I'm not sure that the Haru-chan in The Meaning Behind the Bouquet is supposed to be Konoe Haruka — but if it is, it's less surprising than using, say, Kaoruko or Ai's "big sister", since Haruka and Kanata predate Nijigasaki and SIFAS. They were both N girls in the SIF game.
(Kanata, Emma, and Shizuku were the winners of a fan election to join when the Perfect Dream Project, which became SIFAS and the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, was announced; I believe that in-world, they were all recruited by Setsuna and transferred from their N card schools to Nijigasaki, though the anime dropped that aspect. Haruka got pulled along in the meta, though just as in her SIF profile, she's still at Shinonome High.)
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