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Bonded chapter 36
🕑 Added 2023-03-30 18:00:43 +0000 UTCChapter 36 -
"What are you doing here?" A voice blurted out. Harry and the Tonks family turned around to find Ron, Hermione and the Weasley family standing in the doorway, complete with two new redheads.
"Hey guys," Harry greeted them, unable to totally hide the surprise in his voice. "How'd you get up here?" He asked curiously.
"I'm friends with Ludo Bagman, he'll be commentating on the match," Mr Weasley explained with a smile. "He was able to get us all tickets. We weren't expecting to see you up here, Harry. Ron told me that you'd had already had tickets for the world cup, didn't think you'd be up here as well."
"Ah, well the ministry is hoping to get in Sirius's good books." Harry explained before turning to Sirius. "Sirius, you remember Ron and Hermione. The other redheads here are Ron's family. The youngest is Ginny, then we have Ron's older brothers, the twins that go by Fred and George, most of the time. That's Percy Weasley, and I'm presuming that these other two are the brothers that Ron has told me about."
"That we are," The oldest one grinned, supporting a dragon fang earring and long hair pulled into a ponytail. "I'm Bill, and this is my brother, Charlie." He added, placing his hand on the other redhead who was much shorter but also much more muscular.
"Pleasure to meet you, Mr Potter," Charlie smiled. "We've heard a lot about you."
"Good things, I hope," Harry chuckled before turning to face Ron and Hermione as Sirius began greeting the rest of the Weasleys. "Good to see you both, how've you been?"
"Alright, I suppose," Ron replied. "What about you?"
"Fantastic," Harry smiled brightly. "The Tonks family is brilliant, they've been really nice to me."
"I guess they're the ones that you've been staying with for the summer," Hermione said in a quiet voice.
"Is that a problem?" Harry asked stiffly.
"No," She said with a small shake of her head. "I just...I wanted to apologize, I...I didn't mean to go behind your back. I just...was doing what I thought was best, what I was best for you. I'm really sorry, Harry."
"It's fine," Harry sighed. "I don't want to spend a lot of time arguing about it anyway. We're here to watch quidditch."
"Yes," Ron said with relief. "Harry's right, we're here for quidditch, best sport in the world."
"I like cricket," Hermione said with a small smile.
"Merlin, you're boring," Harry said with mock disgust.
"Oh great, the riff-raff are here." A voice complained.
The trio turned to see the Malfoy family walk in to the box, dressed in high-priced clothes. The Weasley family along with Ted, Tonks and Hermione immediately stiffened. Those born outside of Britain didn't show much reaction due to not knowing who they were, Fudge smiled as if his best friend had come in and Sirius briefly sent a glare at Lucius before his gaze shifted to Narcissa, as did Andromeda's. Harry, on the other hand, had chosen a very different reaction.
"Mrs Malfoy, a pleasure to see you again," He said in a happy voice as he walked over.
"Mr Potter?" Mrs Malfoy blinked as Harry took her hand and placed a gentle kiss on her knuckles.
"How wonderful to see you again, I must say that you've gotten even more radiant than before," Harry said, smiling up at her, earning an amused expression from her while Lucius simply looked annoyed with Harry.
"Oi! Get off!" Draco said, slapping Harry's hand out.
"Draco!" Mrs Malfoy immediately scolded him. "That is very rude behaviour."
"But Mother, I..."
"No excuses, apologize at once to Mr Potter." She ordered him.
"What?!" Draco blurted out, looking horrified at the very idea of apologizing to anyone, especially Potter.
"You heard me," She replied, she saw Draco open his mouth to argue and decided to cut him off. "It is not too late for you to miss the cup, young man." She warned him, a horrified Draco stared at her for a very long couple of seconds before looking hopefully at his father.
"Do as your mother says, Draco." Lucius told him stiffly. An ugly expression appeared on Draco's face before he turned to Harry who had to wipe a shit-eating grin off of his own face.
"I am...terribly sorry about my behaviour," Draco said, sounding as if he was in pain.
"As well as you should be," Harry said in a solemn voice. "Draco, you represent your family. The famed Malfoy family, as its heir, you should be more aware of your actions. Don't worry, you have time to learn." Harry said, comfortingly patting Draco on the arm.
"Thanks for the advice," Draco said through gritted teeth.
"Oh, you're welcome." Harry said cheerily, causing Tonks to snort.
"Cissy," Andromeda spoke up, causing Mrs Malfoy to look at her.
"Andromeda," She said in a neutral tone. "It's good to see you again,"
"You as well," Andromeda nodded.
"Right, well, we should probably get back to our seats." Tonks interjected, wrapping an arm around Harry's shoulders before leading him to their seats while the others quickly followed suit and headed to their own seats, pointedly ignoring each other. "Did you really have to try and piss off little Draco?" Tonks whispered to Harry as the two sat down together.
"Of course," Harry said immediately. "I've tried to stay away from the smug little bastard for years now, but he keeps chasing after me. So, might as well get my fun in."
"Fair enough," Tonks sighed. "Let's just try to stop hexes from flying."
"I can always just punch the bastard," Harry whispered, earning a giggle from Tonks that caused Harry to smile. "I reckon I could get away with it too, his mother loves me."
"How'd that even happen?" Tonks whispered back in amazement.
"Hit her with the old Potter charm, didn't I?" Harry grinned.
"The old Potter charm," She repeated mockingly. "Has that ever worked on anyone?"
"Worked on your mum well enough for her to let me in her house, didn't it?" Harry retorted.
"Do you reckon your Potter charm would work well on me?" She asked flirtatiously, batting her eyes at him in an exaggerated manner.
"I can always try," Harry whispered, leaning forward so his lips were only a few inches away from Tonks's. His emerald orbs stared into her currently violet ones for several seconds, the noises around them became barely noticeable.
"It won't work," Tonks said, leaning back, her face slightly red for a brief moment before her skin turned back to her usual complexion.
"We'll see," Harry laughed before sitting back in his seat.
'Masterfully done,' Venom said in Harry's head.
'Thanks,' Harry mentally replied.
'With that being said, I would like to divert your attention to something else.' Venom told him before he forced Harry's head to look towards his left. Harry looked down and saw that near the Weasleys was a house elf, a female one by the looks of it, sitting and covering her eyes, looking quite frightened of something. 'See that empty chair next to her?' Venom asked.
'What about it?' Harry replied.
'I sensed someone there,'
'What? Who?'
'I don't know,' Venom admitted. 'Maybe a pervert. Let's find out!' He said mischievously, a picture of his big toothy grin appeared in Harry's head.
'Venom, what are you doing?'
'Don't worry about it, talk to Tonks.' Venom ordered, forcing Harry's head to look towards Tonks.
'I hate when you do that,' Harry complained before turning to Tonks. "You ever been to a world cup before?"
"Nah, not really," Tonks answered with a small shake of her head. "Dad wanted to take me once,"
"That was the football world cup," Andromeda pointed out, she and Ted had sat down on the two seats next to Tonks. "And I remember that you didn't want to go."
"Of course I didn't," Tonks snorted. "Football is boring."
"How are you my daughter?!" An offended Ted blurted out.
"What? It is! Oh, look, we're going to kick a ball around a field! Let's fill up a stadium full of people so they can watch that."
"Isn't that what quidditch is?" Ted argued.
"Quidditch, I'll have you know, is a high-paced, action filled game that takes place high in the sky and involves a variety of players doing different things and plenty more bloodshed." Tonks responded whilst rolling her eyes.
"This isn't the first time they've had this argument," Andromeda told Harry with a sigh.
"Hmm," Harry nodded but didn't say much as he was more focused on what Venom was doing. While the two Tonks family members had been talking, the symbiote had sent a tentacle out from the back of Harry's foot and sent it crawling under the seats to the seat where the invisible person was. It stopped upon feeling something, something that felt quite soft, the tentacle grabbed it and pulled.
A few seconds later the entire box was filled with chaotic shouting as an invisibility cloak landed on the floor, revealing a skinny brown haired man that had been hiding amongst them. Harry and Tonks were the first to draw their wands, Harry because of his enhanced body and knowledge that something could have happened while Tonks was simply highly trained, the two of them shot out stunners at the man and had knocked him out immediately. The poor house elf started crying so Harry quickly stunned her as well, knowing that house elves can be fairly dangerous when they wish to be.
"So, that was a bit awkward, wasn't it?" Harry asked out loud before turning to Minister Fudge. "I hope that this little incident of me using magic whilst underage will be forgiven given the circumstances,"
"W...what?" Minister Fudge blurted out before catching onto what Harry was saying. "Oh, yes, yes, of course, but who is that? It's...galloping gargoyles! That's Barty Crouch junior!"
"As in the son of the asshole who sent me to Azkaban without a trial?!" Sirius demanded.
"The exact same," Ted said with a frown on his face. "But last I heard, his son was supposed to be dead in Azkaban."
"He looks remarkably well for a dead man," Tonks couldn't help but comment before hitting the fallen man with a couple of binding spells.
"My dear Minister," Harry leapt over his seat and rushed towards Fudge, wrapping his arm around the man's shoulder. "I must thank you deeply," He told him in a sincere voice, causing everyone to look at him.
"W...what? Thank me?" Fudge repeated dumbly.
"Of course, you see this lovely woman here?" Harry gestured to Tonks who looked surprised at suddenly being the centre of attention. "She's one of your aurors, I've been staying with her and her family for the summer and she's taught me quite a few things. Ministry approved, of course, and in case you didn't notice, she and I were the fastest ones to react to this new threat." He smiled proudly. "I simply must thank you for making sure Magical Britain is armed with such fine and outstanding aurors, I feel much better knowing that our lives are protected by people like her. I must say, I do hope that Miss Tonks will be rewarded heavily. I mean, here she is, off duty, and still doing her duty. Defending not just myself, but also her family, friends, the Malfoys, the foreign Ministers and even you." Harry said as he patted Fudge on the back. "I just think it would send a really bad message if she wasn't rewarded, you know?" He whispered into the Minister's ear.
"Ah, yes, yes, of course," Fudge immediately nodded before turning to Tonks. "Well done, Auror, I shall have a talk with Miss Bones and we'll see to getting you appropriately rewarded."
"Oh, thank you," Tonks said in a quiet voice.
"Now, what to do with this mess?" Fudge wondered as he walked over and began examining Barty Crouch Junior.
"You're welcome," Harry told Tonks as he walked over.
"You didn't have to do that for me," Tonks smiled and pulled him into a tight hug.
"Potter charm, never fails," Harry grinned, Tonks pulled back and playfully punched him in the arm.
(.)
"Ireland won, Ireland won!" Tonks cheered later that night as she danced around their tent.
After the chaotic event where Barty Crouch Junior was found, there had been a delay in the world cup but eventually it had continued. First there was the introduction of the teams and their mascots, Bulgaria had Veelas for mascots. Tonks had explained to Harry that they were essentially people that weren't really considered humans by most people. They had an avian form apparently and had an ability to produce fire, but they were mostly famous for having an allure that attracted men which inspired people to believe that they stole men from wives and made them their slaves.
It was at least somewhat true as Harry had witnessed nearly all the men there react in some way or another, some cheered loudly while others started showing off their muscles, including the referee of the match. Ron had nearly jumped out of the box but was held back by his family, Harry had even saw Mrs Tonks tug on Mr Tonks ear to snap him out of it. Sirius didn't react much, thought that could be because of his experiences in Azkaban. Harry himself had felt a sudden urge to start showing off but had been able to quickly squash it down, thankfully before he could embarrass himself like Ron had, and Harry hadn't even needed Venom's help for it. The fact that he had done it had managed to impress Tonks, which Harry considered a bonus.
Eventually, after a pretty exciting quidditch match, Ireland had won. Victor Krum, the star Bulgarian seeker, had caught the snitch but the Ireland chasers had racked up enough points that they still won. A fact that Tonks was happy to cheer about in the face of her father who had been positive that Bulgaria would win. Which is why currently she was dancing around a fire in the middle of the tent, waving around an Irish flag to some very loud and cheery Irish music. Ted had his face in his hands as his wife patted him on the back, meanwhile Sirius and Harry were clapping to the beat of the music. Though Venom did insist that Harry a respectable distance away from the fire.
"Go Tonksie!" Laughed Harry as the pink-haired auror continued dancing, seemingly having the time of her life. Sirius let out a loud whistle before he and Harry looked at each other with massive grins.
"Tonks! Tonks! Tonks! Tonks!" The two started cheering and clapping in sync as Tonks started dancing even faster. "Tonks! Tonks! Tonks! Tonks! Tonks! To...what the fuck?!" The two blurted out when they felt the whole tent shake.
"What the hell was that?" Tonks frowned, dropping the flag onto a nearby bed as she pulled out her wand.
"Let's find out," Sirius said as everyone stood up and pulled out their wands. They all rushed out of the tent and saw absolute chaos, tents were on fire and people were running in every direction. "Shit!" He gasped out upon seeing what looked to be a large group of death eaters walking around, shooting spells at everyone and everything. Eventually the group of wizards started chasing several people into the nearby forest.
"Let's fight," Harry growled, his wand glowing.
'Fuck yeah!' Venom cheered.
"Are you mad? No!" Sirius quickly cut him off. "We're getting out of here, now!"
"Listen to him, Harry," Tonks said when she saw Harry looked like he was about to argue.
"Fine," Harry said through gritted teeth before they all started turning and rushing away, trying to get to the apparition point.
'Fuck that,' Venom said. 'Slow down, sneak away, let's hunt.' He whispered to Harry. Harry allowed himself to slow down slightly, once he was sure that none of the Tonks or Sirius was looking he rushed away and into snuck through the chaos and into the nearby forest before hiding behind a tree. 'Are you ready?'
'Ready,' Harry replied before his body ended up being covered in a familiar black goo, leaving him all in black with a white spider logo on his chest and back and two white tear-dropped shaped eyes.
"Let's hunt," Venom said in his deep voice. "Tonight's special: Death Eaters."
(.)
"This is great," A death eater grinned as he hit a woman with a killing curse.
"I know!" A second death eater laughed. "I haven't done this in ages." He grinned before hitting the woman's husband with a blasting curse to the head.
"Lucius chickened out," A third said, hitting the downed husband with a killing curse, just to be sure. "Shame about that." The trio of death eaters continued walking until they found a young boy, snivelling and sobbing on the floor, having fell and bruised his knee. "Look at this little one, didn't we just take care of his mommy and daddy?"
"I reckon so," The second death eater smirked under his mask.
"Let's make it a full set," The first death eater suggested, aiming his wand at the boy.
"No!" The boy cried, covering his head with his arms. He stayed there, curled in a ball, shaking widely, waiting for the inevitable. He waited and waited, then he waited some more, then he waited again. Wait, why was he waiting so much? The boy opened his eyes and peaked his head out of his arms and his eyes widened instantly upon seeing Venom crouching next to the bodies of the three death eaters, death eaters that Venom had positioned in such a way that the boy could not see their missing heads.
"Hello, don't worry, you're safe." Venom told him, crawling towards him on all fours.
"Are...are you a monster?" The boy whispered nervously, crawling backwards until he ended up backing into a tree. Venom crawled forwards and stopped a couple of inches away from the boy.
"Do we look like a monster?" Venom asked the boy in a curious voice.
"A...little bit," The boy gulped.
"Are you a good boy?" Venom whispered to him.
"Yes, yes!" The boy quickly nodded. "I'm very good!"
"Then for you, we're not a monster, we are a hero!" Venom said proudly.
"W...who is we?" The boy asked, still shaking.
"Don't worry about it, come on, let's get you to safety." Venom slowly reached out and gently picked up the young boy, ignoring the way he flinched and how scared he seemed to be. "We are Venom" Venom told him before a tentacle shot out from Venom's back and grabbed onto a tree, pulling them into the air.
(.)
"We should probably stop soon," One death eater said to his travelling companion. "The aurors will be here any moment," He added as they walked through the forest.
"One more victim, then we'll stop." The other death eater insisted. "I just want to have one more dead body." He told his friend, a few seconds later a black knife shot through the air and pierced straight into the neck of the first death eater. "What the hell?!"
"Wish granted," A deep voice boomed. The remaining death eater turned around in time to see Venom leap at him with a large mouth filled with very, very sharp teeth.
(.)
"I cannot believe this! We caught Veelas!"
Fleur Delacour, a young seventeen year old veela, glared up at the men around her as she protectively held her sister, Gabrielle. The two had joined their mother and father in attending the world cup, Fleur truly had no interest in quidditch but still knew that this was an unmissable event, though she mostly attended in order to please her younger sister who had begged her to come. The family had been enjoying a small walk when suddenly these horrible men started attacking, the next few minutes had been a blur for the young veela but somehow she and her sister had gotten separated and ended up running through the forest. They had gotten quite far when suddenly the ground under them had exploded, sending them both backwards.
The landing had been rough for her, but even worse for young Gabrielle who had ended up hurting her ankle. In what seemed like no time, they were surrounded by at least ten men wearing black cloaks, tall hats and skull masks. Fleur had pulled out her wand and quickly covered her sister with her own body. She knew there wasn't much hope, there was only so much she could do against ten fully trained wizards, especially when she was also trying to protect her sister.
"They'd sell quite nice," One death eater said thoughtfully.
"Let's sample the merchandise first," One of them said, grinning under his mask before he aimed his wand at a tensed Fleur. He opened his mouth to cast a spell when he heard something move from behind him, before he could look back he felt something grab him by the collar of his robes. He felt himself be yanked into the air, he felt his whole world spin violently and the next thing he felt was himself smashing violently against a nearby tree.
Venom landed on the side of a separate and took a moment to stare at his work, he hadn't been gentle with that death eater, that death eater was now currently a mashed up disaster on the floor, his blood covering the tree and the ground surrounding him. Venom turned his attention back to the nine death eaters that remained.
"Boo," Venom said before they all started shooting at him. Venom leapt off his tree, he spun in mid-air before throwing three knives out of his arm, each knife pierced into a separate neck before he landed on another tree and leapt into the upper halves of the trees, hiding behind leaves and woods before turning himself invisible.
"What the hell was that?!" One of the remaining death eaters blurted out.
"I don't know but kill it!" Another death heater hissed just before two pairs of tentacles grabbed them both from behind and pulled them past the girls and into the darkness of the forest.
"The hell is that?!" A death eater demanded before throwing a killing curse in the general direction where he believed Venom to be.
"We..." Venom's voice boomed, echoing into each and every ear there. "...are Venom." A roar was heard as Venom dropped in from below, grabbing two death eaters by their heads and slamming them hard enough onto the ground the crack their heads open. The remaining death eaters quickly aimed their wands at him when Fleur jumped in and shot a powerful blasting curse at them, one death eater barely jumped out of the way but the other was not as fortunate and found himself flying into a tree before collapsing down onto the ground.
"Bitch!" The remaining death eater cursed before sending a killing curse at Fleur who froze, not at all used to have an unforgivable being sent at her.
"No!" Venom yelled before shooting out a tentacle towards Fleur. The tentacle just about managed to reach them before the spell did, the green spell clashed against Venom's black tentacle.
And did absolutely nothing.
"Impossible!" The death eater gasped as Venom retracted his tentacle.
"Hmm, that's interesting." Venom whispered before suddenly leaping towards the remaining death eater.
Fleur was unable to see what was happening due to Venom's body being the way, but she was sure that she heard what sounded like a very large bite before she saw some blood spill from the death eater. She covered her frightened sister's eyes as Venom stood up and stepped back from the headless corpse to stare at her.
"You're welcome," He told her whilst giving her an exaggerated bow before he jumped straight up into the trees and out of sight.
"Putain de merde!" Fleur cursed in French.
(.)
A.N: I don't know if I got the French right but according to what I googled, it should roughly mean 'Fucking shit!'.
Comments
Erinnyes
Ole Voldy is gonna have a lot less supporters this time around. 😁 Awesome chapter, love to see the... more proactive stance... that Harry is taking this time!
Christian Jeffress
Fantastically fun and fantastic really awesome chapter, and shows why I absolutely love this story. Really loved the earlier character building, the comedy was great, the relationship between Harry and venom is always enjoyable, and the action was absolutely badass! 10/10
