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Chapter 8
House trouble
The rest of the girls meeting went well into the night, explaining to Hermione all of the customs for purebloods and in return she gave them a list of Harry's likes and dislikes. Millicent had brought up the fact that Harry doesn't expect to survive the year, which shocked all those who hadn't been told already. But they did notice that Hermione didn't show any surprise and simply said that it was down to him to tell them his secrets and that she once again would not betray him.
As the girls split up and headed to their own house communal areas they were alive with both excitement and worry. As the Hufflepuffs settled down to continue their chat, a shadow eclipsed them.
"And where have you two been tonight?" came a voice.
"What's it got to do with you Justin?" Susan snapped as she looked up. "Or your's, Zach? Haven't you got better things to do?" and she turned back to her friend.
"We're just worried about you, saw the way Potter is dragging you down, talking to snakes etc. You want to keep away from him and date boys from your own house" said the blonde boy Zach.
"Yeah, we're just looking out for you two, because we care" added the tall boy Justin.
All this did was bristle both girls anger.
"Now you listen here. Susan and I will talk to whomever we want and date whomever we want. You got that?" shouted hannah.
"And you haven't even looked at us until someone else starts talking to us. Then suddenly it's all 'Stay in house. We care about you'. Just fuck off unless you want to have to pick your balls off the ground" shouted the enraged Susan, sending her red hair flying making the worried looking boys step back. "And if i was you I'd wonder why we went for boys from other houses. Maybe it's the fact that if you're the best the Hufflepuff have, then god help womankind!".
And that ended the conversation for the night as Hannah and Susan headed to bed, making most men shy away from them. Once alone in their room they burst into fits of laughter. As they calmed down Hannah looked at her long term friend.
"Would you really want to share Harry with all those girls Suze?" she asked softly as she put up some privacy charm.
With a big sigh Susan replied.
"Ideally no. But who live's a perfect life Han? I've loved Harry since the day I saw him and it's only gotten stronger. If it wasn't for my crippling shyness and his, we would have been together now" she said while picking at a loose thread on her robe "So yes I plan to be Mrs Potter, plus with all those other women around I'll never be lonely again" and with tears rolling down her cheeks she was pulled into a hug.
The Slytherins didn't fare any better as they entered the dungeons cackling like the schoolgirls they were.
"And where the fuck have you been?" came Draco's voice, stopping them dead as he and his friends advanced on the four girls. "Well? Where you been?".
"And what's it got to do with you Draco?" replied the ice queen Daphne "We are not yours or anyone's property".
"Your Slytherin. A member of my house. So where have you been? " he snapped back.
"Your house" joked Tracey "Who the hell do you think you are? King Slytherin? " making several people around the place laugh.
"Just tell us Davis" said Theo.
"No we don't have to, so sod off you little worm" bristled Millicent.
This only seem to anger the boys. Crabbe and Goyle cracked their knuckles and Draco and Theo pulled out their wands, pointing them at the group.
"Now if you know what's good for you, you will tell" and that's all Draco managed as Millicent punched him squarely on the nose, knocking him right out. Crabbe and Goyle were stunned by Pansy and Daphne, leaving Theo to run away crying for help.
"God what a load of little bitches" chortled Millicent.
Hermione entered the common room while sharing a joke with the fat lady portrait, and as her eye's locked on Harry they glistened and a beaming smile came to her face.
"Hey stranger, fall asleep in the library again did you?" asked a laughing Harry, which made his fellow Gryffindor Neville guffaw.
She threw herself down in her favorite chair by the fire.
"Oh haha" she said sarcastically "I've had an evening with a groups of friends, having a lovely chat" as she looked at Harry she gave him a wink "and you and Neville were brought up".
Neville flushed bright red.
"Wha wha me? Why did you talk about me?" he stuttered looking from Harry to Hermione.
Harry shrugged.
"Don't look at me mate. I haven't got a clue whats going on" he said to his friend. "Who are these friends of your's Hermione?" .
The Muggleborn just raised an eyebrow with a superior smirk on her face.
"Oh Harry. Now that would be telling wouldn't it" she laughed in very un-Hermioneish way "But Neville, it was Hannah who brought your name into the mix, you lucky boy".
"Really. Hannah? Really?" Neville said and with an answering nod he blushed even harder and ran off upstairs leaving a very amused wizard and witch.
"Well that will keep him busy tonight" barked Harry.
Hermione looked confused until Harry gave her the appropriate hand movement, which made her hand shoot to her mouth to stifle a giggle.
"Ewwwwww. Well at least he'll sleep well tonight" she giggled making Harry fall about laughing. "So where is Ron tonight?".
Harry shrugged again.
"I don't know. I think he's upset with us chatting to the Slytherin girls" he said with a slight sad look on his face. "But that's his choice. It's unfortunate".
A sad smile creeped onto the witch's face.
"We always have to grow Harry and move forward, and sometimes people get left behind. But as you said it's his choice" she said sadly looking at her best friend. "Can I ask you something Harry" she asked with a worried look on her face.
He looked up deep in thought as if waking from a dream.
"Of course Hermione, anything" he said softly.
Hermione grabbed her wand and silently cast a notice me not charm aswell a privacy charm,she then placed it carefully back on the table and moved across to the large sofa and took her place close to Harry, taking his hand in her's.
"Is it true that you are the heir to The House Black as well as the heir to The House Potter Harry?" she asked, waiting for Harry to explode. But all he did was slump down. This made her worry even more.
"Harry is it true?" and she watched as tears rolled down his face as he nodded "Oh Harry that's amazing isn't it? Why are you crying?" she said as she pulled him into a hug.
"It's not fair Hermione. I have two houses to rebuild and no family at all to help me, and with that I've got fucking Voldemort after me with half of Gryffindor turning their backs on me because I'm trying to make new friends" he sobbed.
"Language Harry. But you don't have to do both houses. Maybe just the Potter one for you Mum and Dads memory, I'm sure Sirius wouldn't mind" she said rubbing his back.
Harry shook his head.
"If I don't accept it Malfoy will become Lord Black" he said coldly as he pulled back "and I won't have that, not while I live and breath. But there is another problem".
"What is it Harry? Please tell me" she pleaded rubbing his hands with hers.
Looking around and with a worried look he picked up his wand and waved it over his left hand showing a ring of silver,with a black diamond set in the middle. Hermione's eyes shone like the sun as she pulled it close to her face.
"It's beautiful Harry. But what's it for?" she asked, captivated by the ring.
"Gringotts wrote to me after the Tri Wizard Tournament and asked me into a meeting" he said as his hands shook "I am related to the Peverell's whose family line has been extinct for many centuries and as I won the tournament, the Peverell line claimed me as an heir".
He looked into Hermione's now pale face "and as my name came out of the Goblet of Fire, which was only for people of age, the family line took me as it's Lord as the Goblins said according to the magic I was of age to take that lordship. It's crazy, I know, but magic see's me as an adult, yet the ministry doesn't until I fill out the paperwork".
Hermione looked aghast.
"Holy fuck christ Harry! Why didn't you tell me?" she said still gazing into his eyes.
"I don't know. I was scared and alone, plus Ron is always so jealous of my so called fame. If he wants it so much he can have it" he spat. "I knew the day I told you it would mean it became real for me and I didn't know how and what to say. No one but myself and Gringotts know about it" Harry took a gulp of drink and made his ring disappear.
The young witch sighed.
"Oh Harry,what am I going to do with you?" she said with a loving smile.
Harry just giggled.
"Wanna be lady Peverell?!" he said with a cheesy grin.
She sucked in a breath.
"Don't even joke about it Harry! We've been friends forever. You're like my brother" she said.
"I know I know" he said holding his hands up in surrender. "Just a thought. Ithought it might be fun for a pretty Muggle born witch to be a lady of an ancient house" and chuckled but with hope.
Hermione went red and it was a deep red!
"Oh Harry, I don't know what to say" she sputtered with shaking hands.
"Well anyway, who was at the gossip circle then? I'm guessing Susan as her friend Hannah was there?" he said with a smile "So who else m'lady?" and he gave her a wink which earned him a slap.
"You're such a prat Potter" she shouted while slapping him hard, and stood up and headed off to her bedroom.
"Oh hermione,tell me,pleaseeeeeeeee" he begged.
She turned on the steps and with a evil smile.
"Your little Slytherin friends" she said, then continued up the stairs.
"What were you talking about?" he puzzled.
And as she disappeared in her dormitories door she shouted out "YOU!".
Maybe not just friends
Early the next morning Harry rolled out of bed, only to hear the snores from his so called friend's and his friend Neville. With a shake of his head he donned his running gear and headed out of the castle and down to the quidditch pitch to start his laps.
The early morning mist still clung to the moist grass as he started to run around the pitc. It only took a lap to get his breathing sorted and the right pace, and he knew that he was feeling good that day.
On his fourth lap he heard some footfalls coming up behind him. They were light but he had many enemies who were male and female so as he ran, he slid his wand out from his sleeve and silently cast a shield charm. With a deep breath he gripped his wand tightly and with a quick spin he leveled his wand at his pursuer.
"Holy fuck Daphne, you scared the shit out of me" Harry gasped as he dropped his wand and gazed onto the lycra clad form of his new Slytherin friend.
"Shit Harry, paranoid much?" she laughed holding her hands up.
Harry slid his wand back and waved at her to lower her hands.
"Sorry, normally I have this place to myself" he said as he moved closer to the blonde. "I didn't know you ran".
She crossed her arms which pushed her prominent chest out even more.
"There's a lot of things you don't know about me Potter, but you're right I don't normally run. I just thought I'd give it a go" she said demurely and with a smile she ran off shouting "Come on golden boy!".
He smiled to himself and gave chase. He soon caught up and they fell into a good rhythm and chatting as they ran. On about the fourth lap he turned to Daphne who was chatting away about her pain of her sister, who Harry thought sounded like fun.
"Daphne can I ask you something?" he asked.
She shot him a look.
"Errr ok,but it's my right not to answer, alright?" she said with a slight pant.
"Why did you say you haven't run before? We're on our fifth lap now and you're hardly out of breath. Plus we have been talking all the time! If this was your first time you wouldn't be able to breath let alone talk" he questioned and watched as she flushed a little.
"Well well look at golden boy, how very Slytherin of you" she said with a chuckle "and I thought all Gryffindors were brave but slow" she said with a chuckle "Ok Harry let's take a seat and we'll have a chat, ok?" and she started to slow down.
Harry slowed his pace and stopped alongside the long haired girl. He couldn't help but drink in her form, athletic but not skinny, with shapely legs and a very tidy bum to boot!
"Ok Daph let chat" he said joyfully.
"Call me Daph once more Potter and I'll hex your bits off!" she said with a cold glint in her eye's and she headed off and took a seat in the stands. "Come on potter we don't have all morning".
Harry barked a laugh.
"Sorry Daphne, won't happen again" he said giving her a wink,which brought a smile to her face and her eye's, and what eyes they were like shimmering silver orbs.
"Ok Harry blink will you, and take a seat" she said patting the place next to her. She watched him sit down watching as the muscles bulged in his top, and as he turned toward her their eye's locked. Oh those eyes! Emerald green and as deep as the ocean. She could feel herself getting lost in those eye's.
"Ok to answer your question. Yes I told a little porky and I do like to run, and if we are being honest Hermione told me last night that you liked to run and i thought it'll be nice to have company while I ran" and she saw a grin appear on his face and what a smile it was.
"Oh this was the secret meeting last night" he chuckled and saw the surprised look on her face "Hermione told me last night after I wound her up a bit. But it was a nice surprise to have you for company this morning" and he gazed over the pitch.
Daphne watched the boy smile happily to himself as he gazed into the distance.
"Did hermione say what our little gathering was about?" she asked watching him carefully as he nodded. This made her catch her breath. "How how much did she tell you?".
Harry noticed for the first time that the ice queen was nervous. He turned towards her and gave her a warm smile.
"Nothing at all Daphne, just that it was about me" he said and watched her sigh which he thought was relief "but I can't think why all the prettiest girls girls in the school want with me anyway" and he frowned, turning back to the pitch.
They sat in peace for another five minutes while Daphne tried to control her emotions.
"Harry?" she said meekly.
"Yep?" .
"You think i'm pretty?" she asked.
He turned with a confused look.
"You're taking the piss right?" he joked and as she shook her head he barked a laugh. "Greengrass you're absolutely the most beautiful girl I know. Don't get me wrong, I think Pansy, Mills, Tracey and Susan are all stunners and out of my league, but you Daphne are at another level" as he said that he took her hand in his "but looks are only skin deep and I want to know the real person, if you let me".
Daphne couldn't stop beaming.
"Oh Harry I want that too. I know I'm not as upfront as the other girls and I tend to scare people off with my cold act but that's just for the ones who just want to use me for their own political future" she explained.
"Never liked politics much" he chuckled.
"Good,neither do I! I just want to fall in love and have some babies and maybe open a potions shop up when they are older" she said almost giggling like the schoolgirl she was. "What do you want to do Harry?" but as she said it a shadow fell across his once bright eyes.
"Survive" he said in a cold monotone voice and stood up "Right better get back".
Daphne could see the darkness in the boy she loved.
"Harry, Harry wait" she shouted and grabbed his hand and and pulled him into a tight embrace "you will survive and more" and she looked up into his eye's but they were still dull.
"I'm lucky to have survived this long Daphne. The time is coming when I will have to face him again, and I don't think I can beat him" he said letting tears well up in his eye's. "Trust me I want all of those things; love, happiness and a shed load of kids. But my future is just bleak" and he pulled Daphne deeply in his body "I just can't see it, that's why I wanted to make new friends and enjoy life and maybe even feel love before my time is up. Can you understand that?".
She couldn't believe he was opening up to her so much, and as she heard it, it broke her heart, he was so lost and lonely.
"Well Harry, just know this. I won't let you die and face him alone. I am with you till the end,whatever it may be, because" she said and reached up and kissed him deeply feeling his soft warm lips on hers, she was in heaven as the passion grew her heart soared and as the pulled away she looked into his eyes "I love you Harry Potter".
In the Gryffindor girls dormitory Hermione Granger was waking up from a troubling night sleep, where she was walking arm in arm with Harry through the ministry while all the high ranked purebloods were made to bow to the first Muggleborn lady of the most noble House of Peverell.
"Hermione, Hermione are you awake" came a voice through her privacy curtains.
"Whaa arise peasant" Hermione slurred still trying to wake up.
"What did you call me?".
Suddenly awake Hermione realised what she had said out loud.
"Errr nothing,sorry,bad dreams,who is it?".
"It's me, Ginny. Can I come in for a minute?".
Hermione straightened herself and her blankets and took a deep breath.
"Yeah come in Ginny" she said and watched as the youngest Weasley climbed onto her bed and sat cross legged in her pajamas and starred with red rimmed eyes right at Hermione.
"You ok Gin?".
"No I'm fucking not. What the hell is Harry doing with all those Slytherin girls? You told me to move on and start dating so I loosen up around him, which I have done" Gin spat in anger at the Muggleborn "and now we are talking like friends which is good, but now he's off fucking around with a load of snakes!" Ginny was shaking and crying at this point.
Hermione was torn. She had given her this advice but she hadn't realised that there was all this interest in Harry. There was only Romilda Vane and Ginny that she knew about.
"I'm sorry Ginny I truly am, but at least you have Dean, right?" she said in hopeful tones.
Ginnys head dropped and she sniffed.
"I know, and he's nice enough and I should be happy. But I'm not. I want Harry. I always have and will" and she dissolved into heart wrenching sobs and fell into Hermione's arms.
As she rocked her young friend trying to sooth her, she tried to search for an answer.
"I know it's difficult Gin but the best thing you can do is just be his friend and continue with Dean. You never know in the future their fascination with Harry will wain and if you are single at the time then you're in the perfect place". But Hermione felt bad for lying to her friend. What else could she do? There was now six girls who have declared their love for Harry. What made her warm inside was the fact that he had offered her the ladyship of a house before any of the other girls, but she knew deep in her heart that she loved him like a brother.
The young red head wiped her face clean and sat up straight.
"You're right Hermione, and I'm sorry to blame you. I shall continue with Dean and be a rock for Harry when he needs me" Ginny stated "but when they slip up, he's mine" and slipped out of the bed and away.
Hermione flung herself down on her bed and while shaking her head she uttered "good luck Harry".
Half hour later Pansy, Millicent and Tracey were all getting ready for the coming school day, but the were all smirking together as they listened to the legendary ice queen singing in the shower, and as she entered the dorm all the girls burst out laughing.
"Wha?t" Daphne shouted all red faced.
Millicent smiled.
"Went well then did it?" she asked with sparkling eyes and saw the same look on her friend's face. "You kissed him didn't you?" and she saw that Daphne flushed even redder. "Was it as good as I said it was?!".
Daphne sat down with the biggest smile.
"Oh yes. You weren't wrong. He's so strong but so gentle and his lips were so soft. I am still tingling all over" she said to a knowing Millicent who had a dreamy look on her face remembering her lunchtime with the green eyes boy.
Tracey shook her head.
"Pansy we're falling behind here girlfriend! We're going to have to up our game" she said to a greedly looking Pansy.
"Right let's get downstairs and get our seats for breakfast,and see if dreamy eyes will join us" Pansy said hopefully and grabbed her school bag.
"Wait for me" shouted a now hurrying Daphne.
"Nope, not a chance Greengrass" shouted Tracey as she pulled Pansy out of the door leaving the half dressed Daphne and the daydreaming Millicent.
In the Gryffindor home room Harry was just putting up the sign up form for the next days Quidditch tryouts when Ginny came bouncing down the stairs.
"Hiya Harry" she beamed and came up to him. "Oh fantastic, tryouts, hope I can get on the team...boss" and shegave him a nudge and a wink.
"Ginny, I've seen you fly before so you should have no problem, but there is one thing I wanted to ask you" Harry said.
Her heart flipped at this moment, and as she looked into his sparkling green eyes and watched as he knelt down on one knee and grasped her hand in his and said.
"Ginevra Molly Weasley, would you do me the honor to be my.." he said lovingly and taking a big breath and watched as Ginny brought a shaking hand to her mouth "...co captain, and help me run the team" and beamed his cheekiest grin.
Ginnys eye's shot open as her brain caught up with what he had said.
"You total shit Harry James Potter, you can't do that to a gir!l" she shouted out and pushed him to the ground, hit him with her book and leaned down and started tickling him until tears came streaming down his face.
"Ok ok ok stop I'm sorry" he pleaded.
Ginny stood up and stared down at the quivering boy.
"Of course I will Harry, but next time you get down on one knee in front of me Potter, you'd better have a ring!" she said playfully and gave him a slight kick on her the way past and out of the portrait.
"Well that went well" the prone Potter chuckled mostly to the amusement of the now gathering crowd, apart from two boys Ron and Dean who were staring daggers at him.
"Trying to get all the girls are you Potter?" Dean snarled.
Harry looked confused.
"You what mate, I was just having a bit of fun, we're just friends, you know that" he answered slowly while getting up.
"Do I. What is it she said? Next time you kneel before me you'd better have a ring?!" a very angry dean spat back.
Harry held out his hands out pleadingly.
"Mate it was a joke. She meant nothing by it, just ask her" and ruffled his already messy hair.
"Oh don't you worry I will" and with that Dean stormed out leaving a confused Harry and a very angry looking Ron.
But all Ron did was walk past him, sign his name on the try out sheet, and as he was leaving he turned with a snarl.
"Better hurry Potter. Your snakes will be waiting for you" and he disappeared following Dean's example leaving a very angry but confused Harry.
Harry headed on down to the dining hall, trying to get an handle on what had just happened. He knew Ron had his grudges, but Dean, they were always on friendly terms and he was just trying to have a bit of fun. "Fucking people" he spat and then the very next second he was amushed by a blonde and brunette Slytherin grabbing each arm.
"Cheer up Harry,we're here to save you" said a giggling Pansy. "time for breakfast with us."
Harry tried to pull away.
"Maybe now isn't the best time ladies. I'm not getting a lot of love from my house mates at the moment" he sad with a sigh.
Tracey just beamed and winked at Pansy.
"That's why you have us Potter. We have enough love for you, so you don't need your house" she chuckled "isn't that right Pans" as she looked across to her giggling friend
"Oh yes, lots of love" and Pansy gave his arse a slap making him jump.
And they pulled him into the dining hall and all the way to their now usual seat, despite all the looks coming from the Slytherins and Gryffindors. They pushed him down onto the bench and instantly jumped in either side locking him in place.
"So Harry, when do we get to have our alone time with the chosen one" said a smiling Tracey as she helped herself to toast.
Pansy looked across giggling and served up some porridge for herself.
"Oh yes, I can't wait for a bit of one on one time Harry" and she dusted some sugar on her breakfast.
Harry looked lost.
"I really don't know what you want from me girls" he asked calmly but as soon as he said that he felt a hand on either thigh.
Pansy gave his thigh a squeeze and leaned into him.
"Well Harry, Milly has had her claws into you and now Daphne gave you a good going over this morning, so when's our turn Mr Potter" she asked in a loving tone.
Suddenly a buxom redheaded form appeared.
"Oh yes, when's our's Harry? We've got so much love to give and only one boy to accept it" Susan said with a knowing smile.
Harry shook his head.
"Whats going on here, seriously? I thought we were getting on fine as friends" he whispered looking around at the girls. "But now I've had Mills kissing me, now Daphne did, and don't get me wrong I loved it. You all mean a lot to me, but what do you want from me ladies, because I'm not sure I'm able to give you what you want".
Susan reached over and took his hands and looked deeply into his eyes and before she could say anything Milly and Daphne were at either side of her with warm loving looks towards him.
"Listen Harry, we all care for you, you know that right?" Susan said and looked around seeing all his friends nodding away as well as Harry. "But I don't think this is the place to talk about it. How about we meet up tonight on the 7th floor? What do you say Harry?".
"Ok Suze, I'll meet you all there at 7pm, you know where Suze" he said and stood up and before he left "Mills,lunchtime" he asked and winked making Millicent growl like a tiger. "That's my girl" he said with a chuckle.