Wow.

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I confess that I frequently have moments where I get confused about which secrets which characters know, but wow. Sirius's most recent Order Only private message to Hermione suggests that Harry knows Hermione has some sort of faster-than-owl way to secretly communicate with Sirius? Does he know it is a secret way of reading and writing in the journals? If I knew that Hermione had told Harry any part of her closer-than-geography-and-other-barriers-should-permit connection with Sirius, I'd forgotten it.

Imagine how hacked off Draco would be if he knew Hermione and Harry were keeping that sort of illegal secret from him!

But seriously, this feels like a revelation about the state of Harry and Hermione's relationship, and I'm glad to have it. If Harry knows he can talk to Hermione about Sirius and knows that Sirius can send him messages not just by owl, but through Hermione, it hints that Harry treats Hermione as a more substantial kind of confidant than it has seemed up until now.