Narcissus could not help but smile at the way Clue was lookng at him blankly - though now there was a different element to the way the half veelas lips curved. They possessed a secret which now Clue knew. The weeks until the school year came to an end seemed very far away and he knew that lying so close and yet so far when they went to bed every night until then was going to be a new kind of sweet agony.

"Not while I'm around," he corrected in turn. Not all of Clue's bullies had desisted, of course. But incidents had hopefully lessened from those that had already witnessed for themselves the depths that Narcissus's wrath could go. He was half-Veela after all and with that also came a certain sort of temperament.