Chapter 06 Ron's An Arse

A/N: Nope, still not JK Rowling.

Ron accused Harry of cheating and of cheating him out of putting his name in too. Hermione found it easy to convince Harry that Ron wasn't a real friend if he could turn on Harry that easy. Harry agreed with her reasoning and decided he was through with Ron permanently.

Besides, Ron was always making Hermione cry and Hermione told him she would never be Ron's friend again. When Harry agreed she even told Harry she had only been trying to be Ron's friend because she was afraid Harry wouldn't be her friend if she didn't

Harry burst out laughing and when he could speak properly again he told her that ever since the troll incident Harry had been pretending to be Ron's friend because he was afraid she wouldn't be his friend if he broke off with Ron. They clung to each other and had a good laugh at themselves over their lack of trust in their friendship. They both decided that they cared too much for each other to let any one or any thing come between them again.

Oh sure they would have problems and disagreements, but they would work it all out and would always stay as best friends. Harry grinned as he called her his best mate from that day on. At first she was embarrassed, but after she had time to think about it, she decided he was right. They were best mates.

They were sitting together in class when Professor McGonagall announced the Yule Ball. Harry immediately turned and asked Hermione to go with him. She smiled and nodded. Harry then got a panicked look on his face. "What's wrong Harry?" she asked. "I… um… I don't know how to dance. Maybe," Hermione cut him off. She knew how he thought by now. "Don't worry about it Harry, I'll teach you. We have time before the Ball.

Harry was so happy he didn't have to try to find a date to the Ball, and that he was going with the one girl he would have wanted to go with anyway that when Malfoy showed him the buttons Harry just grinned, snatched the button off Malfoy's chest, gave the prat a galleon, and pinned it on his own robes.

Hermione told Harry about Charley Weasley being there and why. When Harry calmed down he called for a meeting of the other champions and told them about Charley and why he was there. All four decided that they would work together and help each other through the tournament.

As they worked Harry fed them, inside information, on the tasks besides the dragons. They were all working on the breathing under water problem when Neville, whom Harry and Hermione had grown loads closer to after ditching Ron, or was it they were ditched… nah, mentioned Gillyweed. Hermione knew Neville would tell Harry about the plant so she had held off. Harry immediately called Dobby, gave him several galleons and asked him to go buy a goodly Quantity for all four champions. Dobby brought back more than enough for all of them even after they all practiced with it.

As far as the maze went, they were all going together. Hermione showed them Harry's memory, he had showed her before Hermione came back to change Harry's future. The four were practicing their dueling and learning battle spells for when they had to face Wormtail and the dark baby in the grave yard.

Hermione was also going to tip Amelia about the grave yard so she could have several Aurors there ready for the Death Eaters. Hermione was prepping Harry for a quick trip to Gringotts and Madam Malkin's as soon after the end of the Tournament as possible.

She was going to have Harry claim his lordships and appoint proxies for his seats as soon as the next session of the Wizengamot started. Dumbledore had abused those votes far too long. She was going to have Harry give nineteen to Amelia, nineteen to Andromeda Tonks, and the remaining eighteen to Madam Longbottom since she held the Longbottom seat and her brother Algie had her voting his seat.

Dumbledore had no idea that what he had helped setup would come back to bite him, but without Harry's fifty-six seats the Wizengamot wouldn't even be able to raise a quorum. As soon as Harry got to Gringotts and the Ministry the good old boys, i.e. the Death Eaters and the other Pure-blood supremacists would be helpless.

Hermione had already made very good, close friends with Daphne and Tracy in Slytherin and had them sounding out their parents. Tracy was a Half-blood like Harry, but because of the closeness between the two girl's families the Davis family had almost as much pull as the Greengrass family. Between them and Harry joining the neutral faction they would be unstoppable.

The light faction, and the dark faction had both been in control of the British wizarding society for far too long. It was time to come up to twentieth century standards and be preparing for entry into the twenty-first century. Also Hermione knew The Greengrass family had a four hundred year old Betrothal contract with the Potter family that could not be fulfilled until now.

Hermione intended to get Harry's wives gathered before the Wizengamot tried to enforce their will on her boyfriend by forcing blood supremacist choices on him. Not that she would allow them to do that anyway. But still, if she had to share Harry she was going to do everything she could to insure that she at least could get along with the other girls. If they got closer than that, well, that would just be frosting on the cake.

It was just about time to talk to Harry about the future. Things with the Tournament were as settled as she could get them at the moment so maybe now would be good. Should she involve Tracy now, or wait? 'Let's get as many problems out of the way now as possible.'

Luna, Hermione had finally figured out the quirky little blond and they had become… more than close after she and Harry found Luna wandering the castle wearing, or almost not wearing, the oddest outfit Hermione could have imagined. One shoe, no socks, a blouse two sizes too small, and a skirt that the girl dare not bend over in at all. The girl's wand was also missing. Harry and Hermione were enraged to say the least.

Luna became hysterical when they tried to go to Flitwick, McGonagall, or Dumbledore. She told them she was told that Padma and Morag would be set up to be gang raped if she so much as thought of going to anyone for help. Hermione called for Winky and took her away to talk to her. Hermione had learned what happened to free elves at some point in her future. She had immediately abandoned her current idea o W.

"Winky, I need you to secretly find out if anyone has any of Luna's things. Don't take them, just make a list of whom has what and bring me that information. Can you do that without letting anyone else know?" Winky was nodding so hard Hermione was afraid the tiny woman might put an eye out with her flapping ears. "Alright. Let me know what you find out and thank you for helping me Winky." Winky popped away on the quest she had been assigned.

The next day Hermione had all the information on Luna's missing things. She contacted Amelia and gave her some information from the Hogwarts Charter that Dumbledore had suppressed. Information that had led Amelia to bringing thirty Aurors into Hogwarts on a search and seize mission. Every thing Luna was missing was found and returned. The offenders families were notified and it was placed in the offender's permanent records.

When the girls came back to school in a group they were met outside the door by a very scary Harrison James Potter. He told them in no uncertain terms that if anything else went missing, or if Luna, Padma, or Morag were hurt in any way he would hurt them much worse and there would be no proof he did anything. The three girls and their property were as safe as could be after that.

A/N: Thank all of you that are reading this story.