A/N – This is the first of truly rewritten chapters, which means new characters, new plots, new ideas and me being a tiny, tiny bit wiser. Reviews are appreciated.

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"Dad, where are we going?" Harry asked as he followed Thor through the meandering paths and streets around the Citadel. They were wide and paved with smooth lapis lazuli and golden beryl plates. They created a mosaic of swirling patterns that made it look as if they weren't made out of stone, but out of something easier to manipulate.

"You will see." Thor smiled, be could see curiosity in Harry's eyes and maybe even some trepidation of what was to come. He was baffled by how fast his son got used to living on Asgard and accepting him as his father. As he looked at Harry he still wanted to murder Dursley's as he easily saw that his son was a bit shorter than he should be at this age, but with each day it was disappearing as now he had as much food as he needed to grow and develop.

Harry pouted at those words.

"Can't I have a surprise for you?" Thor asked as he ruffled Harry's hair.

"You can." Harry said, still a bit unhappy.

"You should like it." Thor said as they came around the corner and in front of them appeared a large mansion, surrounded by a wall. It was built from the same golden metal that the Citadel was made out and was quite low, as it only had two floors, instead it was sprawled over a large grounds, making up lack of its height with how much land was occupied by it.

Behind the low wall was visible a row of evergreen trees, that kept things that happened inside of it from the eyes of curious onlookers. In the middle of the wall there was set a large wooden gate that opened the moment they got closer to it. Harry's mouth dropped as he saw it open on their own, he lived on Asgard, but still got surprised by things on it.

"Where are we?" He asked as they stepped through it and onto gravel path that led towards the mansion.

"House of one of my friends." Thor explained as he glanced at Harry "He has some children that might be your friends."

Thor didn't miss how Harry's eyes brightened at the word friends, he had troubles wrapping his mind around the fact how badly Dursley's treated him. He wondered why his father didn't simply kill them, but he ignored it for a moment as they were an issue that could wait.

They were approached by a hulking man that was higher than Thor was, to his side was walking a boy that looked to be few years older than Harry was. He was just above five feet in height, he had long sandy hair and piercing brown eyes, he didn't have a really muscular body, it was more of a wiry one, but than he also had time to grow muscles. He was dressed in dark gray pants and emerald green shirt.

"Your Highness" Volstagg nodded and Thor tried not to roll his eyes in amusement at his friend antics.

"Raise" Thor sighed and added cheerfully "We both know that there is no point in it."

"True." Volstagg smiled as he clasped forearms with Thor and his glance switched to Harry. "He doesn't look a lot like you, does he?"

"In a way he looks like me." Thor smiled and his body shimmered for a moment, in his place stood James Potter. "That's the form that I had when I was banished by my father and when Harald was born."

"Yes" Volstagg smiled and looked at Harry and later at his own son. "Hrolf, can you show him around?"

"Of course, father." Hrolf nodded and looked at Harry, Harry nodded and followed him leaving Thor and Volstagg to their own plots.

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"He is a bit short." Volstagg said quietly, as kids walked towards the mansion, he could see something in Harry that didn't quite fit. "Also there is something else to him, I can't name it, but I feel it."

"He is." Thor agreed and glanced around, just to be sure there was nobody that could overhear them. "Don't mention it to anybody, but my mother mentioned that he was a bit malnourished, when she healed him after he was brought by us from Midgard. Also his guardians on Midgard... weren't the best of people."

"And that is putting it lightly." Volstagg said, he felt the amount of disdain and anger hidden behind those words. He looked at Thor, his gaze level and calm. "He should grow up into fine person."

"I know." Thor said as he slowly exhaled, trying to keep his temper under control.

"I guess that you are here not only because of your son." Volstagg said as they walked towards the building.

"No" Thor said after a moment "There is in fact something that I would like to discuss with you."

"I'm all ears." Volstagg said

"I'm tied here and for the next few months or maybe more I will have troubles with traveling to Midgard for more than few days and my brother might need help of someone that is strong and good with a sword." Thor said and on Volstagg face appeared a smile.

"So you would like the Warriors Three to help him?"

"Exactly." Thor nodded as they stepped into Volstagg's study.

"That might not be a bad thing." Volstagg smiled as he poured Thor and then himself some mead. "In fact it should be a good thing."

"Thank you." Thor said and sipped mead, he nodded appreciatively and looked at Volstagg "I would be the one that would help with keeping things on Midgard under control, but-"

"But you have a son and you have your duties here." Volstagg finished "So you can't stay there and need someone that you can trust and you know that he will do what he needs to do."

"Exactly." Thor smiled "Also I don't want to return to Midgard, because of you know what."

"Your son's guardians." Volstagg nodded and emptied his drinking horn, placing it on the desk he looked into Thor's eyes. "He should get over what they did to him sooner than you can think of it, you know that most of us can get over anything short of a destroyed heart or brain, or both of them, given time."

"Volstagg, as much as I like you I'm going to punch you through the wall." Thor growled "Can the topic stay away from my son?"

"You were one that actually brought it up." Volstagg laughed "So don't look at me as if I did something wrong. Anyways, when he is going to be officially introduced to the nobles?"

"Winter solstice feast." Thor said "He needs to get used to us and our little games and schemes."

"He looks like a bright one, so he should do that soonish." Volstagg smiled and looked at Thor "I will take him to the palace at the sundown."

"Thank you." Thor lightly nodded as he walked out of the room.

Volstagg waited for the doors to close and poured himself another horn of mead. "You have an interesting son, Thor." He said to himself as he sipped mead, it was going to be an interesting time for everybody on Asgard.

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"I guess that you don't like all of this bowing and formal titles?" Hrolf asked as he looked at Harry.

"No" Harry said after a moment.

"Good" Hrolf smiled and extended his hand "I'm Hrolf."

"Harald." Harry said as he clasped Hrolf's hand.

"Dad asked me to show you around." Hrolf said and Harry looked at him "So follow me."

"Sure." Harry said as he curiously looked around, everywhere he could see various kinds of wood covering the walls, on the floor there were strewn furs of various animals and rugs. It looked differently than the style that he got used to. It felt more homey than some parts of the Citadel.

"Impressed?" Hrolf chuckled lightly when be saw the look in Harry's eyes.

"Yes" Harry said honestly and paused for a moment, thinking about a word that he wanted to use. "It feels more warm than the Citadel."

"And you didn't see the best part of it." Hrolf said as they got deeper into the mansion. He pushed the doors in front of them open. They entered onto a large courtyard that was covered in gravel and from all of its sides it was surrounded by the wings of the mansion. Hrolf lead him through it and towards the doors set in the opposite wall.

"This was the best part of it?" Harry asked "It looks pretty bleak for me."

"Nah, it was just the middle of the mansion." Hrolf laughed and indicated doors in front of them "Here is the best part."

"I hope so." Harry smiled as he followed the older boy, he had around himself some sort of airy confidence that put everybody around him at ease. There was something in him that made Harry trust or at least to attempt to trust him.

"You will like it." Hrolf assured him as he saw a hint of reluctance in Harry's posture. He heard from father some things about Harry's past and his behavior made some sense to him. He placed his hand on Harry's shoulder and looked at him. "I heard about your past, but you can trust me here."

"I will try." Harry said and added quietly "It's just that I'm shocked by everything."

"That you have family." Hrolf guessed and Harry nodded "And that you have friends and several other things." He kept guessing and Harry nodded.

"Yeah" Harry said quietly

"You will get used to it." Hrolf said and clapped Harry's shoulder "Come on and try to enjoy it."

"I will." Harry smiled and followed Hrolf into the mansion, Hrolf turned around the corner and Harry could feel the air becoming more humid with each step, as if there was a large amount of water somewhere close.

"You should feel the water being nearby." Hrolf smiled and glanced at Harry. He could see a younger boy look at him and later sniff the air. It seems he is still getting used to having sharper senses, he mused quietly.

"Yes" Harry said after a moment and glanced at Hrolf. "What are you planning?"

"You will see." Older boy smirked and nudged for Harry to follow him. Harry's jaw dropped when he saw the thing that was in the chamber in front of them. It was a roughly circular room made out of barely polished stone of all colors and in the middle of it was a large pool that was getting deeper towards the middle of it.

"Wow." Harry said as he looked at the pool. It was massive.

"Wanna swim?" Hrolf asked as he indicated the pool.

"Can we?" Harry asked

"It's for swimming." Hrolf laughed as he looked at Harry

"I guess." Harry said

"Are you always that reluctant?"

"No" Harry said as he kneeled and touched the water, it was quite warm and swimming in it seemed like a nice idea.

"Than for what are you waiting?" Hrolf asked as he took of his shirt and threw it to the side.

"In what we are supposed to swim?" Harry asked and Hrolf looked at him, blinking, until he laughed.

"Naked." Hrolf explained and Harry's eyes widened in a mix of shock and surprise.

"What?"

"What what?" Hrolf asked, not understanding what Harry meant.

"It's just that on Midgard we usually wore some clothes when swimming." Harry explained

"Oh." Hrolf nodded when it clicked in his mind. He paused and looked at Harry. "Here you will get rather quickly used to being nude in certain situations, especially training and some sports as clothes can be restraining and uncomfortable in some situations."

"Okay" Harry nodded as he saw Hrolf strip out of his clothes without any shyness, as if it was something natural.

"What are you waiting for?" Hrolf asked and laughed jumping into the water, splashing it in all directions, he emerged on the surface of it several meters away. "I've seen my brothers and friends naked." He said and looked at Harry.

Harry was hesitant for a moment, but than, he nodded and stripped of his clothes and joined Hrolf in the pool. He was a bit red from embarrassment, but he quickly got over it and enjoyed how warm the water was.

"It doesn't feel that bad." Harry said after a moment.

"Here it's normal that certain things you do naked." Hrolf explained as he walked towards the edge of the pool. "I guess that on Midgard it is different."

"Yeah." Harry nodded "Almost nothing is done naked, you need to wear something even when training or doing any kind of an exercise."

"And get your clothes all sweaty and dirty?" Hrolf laughed as he moved hairs out of his eyes. "No thank you."

"What about weapons training?" Harry frowned

"Here clothes are worn as even with magic blades will strike you quite strongly and clothes slow down them." Hrolf said, took a deep breath and disappeared into the water, he emerged behind Harry and pushed him towards the water.

"What was that?" Harry asked as he regained his balance and looked at Hrolf.

"Having fun." Hrolf laughed, Harry smirked and jumped into the water. His body somehow knew how to swim quickly and he easily emerged on the surface on the other side of the pool.

"Catch me if you can." He shouted at Hrolf, took a deep breath and dived into the water, swimming just over the bottom of it.

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"He looks like an interesting kid." Gudrun said as she looked at Harry and her own children. She was with Volstagg sitting in the porch and watching as kids devoured something that on Midgard several more people would have issues with dealing with.

"Aye, he is." Volstagg nodded "Although from what Thor said or what he didn't say, his past childhood wasn't that good."

"It's obvious when you look at him." She pointed out "He is shorter than he should be and most likely he also weights less."

"True, although he is catching up quickly. Given time he will be maybe as massive as his father is."

"Mayhaps." She nodded and winced "How sure you are about helping on Midgard?"

"Very" Volstagg said "Thor is my friend, but he is also the Crown Prince and his word is law-"

"So you don't have a choice." She finished and looked at him "Don't get killed doing something stupid there."

"I won't, I swear." Volstagg said

"Good."

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Harry returned to his rooms and almost immediately crashed against his bed, he was tired and the thing he needed was a soft, warm mattress under his back. He sighed as he laid there and thought over the events of the day, it was certainly... enlightening for him, not that he minded it. Hrolf and the whole bunch of his siblings seemed like a nice group of people, only there were so many of them and keeping track of them was an annoying thing.

He was curious what he was going to lesrn on the next day as he was supposed to start learning magic, as he thought over it, he slowly drifted into the world of dreams and sleep.

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Frigga looked and smiled as her grandson entered her study. He reminded her a lot of her sons, it looked like he was combining the best qualities from both of them. Question was in what he would grow up as so far he seemed to be growing up fine.

"Grandmother, you wanted to see me?" He asked walking across the room to place where she sat with several slates made out of stone laying nearby on the surface of them written various runes.

"Yes" She nodded and indicates seat opposing her. "As your father or other of your teachers already told you, magic is as important for us as science and we combine those two things, creating objects that would be impossible to be made using only one of them."

"Yes" Nodded Harry "Ullr told me as much."

"Good" Said Frigga as she smiled and looked at those slates. "Our magic can manifest in two forms, either runes or wandless one. Wandless magic is more wild, powerful and dangerous one to use and I will teach it to you later." Harry nodded at those words and looked at those slates "What can you tell me about those slates?"

"They are covered in various runes." Harry said as he recognized runes written on the surface of them. His mind was translating them on his own without single thought or need to focus.

"Correct, runes are used as focus points for our magic. You focus magic and channel it into the rune, either when drawing it or when it is done."

"So that's how I'm securing the blade of my sword when training with Sif." Mused Harry

"Very good example." She approvingly nodded. "You use runes to give shape to what you want to create or do, they help you with focusing your power and control it. You can do that without using runes, but it is much more difficult."

"So runes only help us with magic?" Harry asked looking at his grandmother.

"Yes and no." She replied and pointed at few sets of runes. "There are several things that you can only do with runes. For example trapping access to some room, passage, protect something or block enemy from escaping. Also when putting enchantments onto weapons or armors it is a better idea to use runes as they are more permanent and harder to destroy. For example your father weapon Mjolnir or your grandfather Grungir have such enchantments on them."

Frigga looked at Harry who only nodded at those words and she returned her attention to those runes. "Take one of those blank slates and focus your magic in the tips of your fingers."

"Something like that?" Harry asked as tips of his fingers glowed gold.

"Exactly." Nodded Frigga "Try writing whatever rune you know. The easier the shape the easier to write it, as more complicated shapes have subtler meaning and thus magic must be more refined."

Harry nodded and touched the slate with his fingers that were glowing gold and upon contact they left visible mark on the surface. He tried to draw one of the easiest runes he knew protection.

"Very good." Said Frigga as she watched the rune slowly taking shape. She could see flaws in it, but such things were expected from first attempts at drawing them. It wasn't an easy art to master, it was easy to understand, but hard to master, also as long as the general shape was more important than subtle nuances of it.

"How did I do?" Harry asked looking at his grandma.

"Rather good." She said and grabbed a knife, that was laying nearby. "Let's see how strong it is." She drove the point of the it into the rune which glowed gold and forced it backwards.

"It is a good idea to test them before using them as mistakes might escape your eye." Frigga explained for the sake of Harry "And this one is working pretty good, it could be improved but for the first time you did well." She took an empty slate and drew an outline of a rune "Try to draw this one."

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Ullr smiled when he saw some barely hidden curiosity in Harry's eyes, as Harry and Ulf followed him towards the stables that were located behind his residence. As he glanced at his son he saw that he easily guessed where they were going. While Harry didn't have the faintest idea about it.

"Where are we going?" Harry asked, curiosity visible in every single fiber of his being.

"You will see." Ullr said as he opened doors leading into the stables. "Wait for me here." He said after a glance at the boys. He spent a moment looking through the horses and choosing ones good enough for them.

"Are you going to show us horse riding?" Harry explained when he saw Ullr lead two ponies and one fully grown horse from the stables.

"Yes" Ullr nodded as he handed them reins of the ponies, they were more friendly and more docile than one that he chose for himself. It was a large, dark brown stallion. He jumped into the saddle of it and looked at them. "What are you waiting for? It's not that they are going to bite you."

Harry looked at the pony and later at the saddle placed on the back of it and somehow climbed into it. Ulf did it with more grace and less struggle as it wasn't the first time he was riding. They followed Ullr and started to slowly ride towards the nearby plains.

"Horses are a thing that is important for us and you shall become very familiar with them." Ullr said as he glanced at them from the height of his own horse. "Harry, we use them for hunting, enjoyment and some of your grandfather guards use them as a means of communication."

"Valkyries?" Harry guessed

"Yes" Ullr nodded, as he nudged his horse to move a bit faster. "They are messengers of your grandfather, His Majesty, as well as guards, but horses used by them are unusual as they have wings. Also we use horses for riding for pure enjoyment and hunting, mostly because of second and the fact that we use them for war it would be good for you to be at least proficient."

"What do you mean by proficient?" Harry frowned

"Have enough experience to use only one hand to hold reins." Ullr explained "And generally be good in the saddle."

"Why do I have a feeling that it won't be pleasant?" Harry sighed

"It will be pleasant, at least somewhat." Ullr chuckled as he looked at them, he mainly wanted to get Harry familiar to horse riding, for more would be time later. Also he wanted to build up his confidence and a bit of arrogance, preferably not much of the latter as it wasn't all that good.

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Wanda stood on the roof of one of many skyscrapers of New York City when she felt a portal open behind her. She looked in its direction and when she saw who caused it to appear, she smiled, it was Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme, her mentor when it came to magic and a good friend.

"Why did you want to see me?" He asked "And of all places here."

"Because of something that I found." She said and turned to look at him. "Someone took my godson from the hands of his aunt and her family-"

"And you didn't figure out where he was taken."

"I did, kind of." She said and threw at him a piece of paper "What can you tell me about it?"

For a moment Strange was silent as he analysed the paper she threw at him. "It looks like the magic of Asgard, I would guess that one of their more powerful sorcerers did this. Did you find anything about who did it in their minds?"

She shook her head and slowly exhaled her breath. "No, they were wiped clean of all of their memories of him and anybody that could know him."

"Are you sure about-"

"Yes, I am sure." She said harshly, her eyes glowing with power. "I checked it more than once and they do not remember anything, it's about my godson and son of a person that I liked."

Strange nodded and looked at the piece of paper. "I will try to find out as much as I can, did you see anything in their minds that would suggest who did it?"

She was silent for a moment and replayed those memories in her mind "As if one that did it, wiped their minds of anything about him and modified their memories so that they are consistent." She chew her bottom lip. "I also didn't feel the magic that Harry had around him and it was a unique one."

Strange looked at the sky and later at her. "I will see what I can do, but I do not promise anything as the list of people that could do it isn't short."

"It's still better than nothing." She smiled, yet it was a tired smile. "I will try to do some of rituals to track him down."

"It won't hurt." Strange nodded walking into a portal he created in front of himself. She waited for him to get out of the roof and she also disappeared into a portal, she needed to do some magic, but first she needed proper ingredients for it.

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Harry looked curiously around as he followed his dad through the maze of the corridors that made the bulk of the Citadel. He could see that with each step decor was more and more expensive and precious pieces of art were placed in the niches along the walls.

"Where are we going?" He finally asked.

"The Diet chamber." Thor explained

"Diet?" Harry frowned

"Gathering of all of the nobles of the realm."

Harry blinked few times and looked at his father, confusion visible in his eyes.

"Nobody explained to you the hierarchy of the society?" Thor asked

"What?"

"Ranks held by everybody." Thor said and looked at the blackened wooden doors that were in front of them. They were inscribed with a large golden triskelion that glowed with its internal light.

"Oh." Harry nodded, his eyes glowing with curiosity.

"This chamber might be the best one to explain it to you."

Harry didn't say a thing, his gaze was focused on the chamber in front of them. It was a large, octagonal chamber, in each wall were set doors and there were four rows of seats rising from the floor. As he looked around more and more details came to his attention, giant banners hanging from the walls, mosaics covering the floor, thickly padded, wooden seats and many more other details.

"Impressed?" Thor asked

"Weren't you supposed to explain to me the hierarchy?" Harry asked

"Yes" Thor nodded as they crossed the chamber and walked towards the part of it with the most exquisitely decorated seats, they were lavishly carved and gilded, making them look like a piece of art not a piece of furniture. He sat down in one of them and motioned for Harry to join him in one of others. "So the hierarchy of nobles, you should guess something already from Ullr's and what your grandfather said."

Harry's brows furrowed as he tried to remember whatever he could about it. "We are on top of it."

"Yes" Thor nodded and looked at Harry "There are three tiers or levels of them, jarls which are at the bottom of it and are the least important ones, in the middle of it are lords-"

"Like Ullr or Volstagg." Harry cut in

"Exactly." Thor nodded "They are above jarls, they are the most numerous group of nobles and come from old families."

Harry nodded, filing it away for later usage. "So the most common nobles are Lords and above them are?"

"Herzogs."

"Hercogs?" Harry repeated

"With 'z' not with 'c'." Thor explained and looked at Harry "Herzogs, don't ask me who created it, as I don't know."

Harry nodded as he curiously looked around the hall. "If there are three ranks of nobles, why there are four rows of seats in the room?"

Thor smiled and ruffled Harry's hair "Good eye, any idea why?"

Harry was silent as he tried to remember what he could recall from his lessons and what he managed to read in his own time. "I would guess there is one more rank?" He said and Thor looked at him.

"What do you mean?"

"Rank that isn't an official rank, but those people are more important than the rest."

"Exactly." Thor nodded and indicated the most lavishly decorated seats "All of those seats are for the rulers or representatives of the Nine Realms, us, ambassadors and envoys from other realms and guests of your grandfather."

"Oh" Harry said as all of bits and pieces fell into their places inside of his mind.

"Yes" Thor nodded and looked at one of the circular windows that were set high in the walls of the chamber, through each passing bright beams of multicolored light. He was silent for a moment until he looked at Harry. "When you will see your uncle or grandmother ask them to explain to you what you need and how you can refer to all of those nobles."

"Okay, what about now?"

"Now you can do whatever you wish to do." Thor laughed, he smiled when he saw Harry disappear from the room. He wasn't a fool and saw how his son changed since his arrival to Asgard, only few weeks ago. He was more confident as well as seems to be slowly changing into a bundle of energy and joy that was almost impossible to control.

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Loki stood with Freyr on one of many terraces and watched as Harry and Ulf were training under the watchful gaze of Sif. "The two of them are becoming friends." Freyr noticed

"Yes, but that's not a huge surprise." Loki smiled and corrected his slicked back hair "I'm more curious how my nephew is going to react to the ward from Olympus."

"Princess of the Amazons?" Freyr asked

"Do you know someone else that would need to he send away from her family to keep her alive?"

"No." Freyr said and frowned "I knew that it was bad, but not that bad."

"Hera isn't known for being subtle and she especially lose all of her ability to plot when it comes to any children of Hercules." Loki said and paused "I didn't have time to get the best news, but ones that I got mention three attempts to kill her. Once snakes and twice scorpions."

"So Athena is supposed to come with her."

"Aye, she is." Loki smiled and glanced at Harry who was thrown onto the ground. "He should have watched not only one direction."

"Were you that good when you were his age?" Freyr arched an eyebrow

"What's the point of it?"

"We all did the same mistakes, it's better to do them now than to do them when on the field of battle."

"Cousin, can you not remind me of my young and foolish times?" Loki sighed

"Anyways, he is an interesting child."

"I didn't have time to see his magic as he is mostly learning runic from mother, but if I'm not mistaken he might have a rather spectacular magic."

"Thunderbolts and storm summoning from Thor, but there is something ethereal to his magic." Loki said and frowned "I know that I had seen this kind of magic, but I don't know when and where."

Freyr closed his eyes and was silent for a moment. "I also feel it too, it's a thing that I have a feeling that I saw, but I don't know where and with whom I can connect it."

"It isn't magic of humans as it is more visible and he also has it, it isn't either magic of Olympus or other that I know well." Loki said and glanced towards the horizon. "I have a feeling that someone is watching us and laughing."

"Them?" Freyr asked

"Nobody else has enough power to watch us so closely and wouldn't be detected by the defenses of the city." Loki said and sighed "I'm more curious who got Their attention."

"Mayhaps your nephew and my cousin?"

"Mayhaps or... mayhaps not." Loki looked at Harry and Ulf. "He is the reason why half of the universe feels worried or at least soon is going to feel, lack of presence of my brother outside of Asgard makes them scared, no, that's not the proper word."

"It makes them unsure of what is going on." Freyr supplied

"Exactly." Loki smiled "They are unsure and many will try to get anything about what is going on here."

"They always wanted to do that." Freyr said and looked at Loki "What would you say about small spar?"

"So that I can beat you? Quite badly?" Loki smirked as they jumped down towards training ground below.

"In your dreams, maybe." Freyr laughed as he grabbed the hilt of his sword and charged at Loki. Loki moved his scepter to intercept a swing of Freyr's sword and there was heard a loud clang of metal as they started a duel.

o-0-o

Dumbledore only looked up to see, who it was this time, when he felt a massive magical presence arrive in his office. He got somewhat used to the fact that Asgard might pay him a visit, sooner or later or when they simply wished to. On his lips appeared a small smile, when he recognized that it was Prince Loki arriving. "How may I help you, Your Highness?"

"This time it will be the other way around." Loki smirked and handed him a scroll "Inside of it, there is a formal invitation to a Winter Solstice celebrations held by my father in the Citadel on Asgard, it will be also the moment when my dear nephew is going to be introduced to the nobles."

"Why did you invite me to those celebrations?" Dumbledore asked, he broke the seal and quickly scanned content of the scroll, it was a usual formula, without nothing special in it.

"So that I can introduce Harry to you and because I was one of those that helped to create this school. Also my father has other reasons for doing it."

"I see." Dumbledore said and nodded slowly "I will be at those celebrations as it is a thing that I should enjoy."

Loki smirked and with a wave of his hand he was gone from the office, Dumbledore looked at the spot where he stood only moments ago and lightly shook his head. The world as getting weirder and weirder with each moment. He pushed those thoughts aside and instead summoned a copy of Poetic Edda onto his desk.

"It seems that I need to go back to studying." He said to himself opening the book, his eyes almost immediately landing on the rows, upon rows of runes.

o-0-o

Harry sat on a cold, stone floor of a small rectangular room deep in the Citadel and looked at his uncle. "Weren't you supposed to teach me magic?" He finally asked as his patience run out and he wanted to get some answers out of him.

"I was." Loki nodded and looked at Harry. "What do you remember from runic magic?"

"That we use symbols to store magic and release it at a later date or when we need it." Harry said and paused for a brief moment. "It is also less dangerous than the other kind of magic."

"In a way, yes." Loki nodded and looked at Harry. "Magic that I'm going to show you is magic used by everybody on Asgard – it's more versatile and quicker to use than runes. Also you should come to like it."

"So on which I should rely more?"

"On none of them." Loki said and sighed when Harry looked at him, confusion in his eyes. "What I mean is that you should equally focus on both of those branches of magic. One is better in certain things, while second in another area."

"Okay." Harry said and shifted on the floor "So how does it look?"

"Like this." Loki said when he moved his hand forward above its palm appeared a small ball of ice blue light. "It's a Sól or Lumos, depending on the language."

"Wow" Harry's mouth widened in shock and surprise as he looked at the ball. "It's so cool."

"Thank you." Loki beamed, but quickly added seriously "It is one of the spells that you are going to use a lot and I'm going to teach it to you soonish, but first basics."

Harry groaned and slumped, as he glared at his uncle, unhappiness visible on his face. He hated theory parts of his lessons, he much more preferred practical ones.

"You know, that you can pout all day and we won't get anywhere?"

Harry sighed and looked up at his uncle. "Fine."

"Much better." Loki said "Do you know all of this focusing magic things?"

"Yeah" Harry nodded

"That's the thing that is the basis for the magic we use. For this one you need to focus it in the middle of your palm and push it up." Loki said and paused "Also try not to speak the incantation out loud. It is a giveaway of what you are planning to do..."

"Which isn't a good thing, got that." Harry said, closed his eyes and focuses on the magic that he had, he pulled it towards his hand and focused. He opened his eyes to see a small golden spark above it that violently exploded into hundreds of miniscule sparks, flying in all directions.

"Not bad, not bad at all." Loki smiled and added "But not good enough, you did something wrong. Any idea what is it?"

Harry pushed his bottom lip forward and thought over what he had done and what could be a reason for his failure. He looked at his hand and his brows furrowed. "Not enough energy?"

"In a way, yes."

Harry once again looked at his hand and sighed. "If I used enough of energy, the problem would be the focus of it or lack of it." He looked up at his uncle and saw a smirk on his lips "That is it, isn't it."

"Very well, nephew." Loki smiled "You lost your focus the moment you opened your eyes and looked at the ball, until that point it was working just fine." His smiled turned into a smirk as Harry saw him glance at one of few windows placed in the walls. "The day is early, we have plenty of time and from what I know you want to train with Ulf, so until you are done with this magic, we will stay here."

Harry pouted and looked at his uncle, pleading look in his eyes. "Uncle, please, pretty please?"

Loki chuckled at those words and shook his head. "No, otherwise you won't do it."

Harry sighed and looked at Loki, annoyed look in his eyes. "Fine." He finally huffed and focuses on the task at hand, summoning his magic and willing it to form a ball above his palm.