Vacation in the Past Part Five, The Road Home

All and all, Harry thought that this was a very productive vacation. Even when he was on a holiday he was hard at work trying to find people that would fit into his little group. People might think that Harry was picky but he really was not. There was a certain criteria that everyone needed to have. Attractive, female, intelligent and the willing to serve him, that was all that was really needed.

It was highly amusing that there was an abundance of females that were lining up around the block to do just that. The thought made Harry smile, it really did.

"Hey, Harry."

Harry turned around as Lindsey showed up. She was dressed in a nice white shirt that rode up to expose her toned midriff and wrapped around her ample breasts. The pair of jean shorts that she wore, highlighted her well defined legs. There was a smile on his face as he ran his eyes over her body drinking in every single inch of it.

"Lindsey, what can I do for you?"

The brunette smiled as she made her way onto Harry's lap and he wrapped an arm around her waist as she pushed core against his groin.

"Oh, there's many things that you can do for me," Lindsey breathed to him with a wide smile across her face as she nuzzled it into the side of Harry's neck.

"Well, I've demonstrated that time and time again on this holiday," Harry told her as she turned slightly to straddle his lap so she was face to face with him.

"That's true, really true," Lindsey offered him with a smile across her face and she leaned towards him. Her lips met his in a fiery kiss and Harry pulled her closely into his body, feeling her curves press into his chest as he kept the young brunette tight against him.

Lindsey closed her eyes, allowing her tongue to invade his mouth. She licked the inside of his mouth as their tongues clashed together for dominance. His pushed back against hers as the two of them continued to rub back and forth against each other.

There was a sound of someone entering the room which caused them to break apart but there was a smile on their faces as they saw Lavender and Parvati standing there.

"No, don't stop on our account, master," Parvati remarked with a grin as she put a hand on her hip and leaned forward, showing Harry a nice flash of her cleavage.

"Yes, we're just enjoying the show," Lavender added with a bright grin and Harry stepped up towards her and pinned her against the wall. Getting dominated was one of Lavender's major turn ons so she gave a squeal of excitement as he pinned her against the wall.

Lavender gave a satisfied smile as Harry's mouth pressed against hers and his hands groped the underside of her breasts. The nubile young blonde ran her hands down his body and he continued to deepen the kiss, working his mouth down her neck.

"What about me?" Parvati asked as she watched him and Lavender closed her eyes.

"Wait your turn," Lavender breathed. She was kind of jealous that she did not get gift wrapped by Astoria Greengrass so Harry could stuff her stocking on Christmas, so she was making up for lost time.

The woman felt a few more deep kisses all over her body as Harry ran his hands over her teasing her curves.

"Can't forget about one of my favorite twins," Harry remarked and he pushed Parvati against the wall and she accepted a hungry kiss.

Hermione walked into the room, smiled at the situation as she saw Harry press one of the two hot Indian twins in his collection against the wall. His hands roamed underneath her blouse, running his hands directly along the stunning body underneath it.

Hermione patiently waited her turn and Harry walked over towards her. Her lips met his in a hungry kiss and the two of them exchanged a passionate lip lock with each other.

Harry smiled as they broke apart and he turned towards the other girls in the room ,all of them who smiled.

"I believe that's everyone," Harry concluded and the girls laughed. The group of them smiling brightly as a result of his affection.

"Yes, I believe that you're right." Hermione commented with a smile on her face as she watched Harry.

"So, how have you girls been doing?" Harry inquired to his girls as he looked at them.

"Never better Harry, never better," Lavender told him as Parvati nodded her head. "Can't believe that we are going back to Hogwarts after all of this in a few weeks."

Harry gave her a sympathetic smile, he did feel sorry for those who had to return to Hogwarts.

"It's a shame that not all of us can take the fast track," Parvati stated. Her marks weren't that bad, in fact they were quite good. Of course they didn't look amazing when stacked up to Padma's, but hey they weren't bad at all. Parvati was rather happy to play second fiddle to her sister. "Padma's thinking about it for her last three years."

"Nuts," Lavender commented. Again, like Parvati, her marks were fairly good although stacked up next to Harry and Hermione, or even people like Padma and Daphne Greengrass they didn't look so good in comparison. Although she meant that it was nuts fondly because Hermione would not be Hermione if she did not obsess and excel over such things. Although she was thankful that Harry was able to keep her mostly on a leash.

Lavender paused and wondered how literal this statement was.

"Well, it was," Harry told her and he smiled. "I learned a few useful tricks at Hogwarts, plus the female student body was quite appealing on the eyes."

"That we are," Lavender remarked as she pressed her body against Harry. "Next year is OWL year….and I suppose that if we apply ourselves over the summer….do you think it would be impossible for us to get ready for our NEWTs the year after?"

"Nothing's impossible," Harry told Lavender with a smile across his face. He thought about setting up a tutoring service to get select members of his group ready and accredited, along with setting them up with a Mundane education for those who did not knowledge of that world. It was extremely important to him that his girls would be able to function flawlessly in both.

It was important to know all sides of the world, not a select corner after all.

"Actually we're thinking about opening up a tutoring service to get people ready for higher forms of education," Harry added and Hermione smiled as well.

"Both your type of education and also the education that's relevant in the real world," Lindsey added with a smile on her face.

"Sounds enticing," Lavender agreed. She figured why learn from the rest when you could learn from the best.

"I'm sure that you'll have plenty of help," Parvati told him.

"Don't worry, Daphne's going to join us after she escapes Hogwarts this year," Harry remarked to her.

"Things will be different this year though," Lavender remarked to Harry as she thought about it. Dumbledore was gone. Personally Lavender thought that Dumbledore was on drugs because no one's eye could twinkle that much. Plus some of the robes that he wore was a fashion disaster of epic proportions.

"Yeah, Minerva's going to make some changes and with the Board of Governors….going under a change of management, things should be smooth sailing," Harry confirmed.

'Yes, they all had accidents, well seven of them, they were Death Eaters, the others resigned out of fear but fuck em, they're useless,' Bellatrix stated dismissively.

'Bella, I know this already,' Harry remarked in amusement.

'I wasn't explaining it to you,' Bellatrix commented, she paused for a moment before continuing. 'I was explaining it to them. Not everyone is privy to everything that goes on'

'Well thanks for the update,' Ginny remarked her voice filled with her amusement.

'Glad to be of service,' Bellatrix bantered back.

Harry smiled, his life would never be dull. Although he was wondering when the prime version of himself would come back from his little trip through time.

Of course given the dodgy nature of time travel, it could be months or even days before he returned, even if he was gone for centuries.

Time travel, it was such a joyous thing.

It made his head hurt, which was saying something considering he was studying for an eventual doctorate in physics. But then again magic frequently made physics it's bitch.

X-X-X

Gods were not subject to the whims of time and space. The goddess who summoned him here could not take her eyes off Harry as she greeted him sitting wrapped in nothing a towel.

"So, your journey through the past was productive like everything else you do," the goddess commented to him. "Women from every corner of time, space, and reality, all of them more then willing to squeal beneath you."

Harry looked to the goddess Artemis with a smile. "And goddesses are not immune to this quality of yours."

The goddess of the hunt smiled as she watched Harry eying him hungrily. His body was only covered by a towel. "No Harry, we have needs."

Artemis was dressed in a thin black toga herself and the material wrapped firmly around her body. She walked behind Harry and pressed herself his back and she planted her mouth up next to his ear.

"And you're the best person that we can think of to fulfill them," Artemis told Harry and she saw something rise beneath his towel. "From now until the very ends of time, we're going to hunger for you, and after hearing Aphrodite and Athena rave about you, it's my turn."

Artemis ripped the white towel away, shamelessly revealing his manhood to her gaze. She admired it, it was a work of art and something she hungrily traced with her eyes, licking her lips as she took a nice long look at it. The woman's eyes locked onto him as she slowly slid the material of her toga off body.

"No need to wait if I'm ready," she told him in a husky breath and Harry smiled at her.

"No there isn't," Harry agreed as she straddled his lap and her legs crossed over his as he pulled her into him.

Harry smiled as he mentally worked through the tally that made up his list of conquests and it was quite the amazing tally. Three goddesses, all with super stamina, had been fucked silly. That was an accomplishment that Harry was going to brag about from now until the end of his days, no question about it.

"Good as always," the goddess of love stated as she licked her fingers, savoring the taste of all four of them combined into one, and her two sisters nodded in agreement. "Very good even."

Harry was not going to say anything although there was a smile that crossed his face that could light up some of the biggest cities in the world.

"And I'll just keep getting better, oh how will you women ever survive?" Harry asked.

"Ah, that's the confidence that we expect from you," the goddess commented to Harry with a tongue slowly trailing over her lower lip.

"I'm glad it's expected from me now," Harry told her as he sat down and the blonde goddess placed her head down onto his shoulder, allowing his strong arm to wrap around her body. "But you know better than anyone else how I'm better than any expectations."

Athena offered him a smile. "It's always the smartest of us that lack any shred of modesty."

"Speaking for experience, are we?" Artemis asked Athena and the dark haired woman smiled at her as she took a spot next to Harry. He placed his arm around her waist.

"There's one more thing that I ask of you, whilst you're here in the past."

Harry smiled, as always the goddesses would ask a favor of him and he would be more than willing to grant it, after all he was both their champion and high priest. He pressed the face of Aphrodite to his and he was inches away from her lips, both pairs just about to meet.

"And what do you have in mind, my goddess?"

The goddess of love was only too quick to comment on what she had in mind and she looked towards her high priest with love in her eyes. "It's naturally nothing out of your capabilities to handle, just something that needs to be done in order to put the finishing touches on stabilizing the time stream."

Harry placed his hands on hers and she met his lips with a hungry kiss, which Harry returned with equal passion. The lips of the goddess of love tasted divine as usual and he ran his tongue against them, taking all that she had to offer and more.

The two indulged each other in the others lips for bit longer before breaking apart, wide smiles across their faces.

"It's nothing that you can't handle, as I've said," Aphrodite remarked to Harry and his green eyes fixed on her alluring violet eyes.

"Let me at it," Harry said firmly and the goddesses smiled.

"All you must do is step through the portal," Athena stated to him and Harry smiled.

The truth was that there was someone that needed to be taken down a peg and Harry was the best person to do that.

"Time to enjoy the show," Artemis remarked eagerly no sooner than Harry disappeared, as she and her sisters watched in rapt anticipation.

X-X-X

Hercules was the mightiest example of male endowment. Just ask him, because he'd list off all of the qualities that made him Zeus's gift to women. He would tell you how it would be an honor for women to drop to their knees and kiss his feet.

He had left mortal women wrecked and ready for more. He was the almighty man, dressed in a chain mail vest that covered his hairy chest. Long dark hair went down past his shoulders and a manly beard could be seen on his face. He had a chain wrapped around his shoulders and he wore a blue pair of briefs that showed his muscular and very hairy legs.

"You're nothing but a pig!"

That was a statement that came out the mouth of the many uninformed women who obviously had not been educated about his greatness and his prowess. He stood over many and there was on statement that was whispered by many who had known him.

"When Hercules is coming to town, hide your women."

That was a statement that was more than apt and the bruiser made his way as he was about ready to capture his latest and greatest catch.

His mind worked in a number of cruel ways and they all worked to the aims of fulfilling his own needs. He stepped into the village where the latest woman in need of education by him, waited for him.

She slammed her fist viciously into his mouth and he staggered back. He took a step back and flexed his arms before giving off a bellow.

"YOU DARE TOUCH THE MIGHTY HERCULES!"

His tone was one of shock and dismay, as if women would not worship the ground that he spat upon. It was outlandish and he stepped towards her.

"You're not so mighty if you have to force women to even look at you without vomiting."

Hercules was completely taken aback by that but truthfully he loved it when they fought their inner desires for his mighty meat spear. They obviously wanted him, who wouldn't want him with his mighty manly beard?

"So did you super glue a carpet to your chest?"

Hercules turned around and saw a hooded figure standing in the shadows.

"WHO DARES BESMIRCH THE GREAT AND POWERFUL HERCULES!" he bellowed, showing that he had no indoor voice at all.

The man standing across from him, raised an eyebrow. Though this fact was hidden by the hood that still pulled over his head which blocked the view of the woman who watched him.

"Someone who thinks you're over-compensating for a tiny penis," Harry remarked in a deadpan.

Hercules looked aghast and said that much. "THE ALMIGHTY HERCULES IS NOT OVERCOMPESATING FOR A TINY PENIS!"

"Well, then you should have no problem defeating me in a trial of combat," Harry said, as he looked at the man.

He had power but his ego was even larger than his own, which Harry was nearly impressed by, even though he did not show it. He stood across from his adversary, standing on the edge of the grounds and there was a few seconds where both stared at each other.

"THE GREAT AND MIGHT HERCULES, WILL HARDLY HAVE A PROBLEM DEFEATING A PUNY WHELP SUCH AS YOURSELF FOR THE HAND OF THIS WOMAN!," Hercules shouted at him.

Harry smiled. "Well you've already lost if your sole reason to fight me is to prove that your penis is larger than mine is. This isn't a dick waving contest, not that you'd win that either."

"YOU SPEAK WITH ARROGANCE, WHELP!"

"You would know, you do so fluently," Har-Zod commented to the boisterous bruiser in front of him.

Hercules ego took a hit.

'Oooh, I think you hurt someone's feelings,' Kara cooed mockingly through the bond link.

Diana was compelled to say something to him. 'Harry, be careful, Hercules can be fierce if you injure his ego.'

'I can take him,' Harry remarked to her calmly.

'Yes, Har can take him,' Faora chimed in as the dark haired woman thought it was an insult to end all insults that Harry could not handle someone that inferior to him.

'Okay, okay,' Diana thought and Harry squared off with the so called mighty and powerful Hercules.

"WE WILL FIGHT AND SEE WHO THE WEAKEST ONE OF US IS!"

Harry smiled at him. "Well you must get a front row seat to that, every time you gaze upon your reflection."

Hercules raised his hands up into the air but Harry sped out of the way and kicked him in the side of the leg and then with another fluid motion, he doubled him over with a second kick.

"YOU'RE QUICK, I'LL CONCEDE THAT," Hercules granted as he swung his fist towards Harry but the wizard dodged it.

He punched the ground causing a large hunk of rock to shoot upwards and turned around to face him.

"Very good, conceding that there's someone better is the first step," Har-Zod commented lightly as he saw Hercules rush towards him.

He used a trip jinx to cause the man to fall head over heels, flew over on the other side of him, then bounced off his knee with a huge knee strike to the face.

Hercules popped back up and tried to catch this young warrior off guard. Harry blinked out of the way, stepping behind him. Harry's arm was wrapped around this arrogant brute and he forced him to the ground.

The young wizard pushed his adversary against the closest wall then hoisted him up into the air. A thunderous punch slammed into Hercules chest and caused him to go flying.

Hercules landed like a rock in a large puddle of mud.

'Fitting for a pig like him,' Diana remarked to them dryly through the bond.

'Well, that was fun,' Harry thought dryly as he turned to the hooded woman.

The hood dropped down and Harry's eyes failed himself for a second or at least he thought they did. He thought he came face to face with a past version of Diana, at least at first glance. Yet, he knew the woman was not her.

"Thank you, normally I would have taken the braggart down, but he…caught me at a bad moment," the woman commented. "My name is Hippolyta."

That statement was rather shocking and he paused for a moment to collect himself before offering her his own name. "Harrison….Harrison Evans."

Hippolyta winced as she twisted her arm back into the socket. "Pleased to meet you."

She wished her arm did not hurt so much for if it did not, she would have handed Hercules his head on a platter. It would not be the first time she had to deal with the pig.

"I do apologize for getting in this situation where….where I had to be saved," she managed and Harry waved off her apologies. The woman smiled as she watched him. "A pair of rogue warriors hurt me and left me….fellow members of my tribe that got disenchanted with me and decided to take out their aggressions. Not pleasant."

Harry remembered Hippolya telling him about this incident or at least one like this. Although if she knew that he showed up, she did not mention it or perhaps she did not remember it as it had been that long ago. The wizard smiled at her as he knew that the goddesses would not have sent him here without a good reason so there was only one thing to do.

"Let's see if we can get you somewhere where we can check out those wounds," Harry told her and the Queen of the Amazons offered him a nod.

"That would be….acceptable," Hippolyta commented in a breathy voice. She tried to remain on her feet but found that her knees failed her. Harry caught her in his arms before she fell completely to the ground and a smile crossed her face as he guided her to their destination.

"Just hang on, I'll get you patched up," Harry told the Amazon who nodded.

She wanted to find out more about this young man who swooped in and saved her. He was one that inspired a lot of curiosity in her mind. The Queen of the Amazons was rarely taken off guard by anyone.

And the fact that he saved her from being humiliated by that pompous windbag, well that was just icing on the cake.

'Really Zeus, all of the sperm and that was the one that got through,' Hippolyta thought to herself as she favored her shoulder as they made their way into the camp.

X-X-X

"Your shoulder's the thing that's bothering you the most, isn't it?'

Hippolyta winced as she could not resist making a quip at the situation. "How did you ever guess?"

Harry smiled at his future wife. "Just an educated guess that I made."

She turned towards him, allowing the wizard to work his magic so to speak and fix her shoulder. The dark haired woman shivered as she felt his hands upon her shoulder. Sure enough magic, well it made anything possible, including fixing any number of wounds.

"So much better," Hippolyta remarked as she felt herself go faint. Perhaps it was the heat of the day but he was giving off a heavy dose of pheromones that made her light headed. It was hard to keep her head above the water and keep herself calm, at least from coming undone, even though she had to try.

"Perhaps we should check out the rest of you to make sure everything is in working order."

Hippolyta thought that was one of the best ideas she ever heard as she felt Harry slide her clothes off of her to check her for bumps, bruises, and everything else.

He ran his hands slowly down her body, feeling to make sure everything that was in working order. She closed her eyes and felt a heat rising from her loins.

"I think you should do a thorough inspection of everything to make sure it's...ah in working order," the queen stated in a husky voice as Harry kept working down her legs.

She was stripped completely naked and she did not care.

In fact, it would only be fair if I expected you as well," Hippolyta commented as she tore his shirt off revealing his muscular physique to her eyes, she ran her hands down his abs and feeling every inch of him that she could. A satisfied smile crossed her face. "Let's start with…..well this not so small thing down here."

Her hand fished into his pants as Harry prepared to be indulged in her tender love.

"Our journey to the past, what do you think about it?"

Harry smiled as he looked at the females around him and he decided to tell them his opinion. "It was a good thing for sure."

"I'm glad you enjoyed it," Peve remarked as she walked towards him. "I've figured out what's going to happen and it's going to be interesting when I create the AI to send you back."

'Ah the joys of the stabilizing a time loop,' Faora remarked mostly to herself although the rest of the group picked it up.

'Yeah, it is fairly joyful,' Harry told her with a smile on his face. He could ram his head against a table all day and still be fairly confused about what time travel was all about. His green eyes flashed with amusement. 'But at least we've figured out how to work through these things pretty well.'

'And you left your mark on the past,' Diana remarked fondly.

'Not to mention your DNA,' Jaime thought to Harry in an extremely amused voice. The dark haired woman smiled as she thought about it.

'Yes, there is that,' Harry agreed with a grand deal of mirth. Leaving his mark all over history.

'And if there's anything that….came from that union, there is a ninety nine percent probability that the child is a daughter,' Faora explained to him.

'We did go over this before, didn't we?' Harry asked the woman through the bond link and Faora offered him a smile and a nod.

'It does bare repeating, my brother. Actually I don't think we ever specifically talked about this part of it specifically,' Faora commented to him as she brushed her fingers through the top of her hair. 'If you have a thousand children, maybe one of them would be a son, maybe.'

Harry thought that made a lot of sense, it was done that way by design. While other wizards might need a male heir to carry on their line, he was immortal as long as he remained underneath a yellow sun. He didn't need anyone to carry on his legacy after all because he would be here for a long time, alongside his collective shaping the course of history.

Therefore there was no need for any heirs and he smiled.

'That's some interesting odds,' Kara commented to Harry.

'Yes, especially when you consider that any future daughters will need guidance,' Karen commented in a knowing voice and there was no way that statement could be misinterpreted in anything other than what she really meant. The blonde's expression was amused as she kept her eyes on everything as she sighed. 'Well, I know that Har will be up for it.'

'Well that one goes without saying,' Lily remarked. 'I only would trust one man with my daughters after all.'

'And you have,' Rose commented with a grin on her face.

'That was kind of the point,' Lily offered in amusement.

Harry smiled as he prepared for everything. There would be a time where everything passed, and his involvement here, would be known to a select few. Those few would be joining him into the future as he brushed his hands away from the back of his head.

It was one of those long days and he smiled at the thought of it. He watched everything that transpired around him.

"So we'll be good to go in a little bit," Harry told them all.

"Yes, we will," Peve agreed with them with a smile on her face and she sighed. It was hard to believe that she would be on her way home after all of this but it was more than worth it.

The dark haired woman knew that she would be recalled back to Krypton shortly, if they found out how long she'd been gone. Although her father tended not to be that attentive to her and with her mother dead, he retreated into his work. He was a shell of his former self and it saddened Peve even though she accepted everything that happened.

"So…."

"Yes?" Harry asked the dark haired woman in an almost teasing voice as he stared her down and she couldn't help but push her way forwards.

"One more time before you depart," Peve remarked as she captured Harry's lips in a hungry kiss.

Harry accepted the kiss, returning it with equal fever and the young wizard continued indulging in her lips, kissing her back nice and hard. The two went back and forth, suckling on the lips of the other. Neither wanted to break up the kiss any time soon.

Peve knew that it would be a long time before she saw Har again, so it was important to make this count as long as they both were here, so she would really make it count. Her lips smashed against his and the woman kept sucking on his lower lip.

Harry placed his hands on her thighs and shifted her weight to continue to press his mouth down onto the back of her neck.

The dark haired woman felt the sensations course through her body and Harry ran his fingers down her body, feeling up every inch of her body. He pushed her back and kissed her.

Things got hot and heavy really quickly.

Well that was amazing….as I remember,' Peve the AI commented as she took in the younger version of herself laying on the bed, having been fucked cross eyed and Harry's smile crossed his face. 'But we must now depart, now.'

'Of course,' Faora thought and the others agreed.

With the timeline stabilized, there was no reason to stick around much longer. It was time for Harry, Faora, Kara, Karen, Diana, Jaime, Rose, and Lily to step into the time portal and return back to Castle Peverell.

Even though the group had been in the past for centuries, it had been only less than four days in the present. The time dilation properties lined up so things would work smoothly.

As for Peve, well Harry left her something behind. She managed to somehow hit the one in a thousand ratio to have a son, who would go on to have three of his own. The keys would be gifted to them when they hit the age of majority.

The rest, as they said, was magical history.

X-X-X

Back home, for better or for worse, the group landed with a loud thud inside the Castle. Harry took a moment to collect his thoughts, muddled as they were. He thought that despite everything that happened, it was very good to be back in the future, well technically his present.

He had been time traveling a bit too long. It was starting to addle his brain and not in the good way. He saw the smile on Jaime's face as if she knew what he was thinking.

'Don't worry, it fried my brain too, good thing we're among the more intelligent sort,' Jaime thought to him.

'And also the less than modest sort,' Faora added in a slightly teasing voice but Jaime felt the need to fire back with a statement of her own.

'Well you don't have a monopoly on a lack of modesty,' Jaime thought to Faora and the rest of the group offered their share of amused snickers. 'Oh well…we'll get through this, all of us, because that's sort of what we do.'

'Your point is well taken,' Faora added with a smile going across her face.

Now that they were back in the future, Harry had a few things that he had to do, and while he was confident that the spells held nicely throughout time, he still had to check on his time displaced Collective members.

With good grace and deep intensity going through his eyes, Harry stepped towards the gates and made his way down the staircase.

'Mission successful?' Amanda thought through the bond link.

'Most certainly,' Harry told her and his twin sister nodded through the link.

'Ah, you're back,' the Harry dupe commented through the neural network.

'Well don't sound so broken apart,' Harry remarked to him.

Harry that was in the present time learned from the prime Harry from the past.

'Harrison Evans….good name, consider it stolen,' Harry thought to him through the bond link.

It's not the most original name in the world, you know,' Harry thought to newly dubbed Harrison.

'Does it matter if it works?' Harrison bantered back to Harry who shook his head.

'No, it doesn't, it really doesn't,' Harry commented. 'You've got to do what you've got to do.'

It was time for Harry to get a sense of what his dupe had been up to.

It was now time for the prime version of Harry to get a sense of what his dupe was up to.

'Well, you've been busy this summer, very nice,' Harry told Harrison and there was a few seconds where he paused.

'I knew you would approve,' He commented back to Harry, a barely disguised grin coming in over through the link.

Amanda, who had been on the link for some time, was not going to let this exchange go much further without making a comment. 'You know, normally talking to yourself isn't a good thing but you might be the only people who could make that work without any problems.'

'Hey, I talk to myself all of the time,' Bellatrix chimed in in a gleeful voice.

There was a pause and Narcissa decided to chime in. 'Well, that's about the least of what's wrong with you, Bella.'

'Thank you, Narcissa, you're too kind,' Bellatrix beamed with pleasure through the link.

'Only you would take that as a compliment, Bella,' Andromeda commented, as she felt that she was putting in some long hours. Thankfully Harry, well now Harrison, rather was able to speed by the Ministry for some stress relief, whenever they could get a few minutes to do so.

'At least you have something to do, I feel like I'm going to choke on all of this paperwork,' Nym remarked to them. 'The Auror academy brochure most certainly did not bring up the fact I'd have a bloody metric ton of paperwork.'

'A Ministry pamphlet lying, oh perish the thought,' Ginny commented dryly.

'Hey I was really looking forward to working as an Auror…' Nym remarked to her.

'No dark wizards, no excitement, funny how that works out,' Emily commented in a light voice.

'Yeah, most excitement I got is someone smuggling dragon fangs in teddy bears,' Nym remarked to them.

'Fletcher's at it again, isn't he?' Narcissa couldn't help but chime in with that question.

'How did you….how did you…?'

'Just call it an educated guess, Nymphadora,' Narcissa stated softly as she brushed her hair back out of her face.

'How educated?' Nym asked in an amused tone of voice.

'Very much so,' Narcissa commented, the thief was low level pond scum who had been at it for many years. Granted, he could be moderately useful if one knew how to haggle with him and by haggle, Narcissa meant blackmail him. Hell the only the only reason he wasn't in Azkaban was due to Dumbledore's protection so he was rather ripe for the picking. 'He's not that big of a problem, if you know to handle him.'

'Threaten to break a few of his fingers, and he'll fall into line,' Bellatrix offered them.

'All heart,' Vega commented with a smile at the antics of her mother. She wondered why she came off as so relatively sane. Probably had something to do with whoever her Father was, not that she really cared.

Then again, the key term was relatively sane, which meant that she was not completely sane, at least not a hundred percent of the way. Truthfully she was rather Bi-polar and quite vicious when angered.

As much as Harry enjoyed the interplay, he had some important things to do and he walked down the corridors, as he made a twisting turn.

Down into the basement for the first person he saw and that was Peve. He was certain that she found a way to get here, in some way.

She went back to Krypton, lived a life for a very long time, likely finding a way to bounce back and forth between there and Earth in order to check on her descendants on both planets. Including one she sent to Earth that was born on Krypton over thirty years ago.

Harry figured that was an interesting revelation but that just proved that he had one of the more curious family trees in existence. Some might have considered it to be messed up and Harry would agree.

Yet he saw her in perfect condition, preserved. It was important to allow her to wake up slowly and now that he was here, he could start the process.

'Seventy two hours,' Harry thought as he adjusted the crystals.

One down, three more to go, even though only two of them were here. Morgaine decided not to put her crypt in the main castle and given her nature, he suspected that she came out of a slumber every few decades or so to cause some havoc.

Harry made his way to the next crypt and turned the dial to release the stasis field around Rowena. Like Peve, she would wake up in seventy two hours, in her peak physical prime.

It was what he expected to return to.

'Weird to be back in the present day, although it was an educational experience,' Harry remarked mentally to himself as a smile crossed his face.

It was really good to be back all things considered. Returning from the past had really caused him to think about a lot of things that happened in life.

'So what happened, exactly?' Amanda asked and she was not the only one who was curious.

Harry smiled and he stated one thing in all honesty. 'Boy, do I have a story to tell you.'

That was an auspicious beginning as always.

X-X-X

Harry actually had some letters to get through now that he was home, and while he planned to head over to Gotham City in the next day or two, he figured that it would be prudent to answer this latest piece of correspondence that was put out in front of him. A smile crossed his face as he spread everything out on the table so he could tackle it in due order.

Dear Harry,

Summer is a blast as usual, although I'm gearing up for what appears to be one of the toughest years or so Pam has warned me.

Oh well, that's just half of the fun isn't it? Well that and the challenge. Time to really buckle down and get a lot done.

I'm sure you're trying to recover from the year that was. The same here to be honest with you. It was an intense year for me as I'm sure it was for you as well.

So…..I'm in a pretty good mood all things considered actually. I don't really have much more to say.

Just hopefully you can swing by sometime soon as you escape the hailstorm that is your life. Granted, I know that I'm not high on your list of priorities but hey, you can't blame a girl for trying.

Anyway, take care Harry, don't be a stranger for too long. Or just plain strange, although you would fit in better in Gotham City, if you catch my drift.

Anyway, talk to you later.

Barbara.

That letter brought a smile to Harry's face and he took a few seconds to mentally put together his response to this piece of correspondence.

Dear Barbara,

I'm fine, I've actually just gotten back from a really long trip. I would tell you more but that's just one of those stories that I would like to properly tell in person.

So, I guess the cat's out of the bag, I'm going to be stopping by Gotham City in a few days. I thought about it being a surprise but given the nature of the visit, it might be best if I give you the heads up. There's a few things that I have to take care of business wise but there's a pleasure trip aspect for it as well.

Please don't sell yourself short like that. While I have been pretty busy over the past year or so. It isn't due to anything that you did and I want you to know I'm really quite fond of you. But with the events surrounding the tournament I was pretty much stuck in Britain when I really rather would have been anywhere else, and that includes visiting you and Pamela in Gotham.

So, keep your head up because the insanity that you're going to be experience, well I'm sure that Pam knows better than anyone else. I'd take heed of the warning if I was you.

I'll talk to you really soon. Enjoy the fun why it lasts.

Harry.

Harry tapped his finger down on the parchment and went to the next later. Pamela was next up on the luck of the draw and a smile crossed Harry's face as he delved into this bit of correspondence.

Dear Harry,

Well if I thought that the hardest part was over, I was kind of stupid, really I was. The hard part was not over, it's the hard part that's just beginning.

Perhaps I should clarify what I mean.

So I got all of the entrance exams for college out of the way. You think that would be not too bad. In fact a half of a step up from what came before it, given that it's knowledge we're building on.

I found that there's a little bit more to this than I think that our teachers let on.

I could snap my fingers just like that and everything would come undone. Just pop my fingers together and boom done.

Guess that was something that built my expectations up a bit too high.

Actually, I didn't do too terribly, I did quite good all things considered. It was just that I think that I might have built up what I knew in my head a bit too much.

Just a bit now, not too much.

My scores will come back, always have to give yourself a month's wait for these things it seems because they want to make sure you work yourself up to a fever pitch.

Hermione's not dead, is she? Because I'm sure that I might be channeling her spirit.

I'm joking, maybe.

Anyway, I'm going to wait for your reply. Hopefully you're going to take time to decipher my ramblings and answer me.

Love you,

Pamela.

Harry tapped his quill on the edge of the desk and a thinly veiled smile went across his face as he prepared to answer one of his last pieces of correspondence before he officially set up shop in Gotham City for the time being. Although he would never be far from the castle.

Pam,

Don't get stressed out. I've spent the better part of four years trying to teach Hermione to relax. I don't want to have to start with you now.

I'm sure you did fine. In fact, I'm more than sure, I'm absolutely confident that you did fine. That's just how you are, you're that good, do you hear me, you are that good

I really hope that I boosted your confidence up to a new level, at least I hope that I did

Now with that out of the way, I've got a few things to say.

The rumors that I'm coming to Gotham City are true by the way, if you were told anything at least. And if you weren't told anything, well I guess your finding out now.

I think that there's something that we need to discuss when I arrive there but it's not anything that we can talk about in a letter. I'll be there in the next few days, got some loose ends but I'll be there, you can count on that.

So, just keep your head up, your scores coming in will be the top. That's how much faith that I have in you.

Love you back,

Harry.

Harry paused for a second and could tell that he had some more correspondence but he cleared his head as he saw the final letter from his pen pals.

Dear Harry,

I've gotten good reviews on all of my tests, both the ones at school and those from my father. Of course, that doesn't entitle me to some time off but rather for him to push me to the next level.

You cannot join me soon enough. I've said it before, I've said it again, torture is best shared.

I'm not sure if that sounded callous enough for me or not but it's true. Sorry if it's offensive but it's true.

Anyway, I heard some news involving that world, you seem to be even more popular in that world than you were before. You better be careful Harry or you could get yourself elected as Minister of Magic at fifteen.

I'm only half joking about that one.

Okay, maybe less than half but you get the idea.

I'm really rambling, aren't I?

Okay, I've got to get back on track. I really hope to see you pretty soon, at least it would be a good thing to see you.

I do miss you and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.

I really hope that everything is going okay for you. I just get this sense that you did something extremely important and I don't know why.

Maybe you could shed some light on everything? I hope to hear what you've been up to in the….well it's been about five days since I've last written to you.

Oh, late happy Birthday, if you get that before then.

See you soon,

Zatanna.

Harry had a smile across his face as he prepared to respond to this particular piece of correspondence, tapping his quill on the edge of the paper three times and then jumping in to respond.

Zee,

No, no problem with your ramblings, ramble away. I enjoy hearing the ramblings of people and sometimes the best of us need to vent.

Okay, so I'm moving along. Yes, I know that being a hero does have its perks and there are a lot of people who are scarily obsessed. And not scarily obsessed in the good way that's kind of endearing but scarily obsessed in the bad way which is scary.

On an unrelated note, Amelia is putting through a law that will make sure that no one can be elected to the Ministry position before the age of thirty five. After all, we wouldn't want someone to get in too young and allow the power to go to their head.

Which gives me almost twenty years, which I'm sure means they'll latch onto a different flavor of the month. I've got to plan ahead after all.

Yes, I'll be ready to join you. Although I think that you might be exaggerating things just a little bit. Or your father expects a lot of you since you're his daughter.

Still it should be an experience never the less.

I'll be popping over to Gotham City with Kara and Diana. There will be a few others popping in and out. There's an estate in the city where we can create a portal and….here's a fun fact, it's right next store to Ravencrest.

Surprise.

Talk to you later,

Harry.

Harry had a smile across his face as he had one more piece of correspondence. It was from Gringotts.

Dear Lord Potter,

As you know, this is a courtesy letter given from the Gringotts bank to indicate a change in your primary account manager. As of August 4th 1995, Sersi, Princess of the goblin nation will take over as your full time account manager.

Let us say that it has been an honor with working with you so far and we hope that you continue to work with us as we continue to benefit both of our races through the usage of your account.

Let us just say that it has been an honor working with you so far and we hope that you continue to work with us in a way that benefits both of our races through the usage of your account.

We would appreciate your attendance.

May your gold continue to shine bright and be abundant.

Ragnok.

Harry couldn't help the smile on his face, he'd been looking forward to this day for a very long time and he knew that Sersi was working rather hard on his accounts. She would be in for a reward.

He could hardly wait.

'Harry, before your business at Gringotts, I have something very important to share with you,' Hippolyta commented through the very bond link.'We need to talk.'

Now Harry was intrigued, just a little bit.