1. boy in static (without warning)

It begins with static.

They're sitting next to each other in the library and he's about to tap her arm to get her attention, and there it is, literal static, passing from his fingers to the place at her wrist where her uniform jumper ends.

Susan flinches and pulls away from him, her mouth falling open into a round 'O' as she gives a little gasp.

And this is the moment where Zacharias notices - really notices - the shape of her mouth and the dark pink of her lips, waxy from lip balm. To his dawning horror he thinks he might be staring. He realizes, as if from a distance, that he would like to know how she tastes.

But she doesn't notice him gaping and just hands him whatever it was - a quill or a sheet of parchment or whatever - that he had needed, then turns away to talk to Padma Patil again.

Zacharias shakes himself as if he'd almost fallen asleep, turns back to his Transfig notes. Fourth year is already turning him nutters.