AN: Sorry this chapter took a little bit to post. I got stuck and couldn't get it right in Harry's POV like I originally wanted to write it in, so I switched it to Loki's; there is a short time skip. I hope you enjoy it.
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Chapter 32: The Yull Ball
If Loki was the type of person that went around whistling happily, he would probably do just that; but he wasn't, so instead, he kissed Sirius, then stepped out of the shower, dried off, got dressed, and then left the bathroom; Loki felt happy; something he usually didn't feel, it was an emotion, he wouldn't mind getting used to. Loki had Sirius back where he belonged, his wizard wasn't hurt, or dead, Loki and Harry have grown closer over the school year, and now everything can get back to normal. Once Harry wins the stupid tournament (He was Loki's son, of course, he was going to win). and after one more thing Loki had to do, Loki could get back to his plan that kept getting sidetracked, and that was to become Minister of Magic.
Sirius told Loki about the possibility that Voldemort had made a Horcrux, and Loki had been reading the book Andromeda returned to them before they had decided to jump in the shower together. The two of them had decided they would find out where the Horcrux was and then destroy it and they would let Harry help, after all, he was the one Voldemort kept trying to kill. Anyway, once Loki and Sirius destroyed Voldemort's Horcrux, they would find and kill what was left of Voldemort. Then Loki would not only become the Ministry of Magic, he would reveal to the wizarding world who he was, and for once in his life, Loki would be the hero, not Thor; Loki would be the one loved and admired; he would have his king (Sirius) by his side, he would have his son, they would not only be the most powerful family in the Britain wizarding community, but the most powerful, respected, and feared, in the whole wizarding world. And then Loki's goal will be fulfilled, and then Loki will sneak onto Asgard, steal two of Idunn's apples, give them to Sirius and Harry to eat, and they will never age like Loki, all three will live forever. Of course it all sounded so easy, so there was a chance of something going wrong like it always did for Loki.
Loki brushed his hair and then slipped on his shoes, then walked over to the table and sat down to look at Secrets Of the Dark Art, while he waited on Sirius to get done shaving. Then the two of them were going to look for Harry and let him know Sirius was back. That had been their plan anyway. However, Harry had a different one; Loki had just turned to the chapter he wanted to read, when Harry threw his chamber door open and came rushing in so fast he stumbled and fell; Loki used magic to close the door, then teleported to Harry, and helped him up.
"Are you alright?" Loki asked, "Why are you in such a hurry?"
"I was looking at the Marauder's map, and it showed Sirius was in here," Harry explained, his eye searching the room.
"I'm right here, kiddo," Sirius said, appearing in the open bathroom doorway. He wore black jeans, no shirt, with half his face covered in shaving cream.
"Sirius?" Harry cried.
"That's my name," Sirius said, giving Harry the cocky grin that Loki both loved and hated, loved because Sirius looked handsome wearing it, and hated it because Sirius usually flashed it at Loki when he was purposely annoying him.
"You came back," Harry said; Loki noticed he looked like he wanted to step closer to Sirius but looked nervous as if he feared Sirius would disappear.
"Of course I did," Sirius said; Loki caught Sirius's eye and motioned him closer and he immediately walked over. "I have a good reason for being gone for so long."
"Yeah, your father is an idiot, Harry." Loki scoffed, still annoyed about Sirius's adventure, even if he did forgive him.
"Reigny, hush," Sirius said then turned back to Harry, "I swear, Harry, I will explain everything to you and tell you the truth. I'm sorry if I worried you."
Sirius put his arm around Harry's shoulder and pulled him into a hug; it took only a second for Harry to hug him back. Sirius reached out, grabbed Loki's arm, and pulled him into the hug, smiling Loki put one arm around Sirius, and the other around Harry, and the three stood there hugging each other for a long time until Sirius remembered he needed to finish shaving.
After Sirius shaved, the two of them sat Harry down and explained to him the truth of why Sirius had been gone so long, at first Harry had gotten mad; he even stood up and started yelling when he realized what he was doing; Harry sat down, and apologize, and Sirius told him he had nothing to be sorry for, he had every right to be mad, what he did was stupid and risky, then Sirius apologized to Harry for breaking his promise of not doing anything reckless and dangerous that could get him killed or locked up, after a while Harry's anger faded, and he accepted Sirius's apology, it would take three days before the awkwardness between the two went away, and everything went back to normal. By day four of Sirius's return, it already felt like Sirius had never left.
Two days after Sirius had returned Loki finally gave, him his birthday day gift, which was a pocket watch, it was gold, with a a small chain with a hook, so it could be hooked to Sirius's belt loop and he could always have it on him, Loki had bewitched it to be a magical communication device, she had done the same thing to her locket, and now, if they were separated they would have a way to connect each other. It had took Loki a while to do it.
Over the following week, the temperatures outside dropped, reminding everyone it was December. All over the castle fireplaces stayed lit, and all except Loki and Harry started wearing extra layers of clothing as classes went on as usual, including Care of Magical Creatures, which were even more unpleasant than usual, as students could only snuggle in their thick winter cloaks and shiver as they tried to listen to Hagrid give updates on the Blast-Ended Skrewts, as they had now gotten too big and dangerous to allow the students to be around them. By the second week, snow began to fall overnight, leaving the outside completely white.
Loki had gone to Dumbledore's office and got permission for Sirius to stay at Hogwarts; Dumbledore explained his sudden appearance as Sirius being extra security for the tournament. To Harry and Loki's joy, Sirius now had a reason to be here for the rest of the year, something Snape didn't like, especially when Sirius started eating his meals sitting next to Loki at the staff table. Many students seemed to like Sirius well enough, primarily muggle-borns, who found amusement with a pure-blood wizard walking around Hogwarts dressed like a muggle biker.
Severus Snape isn't the only one that didn't seem happy to see Sirius, even though Loki was sure Wanda Maximoff had never met Sirius in her life, the first full day Sirius was back, he, Harry, and Loki were heading towards the Great Hall for dinner, when Wanda and her brother came walking into to the castle with the rest of Durmstrang, and Wanda bumped into Sirius, he apologized, asked if she was okay, but Wanda didn't answer, she looked at him, then as if she had recognized him, her eyes grew wide, then she turned and fled out the door, her brother called out to her, but she didn't answer. Surely it couldn't be because of the whole Azkaban thing, the paper had told the world Sirius was innocent.
"Well, Sirius, you finally did it," Loki said sarcastically, "You finally scared someone off with your awful choice of clothing." Loki found the whole encounter with Wanda weird, Sirius just shrugged, he was used to people having weird reactions to him, after everything that happened.
Loki's last class before the winter break had just ended, and she was at her desk, putting things away before leaving the room; Sirius was lounging in her chair at the front of the room, making magical bubbles float around in the air, she had just put the last thing away, and was about to tell Sirius they could leave when, Harry came in the room, stopped at Loki's desk, and crossed his arms.
"Do you know what McGonagall just told me?" Harry demanded; Loki looked at Harry and nearly smiled at the annoyed look on his face.
"Since I was not present during this conversation...no," Loki replied. Sirius snorted as he stood, the magical bubbles disappeared as he walked over to stand by Harry.
"She said we can't go home for Christmas because of some stupid ball that all the champions have to be there for and open, whatever the bloody hell that means, and I must find a date to dance with. I don't want to go to this ball, I didn't want to be in this tournament, and I don't know how to dance. I'm going to look like a fool." Harry ranted.
"Professor Dumbledore told me the same thing this morning when I went to him to have our names put down on the list of those leaving for the Holiday," Loki said.
"But it's not fair," Harry said; for the first time since coming to Hogwarts, Harry had been looking forward to going home for Christmas. It would be his, Loki, and Sirius's first holiday as a family.
"It'll be okay, kiddo," Sirius said, "We'll have our Christmas here, and we can go home during the Easter Holiday."
"I guess," Harry mumbled, "But what about me having to have a date?"
"You inherited my good looks; you'll have no problem finding a date," Sirius said.
"What about me having to dance?" Harry demanded, looking between Loki and Sirius.
"Your father can teach you," Loki said, "He taught me I had to learn for Lily and James's wedding."
"You know how to dance?" Harry demanded, looking at Sirius, in surprise.
"I do. My so-called father taught me, back in the day, a lot of purebloods throw parties to celebrate whatever they could think of to celebrate." Sirius rolled his eyes, "The parties were just a front, an excuse for pureblood families to show off their children and hopefully find them future spouses that would keep their bloodline pure, and of course, most of the kids were either brainwashed to think it was okay, or too afraid to refuse."
"That's awful," Harry said.
"That's just one of many reasons I ran away when I was sixteen," Sirius said, "I was so sick of them all when Andromeda eloped with Ted, I decided that was my cue to get the hell out of that family myself."
"I'm glad you were able to get away," Harry said.
"Me too, kiddo," Sirius said, putting his arm around Harry's shoulders. "And I'm glad, that despite my handsome face, none of the other families, seem to want to pair me with any of their daughters, I was too vocal in disagreeing with their pureblood ideals."
"Would you stop bragging about how good-looking you are." Loki said, "You're starting to sound like Thor, no wonder you were able to befriend him."
"I didn't befriend Thor." Sirius denied, "It was him who was trying to befriend me." He was starting to wish he never told Loki about that, she was clearly jealous of the idea that Thor and Sirius would get along, and be friends, Sirius didn't see why it mattered, not like he planned on ever seeing Thor or any other Avenger again.
As December 25th grew closer, Harry still didn't have a date, and Loki was starting to wonder if her son was hoping if he didn't have a dance partner, he wouldn't have to go to the ball, or refusing to ask someone because he couldn't go with the girl he wanted. However, three days before the Yull ball, Loki, Sirius, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, were outside having a snowball fight, when Loki noticed Harry kept glancing over at Cho Chang, who was a few feet away with her friends, building a snowman; Loki thought about what she knew about Cho, she was smart, got reasonably good grades, never got into trouble, and was pretty; deciding Cho was good enough for a date with Harry, Loki used magic to make Cho's winter hat fly off her head, and land next to Harry's feet, he picked it up as Cho came running over for it.
"Thanks," Cho said, smiling at Harry as he handed it to her. "That was a bit weird wasn't it, there was no wind or anything."
"A bit, yeah," Harry agreed, glancing at Loki, who gave him a wink.
"Aren't you cold?" Cho asked; noticing Harry wore only a jumper, no cloak or even coat, her eyes widened a little when she noticed Harry wasn't even wearing gloves or mittens.
"No," Harry answered. "The cold and snow doesn't bother me."
"Oh," Cho looked towards her friends who were watching, "I guess I better get back to my friends."
"Okay," Harry said, he looked toward Loki, and she gave Harry an encouraging nod, and he turned back to Cho. "Umm, Cho, if you don't already have a date, would you like to go to the Yull Ball with me?"
"Yeah, okay," Cho answered, smiling, then turned and headed toward her friends, and Harry turned back to Loki, Sirius, Ron, and Hermione; Sirius congratulated Harry with a pat on the back while Ron teased him.
Harry spent the night before Christmas in Loki's chambers so he could spend Christmas morning with Loki and Sirius, the latter had chased both Loki and Harry out of bed to open their Christmas gifts before the sun was even up, and the three of them sat next to the tree opening their presents. At the same time, Sirius brought out a camera and took pictures of everything. Harry was embarrassed but pleased by the number of gifts he received. He got the usual fudge and Weasley jumper from Mrs. Wesaley, chocolate frogs from Ron, and a planner from Hermione. Then Loki and Sirius both bought Harry a few gifts a piece.
From Sirius, Harry received Quidditch gloves, sweets, a knife that could untie any knot or unlock any lock, new Quidditch robes, and a few joke products from Zonko's.
"Thank you," Harry said, then Loki handed him the gifts from her. She had gotten Harry a few new outfits, muggle and wizard robes, a knife sharpener, a few magic books, and a wristwatch, she had bewitched like Sirius's to be a communication device and put all kinds of charms and enchantments on it. Harry put it on the same wrist as his bracelet.
Loki and Sirius allowed Harry to open all his gifts first, and then they opened theirs. Harry had gotten Sirius motorcycle gloves, and Loki bought him an expensive pair of motorcycle boots to replace the ones the Avengers still had.
Harry had bought Loki a new journal. This one was black, with a snake on the front and a set of fancy black quills made with raven feathers, and had a gold snake carved in the handle part.
"They're beautiful, Harry, thank you," Loki said, reaching over and hugging him; Harry looked pleased that she loved her gift. They both shot Sirius an annoyed look when he snapped a picture of them.
"Now, finally, my gift to you," Sirius told Loki, standing. He walked over to the back of the tree, pulled out a long, flat box, returned, and sat it in Loki's lap, then sat down next to her on the floor. Loki carefully unwrapped it, opened the lid and gasped.
"You got my sword back," Loki said, running her hand crossed the handle, then turned to Sirius, "Dumbledore will notice it missing."
"No, he won't. I made a copy and switched them, even put a few spells on it, to make it feel magical, like a goblin-made sword, I know it's not goblin-made, but Albus thinks it is," Sirius said.
"When on earth did you do all that?" Loki demanded.
"Remember during the summer when he was doing something in his workshop and wouldn't tell you what?" Harry asked.
"I knew that dagger wasn't the only thing you were making out there." Loki said, "Thank you, darling."
Loki leaned in to kiss Sirius; who picked up his camera and handed it to Harry, who stood to take a picture of them together, Sirius wrapped his arms around Loki as Harry took their picture, and when Harry went to take a second one, Sirius kissed Loki on the cheek. The small family spent most of the day together, then that evening, Loki and Sirius allowed Harry to hang out with his friends until it was time for the Yull Ball.
Loki slipped on a green satin dress that was low cut with a split that went up the side; she wore black slippers, her locket and Loki put her hair in a braid, and had it falling down her front. When she was finished getting ready, Loki stood from her vanity and turned toward Sirius to see if he was ready, he glanced toward her while he was fixing his hair, then did a double take and just stared with his mouth open.
"I take it you approve." Loki teased.
"You look gorgeous," Sirius said; Loki smiled.
"Thank you," Loki said, "Are you ready?"
"I am." Sirius replied, holding his arm out to her, and Loki stuck her arm through it. Sirius wore a set of black dress robes, and had tied his hair back with a black ribbon, which made it easier to see Sirius's face and showed off his jawline, and high cheekbones, Loki thought it made him look more handsome than he usually looked.
Loki and Sirius were supposed to be in the Great Hall at least ten minutes before the students arrived; with Loki's arm in Sirius's the two of them walked into the Great Hall five minutes late and looked around; the walls were covered in sparkling frost; hundreds of garlands of mistletoe and ivy crossed the starry black ceiling. The House tables had vanished; instead, there were about a hundred smaller tables, lantern-lit, that all sat around a dozen people.
Albus Dumbledore looked happy in dark blue robes decorated with silver moons and stars as he waved Sirius and Loki over to the large round table sitting in front, where Severus Snape, Sinthea Schmidt, and Madam Maxime already sat, along with the two tournament judges, Ludo Bagman, and Barty Crouch Sr.
"Good evening." Dumbledore greeted as Sirius pulled a chair out for Loki, who sat down with a smile. "It's nearly time, and the doors will be open any moment now, and the Yull Ball will begin."
About five minutes after Dumbledore said that the Great Hall doors opened, and the students started walking in, Loki wasn't paying that much attention until-
"Is that Hermione?" Sirius demanded. Loki looked over to where Sirius was pointing; at first, she saw only Pietro Maximoff, but then he turned to pull out a chair for his date. Loki's eyebrows shot up. It was Hemione, it was hard to tell it was her because her usual bushy hair was combed down and pulled in a kind of spiral in front; Hermione grinned widely at Pietro as she sat down, then he took the seat across from her.
"Oh, hell no, he's way too old for her," Sirius said, in a tone that sounded like an overprotective father, and then Sirius actually rose in his seat, but Loki grabbed his arm and made him sit back down.
"You will not rush over there and embarrass Hermione," Loki said, "Besides, you have no idea how old Maximoff is; there may not be that much of an age difference."
"Pietro is seventeen." Sinthea Schmidt answered as Loki watched Ron and Lavender Brown join Hermione and Peitro at their table; Pietro smiled in greeting and shook Ron's hand when Hemione introduced them.
"Hermione is fifteen; he's just two years older; besides, nothing is going to happen in a room full of people," Loki said, "Would you have liked it if your best friends' guardian came up to you in the middle of a date and told you, I was much too old for you?"
Sirius snorted. "I don't think your age counts, Reigny."
Dumbledore stood up, clapping, as the champions now entered the Great Hall; everyone followed suit, and Loki watched as Fleur Delacour and her date Roger Davis walked in, followed by Wanda Maximoff and Cedric Diggory, she and Cedric sat across from Sinthea Schmidt, the last to enter were Harry and Cho, Loki grinned at how Harry had his hair feathered out, a lot like she wore hers when in male form, he was dressed similar to Sirius, and Cho looked nice in light purple dress robes, that were made of silk, with her hair pulled up in a bun. Loki smiled as they sat across from her and Sirius. Once everyone seated they all looked at their empty plates, wondering when the meal would appear.
"Pork Chop." Dumbledore said to his plate and pork chops appeared on it; getting the idea of what to do, people started making their food request. Loki and Sirius both chose stake, and so did a few others at the table, including Harry, and all around them, people broke out in conversation; soon, it turned into a group conversation about their families.
"I live with my parents and grandmother," Cho explained, "I have an older brother, but he's already left home, traveling the world, learning about different wizard cultures."
"I'm an only child, " Cedric said, "It's always been just me and my parents."
"It's just Peitro and me," Wanda said, "Our parents died when we were little, and some nice people took us in, but we were made to leave our home in Sokovia."
Loki frowned as she listened to Wanda talk; her voice sounded different, almost as if she was trying to hide her accent, while her eyes kept flickering nervously over to Sirius.
"Was it a nice place to live?" Cedric asked. Wanda frowned at the question.
"I'm sure it was if you ignore the war the muggles have been raging there for years," Schmidt said.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know," Cedric said. And that put an end to that conversation, and everyone around the table started having their own individual conversation with the people they came to the ball with or were sitting by; Loki noticed Harry kept reaching up and rubbing his scar, as he listened politely to what Cho was saying.
After they ate dinner, everyone got dessert, then after that, Dumbledore stood and asked everyone to do the same. Then with a wave of his wand, all the tables except theirs, zoomed back along the walls leaving the floor near, and then he conjured a raised platform into existence along the right wall. A set of drums, several guitars, a lute, a cello, and some bagpipes were set up, and a wizard band called the Weird Sisters climbed upon the platform and the Great Hall clapped as they started the play a slow, mournful tune; the four champions and their dates walked out onto the Great Hall, and began to dance, they were followed shortly by the other students and Loki and Sirius, along with those at their table sat back down to watch.
"I'm bored, Reigny. Let's dance," Sirius said after a while, he stood and grabbed Loki's hand. He led her out to the middle of the Great Hall, and the two started dancing. "Did you notice Harry rubbing his scar at dinner?"
"I did," Loki answered, she had one hand on Sirius's shoulder, her other in Sirius's hand, and his arm was around her waist. It was a slow song, so it was easy to talk and dance.
"I wonder what that was about?" Sirius said.
"I do not know, but I do not like it," Loki said. She looked to where Harry and Cho stood next to Hermione and Pietro; they were laughing about something. Then Harry excused himself to get him and Cho something to drink, he looked to be having fun now, and Loki was glad; she had been afraid he might be upset about Wanda being at the ball with someone else.
"He'll come to us when he's ready," Sirius said, and Loki turned back to Sirius.
"If he does not soon, we'll force him to tell us what's wrong," Loki vowed. The song changed to a fast one, and they stopped dancing and walked off to the side, where they stood; every once and a while, students would come up to talk to them. At one time, Harry and Cho came over and stood a while talking to them; Loki was glad that Harry seemed to like Cho. Hopefully, he'll start falling for her and forget about Wanda Maximoff, who didn't even seem to realize Harry existed, and who Loki had decided wasn't good enough for Harry anyway.
As the hours passed, the Great Hall started emptying, as students called it a night; around eleven, Loki and Sirius saw Hermione and Peitro leaving together and Loki had to stop Sirius from following.
"Stop, it's getting late; she's probably just walking him to the doors and then will head up to Gryffindor Tower; Wanda and Cedric already left, and Ron and Lavender left an hour ago, well, Lavender left first, I do not think she enjoyed her date," Loki said.
Harry and Cho called it a night not long after; Hermione and Peitro did; Cho waited at the Great Hall entrance while Harry came over to tell Sirius and Loki good night, then rushed off to walk Cho to the Ravenclaw Tower, then planned to go to Gryffindor Tower and go to bed.
"Since our son has left, I see no reason why we should stay," Loki said.
"Yeah, let's retire to our chambers, and I can get you out of that dress," Sirius said, putting his arm around Loki and heading toward the Great Hall doors; Loki laughed and lightly hit his shoulder.
"You're the worse." Loki accused. Sirius winked at her.
At three-thirty in the morning, Loki was sleeping peacefully on her side with Sirius's arm around her waist and he was snuggled into her back, until someone shook Loki awake.
"Loki...Loki." Harry's voice made Loki open her eyes, and she looked up to see Harry standing at the side of the bed, one hand on Loki's shoulder and the second one holding his forehead. "It hurts."
"What? Your head?" Loki asked, sitting up.
"Yes," Harry answered, rubbing his scar, "Do you have something for it? And can I stay the rest of the night here?"
"Of course," Loki answered; she reached up to push Harry's hair out of his face to look at his scar, but it looked the same; she then waved her hand, and the light came on.
"What's going on?" Sirius yawned, sitting up.
"Our son has another headache," Loki said, standing, "Would you get him a pillow and blanket while I give him something for it? Harry wishes to sleep here tonight."
"Sure," Sirius got out of bed and walked over to the wardrobe while Loki led Harry over to the cabinet to get out the headache potion; Sirius made up the sofa and Loki was searching for the right potion, when Harry suddenly covered his mouth with his hand, then grabbed his stomach, and ran into the bathroom, and started throwing up, Loki rushed after him, and held his hair back so that he wouldn't get none in it, and with her other hand she rubbed his back.
When Harry had gotten done, Loki got the mouthwash out of the bathroom cabinet and handed it to him so he could rinse his mouth out.
"It hurts so bad," Harry said, grabbing his scar, tears forming in his eyes.
"You mean your scar, do you not?" Loki demanded; Harry seemed to have no energy to deny or lie about it.
"Yes," Harry said, "Voldemort is mad about something, but I don't know what."
"How do you know Voldemort is mad?" Loki demanded.
"I have a connection to him," Harry admitted, "It hurt like this in my first year because Voldemort was near; you don't think he's near Hogwarts now, do you?"
"Of course not," Loki replied, putting her arm around Harry and leading him out of the bathroom, "And if he were, you would still be safe because I am here; he would be dead before he could even look at you."
"Everything alright?" Sirius asked as he helped Harry to sit on the sofa.
"Our son has something important to tell us," Loki said, sitting on the table across from the sofa; Sirius sat beside her. Harry took a deep breath and then explained all about his connection to Voldemort and how his scar had been hurting him on and off since the summer, along with the dreams he had been having.
"Why didn't you tell us this before?" Sirius asked; Harry wiped his eyes.
"I thought you wouldn't want me anymore." Harry confessed, "That you might think I wasn't worth the trouble."
"Harry, never think that," Loki said, moving from the table to set by Harry on the sofa; she put her arm around him, and a second later, Sirius joined them on Harry's other side.
"You're ours, kiddo; no matter what you do, we'll always want you around," Sirius said, pushing Harry's hair out of his face.
Harry smiled a little and Loki got up to get the headache potion and grabbed a dreamless sleep potion to go with it so that Harry could get some rest. After he took it, Sirius stood so that Harry could lay down, and Loki covered him up, and Sirius took his glasses and set them aside; they sat on the table, watching Harry, until they were sure he was asleep and would stay that way, then went back to their bed, and sat with their backs leaning against the headboard.
"I didn't realize being a parent would be so hard," Sirius said.
"I wanted to punch something when he told us what he's been going through, and my heart broke when he spoke of his fear that we would not want him," Loki said.
"I know how you feel, babe; I had to stop myself from running out of the room to find something to put my fist through," Sirius said.
"I have never heard of a connection like that before; it makes no sense," Loki said, "I want to help him, to break the connection, but I have no idea how. If only my mother were here, she'd know what to do."
"You miss her, don't you?" Sirius asked.
"I do. I wish so much that Harry could meet her. I know she'd adore him," Loki replied. "Unfortunately, it is not possible, because of Odin."
"You said your mother taught you everything you know," Sirius said. "You'll be able to figure it out if she can."
"You have a lot of confidence in me," Loki said.
"Of course, I do, babe," Sirius said, letting go of Loki's hand and putting it around Loki's shoulder. They lay down and snuggled to one another, but they didn't fall back to sleep. They just lay there, lost in their thoughts.
AN: I needed someone for Harry to go to the ball with, and figure since Cedric isn't going with her, it can be Cho, Harry did ask her to go in cannon, and in my story there was a brief mention of him thinking she was pretty during 3rd year. There will be a little more to their relationship, but it won't last.
No Wanda isn't afraid of Sirius, she's worried, he'll recognize her, at least her voice, reason she tried to hide her accent. And Sirius bringing up how cute he is, he's mostly joking, he knows he's attractive, but he's not that conceited, that he seriously mentions it all the time.
Next chapter should be in Harry's pov, I know it's been a while since one has been, and another time skip, I'm hoping to have the second task in it, I feel like it's taking too long to get there, I hope my story isn't starting to drag. It kind of feels that way to me, so, I'll try to speed things up a little, so they'll probably be more time skips.
One more thing, a review alerted me the other day to a spelling mistake, and I when I fixed it, I accidentally uploaded the edited chapter over the wrong chapter, it's fixed now, but sorry for any confusion to any new readers, I'm also planning to go over more chapters and make sure there isn't anymore mistakes, but that'll take time, and if anyone notices any spelling or grammar mistakes, I don't mine being told, so, I can go back and fix them.