Harry Potter & the Honeychurch Institute of Magic
By Darkmoore
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Chapter Twenty Four: Meeting the Family
"Oh Harry." Petunia exclaimed.
"Hello Aunt Petunia." Harry said lamely.
"I'm so glad you came, and who is this with you?" Petunia asked with an arched eyebrow.
"This is my girlfriend, Vesta Sangeorge. Vesta, this is my aunt Petunia Dursley." Harry said.
"I'm pleased to meet you Mrs. Dursley."
"Oh … well … it's nice to meet you too." Petunia stuttered, "Won't you come in?"
Soon they were sitting in Petunia's sitting room having a pleasant conversation. Harry was a bit over polite to his aunt and Petunia was equally over polite as well. It was as if they were walking on eggshells around each other, leaving Vesta perplexed.
Then Petunia turned to Vesta and asked, "What do you do for a living?"
"Oh, I work as a potion's…, well I teach at the school where Harry does and I'm also the school nurse."
"You teach?" Petunia looked at her nephew in surprise.
"Yes, I teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and flying to the younger students and I am the couch and referee for the Quidditch games."
"Flying? Quidditch?" she sputtered.
"On broomstick, I teach children to fly on brooms and then to play a game called Quidditch on brooms as well. It's quite fun." Harry said with a grin.
"He's actually brilliant at it, don't let him fool you. I've never seen so many children itching to run down to his classes before in my life. At the beginning of the year, they were all dying to learn to fly." Vesta said with a slight glint in her eyes.
Harry half blushed and said, "They just couldn't wait to get up into the air, that's all."
"Well, I wouldn't know about that." said Petunia a bit huffy, "Did you know that Dudley has been working at Vernon's company? He has a girlfriend now from what I understand. I've not met her yet, they just started going out, and so it'll be a while."
Suddenly Harry's mind was filled with the thought of an enormously fat Dudley with a pencil thin girl in a modern day version of Jack Spratt and his wife. He chuckled to himself.
"Well, I'm sure he's very happy with her." Vesta said trying to diffuse something, but not entirely sure what. However, she continued on what would have normally been a quiet change of conversation. "Harry tells me he grew up here with you, Mrs. Dursley."
Petunia paled. "Really?" she asked nervously, "What exactly has he told you?"
"Nothing." Harry said quickly, "I was telling her how I was brought here after the death of my parents."
That 'nothing' came all too quickly for Vesta's liking, but she said nothing about it. However, she let it go and the conversation turned to more neutral topics.
After a couple of hours, Harry was ready to go. He had his fill of Privet Drive and wanted to return to Grimmauld Place as soon as possible. As he and Vesta were making their excuses, his eyes fell on the little door with the lock and air vent to the cupboard under the stairs. For a moment he stood stock still and barely even took breath. However, he was brought out of his stupor by Petunia giving him a hug. This rather shocked Harry.
"Now don't make a stranger of yourself." she said to him before they went out the front door.
"Goodbye Aunt Petunia, I'll come by and visit again when I can." Harry said to her as she shut the door.
The couple walked a little ways down the street hand in hand until they were in a secluded spot and Vesta turned to say something, but he cut her off.
"Do you think you can apparate to the house from here?"
"I think so, yes, if not I'll go to Kings Cross Station again. It's not a far walk if I remember correctly." she responded to him.
"Alright, if your not there when I apparate in, I'll go to the train station and walk you back." Harry said with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes, which was odd for her to see, they always had before.
Then the couple apparated into London.
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When Harry apparated into the entrance hall of Number 12 Grimmauld Place, he noticed that Vesta was not with him and became worried. 'What if she splinched herself?' he thought frantically. However, he was drawn from his thought as the front door opened and she entered the house.
"I though I'd lost you there for a moment." Harry said with a breath of relief.
"Don't get your hopes up Potter, I'm rather hard to loose." she said in a stern voice and then kissed him making him realize she was teasing him. However, the kiss still made him weak in the knees.
"Ahem."
"Remus, we didn't see you standing there." Harry muttered though the kiss.
"I dare say you didn't." Remus said while laughing, "I'm afraid you've just broken poor Mauricio's heart."
"He'll live, no wait, he's dead." Harry said, but then realized what he had said and corrected himself, "He'll get over it."
Remus laughed again and turned to the lovely lady standing beside Harry, "Professor Sangeorge, we meet again. I see our Harry finally got that vaulted Gryffindor courage up and asked you out."
"Please call me Vesta, anyone who has the nerve to stand there and watch us kiss can call me by my first name like a friend."
But just then a load crash came from the area of the kitchen and then, "Wotcher Harry." bellowed Tonks, "Who do we have here?"
'Vesta please meet one of my rowdy room mates, Nymphadora Tonks. Tonks this is Vesta Sangeorge."
"Oh, you're the girlfriend. I've heard about you, pleased to meet you finally."
"You've heard about her Tonks?" Harry asked suspiciously.
"Yes, from Dobby. He told us that you were dating her." Tonks replied with a wink to Harry who was beginning to worry slightly about what Vesta was thinking about his friends and family.
Remus could see Harry was becoming uncomfortable and said, "Why don't we all go down to the kitchen, Winky is cooking up something wonderful for us to eat."
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Minutes later upon entering the kitchen, Harry was shocked at what he heard…
"SURPRISE!"
It seems that Dobby was busy telling everyone that Harry was home for a visit and had organized a little party for him to see his family. So standing in the kitchen was all the Weasley family, minus Weatherby, along with Hermione and Dean Thomas, Ginny's boyfriend.
Everyone came around to shake Harry's hand, or to pat him on the back or hug him or whatever else they wanted to do to him, since they missed him so much and most hadn't seen him since the school had started.
"Harry mate," called out one of the twins, "who is this beautiful creature you have with you?"
"Everyone, this is Vesta Sangeorge … the woman I love." which made her head spin quickly in his direction. He had never said those words to her before.
A room full of "Aaaawwwws!!!" followed as Vesta blushed.
Harry beamed at her and began to take Vesta around the room and introduce her to his family. "This is my two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Here we have Ginny Weasley and her boyfriend and one of my good mates, Dean Thomas. This is Bill Weasley, his wife Fleur and their son Armand." With that Harry took the baby into his arms and held him.
"Looks good on you Harry, you need one of those." Bill said referring to his son.
"Are you joking? He barely lets me kiss his boo-boo's." Vesta said dryly, but laced with humor, causing the room to burst out laughing.
"Oh, I like her." said the twins in perfect unison.
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The surprise party went well for the rest of the evening; everyone was having a wonderful time, especially Harry. That is until…
"Harry dear," Mrs. Weasley cooed in his ear, "We need to borrow your lady friend her for a few minutes." And before he could protest, she, Ginny, Fleur and Hermione had Vesta up on her feet and taking her up the library for a private chat while the men, kept Harry firmly planted in his seat at the table.
"Hey." Harry protested.
"It's for your own good mate and you should've seen it coming." said Ron.
Harry looked confused and asked, "What do you mean? Should've seen what coming?"
"Well, when you introduced mum as your own mother that sealed your fate." Fred said solemnly.
"I'm surprised she didn't burst out in tears on the spot." added George.
"So now, she's doing to Vesta the same thing she did to Fleur, to Angelina, to Katie, to Alicia …" Charlie began.
"To me" added Dean bewildered.
"… which is sitting them down and being as nosey as she could be with them." Bill finished.
"Oh no," Harry whispered and paled a bit, "I have to go and rescue her."
"I'm afraid that's out of the question son." Mr. Weasley said.
"Why is that? I've saved the world from Voldemort (everyone winced at the name) and I can save Vesta from that." Harry said and started to rise, but was held down once more.
"Mate, that's true and in any other case you would be correct. BUT, V…V…Volde…." Ron said.
"Voldemort" Harry said at annoyance for having to say it for his best mate repeatedly.
"Yeah him, anyway he never yelled like mum did, so we're more afraid of her than you right now."
The other Weasley men nodded their heads in agreement.
"Damn." swore Harry.
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Several times that evening Hermione barged into the kitchen throwing a black house cat with green eyes on the table saying, "How many times do I have to tell you? Keep him down here!"
Then Harry would revert to his human form.
"Damn."
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Several hours later, after all their guests were on their way home, Harry was finally able to rest and hold the woman he loved in his arms happily, though sleepily.
"So are you going to tell me what happened in the library tonight?" he asked huskily into her neck as nibbled on her seductively.
"No."
"No?"
"No. I was sworn to utmost secrecy and I cannot tell on penalty of Hermione Granger." Vesta confessed amused.
"I need to have a long talk with that woman one of these days." Harry said smiling.
"I don't think it'll work, no matter what you say to her. She's very clever you know." Vesta said in admiration of the young woman.
Soon the couple began to climb the stairs up to Harry's bed room, but apparently that wasn't romantic enough for Harry. So at the landing he stopped her, bent over and picked her up and then carried her to the room, kissing her all the way.
Entering the bedroom, Harry set her down and began to peal away her clothing and began to nibble on the creamy smooth skin of her shoulders and collar bone. Vesta squirmed with delight in his arms, before she began to remove his robes also.
Finally they were lying on the bed together. Harry, completely naked hovered over her as he was still undressing her with his teeth. It was a very delicious moment for both of them when she suddenly remembered something she was allowed to tell him from the evening.
"Harry?"
"Hmmm?" he replied.
"There is one thing I am allowed to tell you about my secret meeting, but I don't think you want to know it."
"Wanna bet? What is it?" he asked excitedly.
"Well, Mrs. Weasley did want to know about one thing about our relationship together."
"What was that?" he asked smiling at her hungrily.
"She wanted to know what how big you are."
Suddenly Harry groaned, his face turned red and he dived under the covers and wrapped himself tightly in them saying, "I did not want to know that!"
To Be Continued…
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Author's Note: To everyone who reviewed, thanks again...
athenakitty wrote Did try to be first! *Shrugs* Why are the dark arts books temperamental? Does Dudley have to tie someone down? What will Petunia say? Draco isn't going to show up at Honeychurch is he?
Answer - the books are tempermental because that one yelled at Will. I was going for a joke. Petunia has interesting things to say and Draco is Draco.
Numba1 wrote Taking the girl home to meet the family...never ever a good thing. I'm surprised Harry hasn't mentioned his past history with his lovely aunt. I love the house elves though, I wonder how closely Mrs. Weasley is going to inspect Vesta...
Answer - I wouldn't know as I never brought a girl home to meet mom and dad before. :) Though I'm sure they would have liked it if I had.
Phire Phoenix wrote Ack! _ Cliffhanger! Well...partly...but I still want to know what happened... lol. But considering you're better than most other stories I read and update quite often, I'll just sit here and stare at the screen and wait...
Answer - Throw her a pity party! Poor thing just sitting there hour after hour waiting on my lazy self to write something. tsk, tsk, tsk :D
Adrelliehs wrote You and your darn cliff hangers. Still a great story though. I look forward to updates and this story is by far the most creative of Harry Potter future alternative stories I have read.
Answer - Thanks, thats means alot to me to hear that. :)
By Darkmoore
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Chapter Twenty Four: Meeting the Family
"Oh Harry." Petunia exclaimed.
"Hello Aunt Petunia." Harry said lamely.
"I'm so glad you came, and who is this with you?" Petunia asked with an arched eyebrow.
"This is my girlfriend, Vesta Sangeorge. Vesta, this is my aunt Petunia Dursley." Harry said.
"I'm pleased to meet you Mrs. Dursley."
"Oh … well … it's nice to meet you too." Petunia stuttered, "Won't you come in?"
Soon they were sitting in Petunia's sitting room having a pleasant conversation. Harry was a bit over polite to his aunt and Petunia was equally over polite as well. It was as if they were walking on eggshells around each other, leaving Vesta perplexed.
Then Petunia turned to Vesta and asked, "What do you do for a living?"
"Oh, I work as a potion's…, well I teach at the school where Harry does and I'm also the school nurse."
"You teach?" Petunia looked at her nephew in surprise.
"Yes, I teach Defense Against the Dark Arts and flying to the younger students and I am the couch and referee for the Quidditch games."
"Flying? Quidditch?" she sputtered.
"On broomstick, I teach children to fly on brooms and then to play a game called Quidditch on brooms as well. It's quite fun." Harry said with a grin.
"He's actually brilliant at it, don't let him fool you. I've never seen so many children itching to run down to his classes before in my life. At the beginning of the year, they were all dying to learn to fly." Vesta said with a slight glint in her eyes.
Harry half blushed and said, "They just couldn't wait to get up into the air, that's all."
"Well, I wouldn't know about that." said Petunia a bit huffy, "Did you know that Dudley has been working at Vernon's company? He has a girlfriend now from what I understand. I've not met her yet, they just started going out, and so it'll be a while."
Suddenly Harry's mind was filled with the thought of an enormously fat Dudley with a pencil thin girl in a modern day version of Jack Spratt and his wife. He chuckled to himself.
"Well, I'm sure he's very happy with her." Vesta said trying to diffuse something, but not entirely sure what. However, she continued on what would have normally been a quiet change of conversation. "Harry tells me he grew up here with you, Mrs. Dursley."
Petunia paled. "Really?" she asked nervously, "What exactly has he told you?"
"Nothing." Harry said quickly, "I was telling her how I was brought here after the death of my parents."
That 'nothing' came all too quickly for Vesta's liking, but she said nothing about it. However, she let it go and the conversation turned to more neutral topics.
After a couple of hours, Harry was ready to go. He had his fill of Privet Drive and wanted to return to Grimmauld Place as soon as possible. As he and Vesta were making their excuses, his eyes fell on the little door with the lock and air vent to the cupboard under the stairs. For a moment he stood stock still and barely even took breath. However, he was brought out of his stupor by Petunia giving him a hug. This rather shocked Harry.
"Now don't make a stranger of yourself." she said to him before they went out the front door.
"Goodbye Aunt Petunia, I'll come by and visit again when I can." Harry said to her as she shut the door.
The couple walked a little ways down the street hand in hand until they were in a secluded spot and Vesta turned to say something, but he cut her off.
"Do you think you can apparate to the house from here?"
"I think so, yes, if not I'll go to Kings Cross Station again. It's not a far walk if I remember correctly." she responded to him.
"Alright, if your not there when I apparate in, I'll go to the train station and walk you back." Harry said with a smile that didn't quite reach his eyes, which was odd for her to see, they always had before.
Then the couple apparated into London.
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When Harry apparated into the entrance hall of Number 12 Grimmauld Place, he noticed that Vesta was not with him and became worried. 'What if she splinched herself?' he thought frantically. However, he was drawn from his thought as the front door opened and she entered the house.
"I though I'd lost you there for a moment." Harry said with a breath of relief.
"Don't get your hopes up Potter, I'm rather hard to loose." she said in a stern voice and then kissed him making him realize she was teasing him. However, the kiss still made him weak in the knees.
"Ahem."
"Remus, we didn't see you standing there." Harry muttered though the kiss.
"I dare say you didn't." Remus said while laughing, "I'm afraid you've just broken poor Mauricio's heart."
"He'll live, no wait, he's dead." Harry said, but then realized what he had said and corrected himself, "He'll get over it."
Remus laughed again and turned to the lovely lady standing beside Harry, "Professor Sangeorge, we meet again. I see our Harry finally got that vaulted Gryffindor courage up and asked you out."
"Please call me Vesta, anyone who has the nerve to stand there and watch us kiss can call me by my first name like a friend."
But just then a load crash came from the area of the kitchen and then, "Wotcher Harry." bellowed Tonks, "Who do we have here?"
'Vesta please meet one of my rowdy room mates, Nymphadora Tonks. Tonks this is Vesta Sangeorge."
"Oh, you're the girlfriend. I've heard about you, pleased to meet you finally."
"You've heard about her Tonks?" Harry asked suspiciously.
"Yes, from Dobby. He told us that you were dating her." Tonks replied with a wink to Harry who was beginning to worry slightly about what Vesta was thinking about his friends and family.
Remus could see Harry was becoming uncomfortable and said, "Why don't we all go down to the kitchen, Winky is cooking up something wonderful for us to eat."
* * * * *
Minutes later upon entering the kitchen, Harry was shocked at what he heard…
"SURPRISE!"
It seems that Dobby was busy telling everyone that Harry was home for a visit and had organized a little party for him to see his family. So standing in the kitchen was all the Weasley family, minus Weatherby, along with Hermione and Dean Thomas, Ginny's boyfriend.
Everyone came around to shake Harry's hand, or to pat him on the back or hug him or whatever else they wanted to do to him, since they missed him so much and most hadn't seen him since the school had started.
"Harry mate," called out one of the twins, "who is this beautiful creature you have with you?"
"Everyone, this is Vesta Sangeorge … the woman I love." which made her head spin quickly in his direction. He had never said those words to her before.
A room full of "Aaaawwwws!!!" followed as Vesta blushed.
Harry beamed at her and began to take Vesta around the room and introduce her to his family. "This is my two best friends, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Here we have Ginny Weasley and her boyfriend and one of my good mates, Dean Thomas. This is Bill Weasley, his wife Fleur and their son Armand." With that Harry took the baby into his arms and held him.
"Looks good on you Harry, you need one of those." Bill said referring to his son.
"Are you joking? He barely lets me kiss his boo-boo's." Vesta said dryly, but laced with humor, causing the room to burst out laughing.
"Oh, I like her." said the twins in perfect unison.
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The surprise party went well for the rest of the evening; everyone was having a wonderful time, especially Harry. That is until…
"Harry dear," Mrs. Weasley cooed in his ear, "We need to borrow your lady friend her for a few minutes." And before he could protest, she, Ginny, Fleur and Hermione had Vesta up on her feet and taking her up the library for a private chat while the men, kept Harry firmly planted in his seat at the table.
"Hey." Harry protested.
"It's for your own good mate and you should've seen it coming." said Ron.
Harry looked confused and asked, "What do you mean? Should've seen what coming?"
"Well, when you introduced mum as your own mother that sealed your fate." Fred said solemnly.
"I'm surprised she didn't burst out in tears on the spot." added George.
"So now, she's doing to Vesta the same thing she did to Fleur, to Angelina, to Katie, to Alicia …" Charlie began.
"To me" added Dean bewildered.
"… which is sitting them down and being as nosey as she could be with them." Bill finished.
"Oh no," Harry whispered and paled a bit, "I have to go and rescue her."
"I'm afraid that's out of the question son." Mr. Weasley said.
"Why is that? I've saved the world from Voldemort (everyone winced at the name) and I can save Vesta from that." Harry said and started to rise, but was held down once more.
"Mate, that's true and in any other case you would be correct. BUT, V…V…Volde…." Ron said.
"Voldemort" Harry said at annoyance for having to say it for his best mate repeatedly.
"Yeah him, anyway he never yelled like mum did, so we're more afraid of her than you right now."
The other Weasley men nodded their heads in agreement.
"Damn." swore Harry.
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Several times that evening Hermione barged into the kitchen throwing a black house cat with green eyes on the table saying, "How many times do I have to tell you? Keep him down here!"
Then Harry would revert to his human form.
"Damn."
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Several hours later, after all their guests were on their way home, Harry was finally able to rest and hold the woman he loved in his arms happily, though sleepily.
"So are you going to tell me what happened in the library tonight?" he asked huskily into her neck as nibbled on her seductively.
"No."
"No?"
"No. I was sworn to utmost secrecy and I cannot tell on penalty of Hermione Granger." Vesta confessed amused.
"I need to have a long talk with that woman one of these days." Harry said smiling.
"I don't think it'll work, no matter what you say to her. She's very clever you know." Vesta said in admiration of the young woman.
Soon the couple began to climb the stairs up to Harry's bed room, but apparently that wasn't romantic enough for Harry. So at the landing he stopped her, bent over and picked her up and then carried her to the room, kissing her all the way.
Entering the bedroom, Harry set her down and began to peal away her clothing and began to nibble on the creamy smooth skin of her shoulders and collar bone. Vesta squirmed with delight in his arms, before she began to remove his robes also.
Finally they were lying on the bed together. Harry, completely naked hovered over her as he was still undressing her with his teeth. It was a very delicious moment for both of them when she suddenly remembered something she was allowed to tell him from the evening.
"Harry?"
"Hmmm?" he replied.
"There is one thing I am allowed to tell you about my secret meeting, but I don't think you want to know it."
"Wanna bet? What is it?" he asked excitedly.
"Well, Mrs. Weasley did want to know about one thing about our relationship together."
"What was that?" he asked smiling at her hungrily.
"She wanted to know what how big you are."
Suddenly Harry groaned, his face turned red and he dived under the covers and wrapped himself tightly in them saying, "I did not want to know that!"
To Be Continued…
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Author's Note: To everyone who reviewed, thanks again...
athenakitty wrote Did try to be first! *Shrugs* Why are the dark arts books temperamental? Does Dudley have to tie someone down? What will Petunia say? Draco isn't going to show up at Honeychurch is he?
Answer - the books are tempermental because that one yelled at Will. I was going for a joke. Petunia has interesting things to say and Draco is Draco.
Numba1 wrote Taking the girl home to meet the family...never ever a good thing. I'm surprised Harry hasn't mentioned his past history with his lovely aunt. I love the house elves though, I wonder how closely Mrs. Weasley is going to inspect Vesta...
Answer - I wouldn't know as I never brought a girl home to meet mom and dad before. :) Though I'm sure they would have liked it if I had.
Phire Phoenix wrote Ack! _ Cliffhanger! Well...partly...but I still want to know what happened... lol. But considering you're better than most other stories I read and update quite often, I'll just sit here and stare at the screen and wait...
Answer - Throw her a pity party! Poor thing just sitting there hour after hour waiting on my lazy self to write something. tsk, tsk, tsk :D
Adrelliehs wrote You and your darn cliff hangers. Still a great story though. I look forward to updates and this story is by far the most creative of Harry Potter future alternative stories I have read.
Answer - Thanks, thats means alot to me to hear that. :)