Harry Potter:Diamond Heart.

'Harry.' He smiled in resignation. The game, it seemed, was up.

She finally cornered me. It had taken Katie the best part of a month to manage to trap him somewhere he couldn't slip away from. Harry had known it was coming, he had to speak to her eventually, but he had been afraid of what she might ask, and more afraid of how he might respond.

'I've got you,' she beamed. Katie had chosen her moment perfectly, stepping onto the staircases just as they moved, leaving the two of them stranded together for a few minutes.

'I suppose you have.' There was no use in denying it.

'I, er, I have a lot of things to say,' she began. Her smile vanished immediately, the nervousness peaking out past her bedraggled hair. 'I probably won't be able to say all of it before the stairs come back,' she joked weakly.

'I guess I'll have to wait for them to pass again,' Harry responded, taking pity on her. It wasn't like this conversation was going to disappear, they would have to have it eventually.

'Thank you,' she murmured.

'I guess I should start with the tournament.' Katie bit her lip cutely, but the urge Harry had always had when she did something he found cute before had changed. He no longer wanted to kiss her for it; it just made him smile.

'Professor McGonagall came and asked me if I could be your hostage,' Katie explained. 'She said that the hostage was someone that you'd be most determined to save, someone you'd sorely miss. I, well, you're still important to me, Harry, I miss talking with you, our date was fun, but you're not really important to me in that way, not now.'

Harry did a silent double take as Katie launched into justifications. He'd been expecting another suggestion of a date.

'It's not that I don't like you anymore, I do, we weren't all that close before, but I realised when we were almost together that I really wanted to be close with you. Then things sort of went wrong, and I missed the closeness, and tried to just carry on without it. I have Angelina and Alicia, but they've got Fred and George and sometimes I'm on my own and it's, it's not so great. When we stopped talking they tried to drag me around with them, but it felt so forced, and, well, I guess I kind of wanted to be able to sit around in Hogsmeade like we did on our date. I, I don't think I like you the same way as I thought I did, but I still want to be able to talk with you and spend time with you. It's nice to have a close friend other than Angelina and Alicia, they're both a year older than me, after all.'

The stairs swung back to them and Harry stepped onto the lower set. Katie stared at him incredulously, so he firmly reached out and pulled her down onto the step next to him before they swung away and she misunderstood.

'Let's go wander towards the quidditch pitch,' Harry suggested. It was always quiet out towards the pitches, especially this year with no practices or matches. Katie nodded, clearly relieved he hadn't been about to just walk away from her, but anxious that he had not said anything in response.

They had reached the doors of the Great Hall before either of them spoke again.

'Harry,' she prompted, very tentatively.

'Yes?'

'Aren't you going to say anything? I know you said that we wouldn't be able to keep on dating and I was… I was very upset for a while, but I came to believe that maybe we would be better as friends and then I was chosen as the person you would miss most…' she trailed off, biting her lip again.

Harry laughed. 'Professor McGonagall did not tell you that she asked others and they refused to risk themselves for me, did she?'

'No,' Katie shook her head, 'she mentioned that you'd have to have the average score of the other champions if a hostage couldn't be found, but I knew you'd save me, so I didn't need to worry.'

'She told me that I would have failed the task completely if you had not accepted,' Harry remarked, amused that his head of house had given in to her temper so easily.

'You're not upset, then, that I don't want to be with you in the same way?' Her question came a little more confidently. 'No,' Harry smiled, very glad that it was the case. 'I don't have many friends, Katie, they all proved… fickle. I enjoyed being with you, even if I'm not sure that I ever wanted to be your boyfriend,' his tongue stumbled slightly on the unfamiliar word and Katie giggled.

They stepped out into the spring cool, picking their way across the grass and dodging the protruding tips of the spring flowers that were beginning to push their way out of the soil.

'We'll be friends again?' she asked him, her smile was threatening to spill across her face. 'You'll forgive me, for going with Roger Davies and being so stupid.'

'No,' Harry told her bluntly. 'I won't forgive you for overreacting so inexplicably,' he squeezed her shoulder when her face fell, 'but you were not entirely to blame. Davies wanted to revenge himself on me for getting Fleur Delacour's attention when he could not, and she,' he grit his teeth at the thought of the beautiful french witch who had all but driven him from the Room of Requirement, 'she couldn't stand the idea of anyone being as good as her, or resisting her charm, or something complicated.' Harry wasn't all too sure what went through the mind of Fleur Delacour. They were similar, but so different. He'd very much like to know what she was thinking, it would make everything easier, but he couldn't just walk up and ask her.

'So we'll be friends?' Katie didn't move away, but something in her manner faltered and Harry saw in the reflection of her eyes how cold his face had become.

'I think we'll be good friends.' He pushed all thoughts of Fleur from his mind and the ice melted from his expression. 'You never did turn your back on me, I saw you watching, even after the Yule Ball.'

'You looked very lonely,' she admitted. 'I wanted to go and speak with you, but Angelina and Alicia thought it was a bad idea.'

'They were right,' Harry admitted. 'If you hadn't agreed to help me with the task I would have never let you catch me for this conversation.'

'Really?' Katie seemed upset by that.

'Sorry,' Harry shrugged. 'I can't just keep forgiving people for choosing all the other things in their lives over me when they proclaim to be my friends.' He stopped speaking and tried to think of the reason why, but nothing came to him, he just couldn't bring himself to be like that again. 'I've changed,' he finished.

'I won't declared.

choose

anything

over

you,'

Katie 'You will,' Harry told her gently. 'The difference is that I now expect some things to be chosen above me, everyone has goals, dreams and people more dear to them than others. As long I know where I stand on your scale and think it's fair, then I'll never be disappointed or hurt by your decisions.'

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