A/N: I am sorry for the long wait. I am glad that people like the pairings. I am actually surprised that this pairing has rarely been used since we know that Harry is attracted to redheads. We also know that if anyone deserves and needs two girls to love him it is Harry. Since it has been so long I will give you some details about who is on Harry's side. 1. Sirius 2. Dumbledore 3. Remus 4. Weasley Family (except Percy and Ron). Sorry again for the long wait.

Chapter Three

Where Loyalty Lies

Harry, Ginny and Susan spent the rest of the afternoon talking around the Black Lake. They spoke about things that did not pertain to the Tournament like Quidditch. Harry was relieved when he realized he did not need to be lectured by Ron about the Chudley Cannons (the worst team in the league).

Harry spoke about his favorite team, The Pride of Portree's prospects for a change. Harry liked the team since he found out his ex Quidditch captain Oliver Wood became the teams keeper. They also talked about Ginny's and Susan's favorite team, The Holyhead Harpies.

Susan also entertained Harry and Ginny with tales about her Aunt Amelia when she was an Auror, before she became Head of The Department. Susan told them about some of the Auror techniques used when you raid Enemy Territory.

As the sun began to set, a beautiful view appeared across the lake. The setting sun cast a reddish tint across the massive lake. The Giant Squid splashed playfully and fish jumped out of the lake performing twirls and flips energetically and masterfully.

Harry, Ginny and Susan watched the spectacle in awe, clapping enthusiastically when a fish pulled off an amazing stunt. The group gasped in awe when two Mermen launched themselves out of the lake and twirled while expertly spearing a few of the larger fish with their giant spears. The group was extremely surprised since they did not even know that the Black Lake held a Merpeople colony.

Harry sighed peacefully for the first time in the past two days. He was glad he could escape the scrutiny and hatred of the rest of the school. Harry was glad that he had Ginny and Susan though. Even though they weren't friends yet he hoped with all his heart that they could be. He also knew that he would not repeat his past mistakes. He also knew that he had to get past his childhood abuse. He knew the Dursley's won't beat him anymore for doing better than Dudley since they were fearful of him actually using magic on them now.

He sighed again knowing that he must once again face the student body that hated him if he wanted dinner.

"Ah, I guess that it is time for dinner. Susan you can join Ginny and I at the Gryffindor table if you want," stated Harry.

"Of course Harry, I would love to sit with you two at dinner," Susan answered excitedly.

The group stood up quickly and began to walk up to the Castle. Harry walked in the middle with Ginny on his left and Susan on his left. They quickly took hold of his hands when they noticed the solemn look on the young man's face. This sent a spear of fury and sadness through their hearts that Harry had to go through this. Why did Harry have to go through the hardest trials?

"Harry, you can get through this, you do not need them. You have us Harry and that is all that matters Harry," comforted Ginny squeezing his hand tighter.

Harry nodded his head and his face relaxed. He still looked weary but who could blame the poor boy. In one weekend he was put in a deadly tournament, betrayed by those he thought were his best friends, and finally nearly the entire school hated him.

The group entered the Great Hall to find it full with nearly all the students in the school. The students glared at Harry, some students simply ignored his existence. Harry looked up at the staff table to see the reactions of the staff. Harry's heart soared when he saw the teachers smile sympathetically at him. His heart soared higher when he noticed Professor Sprout, the Head of Hufflepuff House, also smiling at him. The only teacher not smiling was Snape but he never smiled and he always hated Harry. Harry caught Dumbledore's eye and brilliant smile and couldn't help but feel better. The teachers believed him.

The group sat down at the Gryffindor table and quickly filled their plates full of the scrumptious food. The hall stared in disbelief when they noticed Susan a Hufflepuff seating next to Harry.

The Hufflepuff students glared menacingly at the group but didn't dare say anything, clearly remembering Dumbledore's orders this morning. The Hufflepuffs glared at Susan with looks of betrayal on their faces. Harry seemed to notice and looked glummer.

"Susan I am sorry, now your House is going to hate you. You do not have to stay with me if you don't want to," Harry apologized glumly.

"Harry Potter, how dare you doubt my loyalty. It is them that did the betraying not me. I am being a true Hufflepuff and being loyal. Only their loyalty lies in their House and mine lies with you," chastised Susan, a fiery look forming in her ocean blue eyes.

Harry nodded his head but could not help the small smile that played across his face. Susan and Ginny noticed it and smiled at him warmly. Harry gazed at the two beauties and could not explain how lucky he was that he held such loyalty from them, but he was glad he did. He also knew that both of them had gained his loyalty as well.

"Anyway, Ginny your brother, Ron and Hermione are glaring at us, Susan continued. Ginny and Harry turned to find Ron and Hermione glaring not just at Harry but at Ginny and Susan as well.

Ginny smiled at the duo and said to Harry and Susan, "Ron has always been a jealous prat and Hermione is afraid of losing her only real friend."

Harry snorted and replied, "If she was afraid of losing my friendship she wouldn't have been such a stupid bitch and betray me."

"True, but I think she thought you would apologize if she left you alone long enough just to have someone to help you. I think she is angry because she now knows that you won't crawl back to her with Susan and me as friends," Ginny answered with disgust in her melodic voice.

"Yes, I probably would have apologized to her just so I had someone to talk to. So I am now extremely thankful that you believe me," said Harry happily.

Ginny and Susan laughed loudly and caused, for the third time that day, a small smile to appear on his roguishly handsome face. For the rest of dinner the trio joked and laughed. They did this in the hostile hall. At the teachers table the teachers were looking happily at the young trio.

"I am glad Harry has young Miss Weasley and Susan for friends. I am glad that at least one of my students understands loyalty. Loyalty is not just loyalty to your House, but most importantly, loyalty to your friends," praised Professor Sprout.

"Yes, I am disappointed in all of my student's behavior, well except, Miss Lovegood. She said that she believes Harry. Also half the things she says baffle even me," squeaked Professor Flitwick.

"I am especially disappointed in my House, They should know that Harry would never enter himself into the Tournament. Especially Mr. Weasley and Miss. Granger. I'm proud of Miss Weasley and her mischievous Twin brothers," hissed Professor McGonagall.

"Ah, The Weasley Twins seem to be making a joke out of it, but they make a joke out of everything. I believe that they believe Harry though," said Dumbledore happily, his eyes twinkling merrily.

"My student's for the most part have always hated Potter because of their Fathers and Mothers. However I am glad that he has finally woke up. Potter has been mediocre so far in his studies because of his friends. He always followed what Weasley did and then had to rely on Granger for his work. It also did not help that Granger did not help properly because of her self conscious need to always feel needed. I believe that Potter may have been abused when he was growing up because he clung to his friend's beliefs even if he did not agree. We have all seen how he liked Miss Weasley but ignored her because of Weasley's disliking of being around, I must admit, the most intelligent of the Weasleys. Also Potter dislikes close contact and seems to flinch if an Adult moves towards him to quickly," stated Snape lazily, his cold black eyes gazing around the hall looking for misbehavior.

"Do you really believe he has been abused Severus?" asked McGonagall quickly.

"Yes, being abused myself when I was growing up, I know all the signs. Do not feel to bad for not noticing, Potter is very good at hiding it which means that he must have been abused when he was really young," answered Snape.

"I warned you Albus, I warned you Albus, not to place him with those barbaric monsters," McGonagall snarled, glaring venomously at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore, who paled throughout Snape's speech, paled further and said sadly, "I had no choice at the time, with his parents' dead and his Godfather put in prison. They were his only relatives left, and the blood wards protected him from rogue Death Eaters. I could only put him with his family since then he would have to be put up for adoption and He could've been adopted by Death Eaters."

McGonagall's face softened at his weary and sad face. "What will do now, I will not allow him to go back."

"We will not let him to go back, but he must be careful, as he is still a minor and could be adopted still and placed with Death Eaters. I believe he could spend the summer with the Longbottoms since Neville and Harry are friends and Augusta won't mind since Alice was Harry's Godmother." stated Dumbledore.

Albus Dumbledore was saddened by the difficult life Harry had to live. From having his parents murdered to being abused as a child. Albus felt a rage of unlike anything he ever felt at the thought of the boy he loved like a Grandson being abused. He also knew he had to help the boy survive this Tournament. He knew he had to prepare him for his eventual confrontation with Tom Riddle A.K.A Lord Voldemort. Even though he knew that the war would probably last years until Harry reached his Magical Maturity, he must inform him about the Prophecy. His initial plan was to tell him at the end of his Fifth year when he thought Harry could handle it. Now he knew that even though he did not want to add weight to Harry's shoulders, he had to tell him in order to prepare him and to keep the most precious thing one could possess from another, Trust. Albus Dumbledore learned one thing that day. Loyalty, and one thing Albus Dumbledore was is that he is loyal to Harry Potter.

Oo0o0

After dinner Susan said a quick goodnight to Harry and Ginny and walked down the steps into the lower levels. Susan walked cheerfully down the hall that held the entrance to the kitchens and continued through the labyrinth of stone corridors that held pictures of delicious food on the walls. The pictures were placed on the walls in order to hide the entrance to the kitchens. Susan walked until she saw a stone Badger statue and said the password, "Unicorn Horn".

The warm and comfortable common room held comfy yellow chairs and Couches. The room was a giant square with a giant fire place on the left wall. On the right walls were two hallways. One led to the girl's dormitory and the other led to the boy's.

As Susan entered the common room she was unsurprised to find the room full with glaring Hufflepuffs. Susan sighed wearily and got ready for a rough fight. Everyone thought Hufflepuff's were nice and they generally are but if one Hufflepuff is proved to be unloyal they are punished severely.

Susan watched stoically as Zacharias Smith walked furiously up to her and began to scream, "HOW DARE YOU BETRAY US YOU STUPID LITTLE BITCH. HOW COULD YOU BETRAY CEDRIC, ONE OF YOUR OWN FOR POTTER. WHAT ARE YOU POTTER'S LITTLE WHORE. YOU SHOULD BE LOYAL TO ONLY HUFFLEPUFF. YOU FUCKING WHORE."

Everyone gasped as a loud slap filled the room. Smith held his red cheek where Susan slapped him. Smith and several other Hufflepuffs (including Ernie MacMillan, and Justin Finch-Fletchly, Hannah Abbot left for her dorms) pulled out their wands and pointed them at the vivacious red head. Susan roared in rage, "HOW DARE YOU CALL ME A WHORE. YOU ARE CALLING ME DISLOYAL. MY LOYALTY IS PLACED WITH MY FRIENDS. ANYONE WITH HALF THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF BRAINS WOULD KNOW THAT HARRY DIDN'T PUT HIS NAME IN THE GOBLET. HARRY HATES FAME ANYWAY. IT IS YOU GUYS THAT WILL HAVE TO LEARN THE TRUE MEANING OF LOYALTY."

The crowd screamed angrily and crowded around her menacingly. Susan stepped back as the crowd moved towards her raising their wands as they came. Susan gulped fearfully and stepped back as she prepared to face her punishment, which included a severe beating and magical oath never to betray them again. But before they could start her punishment the porthole to the common room slammed open.

In the entrance way stood Professor Sprout and a downtrodden looking Cedric Diggory. The former looked extremely furious, angrier than she ever was before. Sprout with a casual wave of her wand summoned all the wands in the room. She glared at her students with a look of severe disappointment.

"Enough of this nonsense. You should know better than this. If you don't believe Mr. Potter that is fine, but to force Miss Bones to agree with you is disgusting and barbaric. To accuse Miss Bones of not being loyal when she IS loyal to Mr. Potter is also cruel. Just because you are a Hufflepuff doesn't mean that you automatically get loyalty. Loyalty must be earned. I am severely disappointed in all of your behavior. I believe that one hundred points from Hufflepuff is punishment enough for attempting to harm Miss Bones and Mr. Finch-Fletchly, Mr. Smith and Mr. MacMillan will serve a week full of detentions. Oh and Miss Bones take fifty points for a spectacular show of loyalty. I am very proud of you.," chastised Professor Spout severely. She gazed at everyone of her students before she swept out of the common room.

The room was deathly quiet for awhile as the crowd looked down in shame.

Susan could not help but smile at their predicament. She would have felt sorry for them if it were not for the fact that they would have beaten her otherwise.

"Professor Sprout is right, our behavior has been despicable. Looking back I realize that I believe Potter. There is no way he could have tricked the Goblet that there are four schools competing. Moody actually believes that someone wants to kill him. I let my jealousy get in the way of my common sense," Cedric admitted shamefully. He gazed at the crowded students miserably before he stalked off to his dorm.

The common room once again was filled with complete and absolute silence. The students were appalled by the wretched behavior they have displayed. They were shocked that they were acting like a bunch of Slytherins. While they may still not believe Potter, he did not deserve to be ostracized by the school. He also did not deserve them wishing he would die in the tournament. They knew that if he were to actually die in the tournament they would feel immense guilt that they wished that he would die.

"Oh, if you ever try to punish me in the manner you were going to you will face my Aunt Amelia's wrath. By the way she is the Head of the department of Magical Law Enforcement," spat Susan as she stormed into her dorm. She was eternally glad she was Loyal to Harry Potter.

Oo0o0

Three men sat down comfortably in a grand and elegant dining room. The walls were a brilliant shade of gold with rich engravings of snakes. China cabinets filled with Gold and Silver family dishes and jeweled decorations. In the centre of the room a large elegant oak table was placed. The table was also engraved with snakes and could sit twenty-five comfortably.

The three man sat at one end of the massive table. The man that sat at the head of the table had long blonde hair and silver eyes. He wore long emerald green cloak that held his family crest. The man's name is Lucius Malfoy. The man to his left had short black hair and soulless black eyes on his severe face. He had on a raven black cloak and held a shiny Axe on his back. The man's name is Marcus McNair. The final man had curly brown hair and cobalt blue eyes. He wore a silver cloak with his crest on it. His name is Theodore Nott Sr.

"The stunt we pulled at the World Cup was a complete and utter failure. The muggle filth was perfectly fine and the Ministry got away with little turmoil because no one died like planned. We should not have failed our initial plan," sneered Lucius, his eyes glinting in fury.

"Lucius, you and I both know that the plan would have worked if someone did not send up the Dark Mark. We had those filthy bastards where we want them," spat Marcus gruffly. He touched the handle to his axe lovingly.

"I know Marcus, What I want to know is who set off the mark and most importantly why?" asked Lucius.

"That is what I tried to find out. I have asked Crabbe, Goyle, Gibbons, and Yaxley but they all say that they didn't. I know they tell the truth because they were with us, as well as a few lower members. No one else knew of our plan. I suppose that there is a chance that a past Death Eater could have been Present and decided to set the Dark Mark off," Marcus continued.

"Do you guys think that it could have been Our Lord?" asked Theodore.

"Impossible, He has been gone for thirteen years. If it is him though I doubt it is him personally. They say that filthy Potter brat forced him from his body." Marcus sneered coldly.

"That is why we should try to find out who sent up the Mark anyway. If it is truly Our Lord then we can assist him in gaining a new body back. If it is not then we have found at the very least a new ally," Spat Theodore Indignantly.

"Enough you two," Lucius ordered, "We will find whoever sent up the Dark Mark and become closer allies with him. If it turns out that Our Lord is behind this we will assist him. Remember we vowed to serve his cause for all our lives. If he comes back we will owe him thirteen years. We may as well begin to repay our debt. If He comes back I will be at his side like I was before, I will be at My Lord's side when he destroys Potter and the Muggle Loving Old Fool."

The two nodded and began to search for the unknown Death Eater. When Lord Voldemort returned Malfoy, Nott and McNair will be his Loyal servants again.