Harry Potter and the Helping Hand of Death

by Tremor230

Reptilia chall. I have not abandoned Naruto, I just need something different, Harry Keeps getting killed, his personal Grim Reaper is not happy, HE WILL BE FIRED! so it's time for a certain young wizard to be trained to achieve his destiny, get his soulmate and kill Voldy, kicking ass and taking names, a strange teacher will help. AU, OOC, RATED M so I won't hear about kids safety

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2! I hope this will be as good as the first, I had a sever case of Writer's Block that I managed to overcome thanks to my friend Akaluan, thank you, my friend ^ ^

And an Huge thank you to Kira09 that helped me as well.

Shall we see if this is good enough? ^ ^ (Any suggestion to fight future author blocks are well accepted, thank you)

" Alohomora" - spells

"Let's finish this" - dialogue

" Can it get any worse? " - during flashback/ creature talking (Parseltongue)

" Not so easy after all " - thoughts

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any other part of the franchise...otherwise the last two books would have been TOTALLY different.

Chapter 2: Hunting for trinkets and exploding lakes, He is just that awesome

Room of requirement – After a Tour in Harry's past life memories -

Hermione was angry, shew was completely furious and she was certain that she had used one or two reducto spell in the room, she was now crying a little while sitting with Harry, her hands grabbing him as if fearing for him to disappear as she was shedding a single tear.

Harry's version of the thing was a little different though, he could clearly testify how curses were flying around obliterating everything in sight with Reductos, Incendios and several different kind of cutting hexes thrown in the mix while demolishing the room, room that in self-defence kept conjuring targets in order to save itself and Harry.

He had now the wailing girl sitting ON him, with her arms so tight around him it was a wonder he could still breath even if few ribs were slowly cracking under the pressure, it was now past the two-hours-mark and she still was crying while punching his torso from time to time.

"I know it is painful...but you were clearly happy with Ron..." He tried saying with a raspy voice

"It's not that!" she yelled "I don't like being manipulated like that! No one has the right to tell me who I am supposed to like, and what the old bastard did? He talked me into loving another boy! Just because he is in a delusion about him knowing what people want, thinking that Ronald needed someone like me to keep him in check while you were going out with a girl barely out of her Fan-girl stage that kept changing boyfriends like they were socks!"

"You actually killed me the first time you came to know this, you know?" he said as black spots started filling his vision.

"I am sorry, I know I shouldn't have attacked you, we are both victims in this! The horror is that Dumbledore didn't do that for some plan about molding you into self-sacrifice or other absurd excuses, he REALLY thinks that you will survive the Killing Curse and that a no trained teen will defeat a man with years of experience fighting and knowledge of who knows what Dark magic even he doesn't know about" Hermione said sobbing again

"Whatever? The old fool can't do anything now, the Horcrux in my head got destroyed after my Last death, they decided it was time to remove the thing before sending me back, now, without Scar and Diary I have to destroy the Locket, the Diadem, the Ring, kill Nagini, destroy the Cup and then maim Tom until he dies...eh! Quite the things to do" Harry said smirking

"I will come with you! We already know where to find those things, Sirius will help us!" she said fiercely, still refusing to let him go

"No, I will take care of the Locket and the Cup while you will destroy the Diadem" Harry said getting another punch from the girl

"WHAT!? DON'T YOU DARE LEAVE ME BEHIND OR I WILL...SLAP!" hearing her boyfriend telling her that sent Hermione on another fit of fury, before she could say or do anything the boy's hand moved rapidly, making the strong noise of the impact on her echoing in the room.

"I said no! I won't put your life at risk at Gringotts again, even if I already have a plan for that, I won't have you die for an error of mine, Sirius will be with me while we destroy the Locket, I will be back even before you even noticed I went out" Harry said fiercely

"O-Okay" Hermione said with a quiet voice, the stinging pain on her ass after his spank burning like fire

"Be a good girl for me, please? I don't want to spank you again" He said sultrily

"Okay" she said blushing

"Good, after we took care of the Horcrux here you should do something even more important for me, will you?"

"What are you talking about?" She asked

"Be sure to be good at dancing" Harry said grinning

"What?"

"You don't expect me to watch as that Bulgarian idiot ask you out? Miss Granger, will you concede me the honour of accompany me to the Yule Ball?" he answered

"You...you know how to dance?" she asked incredulously

"Augus threw a fit when I asked Frank for lessons, but I endured the extra training happily for that, since I was going to come back, I thought it could have been worth it" he answered shrugging

"Thank you!" Hermione answered kissing him happily

"Let's go now, people may start wondering where are we, and no matter how much I like the idea, I don't want them thinking I am ravaging you" he said guiding the spluttering bushy head out

"Don't say things like that!" she said while they moved down the corridors and down the stairs, the various paintings smirking at the couple's antics

"Why not? I admit I find you attractive, but a broom closet is not a romantic place for a first time" he answered

"Put it like that...I guess it is somehow something sweet to say" she answered kissing his cheek

"Oh Please! I don't need some mudblood romance! If you need it so badly just shag her in a corner, Potty!" a certain blond boy said as he joined them from a near corridor

"Blond git! I am surprised I didn't had the pleasure of meeting you after the first task, why waiting so long to come and pester me?" Harry asked smirking at the fuming Slytherin

"I know that those gauntlets are the reason of your success, I have to admit it was some impressive Charm work, that's why I KNOW you had to buy them since it was clearly above the level of a pathetic Half-blood like you, but now that you are not using them you are back to be the sorry excuse of a wizard you always are so respect your superiors!" Draco sneered in disdain.

"I am impressed too, Drackins, you managed to stuff that answer with WAY more insults than I thought you were capable of! But since I can still tear you in half without that little present from Asura, I think that you should take your over-sized ego and walk away, I may get violent otherwise" Harry said simply, an happy smile on his face clashing with the coldness of his voice.

"As if you are able to do that" Draco said sneering

"Professor Snape, come out, I know you are listening" Harry said smirking at a corner of the room

"...No? If you don't come out, then I will start telling what happened with my mother when you two were still friends, like the REAL reason you two argued" Harry said again

"What are you doing, scarhead? Did you finally went insane?" Draco asked smirking

"I am just talking about how my father married the WOMAN he loved" Harry answered as the greasy professor finally removed the disillusionment spell to storm towards the three kids

"POTTER! Those are personal information, I will take from Gryffindor..." Snape said in clear anger

"Like the fact that Lily Evans married your crush?" he asked looking at his nails, the professor stopped abruptly

"THAT BITCH STOLE HIM! SHE HAD JUST SPREAD HER LEGS TO TAKE HIM AWAY! I was the REAL love of James, but my so called friend had to move and take him away from me! It was clear that he loved me, that's why he focused so much on me with his pranks, he loved ME but he was so confused that your mother managed to seduce him!" Snape yelled, foaming at the mouth

"Wow...too much info, professor" Harry said smirking at Snape's wide eyes

"I...I...I mean" the Potion Master was mumbling, horror on his face as he took notice that he had just splattered his darkest secret in a corridor near the entrance of the Great Hall, the silence coming from said room showing that everyone inside was listening.

"We will be eating if you need us, Professor" Harry said moving an arm around Hermione's shoulders to guide her to launch, leaving both Snape and Draco behind.

"Go to your table, Draco" the professor said looking down

"But...Potter" Draco tried saying

"GO TO YOUR TABLE!" the man yelled as the student ran inside

The Potion Master was now silently moving towards his office, he will have some elves bring food to him, he wasn't in the mood to be around today.

Great Hall -

"So THAT is why he hates James...he hates the fact that he married Lily instead of him, poor kid, I won't be surprised if he wish to avoid Potion altogether after this, watching Snape and imaging him flirting with his father, Brrrr!" Flitwick said nodding

"I thought it was for all the pranks he was subjected to, this is quite a surprise" McGonagall said adding her opinion

"Poor Severus" Albus said shaking his head "We need to find him a good man, he may go Dark otherwise"

"Headmaster, you shouldn't...never mind" Hagrid said watching as the old Headmaster was already making a list of possible suitors, ignoring the world around him completely.

With Harry – Gryffindor table -

"Wait a minute, Mione, I have a little thing to do" Harry said getting up, moving towards the Slytherin table

"Vhat iz he doing?" Victor asked to Cedric

"I don't know...Cho stop looking at him!" He hissed angrily

"He just passed in front of me, I didn't do anything" the girl answered, secretly pleased by his boyfriend new-found possessiveness.

"Millicent! My dear, I have a proposition for you" Harry said happily moving an arm around the girl's shoulders.

"What do you want, Potter?" she asked with narrowed eyes

Meanwhile at the Gryffindor table the guys were watching in interest as The-Boy-Who-Lived talked with the Slytherin girl.

"What is he doing?" Ron asked

"I don't know...but both are looking here now" Dean Thomas answered shrugging

"So? It's a deal?" Harry then asked

"A-Are you sure? You can REALLY do that?" she asked with wide eyes

"Of course, just do as I said and everything will be fine" Harry answered smirking

The girl moved her eyes towards Ron, blowing him a kiss before giggling, the deep, almost-masculine voice of Millicent ruining the otherwise cute image

"Oh Rooooonnnieeee! Hihihi! I can't wait to hug you" she chirped happily

"W-W-What!?" Ron and Albus said with the Weasley boy going green-faced

"I couldn't stop her, Ron, she admitted to be in love with you, but no matter what I said she is relentless in wanting you" Harry lied with a pained expression on his face

"But-but...Me and Hermione" the red-head said in shock

"I know...but I couldn't talk her into changing her plans for you two" Harry said with an evil grin threatening to surface, Hermione instead was openly grinning at the Weasley's misfortune.

"T-thanks, Mate...I appreciated your help, I'll try to talk to her myself" Ron said sobbing

"We are friends, Ron, you can count on me" Harry answered with a sober expression, this time Fleur had to silence the bushy-haired girl near her as she started laughing maniacally.

"...Thanks" Hermione said once she recomposed herself, removing the silencing charm on herself

"It iz not to 'elp you, I like to eat in peace, your voice iz fairly too annoying for that" the French champion answered

"You little..." Hermione said with narrowed eyes.

"Harry? Can you come here an instant?" Albus called from the teachers table

"Yes, Headmaster?" Harry said nearing him

"I saw what you did, why are you pushing Miss Bulstrode towards Ronald? His destiny isn't with her, can't you see it?" Albus said shaking his head to show his disapproving

"Professor Dumbledore! I am surprised by your narrow-mindedness" Harry said in fake hurt and surprise

"What do you mean?" the old man asked rising an hand to stop the other professors from arguing with the boy for his words.

"Can't you see?" Harry said discreetly pointing at Millicent "I know how YOU say that Ron MUST stay with Hermione" here he had the pleasure to see the other professors turning their eyes in mock disbelief, not surprised by Albus new project for the Greater Good

"But Millicent's family has an history of followers of the dark magic, even if not openly following Voldemort they can still be considered Dark" Harry said getting closer to Dumbledore, whispering conspiratorially.

"Go on" Albus said motioning him to continue, curious about the boy's reasoning

"We all need to make sacrifices, Professor! Ron must sacrifice his love for Hermione in exchange of bringing to the light a dark family, that is basically my plan" Harry said calmly

"Like that...that's right! Like that the Bulstrode family can be saved from the Dark side, good job my boy!" Albus said happily, eyes twinkling like mad

"It's for the Greater good, Professor" Harry said smirking, so did the other professors at hearing him.

"But we will need to convince Mister Weasley of the importance of this" the Headmaster said gravely

"I know...I was hoping to have your help, sir, I am sure you know how to handle this" Harry said with a sad expression

"Don't worry, my boy! You focus on this tournament, I will take care of young Ronald's mission" Albus said nodding

"And please, do not say that I suggested it, he may start worrying that I am not focusing enough on the tasks of the tri-wizard in order to help him, I am sure your word alone would be more than enough" Harry pleaded with a clearly fake tear escaping him.

"Do not worry, now go enjoying your food, I will take care of the rest" Albus answered

"Thank you, Headmaster" Harry said returning to his table

"Aah! I know it's hard to understand, Minerva, but those kids needs guidance to achieve a better future" Albus said as once again he started ignoring the rest of the Great Hall to focus on his future plans for Ron and Millicent.

"Guidance?" Flitwick muttered

"His way to say that he knows better and the others must follow what he says" McGonagall answered sneering

"But young Mister Potter defused him" professor Vector said smirking

"Quite beautifully I have to say, but why Miss Bulstrode?" Minerva asked

"She comes from a 'bigot' family that never followed the whole DarkLord thing, but having her seeing a blood traitor will still make her father blow out some curses, but I think it all fall in the fact that Miss Millicent is rather...physical in her affection" Flitwick explained

"What do you mean? That she will straighten Mister Weasley's conduct in the way she wants? Even using violence?" Vector asked

"More likely that she will hug him until his head pop open from the pressure, that and she is unfortunately the less pretty of the girls here, but I don't think that Harry did that to hurt her, she will still have a boyfriend out of this thing after all" the Charm professor said

"And by the way she talked, she had a crush for him already on going, if he had to divert Albus' schemes from his girlfriend, choosing another girl already interested in Ronald was the right thing to do, good thinking...almost Slytherinish if I have to say" McGonagall said surprised

"Should we tell that to Severus?" Flitwick asked with a wicked smile

"Are you joking? Tha' will kill 'im" Hagrid said with a wide grin, matched by the others

"Let's tell him that the Sorting Hat tried to put him in Slytherin" Professor Moody said smirking evilly.

The Polyjuiced Crunch Jr had not forgotten that time Snape had used a laxative potion in his cup during a Death Eaters meeting, Nott kept asking if he needed to be changed for the rest of the week with the others continuously sending him owls with packs of diapers, this was his revenge.

"Now, Alastor! That's too much! No-one will believe it, as if it would have really happened" Minerva said

Gryffindor table -

"M-Millicent...Urgh!" Ron said in dismay

"Poor idiot" Harry said smirking, trying to ignore the two girls sitting at his sides growling at each other

"He is mine" Hermione hissed

"Mine, you English troll!" Fleur answered with clenched teeth

"How dare you!" the bushy-haired girl answered

"Please behave!" Harry said glaring at the two

"Sorry" the two said focusing again on eating, but with their minds scheming and plotting the demise of the other.

Inside Hermione's head -

Inside the young witch was taking place a meeting of sort between the various parts of her mind, in order to make things easier we will just short their name in mione.

Bossy-mione: "We should tell to that hussy that Harry is already in a relationship with us! It's not okay having a girl hunting another girl's man, it's against the rules of any civilized country" she said huffing angrily

Pervy-mione 1: "I say we take him in a broom closet and show him how good we are!" she rose from her seat screaming, the other girl chained to her shaking her head.

Pervy-mione 2: "No, he is in charge, he will chose when to take us, he is our Master" the more submissive aspect of the girl's perversion said with a shy voice

Rational-mione: "Bossiness! We already risked to lose him on the train following your suggestion! If it wasn't for that Troll he wouldn't have noticed us! It was a perfect excuse to get close to him" the one sitting in the head position said narrowing her eyes

"And you two..." she then said looking at the two perverts "The day we will lose our virginity will come when the TWO of us will chose to do it! so no raping Harry or presenting ourselves at him!" she then said

Violent-mione: "I say we punch that bitch until she choke on her teeth" she said growling angrily

Smart-mione: "That wouldn't work, just look at Malfoy, we did as you suggested and he is still a git" she said adjusting her glasses.

Violent-mione: "Eh! We didn't punched him hard enough, Bookworm, you just keep studying those erotic books, when he will finally fuck us we will give him few pleasurable hours! Hehehehe!" she said laughing evilly

Rational-mione: "Reign your instincts, you all! We need to focus on this problem, any suggestion?"

Pervy-mione 1 and 2: "SEX!" the two yelled in chorus

Violent-mione: "KILL THE BITCH!"

Bossy-mione: "Explain our situation!"

Smart-mione: "GO TO THE LIBRARY!"

Rational-mione: "SHUT UP! We will work together in this or that damned French Parrot will take him away! We are lucky that Frank opened Harry's eyes about us, moving his attention from Cho or Ginny to us, now we need to keep that attention we gained!" She said making the others fall silent

The others: "ROGER!" they yelled in decision

Fearful-mione: "What if he broke up with us?" she asked looking down

Rational-mione: "He won't, he is a good guy, and even then, we will still be his friend and be happy for his new girlfriend" she answered, but it was clear that none of them was okay with that

Violent-mione: "She won't have him! HE IS MINE!" she yelled making every other start a screaming contest about how keeping Harry secure from the other girl's clutches.

Great Hall – students tables -

Pretty feminine hands were moving away a flock of hair from a beautiful pair of eyes as the girl wanted no impediments while watching the improved Boy-who-lived, she was already curious about him after what happened with the dementors in third year, watching as he supposedly 'dropped his mask' during the first task had her interest sky-rocket, his apparent real-self had troubled her immensely, forcing the girl to live several interesting dreams about him at night since then.

"Those two may be a problem" she muttered focusing on Hermione and Fleur, her mind, way above the normal concept of beautiful but dumb, already calculating her 'strong points' against the other two girls, luckily for her the Veela Allure could be ignored as a factor since he was evidently immune to that, driving the fight to a cleaner territory.

"Granger may defeat me with her brain, even if barely, but beauty should still help me" she mussed, knowing that mere Beauty won't be enough since Potter apparently fancied the Granger girl all the same.

"Delacour seems to focus on her Allure even if totally useless, unfortunately she is still beautiful even without that, this won't be easy" she the said narrowing her cold eyes ever so imperceptibly.

She needed a plan, but one that would not directly point at her should it somehow fail and at the same time secure her the man she wanted.

"...but without forcing him, I want him to REALLY love me, having him by force won't be the same" she said closing her eyes in thought.

She needed the right opportunity to near him so to know each other better, that was always the first step in a relationship, a true one able to last, she just needed to wait.

"Let's wait the right moment" she said smiling at the boy's back, she was a patient girl.

Something will happen sooner or later, she thought.

Frank's office – in the meantime -

"Ehm...Frank? I have a problem" a blond girl said entering his office

"What's wrong Sally?" the Grim Reaper asked

"It's about one of my souls...look yourself" she said giving him a file

"...Oh shit!" he said going wide eyed

"Exactly my reaction, a lot of destinies went under re-writing because of that..what should I do?" she asked with watering eyes

"Calm down, I will talk with some friends in the Fate correction and repairing department to see if we can do something...does it really require a mass changing?" he said passing an hand through his hair

"That's exactly why I called you, I need to contact Michael too" Sally said taking her file back

"Michael?...oh shit this is worst than I thought, come with me, we will tell him together" Frank said sprinting out of his office

"MICHAEL! WE ARE IN DEEP SHITE!" Frank yelled practically tearing down the door

"What's wrong? I am with a soul right now" the red haired man said pointing at an old man sitting in front of him

"Read this before arguing!" Frank said showing Sally's file to Michael

Oh for the love of...Mister Jenkins, please wait outside, I will call you once I am done" he said practically throwing the old man out.

"This is a bloody catastrophe! Have you any idea how many files we will need to change to repair this mess!?" Michael yelled

"I-I know" Sally said sobbing

"Sigh! Sorry, Sally...look! We will adjust everything, me and Frank know some people that will happily help you, now quit sobbing and tell us the whole thing" he said sitting at his desk, the other two sitting in front of him

"It all began with one of my souls, for some reason his destiny changed abruptly, now he is dead and I can't send him back" She explained

"He died twenty-one times?" Frank asked

"No-no! It was only the third...but for some reason the red button refuse to send him back...I tried to ask the others to let me use theirs having no results, I even called the Emergency Team to try and force his going back...but-but NOTHING WORKED! He is still in my office looking confused, due to this his whole fate changed generating all this...what should I do? Will they fire me? This is the only thing I can do! I don't know where to look for another job!" she said openly crying

"Calm down...just calm down and we will find a solution..." Frank said patting her back

"What if..." Michael said getting up, opening a compartment of the cabinet he had in a far side of his office.

"Let's see, the rules clearly says...yeah, that should work" he said nodding to himself

"What? Is this a case where the Grim Reaper is hung for her mistake?" she asked with red eyes

"No, stupid! Look at this, we may need to stretch things a little in this case, but we should be able to pull it off" Michael said showing the book to the two.

"Uhm!...we should ask to Sanders, his department should know more about it" Frank said

"The head of the Destiny manipulation department? Why him?" Sally asked

"We should be able to move things the way we need, it will cost a little, but you will pay me back once you have the occasion" Frank answered

"Really?" she asked

"We are friends, right?" Michael said smiling

"THANK YOU!" she said hugging the two

"Now let's just start, it's too soon to celebrate, we still need to see if the others want to play a little swapping with their contracts, people on Earth need to have their future changed in order to adjust this, let's hope it won't be anything drastic" Frank said as the trio left the office

"Don't be so dramatic" Michael said smirking

"Uhm! You know? I MAY have a good solution for this myself, it may make things easier" Frank said smiling

"Do tell" Sally said

"Oh! It's easy..." Frank said explaining

The Next day - Hogwarts - greenhouse 3 – Herbology -

It was a new lesson with Professor Sprite, the two houses of Gryffindor and Slytherin were working together in order to help few seemingly harmless daises to not freeze by changing vases.

"Remember, the crunching petals are really useful for healing potions, but the plant itself tends to dislike when someone touches its petals" the professor said showing with a stick how the plant defend itself, as the wood touched one of the white extremities, the dozen of petals close on it like a mouth, snapping the twig in two in an instant.

"How should we protect them from freezing?" Ron scoffed as his flower tried to take a bite as his hand moved too closed to the pot

"Oh, that's easy!" the woman said "blow on the petals, as they close move the plant from the pot to their new home, the plants will do the rest" she answered smiling

"Shall we start, Mione?" Harry asked grinning, his flower closing by itself without him blowing

"How did you do it?" Hermione asked as she was instead forced to blow to have hers closing

"It knows better" he answered smirking as he changed vase to the plant.

"YAAAAARGH..." Just as Ron started screaming in pain with a flower tightly clutched to his finger everything froze, blocking kids, plants and professor in place, Ron still shaking the flower away with Millicent moving to save her unofficial boyfriend, unofficial since Ron had still to confirm or deny, the vomit attack he had every time someone asked stopping him from answering.

"Uh?" Harry asked looking around, watching as everything went still, Hermione comprised

"Hi there, Harry!" a familiar voice said from outside

"Frank!?" Harry said running out

"Good morning! Can we talk a little? We actually stopped the time momentarily, it won't take long" Frank said gesturing Harry to follow

"Won't this make a mess? Stopping the time I mean" Harry asked

"No, we normally do this when adjusting few light mistakes, there are times where we can directly intervene in our case's Life, not always mind you, it's a rare occurrence, Luckily you being fated to destroy Tom's Horcrux permitted me to do this...sorry if I didn't do this before, I never checked if it was a possibility or not, it just slipped my mind" Frank said as he sat down on a table that mysteriously appeared positioned under a tree near the greenhouse.

"So? What do you need? Why are you here?" Harry asked sitting

"I decided to help you, that's why, tonight the two Ravenclaws that will patrol the entrance to the secret passage to Hogsmead will spend some quality time in a broom closet, you should use that time to sneak out, reach a floo and go out" Frank said smiling, a Tea set appearing from thin air

"Lemon?" the Grim Reaper asked

"Milk, thank you, but to where?" Harry said as the cup in front of him was filled

"The Gaunt shack, the ring Horcrux remember? I need you to reach there as fast as possible to recover the ring, use the floo to reach Sirius and have him accompany you, you'll need him" Frank answered taking a sip

"Why tonight? Why so fast?" Harry asked with narrowed eyes

"Delicious...I have another Case that will be there, he risks falling victim of the same curse that almost killed Dumbledore, and since I am still under watch since you reached the limit of irregular deaths I don't want to risk losing my job, in his case I can't act directly, you are the safest way to stop the idiot from reaching my office before the time, can you do it?" Frank said

"Why not, I have to collect it regardless, I will save that man and take the ring, but in exchange you'll have to cover my absence" Harry said taking a new cup of tea.

"That will be easy, just be there as fast as possible, I will make sure you will wake up when those two start going at it, and by the way, after the second task I think you will need a lot of energy" Frank said smirking

"What do you mean?" Harry asked worried by that smirk

"Do not worry, I am doing my best to give you an Happy Ending, now go, as you go back to your position time will start flowing again, and remember, the Gaunt Ring tonight and a LOT of energy right after the second task!" Frank said as he and the table disappeared, Harry not noticing the Feral smile the Grim Reaper was sporting, as if a plan of sort was in motion.

"Bah! That man, I wonder what he is planning" Harry said returning to the greenhouse to complete his lesson.

And have a good laugh as the plant had now choose Ron's male equipment as its new snack.

That night – Hogwarts – seventh floor – Room of Requirement -

"I almost forgot the bloody Diadem, the worst is that I even saw it before being told the whole Horcrux ordeal back there, pitiful" Harry snarled angrily, the diadem liquefying in his hands thanks to the Mantra, making a loud shriek echoing in the room as a black smoke followed it.

"Bah! Let's move, I wasted enough time like this" Harry said leaving the room, the door disappearing behind him.

Moving silently under the invisibility cloak Harry moved towards the hidden passage towards Hogsmead, hiding in a corner behind a statue he saw the two Ravenclaw students look around before the girl grabbed the boy's arm to drag him in a near closet, small laughs and subtle moans barely audible from outside.

"Dirty ones" Harry said smirking as he looked at the Marauders Map to be sure no one was near.

"Oh well...better going then, I have a ring to find and an idiot to save" Harry muttered as he opened the passage to reach the magical village.

"Dobby?" Harry said as he neared the entrance of the three broomsticks

"Harry Potter Sir called?" the small elf said popping silently near the boy

"I need to reach this address, go there and wait for me at a safe distance, once I reach the place no matter what you have to wait for me to actually call you, okay?" Harry asked writing the Gaunt House address on a parchment and giving it to the house elf.

"Dobby will wait for Harry Potter sir's arrival" Dobby said nodding fast

"Good, if you see a man trying to wear a ring just slow him down and go fetch me if I am still not there, do you understand?" Harry said

"Dobby will do it!" Dobby said as he popped away not before opening the pub's door for the boy.

"Good elf, like this if the old mutt makes me be late I will still reach the place on time, but why asking me to bring Sirius..." Harry muttered as he found the door opened.

"Hu? Why the fireplace is still lightened?" Harry said looking at the fiery flames still burning

"A post-it? I make it that the owner forgot to check if the fire was still burning, the wards won't memorize your using it, the last part of my Help tonight, Frank" Harry said reading the message aloud, the little paper turning to dust once he finished.

"It must be something important if he did all this" Harry mused taking a fist-full of powder from a jar near the fire.

"Grimauld Place 12" Harry said as he entered the green flames, in a flash of light he was gone, making the fire die down once he disappeared.

Grimmauld Place – Fireplace – few seconds later -

Sirius was loudly snoring on an armchair in front of the almost dead fire, a copy of Dirty Witches – Veela edition was covering his face, the centrefold still winking at the camera while showing how her assets could defy gravity no matter how big the two were, a giggle escaping the man from time to time.

"SIIIIIIIRIIUUUUUUS!" Harry yelled as he came out of the fire in a flash of green fire, almost making his dogfather topple over

"WAAAAH! IT WASN'T ME! IT WAS MY PAST-SELF! MY EVIL CLONE! I DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS MARRIED!" Sirius yelled as he struggled to climb up of the chair.

"Hahahaha!" Harry instead was laughing loudly watching the scene.

"What happened?" Lupin said entering the room with a frying pan in his hands held over his head like a sword.

"Hoy! Hello there Lupin! I was just waking up my dogfather" Harry said smirking

"Harry? What are you doing here?" the ex DADA professor asked lowering his weapon

"I need Sirius' help for something, I am going to find a rather dark object and I need Sirius to use the Fiendifyre for me to destroy it since I don't know the incantation" Harry said lying, he still was trying to understand why the man needed to go with him

"Why the frying pan, Moony?" Sirius asked watching the werewolf grinning sheepishly

"Midnight Snack, I just went over a Full Moon yesterday, remember? I always end up with a terrible hunger for the next two or three days, I just eat at the worst hours, it was what I had at hand when you started yelling" Lupin said shrugging.

"Ah! Listen, Harry...are you sure you have to go alone? What will Dumbledore think?" Sirius asked

"He? If I wait for him this will take years instead of minutes, did you see the Prophet? I am able to defend myself, it will take a minute and then we will be back, I already have Dobby waiting for me there, once done I will go directly to the Gryffindor Dorm, sounds good?" Harry asked

"That's nice and all, but what are you talking about exactly?" Sirius asked

"I can tell, but I need a magical oath about secrecy before that, I know that you both listen to Dumbledore and his Order of Fried chickens..." Harry said

"Phoenix, Harry" Lupin said to correct the boy, a little surprised about him knowing about the group

"Is there any difference? By the way, no oath, no info, I can still call Dobby and go there myself without you two" Harry said sitting on a chair

"I can always Stun you and call the Headmaster, it may be dangerous what you want to do" Lupin said simply

"I fought a dragon with my bare hands, an human wizard and a werewolf won't stop me" Harry said grinning

"That was cool, but I am still pretty good with my wand" Sirius said

"Which one? The Wood one or the one in your pants?" Harry asked with a raised eyebrow

"With both actually, but this is not nor the time or the place" Sirius answered grinning

"Fine by me, I'll go by myself then" Harry said getting up

"It may be dangerous, Harry, sorry but I have to, Stupe..." Remus said rapidly taking out his wand, Harry simply moved in front of him like a flash, smiling at the man's surprised face

"Nope!" the Boy said grabbing the man's shoulders and jumping to deliver an headbutt to the werewolf before using him as human-shield towards Sirius' stunner spell.

"I see that the old man gave you a new wand" Harry said grinning, still holding the limp Lupin in front of him.

"Harry! Listen to me! I am just trying to protect you" Sirius said calmly

"It's by listening you people that I ended up with the Dursley, that I almost went kissed by Dementors during my third year and almost swallowed whole by a Basilisk! Where was your protection when my name came out of the Goblet, eh? Where were your Knowing Better when half the school considered me a cheater while the rest openly hated me? Admit it, your so called Leader of the Light is a bloody Idiot! Too focused on HIS view of the world to understand how things REALLY work!" Harry yelled throwing Lupin at Sirius, as the man grabbed his old friend Harry was already on him, taking away his wand and pinning him down with a foot to his throat.

"H-Harry...S-Stop this madness" Sirius pleaded

"I only ask for an damned oath! Does everything must be told to the old goat? Is he really so important for you? MORE THAN ME? Look at you, choking on every bullshit he tells you, do you know that he KNOWS why Voldemort keeps coming back but does nothing? He needs other Proofs, that my scar connected me to Voldemort or that a Dairy could posses a girl to open a secret chamber wasn't enough apparently, do you know what an Horcrux is?" Harry asked as Sirius eyes grew wide

"I get that you know the term, a Black family like yours should have at least some little facts about them laying around" he said

"Horcrux? You mean the soul vessels?" Sirius asked

"No the chocolate eggs you get from the Easter Bunny" Harry said sarcastically

"How do you know that?" the man asked with his voice turning raspy

"I have my sources, and they actually wish to take action instead of listening to some prophecy bullshit" Harry answered

"Prophecy?" the other asked

"Ask Dumbledore, he will tell you right before an heavy dose of Obliviating Spells, it basically points at me as the only one able to finally destroy Voldy, but he is convicted that I should DIE doing that, and since I am not receiving extra training to face a man that has YEARS of experience more than me it should obviously be the only possible outcome" Harry explained pushing down a little with his foot

"Argh!" Sirius muttered in pain

"Sorry, It wasn't intentional, so? This oath? I want dear Moony doing that too, I won't hesitate to brake the Old Goat's spine in two if he tries to stop me, and he will try if you two talk" the boy said helping Sirius to stand.

"But...he always helped us" Sirius said before Harry bodily threw him against a wall, the next punch of the boy creating a sizable crater on said wall, barely an inch from the animagus' face.

"HELP!? I wouldn't trust him with a dead goldfish, let alone the Wizarding World!" the boy said growling

"BLOOD TRAITOR! FILTH THAT COMES TO DIRTY OUR NOBLE HOUSE!" the old portrait of Sirius' mother bellowed from the entrance.

"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Harry yelled with a red flame encasing him, making the portrait fall silent as Kreacher too slowly poked in the room with his head with fear in his eyes.

"Master is angry?" Kreacher asked weakly

"YOU!" Harry bellowed, the old crazy elf flinching under the tone "If you DARE mutter a single detail of what happened here I will make you pay, DEARLY, ARE WE CLEAR!?" the boy said angrily, a flaming fist tightening towards the creature.

"Kreacher won't talk, Kreacher will listen to Master" the elf said before popping away.

"Man...you need to scream to the little bastard to make him obey? Shite, had I know" Sirius couldn't help but say, making Harry smirk in satisfaction.

"Mantra empowered rage, scare even the meanest arseholes" Harry said proudly.

"Mantra?" Sirius asked

"Oath or I will make you suffer" Harry said

"You won't hurt me, I am your cool dogfather" Sirius said smirking

"Third locker in the basement, your porn collection is there, isn't it?" the boy asked, amused by the adult's horrified face.

"YOU WOULDN'T DARE!" he screamed in horror

"And of course there is the emergency stock in that charmed trunk in your room, I bet that those pretty wards won't stop it from burning if I throw it into the fireplace" Harry said smirking

"YOU MONSTER!" Sirius said struggling to move free from Harry's hand on his neck, his precious treasure was in Danger!

"What about that particular magazine?" Harry said shooting a Mantra Bullet towards the thing, missing it by an inch and slightly blackening a corner of the cover.

"NOOOOOO! I GIVE UP, I GIVE UUUUP! I'LL GIVE YOU AN OATH, MY MONEY, MY BEST TRICKS AND SECRETS ABOUT SCREWING WOMEN SENSELESS, BUT DO NOT TOUCH THAT! It's a copy signed by the centrefold herself, I spent months courting her enough for a one-night stand!" Sirius said as tears started flowing from his eyes like two mini-rivers.

"Don't start crying, man! Here, go check your treasure if you care so much!" Harry said letting him go, the Azkaban escapee hurrying to the little porn treasure, hugging it to his chest protectively like only a mother would do.

"It's all okay, I am here now! I will try a little Reparo spell later, everything will be okay, just take deep breaths!" Sirius muttered rocking the little object in his arms back and forth with tears-filled, crazy eyes.

"Sirius, it's a piece of paper...it can't breath" Harry said slowly

"SHUT UP! A man can't touch another man's porn without permission nor put it in danger, it's against the BRO code!" Sirius said angrily.

"Just give me that oath and then follow me, I have no time to waste" Harry said huffing

"FINE! I will wake Moony up, he will come with us" Sirius said using an ennervate on the Werewolf

"WAH! SIRIUS! What happened?!" Lupin said looking around

"HARRY!" the ex-professor then said rising his wand again

"The desk in the library, Lupin...and the SECOND locker in the basement" Harry answered smirking, the man's wand shaking violently due to his horror

"Y-Y-YOU WOULDN'T DARE!" the wolf-man yelled angrily

"He will instead! Look what he did to my precious!" Sirius whined showing the barely noticeable half-a-micron-in-size burning mark on the tip of the corner on the magazine.

"YOU MONSTER!" Lupin screamed in outrage, glaring at the boy.

"So? This secrecy oath? I am a little tired to repeat myself" Harry said narrowing his eyes.

"It's for the greater good, Remus" Sirius said gravely, finally getting an hold of his wand again

"Yes, for the greater good...of porn" Lupin said nodding, the two moving to perform the requested spell.

"Good, I think we can go now" Harry said happily

"We just tried to use stunners because worried about you, nothing about Dumbledore and the Order" Lupin said with a sad tone

"I know, but I need to do this like this, I can't wait for the Headmaster to FINALLY take action, I have info that will help me, I can't simply sit around and wait" Harry answered as the trio moved out of the house to apparate

"Who is the one helping you?" Sirius asked

"I can't tell, once this is over maybe, but now? No, I am sorry, is not like I don't trust you, but I was forbidden from talking to certain people, my girlfriend knows, but I can't still tell you, no matter how many oaths you take" Harry answered

"Girlfriend? Who is the lucky witch? Ginny?" Sirius asked

"Nope! Dear old Hermione!" Harry answered

"AH-AH! Pay up Moony, I won!" Sirius said triumphantly

"Sigh! Lucky bastard" Lupin said handling to the other Marauder few sickles

"You bet on me? Bastards" Harry said crossing his arms.

"Remember, we find this thing, we destroy the Horcrux and then you will go directly to bed, okay?" Sirius said

"Don't worry, it won't take long" Harry said waving him off

"What's an Horcrux?" the other adult asked

"I'll explain while we walk, to where, Harry?" Sirius asked

"Here" Harry said showing the Gaunt's address

"I know a pub near there" Lupin said nodding

"And I a strip club" Sirius answered with a goofy grin

"...What? Muggles may don't know magic, but they know how to build funny places" he said in answer to the other's disbelieving looks

"Horny dog" Harry muttered smiling as the three disappeared in a swirl of robes.

Gaunt Shack – in the meantime -

A man was silently moving towards the ruins of an old house, the trees moving with the cold wind of the night with the oldest ones whining and cracking whenever a particular strong gust of wind forced them to bend more than they could.

The moon too was timidly sending its light through the big clouds that were completely covering the sky, making long shadows from the trees appear like clawed hands trying to take an hold of the clocked figure, the steps of the man were leaving sonorous crunching noises with the dirty on the road.

Looking around with narrowed eyes he kept looking for whatever had forced him so far from his home, a tired sigh as he almost cursed at every snapping noise he heard coming from the woods.

"Where is it?" he asked, hating that he couldn't use a Lumos spell to light the road, his hand clenched tightly on his wand.

"Damn statute of Secrecy...if a muggle even comes too close in a threateningly way I will reducto his arse into oblivion, secret or not!" he muttered angrily when he finally spotted the ruined home.

"Here it is!" he said elated as he neared the site, a longing smile on his face.

"Dear? Is that you?" a female voice said from the crumbled construction

"Cornelia? Cornelia, My love...is that you?" the man asked with wide eyes, looking around to search for the voice's source

"Damian! Here! I am near you!" the voice said again, dragging him near the door of the construction

"No! You are not real...you are dead" Damian said shaking his head, sadness in his voice

"I can come back! You can make me return!" the voice said pleadingly

"No! There is no magic able to do it! That man lied to me!" the man said in denial, but even if he was saying so his feet were dragging him towards the door, opening it with a long shrieeek! Thanks to the old wood

"It's not a lie, just wear the ring and I will be back! We will be together again! Think about our daughters, about our little princess!" The voice said with conviction, as if the room itself was talking to him.

"N...No...it's...it's a compulsive charm...it's not real..." Damian said grabbing the sides of his head

"But the ring is real...you don't love me anymore? Did you forget me completely?" the voice asked with a tone broke by tears

"NO! No, I never forget you! I still love you! Now and forever!" the man said in panic

"Then take the ring! Call me back!" The voice said happily

"Yes! Yes I will!" the man said rapidly, starting to search for the object.

"Petrificus Totalus!" Lupin yelled making Damian's body stiffen like a plank making him fall on the floor

"We did it just in time" Harry said entering the shack

"J-James?" Sirius said entering too, his eyes scanning the room

"Lily?" Lupin said as well

"Ow please! Keep your heads in check! It's just a compulsive charm" Harry said waving them off

"But-but! James is here! I can hear him! Lily too!" Sirius answered, Lupin nodding behind him.

"Oh God, you are hopeless! Focus on that ring, dammit!" Harry said blasting several Mantra Orbs around until a little ring with a black stone jumped out from under a pile of dirt.

"Are you sure? It may call Lily and James back!" Sirius said watching the object intently

"Even if it may do that, it will kill you in the meantime, can you see how many little cute spells are in there?" Harry asked kicking the ring near the animagus' feet

"A-A-Are you sure?" Sirius asked

"As sure of it as I am sure that you like big-booby women" Harry said smirking

"F-Fine" he answered as he and Lupin moved they wands in several checking spells.

"Flesh-rotting Curses, compulsive Charms of several degree, Tracking charms that will activate once you wear it, Degenerative Curses...my Merlin, this thing is full of the worst magic you can find around." Lupin said surprised, fighting with difficulty the NEED of wearing the ring.

"Can you remove them? I wanted that little stone for myself, I don't think it will raise the dead, but it may be a nice gadget" Harry said

"Few of them yes, but the darker ones need some kind of password to remove them or way more power than me or Remus have" Sirius said sadly

"Then just destroy it, it's a pity tough" Harry said sighing

"But...what if we ask Dumbledore? It may bring a lot of peoples back!" Lupin said watching the thing, his hand moving to grab it

"Bringing back someone from death may be disastrous, how will you explain to my parents how that happened? How will you justify it to the wizarding world? Do you know the Chaos that may come out if this object existence become public knowledge? People from everywhere will practically move war to each other for it! And Voldemort? If he didn't put his soul here he may and WILL kill whoever was in its possession just to have that power himself" Harry said glaring at him, his hand crashing Lupin's.

"But...I just..." the werewolf said with pleading eyes

"I know, Moony...but we need to go forward, without looking behind" the boy said with a sad tone

"I know, I just wished things went differently" the man answered

"Me too" Harry said

"Let's move then, we are wasting time" Sirius said sighing

As Harry stepped back, both Remus and Sirius raised their wands, ready to use the destructive spell.

"It was easier than I thought" the boy said watching as the fiery flames launched by both men's wands reached the ring engulfing it, melting the metal around the stone, an high-pitched scream of pain filling the room as a black smoke came out but as the spell stopped the others could see that while the ring was destroyed the stone itself was still in pristine conditions.

"Eh! That thing withstood the sword of Gryffindor after all, this was nothing" Harry thought smirking

"Oh well! At least the stone is intact" Harry said pocketing the little thing

"Uhm! I would have preferred you not touching it, but the spells are not giving results, it's clean" Lupin said moving his wand to check on the boy

"I can't see dead people around us...it was a lie, the stone can't bring people back from death" Sirius said looking around

"Let's unbid our friend here" Harry said moving towards Damian

"Right, better explain" Lupin said letting the man move again

"SIRIUS BLACK!" The man screamed pointing at him

"Went to prison without a trial while the real culprit ran away to serve the Dark Lord!" Sirius said rising his hands

"Mister Potter, did he kidnap you?" the man asked moving to shield the boy from the other two

"Actually...he is innocent" Harry said

"What!? Did he use a confounding spell on you?" Damian asked

"I swear on my Life and Magic that I did not forced, coerced, threatened Harry James Potter into following me nor I intend him any harm, so mote it be! Lumos!" Sirius said holding his wand out for his oath before illuminating the area with a strong light from his wand.

"So? This mean that you are really innocent?" Damian asked with narrowed eyes, still refusing to stop covering Harry with his body.

"If I was a Death Eater I would have let you die for that thing protection, better tell him the truth, that thing has some sort of value for You-Know-Who, we think that destroying it will help us stopping a new one from following his step" Sirius lied

"It was a trap then..." Damian said looking at the crumbled house

"Why you were here in the first place?" Lupin asked

"I was looking for the owner of the place, I wanted to buy the whole land and build a few houses to then sell to the wizards living near here" Damian answered

"What happened then?" Harry asked

"I was accosted by a mad-man rambling about his treasure being there, that once he was able to use it his wife would have been back to him from the grave" the man answered

"Maybe he was a Death Eater tasked with making you reach the place alone, but why telling you that?" Harry said

"I lost my wife years ago, she had a complication after my second daughter was born, her name was Cornelia and I suffered a lot for that...some bastard decided to use that as an excuse to have me taking the ring and die, but why?" Damian said whimpering

"We don't know, but with all those protection it was somehow important, but whatever magic was in that is now gone, and I am happy of that because that scream was terrible, whatever it was" Lupin said

"Can I see the stone?" Damian asked

"Here" Harry said showing the object

"For this? The Dark Lord and his followers tricked me for this? For a mere rock? It may have a family crest in it, but it is just a piece of junk!" he said throwing it down and stomping on it angrily

"DAMN YOU!" he screamed stomping again

"Maybe it was because he knew the family behind that crest, or because it had some hidden power we destroyed, we will never know, but there is no reason for you to give up to anger or despair, you almost got killed for it, in that case who would have been there for your daughters?" Harry said

"No-one...I would have left them alone...my poor princesses...thank you, Mister Potter, I owe you my life" the man said shaking his hand before moving towards Sirius and Lupin to do the same

"Innocent, eh? You say you have not received a trial, right?" Damian asked with narrowed eyes

"YOU! You are that Barrister! You are Damian The shark" Lupin said pointing at him

"The one and only, I think that I can help you, Mister Black, I will personally see that Veritaserum and a Pensieve will find their way towards your case" Damian said smirking

"Very well, I will count of that, Mister Damian" Harry said smiling

"I will do this and more, Mister Potter" he answered

"Dobby! You can take me to Hogwarts now!" Harry said as the elf appeared near him.

"This goes without saying that my being here is a secret, Mister Damian" Harry said

"My lips are sealed, Mister Potter" the man answered as the boy popped away

"About the boy...who is his guardian?" Damian asked

"I am his godfather, if you manage to demonstrate my innocence I will take full guardianship, but as for now I can still have a little power over him all the same" Sirius answered

"I was thinking about a marriage contract between him and my older daughter to repay him, if we stretch the laws I can have you sign, but your fame may make it difficult" Damian said smirking, it was a perfect way to repay the boy and have his daughter marry a member of an important family, securing a good future for his daughter should problems arise.

"My-My! What is the bride price? And, can I trust you about the girl status and appearance? I can't let my godson marry the first woman passing by" Sirius said surprised

"Here, she is the one on the left" the other man said smiling fondly at the picture he took out of his cloak

"Okay, she is pretty, well...I think that if she is a well mannered woman as any good Pureblood family I think that Harry won't mind that" Sirius answered

"I can assure you that she has Brain other than Beauty, this if he doesn't mind a Slytherin woman" Damian answered

"Blood bigot?" Sirius said with narrowed eyes and a growl in his throat

"My father maybe, but I do not have the same ideals about Half-bloods the Dark Lord has, and I made sure my daughters were as open-minded as I and their mother were, she is a cunning bright mind, but she is not a Death Eater" Damian answered

"Okay then...I heard that Slytherin girls are wild lovers...sorry" Sirius said giggling, before taking notice and apologizing

"Nothing of that, My wife was a Ravenclaw and I was a Slytherin...and yet, SHE was the wild of the two so I can't make promise" the man admitted blushing

"Now, Dumbledore may object that...what should we do? Technically he can say that he can act as his guardian since I am still on the run and he is the Headmaster at Hogwarts" Sirius said

"It's for the greater good after all" Remus said smirking

"What?" both Damian and Sirius asked

"She is in Slytherin, right?" Lupin asked seeing the man nod in answer "What better way of saving a girl from the Dark Ways of Slytherin if not marrying her to the Wizarding World's Saviour" he explained

"You think it will work? It sounds like a strange plan" Damian asked with a raised eyebrow

"Trust me, I know him well enough" Lupin answered

"If it is like that then..." Damian said smirking

"Then we have an accord, my friend" Sirius said with a matching smirk

"What about Hermione? She is his girlfriend and bigamy is against the law of both Muggles AND Wizards, and we can't exactly pretend her to step down" Lupin said, surprised by the feral smile Damian was showing

"Are you sure?" The barrister asked, looking at them nodding "In that case, IF we can't do anything about it...I think I have a solution...I have a friend in the Daily Prophet that told me an interesting story...I was thinking about that old law from the goblins" Damian said

"THAT? How do you think you can pull it off?" Sirius asked in awe, and a little jealousy

"The next issue of the Prophet was intended to be about Potter's love triangle with the French Champion and a young witch we three know being Miss Hermione, I can ask him to not publish it in the...Rita Skeeter way it was intended and have the woman act as our spy for our mission, but I need to move now since it will come out the day after tomorrow" Damian said

"Let's move then! I won't have that woman ruin my godson's image!" Sirius roared angrily

"They will have to find a new piece to cover the hole, but fortunately the director is a smart man, he will find a good substitute easily or even just make it less damaging and have her excuse for her previous words" the man said

"You can influence him that much?" Lupin asked

"He would have spent some time acting as mendicant had I not give him the money necessary to start his study of journalism, if he became the director of the Prophet is because my father was the one to help him getting his first work there when he started, all under my request" the man answered

"Great, now let's go, we still need a piece for your plan to work" Lupin said

"That's why Skeeter will be our spy at Hogwarts while writing for the Prophet, she will find any information for us to move for the right price...and her keeping her job" Damian said smirking

"Can you really do that?" Sirius asked

"On my Family Honour" Damian said nodding as the three adults apparated away.

They had a Newspaper's Director to talk to.

Hogwarts – Gryffindor - boys' dorm – in the meantime -

"FUCK! I forgot to tell Sirius about the Locket!" Harry cursed as the elf left him inside his bed.

"No need to curse, my friend" Frank said as time stopped again, the man sitting on the bed with an huge smile on his face.

"Tell me the truth, if you knew beforehand that he was gonna die, why you didn't stopped him yourself?" Harry asked with narrowed eyes

"For the same reason I couldn't stop you eating that rotten meat that caused one of your deaths, I can't act directly, I can only watch and hope that you or something else stop the act from happening" the Grim Reaper answered sadly.

"Why do you think that man talked to Damian about the stone?" Harry asked

"That man was Wormtail under a Glamour Spell, he was tasked by Tom to have that man search for the ring himself, he feared that had a crew of builders saw one of them die by a cursed object both Ministry and Dumbledore would have been attracted by the commotion, making the Headmaster understand that he used Horcruxes to stay alive" Frank answered

"And the raising dead thing? Did he know about the Deadly Hollows?" the boy asked

"Not yet, he knew about the man's story so he used that as leverage to have him go there alone, he will heard again the tale about them after his rebirth, finally linking Albus' wand to the Elder Wand of that story and then starting looking out for them later, without knowing that the ring he used as Horcrux was one of them in his side-quest of becoming the Master of Death" Frank answered

"About that...wasn't I supposed to be it? The Invisibility Cloak is mine by birth-right, the wand by right of conquest and the ring was something Dumbledore left me after his death making me the rightful owner in a sense...should have those prevented me from dieing?" Harry asked

"You need to use the three of them at the same time to actually being entitled like that, and even then, it only means that you can escape death UNTIL your time comes, meaning no unregistered deaths, not Immortality" Frank said getting up

"Okay, anything else?" Harry said

"My thanks about saving Damian, my apologies if that will bring some Drastic changes in your life and my best regards for the Tournament, I will be there watching during the second task to cheer for you, do your best, I know you will! good night" Frank said disappearing

"No problem...HEY! What do you mean with drastic changes?" Harry said before asking worried, but it was too late as time started flowing again.

"Damn him, I will get him once this is over" Harry grunted before falling asleep.

Transfiguration class – some time later -

Months passed rapidly, few days after their talk with Damian Harry was surprised to read in the Prophet how the Famous barrister Damian The Shark decided to re-evaluate few old cases in the Ministry of Magic, Casually (and here Harry's grin actually scared few students from the various houses and/or schools) discovering that Sirius Black had not received one, springing his curiosity.

The result was a full enquiring that had put Fudge in a difficult situation, but as a good political animal he managed to put the blame on few old workers of the ministry that were now no longer working in the Auror offices (Or in some cases stopped breathing altogether), Harry watched in undisguised glee as the various accusation were slowly crumbling to dust until the only thing needed were Sirius memories that the paper said were attentively took into consideration to see if Sirius was indeed innocent or not.

Even more pleasing was the letter of excuses written by Rita Skeeter herself about her past stories about him and his friends, justifying them as coming from misleading sources and her promise of personally check the info herself.

Harry had still exchanged few words with her all the same, just to be sure she understood.

Mini Flash-back – Hogwarts – Astronomy Tower -

"No more lies, right?" Harry asked keeping the woman's wand in one hand and her ankle in the other

"NO MORE! NO MORE LIES I SWEAR! JUST DON'T LET ME GOOO!" Rita screamed as she was dangling from the tower, her glasses threating to fall down, and her with them

"Good to know, I may be DISPLEASED should you write that garbage again" Harry said

"I'LL BE GOOD! I'LL BE GOOOOD!" Rita howled in in fear

"Of that I have no doubts" Harry said grinning.

End of the mini Flash-back

Incredibly, she followed Harry's suggestion, the next thing she wrote about Harry, Hagrid and the others were WAY more nice than her usual stories, curiously she never answered as to WHY she decided to change her style.

The badly shaken woman ended up with an unusual fear of Heights and Towers, but she refrained from accusing Harry for his action, the boy's grin alone when she tried threatening with that was source of several rounds of nightmares for the following nights, cementing her decision to NOT challenge the boy-who-lived and his patience.

It was now approaching Christmas, and as Harry remembered from the last time at the end of the lesson, even if there was still time to go on, McGonagall rapidly clapped her hands, signalling the students to stop their spells to listen to what she needed to say.

"Now that I have your attention," McGonagall said walking amongst the students. "There is an important announcement that requires your full attention" she then said

"Following the traditions of the Triwizard Tournament, Hogwarts will soon host the Yule Ball, an occasion I hope you all will use to further socialize with our foreign guests in this school" she said, watching as everyone nodded or showed sign to have understood her words

"Now, the ball itself is an open event for every student of the fourth year and above, even then, should you wish to invite a younger student, feel free to do so" McGonagall said, watching as calculating gazes started moving around the class, more than a student making a mental list about their possible date.

"As any important event of this magnitude, dress robes will be worn and PROPER etiquette followed to the letter" Professor McGonagall continued "The Ball will be held in Christmas Day starting at at eight o'clock sharp, the whole event will then reach its conclusion at midnight in the Great Hall" Professor McGonagall stared deliberately around the class, daring them to create some trouble and face her rage that day.

ESPECIALLY that day.

"Now, I know that The Yule Ball can be considered a chance for us all to...how can I phrase it...Letting yourself go, but this won't stop me or any other professor from punishing any inexcusable behaviour" Professor McGonagall said with an hard glare that actually scared more than one student

"Even when having fun, I expect each and every one of you students to show the proper behaviour and standards of comportment people expect from Hogwarts and its students" she said marching around several students in particular whose eyes were focused on the floor to avoid further glares.

From their seats at Potions, Fred and George Weasley could feel a cold shiver crawl up their spine.

"Should any member of the House of Gryffindor in particular cause ANY sort of embarrassment to the House and the school as a whole" she said in a cold tone "Please be sure that my resentment will be GLARINGLY Obvious" she finished, as her face relaxed a rare smile surfaced.

"I still hope that you all will have some fun and relax a little, at your age that is almost as important as studying itself, just don't make me regret saying this" She then finished, making the students nod with a smile themselves.

As the bell rang the end of the lesson, the transfiguration Professor moved to intercept Harry in the middle of the sea of students that were rapidly leaving the Classroom, the boys and girls splitting to let the professor pass in a way reminiscing of the Red Sea.

"Mister Potter, can I talk to you for a minute?" McGonagall asked

"Of course, professor, what do you need?" Harry asked

"Do you already have a date for the ball?" the woman asked

"Well...if Hermione will give me the honour" Harry said bowing to the young witch

"I will be honoured, Harry" the girl answered smiling

"Good, and know that I expect you two to open the dances like any other champion and his/her date" McGonagall said nodding

"It was a given, professor, but...just because I am curious, did the Headmaster proposed some suggestions for me in case I had not a date?" Harry asked smirking

"Busted...even if I was against the idea of forcing you, he suggested how lovely you an Miss Weasley would have been together at the Ball" the professor answered sighing

"I thought so, thank you for telling me the truth, I somehow feel like some people likes to manipulate me, but I know that the Headmaster won't do that" Harry said with an even wider smirk

"Yes...he would never do that" the stern professor said walking away, shaking her head at a certain old wizard's antics that she was starting questioning a little TOO OFTEN for her tastes.

"That was low, Harry" Hermione commented as the two walked out

"Then punish me" the boy answered

"Any suggestions?" she asked coyly

Sensing the trap the boy decided to counterattack, smiling he muttered something in her ears, making her face turn beet red.

"Pervert" Hermione muttered looking down.

"But I am YOUR pervert" he answered

"That's true"

Secret EVIIIIL location – Voldemort lair of epic, evil evilness of Terrible Doom of Death-

Tom Marvolo Riddle, known everywhere in the Wizarding World with the feared names of Voldemort, You-Know-Who, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named...

And Shirley-Lucien for those still alive knowing his full name, was now deeply contemplating the recent changes in Harry's behaviour and body.

In other words he was whining about the boy's new found power and appearances.

"It's unfair! I am the Dark Lord here! I am the one supposed to be the Badass of the story!" the deformed baby said in an high-pitched voice

"My Lord, please be patient, once the ritual is complete we will find a way to take those powers too" Wormtail said trying to placate him.

"I don't care about that! He defeated a dragon with his bare hands, that's the problem! He is supposed to be a short, scrawny kid with glasses, selfless and humble! Not a powerful boy sure of himself with women throwing themselves at his feet and a body seemingly made out of marble and gorgeous! IT'S AGAINST THE RULES!" Voldy said angrily

"I can't understand, my Lord, why is so important him not being like he used to?" the traitorous marauder asked

"Umpf! I forget with who I am talking, it's a matter of etiquette! A TRUE battle between Good and Evil MUST have the two champions being the polar opposite! And since I AM the Godly beautiful, unbelievably smart, powerful and sexually irresistible one (And I will be even MORE like that once reborn in a new body) it's obvious that Potter needs to be the nerdy-looking, weak willed, poorly equipped one! Those are the rules since the beginning of Time!" the dark baby...thing said crossing his arms.

"...I understand, my lord" Wormtail said trying to hide something

"What are you hiding, Wormtail? Show it to me!" Voldy ordered with narrowed eyes

"It's nothing, master...just a magazine they gave me with the prophet" Wormatail said, sweating profusely

"Crucio!" Voldy said pointing his wand at the man, watching him convulse on the floor until his hand finally dropped what he was holding

"Accio" the dark baby said then summoning the magazine in his hand

"Teen Witches? THIS is what you were hiding? Your idiocy will never cease to surprise me" Voldy said with a sneer, but before he could burn the thing to dust he noticed the title on the cover, making his magical blood boil in rage

"Potter: The Hot Eye-candy of the month!?" the baby roared opening the magazine

"Mommy..." Wormtail muttered in terror as he closed his eyes, ready for the new wave of pain that will crash on him.

"Following his unexpected revelation during the first task of the Tri-wizard Tournament, this young reporter of Ravenclaw can testify that the real boy-who-lived is indeed worthy of the title of Hot Eye-candy of the month as with particular attention I followed his Morning Ritual, which consist in going through severe physical training to maintain those, sorry my boldness, delicious body of his and those marvellous muscles that appear ready tear in two the World itself.

This young witch had the pleasurable duty to follow him so to discover if he was worthy of the title, as with each flex of his arms the temperature seemed to raise to unbearable levels I can say that he is, luckily no-one other than myself and the two witches apparently interested in him were there watching, I can say that he will be one of the most desired man once reached adulthood, for now we young witches can only hope that the two trying to catch his interest will fail, letting us an occasion to snatch him away.

A Final secret for whichever of you people still having doubts, without glasses he has amazing green eyes and the infamous messy hair of his was apparently another mask to hide his true-self.

And I personally saw him doing push-ups WITHOUT using his arms, Yummy indeed..." Voldy finished reading out the thing with his body shaking in absolute fury.

"My lord?" Wormatail asked tentatively

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" The baby yelled in rage, his eyes burning like fire making Nagini rapidly disappear to find shelter

"Master, please calm down! You shouldn't strain your body" Wormatail tried saying

"I AM PERFECTLY CALM! I AM THE FUCKING EMBODIMENT CALMNESS!" Voldy roared at the man

"M-master..."

"CRUCIO! CRUCIO! MOTHERFUCKING CRUCIOOOO!" the dark lord screamed while pointing his wand at Wormtail.

It will be hours before he will finally calm down enough to stop torturing his follower.

Night of the Ball – Gryffindor common Room -

"Why I did this? I am going to be the joke of the ball" Neville said pacing around worriedly

"Calm down! You won't manage walking, let alone DANCING if you do not relax!" Harry said groaning

"Easy for you to say, you fought a dragon, I barely can face Snape" the boy answered

"I think that deluding Hermione will be worst than fighting that lizard" Harry said shrugging

"LIZARD?!" Neville mentally screamed

"Aah! The vision of Heaven won't be able to match you in a million years, my dear" Harry said as Hermione finally walked down, just like the last time she was a radiant beauty in a periwinkle dress

"You are not half bad neither" she said smiling, accepting his presented arm

"Here I am, Neville!" Padma said coming down as well

"You...I mean...you are..." Neville said blubbering

"I think he means that you left him speechless" Harry said grinning

"Oh my! Thank you Nev" Padma answered giggling, Neville mouthing a Thank You at his friend

"Shall we go?" Harry then said moving with his friend towards the Great Hall

"What happened to Ron?" Hermione asked

"Look yourself" Harry said pointing at the young red head pleading Fred and George for help clinging to their legs

"Millicent no! I can't! I can't dance with her! Hermione is my destiny" Ron pleaded again

"Brother, is official, our Ronniekins is definitely blind" Fred (George?) said to his twin

"Sad, really. He would have been a wonderful Keeper for the Cannons" George (Fred?) answered

"Come on! Show some backbone! You heard the Headmaster, It's for the Greater Good of the Wizarding World" Fred said grinning

"For the Good of the Wizarding World, but not for MY Good!" Ron whined

"Details" George said waving him off

"And Ginny?" Harry asked

"With Colin, I managed to put the two together for the ball, both had not a date" Hermione said smiling evilly

"Eliminating the opposition, eh? Good girl" Harry whispered making her blush

"Pratt" she answered as the group reached McGonagall

"Good to see that you champions are all present, you four will be the ones opening the Ball, please follow me" McGonagall said guiding the Four Champions plus dates inside the Great Hall.

" 'Arry, will you at least concede me a dance? Even just one?" Fleur asked discreetly, her date Dean Thomas too focused on ogling her to notice.

"Why?" Hermione asked with narrowed eyes

"Please" the French girl pleaded

"Fine! But just ONE!" Hermione said rising one finger to make it clear

"Merci" the girl had the time to answer before the music started.

It was a clearly different Ball this time, not only because he actually knew HOW to dance, but the fact that this time he was taking part to it with the girl he wanted, keeping her close to him was a difference he was clearly enjoying.

As the two kept moving on the floor, ignoring the rest of the world, the rest of the people damaged by the boy's changing the story were instead trying to understand what went so wrong to cause their actual predicament.

Ginny, as now everyone had joined the dance, was finding herself with her arms full of an ecstatic Colin that was going on and on about everything he was seeing and about How Cool Harry was here and there, she liked (adored) the green-eyed wizard herself, but the boy with her was giving a new definition to the term Fan Boy

Ron instead was longingly looking at Hermione while Millicent kept trying to teach him while dancing

"Eyes on me! Do not look at your feet or elsewhere" she instructed as her own feet were squashing his

"Hermi..." he whined as a new pain blossomed from his right toe as Milly's heels kept catching it with amazing accuracy every two steps.

Albus...Albus was sulking, Minerva said Harry refused to bring Ginny as his date instead of Hermione, how was he supposed to keep everything under control and defend the Greater Good if everyone refuse to do as he say? It wasn't fair! He was Albus Wulfrig Wilfred Alfred Brian Ryan Arthur Stephan Alexander Marcellus Piritus Aurelius Maximus Marylin Melanie Melody Maria Dumbledore, he knew was he was doing!

More or Less...

And now that barrister sent him those documents...sure it will save ANOTHER girl from the Dark Side of Magic, but the way the man was proposing it...such barbaric ways to achieve that result, he even had to concede Sirius a Trial NOW instead of LATER, but...couldn't people understand how NECESSARY was for Harry to stay with the Dursley, how IMPORTANT was to keep Godfather and Boy separated until the end of the War against Tom? He would have given the man a trial after everything was done, of course!

More or Less...

Being an Headmaster takes so much energy that sometimes things slips the mind, what did they think? That he was a one-hundred years old? He was no more a kid! At a certain age people tends to forget things, but he surely would have asked Harry to be placed away from the Dursley once the prophesy was fulfilled, he was SURE the boy would survive the Killing Curse thanks to the Horcrux in his head...

More or Less...

But it was certain that...Uh! Lemon Drops! Om-nom-nom-nom!

As the dance went on, Fleur finally lost her patience as Dean's hand found its way on her ass for the umpteenth time that night, disentangling from his arms she dragged him by the ear to a chair, shoving him down with a withering glare.

"Hermione? What do you see when you look at Fleur?" Harry asked

"What I see? An half-ass parrot thinking she can take whatever she likes using her allure, a Veela" the girl answered

"Really?" he asked

"Yes" she answered defiantly

"I'll change perspective, what people see when looking at me?" Harry asked

"The-boy-who-lived" Hermione answered

"And you?"

"Harry, my beautiful prince" she said leaning her head on his chest "And Master" a little voice in her head said making her smirk

"So tell me again, what people see when watching her?" Harry asked again

"A Veela?" Hermione said

"Exactly, with me the Allure doesn't work, it's logical that she finds me curious, I can see Fleur Delacour, not the Veela" Harry said nodding

"Curious? She wants to get in your pants" Hermione said with narrowed eyes

"And that is your goal instead" Harry said

"Yes...NO! I Mean..." she said before taking notice, burying her face in his chest to hide the blush

"Hahaha!" the boy laughed, caressing her head

"Idiot" came the muffled answer "Okay, dance with her, but just ONE dance" she then said

"Are you sure? I can happily dance just with you" Harry said

"No, it's okay, like this she won't bother us later, we will give her that damned dance and then be free of her" Hermione answered

"As you wish" Harry said as the music stopped, the two moving towards the Champions table where a fuming Veela was sitting alone

"Dean?" Harry asked

"Kicked him away, he kept grabbing my derriere" she answered huffing

"He waz just...you know..." Viktor said as he and Luna joined them

"He had some whackspurts possessing him?" the Ravenclaw girl asked with her dreaming voice

" 'e was talking about ze Allure" Fleur said in dismay

"You can always dance with Harry, he seems immune to that" Cho suggested as she took a seat with Cedric, the First Hogwarts Champion sitting near Harry just in case he or Cho tried something

"Yeah" the boy said moving closer to HIS girlfriend

"Cedric, stop this, I went over my crush on Cho" Harry said groaning

"Uh? Ah, sorry! It wasn't my intention insinuating" Cedric replied casually, but everyone could see how his posture relaxed at that

" 'Arry? Would you really dance with me?" Fleur said moving closer, subtly flashing he Allure once again, focusing it on the boy

"Turn that trick off, I won't dance with a Veela" Harry said, shocking the others at his revealing the girl's attack

"W-Why?" the girl asked with sad eyes

Getting up and walking in front of her he took her hand in his

"I want to dance with Fleur Delacour" he said smiling, making her eyes go wide

"Can...can I?" the surprised girl asked to Hermione

"Sigh Just one, okay?" Hermione said

"Thank you" Fleur answered with a wide smile, literally dragging Harry to dance

"It waz a nice thing to do" Victor said

"She thinks that her Allure is the only thing that can help her in life, like that she should see that even without it she can make friends" the Gryffindor girl answered smiling

"And get a new boyfriend too?" Cho teased as the French girl leaned her head on Harry's shoulder with an happy smile on her face.

"That's not funny" Hermione answered glaring at her

"Sorry, sorry" Cho said rising her hands in a placating gesture

"Thank you, 'Arry" Fleur whispered as the dance finished

"See? Without that party trick around you become a pretty girl, you should keep it always turned off" Harry said as the two walked back to the table.

"Thank you, my prince" Fleur thought happily.

What nor Harry nor Hermione could imagine was that the simple gesture they thought could resolve their problem was instead making it deeper, since Fleur up until now was driven by her pride in hunting the boy as a Veela, but now she wanted him as Fleur Delacour, girl in love.

"Do you mind dancing with me some more?" Harry asked presenting his hand to Hermione

"With pleasure, my love" the girl answered as the two walked back on the dance floor.

"They are a wonderful couple" Cedric commented, watching the others nodding before joining them

"Not for long" Fleur muttered with a devious smile while sitting at the table.

Black Lake – Second Task – champions' tent -

"Potter, I see that you are awfully calm, aren't you worried about rescuing the thing you sorely miss?" Professor Moody asked nearing the boy in the champions tent

"Professor, I am perfectly calm because I know YOU are here taking care of the security, I can't imagine what would have happened if you were...I don't know...an escapee from Azkaban hiding here by using the Polyjuice Potion, thing that would have been a signal that MY hostage was instead in danger, I would have completely lost control at that" Harry answered

"Ah...really? Good thing I am not an impostor then hahaha!" the scarred professor said with a nervous laugh a thin line of sweat forming on his forehead

"Hahaha! Yeah, I would have AT LEAST shoved an hand up the FAKE Alastor's arse to tear out his spine so to beat him to death before forcing wand, wooden leg and flask down his oesophagus and feed the pitiful rests to one of Hagrid's pets...before quartering the beast to, just to be sure he/she suffered" Harry said with a feral grin that could have made kids cry

"There is always the Cruciatus Curse" The slightly nervous professor offered

"It gives too little pain, I KNOW how to give prolonged sufferance without the subject dying, going crazy or just pass-out" the boy answered

"Ah...changing subject, how did you manage to have the Headmaster using Weasley as your hostage, I was expecting Granger to be taken" he said

"I have my ways..." Harry said grinning

Mini-flash-back – the night before – Gryffindor Tower -

"Now, I only need Harry's hostage and I am done" Albus said entering the tower

"Hello, Headmaster, looking for my hostage? I have that covered, my DEAR old friend Ron" Harry said to a sleeping Ron blocked with a Petrificus Totalus

"Harry...you are supposed to be sleeping, and I was going to use Miss Granger, I admit that her destiny is with Ronald, but Mister Weasley's mission with Miss Bulstrode force me to use her for the task, if she doesn't see herself as YOUR most important Hostage, she may turn Dark at seeing no-one caring for her" Albus answered in his best grand-fatherly tone

"It's just because I love her that I DON'T WANT her at the bottom of a cold, dark lake" Harry answered

"It's for the Girl's good that I am doing this, Harry, please understand" Albus said taking out his wand to block the boy's body

"Professor...let me explain my point of view then, I am sure I will convince you that Ronald here MUST be my hostage, for YOUR good of course" Harry said grinning

"I can't believe you are threatening me, Harry, the stress of the Tournament is being detrimental for you" Albus said sadly

"It's not a threat, just a...declaration of intents" Harry answered.

From outside the tower, Professor McGonagall was pacing back and forth in front of the Fat Lady portrait

"I told Albus it was a BAD idea using Miss Granger, Mister Potter was particularly adamant in asking us to leave his girlfriend out of this, I hope the two won't do anything stupid" the stern woman said glancing worriedly at the entrance of her House's common Room.

"No, no! My boy, that is NOT the right place for a wand! No-no! Please understand! I did it for the Greater GooooooKYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAH!" Albus pleading voice came from outside before an high-pitched, female-sounding shriek didn't interrupt him, piercing the night making even the paintings and ghosts cringe in sympathy.

Few seconds later said Headmaster came out of the portrait with an heavy limp in his steps, manually dragging the still sleeping Ron in his hands.

"He objected your idea, doesn't he?" McGonagall asked

"His...arguments were really good, both the Left and the Right one" he answered as the two walked towards the lake

"Will you suspend him?" the woman asked worried

"NO! I mean, I can't...he is still the winning piece of this War and the Tournament's rules says that he MUST take part, and I admit that touching his momentarily (If I have anything to say about) girlfriend was not exactly a good idea, James would have done the same for Lily, I fear" Albus answered

"Then why you DID use Miss Cho for Mister Diggory instead? Where is the difference?" the woman asked

"Mister Cedric only use his wand, a disarming spell was enough for him, just like with Mister Krum's wand and the beater bat he casually had in his room" Albus said

"And Miss Delacour?" McGonagall asked

"I had Severus taking her little sister" he answered

"So that's why he was in the infirmary with severe burning marks, I thought one of his cauldrons exploded" she said

"No, apparently a Veela can use some nasty fireballs when protecting a family member, I wonder who told them who I planned to kidnap, I was the only one knowing except you" Albus said

"Why are you dragging Mister Weasley by the way? Can't you use your wand?" Minerva asked

"Professor McGonagall...my wand is unusable at the moment, don't ask for details please" Albus answered groaning

"...Ah! I see..." she answered taking notice that a strange tent was sprouting from the back of the old man's cloak

"Does it hurt?" she then asked

"You have no idea, I'll be under Madame Pomfrey's care after this if you need me" the Headmaster said closing any further argument.

To the Old Wizard further dismay, that discussion still counted as a duel, making the Elder Wand in his...hands pass in possession of Harry, forcing him to give the precious thing to the boy.

After the due cleaning under disinfectant, of course.

End of the Flash-back – Black Lake – Shore of the Lake -

"Well, I will be on my way then" Professor Moody said

"Ah! Before I forgot, I left a present in your office, professor! I hope you will like, for all the help you gave me" Harry said casually

"Thank you, Potter! And good luck with the task" the Auror said leaving the tent

"Champions! Please reach the shore, the Second Task is about to begin" Ludo said motioning the four to follow him.

Hogwarts – Professor Moody's office – in the meantime -

"Eh! I wonder what Potter left me, he may be strong now, but he is still the gullible fool he was at the start of the year!" Barty Crouch Jr said smirking opening the door.

"Expelliarmus!" a Woman said as he entered, making his wand fly out of his hands in hers.

"Thank you, Auror Tonks" the REAL Moody said with a savage smile, a new wooden leg in place and a solid IRON copy of his old one in his hands

"It was a pleasure, will you use it on him before the interrogation?" Tonks asked as her hair turned brightly pink, handing the wand to his rightful owner.

"Ooh no! I will do this in the OLD way!" the man answered with an evil glint in his eyes, stalking towards the polyjuiced man.

"The doors are sealed, nothing will come out of here until we have done" Alastor said as Barty Jr tried opening the door leaving nail-marks in the solid wood.

"Who? Who talked?" he asked with a trembling voice

"My new best friend forever, Potter. Do you know him? He found me yesterday and helped me organizing this little meeting between us, a nice boy that I am sure will be a good Auror once completed his studies and under my tutelage" Moody said rising the artificial leg

"Why a iron-made leg?" Barty Jr asked fearfully

"Since you liked the wooden one..." Moody said smirking, moving down the weapon with a gleeful smile on his face.

Back to the lake -

"Every champion is ready?" Ludo asked with is Sonorused voice

"Remember, you four have an houre to retrieve an Hostage from the bottom of the lake" he then said

"For Miss Fleur: little Miss Gabrielle Delacour" he said

"I will burn you all to ashes if something 'appen to Gabri!" Fleur said glaring at Dumbledore

"For Mistrer Diggory. The Adorable Miss Chang!"

"Headmaster! Fleur won't be alone in taking revenge should something happen!" Cedric said

"For Mister Krum: Dear Miss Lovegood!"

"Hear my vords! I vill destroy vhoever vill harm MY Luna!" Victory roared in rage

"And...Last but not Least, for Mister Potter: his dear Friend, Mister Weasley" Bagman said finishing his presentation

"Eh! As long as Hermione is not down there" Harry said shrugging

"HARRY! BE QUICK! We have better things to do than staying here feeling cold!" Hermione yelled from her seat

"As you wish!" the boy answered bowing

"How did you get Dumbledore to change your hostage?" Cedric asked

"I forced him of course! You people should train more in hand-to-hand fight, that stick can't be your only meaning of fighting" Harry answered

"AT LEAST YOU LEARNED THAT! HAHA!" a familiar voice said from the audience

"AUGUS!" Harry said in happiness

"In the flesh!" the giant man said grinning, sitting near him Yasha, Asura and Frank

"And you are?" Albus asked

"Friends, we helped the boy training" Augus answered

"My dear Headmaster, not everyone likes to wait and hope for the best" Frank said slapping the old man's back

"We'll talk later" he then whispered with a painful grip of the old wizard's shoulder

"Champions! Your hour starts...NOW!" Ludo screamed as a cannon-like boom! Shoot from his wand, starting the Task.

Black Lake – near the bottom – with Harry – village of the Merpeople -

'Finding' the village was easy, luckily he still remembered how to move inside the lake, in a matter of minutes, thanks to Gillyweed plus Mantra combo, the young wizard had found his way to where the hostages were kept.

"Good, the others should be here soon, I will take Ron and keep an eye should Fleur have problems again and help here saving her hostage, no sense risking anything like the last time" the boy thought nodding to himself

Snapping the rope keeping Ron down he started moving towards the surface, breaking the last barrier to the fresh air out of water.

"A new record for Mister Potter that saved his hostage in less than Twenty minutes! This young champion is set to dominate the Tri-wizard tournament!" Ludo said in an awe-filled tone as Ron was escorted towards the medical tent

"HARRY!" Hermione yelled from the shore, a wide smile on her face

"See? Nothing to worry about" Harry said grinning as every noise stopped, as the two watched the lake they could see a red spot growing rapidly

"That's...That's blood!" Hermione said covering her mouth with both hands

"What happened!?" Harry said in worry

"HARRY! It's Fleur! She was attacked!" Frank yelled from his seat

"WHAT!?" both Harry and Hermione said in fear

"I'll save her" Harry said taking another handful of Gillyweed

"Pay attention, Harry, Please!" Hermione pleaded as the boy dived again with determined eyes.

Black Lake – with Fleur -

Fleur was floating aimlessly, watching with half-lidded eyes as her own blood floated towards the surface, several mermen converging on her with their sharp spears.

"Someone...Harry...save me..." Fleur thought tiredly.

She had just used a spark of her Allure, she knew it wouldn't have worked underwater, but she was desperate to save her little sister, she had focused all herself to try and use it on a merman to have him guide her, it worked for an instant before failing, she didn't had the time to think that her target used his spear on her before calling for the others, enraged by her lack of respect in trying to force him into doing something.

And now she was there, unable to move as the other champions were far from her position, she could just hope to be saved or die there.

A projectile of red energy nailed the nearest merman in the back, making the creature crash against the rocks at the bottom

"H-Harry..." Fleur thought as she saw the boy came at her rescue, firing Mantra Bullets at the swimming creatures that were forced to move back a little, leaving the boy enough space to reach her.

"H-H-Harry" she mouthed from under the Bubble-head Charm, caressing the boy's face

"Uhm! Those idiots won't give up" Harry thought as more mermen joined the fight to punish the Veela girl

Pointing at the two with angry gestures the mermen moved rapidly to attack.

"Tsk!" Harry managed to say concentrating Mantra in his arms, crossing them and covering himself in a flaming, red aura.

Outside the lake -

"We don't know what happened to make the Mermen become so hostile, but right now even the other champions are having problems at saving their hostages, we can only hope that Potter will manage to keep Miss Delacour safe until help arrives" Ludo said as even the Sonorus was having problems against the chaos in the stadium

"Ma fille! You said she vas safe!" A distraught Apolline Delacour, mother of Fleur and Gabrielle, said glaring at Dumbledore

"Apparently she vasn't" Claude Delacour, her husband, said as he had an hold of the Headmaster's collar

"You said everything was under control, Albus!" McGonagall said with a beastly roar

"Calm down, please! I am sure everything is under control!" Albus said, trying to placate the people circling him

"It will be better for you if this is true, Old Goat, My nephew's boyfriend is down there, You won't like me should something happen to Harry" Christine said, ignoring Genevieve Delacour glaring at her back.

"Again, my dear, I am sure everything will be fine, Harry is a resourceful boy and he willBOOOM!" as Albus was once again trying to squirm his way out of trouble, and enormous, deafening, thundering explosion rocketed the arena, making every drop of water of the lake explode upward, launching Harry (with Fleur safely in his arms) Cedric and Victor with their hostages, the mermen and even the Giant Squid up in the sky, every one of them screaming in fear at the improvise changing of scenery.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Harry's gleeful laugh was echoing everywhere as he landed on his feet, forming a crater while McGonagall and Flitwick recovered their composure rapidly enough to levitate the other champions down to safety.

Frank was instead looking enraptured as the various water creatures rained down with the water of the lake, the giant squid incredibly whining the whole way down as Augus' laugh too was heard covering almost every other noise.

He couldn't help himself, he started singing

"It's raining mermen! Hallelujah it's raining mermen, Amen!" Frank sang grinning

Claire Wash, fifth year Hufflepuff, will hear that and few months later sing it to herself while visiting her dear aunt Martha, that simple thing few years later will take inspiration from it for a cover with a famous Muggle singer ( woman unfortunately unknown to the wizarding world herself but pretty famous between Muggles).

"...as you can see everything was under control" Albus said as Fleur was moved rapidly towards the medical tent, followed by the whole group

Medical tent – once Fleur recovered -

"Are you okay?" Harry asked looking at her

"Oui...thank you, 'Arry, I owe you my life" Fleur said looking at him

"You may have tried to steal Harry, but this doesn't mean that I would have left you to die" Hermione said taking her hand

"I so much...vanted him to save me...to be my chevalier and held me in his arms" the French girl said looking away

"What happened?" Harry asked

"I tried using ze Allure, it worked for an instant, but ze mermen doesn't like that" she answered

"Mermen and Veela have an history of not being exactly friends, being creature of opposite elements, Fire the Veela and Water the Mermen, doesn't help, they saw your Allure as a direct attack, and that had them react violently" Hermione explained

"I...I thought" Fleur said looking down "It always vas thanks to that if people noticed me, I never saw people react to me without it, it's always so easy to use it, you use ze Allure and every door is open for you" she said sobbing

"Sigh! Look, you can't always count on that to go on with your life, you have to..." Hermione said

"GENEVIEVE!" Christine yelled from outside

"I should have known that one of Your family was behind this" the Veela matriarch said narrowing her eyes towards Hermione's grandmother

"You failed to take away my husband and now you are taking revenge by helping that half-roasted chicken to steal my granddaughter's boyfriend! Your dirty tricks won't win this time either, I WILL stop you!" Christine yelled in answer

"Harry, please, try to make them resonate, I'll stay with Fleur, the Allure shouldn't work with you even if from an adult Veela, I trust you" Hermione said hugging him

"I will take care of that" Harry answered leaving the tent.

A long moment of silence fell between the two witches as Harry tried to calm the two old lady down, both of them trying to tear each other to pieces both verbally and physically.

"Will it always be like that?" Hermione asked sighing, sitting on a corner of Fleur's bed

"What do you mean?" the part Veela asked back

"Me and you...hating each other like that, spending years arguing about who should be with him, sleeping with an eye open in case one should try something" the Gryffindor girl said looking at the other

"You know we can't both 'ave him, bigamy is against ze law even in France, one of us must step down" Fleur said sitting up, groaning subtly in pain

"Can I ask you to let ME staying with him? You are a beautiful girl, even without the Allure, you won't have problems finding someone" Hermione pleaded

"That's the problem, everyone vill always see me through ze Veela magic, never trying to see under it, Harry was ze first one I know to stop my powers from working and still spending time with me, asking Fleur Delacour, Beauxbaton student to dance, not Fleur ze Veela, he always zaw me as a real girl, not as a magical goddess...and zhat feels vonderful" Fleur said

"He jumped on a Troll's back to save me, even if up until that moment we weren't exactly friends, even if I tried to impose my view of things on him, he still was there risking his life for me, he went face-to-face with a Basilisk to try and save my life AGAIN...it was the reason I always stood with him, never abandoning his side, even this year when everyone, EVERYONE, thought he had cheated his way in the Tournament I stood with him, and he repaid me with his love, finally acknowledging me by MORE than a simple friend, choosing me to be his soul-mate...you can't ask me to renounce to this, not now that I finally got the boy I wanted" Hermione said

"Then we 'ave a problem...the two of us won't renounce to love him apparently" Fleur said sighing

"I think so too, we will need to find our own equilibrium then, rivals?" Hermione said

"Rivals, but with honour" Fleur answered shaking the other girl's hand

"Even if I admire you two for your tenacity about chasing the boy of your dreams, becoming rivals is useless since I may have a solution to this problem" another girl said from the entrance to the tent

"Who are you?" Fleur asked with narrowed eyes

"Read and tell me if you find this solution not of your liking" the girl said giving a scroll to the two witches

"This...this is..." Hermione said with wide eyes

"The solution to our problems, but I say we wait until after the end of the Year to tell Harry" she answered

"Why?" Hermione asked

"Harry saved my father's life, apparently he and Harry's Godfather thought that this was the right price for that life debt, I had to play hard to get, but I admit that I was waiting for a good excuse to get Harry for myself, even if I had not planned for this to happen, I can accept it in virtue of the fact that the three of us share an high intellect other than beauty, at least I won't have to spend my time with some idiots"

"Is this even possible?" Fleur asked

"Goblin laws, valid for wizards as well after the war with Geufferok the unrelenting in 1567, my father is a good barrister, he knows what he is talking about" the girl answered nodding

"Are you sure?" Hermione asked

"You can always step back, legally that give me...the lead shall we say, I am just offering you a way to not lose this little skirmish"

"I agree" Fleur said

"WHAT!?" Hermione yelled in disbelief

"It's not winning per se, but like this I von't lose either" the French champion said

"I see that you got the point"

"Fine! Just because that damned piece of paper may get between me and Harry, you won, Greengrass, I am in as well" Hermione said glaring at the two

"Nice to see that you are reasonable other than smart, sign both your names here and here and we will be settled, my father and Harry's godfather will do the rest, and call me Daphne, if this go as we hope, we will legally be sisters" Daphne said smirking in victory

"A Triple marriage...this is crazy" Hermione said sighing

"Then read this, you'll find out that the Wizarding World is FULL of strange laws, prohibiting having two wives but accepting THREE is nothing in comparison" Daphne answered

"Crazy Laws and Silly Amendments from Merlin to Today?" Hermione said reading the title of the book the Blond Slytherin gave her

"Following that you should understand the working of the whole thing" Daphne said

"WAIT! Why I can't wear a pointy hat or use the past tense every second Wednesday of the month since I am part of a triplet of wives?" Hermione asked

"I don't know, the law just say that" Daphne answered shrugging

"Magic and Common sense doesn't always work together" Fleur commented.

"So? What did I miss?...Greengrass? What are you doing here?" Harry said returning from the battle between the two old ladies.

"We apparently found a solution to our problems and resolved the centuries-old feud between my family and Fleur's" Hermione answered

"Really? How? And does it has something to do with why Greengrass is here as well?" Harry asked surprised

"Exactly, Harry, but call me Daphne" she said with a wicked smile "Apparently my father forgot to tell you that by saving his life he rewarded you with his most precious possession...my hand in marriage" she said smirking

"Your father?...Damian?" Harry asked

"Exactly him" she answered

"I can't accept, I can't force you into this, and I am with Hermione already, there is no need for that" Harry said shaking his head no

"Hermione, there is a place where we can talk privately? By now Fleur should be able to move normally enough" Daphne asked

"Yes...there is a secret room we used one or two times to train...why?" the bushy haired girl asked

"I have a perfect plan for convincing Harry to accept our agreement" she answered

"Agreement? Whatever it is, my answer is and always will be NO" Harry said crossing his arms

Room of Requirement – Bedroom configuration – two and an half hour later -

"...Okay, maybe I can take this into consideration after all" Harry said as Daphne was using his stomach as a pillow

"See? Releasing some tension helps clearing your ideas" the girl said purring in his chest

"Will those two be okay?" he asked as the girl rose again for another round

"Fleur is still tired after the Task, Hermione was a little virgin, the first time is always pretty tiring for a woman, luckily for you I always was a littlemore...resilient, did you have enough strength for another go?" Daphne asked smirking

Her answer was being pinned down by a growling boy

"Believe it or not, I have some pent up stress I need to release" he said with another growl

"I will be sore, doesn't it?" she asked cheekily

"I will be surprised if you will still walk straight when I am done!"

"Then bring it on" she whispered in his ear, her last conscious thought will be only hours later, when he would have finally finished pounding her for all that was worth.

Outside the room – corridor -

"You were amazing Cedric, I knew you would have saved me" Cho said as she walked hand-in-hand with her boyfriend during their Prefect rounds

"It was nothing, I just would have preferred Harry not going apocalyptic

"At least we are all okay" the girl answered

"OH GOD! MOOOOORE! MOOOOOORE!" Daphne scream could be heard from outside

"Who is there?" Cedric said angrily opening the door few inches to see, slamming it closed immediately after

"Wasn't that that Greengrass girl? With who she was? And what room is this?" Cho asked

"Look, let's just forget everything and go on, trust me, it's better like this" Cedric said pulling her away

"But...why?" she asked

"OH HARRY! IT'S AMAZING DON'T STOP! DON'T STOOOOOP!" Daphne screamed again

"WAIT! Wasn't Harry with Hermione?" Cho asked surprised

"She was there too...exhausted" Cedric answered blushing

"Oh! Poor Fleur, she seemed attracted by him too, even is she is a Veela, I kinda feel pity for her" Cho said

"No...no, there is no need to worry..." the boy said looking around in difficulty

"Fleur too?" Cho asked

"...yeeeah...kinda crowded in there..." Cedric answered

"Three girls and he drove them to exhaustion...amazing" the girl say looking at the door in wonder, the screams keeping going on and on

"Silencio Maximus!" Cedric said hitting the door with the strongest Silencing Charm he knew

"Come with me!" he then said dragging the girl away

"Why? What's happening?" Cho asked

"I am trying to save our relationship, if I have to do this to not lose you then so be it!" he said taking her up bridal style towards an unused classroom

"Oh! Cedric! We can't!" the girl said blushing crimson

"I'll show you if we can't! I'll be sure to show you that I can be a man too!" Cedric answered opening the class' door with a kick, throwing out the two kids snogging that were there that he had blocked in a full-body bind before accepting Harry's challenge.

The four witches and two wizard will present themselves the next day accompanied by matching sated smiles, the girls of the group exchanging knowing smirks without the boys knowing

"Ten, Harry! Beat that!" Cedric said in triumph

"Ten for me too...with each one of them" he answered smirking

"Fuck you!"

Extra file 1 – Snape's payback -

Black Lake – after the second Task end -

"POTTER! Because of you everyone knows about my private life, your insubordination knows no limits! I will make you understand what happen when you doesn't respect the others!" the Potion master spat angrily nearing the boy

"I have better things to do now, return later, I am trying to have those two women stop arguing" Harry answered

"You spoiled brat! I am not about to let you do as you please! People may let you do what you want, but I will have you respect me and my position as professor, evidently you took the worst from your parents, an attention-seeking, egocentric dunderhead!" Snape said in fury

"You better stop now, you know? I am not afraid of beating you to a pulp if you don't shut up" Harry said glaring at him

"Do you think you can scare me? A miserable brat like you? For start I will have two hundred points from Gryffindor for your threatening a professor, then we will talk about your punishment! I knew it was a mistake letting you enter this school!" Snape said spitting around in rage

"I think you should reconsider that" A voice said from behind the greasy professor

"You should mind your own business instead! This is a school matter and I won't have youuuuu..." Snape said turning to face whoever dared to defend Potter, coming Face-to-abs with a man barely few inches shorter than Hagrid but with enough muscles to rip said half-giant in half, with him two shorter men (still few inches taller than Snape) equally ripped.

"Interfere" the potion master finished whining as Augus calmly took the wand away from his hand to pocket it, looking at the former Death Eater with a feral smile

"You see, that boy is our student too, we taught him how to fight with his hands instead than that pretty stick you people likes to wave around, even if he still can't defeat us, he is more than good enough to shred you all to pieces ahahahaha!" Augus said with a thundering laugh

"And we don't like seeing someone using his position to bully him" Yasha said calmly, moving his old gold mask to cover his eyes

"And since he STILL can't hurt you without repercussions, we will take care of that personally" Asura said cracking his knuckles

"My friends here will leave you alive of course, Harry will need to give you HIS ration of punches once he complete his seven years here after all, it would be bad to take away his right to revenge" Frank said smirking

"I don't think you people understand the situation" Snape tried saying

"Ooh-ooh! We know instead, I can assure you" Augus said getting closer

"What would I get if I added powdered asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?" Yasha asked grabbing one of Snape's shoulders

"I...I..." Snape stammered

"Where would you look if I told you to find a bezoar?" Asura asked grinning as he took an hold of the other man's shoulder

"Listen...I was just..." he tried saying

"And to conclude: what is the difference between monkshood and wolfsbane?" Augus said coming closer to him, shadowing the professor

"I think we can resolve this pacifically" Snape tried saying, sweating profusely

"I don't think so instead" Frank said patting the man's back as the three started dragging the man away

"Where are those gentlemen going with Severus?" Albus asked joining the scene

"They just want to have a little talk with him" Frank answered

"GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! NO! THE FACE NO!" Snape screams of pain echoed everywhere

"A LOOOONG talk" Frank said smirking as Dumbledore tried to move to rescue his friend

"He won't find the greasy git too soon, I have few friends hiding the thing" Frank said to Harry

"Thank you" the boy said

"No problem, some people owed me a favour that I decided to cash for this" Frank answered as the two shook hands.

Extra scene 2 – the pages revealed! -

Hogwarts – unused classroom – some days after the second task -

After their first time together, the three witches plus wizard kept knowing each other until they felt secure enough to try few of Hermione's books to spice things up

"Are you sure?" Harry asked

"Yes, I think we can try that now" Hermione said confidently

"Let's try, your medi-witch said I recovered completely" Fleur said with an eager smile

"Fine...the first one is page 63 that Hermione had pointed as her favourite" Daphne said opening the heavy-looking book

Outside the room – corridor -

"I can't believe those students, doing such indecent things is not something Miss Granger would do, going so far as to discredit her with saying she is doing...those things with Mister Potter is unbelievable, I will find who is spreading around those lies" McGonagall said angrily

"They even said he is...doing that with Mademoiselle Delacour and Miss Greengrass, what do they think? That we professors are idiots? As if something like that could happen!" she then said stopping in front of the room the four were using.

"If I have to believe those voices, this is their favourite place...gossip, the worst enemy of this school" she said trying to open the door, finding it closed

"Closed? Could it be...impossible" McGonagall said "Better check all the same, whoever is inside there is not studying for certain" she then said unlocking the door and opening it.

"Nonono! Harry! Your leg should be BEHIND Hermione's shoulder...no! Granger, your back should be bend at a lower angle! Okay, almost there...the elbow Harry, move the right elbow more to the left...perfect! Now you should be able to get in" Daphne said trying to guide the two

"It doesn't seem comfortable" Fleur commented

"Are you sure?" Daphne asked looking at her

"Oui..what if...Harry try to turn your head more to the right and move Hermione's leg over your hip with the knee against your abdomen" Fleur said

"Like this?" Harry said groaning

"Nono! The other, move the right hand to the left, grab her foot and lift it..." Daphne said, turning the book upside-down to try and see what they were doing wrong

"WHAT'S happening here!?" McGonagall finally managed to say, horrified of what was happening

" AH! Professor! Luckily you are here, we need some help here, we can't get this right, can you help us?" Daphne asked thrusting the book in the woman's hands

"W-w-what?" the stern woman asked

"Here, you see? We can't understand why the position doesn't match" Daphne said pointing at the picture

"I...I...Sigh! Let me see" McGonagall tried saying before admitting defeat, she was getting too old for that.

"Here, you are confusing the man's leg for the woman's here, the drawing is slightly ruined" McGonagall said pointing at a corner of the image

"OOH! You are right! Ike this it should work, thank you professor!" Daphne said happily

"Nothing, just...seal the door and use privacy spells...I hope at least that the essays I asked were done" the professor said in dismay

"Of course we did! We even made the secondary research you suggested!" Hermione said with Harry nodding with her

"...okay, just use precautions and...whatever, I need to go, I'll have Filius Obliviate me" McGonagall said groaning, leaving the room to reach the Charm Professor's office, shaking her head the whole time.

"OKAY! After this who's turn is next?" Daphne asked

"MOI! I want to try that Glorious Womanhood Smasher at page 12" Fleur said grinning

"Dirty girl" Harry commented

As McGonagall was having her memories erased, the four will keep researching eventually writing their own erotic manual that will be the next best-seller of the category.

Stop! End of chapter 2/3 I had a lot of problem finishing this since I am suffering of several attack of author's block, if you have some remedy please tell me, I will appreciate the help ^^

I hope you will still like this chap, even if I wasn't totally convinced myself.

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