The Betrothal Situation – Rating M

Chapter 7 – Conversations and Deaths…

Warnings – THIS CHAPTER CONTAINS A CHARACTER DEATH! The story contains some mild language and violence throughout. Contains some Dumbledore, Molly and Ron bashing in this story. Some of the characters may appear OOC. Contains scenes of sexual activity. Contains some scenes which may be upsetting to readers, reader discretion is advised.

A/N – Working it out, I find that this story has at least another 6 chapters left until its conclusion after this one has been completed. Once this one has been completed I shall start uploading the first couple of chapters of the prequel to this called "The Betrothal Situation: Dating Susan Bones" This chapter also resolves a few comments made on FFN and emails about Harry's relationship with Susan and how come he was dating her…

I had one email asking why Harry had not had any pains from his scar since the death of Amelia Bones, especially as Voldemort would have been excited after hearing the prophecy. That will be explained in this story.

-The Betrothal Situation-

Room of Requirement, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland

3rd October 1996

"M…master, I…I deserved to be punished." The bushy haired girl said, "I had tried to split you up without realising that you were happy. At the time I was…I was going to use a love potion that I had found on you. I…I was jealous."

"WHAT!" Harry shouted, getting up off the sofa. "You…you were going to drug me?"

Hermione fell to her knees, realising that she would be punished by her master, her submissiveness at Harry's power encouraging her to become ready for his domination. Suddenly she felt herself being lifted from the floor back onto the sofa. It was there when Harry saw something on the back of her neck, etched into the flesh.

'I need Susan to look at this!' Harry thought, recognising it as a rune that had been etched into her. 'Susan will know what to do!'

Sending a Patronus Messenger to Susan, Hestia and Flora for them to drop everything and come immediately to the Room of Requirement where he was positioned. While Harry and Hermione waited, he helped Hermione to the sofa, placing her head in the crook of the neck, trying to comfort the sobbing teen.

"I'm sorry Hermione." Harry said softly, hoping that the tears that had fallen onto her face would slow down. "I'm sorry for shouting at you and I'm sorry for…I'm sorry for using you as a sex toy these last few weeks against your will. It's just that I had a crush on Susan in Forth Year and when you mentioned to me that Romilda Vane and Felicity Smythe were going to consider using love potion on me, I asked Remus and Sirius to whip up some neutraliser potions just in case.

"At the time of taking the first one, before the first DA meeting as I was still crushing on Susan, I found no evidence of Love Potions in my system, but instead I found a Loyalty Potion keyed to the Headmaster, Molly and Ronald. That was part of the reason I hid away at…at Sirius's place that Christmas, I just didn't want to face Molly." Harry continued explaining to his friend. "When I told Susan about it a few weeks after we first kissed, she was annoyed initially, but then after Hannah and Megan explained to her about how it was a sensible precaution, especially as some of the Gryffindors would have suspected a trap, especially as the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter is quite well off and that I have Moldywarts prime target, it would make sense to have a neutraliser potion handy."

"Those loyalty potion…do…you think that Ron or the Headmaster could have had me under one?" Hermione asked, scared that she was being controlled by someone.

"I did find a rune etched onto the back of your neck." Harry said, "That's why I sent a Patronus to Susan. You know she helped me with some of the basics for Runes and Occlumency last year between Snape, the DA, Umbridge and several Room of Requirement 'dates' that we have had."

A short while later, Susan came into the Room of Requirement and kissed Harry on the lips and sat next to him. Harry explained what he had found to Susan, who cast a sleeping charm on Hermione in order to investigate.

"THAT WHITE HAIRED, LONG BEARDED BASTARD!" Susan shouted, following the completion of the investigation. "IF I GET MY HANDS ON HIM, I WILL FEED HIM AND WEASLEY TO HAGRIDS PET SPIDER!"

Susan showed Harry the parchment results to which he was more than annoyed with.

'Control Rune keyed to Ron Weasley, Molly Weasley and Albus Dumbledore. Rune created by Albus Dumbledore.'

"Hermione won't like this you know." Harry said, casting the counter to Susan's sleep spell. Although he wanted to kill Ron, Harry knew that it was better served for his former friend to face justice from the courts, and a lengthy stretch in Azkaban.

Slytherin Common Room, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland

3rd October 1996

Daphne Greengrass was curious. She had seen her housemate, Draco Malfoy, leave the confines of the Slytherin Common Room to head to parts unknown to her. Daphne knew that it wasn't Prefect duties that he was going to do as she was the Sixth-Year Prefect, alongside her betrothed Blaise Zabini.

Daphne hated the Malfoy scion for several reasons, both personal and business wise, if one could describe inter house affairs as business. Firstly, there was the fact that the blonde-haired teen had a habit of continually antagonising Harry Potter, the Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter (which was the House responsible for the initial creation of the Great Alliance, the Wizengamot group which her family was part of). That, as well as the fact that he was responsible for most of Slytherins point reductions within Hogwarts was a point which angered Daphne.

The third reason that Daphne hated the self-proclaimed 'Prince of Slytherin' was because, despite being betrothed at birth to Pansy Parkinson, the ponce had attempted, on numerous occasions the previous year, to rape her sister Astoria.

Daphne knew that despite the counselling sessions and the medically induced memory charms, Astoria still had flashbacks from the attack, an attack that the blonde-haired male got his father to arrange for it to be swept under the carpet, spending a significant amount of gold to do so

As Daphne followed the Malfoy con, she found that she had to dive into the nearest broom closet as she had heard footsteps approach from the connecting corridor. Suddenly she heard a voice that she recognised, yet would not believe would be associating with the person who she knew was a Death Eater, especially as she had to endure his bragging at the start of the term that he had taken the Dark Mark.

"I have a message from my Aunt. She says that the Dark Lord appreciates your information and will be acting on it."

"My pleasure Malfoy." The other person said, not even bothering to keep his voice down. "I just cannot believe that Potter is prancing around with his whores, thinking he is safe, especially in Hogwarts."

"I know Weasel. He even has the audacity to take your Mudblood as his concubine."

"That's right Malfoy. Potter thinks he can get away with taking over the control of Granger. Fucking Mudblood spawn that he is. He should have died that Halloween!"

Daphne was shocked with what she had heard. Ronald Weasley, the best friend of Harry Potter, working with Draco Malfoy. Rushing back to the Slytherin Common Room, she knew that Hestia Carrow, one of the betrothed of the Boy-Who-Lived, was in there, doing her homework and catching up with her year mates…but little did she know that the Malfoy scion had a plan to deal with Weasley, a plan which could result in the death of the red head.

Headmaster's Office, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland

3rd October 1996

Albus Dumbledore was incensed. The school term was only a month old and nothing had gone to plan for his plot to have Harry Potter die at the hands of his former student, Tom Riddle, all so he could get his hands on the fortune that the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter had, letting him and his granddaughter, Molly Weasley, be able to take their rightful place in the Wizarding World, after ensuring that Molly's husband Arthur 'accidentally' died.

The roadblocks to the plan were threefold. Firstly, Harry had been dating, under his nose, Susan Bones, the niece to the late Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement Amelia Bones. Despite his insistence, only one member of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Bones joined the Order of the Phoenix, Amelia's cousin, Edgar. This led to a split between the Bones family and the 'Leader of the Light', one which caused several arguments within the Wizengamot.

The second roadblock towards the plan was the fact that, despite his insistence, the young Potter teen had not attended any of the 'sessions' that he had planned for him, the aim being to show some memories of Horcruxes, which he wanted the teenager to believe that Riddle had made to preserve his death, yet the self-proclaimed 'Lord' never made Horcruxes. The truth was worse as he had tied his Dark Mark to his life, meaning that those who bore the mark held part of the Dark Lord's life force, which tied it to a symbol that nobody would expect, the lightning bolt scar of Harry Potter.

The only problem in that was the protections that his mother, Lily Potter, cast upon him, meaning that he could not die by anyone's hands, all apart from the hands of Lord Voldemort, and only if Harry willingly sacrificed himself. Albus wanted to get him in a session so, whilst Potter was there, Dumbledore could have had a control rune etched into his skin, meaning that the Headmaster could have complete control over everything to do with Harry Potter.

The third roadblock in the plan was one Hermione Granger. Thanks to the control and compulsion rune that he had etched onto the Muggleborns neck, he had, until Harry made her his concubine.

The rune had been etched on Granger when she was visiting the Weasley family for the Summer, a few days before he had arranged for Harry to come over. A few drops of Imperio Amino potion in the cup of tea of Arthur Weasley, a few memory charms, and one mistake corrected, a mistake that he had made with Lily Evans, not getting her under his control.

The only thing that had gone right for Albus Dumbledore was Ron Weasley serving his purpose. Albus had suggested, thanks to several Galleons, that the youngest Weasley would pass on the prophecy that had been made by his Divination Professor to Draco Malfoy, a Death Eater in the same year, meaning that Riddle would know the full prophecy that he had denied Severus Snape the privilege all those years ago, back in 1980.

Albus knew that, now Ronald had served his purpose, he could be eliminated from the equation. A potential 'accident' with Aragog and his Acromantula colony could spell the end of both Weasley and Dumbledore's own 'stalker', Rubeus Hagrid.

'Yes,' Albus thought as he got up from his desk in order to head to the Great Hall for his evening meal. 'It's all for the Greater Good.'

Forbidden Forest, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Scotland

5th October 1996

Rubeus Hagrid, Care of Magical Creatures Professor and Gamekeeper and Keeper of the Keys at Hogwarts was doing his early morning patrol through the Forbidden Forest, following up reports from one of the Centaurs that a Unicorn had been murdered when he spotted a partially eaten body lying on the forest floor, several bites having been took out of it by an Acromantula or three.

Upon closer inspection, Hagrid recognised the partially shredded Hogwarts Uniform belonging to a Gryffindor student. It was then that he realised who the body belonged to…

Ronald Weasley!

-The Betrothal Situation-

A/NComing Up in Chapter 08 – 4 Suspects, one death…. The aftermath of Ron's Death…and who is responsible for it? Coming right up in the next chapter of The Betrothal Situation!

By the way, yes, I know the Romilda Vane Love Potion Plot was in HBP but for the purposes of this fic, I pushed it forward to the GOF era.

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Chapter Publish Date - 05/11/2016