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Firstly let me apologise for my absence.. It was never my intention to leave the story hanging on the cliff for so long. I hope you are all doing well and I will try and not take up too much of your time explaining my absence..

Lets just say my dad having been diagnosed with kidney cancer, my mum being in hospital again several times for various things, a house move, a lot of overtime and working my second job, depression, writers block, losing my flow and generally not having time has all lead to my absence.

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So moving forwards we are just going to be releasing chapters as and when they are done with no time scales in mind just as soon as they are done.

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Anyway I've left you all waiting long enough so please enjoy my latest offering and update for Harry Potter and the Jade Dragon.

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Chapter 103 – Yushiro & Yushiro

09:08hrs Saturday 3rd September, Yu's Tea House, Cut Thru, Banzai Bazaar, Tokyo

Hermione stepped out of the room after Fleur and closed the door with a bang, making the French witch jump. "What the hell was all that about?" she enquired in a harsh whisper.

"What are you talking about?" Fleur replied innocently a slight pink tinge spreading across her cheeks..

"Oh I don't know. The practically drowning him with your allure for starters?" Hermione asked completely irritated and annoyed that Fleur had used her allure on Harry or at least attempted to.

"What… I didn't… I mean…" Fleur's fumbled and stuttered trying to reply defensively. Hermione thought it was only the second time that she had ever seen her friend looking flustered. The only other time being before the second task when she knew that she would have to go underwater for an hour. She knew veela weren't fond of large bodies of water.

"You did. You told me that you only use your allure on someone you fancy, if you're trying to divert attention from someone else or if you are trying to distract an opponent or enemy. So what was all that about Fleur?" Hermione asked waspishly and a little harsher than she wanted because she saw Fleur take a half step back defensively before she saw Fleur's take on an expression of determination.

Fleur, surprised at Hermione's outburst but with a little ball of shame in her stomach, composed herself and then stood firmly "Sometimes my control over my allure can slip when I'm happy. I'm happy to see you and Arry. I've not seen you for a while and I've been working ard along with Cissa to try and do my job but more importantly to do something positive and help you and Arry." Fleur replied, trying to keep her voice down but the firmness and the inner steel in the French witch was obvious.

"So you just blasted Harry with your allure because you're happy?" Hermione asked, the scepticism obvious in her voice as she crossed her arms over her chest.

"What? You think I consider Arry an enemy or an opponent?! Come on Hermione, he is my friend and do you really think zat I want to cross wands with Arry Potter? He would wipe the floor with me." Fleur replied quickly having seen Harry in action.

"Well… erm… no… I... I don't think that you think that Harry is your enemy." Hermione started responding defensively.

"And what you think I would to seduce the man you've been telling me for months that you are in love with… And you think that I would do that right in front of you?" Fleur asked in a well practiced haughty tone that she had fired off at Molly Weasley on more than one occasion, going on the offensive, although not sounding as convincing as she had against the Weasley Matriarch as she couldn't deny her own attraction to Harry.

"I… well…. er… No… " Hermione said mumbling slightly and back pedalling and trying to organise her thoughts before letting out a sigh "I'm sorry Fleur… I guess what with the girls at Mahoutokoro and my friends all liking Harry. I just overreacted and started seeing yet another beautiful witch wanting Harry." Hermione said feeling bad she had just accused her friend and looked down at her feet.

"I understand that but forgive me for saying Hermione, but it's a situation of your own making." Fleur said with an almost snap to her tone and causing Hermione to look up suddenly and open her mouth to retort but Fleur cut across her quickly not wanting to lose the opportunity to say what she wanted to Hermione.

"Don't look at me like that. It is of your own making Hermione." she said a little softer. "You should have just told Ron that you made a mistake kissing him during the battle after you did it." Fleur responded, her features softening as she saw Hermione's head drop as she looked down at the floor.

"I know I should have.. I guess I'm just a little on edge as things have happened with me and Harry this week and I'm just scared of something affecting that." Hermione said seeing Fleur itching to ask her about what she meant..

"Look Hermione. I'm sorry to say it but he's an attractive wizard, he's a kind, sweet man and you are going to have to get very used to other witches finding him attractive and making moves on him.. You need to be confident in his feelings for you, and believe me they are there as he's not very good at hiding how he feels about you, although with Narcissa's coaching now he might really develop is poker face as she can be impossible to read sometimes." Fleur said to Hermione a lot more softly and calmly.

Hermione looked down nodding her understand before looking up and meeting Fleurs eye. "I'm scared Fleur.. I mean.. I've got four of my closest friends all fancying him and actively pursuing Harry as I've told them that its alright, I'm in a mess for getting into this situation with Ron and I should never have let it get to the stage where we're going out.. I guess I'm just terrified of being on this horrendous merry go round of emotions, having all the girls in school and my friends all after him and when it comes to a stop I'm left alone and with Harry.." Hermione said solemnly. ((think I should pull this for Hermione's chat with Narcissa)

"Look I'm really happy for you that things are moving along with Harry.. Don't you think thought zat they would move a little quicker if you just split up with Ron and just flat out told him how you feel about him?" Fleur asked shrugging her shoulders not understanding fully why her friend was so determined to spare Ron's feelings when Ron clearly wasn't considering hers from what Hermione had told her and from the things she was hearing about Ron and Lavender Brown back in England.

"Tell him.. Are you mad?" Hermione asked her eyes widening at the suggestion from Fleur.

"No…. I'm quite sane" Fleur replied her face not showing any emotion until she was unable to prevent the smile stealing onto her face as she said "At least by French standards" giving a little laugh.

"What if he doesn't feel the same way? What if he tells me that he doesn't like me like that after I'd shut him down a few weeks ago… or… or he fancies one of my friends more? What if he wants someone else and I've just opened my heart up to get crushed?" Hermione said almost manically.

"He won't do that Hermione as it is so obvious that he feels ze same way as you do" Fleur said waving her concerns away. "As for the allure.. I'm just happy to see you both and I couldn't help it. The allure I mean.. It's in my nature that if I lose control of my allure that it is going to be directed to a strong wizard first…" Fleur said by way of an explanation but she couldn't quite meet Hermione's eye as she said it.

"I get it.. I have read all about veela allure in the library and obviously you've told me bits about it.. I just..… I guess I'm just seeing threats to me and Harry everywhere at the minute and I'm getting a little crazy about it all.. I really don't know what's got into me as I'm normally in control of things and have squashed these emotions for so long around him… but when it comes to Harry I feel like I'm some sort of jealous school girl at the minute.." Hermione said honestly.

"Well you are still in school" Fleur teased getting a playfully scolding look from Hermione that caused her to giggle.

"Honestly Hermione what you and Arry have is something that every other witch craves, don't let your head get in the way of what your heart wants. I promise I'll try and keep a better control of my allure around you two." Fleur said thinking about how, unlike most men, Harry seemed to have a lot of self-control against her allure. The thought of that excited the veela in her. That part that loved the challenge of a man who felt they could resist her charms.

"And the 'I think Harry has already given Hermione a little show of his' comment?" Hermione asked before continuing, "I told you about seeing Harry getting changed, but not so you could tell him that. I don't want him thinking I'm talking about him behind his back." Hermione said taking Fleur by the elbow and pulled her away from the door to the room so that they couldn't be overheard by the occupants of the room.

"Sorry I didn't mean it as anything bad or to make him think you were talking about him behind his back Hermione. I was just trying to make a joke!" Fleur answered a little taken aback about why her friend was so upset about the comment.

"Well it wasn't funny… you know how much I care about Harry. I don't want anything to mess things up." Hermione protested.

"I'm not messing anything up Hermione. It was a joke and I'm sorry if it embarrassed you… or him. I was just trying to be funny and have a laugh. I'm just so glad to see you both and I want you to have a really fun time with us this weekend once we've got this meeting out of the way." Fleur replied apologetically looking a little upset that Hermione was taking the joke so badly. She knew how much Hermione loved Harry and she really didn't want to mess things up for her but not everything was in Fleur's control all the time and she really felt that her friend needed to relax a bit around Harry.

Hermione let out a sigh and pinched the bridge of her nose as she closed her eyes and calmed herself down as Professor McGonagall had taught her when Hermione had nearly had a full on meltdown stressing about the end of year exams in first year.

She started to try and remember the chapter titles of The Standard Book of Spells: Grade 1 and as she did, she found herself calming down. She had been surprised to see Fleur being a little flirty with Harry and when she practically hosed him down with her allure she'd felt like she'd be punched in the gut by her friend. As if she was aiming her affection at Harry and she'd never done that before.

"Look I'm sorry. I didn't mean to bite your head off. Things are great with Harry this week and I really want this to work out and I guess I'm still a little insecure about myself and… Well… I've found out that Ron has definitely been cheating on me with Lavender Brown. Some friend that bitch turned out to be and well with everything that I've been trying to bring toge..." Hermione said the venom evident in her tone.

"Really… so it's true... what you said about Ron?" Fleur asked interrupting her friend midstream and pulling her into a comforting hug as she held Hermione to her and gently stroked the back of her head. "He is a fool Hermione but if things are going in a positive direction with yourself and Arry then in a strange way it's a good thing isn't it?" Fleur asked leaning back out of the hug and looking at Hermione.

"I guess so… it just hurts to think that he would do something like that to me. Not even on a romantic level, but we're meant to be friends as well and you shouldn't treat friends like that... you know doing things behind their back and then lying to their face. That's the thing that hurts the most. As a boyfriend he is utter crap and I practically had to drag him to me to spend time with me and even then all he wanted to do was get physical." Hermione said giving a little shiver and recalling the times in the summer where she'd really tried to act like a couple with Ron and how wrong it all felt, unnaturally so.

"I know, I understand. He is your friend and should always be zat first and foremost. Its not like it's a surprise for Ron to do something stupid though no? From the things I've heard from you, Bill, and Ginny alone it's hardly surprising that he can't see he's got a good thing when it lands in his lap." Fleur said recalling the many stories she had heard about Ron from the rest of the Weasley family.

"Well that's what I thought. I'm so angry that he's been going round with her and people are seeing them together when he's meant to be with me. I mean how disrespectful is that!" Hermione said feeling her agitation building again.

"I know it's not, I agree. You don't deserve that! What are you going to do about it? Ave you talked to him?" Fleur asked wanting to talk about this more but knew that they were pressed for time.

"I really don't know what I'm going to do, but they'll both know I'm not happy with what they are doing to me." Hermione said her eyes hardening a little causing Fleur to gulp as she had never seen such a dark and calculating look cross her friends features before.

"Well just promise me you won't do anything until we've talked about it properly, ok? You don't' want to do something impulsive." Fleur asked her..

"Ok, ok, I won't do anything about it for now. But…" Hermione started saying as two witches and a wizard opened the door from one of the other private rooms and entered the corridor which was becoming a little cramped. "Come on we best get ordering breakfast" Hermione added setting off down the stairs with Fleur following.

"Qui and you can tell me all about this development you have had with Arry." Fleur said seeing Hermione's gloomy expression start to clear almost instantly like the sun bursting through the clouds making her face like up. "Don't spare the details." She added causing Hermione to smile as she started telling Fleur about Harry asking her to the ball and what he'd said about how he'd wanted his life before inheriting the Black family title.

They talked quietly and excitedly as they made their way down to the packed main floor of the tea house. They saw the tables were still full and a queue at the counter was going to door almost. Halfway down the queue Hermione spotted an agitated looking Master Kuzuko who was getting nudged and bumped into repeatedly from behind by a large fat wizard who looked like a sumo wrestler as they talked animatedly to the wizard they were with.

Master Kuzuko caught Hermione's eye and the two younger witches made their way to stand with her. "It's a bit busy. Do you think we'll even have time to eat by the time we order?" Hermione asked Master Kuzuko and Fleur.

"I'd have thought so. Chen and Mable and their staff are normally pretty quick. It's just that there are so many people who come to the Bazaar maybe once or twice a year and rather than deciding what they want before they get to the counter they are deciding while at the counter." Master Kuzuko said getting jostled forwards to the point where she had to put her foot out to steady herself and not get knocked into Hermione and Fleur. "Do you mind?" she called out over her shoulder but got no response from the wizard who'd nudged her as he continued talking to his friend in a deep voice.

She looked at Fleur and Hermione apologetically and rolled her eyes muttering under her breath about 'if he does that one more time'. "The solicitors have said that they will meet us wherever we like so I'm sure they would be willing to meet us here instead of at their office if we run out of time." Fleur replied looking to the large wizard who Master Kuzuko pushed back against hard as she was bumped forwards again.

Fleur had no time to react as Master Kuzuko was thrust forwards again more forcefully and sending her off balance and into Fleur and the pair of them took a tumble to the floor and landing in a heap.

"Whoa, watch it bitch" the large wizard said looking down at the two smaller women on the floor before letting out a deep belly chuckle "You nearly made me spill me Java Juice" he said holding out a mug that the girls hadn't seen and taking a hearty swig out of it.

"Right, that's it!" Master Kuzuko shouted out causing the general noise in the tea house to drop for a moment at the raised voice. Hermione watched as Master Kuzuko pushed off Fleur and jumped to her feet and turned and squared up to the large wizard who had pushed her to the ground and who was looking at her with a sort of vacant expression on his face as she looked at him with a face like thunder.

"Hey Fatty! Have you got something you want to say to us perhaps?" she snapped at the man who looked at his companion who smirked at him before he turned back to Master Kuzuko and said "Like what?"

"Like sorry for knocking us to the ground or calling me a bitch perhaps?!" Master Kuzuko barked as Hermione helped Fleur up off the floor as the French witched straightened her dress out looking a little ruffled before adjusting her hair and outfit a moment and then looked perfect again.

"Oh calm down there little woman. You're alright, aren't you?" he replied dismissively as he turned his back to Master Kuzuko. Who with strength that surprised Hermione tugged the large wizard around.

"No, I'm not alright you ignorant arse! You think you can just bump into people and push them about and stuff without apologising? Well you can't! So we'd both like an apology or else I'll beat one out of you." Master Kuzuko said not backing down.

"Master Kuzuko it's alright..." Hermione said touching the older witch on the arm but the Dueling Master hadn't appeared to have heard her. "Satomi please, it's alright Fleur is ok." she said trying again as Master Kuzuko turned her head quickly to look at Hermione as her ponytail whipped around accordingly.

"Master? Master of what? Whinging and whining..." The large wizard said to his friend before letting out a deep rumbling laugh as his friend joined in.

"Please Master Kuzuko I'm really quite alright." Fleur said putting her hand on the older witches shoulder to try and calm her down.

"That's not the point... people like him can't be allowed to think they can get away with doing things like that to people." Master Kuzuko said defensively trying to reason with Fleur and Hermione.

"You see Master Whinner... your hot little friend is alright, so you just need to shut your trap or get out of the way so I can order my food and get to the game." the large wizard said as his friend chimed in with "Yeah you and that tasty little French tart can get out the way. We've a match to get to."

Fleur's eyes took on a hard glint at being called a French tart as she looked at the two wizards as Master Kuzuko was about to say something and talked over her and loud enough so that others in the queue and surrounding tables could hear before clearly saying. "Serious Satomi it's not worth bothering with these two as I'd imagine it's just a case that fatboy wouldn't be used to looking out for women. Mainly because it's probably years since he's had to look at a witch because he's not seen his penis in such a long time it's probably been registered as a missing person with the ministry although his boyfriend here probably holds it for him when he goes to the toilet."

The people around did a collection of sucking in breathes, sniggering behind hands, laughing out loud or in Hermione's case shaking her head in amazement at Fleur's rebuttal before quietly saying to Fleur to stop escalating the situation.

"Why you cheeky fuc..." the large wizard practically growled and he and his friends smiles disappeared to be replaced by angry snarls as they both moved out of the line.

"Oi!" Chen Yu shouted as he came storming out of the kitchen with a very anxious looking waitress in tow who had clearly gone to get him and Chen vaulted over the counter and landing gracefully on the other side as the customers queuing moved quickly. "What's going on here?" he demanded looking at the large wizard and his friend.

"Nothing for you to concern yourself with. These two here are thinking that they can insult people just because they can't stay on their own two feet." The smaller of the two wizards said staring angrily at Fleur and Master Kuzuko..

"More like your big oaf of a boyfriend can't keep his fat arms to himself and knocked us over because he's too busy thinking about what you and him probably get up to in your bedroom!" Master Kuzuko fired back hotly.

"He's not my fucking boyfriend you dumb bint." The short one growled reaching into his robes to draw his wand as his larger friend did the same. Before they'd even had a chance to draw their wands Fleur and Master Kuzuko has their own wands drawn and the tips glowing with spells itching to be released.

"I won't have wands drawn in my Tea House! If you don't calm it down you can take it outside but I'll not have my other customers day disrupted." Chen said hotly talking to the two wizards and then turning to Fleur and Kuzuko. "Put the wands away... now!" he said firmly and then looked at the two witches and shook his head at them looking at Master Kuzuko especially.

"Sorry Chen. I just don't take too kindly to being bumped and man handled by someone who then knocks me to the ground and doesn't even have the decency to apologise." Master Kuzuko said cancelling her spell and putting her wand back as Fleur did the same but stared daggers at the two men.

"Yes I apologise too Mr Yu. I don't want to disturb your business." Fleur apologised but not taking her eyes off the two men.

"Apologies accepted." Chen Yu said before turning to the two men, "Anything you'd two like to say to myself or the ladies?" he asked them getting a scoff from them both.

"Not really. Other than to stay out of my way or else." replied the larger wizard.

"Yeah, if I see either of you two again today you're in for it." the shorter wizard said in a wheezy voice not sounding completely confident in his own statement.

"I think you two should leave." Chen said to the two men pointing to the door.

"Why should we leave? Their the ones who kicking off most likely because of the cycle of the moon." the large wizard said getting a chuckle from his friend..

"Because I said so and it's my Tea House. If you don't get out right now then I'll actually let her take you outside and give you both a good thrashing up and down the street. You really don't have a clue who you're messing with, do you?" Chen replied chuckling to himself as an idea came to him. "Hell we could even run a book on how quickly she'd knock both of you on your arses." Chen said crossing his arms over his chest.

"That's a great idea Chen." one of the customers sat at a nearby table called out..

"Yeah do it Chen. I've got two Gin on the big guy. He looks like he can take a spell or two!" called out another.

"I've got three Gin on Master Kuzuko!" called out another witch in the queue holding up the gold.

"You all want to see this little arse kicking do you? You all want to see us beat her, do you? Well I'm happy to oblige as I've never been beat in a duel." The large wizard called out exciting the crowd and getting a chorus of encouragement from the customers already seated itching to watch a fight.

"This is getting out of hand. Master Kuzuko, please don't do this. The Grandmaster won't be happy if he knows that you've been involved in some kind of street brawl. He might not let you come with Harry and I again on none official weekends or might stop us coming at all." Hermione said as Master Kuzuko stretched her neck from side to side limbering up and smiling looking at the large wizard and sizing him up.

"Don't worry. The Grandmaster can't stop you leaving school grounds at any time because you're the head of two houses so as long as you've got a member of staff with you it will be fine. That's your right and he can't refuse that." Master Kuzuko said performing some stretches.

"But its not worth getting in trouble for. I mean a street fight is the sort of thing you could lose your job over or even get arrested." Hermione pleaded with her Dueling instructor.

"Not really. It's outside of school hours and lets just say that it's a practical lesson that I'm teaching you on the real world application of what I teach you in class." Master Kuzuko said quietly giving Hermione a little wink.

"But…" Hermione started to protest but felt Fleur's hand on Hermione's arm.

"Leave it Hermione. If anyone asks, I'll say that they baited her and that she was protecting you. If not I'll happily beat this ignorant oaf." Fleur said raising her chin.

"No, the pair of you will stay out of this. I've not had someone to practice on for a while and lard arse here is a perfect target." Master Kuzuko said getting caught up in the excitement. She knew she shouldn't be doing this and was anyway.

"But the Aurors might come if there is a fight in the street." Hermione pointed out as Chen Yu stepped up beside her.

"Don't worry about that. We'll do this out the back." Chen called out getting a cheer from the tea room who all started gathering their things and the sound of cutlery, mugs, and glasses being put down and chairs scraping on the floor as people started to stand abandoning their half eaten breakfasts. .

"Alright then fine… this one thinks she's someone special then I'll quite happily kick her arse." The large wizard said puffing out his chest and reaching inside his robes for his coin purse which he hefted in his large hand. "Twenty Gin says I knock her on that little bottom of hers in less than a minute." He said boastfully looking round the room to see whether anyone would be confident enough to take that bet and a cocky grin spread across his face. "No takers? Seems like no one is that confident in you sweetheart." he said before laughing with his friend at Master Kuzuko..

"I'll take that bet! Double or nothing though as I bet she can beat both of you in that time." Hermione said to the large wizard causing the smile to drop off his face for a moment.

"You want to bet forty Gin that she can beat both of us?" the shorter wizard asked in amazement.

"Make it a round fifty!" Fleur called out reaching into her coin purse and pulling out the gold.

"Fifty Gin?" Someone called out in amazement.

"I'll put another fifty in to make it up to a hundred." Master Kuzuko said confidently as there was gasps from the tea house and the noise and whispered conversations erupted all over the place at the amount of money being talked about.

"That's a hell of a lot of money." The smaller wizard said quietly to his friend.

"I know but when we win it that will pay for our drinks and our whole weekend plus give us enough money to come back for the Paraguay match as well." the large wizard retorted.

"Yes.. but if we don't win…." The smaller wizard uttered quietly to his friend as the larger wizard turned sharply to him and replied "Course we'll bleeding win.. We were two of the best duelists in school and I think we can take out a small witch on her own. Now suck it up!" he said forcefully getting a nod of agreement from his friend.

"So have you got the balls to take the bet?" Hermione enquired seeing that Master Kuzuko wasn't prepared to let the matter drop and found her blood starting to pound in excitement at the thought of watching the Dueling Master in action in a real life scenario.

"Alright you're on! Let's step outside." The large wizard replied while cracking his knuckles.

There was palpable excitement in the room and even more scraping of chairs getting pushed back as it seemed most of the tea house wanted to watch the exchange. Chen led them outside in a courtyard at the back of the tea house where there were crates and large metal containers and boxes and things all over the place.

As the customers spilled out into the confined space, Chen started casting spells to get the yard nice and organised as to make as much room as possible as someone started conjuring wooden benches around the outside of the courtyard and before Hermione knew it the courtyard looked more like a mini gladiatorial arena than that of a courtyard for a tea house as the edges were lined with people.

Two wizards were going around the crowd taking bets and giving out slips of parchment as they took the money off people betting on the outcome of the fight. An elderly man with overly large green framed glasses, a pointy goatee beard, and handlebar moustache that was just as long as his beard stepped in front of Hermione and Fleur.

"Your bet ladies?" he asked as Fleur reached into her purse as Hermione did the same and she fished around in her bag and pulled out her beseecher book. She was just about to write out the slip when she felt Fleur's hand on hers. "I'll put in the gold for yourself and Satomi and you can give me back out of the winnings." Fleur said giving Hermione a pointed look which Hermione didn't understand.

"Ah confidence… That's a good thing although I think you are in for a disappointment. You see the larger wizard there is Solomon Bao. He's a professional dueller on the national duelling circuit. I think your friend has bitten off more than she can chew here." The wizard said grinning as he wrote out the parchment and handed it to Fleur.

"Oh I think you might regret taking our bet when you find out a little more about his opponent." Hermione said with a smug grin as the wizard waved away her comment cheerful and replied "She won't be beating Solomon. I'm putting my money on it and I don't take a bet unless I know I'm going to win!" and with a cocky smirk he started taking bets from other people.

Chen Yu took to the gap between the fighters in the space and held up his hands as the betting seemed to conclude and an excited silence filled the courtyard. "Everybody listen up. This is an unofficial duel so I'd request that no photos are taken and I'm going to lock the door to the courtyard so at the conclusion of the match all bets are paid in full to the recipients.

"Now I'm not prepared to have the auror office come down and start making arrests or fining me for hosting an illegal duel. I would ask the combatants to refrain from casting anything that will damage my property and force me to have to get the builders in because if my wife sees damage back here then you won't make it out of here in one piece regardless of whether you win or lose." Chen said looking to Master Kuzuko and then the two wizards.

"Nothing stronger than a striking spell. I wouldn't want to mess that pretty face up permanently." the larger wizard said to Master Kuzuko.

"Agreed, " Master Kuzuko said giving him an affirming nod before adding "course nothing I cast could mess your and your boyfriends faces up anymore than they are." She said to 'oooooh's' and inhaling of breaths throughout the crowd.

"I'm not his bloody boyfriend I'm his trainer!" the short wizard growled at Master Kuzuko. Hermione and Fleur could see that he was getting really wound up at the references to being the larger wizard's boyfriend where as the larger wizard just seemed to shrug off every insult.

"Right then that's the rules sorted. I expect you all to battle with honour and make this a fair fight. Now to introduce the combatants." Chen called out and Hermione smiled to herself thinking how everyone in Japan seemed to want to put on a good show even in the circumstances of a courtyard duel. " Firstly introducing the two man team on my left. Let me introduce the current Dueling Champion of Sotogahama and member of the national duelling circuit Solomon Bao and his trainer Iman Iwo." Chen called out getting a round of applause from most of those gathered and a loud cheer from those who were betting on the large wizard who called out encouragement.

Solomon Bao took two large steps forward thrusting his fists into the air and let out a loud roar and earning another cheer from the crowd as his trainer just watched Master Kuzuko who was doing some final stretches and watching Solomon with an almost calculating and predatory gaze. She didn't appear to be affected in the slightest that she was about to duel a professional duellist who was champion of his region of Japan.

"You hear that sweetheart… I'm the champion duellist of Sotogahama." He jeered at her cockily expecting her to shrink under the news that she was about to face off against a professional opponent and a champion at that.

Master Kuzuko scoffed "My grandmother could be the champion duellist of Sotogahama and she's been dead for five years" she said dismissively smiling inwardly at seeing the large wizard's face go red with anger.

He was just about to retort when Chen Yu stepped forward again holding his hands up and the crowd listened as he began the next part of his speech and called out "And their opponent… From Mahoutokoro the greatest magical school in Japan and the rest of the world we have their current Dueling Master, SATOMI KUZUKO" Chen announced loudly and there was a scattering of applause from pockets of people around the benches who recognised the Dueling Master from her announcement in The Rising Sun a few years ago when she had got the job as the youngest Dueling Master in the schools history without having studied for years as Sensei.

"You're the Dueling Master at Mahoutokoro?" Solomon asked her his eyebrows arched in surprise.

"Yes.. Have been for a few years now. So… last chance to apologise." Master Kuzuko commented as her body settling into her duelling stance.

"Huh you wish.. Let's see what you're made of because I'm about to teach you a thing or two!" Solomon said in a booming voice. Hermione rolled her eyes thinking that the stuff he was coming out with was just like one of those crummy martial arts films that Harry enjoyed watching.

"Alright then... I'll get one from you when I'm done with you and your boyfriend." Master Kuzuko said smiling to herself as she saw the two of them get angry about her calling them boyfriends again.

"Right that's it. Get this thing started!" Solomon barked at Chen who nodded and taking his wand out started casting shield charms around the edges of the space to stop any stray spells hitting any of the spectators.

"Begin!" he called out and Solomon and Iman didn't even hesitate firing spells at Master Kuzuko that tore across the space between them like red streaked bullets and Hermione watched, riveted, along with everyone else as Master Kuzuko stood up straight. Her side to the two coming spells and while looking like a matador with his cape swatted the two spells, one going to each side of her before hitting the shield charm wall behind her. The speed and casual nature of the move reminded her a little of how easy Harry made spell swatting look. Like it was an almost boring thing to do and required no effort or challenge.

"Is that the best you got?" she called out to the two wizards who both sent another two spells at her with a cry of 'Plaga Suta' and both Solomon and his trainer started casting the same spell as quick as they could at Master Kuzuko who pivoted on the balls of her feet and swung herself around, ducking under the two spells that shot passed where her torso had been a few moments earlier and the second set of spells impacted on the shield wall. Master Kuzuko sent a spell of her own at the two opponents as she continued spinning and faced her opponents as she let the spell fly.

Fleur just about saw the silver streak of the spell before it erupted like a firework on Iman's chest sending the dueling trainer flying backwards where he slammed into the shield wall and fell to the ground clutching his chest like he'd been kicked by a cart horse.

Solomon growled audibly and advanced, firing a fast series of spells at Master Kuzuko who ducked, dived and dodged out of the way of some while swatting and swiping away others. To Hermione and Fleur's eyes it actually looked a little like Master Kuzuko was toying with Solomon and the larger wizard was slowly getting more and more annoyed that he couldn't hit the dodging witch.

"I thought you were meant to be a champion. What's the matter? Striking spells not your forte?" Master Kuzuko asked dodging another spell by gyrating her hips like she had a muggle hula hoop on and then flicked her wrist up and sent a striking spell back at Solomon who took the blow to the shoulder without flinching.

"Ha is that all the power you've got? It's like getting tickled by a fly." He taunted her sending three quick spells towards her as he sucked in a lung full of air and tried to channel as much magic and power as possible to his wand and bellowed out 'Tsukiriokatru' as he swung his arm in a wide arc sending a scythe like blade of light champagne coloured light towards Master Kuzuko that flew towards her chest before splitting in two with the second blade dropping and drifting down towards her legs.

Hermione saw Master Kuzuko take a step back to steady herself and then with an incredible piece of athleticism jumped forward and into the air performing a twisting sideways somersault like a professional diver in between the spells and land gracefully on her feet.

Solomon clearly thought the spell was going to take Master Kuzuko out as he turned and cast a rennervate spell at his trainer Iman on the ground and revived him . As Iman opened his eyes looking a little groggy Solomon reached his hand out and pulled Iman off the ground and ask his trainer if he was alright.

He watched as Iman's head suddenly jerked back like he'd been clocked on the chin and watched his eyes roll back into his head. He fell in a heap onto the ground, knocked out again, while a bruise started to appear on his jaw on the right side of his face. Solomon whipped his head around to see Master Kuzuko had fired a spell at his trainer and turned head on into a hammer strike spell from Master Kuzuko which connected under his chin and lifted him off the ground into the air like he'd just been hit with a haymaking uppercut.

The last thing Solomon remembered was thinking about how he'd not been hit that hard in a long time as he saw white fluffy clouds on a blue sky before the world went black as he landed on the ground unconscious.

The most of the spectators cheered the knockout blow although some groused about their losing bets but gave a congratulatory clap. Master Kuzuko, seeing both her opponents knocked out on the floor, relaxed her stance and bowed to her fallen foes before putting her wand away.

Chen Yu stepped forward cancelling out the shield charms around the combatants and stepped up beside Master Kuzuko and reached for her wrist and raised it into the air getting a cheer from the spectators. "Master Kuzuko is our winner… and she did it inside two minutes!" He called out cheerfully as people started gathering around the wizards who had been running the book on the fight to collect their winnings.

Hermione and Fleur went to Master Kuzuko who was surrounded by admirers complimenting her on a great bout while Hermione and Fleur approached her and added their congratulations. "That really was impressive. That bit of acrobatics you did to dodge that last spell he cast was incredible!" Hermione said bowing to her Dueling Master.

"Thank you Hermione." Master Kuzuko replied modestly nodding "I think my knees probably won't thank me for it later though." she said jokingly and smiling at Hermione before her face turned serious. "What did you learn from what you've just seen Hermione?" Master Kuzuko enquired.

"Never turn your back on an opponent?" Hermione guessed in a small voice before she sadly added "Don't worry Satomi, I learned that lesson in Dueling class when Harry got hurt by Marco."

Master Kuzuko felt horrible in that instant as she looked at Fleur as Hermione bowed her head clearly upset at the memory of Harry taking the curse for her. She placed her hand on the younger witch's shoulder and gave it a little squeeze causing Hermione's head to come up and her sad eyes meet the Asian witch's face. "I was going to say try and find out exactly who you're fighting before you draw a wand. I duel for a living like he does so I follow the national and international duelling circuits and know the combatants. He clearly doesn't read The Rising Sun or didn't recognise me from the article they ran on me… much to his own destruction." She replied getting a nod from Hermione. Fleur watched on as the crowd around them started to part and Solomon and Iman made their way through the crowd. Solomon looked very put out and had a great big purple bruise under his chin and Iman had one on each side of his jaw.

Master Kuzuko took her hand off Hermione's shoulder and automatically relaxed her knees into a stance ready to call her wand to her hand and re-commenced duelling but Solomon held his hand up to stop her. "I come in peace Master Kuzuko. I apologise for earlier on. I was being an arse. I hadn't slept very well, I was hungry and…" Solomon started saying his voice deep and gravelly.

Master Kuzuko studied him for a moment and then looked to Iman who quickly added his apologies as well although his voice sounded a little slurred. "Apologies accepted gentleman. Just try and watch how you speak to people in the future and you, Mr. Bao, watch where you're swinging those ham hocks in future ok?" She said getting a nod from the large wizard and a chuckle.

"Right you are Master Kuzuko. I've not been hit with a hammer strike like that in a good while, and I think Iman's jaw might be broken but it was a good match. You're really quite quick." Solomon said as Master Kuzuko slowly took her wand out and pointed it at Solomon's trainer.

"Please allow me to repair that. I felt a bit bad having to blind side you when you weren't expecting it." Master Kuzuko said seeing that Iman's jaw was in fact out of alignment and pointed her wand at it and said "Episkey" with a twist of the wrist and there was a cracking noise as the jaw bone that was split fused itself together. Then Master Kuzuko cast a cheering charm on the wizard and he grinned at her goofily.

"I think you need to speak with your guy about turning his back on an opponent. I doubt Sumiko Tsokiyashi will let him off turning his back on her in his next match." Master Kuzuko said getting a nod from Iman.

"Oh don't worry I'm going to be really putting a pinch of him from now on. I've been going to soft on him and clearly need to take him back to basics." Iman said getting a grown from Solomon. "Anyway, here's your winnings from the bet we had. You really are a hell of a duellist and if you ever think of entering the duelling circuit I'd love to be your trainer." Iman said giving her his most charming smile and holding out a coin purse, which was an action that Solomon copied.

"Thank you for the compliment but I don't think I'll be joining the professional circuit anytime soon. I also don't want you money. I only wanted an apology." she replied waving away the money and the two wizards looked at the purses in their hands and back to Master Kuzuko.

"But you won this fair and square. It's a matter of honour that we meet the terms of our bet." Solomon countered while frowning as Master Kuzuko pushed both their outstretched hands back towards them both of the wizards surprised at the firm and strong grip on their hands before she let go.

Master Kuzuko shrugged her shoulders and said "Keep it. I don't need the money but just don't spend it on dancing girls and getting drunk. If you want to honour the terms of our bet then make a healthy contribution to Archangels with it instead. The healers need all the financial help they can get." Master Kuzuko said getting nods from both Solomon and Iman who then each took a step back and bowed deeply to the Dueling Master who returned their bows and a small smattering of applause broke out as people started to filter out of the courtyard talking excitedly and Iman and Solomon joined the press of the crowd making their way back inside.

"Well Satomi, that was quite the demonstration and you've managed to win me quite a bit of gold from that display." Chen Yu said while approaching the three witches with a smile on his face. "I think Solomon got quite a surprise when he found out you were the Dueling Master at Mahoutokoro." Chen added before laughing heartily at his own remark.

"You'd have probably not made as much gold if the ones running the books knew who I was." Master Kuzuko replied while grinning back at Chen who laughed and agreed with her.

"I promise I won't tell the Grandmaster about this little extra curricular activity but maybe next time don't square off with a professional duellist. You're meant to be keeping a low profile after all." Chen said but suddenly his face dropped as he realised his slip of the tongue.

"Why are you meant to be keeping a low profile?" Hermione asked straight away latching on to the comment.

"Oh… erm… well… you know being a teacher of the most prestigious magic school in the world and not wanting to attract attention to myself by doing things like that. I guess I was just pretty stupid." Master Kuzuko said looking down and looking guilty as she replied. Hermione for the first time thought that the Dueling Master appeared younger than her age. She looked like a naughty school girl who knew she'd broken the rules and was going to get in trouble.

"Well I did tell you that I didn't want you getting in trouble." Hermione said as Master Kuzuko looked up.

"I couldn't help it. I've always been a bit of a hot head when it comes to bullies like that. I just can't stand it!" Master Kuzuko argued.

"Hermione, the big ox did knock us to the ground. " Fleur put into the conversation.

"I know she was defending us, but it could have been a lot worse. What happens if he'd injured you and then you couldn't teach for a while? The Grandmaster wouldn't have been impressed and then you'd get in trouble with your job as your Sensei would have to take over all the classes." Hermione pointed out.

"Hey, you encouraged me by raising the stakes after Chen suggested it. Look I'm sorry I shouldn't have done it. Please don't tell anyone at school about this. You're right, I could get in trouble for getting involved in an avoidable altercation like this." Master Kuzuko said getting a nod from Hermione.

"I won't say anything but let's try to avoid anymore trouble this weekend." Hermione replied like a disapproving parent before breaking out into a smile. "Though it was impressive watching you avoid that spell he threw at you by jumping in the middle of it." she added getting agreeance from Fleur.

"Of course blind siding that Iman with that second knockout blow, very sneaky." Fleur said nodding to herself.

"That's nothing. You should have seen what she did to Tim Ji Lei in our seventh year when she found out he'd cheated on her." A female voice called from behind them and Hermione turned around to see a pretty Asian witch with long dark hair with a violently red streak through it standing there.

She was wearing a smart pair of charcoal grey dress robes that were cut to give a hint of her figure but weren't clingy, a pair of black dragon skin ankle boots, in her hands that were crossed in front of her was a soft black dragon skin attaché case, and she had a teasing smile on her face.

"Yuki!" Master Kuzuko said delightedly and the smile of Yuki Yushiro's face seemed, if anything, to get even bigger.

"Hello Satomi. It's lovely to see you again… it's been too long." Yuki replied with a little sadness touching her eyes. Hermione and Fleur looked at each other as the two older witches stood for a few moments before Master Kuzuko seemed unable to hold the pretence anymore and moved quickly forwards and enveloped Yuki in an almost bone crunching hug that Yuki returned.

Suddenly both girls were gently crying and laughing at the same time and Hermione put her hand to her chest. A teary smile reached her face as she watched the two witches clearly emotional reunion as they separated slightly leaning back and holding each other's arms.

"You're still getting into trouble I see." Yuki said a teasing smile on her face.

Master Kuzuko shrugged with a cheeky grin on her face "Not as much as Amy and I used to get into. I'm a responsible adult now after all. You'd know all about that of course, mummy." She replied.

Yuki threw her head back and laughed. It was a light and yet heart filled laugh as she playfully whacked Master Kuzuko on the arm. "Don't you start that! Amy's got into an annoying habit of calling me Grandma these days, the cheeky cow, I'm literally only a few minutes older than she is!" Yuki said wiping the tears from her eyes before taking out a compact from her pocket, checking and fixing her makeup with her wand.

"Besides it's Auntie Yuki and Auntie Amy thankfully. It doesn't make us feel so old." Yuki said while looking her old friend up and down. "Plus you look after more kids that aren't your own these days than I do. Congratulations on becoming the Dueling Master at Mahoutokoro! Did you get my owl about your appointment? I'm sorry I've not been in touch more it's just been…" Yuki asked getting a nod from Master Kuzuko.

"I got the card. Thank you for sending it and it's alright.. I know how life can take over sometimes. I just wish that the three of us were still in touch more." Master Kuzuko answered while smiling at her friend wiping her own eyes before looking fondly towards Yuki. "As for Mahoutokoro, well what can I say it's a real honour being the Dueling Master. I'll have to tell you the story about how I got the job when we've got more time." She added. Getting an "I'd love that" from Yuki.

"Erm Master Kuzuko, if you want to go with your friend you can, it's ok. Harry and I know how important friends are. Especially if you've not seen them for a long time." Hermione offered kindly.

Master Kuzuko shook her head and smiled at Hermione. "I'm afraid that's not possible right now. Yuki is going to be busy for a while but I'd certainly love to spend some time with her and Amy as well. If you both want to, that is." Master Kuzuko stated hopefully.

"I'd love to spend some time together with Satomi. I know Amy would as well." Yuki replied although the latter sounded a little wooden and Hermione and Fleur noticed that both of them looked a little uncomfortable all of a sudden at the mention of Amy.

"Master Kuzuko… seriously it's fine. If your friend has time now then Harry and I will be fine with Fleur and Narcissan I'm sure." Hermione said again as Master Kuzuko smiled at her.

"Is this one of your students Satomi and out of school with you on a none Bazaar weekend?" Yuki asked her friend whose smile just widened and nodded at her friend's shock. "I wouldn't have thought that the Grandmaster would allow that to happen." She added looking at Hermione up and down and nodding approvingly as she eyed Hermione's footwear enviously.

"Ah well under normal circumstances he wouldn't but… well… I'll introduce you properly and then things might make a little more sense. Yuki, I have the honour to introduce Hermione Granger-Dumbledore-Hufflepuff." Master Kuzuko said holding her hand out towards Hermione. "Lady Granger may I introduce one half of Yushiro and Yushiro Magical solicitors, Yuki Yushiro." Master Kuzuko added holding her other hand out, indicating Yuki.

Yuki's face broke into a kind and warm smile as she performed a well practiced curtsey, holding her hands by her sides while looking down towards Hermione's feet. She went down before meeting Hermione's eye. "Lady Granger-Dumbledore-Hufflepuff, it's an honour to meet you." Yuki said as Hermione smiled and went to curtsey back. Until she felt Fleur's hand on her arm and looked to her friend who gave the slightest shake of her head to indicate for Hermione not to curtsey back.

"A pleasure to meet you as well Miss Yushiro, please feel free to call me Hermione or Lady Granger if you want to keep things formal." Hermione said the last sounding a little tight as she met the Japanese witch's eyes and saw that Yuki's smile widened.

"Hermione it is and please it's Yuki and my sister is Amy. Fleur and Narcissa have told us that yourself and Lord Potter don't really practice the formality of your titles except in formal situations but I felt a formal greeting on our first meeting would be appropriate." Yuki said moving forward stretching her hand which Hermione took and smiled while shaking it.

"Yes well this is a much more preferred method of exchanging hello for Harry and I because we were both raised by nomas. So, it's more familiar than bowing and curtseying." Hermione said with a hint of relief evident in her voice from what Yuki had said.

"Well that suits me fine. Traditional greetings are great every now and again but on a day to day basis it can be a little overbearing." Yuki said to Hermione before looking at Fleur. "Morning Fleur, I love your outfit. Madam Miko's?" she asked with a teasing smile.

"Qui, Cissa and I took your advice and went to see what Madam Miko has to offer, and you were right she has some lovely designs. Cissa got the same dress but in blue and yellow but such bold colours don't really suit my colouring really." Fleur replied before exchanging kisses on each cheek with Yuki in the more traditional French greeting that Hermione noticed didn't seem to throw Yuki off her stride at all.

"So Satomi is teaching you to come into Tea Houses and start fights is she?" Yuki asked with a teasing smile on her face.

"No, not exactly. The two wizards she just educated in not underestimating their opponent sloshed a drink on her and then weren't exactly apologetic after knocking her and Fleur to the ground." Hermione replied.

"They were rude, arrogant, arseholes is what they were." Fleur interjected.

"So Master Kuzuko brought them out here for a lesson and I think everyone found it educational and entertaining." Hermione said grinning at Master Kuzuko who laughed light-heartedly and did a flamboyant bow to Hermione.

"I'm glad it met your approval Hermione." Master Kuzuko said getting a light laugh from Hermione and Fleur.

"And what do you think the Grandmaster would say knowing that you are giving practical lessons in duelling outside of Mahoutokoro and in such a public setting?" Yuki asked Master Kuzuko with her eyes set a little harder.

"The Grandmaster isn't going to be finding out as no one is going to tell him about this Yuki. Plus I don't think Solomon Bao wants people advertising that he and his trainer got their arses kicked." Chen Yu spoke up from behind the group who all turned around to look at the Tea House owner who was looking at Yuki in such a way that Hermione and Fleur thought the two knew each other quite well.

"I see… well nothing wrong with a little practical lesson in a safe environment of course. My lips are sealed" Yuki said and then to Hermione's surprise watched as the Japanese witch clamped her lips shut and pretended to lock her lips together with an invisible key, which Hermione thought was a very muggle thing to do since it was something that she'd seen muggles in films and things do when joking with friends.

"Yuki, how come you're here? I thought zat we were meeting you at your offices?" Fleur asked the Japanese witch who shrugged and said that Amy and herself fancied a bite to eat and thought they'd come here first and pick something up to take back with them so that they weren't hungry during the meeting.

"Well we were just going to order if you'd like to join us for breakfast. Master Kuzuko, please feel free to join us. It wouldn't be right, you sitting down here alone, and we'd like it if you came as well. Plus you'll be able to spend more time with your friends today." Hermione said kindly getting a nod of approval from Master Kuzuko.

"Right then in that case why don't you let me know what you want and I'll take it straight to the kitchen and then Mable or I will bring it up to you." Chen said stepping forwards as Hermione smiled and handed him the parchment. Yuki said that Amy was putting their order in but Yuki told Chen what she wanted and Chen said for them to go up and that he would send Amy up after them.

They thanked Chen and he held the door open for them as they made their way back inside. Fleur and Hermione went first and Master Kuzuko and Yuki brought up the rear. "So how are you enjoying Mahoutokoro Hermione?" Yuki asked over Fleur's shoulder as they started up the stairs.

"It's really rather impressive. The buildings and the history of the place really fascinates me but I've not really been able to explore it as much as I'd like, but I have been to all the Clan areas though which I know most people don't get to experience. So that's been quite special." Hermione replied.

"You've been to all the Clan areas? How was that possible?" Yuki asked intrigued. She knew that Hermione Granger and Harry Potter had a very unusual sorting but was interested to hear it from Hermione directly.

"Well the Clan guardians all wanted Harry and I in their Clan's. I suppose because we are older than first years our personalities are more complex so they all recognised things they liked in us where as if we were first years we might have just had more of one type of trait. It was quite interesting listening to them arguing about why I should be in their Clan though." Hermione said laughing lightly to herself as she remembered how heated the Clan guardians had got.

"So what happened after they argued about wanting you in their Clan?"

"Well I thought they asked me what Clan I wanted to be in but I didn't really know so that's what I thought in my head and then the next minute it got really bright they disappeared and my uniform changed colour and on the emblem where the Clan animal normally goes I had all four of them." Hermione said to Yuki who looked impressed.

"So you got to see all the Clan areas and what? You got to pick which Clan you wanted to be in then? " Yuki asked and Fleur noticed Master Kuzuko was listening quite intensely to Hermione's story and looked quite deep in thought.

"Yes we went to the Clan areas and got to see what they were all like and we spent a week with each Clan and then…" Hermione started explaining but Yuki chose that moment to pipe up.

"What were The Phoenix Nest and Turtle Island like? I only got to see Tiger Land and even as a prefect I wasn't allowed to visit other Clan areas but Satomi and Amy told me about the Dragon's Lair though as they were both Dragon's at school." Yuki asked eager to hear about the other Clan areas as she only really knew her own Clan area really well and Amy and Satomi had told her about the Dragon's Lair and some of the mysteries there.

"Well Turtle Island was lovely as you clear the bamboo forest you arrive on this beautiful beach with water stretching out as far as you can see. Then there are these wooden walkways going out over the water and then bamboo and wooden out buildings and splendid ten storey dark green pagoda. It's a really pretty place and it felt like being on holiday and Harry said that its always warm and sunny there regardless of what the weather is like around the rest of the school." Hermione said recalling Turtle Island.

"Sounds lovely. I'd imagine that they would have great fun with a beach on the weekends as who doesn't like going to the beach, right?" Yuki said thoughtfully thinking about the fun she and her friends could have had with a beach on none bazaar weekends. "And the Phoenix Nest?" she asked curious as she remembered the floating pagoda sticking out the fluffy white clouds as if it was yesterday that she saw it.

"The Phoenix Nest is easily some of the most impressive magic I've ever seen. How the buildings and paths and things stay on the clouds is really interesting but it's a little daunting knowing that there is nothing underneath you if the charms and runes failed on the walkways." Hermione replied recalling the mysterious floating Clan area and wishing she'd had more time to explore it.

"I thought you didn't go to the Phoenix Nest." Master Kuzuko recalled with her eyebrow cocked as for as much as she could recall Master Ping was still a little bitter about her Clan not having had the opportunity to try and impress Harry and Hermione after Marco Ronaldo put his foot in it again with his dunderheaded views on NOMA borns that had kicked off all the inter Clan hostility at the beginning of the year, which had led to the attack in her own class.

Hermione felt her cheeks colour and her stomach clenched in panic at her slip of the tongue and admitting that she knew about the Phoenix Nest. "Oh well Harry and I went for a walk there one morning before class when we were staying with the Dragon's. We were curious as to what it was like and the Dragons wanted to know." Hermione lied hoping that Master Kuzuko wouldn't push her too much on the subject and thinking that she'll have to tell Harry what she'd just said so that they didn't get caught out if Master Kuzuko brought it up to him at a later date.

"Really?" Master Kuzuko replied sounding, unfortunately to Hermione, to be a little suspicious as she was silent for a moment before saying, "Hmmm, that's odd I'd have thought Master Ping would have said something if you'd arrived at the Phoenix Nest as Tin Tin the Clan Phoenix is very observant and is Master Ping's familiar and I know that Master Ping wanted you both in her Clan."

"Well we did go very early before everyone was up as we didn't really want to bump into Marco Ronaldo and his cronies. So we went when we thought everyone would either be sleeping or at breakfast so as not to create a fuss. I don't recall seeing a Phoenix." Hermione lied again cursing herself for having to dig deeper into the lie.

Yuki could see that her old friend was suspicious about something but didn't want the purpose of the day getting lost in Satomi's suspicions so decided to step in as even she could tell that Hermione wasn't a very convincing liar. "Well Amy and Satomi got drawn into the inter-Clan dislike between Dragon and Phoenix much like I believe yourself and Lord Potter were involved in the feud between your house and that of Slytherin." Yuki said glad that she had done some digging on Hermione and Harry.

"How do you know about us getting drawn into the rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor?" Hermione asked surprised that the Japanese witch would know about that.

"Well I do my research. When I was given the opportunity to speak with Narcissa and Fleur and they said that they would like Amy and I to meet with yourself and Lord Potter, I wrote to one of my parents' friends in England. I asked if they could tell me anything about your both and that turned out to be very informative and promising." Yuki informed Hermione.

Hermione was surprised that Yuki would have started finding out things about Harry and herself and her defensive shields snapped up automatically preparing to defend them when she asked "and who is this friend of your parents that you spoke with if you don't mind me asking?" wondering who it would be and what they have said.

"Augusta Longbottom, I believe you are both friends with her Grandson Neville." Yuki replied seeing Hermione almost deflate in relief.

"Yes, we're friends with Neville although I've only really met Augusta Longbottom a couple of times and even then I didn't really speak to her that much." Hermione replied honestly as they reached the last section of stairs as Yuki replied.

"Well she had a lot of very good things to say about yourself and Lord Potter. It appears that you both made quite an impression on her Grandson and he talked of you both very fondly." Yuki said smiling at Hermione as she came to a stop just outside the door to their room.

"Neville, I mean Lord Longbottom, is a really nice guy. A little shy, but a really brave and loyal friend and by all accounts seems to have turned into quite the powerful wizard." Hermione explained as the four witches stood in the corridor outside the room and Hermione closest to the door could hear the slightly muffled voices of Harry and Narcissa in the other room.

She couldn't quite make you the words that Harry and Narcissa were saying and as she tried to concentrate her thoughts she was distracted as Fleur said "Hermione is right. Neville made a big difference in the Battle of Hogwarts and help in getting rid of Voldemort during the battle. I remember him the year I attended Ogwarts and saw him at the Yule Ball. He's really quite the dancer as well, which for a wizard these days is quite a nice thing to see."

"Well I must admit that it's been far too many years since a wizard has asked me to dance but it seems that you are all rather fond of each other and you each talk about each other with a genuine warmth. So I can only assume that the information I've been told is correct. In yourself and Lord Potter's case quite astounding but I'd put some of it down to embellishment on either Augusta or Lord Longbottom's part.." Yuki said thinking about one of the stories Augusta Longbottom related to her from her Grandson.

"Embellished how?" Hermione asked wondering what she had heard that she thought was embellished and exaggerated. "There were plenty of wild stories, lies and rumours about Harry around Hogwarts but I can't believe that Neville would exaggerate something. What is it that you heard that you think he lied about?" she asked Yuki feeling the hair on the back of her neck stand as she didn't like someone she'd just met calling her friend and someone who had always been loyal to Harry a liar.

"No, I'm sorry. I wasn't calling him a liar, I just thought that the details of what Augusta may have been exaggerated a little or she'd misunderstood what her Grandson had said perhaps." Yuki replied a little defensively and a little panicky that she had messed things up with Hermione before they'd even talked to them. Amy would be so annoyed if she had.

"What is it you heard that you thought she exaggerated, Yuki? Perhaps Hermione can set the record straight." Fleur asked her hand reaching for Hermione's wrist between them to try and calm her friend down.

"Oh well… Augusta told me about Lord Potter defeating a twenty foot basilisk with just a sword and no wand and I find that a little difficult to understand." Yuki said deciding to pick one of the more unbelievable stories that she'd heard from her parent's friend.

"Harry didn't just use a sword. He killed it with a sword, yes, by stabbing it through the roof of its mouth, but not before one of the basilisks fangs sunk into his arm. Thankfully he was aided by 'Fawkes', who was Professor Dumbledore's phoenix, who blinded the basilisk and brought him the sorting hat that was once Godric Gryffindor's before using its tears to heal Harry and save his life. I'm sure Harry would probably be willing to tell you all about it… IF you earn his trust he might even show you the memory of it." Hermione said staring hard at the Asian witch whose mouth was opening and closing as she tried to find the words.

"My apologies Lady Granger. I didn't mean to cause any offence. Oh dear this isn't going how I wanted the conversation to go at all… I'm sorry I only brought it up as it's just a rather amazing story and I'm sure you've discovered from your time in the magical world that witches and wizards do have a tendency to exaggerate or embellish the truth a little." Yuki said looking at the younger witch in the eye noticing that Hermione's gaze had only softened a little. "I really didn't mean to insult anyone, cause any offence, or even imply that Lord Longbottom was lying, forgive me?" she added as Hermione's lips that were firmly pressed together seemed to loosen a little.

Hermione appraised the older witch who she noticed had bowed her head and from researching about Japanese culture recognised that as a genuine gesture as part of the apology. "Apology accepted Miss Yushiro, I didn't mean to sound so prickly," she replied, realising that she must have appeared like a right bitch. "I'm just quite protective over my friends and especially Harry, he means a great deal to me." Hermione added, thinking how that was an understatement.

"I'd imagine he would be after everything you've been through together." Yuki said as she heard a call of "There you are." From behind them and as a group they turned to see disgruntled Amy Yushiro coming up the stairs. Hermione noticed that they were in fact identical twins, except for the streak of red in Yuki's hair.

"Thanks for just disappearing on me like that Yuki," Amy called, her agitation evident as she reached the landing and looking towards her sister. "First you tell me to wait in the queue, so that you can go find out what all the excitement is. Leaving me queuing for ages and then just as I'm about to get served Chen comes up and says you've already ordered and to come up here." she groused pushing a few loose tendrils of hair back over her ear and her other hand adjusting her grip on the dragon hide attache case in her hand.

"Sorry Amy. I just bumped into some rather important people and well things kind of went from there." Yuki apologised to her sister and looked at her hard enough to convey a message to not going into any more of a tirade. Knowing that Amy's fiery temperament, most likely wouldn't be stopping there Yuki decided to cut her off before she could build up a head of steam.

"Amy, it's my pleasure to introduce you to Lady Hermione Granger-Dumbledore-Hufflepuff, although she has kindly said that we can either address her as Lady Granger or preferably Hermione." Yuki said holding her hand out indicating Hermione and was happy to see Amy compose herself quickly and give Hermione a curtsey.

"Fleur obviously you've met," her outstretched hand moving towards Fleur who smiled and nodded her head in greeting before giving a formal bow, which Amy returned with a smile "and I don't think I really need to introduce you to this one." Yuki added with a warm smile as she looked at Amy's reaction at seeing her oldest friend.

"Satomi?" Amy asked surprised and a little shocked to see her oldest friend looking back at her smiling with tears in her eyes.

"Hello, stranger." Satomi said taking three quick steps forwards and threw her arms around Amy's neck. Amy felt herself waivering slightly at the unexpected sight of her friend. She felt a big ball of guilt and sadness curl up inside her gripping her insides as she felt her oldest friend's body shaking slightly against her and Amy couldn't tell whether Satomi was laughing or crying.

Amy tried to hold it together but ended up seeing the smiling faces of Fleur Delacour and Hermione Granger watching the exchange. She closed her eyes, sighed, and relaxed into the hug and hugged Satomi back. She could feel her emotions swirling about inside her at being reunited with her friend.

Yuki ended up giving a polite cough causing Amy to have her eyes snap open and lean back giving Master Kuzuko a smile. "Sorry I haven't been in touch for so long. It's been difficult and…" Amy started saying awkwardly as they stepped back from each other. Her words not coming easily as she didn't really want to tell Satomi why she had deliberately kept her friend at a distance all these years.

"It's alright you can tell me about it later. I've just really missed you." Master Kuzuko replied as she dabbed the corner of her eyes with her sleeve.

Inside she was so happy to see her friend again, but at the same time was also angry that Amy had been so cold towards her, to the point where she hadn't even replied to any of her letters or any other form of communication that Master Kuzuko had tried to send over the last seven years. Amy Yushiro and Satomi Kuzuko had been the best of friends at Mahoutokoro and for the following years after that.

Amy remembered how Satomi had been a rock for Yuki and herself to cling to when their parents had been murdered. How she had been the tonic that helped her deal with the stresses and strains that she needed in a time when Amy was discovering herself. She had trained and sparred with her almost daily because Amy wanted to carve out a name for herself on the National Duelling circuit. Satomi had worked with Amy until she was in peak condition and recruited by her mentor, a former duelling champion called Sima Mann who wanted to take her under his wing.

Amy and Satomi had stayed as close as two people could while one was training to be a professional duellist and the other trying to figure out whether she wanted to join the professional circuit herself or pursue another avenue in life. Things had been going great for a while, but Amy had changed as soon as she had met Sima Mann and became more closed off and less willing to confide in her friend as she spent more and more time with her mentor.

"I've missed you too. I'm sorry Satomi. So much has happened and changed and I didn't really know where to begin." Amy replied apologetically and bowed her head sadly. The truth was that she had followed and was still following her deceased mentor's instructions by pushing away people that she loves in order to focus on her primary objective.

She had pushed Satomi and everyone else away as she had entered into the life of a professional duellist and then had cut all ties completely when her duelling mentor had been killed. Amy had sunk deeper into depression, loneliness and alcohol.

Yuki of course hadn't allowed herself to sink into depression and had always stood by and supported her sister. Yuki had been her rock and had flat out refused to be pushed away after they lost their parents. Amy couldn't love her sister anymore than she already had. Amy knew that she had been absolutely horrible to live with after her parents' murder and her being selfish and wallowing in her own depression, eventually Yuki became a good outlet for her grief.

Eventually Yuki was literally able to slap some sense into her and after they had adopted the baby of the clients that her parents were meeting with, it helped Amy concentrate on something different and more important that feeling sorry for herself. She focused on the baby who had her life ripped apart. It was during this time that she came to realise that her selfishness had stopped Yuki from processing her own grief. Something that Amy felt horrible about because she wanted to try and give her sister the support she needed but had been too self absorbed to think that Yuki had been hurting just as much.

Yuki, seeing that her sister was looking emotional, moved closer beside her, touched her elbow gently, leaned in and whispered "If you and Satomi want to go and have a talk somewhere I can handle the meeting."

Amy shook her head slightly and looked at her sister and gave her a small smile "No its ok," before she looked at Master Kuzuko and said "Maybe we could catch up properly, soon? I want to hear all about how you became the Dueling Master at Mahoutokoro." Master Kuzuko returned with a reply "I'd really like that." Amy's eyes flicked to the two witches next to Master Kuzuko and saw that Hermione was looking between the two old friends and Amy remembered why they had come to Yu's Tea House in the first place.

"Great, well after we've concluded our meeting with Lady Granger and Lord Potter we can sort out when and where to meet up." Amy said getting an eager nod of the head from Satomi.

"I'm sorry Lady Granger, I do apologise. This isn't the first impression I wanted to make but I've not seen Satomi in such a long time, which is my own fault. I am sorry as I can appreciate your time is limited and you don't want it taken up with myself and my friend getting reacquainted." Amy apologises sincerely.

"On the contrary, I don't mind at all. I know how important good friends are. Yuki and I have just been discussing it." Hermione replied while smiling at Amy and then to Yuki as she could sense that Yuki was still a little embarrassed about the conversation they had just had about Harry and wanted to show that there was no hard feelings on her part.

"Speaking of Hermione and her friends. Would you like to meet Arry?" Fleur enquired, interjecting herself into the conversation.

"Very much so!" Yuki and Amy replied at the same time that reminded Hermione of the way Fred and George used to talk and for a moment her heart ached for the loss of her friend.

"Right, well Hermione if you would like to lead the way we can introduce Yuki and Amy properly. Would you like a few moments?" Fleur asked the two twin sisters understanding that this wasn't how they would have started their first meeting with Harry and Hermione as the two witches had been organised, methodical, personable and punctual when they had met Narcissa and Fleur the first time.

"That would actually be helpful thank you. We've not made the best first impression on Lady Granger but hopefully we can do a bit better with Lord Potter." Yuki replied while taking her wand from her sleeve and started to fix Amy's makeup. Amy started chastising her sister to stop flapping over her in a series of whispered points towards each other.

Hermione's smile grew as she saw the two sisters interacting with each other and her emotions took her back to how Mrs. Weasley was always with her children and how she always tried to look after them in a slightly overbearing way at times. She deduced that Yuki was the one who probably kept Amy in line if the exchange was anything to go by.

"Well we'll give you a couple of minutes to get yourselves together," Hermione said getting nods of thanks for the Yushiro sisters before adding "But if it puts you at ease any, I think you're doing great so far." Giving them a small encouraging smile and was happy to see a little of the tension ease in the sisters as they straightened themselves up.

"Just come in whenever you are ready, I was thinking that firstly we would allow Arry to take control of the…" Hermione heard Fleur start to say to the sisters as she moved to the door and put her hand on the door and heard the muffled voices of Harry and Narcissa.

Hermione leant her ear nearer the door trying to drown out Fleur and the Yushiro sisters talking about the meeting and could have sworn she heard Harry saying something about fooling around with her.

Hermione felt her cheeks colour instantly and for the briefest of moments started panicking that maybe Harry had been a little sly and started learning legilimency and had been viewing her daydreams in class or something. She stopped herself, realising that the idea was preposterous of course as Harry wouldn't invade her privacy like that.

She leaned her head even closer to the door trying to hear better as she felt Fleur moving closer towards her and she waved her hand towards Fleur in a kind of shushing movement to stop her friend from saying anything. When she heard Harry start talking, she decided to just open the door and try and hear what they were saying properly.

She opened the door a tiny bit as Narcissa definitely said something about 'fooling around with Hermione' as the click of the lock annoyingly sounded like a cannon blast to Hermione's straining ear cutting off the end of Narcissa's question.

Silently cursing the lock Hermione pushed the door open properly and standing straight and looked at the two of them sat close together at the far end of the table. An anxious look all over Harry's face and she could see he looked a little flushed as he said "Yes… I thought it was her, but it wasn't Hermione." His face took on a sort of triumphant look at finally having explained something complicated.

She'd seen that look before when he had explained to her about how to concentrate on feeling her magic and not just thinking on the spell. She looked at the two members of the Black family and asked "What wasn't Hermione?" her hand still on the door knob blocking Fleur and anyone else entering the room and distracting them.

Hermione had very rarely seen Harry panic but at that moment she saw a glimpse of something she assumed was panic as he looked up and saw her. Her eyes drifted across to Narcissa who she saw looking a little skittish at Hermione's sudden appearance.

Hermione looked between the two of them and saw them looking at each other as if searching for an answer to her question in the other's eyes. "Well?" Hermione asked again enjoying seeing Harry, who was normally so in control of his emotions, all at odds because of her. "What wasn't Hermione?" she asked again now crossing her arms over her chest looking only at Harry and seeing him gulp slightly before meeting her eyes.

She watched as Harry took a deep breath through his nose and steel himself. He looked at Narcissa who was looking at Hermione and she could see she was trying to keep a smirk off her face. "Well Harry?" she pressed again as her hands made her way to her hips and she tilted her head slightly trying to appraise Harry.

"I… I… " Harry mumbled as his brain scrambled for an answer to Hermione's question that she clearly wanted an answer to. He looked to Narcissa again and could see that she was trying to keep the amusement off her face at him being caught talking about Hermione.

'Come on Harry think' he screamed to himself inside his head as he tried to think of something. Anything that would get him out of the situation and then thankfully his brain suggested something based around the truth would be the best way but to twist things a little. "I was just telling Narcissa about something…" he said realising that he was gripping the arms of his chair tightly. He studied Hermione's reaction before looking at Narcissa's amused expression. She was looking at him, almost assessing how Harry would either tell Hermione the truth or spin her a story to throw her off the scent.

"What did you see that you thought was me but wasn't?" Hermione replied with a quizzical look on her face. Harry could see she didn't understand what he meant but wasn't going to let him off the hook.

Narcissa could see that Harry was struggling. She knew it was because he was an honest person and that he was just unable to not tell Hermione the truth after all they had been through over the years. Taking pity on him she decided that a little assistance might be helpful and so Narcissa subtly shifted her hand under the table and placed it onto Harry's. She felt him tense a little but kept his face turned to Hermione who Narcissa saw was sizing Harry up.

Narcissa leant forward and smoothly said "Harry was just telling me the other night that he thought someone was in his trunk and had been in the dressing room part of it." she said looking at Harry and as he turned to look at her caught his eye briefly before looking back at Hermione.

She remembered him rabbiting away excitedly on their day out in the Bazaar about the trunks that he and Hermione had invested in and promising to show her them sometime.

Harry looked between Narcissa and Hermione and didn't know where she was going with this, but was happy to let her try and assist him through getting a Hermione interrogation as Narcissa continued.

"He said that he thought that there was meant to be some sort of anti-intruder charm on the trunks to stop anyone just randomly walking in on him. Unless he'd willed it to allow certain people to enter when he wasn't in the trunk and that the only person he'd granted complete access all the time was you." She said feeling Harry relaxed a little.

"Well Elliott Eaton told us that there were all sorts of charms and enchantments on the trunks to prevent someone accessing the trunk." Hermione said thoughtfully her gaze not leaving Harry. "Was anything stolen?" she asked him as he shook his head.

"No nothing was taken. I..." Harry said almost as a croak as the lie seemed to stick in his throat.

"Where was your trunk in Turtle Island or the Dragon's Lair?" Hermione asked cutting in on Harry and her eyes narrowing as she thought that if it was the Dragon's Lair she could think of at least one blonde haired witch she wouldn't put passed her to sneak into Harry's trunk in the middle of the night.

"It was in Turtle Island." Narcissa said causing Hermione to switch her gaze momentarily to the older witch.

"Not the Dragon's Lair then?" Hermione asked getting a nod from Narcissa.

"No it was definitely in your other clan area, wasn't it Harry?" Narcissa asked Harry looking at him to confirm it and giving him a look that suggested he needed to start talking.

"Yeah it was in Turtle Island, in the boys dormitory" Harry answered. Seeing Narcissa try and convey a message with her eyes as he looked at her. He then looked at Hermione to see if she was buying what he was saying and saw her shoulders appear to relax a little.

"Do you know who it was or have an idea?" Hermione pressed relieved at knowing it could not have been Hester Steiggson trying to get into Harry's room but more uneasy that someone else had tried and Harry didn't know who.

"Harry said that he didn't see who it was but thought it was a girl and that he thought it was you but it wasn't. He said that he's set protection on his trunk so only you can access all of it." Narcissa said smoothly and tried to suppress the laugh at the story Harry had told her about Hermione catching him getting changed when he had told her about the trunks over lunch the first day they had met. Narcissa had deliberately used the line of wording that Harry had been saying as Hermione had walked into the room to convey that this was as far as their conversation had got to try and halt the inquisitive Hermione's questioning.

"But how could a girl have got in your trunk if it was in the boys dormitory? Aren't there charms to stop that from happening?" Hermione asked before Master Kuzuko said from the doorway "No, girls can enter boys dormitory but boys can't enter the girls dormitory. It's an old fashioned rule as girls can be just as mischievous as boys."

"Of course. It was the same at Hogwarts and I can't believe I didn't remember that but then who was it and how did they get in there?" Hermione replied thinking about who could have been trying to break into Harry's trunk and why.

"At ze palace of Beauxbatons we ad a similar thing as the male teaching assistants and staff were sometimes known to try and enter the private rooms of girls there." Fleur added smiling as she remembered the results of anyone trying to enter one of the girls rooms who wasn't female.

"How do you get into Mr. Potter's trunk when you aren't in the same clan area?" Master Kuzuko asked Hermione who instantly went rigid on the spot thinking that she might get in trouble with the school if they knew that she and Harry could enter each others trunk. The school was obviously not wanting boys and girls to be able to share rooms together.

Hermione looked at Harry seeing that he too was having the same thought and Harry just shrugged at her as if to say he couldn't think of a way around the question either.

Hermione looked a little bashful and looked at Master Kuzuko but was unable to quite meet her eye as she somewhat sheepishly replied "Erm, well the trunks we bought have kind of got their own magical passageway between them."

"A magical passageway between your trunks. Can it negate the clan guardians protection?" Master Kuzuko asked thinking about whether the trunks that they were talking about was a potential security risk as it would potentially allow students to go to different clan areas.

"Oh erm... I don't actually know whether it does or it doesn't. I don't think either of us have stepped outside the trunk into another clan area since we picked our clans." Hermione replied trying to recall whether Harry had stepped into Tiger Land or she the Dragon's Lair or Turtle Island since they had picked their clans and couldn't recall one.

"No, we haven't. I don't know what would happen if I came into Tiger Land or you to Turtle Island or the Lair" Harry added thinking that maybe it was worth testing. "Look Master Kuzuko, I'm sorry about not telling anyone about the trunks but we aren't using them for anything we shouldn't be doing. We are just slipping in them and watching the occasional film and studying in them." Harry said trying to keep the panic out of his voice as he remembered his wine cellar and how much booze they had put into his trunk when he'd been to Liqueur Lickers with the Turtles and didn't want to get them into trouble.

Master Kuzuko gave a little chuckle and replied "Don't worry Mr. Potter if you and Miss Granger are getting up to anything untoward of a more intimate nature in your trunks together then the Masters and Sensei would be unable to stop you. You are both of age, as well as being Heads of Ancient and Noble houses." much to Harry and Hermione's surprise which caused them both to start blushing furiously.

Fleur grinning like a Cheshire cat and said "What do you mean by a more intimate nature Master Kuzuko? You mean like catching each other getting undressed for example." before getting a swat on the arm and a look that could kill from Hermione.

"Fleur!" Hermione hissed at her getting an innocent "What? I'm curious." from Fleur who was trying not to smile at Hermione's embarrassment.

Master Kuzuko stood thinking for a moment about how best to word it before saying "Let's just say adult physical activities."

"Jez you're such a nun Satomi. She means have sex Fleur." Amy Yushiro replied while smiling drawing attention to herself and Yuki for the first time and the later put her hand over her mouth and chuckled lightly at her sister's bluntness and heard Satomi face palm herself at Amy's bluntness. It brought a stab of nostalgia to the three of them as it was something that happened a lot when they were younger.

Harry and Hermione couldn't look at each other as they both started blushing a little at the comment and both mumbled something unintelligible that no one could really hear.

"I take it it is in ze school rules about students engaging in that kind of activity but can you stop two individuals who are of age doing something like that?" Fleur asked. Hermione pinched the bridge of her nose trying to keep calm as images of herself with Harry in his cinema room and then both in his bath started flashing through her mind imagining things going that far with Harry.

Harry meanwhile was having similar thoughts but unfortunately for him he was recalling what happened the night before and he could feel himself getting a little angry at Lucy again for what had happened.

"I am not a nun Amy!" Master Kuzuko said defensively, "It's not something that the school would really want me to endorse though, is it? Plus the financial implications of conceiving while attending Mahoutokoro would be crazy." Master Kuzuko added with a shake of the head.

"But in answer to your question Fleur there aren't school rules so much but there are implications of such a thing happening while attending Mahoutokoro." Master Kuzuko asked.

"Such as?" Fleur asked as Harry looked to Narcissa with a look that clearly suggested he wasn't enjoying this conversation but didn't know how to end it.

"Well for one if two consenting of age students were to conceive in Mahoutokoro or its grounds then firstly they would have to give an annual donation of thanks to the school until that child becomes of age." Yuki Yushiro interjected from the door.

"Really?!" Fleur asked a little shocked. "Why and how much would it be?" she added a little surprised.

"It would be a year's worth of school fees or five percent of the parents annual earnings every year until the child became an adult. So it would be like putting that child through school there from birth with ten additional years payments. Then, unless the child was granted a scholarship to attend, then parents would have to pay admission and tuition fees again if they wanted the child to attend.

Or its five percent of the parents annual income whether the child attended the school or not, so would be quite a sum, and quite a risk." Amy Yushiro answered before Yuki took over smoothly.

"As to why, it is a way of thanking the school for allowing them to produce life within a highly magical environment and while under their care and also for the school protecting their privacy and not making it public knowledge of a child being conceived while the students attended the school, therefore protecting the families involved reputations." Yuki added as she and Amy stepped into the room.

"I see but I don't think that we need to worry about Arry and Hermione conceiving a child while attending this year. Isn't that right you two?" Fleur inquired while turning to Harry and then Hermione.

"Of course not!" Hermione replied getting her head back into the room and out of the day dream that was floating about.

"No it's not something that I'd imagine happening." Harry added as he and Hermione looked at each other. "Getting back on topic though I'll test the trunks out when we return to Mahoutokoro and see if we can access clan areas not our own and if we can I'll let you know." Harry said to Master Kuzuko who was about to say something when Narcissa interjected quickly.

"You can also rest assured though Master Kuzuko that if it is possible to enter another clan area via Harry and Hermione's trunks, that they won't allow other students to do so as they will both appreciate that each clans area is their own safe haven while at school." she said getting a smile from Master Kuzuko and a small bow of her head, which Narcissa returned happily.

"Since that is sorted for the time being how about we get back on topic. Fleur would you like to make the introductions?" Narcissa inquired. Fleur nodded as Hermione went and stood behind the chair that was on Harry's right flanking him on the opposite to Narcissa and catching the older witch's eye and nodded her thanks.

"Harry?" Narcisssa said turning and looking at him and watched delighted as Harry got up and smoothed his robes down and walked around the table before coming to a stop in front of Yuki and Amy while Master Kuzuko and Fleur stepped to one side to allow him to pass.

Harry then bent at the waist, with his hands by his sides and bowing deeply before rising he looked at the two Japanese witches and greeted them. "Apologies for us all getting a little side tracked there. I'm very pleased to meet you both. I'm Lord Harry Potter-Black-Peverell-Ravenclaw and I'm delighted to meet you both." feeling a little uncomfortable using his title in an official capacity.

"Miss Yuki Yushiro" he said reaching out and taking Yuki's hand and raising it gently to his lips kissing her knuckle before letting go and repeating the action with Amy while making eye contact with each witch.

"It's our honour to meet yourself Lord Potter-Black-Peverell-Ravenclaw and also Lady Granger-Dumbledore-Hufflepuff." Yuki replied while performing a curtsey and a bow of the head which Amy also did before both standing straight.

"We very much appreciate you both taking the time to meet with us and if it would be agreeable with you we would like you to call us Amy and Yuki. From what Fleur and Narcissa have told us we believe that you would prefer us to address you by your first names also." Amy said meeting Harry's emerald green eyes and then seeing a genuine smile touch his face.

"Absolutely that would be great. Please have a seat." Harry said stepping back and motioning for everyone to be seated. Narcissa had told Harry that he being his head of houses as well as being the only wizard in the room would be expected to sit at the head of the table and take charge of the meeting or at least to begin with as the Yushiro twins had come at his invitation.

As they all took their seats Harry closed the door to the room. Then acting much more confidently than he was feeling, took his seat and leant forwards resting his arms on the table with his hands in front of him. He looked to his right seeing Hermione watching him. Fleur had taken a seat next to Hermione and next to her was an empty seat.

He looked to the left to see Narcissa looking at him expectantly and next to her was Yuki Yushiro and Amy was at the far end of the table. Harry noticed Master Kuzuko was standing looking a little uncertain as to whether to sit down or not.

"Satomi?" he called with a quizzical note to his tone, "Are you not joining us?" he asked her causing the other seat occupants of the room to turn and look at the Dueling Master.

"Well if you're discussing personal information then I was going to leave you in private so you can conduct your meeting." Master Kuzuko replied clasping her hands together in front of her.

"What about your breakfast though?" Hermione asked wishing she could tell Harry the story of what she'd just seen Satomi do in the yard at the back of the tea house.

"I'll just tell Mable I'll have it at a table downstairs or something." she replied.

"Don't be silly. Take a seat and if you promise not to tell anyone about what we discuss and if you are going to become a regular chaperone for us then you can't just disappear every time Hermione or I want to discuss something business related or private." Harry said looking to Hermione and seeing her nod.

"Harry's right. Would it be better if we asked the Grandmaster if you could come with us on non-bazaar weekends? Rather than having different Masters or Sensei come with us as it would be better." Hermione said kindly.

"Well if you are sure, I can promise that I won't divulge anything that you discuss. Be it business related or more personal in nature." Master Kuzuko said to them both seriously.

"Well that is fine by me Satomi and I'm happy to place my trust in you." Harry replied while locking eyes with the Dueling Master and they nodded to each other.

"I am happy to place mine as well. It would work out better and potentially save us a lot of time if it is normally you that come to the Bazaar with us." Hermione added.

"And it will save on the paperwork." Amy Yushiro threw in as she opened the attache case she had laid flat on the table beside her and pulled out a stack of silvery looking parchment that Harry recognised from his time in Hailey Sloop's office.

At the same time, Yuki had reached down into her own attache case that was next to her chair and pulled out an ink pot and two quills, leaning forwards placing the ink pot in the centre of the table and unstopping it. She then took the two quills and rested them on the table besides the ink pot. She took her wand and tapped the ink pot with it before returning her wand to an unseen place in her robes.

Amy had stacked the papers meanwhile and slid them across to Yuki who then picked up one of the quills and started to sign each of the pieces of parchment quickly and efficiently. While this was happening Amy had taken her wand and cast a series of charms at the door, which Fleur and Narcissa recognised from their previous meeting.

As Amy finished the charm work on the door Yuki slid the stack of papers across to her and handed over the quill. Amy then began signing the papers as Yuki had, then placed what looked to Harry and Hermione like a small snow globe on the desk and tapped it with her wand.

The glass of the globe turned a bright red for a moment before going clear again. Yuki looked at Master Kuzuko and gestured towards the end of the table and said "Satomi if you would be so kind, can you have a look at these magical contracts to make sure that you are happy with the conditions set forth in them and sign them please? That way Lor… Harry and Hermione will have something magically binding to give them assurances that you and ourselves won't divulge anything from this meeting or anything going forwards regardless of whether they choose to hire us or not." she said to her friend who took a couple of steps forward towards the table as Amy slid one of the copies over to her to read.

"All six copies are identical and if you are happy with what it says then please sign them Satomi. I know you will be since you're the most honourable person I know, and I know you wouldn't divulge anything to anyone. I mean you never told Yuki about me putting that erumpent dumpling in her ink pot that time in charms class in year seven." Amy said laughing to herself.

She waited a couple of moments for both Satomi and Yuki to recall the memory of when Amy had slipped an erumpent dumpling she's bought from a joke shop into Yuki's ink pot while her sister was sat on the edge of the desk flirting with a boy she had fancied from another clan at the beginning of Master Ping's Charms class.

When Master Ping had entered the room telling everyone to get to their seats Yuki had taken her seat at the front of the class and got her materials ready. Master Ping had started going around the class putting large pebbles on each student's desk that they would be learning to transfigure into diamonds and it was to the classes hilarity that as she approached Yuki's desk that Yuki unstopped her ink pot to prepare to write on her parchment when the dumpling went off. Firing Yuki's favourite orange ink everywhere and covering herself and Master Ping with bright orange ink.

Master Ping had gone mental as the class had broken out into laughter and had refused to listen to Yuki's pleas that it wasn't her that had caused it. Her argument being why would she have wanted herself to get covered in ink if she had been the culprit.

"You bitch I got given detention for a month because of that. Although I had an inkling it was one of you two. On the plus side I got to serve two weeks of it alone with Benji Nanahara and he was gorgeous." Yuki said with mock horror at discovering her sister had landed her in trouble at school as it wasn't the first time.

As Master Kuzuko started laughing along with Amy as she remembered the incident she said "Benji Nanahara, now there's a name I've not heard in a long time. I wonder what he's doing now?"

"He's working in the Philippines for a magical mining company. They have found a large cluster of sapphire clusters in the country and want to get them mined before the NOMA's find them." Yuki said without thinking and saw Amy's head whip around in an instant.

"You seem to know an awful lot about it Yuki. Have you been keeping tabs on Benji all this time? Have you been using work resources to keep an eye on your old crush?" Amy asked with a grin on her face as Yuki shook her head.

"No I haven't, and this is hardly the time to discuss it!" Yuki hissed at her sister quietly who looked up the table to see Harry and Hermione smiling at them and then breaking eye contact as they pretended not to be listening to the exchange. Narcissa made eye contact with her and she said "Apologises. This isn't really making us come across very professional, is it?"

"Don't worry about it. It's nice to see you aren't both really stuffy and serious as I had horrible visions of you both being really stiff and overly courteous and things, so it's actually nice to see you both acting so normally." Hermione replied seeing the momentary tension leave both the Yushiro's bodies.

Master Kuzuko having finished reading the contract, which was very plainly worded, had no problem picking up the quill and signing her name to all six copies before putting the quill back in place on the table where Yuki and Amy started clearing everything away.

Amy took out six envelopes and put a copy in each of the envelopes and tapped her wand on two of them and the envelopes started folding themselves up like someone was doing origami to them and making them into paper cranes.

Amy gave another wave of her wand and the origami birds took flight and did a quick circle of the room as Yuki, while still putting things away in her attache case, pointed her wand over her shoulder without looking and the window behind her opened allowing the paper bird to escape and disappear from sight as the window closed behind it with a click.

Amy then slid two of the copies across to Fleur and then one each along the table that came to a stop in front of Harry and Hermione. "There is a copy each for both yourselves Harry and Hermione to keep in your own personal records. Fleur there is a copy to give to both Sato and Tengu respectively at Gringotts." She said as Harry and Hermione took the copies offered and Fleur took her copies and put them into her handbag.

"Thank you Amy and Yuki, and also thank you Satomi for signing that as it means a lot that we can divulge what we need to without having to worry about anyone knowing what we have planned." Harry said nodding to the Yushiro twins and then looking at Master Kuzuko.

"Not that we wouldn't have trusted you anyway, but it gives us a piece of mind knowing that we can discuss what we like with you and also maybe get your input as well." Hermione added. Getting an affirmative nod from Master Kuzuko that she understood.

Narcissa placed her hand gently on Harry's forearm getting his attention and causing him to look at her and she leant in and explained quietly "Pass me those agreements Harry and I'll have a quick look through them to make sure they are alright. You can start the rest of the meeting with them but try not to divulge anything you wouldn't want them to know until I've given you the all clear, ok?" Getting a nod and a small smile from Harry as he placed his hand in hers and gave it a pat of acknowledgement.

He then slid his agreement over and then Hermione's who watched it go to Narcissa and she saw the older witch's hand on Harry's forearm. She saw her give it a little squeeze before Narcissa took the two agreements out of the envelopes and started reading through them.

Hermione was delighted because she'd wanted to look at the contract herself but didn't want to appear rude by doing it straight away like she didn't trust the Yushiro's to have done it correctly or not be trying to stitch them up right in front of them.

She was also happy to see that little interaction between Narcissa and Harry, and how they were becoming more at ease with each other. As Narcissa started to read through the agreements, Harry leant forwards and rested his arms on the table while clasping his hands together.

"Right, so Amy and Yuki thank you very much for taking the time out of your weekend to meet with us. Hermione and I really appreciate it especially as you've allowed us to cut into your free time." Harry said looking at the Yushiro twins who both looked attentive and were listening to what he was saying.

"So what have Fleur and Narcissa told you about what Hermione and I are thinking of doing while we are here in Japan?" Harry asked them both to see them look at each other and Amy pointed at Yuki to take the lead.

"Firstly it's not a problem agreeing to meet on the weekend as we can always take a day off each in the week. Normally we have requests pop up from clients every now and again that need help on the weekend." Yuki said with Amy nodding her agreement although she was thankful that it didn't really happen that often.

"Secondly, as to what Fleur and Narcissa have told us, they have kept the specifics quite vague up to this point other than to mention that you are both interested in potentially investing into businesses here in Japan." Yuki added looking to both Harry and Hermione who nodded in confirmation.

"Do you have any ideas as to what type of business or industry you are looking to invest in?" Yuki asked them both seeing Narcissa pat Harry's arm and give him a firm nod of the head.

"Is everything to your satisfaction with the agreement Narcissa?" Amy asked genuinely.

"Yes, it is all in order, thank you Amy. Forgive me, I didn't mean to appear rude I just wanted to have a quick look through it to make sure it was all in order." Narcissa replied smoothly and a smile touched her face at Amy having been watching her.

"That's good, and I suppose I shouldn't have really sealed the envelopes without you checking them first, forgive me." Amy said to which Narcissa replied 'That it wasn't a worry at all and that she appreciated the preparation that they had both shown in having them already drafted and signed before they'd got to the important parts of the meeting'.

Harry, feeling like he needed to move the meeting away from Narcissa checking the contracts, answered Yuki's question, "Well I can't speak for Hermione as I don't know whether she's got any ideas of what she would like to do yet but I've a few ideas of what I'd like to explore and see what we can do." He saw Amy reach under the table again and to his surprise bring out two muggle writing pads and what looked like two biros before sliding one of each over to Yuki who like Amy flipped the pad open and pressed the button on the pen both prepared to write.

Hermione was surprised and smiled asking "How come you have NOMA writing pads and pens?"

"Oh, they are a lot easier to use sometimes when you want to write quickly than having to use inkpots, quills and parchment. I mean we use magical writing instruments for anything official but quick note taking we like to use these. One of Yuki's friends in her old Clan showed her them and they are really useful for continuous writing quickly since the pen is a lot easier to write with that a quill." Amy replied seeing Hermione nod along with what she was saying.

"I find that too but I'm glad to see that you don't hate all NOMA inventions like lots of other magicals." Hermione replied seeing Yuki shaking her head.

"On the contrary, we both did NOMA studies and find it fascinating some of the things NOMA's have devised to get around problems without a magical solution available to them. We would like to spend more time in NOMA Japan but it's hard to get the time other than in the summer when we close the office for a month." Yuki replied happy to see that their demonstration of using NOMA writing materials had gone across well with both of them.

"Do you have any ideas of businesses you would like to invest in Hermione?" Yuki asked.

"I have at least one business that I'd be interested in investing in. I'd like to take one or both of you to it at some point if you've not already been there." Hermione said as she sensed Harry look at her and rather than get stuck on the point she asked Yuki, "Ideally if I can I would like to grow a business from its early foundations if I can. As opposed to investing in a business that might already be stuck in bad practices or in decline." she added as Harry looked at her and she turned to look at him and asked "What?"

"Nothing. " Harry said, smiling at Hermione.

"What are you grinning at Potter?" Hermione asked wondering why Harry was grinning at her.

"Book shop?" he asked her, getting a roll of the eyes in response.

"I do have other things I'm interested in besides books. Like cars, plants, and cooking!" Hermione retorted. She didn't just like reading. Ok, she loved reading, but that was more because of the learning as opposed to the actual reading part.

"So what's the business you are looking to invest in?" Harry enquired hoping Hermione would slip.

"What have you got planned for London?" Hermione countered while smiling. Knowing what he was doing.

"It's a secret," Harry replied playfully. "So is mine and it will be a shock to you I bet. If it happens." Hermione replied equally playful and knowing that Harry would be completely surprised when he eventually found out. If she told him.

"Well I'll tell you one of mine if you tell me yours." Harry said as he was surprised that Hermione had found a business she wanted to invest in already.

Hermione thought about this for a moment and asked "Is it information on what's happening in England or here?" trying to suss him out.

"Here," Harry said knowing what Hermione was trying to do.

"No deal. I'll be able to see what you're doing here but not in England so unless it's telling me about what you are doing in England I think I'll keep it under my hat." Hermione said.

"That's the way Hermione. He's already got his account managers trying to outdo each other. So don't let him draw you into trying to get what he wants too easily." Fleur said giving Harry a look and smiling at his shock.

"You're meant to be on my side!" Harry argued humorously and got a laugh from Fleur who was just about to reply.

"Fleur is neutral Harry and here to help both you and Hermione, remember? Not just you." Narcissa cut in.

"Well at least you're just on my side though right? Plus, if Fleur has to go back to England you can at least stay to help me out." Harry said confident that he'd at least have Narcissa helping him.

"Of course, but that doesn't mean that I won't help Hermione as well. Especially if Fleur is back in England." Narcissa replied to Harry and gave Hermione a subtle wink "In fact, maybe I should concentrate on helping Hermione seeing as you've got more account managers than she has."

"So you already began investing in Britain already? Do you mind me asking what in and how its working so far?" Amy asked.

"Well we've started a joint venture and became silent partners in Eaton & Co. in London and that's working out quite well at the moment." Hermione replied.

"Eaton & Co.?" Yuki queried thinking before asking "I don't think I've heard of them before. What is it that they do?"

"They make trunks." Hermione replied getting thoughtful nods from the Yushiro's.

"I see and what made you want to invest in them?" Amy asked scribbling down the name to research later.

"Well I know that doesn't sound very interesting but Elliott, who is the son of the owner, has created luxury trunks with what I assume are a series of expansion charms and other things to make it a liveable trunk with running water and all sorts of fun stuff." Hermione explained, "He wanted to make more of them as he only had one made when we went trunk shopping for something bigger after we'd attended the will meetings where we got our inheritance."

"Then Elliott showed us the trunk and we were blown away with what he had created and for what he was charging for them we supposed it was a really good price considering what he could offer with them." Harry said, taking over the explanation. "So we both bought one and then we asked him whether he'd allow us to invest in the business and he had to check with his dad who was the other partner in the shop and his Dad agreed eventually to allow us to invest and become silent partners so to speak."

"I see so you are silent partners." Yuki said understanding the term and was happy to see that Harry and Hermione both appeared to know what they were doing but just to make sure asked "May I ask why you wanted to become silent partners and not full partners giving your input to the running of the business?"

Hermione answered for them "Well mainly because we want to concentrate on our studies this year but also... well they were running a stable and profitable business, so they clearly know what they are doing. They just needed an injection of capital in order to push them to the next level."

"Well I think that is a good thing to be doing as to be honest this is normally a major sticking point with people wanting to purchase established businesses in Japan." Amy explained to the pair of teenagers.

"How so?" Hermione asked.

"Well here in magical and NOMA Japan this is normally a major sticking point with foreign investors that causes things to get difficult." Yuki commented and then continued, "Businesses tend to be family run in Magical Japan and they are passed down to the next generation, you will rarely find one business that is willing to give up ownership of the business to non-family members."

"Here they are more willing to accept backers that will get a cut of the profits. Essentially you would become as you say silent partners while the day-to-day business is run by the owners making them still feel like that are in control of the business and keeping their honour intact. You could have some input on what you want your money used for, but that is usually discussed prior to becoming the backer."

"So essentially, we are the bank, in that we give a "loan" and they pay back that "loan" with the extra profits the business makes?" Hermione queried.

"Hm in a sense yes, but that is simplifying what is going on." Amy replies.

"You would be invested in the company so your partner would expect some input from you on the major changes and direction of the business. You'd have to be in agreement depending on the share of the business you would have. If, for example, you had a fifty percent stake then you would have a hand in all major business decisions outside the day to day operation of the business in order to protect your profit." Yuki carried on the explanation.

"And I suppose if it were a lesser share such as ten percent then there wouldn't really be any input in the running of the business, but Harry and Hermione would just take a ten percent share of the profits that the business makes?" Narcissa asked as Yuki and Amy both turned to her and nodded.

"Yes that's correct. Unless of course their ten percent gave them a controlling stake in the business because of the amount of shareholders holding a small stake of less than ten percent although the ancient law of the twelve tables means that someone would normally need to acquire thirty percent or more of the business in that scenario to have control of the business." Amy concluded getting nods of understanding round the table.

"How about if we decided to make an Angel Investment?" Harry asked, causing everyone to look at him.

"What's an Angel Investment?" Master Kuzuko asked Harry for the benefit of the group.

"It's a muggle or NOMA business term." Harry replied seeing that no one understood what he meant. "An angel investor is basically a wealthy individual or company who provides capital for a business start-up or a business in trouble, usually in exchange for their money being paid back to them with interest when the business improves or ownership equity. Angel investors usually give support to start-ups at the initial moments and when most investors are not prepared to back them." He explained to the group and turned to see Hermione looking surprised but impressed.

"So if the goblins do not wish to invest or they see it as a risky investment then it potentially opens the opportunity up to you and Hermione?" Fleur added picking up on Harry's way of thinking about things straight away.

"Yes. I mean the Goblins I'd have thought would bet on sure things, such as profitable businesses already in operation, which is a good and safe bet as they will most likely give a return on their investment from the profits." Harry said seeing Fleur nodding along.

"However if I or we invest in start up business or business that are failing from bad management or accounting but have massive growth potential then if the business starts to perform well then the profit margins are higher and they money to invest in them might not be as high." Harry concluded.

"So buy or invest at the bottom and then spend wisely, advertise, create new products, and market the business to increase revenue and maximise the profit helping it get to the top?" Narcissa added getting an excited nod from Harry who seemed delighted that she was so quick on the uptake.

He turned to look at Hermione who was looking at him a bit stunned. "Alright Hermione?" he asked her and saw he bite her lower lip gently as she looked at him.

"Yes. I just never thought you'd have such a business brain Harry." She replied, causing him to laugh.

"Well I guess I have Uncle Vernon to thank for that as one of the only things that he left in my cupboard were old copies of business magazines he used to read." Harry replied recalling the memory and how Uncle Vernon would laugh as he slid the latest copy of the magazines through the slit in Harry's door grate commenting that it would be something that might cause Harry to get a brain in that head of his and not be a total failure for the rest of his life.

Harry eventually actually started looking forward to the new editions of the magazine for a few years as he read them all cover to cover many times. That was until Uncle Vernon actually caught Harry reading one in the living room and checking it for reference against a dictionary from Uncle Vernon's bookcase. Harry had explained he wanted to understand what 'Protectionism' meant when Uncle Vernon had asked what he was doing.

Uncle Vernon had beaten Harry for touching his books and not asking permission as the only time he wanted Harry's grubby little mitts near them was when he was cleaning. He had then gone on to gather up all the magazines from the cupboard and burn them in a wheelbarrow in the garden, much to Harry's disappointment.

"I guess that's maybe the only thing to thank Uncle Vernon for." Harry said not wanting to dwell on thoughts of his relatives.

"So you used to read when you were younger then and it really must have been Ron who was a bad influence on you. I'm impressed though Harry. I had no idea you had such an interest in business." Hermione said but not seriously.

"Well it's nice to be able to still surprise you I suppose." Harry replied and they shared a smile.

"So you're mainly looking for new companies starting up and possibly investment opportunities in under performing companies then?" Amy asked clarifying.

"Hopefully yes, although I guess it's going to take a lot of research and building of relationships with the owners and families of any potential investment in order to try and make that happen I would assume." Harry replied looking at Amy and Yuki and saw them both appear happy by the comment and Harry's thoughts on the idea.

"Well it seems that you've already grasped a good handle on how best to go about it." Yuki explained with Amy's agreement.

"Perhaps you'd like to show us the businesses that you are already thinking of investing in today and we can give you our opinions." Amy suggested as Harry and Hermione looked at each other.

"What do you think? I don't mind us all going where I'm wanting to invest. You alright us all going to yours?" Harry questioned while grinning. Knowing that this was a way for Hermione to have to give up her plan but Harry not even giving away a fraction of what he was cooking up.

"Do you think I came down in the last drop of rain Potter? I know what you're thinking Harry. You think that way you'll find out what I'm up to without having me see what you're up to." Hermione said to which Harry replied "Busted" and they all laughed at the interaction between the two teens.

"I see Hermione knows you too well Harry." Master Kuzuko commented.

"She knows me better than I know myself if I'm honest with you." Harry replied. Placing his hand on Hermione's causing her to smile at him and then look at Narcissa observing the scene.

"How about after we have breakfast Harry, Fleur and Yuki go to look at the business that Harry is looking into buying and Hermione, Amy, Satomi and I go and look at where Hermione's thinking of investing in. Then we all meet up this afternoon or at lunch time and see how things went." Narcissa suggested.

"That's not a bad idea since I really would like to spend some time having a more in depth look at the Bazaar. I've not seen all of it yet and there is still loads more to see." Harry replied before looking at the Yushiro twins. "That is if you don't mind spending more of your Saturday with us. If you've plans to do something else today after meeting us then we can arrange it for another time perhaps?" he added.

"Well I've got something else this afternoon. But..." Amy started to say thoughtfully thinking about how much time she could dedicate to spending time with Harry and Hermione for Yuki's benefit as she already had planned to try and stretch the meeting out with Harry and Hermione in order to try and win the contract as it was vitally important that she did.

"Well if you've something else on then I guess we can try and squeeze it in next weekend perhaps or maybe Narcissa and Fleur can take you during the week while we're at school?" Hermione suggested not really wanting to have to spend time away from Harry when they had the opportunity to be together a lot this weekend.

"No it's fine, I'm sure Amy will be able to move whatever she has on." Yuki said turning to look at her sister and made a show of running her hand through her hair blocking her mouth from view and mouthing angrily "What are you doing?!" to her sister.

"You know what… It's fine, I'll be able to move things around and do it another day." Amy said seeing Yuki physically relax a little.

"Great then that's all set." Fleur said clapping her hands when Yuki said "Actually Amy how about I go with Hermione, Satomi and Naricssa and you go with Harry and Fleur."

"Erm yeah sure that would be fine." Amy said making eye contact with Satomi and seeing the disappointment touch her oldest friend's face momentarily. "It's alright we will see each other when we all meet up Satomi." She added feeling guilty at seeing the disappointment in her friend's face and feeling bad from cutting herself off from her friend for so long.

Amy missed her best friend so much but she had cut off contact with her for her own protection. She constantly lived in fear of her double life impacting on Yuki or her friends and hadn't wanted to place Satomi in danger.

Yuki, feeling bad after seeing the disappointment on both of their faces, quickly added "It's not that I want to prevent you spending time with each other. I just thought that seeing Amy is a better duellist than me, it would be better to make sure Harry and Fleur have someone with them that can offer better protection than I can." Getting nods of understanding from her sister.

"Do you feel that we need protecting?" Hermione asked curiously. She hadn't really seen anything when visiting the Banzai Bazaar before to cause her to feel unsafe when with her friends, which she said to the room at large.

"Well if you are travelling in groups and not alone it is safer anyway but no you don't necessarily need protection. I mean we've heard about you both and the things that happened during the wizarding war in Britain. So we know you can handle yourselves." Yuki explained.

"It's more incase you wandered into an area of the Bazaar that has a large criminal element that has plagued our society for generations called the Jade Dragon. You might not have noticed their members walking around or being in the Bazaar but they are there." She added.

"And you think that they would attack Harry and Hermione?" Narcissa asked concern etched in her voice.

"Probably not but it's best to be safe that sorry, don't you think? I mean they are recognisable and famous so it's most likely that they will get a lot of attention from people, but it doesn't hurt having an extra pair of eyes watching things around them. There are aurors and hit wizards dotted all over the Bazaar so if something happens they will most likely arrive fairly quickly." Amy added trying to diminish their concern.

"I've seen some of the Jade Dragon members before. They normally wear black with bits of green on their clothing. The ones I saw came into a shop and wanted protection money from the owner. They had their faces covered though so they wouldn't be recognised." Harry said getting sad nods of the head from Master Kuzuko and Yuki.

"Yes those would be the more lower ranked, foot soldiers if you will, but there will be plenty of higher ranked members in the capital that will be operating undercover and in plain sight." Yuki added thinking about how the Jade Dragon made everyone's lives a little more miserable trying to extort them. So far Amy had been dealing with their members that had come to their business practice and her sister had assured her that she hadn't given them any money.

Yuki didn't know if that was true but the books of the practice balanced and there had been no damage or threats made since, so she trusted her sister's word.

"Well in that case Satomi," Harry said to Master Kuzuko. "You're a very skilled and knowledgeable duellist, having seen you in class, knowing your position and the respect the other teachers and students have for you in school as well. I can't think of anyone better to accompany Hermione and Narcissa." Master Kuzuko blushed at the compliment and looked Harry directly in the eye seeing him looking serious.

"Well Amy is quite the accomplished Duellist also. She was a pro…" Master Kuzuko started to explain before Amy spoke up.

"Also you becoming the youngest Duelling Master in the history of the school, which is a massive achievement Satomi." Amy said sincerely as she was well impressed that her friend had become the Duelling Master at Mahoutokoro and was itching to ask her how she'd manage to get the job.

"Satomi…" Harry said "I would consider it a personal favour, if you would escort Narcissa and Hermione around the Bazaar. They are my family and I want to offer them the best protection that they can have. Would you mind? I can always arrange with Amy for you to come with us on another weekend and you can spend all your time with her and get reacquainted because I know how important having good friends is." He said moving his hand and placing it back on Hermione's and Narcissa felt like a balloon had inflated in her chest at Harry already showing his protective instincts as she was now his family.

Hermione felt her heart pang at how much she loved Harry and how much it meant to her that he considered her his family. She was thinking about how he was really making a conscious effort to try and protect her and she found it very sweet.

"Of course I'll protect them Harry. Although I'm not sure the Grandmaster will be happy with me not staying with both of you." Master Kuzuko replied honestly.

"Well what the Grandmaster doesn't know, won't hurt him." Narcissa said causing the group to laugh.

"You clearly don't know the Grandmaster. He knows everything Narcissa. Like everything that's going on in the school and with its students, he somehow knows." Yuki said grinning.

At that moment the snow globe positioned in front of the Yushiro twins turned red and drew all of their attention. "It appears we are about to be interrupted." Amy said as there was a knock at the door and Harry called out to 'come in' as Mable Yu stuck her head through the gap in the door.

"Sorry to interrupt but I have your breakfast." she said kindly smiling at them all as Harry waved her in.

Mable came in with four heavily laden breakfast trays behind her. With a wave of her wand distributed people's plates and bowls to each of them. Two large flagons of juice followed and some glasses magically appeared as the jugs came into contact with the table.

Next a steaming coffee pot and teapot followed, omitting small puffs of steam and the room was filled with the smell of fresh coffee as a tray carrying cups flew around the room with the cups diving and gliding to a stop in front of each person as they flew around the room until they all had a cup.

"Just give me a shout if you need anything else and Amy I know you offered to pay for all the breakfast but this one is on the house for you all." Mable said smiling at the Yushiro's fondly and putting her hand on Master Kuzuko's forearm affectionately giving it a squeeze.

Harry looked around the table seeing all the food and drink and shook his head. "Mrs. Yu, no we couldn't possibly not pay for this. It's too much and you've a business to run." Harry said.

"Absolutely Mrs. Yu, Harry and I will pay for this as we asked for the meeting so we will pay." Hermione added.

"Oh no Lady Granger, it's not a problem at all. I found out where my husband Chen slipped off to earlier when we were really busy and well thanks to Satomi here he's come into a little money. So he's going to pay for it, believe me. Enjoy your breakfast" Mable said while backing out to the doorway and closed the door with a bow.

"What did that mean that thanks to you Chen came into some money earlier Satomi?" Harry asked causing Hermione, Fleur and Yuki to laugh and Master Kuzuko to look a little sheepish.

"I… erm… sort of had an unauthorised duel with someone outside who kept barging into me when I was queuing to order my breakfast and he was then quite rude." Master Kuzuko answered as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth.

"An unauthorised duel. You mean you had a fight?" Narcissa asked surprised.

"It wasn't so much a fight as an educational arse kicking." Yuki replied causing the girls who witnessed the fight to all laugh again.

"It was brilliant Harry. I'll show you the memory of it later and Master Kuzuko was just brilliant and I know you'll be impressed about how she kicked a professional duellists and his trainers backsides with nothing but striking spells." Hermione added excitedly.

"It was truly impressive Satomi." Fleur added getting a modest smile from Master Kuzuko.

"I see you've still got your temper then Tomi." Amy said fondly.

"I suppose… I'd imagine you've still got yours too." Satomi replied grinning.

"You can say that again!" Yuki said laughing as she knew better than anyone how fiery her sister could be.

"Well lets tuck into this lovely breakfast and you can all tell Harry and I about this fight and how Mr. Yu managed to earn the money to pay for it." Narcissa said as they all agreed and started tucking into their breakfasts.

Between Yuki, Hermione and Fleur they recounted the story of what had happened in the yard behind the teashop to Harry and Narcissa. Narcissa smiled as Harry started talking about the spells that she had used as well as her opponents and concluded saying he couldn't wait to see Master Kuzuko in action.

As they ate their meals and talked Amy and Yuki asked Harry and Hermione questions about their personal interests and how they were enjoying Mahoutokoro. They were both happy to hear that both Harry and Hermione were both representing their old clans in Tiger and Dragon. They asked how their sorting had gone and listened vividly to Harry and Hermione about how the sorting had gone and them being chosen by all four of the clan animals.

Hermione managed to save Harry from slipping up when talking about the clan areas and what they were like by talking quickly and interrupting him and say how disappointed they both were that they'd not get the chance to see the Phoenix Nest in more detail as they didn't want to tip off Master Kuzuko that they had been the ones that had pulled the pranks on the Phoenix clan members.

Amy had said that she was glad that they hadn't joined Phoenix as most of their clan members were idiots and snobs, and that she had always loved getting one over on Phoenix Clan.

She asked Satomi if they were still the same way and Satomi said that they were worse as she told a shocked Yuki and Amy that she had to ban one of their members from Duelling class and even stepping foot in the duelling hall again and that if she'd had her way she would have had the "dishonourable puke" expelled.

They had both asked what had happened to ban a student from attending a class because the idea of that happening during their time in school would have been something that would never happen, and what did they do to want Satomi to want them expelled.

Satomi said that she would fill them in another time because she could see Hermione getting a little upset at the talk. She knew the English witch felt terrible and somehow responsible for Harry being injured.

Harry was secretly glad that she hadn't made Narcissa especially aware of what had happened as he could imagine his newest family member wouldn't be best pleased to know that Harry had been attacked.

The mood had gone a little quiet in the room after that with them eating in silence until Fleur had asked the twins a business related question in regards to whether there were rules in regards to advertising in Japan and also whether they exercised copyright in the country as well.

As Harry and Hermione ate they were both very impressed both with the Yushiro twins responses and also Fleur and Narcissa asking them about things that neither of the two twins had even thought about. They were heartened to see that Narcissa and Fleur were really trying to protect their investment.

Amy put her fork down as she remembered the question Fleur and Narcissa had asked her about both physical construction expansion and magical expansion permissions and requests within the Bazaar.

Amy recounted the information she had found out on the limits that the ministry put on each and also gave them information on the process that they would have to go through, which to Harry's disappointment sounded even more complicated and difficult than it was in Britain.

After Breakfast, Mable had come and cleared the table bringing another pot of tea in case they had wanted more and changed their cups for them. Harry and Hermione sat quietly talking for a moment while the rest of the table conversed and started talking about Quidditch and the game that was on later and how it would make the Bazaar a little more difficult to move around.

After having a discussion between themselves about Yuki and Amy and what they thought of them Harry nodded his head in agreement to Hermione and cleared his throat drawing everyone's attention to him.

Harry stood looking at Amy and Yuki and placed his hands by his sides before giving them both a bow in turn, before clasping his hands in front of him. "Amy, Yuki, thank you very much for agreeing to meet with us today and I just wanted to say that Hermione and I have been very impressed both with your knowledge and skill in explaining things to us all about Japanese laws and regulations." Harry said confidently getting a nod of thanks from the twins who he saw both tense up a little but waiting for him to drop something on them.

"Not only that but we like that you've actually sat and had breakfast with us and it's been nice to see you interacting with each other, us and obviously knowing that you are Satomi's friends as well that put us at ease even more." Harry said as both the Yushiro twins thanked him and said that they all seemed really nice and were easy to get on with.

"Well I'm glad you think so because Hermione and I would like to officially ask you to represent us and to be our magical solicitors here in Japan. So long as you are happy to work within the payment terms that we are happy with. Did Fleur and Naricssa make you aware of the payment terms that I would be happy with for the work you carry out on my behalf?" Harry asked with a smile. Yuki and Amy's faces failed to stop the worry that broke out onto them suddenly.

Yuki and Amy had been so focused on trying to win their trust and impress Harry and Hermione enough that they would want them to look after their legal affairs that they hadn't really thought about the subject of money coming up and whether Harry and Hermione would firstly be able to afford to pay for their services and secondly whether they would actually agree to it if they could afford it.

Before the twins could say anything Fleur interjected and said "I'm sorry Arry but we have not as we were not sure whether you wanted to agree a set fee or pay hourly or what your and Hermione's preferences would be in that regard."

"Ah right I see." Harry said, turning to Hermione. "Had you had any thoughts on the matter Hermione? I was just thinking of trying to have the same terms that I have with Hayley Sloop. I don't know what kind of agreement you've made with Joel Everard though as you might want different terms than what Hayley and I agreed." He said feeling a bit silly for not having talked to Hermione before about this before today as he retook his seat.

"Well I paid Joel a retainer to do a certain amount of work for me and then I asked them to inform me when they've used up what they would have charged per hour for the work they do for me and also sorted out a commission agreement with him regarding return on investments and such they help me with." Hermione said as Harry nodded along with what she was saying.

"Yes I arranged the same with Hayley." Harry said grinning at how he and Hermione were always appearing to think about things in the same way "You thinking of the same with Yuki and Amy as well? That's what I was planning to do." he asked her, getting a confirming nod as he turned back to the two nervous looking Yushiro twins.

"Ok so this is obviously the awkward part and don't be embarrassed about what you expect to be paid or your rates and please just be honest with us and we will work it out ok." Harry said to the Yushiro twins.

"Well truth be told we don't have any clients on retainer at the moment as the last three we had have died over the last five years." Yuki said feeling a little embarrassed that their firm didn't have any regular clients on retainer.

"We do have lots of clients that will pay us hourly rates until a job is done or most clients prefer to negotiate for the cost of the whole job before we carry out the work that they need completing so we negotiate an up front fee normally." Amy explained getting a nod from Yuki.

"But you might end up doing a lot more work for us than you would a normal client, plus we don't know exactly how much work or fully what we require of you yet." Hermione said getting nods from the Yushiro twins.

"That's true I suppose." Amy said in agreement.

"How much do you normally charge for an hour of your time working for a client and what would you normally be able to complete in that time?" Narcissa asked having been tasked by Lucius to negotiate with Peter and Nicole Parkinson to represent Lucius the first time he had been accused of being a Death Eater and had required a defence to be made before the Wizengamot. It was the only time she had been able to negotiate any kind of deal with the Malfoy family funds without Lucius watching every knut she had spent.

"Well we normally charge two hundred and fifty Kin an hour and within that hour we would normally have been able to for example draft a magical contract, a will and carried out some research on a subject." Yuki replied honestly seeing Harry nod his head at her.

"So two hundred and fifty Kin is about one hundred and twenty five galleons an hour." Hermione said converting the currency straight away.

"Yes but if that's too much I'm sure we can negotiate the terms a little." Amy said quickly thinking that it might be worth taking the financial hit in order to obtain such high profile clients as it really would be a feather in the firms cap.

"I see so how much did you charge as a retainer then?" Harry asked as Yuki took a breath and answered "Two and a half thousand Kin."

"So that's twelve hundred and fifty galleons, so that would be ten hours work." Harry said getting a nod from Yuki.

"And then once those ten hours were up we would take the same fee again to be at the clients beck and call but most of the time just charge the hourly rate." Amy added hoping that their rates weren't too high for the two English teenagers as she wasn't sure they could really operate for the work they might require for less and still keep a profitable business.

"And how many staff members do you have?" Narcissa asked as the two twins looked at each other and dreading having to be honest about it as it was showing how small their firm really was in comparison to the other firms they knew Fleur and Narcissa had spoken with.

"We've got two junior partners, four associates and four administration staff and Amy and I are the senior or managing partners, although we were looking for another partner for when we can expand again." Yuki explained looking around the table and seeing Narcissa scribbling a note to Harry that she slid across to him and she saw Harry look down at it and nod before sliding it across to Hermione who read it quickly and also nodded back to Narcissa.

Yuki and Amy couldn't read what the nod was about and both instantly started feeling nervous.

"Do you think that that will be enough staff to handle the extra work Harry and I provide? It might be that you are quite busy with the things we need or if we need extra attention for a while from you." Hermione asked sincerely.

"Well if we need more staff then we can always try and get them in." Amy said shrugging her shoulders "If not we will just work more to make sure that we get done what we need to do."

"Well I appreciate that but I don't want you both not having a life because of the work we might need doing and secondly if your working all hours then you'll be tired and possibly not work as effectively." Harry said seeing the two Yushiro's bow their heads in acknowledgement to what he was saying.

"So I've decided that I'm going to give you a twenty thousand Kin retainer and then when I've used that up from what you'd charge by the hour then I'll give you the same again." Harry said as the Yushiro's snapped up in an instant as they stared wide-eyed at Harry.

"Twenty thousand kin?" Yuki repeated, thinking that she must have heard incorrectly.

"Yes I'll pay twenty thousand Kin upfront as a retainer and also you will get hmmm lets say five percent of any profit my investments make that you've helped me obtain as a commission for the work you've carried out." Harry said as Amy let out a gasp.

"Are you sure? Depending on the business that could be quite a bit of money." Amy asked them, barely believing her ears.

"Absolutely I'm sure." Harry replied, grinning as he saw their reaction.

"I'll pay the same and put forward the same terms as Harry. Just let us know if you need more to get new staff in as we want you both to have a life as well and not just be working the whole time." Hermione said kindly giving both the girls a kind smile and nod of encouragement.

"I don't know what to say." Yuki replied, completely gobsmacked.

"Me either." Amy concurred.

"Well if you're happy with what we are proposing, then say yes." Harry said leaning back in his chair grinning.

Amy and Yuki broke out into smiles and even both appeared to have a tear in their eye as they hugged each other quickly and both stood and bowed deeply to Hermione and Harry.

"Absolutely yes. The retainers will allow us to recruit more people without having to give away any control of the business by having to take on another senior partner. Seriously thank you so much for this opportunity and we very much look forward to working for you and with you both. It's a very generous offer you've proposed." Yuki said, genuinely happy and trying not to cry more.

"Yes thank you both, it's an honour for ourselves and our family." Amy said, dabbing her eyes with a handkerchief. She was happy that her and Yuki's hard work and studying had paid off and was also happy that their daughter's future may be a little more secure from the potential fees that they could earn from working with Harry and Hermione.

"Well would you both be interested in taking on some silent partners in your company if you could keep the controlling interest and running of the day to day operation?" Harry asked.

"Harry!" Hermione exclaimed. "You can't be asking Yuki and Amy if they want to take on a partner to invest in their law practice before we've even finished our first meeting with them." She whispered quickly surprised that he'd even broached the subject this early or would be interested as she knew Harry had absolutely no understanding of how to run a law practice.

"Are you serious?" Yuki and Amy asked together at the same time shocked at Harry's proposal.

"Yes, quite serious." Harry said placing his hands on the arm of the chair and giving Hermione a little wink. "I told you I want to make the money I have work for me and also want to invest in companies before they get bigger and more profitable and yours is one of the ones I'm considering." He said causing Hermione to look at him questioningly along with Fleur and Narcissa.

"Harry, forgive me for interrupting, but you've only just met Yuki and Amy and don't know anything more about than you have learned during this meeting." Narcissa said leaning forward. "No offence intended girls. I'm confident that you are both very good at what you do. It's just that I've got to look out for Harry's best interests and I'm not sure that it isn't too soon for this type of talk."

"We understand Narcissa and no offence taken as we can totally understand your point." Yuki said in agreeance.

"So are you looking?" Harry asked them again calmly.

"Well we hadn't really thought about it." Amy said, looking at Yuki who she was glad to see was easily surprised.

"Ok well would you like to think about it and once you've decided, let me know? I don't want a large percentage or anything like that. I want you two to run your firm and I'll be more of a backer and will try and help in any way I can make your business more successful." Harry said before turning to Narcissa.

"As for not knowing anything about them, that isn't strictly true as I know a little bit about Yuki and Amy's work and I also know that they are good parents because of how their daughter turned out. If they do in fact have a daughter and I haven't made a complete idiot of myself." Harry said as a smile threatening to split his face as surprised hit the occupants' faces around the table at the same time and he saw from Amy and Yuki's face that his guess wasn't wrong.

"What do you mean Harry?" Hermione asked not knowing what Harry meant.

"Well I wrote to Amy Sloop asking about Amy and Yuki and whether she knew anything about them or had heard anything when she was looking for a potential solicitor here for me as well." Harry explained.

"You mean that you didn't just entrust this to Narcissa and I Arry?" Fleur asked surprised that Hayley hadn't mentioned she was looking as well to her.

"No I didn't, but I wanted as many people that I know and trust to help me find suitable people and you and Narcissa were able to give Hermione and I, your gut feeling from having spoken to Yuki and Amy and then Hayley was able to give me a professional opinion." Harry explained.

"That is a good pragmatic approach to it." Narcissa said not offended in the slightest that Harry had also had Hayley Sloop look into the matter for him.

"I'm glad you agree, Narcissa, because your and Fleur's opinions were equally as important." Harry said. "I was particularly happy to read from Hayley's assessment and feedback about your win in the Tenji Manigato vs Montrose case along with the work you did on Hami vs The Magical Council of Japan as well." Harry said seeing Yuki and Amy's cheeks colour a little as they both appeared to go shy at the mention of the second case.

"What was the Montrose case about?" Fleur asked the table and Harry motioned for Yuki or Amy to explain.

"Well Montrose Mining corporation had a legal case brought against them by a former employee, Tenji Manigato." Amy replied recalling the case as it was their first big win when they took over the practice.

"And you represented Tenji or Montrose?" Fleur asked.

"Tenji. You see Tenji was coming towards his sixtieth birthday and had been working for Montrose as a surveyor and magi-geologist helping them locate sites to mine around the world." Yuki replied.

"So Montrose is an oil company then?" Hermione asked, getting shakes of the head from the Yushiro's.

"No they mine gold and precious stones," Amy responded "and they find a lot of it and then they sell it to the goblins so that it can be cleaned and melted down to form currency or jewellery."

"So what happened with Tenji?" Fleur asked sitting forward eagerly to learn what had happened.

"Well Tenji came to us because he was approaching his retirement and Montrose had taken on another three Magi-geologists and Tenji knew that he was going to be let go, even though he had worked for Montrose for over thirty years and helped make them one of the biggest mining companies in the world. So big that they were about to compete with the goblin mining companies here in Japan.

So Tenji had saved all his life to be able to buy and mine his own plot of land. He'd never married but was in a relationship and did have a child with a woman named Padmay, that he wanted to inherit his land and money after he had gone. So Montrose had pretty much done all they could on the area of land that they were working on that Tenji had insisted that there was still a few rich veins in the land that would be the biggest.

The other Magi-geologists convinced Montrose that there was nothing left of value there. So the directors of Montrose thought that Tenji had finally lost his touch and offered to pension him off so he could retire in piece. Tenji said that he didn't want to stop working but Montrose made it so he had no other choice and then once Tenji had agreed to retire he asked them if he could buy the plot of land that they had finished with.

Montrose snapped his hand off and agreed to take all of his four hundred and sixty thousand Kin that he'd saved up all his life off him even though they were convinced that after they finished with it that the land was not really worth very much. So Montrose sold him the land and deeds to the four acre site and Tenji started to mine it alone." Yuki explained.

"Let me guess he was right and struck gold?" Narcissa guessed.

"Yes and then some," Amy said smiling as she recalled the story. "Tenji hit the motherload finding a big fat vein of gold and precious stones that was worth an absolute fortune and would have taken Montrose about three years with their whole crew to mine it out."

"So then what happened?" Hermione asked eager to know what had happened.

"Well then Montrose found out about it because they had people placed at Gringotts who did the exchanges with the goblins and started noticing that Tenji was turning up every day with gold and they had overheard him telling the teller that he'd be seeing a lot of them.

Montrose then sneaked onto Tenji's land and discovered the extent of his find and then they illegally started slope mining into Tenji's land to try and mine the gold before he got all the way to the end of it." Amy said sadly her fists clenching on the table as it still made her angry thinking about how Tenji was screwed over.

"So Tenji ended up going to the Council of Elders and the Ministry to complain about Montrose stealing what was effectively his gold. Montrose denied any wrongdoing and then threatened Tenji with a legal case stating to the Ministry and Council of Elders that the sale never took place and that Tenji was a disgruntled ex-employee who was mining their land illegally." Yuki carried on the story.

"But Tenji had a bill of sale proving the land was his though, didn't he?" Hermione asked the twins.

"He did, but Montrose kept paying off officials to delay the trial or applying for different dates or locations to hold the trial. All the while dedicating all their resources to mining Tenji's mine so that when it went to trial years later they would be able to lose the case but there be next to no stones or gold left for Tenij." Yuki added and placed her hand on Amy's arm as she knew her sister was getting upset.

"So you helped Tenji?" Fleur asked wanting to know what happened.

"We did. By the time Tenji had come to us he'd had three other firms representing him that had mainly just taken the remaining money they had off him in legal fees and from the files we inherited hadn't done much work other than the bare minimum to keep the court dates getting pushed back." Amy said having calmed a little.

"So why did you take on Tenji's case if he didn't have a lot of money to pay you with?" Hermione asked them wondering whether they took the case pro bono.

"Well Amy and I, always try and help people when we can and we do a certain amount of work for people that either can't pay or people who ask if they can pay us back or sometimes pay us back in other ways such as one client made furniture and couldn't pay us back in Kin so we agreed to let him make us a piece of furniture as payment and he made us a beautiful ornate dining table for the house.

When we looked at Tenji's case we saw that it was a difficult case to win, but that if we won it for him then he would be able to pay us back either from money he generated from his mine or from getting compensated by Montrose." Yuki explained.

"And I assume from Harry's grin that you won." Narcissa said smiling as the two Asian girls smiled at each other.

"Yes we did alright." Amy said shrugging her shoulders modestly.

"That is being incredibly modest girls" Harry said laughing causing everyone to look at him. "Do you know what happened Satomi?" Harry asked Master Kuzuko who was grinning as she had remembered Master Ping talking about the case with Master Lei and Master Ken in her first year teaching, but didn't know it was Amy and Yuki who had represented Tenji as she'd only come in on the second half of the conversation..

"Yes Harry. What happened was that they won Tenji's case and Montrose was forced to pay twenty five million Kin in compensation and had to print a public apology for its actions in the Rising Sun newspaper as well as being made to mine Kenji's mine for him free of charge until he released them from their obligation." Master Kuzuko said to the astonishment of the others.

"Yes Tenji was so happy that we'd won his case he said that he was going to leave us something in his will, but we were happy to just get our fee and know that we righted a wrong." Yuki said smiling and the others round the table to see that she sincerely meant it.

"So Montrose is having to mine Tenji's gold and precious stones for him." Fleur said with a smile.

"No course not." Amy said shaking her head.

"But Master Kuzuko just said that…" Fleur started saying before Yuki said.

"No Montrose ended up going bankrupt because the Magi-geologists that they replaced Tenji with were rubbish and didn't have his talent. After paying out Tenji his compensation they couldn't afford to continue operating and went belly up." Yuki explained.

"So he bankrupted them?" Hermione asked amazed as it was a lot of money.

"Technically yes but what we did was actually helped Tenji negotiate for the purchase of Montrose Mining and he managed to get control of the company with his compensation and still managed to pocket a sizable sum." Yuki added before turning to Amy with a grin.

"He's now the owner of the company and manages the geology department and makes all the business decisions but has allowed himself to be semi-retired. He leaves the day to day running of the company to others and they just meet up with him when they need him to make a decision." Amy finished off the story grinning back at her sister remembering the publicity the firm had got off the back of the case with Tenji singing their praises in the media after the trial before stepping back out of the limelight.

"Well that really is most impressive as I've never heard of a settlement that high in Britain before or Europe for that matter so I'm not surprised that Harry's solicitor in England had heard of you both." Narcissa said complimenting the two witches.

"And the other case?" Hermione asked thinking where she knew the name Hami from.

Amy and Yuki shared a look like they wanted the other to field that question as it was a private matter really and they were surprised that Harry had been able to find out about it as it had been a private session of the Council of Elders that had made the decision and their cases were not on public record like anything done through the ministry's court.

"I think maybe we can talk about that another time if that's alright Hermione. We've got a lot of things to discuss with Yuki and Amy and I really would like to try and get the business side of things out of the way so that we can still enjoy our weekend as well." Harry said to Hermione who nodded understanding that Harry wanted to get things moving. She, truth be told, wanted to spend as much time with Harry as she could alone before having to go back to Mahoutokoro.

"Yes you're right Harry. We don't want to be taking up Amy and Yuki's weekends either if they have plans." She said thinking before turning to Yuki and Amy "So if you are happy with the terms that Harry and I have suggested and happy to represent us then Yuki are you alright coming with myself, Narcissa and Satomi, while Amy goes with Harry and Fleur?"

"Yes that's more than fine with me Hermione." Yuki said smiling and nodding.

"Me too and thank you both very much and I can promise you both that Yuki and I will work so hard for you that you won't regret your decision to have us represent and assist you." Amy said sincerely, thinking how the forty thousand Kin retainer alone would make a massive difference to their firm.

"Ok then well let's get going and shall we meet a Kobe Slice at say…" Harry said rising to his feet as those around the table did the same and he checked his pocket watch "one o'clock this afternoon and then Hermione you can decide where you want to go from there?" Harry suggested getting agreeance from the rest of the group.

With much scrapping of chairs they gathered their things and made their way out the room and down the stairs into the main tea room and thanked Mable and a solemn looking Chen for their breakfast and said that they might be back in the morning for breakfast and that they really appreciated Chen paying for their breakfast.

Mable told them to come back any time as they would always sort a room out for them if they needed it as they were happy to host regular meetings for them if they wanted to. Harry said that they'd let her know as and when and that they really appreciated all their help.

As they made their way outside, back into the Japanese sun, they stood to one side in front of the tea house as Yuki and Amy stood facing the group and Amy said "Harry, Fleur would you be ok coming back with me to the office. So I can drop mine and Yuki's things back and then we can head off to where you have found that you'd like to invest in?"

"Sure that's fine Amy. Where abouts is your offices?" Harry asked.

"There, just opposite Chin Chin's Casino so they aren't very far but it will just allow me to send a message off to the people I'm meeting later on and also allow me to get changed so I don't seem as dressed up." Amy said thinking that she needed to send a message to Nightshade and Fox and tell them that she was going to be delayed in meeting them.

"Oh yeah I know where that is." Harry said nodding remembering being in the casino with Daphne fondly for a moment and saw Fleur check her wrist watch and say "Right then let's get the show on the road, no?"

They made their way along the road with Amy and Yuki talking to Master Kuzuko so quickly it was like the three of them had all been put on fast forward or something as Harry could see them all talking animatedly to each other.

Fleur was walking along with Harry at the back of the group and was following Hermione and Narcissa and Harry was surprised and yet happy to see that they had linked arms and were talking between themselves quietly and they each cast a look over their shoulder at him every now and again as if gauging the distance and whether Harry might over here them.

As they reached the end of Cut Through and the junction with the Emperor's Road the Yushiros and Master Kuzuko came to a stop and turned waiting for their charges to catch up with them.

"Right then Harry are you sure you don't want to do this as a group? I can understand the need for wanting to keep things from each other but I think from a safety point of view we might all be best sticking together." Master Kuzuko said to Harry and looked at Hermione for her opinion as well.

"I think we will be alright Satomi as I think Amy, Fleur and myself will be able to hold off anything that might come along and I've got something with me if I need to disappear quickly so I'll be safe and there is no need to worry." Harry said giving Hermione a knowing look as he had his invisibility cloak with him in his mokeskin pouch around his neck.

Hermione agreed and said that they would be fine and that Harry was more than capable of looking after himself and she didn't think that there would be too many wizards able to handle Harry's power anyway.

This seemed to give Master Kuzuko a little more confidence and she nodded her agreement. "Alright Harry but I want you to promise me that if there is any sign of trouble that you turn and you run. I don't want to really be explaining to the Grandmaster why I let you get involved in a street brawl when I'm here to protect you." Master Kuzuko said looking at Harry and rolled her eyes as Yuki made a cough that sounded much like the word "hypocrite" that then caused them all to laugh.

"Satomi seriously don't worry I'll be looking after Harry and won't let any harm come to him. He's one of my most important clients after all and Fleur is a former Tri-wizard champion and graduated top of her class. He'll be alright" Amy said resting her hand on her friend's shoulder. "So in that case you four go off and do what you need to do and Fleur, Harry and I will go back to the office and we will meet you in Kobe Slice at one o'clock?" Amy suggested getting agreeance from everyone in the group.

"See you in a little bit ok" Hermione said to Harry.

"Yeah see you in a little bit and save me a seat next to you alright." Harry said to Hermione quietly seeing the smile touch her face.

"Sure will." Hermione said biting her lower lip gently before she leant forward and gave Harry a quick kiss on the cheek "And please try to stay out of trouble." she said jokingly as Narcissa, Yuki and Satomi started slowly walking down The Emperor's Road to give the two teens some space as Fleur and Amy started walking in the opposite direction towards First Avenue.

"Oh and Hermione. If you do end up in a bookshop send me a patronus when you arrive and that way I will know that you're going to be late." Harry said cheekily before reluctantly turning away and ran a couple of paces to catch up to Fleur and Amy.

Harry looked over his shoulder to see the back of her repeating what he had just done to catch up with the rest of them and was happy to see her look back and give him a little wave, which he returned before they were both swallowed up from being able to see each other by a large number of quidditch fans coming out of Cut Through onto The Emperor's Road.

Harry caught up and walked slightly behind both Fleur and Amy who were talking about property prices in Japan as Fleur was wanting to know what sort of houses they had in Japan and how much property prices differed from England and France.

Harry saw that while they walked Amy kept looking around them as if checking to make sure that they weren't being followed or possibly taking Satomi's job very seriously and constantly keeping a look out for possible threats. Either way Harry smiled to himself thinking that Mad-Eye would have approved before feeling a little sad about the grisly ex-Auror's death.

As they got to the corner of First Avenue, Amy guided them to the right and Harry saw Chin Chin's Casino appear on the left of the road behind some thick trees that blocked the bottom of the building from view behind a gaudy looking gold metal fence. He saw the large Red pagoda sticking out above the clouds and saw someone on a balcony that was built into the roof and wondered whether they were in the same room he and Daphne had spent the night.

They walked along a little and Amy and Fleur came to a stop in front of the Yushiro and Yushiro office and Harry saw that it was a double fronted bay windowed building with maroon coloured window frames and a door in between of a matching colour.

Harry couldn't see into the office though as there were some pull down blinds two-thirds down the window and he would have had to stoop down in order to see inside. Amy pushed the door open and a bell rang from somewhere in the interior of the office and Amy shouted out "It's only me!" to someone unseen as Fleur and Harry followed her in and closed the door.

Directly to their left was a small wall with a door on it with 'toilet' written on a brass plaque and then next to that was a sitting area with two comfortable looking couches and a coffee table and what looked like one of the tea urns on a small table along with a few photos of the wall of newspaper cuttings from what Harry assumed were high profile cases that the twins or firm had won.

Straight ahead there was a set of double doors that Harry assumed lead to the rest of the main office at the back of the building where the bulk of the staff were situated. Immediately on their right when they came through the door was a room that read 'Interview Room' and then next to that opposite the sitting area was a reception desk with a wizard with his head down writing in a set of dark royal blue robes who looked up as he saw them enter.

"Hi Amy, You're running a little late this morning but not as late as Yuki. I've had to cover reception as Suyan wanted an emergency day off to watch the Quidditch match. You've had a missed floo call from Councillor Myagi about the request for a meeting and you've got a few messages from Mrs. Ninjikana about the…" a wizard said sticking his head out from above the high reception desk as he was about to say something else but the words seemed to stick in his throat and Harry couldn't help grinning as he could see that the wizard was openly staring at Fleur.

"Messages from Mrs. Ninjikana about what Bruce?" Amy asked wondering what was going on with the normally bright wizard to distract him. He was normally very efficient in delivering messages.

"Huh?" Bruce replied not taking his eyes from Fleur but turning his head slightly towards Amy as if hearing voices in his head but not really paying attention.

"I said what were the messages from Mrs. Ninjikana about Bruce… Bruce…BRUCE!" Amy shouted the last seeing the almost dream like state that Bruce was in and appearing to snap him out of it.

"What?" Bruce said looking at Amy blinking a little bit before recovering his wits a little. "Oh, she was wanting to know whether you were free to meet with her this week to discuss her purchasing the property in Itoigawa and wanted to know how quickly we can help her purchase it."

"Right, well could you let her know that I will contact her on Monday about it as the money she is wanting to pay for it just isn't going to be enough to make the seller want to part ways with it, but I'll go through things with her again on Monday but it might not until the afternoon." Amy replied while reaching for a stack of envelopes on Bruce's desk and she started flicking through them to see if there was anything of interest.

Not finding anything that she thought couldn't wait until Monday she said "Harry, Fleur, I'm just going to drop my things in my office and get changed and then we will get going. I won't be long but if you need anything just ask Bruce here." Amy said getting nods of understanding from Harry and Fleur.

"Bruce… BRUCE!" Amy said again snapping the wizard from his thoughts causing him to take his eyes off Fleur again and look at Amy. "Snap out of it man, you're acting like you've not seen a good looking witch before. This is one of our newest and most important clients so could you go get the staff that are in today and assemble them, please?"

"Oh right yes of course." Bruce said reluctantly as he gave Fleur one last look of longing before disappearing through a door behind him.

"Sorry about that. I don't know what has got into him. He's normally a lot more with it." Amy said, rolling her eyes.

"It will be Fleur. She tends to have that effect on wizards and you'll know all about it yourself Amy. Men can't help looking at a beautiful witch.." Harry said chuckling.

"It was more likely you Arry as you know. Famous Arry Potter and that." Fleur countered, tucking her hair behind her ears happy to have Harry refer to her as beautiful.

"Hardly. I don't make wizards stand there looking like goldfish." Harry retorted.

"No, it's just witches you get all confounded and falling over themselves because of you isn't it Arry." Fleur dead panned back with a playful pout on her face enjoying the little bit of banter and seeing Harry's confidence growing.

Harry laughed and rubbed the back of his neck looking a little awkward "I suppose so but I've not made anyone walk into a lamppost yet, like you have." Harry said smiling as Fleur let out a light laugh.

"Well I'm sure they'll all be surprised to see you both when they get out here. So I'll just nip and get changed. Then introduce you to the guys and then we will get going." Amy said looking between the two of them and seeing that the potential sexual tension between the English wizard and the French witch might be something to keep an eye as they were both very good looking and oozed sex appeal.

Amy disappeared through the doors and called out to the staff to make their way into the reception in a few minutes because she needed to introduce them to one of the massive new clients that potentially could really be a game changer for the firm. She said she was going to get changed and then she would take them all and introduce them.

This got an excited reaction from the staff who all started talking excitedly and speculating who it could be.

Fleur and Harry were looking at some of the newspaper articles when Amy emerged back into the reception area. Harry thought she looked pretty cool as she had changed her robes and had put on a pair of plum coloured fitted trousers that looked a little flared out over a pair of black leather boots, she had a black coloured fitted top and over which she had a pair of dark purple leather robes. She had done her makeup again making it much darker around the eyes and had applied lipstick the same colour as her trousers.

Harry thought it gave her quite a rock chick look. "There, that's better and I feel a lot more comfortable now that I'm out of work stuff. Come on through and I'll introduce you to everyone who is in. We're about half staffed today as it's Saturday and we've got the other half working tomorrow." Amy said brightly waving for Harry and Fleur to follow her.

Harry stepped back and let Fleur go in first after Amy and he came in to find about ten witches and wizards looking back at them trying to get a good look at the both and he chuckled to himself as he saw all the wizards were looking at Fleur in exactly the same way as Bruce.

"Everybody this is Fleur Delacour who is a special account assistant for Gringotts and who is the right hand woman of our two newest clients. You may see her and another Lady coming into the offices quite a lot to see myself and Yuki and I'd like you all to give her any assistance that she requires and that anything she requests gets your top priority." Amy said as Fleur smiled and gave everyone a little wave.

A wizard at the back of the group who looked to be about eighteen pushed his way through the group and stumbled across to Fleur and held out his hand and said "Hello I'm Maximillian Minamino, and I'm the managing partner here and I'm very, very pleased to meet you and feel free to call me Max." He said eagerly looking a bit flushed and he took Fleur's hand shaking it very enthusiastically and almost reluctant to let go.

"Max you're not the managing partner. You're the office junior and have to do what everyone else tells you." A witch in her fifties said grabbing Max by the back of his robes and back into the group much to his protest and the group's amusement.

"And this," Amy shouted out of the group causing them to go quiet again "is our new client and I'd like you all to make him feel welcome. May I introduce Lord Harry Potter-Black-Peverell-Ravenclaw!" Amy called out with glee as there was silence for a second and Harry looked around them all and gave a wave and said "Nice to meet you everyone but please just call me Harry." Before they all broke out into a loud round of applause before the group surged forwards shaking both his and Fleur hands and clapping them on the shoulders.

Fleur couldn't help but laugh at their enthusiasm and soon Harry and Amy were laughing as well as they said their hellos and greetings.

"Right, well everyone thank you for your time and sorry to distract you from your work but I'm going to have a meeting with Harry and Fleur now and Tiko would you mind closing up if I'm not back before you go?" Amy asked an Asian witch who looked to be in her early twenties and got a happy reply of "You got it boss and feel free to bring Harry back with you."

Amy took Harry and Fleur by the elbow and guided them out as they called their goodbyes to everyone and there was a crackle of excitement in the office as the doors closed behind them.

"They are a good bunch for the most part and very hard working but I think they were all delighted to see you both. I think I'll let Yuki introduce Hermione to them though as it was hard enough trying to wrestle you both away from them all." Amy said to them as they stepped outside into the sunlight and closed the door behind them.

"So Harry. Where are we going?" Amy asked him as Fleur stepped up to her side and Harry looked down the road checking how busy The Emperor's Road was at the cross section at the end of the street.

"Well I want to take you both to this nice cocktail bar type place I have been to a couple times called Elixir Eddies. I've met the owner and the manager and I have the feeling that they might be really up for a partnership. Have you ever heard of it?" Harry asked Amy excitedly.

"Yes I have heard of it." Amy said feeling like a cannonball had sunk into her stomach that Harry Potter wanted to invest in Elixir Eddies and that it could cause such a massive complication for the Jade Dragon and Sabre especially if Harry scratched the surface a bit more regarding the back room and Sabre's apartment.

"Amy are you ok? You look like you've seen a ghost." Fleur asked seeing that the colour had dropped from the Asian witch's face.

"Yes I'm fine. Are you sure that you want to make your first acquisition be a bar though?" Amy asked trying to keep her composure and school her features to not show her emotion but must have been failing miserably.

"Absolutely I'm sure. I mean it's in a great location on the Emperor's Road and on the way to the Quidditch stadium, the staff are good, the drinks are great but it looks a bit run down and I reckon I could help them out a lot as from looking at the photos it was a really popular place years ago and it could potentially make a fortune if it got popular again." Harry said getting a nod from Fleur.

"Absolutely plus Eddie, as he told us to call him, said that he wasn't sure whether he really wanted to run a bar for the rest of his life and that he'd inherited it from his Uncle and that he'd basically felt that he had to keep the place to honour his uncle." Fleur said getting a nod of the head from Harry.

"That's right plus Gigo, the manager I think, could handle the extra responsibility if Eddie ever decided to take a step back." Harry said to the agreeance of Fleur. "Although I don't know why he just doesn't tell people that he's really called Sabre and be done with it but he said for us to keep his real name confidential when we met him. It seems a bit weird really." Harry said recalling the time he'd met the owner of the bar and thought that it was quite strange for a person who owns a bar to not want anyone knowing their real name.

"Well I suppose maybe it's because of the Jade Dragon that he doesn't want his real name to be known?" Amy queried knowing that that was exactly the reason Sabre used the name Eddie to the public because he didn't want the Jade Dragon to know that the bar was actually his.

Sabre was used to acting under the pretence of another name as he had been able to fully integrate himself into the Jade Dragon under a false name as she had herself.

She knew that Sabre paid the protection money through the bar to the Jade Dragon like anyone else in the Bazaar did, although he had the opportunity by being a member of the Jade Dragon as the protection money that was collected when he was a lieutenant and then a captain was brought to him.

Sabre had always been good with figures ever since starting school and Colonel Yu Lao, when he was incharge of Tokyo province, had put it to Sabre to manage the books along with herself for the Jade Dragon in Tokyo province. The reason for that they knew really was because none of the colonels that had been in district trusted Celsun Hammer to do it because he wasn't very bright and thought that Minahara Mace would most likely underfund operations because he was too tight with his money.

Now Amy would have to see whether she and Sabre had been right about their hunch regarding Fuzaki Foxglove and whether he was fully committed to the Jade Dragon cause and how attentive he was to detail but she would need to meet with him and Midnight later to begin to get to know them better.

She now had the task fully on her shoulders now that Sabre had been promoted to Major and was in charge of making more important decisions and would be expected to pass the mantle onto her as the new Captain so that she would have the responsibility for financial reports to Colonel Oren.

"Alright then… well if you want to go and have a look at the property this morning then we can go but it might be closed or the owner might be away." Amy said hopefully. Not knowing whether Sabre would be there or not because she hadn't had a chance to speak with him since their last meeting when Colonel Oren had given them the specifics of the mission that she wanted Midnight, Fox and herself to begin.

Amy had assumed that Sabre temporarily going to another province as the only communication she'd received back from him was a brief letter at a letter drop they had that said that he was having to get prepared and obtain some things he would need for a mission outside of Tokyo.

It had told Amy that the Colonel was sending him on a mission that was going to take him away from Tokyo for at least a month, along with Hammer and Mace, but he'd let her know when he was instructed he would be leaving and to focus her time on getting to know Midnight and Fox and see whether they could be trusted or whether they'd been wrong in their assumptions of Fox at least.

Truth be told, this had alarmed Amy as she had always had Sabre with her on most operations and enjoyed spending her time with him. The fact that he was going away with Hammer and Mace was what worried her the most as they were hot headed and loose cannons and would most likely get him into more trouble than the three of them could handle and she didn't like not being around for Sabre and herself to have each other's backs.

"What makes you think that Eddie might be away?" Harry asked Amy surprised at the prediction from his new solicitor, "Do you know Eddie?" he asked her as they all started walking along the road very slowly and having to step aside for a magical rickshaw that wanted to pass them.

"Oh well I know him quite well." Amy replied honestly.

"So you're friends with each other then?" Harry asked, delighted as that would surely make things easier.

"Well I guess you could say that." Amy replied a little smile stealing across her face as she thought about Sabre.

"Or lovers perhaps?" Fleur asked watching the smile on Amy's face that she tried to mask but Fleur knew that feeling herself very well and also the veela in her could sense that Amy was in the very least attracted to Eddie.

"We are not lovers!" Amy said back quickly, shocked and surprised that Fleur would have suggested a thing.

Even though Amy would have loved nothing more than to be that way with Sabre she thought that he most likely didn't think of her that way at all and didn't see her as anything more than a friend. Even if she did think she had a chance of things developing with him she also thought that at this moment it was an impossibility due to their plans with the Jade Dragon.

"But you wouldn't mind him being your lover, no?" Fleur asked quietly as Harry made a very good job of pretending he was looking at Chin Chin's Casino and that he wasn't listening to what the two witches were talking about.

Thankfully a group of passer-bys wearing Japanese Quidditch t-shirts recognised Harry and stopped, turning excitedly, before approaching him and asked Harry if they could possibly have a photo with him. This provided him with the means to give the girls a little more privacy as Harry assumed Fleur was asking that line of questioning for his business sake rather than just gossip. Seeing as they didn't really know Yuki or Amy and that was the point of what they wanted to accomplish today when taking them to their investment interests, and Fleur didn't seem like the sort of person who would be bitchy like that.

Amy looked round at Harry and was happy to see that he had moved out of earshot and was distracted from listening to the conversation by a group of Quidditch fans he was posing for photos with.

"He's just someone I know from my time at school." Amy lied, completely uncomfortable with the line of questioning. Fleur gave her a knowing look as if she could see right through Amy's façade.

"But not someone you find attractive then?" Fleur asked, a playful smile on her face as she saw a blush appear to start on the Asian girls pale skin.

"Absolutely not! I've never even thought of him that way." Amy responded a bit hotly as she could see that she most likely wasn't fooling the French witch and could feel her cheeks burning.

Amy actually thought Sabre was the most attractive and gorgeous man that she had ever met and the risk he had put into his life to help her made her feel so strongly about him. She wished that she could just say exactly what she thought about him to his face. She'd never even confessed how she felt about Sabre to Yuki and she wouldn't be surprised if Satomi found out about him somehow. Her oldest friend was the one person other than Yuki who could read her like a book.

In the back of Amy's mind she thought about how Colonel Chi Oren practically draped herself all over Sabre whenever she had the opportunity and Amy wasn't foolish enough to not recognise that the Colonel would most likely have designs on him and wouldn't be against using her rank to proposition Sabre as well.

"Oh I see. Forgive me Amy, I didn't mean to suggest anything I was just teasing as to how well you might know him and didn't really mean to offend you sorry." Fleur said apologetically seeing that she shouldn't be doing this until she at least knew Amy a little better and her sense of humour.

"It's alright Fleur. Sorry I didn't mean to snap, I just don't think of him that way and besides I don't really know him that well," Amy said again meeting the French witch's eye who nodded. "But alright I lied. He is pretty gorgeous though but he's just a friend and I don't think of him like that. A bit like you and Harry." She replied saying the last very quietly so Harry didn't overhear them and nodding towards Harry who was shaking hands with the Quidditch fans and saying he'd of course come and see them in the Casino after the game, while trying to extract himself from their hand shakes and excited chatter.

Fleur stood looking at Harry thinking that Amy was right and that Harry was gorgeous and then felt her veela nature give a massive pull as she felt her allure slipping again. "Qui… just like me and Arry." she said quietly almost to herself as she watched Harry admiringly.

She turned to look back at Amy quickly as Harry turned around and said "Shall we get going, although maybe take a route to try and avoid Quidditch fans if we can." as he joined them.

"Sure, we can use the apparition point at Chin Chin's casino and apparate across behind Food Dun It Express. Then we just have to go to the end of the next block as the only other apparition points are near the stadium and behind The Island nightclub on the Emperor's road but it will be crawling with Quidditch fans all along there." Amy said.

"Ok then Amy, you guide the way then." Harry said holding his arm out to both Amy and Fleur, which they both took with a smile and Fleur said "You're always such a gentleman Arry" as they set off to the Casino drawing looks from passersby.