Chapter 18

Girlfriends and More

Harry

The fact that Harry was now officially dating 4 different attractive girls at the same time was of great interest to a lot of people. Nobody was however at all surprised, having seen it coming for quite a long time.

He did however get a lot of congratulations from various guys, in particular the Weasley Twins who now considered him the coolest guy ever and asked him for tips on how they could do it too. All of his Gryffindor dorm mates were now asking for tips as well and any other guy in the school now considered him some sort of stud.

Either that or they were just extremely jealous of him, which he had to admit he couldn't blame them for being, he knew very well just how lucky he was.

That being said, he did feel very sorry for his 4 new girlfriends as they had had it much worse than he did, as some other girls wondered just why they would stoop so low as to all share just one boyfriend.

The girls however just tried to ignore them, recognizing who their true friends were and tried not to care about what anyone else thought. For the most part anyway, contrary to his fears, most people were rather accepting of their rather unusual relationship, polygamy was quite uncommon in the wizarding world, but not nearly as much in the Muggle world and it did happen.

Still he felt guilty that they would receive any negative treatment whatsoever, but the girls were adamant about not letting him worry about them. They were happy with him, all of them, and while their relationship was quite unusual and would take some getting used to both for them and for everybody else, things would work out.

Fortunately there were only 2 weeks left in the school year when he officially started dating the girls so they didn't have to deal with the negative gossip about them for too long and when they came back from school months later, the gossip about them would likely die down quite a bit anyway.

If he had hoped however that things would be better over the summer, he was sorely mistaken as he then had to deal with the parents.

Padma's parents were probably the easiest as they had kind of seen it coming already and reluctantly just accepted that it was going to happen whether they liked it or not.

Hermione's parents were much more difficult as they came from a Muggle background, which was even less accepting than wizards when it came to polygamy. Not for the first time with all the dangerous things that had happened to them at school and would have led to them trying to withdraw her from Hogwarts if they ever found out, Hermione had decided it would be best to keep some information from them.

She had however told her parents that her and Harry were dating, but chose not to include the information that he was also dating 3 other girls.

He had still gotten threatened by Hermione's father until her mother had to finally pull him away, but he had survived the encounter and Hermione's mother seemed to like him at least.

Susan's mother and Aunt however he was much more terrified of, since he actually lived with them and considered them family.

They had however considered it quite wonderful that he and Susan were now officially dating and had long since accepted that he would likely end up dating his 3 other best friends as well.

He was however still threatened with death if he ever hurt Susan or any of the girls and he realized then just how scary and intimidating Amelia could be.

Probably the most interesting conversation about the whole thing was with Sirius, who was still dating Amelia and he saw nearly everyday, mostly in passing as Sirius went to go pick up Amelia for a date but also to spend time with him as his godfather.

Harry was still getting used to the idea of having a godfather be part of his life, but he was willing to give Sirius a chance as Sirius was able to share plenty of great stories about his parents which he was very grateful for.

One day however Sirius pulled him aside to say, "So Harry I think it proper that somebody should give you the talk about the birds and bees."

Harry's eyes widened as he questioned, "you mean?"

"Yes, Harry I'm talking about sex," Sirius confirmed with an amused smile at seeing his reaction, "now Amelia was thinking about having this rather unpleasant conversation with you herself but I convinced her that it should probably come from another guy if possible."

"Thank you for that," Harry said, fearing that potential conversation with Amelia he had just avoided.

He was pretty sure that Amelia wouldn't want him going anywhere beyond kissing until he was 25, but as for himself well...he wasn't sure but considering how close he already felt with the girls and loved them well...he definitely feel ready to go all the way, but he was however considering doing at least a little more than kissing sometime in the future.

Sirius laughed a little as he guessed just what he might be thinking about.

"I'm sure you'll know when the right time is for you," He told him, "I myself lost my virginity at your age, but I'm guessing you aren't ready for that. Still whenever it happens, it is best for you to be prepared and can do so responsibly which is why I'm here. Now if it was Amelia or one of your actual parents, they would be telling you all about where babies come from, telling you not to have sex until you are legally an adult or perhaps after you are married, and then leave it at that."

Harry blushed as he admitted, "well I already know where babies come from...and I don't know when I'll have sex, I don't know if I can promise I can wait until I'm married but-"

Sirius however waived him off as he said, "nor do I expect you to, unfortunately many parents do just try to keep their children abstinent, which unfortunately all too often leads to the child rebelling, having sex early, and not doing it correctly, leading to pain for both them and their partner, and sometimes leads to unplanned pregnancies because they didn't know how to use or obtain protection. I'd like to avoid all that so whenever you do decide that you are ready, you will be prepared."

Harry nodded, unsure what to say as he stood there awkwardly. It would however be good information for future use he supposed.

"Now then," Sirius said, seeming to be still enjoying his reaction, "let's start with a little something called the clitoris."

By the time Harry finally was able to finish his very awkward conversation with Sirius, he had learned much more about sex than he had ever wanted to know or wondered about, this was one subject there hadn't been any books about in Hogwarts or if there were he'd never gone looking for.

It was rather good future knowledge even though he wasn't sure just when he would be using it, but having Sirius explain in such great detail was rather unsettling.

At any rate, he survived the conversation with Sirius...barely, and he was still trying to shake his head, feeling like his mind was very dirty at the moment.

He decided he definitely wasn't ready for...all of that, but he wouldn't say no to at least a bit more than just kissing.

…..

That night however, he was just finishing up a date with Daphne (during the summer he was going on dates with one or more or all of his girlfriends every night) and they were making out when he felt a hand on his butt.

"Sorry, got kind of carried away," Daphne apologized as she pulled her hand away, "really nice bum though."

"It's okay and thanks," Harry told her.

"I just wasn't sure if you were ready for something like that or not," Daphne admitted.

Daphne he knew was more ready for other things than the other girls and they were okay with that, but she couldn't be sure that he was ready for more too.

"Thanks for thinking of me but I'm okay," Harry answered before thinking about it for a moment and saying, "you can touch my bum if you want."

Daphne grinned and said, "then I would love to and...you can touch my bum if you want too."

"I would love to do that," Harry agreed, "and you've got a really nice bum too."

"Thanks Harry," Daphne told him as she went over and grasped his bum again, "ooh goodness you don't know how many times I've wanted to do that."

He reached around and grasped her bum and told her, "you have no idea how long I've been wanting to do that."

They both laughed a little at each other as Daphne then asked, "so how was it?"

"Your bum? Incredible and perfect just like you," He told her.

In truth, Hermione actually had the biggest and best bum out of all 4 of his girlfriends, but Daphne's was really nice too, and she very attractive all around.

Daphne however pulled a face and said, "perfect definitely not, I wouldn't want to be perfect...I like to be a bit naughty."

"Naughty? What does that mean?" He asked her with amusement.

"Oh, let me show you," Daphne told him as she leaned in and kissed him again while grasping his bum.

He eagerly responded by making out with her and grabbing her bum in return.

Well this certainly was very nice he thought.

After making out and feeling up each other's bums for several minutes they finally broke apart.

"Mmm, so glad you're my girlfriend now," Harry told her.

"Me too," She agreed as she smiled at him.

They looked at each for a long moment before a thought then occurred to him as he asked, "well I've already had to have some rather unpleasant conversations with Susan's, Hermione's, and Padma's parents, but I don't think I've heard anything about yours. How do they feel about us dating?"

Daphne's eyes flashed concern but she managed to hide it quickly as she told him, "they are fine with it, or at least as fine as they could be."

He could have left it at that, but he could somehow sense some internal struggle and concern from her, perhaps because of their strong connection to each other, but he could somehow sense her feelings and also just why she was feeling this way.

"They don't know do they?" He asked her, "and you're afraid to tell them?"

Daphne's eyes widened at him figuring her out but admitted, "I'm actually really scared to tell them actually."

"Well I imagine our relationship will be rather unorthodox but I survived the other girl's parents, how bad could your parents be in comparison to the others?" Harry pointed out, "besides I'm sure they will find out soon enough."

Daphne sighed and said, "yeah I'm afraid I can't really hide it from them for long, not when you are dating a celebrity, but still...you don't know my parents."

"Will they forbid us from being together?" He asked her worriedly.

"Actually quite the contrary," Daphne admitted, "my parents aren't all about the pureblood Voldemort supporter ideals, but they still do have some of the old wizarding family beliefs. They have actually been encouraging me to come on to you since I even mentioned you in one of my first letters home. They love that you are rich, famous, magically powerful, and very devoted to your studies, they consider you to be the ultimate catch for me."

"So what is the problem?" Harry pressed further, "is it because I'm dating more than one girl?"

"No, that's not it," Daphne answered, "I think I mentioned at some point that my grandfather had 2 wives so they would actually be more accepting of that then most. No, the problem is they would insist on a betrothal agreement if we are going to be dating, especially with you dating more than one girl besides me."

His eyes widened as he asked, "so they would expect me to…"

"Yes, if we're going to be dating they would want it to be more formalized in you agreeing to marry me sometime in the future," Daphne admitted, "I just didn't want to scare you away with such a major decision or cause problems with my parents. I know I can't really hide it from them for long, especially when the Daily Prophet inevitably finds out and publishes an article about you."

He digested this information as he thought it over. He supposed he was already thinking about marrying each of the girls, but he'd always thought that he had a lot more time before making such a big decision.

"Well what do you want to do?" He asked her, still unsure.

Daphne looked at him for a long moment before confessing, "would you totally hate me if I said I wanted to form a betrothal agreement with you?"

His eyes widened again but he still told her, "I could never hate you first of all and while I've never really thought about it, I wouldn't be opposed to the idea if that is what you want to do. I'm assuming that there would still be a way to back out if we decided not to get married someday?"

"It would be difficult and my parents would not be pleased but yes," Daphne agreed, "my thinking is though, I think we both know where things are going and that we likely will get married someday anyway, I know that I already love you and I know I would feel very lucky to marry you."

"I would feel very lucky to marry you too," He told her honestly as he gave her a hug and then a kiss.

"Thanks Harry," Daphne said with a sigh as she hugged him back before then tentatively asking, "so do you think that you would be okay with us getting betrothed?"

"I think that is something that we should probably discuss with the other girls but yes I'd be okay with it," He told her.

"Thanks Harry," Daphne replied gratefully.

….

There were some rather awkward conversations with his other girlfriends although Daphne did most of the talking and pleaded her case which after some debate each of his other girlfriends understood where she was coming from and agreed that she was making the right choice.

There was however another awkward conversation with Amelia and Karen who were his legal guardians and would be representing him if he were to get betrothed.

They however both reluctantly agreed to it and Amelia agreed to accompany him to the Greengrasses to go over the betrothal agreement and make sure it was sound.

A couple days later, he nervously accompanied Amelia over to Daphne's house.

He'd been over here quite a few times before and while Daphne's parents were rather nice and highly approved of him, he suspected a lot of it had to do with his fame and money, not him as a person.

At any rate, Daphne's parents greeted him and Amelia graciously at the door with Daphne and her younger sister Astoria standing awkwardly behind them.

All 4 of them were dressed very fancy in matching Slytherin green with Daphne's being the most extravagant and showed off her nice, developing figure. Obviously her parents had gotten her a new dress for just this occasion.

Daphne mouthed the words sorry to him as he entered.

He and Amelia were escorted over to the living room, where a small stack of papers were lying on the center table.

Daphne tried to sit off to the side but her mother said, "no sit with us Daphne."

She was forced to sit in between both of her parents, who were now looking at him like he was some great treasure they had just found.

"Would you like some food?" Daphne's mother offered, "we can have our house elf whip up anything that you would like?"

"No thanks," Amelia said tiredly, seeming to know just what to expect from this and not being particularly excited about it, "let's get started then."

"Yes let's," Daphne's father stated, "I took the liberty of having the betrothal agreement drawn up, you would just need to sign here and-"

"I'll take a look at it first," Amelia insisted.

"Of course," Daphne's father said, "feel free."

He sat there awkwardly as Amelia went over the betrothal agreement while Daphne's parents spoke with him.

"So I'm assuming that you will have a place to live when you and Daphne are married?" Daphne's mother asked.

"Well my parents did leave me a couple residential properties," Harry admitted, "we could probably live in one of those although we just might decide to continue to live at Bones Manor."

"Yes, that is quite a large home isn't it?" Daphne's mother observed, "so were you planning on forming a betrothal agreement with Susan then as well?"

"I figured I would let them decide for themselves if and when they wanted to be married," Amelia answered for him.

Daphne's parents didn't seem to mind her insinuation about them letting them choose.

"Yes well we felt it best that our daughter ensure that she receive the best possible future we could for her," Daphne's father answered, "just so you know Harry while our oldest and married son will of course inherit most of our family's inheritance, you will receive a rather sizeable dowry upon your marriage to Daphne, nothing that will of course hold much weight in comparison to your sizeable fortune but know that you are marrying a girl that isn't without means."

Personally Harry couldn't care less whether Daphne had so much as a knut to her family name but still nodded respectfully as if pleased they would think to do that.

"Of course in return with the union of our two families, we can also expect that you will show some support in some of my business dealings," Daphne's father told him, "I'm sure that your support would be quite valuable to me."

Bingo there it was, Harry thought. He had been warned by both Daphne and Amelia that Daphne's parents might make such a claim now, but he supposed he could live with it...assuming that it wasn't anything against what he believed in.

Daphne had however reassured him that both her parents weren't morally corrupt or do anything illegal or wrong or ask him to support anything like that either.

"I may be able to show my support if it aligns with my own interests," Harry replied as diplomatically as he could without really conceding anything.

This however was enough for Daphne's father who nodded his head, seeming pleased with that response.

Amelia however was more than halfway done with reading the betrothal agreement when she came across a certain section, which seemed to concern her.

"If a pregnancy occurs before marriage, then they should be legally forced to marry as soon as possible, at least before the birth of the child."

"It's all part of the standard contract, we wouldn't want my daughter having a child out of wedlock ," Daphne's father said.

Well Harry supposed as long as they were careful with magical birth control it probably wouldn't be a problem anyway.

Of course if he were to somehow get Daphne pregnant he would of course marry her early, especially if it mattered to her, and besides he was going to be marrying her anyway.

After agreeing to this, Amelia finished reading the contract before concluding that it was sound and she signed it, giving her approval before he in turn signed it along with the Greengrasses.

Upon the last signature, their signatures all glowed gold for a moment, making it magically and legally binding.

He'd heard from Daphne that if necessary there was a way to get out of it but it would be difficult not that he could see any reason he wouldn't want to marry Daphne, but right now he realized that unless something crazy happened he was definitely going to be marrying Daphne...which both made him nervous and also made him excited too.

Daphne was a wonderful girl...and he considered himself very lucky to be marrying her.

….

Bellatrix

Bellatrix made her way through the forest of Albania. She was greatly weakened from her encounter with Potter and his sluts and broodmares, but she at least had been smarter than her master had been and learned from his failure, protecting herself with certain wards and dark rituals that repelled love magics.

She had still paid a terrible price as her magic had been almost completely drained and it would likely take a long time to get back to full strength, in fact there was a strong possibility that she would never be as strong as she once was. It was regrettable, but better this than being dead and she was sure that no matter what, her master would find a way to make her more powerful than ever.

So instead she had decided to continue her search for her master, and with the diary gone that she could have used to communicate with and seek out her master far more easily she had been forced to find an alternative method.

She, unlike any other servant of her Master's was entrusted with the knowledge that her master had created several horcruxes, and she knew where at least 3 of them still were, having helped her master to hide them.

The first two were simply above her ability to acquire, even at full magical strength it would have been very difficult and risky to get past the many dangerous protections that they had on them, but the third horcrux was located in her vault at Gringotts.

She had previously rejected going after Hufflepuff's cup as it meant going into Gringotts and revealing her identity, but after growing desperate, she finally decided to risk going for it.

She'd been forced to Imperious and control a couple goblins at the bank with what little magic she had left, but it had proved worth it. She was able to get the cup and leave the bank without being discovered and then use the cup as well as a dark ritual to find and locate her master, who had apparently been hiding out in Albania all this time.

Now she knew she was getting close as she looked through the dark forest and to the ruins of the castle that lay before her.

It was clearly an area permeated with dark magic she thought. A place that practically wreaked with evil and death which meant of course that she absolutely loved it.

Yet she was even more concerned with finding her master.

She could sense his presence, she couldn't seem to see him but...he was definitely there.

"Bellatrix," A cold, dark, once very familiar voice greeted her with pleasure upon seeing her.

Bellatrix grinned widely upon finally locating her Lord as she greeted back, "Master!"

….

Dumbledore

Dumbledore had not told Harry everything, especially not the fact that Harry had been a horcrux, still wanting to protect him.

He had suspected that Harry had been a horcrux, but he'd been very reluctant to test out his theory, as it would have seemingly doomed Harry as he would have thought that the only way that the horcrux could be removed is if Harry died in the process. It would have caused a paradox: the only person who could kill Voldemort was Harry, while the only way Voldemort could be killed is if Harry died too, making Voldemort practically invincible.

Thank Merlin though that the horcrux had been destroyed through some other method that didn't involve the death of Harry.

The power of love had once again pleasantly surprised him and saved Harry's life.

This love however was different from the protection that his mother had given him, this love was from his now girlfriends that Dumbledore could tell Harry loved and they loved him very much. It would be interesting to see how their relationship turned out, especially after going through such an experience of sharing such a strong connection.

At any rate, he was determined to allow Harry to have as much time to simply enjoy being with those he loved while he focused on tracking down and destroying the rest of the horcruxes for him, while also still searching for what was left of Voldemort himself.

He now had the ones residing in the diary and Harry now destroyed, which if his suspicions and guesses from memories that he had collected were correct, that left Slytherin's locket, Slytherin's Ring, Hufflepuff's cup, and likely something from Ravenclaw.

Through a great deal of work, he had located what he believed to be Slytherin's ring inside the remains of the Gaunt Family Home.

He had considered simply going just himself alone but ultimately decided that if he was going to take on such a risky project, he'd probably need some back up just in case.

The problem was finding someone that he trusted enough and was powerful and competent enough to handle the many dark protections that Voldemort was sure to have surrounding all of his horcruxes.

He'd finally however decided that the one person that he felt that he could trust was his longtime confidant and friend Minerva McGonagall who he had confided in about the horcruxes and after some dismay at the great undertaking of such a necessary project, she had then agreed to help.

They headed to the ruins of the Gaunt Family home, no more than a hovel at best when it was first hastily constructed, and not at all liveable now.

Still it was clearly surrounded by dark magic and he was forced to take every precaution in searching for any hidden enchantments long before actually reaching what was left of the building itself.

Minerva searched as well, even though her knowledge of dark magic was significantly less than his own.

After hours, they finally removed or bypassed the dozens of dark spells in order to get to the ring, but they finally found it, located nestled right in the center of the room. Clearly Voldemort never thought anyone capable of actually getting this far.

Yet as soon as Dumbledore spotted the ring, his eyes went wide. Could it really be?

The resurrection stone? The stone that would allow him to…

His own great desire to finally get to use the resurrection stone and speak to both his dearly departed parents and sister Ariana seemed to combine with a sudden compulsion to touch the ring and-

"Dumbledore!" He heard Minerva call him back.

Yet he couldn't seem to stop himself from going and grasping the stone that he had searched for for so long, to see his family again, to apologize for everything that he had put them through, in particular what he had done to Ariana, how she would still be alive if it wasn't for-

"Dumbledore!" Minerva called again but he still ignored her.

His hands were only mere inches from grasping the ring when-

He was knocked off his feet by a spell cast at him and he fell to the floor hard.

He was bruised and in pain, such a fall at his age certainly really hurt but the good thing was whatever compulsion he had felt to grab Slytherin's ring was gone.

"Are you alright Albus?" Minerva asked worriedly as she helped him up.

"I'm alright," Dumbledore said gravely, "thank you."

If it wasn't for Minerva he most definitely would have grasped the ring where no doubt there was still at least one deadly curse on it.

He did still want to use the resurrection stone, but concluded very regretfully that the destruction of the horcrux was more important.

After removing the protections on the ring itself, Dumbledore used Fiendfyre to destroy the ring and there was a loud scream as the piece of Voldemort's soul was destroyed.

Once he made sure however that the horcrux was truly gone however he picked up the ring again.

Perhaps the resurrection stone still might work…

He couldn't help but grin at getting his answer.

Author's Note: So I actually got quite a few reviews commenting about how busty I was making the girls and after some debate I decided to make them more average-ish for their age, changing the story thus far to reflect that, Susan at least will still be quite busty for her age, but not extremely so either, with the other girls ranging from average to slightly bigger than average. If you have read some of my other stories, I do tend to make them bigger chested than usual, but in this case I decided if it was too distracting and too much of an issue for the readers then I would make some changes and try to improve to make a better story.

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