"My dear friends, I'm sure it was an accident," Fat Friar said. Other two house ghosts looked at him almost annoyed.

"Friar, 'accident' is when something happens unintentionally," Baron crossed his hands, "Peeves did it three times for TODAY."

"I have to agree with Baron," Sir Nicholas added, "Poor first years, what they will think of all of us."

"I actually heard that the princess helped him do it," Baron shrugged.

"Oh, Merlin. You can't be serious."

"Yes I am. I guess we shouldn't be surprised. She is McLain's daughter after all. And Phantom is known to love jokes as well."

Suddenly a letter appeared out of nowhere and flopped on Friar's head. Everyone blinked in surprise. How it managed not to pass through his body? Hufflepuff House ghost took it into his hands and examined it. Friar gasped in shock.

"What's in there, Friar?"

"Th-this is a letter...from His Majesty!" He exclaimed, looking at the black 'DP' stamp.

"Speak of the Devil," Baron deadpanned.

"What does it say?" Nicholas asked with a huge interest. With shaking hand Friar broke the stamp and took out the list of paper. His eyes ran down the narrow writings, and with every line his eyes were widening more and more.

"He...he is asking for our permission to come in Hogwarts!" Friar answered, his voice rising more and more after every word.

"What? Give it to me," Baron snatched the letter and read it, "Indeed, he is. How shall we respond?"

"I think other ghosts should anticipate in this discussion as well," Nicholas commented, much to the Slytherin ghost's dismay. "But in my opinion we must agree," he continued, "This may be only once in the afterlife opportunity!"

"Then we should get the others," Friar added, before flying through the nearest wall.

-Later-

"Okay, so I finally got the whole orange line, so I'm gonna build a house," Ellie grinned, putting a green plastic house on the needed square.

"Ugh, I will never understand this muggle game," Daphne complained, "Why can't you build a house while having one street?" Ellie shrugged.

"That's just the rules," Hermione added. "Otherwise it will be too simple," she said, before looking at her white haired friend, "Why Monopoly, though?" Hermione asked.

"'Cause it is a maaagical Monopoly," Ellie waved her hands slowly.

"Everything magical here are the figures moving by themselves," Daphne deadpanned.

"So?" Ellie asked, "It's your turn, by the way."

Daphne sighed, before throwing dies. Her silver boot jumped seven squares forward. Hermione was looking around while her friends were trading for the Trafalgar Square. She noticed how bypassing ghosts glanced at their princess, whose title was yet unknown to anyone living besides Harry.

"What's that about the ghosts?" She asked.

"Whaddya mean?" Ellie raised her eyebrow.

"They keep looking at you, that's weird," young Phantom looked around, and the ghosts abruptly turned their heads away.

"Well, there is nothing weird about the looks," she shrugged, "I kept getting them since I came here. And Harry, too..."

"And you are fine with it?" Daphne asked.

"Totally. I love attention," Ellie grinned, popping out her tongue.

Meanwhile in the Griffindor dorms Harry and Ron were having the same conversation.

"Mate, I'm serious, ghosts keep looking at you all the time," Ron said. Harry sighed, rubbing his temples.

"They always do it all the time, Ron," he looked at his scroll, which he hadn't even started yet.

"Yeah, I know, since your Dad seems like a big guy among them, you still hadn't explained why, by the way. But now they are getting really weird," Harry sighed again.

"Look, Ron, I'm really busy now. Let's talk later."

Ron groaned, but left him alone.

It felt like the professors wanted to kill them with all the homework they assigned. It was even harder for Harry, since he was also a member of the Quidditch team. Wood was working the team harder than ever. He was excited, if they won their next match against Hufflepuff, they would overtake Slytherin in the house championship for the first time in seven years. Harry had a feeling that his father will not forgive a lose against badgers.

But a spoonful of tar spoils a barrel of honey. Wood informed the team that Snape will be referring the match. Despite what Danny said about him, Harry still disliked 'this greasy git'. And the feeling was mutual, that much was obvious. However, he seemed to praise Ellie more and more. He wondered if that had something to do with Danny and Severus knowing each other and Snape realizing that Ellie was actually Danny's daughter. In a good way, apparently. It wasn't concerning Harry, though. For him Snape was just as bad.

"Hey bro!" Harry jumped in surprise and fell on the floor.

"Ellie," he groaned, "How much do I need to ask not to do that?" She just peaked her head through the desk. Ghost girl giggled and phased inside the dorm.

"Oh, c'mon, you should have seen your face!" She flipped in the air, holding her stomach.

"You can't be here, what if someone sees you?" Harry looked around.

"What? Is that forbidden to visit my lil' bro?" Ellie pouted.

"I...I don't actually recall anything about that," he answered, "What are you doing here, anyway?"

"Well, Daddy said to practice ghost powers when I have time. It's duplication now, and this duplicate is bored," she pointed at herself.

"I don't think I can help you here," Harry shrugged, "I still need to finish an essay."

"You still haven't done it?" She asked incredulously.

"Jeez, you spend too much time with Hermione," Ellie snorted.

"Soo, have you noticed that ghosts seem suspicious?"

Harry groaned. "Not you too."

Ellie fell on the nearest bed and sprung widely.

"I dunno about you, bro, but I'm gonna find out."

There was a loud thud. Siblings turned to the door and saw Ron standing there with a shocked expression on his face, and a pile of books on the ground.

"Hey Ron," Ellie waved.

"You...what are you doing here?!" He exclaimed, before Harry covered his mouth.

"Not so loud, mate," he said. Ron nodded mutely, before Harry removed his hand. Redhead just stood there with a dumbfounded expression on his face. Ellie narrowed her eyes.

"It's impolite to stare, ya know?" Ron shook his head.

"How...how did you get inside our dorm?" He asked.

"Hehe..." Ellie laughed nervously, glancing at her sibling for help, only to see Harry smirking, showing her that he will not help her get out of that mess. "I...got through the window!"

"Seriously? That's all you could think of?" Ron deadpanned, crossing his hands.

"Okay, fine, I came through the floor."

Ron narrowed his eyes. "If you didn't want to tell me, you could just say that."

He turned to the exit and already planned to get out of the dorm, but he was stopped by the ghost girl. She narrowed her eyes at the redhead, who was staring at her dumbfounded. Why? She was hanging in the air upside down, with her hair being pulled down by gravity.

"See? I can do a lot of things!" She said with crossed hands.

Ron only stared. And stared. He stared a bit more.

"Eh, pal, you alright?" Harry waved his hand in front of Ron's face.

"You...you are flying!" He exclaimed loudly.

"Yes," Ellie rolled her eyes, "Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna solve the case!"

"Yeah, yeah, just go, ducktective," Harry said sarcastically. Ellie saluted, before going through the floor, leaving her brother to explain everything to his best friend. What a joy.

-Later-

A hooded figure stepped out of the train in a village Hogsmeade. It was the last train for today, the next one will be only tommorow. Danny took his way deeper in the village, and his cane was making measured sounds, hitting the stony pavement. Wizards and witches around tried to avoid this mysterious figure, his aura radiated power. And Danny couldn't help but be satisfied by it. He doesn't like all that folk. His kids may be one of them, but that did not imply eternal love for wizards in general.

Phantom went past the village border. Once he made sure he was alone, Danny became invisible and flew in the air. He was stunned by how beautiful this lands looked at night. And the first thing he saw was a giant castle near shining lake.

"So that is Hogwarts?" He mumbled. "I expected something more."

He flew further and to the castle. The wind blew in his face and he sadly admitted to himself that he wasn't flying just for the fun of it often. It just turned into the way of movement. Well, it wasn't time to become all angsty, so Danny just thought about something else.

While above the lake, he got some omnious feeling. Danny learned to trust his gut, so he preferred to fly higher than right above the surface. Plus he saw something big moving underwater.  And his gut feeling was right, something came from there and tried to grab him.

"Whoa, easy there, sea product!" Danny exclaimed, before blasting the tentacle.

Local Kraken obviously didn't like it.

More tentacles came from underwater. Phantom avoided and blasted each of them, but they kept returning for more. Danny tried to just go away, but one tentacle managed to grab him once he turned his back to the beast. It yanked him down and straight underwater.

If Kraken, or at least what Danny assumed was a Kraken, tried to leave him without oxygen, then it failed miserably, since the half ghost didn't need to breath. In the full darkness of muddy water, only one glowing green dot, which was Danny's eye, was the only source of light. Phantom ignited his hand and he was able to see the ugly face of an overgrown squid. Thinking quickly, Phantom shoot an ectoblast straight into the beady dark eye of the beast. It immediately let go of the ghost and was obviously enraged. Danny used his intangibility, the tentacles phased through him, and a huge grin made its way on his face.

It was time to go. Once he turned around, Danny suddenly saw a light from far ahead. Curious, he moved to the source of light. It was a window to some regal looking room, with sofas, fireplace and everything. Weird. Phantom phazed inside, since there was nobody inside. Danny became intangible again, causing the water fall through him. He then grimaced from sudden smell. Danny looked around for the source of it, before realizing that it was coming from him.

"Great, now I smell like McFish," Danny said sarcastically, before perking up.

"Oh, c'mon, it was funny!" He heard an oh so familiar voice and became invisible.

From the corner came two girls and much to Danny's displeasure one of them was his daughter. It was time far past the curfew. "Filch doesn't seem to share your point of view," the girl near Ellie said, before the ghost girl laughed evilly. And heck, even Danny felt a chill down his spine. That was something she inherited from her mother, obviously. Then Ellie's ghost sense worked as the blue mist escaped her mouth. Danny stood there and didn't move. Ellie just shrugged.

"But you have to admit that our prank was hilarious!" She said.

"Yeah, I guess it was."

A small tear of pride escaped Danny's eye. They grow up so fast.

"Do you smell anything?" Ellie sniffed the air.

"No, what is it?"

"It smells like McFish."

"McFish?" Ellie yawned.

"I'll tell you tomorrow. M' tired."

With that two girls went to sleep, completely unaware about Danny's presence. He let go of his invisibility, before letting out ectoplasm and becoming silvery gray. He started to search for the Great Hall, where he should meet with local ghosts.

It was harder than Danny thought it will be. The castle was huge, as in HUGE. He didn't know for how long he was roaming in that damn building. He even was in some big creepy room down in the sewers, completely unaware what he found, and what will happen in that same room one year later. But, after avoiding one weird guy who looks like pedophile and didn't seem like one to be let near children, he finally found what he was searching for. Great doors for the Great Hall, Danny guessed and went through them.

For a long while Phantom hadn't seen so much ghosts in one place, when it wasn't some official event, that is. Different ghosts, wearing clothes from the epoch they died at. Despite how conservative wizarding society is, they still have changing fashion. One guy even had an axe stuck in his head...though Danny had a suspicion that it wasn't part of fashion. To get their attention, Phantom hit the floor with his cane a few times and every head turned in his direction with such speed that it was creepy.

Four ghosts floated towards him, while others just stared in awe at their king.

"I must admit, you know how to greet guest," Danny smirked.

"Y-your Majesty, m-my name is Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington," Griffindor ghost started nervously, "I...we all...are honored to meet you, sire," ghosts bowed deeply.

"Likewise," Phantom smiled and outstretched his hand, which Nicholas shook with awed breath. Danny looked around, "It's nice to meet all of you!" He said loudly.

"To say that we were surprised by your wish will be an understatement, milord," Baron said, "You are without the queen?"

Danny chuckled. "Sadly she is occupied at the moment, she is a rock star after all. Maybe she will come later. My paperwork can be done by skeletons, they are good not only to hold a sword," he grinned.

"Are you talking about your army?"

"It is time of peace, after all, I can always create more, anyway. So, I hope that you did as I asked?"

"Yes, sire. Nobody besides the ghosts knows about you being here," Danny nodded.

"Good, let's keep it that way. My kids mustn't know about it, either."

"But why?" Friar asked.

"What kid will be eager to have his parent come to school? I sure wasn't at the time," Danny chuckled. "I understand that you are obliged to inform the Headmaster, but I assure you that no harm will come to the students."

"We understand, Your Majesty."

"Wonderful!" Danny clapped his hands. "By the way, do you know where I can stay here? I still need to sleep somewhere, after all."

House ghosts looked at each other.

"There is actually a place..."