Author's Note: First of all, I have to make a huge apology for my first version of this chapter. I'm going to claim temporary insanity on it, which really shouldn't be too difficult to prove, my psychiatrist will back me up. So yeah, I've certainly made some recent mistakes as an author and I'm hoping that you all will be able to forgive me for it, for those of you still reading. I just got too off on tangents and random plotlines that I think I was able to fix. It took longer than expected, partially due to being really busy with work of late. I've taken the liberty of completely removing Cedric from the story entirely. He doesn't need to be in it at all. Or that wacky dream I had Harry have several chapters back that I wrote up when I was seriously out of it (medication may or may not have been involved). The fight with the Ravencretins is staying, but I fixed that up to make Harry a lot better than he was and still have a desire to improve his dueling skills anyway. So hopefully people are satisfied with the changes and I can get this story back to what it once was. If not well at least I tried.
Chapter 27
Daphne went with Fleur into a broom closet, wondering just what she wanted to talk to her about that was so important and pressing.
"Is this your way of coming out of the closet?" Daphne teased.
"Perhaps I should point out that we both went into this closet," Fleur used her wit to counter back, "I just can't deny my feelings any longer."
"For me?" Daphne questioned.
"Yes, I love you and I want to have your babies," Fleur answered sarcastically, continuing to play their little game.
"That would be rather impossible unless you were..." Daphne observed before looking down at her crotch, "I knew you were too sexy to be real."
At that, Fleur began pulling down her skirt and panties, revealing her definitely entirely female lady bits.
"Okay, how far are we planning on taking this?" Daphne questioned.
"Farther than you," Fleur insisted.
Daphne smiled and said, "is that a challenge? You seriously think you can beat me in a sexual promiscuity contest?"
"You could all just be talk," Fleur pointed out, "I haven't actually seen you do anything yet."
"Well if that's how you're going to play it," Daphne answered as she pulled down her own skirt and panties. No way was she letting Fleur win.
Fleur responded by taking her top off, before slowly removing her light blue bra and then tossing it right to her, now totally naked.
Having shared a room with 4 other girls at Hogwarts and with her sister at home, seeing another naked girl hardly bothered her, although she did have to admit Fleur had it going on.
Daphne checked the tag for her bra size before commenting, "We're the exact same size."
"Really?" Fleur asked.
"Uh huh," Daphne replied, "let me prove it."
Daphne responded by removing her own top and then her black bra before handing it to Fleur.
Fleur checked hers as well.
"34E, I guess you're right," Fleur commented, "so I guess breast size is a tie."
"Yeah, but I'm younger than you so I might not be done growing," Daphne argued.
"Maybe, but there's no way you can compete with this ass ever," Fleur countered as she turned around and shook her incredible booty.
Daphne looked over Fleur's incredible perfect huge bum and had to admit she had a point.
Still she wasn't willing to admit defeat.
"I'm wearing your bra out of here, I think I might even show it off to Harry," Daphne remarked cheekily as she was still holding Fleur's bra.
"Then I'm wearing yours bosom buddy," The older, but evidently equally stacked girl answered.
"You don't find one of those everyday," She agreed, which was totally true, especially for busty girls like them.
Fleur looked her over as well as herself as she suggested, "perhaps we ought to consider this a draw. I'm pretty sure either of us would be willing to take this a lot farther than just this."
"It would be really wild and hot though," Daphne responded.
"That it would," Fleur answered, "although we're now both naked in a broom closet, I mean what could possibly go wrong?"
"Well we could end up having lesbian sex and realize we really like it, or worse realize we really don't like it, or someone could discover us inside here," Daphne observed.
"If someone found us we'd just smile and wave at them," Fleur countered, "besides it would totally make their day if it was a guy."
"It would make the straightest girl on earth's day," Daphne agreed.
Fleur pretended to check her out a bit before then saying, "I think I'd better tell you just what I had us both come in here for before I get too carried away. I'll just come right out and say it, I can no longer deny my feelings any longer, I want to marry Harry and become part of his harem."
That certainly got her attention.
"Are you sure you've thought enough about this?" Daphne questioned.
"Believe me I have," Fleur insisted, "a veela just knows."
"How do you know?" Daphne inquired.
Fleur only shook her head and said, "I'm afraid it would be too difficult to explain. It's like this need that you have deep within your soul. Like your soul has found it's mate, the one person who will truly make you feel happy and complete."
"Soulmates," Daphne stated in order to simplify what Fleur was referring to.
"Essentially yes," Fleur replied, "although in this case it's a bit more complicated than that for a veela. Once a veela has found a suitable mate, we are able to view that love on a more in depth level than you could imagine. I suppose you'd have to be a veela to understand."
"Ah same thing, I'm a hot, busty blonde that makes every guy drool," Daphne pointed out teasingly.
Fleur laughed and said, "I'm glad we're going to be co-wives as well as friends."
Daphne put her hands on her hips as she commented, "well we already don't have a problem with looking at the other naked, so that's a start."
"I'd offer you a hug or something but I'm not sure you'd want one under the circumstances," Fleur told her.
"That's okay, I'm good," Daphne insisted.
To their surprise at that moment, the closet door was suddenly opened.
On impulse she tried to cover herself up as best she could with her hands with a lot still left exposed.
To her relief however she saw that it was only Luna.
Luna took in the scene of the two of them totally naked in a broom closet (which would have been really surprising and awesome for any sane person) before casually saying, "nobody told me we were playing naked Sunday. Well I want to play."
At that, Luna quickly stripped and took off all of her clothes as well, revealing her smaller and thinner frame.
"So what are we 3 busties talking about?" Luna questioned, "did I miss the part where Fleur said she had decided she wanted to join the harem and marry Harry?"
"You just did," Fleur admitted, not at all surprised that Luna somehow already knew that.
"Yay!" Luna said as she jumped up and down, "you get to be my big sister wife!"
Naked, Luna's boobs bouncing up and down were even a distraction for Daphne. She was so going to be telling Harry about this whole experience to make him jealous.
Luna then reached forward and gave Fleur a rather awkward hug, awkward for Fleur not for Luna who couldn't be happier or care less. She'd say Luna just might be able to beat them both in their competition they had been having earlier.
"Oh," Luna then confessed, now looking guilty, "I let Harry feel up my bum."
"Oh no, that's terrible," Fleur replied sarcastically.
"Actually it sort of is," Daphne admitted, "we have a pact against going any further with Harry."
"I just couldn't resist," Luna confessed, "my butt wanted him so bad!"
"I hate it when that happens," Fleur told her.
Luna nodded and looked at Daphne as she said, "see, I'm not the only one!"
She wasn't sure if she should laugh at that or not.
"Actually I get people asking me if my butt is real or not," Fleur added.
"Is it?" Daphne joked.
Not skipping a beat, Fleur suggested as she turned around to expose her totally naked perfect bum to them both, "you want to feel it to find out?"
"Ooh, I do!" Luna agreed as she went over and grasped Fleur's bum, running her hands over it with a more than a few good squeezes.
"I think that's enough Luna," Daphne cautioned.
"It's okay," Fleur said, "I know what she's up to, does it meet your approval Luna?"
Luna finally pulled away as she told Fleur, "yeah, it's real, and it's good enough for Harry."
"What a relief," Fleur replied.
"Not like there was any doubt," Daphne told her, "I know a good lady bum when I see one."
For added measure, she gave Fleur's bum a good squeeze of her own. When it came to her bum, Fleur had everyone on the planet beat.
Once Fleur had turned to face them, she then added, "we'll have to talk with Padma and Hermione though about this even if it'll involve talking more about bums than a director of a homeless shelter."
"Can I be there for that?" Fleur asked.
"Of course," Luna said easily as she put an arm around Fleur, "you're one of us now."
TOOMANYTOOMANYTOOMANY
One month later
The 2nd task was now rapidly approaching with it being tomorrow morning and there had once again been a few changes for Harry and the girls over time.
First of all their social circle had certainly expanded, as plenty of other girls were known to frequently join in in activities.
One thing he'd learned was that each girl had something that they liked to do or was good at and liked teaching others about.
Gabrielle and Fleur for example still often dueled with him and often the other girls would include themselves as well which in his opinion made it a lot more fun, especially as they came up with various ways to "spice it up" a bit.
Hannah would teach anyone to cook who asked, including Daphne who'd been convinced by Hannah she should learn how to make stuff herself and not just have her make it for her all the time.
Luna could always be counted on for some zany fun, Hermione he'd turn to if he ever wanted some invention made (although the world apparently wasn't quite ready for excaliblaster), Daphne if he wanted some crude banter, and Padma he still exercised with although they were pretty much always joined by some of the other girls, including Su who had been Padma's original workout partner.
Millicent had even managed to convince him that he needed to be taught how to wrestle, although that one he tried to do sparingly as he always ended up in pain by the end of it.
Susan and Pansy were more than happy to go over politics which admittedly he didn't actually like but he considered important enough for him to learn.
Why? Since the Ministry was still trying to figure out just who should adopt him or at least where he should stay over the summers. According to Dumbledore who was keeping him apprised of the situation it was proving to be a rather long and overly complicated process as the Ministry was essentially stonewalling the issue.
However several of the girls' parents had already submitted their names for consideration including Padma's, Daphne's, Susan's aunt, Hannah's, and even Hermione's.
Malfoy's dad had submitted his name as well, but Dumbledore continually reassured him he'd never allow him to end up with the Malfoys with him even offering to hide him in his secret lair where he kept all of his Dumbledore special weapons if needed.
He still wasn't sure if Dumbledore was joking about that part or not.
So until things actually seemed to progress on that front he was just biding his time, which wasn't to say he wasn't extremely busy, which he was with all the various activities he had going on with various girls.
In order to handle all this, Hermione had decided to start coordinating all the various activities that they all had going on and make a schedule for it so people who wanted to go to a various activity would know about it beforehand and could go. In order to do that, Hermione would continually create new schedules for the upcoming week. While some girls went to only certain activities, he tended to try and keep himself well rounded by going to as many different ones as he could, making him quite busy but then again he was in high demand with the ladies which of course didn't bother him.
When it came to his dating life, he was still continually dating, although with already a solid dating pool for him to choose from he hadn't seen any need to be dating anyone new for quite awhile. Instead he went on 3 dates a week still with one night a month set aside for Padma, Daphne, Luna, Hermione, Fleur, Hannah, Susan, Millicent, Pansy, and Su, with his other available weekend nights set aside for his choice.
Angelina, while they still continued to remain friends had sort of petered off somewhat as she was currently very busy Quidditch training for when spring tryouts were for the professional teams, which was the career path she was aspiring for.
He understood of course, and he'd agreed to keep her in mind for any time he was bored and wanted a quick quidditch game and some making out afterwards, but he'd still miss her.
Now currently just arriving for his morning workout, he found plenty of the girls already there. Padma, Daphne, Hermione, Fleur, Gabrielle, Millicent, Pansy, and Su. Not a bad turnout for this morning with some of the girls only working out every other day such as Daphne, Susan, Parvati, or Lavender.
Coming up behind Padma who was currently bending down doing a stretch, he gave her bum a quick squeeze.
"Morning Padma," He announced.
"Are you saying good morning to me or good morning to my bum?" Padma questioned him.
"Both," He grinned back.
The girls had apparently come to a mutual decision to let him start touching their bums and he had been taking plenty of opportunities to take advantage of that, having spent plenty of time feeling up Padma's, Luna's, Daphne's, and even Hermione's and Fleur's.
He had to admit there were some really nice bums in their group. While he didn't dare admit it, Fleur's was the best, not only was it the biggest but it also had the most projection as a nice, firm bubble butt...which after touching Padma's, he went over to give Fleur's a nice squeeze.
"Don't forget about me Harry," Hermione reminded him, turning around and presenting her own incredible bum to him. Fleur might take first place in that department but Hermione was definitely second. He was more than happy to oblige her.
As if to show that it worked the other way when it came to touching bums, Daphne came up behind him and gave his bum a squeeze of her own.
"It's why he usually stretches in back," Daphne pointed out, "so he can watch all of our bums bending down."
"Pervert," Gabrielle commented.
"Oh I never look at you Gabby," Harry replied, "that would get me in trouble with the other girls."
"You can look at other girls if you want to Harry," Pansy told him, "as long as it isn't other guys, particularly Malfoy."
"Right because he's yours," Daphne quipped.
Pansy stuck out her tongue at that even though she wasn't really too mad. They were actually pretty good friends and Pansy could certainly dish it out as well as she could take it.
"Well most of us do have a scheduled dating night with you," Hermione observed, "so under that definition we would in fact be considered to be dating you."
"Yeah, but it's not exclusive," Fleur reminded her, "which means he and us are free to date other people."
Which was true, even if none of the girls seemed to, but that wasn't his fault, not like he was forcing them to do anything.
"Well I like the way things have gone," Padma answered, "we've actually made a lot more friends this way."
"Awww!" Some of the girls all said at once at that lovey-dovey quote.
"Let's get back to exercises," Su urged, who could be a bit impatient whenever they ended up chatting too much.
"Sorry Su," Padma apologized as she gave her a Chinese bow, "we'll get back to exercises."
Another thing he'd noted that while it wasn't as evident when it had just been the 5 of them, Padma was proving to be sort of the leader of their group. She didn't actually have to say it and decisions were still made more democratically, but it seemed to him that many of the girls looked to her to preside over things, some thing he found himself doing as well, her ability to lead and be fair getting her plenty of respect.
After stretches (with Su of course going the extra mile in adopting totally insane poses) they went to go start their run.
"Who wants to go on a 10 mile run?" Su asked expectantly.
"I do, I do!" Gabrielle immediately announced, the only person yet to actually take Su up on such a long distance offer.
"How about just 2 miles?" Fleur recommended even if that was still more than the other girls wanted to run.
It would usually end up varying with each girl how much they decided to run and normally he tried to push himself more than most of them just so none of the girls would think he was a wimp, but not kill himself before the day even began when he had other things to do later on that were also usually pretty tiring.
"All right, but after I go over the new schedules," Hermione recommended, "it's already almost 8:30, the other girls should be getting here soon for that anyway."
He noted that the girls quickly all sat down and Padma opted to sit in his lap. Invariably for these meetings someone was always sitting on his lap.
The only problem was when Luna came in, she was rather disappointed, having wanted to be the one to sit in his lap.
"You can sit in my lap if you want," Fleur offered as she patted her leg.
"Okay," Luna agreed happily, going to sit down on her, "I love you Fleur."
Fleur however was unfazed by this as she questioned, "now, now Luna we wouldn't be wanting to make anyone jealous."
"It's okay, I just think of you as my big sister I've always wanted," Luna admitted.
"Hey! What does that make me?" Gabrielle complained even though he could tell she wasn't really mad.
"I can have more than one little sister," Fleur pointed out.
Nevertheless Gabrielle went to go sit next to Luna on the other side of Fleur's lap.
"I want us to be a family," Luna replied.
"One that is going to need more than one bathroom if we're going to get along," Gabrielle joked, "but I love you too Luna."
She gave Luna a kiss on each cheek in French fashion.
The scene might have seemed ridiculous, but to him at that moment it really didn't. It felt almost like Luna was right, they were becoming a family. Exactly who was part of that family and just what kind of a family it was he wasn't sure, but it did feel rather nice. Growing up as an orphan and being raised by people he definitely wouldn't consider family beyond the most basic sense of the word he couldn't really say for certain just what a family really entailed however.
Hermione began to go over their new schedules.
"Today after breakfast, Luna is having some sort of game being played," Hermione started.
"World Domination!" Su said as she laughed maniacally.
"Ooh I love that game," Gabrielle agreed instantly.
"So do I," Luna replied.
He rolled his eyes. The three girls already seemed to be good friends, quickly adding Su to make it 3 of them as the "Insane Trio."
"Should I be worried you might actually try to take over the world?" Padma joked.
"In which case can I have Iceland?" Pansy asked.
"Sorry we don't really want to take over the world," Luna answered, "it's too much work and not enough fun."
"Whipping our slaves would be fun," Su argued, giving a malicious look at him.
"Anyway," Hermione said, well used to such interruptions, but also having learned to try and keep them on track, "Luna will be playing some games, not World Domination. At 11:00 Harry and Fleur will be practicing for the 2nd task. After that we have lunch, and then at 2:00 Hannah will be doing a baking class-"
"We're making a chocolate cake," Hannah said, hoping to drum up people wanting to go.
Of course she hardly needed to, her cooking classes were always well attended...especially towards the very end which was of course a total coincidence that it was usually right around the time that whatever they were making got done.
Several of the girls licked their lips at that.
"In order to work off some of those calories," Hermione continued, "Fleur and Gabrielle will be having their usual daily duel training at 3:30.
That was a class he always made sure to attend. He felt he was definitely improving a great deal and he could hold his own against anybody including Fleur and Gabrielle, but he wouldn't classify himself as the best duelist in the world either with him feeling like there was still plenty left to learn.
"Then right after dinner is my usual study session," Hermione announced, grinning as she tried to make it at least appear to be an enjoyable activity to look forward to.
However several of the girls groaned at that.
"By the way, homework help and snacks will be provided," Hermione added.
Suddenly they were more eager, he noted with a laugh as several of them clapped in response.
"By the way to those involved as a reminder," Hermione then stated, "at 6:00 Harry has that meeting with Dumbledore."
"Ooh are you in trouble Harry?" Daphne teased, "do you need a spanking?"
"Not from you," He countered.
Padma, who was still sitting on his lap, pulled her arm back to give the side of his bum a gentle slap.
"There already done," Padma announced.
Daphne looked disappointed at that as she complained, "I wanted to do it. Hermione could you maybe slot in a time for us on that schedule of yours to feel Harry's bum up?"
"Maybe a make-out session or two with any girl interested," Pansy added.
Hermione however only grinned as she said, "look down at the fine print at the bottom."
Susan, who had an eye for contracts and had already noticed it, laughed at that as she reminded them all, "always read the fine print girls."
Su was the one to actually read it aloud as she read in the very small print that he couldn't even read himself, "any and all activities can and probably will be superseded by making out, bum groping, breast fondling, eating off of certain body parts; massages, oral, anal, and vaginal sex; the giving of certain favors or gifts whether partially or paid in full, the use of polyjuice potion to..."
Even Su blushed at that as she refused to read anymore.
"Oh, why did you stop?" Daphne complained.
"Hermione I had no idea you were so dirty-minded," Susan told her.
Hermione only blushed at that as she said, "I only wanted to cover all the bases...just in case."
"I haven't even done anything besides the first two on that list," Harry pointed out, "or even thought of half of them."
"Don't worry Harry I'll help you complete everything on that list," Daphne offered as she pretended to start unbuttoning the top of her shirt, "want to try licking cream off my boobs?"
"We don't have any cream or I would," Harry answered.
"I've got some peanut butter," Luna offered.
"That'll work," He replied.
"So Susan and Pansy are you still planning on accompanying Harry to his meeting?" Hermione then asked, again trying to get back on subject.
"We are," Susan agreed.
"Excellent," Hermione stated approvingly.
Evidently Dumbledore wanted to talk to him about how his custody battle was going and he would be grateful to have the two rather politically knowledgeable girls there with him to help with that.
"Who is in charge of date duty tonight?" Susan then asked.
Millicent who had been previously totally quiet throughout the meeting, not being one to say very much admitted, "I am."
He raised an eyebrow at that. After finding out just how long it took him to prepare for each of his dates, the girls had taken it upon themselves to help him out with that, which invariably led to some pretty interesting dates depending on who was in charge although he couldn't deny each of them were fun...including last time when Luna had been in charge and had him and Hannah spend their date in the Room of Requirement that had been set up to resemble Santa's Workshop at the North Pole, complete with Penguins (which Luna insisted still lived there).
Getting the chance to be in charge of date prep had however become a highly sought after job among the girls and he wondered just what Millicent had done to manage to get it.
Still his date tonight was with Pansy and she was usually pretty easygoing and up for anything.
Hermione finished going over the other activities for the evening that he of course wouldn't be available for although he wished he was. Daphne was apparently doing something and her activities were always fun.
He'd also be missing Susan and Pansy's seminar on wizard law loopholes that you could exploit. The rumor was one of them was a loophole in the school bylaws allowing you to wear a Halloween costume to class if you so chose.
TOOMANYTOOMANYTOOMANY
Later that day, he met up with Fleur for their 2nd task preparing down by the lake, having long since moved beyond the swimming pool.
Today they would be heading all the way to the mervillage and back. Having already decided to work together for the actual task as well, he was feeling rather confident of managing to accomplish it.
Fleur was currently already clad in her bikini, causing him to momentarily forget to greet her.
She however only laughed slightly and said, "you'd think you'd get used to seeing me dressed like this by now Harry."
"I don't think I'll ever truly get used to you dressed like that," Harry insisted, "although I am going to be rather sad when the 2nd task is over and I won't have an excuse to anymore."
"Maybe I'll just have to go naked then after it," Fleur teased.
"Well you did let Daphne and Luna see you naked," He pointed out.
Fleur laughed before asking, "is Daphne still trying to make you jealous about that?"
"Yes," He admitted.
Fleur then seemed to tense a bit as she admitted, "I really would let you see me naked Harry, it's just I kind of made a pact."
"What kind of pact?" He questioned.
"You didn't think you just magically decided to let you feel up our bums did you?" Fleur pointed out, "we talked about it then decided."
"I see," Harry observed, "and what would I have to do to be part of such a meeting?"
"Be a girl," Fleur told him.
He then put on his best girl voice as he asked, "like this?"
Fleur laughed and then said, "I think you make a much better boy."
Harry sighed and commented, "well I suppose I can't ask you to go naked for me then despite the fact that I would earn the jealousy of every boy on the planet in seeing the famous Fleur Delacour in all her glory."
"Like I said I really would...as well as a lot more," Fleur admitted.
His eyes widened at that as he pressed, "you mean...?"
"I'd be willing to have sex with you," Fleur bluntly clarified, "just don't be too shocked, I mean I am older and more experienced than the other girls and I'd say I have a better understanding of what it is I truly want and just how far I'd be willing to go. I am however willing to wait as I'm sure that not everyone feels that way including yourself."
He thought about that for a moment, mulling it over before replying, "I suppose if I was to answer seriously and honestly I really would be ready for it but I think for something such as sex I'd want to be in a real relationship that I knew was going somewhere where I knew I loved them and they loved me before then."
Fleur nodded as if expecting and approving of this answer.
"Still if the time were to come I'd still have no idea what to do anyway," He then added.
"I'm sure Daphne would be more than happy to give a seminar class on the subject," She only half-joked.
"She probably would," He agreed, "and I'd probably still get to see a naked girl once she figured the only way to properly learn was through experience."
"That would be awful," Fleur sarcastically answered, "perhaps I'd better be the one to teach such a class. Better than in your 7th year when Professor McGonagall will teach all of the 7th years on it. Even us Beauxbatons got it this year."
He laughed before commenting, "that must have been brutal."
"Oh it was, I don't think I'll ever get that image of McGonagall explaining birth control out of my mind," She responded.
"It seems a bit late for that," Harry pointed out, "case in point Laura Jameson, currently 5 months pregnant and just a 5th year."
"Yeah, well McGonagall told us she expected us not to have sex until we were married so I can see why she might be a bit behind the times," Fleur explained, "still I think I'd better at least teach you the contraception charm or something, I wouldn't want anyone getting pregnant after a particularly good date with you or something."
"Oh I'm sure it would be a fantastic date," Harry agreed with a grin, "however I can see your point. I don't think say Hermione for example would be too happy if I knocked her up."
"Oh it isn't Hermione I'd have cause to be worried about, that girl probably already knows a whole lot more than the contraception charm when it comes to sex from all those books she reads. Of course if you were to actually ask her about it you'd probably learn more than you ever wanted to know," Fleur countered.
"Probably," He replied, "so I suppose you'd better be the one to teach me...and perhaps if I'm lucky I might get something of a demonstration."
Fleur only smiled, calling his bluff before saying, "it would have to be an awfully good lesson."
TOOMANYTOOMANY
Unfortunately Fleur only took the time to explain the basics although she still had him blushing long before it was over. He learned how to cast the contraception charm as well as a few other things that Fleur suggested.
It felt awkward but he was certainly glad to have learned them as he had a feeling that he'd be needing them sooner rather than later the way things were going. Also in order to defuse any awkwardness he and Fleur also spent some time making out and feeling up each other's bums much to both their amusement.
At any rate, when they afterwards went underwater and headed to the mervillage and back again, they managed to cut their time down to 45 minutes, which was a new personal best for them.
They should have no trouble getting it within the 1 hour time limit he thought.
The only downside was the solution Susan and Hannah found for them evidently tasted awful according to Fleur, making her not want to laugh but not make her too happy either.
By the time he got back and quickly showered off all the lake water and then dressed he'd already missed most of Hannah's cooking class.
Instead he then opted to go over to where Gabrielle usually had her dueling class. Unsurprisingly, when he arrived half an hour early, Gabrielle was already there, beating up training dummies.
She grinned when she saw him and said, "you're early. Didn't get enough of me last time I trounced you did you?"
"Trounced is a strong word," Harry decided to clarify, "I nearly had you."
"Nearly would be the word we should focus on," Gabrielle reminded him, "sure you can beat a bunch of girls, just not me."
"Aren't you a girl?" He pointed out.
"I'm a sexy beast," Gabrielle told him.
"Luna usually says that when she wants me to kiss her," He observed.
Gabrielle blinked, taken by surprise by his noting that before insisting, "I'm sorry, I'm just not into you Harry, not every girl is going to think you're the hottest, sexiest thing on the planet."
"Right, I'm sure," He teased right back.
Gabrielle could try to hide it but he could tell she still liked him after spending enough time with her, she just wasn't willing to act on it, causing him to tease her a bit.
"Oh, you're going to get it now!" Gabrielle warned at his teasing, "draw your wand."
He drew it, with Gabrielle giving him only enough time to do that before she began trying to start a duel with him.
Having done this nearly everyday with Gabrielle who insisted on trying to make him into a good duelist, he'd come to expect she went all out on him. It was very good practice however. When Malfoy had tried to pull the same thing the Ravencretins had and gang up on him with Crabbe, Goyle, and Nott; he'd taken all 4 of them out by himself. Nobody had messed with him after that.
Gabrielle however was better than all of them combined and she still won way more times in their matches than he did with her usually overwhelming him with the sheer amount of spells she threw at him until he got hit with one of them.
Their duel began much the same way with her constantly throwing spells at him giving him little time to cast spells of his own.
Yet then Gabrielle let up for an instant, just an instant, but it gave him enough time to start launching a counterattack.
Taking a page out of her playbook, he started casting as many spells as he could.
"Expelliarmus, Rictusempra, Mallevus, Cantara, Stupefy," He said in quick succession, pleased to see that Gabrielle was now forced primarily on the defensive.
When one of his spells hit, he was almost surprised that it had managed to hit, but when a stupefy finally got her, knocking her out, he grinned wide as he went over to her to revive her.
Once she awoke, she smiled pleased to see him win as she then asked, "can you help me up?"
He leaned down to offer his hand when suddenly without warning, she pulled him down on top of her.
"Always be on guard when it comes to your opponent," Gabrielle told him as she tried to grab his arm and pin him.
Taking advantage of his size, he was however able to prevent her from doing so, following what Millicent had taught him concerning wrestling.
They wrestled for a bit more before both of them stopped as they then lay clasped in each others' arms, their faces facing each other, both a bit tired.
He could feel Gabrielle's breath on his face and as he looked into her eyes, bright and alive...it was almost as if...
Suddenly without warning, she then leaned in and kissed him. She did not pull away immediately, putting her lips forcefully into his. He'd kissed various girls so many times it was almost a reflex as he began to kiss back.
Yet only a moment later and Gabrielle was pushing him away and trying to get up to stand.
"Idiot!" She scolded herself aloud, "you know you shouldn't have been spending all that time dueling with him and now you go kissing him. If you don't watch yourself you'll end up exactly like Fleur."
"It's totally alright Gabby," Harry tried to tell her.
"No it's not Harry," Gabrielle insisted, "I'm not supposed to like you. That kiss was stupid of me and it'll never happen again. I just got caught up in the moment that's all. Besides our personalities don't match well and you've got plenty of other girls that have your attention."
"I can share," He pointed out.
"Yeah, well I can't," Gabrielle argued.
"I suppose I can understand that," Harry agreed, accepting such an answer.
"You don't really understand though," Gabrielle stated pausing for a long moment as she seemed to think over something before adding, "and maybe it's time you did."
Author's Note: Dun-dun-dun! Will Harry finally find out the truth?
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