Tom’s estimation that news of their courtship would have spread throughout all of Slytherin was an understatement; by breakfast the next day it seemed the entire school knew, if the heads craning to look at them when they entered the Great Hall for breakfast were any indication. Harry and Tom sat down side by side and Tom read the paper as Harry stared blankly into space and tried to wake up all the way, as they did most mornings. Unlike most mornings, several hundred students were whispering about them. Abraxas Malfoy went so far as to push the student sitting across from them out of her seat, shamelessly stealing her place.