Chapter 17—When do I win?
"Harry you had better watch out the girls at Hogwarts are rating you high and a hero, the boys are rating you Mr. Stud. Just watch out you don't get caught up with all their ideas and crash and burn." Laughed Fleur, who was just back from Gringotts and was after a nice foot rub.
"Yep you liven up the dull lives of all the sex starved here at Hogwarts" Tracy giggled.
"There are a new bunch of rumors out of Slytherin, seems some one is looking for something that's here and dark" Daphne added.
"Next thing they will be about is the return of Dumbledore, do you think he found Harry Potter yet" Susan was laughing.
"Merlin do not jinks us" Hermione huffed.
"I have a better idea, lets all go out to eat at the Dragons Nest tomorrow night, I'll make reservations." Hannah suggested.
Everyone agreed.
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It was a nice night and the carriage ride to 'The Three Broomsticks' was agreeable. After a couple of drinks to start the evening, we 'floed' to the Leakey Cauldron, for a nice stroll to the Dragons Nest.
If for no other reason the Dragons Nest could burn a thirty ounce steak to perfection. Their dragon fries were long thick and crisp. With those two I was in heaven. Some even rumored that they had a dragon out back doing the flaming. The girls, well I guess that's why I love them. They were just a twitter over the stuffed potatoes, broccoli, or the asparagus and hollandaise sauce. So as an after dinner, a couple of glasses of Elvin wine and it was a mellow comfortable evening.
So we again do a leisurely stroll towards the Leakey Cauldron when motor mouth Draco shows up with his two butt buddies and three others to ruin our night.
"I Draco Malfoy-Gryffindore shall take revenge for the death of my father by a despot" He mouths.
I just conjured up a mist that would reflect anything thrown at it; I really wasn't in a killing mood after a nice evening.
Draco was not playing around and he threw some dark Diffindo type curse at me and the mist returned it to its sender. Draco died immediately, the rest ran.
The DMLE arrived and took statements and we finally just went home to our quarters. The next morning I was back at Gringotts.
"Ragnok got a problem or a question, like what is going on, Draco Malfoy-Gryffindore?"
"Ah so Dumbledore must have sold the title to Malfoy, let me check the ledgers, this is not something that just jumps up and say hello."
"Yes there was apparently a sale but the ring is back in its official box waiting to be claimed, want to give it a try?"
I did and the ring was back on my finger as Lord Gryffindore.
"Ragnok could you check the other boxes or ledgers and see who has what or if any of the rings are back?"
Ragnok did and found the Potter ring back in its box. It appeared that Orion had taken the Potter title before his death.
I tried on the Potter ring and it accepted me again. I had all the rings on my hand disappear; I did not need more troubles. This was about principle I already had the money.
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"That's when Ragnok gave me the Potter ring." I was explaining to the wives. We now have two of our titles back. We will need to keep it secret and…"
"Harry", shouted Daphne, the Slytherins are celebrating, they found whatever they were looking for at Hogwarts."
"What are we going to do about something we know nothing about?"
"Harry's right all we can do is wait, knowing Harry they will be attacking us any minute." Hermione was not happy.
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At least two weeks later;
Hannah was in the process of trying to get Susan's attention with a hand below the belt. This caused Susan to moan and Tracy said, "Come on Harry it's my turn in the rotations I need some direct attention to my needs or a large orgasm, what do you say?"
The question would be, what could I say; I just followed Tracy while the other girls plotted.
The next morning I found out what the plotting was all about, Susan got me in the shower, Daphne after breakfast in a broom closet, Hannah after lunch in an alcove. When Hermione came charging in the middle of my DADA class I was about ready to jump out the window screaming. It was Hermione that was screaming, "Harry Voldemort is back."
That sent half the class to screaming, and the rest into shock. So I dismissed class and let Hermione drag me to where the rest of my wives were waiting.
"He, or whatever he is, just attacked Diagon Alley. There are dead and injured all over the place. Reports are he had a hundred Deatheaters with him." Hermione raved.
"Well to start with every one take a deep breath and relax, the hundred Deatheaters is probably fifty at the most but him being back is a problem." I was not happy either.
I was not about to Shadow jump into a suicide mission for a ministry that had stripped me of my titles and wanted me in Azkaban for ten years. Making a good face of our problems we headed down to face the Great Hall and dinner. If we didn't have enough problems there was Albus 'too many names' Dumbledore. He decided that he needed help making things more difficult, he had hired a new flying instructor/broom tender, one Ronald Bilius Weasley. As the dictionary refers to Bilius as something containing or consisting of bile, we referred to him as comic relief.
Luckily we had no interaction with him as he turned out to be the student's problem, except at meal time. His eating habits had not improved, only his hands were larger to stuff more is his larger mouth. He was fairly livable with while eating but when his mouth was not full with food he was able to spew the most stupid idiotic things out of his cavern sized mouth.
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Flitwick was having a rough time. He had his classes and Dumdum had dumped the running of the school into his lap. Snape wasn't helping as he was always running off on one of Dumdums missions or Vordemort's tasks. Dumdum being the ICW wimp, Chief Warlock of the Wizengemot, Running his bird club and being on a permanent Harry Potter hunt, Albus was busy.
Teaching is not as easy as some people may want to believe. If you do it right you have class preparation, keep up on all the new things out. Then there is the majority of the day that you are in front of the class. Throw in being head of house and councilors to those who need help you can have a full day. AND, heaven help me if I forgot my wives. If you think I am trying to make an excuse, you are right. There were numerous people that we were ignoring and as usual it all caught up to us all at one time along with other problems.
The parents wanted to see their daughters. The dangers associated with that were mind-boggling. We could not invite them to Freichfras Manor as that would put them and us in danger. Going out to a private room at the Leakey Cauldron was also out, seeing all of Harry's wives parents getting together all at the same time was asking for problems. Dumdums KFC was watching their houses as it is, so how to do this, Ragnok of course.
"Harry you are making me richer you know that."
"Yes and you are making me richer before I make you richer." I replied.
"Well we have set up a rented Manor in the country, wards are up and a squad of Goblins will be on guard the whole weekend. The port-keys to and from the Manor have already been sent out as everyone accepted."
"Freichfras elves will do the work and catering, they all have been told not to use the Freichfras name during the weekend." I added.
We were still being busy and missing out on what was going on. The weekend went well; it was nice not to have a Glamour charm on all the time. Everyone seemed to enjoy themselves and finally everyone went home feeling better. The Manor we rented was attacked and burnt to the ground two days later. Hermione's parents were kidnapped about the time they arrived home. While Ron hit the fan also, we think that the other two were different unrelated occurrences.
The parents all knew that their daughters could be in danger but the parents never saw our glamour's nor did they know they were at Hogwarts. What you don't know cannot be taken from you passively or with torture. All they knew was their daughters were safe little housewives of a well off son-in-law. In reverse all their correspondence was through Gringotts and that is how we found out about the kidnapping so quickly. The Grangers were the only muggles so the Goblin had set up a mail pouch in their living room. Just drop the letter in and Gringotts had it, it also worked in reverse. They had promised Hermione to send a note immediately upon arriving safely at home, they never got a chance.
"Hermione calm down, Susan, Tracy will you pry her off me and get her a calming drought."
"But Harry we don't know what Voldemort is doing to them as we speak, you have to go get them."
"I will but you have to let me go first."
"Oh."
"I'll be right back as I don't want to walk into a trap of some sort." And I faded. Being broad daylight I ended up in the shadows of an orchard in back of the Wesley's dump. Leave it to Dumdum to pick on the muggles and leave the magical's alone. I changed into my eagle form and did a little snooping. After a lap around the house I found fat Molly, Madeye and four others that I did not know, probably part of his turkey club.
In Ron's room I saw the Grangers tied to chairs and Madeye forcing a potion into their mouths. Probably a truth drug since I was not the cavalry, I returned to the Orchard and faded back to Hogwarts and Hermione.
"They are fine Hermione, just tied up. I'll get them out tonight, then we can deal with fat Molly and Dumdum."
Hermione had to be restrained as she was headed to Dumdums office, "I'm going to kill the bleep,bleep,bleep and then I am going to cut his…" another calming drought was administer.
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It was a dark night but warm for this time of year. They had left the Grangers tied to their chairs but left alone. Ron's room was on the upper floor so they would only check every once in a while. I flew onto the window ledge as my eagle and had my hand on their mouths before they even knew I was their. I explained very quietly, "Just keep your mouth shut, don't make any noise and just do what I tell you to, you will be with Hermione in a few minutes."
When I said to get on my back and hang on to Mrs. Granger I expected confusion but I hoped she would not have a screaming fit when I turned into my Leopard form. Saying it and seeing a very large cat are two different things. She got on and I faded and was back in a couple of minutes for Mr. Granger, we cleared the Burrow without any problems. It is a shame that I can only transport one person at a time.
"Ragnok thinks the attack on the Manor was Voldemort and he's checking for where the leak came from."
"What are we going to do to Dumdum?" Hermione growled.
"No idea, any suggestions without giving our identities away?" I asked.
"How about dropping him off the Astronomy tower?" Susan suggested.
"Too quick, what cute little thing is Hagrid teaching this week; we could feed Dumdum to it." Tracy giggles.
"We have another problem we have been missing. I have been getting some bad rumors for the last couple of weeks and we need to bring it to Flitwick." Hannah didn't sound Happy.
"What have we missed now, Fleur asked.
"Ronald Bilius Weasley"