Guest Yay you updated on my Birthday so cool! I love your work so far it's super cute and fun while also dealing with traumatic experiences and I'm a huge fan of the Harry is Kaneki trope. Love you hun! Keep on writing what makes you happy! :)

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Aww thanks that made me inexplicably happy

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Sorry for taking so long to update! I've just been drowning in homework and I didn't have much time to write. I've also added the story to AO3 so if you guys wanna read it there now you can!

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Kaneki sighed as he puked up his lunch. It had been a few weeks since he'd arrived at Hogwarts. Thankfully he'd gotten used to school life and human food over the past few weeks though nightmares still plagued his sleep.

He'd switched out his contacts for glasses only this time the frames were oval and much nicer looking (imagine Haise) and his hair had surprised him by starting to come in a black again (again think Haise)

The cool stone seared against his flushed body as he evened out his breathing. He stretched as he got up from the floor and noticed how stiff his body felt. He hadn't been able to train since that time in the forest so he'd been expecting it. He'd need to find some time for it later.

The more troubling thing though was how his kakuhou burned painfully. He hadn't had ghoul in multiple weeks which was a stark contrast to his daily binges back in Tokyo and it was getting harder and harder to ignore. Humans could only do so much for him and Tsukiyama was taking too long to ship him something more substantial.

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Kaneki was doing homework at the library when Ron walked up to him.

"Oi Kaneki, Hagrid wants to see you at 12 tonight. Take the cloak, I'll be coming along too but with a pass. After we get back there's someone I need to introduce you to," Ron said discreetly.

Kaneki nodded as he got up to head to class when a stabbing pain blossomed through his back. He gasped and hunched over as he tensed up from the pain, vision going spotty as the world swam.

"Woah! You ok?" Ron asked as he rushed to check on Kaneki.

The warm smell of flesh invaded Kaneki's nose and assaulted his mind. His mouth watered at the prospect of gorging himself on the tantalizing smell and it took too much effort to stop himself.

"Sorry, yeah, I'm fine. My muscles just got a bit cramped," Kaneki lied with a reassuring smile as he pushed his urges down.

"Do you need help?" Ron asked.

"N-no I'm fine," he said, accidentally catching another whiff of meat. Pulling out a small bottle he rubbed a bit of lavender oil on the collar of his clothes and hands which gave him some temporary relief.

"All right, but I'm gonna come with you just in case, 'sides, we're both headed to charms," Ron said, still concerned.

Kaneki nodded before he straightened out his back and continued walking, pretending that each step didn't hurt.

It was when he got to the courtyard that everything went to hell.

"Hey, Potter! My father and I have a bet you see. I don't think You're going to last 10 minutes in this tournament, he disagrees. He thinks you won't last 5!" Draco mocked arrogantly.

Kaneki's face scrunched up in annoyance but he didn't acknowledge the insult.

"Bugger off Malfoy!" Ron said without looking back.

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Normally owls didn't drop packages off during dinner but occasionally there were time-sensitive things that were. All this to say people hadn't been expecting a large cooler carried by 4 tired owls to drop right on top of the Gryffindor's chicken roast and fling it across the great hall.

And of course, like all troublesome things, this could all be tied back to Kaneki.

Said boy's eyes flashed with recognition and excitement when he saw the loopy, extravagant writing on the attached letter. Quickly tearing open the envelope he read the note and far too loudly said "Tsukiyama, I love you!"

In the commotion, most people completely missed the smaller red box that Kaneki grabbed first as he gathered everything up. As he walked out of the hall everyone had their eyes on him, quite a few whispering as he stopped at the head table.

"It's from Uta," he said, putting the box in front of McGonagall. The confusion in her face replaced itself with a smile as she took the box.

"Tell him thank you for me. What's the other thing?" She said.

"It's from Tsukiyama. Do you mind if I go put this in the dorms?" He told her.

"Good idea," she replied with a grimace as she thought about him lugging that with him for his last two classes.

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Kaneki pulled out the biggest stake he could find in the cooler, hands trembling as he hastily fumbled to rip open the plastic seal. His mouth salivating in anticipation as the rancid smell of ghoul flesh had him hanging off the edge of his seat. His eyes glimmered with sick glee as he slid it out of the packaging.

As his teeth finally ripped into the meat he felt euphoric relief wash over his body for the first time in weeks. All the built-up pain that had been plaguing him dissolved away as his mind turned foggy and focused only on food.

It was pure ecstasy, he imagined it was comparable to being high on drugs.

He'd gotten through three large chunks before he finally stopped cramming food down his throat. His body was full of energy and his mind was surprisingly clear as he pulled his wand out and cast a stasis charm on the meat and a cleaning charm on his clothes.

He smiled as he prepared for astronomy with an extra pip in his step.

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Kaneki's good mood had been shoved in everyone's face as he practically glowed with happiness. Looking at the clock, now it read 11:39. Only he, Hermione, and Ron were left in the common room.

"Ok, that's all our homework. You two should leave for Hagrid's soon. I'll stay here and wait for the call," Hermione whispered as she closed her book.

"Right, we'll see you when we get back," Kaneki said as he pulled up the hood of his invisibility cloak and Ron grabbed his pass.

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"Hi, Ron! Is Kaneki here?" Hagrid asked.

"Yeah," Kaneki said without taking off his hood.

"Right then follow me," he said walking into the forest.

"Where are we going?" Kaneki asked as he followed.

"You'll see. Though I gotta ask what's with the flower Hagrid?" Ron said.

"Well I thought I might try this dating thing again," he said awkwardly.

"Good for you!" Kaneki encouraged, his warm smile practically audible.

Just then a deep rumble made Hagrid stop.

"Hagrid?" A voice called out.

"Over here!" He called out. Just then a head popped through the forest brush before the headmistress of the Beauxbaton walked over.

"Ah 'agrid!" She said as she said with a smile "Oh! What is a student doing with you?" She asked, facing Ron.

"My brother is one of the tamers," he explained casually holding up his pass.

"Tamers? Does this have anything to do with what you have to show me?" She asked Hagrid.

"Yeah, it's just past here," he said as he pulled back a few branches to reveal fire, lots of fire.

"These are for the next task," Hagrid told her.

"Oh god," Kaneki muttered softly

Dragons

Ron shot a quick look vaguely in his direction as he walked up to his brother which he took as his cue to leave.

Kaneki quietly made his way back to the Gryffindor tower. Entering the fat lady's portrait door he noticed Hermione was talking to the fireplace and he did a double-take.

"Oh, he's back!" Hermione said softly to the fire.

"Kaneki, this is Sirius Black, the "murder" from last year and your godfather," Hermione said putting air quotes around the word murderer and gesturing to the fire.

"What type of magic is that? I didn't realize you could use a fireplace to call people!" He said in slight awe.

"It's called the floo and you can even teleport using it," Hermione explained quickly.

"Hey Kaneki, it's nice to finally meet you! I'm sorry I couldn't have been there when you were younger," Sirius said apologetically.

"It's fine, I heard the full story from Hermione and Ron." He sadness that leaked into his voice.

"It's not fine, I should've been there for you. Not locked up in prison because I wanted revenge!" he pressed.

"No, I understand the feeling of wanting revenge. I certainly didn't feel remorse when I killed Quirrell." A knot caught his throat, he didn't say it but he thought of everyone else he'd killed. So many of them had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time, they hadn't deserved death.

"Huh, I heard you looked a lot like James but I don't really see it. Actually, you don't look much like either of your parents." Sirius remarked, trying to change the topic.

Kaneki gave a sheepish chuckle "Eh, I looked more like them back in first year but I think my magic unconsciously made me look more like my adoptive mother as I got older," he told him.

"Oh, I've heard of accidental magic doing that! It happened to me a bit too," He said without getting into the specifics.

"Siri? Who's calling?" a sleepy voice asked while sticking his own face in the fire too.

"You're awake?! Sirius asked in surprise before smiling "It's Harry," he told the new addition to the call.

"Oh! Professor Lupine! Hello!" Hermione said happily.

"Please, I'm not your professor anymore. Feel free to call me Remus," the tired man said with a polite smile. "And I take it that you're Harry. Merlin, it's been years since I've seen you!"

Kaneki smiled softly "Yeah, I go by Kaneki now though." He explained. "You both knew my parents right? What were they like?" He asked.

"Well James was your standard jock and I'm pretty sure he's been pining after Lily since his first year. Lily was the brightest witch in her generation, a lot like Hermione in that sense." Remus replied nostalgically

"They were good people. I miss them a lot," Sirius said, his voice full of pain and guilt.

Remus had so much he wanted to ask but before he could Sirius brought up something much more important.

"So how are you going to survive this tournament? Do you know anything about the first task? He asked. Causing Kaneki to frown.

"They're facing dragons," Ron said walking into the common room. "I talked to Charlie about it a bit, he said he wouldn't mind helping you out since you weren't supposed to be a part of this," He finished as he melted into a big soft chair in front of the fire.

"What did he recommend?" Remus asked.

"Water, lots of water. It's effective against all the types of dragons you might face. Other than that, various shield charms, the fireproofing charm, and the summoning charm." Ron replied "Sorry I couldn't get more information, Charlie was busy."

"No, this is plenty," Kaneki muttered, his eyebrows scrunched up in thought.

Hermione let out a long yawn before covering her mouth and blushing "Ah I think it's time we go to sleep," sleep." She said rubbing her tired eye.

"Oh god! I didn't realize it was so late! You three need to sleep," Remus said.

"Bye you three," Sirius said before he and Remus left the floo call.

The trio each said some form of "bye" before quietly sneaking back to each of their dorm rooms.