"She Transfigured Seamus' testicles into a pair of tweezers!" Through a series of unfortunate events and unwise decisions, Harry Potter ends up going to the Yule Ball with Daphne Greengrass. Perhaps things won't turn out so bad after all: when you've hit rock bottom, the only way to go is up, right? …Right? Not your usual Daphne fic. Warnings for language and underage drinking.

Harry Potter never thought studying would get him a date to the Yule Ball, or a wife for that matter, but I guess studying Transfiguration while Hermione tutors Daphne got him both. A story about the relationship between Harry Potter and Daphne Greengrass from 4th year till Post-Hogwarts. Harry/Daphne

When a young green-eyed wizard and a minimally older brown-eyed witch, the best of friends for years, discover their mutual fondness for one particular armchair in front of one particular fireplace, it can inevitably mean one thing and one thing only: War. And then also – eventually, potentially – something else. Maybe. But first it's definitely war.

It took them seven years but they got there eventually. Seven times Harry and Hermione almost kissed and the first time they finally did.