make sure it's before 1am, that's when my parents get back." Harlow advised, "So I should go now?"
"Yeah?" Lee spoke, the awkwardness could probably be sensed from miles away, "See you round school?"
"Okay," Harlow nodded, trying to hide the fact that she was over the moon to have a new friend. She seemed cold and distant but really just wanted to not be judged by one thing in her life that she couldn't even control.
"I'll go and tell the "ginger twins" that the spell didn't work," Lee clarified, making Harlow laugh silently, "goodnight."
"It's only four but yeah goodnight I guess," Harlow grinned, turning around and heading back to the house without a second glance. She'd probably stay if she looked again, he was way too fit.
𝑁𝑂𝑇𝐸𝑆 y'all I'm sorry I didn't publish this earlier I got rid of lees mum being a bitch because she's too sweet later on in the story and it wouldnt make sense.
