Chapter Eight - Decisions of Summer Routine and a Lesson
It was early morning when Harry awoke with a warm body snuggled up against his chest. Narcissa's long blonde hair was fanned out over her back and she had a content smile on her face.
As Harry lay in the bed basking in the warmth of another presence he thought about how his life had changed to this point.
He had just gone from losing his godfather and screwing up things with his first girlfriend to being married and now having control over his life. Yesterday they had talked about what he was going to be doing for the rest of the summer.
While she was right that he couldn't go back with a much larger magical knowledge, it wouldn't stop him from learning some things that they didn't exactly teach at school. Hopefully Kingsley and Tonks would help teach him what he wanted. Having people that already knew what he wanted to learn or at the very least had a few more years of knowledge would definitely speed up his learning.
Carefully shifting Narcissa so as not to wake her, Harry got out of bed and walked into the bathroom intent on taking a nice hot shower.
The bathroom was different from the one he had used before at the house. This one had a series of three shower heads which would allow at least two people in the shower comfortably at the same time, while still allowing everyone to be covered in the spray of the warm water.
He had been soaking up the warm water for a while when he felt a pair of arms wrap around his waste.
"Good morning," said Harry.
The only reply was Narcissa kissing his neck, while pressing her breasts, slightly, against his back.
As Harry felt her warm globes against his back, his thoughts drifted back to last night and how she had carefully helped him begin to learn the fine art of pleasuring a woman properly. Shortly after his first time, while waiting for his energy to return she had told him if he wished they could turn this into another type of lesson.
Judging by what she was doing at the moment it looked like now was the perfect time to resume his favorite lesson with her.
An hour and a half later one clean and satisfied married couple went back into their bedroom to dress.
"That is definitely the way to wake in the morning," commented Harry as he pulled a black shirt on over his head.
"I would have to agree, Harry," Narcissa replied. "Now how about we go get some breakfast because I for one am feeling rather hungry after our… exercise."
"Mmm… that sounds good. Definitely need to put something back into me to gain back some energy."
As two of them made their way down to the kitchen to grab some food, Harry saw Bellatrix walk through a door into the library. It was something that would need to be discussed eventually, but for now he would just allow Narcissa to deal with his sister in-law.
The table had a large platter of croissants and a bowl of fruit in the center of the table for breakfast.
It was a quite affair as Narcissa read through the papers from Gringotts concerning everything other then the Potter family holdings, and Harry looked over the papers that held the Potter assets.
He finished the papers about the Potter assets a little after Narcissa had placed down the papers that she had left to look through from yesterday.
"So let me guess," said Harry dryly. "I have more money that I could ever be able to spend, I own several businesses, and have so much property that if I didn't tell anyone where I was would be impossible to find."
"Yes, but I was wondering if you had made any decisions about what you are going to do for the rest of the summer," she said calmly. "It is still early in the summer but besides what I already talked about teaching you, have you decided what you want to learn?"
"As a matter of fact I have basically made my decision about what I am going to learn over the summer," said Harry in a controlled manner. "I am planning on learning how to silently cast my spells and then also learning some spells that I know won't be taught at Hogwarts. Both of these things will allow me to get acquainted with my new wand properly, will keep from arousing suspicion, and I have the chance to learn how to use two wands at once if I ever find myself in need.
"And to think… my son believes that you are a Gryffindor to the core," said Narcissa with a teasing glint in her eyes.
Harry barely managed to restrain himself from laughing at the comment, although his amusement about the comment was clearly visible in his eyes. "Well just because a person happens to be in one house doesn't mean that they can't have qualities of at least one of the other houses."
"Very true," said Narcissa. "Now as for your studies, I can help you with silently casting spells if necessary, but since I will already be spending time with other lessons for you it would be easier to have one of your three guards teach you everything. Unfortunately I believe that it will be a while before I can get Bellatrix to be civil to you or others and I believe that it would be in everyone's best interest for the two of us to spend time together."
Harry nodded at these words. He agreed with her about that idea but he didn't want to voice it out loud and have it sound stupid because after all it wouldn't be good to anger his wife just after discovering the joys of sex.
Narcissa stood up from the table and then took a few steps over and grabbed Harry's hand. "Come on now it is time for your morning lessons with me," she stated. "After all it is the perfect chance to turn you into the perfect gentlemen."
"The perfect gentlemen, huh," said Harry amusement evident in his voice. "I don't know whether to run for the hills or wish that I could have had these lessons a year ago."
"Why? What happened last year?" asked Narcissa wondering what in the bloody hell he could have done so wrong. "There wasn't anything in the paper about you blowing up on anybody important or someone from the press."
"And for that I am grateful," said Harry in a solemn voice. "Last year I got my first girlfriend and… to speak simply I screwed up things completely because of overreactions and because I didn't know how to act like a gentlemen."
"Well, that would be a good place for us to start then and seeing as how you will need more wives it would be a good place to start," said Narcissa. "Now I would like you to tell me what happened last year and I'll see how we can undo the damage when you get back to school."
"I'll start by saying that the girl that I went out with last year was my first crush," said Harry. "From the first moment that I saw her on the quiditch pitch in my third year I was attracted to her. I mean she is an intelligent woman, a Ravenclaw, someone who plays quiditch and loves flying, and she is beautiful."
Narcissa just guided Harry into the ball room for today's lessons. It wasn't a full size ball room for hosting formal parties, but it was more a place where she had been taught how to dance among other things in order to be a proper young lady. Now it would serve as a learning place for Harry.
"Fourth year nothing happened much to my chagrin because I took to long to ask her to the Yule Ball," said Harry. "Instead she ended up going with Cedric Diggory, the other Tri-Wizard tournament champion for Hogwarts. They were together until he died near the end of the year.
She now had a pretty good idea of what could have happened at the least, but it was better to be quiet in order to find out everything before saying something that may or may not be helpful.
"To give you the gist of what happened last year, let's just say that I couldn't talk to her properly," said Harry. "It was something lead to our falling out near the end of the year and then I was so distracted I never really thought about what happened."
Narcissa waited for Harry to say more about the falling out but he didn't offer anymore of an explanation. He just stared blankly off into thin air.
"You are going to need to tell me more about what caused your falling out if I am to help you Harry," said Narcissa in a quite yet slightly demanding tone. She didn't want to force him into anything but there wasn't much she could do if he didn't tell her more information.
"One of our problems was that she wanted to know about Cedric's death, while I didn't want to retell the event," said Harry. "That wasn't what caused our last fight that ended things though. The former Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher seemed to have a personal vendetta against me because she believed that I was a threat to the ministry by saying that Voldemort was back at the time. She wouldn't teach anything practical for the class on the belief that because it was a time of peace we didn't need to know."
Here Harry paused for a moment to collect his thoughts before he could continue with what happened between him and Cho.
"Stupid bint," commented Narcissa. "How were you supposed to pass the OWLS then if you couldn't practice the spells properly? Honestly this individual seems incapable of logical thought, and that person shouldn't be involved in the ministry if they can't realize that simple idea."
Harry gave a smile at this thought. He would tend to agree with her but now was neither the time nor place for that; he had something to talk about first.
Narcissa gave a wave of her wand to get the music started and placed Harry's left arm so that it was wrapped around her waist just above her hips and his right was holding her left hand.
"Because of this a group that would practice the spells was formed and I was the leader. Cho, who is the name of my first girlfriend, joined the group along with one of her friends. Now that I think about it that friend of hers was the only one I saw around her last year," said Harry thoughtfully.
"Anyways her friend's mother works at the ministry and because of our teacher the friend was pressured by her mother to reveal any information that she might know to Dolores Umbridge, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Now eventually this friend of Cho's told Umbridge about the group, and I found myself up in the headmaster's office. In there I was confronted with creating an illegal club and was threatened with expulsion. Luckily Dumbledore helped me out and had the memory of the club oblivated her and took the fall, thus causing him to leave Hogwarts."
Harry paused for a second and took a breath. Now he was getting towards the difficult part of this tale. He needed to portray what happened carefully so as not to give her the wrong impression.
"After leaving the office I ran into Cho and she was worried about what happened to me. I had been able to get everyone out of the room before I was caught. Now after I had told her that nothing had happened to me she went and began talking about her friend who told Umbridge about the group."
"Upon hearing Cho defend her friend I just began spouting off without even listening to her argument," said Harry. "Cho said that her friend was only doing what she thought was best and that she really was a lovely person. I never gave her a chance when I steadfastly refused to listen to her."
Narcissa sat there for a moment reviewing what happened to Harry. It seemed that he had done a remarkably stupid thing to due to the girl. Well it could be fixed in the end as long as Harry was patient.
"This can be fixed Harry, but it will probably take some time," said Narcissa. "You are going to need to apologize to a degree. Now I understand you being mad at her friend, but if you look at the facts you can see what caused some of her problems."
Harry sat in his chair thinking about what was going on last year with Cho.
"From what you told me it looks like she had only one close friend, and she had to stick up for that friend after all she had been through before that, and yet her friend still stuck with her no matter what," stated Narcissa.
"I know that you were angry about being betrayed, but whether you like it or not she acted in what she thought were her best interests. This girl didn't see what took place and because of that she didn't know who to believe. The ministry, which was so far up Fudge's arse, did not even bother to investigate the roomer and therefore it is hard to believe the word of a fifteen year old over her mother and the ministry."
Harry looked down at his feet before saying, "I never thought of it from that perspective, but she still shouldn't have told Umbridge about the group."
"You are right," said Narcissa. "However she was doing what she believed what was for the best, and you have no right to judge her otherwise. No person has the right to judge someone else on what they believe to be in the best interest."
He just gave a weak nod as he reflected back on what happened at the ministry.
Already sensing where his thoughts were going to cut him off and said, "It was not your fault that he died. He did the same thing that you would gladly have done in the same situation. Luck was not on his side that night, and in the end unfortunately he did not have much luck in life. However know that he loved you more then life itself and rest assured he is in a better place getting finally getting a chance to be truly happy, along with your parents."
"It still doesn't make this fair," said Harry bitterly.
"No it doesn't," she replied quietly. "But there is nothing that we are able to do about that fact."
The two of them continued practicing dancing for a while as Harry stewed over the two main topics that they had just covered.
"That means that I don't have the right to judge the headmaster or the two people who call themselves my best friends though," said Harry softly.
"No Harry… you do have a right to judge them to a degree," replied Narcissa. "If they do not tell you what they are going to do then you do have a right to judge them to an extent. It means that while they do care about you, they do not care as much as they believe."
Looking confused Narcissa continued, "This is confusing I know, give me a second. I will admit that they will care about you even though they are reporting to the headmaster and he is trying to set you up with someone that you do not have feelings for in order to try and level you out and get you to think. These things are wrong and if they can't even have the courtesy of telling you that they are going to do this they do not respect you and what you have been through enough to realize that only you can choose what needs to be done for yourself."
"Isn't that something that you did though already earlier by telling me what lessons I needed to learn and buying me new glasses and that set of clothes for yesterday," questioned Harry.
"Ahh so you are a quick study," replied Narcissa amused though still keeping quite to see if Harry would persist with his questioning.
"And you danced around the question my dear," said Harry allowing some levity to finally enter the conversation.
Narcissa gave a small smile before replying, "O the woe I have given to you my dear husband to force you to wear new glasses and clothes. I have failed miserably beyond all pale trying to help you deal with the headmaster as well as others."
Harry's eyes began to twinkle as he felt his magic course through his body. He just continued to look at her waiting for her to continue.
"To force my husband to learn things that would be required of him as the head of several major pureblood families. Of all the misdeeds that I could have done this is but the worst possible," said Narcissa, who turned around before fainting dramatically into Harry's arms.
Harry just pulled her tight against him before saying, "I forgive you then madam, and so long as you realize that if you do this again I shall do to you what I am going to do to mister spoony."
Giving a wave of his wand a plastic spoon appeared and fell to the ground and Harry proceeded to stop his right foot down to snap it in half before giving another wave to vanish the halves.
"It shall be kept in mind dear," replied Narcissa before she began to laugh.
"Alright I understand your point," said Harry after they finished laughing. "Now before we go for lunch I feel that I should tell you something. I believe that it would be best to become a close friend to Cho because I already have a date with someone else and I do not want to appear to either girl that I am cheating on them, and I do not really know how I feel about Cho so I will be at the very least what I should have been for her last year, and that is a close friend."
Author's Note: I apologize for the delay with this chapter. It was not a planned delay but I had trouble thinking about how I wanted to start this chapter. Finally it did come to me after I began work on another story idea that I have had in my head for a length of time. As for plans on when this other story will be released I do not honestly know when that will occur. My first fic that I poster, A Black's Blessing in Green and Silver has been taken over by Danielc for those who wish to read that fic. There will be no lemon as so many people requested because writing that sort of scene is not my specialty and I want to leave it up to everyone's own imagination. The next chapters will move a little quicker, but these first eight needs to cover so much before I could get moving through the summer.
