Chapter 16 -

"Mr Potter, where is your date?" Professor McGonagall asked.

Harry was currently standing out side the hall with the other champions, he, Roger Davis and Cedric Diggory both wore black robes while Cedric's date, Cho Chang, wore a white floral dress. Victor Krum wore red while Fleur Delacour wore a silver dress. Hermione Granger, a surprise for Harry, was Krum's date and wore a pretty pink dress and had clearly gone through a lot of effort to make herself look good for the ball.

"She should be arriving any second Professor" Harry replied, he looked around and smile "ah there she is" Everyone turned to see Daphne Greengrass walking towards them. Her straight and beautiful blonde hair ended just past her shoulders, she wore green earrings and a stunning silver dress that made her look graceful and beautiful.

"Miss Greengrass?" McGonagall blurted out with surprise.

"Hello Harry" Daphne smiled and kissed Harry on the lips "you're looking brilliant"

"You're one to talk" Harry grinned as she roped her arm around his.

"Daphne Greengrass is your date?!" Hermione blurted out in shock.

"Well, it's natural for me to be his date seeing as I'm his girlfriend" Daphne said with a delicate shrug.

"Girlfriend?! When did that happen?!"

"Who knows?" Harry said "Our love began the moment we were born, we were always destined for each other, the stars were in our favour, so were the gods. Magic itself supported our union, and I..."

"He asked after the ball announcement" Daphne cut him off.

"I asked after the ball announcement" Harry nodded "and thanks for spoiling my fun" He added to Daphne .

"Anytime" She smiled.

"Hmm, this isn't so bad" Barton said as he sipped some of his drink. He looked around Stark's penthouse, taking in every detail. He and the other Avengers, apart from Natasha and Harry who hadn't arrived yet, were currently in Stark Tower for a private party with just them. The only members of the party who weren't avengers were Pepper Pots and Rhodey, both were invited by Stark. Everyone was wearing civilian clothes, even Thor.

"Sir" Jarvis voice echoed throughout the room "you have two more guests, Agent Romanoff and Raven have arrived."

"Great, send them up" Tony replied.

"I must say, your 'Jarvis' is very intriguing" Thor commented.

"Yeah, it is pretty impressive" Steve agreed.

"Thank you" Jarvis replied "you are both impressive as well". The elevator opened, Harry and Natasha walked in, both in civilian clothes, Nat had her arm around Harry's as they entered.

"Ah, Miss Romanoff, Raven" Stark said as he walked towards them.

"Stark" Harry nodded and shook Stark's hand "just call me Harry"

"Only if you call me Tony" Tony smiled "so glad you could make it"

"I'm sure" Romanoff said "let me guess, you want to ask him about his 'magic'"

"That obvious huh?" Tony grinned.

"Yeah" Harry and Natasha said at the same time, they then turned to each other with lifted eyebrows and a small smile.

"It's nice to meet you" Pepper said as she walked up to the pair and began shaking their hands "I am Pepper Potts. Tony's babysitter, personal assistant and girlfriend."

"You poor, poor soul" Harry said sympathetically.

"Hey!" Tony said while Pepper covered her mouth to muffle her laughter.

"Hi Harry" Steve said.

"Steve" Harry grinned "hi everyone"

"Hey guys" Baton said.

"Hello" Bruce nodded at them.

"Ah, the wizard" Thor smiled "it is good to see you again friend"

"Likewise" Harry said as he looked around, his eyes stopped on Rhodes "I'm sorry, you look familiar, have we met?"

"Yep" Rhodey smirked "the last time we saw each other you jumped right out of my chopper. I am Colonel James Rhodes of the US Air force, I work as a liaison between Stark industries and the military. Oh, and I'm also War Machine, you have may have heard of me"

"Oh yeah, I remember you now" Harry smiled "though you look different from the last time I saw you...must be the hair"

"So magic man" Tony said as they all sat down "would you like a drink?"

"Sure" Harry waved his hand, a bottle and two cups flew towards him and all three hovered in front of him "Nat?" He offered.

"Sure" She smiled, the bottle began pouring itself into the two glasses, one glass moved into Natasha's hands while the other flew into Harry's just as the bottle slowly glided down onto the table.

"Whoa" Tony said while Rhodes and Pepper looked utterly shocked "that is awesome. What else can you do?"

"Lot's of stuff, like this" Harry waved his hand and red fireworks shot into the ceiling and popped above everyone.

"Nice trick, bit too much for kids though" Tony replied.

"Oh, you want the advanced stuff?" Harry said with a raised eyebrow.

"I want the advanced stuff" Tony nodded like an excited child.

"Fine" Harry stood up, a second later he was replaced by a black raven. Everyone watched with awe and amazement as the bird flew around the penthouse twice before landing back in the same spot and transforming into Harry "tada!" He grinned and spread his arms like a showman. The Avengers, Pepper and Rhodes all clapped for him, even though the last two were a little more slow in their clapping due to the utter shock of what just happened.

"Can you teach me that?!" Tony asked hopefully.

"No but I can transform you guys into animals if you want" Harry offered.

"Do it."

"Fine" Harry waved his hand and suddenly Pepper's head was replaced with that of a shark, much like Krum in the second task of the Triwizard tournament.

"Aargh!" Tony jumped back and fell off his seat. Harry laughed as he returned Pepper to normal, and she was normal despite being mildly dazed.

"That...was...an...experience" She said after shaking her head "Don't do that again" She added to Harry, though everyone could tell it was an order.

"Yes ma'am" Harry nodded and sent her a smile that would not be out of place on James Potter after a successful prank.

"You alright Stark?" Barton chuckled along with everyone else as Tony got back on to his seat.

"You all saw nothing" Tony said in a low voice.

"Aw, I'm sorry did I scare you?" Harry asked innocently

"Ha ha" Tony let out a small fake laugh "So I've got to ask, your magic, how does it work? Is it just energy?"

"Well" Harry's face turned thoughtful "there are tons of theories. Some have theorised that the magic comes from the earth, others believe that magic comes from other dimensions and witches and wizards are simply people who can channel it. Some believed it was a gift from god, I personally think that magic is energy, like you said but wizards and witches are simply born with it while muggles aren't."

"Muggles?" Rhodes asked

"Uh...non-magic folk" Harry answered "basically anyone who doesn't have magic. So by that logic, everyone apart from myself and Thor here are muggles. But anyway, as I was saying, while I think magic is an energy, I also believe that it's alive. When I was younger and my emotions were high I would accidently perform magic, that would be because my magic responded to my emotions and desires. For a lot of it, magic is about intent"

"Intent?" Steve asked

"Yeah" Harry nodded "for example, there's a spell called the killing curse. It's instant death if you're hit with it, if I wanted to really kill someone then my magic would respond to that and would kill them when I fired, but if I didn't then I'd probably just hurt them at worst."

"Killing curse? That's..." Tony seemed to be struggling to find a word "...interesting"

"Yeah but it's also forbidden on my world"

"You're world?" Pepper asked.

"Oh right, well seeing as we're a team I should probably tell you all, I'm from another world"

"You're an alien?" Rhodes blinked.

"No, I mean like another dimension or universe. In my original world there was a hidden race of witches and wizards and I was born into it" Harry began explaining "you see in my original world my parent died when I was one, I was sent to my muggle aunt and uncle. I didn't know I was a wizard until my eleventh birthday when I got an invitation to a wizarding school"

"A wizard school?" Rhodes and Tony blurted out in disbelief.

"Yeah, I was shocked too" Harry chuckled "thought it was a dream, but it's true. I went there for a good few years of my life."

"So how did this wizarding thing work?" Steve asked.

"Well, the wizarding world was hidden from the muggles. After being educated at wizarding world we had a choice, get a magical job or go and do your muggle education and get a muggle job. Most preferred to get a magical job. It was basically like a country hidden in another counter, even had our own government and everything."

"How did it work?" Thor asked

"Horribly" Harry answered immediately "it was a bunch of idiots leading a bunch of sheep"

"Sheep? I don't understand" Thor spoke, obviously confused "you were part of a race of sheep?"

"Not actual sheep" Harry held back a laugh, he didn't want to seem offensive, especially when dealing with the god of thunder "it means people who are easily persuaded and just believe what everyone else does or what ever is easy for them to believe. Anyway, enough about me, how are you all doing? I can imagine the battle was hard on all of us"

"It was not my first battle" Thor said "though it is regrettable that it was my brother on the enemy line"

"Well we don't get to chose our family" Harry smiled at him "the only thing we can do is our best with what we have to work with. You're strong, and I'm not just talking about your physical strength. You can get through this, I can't promise it'll be better. All I can say is do your best with what you have to work with, I can't promise everything will work out but you'll sleep better knowing you tried."

"Thank you" Thor smiled back "for your kinds words, you are truly wise."

"Nah, I'm just good at making things up on the spot" Harry grinned "what about you Steve?"

"Not my first battle either" Steve said before taking a sip of his drink "I'm just glad that we were there, otherwise things could have been a lot worse."

"Ha" Clint snorted "more than worse, we'd all be dead."

"Yeah" Steve nodded in agreement "but we survived, and that's the important part."

"Cap's right" Harry agreed "we saved lives and lived to tell the tale"

"Hey, hey..." Clint raised his hands in surrender "just saying. Truth be told, I think everything went good. I didn't get to put an arrow in Loki, sorry Thor, but apart from that it was alright. Not something I'd ever want to do again...but it was alright."

"Same" Natasha nodded "what about you Bruce?"

"I..." Bruce let out a deep breath "...am rather surprised that the army hasn't been knocking down the door trying to get to me"

"You're under shield protection now" Harry replied "they can't touch you as long as you're a member of the Avengers."

"That's good to know" Bruce gave him a small smile "and...you were right...about directing the Hulk. And maybe...maybe...you were right about him not being a monster"

"I told you" Harry smiled "I know monsters, and you're not one. You know, in my world we had werewolves..."

"Werewolves?" Came the voice of none other than Stark.

"As I was saying before I was rudely interrupted" Harry shot Tony a mild glare before turning back to Bruce "we had werewolves and everyone believed them to become mindless and evil beasts on the full moon so the majority of people stayed away from them. I knew a guy who was a werewolf, if you asked people then they'd say he was a monster...at least until he gave his life trying to make the world a better place. You're strong enough to be a monster, but like I said...the other guy is only a monster if you want him to be"

"Thank you" Bruce replied as he began thinking about Harry's words.

"You know, one day I'd like to sit you down and just check out your mind."

"Check out my mind?"

"Yeah, if you give me permission then I'd like to go into your mind. It's possible I could help you improve your situation with the Hulk."

"You think it's possible?" Bruce asked "What do you think you can do?"

"I don't know" Harry shrugged "at worst I'd do nothing, at best it'll maybe make the Hulk listen to you."

"You can read minds?" Pepper asked, looking a little worried.

"Don't worry" Harry laughed "I won't read your mind without permission. But yes, I can read minds. I prefer not to do it and I usually only do it with permission or when I think it's necessary. Anyway, I think that maybe I can work things out with the Hulk, or maybe I won't. It's up to you Bruce."

"I...I will think about it" Banner said as he began processing what he was just told.

"Tony?" Harry asked, waiting for Tony to put in his own opinion on the battle.

"I...guys...the battle was brutal" Tony said, looking much more serious than usual "people could have died, we could've died. Harry, you could've died...you could've died for me...for me and everyone."

"No" Harry shook his head "I couldn't have"

"What do you mean?" Rhodes asked, looking very confused "Didn't you carry a nuke up into an alien portal? Sounds like it was definitely possible for you to die"

"Nope" Harry shook his head again "I can't die."

"But it was a nuke and..."

"No" Harry cut him off "you don't understand, I cannot die. I literally cannot die"

"Are you saying you're immortal? Because it kind of sounds like you're saying you're immortal" Bruce said as everyone stared at Harry.

"That's because I am immortal" Harry nodded "and trust me...it's not all as awesome as people make it out to be."

"Sounds pretty awesome to me" Rhodes couldn't help but comment.

"Outlive all your loved ones, then talk to me about it being awesome" Harry couldn't help but reply "sorry" he said when he noticed the mood had gone worse "sorry about that. But anyway, Tony, you're not a soldier. Me and Cap are, we've both seen people try to die to save us. I reckon a few other people in this room might have had the same experience, remember Yinsen?"

"Yeah" Tony smiled "last I checked, he was going around the world and helping villages. I offered him a job at Stark industries but he refused."

"Yeah, well if you remember the cave then you remember that Yinsen was ready to die for you. That doesn't make you weaker, we both know you were ready to risk your life for the team and the city. You're not weak, you did the best you could. And that's all the matters."

"Yeah well I...thanks" Tony settled with a small smile, Harry could tell that the matter wasn't entirely finished but decided not to push for now.

"By the way, what are we planning to do with this?" Harry asked.

"What do you mean?" Natasha raised an eyebrow.

"I mean we are a team made of Earth's mightiest heroes" Harry gestured to himself and the whole team "we need to set some rules"

"Ah, must we?" Tony groaned

"Hey" Pepper slapped him on the shoulder "Harry is right"

"Why does it sound like you're going to be hearing that a lot?" Barton whispered to Tony who discreetly gave Barton the finger when Pepper looked away to sip her drink.

"You guy's should set up some rules" Pepper continued "people will be watching you, not just paparazzi, you guys are now big public figures. Some even more famous than before, you need to figure things out as soon as possible. For example, how is this team going to be run? Who's going to be in charge?"

"I think that Harry should be in charge" Steve said "you know what you're doing and you know your way round a fight, plus you know more about this time than I do."

"Agreed" Barton nodded

"I am also in agreement" Thor spoke after draining his glass and refilling it again "the wizard has proven to be a wise leader and a courageous warrior."

"The other guy seems to like you" Bruce said "and...I wouldn't mind following you"

"I'm in" Natasha smiled, everyone then turned to Tony.

"Great, mandatory participation" Tony mumbled before turning back to the Avengers "fine, fine, I'm alright with him being the leader." He sighed and rolled his eyes before taking another sip of his drink.

"You'll have to forgive him, Tony doesn't make much friends" Pepper smirked at Tony who sent her a small glare.

"Fine" Harry sighed "I will lead" It appeared that no matter where he went, people always looked up to him to lead them. When he was in school it started with the students of Hogwarts, and then even adults began obeying him. He was tempted to tell them to chose someone else, but he remembered Fury's words. And Daphne's words 'you have power and respect Harry, you could ignore it or use it for good, and we both know which option you'd prefer and which you'd chose'.

"Alright, let's discuss rules then" Harry took a sip of his drink "Firstly, I think we need to focus on being a team, we did as well as we did in that battle because we were willing to work with each other. We'd be even better after some practise, a lot of us prefer working solo and that's fine, but on team missions we need to be able to work together like we've been doing it our whole lives. From now, if we do anything that will have an effect on the team then we discuss it with the team."

"So train together and make sure we do what's best for the team?" Steve summarised, Harry nodded "I'm fine with that"

"Good, any objections?" Harry asked everyone, when nobody objected he continued "I also think we need to discuss outside interference"

"What do you mean?" Rhodes asked.

"Well firstly many of us have jobs, Clint and Natasha work for Shield, me and Cap also basically work for shield though not in the same way. Tony has Stark industries and Thor has Asgard, Bruce doesn't have an extra job at the moment but that could change. Now while I have no objections to having jobs, I think we should make sure that they don't interfere with the team. For example, we don't go around blabbing secrets to other people. What happens between the team stays between the team. Everyone alright with that?" Again, everyone agreed. "Okay, let's talk about the government, I don't want them interfering in this."

"Hold up" Rhodes raised a hand to signal Harry to stop talking "what do you mean?"

"Look we have a good thing here" Harry said as he gestured to the team "we are more than capable of keeping each other in check. We don't need the government or politicians interfering in our business"

"But this is everybody's business" Rhodes objected

"They sent a nuke at us" Natasha reminded him "if it wasn't for us, there wouldn't be much people left to agree with you"

"And I understand that" Rhodes said "but wouldn't be much better for us to work with the government, I mean think about how it could..."

"No" Harry cut him off "there is no way we are working with them. I have had enough with idiots in charge on my old world and I am not about to deal with them on this world. If we bring in the politicians then I am leaving this team" Harry promised, shocking everyone.

"You can't be serious?" Rhodes looked at him with disbelief.

"Not only did they send a nuke at a city" Harry began "they also tried to turn the tesseract into a way for them to produce weapons of mass destruction."

"Yeah but..."

"Does it look like I'm done?" Harry cut Rhodes off "I was planning to tell you guys this later, but might as well be now. A very large amount of politicians and shield agent are being placed under arrest, that is if they haven't already been arrested"

"What are you talking about?" Barton asked with slightly widened eyes.

"After the world council sent the nuke, I went to 'pay them a visit'. Oh, don't worry I didn't kill them or anything" He added when he saw their faces "but when I did, I read through their minds. Guess what, you all heard of Hydra?" All but Thor nodded, Cap looked at Harry and was hoping that Harry was going to reveal something good even though he knew it was unlikely "Well they had infiltrated Shield and the government"

"You're joking" Steve let out a heavy breath as his jaw was pulled down slightly as his face lit up with disbelief, frustration and anger.

"No, I'm not" Harry shook his head "I read their minds, and I told Fury as much as I could get out. He's currently sweeping through everyone and everything that is even suspected of being involved with Hydra, he's already made a lot of arrests from what I'm hearing. In fact, Fury complained about how much extra work he has to do. So no, I don't trust governments, especially infiltrated ones."

"Yeah but..." Rhodes began to argue but was cut off by Pepper.

"Guys" Pepper interrupted "let's not make everything be about business and work, we've discussed enough for now and you discuss it some more later. Come on, we're celebrating"

"Fine" Harry smiled at her "thanks again for the invite" Harry said to Pepper and Tony.

"You are welcome" Pepper smiled back

"So" Tony spoke with the intention of bringing the conversation back to a more cheery setting "I have to ask, my dad told me this story once...is it true that you tricked a dude into believing that he was the president?"

"Ha" Steve let out a laugh "I remember that, he believe it for a good five minutes"

"Okay how'd you do it?!" Tony said, eager to learn.

"Well..." Harry laughed "it started with a rubber duck, three pints of milk, one bra and a bad karaoke singer."

A.N: Hey guys hope you enjoyed the chapter. I was going to go more into the whole Hydra thing, but I feel like I need to re-watch the winter soldier before I upload more. I also just want to thank people for being patient with me and waiting for the chapters, that's great for me because I do have a life (I'm surprised too).

Also T-Biggz, tell me your idea, I am currently writing another story when I'm not writing this but I already have two ideas for stories and am currently deciding which one to go with, if you give me your idea then I can't promise to write it but I might do.

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