"Took me awhile and it's been way too long, but after reading and researching I have come to know almost every character in Harry Potter better, and I am working on it still, this chapter was by far one of the hardest even for me, so many decisions and after editing a dozen times I managed to get it right, this is one of the important chapters for me and it will be for you too the loyal reader, I'll let the story speak for itself, and more thing Elsa is pivotal to the story non negotiable, Harry's role will Not be overshadowed by her, their roles are important, you will see it as the story develops on. Sit back and enjoy reading!" Leave a review as it helps tremendously.
Chapter 3 Fun and Games.
Harry felt his hand trembling, feeling the power getting stronger he used his other hand trying to stabilize it, unleashing the spell overpowering the flames, pushing it all the way back, it grew into a huge wave the great dragon pour out its full power however the waves grew larger, crushing it what remain of it was only steaming hot water, Harry stole a glance at the wand, the white veins cease glowing, Elsa stood clapping her hands."Well done Harry! You perform admirably, and this concludes our first lesson for today, gather at great dining hall at seven this evening, meantime, you have studying to do…" Elsa wave her hands, as multiple books materialise before them.
"Your majesty, when will we be tested?" Said one of the students.
"Every exam you take going forward will be done by combat, so I will strongly suggest you study well, if not… you may not get to see the light of day."
"But… that's impossible, how are we going~" Elsa cut Harry off by conjuring what look like trolls. Elsa wave her hands again, flipping every book to a particular page on trolls. The first troll attempted to strike her with his spiked club, she froze the other two, unable to break free from the ice that kept them in place they tried using with all their might, yet it was useless as their feet was permanently stuck in ice.
"As you can see, the first weakness of the trolls is their intelligence, in which…" Elsa grab the spiked club with her right hand, leaving the troll surprised, raised it high above his head, turned it into a big frying pan, the troll search for his missing weapon, finding it a few inches above his head.
"Now you have the advantage, yet another notable weakness of the trolls is their oblivious to their surroundings, for example… Harry your wand if you please." Elsa pointed the wand at his face, the troll tried reaching for the pan but each time he tried, it got higher and higher.
"Ridiculous!" instantly a pink ballerina dress appeared, along with him wearing high heels and a tutu, everyone laugh, the troll looked at them wondering what was so funny, till he took a closer look at himself deeply embarrassed. Elsa anticipated what he was going to do next.
"Harry, do the honors!" Harry nearly unable to stop laughing wave his wand, the frying pan knock the troll hard causing him to fall with a loud thud.
"We are only getting started, who is ready for round two?" said Elsa excitedly.
"Me, no me! No me! Pick me! I wanna try!" Their voices grew louder and louder, Elsa turn her eyes to both Luna and Hermione.
"Hermione and Luna, you are up, come forward!" they both stood beside Elsa, Harry felt something touching his hand, assuming it was Hermione, he moved his hand away from her, only to realised her hands weren't even close, then it hit him those hands were of Luna's, he had the feeling he shouldn't gaze at her but curiosity won, he turn seeing her face was glittering, her smile was so beautiful he barely resisted smiling back.
"I want to say I am sorry about Ginny's death, your eyes… they are dilating, is there something wrong Harry?" Asked Luna, her eyes fixated on his.
"Oh, I was wondering if you are free later this evening… for dinner…" her smile broadened.
"Harry, your hand is sweating, is there something more you want to tell me?" Luna suspected there was more but couldn't make out what it was.
"Nothing…nothing… I~" said Harry, doing his best maintaining his composure, his heart beating faster and faster each second, he tried looked towards Hermione hoping to ease his anxiety but found she had daggers in her eyes, quickly turn back towards her.
"Nervous, it's alright, the queen herself has rearranged our schedule, we may go for dinner tonight, think I will just go get collect my new dress."
"Do you need help getting there, this castle is huge." Luna shook her head.
"The queen gave me directions, its a surprise Harry, and you have one of your own, see you tonight Harry." He let go of her hand, seeing her walk merrily before turning to smile at him.
"Harry, you best get dressed, before someone here gets there first, go ahead, I will take it from here, and due to the massive renovation of the new rooms, Hermione will be staying in your room for an indefinite period of time till these renovations are complete, as of now, there are no other rooms available, Luna is looking forward to meeting you these are the directions on where you are meeting her." said Elsa whispering in his ears.
"I already made tweaks for your room, everything is quite the same, don't worry for the bathroom, both of you will get individual bathrooms, you better get going, she is really expecting you with great enthusiasm." Harry immediately apparel to his room, finding a pair of black blazer, a crimson long sleeve shirt, black pants, a red laced black tie, black socks and shoes all waiting for him, within a full minute he was fully dressed, apparel for Luna's room, just in the nick of time seeing Luna emerged from the bathroom, wearing a light sky blue bace chiffon long dress, with a cape behind her touching the floor, Harry's eyes widen in amazement.
"You look amazing Luna!" Luna noticed his dilated again, the smile she was becoming fond of made its resurgence again.
"You are looking outstanding handsome Harry! Your tie is a bit loose, let me adjust it for you." She felt his eyes fixated on her, she didn't mind the attention instead embraced it, never having anyone gave this kind of attention before she started liking it.
"How did you know how to tie?"
"I watched him do his tie every morning when he is about to leave for work, not impossible when he does it in front of me most of the time, personally I do like your outfit, you are exceptionally cute as lord of Gryffindor!" Smiled Luna.
"All done Harry, you are almost complete, except I have a gift for you, wait here I will be back." The words no sooner left her mouth as Harry felt a hand touch his shoulder.
"Harry~" he immediate turned seeing the High Queen herself, holding in her hands a small silver square box.
"Oh I am sorry if I startled you, but my sister wanted me to give this to you, she says it will make a beautiful gift for Luna, you are very fortunate she is helping you, usually she doesn't do this at all, is this your first time asking someone out?"
"Umm yes, I erm, never done this before." Anna gave him a reassuring smile.
"You have nothing to worry about, be yourself when I first met Kristoff, I had no idea we would become a couple, here we are years later happily married… Although he does snore in his sleep sometimes fall off the bed, even talks to his reindeer."
"Does his reindeer talk back speak our language too?" Anna giggled lightly.
"If only Harry, if only… Luna is on her way here! Take this gift and give it to her when you feel the time is right, got to go now." Luna came back seeing Harry starting at the silver box, Harry notice her, refocus her attention on her.
"Harry, I have a gift for you, my father wanted you to have this, he really admired you a great deal, he said it was special, funny he never told me what it was."
"Let's see what it looks like." Luna placed the black trench coat on Harry, adjusting his collars she took a good look at him, quite surprise it fit him perfectly, held his right hand, unknowingly activating the enhancement.
"Luna, you are more beautiful than Hermione, your eyes are beautiful like the illustrious blue sky!" Said Harry confidently, Luna held his hand slightly tighter.
"Flattering Harry, why do you say that?" He gently stroke her blond hair before answering her.
"You understand me, you were there for me Luna, I never thought about you this way…until now, I want to be by your side Luna, you are all I ever need!" Luna held his other hand, staredinto his eyes, his anxiety had gone replaced by pure confidence. They both apparel, reappearing into a small pentagram room, in the middle of them stood a table made of pure gold, two ribeye steaks, two bottles of the finest wine, two winecups and two well-decorated chairs facing them.
"This room is solely for the princes and princess, the interior of this room is fascinating, the queen has a rich taste in architecture and geometry this chandelier is an example of her mastery." Said Luna in awe.
"She is, but you my Luna are better in many ways, would you care to take a seat?" Said Harry moving her chair backwards.
"He treats me like a princess and he is a gentleman, but he is still hiding something, what's in the box?" Said Luna thinking to herself.
"Thank you Harry! You are really sweet today, are you like this around other girls like Hermione or Ginny?"
"No, they were… aren't the same like you Luna, you are not like Hermione and Ginny… erm, it doesn't matter, the food is getting cold, we should eat it."
"Harry, the silver box, you are holding it like your life depends on it, what's in it? A gift for someone special?" Giving him a flirtatious look.
"The box is for you Luna! My special Luna!" Said Harry placing the box in front of her, she opened it slowly, not believing her eyes, she never thought she would find this particular item after searching for a long time, now there it was right in front of her, new and ready to be worn.
"My shoes! Light as a feather, comfortable, waterproof, this shoes can do almost anything, this shoes are impossible even to produce, how did you get them?"
"Harry Potter, you are far more interesting than I thought, perhaps this is why the queen shows great interest in you, she is right, you have a place in my heart." Thinking to herself.
"I had help… we should eat, the food is not going to eat itself." Elsa stood on her throne, seeing the golden scars across her hands, the time she had long was coming for her, she touched her cheeks, part of her skin came off like snakeskin, the dead layers of her skin very slowly falling apart. Anna appeared beside her seeing scars everywhere, no part of her body was spared.
"Elsa, it's coming, we knew it was.. But just not now, you must survive this!"
"Anna, our kingdom has survive throughout the centuries, there is no way I am letting anyone get in the way, this was coming even in the early days when I took the powers of the fallen gods meshing it into one, but my current powers are not sufficient enough, I NEED this." Elsa continued.
"In the ever growing world of pain, suffering, strife and war being fought outside Elysidria our glorious realm, the darkness grows stronger and stronger, the powerful thoughts of anger, hatred and revenge fuels them each and every single day, as long as this thoughts exists the darkness will exist, if nothing is being done, we will find ourselves only buying time."
"We have nothing to worry about, our protective shields are keeping the darkness blind, they are never going to find us, if they did then we will be ready with our armies, they stand no chance against us!"
"I really hope you are right Anna, the atrocities committed outside our realm is already too much for myself to bear, the horrors, pain and lawlessness is abundantly enough for a sane person to go absolutely mad, there are giant malicious creatures the size of entire mountains, hunting in packs lingering relentlessly devouring entire planets whole like they were nothing, the worst is the colossal three-headed shark creatures devouring whole solar systems then moving on to the next~" Elsa barely finished her sentence before Hermione apparel beside her.
"YOU! YOU RUINED EVERYTHING!" Elsa spoke calmly, attempting to calm her down.
"Ms Granger, you are overthinking it, Harry is taking the first step by asking Luna out, he is doing what other guys his age ought to be doing."
"With her? She is a freak, she is weird and he has nothing in common with her! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" Anna intervene, standing to her feet glaring at Hemione.
"You dare speak to my sister with such disrespect?!" Anna's hand began glowing red, Hermione drew her wand, seeing the situation was getting out of control, placed her hand on her sister.
"Anna, Hermione, both of you! Stand DOWN! I am aware you want what's best for Harry since you are his best friend, Luna is the complete opposite of yourself but you have thought of a life with Harry as your husband, if this is what you are proposing, you are the smartest which no doubt about it, you are highly intelligent and highly capable, but potentially a relationship with Harry? Luna has something no book in the world can teach you."
"Tell me!" shouted Hermione, angry tears running down her eyes, Anna monitored her carefully watching for any signs of any hostile actions, ready to defend Elsa at any given point of time.
"You believe yourself to be a know-it-all, you were there for there Harry, commendable at best, but you didn't go further, you stopped at just being his best friend, Ron was your go-to choice because he was able to handle you, in spite of all arguments, your pushy attitude, you both needed each other indeed, but that time is very slowly passing, he lays there recovering, yet you WILL be tested on how you really love him like never before, do you truly believe you know Harry like a book?" Hermione noticed glowing veins emerging from Elsa's eyes in all directions.
"Yes I do! Harry deserves better, he has no future with Luna!"
"If you are implying a romantic relationship with you, then you are either going to slow Harry down, argue with him almost half the day away with a passion on what is right or you complement him, even possibly you challenge him to the point he becomes better than you, these possibilities are not written in stone but how you both work out your relationship, the road ahead if you choose to pursue a romantic relationship with him is tedious, Harry won't get over Ginny's death so easily, I won't stop you… but know there are limits you ought never cross, if you do… I won't hesitate to intervene." the words barely left her mouth, when an powerful immense golden light glow from her face, the light covering the entire throne room, Anna immediately shielded Hermione's eyes from the rays of light pouring endlessly seeing Elsa's entire body consumed by the light.
"Its happening at last! My sister has ascended into the pinnacle of her powers! Her newfound power will encompass everyone in her warm embrace!"
"Hermione Granger! Recognise from here and now, my ways are far higher than yours are, I alone keep the universes from crumbling into dust! I am, will be and forever will be known as the Light of the worlds! Every living creature breathing in existence will bow before me acknowledging my superiority, for I am eternal and my powers are beyond what you even began to comprehend!" both Anna and Hemione felt peace and love they never felt before, unending, unrelenting like hands warming both their hearts, a fire burning in their hearts, bringing them on their knees, barely able holding back their tears. Their eyes watched Elsa dressed in her luminous golden dress and sleeves shone like a billion suns, her skin flawlessly pure white and her eyes gleam brighter than snow. Anna removed her hands from Hermione's eyes.
"Your~your eyes, they are burning gold flames, with lightning, how~"
"Peace Hermione, don't be afraid, now witness the power I have." Said Elsa, placing her hand on her head.
"You are the ultimate embodiment of justice, righteousness, truth, peace, love and holiness! You are everything GOOD INCARNATE! Your powers is beyond any limit and your benevolence will spread throughout infinity even towards the far reaches of space, beyond galaxies into the heart of the universes themselves!"
"What you saw was a glimpse of my power, you best head back to your room, Harry is heading there soon." Hermione nodded apparel to her room, shs was about to go in when she met an elderly man with his hands behind his back, wearing white laced gold robes approached Hermione.
"You are a fascinating one my lady, what the queen sees in you, I see the same as she does."
"And who might you be?"
"Valkorion, grand advicer to the queen, you needn't bow, many of the nobles ladies here are ravaging hounds searching for anyone they might devour, even going through great lengths if they have to bring them down they will, the eyes of royals and nobles are not blind, you show very great potential, however you are in the wrong relationship, this is something they are greatly concerned."
"What exactly do you mean by the wrong relationship?"
"I am certain you know a person of a guy name Ronald Weasley, for a person of your caliber, he is hindering your potential, you can achieve so much more without him in your life, academically and politically."
"No! Ron and I are inseparable, end of discussion, now excuse me, I am going~"
"Lady Hermione, before you go, I must tell you... Ron is dead! He died early this afternoon from…" Hemione's eyes widen in shock, tears starting welling up in her eyes.
"What?! The Queen said he is recovering, I want to see the report, where is it?!"
"I will save you the tedious report, he died from the lost of will to live, he succumbed to his injuries, he was diagnosed from fourth-degree colon cancer due from his considerable appetite of overeating, we tried our very best to remove the cancer, no effort was spared into attempting in saving his life, however it was for naught, after many hours… despite our very best efforts, he… passed…away…I am so sorry my lady." At this point Hermione felt her heart stopped beating as she slammed the door behind him, Valkorion smiled maliciously.
"You are right where I want you Ms Granger."
"NO! NOT YOU TOO RON! IT CANNOT BE! YOU CAN'T JUST… LEAVE ME… LIKE THIS!" Harry apparate finding Hermione on the bed sobbing tearfully, removing his shoes and his jacket sat beside.
"Hermione, what happened?" He asked tenderly.
"Ron…i~is…de~dead! He died of colon cancer, sniff, Harry is this how it feels…when…when you…lost... Dumbledore?" Hermione wrap her arms around him, cried a waterfall of tears on his shoulder. Harry hug her back placing his arms around her back.
"This…is how...it…feels… Hermione… I am here… for you, nothing will separate us from now on…" tears rolling down his cheeks. More tears rolled down her eyes, Ron was gone, with only Harry as her last remaining best friend, there was only thing to do.
"Harry Potter?"
"Hermione?" Said Harry tenderly.
"Promise me… come what may, hell or high water, you…never ever let me go, an~and you'll be my side… always?"
"I promised Hermione! You have my word!" Hermione scanned his eyes seeing both genuine care and compassion, placed her hands on his cheeks before kissing his forehead. Harry responded by holding her right hand proceeded kissing her forehead. A few minutes passed as both of them prepare to sleep, Harry took the left side while Hermione took the right side of the bed, Hermione seeing the opportunity, wrap her arms and legs around him, hearing her moaning he close his eyes. Anna and Elsa stood beside them, Elsa using her power place the crimson blanket over them while Anna spoke comforting words into their ears before disappearing.