YMMV / The Power of Seven

• Adorkable: Harry can come across as this at times, particularly early on as he's trying to form the 'harem' due to his relative lack of self-confidence dealing with girls; Susan explicitly refers to him as a 'doofus' in an affectionate manner during their first sexual encounter.
• Fanon: The story draws on several elements popular in the Harry Potter fandom but with little (or no) canonical basis. Though it should be noted the author uses those elements well.
  • Noble Wizarding Houses are an important concept, the entire Exotic Extended Marriage gambit relies on the Wizarding community being willing to accept almost anything that will preserve those families, Houses, and bloodlines (Harry can marry two women on his own to preserve the Houses of Potter and Black as he is the last living heir of both houses, and could marry Luna and Susan to preserve the Houses of Lovegood and Bones as Luna and Susan are the last of their lines).
  • Harry being heir to the House of Black, instead of just getting Sirius Black's stuff in accordance with his will, is another fandom element, as is the very concept of "House Potter."
  • Susan also makes mention of the effort she makes in comporting herself in a manner expected of the heir of House Bones, and that she's rather envious Harry doesn't really care about being seen as a proper young lad and heir to House Potter.
  • "Magical cores" are also mentioned, with one of the ritual's effects being to allow the bondmates to share magic, though how much a given bondmate can draw from the others is limited by the size of their magical core. It's implied that everyone's core will grow with time after the bonding, though Harry's apparently remains the largest.
  • Runic Magic is a major component of the soulbonding ritual.
  • Wards are mentioned extensively in place of, or sometimes in addition to, protective charms.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • A small one, but at Harry's birthday party at the Burrow, Molly takes Gabrielle aside and has her help cook and basically shows her the same motherly affection she gave Harry (and to a lesser extent, Hermione). That woman really does have an infinite amount of love to give the children who find their way into her life.
  • Harry and Fleur's bonding. Specifically, immediately after. Fleur explores Harry through the bond, and gains a power-up that lets her shift into Veela form. Recognizing what this primal, monstrous side of Fleur wants and needs, Harry surrenders to her completely. After, Fleur sobs, thinking she raped him, but Harry shows her through the bond she did no such thing, and maintained control to not hurt him. A bit later, Fleur starts crying again, this time in joy. Harry has given her something she's lacked her whole life: acceptance and the ability to just be what she is, not hide or repress or ignore or deny it. He gave her freedom. She says she'll never be able to repay what he's given her but she'll never stop trying, and Harry assures her she already has repaid him. Because the only thing Harry Potter ever really wanted was a family, and Fleur is carrying his child.
  • The epilogue. One year after Voldemort's defeat, Harry is cooking an elaborate breakfast — what was a detestable chore with the Dursleys brings joy as he does it for the women he loves and who love him. One by one, they come downstairs, and we get to know what they're up to. Susan is working at the Ministry of Magic, specifically the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, as well as representing Harry in the Wizengammot, putting her ideas on how to improve Wizarding Britain to work. Hermione is doing research at the Department of Mysteries. Katie is a professional quidditch player, Ginny, Luna, and Demelza will finishing their final year at Hogwarts. Fleur seems content to stay home, for now. Though Fleur has a job waiting for her, she's focused on little baby Victoire, the first of many children who will populate Bones Manor in the years to come. And today's the day the harem have announced, via the Daily Prophet, that they're all getting married, which everyone agrees is nothing more than making it official. It's an ending that, in it's own way, is just as cheery and happy as the epilogue for the books themselves.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Dumbledore goes from "well-meaning but antagonist" to "full-blown villain" when it's revealed he plans to collapse the wards around the Dursleys, the ones established by Lily's Heroic Sacrifice that keep Harry safe from Voldemort, as part of a plot to kill Harry's sex drive so he can't complete the ritual. Fleur muses that such destructive magic probably wouldn't do anyone nearby any favors, either.
  • Bill goes from an Inspector Javert concerned for his sister's well-being to The Dragon when he tries cursing Fleur with something uncomfortably close to dark magic for standing up for Harry, then raving at the Weasleys about Harry corrupting Ginny with dark magic. Arthur and Molly note that Bill is the one acting like he's being corrupted, not Ginny.
• Squick: At one point, Luna gives Harry a blowjob so that she can use his cum as milk for her cereal.
• Strawman Has a Point: While Hermione is absolutely right that McGonagall is going a bit light on Romilda for slipping Harry a love potion, she's also going a bit light on Ginny for attacking Romilda with magic... even without the Killing Curse, a wand in the hands of a skilled wizard can absolutely be considered a deadly weapon.

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