They nearly collided with another dancing couple, which sent Sirius into another fit of laughter. He hid his mouth behind his hand for a beat to hide the laughter. "No one's ever going to let us dance again," he whispered, in a faux-serious tone.

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   Hesper Gamp

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Things only got worse when they almost careened into someone. Hesper might've been able to stop laughing and look appropriately mortified if it weren't for the fact that Sirius' laughter was apparently highly infectious. As it was, she was struggling to just keep doing the vaguely right steps of the waltz, all possibility of it being graceful had gone out the window completely. What if they actually don't? she wheezed and then promptly resumed her giggles.

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"Perish the thought!" he said, still giggling. He was steering them towards the edge of the dance floor, so they could not get trapped out here when the next song started, (and because he did not want to find a way to be ambushed by his father.)
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I might actually perish first! She was trying to take measured breaths but they were peppered with sporadic giggles. She realized her stomach ached from laughing and trying to hold in laughter. You should come to my funeral.

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He really liked seeing her laugh like this — Hesper was prone to dour behavior, and Sirius thought she should break out of the habit. It was really satisfying, too — to be the one who broke her out of it.

"Can I run it?" he said, chest shaking from his impulse to laugh, "I'll make sure it includes waltzing lessons."

  

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Somehow the idea of Sirius being a dance teacher was only getting funnier. No! she blurted out a little harshly. She took a deep, shaky breath and continued. You'd have to fight my great aunt, she paused for laughter, and I refuse to miss that.

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She was still laughing, so he was still successful — his sides hurt from his own efforts to avoid being too disruptive at the dance. He leaned towards her, and said quietly, "You've caught onto my secret necromancy plans."

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   Hesper Gamp

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She giggled again, although it wasn't entirely from what he said, she'd felt a weird sort of nervous energy that had been ebbing and flowing throughout their dance but it peaked suddenly now. Necromancy? she repeated, a look of amused incredulity on her face. My great aunt's old but she's not that old! It was a weak joke but it had seemed like a good idea right up until she'd said it. She laughed awkwardly and hoped he said something quickly so she could forget about saying it.

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It wasn't the best joke he'd ever heard her make, so Sirius settled for raising a playful eyebrow at her. "I'm not convinced," he said, hoping to salvage things.

  

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To her relief he came through, even if the quirk of his eyebrow did make her squirm even more at the memory of her poor joke. Well I'm not convinced you even know any necromantic spells!

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"Oh, they teach us all sorts of things at the N.E.W.T. level," Sirius said, in his most worldly tone.

  

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Obviously she didn't believe him, but it was almost hard not to wonder with the way he'd spoken. What else do they teach you then? she asked, raising her eyebrows at him.

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The music was starting to wind down. He was going to have to get more mileage out of this conversation if he wanted to finish doing — whatever it was he was doing.

"Antidotes, patronuses, and charming girls, obviously," Sirius said playfully.

  

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Charming girls?! she repeated with an incredulous laugh, her eyebrows shooting upward in surprise. A beat later and she regretted repeating it, she was sure her face was a fraction of a degree warmer than it had been before. Impressive really, considering it was already very warm. There was half a beat of hesitation as her head spun for something half-decent she could reply with. Well, it's a good thing you've still got another year left!

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"Really?" Sirius asked. The faint heat he could see in Hesper's face had him going too far — further, surely, than he would have gone if he wasn't at least half-confident in the answer to his next question. "You're going to claim you don't find me charming?"

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   Ursula Black

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Hesper simply blinked at him for a moment as the question - a very straightforward question really - disarmed her in a way it shouldn't have. You, charming? she sputtered. No, you're about as charming as a- As Peeves. She bit the inside of her lip as she watched for his reaction. She could hardly say she thought he was charming, for a multitude of reasons not least of all because she didn't want him to tease her for taking the question so seriously. It had been surprisingly difficult for her to say what she had though, she didn't want to dwell on why that was. He was her friend, he was only ever going to be her friend and maybe not even that after this year. It wouldn't be appropriate for them to be friends beyond school, and then there was her friendship with Flora to consider.

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