HARRY POTTER :flash forward.

She pulled a loose thread from the inside hem of her robes and transfigured it into a mosquito. Then hit it with the Imperius curse. "If you can use that same recording charm, Hermione, I'll have this little thing fly around near the listening charm in my room. It's the knob on the left top most drawer of my vanity, by the way." "I can do that," replied Hermione.

Harry then went ahead and opened the door back out into their living room, before then walking over and opening the door to Daphne's room. He held the door open as Daphne forced the little insect to fly into her room.

Standing back a bit to give Hermione room, she then caused the mosquito to fly around, in and out, near the indicated knob. Hermione allowed it to fly around a fair bit between when she cast the start of the charm, and ended it before nodding to Daphne.

Daphne forced the mosquito away and Hermione cast the silencing ward over the knob while Daphne ended the transfiguration on the mosquito, returning it to a single piece of thread, which dropped to the floor.

"That's going to drive the old coot barmy," chuckled Harry.

"Alright," said Daphne. "I'm just going to cast a silencing ward over the one in Harry's room. Then I think we should rescan."

"Agreed," replied Hermione.

After blocking the charm in Harry's room they found others on effects in Harry's trunk.

A quick duck back into the living room for a mini-conference and Harry said, "How'd he manage that?"

"The house elves," replied Daphne, angrily. "He intercepted the trunks being brought from the train to the castle and applied them then." "Well, we're not going to play with those ones," sighed Harry. Turning slightly, he called, "Dobby! Winky!"

Immediately, the little house elves popped in. "Yes, Master Harry?"

"Hello, my little friends. Here's what I want you to do," he said before explaining the existing charms around their apartment.

"Now, besides those, the Headmaster clearly had one or more of the castle's house elves bring him our trunks before they were sent to here. There are tracking and listening charms all through our personal effects. Please, strip them away."

"Yes, Master Harry," replied the elves before popping away. "Let's give them a few moments to sort that all out before we go to bed," said Hermione.

"There's something I wanted to talk about before we went to bed, anyway," said Daphne with a rush before blushing a little.

"Sure," said Harry. "About what?"

Daphne and Hermione looked at each other for a few moments before Daphne turned back to Harry. Taking a deep breath she quietly said, "I think... no. I know... I'm... we're," she said indicating her and Hermione, "... ready to finalise the bonds."

Surprised, Harry looked from Daphne to Hermione and back again. "You're sure?" he asked.

"Yes," they firmly replied. Thinking a bit, he asked, "Do you want to do this individually... or together?"

"Together," replied Daphne. "I think... if you don't mind, that is... I think I want Hermione to be there when I... finalise the bond with you. If that's alright?"

"I expected you would want to," Harry replied with a gentle smile. "And, of course, it's alright with me. We've done everything else when the three of us have been together; I pretty much expected you'd want to do this together, too."

Letting out a sigh of relief, she quietly said, "Thank you."

"There's nothing to thank me for," he replied, stepping forward to give her a hug. "Now, is it alright with Hermione?" "Yes," replied Hermione, stepping in to make it a three-way hug. "Daphne and I have already discussed this. It's what we both want. Besides, we want you to be there when we two finalise our part of the bond."

Nodding in his arms, Daphne said, "I think it would weird me out, if you weren't."

"So, you want to finalise the three aspects all together, on the same night?" he asked them.

"Yes," they both replied.

"But, not tonight," sighed Hermione. "It's late. I think we should plan to do this on Friday night. That way we have the whole weekend to recover."

"Good," said Daphne. "I think I need the time to make sure I'm going to be ready." "And, Daphne?" said Harry. "If you discover between now and then you feel you're not ready. Tell us! It doesn't have to be this Friday night, yeah?"

Nodding, Daphne replied, "Thank you. But, I don't think I'll be changing my mind. I don't want to change my mind."

"The option to do so is still open to you; to both of you," Harry firmly said.

A few minutes later, the three headed to bed. Harry had to re-enlarge it as the initial charm to widen it had worn off while they'd been away. Or might have been stripped off by Dumbledore or Snape.

Classes recommenced the next morning and the three were quickly back into routine. Harry kept a close eye on Daphne to make sure she wasn't getting stressed about the coming Friday evening. Since the night of their return they hadn't spoken of it since.

Amusing all three, and Luna as they'd let her know of the listening charms Dumbledore had put throughout their apartment, the Headmaster appeared a little... frazzled after only a couple of days. It appeared clear to them the old fool had been checking his charms.

They hadn't approached the Weasley twins until the Tuesday morning as they used the Monday evening to go to the rune circle in the Room of Requirement and destroy the soul pieces and charms on the locket horcrux. Checking, the Cup was already stripped of all charms except the ancient ones placed on it by Hufflepuff herself. "That now leaves just the ring and Nagini," Harry was pleased to state, once they were done. The two ex-horcruxes then went back into the hidden compartment in Harry's trunk he'd had installed.

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