Steady: 1. Not easily disturbed or upset 2. Constant in feeling, principle, purpose, or attachment
“Why does it even matter if people get suspicious?” Harry lay back and stretched, and Severus watched him do it. He was almost cat-like, with an unselfconscious grace that took him off guard each time he saw it. It was how he looked on a broomstick. The absolute master of his body. Harry looked over at him staring, and smiled.
Oh, that smile.
Unguarded. Uncomplicated. Free, and easy. It made Severus feel drunk with power to put an expression like that on his face. He lifted one of Harry’s hands to his lips and kissed his knuckles. I love you, he thought. It was becoming almost routine, thinking that. I love you. Almost normal. Almost tolerable to hold in his mind, now.
6th year Harry trains with Snape They have bracelets that let them talk and summon each other Harry goes to the burrow for Christmas Remus causes problems about Snape Snape gives Harry a book of lilys letters Remus reports Snape to the Hogwarts Governors but they lie through it
Again, pretty squeaky. Harry is still 16. This one ends after Christmas of 5th year. Harry has the Half Blood Price book. Severus knows Harry will die. Lupin is the bad guy, though actually he’s the only one that sees what it wrong with all of this. Draco is still trying to kill Dumbledore.