Chapter 30
Shopping Date with Susan and Pansy
In order to handle another aspect of his future multiple girlfriend troubles, Harry had already talked with Dumbledore during their last meeting about being allowed to leave the school to go to Gringotts to find out about his finances.
He'd actually been surprised that Dumbledore had agreed so easily, seeming to approve of him now taking an interest in that. He knew that Dumbledore was the one who'd been managing all of his finances, he had ever since his parents had gone into hiding shortly after he was born so he naturally expected Dumbledore to be the one to go with them which he agreed to.
Them meaning him, Susan, and Pansy who'd been there when he'd asked Dumbledore and immediately volunteered to help him. He figured he could use the help anyway.
As Dumbledore escorted them down Diagon Alley, Dumbledore continued to point out each shop and offer information on them.
"You see that gargoyle," He pointed out, "believe it or not it used to be a shopping cart. You can actually still see the-."
"Yep, that's exactly what I wanted today," Susan said sarcastically, "to spend my day off from school learning."
"Everywhere you go is an opportunity to learn," Professor Dumbledore reminded her jovially.
"Yeah, Susan," Pansy goaded, "you should always be trying to learn."
Professor Dumbledore gave her a smile and said animatedly, "that's the spirit Ms. Parkinson. Now perhaps you can tell me how many different flavors of Ice Cream Florean Forteque's sells."
After they all suffered through a Dumbledore lecture on various shops, once they reached the bank instead of heading towards the front, Dumbledore instead walked towards a building just to the side of the bank and walked inside and down a short hallway with them following along until they reached a door with a huge banner over the top declaring: the London Goblin Theatre Company is pleased to present the goblin version of The Hobbit. Now with a live dragon!
In much smaller letters at the bottom it read: the show is not responsible for anything that might happen during the show including accidents, maiming, dismemberment, death...
It kept going on in increasingly small lettering and more detailed ways in which to die or get injured.
Just to the side of the door, behind a desk stood a goblin who looked back at them with beady eyes and sharp teeth.
"Ticket please?" The goblin asked him as he held out his hand.
He looked confused before then admitting, "we don't have tickets."
The goblin grumbled before saying, "nobody ever seems to have an advance ticket. One of these days a show is going to be sold out you know and then you'll be sorry."
"I've got a ticket CaptainHook," Dumbledore announced as he handed him a small red ticket.
The goblin studied it for awhile before giving a toothy grin and pronouncing, "very well, enjoy the show Mr. Dumbledore."
"Show?" Harry asked, "you mean you're actually going to that?"
"Well yes, I figured I'd see the show while I was here waiting for you," Dumbledore informed them as he rubbed his hands in excitement, "I'd imagine this should be quite entertaining."
Entertaining yes, safe, no.
"Aren't you going to come with us?" Susan asked him.
"I rather think it best if I don't," Dumbledore stated, "since I'm the one who has handled your account for all these years I rather think it best if I don't try to influence you in your decision making especially if you were to decide to say kick me to curb and find someone else to handle your money. I'd say you'll be more than capable of handling it on your own especially with these two ladies to help you. If you have any questions afterwards however I'd be more than happy to answer them for you. See you later."
Dumbledore walked through the doors behind the goblin, leaving the 3 of them alone to fend for themselves.
"Well that was unhelpful," Pansy commented.
"Dumbledore has a tendency to want people to actually do things for themselves and not just do everything for them," Harry explained, "it's just like his style to do something like this."
"If you don't have a ticket you can still purchase them here," The goblin informed them hopefully, "20% of the proceeds go to a charity for goblin correctional dentistry."
As he looked at the goblin's teeth, he could understand why they would be needed. Even with magic they might have difficulty.
He should really introduce the goblins to Hermione's parents, they'd get rich real quick he thought.
"Not today, but is your name really Captain Hook?" Susan asked, unable to avoid asking that burning question of hers.
The goblin groaned before admitting, "it was my parents' idea of a joke."
"I wasn't aware goblins even made jokes," Pansy admitted.
"Unfortunately sometimes they do," CaptainHook replied mournfully, "why on earth my parents had to be actually funny goblins I shall never know."
After thanking CaptainHook, they headed back over to the actual bank portion of the bank and quickly found another goblin to help them.
This one went by the name of BloodyHook, but Susan decided not to ask him about his name.
At any rate, BloodyHook when he learned of the need to find out about his account and assets, took them into a small side room before getting a blood sample from him to verify it was in fact him.
"Everything seems to be in order then Mr. Potter," BloodyHook stated, "I am now authorized to go over your current total monetary assets. As for your account history, at the time that your parents handed over financial control of their money to Mr. Dumbledore, they had in their account 5653 galleons in actual money and then another 30000 in assets."
"Which would make them only about middle class even if you take into account inflation," Susan surmised.
So his parents hadn't been filthy rich? Well then why did he have all that much money in his vault?
"However since your parents were forced to go into hiding and the account managed by Mr. Dumbledore, who continued to manage it even after their deaths for you that amount due to some really good investments has increased to a total of 250,130 galleons."
Pansy and Susan's jaws dropped.
"Wow, that's a lot of money," Pansy observed.
"I thought your parents were well off too," He reminded her wondering why she would consider that such a large sum.
"Exactly my point Harry," Pansy admitted.
"So Dumbledore is the reason I'm so rich?" Harry asked.
"It would seem so," BloodyHook answered, "Dumbledore is, in our terms a financial goblin, I believe humans call it wizard, when it comes to handling money. Even some goblins have asked Dumbledore to manage their accounts for him which I must admit is quite an achievement. However Dumbledore only currently manages a few accounts, including his own, yours, and a couple of others which already keeps him rather busy. He does however exact a 15% annual charge for his services, but has directed us to deposit the money directly into various charities."
He was certainly stunned by Dumbledore's magnanimity. No wonder Dumbledore hadn't wanted to be here for this, possibly to avoid praise and also to avoid having that influence his decisions.
"Of course if you'd like I could have Dumbledore be taken off as your financial adviser," The goblin suggested.
"No," Harry answered finally, "keep him on. He's obviously doing a fantastic job already."
Neither Susan or Pansy seemed surprised by this.
"Maybe I should have Dumbledore manage my finances," Susan commented, "only problem is my aunt does that now and she wouldn't be too happy about that."
"It might still be worth it if Dumbledore was willing," Pansy reminded her.
"What about property and other assets?" Susan asked.
BloodyHook looked down again at the parchment he had still in his hands and informed them, "you still own a property in Godric's Hollow, but due to its destruction, there is nothing but rubble there. The Ministry however considered the property to be at risk of being targeted again if the home was rebuilt and so elected to leave it as is. However it also started a collection being taken for another home be rebuilt in another secret and safer location in its place. The contributions far exceeded the proposed plans for the home from grateful wizards worldwide and so a retired home builder by the name of Arno Lovegood volunteered to build and oversee the construction of a much larger home. The home is however unfinished."
So he had a house, he thought, or at least part of a house and apparently Luna's grandfather was the one building it. He rather hoped Luna's grandfather wasn't as crazy as Luna. He'd hate to have a fun house or a house full of mirrors or something like that.
"Can we see the house?" Susan asked of BloodyHook.
"I do believe Dumbledore has the key for it," He informed them,"you'll have to ask him."
After learning of his current finances, the 3 of them left the bank as they then waited for Dumbledore to get out. According to CaptainHook, who they checked with at the door, the show would be going on for at least another couple of hours. Evidently Dumbledore figured either they would take much longer to review finances or more likely he just really wanted to see the show.
At any rate, Harry supposed this gave them some time to themselves to look around Diagon Alley.
He decided to take the girls out for Ice Cream with him ordering a Chocolate Galour, Susan a mint chip, and Pansy a Golden Snitch.
As they ate their ice cream, he felt like it was time to tell them about the dating situation. In order to avoid a quite dangerous situation where he told all of the girls at once in which they suddenly summoned pitchforks and tried to drive him out of the castle, he was trying to do it more on an individual basis. However he wasn't the only one. Fleur and Padma would be helping with Fleur telling Daphne and Luna and since they would be the easiest, also Su, and Padma would be telling Hannah and Millicent leaving him with Hermione for later. Frankly it was Hermione he was most worried about.
He was a bit nervous about doing so, but he finally broached the subject, "girls, how would you feel about me dating you and the other girls as well."
The two girls shared a look before Susan commented, "I thought we were already doing that Harry."
"You'd think you'd have figured that out by now," Pansy teased him.
"No I meant, like dating, dating," He replied, "as in boyfriend-girlfriends."
"Oh, that," Susan said seeming totally unbothered, "I figured that out ages ago. Of course we'll be your girlfriends Harry."
"Wait a minute?" He asked, "you both knew and you were okay with it?"
"Well we knew where it was going at least," Susan admitted, "remember I tried to get someone to find out which girl was best for you?"
"Which happened to be me," Pansy explained, "of course I eventually figured out that it would never be just one girl for you but by that point I realized we were already at that point anyway. It probably should be a big deal but quite honestly it isn't. I'm a true Slytherin in that when I do something I evaluate its value and what's in it for me. The lone downside is I have to share you, but that's easily made up for by other things. First of all I genuinely like you and you genuinely like me which is generally what people look for in a relationship anyway. Then in that relationship they also desire compassion, love, and enjoyment in a sense completing them. In that regard, this actually fulfills that even more so than if you were just dating me alone. I have more friends than I've ever had before, enjoyed myself more than I ever have before, and I even feel like a much better person now."
"I've certainly noticed that," Susan commented, "there's been no more 'get out of my way losers' as you walk down hallways."
"I've never yelled that out as I've walked down a hallway!" Pansy insisted, "it's been more 'get out of my way filthy scum."
He was unable to avoid laughing at that as it was hard to see the Pansy of today ever saying that, so he supposed she was certainly right about being a much better person.
Of course she wasn't the only one who'd changed a great deal for the better: Hermione, Millicent, and Hannah certainly came to mind.
"Just don't get too good I kind of like the bad girl thing with you sometimes," Harry told her.
Pansy gave an evil smile back at him, proving she could still be a bit feisty. He laughed again.
"Yeah, unfortunately not everyone can pull that off," Susan replied, "as for me and my reasons Harry they are much the same as Pansy's, but I also have to add that it'll still be like any relationship, if things aren't going well then we can still break up with you and if things are going good..."
She grabbed his arm affectionately at that and said, "you get the picture."
"Not really, perhaps you could give me a demonstration of just what you mean," He answered.
Susan laughed and pulled him in for a kiss.
Once they broke apart, Pansy pouted and told him, "well now I want one now."
"You can see why I both am excited and reluctant to have multiple girlfriends," He commented.
"Just take a bunch of energy potions, work your butt off to keep us all happy, and get rewarded," Pansy insisted, "because you're ours now."
At that, she pulled him in for a kiss of her own.
"It's that simple huh?" He asked her afterwards.
"The way I see it yes," Pansy answered, as she once again pulled him in for another kiss, this one for much longer.
"You do realize you girls made this extremely easy on me," Harry commented.
"We know," Susan agreed, "we could have caused you a lot of grief, but I couldn't see any value in that."
"Of course it also means you now owe us," Pansy uttered.
"Yeah, whatever it is you want," He agreed.
Susan laughed before saying, "we're really going to make you regret that Harry."
He wasn't sure he liked the looks on their faces he thought.
TOOMANYTOOMANY
Padma watched in open fascination as Millicent continued to dig into the large casserole that Hannah had made.
"How can you manage to eat that much?" She asked of Millicent in complete wonder.
"Lots of practice," Millicent admitted, "I eat at least 3 times a day."
"Hah, hah very funny," Padma answered.
"I thought it was funny," Hannah replied, the only other girl there as she watched her best customer continue to eat away, "I do so love watching people eat and enjoy the things I make."
"You should start your own restaurant," Millicent suggested, "of course then I'd be even more broke then I am now."
"For you it would always be free Millicent," Hannah argued, "you'd make everyone else eating around you feel like wimps for how little they had ordered and decide they want more."
"So essentially you want to fatten people up," Padma observed.
"For me to eat," Millicent tried joking, "you know like in Hansel and Gretel."
However not even Hannah found that funny, already being big enough for Millicent to eat.
"Sorry, I'm not that good at jokes," Millicent apologized.
"To answer your question Padma, no, Susan is trying to make me more health conscious, apparently she isn't happy about gaining weight from all the goodies I've been making lately," Hannah explained before adding maliciously, "of course I could try to fatten just her up."
"Then I'll threaten to eat her so she'll make sure to lose all the weight again," Millicent added.
"Now that's funny," Hannah commented, earning an appreciative smile from Millicent.
Padma however just shook her head. Both Hannah and Millicent were known as the bigger girls in their group and according to much of society, they should be desperate for anyone.
However she knew neither Millicent nor Hannah had any reason to be desperate. In fact Millicent had turned down plenty of guys to be with Harry even though she couldn't say exactly why. The girl was difficult to figure out.
Hannah was however easier. She clearly had a major crush on Harry, she'd even caught her occasionally doodling in the name Mrs. Hannah Potter in little hearts during classes she shared with her. Also she enjoyed cooking for others not only Harry but for the rest of them as well.
More and more she was noticing that each girl occupied a different role, a different niche. Hannah was the motherly cook for example, Hermione was the inventor, Luna supplied the fun, Millicent was sort of the protector/bodyguard, and as for herself, well even she couldn't deny that she occupied a rather loose leadership position. All of the girls respected her and it was that respect that she was hoping would be good enough to convince both Hannah and Millicent. She did however have to remind herself that she wasn't Harry, but hopefully she'd still manage to do a good job.
"Actually I want to talk to you two girls about something," Padma told them, deciding to just come out with it, "Harry has realized that he should probably start officially dating and rather then date just one of us, he'd like to date all of us. I realize this might be a bit difficult to handle and if you are angry and don't want to I completely understand."
Both girls let that sink in before Hannah exclaimed, "What! How terrible! How dare he want to date me and a bunch of other girls."
Apparently Hannah wasn't too keen on the idea, she observed.
However Hannah then continued, "you mean he'd want me to continue cooking and slaving for all you girls and only occasionally get kisses and...it's a really good thing I love him then."
Finally Hannah allowed herself to grin and said, "of course I'm okay with that decision. How could I not be? Frankly I'm relieved. I was worried he was going to just choose you Padma and leave me to pine for him from afar."
"Why me?" Padma asked.
"Since he loves you already," Hannah announced, "it's not like he hides it."
"I suppose not," Padma was forced to admit, "but I'm sure he'll love you eventually too Hannah, I mean what's not to love about you?"
"Yeah I love you," Millicent told her, "you're the nicest girl I know. Anyone else would be grossed out by how much I can eat for example. Harry or any guy would be lucky to have you."
"That's really sweet of you Millicent," Hannah complimented her, blushing a bit at what she'd said about her.
"You can indeed have a way with words sometimes," Padma threw out a compliment of her own, "I would however like to know how you feel about being Harry's girlfriend."
Millicent shrugged and said, "I'm not really good with words I assure you, but simply I love Harry and I love what he's done for me in making me part of the group. I don't think I'm good enough for him but if he wants me to be his girlfriend not matter how many other girlfriends he has then I'll accept."
She had to admit she was really impressed with Millicent. She'd already made great strides in where she'd been before. Perhaps at least to some regard, Millicent realized that by staying with Harry and the rest of them, she'd only get better from there.
It caused her to evaluate a few things of her own.
Finally however she told both girls, "well I'm certainly glad to have both of you. I'm sure Harry will as well."
TOOMANYTOOMANY
Fleur went to Daphne and Luna feeling like she had the easy job. They would be the easiest since they were already convinced that's what they wanted. Merlin, they even wanted to marry him by now. It was also why she'd agreed to also tell Su to make up for how easy her assignment was and frankly she had no idea what Su would decide. She was just impossible to read by anyone other than Luna.
"Harry has made his decision and he's decided to start officially dating all of us," Fleur announced.
Both girls grinned but then Daphne teased, "well on second thought I think I might not want to be with Harry anymore."
"Yeah," Luna agreed, also deciding to tease her, "I just got you all together with Harry so I could then steal all of the now available guys for myself."
"So now we find out your true plan!" Fleur joked right back.
All 3 of them laughed before Daphne said, "well you know all that time spent getting naked and kissing you has caused me to realize that I actually love you instead Fleur. Will you marry me?"
"Ooh marry me!" Luna insisted, now jumping up and down.
Daphne pretended to consider Luna's offer for a moment before saying, "sorry Fleur, Luna's right, I actually love her."
"Yes!" Luna said excitedly as she gave Daphne a quick kiss on the lips, "we just kissed so now we're married."
"I'm pretty sure it doesn't work like that, Luna, but while I'm sad to lose Daphne, I wish you both plenty of happiness," Fleur told her.
"Thank you Fleur, you can still come over sometimes to babysit our kids," Luna offered.
Shaking her head, as other then adopting that definitely wasn't possible and she was sure Luna knew that, Fleur then said, "in all seriousness I'm still trying to figure out just where we go from here. I mean even if none of the other girls go for it-"
"They'll go for it," Luna insisted confidently, "I've been working on getting them to this point since the beginning. It's been gradual enough that making this important step in the right direction will seem like an easy decision as it won't seem like too much of a stretch, but also have them realize just how much they actually do care for Harry and each other."
Daphne smiled, looking impressed as she told Luna, "you're a mad genius Luna. Probably the smartest girl I know, but so few others know that."
"I know it," Fleur pointed out, "I don't think anyone else could have gotten this far with your plan as crazy as I think it is looking back at it."
"It's only going to be just as crazy as time goes on," Luna said ominously.
TOOMANYTOOMANY
Currently Harry was now standing outside of a clothes dressing room while the girls tried on clothes.
"How long is this supposed to take?" He complained, already bored as he held a huge pile of clothes the girls had yet to try on.
As much as he had enjoyed at first watching the two very attractive girls model clothes for him, he was getting a bit tired of telling them how he felt about each outfit they tried on.
"As long as we want it to," Pansy called out from inside her dressing room, "if we're going to be your girlfriends Harry you have to treat us every once in awhile."
"It's not like you can't afford it," Susan reminded him as she came over with more clothes in her hands to try on, "how would you feel if we were to bleed you dry?"
He really hoped she was kidding.
Susan then stacked a new bra on top of the pile with him trying to avoid looking at it.
"Aren't you going to check the bra for the size?" Susan asked him, "any other guy probably would."
"Only if you want me to," He explained, "I'm sure another guy would but I respect you enough to keep that private if you want...even if I do like your huge boobs and I want to find out how big they are."
Susan smiled looking impressed before telling him, "I knew there was another reason why I decided to let you be my boyfriend."
"So does that mean you'll let me look then?" He asked.
She laughed before asking coyly, "I don't know, are you going to give that information out to anyone else? I'd imagine some guy would pay good money for that."
"Your boobs including the knowledge of their size are priceless," He insisted.
"All right well if you value them that highly then go ahead," Susan urged him.
He looked at the tag, his eyes widening when he read the size.
34H!
While he didn't know a lot about bra sizes, that seemed huge to him. A lot of guys would want to know that he thought.
"Yes they really are that big," Susan informed him in case there was any doubt in his mind, obligingly lifting up her huge boobs to show them off with pride, "they just keep growing and growing, but I don't mind, I want them to be huge and I just love them, I mean aren't they just incredible?"
Harry couldn't help but stare at her chest in awe.
"Yeah, they really are incredible," He agreed honestly, still staring.
"How were Padma's and Fleur's?" Susan asked him.
Evidently she'd found out that they had both gotten naked for him.
"Incredible," Harry replied honestly, "but yours are-"
"Even bigger," Susan answered with a sly smile, "I bet you want to see these naked too don't you Harry?"
"Yes," He replied immediately.
She however just winked at him and said, "well maybe if you are a good enough boyfriend someday I might let you."
"How do I look?" Pansy asked yet again as she came out of her dressing room to show off some clothes she was trying on.
Surprisingly it was rather casual in appearance, just a white tee shirt and jeans...which Pansy looked incredible in by the way, showing off her much less curvy than Susan, but still very attractive body.
"Why those?" He asked.
Pansy sighed before saying, "my parents will buy me all sorts of expensive clothing, but what I really would like is something more casual that says I'm just an ordinary and approachable person and not something that says I'm too rich and snooty to even look at."
He nodded. He could see why Pansy might feel that way. Frankly even her most casual clothing were probably more expensive than someone's car.
"The whole outfit is only a couple galleons, which is by far the cheapest clothing I've ever had," Pansy admitted.
That seemed reasonable to him.
"That's not bad, I don't mind buying that for you," He announced.
"You won't be saying that when you see how much my bra costs," Susan admitted.
He then checked the price tag on it...and nearly dropped it in shock.
"10 Galleons?" He questioned, "for just this?"
"Bras get expensive when you're as big as me," Susan replied, "why do you think I'm buying some now?"
"Since I'm buying," He surmised.
"Exactly," Susan said with a smile, "don't worry, I'll make it up to you."
"How so?" He asked, wanting to know just what he was getting out of this.
"Well for starters you can keep my old bra I'm currently wearing," Susan informed him, "and then since you are so nicely footing the bill I think it's only fair that you get to see me in it."
"Get whatever you want," He immediately responded.
She laughed and said, "I thought you'd see things my way."
"I know I'm not nearly as busty as Susan," Pansy said, "but if you'd like I'd be happy to give you my bra if you want."
"Nothing would please me more," Harry told her, earning a smile from Pansy.
"The only question is what are you going to do with them?" Susan teased.
"Start a bra collection maybe," He suggested, "some boys collect trading cards, me, I'll start collecting bras."
Pansy rolled her eyes and said, "you do realize you're going to be labeled as having a lingerie fetish?"
"Ah so what, every guy I know would still be jealous if they knew I happened to have Susan Bones and Pansy Parkinson's underwear," He pointed out, "I'd likely get plenty of offers for them but I would consider them far too valuable to part with, I'll guard them with my life."
"See that you do," Susan warned him, "I usually have to keep my underwear under lock and key."
He imagined Seamus and Dean dressed as bank robbers trying to break into a Gringotts' bank vault with nothing but Susan's underwear locked inside it.
Now that would be something worth robbing at least.
"Come on," Susan suggested to Padma, "let's start modeling some underwear for Harry, I'm sure you'd like that wouldn't you Harry?"
His heart skipped a beat as he asked, "are you just trying to get me to buy more clothes?"
"Is it working?" Susan asked.
"It depends on what I think of you in your underwear," Harry replied.
Both girls went into the dressing room and Susan came out first a moment later, clad only in their underwear. He was reminded again just how busty Susan really was. Even inside the red bra she was wearing she still was showing a generous amount of cleavage. They were just so perfect and huge to him.
"What do you think?" Susan asked him, clearly enjoying his reaction.
"Buy as many clothes as you want," He told her, "did I ever tell you you were seriously hot?"
Susan laughed and said, "oh, I think you might have mentioned it to me before."
"What about me?" Pansy asked still inside the changing room, "you want to come inside Harry and find out?"
Gulping, he proceeded inside the changing room, but found much to his surprise, Pansy wasn't wearing any bra.
Her breasts were actually quite small, especially in comparison to Susan's huge bust, but his mind was still going crazy over seeing Pansy's naked boobs.
She smiled, enjoying his reaction although a bit nervously.
"I know they aren't nearly as big as Susan's," Pansy admitted.
"They're beautiful though," He told her, causing her smile to return.
She held up her green bra and said, "don't forget your present. It's a 34B in case you were wondering."
He took it gratefully, vowing to her to treasure it always.
After letting him look her over for a bit longer, she had him leave to go try on more clothes.
The girls tried on quite a few more outfits before it was time to go and find Dumbledore, but he found it didn't mind. Both of them looked fantastic in just about everything they tried on and he was quick to tell them so, much to their approval.
In the end when they finally finished shopping, the girls turned out to not buy that many clothes even though he was quite worried by just how many clothes they tried on, which while he was apparently quite rich, he considered a definite plus to have girlfriends that weren't frivolous with money just because they had a rich boyfriend to mooch off.
They were keepers he thought.
Author's Note: It seemed to me that for at least most of the girls, it wouldn't be too difficult to decide to be one of Harry's girlfriends based upon how they've been progressing anyway. Of course I intended that from the very beginning, making it gradual enough that each additional step wouldn't be too big of a leap. That being said it may or may not be that way for Hermione or Su.