Authors Notes. 23-05 One of my reviewers asked if I wrote these stories from experience, practice or dreams, I am very sad to say that it is all wistful thinking, but if any group of about half a dozen (two would do) beautiful young virgins (the second qualification isn't absolutely essential either) would like to educate me I promise that I would be a very slow learner. I won't hold my breath waiting for the queue to form.
H.P. Love is All You Need
Chapter 8. The New improved Draco Malfoy?
Including Tonks there were eight of them who excitedly arrived in Harry and Hermione's bedrooms from where they had all decided to call 'their place'. When they checked the time it was about ten minutes before the Grangers were due back from their weekend away at a conference and Ginny remarked that so much had happened it seemed like a lifetime ago since they had gone away.
As Tonks made her way down the stairs, all of the girls crowded into Harry's room and he said, "Daphne before we go out shopping you need to change into a looser fitting top than the one you are wearing."
Hermione went back to her room as Harry sorted through one of his drawers and found a very large white T-shirt and as he passed it to Daphne, Hermione also gave her a pair of baggy trousers to wear saying, "You had better change into these as well, that skirt is liable to cause eye damage or a traffic accident."
Immediately Daphne pulled her top over her head, she was magnificent but before anyone could say anything she undid her skirt and let it drop to the floor.
Two flimsy pieces of emerald green lace was all that covered the most perfect body any of them had ever seen and Harry managed his standard intellectual, 'Wh…' before Daphne put her arms around his neck and smiling told him, "You know darling that it is all yours and we girls have all decided that it doesn't matter if you see the goods before Friday."
Then she kissed him lightly on the lips and started putting her clothes on, of course she made sure that she bent right over in front of him to put her feet into the trouser legs which for some reason seemed to require a lot of bottom wiggling whilst she was bent over.
All of the girls knew exactly what she was doing so they could hardly suppress their mirth at the expression on Harry's face and then Padma said sexily, "We have also decided that what we did to poor Tonks, poking our tongues out at her, was not very kind, so we think that a bit later on, when you get the chance, you should kiss her. You know, properly."
"Hermione, Ginny, Harry are you home?" it was Hermione's mum calling them from down stairs and Harry fled out of his bedroom.
Four strange girls in the house along with everything else that had happened over the previous seventy two hours took quite a bit of explaining and although it seemed a bit sudden Friday was agreed as the day for the Hetaering. Mr Granger wanted to go to their surgery for a while so they asked Jane if she wanted to come clothes shopping with them and Jane was not one to turn her nose up at a shopping trip.
Harry called Tonks and asked her if she would come shopping with them but she seemed a bit sulky and when Harry asked her what the problem was she said, "The girls keep teasing me because I have never kissed you."
"Oh! Is that all," said Harry and as he had been instructed a little earlier he kissed her, properly.
After he stopped, in a bit of a daze but sounding aggrieved, Tonks mumbled, "He kissed me."
"Didn't you enjoy it?" asked Ginny excitedly.
Tonks replied with utter distain, "Of course I did."
"So what's the problem?" asked Parvati slightly curiously.
Angrily the Auror replied, "He put his tongue in my mouth."
"So what did you do about it?" Daphne asked sounding puzzled.
"Well I put my tongue into his of course." Tonks replied as though she was stating the blindingly obvious.
"So I still don't see what the problem is?" this time it was Padma and she was sounding a trifle confused.
"It was wonderful, but he stopped." Tonks said sounding dejected.
Very forthrightly Hermione thought that she would put an end to the conversation by saying, "Well even 'Green Eyed Sex God's' have to breath sometimes you know Tonks and it lasted for nearly two minutes as it was."
Nobody was sure that Susan had fully recovered from her earlier excitement and it did nothing to alleviate their suspicions when she said dreamily, "I wish that there was some other way to breathe and eat, then we could kiss for days or perhaps even weeks."
Harry went back to 'their place' first, this was to tell Godric that Hermione was bringing her Muggle mother, shortly afterwards the pair arrived and Jane's worried frown at the form of transport quickly turned to a big smile. Hermione quickly showed her mother around whilst the others were arriving and soon after a discussion mainly between Jane and Tonks, who was now in a very good mood, they decided that they were going to go to Selfridges in Oxford Street. Their choice had been limited because they had to choose a shop that had facilities for members of the magical community to arrive unnoticed.
However first they would have to go to Gringotts for some money.
With Tonks guiding them they all arrived safely at the apparition point outside the bank in Diagon Alley and immediately went up the marble steps into the bank.
Draco Malfoy was in the bank and in his normal smarmy manner he said, "Its Potty and his whores. Pa…"
That was as far as he managed, there were seven wands pointing at him, six of them had fired a spell, only Harry had desisted and Rita Skeeter arrived as Tonks asked loudly, "Ok ladies who did what to the idiot Malfoy? Ginny?"
She smiled sweetly and said, "The 'Bat Bogies' are mine and they should wear off before school restarts, hopefully."
"Susan?"
"The ears," Draco's ears were like those of a house elf, each about two feet long and a most disgusting shade of green, "and I have absolutely no idea how long they will last, but it might be until the counter charm is cast and the half of the book with the counter charms in it, was missing." She answered dreamily.
Tonks smiled, "Well at least they're in his house colours. Parvati?"
"The beaver teeth," she too was smiling sweetly, "I once saw him do that to Hermione and I always thought that it would suit him better."
All the time Rita was taking notes and Bozo her faithful sidekick was taking photographs.
"Padma?" Tonks asked.
"The nose hair," his nose hair had become shocking pink and had grown to about four inches long, "and as far as I know, it won't grow any more unless he tries to cut it off."
"How long does it last?" asked Parvati innocently.
"I think that it is permanent, but I might be wrong," her sister answered and if it were possible Draco looked even more horrified.
Tonks resumed, "Daphne?"
"Well I have heard it mentioned, by those in the know, that he only has a little tiny tinkle and it wasn't much use to anyone," she said naively, knowing full well that Rita was franticly taking notes, "so I made it even tinier and I do believe that it is also permanent."
"Hermione?" she finished quite happily.
"Mine might possibly be superfluous," she said sounding and looking disappointed, "I only made him permanently sterile."
Tonks smiled and said to Draco, "Well no harm done is there, I think that you got off pretty lightly all things considered so off you go now."
Draco skulked away muttering about getting Potter, under his breath.
"And Rita," said Hermione sweetly, turning to face the reporter, "write it up accurately and you might be in for a treat on Friday, oh and we don't mind if this report is a bit sensational, well very sensational wouldn't hurt as long as it is accurate."
Harry added, "I can confirm for you Rita that the Hetaerae will be forming at noon on Friday."
Smiling broadly Rita Skeeter spoke for the first time, "Do you think that I could have one photograph of the six of you girls together with Harry please?"
After Rita had her picture she scurried off to the Newspaper offices and Harry said, "A special edition, no doubt."
The bank had become crowded with people trying to find out what was going on and a smartly dressed goblin came up to them and said, "My name is Grimnog and I am one of the Chief's assistants, if you would all like to come this way, I will get you out of this turmoil." He led them through a side door into a small conference room and then he continued, "If you will allow me to help what can I do for you Mr Potter?"
Harry replied, "Actually I only came in for some Muggle money to go shopping but if you don't mind there are some other things I need to do as well?"
The goblin called 'Griphook' through a tube and when he arrived he told Harry to detail what he wanted.
Harry started by saying, "All funds are to come from my account, all of these young ladies are to have new current accounts with fifty thousand Galleons in them and at the end of each month the balance in each account is to be brought back up to that amount."
Grimnog asked, "Just to clarify, if they spend forty thousand Galleons in one month we are to add that amount and if they only spend ten Galleons we are to add that amount?"
All of the girls were looking a bit stunned but it was Ginny who said incredulously, "So we can spend up to fifty thousand Galleons a month?"
Harry smiled and answered, "Yes if you need to and if you need more then you only have to ask me."
The senior goblin looked as if he had suddenly realised something, "Are these ladies the Hetaerae I have heard about?"
When Harry agreed that they were Grimnog smiled and continued, "Then all of the normal restrictions for people of your age do not apply, would it be better if you all had Gringotts money bags?"
Daphne asked him what a Gringotts money bag was, so he explained, "It is a bag with direct access to Mr Potter's account although yours will be keyed to be only be accessed by each of you individually, if you put your hand in thinking that you need fifty Galleons, then fifty Galleons will be in the bag. Similarly if you think that you wanted a hundred Pounds or a thousand Franks then they would be there for you, banker's cards and chequebooks accompany them for large amounts.
Also if you find that you have any spare cash on you that you don't need, you can just place it into the bag and it will be deposited back into the account."
Harry smiled and said, "That will be excellent."
Ten minutes later having used their own Floo they were in Gladrags, they had decided to order the clothes for the Hetaering, the owner had locked the door and made all of the windows opaque so that they wouldn't be invaded.
Also they all needed some new robes for the solicitors in the morning so they bought these first, the girls decided that pewter was a good colour and recalling the Headmaster's advice Harry had pewter coloured robes in some shiny material. His were of a standard pattern but the girls' robes seemed to have a fitted bodice with the back of the robe sweeping from the top of the bodice up over the shoulders, what they looked like on was to be a small surprise for him tomorrow.
The girls sent Harry over the other side of the shop to buy robes for Tonks and Jane to wear to the solicitors the next day.
In the mean while the six friends debated what they should look like for the Hetaering with the owner of the shop and when they had decided what they would wear they then decided what Harry would wear.
When Harry had been measured and fitted he was sent back to 'their place', he had the assurance that one of them would be along soon to keep him company. Daphne had called Pren and asked her to take all of their bags back and to put the clothes away, Daphne and Hermione had given her a lot of whispered instructions before she left.
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After Harry left them, the serious business of fitting dresses began and the first to finish were the Patil twins and they volunteered to go to Harry but the general consensus was that if they went, Harry would be fit for nothing for the rest of the day. This was a sentiment that was echoed by the twins themselves because with what they had in mind he would probably need to be carried straight home to his bed.
Next to finish was Susan and she was eager to be off, but she was told in no uncertain manner that if she were to be allowed an hour alone with Harry, knowing what she was like, she wouldn't make the will reading tomorrow, reluctantly she agreed.
This was when they decided that Harry would be quite safe left on his own and they could quite happily continue buying the odd robe or pair of shoes or hand bag or something flimsy or finding it all to match.
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When Harry had arrived back at 'their place', Godric's portrait had recommended a book for him to read. So he had spent the best part of a couple of hours sitting quietly on the veranda sipping Butterbeer reading through one of the very old Grimoire of Godric Gryffindor.
He had learned a great deal from it.
It had been very tranquil but as is the way of the world, the ladies arrived back at the same time as seven copies of the expected special edition of the Daily Prophet arrived, luckily the delivery owl just dropped them and left.
Ginny's mum had arrived with the others, Ginny had gone home by the normal Floo to collect her, she seemed very happy so after she had given Harry big hug and taken a quick look around 'their place' she asked, "So what's in the special edition of the Prophet then?"
Several people were sharing but because there were no more than two to a copy everyone had a good view.
The top half of the front page was taken up with three excellent photographs of the much-modified Draco Malfoy and they had the bold title.
DON'T MESS WITH THE POTTER GIRLS.
IS THIS THE NEW IMPROVED DRACO MALFOY?
The bottom half of the page also had another excellent large photograph on it, but this one was of Harry and his six girls who were all trying, very successfully to look sweet and innocent, the caption read.
LOVE FINDS THE BOY WHO LIVED.
There wasn't a lot of editorial, the special was only one folded broadsheet page, the whole of the inside was filled with close-ups of what the girls had done to Draco and named who had done what. The back cover was simply six photographs of the girls with their names underneath.
The front page had told everyone that Harry Potter himself had confirmed that his Hetaering would be this Friday at noon, the location within Hogwarts grounds was known only to the Headmaster and that was from some very old records. It was over three hundred and fifty years since the last Hetaering had taken place and needless to say there was nobody still alive whose grandparents would of remembered it.
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At the same time as the special edition was being read by Harry in 'their place', Tom Marvolo Riddle was reading the same thing and he laughed, "Silly children's charms is all they have, they have nothing of substance to stand against the power of Lord Voldemort. Mobilise all of our forces, we will arrive in Hogwarts grounds at a quarter before noon on Friday." This time Bellatrix and Wormtail laughed along with the Dark Lord.
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"It's no good sitting around here admiring pictures of yourselves," Harry said, "we still have all of our original Muggle clothes shopping to do."
There were two things in that statement that moved the girls, Muggle clothes shopping was good, but, sat around here admiring pictures of yourselves, didn't really do it for them. Subsequently six quasi-angry females set about tickling Harry and from the sounds of things they either knew or were finding all the right places.
Nonetheless all good things must to come to an end and so they used their Floo to go to Selfridges.
Now lets face it a bunch of females shopping for clothes is extremely tedious for everybody except the bunch of females shopping for clothes, that is why forty five minutes later we find Harry back on the veranda reading more of his book.
Over three hours had passed and he was well into the second volume before any of the others arrived back and the first of them were Molly and Ginny.
Harry came back into the lounge to greet them and they were both very excited so Molly said, "I must get the money to pay you back for all of these clothes but the girls convinced me that I should have them."
With a small smile and to Ginny's surprise he said, "Ok mum Weasley," this brought a big smile to Molly's face, "I will let you pay for the clothes, if I don't get over twenty million Galleons tomorrow."
In a hushed voice Molly said, "Over twenty million?"
"I was there mum," Ginny said, "the Headmaster said something that has made us fairly certain that Harry will get around twenty million Galleons tomorrow. Why do you think I wasn't worried about any of the money we were spending, anyway have you any idea how much you have spent today? I don't know what I spent on you but I do remember paying for a bunch of stuff for Tonks when she wasn't looking," Harry chuckled, "but I can't for the life of me remember how much it was either and I know that Hermione did the same at least twice. Before we were offered the money bags he was going to give each of us an allowance of fifty thousand Galleons…"
Aghast Molly interrupted, "Fifty thousand Galleons a year? That's more than Arthur earns."
"No mother, a month." This caused Molly's mouth to drop open, "Fifty thousand galleons a month, as Harry keeps on telling us, money is the least of our worries."
At this point there was laughing and giggling from the hall effectively halting their discussion.
All of the others came bubbling into lounge, oddly enough Tonks stopped about three inches from Harry then said, "Firstly I did not give you permission to kiss me earlier, although it was very nice and secondly I never gave permission for you to have this group of reprobates drown me in clothes this afternoon. So because I have absolutely no idea how much they have spent I will only pay the first bill." Whilst Harry was trying to work out what she had been talking about she kissed him.
When the kiss had finished Ginny said, "If you keep molesting our boyfriend we will…"
Ginny was struggling so with a small smile Hermione continued, "Send the twins to snog Remus!"
Harry ignored the conversation that was continuing with Tonks capitulating completely and he spoke to Jane who was with Molly, "How has your afternoon been mum Granger?"
Jane smiled, "With more than one quasi-mother-in-law I think that calling me Jane will probably be easier in the long run, don't you? As for my afternoon, I don't think that I have ever seen anyone spend money faster than my daughter, but a lot of it wasn't on herself, I won't bother trying to persuade you to take what was spent on me because I don't really have any idea anyway. You bought me several things in that Gladrags shop in Diagon Alley and I don't even have any idea of their price range."
Molly said, "It is the dearest dress shop in the Alley but their clothes are nice. Thinking about it I also had a load of things from there young man."
Harry smiled, "Yes you did didn't you mum Weasley. Now you will look even more beautiful tomorrow."
Tonks had joined them and the noise from the girls had died down, Harry looked over and the girls were in a whispering huddle, "I think that I might have some problems." He said quietly.
The Auror smiled cheekily, "I think that 'problems' is not exactly the way that I would put it, if you were to say that you were being set up, it might be a little more accurate. And before you even ask they have been threatening me with a fate worse than death if I breath a word, they even went to the trouble of explaining what my fate would be, believe me it would be worse than death."
Molly said, "Look at the time, I must get home to make Arthur's dinner or I will be in trouble." She went and said goodbye to Ginny who then showed her how to get home using their Floo.
Jane intimated that they should go and get Matt his dinner but Harry asked loudly, "Which of my angels has to go home to eat and would any of you like to eat here?"
All of the girls said that they would eat in 'their place' so Harry went to collect Matt from 'Three Legged Cross' to bring him to 'their place' in Hogwarts, for dinner.
The dinner was excellent and the company was highly entertaining so everyone enjoyed them self.
After the meal they were all going home when Harry discovered that they had all arranged to come back for breakfast at seven thirty in the morning so they would all get ready to go to the solicitors in 'their place'.
Four of the girls spent a good twenty minutes split between kissing Harry thank you for the clothes and kissing Harry goodnight, but eventually everyone did go home.
Later that night when everybody in the Granger household was in bed, Matt said, "I think that Harry is going to have quite a time with those girls, they seem to have him just where they want him."
Jane chuckled, "When he says something will be like this then that is how it is, most of the time he is quite easy about what they do, so he lets them do what they want as long as it doesn't affect him adversely. To a greater or lesser degree he loves them all and the girls are very happy together, but when I spoke to some of them, including Ginny, they all told me that if anything happened to Hermione then he would curl up and die. Of course that would be after he killed whoever hurt her."
She had stopped for a minute but she started talking again, "I saw the girls deal with that very rude character you saw in the paper when you came for dinner, they were like lightning, so I asked Hermione why Harry hadn't done anything. She told me that he knew that he didn't have to, he had his wand out in case he was needed but he assessed the situation quickly enough that he didn't have to use it. Then when I remarked on how quick they were she told me, in quite a matter of fact manner, that he could beat the six of them if they had their wands in their hands and his was in its holster, a bit frightening."
"But only for the enemy darling, only for the enemy." Matt said, "Goodnight Jane."
"Goodnight darling."
Authors Note. So that is chapter eight and I hope that you all enjoyed it and will PLEASE REVIEW it.
Question 1: I have used Grimoire as the plural as well as the singular, do any of you know if this is correct?
Question 2: Do you think that what the girls did was too easy on Draco and will he have learned anything?
