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Carriages pulled by griffons, who were all super sweet and cuddly, were chosen for transportation. However, any student who had the ability to fly for long distances was allowed to do so. Which is how Harry and Cece came to be playing a game of tag, mid-air, and dive-bombing some of the older students, who had taken to trying to catch them. It was great fun and the dragonet was having a blast! The griffons also enjoyed swiping playfully at the flying students who got too close to them.
They began their descent to the loud shouts of the Hogwarts students who had caught sight of the three carriages and the numerous flying students. They landed in two uniform rows gracefully, the students from Hogwarts and Durmstrang staring in open-mouthed shock at the large collection of creature students. This shocked silence was quickly broken by a red blur screaming Harry’s name slamming into the dragonet.
“Harry! You massive dork! You didn’t tell us you were coming back for the tournament!” Ginny clung to him, smiling happily and talking a mile a minute. He was then dragged towards the rest of the Weasley clan. “I want you to meet my best friend, Luna! Oh, this is awesome! Hopefully you can sit out on the grand adventures for the year so you can sit with us in the stands! Oh, and you HAVE to play a pick-up game of quidditch with us!”
“Hey! You can’t just monopolize Harry’s time! After all, some of us want to talk with him too!”
In a mere second, Ginny and Draco were bickering amicably, arguing over who got to hang out with the dragonet more while he was here. Not that this ‘argument’ lasted very long before he was tackled by another redhead and a certain blue-haired Slytherin.Ron and Adrian were rambling just as much as Ginny, excited to have one of their best friends back for a year-long visit.
“These must be your other friends, right? Hello! I’m Ceceyana, but everyone calls me Cece! Wow! We’re gonna have so much fun this year!”
“Cece! Don’t scare them off before we ever have a chance to meet them,” Mattia was, as ever, the voice of reason within the group, walked up slowly, a small smile on his face. Although, he was fighting the urge to yank the dragonet away from the blonde veela boy (he knew damn well that his fae inheritance was going to come through soon and was already fucking with his instincts.) “Nice to finally meet Harry’s other friends.”
Hermione and Quinn also joined the growing group, the curly-haired girl hugging and spinning Ginny around, effectively killing the argument between the girl and Draco. The two girls began laughing harder when Cece decided to join the hug. The group only froze up when Professor McGonagall came over to get them to ‘behave’. Not that she had the chance. One of the Durmstrang students had wandered over out of sheer morbid curiosity.
“Hello? Is everything good?”
“Hm? Oh, yes! Everything is just fine! We’re all just good friends! And- hey have we met before? Your face seems awfully familiar, but I’m having trouble placing where I met you.”
“Uh, Harry. That’s Viktor Krum, the famous quidditch star? How did you actually not recognize him?”
His eye twitched rather violently at the question from behind him. The dragonet launched himself onto Ron, who fell back with a shriek, and began gently gnawing on his arm. His loud grumbling only slightly quieter than the continued screaming from the ginger. Hermione and Mattia were attempting to pry him off the boy while the others laughed.
“Harry, don’t chew on Ron’s arm! You have no idea where it has been!”
“Hey!”
“You are very odd,” Viktor Krum spoke, staring at the teens in utter bewilderment. “Interesting, but very odd. I would like to stay around such excitement.”
The overly excited teens had already swarmed the quidditch player, overwhelming him with their friendly chatter. It was due to this joy at making a new friend that they failed to notice the intense aura coming off of Harry’s adopted sisters.
Lala had stopped speaking mid-sentence, turning only her head to stare at the newest person that seemed to be getting a little too cozy with her darling younger brother. The exorcist movie had nothing on the sheer terror-invoking turn Lala had just done. The mental list she had begun to make seemed to be ever-expanding. Draco Malfoy, Blaise Zabini, Theodore Nott, and Mattia Fontana were only a fraction of the names, many others were Harry’s year-mates and a few who were a grade above him. And now a famous quidditch star, who had clearly recently come into a krvoijac inheritance, and was staring at her brother with far too much fascination.
Sissy was staring at the large group of teenagers with a far less murderous gaze, though Harry felt a shiver go down his spine randomly. She had already started to make plans on all the wonderful games she would be introducing them to, such as Spades and Blackjack. Gotta teach them early to make sure they are all card sharks in an effort to have even the slightest chance against Daisy-Mae. Plus, she could get some new recipes to add to her ever-expanding collection.
Daisy-Mae wasn’t really paying attention to Harry’s group. She was too busy keeping an eye on Karkaroff, who had an incredibly well known reputation as not only an ex-death eater, but also as a snitch. She often faded into the background compared to the louder personalities in The Pink Ladies, but she preferred that. It allowed her to take care of any threats from the comfort of obscurity. And she would utterly decimate the headmasters of the other schools if it meant keeping her family safe.
Barbie was also not paying attention to the students, she had far more pressing matters to attend to. Namely, trying her absolute best not to take an impromptu dip in the black lake. The ancient lake was utterly teeming with magical wildlife that was just waiting there for her to go chasing it about. Kelpies were naturally drawn to Olde magic and the entire castle swarmed with it. She would just have to wait until later that night, when she could sneak both her, Harry, and Cece for a night swim/hunt.
“Well, introductions for the newest friends! I’m Harry! Hermione is the one with the really curly hair. The Weasley siblings are best remembered by what year of school they’re in so Ginny is a third year, Ron is a fourth year, and the prankster twins are in sixth year, they’re names are Fred and George. Next we have our distinguished Slytherins: Adrian has blue hair, Draco Malfoy looks like a ferre-”
“I will hex you, Potter!”
“Draco is the blond one, Blaise Zabini is our lovely italian, and Theo is a secret Ravenclaw! Next up, from the Academy, we have the talented harpy Ceceyana but Cece is fine, Quinn is our genderqueer knight in shining armour, and finally, Mattia is my roommate and protector from the weirdo stalker I’ve had since last year!”
“You are all very fun. I will enjoy being with you.”
“What did that little bastard say?” Lala was quickly prevented from castrating Viktor Krum by Headmaster Vulpe, who simply snatched her around the waist and lifted her off her feet. He ignored the furious twisting from the girl merely smiling at the startled Bulgarian. “I swear I’ll cut his di-”
“Sorry about her. She’s my adopted sister so she’s a little overprotective!”
Harry didn’t really understand why everyone around him seemed slightly scared of getting near him. Oh well! They would get over eventually!