Chapter 4 – Royalty lessons 101 Part 1
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Kasmira36: Thank you for your critic. I totally should do all this royalty shouldn't I haha. But so far, I just want them to have some fun, maybe get snapped by some photographers… But there will definitely be some royalty in the later chapters!
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"Harry sweetie" my mum called out
"Mmmm 10 more seconds mum"
"No no ten more seconds. Your father and I need to teach you some gentlemen like manners"
"But I am gentlemen like already" I mumbled back
"You know the basics, just like Hermione knows the basics of womanhood. She likes to go along with her own drift, no manners that girl…" I smirked, course she's like this! She's different "Today the both of you will start training! And you need to know how to ballroom dance for our charity ball this year" my mum poked me in the cheek
'BALLROOM DANCING?' I sat up from my bed, got my glassses from the bedside table and looked at the clock. 7am
"But it's only 7am mum!" I whined
"I don't care but Hermione is up already practicing with her parents. So you must hurry along. Now"
Her tone was final and I couldn't argue about it
I reached the door until my mum screeched "GET DRESSED! YOU ARE NOT GOING OUT THERE IN PYJAMAS!"
'So much for being a prince' I thought
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I got dressed in a blue polo shirt and black pants. I looked clean and tidy which was always a winner to ladies. I walked to the main dancing hall just in time to see Hermione curtsy. I was facing her back and I could see her bend over 'Dammit, I'd take that'. She was wearing a light blue dresses with a collar and no sleeves that went to her knees. I quite liked this dress as well but it doesn't matter, everything looks good on Hermione Granger
I walked into the hall just as Hermione stood back up. "Morning everyone!" I shouted to no one in particular
Hermione turned to face me and curtsied "Morning Harry"
FUCK. NO I didn't want her like the others! They're destroying her! I want her to be that cool and confident girl! But what if they make her like every other clone princess! She's perfect in every way possible!
During that time I was thinking these thought, I didn't realise that Hermione asked her mum if that was a good curtsy. She must've replied yes because Hermione ran up to me. I was still in my zone out from the world until I realised Hermione was poking me everywhere. "Harry, Harry, Harry!" she said with each poke
She finally reached my face until I realised that she was poking me
"ARGH!" I stepped back from her and she laughed. "Well I'm glad that my pain can make you laugh" with a smirk
"Oh kind sir, do not flatter yourself that much" she replied
"Oh sweet maiden! I am hurt! Oh how you wound me!" I went down on my knees clutching my heart
My parents and her parents saw this lovely exchange and they all exchanged smiles. Maybe this was going well
"Alright Harry, come on! Let's stop this charade because I need to learn 'the basics to womanhood'" she said while holding her hand out
I grabbed her hand and she pulled me up. She walked to her parents but stopped to face me and said "Nice hall by the way" and ran back to her parents
The hall was actually quite big. Not many people use it though. Its walls were windows and the back wall was a large mirror. It was usually used for dance practices but I don't dance at all so I rarely go in here
For the next hour, I was taught by my dad and Hermione's dad how to bow. Who knew there were 10 different ways to bow! One for a first greeting, first dance and for other things that I have already forgotten. Hermione meanwhile was taught how to curtsy as well but she must've been doing a better job because now she was walking around the room with books on her head. What the hell does that do?
"Dad I'm hungry"
"Fine, Dobby"
The house elf came
"Get us some biscuits"
Hermione must've saw this and immediately came racing towards us while holding her books
"Mr Potter" she called out
"Would you also like some biscuits Hermione?"
"No but you need to treat your house elves with respect! Honestly"
"No, they were here to serve us"
"You mean that at the beginning of time, when there were both humans and elves that they immediately obeyed the first command from us?" she questioned
"Well… I don't know!"
"Say please to Dobby"
"No"
"Yes"
"No"
"Yes"
"Sweetie, just go along with it" my mum whispered into his ears
"Fine, get us some biscuits…" Hermione nodded encouragingly at him "Please" he bit out
Again Dobby looked like he was going to cry. He kissed the ground and said "Yes Master Potter! Thank you Master Potter and Miss Hermione!" and immediately got us all biscuits. He even brought out a whole platter of biscuits with cream and some coffee to drink
"Dobby, do you mind if you just get me some water?" Hermione asked
"Yes Miss!" Dobby came back and Hermione answered back "Thanks Dobby"
Dobby disapparated with a big smile, maybe we were really impolite to him'
"See the thing is" Hermione said to all of us "When you're nice to house elves, they will get you more food or do things quicker for you. Plus, it's nice being nice don't you think?" she some biscuits and her glass of water and walked to the other side of the hall where she pulled out her phone and started texting
Dammit, I hope it's not Cormac or any boy texting her! I growled and the adults looked at strangely until they saw the direction I was looking at. Again they exchanged a private smile!
We had a 10 minute break to eat and then we immediately started on our royalty lessons again
My father finally decided that my bowing was good enough and moved me onto walking
"Of course I can walk!" I exclaimed
"Yes everyone knows how to walk but you need to know how to walk proper, without a slouched back"
"So…"
"Look at Hermione"
She was walking around the room with two books on her head but that little amount of books didn't bother me. I didn't need her balancing 20 books to be perfect to walk for her, she already walked beautifully! Unfortunately, mum stepped in her way and because she was concentrating on her feet, those 2 books toppled down and fell
"Again!" my mum said
"Dammit" I cursed silently
"You have to do that but with 5 books on your head. She has to have 5 books on her head as well. If we feel you do well with one book, we will add another book and so on" said Mr Granger
"Great" I said with a lack of enthusiasm
"Let's begin!" my father said
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After 10 minutes, I was still balancing one bloody book on my head. WHAT THE HELL isn't this supposed to be easy?! I looked over to Hermione and she was balancing three! HOW!
Sometimes, as we were walking around the room, we would purposely bump into each other just to make the other one topple and restart. Well that was what she did; I just wanted to be somewhat close to her
This time, Hermione came up to me but I backed away
"Wait Harry"
I stopped backing and she forwarded
"Let's make a bet" What?
"About?"
"Let's see who wins this challenge"
"What challenge?"
"The balancing books on your head of course!"
"But by the looks of it, you're going to win!"
"Because I have three books?"
"Because you have three books" I repeated
"Please Harry! This is ultimately boring!" she pleaded
"Fine, let's handshake on it" I stuck my hand out and she shook my hand
"Winner takes loser to wherever they want to go"
"You're on" I said. We shook hands and just as she was about to take her hand away, I started shaking her hand more. "HARRY!" she squealed and all her books fell off
"That's not funny!" but I kept on laughing either way
She pinched my hips and I immediately stopped laughing. Instead of a pinching fight, we had a tickle fight and I fell on the ground first. Her legs trapped me and she was basically sitting on my dick. Well fuck that. I was too busy laughing and trying to get her off me. Eventually I flipped her over and pinned her down to the ground and tickled her. Somehow she pinned me down again and then, the worst happened. My erection came. FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK HOLY CRAP and she was sitting on top of me!
"Hermione!" her mother called out
She immediately stopped and replied "Coming mother"
She picked up her books and walked to her mum. Her mum must've said really bad things because Hermione didn't look so happy about it
"Yes mother" She smiled a sad smile back at me and started practicing again
I felt bad because every time we crossed each other's paths, she wouldn't even look up at me. So I called of the balancing thing.
"Hermione needs the bathroom so I'll take her there"
"Wait, no I don't –"I shut her mouth with my hand and basically dragged her out of the hall
I grabbed her hand and we ran away from the hall until I thought that the distance was good enough before our parents would follow us and slammed her to a wall
"Ouch" she moaned and that went straight to my dick. But during this situation, I didn't give a damn about it. She rubbed the back of her head but before I could think that she was hurt I asked "What did your mother say to you?"
She looked up at me and her eyes started shimmering with water. Shit, what if she cries?
She wiped her eyes before I could take a second look and replied "Nothing, just that I had to do the balancing thing again"
"No, I know she said something other than that"
"And how would you know"
"Because a. You didn't topple my books on my head once after we made that deal but only I did. B. You didn't have that cheeky smile when I walked past you. C. You got teary eyed just then"
She stared at me with wide eyes "I didn't think that you would pay attention to anything"
"For you I would"
She chuckled but it sounded like a sad one
"Alright, look it's not what she said but what I do. Every time I try to do something good or impress my mum, it always ends up as a fail"
"Give me a time when it turned out to be a fail"
She thought for a while but then said "I can't think of any but I feel like such a fail! I don't make her happy, and I'm trying desperately but what if I'm disappointing her?"
"Hermione, you're perfect and you're you. Sure she's your mum but it's probably your sense of fun that your mum doesn't get. Don't let her get in the way of your fun because that's what makes you you, it makes you more unique from all the other princess I have met" I slipped my arms around her waist "And that's only one of the things that I appreciate about you" I couldn't say that it was something that I loved about her, God that was way to forward!
She laughed in my ears and I absolutely loved it
"Thanks Harry" She wrapped her arms around my neck and we stayed like that for a while. I loved the feel of her in my arms, she fit perfectly there. I wanted to make her feel as safe as possible and I hoped that I was doing a good job. Plus, I also thought that she could hear my heart beat at 1000000 miles per hour and the erection pressed to her
She kissed me on the cheek and stepped away from my arms. I felt a total loss for warmth until she said "Don't you think our parents will wonder what happened to me in the bathroom?"
I laughed "Yeah, they'd be a bit suspicious" and winked
"Race you there!" she shouted and sprinted off "And you have a nice tent down there!"
"I'LL CATCH YOU HERMIONE!" and I ran off as well back to the hall while blushing
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I won the race by about 5 steps and reached the door I was about to open it when "HARRY!" I faced Hermione and caught her by the waist. She was panting heavily and so was I. Her arms instinctively wrapped around my neck "Thanks for catching me" she smiled. "That's alright" I quite enjoyed that bone crushing hug. If it was always from her, I wouldn't even care if all 206 of my bones got destroyed because of her, it was well worth it
Well maybe not. A bit painful on my behalf
She stepped out of my embrace and walked into the hall "Come on Harry, that bet is still on" while smirking
She is so evil when she smirks
"You're on like Donkey Kong" I smirked back
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Another hour passed and it was finally lunch! Dobby brought us all sandwiches to eat and we all said thank you where Hermione smiled at everyone for saying it
When the girls finished their lunch, they took Hermione and made her practice again. She was finally up to 5 books and I was only up to 4. I'm betting now that she's going to win
"Son" my father nudged me
"Yeah dad?"
"Can I talk to you for a second?"
"Sure"
"Sorry Dan, I need to talk to Harry for a moment"
"Oh that's okay James" Mr Granger walked to his daughter and the women and Mr Granger all watched Hermione walk
We walked away from the hall and walked to a study room
"Tell me, why were you alone with Hermione for around 10 minutes?"
I gulped
"Well…"
"And don't lie to me. You are really bad at lying" my dad smiled cheekily
"Alright, Hermione and I made a bet that whoever finished with their book walking exercise first would win and the loser would have to take the winner wherever they wanted to go. So we made a deal and I started shaking her hand really fast and we had that tickle fight. Her mother was upset with her for being so 'childish' and whenever I tried to topple her books, she would avoid me and when I smiled at her, she didn't return it"
"Continue"
"So I realised that something that her mum said must've made her like that so I pulled her away from the hall and we ran somewhere where no one would follow hopefully. I asked her what the problem and she said that when she keeps trying to impress her mum, it always ends up as a fail. I asked her if that had happened to her and she said none so I replied back saying that you shouldn't let your mum control you, but at some times she should. Hermione should keep her sense of fun because it was one of the things that I appreciated about her and we hugged for a while and raced back to the hall. That's it" I blurted out
There was silence until my dad smiled "Great to hear son" and he slapped me on the back "Now let's go back to the hall before your mother starts looking for us!" and we did walk back
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Hermione ran up to me while my dad thankfully sidestepped and walked over to the adults
She grabbed my hands and jumped up and down "I did it Harry! I did it!"
"Did what?"
"I beat you! My parents were happy with my walking posture after the 5 books and now I'm done with the book challenge! Take me to the amusement park tomorrow Harry!"
She was jumping up and down and laughed gleefully. I looked over to my dad and I knew that he was telling my mother and the Grangers of what we talked about. They all looked towards me and smiled
"Alright, alright Hermione!" She immediately stopped jumping "We're going to the amusement park tomorrow"
"Yes! I haven't been in the longest time!" I laughed with her and to be honest, I couldn't wait for tomorrow to come but unfortunately…
"BALLROOM LESSONS. NOW" Mr Granger shouted
"Shit" both Hermione and I said at the same time
A/N: Since this chapter of Royalty Lessons 101 is long, probably Part 2 might be a bit shorter! I'm not to sure but keep reviewing! :)