Hi! Welcome to Chapter 2.

First an apology. My Beta (or is it Betazoid) {Rob4133}- Informed me that he doesn't beleive that Harry is enough of a smartass. I have to agree with him. He made a wonderful suggestion; I immediately came up with a miniplot to incorporate- but I would have to rewrite some other things. Right now I am about 15,000 words ahead of what has been posted and I would have to rewrite much of that.

So Mr Beta- LONG MAY HE REIGN- Is correct. I am sorry - and I will try to make Harry a little more of an ass.

Thanks
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They had planned on exiting the bank and getting some lunch before doing some more shopping. However, they were brought up short by a very angry Albus Dumbledore. "What did you do Harry? Why are you here?"

Harry had actually been looking forward to this. "What does House Potter business have to do with you, headmaster?"

"I am not here as your headmaster. I am here as your magical guardian."

"Oh correct me if I am wrong. Now that I am a head of house I don't need a magical guardian."

Hiding his irritation he answered, "Everyone needs an advisor."

"That's true, and the best advisors provide all of the relevant details."

Albus was no dummy he saw where this was leading. "Of all the facts they need to know Harry. It's important to remember that."

Suddenly very tired with this whole thing, he could feel Hermione bristling next to him. He had hoped that he would quickly see his error and congratulate him, but he recognized that this was a childish fantasy. He would have to learn to persevere. "'Mione, if you please."

"You know the fallacy of that statement Mr. Dumbledore. It doesn't need to be pointed out to you. Lord Potter needs the facts and will make up his own mind. Not just your version of it."

"You Miss Granger I am your magical guardian. You will go home at once."

"You were my magical guardian. I am betrothed to Lord Potter. He has assumed guardianship. The appropriate documents have just been filed."

That surprised him, Luna was right on target he needed to think his way through this. "Miss Lovegood, you need to return home. This doesn't concern you."

Once again he was surprised although he probably shouldn't have been. "Again you are in error Mr. Dumbledore. I am with my betrotheds. This is my business."

"But you are too young. No one has been betrothed to more than one person in centuries. I forbid this!"

Harry turned to the nearest goblin who had been busy reflecting the sunlight from the windows in the ceiling that fell on his ax right into the old one's eyes. No one liked him, apparently few humans did either. "Can he accost us like this?"

He growled, "He can be escorted out, but what happens off the steps is your business."

"That's fine. We'll just call the Aurors there." Several guards moved at once. Dumbledore knew he had to make a strategic withdrawal at least until they were back in the alley proper. Turning he left in a huff.

"That only bought us a few seconds Harry."

"That's okay. Once outside start yelling for Aurors."

He was right as soon as their feet hit the pavement that demarcated the bank from the rest of the alley he started in on Harry. "This is foolishness. Harry, you will give up your head of house rings and betrothal rings right now."

"I will do no such thing, Albus!"

The girls began to yell for Aurors.

"That's headmaster Harry."

"That's Lord Potter Albus."

2 screaming girls in a busy walkway will always attract attention. It wasn't more than a minute before the crowd gathered followed shortly thereafter by two Aurors. "Who is calling for Aurors?"

"Oh hello, Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. Davies. You are not needed, forgive the yelling of 2 over excited children."

The Aurors were about to turn and break up the crowd when they were stopped by Harry. "You are most certainly needed. My ladies called for you. Are you going to just walk away?"

The shorter one, Davies said, "but he is Headmaster Dumbledore, the Chief wizard of the Wizangamot."

"And I am Lord Potter. Head of House Potter, Scion of the house Black. These are my betrotheds and he is interfering with House Potter and House Black affairs. What do you say now Aurors?"

That put this on a whole different level. All of a sudden some kid claiming to be the boy who lived , the head of house Potter requesting assistance. Both of them knew what would happen if they got involved with this. "I am afraid you'll all have to come with us to see Madam Bones."

Normally this kind of squabbling between houses and other ministry officials irritated her. But this was Albus bloody Dumbledore and like most of the goblins, she really didn't like him. He was as greasy as a slimy eel and she just waited till she could catch him breaking the law. Any law.

"Madam Bones, thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule. This is a small matter and should not have involved you. The children were upset and misinterpreted some things and everything got out of hand."

She could see the Boy Who Lived bristle at that and both of the pretty witches restrained him. "Oh no Albus this is what I am here for. Let us take some time now to dispense of this shall we?"

A shadow fell across the headmaster's eyes but his disappointment was quickly obscured. "Of course madam. The floor is yours."

"Thank you Albus, since this is my office, the floor and everything in it is as well. Tell me kids what's going on here?"

It wasn't long before she had been briefed by everyone. "Albus you are daring to interfere with the succession of 2 houses! Are you insane? Do you know what the other members will do when they find out?"

He looked a little ill. "But they do not know what they doing."

"Albus when did that ever stop an adult head of house? Most of them don't know what they are doing either. At least he has 2 smart witches to keep him in line."

He knew when he was defeated, at least for now. "I have other pressing business I need to attend to. I will take my leave of you. Lord Potter, I will see you soon."

"Headmaster that sounds almost ominous, I look forward to it."

She waited until he was gone and then did a couple of spells before continuing. "Okay, the office is clean. Now tell me what this is about."

Harry looked at his girls they both nodded, so it wasn't long before he had told her everything. Including their knowledge of Sirius being innocent and suspicions of Albus' manipulations.

"You mean to tell me that Black is innocent?"

Hermione took over and told her everything of that day and the minister and Dumbledore's knowledge of events. She pointed out that Pettigrew was the secret keeper and nothing but a dirty rat, in every sense of the word. "How many people could cast the Fidelius charm?"

"Not too many people. Takes a lot of power. Why?"

"We were just wondering if Dumbledore cast it. Just another question."

"And why," Luna interjected. "were they hiding in such a little house when the have other larger and better protected houses?"

"And why," it was Harry's turn, "does he have me watched 24 hours a day? Why did he not tell me about my rights and responsibilities when he was supposed to 3 years ago?"

Amelia didn't have any answers, but now she understood a little more of why Dumbledore did what he did. She promised to keep the things she was told hidden and that she would quietly look into these and other things she had known.

Harry lay on his bed and thought about the day's events. Dumbledore's interference bothered him but there wasn't much to do about it. They had spent way to much time on his machinations so didn't get to buy their new books or other supplies. Both had promised to be available Saturday. Both Hermione and Harry were looking forward to spending time with Luna. Out of everything he had thought, in all of his wildest fantasies having 2 girlfriends was not even in the realm of possibilities. He was a bit nervous for the girls both from Dumbles and from their fathers. Both of the girls told him not to worry about their fathers. They boarded the Knight bus and decided to take Luna home first. The entire trip they snuggled as best as they could on the rolling death trap. And each presented ideas about what they thought would happen next. "I don't see everything. That would drive a person insane with all of the permutations and variables. In this instance I get impressions. The stronger the impression the more likely it is to occur."

"What do you see Dumbledore doing?" That led to almost all of the time they had with Luna before they tenderly kissed her goodbye.

As they pulled away from Ottery St. Catchpole they continued their quiet conversation all the while Stan eyeballing them. "Harry I don't see myself as a homosexual. The thought of me being with another female is," a little shudder, "not right. But Luna is different When we are all holding hands I feel, I don't know... complete."

"I know. When I gathered my courage this morning I thought it was just you I wanted. And I do so much want you." He said as they both blushed. "But Luna is a part of that too. I don't know where this is going but both of you are a part of my life as long as you want to be in it."

"Oh Harry." That earned him another big kiss.

Luna's prediction came true. She had mentioned Dumbles most likely next step was a rescue from his "friend". The next day as early in the morning the same car as before was hovering outside his window. "Harry, Harry I came to rescue you."

Harry wasn't sleepy anymore. Even Hedwig barked at him as if to say, "Really? Is that the best you can do?"

Harry opened the window. "C'mon mate I'm here to rescue you," Ron tried to whisper.

Harry shook his head. "Not going to do it, get out of here!" Before he closed the window. He took a camera that Dudley thought was broken. All it had needed was a recharge. Snapping the picture he said to them. "I just took a muggle photo. I'm going to show it to the DMLE. I'll talk to you on the train or at school."

Vernon came into the room, "What are you freaks doing?"

"What were you freaks doing?

Respectable people this time at night are sleeping."

"Okay, what did you see me doing when you burst into my room?"

"You appeared to be sleeping."

Before he answered Vernon flipped aside the curtain. He had been scared off. Harry was certain he had heard him threaten them with the DMLE and he was sure he saw the flash. "Thank you for saying I am respectable."

"You appear to be respectable boy."

"As do you, Uncle Vernon. Let us see where we both end up." He drifted back to sleep wondering what Dumbledore was going to do.

Thoughts crystallized into action as he hopped out of bed early in the morning before sunrise. "Hedwig. I need you to take this to Luna. Be careful girl. I don't trust the Headmaster. He may try to intercept this. Are you going to be okay? I don't want you to go if it puts you in danger."

Hedwig nipped at his ear and barked as she stuck her leg out. He could almost hear her. "Let him try."

The morning Harry had spent getting his chores done. He waited until he was alone in the house. Something Petunia was getting more and more comfortable with. He believed the current peace time accords had something to do with it. He still detested them. They still insulted him, Big D when he was around would still shove him and try to trip him on the stairs, and hit him. And Harry was so through with the Diddums can't do anything wrong attitude. But screaming or sulking wasn't getting him anywhere, so he thought he would arrange some payback. He was just finishing "inspecting" Dudley's room. There were a few more clear envelopes, but they were in a different spot. Clearly stock was coming in and then going out. Diddums was surely selling. At every opportunity, he would take some of the envelopes and have the spices duplicated, as long as it was the right wizard on duty.

He was waiting for the phone call. If she hadn't called he would have called her at the top of the hour, just as they had agreed. "'Mione? Are you okay? I was worried abut you."

"I'm fine Harry. I know you are worried but I don't think Dumbledore is that evil."

"I'm sorry. I don't trust him. I'm not Luna but I am learning to trust my gut. I've already sent Hedwig off with a warning to Luna. Even Hedwig got a warning to be careful. I don't know, maybe you're right. I may be over protective, but it's my job to take care of you and Luna and I am going to do the best that I can at it."

"Harry I am so snogging you when I see you. I was wondering. Did you want to eat over my house tomorrow after the alley? Maybe Luna can come to?"

"It depends. What did your parents say when you told them you have a boyfriend and a girlfriend?"

"Well, this is what I did tell them..."

Once again Luna met them in the bank. This time, Harry didn't hide. He already had enough gold on him the weightless bag he had purchased from the goblins. He had actually gotten 3 and dropped several hundred galleons into each bag.

"I still say that was too much. My parents can afford it."

"It doesn't matter. Girls, don't give me a hard time over this. For years I have been treated as a slave. Beaten, starved and unloved. All of a sudden I have two that love me. Not for the 'boy who lived shit.' Just for myself. Its only money. There is plenty more."

"Harry we do love you. Let's go and get what we need."

Luna was only too happy to stay at Hermione's house. She had foreseen this as a possibility so had already gotten permission.

"By the way, Hedwig made it okay didn't she?"

"She's fine Harry. Seemed a little tired though. I couldn't tell if she had any trouble. Her feathers looked normal though."

"I'll ask her when I see her. She'll tell me."

"You really understand her don't you?"

"Most of the time, she's brilliant. She doesn't communicate with words, but I get impressions from her. I figure the more time we spend together the more we'll know each other." He shrugged, "I guess that's what being a familiar is all about." He then grumbled something unintelligible under his breath.

"What was that?" Luna asked.

Harry pouted, which both girls actually thought made him look cuter. Then he sighed deeply, "I said, I think she keeps calling me her human." Both girls were lost in fits of giggles. "This is serious!" Hermione and Luna started laughing harder.

They went to every store they needed to. Harry kept a close watch on his rear. He also kept making surreptious glances at both of their rears. He made sure while they were in Flourish and Blott's to keep an eye on the door and also added to Hermione's pile. There were several books on defense as well as on wizarding customs. "Oh good Harry, that one is going to come in handy. You and Hermione need to read that."

"There's just so much to learn."

"That's what you have us for Harry. We'll get through this together."

It felt good to hug the both of them at once. "I have one more stop to make. I need to stop by the apothecary. I need some supplies as well as a strengthening solution."
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