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Chapter 16 – Act Your Age, Dating?

Harry stared at the letter he’d gotten from Tonks. He’d written to her about the Sirius situation and finally gotten a response. To summarize Tonks agreed that Harry meeting Sirius was a god idea. So Harry now needed to get permission to visit his godfather in St. Mungos over Yule Break. In response to his request to get the Marauder’s Map back, well it would be mailed back by Amelia Bones herself so he’d get it back soon enough. The DMLE had needed it to explain the discovery of Pettigrew but now that the man’s trial was over Harry should get it back. Her last advice, this time on the subject of what was going on with Pettigrew and the apparent Death Eaters, was to ‘not worry about it’. The Metamorph had laid it out simply by telling him that the Aurors were handling it and that a Third Year Hogwarts student didn’t need to be concerned beyond getting his property back. 

“She has a point.” Harry sighed as he folded up the letter and set it aside. “What good is trying to stick my nose into a criminal investigation going to do?” With a shake of his head Harry thought about the ‘P.S.’ that Tonks had put at the bottom of her letter. “Act my age, huh? Try and get a date? Like I have any experience with that!” Harry groaned as he left his dorm and made his way down to the common room. Upon coming down the stairs Harry noticed Lavender and Parvati sitting together and thought to ask them about dating. They were his friends and wouldn’t laugh at him, right?

“Hi Harry.” Lavender and Parvati greeted in unison making Harry start for a second before grinning.

“Hey Lavender, hey Parvati, I had something I wanted to ask you about if possible.” Harry started as he sat next to the girls.

“What’s up?” Parvati questioned while Lavender focused her attention on him.

“Well, to be honest I’ve gotten some advice recently to ‘act my age’ and to ‘try and get a date’. But I haven’t the foggiest idea of how to go about the second part.” Harry started his cheeks slightly red. “I have zero experience with girls outside of friendship so I’m a bit lost.” Lavender and Parvati giggled making Harry flustered before Parvati stood up and sat on Harry’s left side and Lavender followed her and sat on his right side.

“Well, Harry, you’ve come to the right place.” Lavender grinned as she smiled.

“We’ll help you out and you’ll get some dating experience quickly.” Parvati grinned.

“That would be appreciated.” Harry smiled. “But how do I go about this? You don’t just walk up to some girl and ask her for a date, do you?”

“Well that’s the blunt way to go about it.” Parvati shrugged.

“But if you can find a girl that has an interest in you too then that’s the best way to go.” Lavender nodded and Harry frowned.

“How am I supposed to know if a girl is interested in ‘me’, Harry Potter, and not the ‘Boy-Who-Lived’?” Harry asked knowing that his fame attracted all sorts of people.

“That’s where we come in Harry.” Lavender smiled prettily. “We already know two girls that are interested, maybe three, right Parvati?”

“Definitely, they’d all be willing to try dating you Harry.” Parvati nodded her own pretty smile on her face.

“Really? Who?” Harry questioned before both girls wrapped their arms around his left and right respectively.

“Us of course, Harry.” Parvati winked at him.

“Are you sure?” Harry asked, surprised that both of them had any kind of romantic interest in him.

“Oh absolutely, Harry, especially after getting to know you through our letters and during the school year so far.” Lavender nodded. “I could be persuaded to let you take me on a date.”

“Me too.” Parvati giggled as they both leaned against him a bit.

“Oh, well…um…that’d be brilliant.” Harry stuttered slightly making both girls giggle again. “But both of you? How does that work?”

“You let us worry about that Harry; you just need to learn some of the finer points of dating.” Lavender smiled. “We’ll be happy to teach you how to woo a girl.”

“Or at least how to woo us.” Parvati grinned as Harry’s cheeks went red.

So it went that Harry suddenly found himself with two pseudo-girlfriends in the form of Lavender and Parvati. The two were adamant that Harry leave the planning of their first dates to them and just be his polite self when they went out. Harry could only nod along still completely overwhelmed by this sudden change. Who would have thought his two friends had romantic interest in him? Well, he’d leave the planning to them for the first dates, not like he had anything to really go on for dating.

-After Classes-

While the Dementors had been recalled after the arrest of Pettigrew; Harry still went to Professor Lupin to learn the Patronus Charm. He still felt the powerful desire to learn the spell even if he never had to use it. Lupin had been looking even more morose lately than Harry was used to from class and the Patronus lessons; he wondered what had gotten his Defense Professor so down.

“That’s enough for today Harry. You’re getting there but you’ll need a stronger memory to power your Patronus.” Lupin commented and Harry could only nod. He was still only conjuring a silvery mist when he cast the charm and wanted to do better.

“Yes Professor.” Harry replied as he put his wand away. “Professor, if you don’t mind me asking, what’s wrong?”

“What do you mean, Harry?” Lupin questioned though he knew Harry had probably noticed his mood recently.

“You’ve seemed, sadder, recently. Like you’ve lost something or someone important. I don’t mean to pry but…” Harry trailed off as Lupin sighed.

“I was friends with your father Harry, along with Sirius and Peter. On that horrible night and the following days I, just like so many others, believed that Sirius had betrayed your family to the Dark Lord. I spent the last twelve years condemning my friend while lauding a traitor as a hero. I’ve come to realize that if I had simply thought about it the story didn’t make sense; at least not to anyone that really knew Peter and Sirius.” Lupin explained as he went and sat down heavily behind his desk. “Some friend I turned out to be.”

“You were friends with my father?” Harry asked curiously.

“Yes, called ourselves the Marauders and got up to all sorts of mischief.” Lupin chuckled dully.

“Could you tell me about him?” Harry asked softly. He’d only heard the bare minimum about his parents and to find someone that had not only known his father but been a close friend and actually knew him well. This was a real opportunity to learn about his dad and what he was like.

“About James?” Lupin asked to clarify, getting a nod from Harry. “Of course, Harry, I’d be glad to.” Harry eagerly pulled a chair over to sit across from Lupin and sat down. “Well, I guess the best place to start would be when we first met on the Hogwarts Express…” Lupin began a fond smile on his face as the memories came to him. Harry spent over an hour sitting in the Defense classroom listening to stories about his father. He even learned about his mother a little bit, since his father had apparently become smitten with her in his Second Year. Harry honestly couldn’t think of a better way to end his extracurricular lesson than this.

-The Next Morning-

Harry sat in the Great hall eating breakfast; Ron and Hermione were sitting in front of him, Hermione eating normally a book next to her plate that she was looking over before classes. Ron was seemingly going for seconds on everything this morning and Harry could only wonder where it all went. Two people suddenly sitting down on either side of him made him stop and looked both left and right. Seeing the grinning faces of Lavender and Parvati made Harry’s mind go back to their chat about dating and he felt his cheeks warm slightly.

“Morning Harry.” Parvati greeted as she filled her plate.

“Good morning, Parvati.” Harry replied.

“Sleep well Harry?” Lavender asked as she too filled her plate with breakfast.

“Well enough, you?” Harry asked and Lavender grinned.

“Very well, thank you for asking.” Lavender smiled.

The two girls started their breakfasts while Hermione looked up from her book and darted her gaze between her two dorm mates suspiciously. Something was going on here and she wasn’t sure exactly what it was yet. She’d definitely be talking to Parvati and Lavender after breakfast though.

“Parvati, Lavender can we talk privately for a minute?” Hermione asked as they walked out of the Great Hall.

“Sure Hermione.” Lavender nodded.

“Lead the way.” Parvati motioned letting Hermione take the lead. The bushy brunette led them to an out of the way alcove and turned to them with an inquisitive gaze.

“What’s going on?” Hermione questioned her dorm mates.

“What do you mean?” Lavender asked while Parvati looked confused.

“You two were a lot closer to Harry than normal this morning. Even more so than usual since you all started being friends at the end of last year. Did something happen?” Hermione asked hoping to get to the bottom of the two girls’ sudden closeness to their male friend.

“Oh, that.” Parvati giggled along with Lavender. Hermione merely cocked her eyebrow waiting for an explanation.

“Harry asked us for some dating advice and we told him we’d both be happy to help him out.” Lavender explained while Hermione’s eyes widened.

“We’re sort of his pseudo-girlfriends right now.” Parvati smiled with bubbly laughter escaping the girl.

“W-What?” Hermione stuttered out her face set in shock.

“We told him we’d handle the details of our first dates. He looked so adorably confused.” Lavender giggled.

“He did, didn’t he?” Parvati muffled her giggles with her hand.

“Ar-are you serious?!” Hermione hissed at the two. “Are you two just playing around with Harry?”

“Of course not!” Lavender and Parvati practically growled back in unison. Hermione jerked back slightly at the heat in their exclamations.

“We’re both interested in Harry. But we’re also not fighting each other over him. Harry wouldn’t want us to ruin our friendship like that.” Lavender huffed at her dorm mate.

“He’s too sweet to let that happen.” Parvati nodded while staring at Hermione.

“I’m sorry, I jumped to conclusions.” Hermione apologized. “But how did you two decide to…share him?”

“Easily.” Parvati giggled while Lavender shook her head with a grin.

“We told him we were interested in helping him learn how to date, especially if he was dating us, but we also mentioned a potential third girl too.” Lavender smiled making Hermione’s cheeks redden when she realized what Lavender was implying.

“You didn’t mention me by name did you?!” Hermione asked frantically only calming down when both her dorm mates shook their heads in the negative.

“We wouldn’t do that to you, Hermione.” Parvati stated as the other girl calmed herself. “We weren’t sure you’d be interested in this kind of sharing relationship.”

“Well, I’ve never thought about myself in a relationship like that.” Hermione admitted. “It’s different than the normal relationships I’m familiar with, like my parent’s marriage and stuff.”

“True, it would take a bit of discussion and some compromises here and there, but Harry is worth giving it a try.” Lavender smiled. “Don’t you think so?” Hermione looked conflicted but both of her dorm mates could practically hear the gears turning as she mulled their words over. The ringing of the warning bell startled all three girls and Hermione turned frantic.

“The bell! We’re going to be late!” Hermione panicked as she started rushing down the corridor. “I’ve never been late to a class!”

“We should follow her, don’t want to be late.” Parvati grinned at the retreating form of Hermione.

“True enough; can’t believe she’s already panicking though. We’ve still got ten minutes to get there.” Lavender giggled as she and Parvati followed along at a more sedate pace.

-Meanwhile in Europe-

“Albania you say?” Barty crouch Jr. questioned the man in a dark, dimly lit bar.

“Aye, horrible stories of a dark specter prowling the woods down there.” The wizard confirmed as he took a long drink from his mug.

“Do you know when they started?” Barty asked.

“That’ll cost you another drink.” The wizard stared as he shook his empty beer mug. Barty growled but stopped anything else he had planned as the other wizard held his wand to the younger man’s chest. “It’s not such a bad price, boy.”

“Right.” Barty agreed as he motioned for the barkeep to refill the man’s mug. He had to remember he was talking to another ‘Dark’ wizard and the man before him would have no compunctions about killing him. Once the mug was refilled with more cold alcohol the man removed his wand from Barty’s chest.

“Those stories started up about a year ago, maybe a year and a few months.” The dark wizard informed as he drank. Barty’s eyes lit up since that lined up with the last time he’d felt his Master’s power from his Dark Mark.

“Then I need to head down to Albania.” Barty muttered to himself as he stood up to leave.

“You’re going to get yourself killed rushing into places like that.” The dark wizard chuckled as he watched the younger man don his cloak.

“My Master waits for me, I will return to his side.” Barty hissed and the dark wizard simply looked unimpressed.

“Have fun with that.” The dark wizard waved the young man off and Barty quickly left. 

-Behind the Bar-

“Be patient just a little longer Master. Your loyal servant is coming.” Barty muttered to himself as he cast a Disillusionment Charm over himself and grabbed the broom he’d stolen to escape from Magical Britain and cross the English Channel. He had a solid lead now; his Master was in Albania waiting for him. Soon those that failed to heed the Dark Lord would pay for their transgressions. He hoped his Master would reward him by letting him kill his damned father. Oh what a pleasure it would be to watch the life fade from his father’s eyes. With a deranged laugh Barty mounted his stolen broom and flew southwest towards his new destination.

-Back inside the Bar-

“Dumb wizard, he’s going to end up in the ground before he hits forty.” The dark wizard scoffed as he went back to his drink.

“Not like there’s any shortage of entitled fools in the world.” The barkeep stated as he levitated Barty’s mug into a sink to be washed.

“Too true, too true.” The dark wizard laughed as he downed the last of the beer in his mug.

“Think he’ll bring that madman back to power?” The barkeep questioned as he refilled the dark wizard’s mug again.

“No idea, don’t care much either. I don’t throw my lot in with lunatics anymore. Learned my lesson after Grindelwald failed.” The dark wizard stated with a grimace.

“That’s the same reason most of us don’t listen to the Ministries.” The barkeep chuckled lowly.

“Hear, hear.” The dark wizard laughed as he raised his refilled mug and took a drink. He’d long learned the dangers of following those that were ‘too’ ambitious. He had the scars to prove it too. Let the fools of the world crowd around a ‘Dark Lord’ or whatever. While they were busy getting attention and into fights with law enforcement he’d be making a killing in the shadows. Fighting to change the Magical World for Blood Purity or because someone despised non-humans was a fool’s endeavor. Change was inevitable and if you lived outside the law you learned to adapt and take advantage of the new paradigm. Idealistic types tended to run afoul of these shifts and changes and led anyone that followed them to ruin. He’d not be falling for that again. He was old now and he’d gained his wisdom. Let the next ‘Dark Lord’ stir up trouble and fight with the so-called ‘Light’ wizards and witches. He’d sit back with his drinks and watch the fireworks as both sides tore each other apart. Well, him and any other ‘Dark’ wizards that had more sense to make their money in the shadows rather than throw curses about like fools. In the coming years this particular dark wizard would only laugh himself silly when he read of the happenings in Magical Britain.

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Is that a Harem we see beginning? Is Harry actually going to be allowed to be a regular teenager? How long before Barty Crouch Jr. finds Voldemort’s wraith-like form? Keep reading to find out!

I know it’s a bit shorter than normal but this is a segue chapter between the big Pettigrew Incident and Harry meeting Sirius over Yule Break. Then we get into summer and potentially see the first new Nemea Leonthrope turn. Then onwards to Fourth Year and the Tournament!

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