Chapter 38- Life in the Castle

A month has passed by since winter break came to an end. Over that time not much has changed at Hogwarts or at least in Susan Bones opinion. Besides having a proper teacher for Defense Against the Dark Arts and not having Harry Potter teach it. The school was almost normal as it was last year filled with teen angst and drama.

Susan said almost as there has been something on her mind since winter break. It was Harry Potter's harem or what many older boys in Hufflepuff calls it. At first she was sure they were all just friends like she was as most were in his study group. However, now she wasn't so sure as she could see admiration and slight glows from them from time to time.

For some reason that glow bugged her as she didn't know what it was. At first she thought it was the afterglow like she had with Hannah, but dismissed it for once she saw Penelope and Tonks. She didn't believe that the two older girls would sleep with a twelve year old boy.

"Susan, what are you thinking about?" a pretty blonde asked from across from her.

While they only did the deed once and decided to stay friends. Susan still felt a bit guilty for taking her virginity.

"I don't know Hannah? Harry's group seems to have that glow again."

"What do you think they're doing? It's almost every other day they gain it."

Shrugging her shoulders, Susan wonders if she should accept Harry's invitation for one on one studying. While she doesn't feel like she needs it, she thought it might help get the answer that was bugging her.

'I will ask him tonight.' Susan determined.

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In another part of the castle later on, Daphne sighed as she pictured Susan Bones in her mind. Over the last few months she suddenly began rapidly growing as her breasts filled out, her stomach grew slender and hips widened into an hourglass shape.

While Daphne knew Susan was a red hair beauty, she knew something changed. In the last timeline, Susan didn't rapidly grow or began turning into a bombshell this early or perfect. The thought of them changing the timeline came to mind, but Daphne dismissed it. She didn't believe changing events would change someone's physical growth so much.

'Was she also a returner?' Daphne thought but dismissed it as either her or Harry would have caught the change. The main factor would have been the changes in history and memories would have left her stumped.

"Daphne, are you ok?" Tracey asked when she noticed her friend zoning out.

"Peachy."

Daphne watched her friend roll her eyes at her. It was clear she didn't believe her and truth be told she felt the same. She just wasn't sure why it bugged her as she made peace with Harry sleeping with others. Now she saw one of her year mates becoming a beautiful girl that could be on par or better than Fleur.

'Am I being jealous?' Daphne sighed to herself.

Accepting that she is, a weight felt like it was lifted off her shoulders. Daphne was left confused on what she should do. A part of her believed everything would be fine but another part was worried Harry would leave her. Which she found impossible as she was part of his pack and lover.

'I'm just being stupid.' She finally said to herself worrying about something useless.

"Daphne, talk to me. I am still your friend aren't I?"

"Of course, what made you think you weren't?" Daphne asked.

"You haven't talked to me much or hung out. Truth be told even when we do your mind is somewhere else."

'Ah, oops.' Daphne thought. "I'm sorry it's just been a weird year."

"I know since you helped Harry basically run DADA for the last few months. So I will forgive you this time." Tracey let out a sigh before grinning.

Shaking her head Daphne just smiled at being forgiven so easily. Daphne was glad to have an easy going friend.

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"You're getting better."

"I would hope so."

Inside a classroom, Harry was watching Neville making a first year portion. The boy had asked him to tutor him in potions. At first he was hesitate to agree to tutor in potions but Dumbledore managed to convince him,

Thinking back to the conversation, Harry decided even with his decades of experience was no match for Dumbledore.

"Harry, I will not ask you to drop your grudge against the Weasleys. Even if you are just pranking them here and there. However, why don't you agree in tutoring Neville. Currently he is a twelve year old boy and not the man he became."

While it took some more convincing he eventually agreed and had nothing to do with a picture of Fleur's breasts. Totally nothing to do with them at all.

"Neville you better not be thinking of adding that third frog leg."

"Ahh," The boy blushed as he looked away and placed it back down.

"No stirring. It only been five minutes, not ten." Harry sighed now feeling Snape's issues with teaching. Some just seem borderline impossible to help some days.

'At least with spells they would either backfire or not work.' Harry sighed before almost banging his head on the table. "Neville, it's not yet time to stir, hands off!"

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"Katie, have you been working out?" Angelina asked as she grabbed Katie's tone almost ab stomach.

"A bit, why?" She responded blinking at the sudden touch.

"When? We haven't seen you work out much outside of practice."

"Early in the morning. Usually only Harry is up at the time." Katie shrugged as she had a similar issue as Harry. However unlike him she usually just studies in her room instead of the common room.

"Eh, I didn't know that. When do you two sleep then?" Alicia asked since as far as she knows the two usually are night owls.

"At night?" Katie answered looking confused at the weird question.

Laughing at her confusion, Katie pouted at her two friends. Clearly they found something funny in her answer but she didn't understand. It had been a few months since she was bitten, so she thought it was normal to only sleep a few hours for her.

"Well, you've been getting more beautiful, so what's your secret?"

"Have I?" Katie asked, not really noticing.

"I bet she got a boyfriend."

"No I don't." Katie denied as she considered herself Harry's mistress/wife.

"Oh, then girlfriend." Alicia asked.

Shaking her head again, Katie decided to return the favor at trying to embarrass her. "So I heard you two are dating the Weasleys twins. Is it true?"

"Please, there is no way I would date them. All they know how to cause trouble." Angelina said but it didn't sound convincing in the least.

"Yeah." Alicia also nodded.

Shrugging as she wasn't going to continue as it wasn't as fun as she thought it would be. Katie decided to shift the topic towards quidditch. Something the two latched onto quickly and soon dissolved into gossip.

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Up in the Dumbledore's Office unlike others who were having a relaxing stay in the castle. The elderly wizard received news from an old friend. In the letter it stated that a small village was turned into the undead. It also mentioned that it was suppressed before they could spread but the town has already been discovered by the muggles.

"This might be bad for the magical world. There are no clues to who's behind the attack." Dumbledore sighs and quickly drafted a letter to thank his friend. It was both fortunate and unfortunate it happened outside of Magical Britain or Fudge would suppress it before it too late.

"I got a bad feeling about this."