Author's Note- At the bottom.

Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter nor am I making any money out of it.

The next morning Harry woke up to an empty Dormitory. Harry had to smile; he was finally away from the Dursleys… at least for the next six months. Getting up Harry walked over to the bathroom and looked himself in the mirror. Harry had had another growth spur and was now a towering six feet tall. If he said so himself he was a nice looking guy. His hair was a little longer than at the end of the summer, but his green streaks now looked even better, and his eyes sparked a brilliant green.

Harry sighed before taking off the glamour he had. At once his tan skin became white and he suddenly looked way too thin. Looking at his face Harry at once saw the two clearly visible bruises on his cheeks. Taking a better look at himself he noticed that he had two more bruises on his arms. Turning around from the mirror Harry got into the shower.

When Harry came out of the bathroom, with his glamour back in place, he got dressed and walked down to the Common Room. He was not surprised to see Aria and Elsmere already there.

"Hey, are they any more Gryffindors in the castle?" Harry asked the two teenage Vampires.

"Hey, no, sorry you're stuck with only us for company." Elsmere said in a fake distraught tone of voice.

"Oh, no poor, poor me." Harry said sitting down on an armchair.

"Poor Potter." Aria said also sitting down.

"Hey!" Harry complained.

"You started it, Potter." Aria responded with a smirk.

"Ok, ok you win. I'm sorry; you are fun to be with."

"That's what I thought." Aria said with a grin. Just then Harry's stomach gave a loud growl.

"Apparently I'm hungry. Want to come with me to breakfast?" Harry asked getting up from his chair.

"I'll go, I have nothing else to do." Aria said.

"You go ahead, I'm going to sleep a couple more hours." Elsmere said.

"Is that all you are going to eat?" Aria asked when she was that Harry pushed away his almost full plate.

"Yes, I'm full." Harry said going into defensive mode. He knew that his appetite was always smaller when he came back from the Dursleys.

"I think you should eat more Harry, you are awfully skinny." Aria commented.

"Aria, I'm full. Really. Now, what do you want to do?" Harry asked getting up from the

table.

"Do you have any homework to do?" Aria asked.

"Yes, but I don't want to do school work." Harry responded.

"Ok, but just because it's Christmas. Want to go to Hogsmeade?" Aria asked.

"Sure, let's go ask Elsmere if she wants to come with us." Harry responded already making his way to the Gryffindor Common Room.

"Elsmere, do you want to go to Hogsmeade with us?" Harry asked the brown haired Vampire.

"No thanks, I have a lot of homework that I have to finish before classes start." Elsmere responded.

"Whatever, you're going to miss it." Aria said, and with that Harry and Aria got under Harry's invisibility cloak and left the Common Room.

Once the two black haired teenagers entered the passage behind the hunched witch they took off the invisibility cloak.

"You do realize we'll be in so much trouble if anybody saw us?" Aria asked.

"Yes, are you having second thoughts? I want to remind you Ms. Aria that you were the one who suggested the trip in the first place." Harry responded.

"I am not having second thoughts Mr. Potter. I was just stating a fact." Aria complained. "How much longer until we reach the village?"

"We are almost there. You sure are impatient, you know that don't you?" Harry said grinning at Aria's antics. It wasn't everyday that Aria acted this carefree and he was sure to enjoy it while the carefree attitude lasted.

"Yes, I know." Aria responded with a smirk.

"Your weird." Harry said.

"So are you." Aria countered.

"Touché." Harry said. "We are here, where do you want to go to first?"

"Let's go to Honeydukes first please." Aria asked.

"Sure thing, with one condition." Harry said already walking toward the candy shop. The village was almost deserted.

"What?"

"My treat." Harry simply said.

"No. I have money." Aria argued.

"I don't care, either I pay or we go back to Hogwarts."

"No."

"Yes."

"You can't make me do anything." Aria said. They were arguing in the middle of the street.

"Yes I can, I can just take my invisibility cloak and go back to the school and let you get in trouble." Harry said with a no-nonsense voice.

"You wouldn't." Aria said looking at Harry square in the eyes.

"Yes I would." Harry said with a completely unemotional voice.

"Ok, you win. But only this time." Aria finally gave in.

"Ok." Harry said before smiling and once again making his way toward the candy shop. Aria smiled and walked with him.

Half an hour later the two teenagers left the shop with their sweet-tooth satisfied and a box of sugar quills for Elsmere. Together they made their way to the Three Broomsticks for a butterbeer and a light snack.

"I'll get the butterbeers, you find a seat." Harry told Aria before making his way to the counter to pay for the counter. After he had already paid for the beers he made his way over to were Aria had taken a seat.

"Thanks." Aria said taking the butterbeer that Harry was offering her.

"You're welcome." Harry said taking a seat next to her.

"Harry, may I ask you something?" Aria asked after a couple of minutes of drinking in silence.

"Sure." Harry said albeit a bit nervously.

"Harry how was your holiday?"

"It was fine. A little boring but okay." Harry answered.

"Are you sure?" Aria asked. You could hear the concern quite clearly in her voice.

"Yes, Aria, why do you ask?" Harry asked suspiciously.

"You look thinner, as through you hadn't eaten almost anything during the whole break." Aria responded looking Harry directly in the eyes.

Harry was now slightly uncomfortable with the direction the conversation had taken.

"Yes, well my cousin is in a diet and Aunt Petunia wants us all to follow it." Harry said avoiding Aria's eyes.

"Oh, okay." It was obvious she did not believe him but she dropped the subject. "If I were you I will be on the lookout. Hermione and Ron both wrote to us and they seem determined to get you a girl before the school year is up." Now Aria had a teasing grin on her face.

Harry groaned. "Just perfect."

"I am going to enjoy this." Aria murmured.

"I'm sure you will." Harry said already dreading the next couple of weeks with his two best friends trying to find him the perfect girl. The rest of the visit passed making small talk and catching up with each other. Together they made their way back to the school just in time for dinner.

"Did you two have fun?" Elsmere asked as soon as she had spotted the two approaching Gryffindors.

"Yes, we had a great time. We even brought you some sweets." Harry said tossing the bag of Honeydukes products they had gotten for Elsmere.

"Thanks guys, these are my favorite." Elsmere exclaimed already taking out a sugar quill.

"I know." Harry said with a smug smile.

"Show off." Aria murmured making her way toward the Great Hall.

"You love me." Harry replied still with that smug smile.

"Of course I do." Aria responded sarcastically.

"You don't?" Harry said with the most convincing puppy eyes he could master.

"Ah, what the hell, of course I do you silly wizard." Aria replied giving in to Harry's antics.

"I knew it all along. You Vampires can't resist a good looking wizard." By now they were already seated in the Gryffindor house table and their plates were full with food.

"Thank Merlin there are no good looking wizards around." Elsmere said.

"How can you say that? I can name at least one good looking wizard in this hall." Aria said.

Harry looked around the hall trying to find the good looking wizard. In the Hufflepuff table there were only three girls and five boys and they all looked to be first and second years. The Ravenclaw table had ten students but you could not exactly see them from their table. And the Slytherin table only had Draco Malfoy, Pansy Parkinson and their cronies. Sitting on the staff table were Professor McGonagall, Sprout, Tonks, Dumbledore and Snape.

"I really don't see no good looking wizard nearby." Harry said looking once more at his Vampire friends.

Both of them rolled their eyes at the same time.

"What?" Harry asked.

"Oh Harry, you really are stupid." Elsmere said.

"Why?"

"Who was the one who said he was good looking?" aria asked.

"Me? Oh you meant me! I was joking when I said I was good looking." Harry said.

"Oh, Harry you are an idiot." Elsmere said with a laugh.

"Are you done already?" Aria asked out of nowhere.

"Yes, why?" Harry responded, he had already eaten and was pushing his plate away.

"Nothing Harry." Arias sighed, during the day she had figured that it was no good to try and get Harry to do anything he did not want to do, and that included eating.

"Harry, are you up for some training?" Aria asked once they left the Great Hall.

"Sure, where?" Harry asked.

"Room of Requirement." Aria answered already leading the way toward the seventh floor.

"Guys, you go ahead, I am going to the forest." Elsmere said looking apologetic at Harry and Aria.

"Ok" Aria answered without looking back at her cousin. Harry looked confused but still followed Aria to the Room of Requirement. The room was big with mirrors instead of walls. The floor was covered in a rug that felt as through you were walking on pillows. There was a small couch on the far side where someone could seat a safe distance away and watch. On the center of the room there was a wide circle.

Harry had to smile at the familiar sight. Throughout the whole year every time the Vampires and he had come to train the room took the exact same shape. Without a word to Aria Harry took his sword, which he always carried with him, and took a fighting stance. Aria grinned but did not take a fighting stance.

"Harry, you have already mastered sword fighting, I think it's time we move on with different things." Aria said.

"What exactly are you talking about?" Harry asked starting to put his sword away.

"No, don't put your sword away; we are going to practice fighting with both sword and wand."

"What?" Harry asked incredulously. He had no idea that could be possible.

"You are ambidextrous, right? Aria asked him, ignoring his question and confused face.

"Yes, why?" Harry asked.

"Simple enough, you'll hold your wand with your left hand and your sword with your right. It's fairly simple." Aria said taking out her sword and wand.

"Sure." Harry said also taking out his wand. Antonio had been giving him a few lesson on wand work and he was way better at dueling now.

"One… two… three. Stupefy." Aria said firing of the spell and approaching Harry at the same time with her sword in attack position. Harry did not have much time so he did as any sane person would do in his situation. He ducked. He narrowly avoided the curse but next thing he knew Aria had her sword in his neck.

"Wow, that was easier thank I thought." Aria commented as she straightened up.

Harry just glared at her. He got up from the floor and got into position once more. This time he started the count. "One… two… three. Expelliarmus." At the same time he lunged toward Aria. Aria easily sidestepped the curse and blocked Harry's sword attack. At the same time that she was attacking Harry she cast a stinging hex his way, which Harry just barely avoided. Harry responded by sending a 'petrificus totalus' her way. Aria quickly murmured 'protego'.

They continued fighting like that for about fifteen minutes when Aria could finally unarm Harry from both his sword and wand.

"That was better than the first time." Aria commented.

"Thanks." Harry said rubbing his forearm. Aria had accidentally hit him on his bruise during the fight.

"Are you okay Harry?" Aria asked when she noticed Harry rubbing his arms as through he were in pain.

"Yeah, it's just a little sore." Harry mumbled not looking at her.

"Are you sure? We could go to Madam Pomfrey." Aria said worried. '

"No, that's okay." Harry replied picking his sword up once more. "One more round?"

"Are you sure?" Aria asked.

"Yes. I'm okay, really." Harry said preparing himself for the fight.

Aria had a look of disapproval on her face but she also picked up her sword and prepared for the fight. The fight lasted about forty minutes this time and by the end Harry was completely exhausted. He had been hit with a stinging hex and a cutting curse. Aria was unharmed and did not look even remotely tire. 'Stupid Vampire endurance' Harry thought as he saw Aria sit down comfortably on the couch.

Harry went over to sit next to Aria. Harry noticed that Aria had stopped breathing. He knew that Vampires did not need to breath, but he also knew that Aria liked to anyway so he was curious as to why Aria suddenly stopped breathing.

"Aria, are you okay?" Harry asked concerned for his friend.

"Yes Harry, but would you mind fixing the cut on your shoulder?" Aria asked still not breathing.

Harry looked at his shoulder, it was bleeding. At once he understood why Aria had stopped breathing. Even though she only drank animal blood, the smell of blood was tempting to her.

"Sorry" Harry said at once getting up from the couch and starting to get away from Aria. He could not fix his shoulder now because to do that he would have to remove his glamour. The glamour Harry was using did not interact good with some kinds of spells, and I so happened that healing spells were some of those.

"That's okay, just fix it, or do you need me to help?" Aria said looking at him.

"No, that's okay. I'm just going to go back to the Common Room and fix it." Harry said making his way toward the door.

"Aren't you going to stay and drink a couple of butterbeers?" Aria asked. It had become kind of a routine to stay after there practice sessions and have a couple of butterbeers before going back to the Common Room.

"Uh…" Harry had no idea what to say.

"Come on, stay. Just fix your shoulder first." Aria asked.

Harry really did not have an excuse to leave without sounding rude. He sighed and gave in. He was nervous and his hands were shaking.

"Aria… I… I think I've better go to the infirmary." Harry said, hoping that Aria would let him leave.

"Don't be silly Harry. If you can't fix it yourself I'll be glad to help." Aria said now slowly approaching Harry. Harry saw no way out of this. Aria approached him, took out her wand and murmured the healing charm.

A/N- Okay, before you all kill me. Um, well I'm sorry. I had finals and three research projects and my birthday was yesterday. I'm really sorry. Next chapter will be up by the weekend, I promise!! Sorry, sorry, sorry.

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