Prince of Asgard

by Drakenn

New Mexico was not the first time Asgard came to Earth in modern history, it happened earlier and in the Old World. Now consequences of it start to appear and it might change the history. I don't own HP or Avengers or any other thing used. May contain bad grammar. It's not a nice world, you have been warned.

51. Hogwarts II

A/N - Next part, mainly some Hogwarts, but also some other stuff happens outside of Hogwarts and some will quite literary shake the ground upon which everybody stands. Read, enjoy and review.

o-0-o

If glares could kill Gambit would be a wet spot on the ground, pink menace seemed as if she really wanted him gone from school. He smirked and looked at her. "Madam Umbridge, I fear that it is impossible," he said. "I still have my contract and I'm a loyal person, so I won't be gone from school as long as the contract is bindin'."

"The Ministry didn't approve your presence here, so you are fired," she croaked

Gambit broke out into an uncontrollable fit of laughter. "Madam, you have no power over me," he said as he calmed down. "So be kind and leave my alone, not to mention stay away from my classes as I won't be responsible for what I do to you."

"What will you do?"

He pulled out a deck of cards, slipped several cards between his fingers and looked at her. "I suggest you run, fast," he said with a smirk.

She looked at him, not sure what he meant, then her face turned pale as she saw those cards fly towards her, then she did the only reasonable thing and started to run. Explosions followed her out of the corridor and made Gambit laugh.

"You know that she will be an even bigger pain than she was?" Banshee asked, approaching them and Gambit looked in his direction. "I don't mean that you did a wrong thing, but she will harp you even more and make things unpleasant for you. Also was there a reason to use your powers and show that you are a mutant?"

"It was it or her ending with snapped neck," Gambit said. "I don't have a lot of patience for her and everybody would sooner or later learn that I'm a mutant, so no harms done and she is hated by most of the school."

"As you said, by most of the school," Banshee pointed out. "The rest might support her and many still remember what I, Wolverine, Cyclops and Psylocke did the last time they had a rogue wizard. So mutants aren't liked by quite a few people and those that hated us, could teach their children to hate us as well."

"And you fear that those that remember what you had done taught their children to hate us?"

"More or less," Banshee nodded with a wince. "So by showing that we are mutants, we make ourselves more enemies that we need."

"Not that we wouldn't have them," Gambit said and slipped cards back into their proper places. "They will hate me and curse my name for the training they will get from me."

"Fair enough," Banshee said. "Just be careful and don't end up in too much trouble."

"I survived with Weapon X lookin' for even the slightest hint of treason from me and before that I lived in New Orleans and I was a member of Thief's Guild. I will be fine, they should fear me, not the other way around."

"It's not a bad thing to be too careful," he said. "But I won't force you to do what I think is right, have fun with teaching them."

Gambit shook his head and walked away.

o-0-o

Harry sighed sitting in the Charms classroom, his uncle was right, excluding showing a bit of what Charms could at the beginning of the class Flitwick only talked and talked about theory behind the magic used for Charms and how important it was to remember and understand it. Harry knew that it was important to know the theory, yet it bored him to no end, he already learnt theory for wandless magic and while not the same, it was really similar.

He looked at his notes and tried not to fall asleep, he felt Atalanta nudge him and he looked at her. "You will have time to sleep later," she said in his mind. "Now focus on studying and it isn't that bad."

"I had all of this explained to me by my uncle six years ago," he pointed out. "So I want to fall asleep and take a good, long nap."

"And make him unhappy? He wants you to study here, even if it is similar, not sleep through classes."

"He would need to learn that I did it."

"He has spies everywhere," Atalanta pointed out. "So he will learn, sooner rather than later and who knows what's the purpose of Winter Knight presence here. He very well might be to spy on you and make sure that you stay safe and learn well."

Harry rolled his eyes, before glancing at her. "We both know that Dresden is good when it comes to causing chaos, but when it comes to spying he is bad. We both read same files on him and Hrimhari was one who wrote them, so he is probably right."

"Do you want to test your luck? Your uncle has ears and eyes everywhere, so he will probably learn about what you do sooner than you think. So unless you want to explain to him what you were doing instead of studying, I suggest you focus."

He looked at her and slowly nodded before focusing back on taking notes about basics of Charms and magic involved in casting them. He glanced at his watch and smiled, it was the last serious class for the day as the next two were supposed to be Ancient Greek, followed by Latin, which considering his upbringing meant a free nap. Six years of developing the Allspeak and learning languages helped with learning a thing or two and there were also those hundreds of things he had read in various languages.

o-0-o

Fury looked through the first few dozens of pages of a thick file laying on his deck before looking at Alexander Pierce and Maria Hill who were the other people present in his office. "It needs to be published, in censored version, but it needs to go," Fury finally said.

For a moment there was only silence in the room as they looked at him, unsure if they heard him right. After a moment Pierce managed to snap out of the shock. "Is it wise? Many careers will get ruined when we release those files, thus many will hate us," he said and Fury looked at him.

"And otherwise we will never get rid of some of those that we know plot against us," Maria interjected. "So even if many are not going to be happy, I think that releasing it will give us more than we could lose. We just need to be careful about censorship of the thing and hide things that should stay hidden."

"Even if we published version that is censored, it will get the job done and people in the know will see the true version," Fury said and they looked at him. "Wisdom sent me a list of people he wants gone and most of them are mentioned it the report about Weapon X."

"It has merits," Pierce said. "But it is also risky as we may end up dragged along by those that we will name, they will cling to every single thing that allows them to stay alive and if not, they will drag along those they think caused them to fall."

"It is doubtful they will succeed," Hill said. "Public will try to eat them alive and will mostly ignore whatever they have to say, so we should be safe."

"That's why I want it published," Fury said. "Public will be on our side and we might need this kind of support, especially if that mess in Sokovia is going to spill out and cause chaos."

"There was a coup, some new group overthrew previous government and tries to hold the country, but they aren't liked and might be overthrown in the immediate future," Pierce said.

"And most likely the UN will take interest in it and we will be asked to bring peace and restore former government, which will make a great deal of people angry with us," Fury finished. "So all of the good PR we can get is appreciated and needed."

"Also it could increase the amount of volunteers that is willing to serve and I won't mind more agents," Hill said. "What I have is enough to cover big countries, but everything else is mostly from outside sources and it is less than ideal."

"It will get published," Fury said with finality. "In three days time I will call a press conference and all of the major media will be invited for it. Maria, return to Europe and focus on the area around Sokovia, Alexander, you will be with me during the conference. Media will have a lot of questions and even if we cannot answer most of them, it will make it more believable."

They nodded and walked out of the room, leaving him to think about the whole mess started because someone wanted to kidnap a wrong person.

o-0-o

I walked through the halls of Hogwarts and felt my sixth sense going haywire, as if something big and dangerous was following me. "Cat Sith!" I called.

"Sir Knight, how can I help you?" Sith asked appearing to my side.

"Do I have tails that are invisible?"

Sith tensed and looked around, sniffing the air. "You have," he said after a moment. "Two overgrown wolves straight from Asgard."

"Where?" I asked, firmly gripping my staff and looking around, yet seeing not a single thing, other than stone walls and armors that lined them.

"They are walking along the walls of the hall."

I nodded in acknowledgement and spun around, bringing my staff to bear. I aimed it at the spot where should be one of those furballs and shouted, "Forzare!"

A beam of pure kinetic energy lashed out from my staff and slammed into an invisible shape, throwing it into the wall and demolishing several armor sets. As it flew through various pieces of armor the veil hiding it dropped and revealed what it was. It was a wolf, it was the biggest damned wolf I had ever seen and I had seen a fair share of them. It was even more massive than the Alphas whose lupine forms were big.

At the same time to my right something let out a furious howl and charged towards me, I managed to point my staff in its direction, but that was the only thing I did it before the thing pounced. I felt its paws slam into me and pin me to the ground, its jaws almost touching my neck.

"Get of me," I said, coiling up my legs and kicking it into the abdomen.

The wolf jump back, letting me scrabble back to my feet and reach for a revolver I had in one of the uncountable pockets of my trusty leather duster. I aimed at the head of the wolf and squeezed the trigger. Bullet slammed into the target and bounced off, not even leaving a smear of lead on the fur of the wolf.

"Come on, that's just unfair," I moaned. "Can use veils, is bulletproof and big, what it cannot do?"

"I would suggest that you lower the gun and apologise," someone or something croaked.

I looked in the direction of the voice and saw a large raven sit atop one of armor sets. "They tailed me first."

"Wizard," raven said. "You don't want the boss to learn that you fired at his pets, he loves them and that will make him mad. And you don't want him mad, last time it didn't end well."

I stopped for a moment and looked at the raven. "Boss?"

"You know him as Donar Vadderung," raven said and I could feel some glee in its voice. "We know him as the Allfather or Odin."

"Oh, crap," I muttered and looked at the wolves that seemed ready to pounce at me. Then I shot a glare at Cat Sith. "Why did you not warn me about what they were?"

"You didn't ask me about what exactly was tailing you, Sir Knight, so I did my duty and answered your question," Sith said. "If you asked for more, you would get it, but you didn't."

I wanted to curse my own idiocy, if they were pets of Odin and I attacked them, he had every right to retaliate and it would most likely kill me before I even had a chance to cast a shield. He was a freaking god and even with all of my power I had no chance of protecting myself from his wrath.

"Apologize or boss learns," the raven said. "Choice is yours, but be carefully and think about consequences of it."

I gulped, Odin was a god, messing with his possession meant death. I killed former gods, but they weren't in his league and I had a lot of luck at that time. Here and now I had none. Vadderung was fucking scary and if that was just a persona he used, then I was truly and utterly fucked. "I apologize," I said.

"Good," the raven nodded. "Ignore the wolves as they will not attack you, they just keep an eye on boss' grandson and their task is to protect him. Leave them alone and they will leave you alone."

I wanted to shout back, but I clamped down my mouth shut and nodded. I didn't need my Sight to tell that this raven could kill me, easily. My Death Curse, could take him along, but it could also do nothing. However it would most certainly take a lot of poor sods that were caught in the blast and that was not a thing I wanted to do. "I understand."

Raven nodded and disappeared without a single sound. I looked around and noticed that the wolves were gone, then I looked at Cat Sith. "We need to talk, now, I know that you need to serve me, so I will use it."

"I'm not to serve you," Cat Sith said and I glared at him. "I'm to assist and advise you, I serve Her Majesty, not you."

I nodded and quickly walked to my office, I needed to get some answers and organize what I knew.

Several minutes later I was seated in my office, in a comfortable armchair and in my hand was a bottle of Mac's excellent beer. On the table to my right in her skull was Lash and Cat Sith sat on the floor. I ran my hand through my hair and looked at Cat Sith. "What can you tell me about those wolves? And I want a full answer or I will summon her and then we will talk."

He let out some kind of a sound, but then nodded and started to talk. "Freki and Geri, wolves of the Allfather, their furs are charmed to stop bullets, swords, magic, their teeth will rip apart steel and they are extremely intelligent."

I considered those words for a moment, trying to find a single hole in them. Then I let out a sigh and focused on Cat Sith. "What can stop them?"

"To my knowledge Unraveling could destroy magic that protects them, but other than that nothing."

I sighed, Unraveling was rare, extremely rare and I knew just one source of them, source that last time I talked with it tried to turn me into her meal. Granted, I tried to summon her, but that was just unfair.

"So nothing that I could get will stop them," I said and my fingers rattled on the armrest. "What about my Death Curse?"

"It would kill you, Sir Knight, and that would be everything it could do, nothing else," Sith said and smirked. "You are not the first Knight that thought about the same thing, blast them with the Curse and hope that it won't be wasted."

"So I'm fucked up whenever I try to fight them," I summed up. "But also is any wannabe assassin that tries to take a shot at our royalty."

I was silent for a moment, then glanced at Lash. "What can you tell me about Asgard, royalty, nobles, magic, physiology and whatever else I will need?"

"It is a realm that exists both in the Nevernever and in the material world, every part of it is connected by the World Tree, also known as Yggdrasil. They are connected to gods, but are different."

"How so?"

"Can be killed and can be injured. Also none of the restraints placed on gods are placed on them, angels can wipe out galaxies only when they need to balance the scales. Odin doesn't have those restrains and can destroy a planet or ten because he wants to."

I nodded and mused for a moment, if they had free will, it meant that they could lash out first, not caring about all of the rules that governed gods. Which meant that I either would find a way to get an agreement with Harry, my namesake, or it would end badly. I slowly released my breath and looked at her. "What can you tell me about their royal family?"

"Huge," she said. "The main branch at the moment has eight members, but there are dozens of side branches or those that are related to them, but not counted with the main branch. Harry, is a son of Thor and comes second in the order of succession."

I took a swing out of my bottle and collected my thoughts. "What about their magic? I don't need my Sight to be able to tell that he is powerful magically."

"Runes, staffs and in his case weather manipulation," Lash said. "Even if he is young, he has power and just lacks subtlety and training to use it to its fullest."

I winced, remembering what last runic magic I had seen did, I didn't want to know what a god could do with runes. Gard was just a Valkyrie and her rune was enough to fry one of champions of Titania. If a god was to use that rune, not much would survive. With that gloomy thought I finished the beer and started to plan how not to get killed, which recently seemed to be a standard thing for me.

o-0-o

Harry yawned as the last class came to the end, he knew all of this and much more, not to mention that sleep was so good and needed by his body. "This will drive us crazy," he muttered, making Atalanta and Ulf look at him. "We know this, we could probably pass for native speakers of any of the two and we need to be here."

"I am native speaker of them," Atalanta said with a smug smile. "There are advantages of being born an Olympian, you know Greek and Latin quite well."

Harry rolled his eyes as they walked out of the classroom. "There is also that girl, one that makes me want to forget about her," he said and she nodded.

"She is an annoyance," Atalanta said in agreement. "At least she keeps her hands to herself and away from you."

"Question is for how long."

"Doesn't matter," Atalanta said and left a peck on his cheek. "You are mine," she whispered as she walked, arm to arm and her body too close to him to be mistaken for everything else than a strong bond.

He blushed and smiled. "It was a good idea to drag you along and have come with me."

"Indeed," Ulf said, his eyes following girl with long, flowing light blond hair. "It was a very good idea."

"Someone found a lover?" Harry asked with a chuckle and made Ulf scowl.

"I'm fine without any," Ulf said. "Care about your own business and leave mine alone."

"Yeah, sure," Harry snorted. "It wasn't me who last time was throwing punches around."

"Boys," Atalanta said with a sigh and made them look at her. "I know that you like it, but it gets tiresome, so be kind and hold your horses till you are back on Asgard."

"Of course, Your Highness," Harry said with a mock bow. "It won't happen."

She smiled and nodded. "Since that is out of the way, perhaps we can talk about something less likely to make you fight with each other. Even at home they are bored with repairing those columns you destroy during more heated spars."

Harry blushed as she reminded them the amount of damage they tended to cause, but hey, they were one of the best of their generation so a lot was accepted and damage to training grounds was one of those things. "Is it me or that girl thinks that she is the best in everything she does and believes that nothing can be better than she is?"

"Superiority complex," Atalanta said with a smile and looked at Ulf. "Doesn't it ring any bells? I thought that I knew a person having issues with it, person that is rather annoying to be around."

Ulf scowled. "My ego is of perfect size and it is fine," he said. "That girl on the other hand looks as if she had a staff up her ass."

"True," Harry said. "I just hope that she let's us have fun and enjoy the time."

"Or what?" she angrily asked, making them stop and getting attention of people around them.

"Didn't they teach you that eavesdropping is a bad thing?" Atalanta asked, turning around and glaring at Hermione.

"As is name calling," Hermione said. "And sleeping in class."

"Hold me or a murder will happen," Ulf growled and placed his hand on the pommel of a sword he managed to hide below the robes.

"Girl, leave us alone and sod off," Atalanta snapped. "We do not like your company and we want to be alone, so be kind, take all of your precious books, stuff them into your ass and leave us alone."

Harry looked at Atalanta, not sure if he heard her right, she just smirked and pushed past stunned Hermione and quite a lot of students that watched the confrontation. He and Ulf followed her and quickly walked to the common room.

"What a sharp tongue," he said when they were inside, sitting around one of smaller tables and out of the way of most people. "I knew that you were temperamental, but this is new and scary."

"What can I say?" Atalanta asked. "She angered me and pushed into my territory."

"Harry, can you summon your pets?" Ulf asked and Harry arched an eyebrow in question. "I want a comfortable and warm footrest."

"Maybe I could," Harry said and whistled loudly.

Moments later in the room appeared two large clouds of smoke out of which stepped out his wolves, causing a lot of screams and shouts from other students. However wolves didn't even acknowledge those sounds and moved to a comfortable spot between Harry and Ulf, their eyes focused on the students.

"Remind me not to summon them," Harry said, seeing those screams of fear and shock. "Or we will have a whole room angry at us."

"They will be fine, they just need to get used to them," Atalanta quietly said and he glanced at her. "From what you told me, your reaction was a similar one when you first saw them."

"I had a similar reaction, but I was eight years old, not fourteen or more," he said. "So I expected more from them than a lot of fear," he paused and added with a smile. "Probably most of them will go to change their pants."

Atalanta and Ulf laughed at those words and it took them a fair amount of time before they calmed, but even then in their eyes were visible flickers of joy and mirth. For a moment he diverted his gaze from them and it swept over the room, while most of it was terrified by the wolves, some were mostly curious and some even walked closer.

"Impressive wolves," Oliver said as he joined them, on his robes was visible a badge with a golden letter C held by a crimson lion. "You had them at the Institute, didn't you?"

"They are my pets," Harry said with a smile, reaching to scratch Freki between its ears. "Unless you provoke them, they won't attack you and are lovable beasts."

"Lovable beasts that can rip your throat out," Ulf pointed out and Harry glared at him. "What? They accompanied your grandfather onto battlefields before you got them and they are also little furry bodyguards of yours."

"If I wanted furry bodyguards I'm sure my uncle could find something or someone," Harry said with a sigh.

"Isn't he a father of Fenrir?" Oliver asked. "At least according to the myths he had interesting children, Fenrir, Hela, Jormungandr and Sleipner."

"From his marriage," Atalanta said and Oliver looked at her. "Narfi, Nari and Vali are his sons with his lover."

"And he is already a grandfather," Harry added. "So the point stands, if I wanted furry bodyguards I would have a lot of wolves to choose from. Freki and Geri are just pets and for most of the time sleep or follow me around."

"So they won't rip out throats because they want to?" Oliver asked.

"No, they are big softies when not provoked so they won't murder you."

Oliver was about to say something when someone coughed, causing all of them to look in the direction of that voice, also making Harry contemplate murder as this girl followed him like a plague. "Wolves are not on the list of officially accepted pets," Hermione said. "A Hogwarts students can have a toad, a cat or an owl."

"Oliver?" Harry asked with a sigh. "Could you take care of her?"

Oliver nodded and focused on Hermione. "Didn't you learn that rules need to be bent when appropriate and needed?" He asked. "Besides, you have no authority and it is my and other people duty to keep peace, not yours, so be kind and take yourself away from us."

"But-"

"There are no buts," he said with finality. "You could lodge a complain with our head of house or Deputy Headmistress and in few days you would learn that Harry is allowed to keep them."

"Because?"

"Because I was almost murdered a time or two and kidnapped once," Harry said with a growl. "So my family doesn't want that to happen again and is taking measures to ensure that it won't happen, ever again. And those wolves aren't the full extend of what could be protecting me."

"Also there were made exceptions about pets in the past," Oliver said, slight annoyance in his voice. "So be kind and leave him alone, you are a new student, all of you are and perhaps be less demanding and listen to what other people have to say."

She huffed and walked away, with angry scowl on her face and muttering something under her breath about rules and not breaking them.

"She is a nightmare," Oliver said with a sigh. "She will end badly, lone wolves aren't like even amongst our ranks and making enemies on your first day is probably a new record."

"Didn't it happen previously?" Fred Weasley asked, joining them. "Some of us started our rivalries and feuds on the train."

"No, I don't think so."

"Since I'm not really needed here, I will go to my dorm to sulk on my own," Harry said and made them laugh.

"Don't get lost," Fred said, making everybody laugh.

Harry quickly walked across the common room, climbed a flight of stairs and walked through the smaller common room and when he entered their dormitory stopped in his tracks. He didn't expect to find this particular redhead sitting on his bed and certainly not here. "Hello Natasha," he said as he gathered himself and walked closer to her. "What are you doing here?"

"Officially to have a look around and find charges that can stick to Umbridge and in reality to see you and give you few things," she said and indicated the door. "Close it, I don't want curious people to disturb us."

He glanced at the door and a bit of magic later it was closed shut and a simple privacy ward was thrown onto it. "Nobody will interrupt us."

"Good," she nodded and picked up a package laying to her side. "This is for you to read and learn a couple of things from it. Also there is second thing, since I and your uncle know that you suffer from too much time and energy, there is something that will keep you occupied."

Harry only arched an eyebrow in question.

"You will see," she said with a smirk. "It should take you quite a lot of time and once done with it, use your eagle to drop it in my room in the Tower."

"I guess that you won't tell me more," he said and took the package from her.

"Harry, even if I'm one of your friends, I'm a spy first and foremost," she said. "So I will tell as much as is needed and not much else, data and knowledge are precious commodities and for me they can be a difference between life and death."

"I know," he said softly and looked at her. "I just hoped that I could learn something from you."

"It wasn't a bad try and if you added puppy eyes it could work, but it didn't," she said, got up, walked to the window and opened it. "Officially you don't remember that I was here and you don't know why I am here or even who I am." she said, before disappearing out of the room.

He closed the window before ripping open the paper that covered the package, inside he found three thin books and yet another package. He ignored the package and once he placed it on the bed, he focused on the books. There were three of them, each bound in leather and looking quite old and used, even if they were weathered, titles were still visible.

"The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, The Art of War by Sun Tzu and On War by Carl von Clausewitz," Harry said, reading titles from the covers of books.

He carefully opened The Prince and noticed a piece of paper with few words written, he picked it up and read. Your mother's favorite, read and use what you learn, NJF.

"NJF," Harry said with a frown. "Why does it sound familiar?"

He shrugged it off and looked through the books, curious what was inside. He smiled when he started to read it, someone knew what he liked and the books weren't bad, which promised several hours being occupied by them.

o-0-o

Fred looked at George and smirked when pink menace passed their position, not even noticing their presence. George nodded and pointed his wand at the ceiling in front of their target. He whispered a single word and the trap was sprung.

A container that was placed there by someone helpful that didn't want his involvement being revealed, broke and liquid that was inside of it spilled and it rained onto Umbridge. They heard her shriek in terror and panic, but when the potion slammed into her more interesting things happened. Whenever she breathed a pillar of smoke and fire was leaving her mouth.

"Good word, Forge," Fred said with a smile as they gave each other high fives.

"Good work, Greg," George said and laughed. "Snape when wants to be helpful isn't that bad of a person."

"And he promised more potions," Fred said as they disappeared into one of hidden passages, leaving fiery Umbridge behind.

"Her life will be interesting," George laughed. "Very interesting."

"And Professor Flitwick promised to show us a thing or two."

Laughing they ran to their common room, from time to time checking on the Map where Umbridge was, while trying to make sure that between her and them were several corridors or floors.

o-0-o

Strange smirked when he saw a look of utter and complete shock on the face of Professor X, it seemed that there were still things that could surprise and shake his dear old friend. "Yes," he said. "I plan to have the Tournament hosted on the grounds belonging to your school. It is probably the sole place that I know that is secure and impartial enough, also some wizards need a wake up call and this is probably the best place for it."

Professor nodded and looked at Strange. "I know you well enough to tell that you have something else in mind, excluding the fact that this place is impartial and secure."

"Well, I might have a thing or two planned," Strange smirked. "Schools that are invited at the moment are Hogwarts, Beauxbatons from France, Olympian from Greece and maybe the White Council will send a couple of their better apprentices. I know that some of your students have potential when it comes to magic, so how would sound an opportunity for them to have fun and compete?"

"If they want to, why not. Question is just whom you have in mind."

"If he is willing to, then Black Eagle, maybe Atalanta who was de facto student of your school and Illyana," Strange said and Professor looked at him. "I know that they aren't your students at the moment, but they were and I'm sure that they will be willing to represent your school."

"It could be interesting. Especially Illyana or Atalanta as I didn't have an opportunity to see them use a lot of magic."

"Also wizards will have a fit as they don't consider them as worthy of using and knowing magic," Strange added. "In the UK I still have my kill on sight order and Wanda isn't far behind, but the Ministry might decide that she should be killed instead of being just caught."

"What about the Council?"

"They won't have a single issue with it," he said and paused for a moment. "They might be ruthless in enforcing the Laws, but they are also politicians that know which battles should be picked and wars with two pantheons aren't a thing they can afford. Now even less, Fomor are dangerous and nobody can afford to lose wars with them."

"Who are those Fomors everybody is mentioning?" Professor X asked. "You mention them, Fury mentions them and Harry mentioned them a time or two."

There was a brief moment of silence before Strange spoke. "They originally were one of tribes of fae, but in ancient times there were multiple wars between them and other fae, and finally they were banished by Sidhe into the oceans. Now they are a ragtag group of beings, groups and tribes that want revenge and want the current order destroyed," he said and looked at Professor. "When the Red Court fell because of Dresden unleashing the curse there was created a vacuum and they try to fill it. Normally Wardens would stop them, but the War depleted their resources and it will take time before they have previous levels of manpower and even more before they have experience."

"So they saw an opportunity and jumped?"

"Yes," Strange grimly nodded. "White Court, several hundred of einherjar, SHIELD, MI-13, Winter Court, Wardens and we only managed to push them back in few places. The Council fights around the Mediterranean and they are winning, but everywhere else it is a stalemate."

"What about the security of the Tournament and of the school?"

"I and Merlin will place wards around the school grounds and forty Wardens will be protecting the whole area during the Tournament. Nothing will get past them and your students will be safe."

"It is acceptable, but I want to have Merlin's word that he will do as you said."

"You will have it," Strange said and glanced at the watch on his hand. "I will leave you now as there is a meeting of the Senior Council during which I need to be present."

"Of course," Xavier nodded.

Stephen took one last look at his friend and then was gone from the office, appearing back in the Hidden Halls of Edinburgh, a fortress that was almost impossible to be conquered and even he lacked muscles to destroy the wards and even if he could breach them, he wouldn't get far. The Senior Council, could easily kill him, especially all of them. McCoy and Langtry in one on one fight were a challenge for him, combined with the Gatekeeper and Ancient Mai, four of them could take him out. If LaFortier was alive, his odds would be even more miserable, but Cristos was a political nomination and didn't have skill or power of LaFortier.

Stephen shook his head, sending away all of those thoughts and looked at the pair of Wardens that waited for him. One more war planning session and boring political jabbing at each other awaited him.

o-0-o

Harry followed the crowd as they entered the small common room set aside for each house, previously he was unable to get a very look at it, but now he focused on its appearance. It was a round chamber with red walls with wide golden strips along the ceiling and floor, covered in tapestries, a skylight or two in the ceiling providing plenty of light, few large windows in the walls made it look even better and on there were several dozens of well-worn couches and armchairs scattered over the room in smaller and larger groups. On one of those sofas was sitting their new head of house, Remus Lupin.

"He is a werewolf," Atalanta whispered in Ancient Greek, as she slipped into the room behind Harry. "I wasn't sure, but now I am certain, he is a werewolf."

"Which kind of it?" Harry asked, taking a better look at Lupin.

"I can't tell you that," she said. "If I'm right he takes something that keeps the spirit down, so we don't need to worry about him ripping our throats out when we sleep."

Harry nodded and sat down on one of sofas, with Atalanta cuddling to his side, while Ulf took a seat on the other side of him. "We will worry later," he said. "Now I'm more curious about what he wants to talk with us."

She smiled and moved into a more comfortable position to his side, earning groans and angry glares from almost every other female in the room. Harry smiled and wrapped his arm around her before focusing on Lupin.

"I know that you are surprised about this change, however I can tell you that until few days ago I didn't know that I would be a new head of house," Lupin said. "Rest assured, I am a Lion so you have nothing to worry about."

"Fair enough," one of seventh year prefects said.

"Since that is out of the way," Lupin said and looked over the room. "I know that there are many styles when it comes to this position, I won't be Snape and I won't protect you from everything, but I will help you within reasons."

"So no favoring that is extremely visible, but helping us and bending the rules within reasonable limits," one of Prefects muttered.

"Pretty much yes," Lupin nodded and smiled. "While Professor Lockhart cannot be removed, even if he is a dreadful teacher, in the evenings on Friday and Saturday I will happily teach you things that you should know about DADA."

"Do we need to attend his classes?"

"Unfortunately, yes," Lupin said. "He is official DADA teacher and as such I cannot officially encourage you not to attend them."

There were some groans at those words, but looking around Harry could feel that almost everybody was happier than they were.

"That will be all for today," Lupin said and for one last time looked over their faces. "If you want something, you know where you can find me and I think it is time for you to go to sleep."

They nodded and while some walked into their dormitories some stayed behind, Harry felt Atalanta's hand touch him on the shoulder and looked at her. "What?"

"The ball," she said softly. "What are you going to wear for it?"

"Usual clothes that I wear for banquets on Asgard," he said and looked into her eyes. "Why do you ask?"

"Can't I have some secrets from you?" She asked and left a peck on his cheek. "Sleep well."

"You too," he whispered as he felt warmth spread over his cheeks.

"Since when you are lovers?" Ulf asked, trying to control his laughter. "As you two look as if you were in love."

Harry's head snapped in Ulf's direction, while he did it, he didn't miss that looks of the whole room focused on them. "Since when it is your business?" He asked.

"I'm your friend," Ulf laughed. "It is hard to hide something from me and your behavior is obvious, only an idiot would miss all of those signs that suggest that there is something more between the two of you."

"We are lovers since his birthday," Atalanta said before pulling Harry into a kiss. "And he is mine."

He embraced her, placing his hands on the small of her back and deepened their kiss as they started to make out. As they ended the kiss he could feel jealous and lustful looks focused on them, most of them was jealous, but there were also some lustful ones.

"I love you," he whispered, their bodies almost touching each other.

"As do I," she whispered in reply.

He smiled and they walked to their dormitories, when he got into his, he quickly dressed into his sleeping clothes and went to sleep, events of the day tired him and he needed some rest. Even if he was an Æsir and had plenty of energy there were some limits to what he could survive.

o-0-o

A/N:

Some signs of things to come are more and more visible and I feel really bad for Hogwarts wizards when they will enter the Tournament and find out who is their competition. At the best, three wizards, three Apprentices, three wizards schooled on Asgard and three normal wizards but trained by demigods and gods, at the worst those last ones are replaced by demigods.

Revelations of Weapon X - Fury wants some people gone so he uses the only card he has to play and a lot of people will end up in a place where they won't hurt him.

Sokovia - Those that watched Age of Ultron will guess where it is heading, the rest is to be seen.

Unraveling - an extremely rare artifact that can remove any magic, no matter how powerful. Freki and Geri are protected by magic connected to a god, god that's also a King of Asgard and from a royal house that sat on a throne for a very long time and that means power and lore.

Lash's words about gods - they are far more powerful, but lack free will and cannot act outside of their domain with ease, they have those things and immortality. Odin is weaker, but he isn't bound by the same laws and can do as he pleases which gives him quite a lot more power.

Books that Harry gets - there's always a good time for education and bribing him is a good way to keep him in a proper place.

White Court - vamps that are sexual predators, also one of signatories of the Accords.

Einherjar - warriors straight out of Valhalla, you don't mess with them and you are safe, if you mess, well, you might discover how you look with an axe buried in your brain.

Senior Council - they are extremely powerful and while Strange has power to fight them he doesn't want to. McCoy can smash ranks of vampires and mercenaries all day long and won't feel slight exertion.

Reviews:

WhiteElfElder - If anybody should be, it would be Ron. As far as I remember self-defense isn't a crime and Harry was rather restrained in his reply. If he hurled that poor boy with enough strength to shatter bones and broke his spine, then they could talk, but now? All he did was a very restrained counter that sent Ron across the room.