Chapter 10—Who will meet Death
Well time was racing along. Harry and the study group was becoming something that was the talk of Hogwarts and the envy of most male studying there. Not only was the group doing odd things to Hogwarts little world but was the envy of many of the students. Every morning the group was sprawled on the front lawn doing calisthenics and stretches, which followed up, by a run around the lake. Then there was the close contact not to mention the pecks to Harry's cheek every other minute by the girls. It was not uncommon to see a girl sitting on Harry's left, right and on his lap with another laying over his back with her head on his shoulder and her arms turning pages on a book in his hands. Well all the girls were there, except Tracy who was missing, often as not.
Harry entertaining the girls in his common room was the envy of a lot of the students. Those that were invited in told of a large common room and three bedrooms. The master bedroom was said to have a queen size bed and a sliding glass doors to a large balcony. The bathroom was the envy of all the dorm occupants.
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The Christmas break caused some problems as each girl wanted Harry at their house for Christmas.
"Well ladies I have come up with the idea that you all are invited to Potter Manor and you can bring parents, siblings, guests or all three. Your fun will be deciding weather to spend Christmas in the snow at Potter Manor England or in the warm sun at Potter Manor America".
The girls all convinced their parents to be allowed to go, the parents however were coming along to maintain proper decorum. The sun won so everyone headed to Nevada and the large pool out back..
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Voltimort raised his ugly head on the Hogsmeade weekend before Christmas. Voltimort sent a lot of deatheaters, two trolls and several dementors. Voltimort was not happy none of his forces came back.
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Tracy and Hermione had begged off going to Hogsmeade. Susan Bones, Daphne Greengrass, Hannah Abbott, and Harry made up the group that entered the 'The Three Broomsticks' for breakfast before attacking Hogsmeade on a shopping spree. All the girls needed new swimsuits etc, etc. They sat in a booth in the huge room opposite the front door.
'KA-BOOM' announced the Deatheaters along with the sudden exploding door and wall.
Half a dozen Deatheaters charged in firing "Avada Kadavra" and other lethal curses. Harry and the girls would normally have died like many in the room if not for a large stone wall suddenly appearing in front of the Deatheaters. In that instant, the girls looked at Harry who was just starting to draw his phony wand. The exploding stone wall got them all to start firing spells at the deatheaters who went down quickly with so many people firing spells at them.
There were more Deatheaters to replace those seconds later, many more. Many patrons were making a mad dash for the rear exit as the deatheaters pored into the front opening. Those left in the room had the opportunity if they were paying attention to see the second wave of Deatheaters drop dead and a host of specters rising from the earth to claim the victim's spirits leaving only their empty husks. Death it appeared had gifted wand-less magic knowledge but was also sending specters to pickup those that Harry killed. The Trolls were the hardest to put down. Luckily the only pictures that the news media got was Harry blasting the Trolls into chunks and his 'patronus' exploding the accompanying dementors, all pictures showed him with his wand.
The four did not escape a trip to Madam Pomfrey. All had received minor cuts from spells, curses and flying pieces of things exploding near them in the battle. Hannah had the worst injury, which was a nasty cut on her thigh. Harry became something that was avoided after the battle or from the pictures the media had obtained. While all the girls still had their study group, only Susan and Daphne would accompany Harry anywhere outside of Hogwarts. Tracy had hooked up with a Slytherin boy, Hermione had hooked up with Ron Weasley, but Hannah was terrified of being hurt again and stayed away from trips. Harry himself did not escape as he had nightmares for weeks over those he had killed. Harry still was not happy with any of this, well except the girls of course.
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Christmas was a free-for-all, parents, kids, house elves all enjoyed the Christmas summer weather. Well for the English Nevada winter was like summer. They flew, swam and just had a carefree time. The upside was the almost nude girls in less swimwear than Harry had ever seen. There is a bikini but the eye overload of a string bikini's that close did not leave much to the imagination. Some of the parents were in Victorian suits but most were not happy with their daughter's choice of swimwear. Harry was not the only one that was having stress when some of the girls asked "Harry could you do my back with the sun tan lotion?" It had been ages since he had been with Tace.
The only down side was Ron Weasley who was there as Hermione's boyfriend. Not that his manners had improved only his jealousy increased. He did not take to the manor or the cost of the presents he received nor to the life he did not own. He finally exploded and was dragged off by Hermione. Why he came with Hermione to a house full of Slytherins without his family was discussed more than once within the group.
Alas, the vacation was soon over and everyone returned to his or her lives. Susan, Daphne and Harry were becoming inseparable.
Returning to Hogwarts was a real joy, this was the safest place in the magical world was it not?
They were not back a week when:
"Hay "Scarhead", a present from the Dark Lord" Draco cast 'Diffindo' at Harry's back. The problem was both his arms were encased with Susan and Daphne's arms.
Harry first thought was all the deatheater stupid enough to insult before acting? Harry was already dragging the girls forward and downward so when the curse was finally cast it only severed some of his unmanageable hair. That still was too close.
"Get down" screamed Harry. The curse continued and struck a student further down the hall that wasn't moving fast enough. Harry tried to roll to his back so to fire curses at his attackers.
Draco cast 'Sectumsempra' Harry's 'Protego Shield' sprang to life in a wand-less cast. The curse rebounded on Draco. He ducked and the curse chewed a large gouge in the wall behind him. Nott cast 'Diffindo', again the curse missed Harry but hit another students taking off her arm.
"Expelliarmus' 'Petrificus Totalus' 'Expelliarmus' 'Incarcerpous' Draco and Nott did not see Professor McGonagall racing up behind them and ending their attempt at killing. She had hurled the spells faster than he thought possible, it didn't seem to fit her day-to-day persona.
An 'Expecto Patronum' patronus had Madam Pomfrey on the scene in minutes.
The school was overrun with rumors,threats and retaliation days later. The school as a whole could care less if Slytherin killed each other off but there were others that were hurt besides Slytherin snakes. The first 'Diffindo' only cut the thigh of a Hufflepuff but the girl whose arm was cut off was in Griffendore, many were out for blood. Madam Pomfrey had repaired all the damage but yet the teachers and Dumbledore allowed retaliations to continue.
Whatever Dumbledore thought or did was not a solution and not informing Harry was a further mistake. Harry had let Susan and Daphne spend the night in his quarters (in the guest rooms perverts) so when they entered for breakfast they had not expected to find Draco at the Slytherin table along with Nott. Harry, Daphne and Susan reached for their wands but Draco, Nott and Avery had their wands out already and were waiting on them.
Draco and his two accomplice screamed 'Avada Kedavra'. Harry realized his first mistake by pulling the teachers table into the first A-K as it splintered and showered flaming splinters at Harry and the two girls. Harry's second mistake was summoning one of the shields made of metal to block the other two curses. The angle of the shield was enough to cause at least one of the A-Ks to bounce off into the Ravenclaw table; three students would never attend another class at Hogwarts.
This took seconds, some students still had their spoons half way to their mouths. Seeing some of their fellow student's die of the A-K was upsetting but what followed was traumatic, terrifying, and caused many to loose their breakfast. Harry lost his after becoming further feared at Hogwarts. Harry screamed "You fucking bloody bastard".
Later he was queried weather he was referring to Draco or the headmaster. What people saw was Harry raising his arm at the three Slytherin? Harry appeared to magically grab two and lift them into the air. At this point, the Headmaster fired several spells at Harry, which just seemed to bounce off Harry. Harry had his arm extended seemingly suspending the two in mid air. His holding them was confirmed when Harry closed his hand as if squeezing. Draco and Nott screamed and then a bone-crushing crunch was heard. They soon fell to the floor making a squishing sound like jelly in a rubber balloon. Specters rose from the floor and took the two spirits and departed. Avery had missed out on the big squeeze but was in custody before he was able to move. Fear is a strange animal, Avery who had been sitting on the other side of the table from the now dead two, Avery had a face to face introduction to a horrible death and was now having to face that horror, it could have been him. He lost bladder control and soiled himself before passing out.
Harry turned to the Headmaster, "You bloody bastard, you let those vermin stay in this school after what they did yesterday?" after throwing up Harry fainted into the arms of Daphne and Susan.
Harry awoke to find himself lying on his bed with both girls lying on either side of him. "You know if you girls keep staying around me like this we may have to make that permanent" Harry bantered. "Only if you make the closets bigger, all our wardrobes will not fit," replied Daphne. Susan demanded more dressers for her unmentionables. They all broke out laughing. That lasted until there was a knock at the door.
"Auntie, oh it's so good to see you, we are not in trouble are we?" asked Susan.
"No dear, can we all come in, we need to talk to you three," Amelia Bone the head of the DMLE asked.
"No please," replied Harry "Dobby".
"Yes Lord Harry Potter Black Sir"
"Dobby could you get us some tea, coffee and some brandy and cakes"
"Yes Sir Lord Harry Sir," POP!
"Harry you know Lord Greengrass, and I am Amelia Bones head of the DMLE, these ladies are Dowager Longbottom, and Madam Mountebanks of the board of governors. The other two are Auras Tonks and Shacklebot.
"Err" was all Harry could come up with.
"Dumbledore has been suspended awaiting a hearing over not expelling those three yesterday. Professor Mcgonagall is now temporary headmistress. I have talked to enough witness that we can call your actions self defense. I would like to talk to you over a couple of things and so does Lord Greengrass. First I would like to ask what spell or curse you used on those two?" queered Amelia.
"Ah, uh, don't know, I just wanted to squeeze the hell out of them and it happened, I really was angry. They were trying to hurt me and the girls here and well, I just got really angry and then when I tried to block the A-Ks the table was exploding and hurting other students, shit!"
"I wouldn't worry about what you did, in fact you probably save a lot of kids lives. There is no telling what those curses would or could have done without you blocking them. Hell a few splinters is not much compared to getting an unforgivable in the face" Lord Greengrass stressed.
Everyone left leaving Amelia and Lord Greengrass. Harry was now in real trouble.
"Lord Potter as head of house Bones I am requesting a marriage contract between our houses" stated Amelia.
"I Lord Greengrass ask of House Black a marriage contract for my daughter Daphne as well".
"Ah, err, oh, err" was as long string on nonsense coming from a dazed Harry.
"Harry don't you like us? Susan asked.
"Oh he likes us, he is in shock, remember he was muggle raised, he needs a kick in the bottom and an explanation" laughed Daphne.
"Err, isn't marriage supposed to be between one man and one woman who love each other? Harry choked. Sputtering on, "I mean are we not supposed to date and have marriage proposals and parental consent?"
"Yes cutie but you are in the magical world, those two adults are only interested in their house line being continued and not in our love" giggled Susan. "You have open Lordships and they are having first attempt. I will have to have two sons to make them happy, one for house Potter and one for house Bones".
"Right" asserted Daphne "As long as we get along they don't care but I think you care for us more than just getting alone, right sweet lips?"
"Err, uhgggg! Oh Shit!"
Daphne leaned over, gave Harry a burning kiss on the lips, and then told Susan to do the same.
After Susan ran out of air and broke the kiss Daphne asked, "So which one do you like the most?"
"N..n..no I like you both I could never choose between you two, I..I..you know?" stuttered Harry.
"So do you wish us to have the Goblins make up the marriage contracts?" asked Amelia with a large smirk.
"Yes of course, both, oh Merlin, I am going to be in such trouble" groaned a dazed Harry.
"No that's pleasure", chuckled Daphne.
Suddenly Harry seemed to come to life or his senses. "Ok, you all have your way but you must know that I have no plans to remain in England except for visiting. Furthermore, I am not going to face Voltimort's army by myself. I will not try to defend England by my myself. Both your families are welcome to come and live with us in America and I suggest you get the Goblins to move your vaults to America, England is not safe for us or our money" raved Harry. "I myself have moved all my vaults except my trust vault".
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"Smart move and a good strategic choice Lord Potter Black" smiled Ragnok.
"Huh? Was Harry's intelligent reply.
"You are approaching the age where it is unsafe to have an open Lordship without at least a betrothed for the position. You should start getting marriage contracts by the hundreds in the near future and that is just the nice people. I'm sure some of your classmates will soon be receiving love potions and be practicing compulsion charms" Ragnok stated.
"Oh Shit!" was all that Harry could respond with.
"Yes Harry you have made two very good choices, both are considered nice looking I am told. Lady Greengrass is from a very influential family with money. Lady Bones is quite well off and politically connected through Madam Bones. Yes over all you have done well. Hopefully no one will learn of your other open Lordships or titles" Ragnok added.
"Oh Shit! Was all Harry could say?
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Harry was surprised three days later, the marriage contracts were done and signed and both girls were at the front door stating that they were moving in.
"What? I mean you're what about your parents?
"Cool it Harry, we are now your betroth and we are like your wives now, the parents will work out the wedding ceremonies. You got us, we got you and they will put together a wedding that they think will impress the magical community, give me a kiss and shut up."
"Yes dears"