"Harry!" Draco smiled when he saw Harry, he was either unaware of or simply ignoring the tension in the air.
"Draco," Harry nodded and shook Draco's hand as he gave him a small smile. "ah, and here is your lovely mother." Harry smiled at the woman he knew to be Narcissa Malfoy. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Mrs Malfoy." Harry said as he took her hand in his and planted a small kiss on her knuckles.
"Mr Potter," She nodded to him before she looked around and paused when she noticed her sister, she went stiff for a second before she spoke. "Andromeda." She said in a neutral tone.
"Cissy," Andromeda replied, her tone neutral as well, despite using her special nickname for her sister. "how are you?" She asked in a conversational tone.
"I'm quite well, and yourself?" She asked, matching her tone.
"I'm excellent," Andromeda nodded, "I'm quite happy with my family, especially since Harry has entered our lives. I understand he is good friends with your son." She said, before the two women fell into silence. Everyone around them didn't really know what to say, that was until Harry interrupted the silence.
"So Lucius, how are you?" Harry asked with a grin as he looked up at Lucius Malfoy.
"Just fine, Mr Potter." Lucius said through gritted teeth, his grip on his cane tightening since at this point he was imagining that it was Harry's neck in his hands.
"Excellent, I must say I did enjoy our last talk, hopefully we can spare time in the future for another discussion." Harry said with a smile, looking as close as he could to an innocent angel.
"Perhaps." Lucius said with a tight and forced smile. Narcissa looked away from her staring contest with her sister, she glanced at Lucius before sending a curious look towards Harry.
"Wait, what are the Weasley's doing here?" Draco sniffed when he finally noticed the Weasley family.
"They're my guests." A voice said as a new man entered the room. He was a blue-eyed, blond man with rosy skin and a bit of a round belly.
"And you would be?" Harry asked, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm Ludo Bagman," The man grinned. "I'm doing the commentating for the match, I'm a former quidditch player as well. I was a Beater for the Wimbourne Wasps. I invited old Arthur and his family cause I owed him a favour." Draco and Harry exchanged looks, both had the 'can you believe this shit?' look on their face. "Oh and I of course know who you are, Mr Potter." He said with a happy smile.
"Really?" Harry drawled. "How lovely."
"It is," Ludo agreed, clearly not understanding the sarcastic tone that Harry was using. "oh, I got to talk to the Minister, back in a tic." He said before he walked off.
Harry shook his head at the man's excitable attitude, Harry looked towards the Tonks family and saw they were all sat down at the seats at the front of the box. Tonks was looking irritated and a moment later Harry realised why when he saw Charlie Weasley had moved seats and was now sat next to her. Harry could see that Ted and Andromeda weren't looking happy and looked like they were barely stopping themselves from making a scene, they looked close to their breaking point.
Fortunately Harry didn't really care about making a scene, so he walked right over to where they were sitting.
"You're looking very nice." Harry heard Charlie say to Tonks.
"Oh, so now I look nice enough for you?" Tonks snorted, crossing her arms and looking in any direction where Charlie wasn't.
"Oh come on babe, I..."
"Don't call me 'babe'!" Tonks hissed as she did finally look at him.
"I..."
"Hello," Harry interrupted whatever Charlie was about to say as he stopped in front of the red head. "are you by any chance related to the Weasley's?" Harry asked, despite knowing the answer.
"Uh...yeah, wait...you're Harry Potter, aren't you?" Charlie asked as he looked at him.
"It's nice to meet you, Mr..." Harry trailed off and gave him a questioning look as he held a hand out.
"My name's Charlie." Charlie told him as he shook Harry's hand, he tried to let go after a second or two but Harry didn't let go. Harry didn't bother trying to squeeze or anything since Charlie was a lot more muscular than Harry was.
"Charlie, really?" Harry asked with an evil grin as he leaned forwards, Jet leaned forwards as well, hissing louder than usual. "Oh, I remember who you are now." Harry said as he licked his lips. "You're the one who told your little brother, Ronald, that my sister was a...oh what was it now...oh yes...you told him that she was...'a slut that would sleep with anyone'." Harry finished, the smile vanishing from his face. His expression combined with Jet's hissing made him look positively evil, the fact that everyone in the box was now staring at the two made things even worse.
"I...I didn't say that." Charlie coughed as he felt himself being stared down by Harry's emerald green orbs.
"Oh, did you not? Then why did Ronald say that then?" Harry asked in a mock confused voice.
"M...maybe there was a misunderstanding or..."
"A misunderstanding?" Harry cut him off. "I suppose that could be it, so what you're trying to say is that your little brother is an idiot, correct?" Harry asked, the twins at this point placed both of their hands on Ron's arms to keep him sat down and Percy cast a silencing spell on him just in case.
"W...what? No, I'm not saying that, I..."
"But you said that there was a misunderstanding, so that means either your brother is an idiot who somehow got the word 'slut' from your letter or that you're an idiot who wrote your letter in such a way that your brother had somehow gotten 'slut' from it, either that or you're lying to me? So which is it, Charlie? Do you have an idiot for a brother? Are you an idiot or are you just a liar?" Harry asked, as Jet raised his head and opened his mouth to show his impressive looking fangs.
"I...I think Ron had misunderstood." Charlie coughed as he leaned back in his seat, he had worked with dragons before but they could be understood and contained with the help of many more wizards, they were also mostly kept a safe distance away, this snake was rather close.
"Apparently, let's hope he doesn't do it again." Harry said with brief smile at having the older Weasley basically admit that Ron was an idiot. "So, do you like quidditch?" Harry asked him in a conversational tone as he let go of Charlie's hand.
"I...um...yeah. Yeah, I do." Charlie asked, surprised by the sudden change in conversation.
"Oh, that's good, do you ever play?" Harry asked, still in the same tone.
"Uh...yeah, I was seeker for Gryffindor."
"Hmm, impressive. I'm a chaser, I was the youngest one in a century, did you know that?" Harry asked, when Charlie nodded Harry continued speaking. "Yes, I'm quite proud of that. Do you enjoy watching quidditch with your family?" Harry asked.
"Um...yeah." Charlie nodded, wondering what was up with all of these questions.
"Good, good, well you see the thing is...I like watching quidditch with my family. And right now, you're sat in the seat next to my sister, which happens to be my seat. Do you see the problem?" Harry asked, now glaring at Charlie, his green eyes boring into Charlie.
"Uh...yeah, yeah I do."
"Well...then why are you still here?" Harry asked as he stood back. Charlie quickly got up out of the seat and rushed back to the Weasley's, Harry sat down next to Tonks, if he looked then he would have noticed the impressed looks from some of the foreign Ministers. Fudge was worrying about if this would make him and the British Ministry look bad, Ludo looked confused, Lucius was sneering at Harry's back, Draco looked like he wanted to laugh and Narcissa was giving Harry an appraising look.
Harry looked at Tonks and raised his fist towards her while giving her a look that quite plainly said 'did I do good?'. The pink haired auror grinned at him before fist bumping him, letting him know that he did in fact do good. Harry also couldn't help but notice Ted and Andromeda smiling at him. Harry leaned back into his seat and was about to relax when Jet started hissing in his ear.
"Master," Jet hissed. "look towards the Weasley's." He told him, Harry glanced towards the Weasley's and noticed nothing out of the ordinary, with the exception of a house elf sitting in a seat behind them. The elf was a female, or at least Harry thought it was a female, it was shaking a lot as well, so Harry assumed that she was either sick or afraid, though judging by the way it was covering its eyes Harry would go with the second. "Next to the elf, I had sensed someone when we passed." Jet said, he would have told him the second that they had passed but the person didn't appear to be doing anything and Jet wanted to get some distance between his master and the potential threat before alerting him. Plus embarrassing red headed assholes that insulted his master's Tonks was always a priority.
"Tonks," Harry leaned over to her and whispered into her ear. "Jet senses that there's someone hiding in a seat next to that elf behind the Weasley's."
"Really?" Tonks frowned as she pulled her wand out.
"I don't know if he's using a cloak or a spell. How about I try to summon an invisibility cloak while you cast a charm to cancel out a disillusionment charm?" Harry suggested as his wand flicked into his hand.
"On three." Tonks told him as she pulled her wand out, making sure to keep her eyes on Harry so to not let this person know that they were onto him/her. "One..." She mouthed. "two...three!" She and Harry quickly stood up, Tonks cast her spell while Harry tried a summoning spell, it turns out that it was an invisibility cloak as a second later the cloak flew into Harry's hands, revealing a pale man with freckles and brown hair. The elf next to him let out a frightened squeak.
"Master!" The elf cried, Tonks quickly cast a stunner on the elf to stop it from interfering, knocking it out.
"What is...B...Barty Crouch Jr?!" Fudge blurted out upon recognising the man.
Later that night Harry fell asleep in Sirius's tent, he was really, really tired. The man that he and Tonks had found was apparently the son of the man who had sent Sirius to Azkaban without a trial, Barty Crouch Sr, that man was now apparently being in brought in for questioning, Sirius didn't have much sympathy for him. Barty Crouch Jr was apparently his son who had joined the death eaters and had supposedly died in Azkaban, it turned out that Barty Sr had actually snuck him out and replaced him with his dying wife who had drunk polyjuice potion and disguised herself as Junior, after that Barty Sr had kept Barty Jr under control with the Imperius curse. The reason Barty Jr was there was because his father knew he loved quidditch and wanted to do something nice for him as a gift to his dead wife.
The two would both be going to Azkaban, Barty Sr still needed to have his trial - 'should just toss him in like he did to me' Sirius had said - but at this point it was pretty much a given that he was going to Azkaban, this unfortunately caused the game to be delayed which upset fans a lot but eventually it was able to happen, most of the people in the room (the British ones at least) would be later called to give a statement about what happened. Harry was sure that this would be in the newspapers quite soon, he could imagine the headline, 'boy-who-lived finds and stops death eater' or some crap like that. Though hopefully Tonks would get the proper amount of credit for it, and after Harry's subtle comments to Fudge, he didn't doubt that she would.
What Harry didn't know was the effect his actions had on Lucius Malfoy, the former death eater had originally been planning to join some of his other 'pardoned death eater' friends and cause some chaos, it would have been a fun little outing, quick and out, but the events of the night changed that. Lucius had become worried because now everyone was on alert, especially the aurors, so he arranged for it to be cancelled, he didn't want to risk getting himself or one of the others caught. But Harry didn't know that, he just peacefully went to sleep.
"Oh, just fuck off time." Was the first thing Tonks said the day that Harry was supposed to go back to Hogwarts, she was very much not happy about the fact that her little brother was leaving, she had really been enjoying her time with him. Especially since the day of the world cup, seeing Harry rip into her ex-boyfriend and then the two of them discovering a death eater together had made them much closer.
"I am going to miss you so much!" Tonks said as she hugged Harry on the platform, "You keep safe!" She told him once she let go.
"I'll do my best." Harry said before he hugged Andromeda and Ted. "I'll miss you all."
"We'll miss you as well, Harry." Ted told him.
"You will remember to send us letters at least once a week." Andromeda spoke, it was not a question, he WOULD be sending those letters.
"I will, promise." Harry smiled at them. "I've got to go now, see ya."
"Bye Harry." Tonks said with a watery smile. "Jet, remember to take care of him." She couldn't help but add.
"So...keep doing what I've been doing then?" Jet asked.
A.N: Hi guys, hope you liked the chapter. Yes, I would have liked some more Harry and Tonks moments as well but the strory must go on so that will have to wait. If you want to complain about waiting then fine, I'm still waiting for Covid to fuck off, we'll all be dissappointed together. Also can I just say a big thank you to timbarney110 because without him (I'm assuming that it is indeed a 'him') then I would have forgotten about Barty being under the cloak, in my defence i'm very tired right now and writing is pretty much my stress relief. So thank you, you've uninentionally helped me remember something I shouldn't have forgotten and given me a large part of this chapter...about 80-90% of this chapter actually.
Anyway thanks for reading and feel free to leave a review.