Bonds and Bets

"How am I doing?" Harry whispered to Daphne as the pair and the other champions continued dancing.

"Very good," Daphne answered honestly as she smiled at him. "as one of your teacher's I'm very pleased with how you've been doing today."

"I live to impress." Harry smiled as the two continued dancing for a bit more, eventually though the first dance ended with the crowd cheering for the champions. The champions and their dates gave everyone a short bow before everyone else was allowed to join in. While Harry kept to Daphne for most of the evening, the pair did dance with others. Harry had managed to dance with Fleur and Angela before he ended up dancing with Tracey, while he was doing that Daphne was dancing with Tracey's date, apparently Theodore Nott had taken the position.

"You and Theo, huh?" Harry asked as the pair danced together. "How did that end up happening? If you don't mind me asking." He added.

"Well...we both needed a date to go," Tracey said with a small shrug. "and we agreed to go as friends." She added.

"Really?" Harry asked.

"Yeah, for some reason he seemed rather nervous about the idea of asking me out." Tracey added with a small frown, not that she wanted Theo to ask her out but the boy had been quite pale during their conversation.

"Right, well...if he doesn't be a good date then be sure to tell me, I'm sure I can give him a good scare." Harry whispered with a grin.

"Hey, no threatening my date." She said in a mock angry tone.

"Yes Mistress, Harry will be a good boy." Harry said in a rather passable imitation of a house elf.

"You had better." Tracey chuckled, enjoying how good it felt to dance and talk with Harry.

"Harry," Daphne said as the two continued dancing late into the ball, a few students had already left but for the most part it looked like it could still go on for a few more hours. "do you want to go and take a walk?" She asked, her cheeks were slightly red as she did so.

"A walk outside with the beautiful Daphne Greengrass?" Harry asked with a smile, "How could I possibly refuse?" he said, causing a smile to appear on Daphne's face.

"Prat." She said in an amused voice before the two walked off the dance floor, they began walking out of the hall, only to stop when they saw Roman and Ginny together.

"What are you two doing here?" Harry asked the two third years that were clearly here together on a date. "I thought you guys were too young to come here unless you were with an older student." He said, his voice was showed signs of curiosity but no signs of judgment.

"Ah, Roman found a great loophole." Ginny grinned, standing with an arm looped around Roman's.

"It was an obvious one." Roman shrugged, though he did blush slightly.

"Still a brilliant one though." Ginny argued before turning to Harry and Daphne. "We're actually technically on dates with two other people." Ginny said before she pointed behind them to a pair of fourth year Ravenclaws in Harry's year that were dancing together.

"Yeah," Roman nodded. "I made them a deal, if they took me and Ginny to the ball then I would do their homework for a week."

"So in exchange for coming here with Miss Weasley, you'll be doing a week's worth of homework for a couple of people in the year above you?" Daphne asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Not quite." Roman grinned. "I made a bet with a couple of Ravenclaws in my year and I won."

"Let me guess, those two Ravenclaws are now going to be doing the homework that you were supposed to do, am I right?" Harry asked.

"Pretty much." Ginny nodded. Harry stared at Roman for several seconds before he smirked and held out a hand, allowing Roman to give him a high five.

"Nicely done," Harry said in an approving voice. "what?" He asked when Ginny gave him an odd look. "I can appreciate when a good plan comes together. Now if both you'll excuse me, I'm off to take the queen of the ball out for a night-time walk." Harry said, gesturing to Daphne.

"Oh, I am royalty now?" Daphne asked in an amused voice. "I suppose that would make you the king."

"If I must be." Harry said in a voice full of false suffering before he nodded to the two third year students before he and Daphne walked out.

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