I'm pretty sure you understand, right? This is just Harry/Kino being a troll and messing everyone up.
Death is totally chill with the idea of going along with all this. Harry is his master, after all and…really, what's supposed to do with never ending existence?
I do not own Harry Potter
Kino had a cell phone in his right hand pressed up against his ear. He laughed suddenly, causing some of the boys in the dorm to look over at him.
"Harry, mate," Seamus finally decided to speak up, "you do know electronics don't work at Hogwarts, right?"
"Hm? Hold on." Kino said pulling the phone away from his ear to reveal a glowing screen, both Dean and Seamus looked at the thing in confusion, "Did you say something?"
"Er, how is that thing working? It's a cell phone, right?"
"Yes, it certainly is." Kino agreed, "Can we do this later? I'm trying to make a very important deal."
"Mate?" Ron looked over at him in confusion, "Is that a fane?"
"It's a phone." Kino corrected, "And like I said, this is a very important call, can you hold on a minute? Sorry." He put the phone back to his ear, "Yeah, I can do tomorrow…I most certainly will not! Well…no…no, I suppose that works." He let out a resigned sigh, "Yeah, I know you're busy, souls to collect and whatnot…Ugh! Seriously!? Fine." He huffed, "Tomorrow, then…I don't know…how about poker? Stakes? How about my soul? Aw, come on, I know you've been wanting to get your hands on me for a while now..." Kino smirked, "Deal. Tomorrow at seven. See you then~" he sang cheerfully, then closed the flip-phone and looked up at them, "Something you need?"
"What was that all about?" Dean wondered puzzledly.
Kino shrugged,
"Deal with Death. We met a few times and…I guess we just hit it off. Anyways, I'm going to have a shower." Kino decided, gathering his things and walking off to the bathroom, leaving the Gryffindor boys alone.
"What?" Seamus wondered, both him and Dean turned to look at Ron who looked just as lost.
"Don't look at me." The red head said defensively, "I have no bloody idea what he's talking about."
The next day, Hermione started bombarding Kino with questions in regards to what he planned on doing during the tournament.
"Don't worry, 'Mione." Kino said cheerfully, "I have a really good strategy…I think."
Hermione gave him an odd look, and Ron decided to ask,
"Does this have something to do with that phone call you made last night?"
"Phone call?" Hermione repeated, "Electronics don't work at Hogwarts, Ron."
Kino sent Ron a smirk,
"You won't be able to prove anything."
Ron frowned, and Hermione raised an eyebrow,
"What's that supposed to mean, Harry?"
Kino's lips twitched in amusement,
"Well, everyone knows that electronics don't work at Hogwarts, so there's no possible way I could have used a phone last night, and no one will ever be able to prove it."
"I could just get the phone." Ron argued.
Kino paused, then opened his mouth to protest when a sudden ringing caught all their attention. Hermione's eyes bulged slightly when Kino took out what was most definitely a cell phone from his pocket and flipped it open,
"Hello?"
"That is not possible!" Hermione denied.
Kino raised a finger to signal she ought to be quiet,
"Yeah, not really a good time…alright, alright, no need to be like that, I get it…Ugh! You want Lady Luck to play too? That's not fair at all! You know we'd all lose if she joined…Well, she's Lady Luck! No, no, if she's playing then the deal's off…what do you mean by that?" Kino smirked, "Fine, but I'm inviting Cupid if you're inviting Luck…Good." He said satisfied, "See you tonight." He hung up the phone.
"Mister Potter?" he looked up to see McGonagall standing in front of him.
"Hi." He said.
She gave a nod, but there was an odd look on her face,
"What was that you were using just now? A muggle device?"
"A cell phone." Kino agreed, "It was a gift."
"How is it working here, Mister Potter?" she wanted to know.
"How? No clue." Kino shrugged.
It was clear McGonagall was pondering on whether she ought to confiscate the device or not. After a long while, it seems she decided against it. Though she certainly was curious…
"That's not possible…" Hermione murmured.
"I'm sure that when you were ten you were certain Dragons didn't exist, or that wizards didn't exist." Kino added in, "And now you're saying that cell phones can't function at Hogwarts?" his lips twitched as Hermione realized just how silly that sounded, "I wonder, Hermione, is anything 'impossible'?"
Classes that day were much as Kino remembered them to be, boring and tedious, though perhaps even more so now that he was an all-knowing god.
Every spell and every bit of knowledge just seemed…so easy. And why did he take divination again? He was a god of Free Will so that was a little strange. Irony, Kino thought to himself.
When he saw the future, he didn't see anything linear. What he saw was potential and possibility. Because he was time, he knew that time wasn't linear. Because he was Free Will, he believed in a person's ability to choose. He never could turn something like that off, and he had no real need for the methods spoken of in Divination class. But he did rather well at giving half-assed predictions.
The teacher especially enjoyed it when he predicted his own death.
After his classes, however, he spotted a girl who was knocked to the ground, books scattered about. He recognised her immediately and went to help her.
"Hey there, need a hand?" Kino started picking up her books, then handed them back to her.
The girl was grateful, carefully moving a strand of stringy blond hair from her face.
"Oh, I've already got two." She said, grey eyes looking surprised, "But thank you very much for your offer."
Kino chuckled at this. He wasn't supposed to meet Luna Lovegood until his fifth year, after all. But he did rather miss her.
"You're Harry Potter." The girl realized.
"Yes, I am." He agreed, "And you're Luna Lovegood. I don't believe we've met…usually we're supposed to introduce ourselves, but I suppose introducing each other works just as well. Nice to meet you, Luna."
"It's nice to meet you too, Harry." She agreed.
"Do you want me to help you?" he asked her, "You've quite a few books here." He noted, and they were all on magical creatures.
"You'd help me?" She wondered.
"Of course." He agreed, "You're interested in magical creatures?" he asked her conversationally. He knew it was certainly a good place to start.
Luna beamed at him,
"Yes. I really do hope to become a magizoologist in the future. I want to discover the crumple-horned snorkack."
Kino hummed at this,
"What's it look like?"
So, Luna went into her explanation on what a crumple-horned snorkack was, which then turned into a conversation about Nargles and soon veered off into wrackspurts territory before they reached the top of Ravenclaw tower.
"What belongs to you, but others use it more than you do?" The brass knocker on the door asked them.
"Oh, I know! My name." Kino answered.
"Correct." The knocker said and the door opened.
Kino looked at the door critically,
"Not very secure, is it?" he looked at Luna, "Or maybe I just have more Ravenclaw in me than I thought." He joked.
Luna laughed a bit at this,
"Maybe." She said thoughtfully.
He handed Luna her books,
"I can't enter the girl's dorms." Kino said, "So I'm afraid you'll have to take these from here…Oh! I just realized, I'm late!"
"Late?" Luna wondered.
"Well, not late yet." Kino relented, "But I promised I'd play poker with a friend of mine…do you want to join? I get the sense you aren't one to gamble, but I get the feeling you'll find my friend to be quite funny…well, maybe not funny, but he makes for a pretty interesting conversationalist."
Luna lit up and Kino wondered why he hadn't been so nice to her before. She deserved friends that were nice to her…
"I'd love to! Just let me put away my books, it will only take a minute." She agreed, scuttling off to her dorm.
Kino waited patiently for her to return. About three minutes later, she came out, a few Ravenclaws looked at Kino strangely, wondering what on earth he was doing in their common room, when Luna came out.
"All done." She said, "Let's go."
"Let's." Kino agreed and the two walked quickly out of the Ravenclaw tower, leaving a few people to ponder at the peculiar friendship that appeared to have been struck between Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood.
"I'm all in." Death said seriously as he pushed his chips further.
"Are you sure?" Kino asked him, not at all breaking his poker face.
"I'm all in too." Luna agreed, she had been winning that night, while Kino wasn't far behind.
The common room was opened and some of the Gryffindor students were returning from supper. They paused at the scene they saw awaiting them in the common room area. Death was sitting on the ground, all of them could make out the skeletal face and bone beneath the cloak, and Harry Potter appeared to be playing poker with him, along with Luna Lovegood.
The three of them turned over their cards and Kino smirked,
"It's my win. You don't get to have me for at least another month!"
Death let out a groan, his haunting voice echoing through the halls,
"You two are going to make me go soulrupt!"
Kino had to fight to keep from cracking, the look on all their faces though!
"H-Harry?" Hermione squeaked, causing Kino to turn around. Luna looked up too, and Death looked at her with his empty eye sockets.
"Uh…" Ron swallowed hard, "W-who's your friend there, mate?"
"Hm?" Kino tilted his head to the side, "Oh, this is Luna Lovegood. She's in Ravenclaw, a year bellow us."
"I-I think Ron was referring to the guy in the cloak." Hermione did not believe in gods, Kino could sense that. In fact, most people here didn't, and those that did, certainly did not believe the figure sitting in front of them was the Death.
"Oh, right!" Kino said, as though the thought hadn't occurred to him until then, "This is Death. Death, this is Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley."
Death made a sound, quite similar to wind rushing through a cave. It sent shivers down all their spines, accept for Luna and Kino who remained strangely unaffected.
"We crossed paths a few times." Death commented. He then got up, "I'm afraid I must tend to my duties." He gave a nod to Kino, then to Luna.
"Oh, goodbye, Mister Death, I hope to play you again." Luna said in a somewhat distant, even dreamy voice.
"See ya, Death." Kino shot him a grin, knowing Death had enjoyed freaking them all out. He could feel the amusement pouring off of him.
"Same time next week?" the figure asked Kino.
"Sounds like a plan." Kino agreed, waving him off so that he continue with his duty of ferrying souls.
No one said anything for a while, though Luna looked thoughtful,
"Might I join the two of you again as well? That was quite a lot of fun."
"You're always welcome." Kino agreed, not at all doubting Luna believed him when he had told her they'd be playing poker with Death. She probably wasn't even questioning the experience, Kino mused. He was going to have so much fun this year.
