Usual disclaimers, no rights to any characters portrayed and this is neither the real world nor a Disney Princess tale. There will provably be changes in the first hour or so as I find things that didn't come out the way I wanted.
NB: Mature concepts are described in this chapter, not actions.
While Harry would have liked to spend the time up until they went to Hogwarts learning about his family's history at Potter Manor, most of his time was actually spent under Gringotts, being pushed to learn enough of the goblin magic and physical skills that Gringott, Ulfr and Snorri believed he needed to know to look after himself and the girls, also learning elf magic from Efa and Emry and improving his Occlumency and Legilimency skills to protect himself against Dumbledore and Snape and get things out of them. Luna, Daphne and Astoria were staying there and training too and Efa popped Hermione in to join the training whenever she could, because she, Luna, Daphne and Astoria had been accepted by the Goblin Nation as the pre-mates of the blood adopted son of the Gringott family, as well as the mistresses by the Potter elves and familiars (they had all bonded with Mngwa familiars within a week or so), and Dora, Susan and Neville were condoned by the goblins and familiars as the guests of Grand Clan Chief Gringott and the master and mistresses' friends.
Harry went to Little Hangleton to help the curse breakers get past the parseltongue portions of the wards on the Gaunt cottage to retrieve the Peverell ring that Voldemort had made into a horcrux. There was a benefit... no two… three…. four! benefits accruing from this. The first was that the curse breakers were taking the horcruxes seriously now, the palpable evil of that thing and the almost unbeatable compulsion to put it on had been a major eye opener for them because they hadn't dealt with anything like that before. The second was that his contribution to getting through the wards like that had earned him an open offer to come along and learn from them. The third was that they'd replaced Riddle's father's bones in the graveyard there with a transfigured sheep skeleton in case the Death Eaters ever tried to revive their master again with the same ritual …. and the fourth and most important was that they recovered one of the more elusive horcruxes.
They also went to 12 Grimmauld Place, the Black Townhouse in London that had been Sirius' family's home since his parents were married, to recover the Slytherin locket that had been made into another horcrux, the one which Sirius' younger brother Regulus had replaced with a fake and hidden from Voldemort in a final act of redemption. Once they had retrieved the locket to destroy the horcrux, Sirius and Andi let go some of their anger at Sirius' mother's treatment of them by ceremonially burning her portrait, though Andi told Sirius that he'd cheapened the moment by pissing on the portrait as it burned. With that done, and army of elves and goblins came in to remove all the dark objects from the house (which left it rather empty) and then refurbish it as a light, airy and comfortable home. Angela directed their efforts in this, because the Black Townhouse would be her home once they were done at Hogwarts. Kreacher fought them at first, but Sirius making the effort to treat him civilly at Harry and Hermione's urging and the removal of all the dark objects that had been tainting the very atmosphere was changing him too.
The Potter and Black elves moved the magical paintings from the corridor in Hogwarts where the Room of Requirements was to similar corridors elsewhere in the castle for long enough for Harry to slip in and recover the Diadem of Rowena Ravenclaw without Dumbledore realising that they'd been there, or what the Room of Requirements really was. When Harry explained why they did this the adults were furious, because none of them had had any inkling that the paintings had been spying on everyone at Hogwarts and reporting back to the Headmaster, the consensus of opinion was that while the magical paintings had of course been there since the Thirteenth Century, this widespread use of them to spy for the Headmaster was something that quite likely only began after Albus Bloody Dumbledore became Headmaster. They'd also moved other magical paintings around the castle, so while some of the paintings were confused because they knew that something had happened when they were moved back to where they came from, none of them could quite work out what. The important thing was that they now had all the horcruxes except for the one that had been in Harry's head if Dumbledore had been correct when he pontificated that Nagini hadn't been made into a horcrux as yet, and logic said he probably was. While they didn't want to destroy them yet in case it tipped him off, this meant that once they'd captured Voldemort's current host and secured him so that he couldn't escape, they would destroy the horcruxes and then the host, so Voldemort would be gone for good!
They'd also destroyed Voldemort's wand, which Pettigrew had kept with him. Harry discussed it with the adults and they'd all agreed that the debatable advantage of locking up Voldemort's wand with its brother wand wasn't enough to balance out the very real danger of Voldemort becoming more powerful with his proper wand, so they broke it and burned the remains…. except for the core. Harry had had a talk with Mister Ollivander, and Mister Ollivander had explained that the wand as a whole was needed to have any connection to what it had been used for in the past, so one component, such as the core, should have no taint from the previous owner or usage. He'd also agreed that from what he knew, having the two (or rather three phoenix feathers, as the rules formulated for the multi-cored battle staffs of yore said that magical numbers were mandatory and he'd actually received a third tail feather from Fawkes that hadn't been put into a wand) in one wand should indeed make the wand more powerful, or at the very least able to handle more power (the reason Garrick could identify people through glamours was because he could see their magical cores, so he could see how powerful Harry was), and that there should be no conflict as they'd all come from the same phoenix. They, Efa and Emyr and the goblins had all carefully examined the feather from Voldemort's wand and none of them could find any trace of Voldemort's 'feel', so Mister Ollivander took the feather from Harry's wand and made a new Rowan (as the Rowan wood came to him when Garrick asked him to choose the wood) wand with all three of Fawkes' tail feathers. From the testing Harry did, although it was slightly thicker with the three feathers braided together as its core and the original phoenix feather was the only thing that was the same as his first wand, the new wand definitely felt more powerful, and it matched him even better than the first wand had, so as far as Harry was concerned the exercise was well worth it.
Another urgent task had been begun on the first day, even before they retrieved Sirius from Azkaban, because they had to track down Nicolas Flamel and use Harry and Hermione's memories of what would happen in regard to the Philosopher's Stone convince him of the very real and present danger to it before the Stone was taken to Hogwarts. Nicolas was devastated by Dumbledore's betrayal, even more so when he and his wife Perenelle allowed themselves to be tested and saw the proof of the memory and compulsion charms that Dumbledore had used to get Nicolas to accept him as his only apprentice, have the voting rights for both the British Noble and Ancient House of Flamel and the French Noblesse Ancienne House of Flamel signed over to him, to be made heir to both Flamel houses, to have them loan him numerous priceless heirlooms, artefacts and works and give him the Philosopher's Stone for safekeeping, removing their memories of most of these once it was done to prevent them asking about them. The Flamels gratefully accepted Gringott's offer to have the goblin healers remove what Dumbledore had done to them. While there was much that had to be dealt with in regard to this though, the most important item was obviously the Philosopher's Stone, because that would soon be taken from the Gringotts vault to be used as bait for Voldemort, so as soon as they convinced him that the danger was real, Nicolas hastily dug up one of the failed attempts to create the Philosopher's Stone and they replaced the real Philosopher's Stone with it, just days before Hagrid was sent to retrieve it from the vault. Perenelle was instrumental in achieving this, because she was the more practical one and she had cut though Nicolas' anguished recriminations to push him into action quite effectively (if rather brutally). "Nicolas! We can tear our hair about how 'Dear Albus' could have done this later, for now we must do whatever is necessary to fix our error before it is too late!"
The upshot of this was that Nicolas made Harry heir to both the British Noble and Ancient House of Flamel and the French Noblesse Ancienne House of Flamel, sealing both with blood adoption rites, and transferred the voting rights for both houses back to their House Stewards. While this wasn't that surprising, Nicolas' next move (at Perenelle's suggestion) was, as he then abdicated from his role as Head of the House of Flamel in Britain, making Harry Earl Flamel, Head of the British Noble and Ancient House of Flamel. Once it was confirmed that Baron Greystoke, Steward of the Noble and Ancient House of Flamel and Head of the Noble and Ancient House of Greystoke, was actually eager to retain the role of the Flamel Steward which had been held by his family since the Fourteenth Century, Harry formally accepted him as Steward of the Noble and Ancient House of Flamel, and he swore homage and made the formal oath of Fealty to reaffirm the Noble and Ancient House of Greystoke as vassals of the Noble and Ancient House of Flamel.
Another thing they did was to formally grant Xeno's publication the Quibbler exclusive rights to publish or sell anything referring to the name or image of Harry Potter, Henry James Potter or Duke Potter, and had Ted's rapidly expanding legal practice prepare to go after the people behind all the thriving businesses that had been making a considerable amount of money off Harry Potter's name for the past decade, forcing them to stop making or selling anything using his name and successfully claiming a significant proportion of the moneys earned from the use of his name, this added quite a bit to the Potter fortune.
And they had had to use the combined power of their Houses to overcome the suspicious amount of pressure being brought to bear in an attempt to stop Augusta removing Frank and Alice from St Mungo's, but Frank and Alice were now safe at Gringotts, with the goblin healers trying to help them recover. Both Frank and Alice were showing noticeable improvement within three weeks, so they were all hopeful that they would make a full, or at least significant, recovery. As their rapid improvement appeared to confirm the suspicion that they'd been deliberately kept in that state, Amelia started making plans to pick up the healers who's care they had been under at St Mungo's to get the truth out of them. Frank and Alice also had two human healers there, because some people at St Mungo's had read between the lines of the report Healers Nightingale and Johnson had made on Harry, so they were being treated with considerable suspicion and their careers were effectively over. Harry discovered this when he asked where he could find them so that he could thank them for saving him, so they were immediately offered places with the Gringotts healers, to look after Frank and Alice Longbottom and the other humans associated with Gringotts. They had no other real option at that point so they gratefully accepted the offer, leaving the same day.
Most of the adults had trouble believing what had been achieved in just three short weeks, until they were reminded that Harry and Hermione had all the information that they'd discovered over the next seven and a half years to direct them to where everything was, they had the resources of the Goblin Nation of Britain and the richest and most powerful Houses of Magical Britain at their disposal and the Fates had given them even more to help out, so they would have had to be incompetent not to achieve great things in a short time.
The adults also decided that the girls especially needed to have 'the talk' before they left for Hogwarts, as the fact that Luna, Daph and Tori had also bonded with Potter Mngwa familiars now meant that they were bonding with Harry too, Luna bonded with Bastet the day after Hermione bonded with Crookshanks, and Daph bonded with Pakhet and Tori with Sekhmet about a week or so later. Quite aside from that, Amelia wanted to make sure that Sue and Nev understood the ramifications of going too far, because Sue had been well into puberty and showing more than a little interest in boys before her House rings had pushed her further along, and this hadn't been helped at all by the 'advice' her friend Hannah Abbot had been giving her…. Hearing about what Hannah had told Susie convinced Amelia that getting Susie away from her was the best thing she could do, because that girl had the makings of another Molly Prewett!
Even though they were nineteen and eighteen in their minds and quite experienced, Hermione and Harry were still quite embarrassed about just how detailed the talk that Augusta, Amelia, Angela, Sirius, Edessa and Cyrus gave them was about exactly how far they could go without crossing the line that counted as witches losing their virginity in the magical world, because the witches losing their virginity was a defining moment in all magical betrothals and marriages. A witch who was magically betrothed automatically became magically married when she lost her virginity, but witches who had already lost their virginity couldn't be entered into magical betrothals or marriages, so they could not receive any of the magical benefits that came from being the Betrothed or Consort of the Head or Heir of the House, or even an ordinary member of the House unless they were accepted into the House by the Head of the House as Sirius had accepted Ted into the House of Black... and went through the blood adoption ritual if they were to become a full member of the House….
Augusta stopped at that point to explain that there were also additional benefits to be accrued from the blood adoption ritual for those who were in a magical betrothal or marriage, because they then gained access to the family magic and knowledge that was restricted to those of House blood. She noted the way that Hermione was nodding as she remembered the extra family magic she'd received when she completed the blood adoption ritual after Alastor had accepted her as a member of House Moody and then as his Heir.
She went on to explain that there had been far too many instances in the history of Magical Britain where young witches had been forced into magical betrothal contracts, then raped to force the marriage through consummation before their parents could find a way to break the contract to gain the wealth, power and magic of their House. This was still going on, which was why they'd been so adamant that they all accept betrothals with each other. For Hermione and Harry's benefit, Augusta also went into the need for and relationships within plural marriages in the magical world, which helped Hermione make sense of some of the knowledge she had from her House rings, and this and the growing links she was feeling with Luna, Daphne and Astoria helped her accept sharing Harry with them.
This talk actually helped clear up a few things for Harry though, because while Ginny had been very aggressive and adventurous sexually, she'd been adamant that they weren't going to do that until after they were married up until his final year at Hogwarts. This had obviously been an attempt to entice him into marrying her to get that, but once the heat of the moment had passed (or more to the point, the effects of the lust potion wore off) he'd always come to the same conclusion, that getting married just for that wasn't worth it because they didn't have any other common ground, and he'd neither liked or trusted her after hearing about all the other boys she'd been with.
That had changed in his final year at Hogwarts…. as Molly and/or Dumbledore must have worked out that he would have jacked up if they tried to use that bogus marriage contract to get him to marry Ginny and could see that her methods weren't working, so Molly must have told her to stop wasting time trying to get him to marry her properly and just get pregnant to him (no doubt reminding her that it would have to be his child in order to inherit the title and power of the House of Potter and prevent him annulling the marriage) so that they could force him to marry her before it was too late, because that marriage contract would still work to get his money as long as he hadn't accepted his title. It was clear now that Ginny had held out as long as she could because she was trying to get the Potter family magic and knowledge as well as the Potter fortune and power, but she'd run out of time so she'd given in and used the pregnancy to make him marry her as Molly had with Arthur Weasley. Harry blushed as he tried to gloss over how much sex they'd been having in the months before she told him with very convincing fake tears that she was ruined because she carrying his baby, as she must have decided to make sure that she got pregnant and he married her once she'd lost her only chance to get a significant amount of the Potter family magic.
They got sidetracked then, because Hermione brought up the question of how Molly Prewett could have been entered into those betrothal contracts with Mister Weasley, because they'd confirmed that she was at least two months pregnant with Bill when they were signed, but Augusta just smiled at her. "Not being a virgin only effects magical contracts dear, otherwise it's just a legal agreement, and that was what they entered into."
Hermione blushed at missing something that obvious, but Harry just hugged her and kissed her on the head, amused that she'd actually made a silly mistake like the rest of them.
Amelia gave Harry a grateful smile after he told them about his experiences with Ginny, because she could see that his and Neville's obvious disgust at Ginny Weasley's behaviour had gotten through to Sue far better than the dry, if rather explicit, explanations they were giving. She hadn't been worried about Neville, as she knew that he'd be a gentleman, her worry was the notions that Hannah Abbot had been putting in Susie's head, and that her hormones may have led her to act on those notions. She was confident that Neville wouldn't have rejected her if she had gotten herself in trouble through that, Neville had too much of his father's character and honour to do that, but he would never have been able to truly respect or trust her again if she betrayed him like that and that would have ruined any chance of them having a long and happy life together, which she was currently seeing as being quite likely.
Harry comforted Hermione when she told them that Ronald obviously hadn't had any compunctions about ruining her, because he'd done that as soon as she'd been dosed with enough of the love and lust potions to give in to him, but his eyes flashed angrily as he remembered that she wouldn't have had to go through that if Molly Weasley and Dumbledore hadn't been using the two of them as pawns in their plans…. those two were going to pay! And Molly's disgusting offspring too.
They discussed the point Augusta had raised about blood adoptions enhancing their links to the family magic of the Houses they were betrothed to and they agreed that all the betrothed should do this before they went to Hogwarts, so that they'd be stronger when they got there. Angela and Ted also went through the blood adoption rituals to get a better link to the Black magic and Remus, Ulfr and Snorri did it to strengthen their links to Harry and the Potter magic, as his Champions. It took Harry the longest to recover from this, because he'd been involved in over twice as many blood rituals as anyone else from one side or the other, but he couldn't argue that Augusta had been right, as he had gained a lot from adding the blood magic for all the other Houses.
Dora came with them on the train, using her metamorphmagus talent to transform herself into a first year girl (muttering that they were just bloody lucky she didn't have to go through puberty again to look like this, because she would have made them pay for that). Dora would have a mixed role at Hogwarts, as while she was still an Auror in training (Amelia and Andi came to an agreement that Alastor, Angela, Sirius and Remus would take over Dora's Auror training as well as being guards and tutors for defence and other subjects), she would also be posing as a first year student, Dora Tonkas, while she helped protect the actual students, and be helping Harry learn how to master being a metamorphmagus, as she was the only other person in Magical Britain currently known to have that talent.
Having Dora there gave them extra protection on the train and with eight of them (Harry, Hermione, Nev, Sue, Luna, Daph, Tori and Dora) plus six familiars (with Harry and the girls thinking of Dora as a big sister, her going through the blood adoption ritual with Harry to strengthen her link to them was enough for Mekal to bond with her), they quite filled the compartment so that they had it to themselves. Of course, this didn't stop the walking stomach making same pathetic attempt as he had last time, barging in saying that the rest of the train was full, so could he stay here? Harry had shared the memory of their first meeting with everyone, so they all laughed at him when he came out with the same stupid line.
He rounded on the ones who burst out laughing to shout at them but belatedly realised that one of them was this Potter kid that Mum was adamant that he had to be best mates with. She'd been telling him what Potter looked like over and over and over again for the last few weeks... it was like she didn't trust him to remember, like she thought he was thick or something! Sure, it was different from what she'd been telling him and Ginny ever since they were little kids, because now it was a tall boy with long hair and a faint scar on his forehead instead of a small kid with messy black hair, glasses and a big obvious scar on his forehead but it wasn't that hard to remember….
Thinking of Ginny and looking at these bints reminded him that he wanted to find someone to do what she did for him at Hogwarts…. Hmmm, the one near the door looked good, but the way she, Potter and the tasty piece sitting with him were glaring at him was right scary…. the redhead had nice tits though, and that blonde was a bit of alright, the other ones didn't look too bad either…. But... what the hell was Looney Lovegood doing there?…. Mind you, she looked a lot more interesting than she had last time he saw her too…..
He was jolted out of leering at the girls' attributes with what he was thinking writ plain on his face by the realisation that Longbottom was still chuckling…. well he might have to be Potter's mate but that didn't mean that Longbottom was off limits "Oi, what are you laughing at Longbottom? What are you even here for, it's not like you could ever be a wizard, you fat stupid little squid!" though he belatedly noticed that he looked taller and fitter than he remembered too….
He was surprised by how fast Potter came to his feet, and that he was bigger and fitter than him too, right scary he was with his eyes flashing like that! "Don't talk to my cousin like that you git! And stop leering at my other cousins and my friends! Look! Even you should be able to see that there's clearly no room for you in here Carrot Top, so piss off and find somewhere else! Over half the bloody train's empty, so you had to be really thick try that stupid lie!"
Ron wasn't going to take that from anyone, even if his Mum did keep telling him how important it was that he make friends with the git! He lunged at Potter, only to have his hands knocked aside and be dealt a stinging slap across the face that made his eyes water. He kept trying to get at Potter, but the hits kept getting harder and harder until Potter kicked him in the balls hard enough to send him flying right out the door to smash into the windows across the corridor. His last sight before he passed out from the pain of his broken arm and crushed balls was Potter putting his hand out, and the door slamming shut and the blinds coming down.
Hermione broke down as soon as Weasley was gone and Harry comforted her, singing 'Is it OK if I call you mine?' (from the movie Fame they'd watched together on TV one time when they were on the run from the Death Eaters) to her over their link, because they'd quickly agreed that that was their song after the first time she'd caught him singing that to himself when he was thinking of her, but while Dora could see that there was something going on here that she didn't know about (she hadn't been there the times they were discussing Harry and Hermione's history with the Weasleys), she thought she had to raise something.
"We have to have Madam Bones look into what Molly Weasley is playing at Harry! The way that git was sizing us up wasn't the behaviour of an innocent eleven year old boy, that little bastard was looking for someone to play with and he knew what he was looking for!"
Harry snapped "Tell us something we don't know!" at her and then sighed. "I'm sorry Dora. I just got so bloody angry at the blatant way he was leering at you girls and….." he looked at Hermione to ask permission to tell Dora and when she gave it he looked back at Dora.
"You never saw that memory of the Weasleys standing over Hermione and I as we were dying, did you?" Dora shook her head, wondering where this was going. "Sorry, you were brought in with Nev and the girls and it wasn't really something for children to see, it was upsetting enough for the adults. What it comes down to is that Dumbledore was putting compulsions on Hermione and I and we were being dosed with love potions by Molly, Ron and Ginny Weasley from at least second year and lust potions as well from fourth year, if not before, because they had plans for the Potter fortune and weren't about to let Hermione get in the way of those plans. Ron had been using the lust potions to force Hermione to have sex with him for years, so Mione is all too aware of Ronald Bloody Weasley's unwholesome wants and demands! Ginny was using the lust potions to get me to have sex with her too but I didn't have to put up with anything as disgusting as what Mione did. By the way…. they have a common name in the Muggle world for their equivalent of love and lust potions, date rape drugs, at least the Muggles understand that it is rape there, sick bastards like them can get away with anything here!"
Dora looked stricken at that and tried to apologise to Hermione but she said that it wasn't her fault, and then Harry went on tiredly. "Auntie Ami is looking into them Dora... Molly, Ron, Ginny and Percy anyway. We know that Arthur, Bill and Charlie weren't involved…." He thought a laugh might help Mione so he decided to have a dig at Dora. "Tell the truth though, you must be relieved to have it confirmed that the handsome Gryffindor you were crushing on for most of the time you were at Hogwarts wasn't just another one of his filthy hag of a mother's little puppets, mustn't you?"
The other girls could see what he was doing and burst out laughing at that, but Dora missed it at first and got hot under the collar. "No! Charlie was never anything like that little bastard! He turned down all the girls who came after…." She finally worked out what was going on and gave Harry an approving nod, covering it up with a laugh. "Alright yes, I admit it, I'm mad for my betrothed…. Are you happy now?"
(None of them had been surprised when Ulfr came back with the confirmation that Charlie Prewett-Weasley hadn't accepted his titles as Head of the Noble House of Prewett, but the fact that Arthur hadn't accepted his when his uncle, the previous head of the Ancient Druid House of Weasley, died and Head of House passed on to him, and Bill hadn't accepted his as Heir to the House of Weasley either pointed to the fact that they'd all been interfered with to make them forget, because for all his love of all things Muggle, Arthur had always been proud of his heritage and observed the old ways.
Amelia engineered a way to bring Arthur in and, once they'd confirmed that he was being interfered with through love and loyalty potions and compulsion, memory and Confundus charms, organised a quick 'trip away for a couple of days' for him while they had the goblin healers fix everything done to him, and the goblin mind magic experts helped him create protections for his mind with a mindscape that would make it appear to Dumbledore as though he was still under the same controls, they also made up potions to counteract what he was being dosed with.
Alastor was sent off to Romania and Egypt with the early versions of the communications mirrors and trunks so that they could bring Charlie and Bill in to have them tested and fix what had been done to them, and also to have them take formal inheritance tests to officially confirm what they knew, that they were in fact Arthur's sons. They were shown Harry and Hermione's memories of the future, and once they'd formally accepted their titles, Arthur and Charlie swore homage and made the formal oath of Fealty to make the Ancient Druid House of Weasley and the Noble House of Prewett vassals of the Most Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter (to protect Arthur and Charlie and make a stronger case against Molly, Percy, Ron and Ginny as they were acting against the oaths of the Heads and Overlord of their houses as well as the laws of Magical Britain).
The thing was, when he got his memories back, Charlie remembered about a certain captivating but rather accident prone Hufflepuff girl who he'd warmed to when he kept catching her as a prefect, because she wasn't playing around with boys like the other girls he caught, she was always been getting up to trouble like those rascals the twins (the only ones of his younger siblings he liked). They'd started going out and were getting serious, but the last thing he remembered about her was in seventh year, he'd been talking to his mother about marrying her and his mother went off, saying that no son of her's was ever going to marry a common Half-Blood without any prospects who'd been raised in the Muggle world to boot so she didn't know how to be a proper witch.
They got Dora tested then and confirmed that her memories of Charlie had been blocked too, and compulsions to stay away from him and go after other boys had been put on her (luckily everyone else she met at Hogwarts and the Aurors' Academy had turned her stomach so she didn't lose her virginity to some random wizard in a broom closet somewhere as she had been set up to do). When they both had their memories of each other back, they found that they both still felt the same way about each other, so Charlie asked for Ted and Andi's permission to marry their daughter, and when they gave it happily, they accepted male and female line magical betrothals between Charlie, as Baron Prewett, Head of the Noble House of Prewett, and Dora, as Heiress to the Noble House of Tonks.
Dora had also been accepted into the House of Weasley by Arthur and went through the blood adoption ritual for the Houses of Prewett and Weasley.)
The others thought that Luna was still playing along when she hugged her. "Of course! I think you make a lovely couple…. I would have preferred yellow for my bride's maid's dress though."
While they all laughed at that, most of them were thinking that what she said was part of the act, but Harry and Hermione had seen that look in Luna's eye before and knew that she had a form of the sight, so they knew that that wasn't some off the wall comment, she was actually telling Dora about something she'd seen from her wedding.
Hermione gave Harry a kiss and told him that she was OK, then went back to cuddling Crookshanks.
The banging and rattling on the door just kept going though, so once they were all settled again, they opened it. Percy Weasley charged in, determined that someone was going to pay for what had been done to his brother. He took in the murderous glares he was getting from Harry, Hermione and Dora and barked. "You three are coming with me! Let's see how much you feel like laughing when you're being turned over to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement to be charged for illegal use of underage magic and assault!"
Harry had had enough of these bastards so he burst out of his seat. Percy looked as though he didn't know whether to explode or piss himself when Harry suddenly got right in his face and said in an icy tone. "No, we're not! You are obviously related to that red headed idiot who forced his way in here and tried to feed us a ridiculous cock and bull story about how the rest of the train was packed so he needed to stay here, even though as you can see this compartment is already quite full. He then proceeded to insult my cousin and leer at my other cousins and my friends so blatantly that he made them all very uncomfortable and upset so I told him to leave. He attacked me then, so I was forced to defended myself, he wouldn't stop so eventually I kicked him out the door and closed and locked it to keep him out. And there's no way we're leaving the others alone in case your creepy brother comes back, so none of us are going anywhere with you and you can get out too!…. Well? What are you waiting for? Move along Carrot Top!"
Percy's rage at having his authority as a prefect ignored and being spoken to like that by a first year tipped the scales and he drew his wand and tried to curse Harry. Harry could see the Hufflepuff prefect standing in the doorway getting ready to intercede so he 'accidentally' knocked the wand out of Percy's hand and stamped on it enough times in the ensuing scuffle to ensure that it was totally destroyed. The scuffle was quickly stopped by the other prefect barking "Weasley! What in the seven hells do you think you're doing, drawing your wand on a first year like that and attacking him like a common Muggle?" as he dragged him off Harry.
"I… I was just defending myself! He attacked me!"
"Lying must run in your family Weasley, because I heard everything from the point where you tried to threaten them with being charged by the DMLE and I saw you draw your wand on him without any real provocation. Like young Mister….?"
"Potter."
His eyes widened at that but he nodded and continued. "Like young Mister Potter said, they aren't going anywhere with you, and you won't be laying any false charges against them either Weasley!"
"They aren't false charges, they ganged up on my brother and beat him up badly enough to break his arm, and he saw him using magic to close the door!"
Harry pulled out his wand and handed it to the other prefect. "Do you know how to do the Prior Incantato charm?"
The prefect shook his head, and asked what it was. "It shows what the last spell cast with the wand was, do it again to see the one before that and so on. Just touch your wand to mine and say pri-OR in-can-TAH-toh."
Luckily, Harry had closed the door wandlessly, because he'd been trying to do everything wandlessly since he came back, so the only spells on the wand were the simple ones Mister Ollivander had had him do in the shop to see whether it worked after Mister Ollivander remade it, and the power of the spells cast wasn't indicated by the Prior Incantato charm. When he was done the prefect handed it back with thanks. "That's a useful spell that one Mister Potter, you don't mind me sharing it with the other prefects do you?"
He nodded his thanks when Harry shook his head but looked down at the remains of Weasley's wand spread across the floor and laughed. "I don't see it working on Weasley's wand though."
Percy suddenly dropped to his knees with a moan and desperately tried to gather up the remains of his wand when he realised what he was talking about, then angrily surged to his feet again. "I'll have you charged for this! It's a serious offence to deliberately break someone's wand!"
The prefect tried to shut him up but Harry cut him off. "No, I've had enough of this! This matter will be going to the DMLE and we will all be supplying our memories to show exactly what happened in here, and him and his brother will be too!"
Percy started to say that he couldn't make them when Harry unmasked his Potter House and Black Heir's rings and held up his hand. "Actually, I can! And for your information Weasley, attacking the Head and Heir of two Most Noble and Most Ancient Houses is a far more serious offence than any of the shite you've been coming out with, and unlike you, we can prove that both you and your brother have done exactly that!"
He turned to Susan. "Countess Bones, do you think you could contact your Aunt for me so that we can get this out of the way quickly once we get to Hogwarts, please?"
She nodded. "Of course Duke Potter."
Percy and the prefect were looking confused, so Harry decided to have a little fun. "Oh I am sorry, we haven't properly introduced ourselves, have we? This is Countess Susan Bones, Head of the Noble and Most Ancient House of Bones, and the niece and ward of Madam Bones, the Director of the DMLE. Sitting beside her is Viscount Neville Longbottom, Heir to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Longbottom….. Beside Heir Longbottom is Baroness Daphne Greengrass, Heiress to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Greengrass, and her sister Miss Astoria Greengrass, Heiress to the Most Ancient Druid House of Yowann. This is my best friend, Miss Hermione Granger, Head of the Most Ancient Druid House of Bodhmall, beside her is Miss Luna Lovegood, Heiress to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Lovegood, beside her is my dear cousin, Miss Dora Tonkas….. and as I've said, I am Duke Henry Potter, Head of the Most Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter, and Heir to the Most Noble and Most Ancient House of Black….. Oh, and by the way, his brother was leering at all of the ladies here in a most disgusting manner, but he was making a particular point of staring at Miss Bones' chest, I'm sure that Madam Bones will be wanting to look into that!"
Both the prefect and Weasley were just standing there with their mouths open at that point, but the prefect snapped his shut and sketched a bow to Harry and the girls. "I do apologise that you have been subjected to something like this Duke Potter, ladies, please let me know if you ever require anything, I am Gabriel Truman." Then he grabbed Percy and dragged him out of the compartment. Dora stood to close the door by hand this time.
Hermione wrinkled her nose up. "From the smell, I think you actually made Percy wet himself at least, are you pleased with yourself Harry?"
He sat beside her again and kissed her. "I am actually Mione, because with any luck this will resolve our Weasley problem for the moment at least as the Ancient House rules are quite clear on things like this, so there's no way Dumbledore will be able to keep those two at Hogwarts. I'm sure that Fred and George never had anything to do with or knew about what was done to us…." Hermione nodded at that "but this will give Auntie Ami the excuse she needs to probe them and those two and with any luck, clear the twins and find out exactly what those two are involved in, and I'm sure she could find some way to get them all to do inheritance tests as well so Arthur can find out the truth about that so yes, I am quite happy with the situation."
Dora was grinning at him. "That is a plan worthy of a true Black, I am impressed My Lord."
He just nodded regally to her and said. "Why thank you dear cousin." and they all burst out laughing again.
Then they concentrated on giving their familiars some well deserved attention for managing to keep control while their master and mistresses were being threatened.