Harry Potter the First Nemea Leonthrope Chapter 20 (Patreon)

This chapter fought with me a bit. Had to decide how I wanted to make some of the changes, quite a few things are different now in this story after all. I hope everyone enjoys!

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Chapter 20 – Quidditch World Cup, Lions vs Death Eaters

“You’re joking!” Harry exclaimed to a grinning Sirius who only laughed at his Godson’s shocked expression.

“Not this time Harry!” Sirius chortled as he pulled out a set of tickets. “I’ve got six tickets to the Quidditch World Cup! Top Box and everything!”

“That’s brilliant, Sirius!” Harry cheered as he was handed a ticket. He looked it over seeing the date and time of the Match. Ireland vs Bulgaria for the top spot of the Professional Quidditch League!

“I thought you’d like it, Harry!” Sirius was ecstatic to share a love of Quidditch with his Godson, it was one more thing they had in common! “Moony and the Tonks’ are coming with us too, of course. Nym would have used her new Leonthrope abilities to maul me if I’d left her out. Thanks for that by the way!” He teased the last bit and Harry, maturely, blew a raspberry at his Godfather.

Harry had very much enjoyed helping Nym become comfortable with her new Forms. The bubbly Metamorph had been all too keen on teasing Harry during their practice, but Harry had learned to roll with it. Even enjoy it on some occasions as the older girl had made good on her words and he’d been flashed a few more times. Harry was fairly certain that throwing in the Quidditch World Cup, on top of the rest of this past summer, truly made this the best summer of his life!

“Speaking of…” Tonks’ grinned as she stood in the doorway of the sitting room. “It’s time for practice, Harry!” Harry stood and followed Tonks out back into the dark of the evening after a quick ‘See ya!’ to Sirius. Practice had become an evening thing between him and Tonks since she was an Auror and often didn’t get home until early evening anyway. The two made their way to the rear of the backyard before they began.

“I think you’ve mastered it already, Nym.” Harry stated, slightly confused by the older girl’s insistence on continued practice.

“Never hurts to be sure, Whiskers.” Tonks grinned as she made the first transformation to the Half-Beast Form. The familiar blurring and stretching sound occurred and Harry once more gazed on Tonks’ transformed state. Standing at right about two meters in height and covered in golden tan fur, Tonks was a sight to see. She had a Lion’s head on her larger humanoid body, said body very muscular by comparison to her human body. The Lion head was perfectly oriented to match the humanoid body as it faced forward just like a human head. Her fingers had become clawed and so had her toes, Harry knew this from experience. She had slightly darker tufts of brown-tan fur on her forearms, shins, and the outside of her thighs. Thankfully she’d gotten a good deal of clothing capable of handling this form made by Madam Malkin not too long ago. Even her tail was accounted for by the specially made clothes as it swayed behind her a tuft of the darker brown-tan fur at the tip. The only difference between their Half-Beast Forms was that Harry’s had the typical male Lion Mane, which had been growing larger and thicker as he aged.

“Still a sight to see, Nym.” Harry smiled up at her and she made the equivalent of a grin.

“Glad you still find me attractive when I’m all hairy like this.” Tonks rumbled out, her voice rougher and deeper in this Form. Harry still found it pleasant though; then again he was probably biased. “You’re turn.” Tonks encouraged and Harry nodded.

“Sure thing, Nym.” Harry replied and the transformation took place in a couple of seconds. Now two Half-Beast Leonthropes stood in the Tonks’ backyard. “Being able to see so well in the dark is cool.” He mentioned looking around the dark backyard easily with his transformed eyes.

“It is.” Tonks agreed as she also looked around. The two Leonthropes walked around together both used to the Form and comfortable with it. During their walk Tonks sidled up to Harry and wrapped her left arm around his shoulders. Harry was confused by the closeness but wasn’t about to ask Tonks to stop. His Therian Instincts were purring happily at Tonks’ actions.

“What’s up?” Harry finally spoke up when Tonks started to gently nuzzle him and press her body against his.

“My Therian Instincts are being very ‘loud’ for lack of a better term.” Tonks replied still pressed close to him as they walked. “They’re practically demanding that I get my scent on you and yours on me.”

“Mine seem rather happy with your actions, so it’s probably not a bad thing.” Harry grinned dopily, even with his transformed lion head. The two continued to walk around together for a bit longer before reverting to human state and heading for the house. Harry walked next to Tonks and she stopped and entered her room. Before he could walk down the hall towards his room Tonks called out to him.

“Hey Whiskers?” Tonks called leadingly and Harry turned back to look into her room. “Surprise.” The Metamorph Leonthrope grinned as she had her shirt pulled up and her bare breasts out. Her breasts that she had increased the cup size of with her ability; they were larger than he’d ever seen them before. Easily beating out any woman he’d ever seen, except for Mrs. Brown, maybe, though his mind wasn’t really concerned with anything else right now. Tonks chuckled as she covered her breasts and morphed them back to their ‘normal’ size, still very nice and perky, before speaking again. “Therian Instincts, Harry, got to listen to them, right?”

“Yes.” Harry replied instantly and Tonks laughed at him for the automatic response.

“Good night, Harry.” Tonks smiled as she closed her door.

“Night, Tonks.” Harry replied as he walked down the hall to his room. He’d need a cold shower before bed now. The large smile on his face wouldn’t be going anywhere though.

-Quidditch World Cup-

“Portkeys…suck.” Harry breathed out as he tried to keep his breakfast down.

“Sorry about that Harry, but all travel to the Cup has to be done by Portkey. It gets very hard to keep this many Wizards and Witches hidden during a big event like the Quidditch World Cup.” Sirius explained as their group of Sirius, Ted, Andromeda, Nym, Moony and Harry made their way towards the tired looking Wizard stationed next to the Portkey arrival area.

“Name?” The Wizard asked.

“Black, reserved about a week ago.” Sirius responded and the Wizard looked up and took in their group.

“Right, let me see…there it is…Black you’re seven hundred meters that way.” The Wizard pointed down a long path. “You’ll need to speak to Leonard Wright; he’s been put in charge of that area.”

“Will do.” Sirius nodded and their group began walking down the path.

“Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this a Muggle campsite? How are they hiding this from the attendants and workers?” Harry questioned noticing the bits of Magic being done here and there.

“The new Head of the Department for International Cooperation got his position through competence rather than his Family.” Tonks spoke up and everyone turned to listen to her. “With all the chaos stirred up and so many Death Eaters and Sympathizers rounded up, several dozen positions in the Ministry lost personnel. So the Ministry has had to undergo a, rather large, shift recently. The new Head of International Cooperation, Reginald Crestwood, is a Halfblood and he decided the best way to hide the Magic was to hire Muggleborns to interact with the Muggles. The workers here have been mildly memory charmed to believe that the campgrounds have hired extra attendants for a big event of some kind from what I’ve heard. The Muggleborn Ministry workers handle all transactions necessary and the Wizards and Witches don’t have to try and pretend to understand Muggle currency and the like.” She finished with a small smile. It wasn’t all that much yet, but this was still a step forward, progress-wise, for Magical Britain.

“I’m sure that still ruffled a good number of feathers at the Ministry.” Ted remarked and Tonks chuckled.

“Fudge’s Under Secretary, that vile pink toad, absolutely hates it.” Tonks snorted. “She’s still complaining that Halfbloods and even some Muggleborns now have fairly high positions in the Ministry.”

“Maybe someone should do an investigation into her.” Sirius commented with a dark grin. He could afford a private investigator if he wanted too.

“That’ll be the day.” Tonks laughed as they approached the area they were pointed to.

“How can I help you?” A Wizard, if the badge bearing the Ministry Insignia was any indication, asked them as they walked towards the stone cottage that housed the campground office.

“Mr. Wright?” Sirius asked.

“That’s me.” Leonard smiled.

“Black, booked about a week ago.” Sirius informed the Muggleborn Ministry official.

“Black…Black…there we are.” Leonard nodded and held out his hand for the Pounds Sterling. Sirius handed the man a couple large bills and Leonard quickly and efficiently made change and handed Sirius a campground map with their spot marked on it. “Enjoy the Match, I hear a lot of rumbling going on in the betting pools about some very…specific…outcomes for this match. I think there’s already one for length of the game lasting more than six hours, with Ireland winning by fifty points, but with the Bulgarian Seeker catching the Snitch.” Leonard chuckled and Sirius and Ted both laughed as well. This was a Match that even some of the most avid Quidditch fans weren’t able to predict the outcome of.

“Let’s be off!” Sirius proclaimed as their group marched into the campsites already filled with a hoard of tents. With the map it wasn’t hard to find their spot and with only a few wand waves Ted and Sirius had the tent set up. Entering the large tent Harry found it to resemble a comfortable house. It had five bedrooms and a bathroom with a good-sized common area/sitting room.

“I love Magic.” Harry grinned as he took a look around the Magic Tent. The group spent time getting settled before everyone headed out to look around the area; except for Moony who volunteered to ‘house sit’, even when Sirius called him boring for it. Andromeda deftly swatted her cousin upside the head before she and Ted left the tent to take in the sights of such a large congregation of Wizards and Witches. Tonks and Harry went together while Sirius spotted a group of Foreign Witches and brushed down his hair a bit before heading their way.

“Horn dog.” Tonks shook her head at her surrogate uncle’s antics. Harry had to agree though he was chuckling about it. Sirius would always be Sirius.

“I should tell Ms. Reed.” Harry grinned as he and Tonks walked along. “He’s been trying to woo her since he was in St. Mungos.”

“I’ve only met her once, she seems nice enough though.” Tonks smiled. “Fair too good for Sirius.” Harry outright laughed at that and shook his head.

“I’m sure if she said yes to a date Sirius would be her ‘puppy’ in short order.” Harry replied amused. Tonks snickered at the mental imagine before nodding in agreement.

“I could see it.” The Metamorph Leonthrope nodded with a grin. Harry had to admit, it was fascinating to see so many different Wizards and Witches from all over the world. Thankfully with Department Head Crestwood’s idea the Magic being used was already completely isolated from the Muggles. He saw a tent with a spangled banner and the words ‘The Salem Witches Institute’ he saw several Wizards and Witches cooking over campfires as well. Including a trio of African Wizards, if the Egyptian Flag hanging on their tent was any indication, that were sitting around a purple campfire cooking what might have been a rabbit.

“This is amazing!” Harry exclaimed seeing so much Magic and so many different people.

“This is one of the largest gatherings of Wizards and Witches in the Magical World, Harry. Enjoy it while we’re here since it doesn’t happen often!” Tonks laughed as they walked around.

“Harrikins? Is that you?” A familiar voice called out and Harry playfully rolled his eyes at Tonks before turning to greet the Weasleys. It seemed the entire Family, minus Mrs. Weasley, was here.

“Harry!” Hermione exclaimed happily as she practically tackled her boyfriend to the ground with her hug. Harry wrapped his arms around his girlfriend with a bright smile before picking her up slightly and spinning them around.

“Hey Mione, I missed you!” Harry greeted as he set a beaming Hermione back on her feet. “How was France?”

“Wonderful!” Hermione smiled as she held his hand. “I got a bit of a tan while on the beach.”

“I noticed, it looks good.” Harry complimented and Hermione grinned at him.

“Hello, Ms. Tonks, nice to see you again.” Hermione smiled to the older girl as she held out her hand for a handshake.

“Just Tonks, Hermione, come here.” Tonks replied before pulling the brunette into a hug. “We might very well end up Family so no need for formalities!” The new Leonthrope teased the younger girl before letting her go. Hermione’s cheeks had gone noticeably red at the remark.

“I suspected, but this definitely confirms it.” Hermione replied after a few seconds before turning a ‘look’ onto Harry, cocked eyebrow and all.

“What? You know about Tonks, I told all four of you together the very day she told me!” Harry raised his hands and defended himself. Hermione and Tonks both burst into giggles and Harry sighed dramatically in response. Apparently Tonks’ teasing was going to end up being taught to all of his girlfriends. Hermione had certainly picked it up rather quickly.

“So, you all got tickets too?” Harry smiled at the Weasleys as he and Tonks walked with them to their campsite. The Family of redheads regaled Harry and Tonks with the story of how Arthur had gotten them Top Box tickets. Harry was happy to meet both Bill and Charlie Weasley, the oldest of the Weasley ‘children’. Charlie and Tonks had apparently dated for a while at Hogwarts which was news to Harry. He felt a small feeling of protectiveness rise up in his chest before a glance from Tonks settled him down. That one look had told him all he needed to know. Charlie and Tonks had dated, but both had amicably called it off years ago. Tonks had no interest in getting back together with Charlie; likewise Charlie seemed to be in love with Dragons these days. Harry did find both of the oldest Weasley’s careers interesting. Bill was a Curse Breaker for Gringotts and Charlie worked at a Dragon Reserve in Romania.

After helping the Weasleys set up their own tent Harry smiled at the happy Family before a stand selling ‘Omnioculars’ caught his attention. Listening to the merchant’s sales pitch that he was repeating to attract customers gave Harry an idea. Making his way over to the stall while most of the Weasleys were inside the tent Harry purchased eleven of the Magical Binoculars. Returning shortly afterwards Harry surprised the Weasleys with his gifts. After the redheads tried to refuse Harry made it impossible to do so.

“Consider these your Christmas presents!” Harry informed the ones he was trying to give Omnioculars to.

“Oh…well when you put it like that.” George grinned as he took a pair.

“Excellent idea Harry old chap!” Fred chuckled as he also took his pair.

“Thanks mate!” Ron smiled as he took a pair.

“Thank you, Harry.” Ginny blushed as she took a pair.

“Here you are Hermione, Tonks.” Harry smiled at the two handing them each a set of Omnioculars.

“You spoil me.” Tonks teased her hand on her cheek while fluttering her eyelashes.

“Thank you, Harry, I appreciate it.” Hermione smiled before leaning forward and kissing his cheek. Harry grinned and pulled her into a hug, brushing his lips across her cheek in return. Hermione elected to follow Harry and Tonks around for a bit and Arthur was fine with it since both their group and Harry’s would meet in the Top Box.

As the trio of Harry, Tonks and Hermione walked around the multitudes of tents, they saw some familiar faces; mostly other Hogwarts students with their families. Oliver Wood, Harry’s old Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain dragged Harry over to his parents' tent to introduce him, and told him excitedly that he had just been signed to the Puddlemere United reserve team. Harry had congratulated Oliver happily and the young man couldn’t help but beam proudly. He also happened to mention that if Harry went Pro himself he should aim to get on the Puddlemere Team so they could be teammates again. Harry had jokingly agreed as long as Oliver wasn’t the one in charge of the training schedule. That had gotten him a friendly punch to the shoulder as Oliver laughed. 

Shortly afterwards they were hailed by Ernie Macmillan, a Hufflepuff in their year and they spent a few minutes chatting. Ernie was just as amazed as Harry and Hermione at the size of the crowd and all the Magic being done. Though most of it was subtle to help the Ministry workers keep the Magic hidden. Apparently Ernie had seen two Wizards trying to impress a group of foreign Witches with some spells that had ended up becoming almost a Duel before Aurors had moved in on them. After parting ways with Ernie the group continued to walk around the taking in the sights.

A bit farther into their walk and they saw Cho Chang, a rather pretty girl who played Seeker on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team. She waved and smiled at Harry, who waved back with a smile as the trio kept walking. Hermione payed the interaction little mind but Tonks, apparently, couldn’t help herself.

“Oh? Picking out another member for your ‘Pride’, Harry?” Tonks teased and Harry started for a second while Hermione blushed.

“Tonks!” Harry exclaimed as the older girl laughed at their reactions.

“Your face, Harry!” Tonks laughed as she held her sides.

“What am I going to do with you?” Harry huffed while Hermione looked at him curiously. “What?” He asked as she looked at him.

“Are you going to try and woo Cho?” Hermione asked. “She does love Quidditch just as much as you do. She’s very pretty too. I can see why you’d like her.”

“Hermione…” Harry playfully pouted and the brunette couldn’t keep her face straight and burst into giggles.

“Sorry Harry; was just too much to resist.” Hermione apologized, but still accepted a high five from Tonks.

“To answer your teasing…” Harry huffed playfully getting snickers from both girls. “No, I don’t intend to ask Cho out or anything. I’m content with my relationships, if others are interested they can approach all of us together and we’ll work it out from there.” He was suddenly the middle of a Tonks and Hermione sandwich as they both hugged him.

“You’re so sweet, Harry.” Tonks grinned as she placed a kiss on his cheek.

“It’s true, Harry. That was very sweet, you’re always thinking about us and our feelings.” Hermione smiled as she pecked him on the lips.

“I was just saying what I felt was right.” Harry replied as he was released.

“I think we’ll keep you Harry. What do you think Hermione?” Tonks chuckled looking at the brunette.

“I’m certainly not letting him go.” Hermione nodded with finality before she giggled and took Harry’s hand in hers and the trio started heading back to Sirius’ tent.

-World Cup Match-

Bulgaria’s Mascots were a group of beautiful women that began to dance and quickly whipped the crowd into a frenzy.

“Ah, Veela.” Arthur acknowledged as a lot of the men in the crowd started acting like fools. Even Ron was standing up like he was going to leave the Top Box to try and get closer to the women. Arthur’s hand on his son’s wrist prevented him from getting far. Charlie and Bill each had a hand on the shoulder of one of the Twins too. Both elder brothers were chuckling at their younger siblings. 

“Why aren’t you affected, Harry?” Hermione wondered and Harry shrugged.

“Probably a type of Magic, like a Charm or something, my skin is probably protecting me.” Harry theorized and Hermione’s eyes lit up in understanding.

“Leprechauns!” Tonks cheered as the Irish Team’s Mascots flew around the stadium dropping their fake gold on everyone. Shortly after the Match started and everyone was amazed at the skill and speed displayed by the Irish and Bulgarian Teams.

“Fred, George, I do believe the Gryffindor Quidditch Team has a ways to go before we’re even close to what we’re watching.” Harry mentioned as he used the Omnioculars to keep up with the match.

“No kidding.” Both Twins replied in unison.

“The Irish Beaters have been monopolizing one of the Bludgers since the beginning; they’re practically juggling it between them.” George commented as he and Fred watched the Pro Beaters in action. Needless to say the rest of the match was amazing and when Krum, the Bulgarian Seeker, caught the Snitch it was to a raucous cheer and applause. That was the single greatest match he’d probably ever see, in Harry’s opinion.

The groups left the Top Box in great spirits and with laughter and cheers. Even Remus couldn’t be down with such cheer and excitement in the air and the werewolf had joined Sirius in singing the Irish Team’s Official Cheer. Though both men were singing terribly off key. When the excitement of the match had started to wind down the two groups separated to their respective tents and went to bed. It was only a few hours later that loud screams and explosions would awaken everyone.

-Campgrounds ~ Just after One in the Morning-

“What was that?” Harry questioned dazedly as he sat up after hearing a loud blast.

“Harry! We need to go!” Sirius called out as he opened the door to Harry’s tent room.

“What’s going on?!” Harry yelled as he heard more explosions and screams.

“A group of Wizards are attacking the campground from what I’ve heard! They’re almost to our tent so we need to get out of here!” Sirius urged his Godson as Harry grabbed his trainers and shoved his feet into them. The six people in Harry’s group emerged from the tent only to find around fifteen Wizards in Death Eater robes already coming towards them. The group continued to set tents a blaze with spells and as soon as one of them caught sight of their group he alerted the others.

Harry didn’t know when it happened but as soon as he saw all fifteen wands directed at them, directed at his Family, he stopped thinking entirely. The familiar sound of stretching, along with the blurring motion that accompanied the Therianthrope Transformation, happened in a scant few seconds. By the time the wave of spells was flying at them a Half-Beast Form Harry and Tonks stood between their Family and the incoming spells.

“What the hell?!” One of the Death Eaters yelled as he watched two people turn into large humanoid Lions and take all of their spells like they were nothing. His companions didn’t get much time to try and respond as Harry and Tonks were already charging towards the group. With a ferocious roar Harry grabbed the closest Wizard and bodily threw the man into his companions. Tonks wasn’t far behind as she used her claws to slash a Wizard that turned his wand towards Harry. The man went down screaming, his robes torn open and blood falling from his chest.

“Filthy Animals!” One of the Death Eaters yelled as he launched a strange purple colored Curse at Tonks. The spell splashed across her fur without effect and the Wizard saw only blackness as Harry’s large hand smashed him aside, leaving the Death Eater unconscious on the ground. Tonks snapped one of the Death Eaters wands with a swipe before the man could fire off a spell. He was slashed just like his companion and left on the ground. The Death Eaters tried to flee, seeing that their spells weren’t working but that just made them targets to the two frenzied Apex Predators. Harry charged forward and pounced on two Death Eaters clawing their backs horribly and sending them to join their friends in unconsciousness. Tonks had done much the same leaving another two Death Eaters in the dirt unable to be a threat any longer. The remaining six Death Eaters disappeared in the swirl of Portkeys and the panic slowly began to die down when Aurors showed up and started putting out the fires.

Tonks and Harry slowly reverted back to their human state as the danger was clearly passed. The two checked each other over and then embraced. They were quickly joined by the rest of their Family and it became a large group hug. Naturally after the beaten and injured Death Eaters were shackled and taken away by the Aurors for questioning everyone in the vicinity of the attack, Harry’s Family especially were required to give accounts of the incident. Tonks, as an Auror, was able to give a professional recounting of the event as well as accurate numbers of suspects to her colleagues. Though the shocked look on the Auror’s, Proudfoot if the Badge was correct, face made Tonks sigh and roll her eyes.

“Can’t take you anywhere, huh Harry?” Sirius joked as the Family returned home to the Tonks’ residence.

“Ha ha, I’m going to bed…” Harry grumbled as the adrenaline had long worn off and he just wanted to curl up and sleep.

“Sleep sounds good.” Tonks nodded and followed Harry up the stairs. Harry was surprised when Tonks pulled him into her room. Seeing her close the door and then gently push him into her bed made his face very red.

“Tonks?” Harry questioned the older girl only for her to smile tiredly at him.

“You’re not getting lucky tonight, Whiskers.” Tonks informed him with a grin. “That said; you’re also not leaving my side either.” With that Harry was lying next to Tonks and the, currently brown-haired, woman pulled him close while nuzzling his hair. Harry felt the drowsiness return full force and simply wrapped his own arms around Tonks and snuggled close as well. He’d worry about everything in the morning; right now he was warm, comfortable, and very tired. Both Leonthropes fell asleep quickly with gentle smiles on their faces.

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That was different. Changes are piling up and events are happening differently! The Ministry has been shaken up and now competent people are starting to take over! There are still Death Eaters in hiding and Sympathizers to be found, but now we’ve seen what a Nemea Leonthrope can do to a group of hostile Wizards! So that’s something. Plus Tonks won’t let Harry out of her reach after an event like that! She cares far too much! Where will these changes lead? Keep reading to find out!

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