Chapter 33—How many wives are too many
Gringotts Bank at eleven thirty five in the morning:
"Harry and Hermione please a take a seat this should take awhile."
"That much good news is there?" I laughed.
"Yes it's different to say the least; you have a marriage contract involving you and a Flora Carrow."
"Who the hell is that?" I could not for the life of me place a face to the name.
"She is that pureblood Slytherin with the stringy brown hair." Hermione added.
"Who signed the stupid contract, because I sure did not?"
"Paws, do you want to guess? I bet you could guess right on the first try." Hermione giggled.
"Dumbledore signed it of course but who was the other signer?" I was not expecting the answer.
"Dumbledore of course" Ragnok stated.
"How in the hell did he do that and I suppose it is legal?" I was thinking of how slowly I could murder the old goat.
"He was acting as guardian for Miss Carrow and you and it is dated before you took your Lordship. It is for all purposes legal and above board." Ragnok gave one of his smiles of pointed teeth.
"Except?" Hermione asked.
"He was never your legal guardian, I had the will of your parents unsealed and you were to go to a lot of different people but the only one who would have actually gotten you was McGonagall. That and the water mark on the parchment was wrong for that time period."
"What's the purpose of all this scheming, I am married to Hermione and my will gives everything to her?" This was just confusing.
"Not if the contract was made before we were..." Hermione was deep in thought.
"Maybe this will help, he also made a binding will of which he is the executor until she turned twenty-one and he gets to decide who she can marry." Ragnok was grinning again.
"I bet she will never make it out of Hogwarts alive." I knew I had enough of all this intrigue, manipulations and deceit.
"Nor will the Goblin that helped him plant all of the paperwork in this bank." Ragnok was really happy. "I am also going to give you a present."
"Err, you know there is not any… Huh?"
"Normally we would wait for him to arrive at the bank but I think that your delivering it in public will be the first part of the revenge you and this bank will seek." I thought that if that smile got any bigger he would swallow his own head.
"Ragnok handed me a special port-key along with a copy of what was to be delivered to the Headmaster, Chief Warlock and of course to all the newspapers. At least Dumbledore held those offices at this minute.
Great Hall in the middle of dinner:
"PING" rang out across the Great Hall and Lord Potter and Lady Potter appeared by port-key. The 'Ping' was unusual and attracted attention. The Hall saw Lady Potter head to the Slytherin table and start whispering to a girl named Flora Carrow. Flora was doing a lot of head shaking. When Lady Potter pointed at the Headmaster Lord Potter cleared his throat and started. "Mr. Dumbledore you have insulted me, my wife and the Goblins. The illegal act of attempting line theft by means of an illegal marriage contract has been found out." The Hall went up in talk, whispers and yelling. Snape was a screamer along with a couple of teachers. I raised my hand for silence and surprisingly I got it. "On behave of the Goblin Nation I wish to inform you that your valuables have been seized and should you be foolish enough to enter on Goblin soil you will be tried in their court accordingly. Ragnok is not happy you corrupted one of his staff to submit fraudulent paperwork to defraud."
Snape sprang over the top of the teachers table and started towards me, but then thought better of it and stopped. That was enough to draw the attention of the students and when they looked back at the Headmaster he had slipped out of the Hall. Dumbledore did not make any appearances after that not even to eat. The owlery didn't have an owl left to send a message by curfew that evening.
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Gryffindor Quarters:
"She had no idea there was a contract or even that Dumdum is her guardian, she is a bit pissed. Enough of this husband it is time you and I had a bath and a discussion.
Well the discussion was which part of her body needed attention in the bath. This was a ritual that we both enjoyed but tonight was different. She slid herself up so that she was straddling my stomach; she leaned forward and gave me a deep kiss.
My Foxy began to squirm on top of me which resulted in a moan from her and serious reaction from me. "Let's dry off and go to bed." She managed to say in between pants.
I slid into the bed and I got a "Scoot over"… Hermione said as she made her way on top of me. I did as I was told as usual, I always relied on my little Foxy's commands to guide me, I knew what I wanted but she was the one who needed to be totally willing. Besides what did I know of sex and how to do it properly?
"Mmmmm" Hermione moaned into the kiss as she demanded entrance. I opened my lips and got the sweet taste of Hermione while my body responded, this was driving me crazy.
It appeared that I was not the only one as she is now moaning and growling. Suddenly she whispers, "I'm… I'm ready to…pant… ready to go further." I needed no further encouragement.
I am only an animal when in my panther form so I was trying to be kind and tender. Well that worked for a while then the animal appeared in my sweet Foxy, without her transforming. The comforter that covered our body's went flying. My arms tightly wound around her and spun her around and got to work. I get a loud gasping "Harry" in my mind and I followed right after her.
Somewhere in my limited knowledge we are now at the point where we cuddle and fall asleep in each others arms. Why would I ever think that, she rolls me over and she got to work which got me going again. The night contained very little sleep and a long soaking bath in the morning.
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We of course had stupid grins on our face for most of the morning and what I picked up from her were waves of pleasure which was ego building. While we could talk with our minds I never probed into her mind, but her feelings were like waves, some pleasure and other contentment.
I look up to see Neville, Um, Harry, do you mind if I join you for breakfast and a little talk."
"Not at all Neville pull up a bench and have a splinter." This was a happy morning, right?
"We chatted but it turned to serious after a few minutes. "Harry I know that almost everyone is giving me everything and trying to make me into "The-Boy-Who-Lived". What bothers me is being dragged by Ron or Snape somewhere and then shit happens and I get all the glory for doing something I never did. Harry I want out!"
Well the only thing you can do is stand your ground and say no. I have had problems with Dumbledore since I was a baby and not for some good fortune he would have had me where you are. Just don't let him run your life. I know it's easy for me to say but as hard as it is…"
"Neville what are you doing over her with these losers? Ron's mouth was starting.
I figured it would be nice to give Neville an example, "Well the boy who lived is sitting and talking to the boy who can, while the boy who can't is running his mouth, get lost."
Somewhere along the line he must have convinced himself he was super shit or something as ridicules and pulling his wand was just to show how inept and stupid he was.
"Defodio" he shouts and I just slid aside while the gouging spell reeks havoc with the tables behind me in the great hall. He then made a big mistake, rather that aiming at me he turns around and starts a curse at Hermione; he got to "Defo…"
'Confringo' was what I casted and it did blast him, across the hall and into the stone wall, I was pissed. I think Hermione had cast a simple 'Expelliarmus' as she was holding his wand.
I checked the twins and all they did was shrug their shoulders. It was like they expected what had happened and were resigned to the fact.
There was not much fuss over what happened as there were enough witnesses and the smashed tables and gouged floor was a testament to his idiocy. Thankfully there were only injured students and no deaths. Ron was now a long time resident of the hospital wing. They had to banish most of his bones and replace a few organs. I did get carried away but I didn't regret defending Hermione.
The next day at lunch we found out where Ron had inherited his, whatever it was that was his. Molly Weasley showed up making a 'howler' sound like a whisper. As she screamed where is he and she was not talking about Ron, the school looked at me and she descended like an avenging harpy. While screeching, she like Ron made the mistake of drawing her wand and that is when I made a big mistake. I cast a 'Levicorpus' spell she flipped up hanging by her ankle. The tent she was wearing fell over her head and a number of students evacuated their stomach or the hall. I stopped most of the screeching with a 'Langlock' spell.
~"Let's get out of here Foxy, it will take Snape to undo that spell as he invented it."
~"If I ever get to looking or sounding like that I hope you will put me out of my misery."
~"Never happen dear you're too cute." This got me a peck on the cheek.
Ron got no punishment that anyone knew of and when he left the hospital he picked up where he left off stuffing his face.
Draco was something else; he had gone quiet and was not instigating any confrontations. This cause us to worry what he was up to as a junior Deatheater.
I was lucky in I was not called to the Headmasters office for another manipulation session. Rumor was that Neville was dragging Professor McGonagall to every meeting with Dumdum. The Dailey profit made me the villain, Ron a victim and Neville a hero. They missed Hermione in this addition of the paper.
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As the weeks went by Voldemort was killing, raping and terrorizing everyone that he could. Dumdum was being bad mouthed everywhere but since the Goblins never released much in financial documents etc all the ICW and the Wizengamot could go on was rumor. Dumbledore kept all his jobs but had lost a lot of credibility.
Hermione and I had been working on a didfferent plans of attack and defense. You could not go anywhere without a good chance of being attacked. Another surprise was that the Hogsmeade weekend visits had not been canceled. We of course were of the same mind as the other students. 'It could not ever happen to me!' so we would be going.
"Hay Harry.,
"Hi Neville what's going on in your life?"
"I have been trying to take your advice and its working to some existent, McGonagall's being with me slows Dimwit down quite a bit."
"So what's he up to if you don't mind saying?" Hermione asked.
"He is hunting for something that he won't tell me what it is, and all he wants to do other than that is get my name in the Dailey Profit and show me memories."
"Not much to go on, you going to Hogsmeade tomorrow?" I asked.
"Oh yes, got to have my candy and quills, if you got the time I'll be hanging out at the Three Broomsticks about noon."
"Well if it doesn't snow we will be there." In England any type of weather was possible.