By fifth year, everyone was convinced that Blaise Zabini and Tom were dating, though Slytherin House was famously tight-lipped to the outside world, so nothing was ever confirmed. But that didn’t stop Harry from asking Tom to Hogsmeade during the school year, and owling him over spring and summer breaks to ask him to ice cream in Diagon Alley. After the fifth or sixth try, Tom sent Harry’s letter back heavily cursed with a litany of obscure spells, somehow making it past the wards of Potter Manor. 