H P Boy who livesYear 7- Summer
Chapter 33
Kiss and Make up
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Hermione really went and put her foot in it last chapter now whatever is she going to do to get back in his good graces again...read on and you will soon find out... Sibyll has a crush on a certain professor...a family secret is revealed...
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Harry appeared in his rooms at the castle and stalked into the bathroom, so he could change into his sweats. "I'm not academically challenged?!" He shoved his feet into his Nikes, stuck a snitch in his pocket, grabbed his broom, and headed out to catch the snitch for a while. "I'm just as smart as her!"
Severus was heading out to get fresh ingredients for his classes when he spotted him heading out the door. "What brings you back to the castle a day early?"
Harry turned around to answer him. "I didn't wish to stay around someone who thinks that I am some kind of academically challenged dunce!" He snarled.
Severus arched a brow at him and tried not to smirk. "Five and a half years ago I would have had a really good comeback to that statement. Now that I know just how intelligent you are, all I can say is whoever said that to you was a fool. Please tell me that it wasn't Draco."
"DRACO!! DRACO!! HELL NO IT WASN'T DRACO!! HE KNOWS THAT I WOULD FRY HIS ASS IN A HEARTBEAT IF HE SAID THAT TO ME!! NO IT WAS A STUCK UP! SUPERFICIAL! PERFECTIONIST! ACADEMIC SNOB!! OTHERWISE KNOWN AS MY WIFE!! THAT SAID THAT TO ME!!" Harry's angry bellows echoed throughout the castle.
"Granger said that to you?!" Severus gaped at him in shock. "What the hell did you do to provoke her into saying that!?"
"I did nothing to provoke her into saying that?! She looked at my class schedule, that Merlin was holding in his hands, and went and said that they were gonna break me with a schedule like that, because I wasn't her!! Oh and it gets better than that! Then she goes on and really puts her foot in it by saying that she didn't think that I have the academic stamina to withstand a schedule as grueling as my new class load!! The books that my first-grandfather wants me to get are way over my head!! I will drag through the afternoon without my late morning naptime and my morning classes will be too hard on my pathetic body!!" He paced in front of Severus.
Severus took in every word that he was bellowing at him and his only thought was that if he tried to help the boy James would see that as a challenge and they would be at odds again. "Let me see your class schedule and the book list."
Harry took two pieces of parchment out of his pocket and handed it to him. "If you ask me I have way too much quality time with dad."
Severus looked over the schedule. "Yes, well, that will change, because I want two days not just one. Now as for this book list, every single one of those titles is either in the restricted section, or under lock and key at Flourish and Blotts. Most of which are over any wizards head even our little-miss-know-it-all."
"I knew that I was getting off too easy with only one day of potions a week." Harry frowned. "I thought the books had some ancient titles to them. I'm going to have to learn to speak runes, Anglo Saxon, Highlander, and Gaelic."
"I think that you're more than up to the challenge. I will see what I can do about getting you less time with your father." He kept the schedule and gave him back the list. "Now as for Hermione, she's jealous because you get to take lessons from the greatest wizard that ever lived and she doesn't. Although, unless she has seen her schedule, which I know, she hasn't, there is no way of knowing if she is also in that class with you. If that is true and I believe it is then she really did put her foot in it and I have no solution how she could possibly make that up with you short of breaking your promise. Which we both know is out of the question. Now if you will excuse me I have to go see to this schedule. Since your Aunt is going to be Headmistress next fall and Slytherin is no more I am now the Deputy Headmaster. You will be reporting to me as Head Boy and I will be giving you the nightly schedule."
"Oh, that's nice to know... Just hand me the list of ingredients that you need, and I'll go get them for you." Harry growled. "It will keep my mind off how pissed I am at my wife.
"Try to refrain from saying that..." He handed him a roll of parchment. "It's complicated enough without getting the students all peeved at you both."
"She got her license from the Ministry and they called her my wife. How much more complicated can it get?" He took the list.
"Cho Chang is the descendent of Morgana Le Fay." Severus gave him fair warning. "So believe me it's going to get very complicated no matter if Diggory is alive again or not."
"No wonder Cho became such a bitch, look at who her ancestor is! No offense or anything Uncle Severus. I mean she is your first-Grandmother right?" Harry hastily added that last statement.
"Remember its Professor Snape during school hours." Severus smirked.
"Oh yeah, sorry I'll try to remember that." Harry grinned.
"Well off with you its going to take till midnight to gather the entire list." Severus heard Sibyll coming out of the Great Hall.
"Uh, this says Diagon Alley. I need coinage, because dad cut me off from the vault." Harry looked at the list then at Snape.
"This will more than cover what you need." He handed him the coin pouch. "James doesn't want you to spend it like he did. Besides you have your partnership with the Weasley twins to fall back on don't you?"
"Yes I do, but then Hermione has the key to that vault." Harry shrugged his shoulders.
"I thought as much. Next time you go to Gringotts get another key." Severus was looking nervously at the door next to him.
Professor Trelawney walked out and smiled at the two of them. She was actually wearing new robes, her hair was in a braid, and she'd put on make-up. This was not the same Professor that Harry was used to seeing. She looked like a woman on a mission. "Good afternoon Harry. Hello Severus. Would you like some help gathering your potions ingredients?"
"Actually Sibyll, Harry has offered to take care of that for me, now if you will excuse me I have some schedules to change." He attempted to escape.
"Wonderful. I wanted to take a look at this year's class-load, so I'll go with you." She threaded her arm through his only to grow ominous as she was overcome by the sight. "Be safe young Potter there is a raven-haired woman stalking you, who doesn't have your best interests at heart. She isn't what she seems and she can bend others to her will." Her voice changed an octave or two.
"Thanks, uh, Professor. I'll be on the look out for Morgana. I have loads to do, so I'll leave the two of you to your duties. Don't work too hard." He winked at Sibyll and then arched a brow at Snape before running out the front doors of the castle.
"Morgana? Did he mean Morgana Le Fay?" Sibyll's blood ran cold at the thought of him running into the most evil witch in history.
"The very same and yes she is after him, but only so he will give her what he took. It's a long story..." Severus prayed for patience.
"I have all the time in the world to listen." Sibyll looked eagerly up at him with her eyes magnified by her coke bottle spectacles.
"Oh, very well you can come along..." He gave up.
"Thank you Severus we will have a lovely time."
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Diagon Alley
"I need a second key for my vault." Harry stopped by Gringotts to have a talk with Mr. Griphook. "Hermione has the original and I need to buy some books for school."
Griphook sneered at Harry. "Your father requested that only one key be made for that particular vault."
"Hey, I'm married now and need another key for our vault." Harry kept his voice down as not to attract unwanted attention. "It's just as simple as that."
"I am aware of your current state of marriage, but that changes nothing." He growled.
"Look, I don't want to have to pull rank or anything, but I will if you don't give me the goddamn key." His eyes blazed with temper and you could actually see an aura of power radiating around him.
Griphook's eyes widened, as he felt the amount of power that was wafting off the young furious prince. "We goblins respect the hierarchy of power in our world. As you are the heir to the wizarding throne I will grant your request this time, but this is the only time. Do not lose this key." He gave him a look that matched Harry's own and produced a golden bejeweled key.
"It has been a pleasure doing business with you Mr. Griphook." Harry took the key that was set on the marble desk. "If Hermione makes a stop here today I was never here."
"Married not even a day and already trouble in your happy world?" Griphook personally escorted him to the vault.
"You know my father. Do you honestly think that I get anything that resembles a honeymoon until after the official royal wedding?" Harry rolled his eyes at him.
"So that explains the lack of usual manners. Our young heir is frustrated, because he can't have what he wants even though he is married to her." Griphook actually chuckled. "No matter the two of you are young. You have plenty of time to rectify that situation eventually."
"Oh, that isn't the half of it. I have Morgana Le Fay on my ass now wanting me to give her an heir to replace her son that would be Voldemort. So that situation might just be rectified sooner than planned if anyone tries to make a move on my person. My wife does not share. That's why Dad is currently getting sloshed in the Leaky Caldron with Uncle Sirius. It seems that my First-Grandfather Merlin thinks that we're going to be parents a little earlier than scheduled." Harry spilled everything.
"So, Master Merlin is back is he?" Griphook piloted the car through the endless tunnels. "It's been too long since I have seen him, about 1000 years to be exact. If the Master says that you are going to be, a father earlier than scheduled then it's a safe bet that you will be." He noticed that Harry had no wand with him this time. "How is it that you arrived here without your wand?"
"I have no idea. I've been doing that since yesterday, after I tried alcohol for the first time." Harry instinctively went to the pocket on his leg. Nope no wand… Yet he had been able to Apparate and disapparate without it. "Damn I hope I didn't lose it at the campsite. Ollivander will string me up or something."
"Only Merlin, Mab, Albus, your parents, Sirius, Jenna, Remus, Anastasia, and Stephen know how to do that." Griphook narrowed his eyes at him. "How is it that you, a boy of no more than seventeen years, know how?"
"I haven't the slightest clue. I just think, and poof I go where I want to go." Harry shrugged. "Everyone keeps calling me a Merlin-in-training, so maybe it has something to do with it."
"The fairies have a saying, a Merlin is born once every millennium, and it looks like that means you." Griphook stopped the car at an unfamiliar vault. "Here we are vault 91905."
"I bet dad wanted that specific vault number." Harry thought of the numbers September 19, 2005.
"He said that it would mean something to you." Griphook nodded, as he took the key, and went through a series of gestures to open the vault.
"It's the day when Hermione and I get publicly hitched in all our Royal finery." Harry nodded.
"Your father always loved a good joke." Griphook shook his head.
Harry stepped up to the vault and took in the contents of the vault. "The twins are really doing well." It reminded him of the first time he looked into a vault at Gringotts. "Or did mum put some money in here?"
"The Weasley twins businesses are all flourishing, thanks to your generous donation and silent backing of their endeavors. That is but a taste of their success." Griphook was actually proud of the twins.
Harry thought of the need for an empty coin pouch and one appeared in his pocket. "Hmm, I guess I remembered to put that in my pocket." He frowned as he took out the pouch and loaded it with coins."
"What may I ask do you need that much money for?" Griphook gave him a disapproving look.
"For these," Harry handed him the book list.
"You'd best take more it might not be enough to buy all of these." His eyebrows rose as he read the list. "They're all one-of-a-kind originals."
"I was afraid that you were gonna say that." Harry loaded the pouch with even more galleons.
"Lad those are Merlin's books. They aren't going to just give them to you." Griphook closed the vault.
"Well they should, since Merlin told me to get them." Harry grumbled.
"That's true, but business is business lad." Griphook lectured him on the way back. "That is something that you must commit to memory."
"Yeah, I guess that's true." He said good-bye to him and set off on his errand for Snape.
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Hermione searched the castle from top to bottom for Harry. She stopped in the promenade where Severus and Sibyll were talking about things. It looked like there was something between the two, but she shoved that thought aside, so she could focus on finding Harry. "Um, I don't mean to interrupt, but have you seen Harry around?"
"Well, well, well if it isn't our little-miss-know-it-all." Severus turned to give her one of his disapproving looks. "Next time think before you stick yourself in it so deep that it's nearly impossible to get yourself out." He handed her a schedule. "Read that and then think of something, besides breaking your promise, to make it up to the boy."
Hermione looked over her schedule that was nearly exactly like Harry's, only hers was being around Lily for last part of the afternoon. She even had Auror training. "I..." She managed to get out before bursting into tears.
"Tears are not going to help you back into his favor." Severus raked his had across his face in frustration. "You need to focus on the task and think of something nonphysical that you can do to make him smile at you again." He produced a hanky with which she could dry her eyes.
Hermione looked up at him with miserable eyes. "Trista Monet made a portrait that he really liked, but it's not like I can just get it." She sniffled miserably.
"My niece is working on a collection for Stephen, but I am sure that he would graciously allow you to give one of the finished works to his own grandson." Sibyll analyzed the situation. "The Four Hearts must be allowed to thrive and be happy."
"He was going to give us one for our wedding present." Hermione was on the verge of tears again.
"That I was kitten and the offer still stands." Stephen had a gift wrapped portrait under his arm. "I heard what happened and this might bridge the gap that you created this afternoon."
"Thank you Grandfather. He's so furious with me..." Hermione's face lit up with hope. "I made a blunder out of everything, but that will help me make peace with him." She pointed to the peace offering.
"The raven haired one is on the prowl, beware she seeks to bear a new heir." Sibyll went instantly in a trance like state for the second time that afternoon. "She nears the prince, but he is unaware that someone is out to create another heir."
"Why that decrepit old hag, If she as much as touches him I will claw her eyes out!! He is mine and I do not share!!" Hermione went into instant lioness mode. "Where is my husband and you had better tell me the truth!!" She narrowed her eyes at Severus.
"He's filling my potions ingredients list for me and is most likely still in Diagon Alley." Severus took a step back from her.
Hermione turned away from the others took out the map, Harry's wand, softly murmured the magic words, and the map showed her Diagon Alley. "Show me Harry." It complied with her request, he was staring at Ollivanders. "Show me Morgana Le Fay." It complied again, only it showed her Cho, who was currently spying at him from inside Flourish and Blotts. "Show me Cedric." Once again, the map showed her the person in question, he was in WWW Inc.
"Where did you get that?" Severus was looking over her shoulder.
"We made it this morning." Hermione cleared the map.
"You made it in one night? It makes the original look like an ordinary piece of parchment." Severus was amazed at what the two of them could do in such a short period.
"This one jinxes anyone who isn't supposed to use it." Hermione turned to Stephen. "May I have the portrait please, my lion needs me."
Stephen handed her the portrait. "Morgana is after my grandson?"
"Yes and at the moment she's using Cho Chang to do her evil bidding." Hermione carefully tucked the painting under her arm.
"Cho Chang is her many-great-granddaughter, so if she's being used then it's willingly." Severus growled.
"Too bad for her, it means that she will never be able to have children, and she's probably going to lose those pretty looks of hers as well. Morgana is never going to get my lion to sire her heir!" Hermione disapparated in front of the three of them.
"That's illegal. She is under age isn't she?" Sibyll frowned at Stephen.
"She saved the boys again, so they approved her license early." Stephen explained.
"Somehow I believe the council is going to regret that decision." Severus growled.
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Harry tried to sneak passed Ollivanders, but it was no use. Mr. Ollivander opened the door and bade him to enter his shop.
"Mr. Potter or should I say Mr. Pendragon," He smiled at Harry his warm welcoming smile. "You didn't think that I would let you sneak by without offering you my congratulations on your wedding did you."
"I wasn't trying to sneak really, it's just that I'm on official Hogwarts business, and I really don't wish to incur the wrath of my Uncle Severus...I meant Professor Snape." Harry managed a weak smile.
"I see, well, this won't take but a few minutes and your Uncle won't mind a bit. I have something for you." He went behind the counter and produced a fine leather case. "Just recently I was privileged to receive five very rare golden phoenix feathers and I was requested to create five wands out of it. This is one of the five." He opened the case to reveal a highly polished wand. "This one is similar to your first wand its holly 11 inches only this feather was given by someone very special to your heart."
Harry stared down at the wand knowing full well that his mother's animagus phoenix form had provided the feather for it. "It's from mum."
"That it is lad. Well what are you waiting for give it a wave." He motioned for him to pick up the wand.
Harry picked up the wand and just like his other wand a golden light shown down on him, happy music sang out, and a magical wind whipped at his hair. "I think it likes me." He cradled the wand in his hands.
"I would say so." He smiled. "So are you going to want that put back into the case or do you wish to place it where your old wand should be?"
"Oh yeah, about that I think I kind of lost it in the Loc." He gave him a guilty look. "Or it's in my pack at the castle."
"Don't fret over it lad." Ollivander handed him the empty case. "Just place it in here when you find it."
Harry slid his new wand into its pocket on his leg. "I'll do that." He smiled.
"Well off with you now. I know how Severus gets if he's kept waiting." Ollivander saw him to the door. "Tell your wife that I am happy for the two of you."
"I will and thanks for the new wand." He gave him a hug that Ollivander happily returned, and was off again.
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"I'll give the clerk at the Apothecary the list and then run over and get the books from Flourish and Blotts." He walked across the street and entered the shop.
The clerk recognized him at once. "Good afternoon your highness might I offer my congratulations on your marriage." He did a little bow.
"Thank you." Harry gave him his best princely nod of greeting followed by a killer smile. "I need to get some books for school, so would it be possible for you to fill this for me while I go and purchase them?"
"It would be my pleasure to be at his highnesses service. I see that you are here to pick up Severus' order. This will take me some time to fill, so go about your other shopping. I have to make some stops in Knockturn Alley which is a place where you need not be seen." The clerk tucked the list into his robe pocket, walked Harry to the door, flipped the back in an hour sign on the door, and joined him outside. "It will take a half hour to fill this, so please take your time shopping."
"Thanks, I really appreciate this." Harry smiled at the clerk, who was basking in the praise that he was giving him.
"The honor as I said is mine your highness." He bowed again then set off down the street.
Harry set off towards Flourish and Blotts, but stopped dead in his tracks when his scar began to flare up again. "Wonderful just what I needed, my first face-to-face encounter with the wicked witch." He zeroed in on where the feeling was coming from and spotted Cho standing in the doorway of Flourish and Blotts. "You are violating a restraining order just by standing that close to me." Harry glared at Cho. "I hope that Azkaban was a pleasant experience."
Cho smiled secretly at him. "There now Harry, don't be that way I'm harmless." She put on her most innocent act as she slinked toward him. "I must give you a reward for bringing my Cedric back to me again."
Harry's eyes narrowed as he glared down at her. "No thanks are needed. Just keep the hell away from me and what is mine!!" He made his voice loud enough, so everyone around them could hear that he did not wish to have her near him.
"I'm a happily married man now, so go along on your merry little way." He then lowered his tone, so only the two of them could hear what he was saying. "I also know that you're Morgana Le Fay's direct descendent, which means that if you are willingly working for her there goes your chances of ever having kids. That's just part of the curse of being one of her minions. The other is a sudden loss of beauty."
Cho actually laughed at the warning. "I know that your marriage is a farce and the ice princess won't let you touch her." She ran her fingers up the front of his sweatshirt. "It must be very frustrating being married to a shrew." Her eyes locked with his and she tried to use her new influence on him. "I can make you forget that she ever existed if you let me." She stood on tiptoe giving him a taste of her lips.
Harry pushed her away from him, as if he had tasted something rancid. "You vial bitch!! You dare to try that on me!" He spat at her feet. "Your kiss tasted as vial as rancid meat!"
Hermione, having watched the scene play out before her eyes, let loose her fury on her. "Get the hell away from my husband before I make you pay for attempting to take his life with your poison kiss!" She had his wand out and was ready to do battle.
"What the hell is going on out here?!" Cedric was standing next to Hermione.
"Cedric unless you wish to bury Cho, I would suggest that you keep her on a proper leash!" Hermione snarled at him.
"It looks to me like he was taking advantage of her!" Cedric snarled back.
"The prince told her to bugger off and the hussy put the moves on him!" Some of the onlookers shouted.
"I was only trying to say thank you." Cho decided that tears were the best form of counterattack.
"You have some nerve trying to break up the Crown Prince and Princess on the first day of their marriage!!" The crowd wasn't buying her tears.
"Cho Chang! You are to leave this area at once!" Tonks appeared behind her. "You are in violation of your probation!"
"This is ludicrous!! Cho was not putting the moves on Potter!! He was putting the moves on her!" Cedric was completely under Cho's influence.
"What? Are you daft?!" One patron shouted.
"Chang was trying to seduce the prince in the middle of the street! Throw her back in Azkaban!" They jeered.
"It looks to me like Diggory is the only one on your side Miss Chang." Tonks glared at Cho. "I'm the prince's royal guard. It's my job to see that no one harms him and it looks to me like that's what you were attempting to do."
Cho raced over to Cedric and buried her face against his chest. "They're all wrong Cedric. I didn't do anything."
"Tonks, it's time to see just what side she's actually on." Harry thought of a small dagger and it appeared in his hands. He then cut his finger; its task done the dagger vanished. He then took out his new wand. "Accio Cho Chang!"
"NO!!" Cho was wrenched from Cedric's arms and back in front of Harry. "DON'T LET HIM TOUCH ME!" She screeched.
"What's the matter Chang!? If you aren't dark then this won't even sting." He grabbed hold of her hand and placed his cut finger on the top of it. The skin made a slight sizzling noise as his blood touched her hand.
Cho cried out in pain.
"POTTER SO HELP ME GOD I WILL KILL YOU IF YOU DON'T LET HER GO!" Cedric had his wand out.
"Don't make me have to send you back to the other side Cedric!" Hermione pointed his wand at him.
"Drop the wand Diggory!" Kingsley appeared behind him. "The prince is testing Chang for darkness, which is standard practice after being attacked!"
"You're lucky Cho, there's still hope for you, that's if you throw away your pact with Morgana, and make a happy life with Cedric." Harry let her go, but his mark had been branded on the top of her hand. "She isn't going to win, so quit while you still have your beauty or continue and a decrepit old hag you will be."
Cho said nothing. She stalked over to Cedric, grabbed him by the hand, and they both disapparated from the street.
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"Harry was that wise leting her go like that? Her skin reacted to your blood; she's a threat to you." Kingsley walked over to him.
"She has already sealed her fate by siding with Morgana." Harry put his wand away and walked over to where Hermione was standing. :Thanks for the back up love.: He reached down, tilted her chin up, and kissed her.
Hermione forgot about the painting that she had balanced against her leg and threw herself into his arms. Luckily, a patron caught the painting before it hit the ground. :That's what partners are for.: She answered the kiss with one of her own. :I'm sooo sorry that I got all jealous...I didn't mean what I said. I love you so much more than school or anything else in the universe.:
:I hate it when we fight. I love you so much and it just hurt that you thought I was a moron or something. So what's in the package?: He pulled her even closer to him neither of them noticed the flashes of cameras taking pictures or the applauding crowd around them.
:That's my peace offering.: Hermione melted in his arms. :Consider this to be strike one for keeping the promise. Two more times and all bets are off.: She gave him fair warning.
:That and we don't want to be parents in May, it just might complicate matters at school.: He finally broke off the kiss. "Let's save the peace offering until we're back at the castle. I still have to get the books from the list and finish the list that Uncle Severus gave me."
"I can't wait to see our books from that list." Hermione smiled up at him. "You and I have nearly the exact same schedule, minus a few classes in the afternoon on various days like Arithmancy and Runes, and I get to spend time in Hospital wing for my last two hours of the day."
Harry happily swung her around in his arms. "Then let's go get our books." He kissed her once more for good measure and then headed into the bookstore to shouts of long live the prince and princess.
"Hello your highnesses what may I do for you today?" The owner also performed a little bow in front of them.
"I need you to fill this book order for me." Harry handed him the list.
The owner looked as if his eyes were going to pop out of his skull as he triple read the list. "Merlin requested you to have these books?" His voice shook as he tried to get those words out.
"My first-grandfather Merlin requested that we have them for our classes with him this year at school. Is there a problem?" Harry acted as if this was not that big of a deal.
"Oh no, there isn't a problem. If he wishes to have his books be bestowed to you then that is what shall be. Please wait here while I go fill your order." The owner headed to the second level of the store.
"I thought that he was going to have an attack or something." Hermione leaned back when Harry pulled her into his arms.
"So did I, these books have been guarded by his family for over a thousand years. Now it's time for them to be returned and he doesn't know quite how to react."
The owner returned with neatly wrapped stacks of books. "As you requested your highness and might I add congratulations on your marriage."
"Why thank you." Hermione smiled and took the books from him.
Harry got out his coin pouch to pay for the books, but the owner refused any payment.
"No payment is necessary; you are merely taking them back to their original owner. Now if you will excuse me I need to go lie down for a while." The owner left them and headed to the back storeroom.
"I think that poor man is going to have a breakdown." Hermione winked at Harry as they left the store.
"There you are!" The clerk from the apothecary called to them from the doorway of his store. "Your order is ready for you now."
"Thanks." Harry led Hermione over to the store. "So what do I owe you?" He took out the coin pouch that Severus had given him.
"Fifty galleons and not a penny more," The clerk took the money and handed him his purchases. "I filled the entire list, so as soon as you give him his order, you two can get back to your honeymoon." He winked at them.
"Uh, thanks we really appreciate that." Harry winked back.
Hermione blushed, but said nothing.
"You two enjoy your honeymoon." The clerk waved as they headed down the street.
"Don't worry we will!" Harry called back.
"Harry James you incorrigible rouge, I love you." Hermione giggled.
"Well, to everyone else we really are on our honeymoon." He entered the alley where he could call for Dan and held out his wand.
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The limo appeared seconds later neither of them cared that no one got out to open the door for them. They got in and off the limo went.
"Now this is more like it." Harry turned her in his arms, so they were lounging across the seat, and kissed her.
"Oh yes, this is my idea of kissing and making up." She wrapped her arms around his neck. "Cho is going to regroup for a month or two, but she isn't finished yet."
"That would be strike two wouldn't it." Harry explored her face with feather kisses.
"Then she's going to no doubt attempt an altercation around Christmas or New years." Hermione tried to keep her train of thought.
"That would be strike three and then you would have to have your way with my poor defenseless body." He nipped at the nape of her neck. "It would also put the birth of our child around your birthday."
"If the third strike comes, I promise to be gentle with you." She turned her face so they were kissing again.
"I would say that it's a guaranteed when and trust me when I say that it will be a mutual decision on both our parts." He decided that they had chatted enough and he had better ways to pass the time. After all they were technically on their honeymoon and there were some safe things that they could do like seriously snog.
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Sirius was driving the limo.
James was sitting in the passenger seat listening intently to every word the two of them were saying.
"Dan was only too happy to let us take the kids home." Sirius grinned at James and didn't see that he had run a Jaguar containing Wills and Kate off the road and into a ditch.
"He had a hot date to get back to and we promised not to scratch his precious baby." James had his eyes glued to the rearview mirror it had gotten way too quiet back in the interior of the limo. "They stopped talking."
"James quit being a parent for two minutes and think of how you were at his age." Sirius swerved to miss a tour bus.
"I do remember how I was at his age and what can happen in the back of a limo." James adjusted the mirror, so he could see more of the back.
"You were a lot wilder and Harry isn't as schooled in that area as you were." Sirius barely missed nicking the limo on a Copper's car. "So try to relax its only strike one, which means the deal he made with you stands."
"Bloody hell! I think my life just passed before me eyes!" James gripped the armrest in terror. "I thought that you said you had your license back!"
"I do have my license back!! That Copper wasn't even there two seconds ago!" Sirius swerved to avoid a jaywalker, but clipped a telephone box. "Damn Muggle should wait before he crosses the road!"
James, after being thrown against the door from that latest maneuver, buckled his seat belt. "Damn it Sirius you scratched the limo! Pull over before you get us all killed!!"
"It's not my fault that these Muggles can't drive or walk properly!!" Sirius took a shortcut through a cornfield. "Crop circles anyone?" He created an intricate design before getting back on the road again.
Harry banged on the glass. "Dan what the hell is wrong with you today? Are you sloshed!?"
"I ain't opening the divider." Sirius focused on the road ahead.
"He does seem rather toasted at the driver doesn't he?" James glared at him.
"Hence the reason why that magical divider stays shut!" He glanced over at James, which was not the smartest thing to do when driving. This time he took out a row of postal boxes. "Serves them right for putting those there."
"Evanesco!" Harry deleted the glass divider. "SON OF A BITCH!! STOP THIS LIMO RIGHT NOW!! YOU TWO ARE SLOSHED AND HAVE ALREADY BROKEN ABOUT TWENTY MUGGLE LAWS!!"
"Pipe down kid I'm perfectly sober!" Sirius once again decided to detour into another field this time a wheat field. "I didn't like that other one it wasn't nearly detailed enough."
"What on Earth is going on up there..." Hermione buried her face against his shoulder, as they veered back onto the rode again. "Oh, bloody hell, we're going to die aren't we."
"We are not going to die! This limo is crash proof so relax!" Sirius was clearly enjoying himself.
"Did we disturb your playtime, Junior?" James narrowed his eyes at him happy to have a distraction other than looking at the path of destruction that Sirius was causing.
"My time is my own now that I'm married." Harry snarled back.
"Promised, Junior not married." James corrected him.
"No offense Uncle James, but in the eyes of the law we're married, because both sets of parents were all for the ceremony last night. I tend to like to research things and there really is nothing you can do to stop us if we wish to break that little promise of ours. In fact, sixteen is the legal age of consent in the UK. However, we do not wish to be parents before we graduate, so the timing isn't right yet for the girls." Hermione was in full informer mode.
Harry passed out as soon as the word girls came out of her mouth.
"What the hell did you just say!?" Sirius turned to look at her.
"UNCLE SIRIUS!!" Hermione dove for cover, as they swerved off the rode, and into an orchard.
"YOU IDIOT!!" James took hold of the wheel, as he tried to miss slamming head on into an apple tree.
"Pay attention to what you are doing!" Hermione squeaked, as they two-tracked their way back to the main road.
"Bloody hell it was a shock to hear her come out and say what she did!?" Sirius pulled over and stopped the limo.
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The driver's side door was wrenched open by a very furious Stephen. "Do you have any idea what your little joyride has caused!! You clipped Prince William's car!! He's not pleased with you in the least, because he ended in a ditch! You took out Muggle postal boxes and a telephone box! You decided to play alien and make two crop circles! Oh and I can't forget the police car that you caused to go off the road! Get the hell out of that seat now Sirius Lancelot Phineas Nigellus Black Du Lac!!"
"James Harry Stephen Arthur Michael Potter-Pendragon!! Get out of that limo this instant!!" Lily was standing on the other side of the limo.
Sirius and James reluctantly exited the Limo.
"We aren't sloshed if that's what you two are thinking." Sirius started to state his case, but Stephen slammed his face down against the hood of the limo.
"Speak when spoken to!" Stephen pulled out a pair of wizarding cuffs and slapped them on his wrists. "You're going back to that familiar cell where you will think about how you're going to make up for your actions!"
"Stupefy!" Lily stunned James and he slumped against the hood of the Limo. "He's all yours dad. I'm going to check on the kids."
Stephen dragged Sirius with him to the other side of the limo. "Stay put!! I'm going to take care of your cell mate." He then cuffed his own son. "Two days in Azkaban should be enough to teach you two never to boost the royal limo. Then take it on a path of destruction, and not have the least bit concern for the two kids inside the back of it!!"
"He's unconscious!! What the hell did you do to my son!?" Lily came back from checking on the kids, so she could deck, then knee the two of them.
"That was Hermione's fault not ours!" James gritted his teeth in pain.
Lily hauled off and punched him again, "How dare you blame an innocent sixteen-year-old girl for something that you caused!"
"It's true!! She blurted out all of these facts, then the words girls, and out he went!" Sirius had the look of a dog that had been kicked one two many times. "I SWEAR IT!!"
"I wasn't really ready to hear that yet. Why are they cuffed like criminals?" Harry stumbled out of the limo. "Not that I don't think it's well-deserved, but what if the press gets a shot of that. What would Grams think?"
"He was telling the truth?" Stephen and Lily glared at him.
"Well...you see that is...it's amazing what you blurt out when you think that you are going to die." Hermione flashed them her most innocent look.
"SEE!! I WAS TELLING THE TRUTH!!" Sirius did not want to go back to prison. "That's why I swerved off into that orchard!"
"They were talking about the strike system with regards to their promise, which really isn't something that you need to overhear while trying to focus on the road." James pointed out.
"Cho has three strikes and then all promises are null and void." Hermione snarled. "The current tally is one after that bitch kissed him in Diagon Alley!"
Stephen opened the limo door and shoved Sirius then James into the back of it. "Back in the limo and not another word."
"This is so not my fault! I don't force people to target me!" Harry got back in the Limo, after his grandfather gave him the look.
Hermione started to say something then thought better of it and ducked back inside.
"Lily do you think that you can drive the limo back to the castle?" Stephen arched a brow at her. "I have hours of damage control to see to."
"I can drive anything and I know the way back home." Lily nodded. "Will I see you at dinner?"
"I won't be home till after midnight, so tell Anna that for me when you get home." Stephen shut the limo door. "Remember to point the finger at James and Sirius."
"I think that I can do that." Lily winked at him. "Mum is going to flay them alive for this one."
"It reminds me of the last time they boosted the limo. Wasn't it New Year's Eve, so you and James could have that fancy date, because you were turning eighteen at the stroke of midnight?" He watched Lily blush.
"Yes, well, that was a very longtime ago and I have a long drive ahead." Lily changed the subject. "Take care Dad."
"I thought that something happened now I know." Stephen watched, as she blushed even more crimson. "Drive safe." That said he vanished.
Lily walked around the limo and got into the drivers seat. "Not one word James or I will make you pay later."
James grinned at Harry, but said nothing.
"Too much information!! Are you saying that I was...?" Harry wanted to jump from the limo. "In this Limo?!"
"No you weren't created from that lapse of sanity in the limo!" Lily snarled.
Harry felt like they were hiding something from him. "Spill it I know that you're hiding something from me."
"It was a very longtime ago and let's leave it at that." James got deadly serious.
"Oh, now I know that something big is up, because you're all dark and brooding." Harry wasn't going to let it drop.
"James he's seventeen, maybe we should just tell him." Lily looked at him using the rearview mirror. "It will be twenty years ago tomorrow that it happened and it just wasn't meant to be." She got all melancholy.
"They would have been twenty tomorrow." James heaved a heavy sigh.
Harry was completely confused. "They? I had twin siblings?"
"I got seriously ill right before I was to have Aurora and Andromeda. There was a nasty virus going around and it nearly killed me. I went into labor, they didn't make it, but I did. I was eighteen and didn't talk to James for three years after that. It nearly destroyed my ability to love anything, but then James tangled with a Dark Wizard sent to do Voldemort's bidding, and I had to patch him up. We reconciled and the result of that was a miracle we got you." Lily explained in a solemn tone.
"Now do you understand what I mean by how coupling can complicate matters?" James locked eyes with Harry.
"I get your point loud and clear." Harry tried to make sense out of what had been said. "You were separated from mum for three years?"
"We never got divorced. It wasn't an option, besides we still loved each other, and it was just a really complicated situation. Voldemort was in power everyone was running around fearing for their lives. The two of us had our first narrow escape right after we were married. He might have been powerful, but he was never really good at planning things. We really put one over on him and lived to tell the tale. The second time was right after we buried your sisters. We were still together, but barely speaking to each other. He blew up our home as we were walking out the door. That was the straw that broke the camels back for Lily. She cursed him till he wasn't recognizable anymore and then I finished the job. She chucked the rest of her Auror training, left me, and went off to study to become a Healer." James went down a memory lane that he really didn't want to relive.
"So you were reunited with them when you died?" Harry wasn't about to drop this subject.
"Harry James, don't you dare get all broody, because it's just going to make your groundation that much longer!" Lily growled.
"I mean really, Mummy. You and Daddy are being way harsh, since the brat didn't do anything wrong this time." Katherine Aurora appeared in the passenger seat.
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Chapter 34
Rory
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