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Coven of Seven
Chapter 6: Death Isn't Tasty
Susan was staring at her hand in awe, wondering if she would ever wash it again. Harry Potter had kissed the back of her hand twice Today! Once for their greeting and again when he wished them a good evening before the match started.
"Earth to Susan!" Hannah yelled into Susan's ear causing her to jerk and practically fall off her bed in the wizarding tent her aunt Amelia had acquired for the world cup.
"What!" Susan snapped as she glared at Hannah. Hannah merely crossed her arms over her chest. She was jealous though trying to hide it. Harry had talked with Hannah, even joked but she had noticed how his eyes would drift to Susan every minute or two, sometimes just a glance sometimes he felt a few seconds watching her. It was clear to Susan that Harry was interested in Susan and Hannah was having a hard time keeping the ugly green monster of jealousy from escaping.
"You have been staring at your hand for the past five minutes, and you haven't responded to a single thing I have said" Hannah explained with a slight scowl.
"I'm sorry Hannah," Susan said apologetically, causing Hannah to sigh and uncross her arms.
"It's fine Su." Hannah's use of Susan's nickname made Susan smiled slightly. And patted her bed where Hannah flopped down.
"So a pretty crazy day huh?" Hannah said and Susan could only giggle.
"Yeah Pretty crazy. Never expected to make friends with Harry Potter today, and then for Ireland to win but for Krum to catch the snitch." Susan shook her head as she spoke and Hannah smiled.
"Yea But come one, now that you have seen the real thing you have to admit Krum is pretty hot on a broom." Hannah teased and Susan just shrugged.
"I stand by what I said, he also looks so unhappy, it's nothing like when Harry is on his broom," Susan said getting a dreamy look on her face again as she glanced at her hand. Hannah just frowned slightly and opened her mother to say something.
"Girls! Come here quick!" Amelia yelled from the main room of the tent, causing both Susan and Hannah to jump but rush out of their room.
Amelia was standing in the middle of the room with a grim look on her face as she held out a sock.
"Come here and touch the sock, something has happened and I need to send you both home. When you get there, stay inside until I return. Do you understand me?" Amelia said in a deadly serious tone that caused both Susan and Hannah to nod meekly and take sock between them. In the next moment, each of them vanished from sight and Amelia hurried from the tent.
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"So why did you tell Harry no? It seemed like you were having fun, you and Hermione had a lot to talk about." Tracy asked Daphne as they both settled into their beds in the room they both shared while they stayed at the world cup. Tracy father was in the other room.
"Did you see him when he first walked up? With four girls trailing him? I mean where was his friend Ron? Or any of the Gryffindor boys? And then he comes to us and asks us to join him. Like he wants to show off. Six girls all around him, following him like lovesick puppies." Daphne explained with a shrug.
"who cares? I mean Harry Potter asked us to spend the afternoon with him. Harry Potter, Daphne. He could have put a collar and leash on me and I still would have gone with. He was also hot, scrawny but so hot, I mean those eyes!" Tracy said with a shiver. "They are always so intense. But man over this last summer he has hit a growth spurt. He is tailed than anyone in our year by two inches, at least. And those muscles. Remember when that crowd was about to run over Susan? He just wrapped an arm around her waist and lifted her right out of the way, as if it was nothing. And she has a rather… curvy build." Tracy added to the end trying to be as least insulting as possible. It wasn't as if Susan wasn't beautiful she was, she just had a heavier set than most other girls their age. She would probably grow into it but for now, she was just a little pudgy.
Daphne rolled her eyes a total of three times through her friend's rant but kept quiet. She had tried in the past to break Tracy's celebrity worship of Harry but it never worked. Daphne knew better. She remembered the terrified little boy with green eyes September first of their first year. She had seen out in the station, though she didn't know who he was at the time, and he was completely lost. She had watched him cringe away from his fame watched him flinch around adults and students who entered his personal space. But at the same time grow a spine of steel in the face of Malfoy and Snape. She had seen him when he looked to have the weight of the world on his shoulders in second year, and how he just looked as if he wanted to give up and let the weight crushed him. No there was more to Harry than being the boy who lived, he wasn't a perfect person, not like Tracy saw. He was a broken boy, but he still strong, and powerful. Daphne could only imagine what he would be capable of if he was emotionally and mentally whole.
In fact, the Harry she had seen today had given her a glimpse of that possibility. His confidence, his poster, and body language. Something had happened over that summer, something that had turned Harry into a king among boys like she always knew he could be.
"Besides he wasn't showing us off anyways." Tracy continued. "I mean he hardly looked at anyone but us, you especially." At this Tracy winked at her. "If he ever invites you to a broom closet bring me with you ya?" Tracy teaser and Daphne whipped one of her pillowed around and launched it into Tracy's face as she glared at her. This only caused Tracy to laugh.
"Ok, Ok. The first time you can have him all to yourself, but the second time you have to bring me along, you can't keep that much hunk to yourself.
Daphne decided then that her best course of action was to flop down and ignore her friend, at least that had been her plan until she heard screams coming from outside.
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Fleur awoke to the feeling of her shirt being ripped open and tried to jerk away as she opened her eyes only to find herself floating in mid-air the family she remembered from before floating around her, looking down she saw twelve figures wearing masks looking up at her and laughing as one of them moved his wand and she felt her skirt sliding slowly down her legs. With a cry, Fleur tried to reach down to grab it only to find she couldn't move her arms and her face turned red with anger and shame as she heard a few catcalls from below her, but she refused to look down.
"Look at that ass boys." Someone called and she felt her legs being spread slowly by the same magic that was holding her up. Fleur ground her teeth and tried to hold back tears as she started to shake. She had decided, as a snap decision this morning to wear her favorite set of lingerie, she always felt it gave her more confidence to do so though it was just giving the men below her a better show now. She was in a black lacy thong that did absolutely nothing to cover her ass and barely hid anything else as the front was all lace showing off her saved valley but with a solid strip of cloth to cover her pussy lips. Her bra was all lacy as with the only part of solid cloth being over her nipples. It was her sexiest pair and she had bought it in secret when she saw herself wearing something similar in one of her recent dreams. It had been a sort of guilty pleasure for her until now.
She failed to keep her tears down when she felt her bra being snapped in the back and her arms moving to let them slide it off of her.
"Fleur!" She heard her father's voice shout out and Fleur glanced around trying to find him.
"Papa!" Fleur screamed out.
"Fleur!" She heard her papa shout again as a flash of red light flew into the group of men below her and she watched one of them collapse only to be revived by another as the rest turned and fired off their own spells towards her father and a group of robed Aurors.
Fleur watched on prayer for her father's safety even as she felt her bra sliding slowly down her arms, by gravity this time.
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When Arthur came shouting into the boy's tent in the middle of the night Harry was prepared and glad to see his girls prepared as well. They each were fully dressed and judging from the slight bulk under their clothes they were wearing the dragon hide vest he had bought them with tonight in mind.
He had talked about his plans for tonight with the girls several times already. He couldn't yet take out Barty junior because he wanted Voldemort in the graveyard but the masked followers at the cup were free game and Harry planned to kill them all. He had expected the need to convince his girls it was necessary to kill them and was surprised that both Ginny and Luna accepted it immediately. Hermione had replied after a few seconds with.
"I agree and that worries me. Before I would have been against it but now it's almost simple in my mind. They would kill my packmates they are a threat to my pack and that threat should be removed." Harry had pulled her into his lap at this. He, Luna and Ginny had all comforted her as she dealt with another revelation of how being a werewolf had changed her.
And now it was time to put his plans into motion. They all fled to the woods like before and then he and the girls slipped away. From the rest of the Weasleys in the woods before doubling back once alone, Harry pulled out a surprise he had been saving for the girls out of an expansion charm on one of the pockets of his robes. The main problem his coven had had in the last timeline is everyone knew who they were and what they had all done. So Harry decided to try and hide their identities this time. It would be necessary for Harry as he was about to 'murder' twelve death eaters, probably with witnesses and so he needed to remain anonymous. Out of his pocket, Harry pulled three pairs black dragonhide of robes and silver masks. The robes were trimmed in silver and masks looked like silver phoenixes. He handed them over to his girls and they took them in awe.
"Put those on and remember the plan. You two aren't ready to face adult wizards yet especially at four to one odds. I will put up anti portkey and anti-apparition wards then I will take then out with a controlled area of effect spell and you two will catch those they have levitated. I will conjure a stone wall right after I launch my first spell for you two to get behind and for you to bring their victims to hide behind. Be safe, stick to the plan and use your personal portkey to get yourself and their victims out of harm's way if it gets dangerous. Someday soon you can fight these battles at my side but that is still a least few month away.
"Yes, Master" Ginny replied with a serious expression.
In the same moment, Hermione answered with "Ok Harry."
The three of them changed into the new robes and Harry stolen a brief kiss from Ginny and Hermione before they lowered the masks over their faces.
Three disillusionment spells later and the three of them were moving towards the screams in the distance.
However, Harry's calm focus was shattered when he heard a voice he recognized as Stephane, Fleur's father shouting from the crowd. "Fleur!" his voice was filled with fear, panic, and anger and Harry broke into a run without thinking a moment later a part of his brain registered that Ginny and Hermione did the same.
If it wasn't for decades of war and facing the unexpected Harry would have froze at what he saw. As it was a small part of his brain went into overdrive trying to figure out how in the world Fleur ended tangled up in this mess and how it was his fault, he had changed something, caused this shifted of events and it had cost one of his girls dearly. The rest of his brain was filled with a focused fury at the sight of Fleur suspended in more air in nothing more than a black thong , though her matching black bra was handing off her forearms which were held straight in front of her, showing that the death eaters had clearly been undressing her when they were attacked. She has held in a unmoving position her legs spread wide and her arms held straight out in front of her. On her forehead was an open gash which was still bleeding freely and her body was scrapped up like if she had tumbled on gravel without clothing. Harry could see her tears from her and it flamed the flames of his fury even higher.
Harry's original plan had been an area-wide knock back spell with enough force to break bone and definitely kill a few of the Death Eaters but in a non-gory way, he wanted to spare his girls the horrors of war for as long as possible however seeing Fleur in such danger had him acting on instinct as if he was in the last war.
The twelve Death Eaters were currently in a fight with minister Aurors and Stephane and were winning. As the Death Eaters were launching powerful and deadly courses while the others were keeping to stunners and minor hexes.
"Diffindo!" Harry roared the moment he finished the wards to keep the death eaters from running away and raised the stone walls for Ginny and Hermione to take cover behind. And with a wide arc of his wand, a bright pink ribbon of deadly cutting power kept from his wand and by the time it finished forming a deadly crescent at least twenty feet in length was flying at the group of Death Eater with the intent of cutting each and every one of them in half.
The four closest to Harry had no time to react and were soon in two bloody pieces the next four put up hasty shields which stopped enough of the curse to where their bodies stayed in one piece of deep gashes across their entire torsos dropped them to the ground almost as effectively, the remaining four all dived out of the way of the bow broken line of death. Harry used that moment to cancel the spells on Fleur and the muggle family in the air with a wave of his left hand and charm them to float over to Ginny and Hermione
Harry unleashed his magic and walked forward, as he walked to had to resist the urge to reach out and stroke Fleur cheek as she floated past him, though their eyes locked and he saw terror, anger, and shame in her eyes, as well as a flash of recognition after a moment of her looking into his eyes through the slits in his mask. The air became heavy as Harry past Fleur and once more looked at the surviving death eaters in front of him. In the darkness of night, the small bolts of energy leaking from his body because of how much magic he was preparing in his body were perfectly clear. The remaining four Death Eaters all fire spells at him within the span of a second. Two sickly green killing curses and two dark purple organ crushing curses speed towards Harry who felt like terrifying the Death Eaters before killing them kept walking forward with his empty left hand he waved dismissively through the air and the ground rolled then two pillars rose ground blocking the killing curses and with the flick wand in this other hand small blue shields appeared in the path of the organ crushing curses reflecting them straight into the air where they would fade over distant and cause no harm.
As his wand hand finished crossing his body he fired off a piercing spell that shot straight through the forehead of the Death Eater on his far left breaking his skull mask as he did so. Harry continued on without breaking stride and fired off a blasting curse that blew apparent the wreckage of a wizard tent one of the Death Eater was hiding behind. That deatheater landed with a crunch a few feet away missing an arm and Harry paid him no more attention.
At this point, ten seconds had passed, and ten Death Eaters were dead. Harry heard both Death Eater's cursing, probably realizing that their portkeys weren't working and they couldn't apparate, Harry took that moment of panic whip out a fire whip curse and grabbed one of the Death Eaters from cover, his screams as he burned to death caused the last Death Eater to make a run for it and Harry put him with a spell of his own invention. There was a flash of lightning from his wand, this lightning was special, however, and was purple in color and it targeted only death eaters, it wouldn't even harm someone unless then had the dark mark. But when it did find someone with a dark mark it was brutal. The death eater running away started screaming as the spell attacked his nerves with electricity similar, but different from the cruciatus curse. The intensity of the electricity slowly increased frying the victim from the inside out until they were nothing by a smoldering corpse. It took almost ten seconds to do its work, but the person hit by it was unable to do anything to fight back the moment the spell hit them. Harry had invented the spell for close quarters fights against death eaters after he found out that the dark mark actually changed the magical signature of the person who bore it slightly, tainted might be a better word, and Harry's spell was crafted to only cause its effects on those who had that taint.
Back with Hermione and Ginny Fleur and the family had just arrived. Ginny and Hermione stunned all the muggles just as they planned, so they didn't have to deal with Hysterical muggles, but when they turned to Fleur they both hesitated to utter the spell. When Harry's spell finished and placed her on the ground she had immediately fallen to the ground and curled up on herself both in fear and an attempt at modesty. She hadn't even noticed Hermione or Ginny in their robes and masks facing her.
Ginny's couldn't keep herself back any longer when Fleur started to sob on the ground and rushed forward, Hermione not even a step behind her. They both laid gentle hands on her shoulder and Fleur jerked and looked up at them. As soon as she saw their masked faces, and black robes, even though they contained silver Fleur screamed and tried to push herself away from them. Hermione followed slowly.
"Fleur Delacour, it's ok," Hermione said, her voice distorted slightly by the mask, yet Fleur yet that the brown eyes behind the mask were familiar though at the moment she couldn't place it.
"Stay away from me!" Fleur said in a panic still backing up on the ground Hermione started shifting off to the side Fleur tracked her but Hermione stayed away not moving any closer after Fleur told her to stay away. Once Fleur had shifted enough from watching Hermione circle around her, Hermione spoke.
"Do it, that's an order," Hermione said and Fleur looked at her confused as her world went black once more.
Hermione conjured a blanket and moved forward after Ginny stunned Fleur and wrapped her up. As she did Ginny looked over the stone wall and saw Harry as he fired off a spell of purple lightning into a running death eater.
Harry then turned on his heel and started to move back, he fired off a piercing hex into the man who lost his arm just to make sure he was dead. and then finally it seemed the Aurors came out of their shock.
Four dispelling curses were fired at Harry but Harry apparated and they all hit nothing but air, there was a moment of confusion about where he went until they saw him next to Ginny and Hermione, all dressed the same and that caused them to pause in confusion for a moment.
Stephane didn't hesitant though. He shouted his daughter's name once again and ran forward pushing an Auror who tried to stop him aside.
In the few seconds, it took for him to arrive Harry was bowed low over Fleur bringing his wand to her forehead.
"Stay away from her!" Harry heard Stephane shout but he paid it no mind and as he healed the gash on Fleur forehead.
Stephane unable to see what Harry was doing fired a bone breaker curse at Harry which impacted a double layered shield conjured by Ginny and Hermione.
"Portkeys, now" Harry ordered after he made sure Fleur was safe and both Ginny and Hermione disappeared a moment later, Harry took a moment to glance at Stephane before doing the same.
-o0O0o-
Harry, Ginny, and Hermione arrived at a prearranged spot in the woods outside the camp grounds, and with a couple of spells to ensure they were alone they all started changing back into the same clothes they were in before. Harry's face was hard stone and Ginny and Hermione were worried, and still a bit sick to the stomach after seeing so much death.
When they had all changed and Harry had finished packing their clothes away back into his expanded pocket and Harry still hadn't spoken Hermione moved into close to him and pressed her body against him, with Ginny following her lead on Harry's other side they each wrapped their arms around his waist. Harry's entire body was tense and shaking slightly but he still wrapped his arms around his two girls and let out a heavy sigh trying to relax.
"What's wrong Harry?" Hermione asked though she was pretty sure she knew she still wanted Harry to talk about it.
"She wasn't supposed to be there Hermione, it was just the muggle family last time, Fleur wasn't caught up in it," Harry explained as tears started to fall down his cheek and his chest shook with sobs Harry was containing within himself. "I did something, changed something and it put her in danger." Harry forced out between his silent sobs. Hermione and Ginny squeezed Harry tighter as they listened and when he finished Hermione pulled his head down for a gentle kiss.
"Harry we always knew things were going to change, remember. And you can't be blamed for it. You didn't mean for her to be involved, you didn't plan for it. You only shared a glance with her before the cup right? That was it. It wasn't your fault." Hermione reasoned and Harry shrugged trying to take her words to heart, but it was a struggle. He had come back to change things to save people and make things better. Now his beautiful fallen angel had been forced to endure more horrors, horrors she hadn't been forced to suffer the first time around. Harry took deep breaths and focused on controlling himself. He had two other girls he needed to check on now. Fleur had been in danger, what about Daphne and Susan? With that goal firmly in mind, check on his girls, Harry was ready for action once more.
"Perhaps, but we don't have time for this discussion right now. I want to find Susan and Daphne. No, I need to find them. Last time they were safe, but so was Fleur. I need to be sure. Then we need to find Ron and the rest of the Weasleys to make sure our alibi is in place." Harry said as he stepped out of Hermione's and Ginny's arms and started into the forest, using the point me spell to find Daphne first, He was more confident in Susan's safety since she came to the event with Amelia Bones, who was the head of the DLME. Amelia would have most likely gotten her out of the campground with a portkey like she did in the last timeline.
Within ten minutes of fast walking through the forest following Harry's wand and they found Daphne and Tracy standing in a clearing with a handful of other students. Harry didn't enter the clearing though. Just seeing her was enough and so Harry cast point me on Susan. His wand spun in his hand before stopping but instead of with Daphne were even if Harry moved his hand his wand would keep pointing in a fix direction, Harry's wand was not fixed in place. Meaning the spell had failed. This caused panic to start filling Harry's mind.
"What would cause the spell to fail like that?" Hermione asked, she had learned the spell the day before and knew what it was supposed to do. Her question though pulled Harry from his thoughts and helped him push his panic aside as his brain engaged.
"She could have a counter-charm on herself, to block this one. Or she could be in a warded property. She could be dead." at this Harry went slightly and did his best to focus. His connection to the girls not yet in the coven though their soul pieces was currently very weak. So it took a lot of effort for him to feel for them through the connection. After five minutes of Harry finally, let out a relieved sigh and leaned against the nearest tree.
"She is alive and unharmed, so it will be one of the other reasons," Harry told Hermione and Ginny when he saw their worried expressions.
Harry took a moment to refocus himself, now that he knew all his girls were safe he needed to clear his head and get back on track with his plans.
"Alright let's go find your brothers Ginny," Harry said as he walked forward and wrapped his arms around both Hermione's and Ginny's waists