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Chapter 4: Engaged and Life Debts
Monday, November 28th, 1994
Forbidden Forest
Around the same time that Harry was walking into Gryffindor Tower shirtless, Rathera was flying around enjoying the winter air. As she was about to turn back to go to the cave she saw the Headmaster and a fat redheaded woman heading towards the edge of the forest. Rathera landed as close and quietly as she could so she could hear.
"Do you have everything ready for Saturday, Molly?" asked Dumbledore.
"Yes I have all the potions ready and when Harry refuses to pay us the money for Ron's death you'll be there to explain to him that marrying Ginny is the only way to avoid a feud with House Weasley and when he agrees he'll be potioned up and will have sex with Ginny as soon as he sees her. With the potions I'll have her on she'll be pregnant with by Sunday morning. Do you have it fixed where the marriage will be legal?" asked Molly.
"As a competitor in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, which was supposed to only be for adults Harry was made an adult when his name came out of the Goblet of Fire. All he needs to do is be recognized by the Ministry or Gringott's and I have the paperwork for the Ministry already filled out and will file it when it is confirmed that Ginevra is pregnant with a boy then when Voldemort finally returns and Harry dies while defeating him we will have control over the Potter fortune through the child that she carries. Make sure you don't mess this up, Molly. You're son almost ruined things for us with his stupidity and jealousy." said Dumbledore.
"It'll all go according to plan." said Molly.
As they started to walk back to the castle Rathera flew back to the cave. She had some things to do before Harry came back tomorrow.
Gryffindor Tower
"Hermione, what are you doing up?" asked Harry.
"I could ask the same thing of you, Harry, but why don't we stick to my first question. Why are you walking into the common room this late at night without a shirt on?" asked Hermione.
"I take it you wouldn't believe sleepwalking." said Harry.
"Harry?" said Hermione.
"I've been getting training from Rathera, she's the Horntail from the first task. I bonded her as a familiar and found out that my ancestors were a kind of dragon/human hybrid because Nicodemus Potter saved their King centuries ago. I also met a girl named Luna Lovegood who is amazing, Hermione and she's a Fae and we were just flying together tonight." said Harry.
"I don't know why you had to come up with this story Harry. If you were making out in a broom closet with this Luna Lovegood then just say so." said Hermione.
Harry extended his wings and brought up his scales.
"It's not a story, Hermione." said Harry
Harry and Hermione were up awhile longer talking, but eventually needed to go to sleep, but she told him she wanted to meet Rathera tomorrow.
Tuesday, November 29th, 1994
Harry met Hermione in the common room and they were about to head out to breakfast when Luna came running into the common room.
"Harry there's something wrong. We need to go to the cave now." said Luna.
Hermione guessed that this was Luna since she was wearing Ravenclaw robes.
"How did you get in our common room?" asked Hermione.
"The Nargles told me the password." said Luna.
Hermione wanted to go with them so Luna took Hermione's hand and flew with her while Harry ran to the Forbidden Forest then extended his wings and flew up to the cave when he got there he saw that a roaring fire filled the cave. He tried to run the cave to get to Rathera, but Hermione and Luna stopped him.
After several minutes somehow the fire died down. He watched the entrance of the cave thinking maybe there was hope. There was a noise coming from the cave and out of the smoke a naked girl about his age walked out. She looked down at her body and said.
"It worked."
Harry just stared. The girl was beautiful.
"Close your mouth, Harry." said Hermione.
"Uhm. What worked?" asked Harry.
"Harry, it's me Rathera. We have to hurry if we're going to stop your Headmaster's and Molly Weasley's plans." said Rathera.
"I don't know what you're talking about, but you can't be Rathera." said Harry.
The girl then changed back into her dragon form and swung her tail at Harry's head. Harry raised his arm bringing his scales up and deflecting the blow. Rathera then turned back into the girl. Do you believe that I'm Rathera now, Harry?" asked Rathera.
"Yes, can you put on some clothes, Rathera?" asked Harry.
"What, do you not like how I look?" asked Rathera.
"No, you look amazing it's just kind of hard to talk about serious things with you looking like that." said Harry.
Luna gave Rathera a set of robes.
"How did you know you would need those?" asked Harry.
"Do you really need to ask still, Harry?" asked Luna.
"I guess not." said Harry.
Rathera got dressed and told Harry and Luna what she overheard from Dumbledore and Molly. She told them that they needed to get to Gringott's and get Harry's status as an adult filed because of the tournament. After they did that then Dumbledore would lose his control over Harry and knowing Molly's plan they would be able to keep from falling into it.
"Why would the Headmaster and Mrs. Weasley do this?" asked Hermione.
"I don't know the reasons behind it, I just know what they are planning. Who is she, Harry?" asked Rathera.
"Hermione Granger meet Rathera, Rathera meet Hermione Granger, my best friend." said Harry.
"We need to get to Gringott's. Can you fly all three of us?" asked Luna.
"Yes." said Rathera and she turned back into her dragon form and all three of them got on her back.
Luna made them all invisible saying it would be bad if a Hungarian Horntail was seen in Diagon Alley. They landed behind Gringott's and when Rathera had changed back into her human form Luna dropped the invisibility.
The four of them walked into Gringott's and requested a meeting with the Potter Account Manager. The teller told them to wait in the waiting room and they would be called.
After a few minutes a Goblin came and told them to follow him.
"How are you, Griphook?" asked Harry.
Griphook was surprised at being recognized, but said that he was doing well.
They were led to an office and sat down.
"Lord Potter, I'm Account Manager Gnarlak. What can I do for you today?" asked Gnarlak.
"I was told that by being entered into the tournament that I am now considered an adult, but I need to have it recognized and filed with either you or the Ministry. Can you help me with that?" asked Harry.
"Of course, all you have to do is sign this paper with a blood quill and you will be an adult in the eyes of the wizarding world and your family vault will be available to you as will your seat on the Wizengamot, but you'll still have to have a proxy for them until you are out of school." said Gnarlak.
"Has there been any activity in my family account? Because I was never even told that it existed." said Harry.
"No, Harry. When your parents died the family vault was sealed after the amount they stipulated for your trust vault was removed. Now the vault will be unsealed and the contents of your trust vault will be added to it." said Gnarlak.
Harry signed the paper and hoped he'd never have to use one of those quills again.
"Everything is in order, Lord Potter. Here is your Head of House ring and an accounting of your holdings. You can go over them at your leisure. Among them are two life debts you are owed by a Hermione Jean Granger and Ginevra Molly Weasley." said Gnarlak.
Hermione gasped at hearing that and Harry decided to ask her what it meant later on.
"It seems that you also are magically engaged to a Luna Selene Lovegood." said Gnarlak.
"I guess we have a lot to talk about when we get back to Hogwarts." said Harry.
Rathera flew Harry, Luna and Hermione back to the cave. As soon as they landed Harry turned to Luna.
"How is it that we are magically engaged? What does that mean exactly?" asked Harry.
"Harry, please don't be mad. A Fae's magic is tied to her emotions. Last night was amazing with you. The time we spent together flying, then the kiss outside of your common room. I lost control of my emotions and my magic connected with yours. It's only an engagement though. There's no forced bond or anything like that. We still get to choose if we get married, but we would never find anyone more compatible for us than each other." said Luna.
"It was an amazing night and I'm not mad. It just threw me being told that we were engaged. What about the life debts? What are they?" asked Harry.
"I can answer that." said Hermione. "A life debt is created when a witch or wizard saves another at personal risk to themselves. The debt cannot be created if you were the one to cause the danger though. It would've been when you jumped on the Trolls back. Ron couldn't have been owed the life debt because he was the reason I was in the bathroom crying and it was you who chose to come and warn me about the Troll. The one you have for Ginny Weasley is from when you saved her in the Chamber of Secrets." said Hermione.
"And how do you settle a life debt?" asked Harry.
"Any way that you think is fair. For our case you could take me or Ginny as a wife or even just a slave if you were that type of person. Normally with an underage person owing the life debt you would negotiate with the family, but since I'm a Muggleborn you don't have to legally, although my parents would appreciate being talked to about what you choose. With Ginny you'll have to talk to Mr. Weasley." said Hermione.
"I don't have to marry her do I? I mean wouldn't that just be giving Mrs. Weasley and Dumbledore what they want?" asked Harry.
"You don't have to marry her, but if you take her as a concubine or slave you can make sure Mrs. Weasley doesn't get what she wants and then at 17 when she's not at risk of Mrs. Weasley trying to use her like this again then you can release her. As a concubine you would have to have sex with her to bind her though." said Hermione.
"Which is better, a concubine or a slave?" asked Harry.
"They're both repulsive if you ask me, but as slave she'd have no say in anything. If you order it she has to follow. As a concubine you can give her certain freedoms and she'd live a more normal life. After having sex with her to bind her you never have to again and you can give her permission to find someone who she can be with." said Hermione.
"If I decided to take you as a wife how would you feel about being not the only one with me? Because I won't turn Luna away." said Harry.
"It's not what I would've chose on my own, but I do love you Harry. Not in the romantic way yet, but I know we would be happy and work well together so if I have to share you then I will." said Hermione.
"It will probably be more than just the two of you Hermione. You're forgetting his Dragon blood." said Rathera.
"What about it?" asked Hermione.
"Dragon males are never satisfied with just one or two mates. It is highly likely that Harry will need more than just you and Luna and it would be physically dangerous for you and Luna to try and satisfy him by yourselves." said Rathera.
Hermione blushed at the implications of what Rathera said while Luna just had a dreamy look on her face.
"Well we'll come back to that discussion later." said Harry. With the ritual you did, is your Dragon form now secondary and this body your primary form now?"
"Yes, Harry." said Rathera.
"We'll need to find you a place to stay. I don't like the idea of you sleeping out here in a cave." said Harry.
"We could always go down to the Chamber of Secrets." said Luna.
"That's a good idea. We could make it into living quarters for Rathera and there's plenty of room down there for training also." said Harry.
"Well let's head down there. We'll have to figure out how to get rid of the Basilisk down there." said Hermione.
The four of them headed into the castle and to the girl's bathroom on the second floor.
Author's Note: I added what I was going to add before my hands started hurting the other day. The chamber is next chapter. I don't know if I'll ever get to 5,000 word chapters, but I'm trying to get them a little longer. Thank you and please review, follow and favorite.