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Expelled

Chapter 7

Escorted by a Goblin honour guard Harry and the three grangers were led in to a very expensively furnished office and offered very comfortable dragon leather chairs in front of a huge mahogany desk that took up quite an amount of space across the back wall. Taking the seat offered by Ragnok Harry wondered exactly what the glowing of the ring meant.

Harry had to shake his head a little to clear it of the many questions that were swirling around unanswered. What did the glow mean, why all the fuss from the Goblins? and why had Hermione's parents said nothing about them getting engaged out there on the street? As he looked up Ragnok began to speak, "My Lord if I might just confirm your name, it will take but one drop of blood."

Harry leaned forward and held out his hand for the blood sample to be taken, when he tried to say his name it came out as "Harry James P,p,p… Harry James Pendragon."

While Harry was giving a drop of his blood and waiting for the result to appear, an extremely happy Hermione was wondering to her self, 'just who is this amazing wizard that I am so in love with, and what is this Pendragon stuff, was the name Potter just a disguise to hide the fact that he is royalty, maybe not, I don't think Harry knew anything about being a Pendragon, I'm sure he would have told me years ago if he knew,' she then smiled a little as she thanked the fates that Harry had asked her to marry him before his real name was revealed, she would hate for him to think even for just a single moment that she was with him because of his being royalty.

Helen Granger took the seat behind her daughter; her thoughts were racing through her mind like a hurricane. Harry Potter, who was actually Harry Pendragon, a prince if what the Goblins said was correct, had asked her sixteen soon to be seventeen year old daughter to marry him, and Hermione had actually said a very enthusiastic yes. She could tell from the way Hermione looked at and the way she treated Harry that she adored him and really was deeply in love with him, she had also seen Harry return that love with just as much depth and feeling. There was absolutely no doubt in her mind that this was not some infatuation or teenage puppy love that would quickly fade, she believed the two teens were a match made in heaven and they would be together for the rest of their lives come what may.

She made her mind up right then that she would organise a surprise wedding for the two teens like she had seen on the TV and in news papers, she would arrange it to be on Harry's sixteenth birthday, which was the age it became legal for them to marry, and it was only two weeks away so she could not afford to lose any time. She would need Richard and the elves' in on it as well if she was to pull it off. It would make his sixteenth birthday the best birthday Harry ever had. First thing she needed to do was to find out how to get in touch with the crazy little elf guy that Hermione was always going on about being one of the only two free elves' in Britain.

Richard Granger sat in the comfy chair and thought back over the past few days and the enormous changes that had happened. Harry the boy he had seen killed with his own two eyes six months ago had turned up at their house, alive and well, looking extremely fit and far healthier than he had looked the last time he had seen him, 'it seemed death suited the boy,' he thought with a chuckle. Harry had then almost casually fought and killed at least a dozen of Voldemort's followers, and saved the Granger family from certain death at the hands of those black robed killers. Somehow they had travelled from their kitchen to a castle in the blink of an eye; Harry had then sorted them out with rooms so that they could stay with him until this war they were in was over. The odd thing about Harry was the boy they had seen killed was no longer the scrawny half starved waif he had been, he had turned up almost a foot taller and at least twice the body size he had been. Then only a few minutes ago he had asked Hermione to marry him. Richard felt sure he should not be feeling so happy for the two teens. Surely a father should be entitled to get angry with any boy trying to steal away his little girl, so why then could he not seem to muster any anger at all.

Now to top off his week it seemed his future son in law was something of a royal, maybe a prince. Richard thought that maybe, just maybe he had had enough surprises this week to last him a life time, for now he just wanted to sit back with enough time to digest it all and to come to terms with the fact they might be away from their business for months if not a year or more.

Harry chuckled quietly when the result of his blood test appeared hovering in gold lettering over the small bowl he had dripped his blood into, Ragnok had read the results and was bowing down and apologising for making Harry spill his blood, exclaiming what a great Honour that 'the Pendragon' had chosen this time to return to their world. "Ragnok, please, can't you just call me Harry and forget all this bowing and stuff; I mean truly I have no idea what it all means. A few weeks ago I was simply Harry James Potter and was simply called Harry and I was quite happy with it, for now I would still prefer to be known that way."

Ragnok lifted his head and gave a huge smile "If that is your wish M, Lord, I mean Harry." Ragnok said bowing again.

Harry rolled his eyes and looking at Hermione he gave a quick shrug of his shoulders before turning back to speak to Ragnok. "Ragnok, I called in to the bank to check my account, see how much money I have left and to see if I have enough to open an account at a muggle bank so if there is nothing else..."

Ragnok looked totally shocked by Harry's words, "My Lor… er… Harry, the ring of Pendragon is glowing, there is much to do today, but first you must choose those from the magical world who will stand with you, and those who will bear witness, and all of you must be dressed appropriately before we can even begin the final ceremony."

Both Harry and Hermione looked completely puzzled, they had not got a clue what the Goblin was getting all worked up about. "I'm not sure what you mean Ragnok, but there are none in the magical world who did not think me guilty of that awful crime against my fiancée." Harry answered the Goblin.

"Er, Harry love, there were a handful at Hogwarts who would not believe you were capable of doing what you were expelled for. There was Neville Longbottom, and Luna Lovegood; she got a lot of hassle from her own house for speaking out on your behalf. There was also Hagrid and professor Flitwick, I also heard Madam Pomfrey arguing with professor McGonagall about it more than once, she always maintained that you were innocent," Hermione said as she interrupted the talk between the banker and her husband to be. "Oh and Susan Bones, she gave one of the Ravenclaw boys a black eye for saying something about you being a pervert." She added as an after thought.

"So My Lor… er Harry, do you choose those your betrothed has named to stand with you and to bear witness?" Ragnok asked looking anxiously from Harry to Hermione and back.

"Well if Hermione says they are ok then I won't argue about it," Harry said as he smiled at Hermione.

Ragnok then spoke to the two older Grangers, "As parents can I ask if you are in agreement to this?"

Helen and Richard who had both been to busy thinking to really know what was going on still thought Harry was trying to get his money sent to an ordinary bank so they both nodded their heads and then said "Yes of course we agree."

Ragnok gave a small sigh of relief before he pressed a small button on what looked like an intercom. After talking in Gobbledegook for a few moments he turned to Hermione and Mrs Granger, "There will be an elf next door in a moment would you be so kind as to join her for a short time for your fitting, it should not take long.

As a slightly intrigued Hermione and her fascinated mother left the room to go to the next room an elf entered the room they were leaving and joined the men folk, the door to the room had barely finished closing when the elf began measuring both Harry and Richard.

Helen realised as the two women left the office that what ever she had agreed to it was not to Harry getting his money, "Hermione what did I just agree to?" she asked as they turned toward the next room.

It was an hour and ten minutes later when Hermione and Helen were escorted back into the room both dressed in beautiful clothes, Helen was dressed in a Gryffindor coloured dress and robes to match, while Hermione was dressed in a wonderful fairy designed and made pure white wedding dress that showed her figure to its best advantage, the bodice was a fine body hugging magical material that had moulded it self to her figure, patterns of roses daisies and lilies were intricately weaved into the skirt of the dress that flared just above her hips it then reached down to the floor. Beneath the skirt there were seven layers of underskirts that were a little stiff but oddly still felt silky and soft to the touch. Hermione was also wearing fairy shoes that kept her feet comfortable no matter how long she wore them; they would also assist her with any dancing she might do.

They entered the room only to join a royally robed Harry, a royal blue cloak covered robes made in gold with red trim. Richard was in a similar designed robe that was a colour reversal of Harry's being in red with gold trim, and minus the cloak. With Hermione taking the arm Harry offered and Helen doing likewise with Richard they all followed Ragnok in leaving the room through a different door and joining a small procession consisting of Elves and Goblins, each of them carried a torch held aloft that gave off a warm yellow glow lighting up the otherwise dark corridor. The procession made its way slowly, winding their way along corridors and down flights of stairs. They walked heading ever further toward the bowels of the earth for just over thirty minutes. Ragnok opened what he promised was the last door, passing through the doorway they all found them selves in a natural underground cathedral that seemed to be full of sentient magical beings, there was even a dementor, who was somehow controlling his strange power to bring dread even to the stoutest heart.

Six golden unicorns joined the head of the small procession as they made their way to the other end of the huge cavern along the single aisle that had been left by the large gathering. Harry and Hermione shared confused glances as they followed the unicorns and their honour guard. The two Granger parents were even more confused by their first sightings of many of the beings outside of fairy tale books. They became almost totally confused when as they neared the end of their walk, they saw Father Christmas standing in the crowd with the elves and fairies.

Waiting for them at the end of the aisle they saw the people Hermione had named earlier, none of the humans knew why they were here or what was happening. Each of them had been supplied with new fitted robes and shoes, each in the colour of their house. Even Poppy Pomfrey was wearing robes of the Ravenclaw house. Ragnok gave them a huge Goblin smile then spoke to Harry first "My… Lor… er, Harry if you could pick the one to stand with you, and Miss Granger if you could choose the one to stand with you we will begin the ceremony."