Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling owns the Harry Potter Universe all other claimants to anything to do with the H.P. story are simply hangers on to her glory. I thank her for allowing us mere mortals to play in her world and I promise that while I have Harry in my care nothing bad will happen to him. I will leave that to J.K.R. herself in book six.

H. P. LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED

Authors Notes. I am having difficulty keeping up with writing and editing the nine thousand words a week required to regularly update this story and H.P. and the New Neighbours so either or both could start slipping.

Chapter 4. Diagon Alley.

By eleven thirty they were all ready so they piled into the car and started their trip to London, there was a little more traffic than Tuesday when they had come the other way but the traffic going towards the coast looked horrendous.

It was about quarter to one when the trio were dropped at the airport and Harry declared that they would eat in 'the Leaky Cauldron', but that did not stop him buying a load of crisps and Mars Bars just to keep them going on their journey into town.

Hunger was their main preoccupation as they headed past Foyle's towards lunch in the Leaky Cauldron and Hermione said with a grin, "You deliberately kept me starving so I wouldn't want to go into Foyle's didn't you?"

Harry gave her a mischievous grin and replied, "As if such a thought would ever occur to me."

"You did though, didn't you?" Ginny asked with a cheeky grin, as they passed the shop next-door to the Leaky Cauldron.

"Of course I did," he replied as he quickly slipped into the Wizarding Pub, Hermione's retribution was delayed because at that moment Tonks and Remus appeared from under invisibility cloaks.

Before they even said hello Tonks pleaded, "I hope that we are going to eat now? I'm starving."

Harry quickly crossed the room and went up to Tom behind the bar, he asked if it would be possible for the five of them to have lunch somewhere quiet so they were directed to a small private room.

"Hunger was part of Harry's master plan," Ginny told the pair, "if we had eaten at the airport then Hermione would of wanted to go into Foyle's Bookshop and the bank would of been closed by the time we came out, so all in all it worked."

"Anyway," Hermione added, "we did have Mars Bars and crisps on the tube, to keep us going."

"I know," said Tonks with a grin, "I was going to mug you for the crisps but Remus wouldn't let me."

"I would have helped her if she had been going after the Mars Bars," said Remus, "but she wouldn't go for those she said that they has too many calories."

Lunch had arrived and they were all tucking in when Hermione said, "Will you please tell whoever is on duty this evening that if they hear screams coming from the house tonight, it will only be Harry getting his just deserts."

With a very lewd smirk Tonks said, "I didn't think that Harry was the sort to scream if you were giving him his just deserts?"

"Tonks you are incorrigible." Hermione said blushing but also giggling.

"I've been practicing," she replied with a grin, "am I getting better at it?"

"I have heard from a very reliable source," Harry said, "that I am stinking rich, so I am going to pay for lunch."

Tonks threw her arms around Harry's neck and started fluttering her eyelashes at him, "Hello handsome," she said, "I always knew that there was something I liked about you. It must be your wondrous generosity."

All of them burst out laughing including Harry and Tonks, as they made their way out Harry paid and while he was distracted Ginny and Hermione asked Tonks what the spell was she had just cast on Harry.

She told them, "It is a charm to stop other females recognising him the problem is it only lasts about an hour and a half and we have to hope that it is long enough because it can not be repeated for forty-eight hours."

Harry had finished paying so they made their way down Diagon Ally and up the white marble steps into Gringotts Bank.

Harry went up to the first free goblin and passed him his vault key, Harry told him that he wanted to open some accounts, so he opened one each for Hermione and Ginny and put a thousand Galleons into each account. Next he opened an account for Hermione's parents Hermione had to give the bank their full names and into this account he put the four hundred and fifty Galleons that would more than pay for her watch.

He then asked the goblin if Gringotts had any system like Muggle Debit cards, he was told that it did for both Galleons and Muggle money but he was too young to be allowed to use it. Of course he asked the goblin how old he had to be to have such a card and he was slightly peeved when he discovered that he was only five days to young to have the facility.

Knowing that it was useless to argue with the Gringotts goblins, but nonetheless feeling slightly frustrated they had to go down to his vault. Ginny and Hermione came down with him whilst their two guardians waited in the banks main hall. When they were in his vault Harry gave each of the girls fifty Galleons to put in their purses and he put a hundred into his money bag, he also gave each of the girls a sack to carry with a Hundred Galleons in it and he took two similar sacks himself.

When they arrived back in the main banking hall Tonks and Remus immediately rejoined them and going directly to a free goblin Harry exchanged his two hundred Galleons he was carrying for one thousand and sixty Muggle Pounds. He then asked the girls to exchange their one hundred Galleons as well and they each received five hundred and twenty Muggle Pounds and Harry told them to put the money into their moneybags.

The group were leaving the bank and making their way to Flourish and Blotts the bookshop when Ginny asked, "Why are you giving us all this money Harry?"

"Obviously the Galleons are for your school books and anything else you want today," Harry told her, "and the Muggle pounds are in case you need anything when we go on holiday next week."

"You can't just go giving me loads of money for nothing," Ginny was blushing as she told him off, "it just isn't right."

"It's not for nothing," Harry answered, "the school money isn't up for debate and the other is a late Christmas present."

"But you bought me a dress robe for Christmas," she countered triumphantly.

Harry asked, "How long is it since we first met?"

Hermione turned away grinning, she could already see where this was going although Ginny seemed oblivious.

Ginny said, "It will be five years on September the first," with a really sweet smile.

"And I have only bought you one Christmas present," Harry was grinning now, "so I still owe you for all the other Christmas's and birthdays." Ginny looked stunned but he went on, "Don't worry about it, I owe Hermione as well."

The pair of girls looked at each other and Hermione in a little voice said, "You don't have to buy us Harry."

"It would be really insulting for me to have to do that." Harry said still grinning, "Anyway I got you both for free so now I reserve the right to spoil the pair of you at every opportunity, your Mum said it in a way Hermione, so I will spoil you both with anything you need and you can both spoil me anyway you see fit."

"Sounds quite reasonable to me," said Tonks, "what do you think Remus?"

"Yes, it sounds quite fair to me as well," replied Remus, "everyone gets a bit of what they want, or need, or both come to that."

By this time they had reached Flourish and Blotts bookshop where they all started searching for the books they needed, Remus and Tonks recommended some other books on the Dark Arts and Defence, so Harry bought a couple of copies of each of those as well.

By the time they were leaving the bookshop each of them had a large pile of books to carry and Harry said, "I would like a bag that I could put loads of stuff in and it did not weigh anything."

"You can buy them you know," Tonks told him, "but they are very expensive."

"What does very expensive add up to?" Harry asked.

"How do you expect me to remember a thing like that," Tonks replied giggling, "I can't even remember what colour underwear I put on this morning. But there is a bag shop over the way if you really wanted to find out."

So they all made their way over to the bag shop where Harry gave the young lady in charge a brief description of what he wanted and she said, "You have to be a bit more specific, but for instance, if you wanted to put all of these books into one bag and wanted it to weigh no more than about five pounds, that would cost you five hundred Galleons. That's for what is called a fifty to one bag, every fifty pounds you put into it will increase its weight by one pound, the one hundred to one bags cost ten times that."

"The fifty to one bags sound good to me, do you have three of them?" Harry asked, "Preferably one copper coloured, one chestnut and one black?"

"We have the black and the copper in stock but the nearest to chestnut we have is dark mahogany," she told him smiling.

"I will take those three then," Harry said returning her smile, "but I will have to go to Gringotts to get the money to pay for them."

"There will be no need for you to go to the bank Mr Potter," the girl told him her smile moving up a notch, "if you sign this chit the money will be transferred directly from your account to ours."

"How do you know who I am?" Harry asked looking puzzled.

The girl blushed but at the same time gave him what had become a huge smile, "Every unattached girl between the ages of fourteen and forty dreams about you at least three times a week." Then she added so that only Ginny and Hermione heard, "I do it at least three times a day."

It was now Harry's turn to blush as the shop assistant produced three quite small bags then Harry gave the copper one to Ginny, the mahogany one to Hermione and he kept the black one for himself. The instructions with the bag told them to put their wands in their wand hand into their bag and withdraw it, the bag would then be charmed to recognise them individually as its owner.

After charming their bags to themselves, they put their books in them and were delighted to find that the bags were still very light, Harry thanked the girl and as they were leaving he took her hand and kissed it.

When they were fifty yards from the shop heading for the Leaky Cauldron, Ginny started giggling and said, "Did you see her face when Harry kissed her hand?"

"She won't ever want to wash that hand again," Tonks said with an impish grin. "She owns that shop and I very much doubt that she will ever cash that money chit that the dreamboat signed for her, she was in heaven."

"That was for fifteen hundred Galleons," said Remus, "that's a lot of money."

"I'll go with Tonks," Hermione said with a smile, "I bet she will never cash it and don't forget that it is the Dreamboat's birthday Wednesday next week, do you have a contingency plan for the thousands of owls he will be receiving?"

"No we don't," Tonks said suddenly becoming serious, "we will have to look into it."

Their conversation had stopped because they had reached the Leaky Cauldron and when they entered the bar Arthur Weasley was waiting for them, he very quietly said "I have brought a Ministry car to take you all to Hermione's house."

When they were making their way through the bar towards the exit Harry thought that some of the younger women were looking at him rather oddly. After a few second's thought he decided to ignore it, it was probably only his imagination anyway and he just had to get used to the girls teasing him occasionally.

The Ministry car made short work of the trip to Hermione's house, as soon as they had entered a deserted alley it had done a jump, like the Knight Bus and then it was travelling up the lane towards her house.

Tonks and Remus made the trio stay in the car whilst they went into the house first and checked with Dobby that nothing untoward had happened during their absence and when they were satisfied the trio were allowed to go in. Tonks told them that it probably wouldn't matter too much about the owls on Harry's birthday because they were too far out in the country for anybody to notice, but she would nonetheless mention it to Dumbledore.

After the two guards had gone outside to do their rounds before they were relieved Dobby came and told them that it was time for dinner so the three of them went to the dining room.

When dinner was finished they were sitting in the lounge and Harry said, "Have you finished teasing me about other girls?"

Ginny was looking mischievous, "He has no idea does he sis?"

"Well he hasn't been reading the Daily Prophet has he, shall I tell him sis?" Hermione asked and Ginny nodded, "Since our battle in the Ministry there has been absolute uproar, mainly because it all came out about you and Dumbledore's working for the good side against Fudge and Umbridge who were trying to discredit you both.

But most of all it has been about you and a lot of it was Rita Skeeter who was doing some proper investigative journalism, for a change.

The tri-wizard Tournament, Voldemort's rebirth, Crouch/Moody, Dementors in Little Whinging, the battle in the Ministry and you facing Voldemort again right in the Ministry everything, well not everything but masses of stuff. She even found masses about the Troll and Quirrell in our first year also about you killing the Basilisk to save a younger student in second year, but she didn't find out that it was Ginny.

Definitely enough so that the people, now, all have a fair idea of the truth, you know what I mean all of the really important things that Fudge and his cronies have been covering up for an easy life and probably money as well.

A whole bunch of Death Eaters who were working inside the Ministry have been rounded up, Fudge and nearly all of his administration are either under house arrest or in prison, including Percy Weasley. The Goblins have replaced the Dementors at Azkaban and the Dementors have been put inside a containment field on an unplotable island that people think is way up north somewhere.

The upshot of it all has been that for the latest 'Witch Weekly' most eligible bachelor pole they received more than double the number of votes they have ever had before and you received ninety six percent of them. So you have now been officially christened Mr Dreamboat, oh and the Prophet not to be left out has dubbed you 'the green eyed sex god' and I actually heard a couple of girls in 'Flourish and Blotts' using that name."

"You forgot the Teen Witch Weekly, Hermione." Ginny added, "For their poll you received ninety eight percent of the vote and I actually believe that it was them who originally christened you Dreamboat."

Harry forced himself to look serious and said, "So you two decided to grab me before anyone else could?"

Ginny looked mortified and burst into tears whilst Hermione also looked horrified and screamed, "NO!"

Harry burst out laughing then he grabbed Ginny in a tight cuddle telling her repeatedly that he loved her and that he was sorry until she stopped crying and then he started to apologise to Hermione as well.

"It's us who should be sorry," said Ginny through her dying sobs, "we've been teasing you for hours then you tease us back once and we go mental."

Hermione was going to say something but Harry didn't let her he said, "No Ginny it is me who must apologise to both of you, you have both been wonderful to me and I go and say a mean thing like that. I really am very sorry."

"I think that it is time," said Hermione looking at Ginny.

Before he knew what was happening Harry was on the floor being tickled by the girls. Over the course of the next half hour he managed to get a good tickle in on both of the girls a couple of times but always the other one would quickly come to her quasi sisters rescue.

Eventually Harry was laying on the floor with a girl either side of him, he had surrendered and he said, "I just don't get it, how can anyone in their right mind at the Prophet christen me the Green Eyed Sex God, if I am still a virgin?"

There were twin hoots of laughter from the lounge door and the three of them sat up quickly, Harry saw that it was Tonks and Amelia Bones, the Head of Magical Law Enforcement also acting Minister for Magic, what on earth was she doing here.

Harry jumped up off the floor and was helping the girls up as he asked, "Hi Tonks what's the problem?"

He was still helping the girls up when Tonks replied "I passed on our thoughts about the owls on your birthday to the Headmaster and he suggested that Minister Bones and I meet him here to check it out."

"You had better call me Amelia," Mme Bones said, who despite greying hair and a monocle had a cheeky smile, "if we are going to all help the Dreamboat with his virginity problem."

The look of horror on Harry's face was classic and the other four were almost immediately holding their sides laughing, Harry soon joined them then he said, "I owe you Tonks, it may take a while but beware it will come. I think that I should promise to shock you."

"Give it your best shot!" Tonks said jutting out her jaw trying to look fierce but her eyes were sparkling with humour.

Harry kissed her quickly on the lips, she was shocked her eyes opened wide and her hand went to her mouth, then the other four were laughing, Harry had won and so soon Tonks joined in the laughter.

"Enough of you two harlots trying to steal our Dreamboat." Hermione said as she and Ginny, still chuckling, clutched Harry in a fierce hug, "What of the owl problem?"

Amelia ignored the question and with a mock pout said, "Well I for one don't think that it is fair, I offer to help the Dreamboat with his virginity problem, Tonks gets a kiss and you two defend his chastity. I will appeal to the Wizengamot. Except I don't expect it would do much good, most of them are too old to remember what a kiss is."

"I resent that remark Amelia." The Headmaster said smiling, as he came in with Professor McGonagall.

"I wasn't trying to cast aspersions on your memory Albus," Amelia said, "I was trying to cast my body at the Dreamboat but they wouldn't let me," and she pointed at the two girls still defending Harry. Neither Tonks nor the other three had ever seen the Deputy Headmistress laugh before but she was and soon everybody was giggling, Amelia continued, "After I made him a perfectly reasonable offer to help him with his virginity problem Minnie, he went and kissed Tonks, well I demand equal rights for… for slightly older witches."

"I don't have a virginity problem." Harry said forlornly.

"Those are the worst kind of problems you know Amelia," Professor McGonagall said still chuckling, "the ones you don't even know that you have. Miss Granger, Miss Weasley may I speak to you outside for a few minutes please?"

The two girls went outside with the Deputy Headmistress and Professor Dumbledore said, "I don't see much of a problem with owls coming here do you Amelia? The house is quite remote."

"I agree Albus." The Minister replied and then she added, "Although I think that it would be best if I moved a few of my people in to check that there aren't trackers on any of the owls as they arrive. Although that could be quite a problem in itself, there could be hundreds of young ladies trying to find the Dreamboat for purely licentious reasons."

"Excuse me," asked Harry seriously, "can any of you explain what it is that a load of people, mainly girls, who do not know me, find so fascinating about me?"

"It is no one thing in particular Harry," Amelia answered sincerely, "It is a combination of everything that has made you into 'the-boy-who-lived' and I could sit here all night going through the what and why and still not cover half of what the girls see in you." The deputy Headmistress had come back in with the two girls but Amelia carried on, "My niece Susan's invitation to your Birthday Party arrived and the first thing she said was something like, 'Why on earth would I want to take a boy to the Green Eyed Sex God's party?' Well her cousin Daphne Greengrass, who was visiting us, immediately started pleading with Susan to come with her and it turns out that although she is in the same year as you, she can't ever remember having a conversation with you."

"She's the one who has grown to look like she should be the centrefold of PlayWizard, isn't she?" asked Ginny sounding slightly intimidated.

"She is in Slytherin and she had the fourth highest average marks in our year." Hermione stated, which wasn't very helpful for Ginny's confidence, "I have always found her to be quite pleasant and off hand I don't think I can remember her speaking to Draco or his cronies either, she certainly isn't friends with them."

"She has without doubt become quite a looker and yes she is in Slytherin," Amelia said, "but over the years her family have split equally between all of the houses, she has always been extremely ambitious, ergo she landed in Slytherin."

"I believe that we should all leave now and allow these young people to get some sleep." Professor Dumbledore said and he, Amelia and Professor McGonagall said goodnight and left.

Tonks said, "See you in the morning then and don't do anything I wouldn't do. On second thoughts don't do most of the things I would do either." Then fluttering her eyelashes and grinning she left.

"Oh dear," said Hermione looking contrite, "it was supposed to be a secret and Amelia let the cat out of the bag."

"Please tell us that you still love us." Ginny pleaded looking really worried.

"Ok I still love you." The girls looked relieved and Harry continued, "But how many people have you invited? You both know that I don't like a lot of people around."

"It's not many, honest," said Hermione sounding relieved, "it is only us, our House year and Susan Bones."

Ginny took over, "Well you know that Ron is away with Luna so they won't be here, Neville is off in the Amazon rain forest with Professor Sprout looking for some weird plants and things, where's Dean gone sis?"

Hermione carried on, "Dean has gone to the Canary Islands on a training fitness thingy with his favourite, West Ham Football Club and Seamus has gone to New York to visit some Muggle relations with his dad, so that only leaves Parvati and Lavender with whomever they bring."

"Susan will bring Daphne Greengrass," Harry said, "and going on what Amelia said, Padma will probably force Parvati bring her, I just hope that Lavender brings a boy but I am warning you that if she brings Colin Creevey I will lock myself in my room all day. Also someone better draw up a contingency plan just in case it is me and eight girls at this party and maybe someone has been talking to them about Hetaerae."

"Oh lawks!" Hermione said looking worried, "What on earth will we do?"

"Hermione," said Ginny, "what on earth sort of word is 'lawks'?"

"I thought that witches were supposed to say 'lawks' when they wanted to say something like 'crikey' or 'botheration'," and Hermione said the next words very quietly, "or swear."

"No Hermione," Ginny said very patiently, "you have probably been reading too much Muggle fiction, we modern day witches just come out and say it, whatever. So what was it again that the Headmaster said about Hetaerae?"

Hermione answered, "Surprise, surprise, I did a little reading, the girls must be virgins to join whether they stay that way afterwards is entirely up to the wizard and quite clearly the Headmaster told us that there must be at least three to begin with obviously there could be more. He also told us that others may join but they also must be virgins when they do but all of the members and the wizard with his wives, if he has any, must agree to them, I suppose that that is to try to stop too much fighting. I looked this up as well, there are no age restrictions at all but if you are less than seventeen I suppose that your parents would have to give their consent and their is no maximum number of members either."

Ginny was a bit disgruntled, "So I would have to get my mum and dad's permission."

"We all would sis," Hermione said brightly, "none of us are seventeen until sometime next school year, anyway from what Lavender says in our dorm' there's no way she will pass the basic requirement."

Ginny had cheered up a little then Harry said, "Actually 'lawks' is a perfectly good word Ginny and it does mean exactly what Hermione wanted to say, although it does sound a bit odd. She could of said blast or botheration or ball… perhaps not that one. I prefer wardrobes myself, because if you say, 'Oh wardrobes', everyone knows that you wanted to swear but were good and didn't. Goodnight girls."

Harry left the girls a trifle confused and still with their self-imposed dilemma as they all made their way into their beds.

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