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poetryboss : Well the term Apex predator means the top predator, take from that what you will.

BMS : That sounds like a great story.

Time Emperor : Honestly I feel like I could just do that if I wanted to piss people off, though you will have to wait and see.

Chaos Snow Kitsune : Thanks, I was honestly just tempted to have Harry go all 'Oh I hate you! Fuck off!' but I just decided to try something different.

Chapter 45 -

"This is nice," Fleur smiled as she and Harry walked together, hand in hand through muggle London. "don't you think so?"

"Are we talking about London, hand holding or just spending time with each other?" Harry asked, raising an eyebrow.

"All of the above." Fleur answered.

"In that case, yes, it's nice." Harry smiled back at the beautiful Veela.

"Oh look," Fleur said as they stopped by a clothes store. "can we go in here?" She asked as she gestured to a clothes store.

"I don't know." Harry mock frowned.

"Please!" Fleur said, stretching out the word and combining it with an adorable pouty lip and shiny blue eyes.

"What are you doing?!" Harry gasped in horror.

"Pretty please Harry." She said, leaning against his side.

"Oh fine," Harry sighed dramatically as he kissed her pouting lips. "you've won me over." At those words Fleur dropped all acts and smirked.

"Naturally." She said before pulling him into the shop.

"You're enjoying this, aren't you?" Harry asked an hour and a half later while he was still in the same shop with Fleur. He and Fleur clearly had different shopping styles, Harry's was to to simply look over what looked good enough to buy, make sure it's affordable then decide if he was going to buy it and if he was then he would check it was the right size and then finally buy it. Fleur's method of shopping on the other hand was to look at the products as much as possible and seemed more random.

Some things she would barely glance at, but if something did catch her eye then she would look at if for some time, as far as Harry could tell she was trying to imagine how good it would look on her with all of her other clothes. As of right now they had a small pile of clothes, mainly for Fleur even though a pile of jeans for Harry was on the pile.

"Oh, are you not enjoying this?" Fleur frowned. "If you want we can stop now."

"No, it's fine," Harry shook his head and smiled at her before he leaned down and kissed her cheek. "just glad to see you look all happy."

"Thank you Harry." She smiled brightly at him. "Most boys hate shopping."

"Well I went from having second hand clothes to clothes that fit, I've got a bigger appreciation for it." Harry shrugged.

"Hmm," Fleur frowned. "I think that perhaps you should go and see a mind healer for it or a therapist or something like that, someone to help you with what those animals did to you."

"I have thought about doing that before," Harry admitted. "but then I personally don't think I need it, not anymore at least."

"What is that supposed to mean?" Fleur asked.

"Well admittedly it was a big problem for me a few years ago," Harry sighed. "but since then I've grown, in my fourth year I stopped pretending to be someone else and that gave me more freedom and time to think about everything. Then I met you and I got Sirius and Tonks, I talk about my problems with you three and sometimes Dobby and even Hedwig." Harry mentally added 'Selena' to that list. "I am a lot better now, though I am willing to go to see someone in a few years if I ever get worse." Harry added when she looked like she was about to protest.

"It was just a suggestion Harry," Fleur said as she kissed his cheek, "I will be back in a minute." She said suddenly before walking off with a shirt she had picked.

Harry for his part simply shrugged and looked around, the clothes looked expensive, stuff he couldn't imagine buying a few years ago. Harry was browsing through clothes and contemplating the various changes in his life when he felt a hand tap his shoulder, he turned around to see a female store worker, she was around eighteen years old and had blonde hair that looked dyed and brown eyes.

"Hi," The worker said as she gave him a coy smile. "is there anything I can help you with?" She asked in a hopeful voice.

"No, not really." Harry said as he shook his head. "Just looking around."

"Okay..." The worker paused before she continued. "I haven't seen you around here much."

"Probably because I haven't been around here much." Harry shrugged.

"Hmm, is there any chance you would be willing to take me out on a date?" She asked, smiling at him.

"Sorry no," Harry shook his head. "I'm here with my girlfriend." Harry said.

"Harry." Fleur said as she arrived with a shirt in her hand that was similar to the one she had taken but a slightly smaller size. "I've found the shirt I wanted."

"My girlfriend." Harry said to the worker as he gestured to the worker who looked at Fleur with a combination of intimidation and envy, Harry supposed he could slightly understand as Fleur was ridiculously good looking but on the other hand it was hardly her fault. "Anyway thank you." Harry said before he wrapped an arm around Fleur's waist and walked away.

"Are me and Tonks not enough for you?" She asked in a teasing voice.

"Of course not, I need every good looking woman in sight at my feet." Harry said, playing along, just glad that she wasn't making a big deal out of this. He wondered how Tonks would have reacted and thought she would probably do what Fleur was doing but just with more teasing.

Eventually it was Harry's birthday, and it was easily one of his better ones. He had spent the day with Sirius, Tonks, Fleur and the Tonks family going to various places, they went to a bowling alley and a cinema plus an excellent fast food restaurant. Harry had also had gifts sent to him from Ginny, the chasers, Astoria and her friends plus Daphne and Tracy.

At the end of the day Harry had walked into his bedroom only to be surprised when he saw Tonks and Fleur sitting together in his bed, each wearing no clothes and were covered up to their chests by the bed sheets.

"Wotcher Harry!" Tonks grinned at him.

"Hello Harry, are you ready for our birthday presents?" Fleur asked in a seductive tone. Harry pulled his clothes off so fast that the girls briefly wondered if he had done magic to get them off.

"Um...yeah." Harry nodded.

"Great," Tonks grinned even wider. "but first how about a game?"

"A game?" Harry asked, wondering what the fun loving metamorphamaugus had planned.

"Yeah," Tonks nodded. "close your eyes."

"Fine," Harry closed his eyes. "if I open them to find some prank then expect retaliation on your next birthday."

"Oh I wouldn't worry about that." Fleur's voice said and Harry could somehow hear the smirk.

"Open your eyes Harry." A different voice that sounded much like Fleur's spoke.

Harry opened his eyes to find two naked Fleur's standing in front of him with their hands on their hips and seductive smiles on their faces.

"Let's play guess the real Fleur." They both said at the same time in the exact same voice.

"Best...birthday...ever!" Harry smiled brightly.

"So Draco," Lord Voldemort said as he was sat and looked down at Draco, the death eaters were all kneeling before him with Draco at the front between Voldemort and the death eaters. Apophis was also present and was standing on the right of Voldemort while Nagini was sat on the opposite side. "you wish to join us? You wish to join our cause?" He asked in a soft voice.

"Yes my lord." Draco nodded quickly. "I would love to join and serve under you." Draco said, he didn't get to say anymore as Apophis had suddenly started hissing towards Voldemort. Voldemort briefly hissed back before turning his red eyes back onto Draco.

"Do tell me, young Draco, why you wish to join my cause?" Voldemort asked.

"I wish to follow in the footsteps of my father." Draco answered immediately.

"The father who had lost one of your lord's most prized possessions and is now currently being hunted by law enforcement?" Apophis asked, Draco got the feeling that he was raising an eyebrow under his hood. Lucius Malfoy had been hunted by the DMLE ever since Harry Potter's meeting with Amelia Bones, which was why the death eaters had to move to a different location for their headquarters. That was probably why Lucius was crucioed so hard and long that he was unable to attend this meeting.

"And...and I also wish to serve under you, my lord." Draco said quickly to Lord Voldemort.

"Why would that be Draco?" Lord Voldemort calmly asked, Draco blinked at the sudden questioning but knew better than to waste time so he quickly responded.

"Because you're the greatest wizard of all time, my lord." Draco answered.

"Flattery Draco?" Lord Voldemort chuckled. "Do tell me, what can you bring to me? What can you contribute?"

"My lord, I am a great wizard, naturally not one of your caliber, but I am a great wizard. You can ask Professor Snape."

"The idiot who happens to be your godfather." Apophis reminded him, not caring that Snape was kneeling in the crowd along with the others. "That stupid half-bloods voice matters little since the slimy little bastard can't even understand how to spy properly." Apophis looked towards Snape's direction, it was clear to anyone with a sharp eye that he was hoping Snape would try something. The other death eaters also looked, most of them would not have cared too much if Snape got himself hurt.

Snape was far from popular with the death eaters for many reasons. Some of them were surprised to learn that he was a half-blood with a muggle father, some believed that he was a spy for Dumbledore, some felt that Snape's head had gotten too big and they felt like Snape thought that he was above them. Some of them weren't Slytherin's and knew what Snape had put their children through in school. That's not too mention that after the first war he got a cozy position at Hogwarts thanks to Dumbledore while many of them had to either bribe their way out, go into hiding or go to Azkaban.

Snape, while incredibly angered by how he was being talked about, did not react at all besides a slight tensing in the shoulders. Apophis's body language showed how disappointed he was at that, Voldemort gave him a smirk as if to say 'better luck next time'.

"My heir does bring up a good point, young Draco. In what way are you a good wizard?" Lord Voldemort asked. "I have spent some time learning about your behavior at school Draco. Outside of potions you are an average wizard at best, regularly getting beaten by mudbloods and blood traitors, even your potion scores do not really give me confidence in your abilities as it is obvious to anyone with the ability to think and five seconds of free time to think that Severus helps you out there.

Of course in your second year you had gotten onto the quidditch team thanks to a rather sizeable 'donation' from your father, which speaks less of your skill and more of your family's money which I already have access to thanks to your father. In your third year there was a incident with a...hippogriff...I believe. You had embarrassed yourself in front of the noble house of Slytherin by angering a wild beast then crying like a baby when it had struck your arm, only to have your father sweep in and try to have it executed."

"My lord..." Draco said in protest but quickly became silent when Apophis's wand flicked into his hand.

"As I was saying," Voldemort continued in a cold voice. "from what your actions in school have told me I do not see an able young man, I see a spoilt brat who was spared the rod far too often. If I had been in charge of raising you then you would have been much more disciplined."

"Not all of the blame can be placed on him," Apophis commented. "personally I blame the father. The mother came from a long line of excellent witches and wizards, most crazy in some form but never were any of them so stupid."

"Please my lord!" Draco begged. "Give me a chance! Just one! I will gladly help you wipe out the muggle filth and blood traitors." He said in a hopeful voice.

"Hmm." Voldemort looked thoughtful, he turned to Apophis and two began speaking to each other in parsletounge. Of course the rest could not understand as all they heard was hissing, though they did understand the 'slice his throat' gesture that Apophis had used midway through their conversation. A short while later the two turned to Draco. "Draco," Voldemort spoke, everyone in the room hanging on his every word. "my heir does not think that you're good enough to join our ranks and I agree, however we are both willing to give you a chance to prove us wrong."

"Oh thank you my lord!" Draco said quickly.

"I am giving you a choice Draco," Voldemort replied. "you will chose one task and the task that you have chosen will be completed if you wish to join, do you understand?"

"Yes my lord." Draco nodded.

"Good," Voldemort said with a lazy smile. "the first option is to kill my heir in a fight to the death." Voldemort said, Draco instantly looked at Apophis who looked more than ready to accept that fight. Draco let out a vey audible gulp. "I didn't think that you would like that one," Voldemort chuckled. "the second option is to fight your Aunt Bellatrix to the death." Voldemort said. Draco didn't like that option any better, his aunt may not have been the dark lord's heir but she was still famed for her skill with a wand. "Option three is to kill your father," Voldemort continued, Draco paled at that. "I can see that you don't like that, however there is one more option for you Draco. Would you like to know what that is?"

"Y...y...yes, yes my lord." Draco nodded.

"Y...y...yes my lord." Voldemort repeated in a mocking manner before he gave Draco an evil smile. "You will kill Albus Dumbledore."

Eventually Harry's summer ended and it was time to go back to school for his sixth year, after saying his goodbyes he entered the train and kept going until he found a compartment

"Hi guys," Harry said as he arrived into the compartment that Daphne and Tracy were in. "how was the summer?" Harry asked.

"It was fine." Both girls answered.

"What about your summer?" Tracy asked.

"Oh mine was great." Harry smiled.

"Slay any monsters?" Daphne asked in a joking tone.

"Regrettably the store ran out." Harry joked back. "Where's your little sister?"

"You know sometimes I think you two like each other more than you like me." Daphne frowned.

"What?!" Harry gasped in mock-surprise. "Of course not...yes, yes we do." He grinned.

"Prat." She reached over and slapped his arm.

"Tracy! Help! Abuse!"

"Do not involve me in whatever this shit is." Tracy chuckled.

A.N: Hi guys, just a little chapter before Harry's sixth year. Just want to say a couple of things, firstly is that since the last chapter I have read a few chapters of the first Percy Jackson book, I just finished the capture the flag chapter and it's already a shit ton better than the movie. The second thing is that a couple of people have asked me when the story is finishing, I estimate somewhere between 50 to 55 chapters, though with that being said I could probably just make a few very long chapters and finish it before that, long story short he answer is soon.

Thirdly is I am currently doing two crossover stories, one is 'Reborn' which is a Harry Potter/Avengers crossover in which a post war Harry Potter with a mystery past ends up in the marvel universe. Click on my name and go to it or if you prefer then the link is here: s/13622324/1/Reborn

I have also already completed one previous HP/Avengers crossover called Raven if anyone wants to read that. Here's the link: s/13426392/1/Raven

And my other crossover story that I am currently working on is a HP/DC crossover called Harold Wayne, it's relatively new and I'm only about 5 chapters in so far but feel free to check it out. Here's the link: s/13652455/1/Harold-Wayne

Thanks everyone for reading, hope you enjoyed the chapter and feel free to leave a review.