The night before they were due to go back to Hogwarts, he held her against his chest in his bedroom, his heart beating unusually fast while he worked over his arguments again and again. Finally, he spilled out the words he only dared to think moments before. "I'd like our first time to be tonight," he said, not sounding confident like he'd imagined. "I would just hate for it to be rushed in some broom closet at Hogwarts or in a dorm room with other boys around us."