You and Ernie have been friends since your first year at Hogwarts. You always had a group of friends, but at the end of your fifth year, Ernie started acting differently: you started spending more time together, he started complimenting you, he remembered your favorite sweets and now they always ended up in his pockets when you were sad, he became more interested in your interests, he made sure you were warm, he started offering you his hand more often in places where stairs disappeared, and things like that.

You started dating in the middle of your sixth year, and despite some of your classmates' giggles about Ernie being a nerd and too much of a rule-follower, you had a normal teenage relationship, including regularly sneaking off to the prefects' baths together.

It was a tough week because the sixth year transfer exams were approaching, and you decided to take a break by simply locking yourself in the boys' dorm.

You were lying on the bed together, and you had your arms and legs wrapped around him like a baby koala, and you laid your head on his shoulder, closing your eyes.

Ernie ran his fingers through your hair, then kissed the top of your head and quietly asked, "Love, are you sleeping?"