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Chapter 14: The Second Task
Sunday, January 1st, 1995
The Rookery
Harry woke up the next day in heaven. What else would you call waking up with five beautiful, naked witches who were now your wives? The only problem was that he had to use the bathroom and he was currently being used as a pillow and there was no way he'd get up without waking the girls.
Dora was on his left and Rathera was on his right with Ginny, Hermione and Luna at the foot of the bed all curled into him.
"Dora?" said Harry.
"Erm." was Dora's answer.
"Dora, can you please get up? I have to pee." said Harry.
Dora growled as she got out of bed.
Harry tried to move carefully so not to wake up the rest of the girls, but was unsuccessful.
"Harry!" the four of them whined.
"I'm sorry, but nature calls." said Harry.
Harry finished using the toilet and decided to go ahead and take a shower. He had just started washing himself when Dora joined him.
"I was hoping someone would join me." said Harry.
Dora grabbed hold of Harry's hard member and stroked.
"I'll take care of this in a minute, but first there's something we need to talk about." said Dora.
"What?" asked Harry.
"The Fae Ritual didn't allow for any non-Fae magic or potions so none of us were on any birth control last night. I know we need to get school supplies and a wand for Rathera, but I think we should take a trip to St. Mungo's as well." said Dora.
"You think you might be…" started Harry.
"It's a very good possibility that Rathera and I already were, but all of us except for Ginny need to be tested." said Dora.
"Wow." said Harry.
"Still want me to take care of that wand of yours?" asked Dora.
Harry smiled.
"Definitely." said Harry.
St. Mungo's
Dan and Emma weren't happy to find out that Hermione might be pregnant regardless of her married status, but after a small argument that ended with Hermione telling them that if she wanted to have Harry's baby she was going to they headed to St. Mungo's. They found out that all of them were pregnant. Rathera was the furthest along with twins, a boy and a girl. Dora was next with a boy and Hermione and Luna while pregnant were told to see Madame Pomfrey at Hogwarts in a week if they wanted to find out the sex of their babies.
"Rathera, I'm sorry that I never asked this before, but what happened with your eggs from the first task?" asked Harry.
"They were taken with the rest of the Dragons back to the preserve in Romania. They would've been placed with one of the other nesting Horntails." said Rathera.
"That's horrible. They won't know you as their mother." said Hermione.
"It's ok, Hermione. Dragons aren't like Humans when it comes to raising our young. They are independent very early and we don't get as attached to them. I'm going to have to learn what is expected of me for the twins." said Rathera.
"We have some books we can give you to help." said Emma.
"Thank you, Emma. I appreciate it." said Rathera.
The group headed to Diagon Alley and got Rathera's wand and other school supplies. She thought having to get a wand was pointless as she could do wandless magic like Harry and Luna, but Hermione told her it would be best to keep that ability a secret.
Monday, January 9th, 1995
Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
"Harry, I can't believe you haven't figured out the clue from your egg yet." said Hermione.
The return to Hogwart's brought the reminder that the second task was approaching and Harry still hadn't figured what the clue was.
"Well Cedric told me at the ball that I should take a bath with the egg in the Prefect's bath." said Harry.
"Then why haven't you?" asked Hermione.
"We've been kind of busy, Hermione." said Harry.
"Harry you need to take this seriously. You got through the first task because of Rathera. These tasks are dangerous, Harry and I for one don't plan on losing my husband and our sons father." said Hermione.
"I think our daughter wants to meet her daddy also." said Luna.
"Everyone, but you has classes, Harry. I'll escort you to the Prefect's bath and we'll figure out the clue together." said Dora.
"No sex until he figures it out, Dora. Please." said Hermione.
"Fine." said Dora.
Married Quarters
Come seek us where our voices sound,
We cannot sing above the ground,
And while you're searching ponder this;
We've taken what you'll sorely miss,
An hour long you'll have to look,
And to recover what we took,
But past an hour, the prospect's black,
Too late it's gone, it won't come back.
"Obviously the Merpeople in the Black Lake are going to be holding onto something that you're supposed to retrieve and you have an hour to get it." said Hermione.
"Not something, Hermione. Someone. In the history of the tournament the second task has always been to retrieve a person who's close to the champion and make it back to the starting point." said Luna.
"That means that they'll take one of you." said Harry. "No, this isn't fair. My being forced to participate fine, but I won't allow them to endanger any of your lives or the lives of our children for the entertainment of others. I'm going to go see Professor McGonagall."
Harry left their quarters without giving anyone a chance to say they were coming with him.
"Should we follow?" asked Ginny.
"No, he needs to take care of this on his own." said Luna.
Headmaster's Office
Professor McGonagall let Harry up the stairs and into her office.
"Harry, what do you mean by threatening the Gargoyle? All you had to do was ask nicely and it would've let you up." said Professor McGonagall.
"No." said Harry.
"No, what?" asked Professor McGonagall.
"You will not take any of my wives for me to rescue in the second task of this bloody tournament." said Harry.
"I apologize, Harry, but we must take one of them." said Professor McGonagall.
"They're all pregnant. I won't have them in any danger." said Harry.
"I am aware and we have safety measures in place for the task. The hostages will be placed in an enchanted sleep and taken down to the Merpeople's Village. Since you already know I'll let you know that we were going to select Luna as your hostage since she was your date at the Yule Ball. I promise you that no harm will come to her or your child." said Professor McGonagall.
"I'm going to hold you to that, Professor. Four years now I've been forced into dangerous situations. I won't allow the same for my wives." said Harry turning and leaving.
Married Quarters
Harry got back to their quarters and told the girls that Luna was going to be the one taken. They spent the rest of the night coming up with ideas for how to make it through the task.
Friday, February 24th, 1995
The Black Lake
The day of the second task was here and as expected Luna was nowhere to be found. Harry was going to have to ask Professor McGonagall how they got her out of the Married Quarters because that showed a huge security hole if just anyone could get in.
Harry ate his breakfast and kissed each of his wives before heading down to the lake. Over the last month they had practiced what he was going to do and he was relatively sure that nothing was going to go wrong. He barely paid attention to Ludo Bagman telling them about the hostages to be recovered since he already knew what needed to be done. After he left they stripped down to their swim clothes and Harry couldn't help but give an appreciative glance to Fleur Delacour who decided to wear a silver two piece bikini. He had to stop looking before things became hard for him. He hoped none of his wives noticed him staring at her either.
Ludo Bagman made some announcements to the crowd then there was a bang of the canon and Harry performed the Bubble-Head charm, pocketed his wand and dived into the lake.
Despite it being February the lake was actually a comfortable temperature. Harry guessed that warming charms had been used to make the lake not freezing. He started swimming and came across his first obstacle, the giant Squid. It was trying to grab him with its tentacles and throw him back up to the surface. Using his seeker reflexes he was able to dodge the tentacles and make it past. Ten minutes later he ran across Fleur fighting some Grindylows. At first he wasn't going to help her, but then one of the Grindylows punctured her Bubble-Head charm and she started to panic. Harry waved his hand and stunned all of the Grindylows at once then helped reapply the Bubble-Head charm on Fleur. She nodded her thanks and the two of them continued towards the village together.
They arrived at the village and released Luna and who had to be Fleur's little sister and started to head back to the surface. On their way up the Grindylows attacked again and Harry was able to stun them again, but there was a look of horror on Fleur's face. The little girl was awake and she started to have a glow about her and all of a sudden there was a flash of light and Fleur was pushed away from her bursting the Bubble-Head charm again. Fleur had to go above water so Harry grabbed the girl and brought her and Luna up. It wasn't until they were on solid ground that he noticed that Fleur's sister wasn't a little girl anymore.
"And Harry Potter is the first one to successfully return with not only his hostage, but Miss Delacour's as well within the hour given!" yelled Ludo.
Harry got up from the ground just to be knocked down again.
"Zhank you for 'elping me zhen rescuing my sister." said Fleur giving him a kiss on the lips.
"Would you like to introduce us to your new friend, Harry?" asked Hermione.
'Oh, boy.' thought Harry.
Author's Note: And there's the second task. More to come with Fleur and Gabrielle. Thank you to everyone who is continuing to read this story and the other's that I have started. Please review, favorite and follow and thank you to all those who already have.