Author Note: This episode is three short stories connected by a common theme. One was based on an idea by IdlemanRPG, one was based on an idea I had while looking in the mirror shaving one day, and the last continues with our new friendly neighborhood Harry. Oh I am still working on Stripper Granger and Phoenix as well. So I have not forgotten.
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Slide By Side episode 3. "Unexpected Surprises"
Starring
Alpha Team Members
Harry Potter as Harry Seven
Ron Weasley as Ron Campbell
Jane Granger as Hecate
Hermione Granger as The Boss
Co-Starring
Luna Lovegood as first girlfriend
Ginny Weasley as second girlfriend
Hermione Potter as the wife.
Harry Potter as That Lucky Guy
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Timeframe
Summer 2010
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Alpha team came out of the wormhole onto the new world ready and relaxed. They radioed back they had arrived safe and sound and would proceed with mission under disguise.
Shifting into their alternative selves the three started walking down the gravel road towards Hogsmeade.
When they reached the edge of the village they saw that it was neat, tidy and looked relatively well maintained. The houses were all brightly painted and ranged from small quaint stone to a few larger Victorians.
"Looks pretty nice. Like their war wasn't too bad." Ron observed
Harry nodded looking around "Or they rebuilt it really well."
"Maybe."
Entering the main shopping district Ron froze, "Harry is that Luna?"
Harry looked where Ron was pointing to see what looked sort of like Luna standing talking to Lavender Brown outside a clinic. Lavender looked reasonably like herself, tall, strawberry blonde with high firm breasts over a somewhat average body. It was the Luna that Harry had to blink several times before he figured out it was her.
She stood her normal five foot three height. It was her weight that was absolutely unlike any Luna Harry had seen. She must have weighed several hundred pounds. She had a pear shaped body was the best Harry could describe it as. Moderate sized breasts, about the size of cantaloupes he supposed, that sat above a thick rolling pot belly that was exposed by the halter top and shorts she wore. It was her hips though, her hips and butt that showed the true size. Each cheek was the size of a Christmas ham and her hips looked like two tree trunks. Not from muscle but soft pillows of fat as they jiggled when she moved. She had said good bye to Lavender and started walking slowly down the street. Each thigh touching the other as they moved. The rest of her legs had thick calves but tiny dainty feet still.
Ron made a strange gurgle noise, "Its like watching a boat. One side goes up when the other goes down."
"Okay Ron focus. Let's follow her." Harry called out quietly. "Hecate you good?"
"Yeah I think I'll go check out the school. Okay?" She said over their comms.
"Be careful."
"I will love."
Ron and Harry followed Luna as she walked down the street, hips swaying in a rhythmic motion that was almost hypnotic Harry thought. She appeared to be heading towards the three broomsticks.
As they approached the pub they saw sitting outside in the summer sunshine Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley. He was putting the last bite of a whipped cream covered treacle tart in her mouth. There were seven plates in front of her with crumbs and residual tart in them. Her face was round and full with three chins jiggling as she laughed at something the local Harry said.
As she was behind the table Harry couldn't see anything other than her broad shoulders, thick arms and honeydew melon sized bosom which was resting on the table, covered by a Chudleigh Cannons jersey.
Ron made a strange snurking noise, "Is. That. Ginny?"
"Yes. I do believe she may have put some weight on." Harry casually observed.
"Well she must not have had a Quidditch career then." Ron said awkwardly.
"Shhhsh." Harry hushed him as they took a seat close enough to listen in as Luna sat down beside Harry.
"Aww Harry you didn't save me any? How am I going to catch up with Ginny if you're always feeding her first?" Luna pouted. Her thick full lips quivering.
"Okay. I'll get you some too." Harry said capturing those lips in a heavy kiss. His hand sliding across her belly in a circle before sliding under the table causing her to gasp.
Ron gagged, "I think I'm going to be sick man. Really."
"Hey pull it together man. Remember what Mione said. Infinite Diversity in Infinite Possibilities."
Ron turned his back on the three of them. Waving off Hannah Abbot who had asked what they wanted to order claiming to not be hungry. Harry got a beer and a plate of chips.
"Ron why don't you make yourself useful and go to the bookstore. Get the usual. History of Hogwarts, History of the battle. Any biographies you can."
"Yeah sure. Anything is better than this." Ron said scurrying off back towards the bookstore.
Harry sat and watched the three of them interacting. They seemed to be deeply in love, happy and comfortable with each other. Each of them had a gold ring on their left hand which glittered in the light.
Harry fed Luna eight treacle tarts loaded with whipped cream and sprinkles. She downed four pints of thick butterbeer to wash it all down with. Burping loudly the three of them laughed before standing up and heading out.
Now that Ginny was clear of the table. Round was the only way Harry could describe her. Her belly began just below her breasts and rolled outwards. It fell over her waist band in a creamy avalanche of skin that stuck out from under the hem of the shirt. Harry could see her legs actually moving her belly as she walked. Her back side was wide and stuck out in a round bubble over thick thighs that sloped downwards to heavy sandal covered feet.
He waited until they had moved off far enough then tossed some coins on the table and followed them. "Subjects are on the move."
"Try not to get in their way Harry, you might not make it." Ron replied.
"Very funny. I scanned them. They are all reading as healthy."
"No freaking way man. A person cannot get that big and still be healthy."
Hecate cleared her mental voice as she stated, "Actually magicals can get to some pretty extreme levels of obesity without the sort of health issues muggles would have."
"Well I mean what kind of levels are we talking?" Ron's frown came through the comm clearly.
"A thousand pounds or so, plus or minus a few dozen." Hecate answered.
"Well neither this Luna nor Ginny are there. Although Luna weighs 540 pounds and Ginny is hitting 580. According to the scans." Harry explained.
Ron made a strange sound over the comms. "Oh. My. God!." Came through clearly though.
"I think they are going home as they just turned down a lane. There a chubby young girl in the front yard playing with a chubby young boy."
"What the hell happened to them. This Harry looks normal."
"Ron. Just come over here and leave the attitude." Harry ordered humorlessly.
"Yes sir." Ron snapped back.
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The group had gathered outside the house that Harry and the two women had entered. It had wide double doors and a ramp going up to the front porch. Thick heavy chains hung a swing on the porch from the heavy rafters. Everything about the house seemed to be oversized or overbuilt.
"Alright so what did you find out in the books?"
"They had a war, it went relatively normally. Harry and his wives all got married and popped out a couple kids. Hermione is Minister for Magic and Harry is filthy loaded rich." Ron rattled off grumpily.
Hecate had curled up in Harry's lap, "McGonnegal is headmistress, Snape died, Neville's the assistant headmaster and the defense professor. Otherwise the usual sort of things."
"So the ONLY difference is Luna and Ginny's weight." Harry observed.
"Right so we need to know what happened. I wonder if they got hit by a curse or something bad. Maybe a potion or ritual gone wrong?" Ron suggested.
"They seem happy and enjoy it. So they don't seem to be troubled or bothered by it. If anything they seem to be excited about it." Harry explained.
"Look This ain't right. There's got to be something wrong. Maybe this Harry is evil and he has them under the imperious or something. Maybe he's under it."
Harry looked at Ron who was desperately coming up with reasons that something must be wrong. "What the hell's going on Ron. You seem wierded out by this."
"Yeah I am. You know how Mum's a big woman right?"
Harry gave him a wry look, "Uh kinda hard not to notice that."
"Yeah and she's always shoving food on people. Oh you're not feeling well here eat, oh you're feeling great eat, hey you're sad eat something. Eat this eat that. All my life I go over there and she's shoving food on me. It's just. I don't find it cool okay. And seeing Luna like that. All gross and jiggly and, and fat." Ron shivered a little bit.
Harry sighed before patting his friend on the shoulder. "Alright. Hermione likes the data anyhow so let's go say hi."
"You know she didn't want us to make contact without there being a very good reason."
"I know there is one. They've got to be cursed or something. Normal people just don't do that." Ron shook his head.
Harry shrugged ans Hecate sighed.
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The door to the house was opened by Harry Potter who looked at the two men and a cat standing on his porch with an easy relaxed expression, "Hello. Can I help you?"
"Perhaps. I'm Harry Seven and this is my friend Ron Campbell. We're from Canada and would like to interview you and your wives about your lives for a research project we are doing."
"Oh okay. I thought all that furor over what we did had died down. I mean the tenth anniversary was a few years ago."
"Oh I know. But we wanted to talk to you about the lasting effects and any repercussions that may have occurred due to long term exposure to the dark magic." Harry had gotten much better at his sales pitch and speaking off the cuff.
"Who is it dear?" They heard Hermione's voice coming from inside the house.
"A couple of researchers from Canada. They said they wanted to talk to use about our dark magic exposure and any repercussions." He said over his shoulder.
"Oh well dinner won't be for another half hour so if they want to come in they can." She replied sweetly.
"Well if you'll come with me." The local Harry said pulling the door open. The three entered a large living room with huge comfortable looking furniture. The local Hermione stood in the middle of the room with her hands on her hips. Hips that stuck out a good foot on either side of her waist as they tapered down into thighs that made Ginny's look like twigs. Her belly was a round dome that was small because nothing grew in the shade was the random odd thought that ran screaming through Harry's head. Her belly was shaded by a pair of mammoth sweater zeppelins that protruded at least two feet or more out from her chest wall. Quivering in place due to an obvious hover charm on the large nipple rings visible through the tight shirt stretched over her body. Tearing his eyes from her bosom Harry noticed that this Hermione's face was round and full with three chins and huge dimples on her cheeks.
Both Ron and Harry were frozen staring at her like deer in the middle of the interstate with a semi coming at their face. Ron in total shock and disbelief while Harry stared in awe and wonder. She was still a Hermione and still looked good even with the extra weight he thought. A warring thought though went screaming through his head that if he mentioned this to his Hermione he might want to find a world somewhere at the other end of the spectrum from her until she calmed down.
"Hello gentlemen. Are you alright?" She asked.
"They're just overwhelmed by your vision of beauty my sweet." Harry said squishing himself between her bosom. To kiss her on the lips.
Ron shook his head breathing hard he said, "No way man. No way."
"Your friend seems to be having some issues?"
"Well we were not exactly expecting you to be so, uh, Rubenesque." Harry politely said.
"Well come on out back and we can explain it. Neville's roasting a hog with us." She turned revealing that her hips had hidden how far her back side swelled into a hemispherical shelf sticking out a foot deep and three feet wide. The doorways and doors were 6 feet wide and she moved through them with barely a foot clearance on either side.
"We used to have normal sized doors in the house but Hermione kept getting stuck and knocking things down so we renovated the place to be a lot more forgiving to her anatomy." The local Harry explained.
"So what curse did she get hit with man?" Ron gasped once they were outside and he saw the other two girls.
"Curse? Curse?" The local Harry repeated in rising disgust. "She was not cursed she was blessed with beauty and so much love and joy." Harry said smacking Hermione on the firm bottom curve of her butt making it jiggle briefly as it settled back into its superb roundness.
Harry took a brief moment to make a tactical scan of the backyard. There were three girls and four boys between teen and pre-teen in age, all of them chubby. Neville stood over the grill roasting an entire hog and a side of beef it seemed like. He was wearing a pair of Hawaiian pattern board shorts with a button down shirt to match that was unbuttoned allowing his gut to stick out. Beside his stood Susan Bones. Her five foot four frame carrying at least 400 pounds it looked like. Mostly in her breasts but a large round belly carried a great deal. Harry also noticed that Luna and Ginny had moved closer to Ron when he began speaking.
"You consider that fat mound of blob beautiful what's wrong with you man!" Ron's outcry was followed by a loud oofing noise as Ginny had moved quicker than Harry had expected to use her belly to knock Ron off balance from behind, so focused he was on the local Harry who was openly fondling Hermione's backside the way a Ferengi fondled latinum. Luna then used her hips as a ram to batter him from the side so that he fell on his back. She then sat down hard on Ron's face. Causing him to begin to make muffled screams and attempts to shove her off of him. Luna for her part began to giggle and bite her lip while moaning.
"Uh. Is he going to be okay?" Harry asked afraid to move as everyone was focused on him.
"Oh yeah. Luna knows exactly how long she can sit on someone's face before they pass out from lack of oxygen." The local Harry said with the air of someone who had experienced that several times, and was hoping to do so again. "Your friend is really lucky."
"And very stimulating too." Luna said from her position atop Ron whose screams had grown weaker and his flailing arms only weakly struggling.
"Uh. He's not used to this sort of thing. The women in his life are a lot skinnier."
Hermione sighed, "Oh the poor boy."
Harry's bracer beeped that Ron's life signs indicated he had passed out. "Uh no offense but Ron just passed out. Could you uh get off him now?"
"Oh shit and I just barely got started." Luna pouted. Causing the kids to giggle until Susan hushed them.
Ginny took Luna's hands and tried pulling her up with Neville's help from behind lifting her off of him. Harry pulled his med kit and scanned Ron who seemed to be okay other than having been smothered and messed. Harry gave him a shot of tri-ox compound and a stimulant to wake him up.
Ron came to screaming "NOOOO! Not like this. Not! Like! This!" Looking around wildly he scrambled backwards away from Luna who was looking at him oddly.
"What's wrong with him?"
"He was attacked by a clown in a fat suit when he was younger. Very bad experience. Sorry about that." Harry said.
Ron why don't you and Hecate go relax down at the three broomsticks or something until I'm ready to leave.
Ron nodded fearfully, "Don't let them eat you man. Seriously. I thought it was game over man. Game over!"
Harry gently slapped Ron on the cheek, "C'mon get a hold of yourself. You're falling to pieces."
"Right. Right Harry. Be careful man." Ron said as he stumbled out of the house followed by Hecate.
"Be a good girl and watch over him will you Hecate?"
"Mawrer" The cat meowed back but Harry heard, "Yeah right. I'm going to record this for Luna to see."
Harry rolled his eyes but turned back to the locals with a wide smile, "Really sorry about that. He just has some unresolved childhood issues that spring back up at the most inconvenient times you know."
"Oh who doesn't" Harry laughed as they sat down. They explained about how they got so big was Harry made a wish on his seventeenth birthday and they learned to accept it. Harry enjoyed their fuller figures and had no problem with them. Neville had even joined them a couple of times and realized he liked the bigger girls too and soon Susan was part of their group.
When he asked about Ron the locals all got different unpleasant expressions explaining that he did not react well to their larger size or happiness and left them. Their friendship had been broken too much to ever be repaired and he was married to a positively anorexic Daphne Greengrass who only weighed 180 pounds according to Luna. Who still ran the Quibbler with articles about the positive aspects of custard filled bacon wrapped cheeseburger bakes in the fight against evil. Ginny had never had a Quidditch career but helped run the cooking school her mother had founded before she hit the 1000 pound mark and could only go around with the help of a hover chair. Arthur was still alive although as skinny as he was he did get stuck in one of Molly enormous folds occasionally and Harry had to help George fish him out.
By the end of the evening Harry had if not come to agree with or want to adopt the local Harry's particular ideology he at least understood and was happy for them.
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Coming back through the wormhole to Alpha Ron was still looking shell-shocked and shaking his head. Muttering under his breath about all he saw was the end of his life flashing before his eyes, smothered in darkness. He walked right past Hermione who watched him go before turning to Jane and Harry who had returned to their normal forms. "What's all that about?"
"Oh Luna sat on his face."
Hermione raised her eyebrow, "You'd think he'd be a lot happier about that."
"Yeah let me tell you about it. Say over some chili cheese fries?" Harry offered smiling happily.
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Harry was sitting in his office at the Institute alone working on a report he should have completed days ago. Hermione was still not quite sure what to make of the last world they had encountered but decided that intervention would not be required as they all were happy and doing it of their free will. Although finding out that there was a version of herself that weighed 680 pounds did seem to motivate her to hit the gym a lot harder. Although Rhonda found it funny but said she'd stay with her 280 pounds on her 5'8" frame.
The emergency alert klaxon went off causing him to drop everything and run to the control room. On the way he heard Padma's voice calling for security to the gate room.
Reaching the gate room right behind the armed response team they leapt into the room the moment the blast doors unsealed. Harry holding his wand at the ready he slid to a stop as he saw standing in the middle of the room looking relaxed and amused Hermione Granger, Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley. They were wearing light tan jumpsuits with a mission patch on the shoulder that had a series of Earths fading into the distance on it.
Harry stood staring into the honey brown eyes of the new Hermione briefly before smiling and welcoming them, "Hello. I'm Harry Potter and this is the Granger Institute for Techno-Magical Research."
"Well Hello, Harry. I'm Hermione Granger-Weasley-Potter. But you can call me Hermione." She said holding her hand out.
Harry got a rather amused expression as he shook her hand. "I have got to hear the story behind your name."
"Really very simple. I couldn't make up my mind on which one to marry so when the Queen offered me a boon for saving the world I took it." HGWP smiled politely. Harry felt the stirrings in his chest and loins that smile caused.
"Okay. Well if you'll come with me we'll retire to a briefing room. My wife Hermione will meet us there."
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In the control room Hermione was looking at the readings, "Does their wormhole originate in the same direction as the one who left us the Muggleme?"
"No. It doesn't have the same energy signature either. This one is at least 10k past the theta band and laser focused in the nanometer scale." Padma replied hitting keys on her console.
"Magical readings from them?"
"She's in the 9000 thaum range while the two boys are in the 8 to 9k range. So about your equal. Scans indicate no weapons or other magic items than a wand on each of them, and a belt with some pouches of holding. No idea whats in the pocket dimensions though."
"Alright. Keep a close eye on things. I don't like surprises and we have been having far too many of them recently."
"Aye aye captain." Padma said spinning her chair back around to her main scanning console to probe the subetheric wavefronts of the multidimensional spectra.
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"So where's your Ron Weasley?" Hermione GWP asked as they entered the briefing room.
"Oh he took a sabbatical to get over a nasty shock he had on a recent mission."
"Oh what'd he encounter" The new Ron asked seriously.
"A Luna that weighed over 500 pounds sitting on his face." Harry said nodding with a earnest smile, "Coffee, water, tea? Soda?"
Ron looked confused, "Whoa hold up. A Luna that weighed 500 pounds?"
"Somewhat over, Closer to 600 actually." Harry explained sitting down when no one asked for anything.
"Damn I bet Neville would still hit that." Harry chuckled sitting next to Hermione on her other side.
"Neville will hit anything in a skirt, remember that guy at the Highland games." Ron laughed.
Harry(A) sat down looking at the trio with his eyebrow raised. "Your Neville is bi?"
"Naw man he's try. He'll try anything and if he likes it he'll try it again. That's why him and Luna get along so well." Harry guffawed at his own bad joke.
Hermione GWP was smiling happily at something, "Yeah and I really don't mind him trying, over and over." She happily sighed.
Harry(A) looked at her with his eyebrow raised, "I take it you've had personal experience."
Hermione GWP shrugged a little bit, "Okay so I like sex, a lot. I am choosy you know. I'm not some slut who will open her legs for any random person."
Harry raised his hand, "Oh I have no doubt. I didn't mean to imply anything. Just trying to get to know you guys."
"True that is why we are exploring the multiverse. I take it you've been doing the same?" HGWP asked pointing to Harry(A)'s uniform.
"Yeah. We started back in school and have been doing so for a while now."
"Wow. This is only our fourth jump. We just broke the dimensional barrier a couple years ago." Ron exclaimed.
"Really? Wow." Harry(A) said impressed.
"Well I focused more on an Alcuberrie drive to propel spacecraft through higher dimensional N-space utilizing super-string theory. I based it off of the Cooper-Fowler effect."
Harry(A) stared at her for several second before Ron chuckled again, "Yeah we get that a lot."
"Oh okay. We found a magic device that lets us open a doorway through the worlds." Harry(A) said weakly.
"Oh. Well that works too I suppose." HGWP said politely.
"My husband was a bit too lacking in detail of what's going on around here. Hello. I'm Hermione Potter."
The trio stood, "Oh hello. I'm sorry if I sounded insulting. I didn't intend to."
"Oh no problem. I get it." Harry(A) replied to HGWP.
"Well if you don't mind answering some questions of ours we can answer yours." HP said with a smile.
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The two groups sat and talked for several hours as they exchanged information about their respective worlds. They called their interdimensional exploration division the Elseworlds Project. The overall Institute for Advanced Magical Research and Development was a partnership developed by Hermione, Luna Longbottom, Cho Diggory and Padma Macmillan.
Hermione GWP had given birth to four children two for each husband. Two daughters and two sons. One of each for each husband. Charles Sirius, named after two of the Marauders Charles Lupin and Sirius Black, and Lily Luna. Both of them with Harry. Emily Rose and William James were the children she had with Ron.
When asked about who had lived and who had died the Elseworlds contingent had given a list of about 45 people. Adults and students who had been killed in their war which included some of their friends like Lavender, Bill Weasley, Hagrid, Professor Sprout and Colin Creevey.
On happier news they learned that Neville and Luna had three kids and that his parents were responding to a treatment the IAMRD had developed. They were still in the hospital but able to speak and initiate communication again. Ginny was married to Abigail Perkwith and they had adopted a sweet little girl named Dolly. Their name was Weasley as Ginny was the husband in the pairing.
The previous three worlds they had encountered was one where everyone was gender flipped with Harriet Potter having married Herman Granger. One where Harry ran a private detective agency with Luna, Hermione and Ginny as his crew. Unfortunately they had also found a world where Ron had gone mad from jealousy and murdered his family in an effort to be the last and only Weasley.
"Yeah you should see Harriet she's actually pretty good looking." Harry said with a grin.
"Neville said he wants to visit to see if he could seduce Nellie." Ron chortled.
"Yeah well would that be sex or masturbation I wonder." Harry(A) laughed with them as they had become rather comfortable with each other.
Both Hermiones gave out a long sigh, "Okay guys. I'm not sure we can handle having two of you in the same room if you keep making jokes like that."
"Sorry Dear." Both Harrys said automatically.
"Now that I could get used to." HGWP purred.
"Yeah well we need to get ready for dinner. You're welcome to come and meet the rest of the family if you'd like."
"No we better get back to our world." HGWP smiled. "I need to get this paperwork in. But we can come back tomorrow if you'd not mind?"
"No I suppose not." HP agreed, "Maybe we can come through at some point and explore your facility."
"I'd like that. Maybe we could trade Harrys for a night too." HGWP wiggled her eyebrows.
HP raised her eyebrow as Harry carefully kept his face schooled into a neutral innocent expression. "I'll take it under consideration. I already share him a lot with the other wives."
The walk back to the gate room was taken up by an explanation of their marital status and the various children each had provided. Also Ron, Neville, Ginny and the others.
"Well maybe next time we can meet the local Ron." Ron hopefully said.
"Maybe. I'm sure he'll like that." HP said. She held her hand out when he went to give her a hug.
"Uh. You and him aren't lovers are you?"
"There is not enough love potion on the planet to make me." HP said, "I'm quite happy with Harry, even if I do have to share him."
HGWP pulled a device the size of a small paperback book out of her pouch and punched in a code summoning their wormhole. Harry and Ron walked through it vanishing into the ether with a slight pop, HGWP leaned close to HP and whispered something before running through after her men. The wormhole spiraling closed in a rainbow of excited particles.
"What did she say before she left?" Harry asked.
Hermione shook her head, "She made a rather rude suggestion about threesomes with you and Ron."
"She seems kinky." Harry said putting his arm around her shoulders.
"Yeah. If I get one more surprise this week I am going to scream, you do realize that."
"I know."
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On a world deep in the theta band a Harry Potter stalked the local Ronald Weasley. The man had married Hermione but did not treat her with the respect she deserved. He kept her from her friends and had convinced her to not have a career somehow. This Harry had no idea how he had managed that.
He had seen this Hermione up close while Ron had been at work. She was a drawn, haggard and tired looking woman who had a black eye. The six children they had screamed and scrambled unheeding of her words until she lost her cool and screamed bloody murder at them. Knocking one along the head with the back of her hand to get him to stop pulling on his sister's hair. The baby in its crib the only one quietly behaving.
The local Ronald had stepped into the alley in a much larger Ottery to take a piss on the wall. His drunken pub crawl with some of his buddies from the Chudleigh Cannons fan club continuing into the night. The Harry moved like a specter from shadow to shadow. Seeing his opportunity as the others went on with their crawl leaving Ron alone in the alley Potter moved in.
Ron turned around zipping his trousers before pausing and smiling, "Oi Harry what're you doing here?"
Harry smiled before stepping forward and grabbing Ron's throat he slammed him against the wall hard enough to cause a cracking thump noise. Ron instantly became groggy but otherwise stayed conscious. "What the fuck mate." He choked out as he struggled to get free of the vice like grip holding him against the wall.
"I'm not your mate. I am the vengeance that will see you pay for your crimes against her." He hissed as his eyes began to glow a dull red.
"Wha tha fuc." Ron was having more difficulty choking out words as the grip on his windpipe grew tighter.
"You should have loved and respected her. She deserved better than you. You failed her." His voice had fallen into a low growl.
Ron was no longer making recognizable words as his arms raked the Harry's arm. He had forgotten about his wand in the drunken haze. With a sickly wet gurgle his throat crushed the Ron Weasley of this world was snuffed out.
Throwing the body in a nearby dumpster Harry swiftly left the alley and Ottery. Standing outside the small abode of Ronald and Hermione Weasley Harry considered what to do with her. The local Harry had married Luna Lovegood and had three cute children with her. He occasionally had tried to keep in contact with Hermione but Ron had driven a wedge between them so far that he walked away and never looked back. It was a crime but not one that would be fatal for him. He would just have to live with the guilt of not knowing what happened to her. They would all live with that guilt. May they rot in that guilt Potter thought. Although the Weasleys, the rest of them deserved a visit from him. Yes they had blood on their hands and would pay.
Looking in the window as Hermione tiredly did the dishes by hand Potter thought what to do with her though. She actually loved her children, even if they did not always obey or respect her, so she would never part with them. He smiled as he thought of the perfect place for her.
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Harry Potter was in bed with his wife Rhonda snuggled closely in a deep sleep. The other wives in their own rooms as it wasn't their turn on the schedule Hermione had worked out carefully with their input and help.
He was rather rudely awoken by someone screaming his name as the house wards pinged that an intruder had arrived. He called out for Dobby to close the house down and awaken the others. He leapt out of bed grabbing his wand and ran out the door telling Rhonda to see to the kids. Fortunately he had worn pajama bottoms at least to bed as he slid down the banister behind Jane he saw. Somehow the girl had managed to awaken, throw a shift on and beat him to the stairs.
Landing softly the pair of them moved swiftly to the lounge. Covering each other as they saw the light glowing softly from the room.
Peeking around the corner they saw a Hermione standing with five children in some kind of stasis field. She had a babe in arms and there were several boxes sitting around. The room with names on them.
Sighing Harry looked at Jane who reached out and picked up the envelope off the floor in front of the family in the glowing green field. She read the name on it and handed it to Harry. Hermione came in behind them.
"What the frak? IS this another gift from our friend?"
"Looks that way." Harry said handing her the letter.
'Hello my friends, I'm sorry for dropping these folks off on you suddenly like this but you see they have no home any more. Her spouse, the abominable bastard, Ronald Weasley abused and beat her until someone decided that he would not do that anymore. The rest of her alleged friends had moved on with their lives and ignored or forgot about her. I did not forget once I found her. I bring her to you as I know how much you appreciate Hermiones and love them, plus your fondness for children should help make things better for the younglings. Sorry if their personalities need a bit of a firm hand to guide them, he and his smother were rather indulgent with them. I'm sure your matriarch will be able to whip them into shape soon enough with that Weasley charm. Until next time. Treat her nicely, she deserves it.'
"Oh for fucks sake." Hermione hissed throwing the paper on the desk. "What are we a rehab house for Hermiones now?"
Jane looked at the note then shrugged, "Well it could be worse you know. And that is kinda the reason Harry supported creating the Granger Institute for."
Hermione looked at Jane crossly, "Not helping Jane."
Jane shrugged as she said, "Sorry. Just remembering what would have happened if you guys hadn't intervened in my life."
"She's got a black eye." Harry observed before Hermione could reply to Jane. "He beat her."
Hermione's countenance softened immediately. "Dobby bring me the medical kit please. And cancel the security alert."
Dobby complied then popped back out.
"Okay so how do we get them out of this bubble?"
Harry reached out and touched the bubble which collapsed with a soft pop.
The Hermione that was holding the baby gasped, "Where am I? What happened?"
"Okay calm down and relax. You're safe."
"I want my daddy. I want to go home. This isn't home." The children began to wail.
It took several minutes to calm everyone down and with Rhonda using her matriarchal tone of voice to get the children to head off to a bedroom before Hermione could examine and treat the new guest's injuries.
"So he beat you?" Hermione asked gently.
"Well he has a bit of a temper sometimes. So uh no offense but where exactly am I?" She asked looking at Harry curiously.
"You are in Potterplace. On what is an alternate reality from the one you originated in."
"A parallel dimension?"
"Correct. One where I married Harry and Ron is not an abusive jerk."
The new Hermione smiled awkwardly. Revealing a missing tooth before she pursed her lips together when she saw Hermione looking.
"Tomorrow you and the kids go to the Institute for a full medical workup and treatment plan. You've got some vitamin deficiencies and other issues I want to get cleared up. You had your children pretty quickly didn't you?"
"Well Ron said he wanted them to all grow up close in age like his family had. I. I didn't see a problem with it."
"You've been used as a brood mare and beaten. And there was no problem?" Hermione flatly growled.
"IDIP Mione." Harry gently reminded her.
She nodded and went through the breathing techniques to relax.
"Okay well you're here. You're free and you'll not be going back. I'll send a team there to collect any of your things. That haven't come across with you if you want."
"I'll have to go through everything. But I still don't know how I got here. One second I was finishing the dishes and the next I was standing in your living room." She said with a hesitant laugh.
Hermione sighed, "Alright. The short version of this is we know a person who apparently has the ability to travel interdimensionally and he brought you here. To save you from Ron apparently."
"Oh. Will Ron follow me here?"
"No trust me when I say it is highly doubtful your Ron will ever be able to follow you here." Harry said knowingly.
"And the Ron that lives here?" She asked with a real fear in her voice.
"He is happily married to three Luna's and has fringe benefits with a fourth. While being a bit of a prat at times he is a nice guy who loves his wives and children deeply."
"And the rest of the Weasleys? Are they. Are they nice?"
"Molly is an awesome grandma. She bakes and knits and dotes on the kids but doesn't let them get away with too much." Jane said fondly.
"Oh and the others? I mean Ginny especially. Is she a bitch or is she nice?"
"She's nice. She just decided her and Neville are going to have a baby so they're working on that. Her and Harry are good friends,more like siblings. I take it the one you knew wasn't?"
She shook her head, "Harry dumped her. According to Harry he found out she was using him and cheating on him. According to Ron Harry just couldn't handle her. I don't know what happened as I was pregnant and married to Ron by then. And he kept me from talking to Harry too much."
"So why didn't you divorce him?" Harry asked gently.
She took a deep breath "It was an ancient marriage rite that we went through. You can't divorce from those. I was young and romantic and thought we'd love each other forever."
"Okay. Well I think that's enough questions for tonight. You look like you need to get some sleep and I need to file some reports and make preparations for tomorrow. Jane can show you to a bedroom." Hermione interrupted as the new one was looking at the carpet wringing her hands.
"Uh thank you. I'll make it up to you somehow." Hermione said smiling at Harry.
"We can discus that later." Harry replied with a polite smile of his own.
Once her and Jane were out of the room Harry took his glasses off and rubbed his face with a sigh. "Wow. Just wow. So what are we going to do with her?"
"Help her rebuild her life. I'm more concerned with this Harry. Why's he doing this?"
"He's saving Hermiones." Harry said with a shrug like it was obvious.
"Do you think he killed that Ron?"
Looking at the letter Harry took a deep breath before nodding, "I'd bet on it."
Hermione nodded, "You do realize that's twice he just strolled in here like he owned the place."
"He's an alternate reality version of me. The wards can't tell the difference between him and me. If I set the wards to exclude him I'll exclude myself." Harry explained.
"I know. I know. I need to work on a way to block the way he travels. Its not the same way we do it but it is. You go on to bed Harry I'll need to go into the Institute and look at the scans."
"Okay. But try to take a nap at least a little bit please."
"I will."
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The next morning Rhonda had all of the children herded into the dining room for breakfast. She had called in Selene to help her which caused the newcomers to learn that not all Lunas were soft.
Harry learned that the new kids were William Perry, Annabelle Lee, Perseus Bubo, Jimmy Harris, Beatrice Tinker and Andrea Joan.
"Those are some interesting name choices."
"Well William was killed in the war so Ron wanted to name his first born after him. The others are from various books. Although Joan is my middle name."
Selene raised her eyebrow, "A tinker is also a potter isn't it?"
"They can be." Hermione II said with downcast eyes.
Harry met Selene's eyes but said nothing as she simply nodded.
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That afternoon Harry was sitting in Hermione's office at the Institute.
"So what did you learn?"
"The team I sent out brought back the papers. Ron Weasley's body was found in a dumpster behind a muggle pub in Ottery. His throat had been crushed, the authorities are thinking it was a troll that did it as he was in debt to a Goblin bookie named Thorbak up to his eyebrows."
"What about the rest of the Weasleys?"
She licked her lips before exhaling,"They were found dead. Various methods used but all grisly. They're still blaming the Goblin mafia for it. Saying they wanted to make an example for those who didn't pay their debts."
Harry shook his head, "Damn. And the rest of them? Their Harry and Neville and such?"
She shrugged, "Not much else. Harry married Luna, three children. He teaches at Hogwarts. Charms apparently. Neville is a healer at Saint Mungos married to Lavender. Two children."
Harry sighed, "So they moved on and left her behind trapped in a marriage to an abusive husband."
"If they had used the rite I'm thinking of there isn't much they could have done. It literally is until death do they part. If she'd committed adultery against him she would have paid for it with her life."
"Well that's a cruel rite. We don't have that one on this world do we?"
"Its rather fallen out of favor." Hermione nodded. Harry felt that it fell out of favor due to her finding every copy of it and burning it but wasn't sure.
"Okay so now what?"
"Well Hermione or Mia as she wants to be called will be staying on this world. I guess we can let her stay at the estate until we can make some other arrangements. She had some health issues though. She was a brood mare, she had barely recovered from one pregnancy when she was in another one. She'd just had the most recent baby in March and was having trouble making milk. We had to give her some nutritional supplements, some vitamins, healing. The scans showed multiple ribs had been broken at one point or another." She rubbed her temples.
"I can't believe there would be a Ron that broken." Harry sighed.
"Infinite Diversity in Infinite Probabilities Harry. Who knows we may find one where I'm an intolerant bossy bitch." She said with a gentle smirk.
"Maybe." He agreed with a chuckle before frowning. "I'm just worried how far this Harry will go, and how many more Hermiones we'll have dropped on our doorstep before he's done."
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OfficerDonNZ: Yes it did. This story is being set up in the episodic tv format. So some answers will have to wait until later. It should be an interesting trip along the way. Also gives me another way to get some of the shorter ideas I can't figure out how to stretch into a full fledged story developed.
Kelwin: Here ya go. Hope you enjoyed. I know this one doesn't get updated as frequently as the main ones I'm working on. Sorry about that but the way my mind and life works it happens.