Chapter 8 -

Soon it was the day of the Yule ball, the champions were waiting outside the hall. Cedric Diggory, the Hufflepuff and Hogwarts champion, was there with the Ravenclaw seeker, Cho Chang. Victor Krum was attending the ball with Rose, thanks to Harry. Victor wore red while Rose wore a lovely blue dress.

Adrian, Ryan and Harry were each waiting for their dates to arrive. Adrian was wearing some black robes, while Harry and Ryan were both wearing black muggle suits.

"Why exactly are you both wearing muggle clothes?" Adrian asked Harry.

"Firstly, they're more comfortable than those robes" Harry replied "secondly, they allow more movement. Thirdly they were cheaper than robes, and also to annoy people"

"Annoy people?"

"Yeah I'm a squib in Slytherin," Ryan grinned. "my existence annoys them, imagine them seeing me in muggle clothes."

"Yeah, plus if they're going to force me to do something then I'm going to do it my way." Harry added. "Imagine the look on Dumbledore and everyone else when the Slytherin arrives in muggle clothing, it'll be hilarious."

"So you're doing it just to annoy people?" Adrian laughed "What about both of your dates?""

"She likes me in muggle clothing, I asked her before if it was alright, she said she was fine with it." Harry said.

"I asked mine too," Ryan said. "plus I don't think it matters what I wear when everyone will be too busy looking at my date."

"By the way, any advice for how to deal with Violet?" Adrian asked.

"Yes, basically if she wants something then you do it." Harry replied and Ryan nodded in agreement.

"Wait that's it?!"

"Basically, but seriously all you need to worry about I making sure that she stays happy." Ryan responded. "Because if she doesn't..." Ryan trailed off.

"Then what?" Adrian asked, suddenly looking very nervous.

"I will pray for you." Harry said solemnly as he patted him on the back, his mood then instantly switched into a bright smile. "Oh look here are our dates."

The boys looked at the three girls coming towards them, Adrian was focused on Violet wearing a brilliant violet dress and gold earrings. They went nicely with her long hair and brought attention to her thin but bright face and her violet eyes. Ryan was focused on Fleur who looked absolutely brilliant with her silver backless dress, silver earrings and beautiful blonde hair.

Harry, meanwhile, had his eyes focused on Daphne. She wore a beautiful silver dress, with silver earrings, she and Harry wore matching silver bands on their right wrists as a sign of their engagement. Her blue eyes were dazzling and were the only things that brought attention away from her lovely blonde hair. The girls took their partners arms and the champions waited outside the hall.

"Don't you look brilliant tonight?" Harry kissed Daphne on the cheek

"Not so bad yourself Potter" She adjusted his tie and kissed him on the cheek

"Muggle clothes?" Violet smiled in amusement "You and Ryan look good in them, but you look good in yours as well Adrian." She pecked Adrian on the cheek, causing him to blush.

"Are you all ready?" McGonagall asked "Now, when I call you, I want you all to walk in. Now…Mr Potter?"

"Yes?" Harry and Adrian said at the same time

"Slytherin Potter, what are you wearing?" She gestured to his muggle clothes

"Clothes, I hope," Harry replied. "I have shoes, trousers, a shirt, tie and a blazer."

"Why are you not wearing robes?"

"Because I was obligated to come, I was not obligated to wear robes. Quite frankly, I could've come in here wearing jeans and a t-shirt and it wouldn't be against the rules so can we hurry up? I have a lady to impress and old men to piss off." McGonagall glared at him for several moments, Harry meanwhile simply stared back with a small smile.

"Very well." She sighed when Harry was unaffected by her glare "be ready"

Eventually the champions walked into the hall, people began whispering and gossiping at the very sight of them.

"Oh sweet Merlin, is that Krum and that Rose girl?"

"Is that Adrian with a Slytherin?"

"Damn, Greengrass looks brilliant."

"Oh Merlin, Harry is so handsome."

"Is he wearing muggle clothing?"

"Why is he wearing a suit?"

"How the hell did the squib of all people get Delacour to go with him?"

"I swear, Greengrass is probably a Veela as well."

"Oh, I'm so jealous."

"Damn, he's hot."

"She's so lucky"

"Look at that smug prick."

"Lucky idiot."

"Oh, they look so cute together."

Soon the dancing started, Cedric, Cho, Rose and Krum danced nicely. Adrian and Violet were also great, just like Ryan and Fleur. Harry and Daphne danced together with expert coordination, leaving many people jealous.

Daphne and Harry attracted the most stares with their brilliantly coordinated dancing, they moved around the room gracefully, never taking their eyes off each other.

"The smug bastard is making me look bad." Adrian whispered to Violet who laughed slightly at his joke.

"Yeah, well, don't be offended, Harry doesn't intentionally show people up. Or at least it's not intentional this time."

"How long have you guys known each other?" Adrian asked curiously.

"Pretty much most of my life." Violet answered. "Me, my brother, Rose and Ryan, we owe Harry a lot. He's a good guy, you should feel lucky having him as a brother, don't tell him I said that though."

"Sure," Adrian smiled. "you look lovely tonight by the way." He said as he span her before pulling her back in.

"Thank you," She smiled at him warmly. "I'm glad you like it."

"Oh I do more than like it." Adrian winked at her.

"Harry has been teaching you hasn't he?" She said with a knowing smile.

"Wow you worked that out quick, yes he has. Was I any good?"

"Not bad Potter, not bad." She smiled. "Oh look at your friends…or your former friends if you want to be accurate" Adrian looked at Hermione and Ron, while Hermione looked quite nice, Ron was wearing the most horrible robes he had ever seen.

"Sweet Merlin, those are ridiculous robes." He exclaimed.

"Why doesn't he just buy better ones or fix them with magic?" Violet wondered.

"Thinking is not really Ron's strong suit." Adrian said with a fake whisper.

"Can't be as bad as his current one." Violet joked.

"Ha," Adrian laughed. "by the way where's your brother? I was sort of expecting the 'don't hurt my sister speech'."

"Oh Red's not going to bother with that, he knows I can take care of myself. Plus he is kind of busy with his own date." Violet gestured in Red's direction, Adrian looked where she gestured and saw Red.

Red was also wearing a muggle suit except he had a tie that was predictably red, however at the moment all of Red's attention was on Luna Lovegood. She was wearing a rather odd looking purple dress with white high heels and star earrings. She smiled in-between talking about magical creatures and enjoying some pudding.

"They look nice together." Adrian commented. Violet laughed when she saw Red blush after Luna kissed him on the cheek.


Later, all the champions and their dates were sat at dinner with the tournament judges.

"Mr Potter," Dumbledore said "may I ask why you and Mr Flight are wearing muggle clothing?"

"Cheaper, more comfortable and I look rather good in them." Harry replied

"I second that." Daphne grinned

"Plus, I'm in this tournament against my will," Harry continued "don't think you can tell me how to dress as well."

"Now Mr Potter," Dumbledore said in a calm voice. "it is true that you are being forced in this tournament but that does not mean that we need to be hostile to each other."

"Tell that to the dragon I killed."

"Ah yes," Dumbledore sighed "about that dragon, I'm under the understanding that you've claimed it"

"That's right," Harry nodded "under the laws of the ministry, I've defeated it and I can claim it so I did."

"What do you plan to do with it?"

"Whatever I want," Harry responded, deciding not to tell Dumbledore that he had already used it. "I could sell it, I could fashion some amour out of it, the possibilities are limited to my mind and I personally believe my mind to be very creative when it wants to be." Harry said before pulling out his wand.

"Mr Potter, what are you doing?" Dumbledore asked.

"I want to show you a trick." Harry replied.

"What trick?"

"I'm going to make a reporter appear on your shoulder," Harry quickly fired his wand at the bug on Dumbledore's shoulder and suddenly Dumbledore fell to the floor with Rita Skeeter on top of him, the entire hall turned in their direction to see Rita sitting on top of Dumbledore's face. "that's disgusting sir," Harry said in a disgusted voice. "you're old enough to be her grandfather sir."

Rita quickly jumped to her feet, she couldn't transform back. She realized that everyone had seen her, she turned around to see Harry grinning at her. With a growl she removed her wand and aimed it at him. Daphne quickly pulled her wand out and disarmed Rita, just as Violet hit her with a body bind, leaving Harry free to stun her. The woman fell, and unfortunately she landed on Dumbledore again.

"Really? Again sir?" Ryan said with a disapproving shake of his head.

"Well my lady," Harry got up and extended his hand to Daphne. "shall we retire for the evening?"

"We shall." Daphne grabbed his hand and stood up.

"Goodnight everyone." Harry said as he and Daphne walked away, Violet and Ryan simply shook their heads with amusement.


"Well, that was eventful." Daphne said once they got back to the common room.

"Yes, because in Hogwarts, you can never just have a simple ball." Harry sighed.

"Though, we did have a good time and you were brilliant tonight," Daphne grinned. "I think you deserve a reward"

"What kind of reward?" Harry looked at her hopefully

"Will I do?" She smiled at him coyly.

"You'll do just fine," Harry grabbed her waist and pulled her closer as she wrapped her arms around his neck and the two met with a passionate kiss.


"That was fun." Violet said to Adrian later that night as the two walked down the hallway.

"I'm glad you enjoyed yourself," Adrian replied as the two suddenly stopped. "I think you'll be fine from here. Plus I don't think it's really a good idea for me to come so close to the Slytherin common room, I'd probably get hexed."

"You know they wouldn't do anything if you came in with the rest of us?"

"What do you mean?" Adrian asked.

"Adrian, Ryan is a squib in a house full of discriminating pureblood assholes, yet he's not gone to the hospital wing once this year."

"Now that you mention it, that is a little odd." Adrian frowned.

"Yeah and it's because of one simple reason, our little group is a family, we look after each other. If someone messed with Ryan then they mess with me, my brother, Harry and Rose. And you...you're Harry's family, that means if someone has a problem with you then they have a problem with us."

"Thanks, really, thank you." Adrian said sincerely before he glanced at both ends of the empty hallway before turning his attention back to Violet. "Well I have to go now and...um...I was wondering if you wanted to...I mean if you enjoyed yourself enough to..."

"Oh for Merlin's sake," She rolled her eyes. "just come here Potter." She grabbed him by the back of his head and pulled him into a kiss. Adrian's eyes widened slightly before he decided to go with the flow and placed his hands on her waist before returning the kiss. Several moments later the two stopped. "Hmm, that wasn't bad." She grinned before walking away. "Nice one Potter, in fact just for you I'm going to walk with more swinging in my hips than necessary. Night Potter." She called out.

As she neared the end of the hallway she glanced back and nearly laughed when she saw a frozen Adrian who was only moving his eyes.


"Thanks for walking me back Victor." Rose said to Krum when he escorted her back. "I can go from here."

"Are you sure?" Krum asked with his heavy accent.

"Positive." She smiled. "Thanks for today, it was really nice."

"Your friends threated to remove my testicles if it was not." Krum admitted.

"That was nice of them." Rose smiled.

"Maybe for you." Krum said under his breath.

"Night." Rose said as she kissed him on the cheek and walked away.


"Thank you for escorting me back Ryan," Fleur said to Ryan as he walked her back to Beuaxbaton carriage. "you have been a perfect gentlemen today."

"Nothing less than my best behaviour for such a perfect woman." Ryan said with a charming smile.

"Oh Ryan," She laughed. "you are such a flirt."

"Is it working?" Ryan asked hopefully.

"What do you think?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I think a lot of different things at a lot of different times."

"Like what?"

"For example I think you're looking incredibly beautiful tonight and now I am currently thinking about a lot of things I'd like to do."

"Oh? Perhaps you'd like to tell me one of those things."

"I think I'd rather show you." Ryan said as the two stopped walking, Ryan grabbed Fleur by the waist and pulled her in for a searing kiss, one she quickly returned. "So..." Ryan said several moments later when the kiss broke. "...did you like that?" He asked.

"Oui." Fleur nodded before she let go of him, she grabbed his hand and pulled him along as she walked back to the carriage.

"You do realise that you're taking me to..."

"Yes." Fleur cut him off.

"Does that mean we're going to your..."

"Yes."

"Does that mean we are going to..."

"Yes."

"Really?"

"Yes."

"Can I cheer?"

"No."

"Just a little?"

"..."

"..."

"Yes."

"Whoo!"


"Well Luna...tonight was certainly...an experience." Red said as he and Luna stood outside the Ravenclaw common room.

"Yes it was," Luna said with a dreamy smile. "I enjoyed myself."

"Me too." Red admitted.

"That's nice." She smiled before her hand scratched the back of his ear, Red's body twitched slightly as he leaned into her touch. "Good kitty." She smiled, Red snapped out of it when she removed her hand and shook his head.

"Could you please not do that?" Red sighed.

"But you like it, don't you?" Luna asked.

"Well...yes but..."

"Then I don't see the problem." She said before she leaned up and kissed him on the cheek. "Night-night." She smiled before walking into the common room.

"...the fuck...?" Red said before shaking his head and walking off. "I...do not know how I am supposed to feel about her." He said to himself.


A tense silence was in the room as Harry and his friends stood in a hospital room, in front of them were two beds. On one was a red headed woman, on the other was a man with the exact same hair and face as Harry except this man was older. Harry's friends were silent as Harry looked at his parents, Harry had not said a single word since he had entered the room. His friends were rather worried and the fact that lightning kept appearing and dying out on Harry's hands did not help.

"He's going to pay." Harry said eventually, breaking the silence.

"Harry," Rose spoke first. "I know that Voldemort..."

"No," Harry cut him off. "not him. Him as well but that is not who I am talking about." Harry said before taking several deep breaths.

"Then who?" Violet asked.

"Dumbledore!" Harry growled. "I can sense his signature on them, it is recent as well. They would have woken up...he stopped them."

"Are you going to kill him?" Red asked.

"No," Harry shook his head, resisting the temptation to go to Dumbledore and blast him to oblivion. "he made my family suffer and he WILL suffer before I allow him to die. You guys remember what we learnt when we went to Canada?"

"Yeah," Violet nodded. "I know what you're talking about."

"The counter to the curse." Ryan said, realising what they were talking about.

"Violet, you and Red do the spells on them. I'll watch." Harry said, Violet and Red nodded before they pulled their wands out and got to work.

"It'll be alright Harry." Rose said, as she put her hand on his shoulder.

"Dumbledore will get his...eventually, when the time is right. But for now...I just want my parents back." Harry said, his eyes fixed on the sleeping forms of his mother and father.

"Hey um...how come they're not...you know...sickly and thin?" Ryan asked, hoping to get Harry into a conversation so he could focus on something else.

"Stasis charms." Harry said absently before silence filled the room again.

A minute later Red and Violet stepped back, a few seconds after the Potter parents slowly began moving. They groaned softly as their eyes opened, revealing James Potter's brown eyes and Lily Potter's green eyes.

"They're waking up." Red grinned, Lily Potter was the first out of her sleep while her husband looked like he was still trying to wake up.

"Mum!" Harry said as he stepped forward and grabbed her hands.

"H...Harry?" She whispered, her voice like music to his ears.

"Yes, yes!" Harry said quickly in an excited voice. "Yes mum it's me! Red, go get Adrian!"

"But Harry he's in..."

"I don't care," Harry cut off Red's protest. "go get him now."

"You're the boss." Red sighed before he flashed away in a ball of flames.

"Adrian?" Lily said as she sat up, her eyes blinked as she tried to get used to the light. "Adrian, H...Harry I..." Lily paused as she finally got a look at the boy holding her hands, the boy's hair and face were exactly the same as a younger James Potter but his eyes...those were her eyes.. "H...Harry?!"

"Yes mum!" Harry nodded, tear drops dripping out his eye. "It's me mum!"

"But...but you're big and...wait Voldemort...he..."

"You were in a coma mum!" Harry said, cutting her off. "You just woke up! A...Adrian is coming mum! He'll be here soon! I promise! I thought you were dead mum!" Harry said, openly crying.

"Oh Harry!" She said as the two embraced each other. "Baby it's fine, I'm here for you. It's going to be alright baby!"

"Lil?" A voice groaned, the two released each other and looked towards James Potter who was sat up and looking at them. "What the hell? H...Harry? Is that you?!" James said as he looked at him with disbelief.

"Yeah dad," Harry smiled, wiping his tears away. "it's me." He smiled as he walked over and pulled him into a hug.

"But...you're supposed to be a baby!" James pointed out even though he hugged Harry back.

"You and mum were in a coma," Harry began explaining once he let go. "I thought you were both dead until recently. I...I'm fourteen now."

"But...we missed so many years." James said in a said whisper.

"I'm sorry dad." Harry said.

"It's...it's not your fault son, why are you sorry for? W...what about Adrian?"

"He's coming dad, one of my friends is bringing him. He'll be here son, bad news though..."

"What?" James asked.

"He is unfortunately….ginger." Harry joked with a smile, one that caused James to snort.

"He's definitely your son." Lily said with a smile. "I...I still can't believe it. You're fourteen! Last time I saw you, you were sharing a crib! How has Sirius been? Where is he?"

"Yeah actually, where is Padfoot and Moony?" James said as he looked around and noticed the others standing in the room. "Oh hello, and who are these people?"

"These are my best friends," Harry explained. "that's Rose, that's Ryan and that's Violet." Harry said, pointing to each person as he sad their name. "Violet's brother is called Red and he's bringing Adrian."

"Hello Mr and Mrs Potter." Harry's friends all said at the same time with identical waves.

"As you can see I've trained them well," Harry said dryly. "as for Sirius and Remus...I haven't seen either of them since I was a baby."

"What do you mean? Sirius is your godfather!" James said looking very confused and a little angry.

"Who raised you Harry?" Lily asked, with a worried expression.

"Myself for the most part." Harry replied. Lily was about to question him on that but was cut off by the sound of running.

"Mum?! Dad?!" Adrian said in shock as he entered the room with Red behind.

"Adrian?" James laughed. "Look at you! You look great!"

"Oh baby come here." Lily said as she stretched her arms out, Adrian rushed forwards and quickly hugged her. "Oh baby, I can't believe how grown up you look." She whispered as she hugged him back.

"Lily? James?" A voice interrupted. Everyone in the room turned to the doorway where Dumbledore was stood along with a couple of healers.

Harry's friends looked at Harry, they could see him controlling himself. He glanced back to them and gave them a quick shake of his head. They nodded, understanding what he meant. Not now, revenge would come later.


A.N: Hey guys, hope you liked the chapter. I know some might be wondering why Harry didn't just wake Lily and James up in the original/first version, well there are two reasons for that. One is the fact that this Harry and his friends spent longer outside of Hogwarts and learnt more when they went around the world. Plus when I wrote the last story I admittedly made it up chapter by chapter but now I already have knowledge of the full story so I can go from there.

Anyway thanks for reading and feel free to leave a review.