Fate's Request: A Harry Potter FanFiction

Mel was fussing over David as she made slight, somewhat needless alterations to David's suit for the Yule Ball.

He'd chosen a black suit with a dark blue trim for the Ball, Hermione had made sure of that, for she'd chosen her own dress based on David's house colours, something that strangely brought a smile to his face as she informed him, very sternly, that he would have to match the colour she'd chosen for her dress.

"Mel, do we really need to -," David tried to ask, before getting cut off.

"You need to look your best, Master!" Mel shouted in response and tugged on his bow tie for the tenth time, before moving onto his hair and adjusting it ever so slightly.

Eventually, after another ten minutes of grooming by the enthusiastic Mel, David made his way down into the Ravenclaw common room.

He saw couples abound, jittery and excited for the events to come.

He also picked out Cho Chang who was being preened over by a couple of her friends and seemed quite excited to be dating the Hogwarts Champion, Cedric. She seemed a little vain to David as he made his way past her and towards the Gryffindor tower to pick up his date.

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Standing in the rough vicinity of the Gryffindor common room, for each House liked to protect the entrance to their specific common rooms, David watched as multiple different groups of students made their way past him.

When Lavender Brown and her friend, Parvati saw him waiting casually, they broke into giggles and immediately started gossiping.

David was surprised, for he thought Parvati would go to the Ball with Ronald, who David knew was not going with his friend Padma.

The answer to this conundrum was soon answered as he saw a grumpy looking Ronald, dressed in his atrocious and rotting robes, stomp past him and give him a glare in anger.

He seemed to be going stag and hated the fact no one wanted to go with him.

David thought there was nothing wrong with not having a date for the Ball, for if he wasn't with Hermione, he probably would have spent the night reading away in his dorm room in peace anyway.

Alas, he was dating Hermione and that meant social gatherings of the magnitude of the Yule Ball was a must for him to attend for while she was most certainly a book worm, she was still more sociable than David and was really looking forward to dancing the night away with David and mingling with her friends.

Breaking him from his thoughts was Hermione, who appeared before him dressed in her exquisite blue dress that was a tight fit and flared outward after passing what David knew intimately to be a bit above her navel.

Grinning as he saw her come down, David made his way over to her briskly and thought she was looking absolutely gorgeous in the dress she picked out before coming to Hogwarts and wished there was somewhere he could go with her to eventually peel it off of her, but he'd long ago made up his mind to keep the secret of the Room of Requirement until the next school year.

"You look absolutely amazing, Hermione," David said as she held by the waist in both hands.

Hermione blushed and looked away for a second before replying to David in a soft voice, "Thank you, you're looking quite sharp yourself."

Still smiling, David leaned in a kissed Hermione square on the lips, not caring who was around to see or not.

While everyone knew the two were dating for quite some time, Harry had never seen Hermione be intimate with anyone, even with the shock he experienced while learning the Summoning Charm didn't prepare his naïve self to see his best friend locked lips with her boyfriend.

Shocked, Harry stumbled and clattered into a suit of armour, breaking David's and Hermione's kiss and causing his date, Ginny to giggle uncontrollably at Harry's misfortune.

"Hey guys," David said, greeting Harry and Ginny Weasley with a raised brow aimed at Harry who looked away immediately, going a deeper red.

"I see you've decided to match Ginny's colours there Harry," David said to him, grinning maliciously.

"Huh? What?" Harry asked, confused for his dress robes were completely black.

Hermione just sighed at David's teasing and Ginny looked on confused for a second before noticing Harry's still red face, causing her to snort in suppressed laughter and glare at David in good humour as she realised the link he'd made between Harry's unusually red face and her own, natural hair-colour.

"Nothing Harry! Nothing! You and Ginny need to get a move on! You're opening the dance, remember?" Hermione said a little loudly, breaking Harry from his confusion.

Slight panic setting in, he turned to Ginny and said, "McGonagall is going to kill me, we need to get a move on Gin."

Nodding, she and Harry bid the couple goodbye and raced down towards the Great Hall hand in hand to prepare for opening the Yule Ball with the other Champions.

Both David and Hermione smiled at each other and said no words as they took the others hand and slowly made their way down to the Great Hall, taking the side entrance that was for the 'ordinary' students to enter from, for the massive oaken door entrance of the Great Hall was for the Champions and their partners.

Making their way to the greatly changed Hall, David had to give it to the Hogwarts Elves, they'd really impressed everyone here with their decorations for the Yule Ball.

Hermione shook her head slightly as she made her way into the Hall and viewed what the Elves had done. While she knew more of the little creatures thanks to David and hadn't created S.P.E.W. this time around, she still found the treatment of House Elves abhorrent.

Eventually, the two found their table, which had Sue Li and her date along with Padma and hers. Ruining the mood slightly was also Ronald Weasley, who didn't have anywhere to sit and Hermione graciously offered him a spot on their table.

Ronald was dressed in horrid robes and was slouched in his chair, looking very out of place compared to the rest of them who were fully embracing the formal event.

"Sue! Padma! You two look gorgeous!" Hermione expressed as she went over and greeted the two Ravenclaws.

Chattering away and complementing each other kindly, for all three were friends now thanks to their relation to David, David himself went to greet the two Beauxbaton boys who were his friend's dates for the evening.

The two boys, who while speaking with a thick accent knew quiet a lot English meant there was no language barrier between them and greeted David pleasantly, if not looking at his suit for the evening a little curiously for it didn't match with the usual British wizarding robes they saw everyone wearing tonight.

Henry and Alex were their names and were both fifth-years who had been some of the few who were allowed to accompany the older students to Hogwarts this year due to their excellent grades.

As Hermione took her seat next to David, which also happened to be next to Ronald's, David tried to greet him politely, but he just let out a grunt in acknowledgement, this seemed to annoy everyone on the table, especially Hermione who glared at him menacingly.

Soon the Champions made their way into the Great Hall, and when David saw Viktor Krum walk in with his date, his thoughts turned to their awkward conversation they had a couple of weeks ago during their respective morning runs.

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"Excuse me," Krum said as David passed him in a thick Bulgarian accent.

Huffing, David slowed down, turned around and made his back to Viktor Krum who was waiting patiently for David.

"Hi, Viktor, right?" David asked and following a nod from him, David introduced himself, "I'm David, how can I help you?"

Clearly a little nervous, Viktor took a little cough into his hands, letting out a puff of visible air thanks to the cold and began, "I, uhh, vanted to ask about Herymionee, I hav noticed er in the Librarry and vanted to ask her to the de Yule Ball. But I also noticed you, an vanted to ask vhat is your relation to Miss Herymionee."

David g.r.o.a.n.e.d internally, he really hoped that he wouldn't have had to have this conversation with Krum, he hoped that the gossiping nature of Hogwarts would alert him to the fact that Hermione was taken, but it seemed the schools hadn't interconnected enough or the language barrier was too much for Viktor.

"Oh. Well, Hermione is my girlfriend," David answered awkwardly.

"Ah…" Viktor replied, feeling quite awkward now for letting the boyfriend of the girl he was interested in know he wanted to take her to the ball.

"Yeah…" David said, the awkwardness growing due to the silence.

"Vell, thank you fvor your time, David… apologies" Viktor managed to get out eventually, offering his hand to David to shake.

Grasping it and returning the handshake, David replied and ended their conversation with, "Ah, well, yeah. I'll see you around Viktor…"

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David let out an almost inaudible groan as he thought back to the first conversation he'd had with Viktor, it almost went unnoticed, but Hermione was sitting right next to him and asked, "Hmm? What's wrong David?"

Whispering in reply, he said, "Oh, it was nothing Hermione."

Looking at him curiously for a second, she shrugged and went back to watching the Champions come onto the dance floor and being the Yule Ball with the traditional dance.

It seemed all the Champions knew how to dance, with Harry and Ginny performing quite well as they got less and less nervous as they continued.

Eventually, the music ended, and the hall broke out into applause as the Champions made their way over to their seats to begin dinner for the night before the rest of the students would make their way onto the dance floor.

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After finishing his Dinner for the evening, intentionally eating very little for he didn't want to feel overly full, David rose from his chair and asked Hermione if she would like to dance.

Beaming, she nodded, and the couple made their way to the already somewhat packed dance floor and joined their fellow students.

They intimately held each other for the majority of their time on the dance floor, ignoring everyone around them but Hermione eventually needed a break for she wasn't used to wearing heels at all, the dancing was killing her feet.

"Sorry, David," Hermione mumbled for not being able to stay up there longer.

"No reason to be sorry Hermione," David responded as they sat down in their respective seats.

Ronald hadn't moved once and had been left alone on the table for he was a terrible company for everyone seated at their table. Hermione would probably be apologising to Sue and Padma tomorrow for his behaviour.

"Had enough dancing huh?" he said suddenly as Hermione let out a breath of relief for the pressure on her feet was lessened immensely.

She merely nodded in response for she was enjoying the loss of pain at that moment.

David drew his wand after taking a sip of water for himself and aimed it at Hermione's feet. He applied a Numbing Charm non-verbally, much to her relief.

"Thanks, David," she said with a smile and gave him a peck on the cheek.

Ronald frown grew as he saw Hermione give David a simple kiss and started glaring at her.

"Problem Ronald?" she asked eventually, as his constant glaring was grating on her.

"Yeah! No need to rub it in!" he said loudly.

"Rub what in?" Ginny said suddenly, coming to the rescue of her brother before he could further put his foot into whatever he'd just said.

Following Ginny's arrival was also Harry, who took a seat next to his best friend, wondering what they were talking about.

"Uhh… nothing," Ronald mumbled, a little scared of his sister and not wanting to appear overly rude to Harry, whom he just recently reunited with.

Hermione and Ginny got to chatting immediately and so did Ronald and Harry. David was left alone so he just filled his plate with dessert and began eating, ever so slowly to pass the time.

Eventually, Ronald broke the respective conversations by saying, "Right, this is all kinda boring. Let's get out of here Harry."

Seeing Ronald stand up to leave, Harry was left sitting there, dismayed, for he was actually really enjoying his evening with Ginny and even found dancing with her fun. Something he never thought he would experience once he'd heard about the Ball.

Ginny looked distraught immediately, while she could stand up to her brother, her crush and relationship with Harry caused her to doubt herself quite a lot form what Hermione had told him. David didn't bother delving into her mind again via Legilimency either, for he knew enough from the last time to confirm that notion.

Hermione was stumped for a second but glared at Ronald as she realised, he was trying to ruin his sisters evening due to jealously and wanted Harry to himself to share in his misery.

Ronald, knowing just what he was doing, confirmed thanks to the moment of eye contact David had with him, simply looked away, waiting 'impatiently' for Harry to get a move on.

Harry looked for a clue on what to do, for he saw Ginny's expression at her brother's declaration, seeing that Hermione was staring daggers at Ron, Harry turned to David for a cue, who gave him a very small stern look and shake of the head.

David hoped he got the message that he shouldn't go with him and listened intently to what was going to happen.

"Uhh, actually Ron. I think I'm going to stay for a bit… Ginny and I still want to dance a bit and I promised to dance with Hermione," Harry answered, feeling quite nervous this would trigger Ron's 'temper'.

Quiet for a moment, as every eye on the table was turned on him, Ronald eventually said, "I see how it is," and stomped off in fury.

Everything was a little awkward for a while as they just sat there in silence, Ronald having ruined their time, for now. Luckily, Hermione soon got up and said they should make their way back to the dance floor, which was eagerly agreed upon by Ginny and Harry followed along, dismayed by Ronald's reaction but finding himself drawn closer and closer to Ginny as time went on.

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Eventually, David and Hermione were walking out in the blackness of the Hogwarts grounds which were magically warmed for the evening, everywhere one looked you could see couples scampering off to get some alone time.

David and Hermione, however, found an area where they could sit that overlooked the Black Lake, but it only sat one person.

Ever resourceful, David sat down and pulled Hermione onto his l.a.p and the two spent the rest of the evening in relative warmth looking out at the scenery and chatting in peace.

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AN: I don't know why I struggled to write this chapter. But I did.

Anyway, it's done and I'll try my best to get back to 1-2 chapters a day!