Spoils of War – Rating M

Chapter 01 – Tiredness of War

Summary – Harry Potter, upon the advice of his ancestor's portrait, casts a spell which claims the spoils of war from those who he had defeated. But after casting the spell, he didn't expect to gain several women as concubines…including his best friend, Hermione Granger…

Pairings – Harry/Daphne/Ginny/Hannah/Hermione/Millicent/Padma/Pansy, Molly/Arthur, George/Angelina, Neville/Luna, Terry/Sophie, Vernon/Petunia, Dudley/Cho

Warnings – Contains Swearing, Scenes of a Sexual Nature, Violence

Inspired by and uses text from After The Battle: The Summer of Romance

-Spoils of War-

Headmasters Office, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

02 May 1998

The result of battle ripped through the whole of Wizarding Britain like a dagger to a body. In all corners of the country, people were full of joy over the defeat of Lord Voldemort. Owls started flying from every corner of the country, letting the news flow freely. Fireworks were being set off as though it were Bonfire Night. At Hogwarts, the scenes of the final battle showed the scars which needed healing, healing that takes time.

Having hunted Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes for nearly a year, it felt like an eternity for Harry, Ron and Hermione. The final part of the quest had kept them going for over 36 hours, wearing out all three, not just physically but mentally.

For Harry, having took a Killing Curse, and surviving, having found out that a Horcrux was in his scar, a soul piece of Tom Riddle, the birth name of Lord Voldemort, made him completely and totally spent.

"That wand's more trouble than it's worth," said Harry. "And quite honestly," he turned away from the painted portraits, thinking now only of the four-poster bed lying waiting for him in Gryffindor Tower, and wondering whether Kreacher might bring him a sandwich there, "I've had enough trouble for a lifetime."

Hearing what Harry had said, one of the portraits winked at its wall-mate and coughed. Harry looked at the portrait and saw that the person depicted within it was named Kingston Potter, one of the former heads of Hogwarts.

"You know young Harry; your antics make your fathers time here at Hogwarts look tame." The portrait said, smiling. "He attracted trouble like there was no tomorrow, but not as bad as you! It is, I regret to say, a Potter family trait!"

"Erm…what do you mean?" Harry asked, confused about why the former headmaster's portrait was singling him out.

"You see young Harry, the problems with the Potter family at Hogwarts started when I was Headmaster." The portrait said. "My grandson, who is your Merlin knows how many times great-grandfather, was a student here, and I admit I gave him a little bit more leeway than I was supposed to. Anyway, he created a spell which, if used following combat, would claim the spoils."

"Kingston, surely you should not interfere with young Harry. He needs to forgive those who trespassed against him." The portrait of Albus Dumbledore, the former Headmaster, said. "It is for the Greater Good!"

"Who's Greater Good?" Kingston Potter said, getting annoyed with Dumbledore. "You are interfering in Potter family business!"

The portrait turned to Harry and smiled. "Anyway my dear great-great-so many greats-grandson, you need to cast the spell I am about to give you in a public place, such as the Great Hall, but silently, to make it work. The spell is dicunt spolia."

"Dicunt Spolia?" Harry said, confirming it with his ancestor. "I shall remember that to do once I get time.

Harry left the Headmasters office, intent on having a rest before casting the spell, leaving the portrait of his ancestor and his former mentor to argue.

Gryffindor Tower, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

02 May 1998

Harry took a few steps into the Common Room and, upon seeing his favourite chair available, he collapsed into it.

Harry woke up with a start, finding himself in a chair by the fire. His mind terrorised by Tom Riddle. "People were dead, friends, people I respected. It's all my fault! I could have prevented this earlier." Harry thought, "Ginny almost died. Fred was dead. Remus, Tonks, Colin. I should have prevented this!"

Harry turned around, sensing someone was behind him. His eyes still groggy tried to focus on the face, but couldn't. All that he could see was red. He pulled his wand out instinctively.

"Harry James Potter!" the person said, pulling Harry's glasses off the table, passing them to him. Harry put them on to find that the person was Ginny. He tried to stand up, failing, falling back into the chair. Ginny grabbed his arms and helped him up.

"Harry James Potter!" she said, her hands still holding his arms, trying to support him, "Firstly, put that wand down! Secondly, never do that to me again! You are too damn noble, too noble for your own good at times. I needed you and you weren't even here!"

"Ginny. First things first, I'm sorry." Harry said, trying his hardest not to fall backwards. He placed his wand in his pocket. "It's all my fault. Fred. Remus. Tonks. All my fault."

"Harry, there's no need to be sorry about Fred, Remus, Tonks or anyone else." Ginny said, pulling him closer to her. "I'm just still in shock from when they said you were dead. I couldn't imagine my life without you!"

"Ginny. When I heard you scream, I just wanted to run to you." Harry said, tears forming in his eyes. "I had to do it. In me was a piece of Riddle. I had to get that destroyed so I could destroy him. I had to let him murder me."

"Ginny. When I heard you scream, I just wanted to run to you." Harry said, tears forming in his eyes. "I had to do it. In me was a piece of Riddle. I had to get that destroyed so I could destroy him. I had to let him kill me."

"You mean...you mean you were dead?" Ginny asked, crying. She let go of Harry, making him fall back onto the chair. "You let him kill you, without telling me! You should have told me!"

"Ginny. I wanted to tell you but I couldn't." Harry said, crying, trying to get back up. "You were comforting someone when I was by you, but you couldn't see me as I was under my cloak."

"I knew I felt you pass me." Ginny said, helping him back up, pulling him towards her. "Why didn't you tell me then?"

"I knew that if I did, then I would never be able to do it." Harry said, holding her tight for support. "I would have made it into the forest, and Riddle would have still been alive. Riddle needed to die, to do that meant I had to die. I couldn't let him get away with his…his evil…he needed to be stopped."

"Yes, I would have stopped you," Ginny said, stroking his back, "And do you know why? It's because I love you Harry James Potter. I love you with all of my heart." Ginny sat Harry down, sitting in his knee. "Luna told me that she heard that you were at her house. Why is that?"

"I had heard about a thing called the Elder Wand when I was in Riddles mind. He tortured Ollivander, and unbeknown to Hermione and I, and eventually when Ron came back, Luna and Ollivander had been snatched by Death Eaters, held hostage in the cellar of Malfoy Manor." Harry explained. He took a moment to breath.

"It turns out the three items in Beedle the Bard's story, The Three Brothers, is real. The cloak of Invisibility is mine, Dumbledore had acquired the Elder Wand from Gwindlewald when he duelled him, and there was a Resurrection Stone." Harry continued. "That git, however, tried to turn us into the Death Eaters because they had kidnapped Luna. Anyway, at the time, I remarked to Ron and Hermione that I hoped you were at the Burrow, safe and sound."

"I wasn't safe however." Ginny said, "The Slytherins and the Carrow twins saw to that." She stopped, moving closer to him so she could whisper to him. Suddenly the portrait opened and there stood Ron and Hermione. They stepped in to the common room.

"So that's where you're hiding, you swine!" Ron shouted to Harry, grasping his wand tightly. "DON'T TOUCH MY FUCKING SISTER!"

"Ron, I love Harry." Ginny said, standing up, helping Harry to stand at the same time, "Who you think-"

"WHO DO I THINK I AM?" Ron interrupted, edging closer to Harry and Ginny, "HE SPLITS UP WITH YOU, MAKING YOU UPSET, THEN HE TOYS WITH YOUR EMOTIONS IN THE SUMMER. NEXT THING I SEE I COME IN TO FIND YOU TWO CANOODLING IN A CHAIR IN THE GRYFFINDOR COMMON ROOM!"

"Ron, mate, listen to me. Ginny has been more help in the last five minutes than you were during the whole of September and October." Harry said, pulling his wand out of his pocket, "After the Ministry saga, you were as much use as one of Professor McGonagall's pin cushions!"

"That was you?" Ginny asked, turning to Harry and Hermione, laughing, "You were the ones who broke into the Ministry in September and made Umbridge upset? Neville owes me 10 Galleons!"

"Yeah, we did that." Hermione said to Ginny, surprised at her making bets, "Afterwards Ronald was as useless as Harry described. He even decided to leave us as he was fed up that we were not doing as well as we hoped, even with some really Dark Magic affecting him.

"Anyway Harry, Ginny, it's great to see you two are happy. When we were camping, Harry would take out the Marauders Map to see where in the school you were, hoping you were ok. He would even talk to it." Hermione said, smiling at the pair of them. "He was upset when we suddenly left the wedding, worried sick about how bad the Death Eaters would treat you."

"You see Ron?" Ginny said, turning to her brother, "Unlike you, Harry cared about me. You, on the other hand, left Hermione and Harry, in a strop, as per usual, because you couldn't understand that patience was needed."

"SHUT UP GINNY! I WILL NOT HAVE THAT…THAT GIT TOUCH YOU AGAIN," Ron shouted, pushing Ginny away from Harry. Harry fell back into the chair, his body still weak from the battle. "HE MAY HAVE SAVED THE WIZARDING WORLD BUT DON'T FORGET HE HAD WORMED HIS WAY INTO YOUR HEART AND BROKEN IT ONCE."

"Ron. You're tired. Hermione is worn out." Ginny said, helping Harry back up into his feet. "It doesn't help that you're emotional because of Fred dying. I need Harry, just as much as he needs me." Ginny started to cry, struggling to support her emotions much longer. "Fred wasn't the only one Harry has lost. He's lost his parents, Sirius, Remus, his family basically."

"She's right." Harry said, wiping her tears from her eyes. "I can't go on like this, being on my own. I need her now, more than ever. That why I died in the forest, not just because of the Horcrux that was in me, but because I wanted Ginny to have a life where she wasn't under the rule of Riddle.

"I need more than a friend right now," Harry continued explaining to Ron and Hermione, "More than you or Hermione. I need stability and a life, and that person who I need to be with is Ginny. Ginny is the one that I always wanted, even when I was with Cho, I was just too stupid to see it then. I was-"

"I SAID DON'T TOUCH MY SISTER," Ron shouted. Harry saw that Ron had pulled his wand out and was aiming at him, so Harry pulled the Elder Wand from his sleeve.

Ron cast a stunner at Harry, who dodged it, returning fire with a disarming spell.

Ron made sure, by gripping extra tight on his wand, that his wand would not leave his grip. He then cast the first spell that came to his mind towards his friend.

"Crucio!"

The spell connected with Harry, who felt it was bad as Voldemort's Cruciatus Curse. Tighetning his wand, Harry remembered the spell that was marked as "for enemies" in the book of the Half Blood Prince.

"Sectrumsempra" Harry intoned, the dark cutting curse hitting Ron, killing him. Suddenly Harry fell to the floor, exhausted both mentally and physically from the days ahead.

Ginny levitated the exhausted Harry off the ground. She went through the portrait hole, Harry floating behind her, with Hermione behind them, to head to the Hospital Wing.

Harrys Mindscape

2nd May 1998

Harry and Ginny walked down to the lake, the sun gleaming into it. Suddenly a shadow appeared, one of someone Harry couldn't recognise. Suddenly a green light aimed towards the couple, only just missing them.

"We meet again, Potter." the shadow said, using the voice of Voldemort. "This time, you and your Blood Traitor girlfriend will die"

Suddenly Harry felt himself pushed backwards in the direction of the tree, the one he and Ginny lay next to before the funeral. He stood up, seeing Ginny being held by a Death Eater. Next thing he knew, he was up against the tree, bound.

"I'm going to kill your Blood Traitor girlfriend, then I'm going to kill you." Voldemort said, his eyes going red. "Then I will be in power, forever!"

Harry was tied against the tree. Voldemort had Ginny bound, his wand against her neck. Harry tried to get away from the bonds that prohibited his escape, but every time he tried, he couldn't. He was trapped, unable to protect Ginny from Voldemort.

"Leave her alone!" Harry shouted, worrying about Ginny. "Let her go Riddle!" He felt the side of his pocket and remembered that his wand was there. He tried to get it out, but the top of his pocket was covered with the ropes bonding him.

"Avada Kedavra" Voldemort aimed at Ginny, killing her instantly. "You lose again Potter." He laughed maniacally, dropping Ginny to the floor.

"You killed her!" Harry shouted, summoning every ounce of strength that he had, reaching into his pocket for his wand. Eventually he managed to reach it, muttering a spell to release him from the ropes that Voldemort had created. He ran to Voldemort, aiming to get a good shot. "You killed her Riddle, and now it's your turn!"

"Harry," he heard. It sounded like Ginny. "Harry, you can beat him." Next thing Harry knew, everything was black.

-Spoils of War-

A/N – Coming Up in Chapter 02 - Injuries of War

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Story ID - 113

Chapter Written Date - 17/09/2016