"So, how'd you two meet?" Harry asking, clearly sensing the elephant in the room.
"Well, Hermione showed me around on my first day here after I'd been sorted into Gryffindor. I was wandering around like a lost sheep and I couldn't even pronounce the name of the House I'd been sorted into."
"What year are you?" Ron asked.
"I'm in the same year as you guys, but I moved here from America this past summer. I moved here to live with my Dad, who's an English Banker from Suffolk."
"What about your mom?" Ron continued the drilling of questions.
"She died of cancer last year, while I was away at school. I only stayed to finish the year and was accepted here shortly after."
"There's a Wizard school in America?" Harry asked, having never heard of such a thing.
"Oh yes, Muggles call it Disney World."
"DISNEY WORLD?!" Harry shouted. He'd heard all about Disney World as a child and dreamed of going, but of course that wasn't an option. He looked over to his fiance's confused face and decided to explain. "It's a muggle theme park. A place where people have fun riding mechanical rides and things of the sort. I had no idea it was a Wizard School."
"Well it's not called 'the most magical place on Earth' for nothing." Nick winked. "But actually the school is called Malthizar's Institute of Sorcery and is pretty young as magic is extremely new to the States. It's sort of like what we've done to English, taken bits from other parts of the world, mainly the U.K., and created our own brand of magic."
"Will you be alright here?"
"Oh yes, because my dad's English, my magic will resonate better than if both my parents were American."
"So, how do you like it so far?"
"It's great! Your magical creatures are so different than the stories we hear as children, and of course, you have some beautiful ladies." He said kissing the back of Hermione's hand.
"What a charmer." Ron joked. "Well, you seem to be a decent guy. If you make Hermione happy, you're a friend of mine." He said clapping Nick on the shoulder.
"Same here, Nick." Harry smiled.
"Harry, I love your necklace! Where'd you get it?" Hermione said noticing the ring dangling from his neck. Ron pulled his out as well.
"Ron gave it to me, which reminds me, Hermione, how do you feel about being a Maid of Honor?"
Hermione looked confused for at most 2 seconds before squealing and tackled Harry and Ron out of their chairs into a big hug. Nick looked over at the scene as was rightfully confused. Once the squealing and shouting of "YES!" died down. They all clamored back to their seats and decided to let Nick in on what the heck was going on.
"Ron and I are getting married, Nick."
"To each other?" he asked.
"Yeah..." Harry said, afraid of where this was going.
"That's cool! I remember the day my dad married his husband. It was the happiest I'd ever seen him."
"I didn't know your dad was gay, Nick." Hermione said.
"Oh yeah, he and Pop have been married for about 4 years now. During our next vacation, you can meet 'em, you're all welcome!"
"Well thank you for the offer Nick."
"No biggie, so when's the big day?"
"Not for a while yet, we have to take care of a certain problem first."
"Yeah, Hermione was telling me about this Voldemort character." He said then got really quiet for a bit. Then with a determined face, he looked directly at Harry and said, "If you need any help, I'm in. I'm pretty handy with a wand."
Harry was stunned. This guy that he'd just met was offering to help fight against one of the most evil wizards of all time.
"This guy's a keeper." he told her as she looked at her boyfriend with the biggest sense of pride.
Training picked back up and just like their professors warned, it was kicked into high gear. Dumbledore trained them in using each of their elements with more power, while Ryuu-sensei taught them the basics of combining their elements. They also worked on bringing out the true potential of their beasts. The beasts they summoned were brought out from raw emotion and thus weren't as refined and as strong as they could be. After a few weeks of constant training, there wasn't much else the professors could teach as they had mastered the basics and couldn't teach them any further into their elements.
"So what happens now?" Harry asked one day at the end of training.
"What do you mean, Harry?" Arashi asked.
"Well, if there isn't any more you can teach us, do we go back to normal classes?"
"Well, we're not entirely sure," Dumbledore said, scratching his beard. "We hadn't anticipated you to learn the basics so quickly. I suppose it all depends on what you want to pursue as careers."
Harry stopped. He hadn't really thought about a career. His main focus in life was Voldemort, he hadn't really thought past it. In all honesty, he was so rich, He and Ron and whatever family they had would be so well off, they wouldn't need to work. But he couldn't see himself just doing nothing with the rest of his life.
"Well, sir. I'm not sure what I can do. Won't the Ministry want us under them because we're Mages?"
"That may be what they want, but it's not about that. It's about what you want."
"Also, keep in mind, you aren't bound to the UK. I'd love to show you boys around Japan." Ryuu-sensei volunteered.
"What do you think, Ron?"
"Well, I think we'd make pretty great professional Quidditch players, and they'd be all over themselves to get you to join. Hogwarts' youngest and best seeker in a century?"
"That'd be brilliant. We'd be the only married players."
"You see, Mr. Potter. You have more options than you think. You're young, rich, and powerful. The world is yours. You and Ron could do great things." Dumbledore praised.
Harry looked at Ron and took his hand. "I suppose you're right. Who knows what the future holds?" With that they Apparated back to the castle.
They arrived to a panicked Professor McGonagall, who was grateful to see them.
"Professor Dumbledore! The castle's under attack. Voldemort's made his move!