Harry's Bold Move

"Hmm, this is quite nice." Harry admitted as he and Daphne were walking outside. Clearly a lot of effort had been put in to making Hogwarts look as beautiful and 'Christmas-y' as possible. The shape of the hedges had been changed to look more festive, there were several different decorations all along the castle walls, snow was everywhere, making the place look like a winter wonderland.

"Indeed," Daphne agreed, looking around and seemingly taking in every detail. "though it is a bit cold." She added with a wry smile.

"Could I interest the beautiful young lady in a warming charm?" Harry asked in a gentlemanly voice with a smirk.

"Yes, you can, my good sir." Daphne said, playing along. Harry took his wand out of his holster and cast a slight warming charm on her, being careful not to warm her up too much. "Oh, that feels good." Daphne hummed while Harry cast one on himself.

"Yeah, well I..." Harry paused when the two turned a corner and nearly bumped into Karkaroff who had managed to stop before he crashed into the pair of Slytherin's. The man looked like he had just been jolted out of deep thought and stared at the two of them, he was about to sneer at the two but stopped when he saw Harry Potter. 'I already have one very dangerous wizard to worry about, two if you count Albus Dumbledore as well, probably should do my best to not make it three.' Karkaroff thought to himself.

The Durmstrang headmaster gave them both a stiff nod before he quickly walked past them.

"I wonder what that was about." Daphne whispered to Harry once Karkaroff was far enough away.

"You're not the only one." Harry said with a small frown, he and Daphne walked forwards, unfortunately they had only taken a few steps when their path was once again blocked. This time by none other than Hogwarts's most currently hated teacher, Professor Snape.

"Potter, what are you doing here?" Professor Snape all but demanded to know, sneering down at Harry, looking as if he had not even noticed Daphne was with him.

"I am simply having a walk with my date, sir." Harry said, doing his best to keep the irritation out of his voice. If Professor Snape detected it then he didn't say anything.

"Well...be sure to...behave yourself." Professor Snape drawled before he walked past them.

"Prick." Harry said under his breath once Snape was gone.

"Are you okay?" Daphne asked as they continued walking together.

"I am fine," Harry said with a small sigh. "I'm just a little bit tired of Professor Snape's obsession with continuing his grudge against my father. Honestly if he's that desperate to continue a grudge with a dead man then he should make a grave next to my father's and take a head first dive into it. Sorry if I am ranting but I just feel like one day I'm likely just going to snap at him."

"Well...be sure to tell me when, I'll try and book front row seats." Daphne said in a slightly jokey tone, hoping to lighten the mood, Harry let out an amused snort which showed that she had somewhat succeeded. Eventually the two found a nice bench where they could sit in peace, Harry cleaned the snow off of it with a wave of his wand before he and Daphne sat down. Once they were sat down Daphne leaned into Harry who wrapped his arm around her. "Hmm, this is nice." Daphne said with her head resting again his shoulder while his hand rested on her waist.

"You'll hear no disagreement from me." Harry hummed.

"Harry," Daphne said in a quiet voice. "tell me something about yourself."

"Like what?" Harry asked.

"Well, what's your favourite food?" Daphne asked.

"That would probably be a coin flip between a good burger and a good pizza." Harry answered. "Tonks got me addicted to them." He added with a grin. "Perhaps over the summer I can get you addicted to them."

"You mean come over to the muggle world?" Daphne asked as she moved her head off of him and back enough to look at him.

"If you want." Harry confirmed with a nod.

"Are you asking me out on a muggle date?" Daphne asked, a smile on her face.

"Like I said, if you want." Harry responded, his emerald green eyes locking onto beautifully blue eyes. Harry wasn't entirely sure which one of them closed the distance, perhaps it was both of them, but soon he felt her breath on her lips as she felt his on her. There was a small pause from Daphne, Harry thought for a moment that she would pull back, but he was proven wrong when she leaned forwards. The world stilled, their lips connected and they kissed.

When the two pulled away it was only briefly because a second later the two reconnected with what started as a kiss but slowly descended into full blown snogging. Daphne's arms had wrapped around Harry's neck while Harry had placed one of his hands on the small of her back while his other hand was placed on the back of her head, both hands did what they were instructed to do by Harry's brain, and that was pull Daphne closer. The two continued for a while, and likely would have continued for longer if not for the fact that they were human and unfortunately needed a certain amount of oxygen.

"Wow," Daphne breathed once they were done. "that was amazing."

"And there goes my ego, shooting into the sky." Harry said with a smirk before he leaned forward and kissed her forehead. "Daphne, would you like to be my girlfriend?" Harry asked before he waited for her answer, though judging the way her blue eyes were twinkling - needless to say she made twinkling blue eyes look much better than Dumbledore ever could - he already knew the answer.

The next day the school rumour mill was shot into overdrive, the reason for that being once again connected to Harry. He had walked into the great hall for breakfast, Thor on his shoulder with Jet wrapped around his right arm, thought the thing that surprisingly stood out the most - which kind of said something about the Hogwarts students - was the fact that he had walked into the hall while holding hands with Daphne Greengrass. Those in the hall instantly began wondering if the 'King of Slytherin house' had finally chosen someone who could be his queen, those questions were pretty much answered when Harry and Daphne shared a brief kiss before sitting down together, causing the students to start passionately whispering to each other.

"Well...you two still know how to make an entrance." Draco said in a dry yet amused voice.

"It's an art form, Draco." Harry said as if he was a wise teacher trying to pass on some important wisdom.

"So when did this happen?" Blaise asked curiously.

"Sometime last night," Daphne answered, leaning her shoulder against Harry. Thor's eyes lit up at the sight of her beautiful blonde hair and began playing with it. "what about you, Blaise?" Daphne asked. "Are we going to hear about how you 'conquered the mighty veela'?" She asked with a smirk, one that got bigger when Blaise blushed slightly.

"I did not conquer anything." Blaise said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh yeah, that's right." Tracey said as if she had just remembered something. "If I recall correctly at the end of your date she just gave you a kiss on the cheek and sent you on your way." She said in a teasing voice.

"It was a passionate kiss!" Blaise argued.

"Yeah," Theo agreed, which caused Blaise to smile at him, or at least it did before he continued. "a passionate kiss on your cheek."

"Screw you, Nott." Blaise glared at him.

"I'd rather screw Delacour," Nott shrugged. "and you know that you want to as well, shame you never got around to it." Theo added with a small smirk.

"Right, now I'm just going to do it just to prove you wrong." Blaise said, still glaring at Theo.

"I look forward to laughing when you fail." Theo shrugged.

"So," Jet spoke as he looked between Harry and Daphne. "are you two going to mate now?" He asked.

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