Nobody expects... that Viktor Krum takes ball‐room dancing lessons,
he really likes the mambo, look out dancing with the stars.
-Nobody Expects by the Blibbering Humdingers


One, two, three, one two three. Viktor glided across the floor with his partner, a lovely brunette named Anita. He liked Anita, she was the only girl in the class who hadn't looked about to swoon when he first joined. She also reminded him a little of Hermione Granger, which made him smile.

Hermione was a part of the reason he had taken up dancing in the first place. Perhaps he would have enjoyed dancing at the Yule Ball just as much with a different partner but he doubted it. Having a good partner simply made it ten times better so without that he might never have found his second passion.

Before it had been all about quidditch. Everything else faded in comparison, until he discovered dancing. His coach had been against it at first. He couldn't waste practice time on something as frivolous as dancing. But Viktor was firm, he enjoyed dancing and wanted to learn. It could be physically challenging and once he proved that, as well as promised only to take one lesson a week and never miss practice because of it, his coach relented.

It had been difficult at first, joining the ball-room dancing lessons. But Viktor was used to female admiration and male jealousy and, after a while, he had become a part of the group. It probably even helped, he thought, that at first he hadn't been very good. He knew the dances he learnt for the Yule Ball but nothing more, and his failures had broken the tension, eased the jealous looks from the other guys. The girls still stared at him occasionally and many batted their lashes at him whenever they chose partners in the hopes that he would choose them. Recently he found himself asking Anita more often than the others.

Viktor Krum bowed gracefully to his partner once the song came to an end. He would ask her to have a drink with him after the lesson, he decided. He had not expected to find a romantic interest through dancing. Then again, he had never expected to enjoy dancing this much. Nobody had.