Chapter ten

'Those bastards,' Neville glared.

'We're your friends Harry, we don't want anything from you,' Luna said.

'I know you don't Luna, you and Neville never wanted anything from me and you're two people that don't treat me differently, you never have. Since I've gotten to know Draco and the other Slytherin's I know they don't care how I'm thought of, but we are friends now. After hearing all that I really took notice of them and everyone. I could probably name dozens that only pretend to be my friend, it's easy to spot now.'

'So you have proof they said all this?' Draco asked and Harry noticed he looked sneaky, calculating, like he was putting some plan into action.

'Yes, I overheard the first conversation then I listened to a few more using my cloak and the map. One conversation I listened in on was at the Burrow. I said I was leaving right after talking about who I had dated the night before. I slipped the cloak on and stood near the door listening. Mrs. Weasley kept going on about Ginny sleeping with me to make me realise that I just needed to experience what true love was about, that sex between two men was wrong and unnatural. See, she was pushing her still underage daughter to have sex with me, the only reason had to be because of how I'm thought of. Hermione and Ron mentioned a reward if I did kill Voldemort, that was the first conversation. They don't know anything about my finances, only that I was left some gold from my parents, they never asked about Sirius, what he left me. I overheard Hermione and Ron saying they were going to start dropping hints about me buying them a house for a wedding present. It was who I am and money,' Harry shrugged.

'If you don't mind me asking Harry, apart from the reward we all know you got, did you have more?'

'More than probably you do Draco. You know the Black family, you know they were wealthy, Sirius was the last Black apart from Bellatrix, Andromeda and your mother, but they were the cousins to Sirius' side, he left it all to me. But with my parents, the vault Hagrid took me to when I was eleven, the one I told Ron and Hermione about, it had twenty thousand galleons, that's it. It was after the war ended when I went to Gringotts, they handed me the key to the Potter family, that vault shocked the life out of me. I found out my father's family always had money, land, business, rental properties, so that vault is still earing money. Why do you think I gave Hogwarts my reward money, I didn't need it.'

'But Harry, Ron's brother works at Gringotts, he could have found out what you have,' Neville said.

'Blimey, I never thought of that Neville, Bill and Fleur work there, or Fleur did Bill still does though. Draco do you know if he would have access to that type of information?'

'Do you know how long he's worked for the goblins?'

'Years, first as a curse breaker in Egypt, when he met Fleur during the triwizard tournament he transferred to Gringotts, so that's four years here, but I think it was about six or seven years he was a curse breaker.'

'So at least ten years he's worked for the goblins, then yes, he might be high enough to be able to go through records. The goblins like to deal with the actual gold, artefacts, or goblin made items, they do not like to deal with all the paperwork, that is the only reason they take on humans. My father would only deal with a human, not a goblin, they hated him for that but you know what my father was like.'

'So they would know I'm rich, I wonder if the money was the reason they started it. Everyone knows the Weasley's never had a lot, but they seemed fine with the way they lived, Ron even refused to let me pay for things for him.'

'That was probably so you wouldn't get suspicious. Did you ever buy Ginny anything when you dated?' Neville asked.

'Stuff from Hogsmeade, I was pretty clueless about girls, I know why now of course, my body was telling me they weren't who I wanted. But no, I never bought her anything like jewellery.'

Draco, Neville and Luna noticed Harry's brow furrowed like he was thinking, 'What?' Neville asked.

'On one date to Hogsmeade, we went to Honeydukes, like normal, I bought Ginny a heap of stuff in there, went to Zonko's, bought her a few products. We were walking back towards the Three Broomsticks to get a butterbeer when she stopped, it was a jewellery shop, she was looking in the window. She pointed at this tear drop shaped locket that had an emerald in the centre, she said it was pretty but the emerald reminded her of the colour of my eyes.'

'She was hinting at you to buy it for her,' Draco said, 'Girls can give subtle hints like that in the hope the boy will work it out, Pansy did it with me, but I knew what she was doing. It sounds like Ginny wanted to try hinting first, maybe after some time she might have asked you outright.'

'It was only a couple of weeks later that Dumbledore died, I broke up with her right after the memorial.'

'This is terrible Harry, all of it, but why did you want us to know and why are you still talking to Hermione and Ron?' Luna asked.

'Sev suggested that you might be able to hear more, especially about us. He thought Luna could say something like don't they make a nice couple then walk away, like you do sometimes Luna. I might be able to hear something if I was under the cloak but they might not say anything until they knew I was in Sev's room or something.'

'Okay, easy, Neville and I can say a lot of things about you and Snape, then go back to snogging. If you were under the cloak you could follow them.'

'That'll work as long as I'm not busy or get distracted by something, meaning Sev.'

'I can say something in the common room Harry but you spend time with Snape in his room of a night, until you come back late.'

'How about this, but Harry would have to agree.'

'If it helps I'll agree to anything.'

'Let Neville borrow your cloak. He can say something then head upstairs out of sight, slip the cloak on then stand in the corner, watching and waiting.'

'That was Harry's father's cloak, I couldn't use that.'

'See Neville, you said you couldn't you also looked uncomfortable, which shows me that you know how much that cloak means to me. Ron was always asking to borrow it and it never dawned on me until I found out about them, but he wasn't careful with it, you would be. So I'll get it for you later, even though it looks big, it actually folds down so it'll fit in your jacket. Sev just wants to know what they might be saying.'

'He wants to know if their planning something now you're in a serious relationship with him, which puts any relationship with Ginny out,' Draco said.

'Planning something, you don't think they would try to hurt Sev, do you?'

'They'd be stupid to try, but it's something to think about and by the sound of it, Snape has thought about it. If they were really serious about getting money out of you more than using your fame then Ginny could slip you a potion while you were petrified, have sex, pregnant, there's the money, easy.'

'Hang on, what potion because even if I was petrified she would not get me up.'

'It's a potion to help stimulate that part of the man, men need it if they have problems. Now it's usually given by healers, but if you are good at potions you could make it.'

'Mrs. Weasley is good at potions,' Harry sighed, 'Okay, I'll get the cloak then talk to Sev, work a few things out. Neville, see if they say anything tonight, but maybe you three could say a few things when I'm not around but they are. They might wait until tonight to talk about it. I do not want to shag anyone but Sev, I like fucking him.'

'He likes fucking you too, so we'll make sure no one else does, with either of you,' Luna smiled but Harry, Neville and Draco looked surprised at what she said, now they laughed with their friend, because it was just so Luna.