Chapter 26 -
"Padfoot!" Bellatrix screamed "If you don't get down then I'm going to have Harry go up there and kick your arse before he drags you down!"
"So I'm the enforcer now?" Harry asked with a smile as he leaned against a wall.
"It's funnier when you do it" Bellatrix shrugged.
"Not when it's happening to you" Delphi mumbled.
"I'm down! I'm down!" Sirius said as he arrived "So, ready to go to the world cup?!" He asked excitedly
"We've been ready for the last half an hour" Harry rolled his eyes "honestly, if you wanted to go that badly then you should at least be on time"
"Don't pretend you don't want to go" Delphi smirked "though I think it's less about quidditch and more about the fact that we're meeting a certain French girl there"
"Yeah well after spending time with you two I can admit to looking forward to some intelligent conversation"
"Hey!" Sirius and Delphi objected just as Bellatrix giggled
"I'm going to tell Fleur you're being mean to me" Delphi crossed her arms and pouted
"You could do that, but we both know that she'll find some way to defend me or make it sound sexy in some way" Harry grinned.
"Lucky" Sirius whispered to himself
"Mum, are you sure you don't want to come?" Delphi asked
"I'm sure" Bellatrix smiled as she kissed Delphi on the head "while you lot are gone, me and Andi are going to go meet up with Narcissa. We sister's don't often get to spend much time together seeing as she's stuck with the blonde prat Malfoy"
"I can just kill him you know" Harry offered
"Hmm" Bellatrix seemed to be thinking about it.
"Bell" Sirius rolled his eyes
"Spoilsport" Bellatrix sniffed before turning to Harry "sorry Harry but no, you're godfather will throw a fit."
"I can just kill him you know" Harry offered, though this time he gestured to Sirius.
"Hmm" Bellatrix seemed to be thinking about it.
"Enough with the plotting murder" Delphi said "let's go already."
"Okay, are we all ready?" Sirius asked
"Yep" Delphi nodded
"Give us a sec" Harry said as he stopped leaning on the wall, a second later Shadow landed on his shoulder "now I'm ready"
"Okay, now remember to look after him and Delphi, make sure they stay out of trouble and don't bother anyone. And don't let them get lost either" Bellatrix said
"Got it" Harry nodded
"She was talking to me" Sirius said
"I really wasn't" Bellatrix shook her head.
Fleur Delacour was feeling particularly annoyed, she was sitting in a booth with her sister, her father and the fellow ministers of magic. Her father, as the French minister of magic, was able to get them these wonderful seats. Harry had told her in his last letter that he would be in the same booth as the British Ministry were currently doing a lot to try and make up for illegally imprisoning his godfather.
Fleur had dressed up a little, she had her hair straightened and allowed it to slide past her shoulder, she also wore a lovely blue dress, hoping that Harry would like it. Her sister sat in her father's lap, happily looking all around and taking in every detail while he talked with the other ministers. Though that wasn't what was annoying her.
No...no, it was the red headed family that also happened to be there plus the two blonde idiots that also happened to be there.
The two blondes, one was an older man with long hair who was sneering at the red-haired family when he was not ogling her. The other blonde, who appeared to be his son was doing the same thing except much worse. He also looked suspiciously like a ferret.
As for the red headed family, they were a different type of problem. First of all, there was a lot of them, she pitied the poor woman who had to make all of those. She hoped at least some of them were adopted. There were two people that didn't seem to be members but were with the family. One was a chubby boy with black hair, the other was a bushy haired girl who kept sending her glares.
The oldest member was a balding man, he seemed the least bothersome of them but that wasn't much of a compliment. The youngest member of the family was a petite redhead who seemed to be glaring at her. There were two twins, they stared for several seconds before snapping out of it and then seemed desperately trying to not look...or at least not get caught looking. There was one other boy with glasses who looked very pompous and was trying to discreetly pose for her by adjusting his glasses. There was a slightly older boy, he seemed the least affected but he still kept glancing occasionally, much like the chubby black haired boy.
The two that annoyed her the most was the eldest child and the youngest son.
The youngest boy, since seeing her, had a constant dropped jar and wide eyes. It was ridiculous, she had seen plenty of boys react to her allure and non of them were remotely this extreme. Even those who drooled stopped when they realised they were drooling, this pathetic animal was starting to make a puddle in his lap. Merlin she wished Harry was here, he never drooled like an animal and he'd probably keep these people away from her.
The eldest child was different. He had a pony tail and dragon fang piercing on one of his ears. Fleur recognised that he was handsome, but she wasn't interested. She had Harry after all. Unfortunately he didn't seem to understand that she wasn't interested, as he kept smiling and trying to flirt with her. So far she had unwillingly learned that his name was Bill, the names of all of the people attending with him and the fact that he was a curse breaker.
"It's a good job" Bill was saying, bringing her attention back to him "it involves a lot of travel, do you travel much?"
"No" She said, unwillingly participating in this conversation "I have only been to Greece and New York for holidays, I spend my life in France"
"You're English is excellent by the way" He grinned at her, hoping he looked charming.
"Thank you, I worked hard to impress my teacher"
"Who taught you?"
"My boyfriend" She smirked as his face fell slightly, but he recovered and kept smiling. Meanwhile the chubby boy coughed and looked away, as did the other boys in disappointment, except for the drooling idiot who's name was apparently Ron.
"You have a boyfriend in France?" Bill asked, she noticed a bit of a hopefulness in his tone. It didn't take a genius to realise that he was trying to see if Fleur's boyfriend was here.
"No, he lives in Britain" She replied "in fact he should be arriving shortly."
"Ah Mr Black!" A voice said loudly, it was the British Minister of Magic.
Everyone turned to see Sirius Black walk in with a smile, his clothes were stylish and fit into his age range. Fleur recognised Delphi who came from just behind him, her hair still had those magnificent blue tips and she was dressed in muggle clothes, fashionable but not dramatically catching attention. Next Harry walked in and Fleur's eyes widened and her heart nearly stopped.
He was wearing black dragon hide boots, black trousers that were lose enough for movement but still looked good. He also had on a white shirt and black leather jacket, his faithful companion, Shadow, was perched on his shoulder. His hair was just as messy as always and his eyes just as bright. She was smiling and didn't even notice Sirius go and make small talk with the ministers while Delphi had one and began talking to Gabbie.
"What are you doing here?!" Neville demanded
"The ministry owes my godfather twelve years of his life, part of their repayment includes world cup tickets." Harry shrugged "But if you mean what do I intend to do here then the answer is to watch the bloody world cup and spend time with my girlfriend, thank you very much."
"You have a girlfriend?" Hermione blurted out, surprised than anyone would be willing to be with someone as cruel as Potter.
"Ah, how's the face Miss Granger?" Harry grinned as she backed away
"Listen Harry..." Neville was about to continue when he was interrupted.
"Arry" Fleur smiled as she walked up to him, she placed her hands on his head and pulled him into a passionate kiss just as his hands grabbed her waist. Neither noticing the sneering from the eldest Malfoy, blatant shock from Neville, Draco, Hermione and Ron who had finally had snapped out of his daze, nor did they notice the jealous glare from Bill.
"Miss me I take it?" Harry grinned once they finished
"So much". She grinned back "Come sit with me" She grabbed his hand and guided him back to her seats, except this time she had him sit in-between herself and Bill "I am glad you could make it" She said
"Yeah well, quidditch world cup, national pride and my beautiful girlfriend, what's not to like?" Harry shrugged his shoulders and smiled at Fleur, who lit up at his words. The veela was about to respond when someone interrupted.
"What is he doing here?!" Ron exclaimed, his brain had taken the last several seconds to reboot itself.
"I'm sitting with my girlfriend, you asswipe, what do you think I'm doing?" Harry rolled his eyes
"Ha" Ron laughed "there's no way someone like her would be your girlfriend"
"Oh really?" Fleur asked in an innocent voice just before she pulled Harry into an even more passionate kiss "I think there's a good chance of it happening" she smirked after letting go, she sat back in her seat and ignored the youngest Weasley male's dumbfound expression.
"So, Harry Potter, good to meet you" Bill Weasley said, though it sounded a bit forced. He extended his hand for Harry to shake, Harry took the older male's hand and gave it a brief shake. But Bill didn't let go, in fact Bill appeared to be trying to squeeze harder.
Bill was a bit disappointed when he saw no outward reaction from Potter other than a small smirk, it was at this point that he noticed his hand was starting to feel hot. He tried to pull his hand away but Potter had tightened his grip, Bill pulled again, this time a bit harder and Potter casually let go, causing Bill's momentum to make him go backwards slightly. He played it off nicely as he was still in his seat, though he did cross his arm.
"Draco, is something bothering you?" Harry asked in an innocent voice when he saw Draco staring at Fleur
"No!" Draco said a little too quickly before he coughed and began speaking normally "I mean no, nothing" Hermione and Neville exchanged a glance, they both seemed to realise that Draco Malfoy was scared of Harry Potter for some reason.
Later, after the world cup had finished, Harry found himself sitting in a magically expanded tent with Delphi and Sirius. The group were discussing the world cup, the Delacours had gone off to their own tent after a rather long conversation. Both groups had agreed to meet up in the morning before they left.
"It was awesome!" Delphi was talking animatedly with Sirius
"I know!" Sirius grinned "I can't believe how much faster brooms have gotten since I was in school, everything is so much better"
"Yeah well I didn't exist when you were in school so that makes sense" Harry grinned as he comfortably relaxed on a rocking chair.
"Yeah well I..." Sirius's reply was suddenly cut off by a large booming sound "what the bloody hell was that?!" Sirius shouted just as they all rushed outside to see what the noise.
Their eyes widened as they saw everyone running and rushing around, tents on fire and a group of men in death eater costumes marching about.
"Damn it, we need to get out of here!" Sirius said as he grabbed Harry and Delphi, the trio were about to run when they heard a scream from a familiar voice.
"That's Fleur!" Harry's eyes snapped to the direction of the forest and where the scream seemed to have originated from "I'm going after her" Harry said
"No Harry, you'll be killed!" Sirius hissed
"Only if I die" Harry replied
"That's what killed means!"
"Sirius is right Harry! This isn't a bunch of school children, these are armed wizards and..." Delphi started, only for Harry to interrupt
"I'm sorry but I don't have time for this" Harry pushed Sirius off of him, he then aimed his wand at the two and some ropes flied out and tied Sirius's arm with Delphi's
"Harry!" They both said
"Get them out of here" Harry ordered as he walked away, Sirius was going to say something when Shadow landed on his shoulder, a second later Sirius found himself being pulled down into the ground along with Delphi.
The two landed in Grimmauld Place, in the kitchen where they were met with the surprised faces of Bellatrix, Andromeda and Narcissa.
"Sirius! Delphi! What the hell?!" Bellatrix exclaimed
"It's Harry!" Delphi cried "He's in trouble!"
Draco Malfoy laughed by himself as he leaned against a tree, watching all the mudblood and blood traitors run in fear and terror. He had also been glad to see Longbottom, Granger and the Weasels run by only minutes before, he hoped someone got Granger at least. The filthy mudblood got on the nerves of pure and mudbloods alike.
"Hello Draco" A voice said
Draco pulled his wand out and turned to whoever the voice belonged to when he felt one hand catch his wrist and another punch him really hard in the ribs, he let out a scream of pain before he found himself sitting on the floor, leaning against the tree with his hand in a wrist lock that made him point his own wand and his face. He looked up and his eyes widened when he saw a bright emerald green pair of eyes looking at him. He recognised who the eyes belonged to, the owner had given him quite a few nightmares after all.
"P...Potter!" Draco blurted out
"That's good Draco" Harry applied more pressure on Draco's wrist causing the blonde to wince "now what the hell is going on?"
"I don't know anything!"
"I think you do" Harry said calmly as he put more pressure on the wrist, causing Draco to grimace "and I think you're going to tell me or I will kill you right now"
"Y...you w...wouldn't!" Draco said, though he didn't seem very confident in his belief
"You see Draco, I have a lady friend that's waiting for me to rescue her" Harry's voice was calm but the danger in it could be easily detected "and right now, you have information and you're a potential problem. So you have five seconds to tell me what I need or I kill you and that way you're not a problem for me"
"But..."
"Five" Harry began counting and started gradually increasing pressure "four...three...two...one..."
"Wait!" Draco screamed "Wait! It's my father okay! He and his death eaters friends are the ones attacking!"
"Is that all?! Harry asked, Draco was silent "IS THAT ALL?!" Harry roared as he stretched Draco's arm out and now had Draco in an arm lock and placed just enough pressure to nearly break his elbow.
"No! No!" Draco cried "He's brought some assassins with him! They're helping out! They're names...they're names are Libra!"
"What?" Harry's voice was slow, in fact he was so shocked that he nearly let Draco go
"The assassins are Libra! That's all I know! Please!" Draco was actually crying at this point. Harry growled, one quick movement later and Draco's arm was snapped, the blond screamed in pain for a few seconds before he was hit with a body bind and silencing charm.
"You live today Draco" Harry growled "get in my way again and you won't have to worry about living much longer"
Harry turned and walked away, he walked closer into the forest. Shadow arrived a second later and dropped Harry's skull mask into his hands. Harry gave the bird a nod before he put his mask on, once his mask was on he continued walking while Shadow flew upwards and used the trees and night sky to hide himself.
After a few seconds he stumbled upon Ginny Weasley who was on the floor and looking terrified as three figures stood over her, the figures were roughly around Harry's size. They wore black boots, black trousers, a black shirt with grey gloves and a grey jacket. They also had skull masks on, though their masks were more like Harry's than they were like the death eaters.
Harry walked up to them, the three figures turned to Harry and had raised their wands when they saw his mask. Figuring it was one of their own, they lowered their wands. The second they did, Harry raised his wand and quickly shot three piercing curses that pierced through their chests, causing them to fall onto the floor. He walked closer and shot six more, two more for each of them, and the three said goodbye to life just as their breath left their body.
Ginny Weasley screamed but was ignored by Harry. Just as he say about to say something, two more figures appeared. Harry waved his arm and sent some wind to push them. One figure blocked the wind by raising his hand, the other waved his arm and Harry soon found the wind shoving him into the air. He landed on his back but quickly managed to roll on to his feet and put his wand in his holster, he aimed his left fist at the two and a fireball shot from his fist, both figures combined their efforts and raised their hands at the same time and formed a wind shield.
Harry's fireball struck the windshield and the shield barely held, Harry shot a fireball from his other fist and this time he managed to break their shield. He followed up with a fireball from his left again, this time the figures jumped out of the way. Both aimed their hands at Harry and sent a wind blade at him.
Harry rushed forward, he dodged the first blade and ducked the second. He replied with his own wind blade but he span as he shot it, the blade curved through the air and hit one figure in the leg causing him to yelp out in pain, Harry sent a wind blast to the other figure who crossed his arms into an X shape and formed a wind shield which blocked the blast but fell to the fireball that followed. Harry tackled the figure down and began pummeling him with his fists.
The other figure aimed his hand at Harry and was preparing to fire when the sound of a bird echoed a second before two claws pierced his eyes. Harry rolled off the first figure and pulled his wand out before sending a cutting curse at the figure's throat, blood poured as his neck was cut open. Harry turned to the other figure who was trying to bat away Shadow, Shadow leaped off of him with bloodied paws. The figure cried in pain just before Harry sent three piercing curses at his chest, ending him.
Harry was about to thank Shadow when he heard the sound of vomiting, he turned to see Ginny Weasley emptying the contents of her stomach.
"Did they hit with you a spell?" Harry asked
"No" Ginny coughed "it's just...all the blood...and the smell...and the dead bodies. Who were they?"
"Libra" Harry answered "their assassins called Libra"
"I thought they were death eaters" Ginny coughed again "they were wearing skull masks"
"Who do you think the death eaters got the idea from?" Harry asked as he began checking the bodies of the fallen Libra assassins
"But they're so young" Ginny couldn't help but notice "and you...you don't look that much older than me and...hold on a second...you've got green eyes! Are you Harry Potter?!"
"Yep" Harry said as he moved to check the other body.
"They're dead" Ginny gulped as she stared at the bodies "I've never seen a dead body"
"Yeah well..." Harry sighed as he removed a knife from the body and twirled it in his hands "there's about to be a lot more". He promised
A.N: Hey guys, hope you enjoyed the chapter. Before anyone says anything, I did want to make this chapter longer but I am a bit busy so I have to cut this short as it is taking longer to write than I anticipated. The next chapter will show the rest of Harry vs the death eaters and the Libra assassins, the Libra assassins will be an important part of this story so watch out for them. Also, I've seen a few reviews and received a few emails that I want to address. I'm just going to create a little response section here, if you're not interested in reading them then just skip ahead.
1) For the people who asked about why I don't like Hermione Granger, I do have reasons for it. But I just want to point out that even though I don't like the character, I do think the actress is brilliant. Even as a kid I did not like Hermione, I find her to be rude, smug, arrogant, condescending, a bit of a bully along with being an arse kisser. Her like of books has gone past an obsession and she is naïve enough to keep trusting authority figures 100% even after finding out that Quirrell was Voldemort, Lockhart was a fraud, Lupin hid the fact that he was a werewolf (understandable but still) and Moody was a disguised death eater. I'm glad she never tried to defend Umbridge because I would've lost it if she had.
There's also the fact that if the boys do something to break the rules then she complains but she always has a good reason for it, which is totally not fair.
In first year I felt like she was bossy and just kept forcing herself onto Harry and Ron while acting better than everyone else and I just generally didn't like her attitude. In second year the so called smartest witch of her age was acting like a crazy little fan girl who stubbornly refused to see what Lockhart was despite all the evidence yet still kept acting like she was still smarter than everyone else.
In third year she was given a time turner because...lessons? There was also that stupid argument with Ron and while I understand that Ron shouldn't have blamed Crookshanks, I understood why. Hermione's cat kept chasing Ron's rat and then Ron finds blood where his rat is supposed to be, it makes sense for him to expect a cat ate him. But she didn't even believe that it could happen at all, she refused to even consider the possibility of a cat acting like a cat and...I can't honestly say why that infuriates me so much.
As for turning Harry's broom over to McGonagall, I didn't like it but I could understand that however I still think that she shouldn't have gone behind his back, though that doesn't bother me too much because that was understandable. Plus I like the fact that she punched Draco Malfoy even though we all know that if Harry or Ron had done it then she'd start shouting at them for being violent which would be really hypocritical seeing as she hits the boys whenever she gets the opportunity to do so.
In fourth year she kept being angry with everyone who was affected by veelas. If you want to ignore the fact that they magically affect males (which I bloody won't), this is still coming from Miss 'Lockhart can't do wrong because he's handsome and he wrote books plus he's a teacher'. Where the hell was it mentioned that Lockhart had a magical allure? It wasn't, so what was her excuse and what makes her better than the boys being affected by beautiful French girls, some of whom belong to a species that magically affect males?
Fifth year, she didn't write to Harry because Dumbledore said so, never mind the fact that she could have sent him letters the muggle way. She also basically forced Harry to teach the DA, not saying that the DA was bad but she did basically force him into it as it was very clear that he didn't want to do it. Also what was up with the list? 'Sneak' was the best she could come up with? Not like something that could stop them from physically telling? I mean if I had made the contract I would've gone for something that stopped them from telling or made them say something else if they were going to tell along with marking them. And before anyone says that would be too advanced, we are talking about the same girl who could brew Polyjuice potion by her second year.
Sixth year, Harry finally gets good at potions. Let's look at the responses-
Everyone else: well done Harry, your mother would be proud, how'd you get so good?
Hermione Granger: UNACCEPTABLE!
I mean after seeing that the half-blood prince's book was literally just an old potions book with notes, she still acted like it was Tom Riddle's diary and she just couldn't handle Harry being better despite the fact that he didn't really change in behaviour at all and was still nice to her but she wouldn't stop. Plus that love triangle nonsense, I know some might not like my next words, but it is my opinion, I think that if you're in love with someone then you don't attack them just because they're with someone else. At best it just ruins your chances...unless someone's into that type of stuff. You tell them you're in love with them or don't, either way you don't hate and attack them for enjoying their relationship with another person (only reason I can think for that off the top of my head is if they cheat on you).
There was also when she didn't believe Harry when he said Draco Malfoy was probably up to something. This is the same Draco Malfoy who regularly sprouts pureblood nonsense while trying something each and every year but now Voldemort's back and he's nearly of age...yeah let's just dismiss the possibility entirely, let's not even consider it to be a possibility that the racist had joined a group of racists even though he has threatened them before with the same group of racists.
Seventh year, they were hunting horcruxes so she didn't do much that bothered me that year, or at least nothing I can think off the top of my head.
But I'm not done!
I don't understand why but sometimes it feels like everything is more about Hermione than it is about Harry, he's the main character! I'm not saying have Harry do everything and make Hermione do nothing but it does sort of feel like she's just used to fix all the problems except for the main one at the end of the year that Harry has to deal with. I'm not saying that it's true, just seeing it feels like that sometimes. I mean Hermione solves everything, researches everything and just does everything for everyone and most of the time she's just used to move the plot forward like she works out the mystery of the stone and the chamber and has the time turner and all that. I'm not saying she does everything, just that it feels like it to me.
I probably have some more issues but these are all I can think of off the top of my head.
2) To those that don't like my stories, that's fine just chose if you want to leave a review that calmly and kindly explains what you think I could do to improve and then continue reading or stop. Don't be insulting and don't be a dick, I'm taking time out of my life to write so be nice or don't say anything at all. If you don't like then why do you read them? Be constructive or just don't say anything.
3) Yes, I will be going into Harry's back story but it will be later on.
4) Thanks to those who have been kind and complimentary, I hope you continue to enjoy my work.
Hi again guys, what do you think about me doing a 'dark lord' Harry Potter with a multi pairing/harem? Just asking. Also for those waiting for the next update for 'Raven' I need to some time to re-watch winter soldier so I'm more sure about what to do in the story. Also the next chapter for this story will be pretty violent and the first part at least will be focused on action and violence.
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