After many weeks of unconsciousness, Dudley woke up. He saw a huge vaulted ceiling rose high above his head. Slowly he sat up and saw Harry standing next to his bed, doing some magic spells. "Oh, you're awake." Harry said and then turned. Dudley was surprised when Harry's wand melted away.

"Wh-where am I?"

"Hogwarts. You collapsed when I found you and so I had to carry you in. Luckily, they didn't make you lose your memory. I wasn't thinking when I gave you that warning. Luckily, it's almost time for the Yule Ball and so they'll let you stay for that."

Dudley noticed that Harry was wearing a strange black robe. "What is that?"

"Oh this? School uniform. The red badge shows I am in the Gryffindor House."

"Gryffindor?"

"Yes. See, there are four houses, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house is for people who show certain characteristics. Mine is for people who are brave and chivalrous."

"And the others?"

"Hufflepuff is for kindhearted people while the brainiacs go to Ravenclaw. Slytherin is for the cunning and ambitious. Unfortunately, that's also the house that the guy who murdered my parents came from."

"What day is it?"

"December 24th. The Yule Ball is tomorrow night as well as the Christmas celebrations."

"Harry, Mr. Dursley needs sleep. You'll wake him up." A voice called.

"He was already awake when I started talking to him. That's Madame Pomphrey, the nurse."

Madame Pomphrey quickly pronounced that Dudley was fit to leave and Harry began dragging his cousin all over the school. "That's History of Magic, we learn history from a ghost there."

"A ghost?"

"Yes. Legend goes that Professor Binns died in his chair and when he went to go teach the class, he just floated out of his body."

"Wow, so what classes do you take?"

"Well, all the required subjects; Potions, Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, Transfiguration, and Astronomy. Since I'm above third year I also take electives. Mine are Divination, Arithmancy, and Care of Magical Creatures."

"Wow."

"Oh, here we are." Harry had stopped in front of a portrait of a fat lady. Much to Dudley's surprise, the person in the portrait moved and then spoke.

"Password?"

"Fairy lights."

"Merry Christmas Harry." With those words, the portrait swung open to reveal a hole in the wall. Harry helped Dudley through and then came in after him.

"This is the Gryffindor Common Room. It's break so everyone is outside." Harry explained.

"Not everyone Harry." Harry turned and saw the speaker was Takuya.

"Oh, these are my friends, Takuya Kanbara, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger. Guys, this is my cousin Dudley." Dudley nodded and then ducked as something came sailing at him.

"What's this?"

"Well, you lost a lot of weight while you were unconscious so we figured that the dress robes Ron's mum gave me would work. It may be a little tight but we can get Miki or Megumi to fix it if need be."

Dudley quickly threw on the robe and everyone smiled. "Hey, you look like a wizard now, Dudley." Ron said.

"Is that him?"

"Yeah, that's Harry's Muggle cousin, Dudley."

"I heard Muggles can't come here."

"Yeah but I heard that he was injured so badly that when Harry ran off after the first task he went to go bring him over."

"That must mean that he's the first one to be here."

As Dudley, Harry, Ron, Takuya, and Hermione entered the Great Hall, whispers followed Dudley. Much to his shock, Dudley had become an instant celebrity, causing people to come up to him quickly. Luckily, Harry was used to fame and was able to drag Dudley to an empty seat at the Gryffindor table. "Hey Dudley, I want you to meet everyone. That's Tommy, Koji, Koichi, TK, Takato, JP, Zoe, Marcus and Matt. JP, Takato, and Matt are fifth years and Marcus is a sixth year but everyone else is a fourth year."

"Uh, hi."

Suddenly, a huge flock of owls flew in. Dudley looked at this in shock but the others calmly waited. The owls began to land, including Harry's own Hedwig. "Hm, it's a letter. Here, I'll read it.

"Boy,

I don't know what you are playing at, luring Dudley there but I hope he wakes up and doesn't become too corrupted by that. When he is better, please inform him that he is to come home as soon as possible and that we wish him a Happy Christmas."

"He also enclosed a box of sweets for you. Of course, they're nothing compared to wizard's sweets but I'll give them to you later."

At last, the time had arrived. Harry was wearing a robe made of cold fire that had shifting hues of red, green, blue, white, yellow, and orange while the collar was white. He decided not to wear shoes, instead leaving his lupine feet bare. His long flame hair flowed freely, adding to the robes. On his hands, Harry had changed the color of his gloves to a soft orangey- yellow and left his shoulders free, showing off his sinewy muscles. His "date," Suzie was now only a foot shorter than him, standing close to eight feet. She wore an orange pair of dress robes with no gloves and a yellow color. Around her foxy head, she had on a little red tiara. Along with Viktor and Hermione, Cedric and Cho Chang, Fleur and Rodger Davis, and Takuya and Zoe he entered the Great Hall. Although Harry didn't know how to dance, he and Suzie had agreed that they would just do a slow lope, relying on their lupine and kitsune graces. After a minute or so, Harry handed Suzie off to her brother and walked over to Dudley.

Matt had used some of his hair gel on Dudley, giving the boy a slicked back look. His short brown hair matched his bottle green robes so well that some of the girls were even ogling the boy. Harry smiled at him and in his growly voice asked his cousin, "So, is my school really that bad?"

"Well of course it is. The food is terrible, the girls are nosy, and you have these stupid dances." Dudley responded with a wink.

"Well, this is the first time we've had the Yule Ball. Did you hear that Dumbledore has given you permission to stay here?"

"Really?"

BANG!

Harry jumped up and flicked his ears. Finally he started running out the hall, yelling, "Valkyrie, to me!"

Kari froze and tripped over TK's feet. "I'll be back."

Joe was chatting with some Ravenclaws when he hastily excused himself.

Ron had been ribbing Hermione when he froze. "Hey, I'm going to go take care of something."

Draco stopped dancing with Pnasy Parkinson. "Hey, you want something to drink?"

With Dudley following, the Valkyrie ran outside. As they crossed the threshold, all seven had vanished into thin air.

A.N. Man, I really wish I could draw people. Hm, maybe I'll try doing Harry he's half wolf. But I really wanted to have Dudley be something other than the fat jerkoff he is for most of the series. Now begins the broken past part of the book. Also, you may have noticed that Aodhan hasn't played a big part in this book yet. The reason is that I can't think of something brand new to do to get rid of Aodhan. Oh yeah, little side fact. Mabinogi: Free Fantasy Life players may recognize the name Aodhan. When I wash picking his name, I went and googled Names that Mean Fire. When I saw that name on the list I used it deliberately as a callback to the game.