Chapter twenty one

Harry kept talking to Dean on what to expect from different clients when Charlie and Shaun turned up.

'So we're going to get you screaming and begging us Harry?' Charlie said as a way of a greeting.

Harry chuckled, 'If that's what you want, so let's head upstairs.' Harry, Charlie and Shaun headed up to the room and Harry waited for Charlie, 'Okay, you're the boss here, what's first?'

'Oh this is going to be good,' Charlie laughed.

Downstairs, Hermione, Ron and Dean could hear a few loud grunts of pain from upstairs and even though they were trying to ignore the sounds, the yells from Harry had them all glancing towards the ceiling.

'Um, who's doing that to Harry?' Kingsley asked as he stepped in with Michael.

'Charlie and Shaun, been like that for a while,' Ron shrugged.

'Being an auror, I have to ask, but who's this?' Michael asked looking at Dean.

'Oh Dean Thomas, a friend of ours, but he's going to be working for Harry. He's been here to learn everything. He's trustworthy Michael and was part of the DA. He shared our room at Hogwarts and we helped Dean out as well.' Ron explained.

'Help me out, you saved my life. I thought they would have killed me in that cellar.'

'They probably would have Dean since you couldn't prove you weren't muggleborn. I knew they were going to kill me, but Bellatrix wanted to play first,' Hermione said as she took Ron's hand.

'So you were at Malfoy Manor then?' Kingsley asked as he sat down.

'Yeah, they caught me not long before they got Hermione, Ron and Harry.'

'You don't know if you're muggleborn or not?' Michael asked.

'No, my father left my mother after she got pregnant, she's a muggle, but we have no idea if he was a muggle or wizard. I could be like Harry or like Hermione.'

'It's all ridiculous, we're all witches and wizards, it shouldn't matter if we have non-magical parents or magical ones,' Hermione said stiffly.

'It shouldn't matter Hermione and most of us don't care. Look at Michael, he's one of the best aurors there is, he's muggleborn. I've heard enough people say you're the brightest witch there is and you're muggleborn. I'm like Harry, half blood, but grew up as a wizard, where Harry grew up like a muggle, Ron's a pureblood. You three did things no witch or wizard has ever done. It shows it doesn't matter about blood status, just how good or powerful you are.'

'Hello everyone,' Luna said as she walked in.

'He shouldn't be long Luna, why don't you sit while you're waiting,' Hermione said.

'Thank you, Dean, are you one of Harry's clients?'

'Um, no, I'm going to be working for Harry. So this is going to be you're first time Luna?'

'Yes, maybe after, I could come see you, I like dark skinned men. I always thought the minister was a very sexy man.'

'Thank you Luna,' Kingsley chuckled.

'So what's the minister and his auror here to see Harry about?' Charlie asked as he walked in with Shaun and Harry.

'Not his business, but the trouble we've been dealing with. What were you doing to Harry for him to make those noises before?' Kingsley asked.

'Oh can't tell you that Kingsley, you could always give Harry a go yourself to find out.'

'I'm straight and married Charlie.'

'Charlie wanted to pay me back for making him miss out on the toys that day I got cursed. Luna, I'll be right with you,' Harry grabbed some fruit and started eating.

'Luna was just saying she likes dark skinned men and Kingsley was sexy. So you might lose her to Dean.'

'Do you want to start with Dean now Luna, it's up to you?'

'Um, I'm never done a virgin before Harry,' Dean said nervously.

'All the foreplay's the same, you just need to take it easy the first time and because of your size, a little easier.'

'I would love to Dean,' Luna smile at him.

'Alright Dean, you're starting work, get going,' Harry said smiling at him. Dean nodded then left the room with Luna, with everyone watching the couple.

'We'll leave you to discuss you're trouble. Where's Ginny Harry?'

'Seeing Gwenog, I know Ginny can do this, she's a great chaser.'

'Okay, tell her to let me know if she makes it, thanks again,' Charlie and Shaun left.

'He didn't hurt you did he Harry, I mean really hurt you?' Ron asked.

'Sort of Ron, but it's fine, I'm used to it. So Kingsley, what's up?'

'We've found all but one of your clients relatives. Sherry's sister Alice is still missing. We've been talking and it might not be you they're after, but me.'

'So you think this has all been a trick or trap to get to you. You might be right as they did use your wife.'

'I think their waiting to see me here one of these times. Everywhere else is a bit risky to try and grab me or kill me. Here, they only think Hermione is you're secretary and sometimes Ron's here. We spoke to the bloke we caught last week, he doesn't think Hermione and Ron are anything to worry about as all he ever heard about was you. Voldemort, Bellatrix, Malfoy, they only spoke about you. So we're trying to work out for me to be two people, me as you with Sherry, one as me. Now it would be easier for me to be me and you to be you, but Sherry's not sure she could do what we did before.'

'Then let me be you, I'm used to acting any part, I've known you for years and we've spoken about personal things. I could easily pull off being you, where other's won't. I would make the perfect person that way Michael can still keep you, Sherry, Hermione and Ron safe even if I know those two can look after themselves, just like you can. Then add the fact I can do wandless magic, it might surprise them if we get into a fight.'

'Damn, why do you need to be so practical, because that could work, but you're not an auror Harry, you're a prostitute.'

Harry chuckled, 'True, but I'm still me you know, the one that faced a lot of death eaters over the years, escaped Voldemort five times. I can deal with a lot of pain and if it goes on too long and I change back to me, think about how they will react to that.'

'He might be right minister, he's got experience, knows how to act any part and from what we've been finding out, most of those death eaters do not want to go up against the man that killed their lord. That's what first gave us the clue that their not really after Harry, but you,' Michael said, 'I've heard and read all the reports of what you've done Harry. I know you duelled Lucius Malfoy and Rodolphus Lestrange and they were two of Voldemorts main death eaters. You held you're own against Bellatrix. I know you almost killed Draco Malfoy and he was also being trained by Bellatrix, shows you do know how to handle yourself in any situation.'

'We've got until Saturday Kingsley, think about this because it could work and you could find out where Alice is. You could get Greg to be on me, he comes with us. If he finds Alice, then he could come back and get you, Michael and the rest of the aurors.'

'Us too Harry, if you're doing this, then so are we,' Ron said.

'This is official, I don't know if I could involve you two. But I also know you two and will do this anyway because you've always been with Harry.'

'That might work as well minister. The death eaters don't think Hermione and Ron are that good. We know they are, they know they are. So they wouldn't be expecting them to be anything to worry about if they see them. It will be a surprise when they see what they can do, giving us the element of surprise. The only risk at the moment is Harry. They could decide to kill you as the minister the moment they get you to where they are.'

'Um, that's not a risk,' Harry shrugged, 'Okay, something I never told anyone, not even Ron or Hermione. Two weeks after Voldemort died, I was really having a hard time with everything. I thought I couldn't cope, so I basically aimed the killing curse at myself.'

'You what?' Ron shouted, 'Why didn't you talk to us Harry?'

'I don't know Ron, but the horcrux, the stone, what I saw that night, what I saw through him, it all just got too much. See after he hit me with the killing curse and I got knocked out, I told you I went and spoke to Dumbledore. One thing I didn't tell you was he gave me a choice to go on or come back to finish Voldemort off once and for all.'

'Okay, but what's that got to do with any of this?' Ron asked looking confused.

'I was going to go on, meaning stay dead. I didn't want to come back Ron, I wanted to leave all the pain behind me. I thought if I did I could be with Sirius and my parents.'

'What made you change your mind Harry?' Hermione asked quietly.

'All of you, Ginny was in my thoughts and I kept seeing her dead, then the rest of you. I couldn't take the chance that anything could happen to all of you, so I came back. That was so hard because I really didn't want to. My whole life has been so hard and painful I just wanted it to end.'

Ginny had heard everything Harry said, she raced in, dropping her broom and sat on Harry's lap, wrapping her arms around him, holding him as tight as she could.

'You heard all that, didn't you Ginny?' Harry said sighing heavily.

'Yes, now I don't want to let you go. That's what you're nightmares are about, isn't it?'

'Yeah, I see you dead all the time, then I look around and see Hermione and Ron dead next to each other. Then I just keep seeing everyone dead,' Harry looked up at Kingsley, 'Please let me do this Kingsley, this way we could put all of them away and I can finally put all that behind me?'

'Alright, you can do it and I'm only allowing that because you can survive the killing curse. But they could do something else Harry. Snape's sectumsempra spell, you could bleed to death if they hit you with that.'

Harry shook his head, 'Gin, get up for a minute, I need to show Kingsley something,' Ginny didn't move, 'Gin, I'm fine, so it'll be alright,' still Ginny didn't move, so Harry looked at Ron.

'Come on Ginny, you can sit on Harry's lap again in a minute,' Ron helped Harry move Ginny off, then Harry stood up.

'Use any spell you want on me.'

'You're kidding, right, that's impossible.'

Harry shrugged, 'Nothing works Kingsley, after the killing curse I tried a few others to see about dying that way. So I want to show you so you know I will be safe and it will give you the time to come and get Alice. Then you and your wife can have a normal life.'

'I wouldn't normally do this, but have to be sure,' Kingsley stood up and pulled his wand from his sleeve, 'I'll start with a basic slicing hex, see how that affects you,' Kingsley blew out a huge breathe, then lifted his wand and pointed it at Harry, 'This feels terrible.'

'It looks terrible from here as well,' Ron said as his eyes went from Harry to Kingsley.

Michael, Hermione, Ron and Ginny all sat there feeling very anxious then saw Kingsley's spell hit Harry's arms, but nothing happened, Harry didn't even flinch.

'If you want to try something stronger you can, I tried the reductor curse on myself, nothing.'

'One more,' Kingsley closed his eyes for a minute, 'Crucio, shit Harry, you're immune to all magic.'

'Yeah, I can still cut myself with a knife and I thought of doing that after I got over the shock of magic not affecting me. That's when I started this and realised it helped. If Claudia didn't sit down with me that first night, Tom would have found my body the next morning.'

Kingsley, Michael, Ginny, Hermione and Ron all realised how close they came to losing Harry and they have finally realised why he was doing all this and it's literally kept him alive. So it made supporting Harry that much easier because they all wanted Harry to have the time to put his past behind him.