Harry Potter and the Heir of Slytherin

After the science museum, Misses Crawft took them both back home where the pair proceeded to sit on the couch watching movies while she cooked dinner.

"So what should we watch this time?" asked Lisa as she and Harry rummaged through the collection of movies they were allowed to watch. "You're the birthday boy so it's your choice."

Harry frowned as he looked over the selection. There weren't any movies he really wanted to watch. At least, there were none that they had available. And he didn't feel like watching another movie over again.

That was another problem with eidetic memory. He had already seen all of these movies at least once and they were now permanently etched within his mind, and unlike Lisa or anyone else, he remembered everything that happened in them with perfect clarity. It made watching reruns dreadfully boring.

"How about..." Harry grimaced as he tried to find something that might be able to at least hold his attention. Finally, he grabbed a random video case and looked at it.

He blinked.

"When did you get this?" he asked, holding up the case to a new cartoon movie called Aladdin. This movie had not been there the last time he and Lisa sat down to watch a movie.

"Oh that," Lisa took the video from him and smiled. "Mum bought it for us a few days ago. I was going to ask if you wanted to watch but, well," she adopted a sheepish look, "I kinda forgot."

"You forgot?" Harry sighed, before allowing a small chuckle to escape his mouth. "It's good to know some things never change."

"Oi!"

"Why don't we watch it now then?" Harry suggested, taking the video back and putting it into the VCR. "I would rather watch something new than a bunch of movies I've seen one hundred times already."

Lisa rolled her eyes.

"Now that's a mighty big exaggeration if I ever heard one."

As the opening introduction to Arabian Nights began playing over a desert scene that soon ended up showing a cartoon version of a classical looking Arabic city with a large palace in the background, Harry and Lisa sat down on the couch. Once more, as soon as they sat down, Lisa, ever the affectionate young girl that she was, quickly used this opportunity as an excuse to snuggle herself into Harry's side.

This time, however, something very different than what usually happens occurred.

In most cases, when Lisa cuddled against him, Harry would just accept the actions for what they were, a young girl wanting to be as close to her best friend as possible, and would act accordingly by hugging her back. By this point in time, it had literally become ingrained into his body to hug her back. He actually wondered if perhaps it had even become a muscle memory.

When Lisa cuddled up to him this time, Harry stiffened as his mind went into overdrive. It was like a much more mild version of what happened the first few times he had been with Selene, only, it was different at the same time. In either case, it was something that never happened before and something he couldn't describe.

"Harry?" Lisa frowned in concern as she turned her head to look at him. "Are you alright?"

"Yes," Harry quickly drew upon his Occlumency lessons and emptied his mind. It helped him relax, though his muscles were still a little tense, something his friend easily picked up on.

"Are you sure?" she pressed.

"Yes," taking a deep breath, Harry made his body relax into the couch even more. Feeling a bit better, he offered Lisa a smile. "I'm fine. Thank you for your concern."

Lisa Crawft spent another second or two studying him intently, before seeming to decide that whatever had just happened was a one time freak accident that wouldn't be happening again. With her concerns now quelled, she quickly burrowed herself into Harry's side, resting her head on his shoulder as she went back to watch the movie.

Harry on the other hand, was in a minor state of turmoil. Even though his body was now relaxed and his muscles loosened, his mind was a frenzy of activity.

What had that been about? Never in his life had something like this happened before.

No. That wasn't quite true, was it? This had happened before. With Selene. His body had reacted to Lisa's closeness the same way it had Selene's whenever she had shown physical affection. Harry had assumed that the cause of this reaction was something unique to Selene, or perhaps something unique to the vampire race. But now it seemed like Lisa was garnering this same reaction now.

What did this mean?

XoX

The moment Harry appeared within the entryway to the Flamel Estate, he found himself being swept up by Selene, who locked her arms around his and began immediately leading him away.

Strangely enough, while his reaction was subdued now that he had grown used to Selene's antics, it was stronger this time than it had been yesterday. He wondered if this was due, in part, because of how he reacted to Lisa.

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