Harry Potter and the Delightful Dilemma
By: Sheltie
I don't own Harry Potter
A/N: here's chap number two.
Chapter 2
When they got to Hogwarts Harry and his girls took a carriage to the castle leaving the two Weasleys to take a separate one. It was a tight fit, but none of the girls nor Harry complained. Snape met them when they got to the castle.
"Potter, I heard you threaten a prefect" Snape said glaring at Harry.
"Really sir, you don't want to know the truth?" Harry asked.
"I know what really happened Potter and you'll be in detention with me for two weeks" Snape snapped.
"That remains to be seen Severus" McGonagall said stepping in.
"Professor" Harry said greeting his head of house.
"Mr. Potter, would you care to tell me what really happened?" McGonagall asked politely.
Harry nodded and told his tale with all of his girls corroborating his version along with the two Weasleys, who came in the middle of the explanation. Snape was livid to see one of his Slytherins with Harry and made a mental note to deal with her once she was in the Slytherin common room.
"Well Severus, I think an apology is in order and Mr. Potter, you will not be having detention with professor Snape" McGonagall said then left since she had to get ready for the first years.
"Thank you professor" Harry said and he and his girls headed to the Great Hall.
Once in the Great Hall Harry and his girls were about to go to their separate tables when Harry stopped them.
"What is it Harry?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Something tells me that we're about to get our own table" Harry said smiling.
"What do you mean Harry?" Padma asked quirking a brow.
"Just wait" Harry answered still smiling.
As the rest of the students got seated at their tables they couldn't help, but notice Harry and his girls just standing there. Most of Harry's girls were getting self-conscious and wanted to get their table. The only two who were act normal was Hermione and Luna. Hermione, because she was used to be in the spotlight as best friend to Harry Potter. Luna, because nothing seemed to bother the blond at all. The sorting went on and when Dumbledore rose to begin the feast it happened. A new table appeared in the Great Hall, it appeared in the corner right by the teacher's table. This shocked not only the students, but the staff as well.
"Come on girls" Harry said smiling.
The girls followed Harry to the new table with everyone in the hall watching them. As soon as they were seated, which took sometime since Harry pulled each chair out for each of his girls before seating himself.
"You can start the feast headmaster" Harry said casually.
Dumbledore was stunned, but started the feast with a wave of his hand. Harry and the girls started eating while the rest of the student body just watched stunned at the sight.
"Harry, everyone is starting at us" Padma said.
"Welcome to my world Pad" Harry said smiling.
"Sorry Padma, but I did warn you about the staring you might get" Hermione said.
"I know, but this is a bit unnerving" Padma said.
"Yeah, but I guess this is what you went through all the time, huh Hermione" Parvati said smirking.
Hermione nodded.
"And to think I used to envy you" Susan said.
The other girls had to agree on this. They all envied Hermione at one time because she was so close to Harry, but now that they were in the same position as her it made them all very nervous and self-conscious.
Daphne ignored the stares and went on eating. Though deep down she felt uneasy about the whole thing. And the fact that she would be heading to the Slytherin common room after the feast. This scared her since she had a pretty good idea what would happen when she returned to the snake pit.
After the feast Dumbledore made a few announcements including the new DADA professor, who looked like toad wearing a hideous pink cardigan. The toad waddled up to the podium as soon as she was announced, which stunned the older students as they never saw any professor new or old interrupt the headmaster before.
"Hem-hem, Thank you Albus. I'm glad to be back here in the school that taught me so much. But sadly education here has been sliding in recent years and that is why the Ministry has decided to step in to help get Hogwarts back on track" the toad said.
Harry didn't like the sound of this and that meant. He knew that he'd be the target for the toad.
/Scene Break/
When everyone was heading to their dorms Harry led his girls off to somewhere in the castle.
"Harry, where are we going?" Daphne asked.
"Don't worry Daph, I know where I'm going" Harry said with a smile.
Hermione sighed and shook her head, but still followed.
Soon they were in a part of the castle none were quite familiar with. The girls turned to Harry with questioning looks, but Harry just smiled and led them to a portrait. The portrait had two people in it. One was a man who had red hair and beard that kind of looked kind like a mane. He was standing tall wearing a tunic with a griffin on it with a familiar looking sword on his hip and a lion by his feet. The second person was a woman, she wore a beautiful blue gown. Her dark hair tied up in an elegant bun and was wearing a silver tiara. A knife was on her hip and there was a raven sitting on her shoulder.
"Lady Ravenclaw, Lord Gryffindor" Harry said bowing to the portrait.
"Ah, you must be Harry Potter. Hogwarts has told us much about you" Godric Gryffindor said smiling bowing.
The girls stood shocked, well, Luna wasn't. She looked like it was everyday that you see portraits of two of the school founders.
"Hello Harry, I'm pleased to meet you finally" Rowena Ravenclaw said curtseying.
"The pleasure is all mine my lady" Harry said smiling as bowed to Rowena.
"Oh, this boy knows how to lay on the charm" Rowena said smiling.
"Harry, what's going on?" Hermione asked with a bit of annoyance.
"Ah, you must be Hermione Granger, am I right?" Rowena asked turning to the bushy-haired witch.
Hermione nodded, unable to speak.
"Yes, Hogwarts has told me about you and I must say that you'd have done quite well in Ravenclaw, but I can see why you went to Gryffindor. Your courage is just as mighty as your intelligence" Rowena said with a smile.
Hermione couldn't believe it, she had just received a compliment from Rowena Ravenclaw. She knew it was just a portrait, but still it was a great honor.
"So Harry, I guess you want to get in and relax some, huh?" Godric asked.
"Yes sir" Harry said with a nod.
"Very well, shall we Rowena" Godric said.
Rowena nodded.
"The password is wit beyond measure" Rowena said.
The portrait opened and Harry and his girls entered. Once inside they saw that their new quarters was quite big. There was a mixture of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw colors not to mention lions, griffins, and ravens all around to decorate.
"Where are we Harry?" Padma asked.
"You are in one of the Founder's rooms."
The girls turned to find another portrait; this one was larger and had a plump woman with short auburn hair wearing a yellow gown with a badger by her feet.
"Helga Hufflepuff?" Susan asked shocked.
"Yes, it is I, my dear" Helga said smiling.
"Bloody hell" Parvati exclaimed.
"Parvati, you sounded just like the brick" Padma said.
"Sorry, but what else is there to say" Parvati said.
"She does have a point."
A man came into the portrait joining Helga. He had dark hair tied in a ponytail. He was wearing green robes with silver trimming he had a goatee and had a long slender sword by his hip and there was a snake coiled around his arm.
"Salazar Slytherin" Daphne said shocked.
"Hello my dear" Salazar said bowing to Daphne.
Daphne curtseyed, but it was more of an automatic response then anything else.
"Hello Helga, Salazar" Harry said to the two founders.
"Ah, Harry Potter, it is a pleasure to finally meet you" Helga said curtseying and Salazar bowed.
"The pleasure is all mine" Harry said bowing to the portrait.
"Harry, I want to know what's going on right now" Hermione demanded.
"Careful lad, she looks ready to blow and we both know what happens when smart women get angry," Godric warned.
Both Godric and Rowena had appeared in the same portrait as Helga and Salazar as soon as they heard Hermione's demand.
"Take it easy Mione" Harry said gently.
Hermione calmed slightly at hearing her nickname, but she was still angry.
"I just got a nice talk from Hogwarts and she has told me that she has been watching me and you and has seen what is going on and thought that I would need my own private quarters since she knew I wanted my girls with me" Harry said.
"You mean to tell me that Hogwarts talked to you" Hermione said in a disbelieving tone.
"Yeah, she can talk to anyone she chooses, but she chose me for some reason" Harry said with a shrug.
"I chose you, Harry, because you are the closest heir to all of the founders."
The girls and Harry spun around to find a woman wearing a unique dress that had green, red, blue, and yellow. You'd think that the colors would clash, but somehow it worked. Maybe it was because the colors flowed and changed, never staying the same. Her brown hair was tied up in a bun.
"Who are you and how'd you get in here?" Hermione asked with her wand out.
"Hermione, this is Hogwarts" Harry said.
Hermione's jaw dropped as did the other girls'. Harry however, walked over and took Hogwarts' hand and kissed it as he bowed. Hogwarts giggled and blushed.
"My, such a charmer" Hogwarts said smiling.
"That's what I said" Rowena said with a smile.
"But, what, it can't be. I mean, it's impossible," Hermione said sputtering.
"Hermione, it's magic" Harry said with a grin.
Hermione stomped her foot and growled while the other girls giggled. Luna walked over and curtseyed in front of Hogwarts.
"Lady Hogwarts" the blond said.
"Lady Luna, it is a pleasure to meet you" Hogwarts said smiling.
Everyone got seated and the girls learned that with a magical school that held students going through puberty it was no wonder that the school would become sentinent. Not to mention all the magic exposed in the school. Hermione accepted this all and then decided she needed to go to bed since this a lot to take in for one night. The other girls agreed and they were led to their rooms. They found that they'd be sharing a room with one other. The order was: Hermione and Daphne, Susan and Luna, Padma and Parvati. Harry got his own room since he was the only guy. They all said goodnight to one another then went to bed.
/Scene Break/
The next morning Harry and his girls left their room and headed to the Great Hall for breakfast. Once they got there they were stopped by four professors.
"Mr. Potter, Miss Granger and Miss Patil why weren't you in your dorms last night?" McGonagall asked.
"I'd like to know the same, Miss Lovegood, Miss Patil?" Flitwick asked.
"Miss Bones?" Sprout asked.
"Miss Greengrass?" Snape asked slightly glaring his student.
"It is quite simple professors. I was given my own quarters and I asked these young ladies if they'd like to stay with me and they all said yes" Harry said.
"Arrogant as ever Potter" Snape sneered.
Harry ignored Snape's barb and turned to his head of house.
"Here is the proper paperwork for myself and for each girl, which will say that they can stay in my quarters" Harry said as he handed pieces of parchments to each of the professors.
Each professor looked over the paperwork with a critical eye and found that there was no tampering magical or not. It was totally legit.
"Where did you get these papers Mr. Potter?" McGonagall asked.
"Why professor, I'm shocked. I'm the last of the Potters. I have many contacts in various places" Harry said.
Parvati had to bit her bottom lip to stop from giggling.
/Scene Break/
Flashback bit
During the summer Harry and his girls had their parents over and had a very long talk, which in the end of it all the parents signed a consent form giving their permission to their girls to be in Harry's harem. The whole thing was very long and a bit strenuous. Harry had to talk to each family separately with the daughter or daughters in the meeting as well.
With the Bones it was easy since Susan's aunt, Amelia, seemed to think that her niece wouldn't be safer anywhere else and after hearing Harry's adventures in Hogwarts and that Sirius Black never had a trial they had an ally in the Ministry.
The Lovegoods was odd and was probably the shortest of all. All Harry had to agreed to was an exclusive interview with the Quibbler, the newspaper that Luna's father, Xenophilius Lovegood, owns.
The Patil family was next and for their father to accept his daughters' position in Harry's harem he had to marry them. Harry was uncomfortable with this since he liked Padma and Parvati a lot, but had no real intention to marry them since he only wanted to marry Hermione. But he found out thanks to Daphne that he could marry more than once. So Harry had no choice, but agree and he and Mr. Patil made a marriage contract. The specifics of the contract were to remain private.
The Greengrasses were the hardest since Adrian Greengrass, Daphne father, wanted something out of it. Harry was very leery of this meeting, but Daphne coached Harry through the whole thing and in the end a deal was reached. The Greengrasses would jointly own a few Potter companies that the Greengrass family had wanted for years. Though Daphne would be the go between the Potters and Greengrasses.
The Grangers were hard for another reason since they didn't like that their daughter was a part such a barbaric custom. But Hermione argued with her parents and got them to see reason. Harry promised the Grangers that he'd do anything to protect Hermione was and was very close at swearing a magical vow, but was stopped by Daphne and Hermione.
Fleur and Penny didn't need approval since they were of age. Though Harry had a chat with the Fleur's father about a few things.
In the end all of the girls' families had signed their consent to being in Harry's harem. The contract that each family signed was written by Hermione and Daphne, which meant they were not only binding, but would be hard to dismiss. It basically said that Harry was in charge of his girls and would be the one to take care of them. Which meant he could decided where they lived.
Flashback ends
/Scene Break/
"I see. Well Mr. Potter, I don't see anything wrong with the papers so I will allow what's going on for now" McGonagall said and the other two heads of house nodded in agreement.
Snape though glared at Harry and Harry felt a pain in his head, which meant that someone was trying to get into his mind. Harry reinforced his shields and pushed back quite hard. Snape stumbled back holding his head.
"Fifty points for attacking a professor" Snape said.
"Professor," Harry said turning to his head of house, "as you can see that I have not taken out my wand, so how could I attacked professor Snape."
"Yes, I see your point Mr. Potter. No points will be taken off" McGonagall said.
"Thank you professor" Harry said bowing then he and his girls head to their table.
Once again Harry held a chair out for each of his girls and then sat down himself. Once the group was eating they got down to business.
"Snape used Legilimency on you, didn't he?" Daphne asked.
Harry nodded.
"Bastard" Susan muttered.
Hermione was too angry to even chide Susan on her language.
"We have to do something about that" the brainy Gryffindor said.
"I agree, we can't let that greasy git get away with this" Padma said fully backing her friend.
"Yeah, but how, I mean according to Harry it will take a whole lot for Dumbledore to even suspend Snape let alone sack him" Parvati said frowning.
Hermione began to chew her bottom lip as she thought.
"Mione dear" Harry said gently.
Hermione looked up from her thoughts, "yes Harry."
"You don't have to be alone in your planning anymore. You have help" Harry said as he gestured to Daphne, Padma, Luna, and Susan.
"Right, I forgot" Hermione said with pink cheeks.
"It's alright Hermione, we understand. You have always been the brains of the team and not used to outside help" Susan said.
Hermione nodded, but soon she, Daphne, Susan, Luna, and Padma huddled together to plan on how to take down Snape. Harry saw this and just chuckled.
/Scene Break/
Morning classes were going fine for the new group and everyone were quite curious of how this new dynamic came about. But none of the girls or Harry said a thing to anyone about it. This annoyed Ron a lot since he was supposed to be Harry's best mate, but he wasn't even in the know. Ginny just glared at the girls in the group.
Soon it was lunch time and Harry and his girls were sitting back at their table.
"So, how has classes been so far?" Harry asked.
"Alright, but Susan and I have Snape after" Padma said.
Susan nodded.
Harry sighed, "be careful, he's seen you with me, which means he's going be nasty to you."
Padma and Susan nodded.
The rest of the meal they chatted about what they've been learning even though it was the first day.
"Alright, I'll see all of you at dinner" Harry said then kissed all of his girls and left.
Hermione left soon after to follow after Harry then the other girls followed.
/Scene Break/
Padma and Susan entered the dungeons and took a seat on the far side of the room together.
"Sue, why are you over there, we usually sit together" Hannah Abbott asked her best friend.
"Sorry Hannah, but it's best I sit here since Snape is going to be very rude to me and I don't want to get you into the crossfire" Susan said.
Hannah frowned, but understood.
Soon class started with Snape bursting through the door with his cloak billowing. He saw Padma and Susan sitting together and he sneered at them.
"Well if it isn't two of Potter's girls" the greasy potion master said.
Susan and Padma said nothing.
With a wave of his wand Snape revealed the potion the class would be brewing.
"You have an hour and a half, get started" Snape barked.
Soon the sounds of stirring cauldrons were being heard. Snape walked up and down the aisle sneering at every potion and making discouraging comments. When he got to Susan and Padma's he stopped.
"Just what are you doing?" he sneered.
"Making the potion that is required for the lesson" Padma said politely.
Snape sneered once again and left, but with a subtle flick of his wand their cauldron tipped over spilling their potion onto the floor.
"Twenty points each for making a mess" Snape said.
Padma and Susan couldn't believe it. Snape destroyed their potion. The knew that he did it to Gryffindors, but he never did it to them. But that all changed with them being close to Harry. The rest of class was dismal for the two girls and they were happy to leave. Once they were in their next class, which happened to be History of Magic with Harry, Hermione and Daphne. They told them about their potion lesson and Harry was furious. It took Hermione to keep him from leaving the room and possibly attacking Snape.
"No Harry, he's just waiting for you do just that" Hermione hissed to him.
Harry wasn't happy with this.
"We need to be careful now, we must bide our time and take the greasy git out permanently" Hermione said.
This shocked the girls around as well as Harry. They never heard Hermione talk like this.
"Hermione, I never thought you had it in you" Susan said.
"That greasy bastard attacked one of my sisters and I won't stand for it" Hermione said angrily.
/Scene Break/
At dinner Hermione, Daphne, Susan, and Padma began planning on how they'd take down Snape. Harry chatted with Parvati and Luna. Meanwhile at the other tables there were certain people glaring at the group.
Ron was glaring at them since Harry was surround by some of the hottest girls in their year. One of them was the one he wanted for himself. He had to find a way to get back into Potter's good graces and nab what is rightfully his from the bastard.
Ginny was glaring at them since she was supposed to be there sitting next to Harry, not those tarts. She was supposed to be the girl that Harry only had eyes for. She needed to find a way to pull Harry away and reclaim what is hers.
Snape glared at Harry. How did the brat develop Occlumency shields so fast. Last year he was open book, but now he was buffered. He even tried to read the thoughts of two of Potter's whores, but found that they had shields also. He had to find a way to get to Potter, but how was the question since he seemed to be protected well.
The toad glared at the boy who was trying to overthrow her Minister. He didn't look all that tough, but she could feel his magic and it was powerful. She felt a shiver down her spine when she saw him look at her during the welcoming feast. But that didn't matter, she'd find a way to crush Potter and she'll take sweet pleasure when she does it.
/Scene Break/
After dinner Hermione went in to full revenge mode. She began plotting the demise of Snape.
"Guys, I'm a little scared of Hermione right now" Susan said.
"Don't worry, she just has to get it out of her system" Harry said casually.
"But what if she doesn't?" Padma asked worriedly.
Harry just shrugged, which didn't make the rest of the girls feel very comfortable. What made matters worse or should I say even more scary was that Hermione was conversing with Rowena on how to take down Snape. The two witches were grinning madly and whispering to each other. Godric and Salazar were both keeping their distance from the two with Helga jumping in with a comment or two every now and then.
"Ignore Hermione and her revenge plotting" Harry said.
"Alright, but what can we do?" Daphne asked.
Harry shrugged again and went back reading a book that he got for his birthday. The rest of the night the girls were on edge.
/Scene Break/
The next morning Harry walked into the Great Hall with Daphne on one arm and Padma on the other. Hermione and the other girls were bring up the rear. Once seated at their table they dished up their breakfast and ate.
"So any headway on you vengeance plan?" Harry asked.
Hermione looked up and shook her head.
"No, but I think I got enough ideas to start with" she said.
"Alright, just let us know what you're going to do" Harry said.
Hermione nodded.
The rest of breakfast was nice as they all chatted about what classes they were taking today and what they hoped they'd learn too.
/Scene Break/
Harry sat with Hermione sitting next to him in their first DADA class of the year. Daphne and Padma took seats behind Harry and Hermione to watch their backs. Susan and Parvati took seats nearby also so Harry was surrounded by his girls. The toad stepped in with a sickly sweet smile on her face.
"Hello class" she said sweetly.
Grumblings were heard in response.
"No on, that won't do. When I say 'hello class' you say hello professor Umbridge" Umbridge said still in her sweet voice.
This time got a grumbling of hello professor Umbridge. This seemed to satisfy the toad and she began her lesson. Most of the class were bored out their minds as they listened to the toad prattle about how the Ministry is going to correct all the mistakes past teachers have made.
"Now turn your books to chapter one" Umbridge said.
Soon all the books were opened except six of them. Umbridge saw this and walked, I mean waddled to the group.
"Why don't you have your books open?" she asked in her sickly sweet tone.
"Because professor, we've read the whole book and it is a load of tripe" Hermione said firmly.
Umbridge's eyes narrowed, she knew who this little upstart was. She was Potter's little Mudblood friend. Well, she'd show the girl who was in charge.
"Ten points off Gryffindor" Umbridge said smiling.
"For what?" Padma asked.
Umbridge turned her eye to the Indian, who asked the question. Now she didn't have too much information on this witch, but that didn't matter since no ever questions her.
"For not following a teacher's directions" Umbridge said.
"That's a load of tripe" Daphne said.
Umbridge turned to the Slytherin. Now she knew who this girl was since her father had a lot of sway in certain areas. Which meant that she couldn't touch her unless she wanted to be sacked. So Umbridge said nothing and turned back and waddled to the front of the room. Once there she began going out about all the nonviolent solutions and that these were better than fighting.
"So what you're saying is that we should let Voldemort and his Death Eaters freely kill anyone they want" Harry said out loud.
Umbridge turned her head towards Harry.
"Mr. Potter, You-Know-Who is dead and all of his followers are gone," the toad said.
Harry sighed and pulled out his wand and muttered an incantation as his wand-tip was pointed at his head. Suddenly the memory of the graveyard appeared in a projection. Everyone in the room watched as Voldemort rose from the cauldron. Harry then cut the spell off before the Death Eaters arrived.
"What do have to say to that?" Harry asked calmly.
"A very elaborate trick Mr. Potter. Fifteen points off Gryffindor for disrupting the class" Umbridge said smiling in her sickly sweet way.
"Actually professor, the spell Harry did was an ancient Sumerian spell that-" Padma said.
"Silence, I will not have one more student speaking out again!" Umbridge shouted.
The rest of class went by and soon they were dismissed, but Padma got detention from Umbridge.
"Lousy toad" Padma mumbled.
This made the other girls giggle and Harry chuckle.
/Scene Break/
Harry, Hermione, and Daphne made their way down to the dungeons and found seats and took them. Harry and Hermione sat together and Daphne sat behind them. She was soon joined by her friend Tracey. Once the whole class was there Snape burst right in and with a flick of his wand direction appeared on the chalkboard.
"You have an hour, start," he said sneered.
Soon all the cauldrons were simmering and the only thing could be heard was the stirring of the cauldrons or the chopping of ingredients. Snape walked up and down the aisle sneering at each non-Gryffindor potion he saw. When he got to Harry and Hermione's cauldron he stopped.
"Potter, what are you doing?" Snape hissed.
"Nothing sir" Harry answered.
Snape tried again to probe Harry's mind only to be knock back.
"Ten points from Gryffindor" Snape sneered and walked away.
Harry said nothing, but his two girls knew he was seething. What happened for the rest of class was Neville melted another cauldron, Ron's potion blew up on him, and numerous snide comments by Snape to Harry hoping to get arise out of him. Harry didn't bite since every time Snape made a comment Hermione took his hand and held it. Once class was over Harry was in a right mood.
It took all of dinner to calm Harry down. Each of his girls did what they could to get Harry out of his angry mood he was in. They finally accomplished this just as the last dessert disappeared from the table.
/Scene Break/
Padma left that evening for detention with the toad when she came back she was holding her hand with a handkerchief wrapped around it.
"Padma, what happened?" her sister asked worriedly.
"That bitch used a blood quill on me" Padma said angrily.
Padma unwrapped her hand to showed her hand, which had the sentence 'I will not speak out of turn' cut into the back of her hand.
Gasps were made by Daphne, Parvati, Susan, and Luna.
"What's a blood quill?" Harry asked.
Harry and Hermione were both told that blood quill were quite illegal to use unless it is for certain documents and those blood quills are authorized either by the Ministry or Gringotts and both never let them out their sights since they were consider a dark item.
"Okay, we know she used a blood quill on you, so what can we do about it?" Hermione asked.
"Reported it to professor Flitwick, I'm sure he can do something about" Susan said.
So they all agreed to have Padma show Flitwick what Umbridge had done and see what happened.
/Scene Break/
Things didn't get better after that. Flitwick's accusation about Umbridge torturing one of his students went unheard. Umbridge began her strangle hold on the school. The Minister named her as the High Inquisitor, a position that hasn't been in used for many, many years. Soon decrees were being put out making life harder than it already was for Hogwarts students. Harry and his girls seemed to have gotten the brunt of it since most of them in violation of these new rules. To add on to that Umbridge created her own squad to patrol the halls. They were made up of Slytherins, whose families were quite dark.
/Scene Break/
It took a couple weeks, but Ron finally got his chance to talk with Harry.
"Hey mate" the redhead called out.
Harry turned and sighed.
"What is it Ron?" he asked.
"Just want to see if you're up for a chess game?" Ron asked.
"Can't Ron, I'm meeting up with Daphne for some studying" Harry said.
Though that was just a cover since starting school Hermione had reintroduced the dating scheme once again since Harry still needed to used to all of his girls.
Ron frowned.
"Greengrass, she can wait" he said.
"Ron, I promised and I never break a promise" Harry said.
"Come on, just one game. She can wait" Ron said tugging Harry's arm.
"Ron, I have to go study with Daphne" Harry said in an annoyed tone as he pulled his arm out the redhead's grip.
"Fine, see if I care" Ron said as he stomped away.
Harry sighed and made his way to where Daphne was waiting.
/Scene Break/
Hermione's plans on taking down Snape were coming to fruition and she was quite happy with it. But she was bogged down by her homework and getting annoyed by a certain Weasley to even get a start on assault. The idiot seemed to be harassing Hermione whenever he could though she was always around one of her sisters. That is what they called one another, sisters since the summer together bonded them like sisters. As for the Weasley, she had to use all of her willpower not to hex the idiot. Her sisters helped out a lot on that front.
/Scene Break/
Soon October came and the first Hogsmeade weekend was announced. Harry immediately sent off an owl to Penny and Fleur to let them know where they can meet him and the other girls.
"This is going to be great" Harry said.
"Yeah, we need some time away from the castle" Susan said.
"Yes, and we can plan with Fleur and Penny" Hermione said happily.
Daphne seemed excited too at the prospect of meet Penny and Fleur again.
Classes for Harry and his girls were going alright for the most part. Aside from Umbridge and Snape they were all doing well in their classes. Harry even was doing better in all of his classes thanks to his girls' new award system.
Other things that have been going on such as Ginny has been trying to get closer to Harry. Every time she does Harry ignores her and talks with his girls. This infuriated the little redhead and that made her push harder for Harry to notice her. Still nothing worked, which made Ginny have to rework her plan.
Ron was in somewhat of a pickle. He was a prefect, which he dreamt to be, but his dream was that Hermione would be with him as a prefect and he could dump everything on her. That wasn't the case since Lavender seemed to have developed a sense of maturity over the summer. She began to push Ron into doing his duties as a prefect and would tell McGonagall when he was slacking off on them. This made Ron very miserable. What made it worse was he'd look at Harry and see all the girls Harry had and that would make him very jealous.
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On Hogsmeade weekend Harry and his girls took a carriage to Hogsmeade. This time the girls arranged themselves so Padma was in Harry's lap. Once there they found Fleur and Penny waiting for them.
"Penny, Fleur" Harry said and kissed both girls on the cheek.
"Harry/ 'Arry" the girls said and returned the gesture.
Soon the girls and Harry were in a private room that Fleur had booked beforehand. Once all settled Harry and his girls began telling Fleur and Penny about their year so far.
"So zis toad woman 'as taken over 'Ogwarts" Fleur said.
"Yeah, and there's nothing we can do about it" Hermione said.
"There might be" Penny said.
"What is it Penny?" the girls asked at once.
"Well, I did some reading and I found that Harry could claim his inheritance when he was eleven, which would make him lord Potter" Penny said.
The girls turned to Harry.
"Alright Penny, what can I do as lord Potter that I can't do as 'just Harry'?" Harry asked.
Penny explained that even though Harry was in charge of his girls with the contract it would do some good if when Harry gets his inheritance that he'd be considered of age. That would mean he'd be able to put the girls under his protection. Hermione, Padma and Parvati needed this since they were under the protection of the headmaster. Hermione since she was a muggle-born and all muggle-borns were under the care of the headmaster until they become of age. Padma and Parvati since their family was usually out of Britain and that meant the headmaster was their guardian by default.
"Alright, I'll do it" Harry said.
Fleur smiled and pulled out a length of rope.
"Zis ees a portkey to Gringotts, we 'ad a feeling eet might come to zis" the Veela said.
Harry couldn't believe he was manipulated into this, but he felt no anger towards them since they were doing it for his well-being and theirs. Not just for their own gain. They took a hold of the rope and with the familiar hook in the navel sensation they were in a very posh room. What surprised Harry the most was that he was still standing and looked at Fleur for an explanation.
"Goblin portkey" Fleur answered.
"Mr. Potter, welcome" the goblin behind the desk said.
Harry looked at the goblin, but didn't recognize him at all. But he could tell be the goblin's stature that he was very important.
"'Arry, zis ees Ragnok, 'ead of Gringotts" Fleur said.
Harry just blinked, but the pureblooded girls in the group were shocked. Never has the head of Gringotts met with a wizard before, not since before the goblin wars.
"Hello Ragnok" Harry greeted.
The goblin sensed this young wizard was powerful, but also sensed that he hadn't the ignorance or pompous attitude that many purebloods have that he's heard about. This intrigued him even more.
Once Harry and his girls were seated Ragnok got down to business. Harry found he was one of the wealthiest wizards in the world and could buy the whole Ministry and still have money to spare. Harry also found that his parents' will was not honored and that he was never to be placed with his aunt and uncle.
What made it worse was that Dumbledore knew this since he was one of the witnesses to sign the document. Harry also found out Dumbledore has been taking out money from his vault saying it was for Harry's up-keeping, but Harry never saw any of it. He told Ragnok about his life at Privet Drive, which infuriated the goblin and jotted notes down furiously. Dumbledore was about to see a dramatic drop in gold in his vault for all the travesties he's done. That an a report would be sent to the DMLE to let them know the crimes Dumbledore had done.
Soon Harry was signing paperwork to make him Lord Potter and he got the Potter family ring, which resized itself to fit his finger. He then declared Hermione, Parvati, and Padma under his protection nullify all of the old man's power over the three girls. The pureblooded girls asked to be put under Harry's protection too, since they might need it down the road. Penny and Fleur also asked for protection too even though they were of age. With a few oaths later all of his girls were under his protection. They did this because they didn't want it known about Harry's harem. This was a good cover-up.
Harry told Ragnok about him being the closest heir to all the founders and found that though there was no wealth to speak of for the founders Harry did own the castle and the surrounding lands around it including Hogsmeade. The founders did have a vault though, which contained many journals and other writings that might be useful. Hermione, Padma, and Daphne were ready to leap out of their seats when they heard this news. Harry received a ring from each of the founders and they each combined into the Potter ring.
Once everything was done with Harry and his girls went to the vaults and got money and other things. Hermione, Padma, and Daphne had to be dragged out of the founder's vault.
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They arrived back in Hogwarts just as the evening feast started.
"Mr. Potter, you were not with the other students when they returned. That will be a detention with me" the toad said smiling.
"Sorry professor, but I had business in Gringotts and lost track of time" Harry said calmly.
"Be that as it may, the detention still stands" the toad said and then waddled away.
Harry shrugged and led his girls into the Great Hall leaving a glaring toad behind them. When they got there they found that their table had moved. It was now behind the teacher's table on a raised platform, which showed they were higher in power than the teachers. Harry guided his girls to their table and like he's done before he seated his girls first before sitting down himself.
During the meal everyone was staring at Harry and his girls, but none of them took notice as they were used to the looks.
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Ginny looked furious as she saw Harry seat all the girls at the top table. She knew something had changed with them, but she didn't know what. She needed to find out what had happened then she could worm her way in and take what is rightfully hers. She needed to write a letter to her mother to ask for some advice and probably a few potions too.
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Ron was glaring at Harry and his girls. He had to have everything and now had not just some of the hottest girls in Hogwarts, but the girl he had claimed himself He was going to show Potter what he was made of and also show Hermione who was the real wizard. He just needed to plan how. But that can wait since that platter of chicken was calling to him at the moment.
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Dumbledore had a frown on his face as he watched this all happening. He had an odd feeling in his stomach that whatever happened during Harry's time at Hogsmeade that it will not bode well for him. He needed to have a talk with Harry soon then he could do some damage control.
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Snape was glaring at Potter and his girls. He so wanted to attack Potter, but he knew he had to be careful since one of the girls with Harry was the niece of the head of the DMLE and another has a father who had enough influence that it could spell the end of him if he made the wrong move. He needed to plan and plan carefully.
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Umbridge was unhappy with what was going on. She had no affect on the Potter brat. She thought that by now that he'd blow or something, but he was cool about it. He didn't act at all like Gryffindor. This didn't sway her from her plans at all. It just meant that she was going to attack Potter's girls instead. Because you can do much damage to a person by attack those closest to them. Yes, this was going to be exciting to do.
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Once Harry and his girls were back in their quarters the fireplace roared with green flames and out came Fleur and Penny. They decided to move in with Harry since it would be easier to advise Harry if they lived together. Hogwarts had already made a room for the two girls.
"So how shall we reveal your new status Harry?" Penny asked.
Harry just shrugged his shoulders.
"Leave that to us Harry, we'll find the best way" Hermione said smiling sweetly.
Harry wasn't sure if he trusted Hermione with this, but knew that if he couldn't trust her then he couldn't trust anyone. So he nodded.
"Thank you Harry, you won't regret it" Hermione said with that sweet smile still on her face.
The rest of the night Hermione and the girls chatted with Helga and Rowena about the best way to reveal Harry's new status to the world. They chatted long into the night and it was real late when they finally went to bed with bleary eyes, but feral smiles on their faces. Harry decided not to attend his detention tonight.
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Umbridge was quite angry that Harry didn't show up and took the matter into her own hands and ordered him to detention or be expelled. Harry just shrugged and told her that the headmaster could only expel him and that she had no power to do that. The toad growled and waddled off to sent a letter to Fudge to get her more power over the school. The move failed since whenever she tried to expel Harry or any of his girls the elves and Hogwarts wouldn't listen. Harry and his girls would still come to classes not matter what and the rest of the professors would allow it.
Dumbledore did have his talk with Harry, but that talk included all of Harry's girls. When Dumbledore tried to dismiss them Harry told the old man that if they went then he did too. So Dumbledore had no choice, but let them stay. The whole talk was for nothing. Dumbledore found he was being investigated by the goblins and he paled. He knew he was in big trouble and that charges from the Ministry would be next. At the end Dumbledore had his head in his head wondering how everything went wrong.
As this was all going on Hermione kept plotting with the founders and the other girls.
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A/N: another one in the books as they say. Thanks for reading and please review.