𝗷𝗮𝗻𝗲, harry potter

˗ˋ 97

CHAPTER NINETY SEVEN
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-: fifth year :-

── IN WHICH PLANS ARE
 CHANGED

. . .

d. October 3rd 1995

JANE,

Plans have changed, I have to spend the weekend with a group of people. You're still invited - Merlin, I would be an idiot to say no to seeing you - but if you'd rather wait then it's completely fine. I don't mind. 

I'll be waiting by the Three Broomsticks for about ten, if that works at all with what Flora's planning. But I'll be somewhere around if not, I'm just sorry we can't stick to our original plans.

Love, 

Harry.

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Jane wasn't stupid enough to decide that she simply couldn't see her boyfriend because other plans had come out of the woodworks - what plans she didn't know exactly, but from the hastily written letter that was delivered to her window that very morning she figured they were pretty important - and so, she didn't mention Harry's letter to Flora and went along with the original plan, being called from her room at a quarter to ten and Apparating to Hogsmeade from the alleyway a street or so away from Grimmauld Place.

When she arrived at Hogsmeade, Flora directed her to the Three Broomsticks and supplied her with a small bag of wizard currency to ensure that should she want to buy anything at all, she had the ability to. The woman walked alongside her as the first dregs of students arrived in the village before the floods came down and then, at two minutes to the hour, Florence delivered her to the spot she was supposed to wait for Harry and left - but to where, the girl wasn't so sure. She didn't see her Apparate... but she did see a woman with an oddly similar hat pushing against the crowds on the path up to Hogwarts.

Minutes ticked by and Jane's attention was directed towards the book she had brought with her, most certainly understanding of circumstances that she didn't know of in the school - there was no way of her knowing what the process was with the Hogsmeade weekends, and besides, she was far too patient and confident with her relationship that a range in times to meet up was quite alright. 

Other students passed her without a question, but it wasn't until someone stopped in front of her that she looked up, a smile breaking across her face and a book quickly discarded without regards to the page she had turned to, on her feet and wrapping her arms around Harry like they hadn't seen each other for a year, the reality only being a month. 

"I missed you." He said into her hair, arms tight around her waist. Moments later and he had pulled away, meeting her eyes. "I'm sorry we couldn't do this properly... next time we can do but... well I don't think I can explain it here. That's the... that's the whole point of this." 

"Yeah, okay." Jane nodded, feeling his hand reach for her's and pull her along. "Wait - wait a moment." She laughed, dragging him back and collecting the small amount of stuff she had brought with her before joining him, walking along the streets with their shoulders brushing. "So, where are we going?"

"I'm not entirely sure. Hermione picked out somewhere a bit quieter... and I think on the more dodgy side too." Harry replied. "She came up with the idea and well, it's the kind of idea that needs some privacy and nobody will go somewhere like the Hog's Head when there's the Three Broomsticks available."