History Fanfic / ThePowerOfSeven

* ACupAngst: Played with; Harry isn't bothered by Ginn'’s lack in this department (Ginny explicitly has the smallest boobs of all the women), but Ginny is aware that Harry is definitely attracted to the breasts of some of his other partners.

** Until Chapter 49, none of the girls' parents are shown to be aware of the nature of their new relationship, although it should be noted that [[spoiler:the Grangers are now under memory charms, Susan's guardians are dead and Katie has almost certainly moved out]]. That said, [[spoiler:the Robinses definitely don't know and Xenophilius's knowledge is unclear, but the Weasleys decided to accept it after some thought and Fleur's mother actively tries to have at least one sexual encounter with Harry just because he turned her down]].

The story pairs Harry with seven different girls; specifically, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Demelza Robbins, Susan Bones, Katie Bell, and Fleur Delacour. Ginny, Hermione and Luna were obvious candidates for the ritual from the beginning, but while Harry began 'testing' his relationship with Susan and Demelza in chapter 6 and 7 respectively, Susan only learns the full details in chapter 19 while Demelza initially assumes it's just a sexual fetish from chapter 8 until chapter 29, which also sees Katie being officially 'brought into the loop' after being invited to a sexual relationship in chapter 23. Harry bonds with Ginny in chapter 10, Hermione in chapter 21, and Luna in chapter 38, and has an orgy with the existing six girls in chapters 31 and 39/40. As for Fleur, after realising that Harry is having sex with multiple girls in chapter 34, she spends the next few chapters learning the full details of the situation and being inadvertently 'teased' until she fully commits herself to aiding Harry in chapter 46. Harry subsequently [[spoiler:bonds with Demelza in Chapter 58, has a full orgy with all seven girls for his birthday in Chapter 63, and bonds with Susan, Katie and Fleur on the same night in Chapters 75 to 77 through use of a time-turner when they have to complete the ritual prior to the final confrontation with Voldemort]].

The story is complete as of 4 April 2021. The author has since started ''Fanfic/TheLightningStrike'', a crossover with the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

* ACupAngst: Played with; Harry isn’t bothered by Ginny’s lack in this department (Ginny explicitly has the smallest boobs of all the women), but Ginny is aware that Harry is definitely attracted to the breasts of some of his other partners.

* AllWomenArePrudes: Defied for many of the girls;
** Ginny quickly becomes passionate once she learns that Harry might die if the ritual doesn’t work and has become particularly sexually active, to the point that she is the first of the girls to initiate an encounter with one of the others (specifically Demelza) without Harry's involvement.

** Demelza already had a collection of pornographic novels and a couple of brief sexual flings,quickly settling into a Master/Submissive dynamic with Harry.

** While Susan was willing and eager to go all the way with Harry once he explained the situation, she has experienced some hesitancy in initiating encounters on her own, to the point that [[spoiler:she is the most conservatively dressed when the six girls arrange an orgy in chapter 39 before Hogwarts ends for the summer, and expresses some uncertainty about having sex in front of the other five even if she genuinely wants to participate before Harry helps her. Susan is the most shy and reserved, and takes to using some of Hermione's "special" potions to put such things behind her]].

** PlayedStraight with Pansy Parkinson. . . [[ZigZagged initially]]. Her relationship with Draco is simply her working to secure him as husband, and she's balancing "putting out" enough to keep him interested with maintaining her reputation and power over him. However, there appears to be a woman who ''does'' enjoy sex lurking underneath.
--->Her mother had taught her how the world worked. Sex wasn’t about enjoyment for women, it was a way to get and keep a husband. Men were the lustful ones, and cunning women could use that to their advantage. ''Foolish'' women would give it away freely, in search of temporary validation.

* AmazonChaser: Harry is just as attracted to the athletic builds of Ginny, Demelza, and Katie (explicitly from their time playing quidditch) as he is the softer figures of Hermione, Luna, Susan, and Fleur, such as going out for a run with Demelza and Katie to get some exercise that ends with the three having sex in the showers. Of course, all of them are bona fide {{Action Girl}}s, being witches in their final years of school (or actually graduated, in Fleur's case).
* AmbiguouslyBi: For the most part, only Ginny and Luna have shown an interest in doing anything with the others without Harry involved, but there are certain 'exceptional circumstances' for the other five. As the bonds are formed, it becomes clear that Ginny and Luna are fully bisexual, Hermione and Susan are fully straight but comfortable watching Harry with the others, and Katie, Demelza, and Fleur are somewhere in between (in rough order of "most to least straight," as it were).
** Ginny finds that she enjoys watching Harry with other girls, to the point that she gets turned on while looking at Luna naked and picturing Harry’s reaction to her, and makes sure that Hermione is watching when she and Harry are completing the first stage of the ritual. This becomes more explicit when Ginny's link to Harry allows her to 'observe' Harry's first time with Hermione from Harry's perspective, inspiring Ginny to fantasize about a threesome with herself, Harry and Hermione, which becomes reality the following chapter even if she and Hermione don't do much with each other directly.
*** For a time, Ginny tells herself that her enjoyment is just based on seeing other girls react to Harry; in chapter 25, she muses that while she hasn't explicitly 'inherited' Harry's attraction to girls, she derived emotional pleasure from helping Luna pleasure Harry, and gets peripherally turned on by sharing Harry's reaction to looking at Demelza naked, to the point that she makes Demelza eat her out when they're alone in the dorms. However, Chapter 35 sees Ginny finally admit that she is at least somewhat bi on her own when she acknowledges that she fell victim to Fleur's allure when she unintentionally witnessed an encounter between Bill and Fleur back at the Burrow long before she formed a bond with Harry. By Chapter 67, [[spoiler:Ginny has basically acknowledged her attraction to women to the extent that Harry fulfils a fantasy of himself and a woman double-teaming Ginny as a reward for Ginny's recent efforts, with Fleur being the third partner]].
** Initially Luna just has no problem stripping down to engage in a mutual masturbation session with Ginny, but later she explicitly asks that Ginny be present the first time she and Harry have sex, although there was no sign at the time that Luna was especially aroused by Ginny's presence in the room.
*** During a later conversation with Hermione, Luna explicitly (for her, anyway) states that she is turned on by looking at Hermione naked, and chapter 39 [[spoiler:features the girls arranging an orgy to celebrate the end of the year, with Ginny and Luna already naked and masturbating each other by the time Harry arrives]]. As Fleur becomes part of the harem, Luna's observations make it clear that she's turned on by Fleur, and chapter 55 [[spoiler:sees Luna kissing and stripping down Demelza to help console her after her parents' deaths while Katie just watches the others prepare after confirming that she'll be after Demelza]].
** Even after Ginny kisses Hermione twice, she does not appear to be independently aroused by the experience, and tells Luna that she isn't explicitly attracted to women on their own. Hermione not being aroused by women is reinforced in chapter 48 when [[spoiler:she is the only one of Harry's existing bond-mates who can just acknowledge that Fleur is beautiful without feeling attracted to her]], Ginny reflecting that Hermione is definitely straight by chapter 67 even after Ginny acknowledges her own interest in women pre-dates the bond with Harry.
** Demelza was fully aware that Harry and Ginny were having sex before she learned about the ritual, and chapters 23-24 feature her watching Harry have sex with Ginny and Katie, but Demelza's thoughts were always focused on Harry's actions and reactions rather than being explicitly aroused by the other girls. In chapter 25, [[spoiler:Demelza eats Ginny out while masturbating, but this is clearly demonstrated as an extension of her submission to Harry- Ginny essentially 'acting' as Harry's proxy- rather than Demelza showing any sign that she is sexually attracted to Ginny on her own]]. Although [[spoiler:she shows an attraction to Fleur later, this only occurs after Demelza bonds with Harry, suggesting that she is more affected by Harry's own attraction to Fleur rather than having such feelings on her own]].
** While Katie [[spoiler:shows no explicit sexual interest in girls, she does encourage Harry to release all over Ginny as she masturbates him herself, and briefly fantasises about licking Ginny's abdomen clean of his release before she decides to just have sex with Harry directly]]. Chapter 28 [[spoiler:sees Katie watch as Demelza has sex with Harry, and even give Demelza advice on how to give a blowjob, but she shows no sign that she is aroused by Ginny and Demelza's own nudity. In chapter 63, at Harry's birthday party, Fleur gets a bit carried away and unleashes an uncontrolled, unfocused blast of allure, which Harry resists. Katie is impressed, either by the allure or Harry's resistance, and this after it's been established the allure only affects women if they're at least curious. Later, Katie gets extra creative with her time turner, using it to have a threesome with Harry and ''[[ScrewYourself herself]]'']].

** Come Chapter 59, Fleur notes that she's at least curious about other women. Her Veela half doesn't react to them in the same primal way it does to males, but as a human, she can ponder and be curious and wonder how her allure affects them. She's learned- through Ginny and Luna- that it can, but only if they're interested, or at least curious, themselves.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: In chapter 49, [[spoiler:Ginny cuts off any possibility that her mother will call her a 'scarlet woman' by explicitly asking Molly if she ''wants'' Harry to die just because she disapproves of his sex life]].

** Demelza Robbins, Susan Bones and Katie Bell go from peripheral acquaintances of Harry’s to part of his ‘harem’ (although the term 'coven' has also been used). In Chapter 29, [[spoiler:Demelza admits that she would have been happy just being Harry's 'side chick' for the rest of her life before she learns about the ritual which guarantees that they'll be a permanent part of each other's lives]].
** In chapter 58, [[spoiler:Daphne Greengrass is revealed to have become at least part-werewolf herself after an attack by Greyback, which leads to her joining the Order of the Phoenix and forming a bond with fellow part-wolf Ron]].

** Invoked in chapter 33; [[spoiler:the chapter ends with Ginny clearly enraged at Harry's willingness to sacrifice himself to save Dumbledore]].

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The 'harem' may have their challenges, but at the end of the day all of the girls depicted are willing to support each other; in chapter 50, [[spoiler:faced with the prospect that Fleur is pregnant after her first night with Harry, Ginny assures him that he'll be a good father and his child will have several aunts to help raise it]], with Fleur recognising that the other seven are already a kind of family when [[spoiler:they rally around Demelza to console her after the deaths of her parents]].

** Subverted in Chapter 48 when [[spoiler: Apolline attempts to seduce Harry using her allure in combination with this trope. She is not successful]].

* IfICantHaveYou: By Chapter 65, [[spoiler: Pansy's VillainousCrush on Harry has basically reached this point, as she reflects that she would have liked to seduce Harry herself but now recognises that's impossible]].

** Until chapter 49, none of the girls' parents are shown to be aware of the nature of their new relationship, although it should be noted that [[spoiler:the Grangers are now under memory charms, Susan's guardians are dead and Katie has almost certainly moved out]]. That said, [[spoiler:the Robbins definitely don't know and Xenophilius's knowledge is unclear, but the Weasleys decided to accept it after some thought and Fleur's mother actively tries to have at least one sexual encounter with Harry just because he turned her down]].
** In chapter 50, Fleur is shown to be unaware of the existence of the Channel Tunnel [[spoiler:until Harry suggests it as a way they could get back to Britain without magic]].

* IncompatibleOrientation: A relatively minor example of this; as Ginny starts to realise that she's fully bisexual, she realises that she's both interested in being pleasured by Hermione and has to accept that Hermione is too straight to be interested in doing anything with other women directly. [[spoiler:Fortunately for Ginny, Luna, Demelza and Fleur are more willing to "experiment"]].

** TheChick: Luna, who in her own way is just as clever as Hermione and Susan, but displays it much more rarely (or in ways that take a while to grasp) and is the most open, warm, and sensitive of the girls.

* BuxomIsBetter: Downplayed. Harry loves all the girls no matter how they're built, reassuring Ginny she doesn't need to worry about her ACupAngst, but does enjoy Hermione and Fleur's much larger bosoms. Size focus is really only given to Ginny (explicitly the smallest) and Hermione and Fleur (implicitly the largest), implying the others are average, but Harry assures all of them that they're equally desirable to him.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Fred Weasley, Lavender Brown, and Albus Dumbledore all explicitly survive to the end, and the events during which each of Mad-Eye Moody and Dobby die do not take place, so it is reasonable to assume they survive as well.]]

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Remus Lupin, Nymphadora Tonks, Fred Weasley, and Albus Dumbledore all explicitly survive to the end, and the events during which each of Mad-Eye Moody and Dobby die do not take place, so it is reasonable to assume they survive as well.]]

* PowerIsSexy: Demelza and Susan each seem to be attracted to power, which Harry possesses in great quantity, even as their attraction also [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan focuses on his compassion]], Demelza in particular often reflecting on how Harry could easily overpower her but would only ever use that strength to protect her.

* AbsoluteCleavage: It isn't a constant part of Harry's attraction to any of the girls, but chapter 48 explicitly acknowledges that his first serious sexual fantasy was about seeing Fleur in her bathing suit during the second Triwizard task.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** Susan in particular has fallen victim to the realities of their developing complex dynamic as she feels as though Harry hasn't shown that much interest in her after their initial encounter; Harry promises that he'll work on that and just made a mistake judging Susan's approach to their relationship by comparing her to Ginny's greater sexual 'aggression'.
** Despite Demelza's submissive attitude and fantasies about being controlled and dominated, she acknowledges that certain fantasies like having sex in public or being ordered to walk around the school naked are too much, accepting 'lesser' orders like walking around without underwear.
** After [[spoiler:Demelza's parents are killed, she only seeks comfort from the six she already knew even after Fleur has become officially part of the group as she doesn't know Fleur that well]].
** Although Ginny is generally 'accepting' of her [[ThePeepingTom peeping tom]] kink, at one point she needs to ask the others (specifically [[spoiler:Harry, Katie and Demelza]]) that nobody actually thinks she's "pathetic" for getting off like that.
** While Ginny has had a few fantasies of herself and Harry with another woman, she acknowledges that her 'original' fantasy of doing something intimate with Hermione is impractical as Hermione genuinely isn't attracted to other women, with Ginny's fantasies 'evolving' to [[spoiler:feature Harry and Fleur double-teaming her]].
** Eventually, [[spoiler:time constraints and the fear of losing Harry prompt Susan, Katie and Fleur to abandon the idea of each of them having their own 'special night' to bond with Harry so that they can destroy the horcrux in him in one go]].
** In the epilogue, [[spoiler:it is noted that their sex life has 'died down' after Voldemort's defeat as there's less urgency for them all to be together, to say nothing of baby Victoire to look after, but Harry and the girls all accept that they have the rest of their lives to be together]].

* ClothingDamage: The Mending Charm must be getting quite a workout, as the characters frequently. . . lose their patience with buttons. [[UpToEleven At the extreme]], someone in a great hurry to get busy might simply use a [[DisintegratorRay vanishing charm]] on their partner's clothing.

* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: [[UpToEleven All of them.]] Ginny unleashes the magical equivalent of ExtremeMeleeRevenge on [[spoiler:Romilda Vane after she successfully doses Harry with LovePotion, and the other girls respond by spending the rest of the year surrounding Harry like a protective detail. Tellingly, Fleur was violently protective of Harry ''before'' she officially became a "girlfriend," notably with the Dursleys and Bill. Apolline was probably ''very'' lucky none of Harry's other girls were in the same country when she tried her allure and blackmail tricks on him; even ''Luna'' reacted with [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uncharacteristically blunt rage]].]]

* AdultFear: Both [[spoiler:Fleur and Daphne]] show concerns about their little sisters being left with unfit parents; [[spoiler:Fleur is able to help Gabrielle, but Daphne has to live with the thought that Astoria has stayed with her parents and been taken to Voldemort]].

The story is complete as of 4 April 2021.

The story pairs Harry with seven different girls; specifically, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Demelza Robbins, Susan Bones, Katie Bell, and Fleur Delacour. Ginny, Hermione and Luna were obvious candidates for the ritual from the beginning, but while Harry began 'testing' his relationship with Susan and Demelza in chapter 6 and 7 respectively, Susan only learns the full details in chapter 19 while Demelza initially assumes it's just a sexual fetish from chapter 8 until chapter 29]], which also sees Katie being officially 'brought into the loop' after being invited to a sexual relationship in chapter 23. Harry bonds with Ginny in chapter 10, Hermione in chapter 21, and Luna in chapter 38, and has an orgy with the existing six girls in chapters 31 and 39/40]]. As for Fleur, after realising that Harry is having sex with multiple girls in chapter 34, she spends the next few chapters learning the full details of the situation and being inadvertently 'teased' until she fully commits herself to aiding Harry in chapter 46. Harry subsequently [[spoiler:bonds with Demelza in Chapter 58, has a full orgy with all seven girls for his birthday in Chapter 63, and bonds with Susan, Katie and Fleur on the same night in Chapters 75 to 77 through use of a time-turner when they have to complete the ritual prior to the final confrontation with Voldemort]].

** This becomes more significant later when Dumbledore is shown making plans to deliberately isolate Harry from his friends during the summer to stop him performing the ritual, and the headmaster is also depicted as using the resurrection stone to talk to the recently-deceased Grindlewald about his plans; when Hermione views Dumbledore with her magic vision, she can actually see that his aura has become darker than it was]].

** Katie is quick to agree to what she believed would be a purely sexual thing, and privately reflects that she's had a threesome with Fred and George]].
** By contrast, Hermione actually tried to arrange a schedule for her and Harry to have their first kiss before being encouraged to just go for it, and is still sometimes uncomfortable about her new sexual desire for Harry even if she has come to accept it to the point of masturbating with her wand at one point]].
** While Susan was willing and eager to go all the way with Harry once he explained the situation]], she has experienced some hesitancy in initiating encounters on her own, to the point that [[spoiler:she is the most conservatively dressed when the six girls arrange an orgy in chapter 39 before Hogwarts ends for the summer, and expresses some uncertainty about having sex in front of the other five even if she genuinely wants to participate before Harry helps her. Susan is the most shy and reserved, and takes to using some of Hermione's "special" potions to put such things behind her]].

* AffectionateNickname: Fleur in particular, as she takes to calling Harry "''mon tresor''".

** Ginny finds that she enjoys watching Harry with other girls, to the point that she gets turned on while looking at Luna naked and picturing Harry’s reaction to her, and makes sure that Hermione is watching when she and Harry are completing the first stage of the ritual]]. This becomes more explicit when Ginny's link to Harry allows her to 'observe' Harry's first time with Hermione from Harry's perspective, inspiring Ginny to fantasize about a threesome with herself, Harry and Hermione, which becomes reality the following chapter even if she and Hermione don't do much with each other directly]].

The story pairs Harry with seven different girls; specifically, Ginny Weasley, Hermione Granger, Luna Lovegood, Demelza Robbins, Susan Bones, Katie Bell, and Fleur Delacour. Ginny, Hermione and Luna were obvious candidates for the ritual from the beginning, but while Harry began 'testing' his relationship with Susan and Demelza in chapter 6 and 7 respectively, Susan only learns the full details in chapter 19 while Demelza initially assumes it's just a sexual fetish from chapter 8 until [[spoiler:chapter 29]], which also sees [[spoiler:Katie being officially 'brought into the loop' after being invited to a sexual relationship in chapter 23]]. Harry bonds with Ginny in chapter 10, Hermione in chapter 21, and Luna in chapter 38, and [[spoiler:has an orgy with the existing six girls in chapters 31 and 39/40]]. As for Fleur, [[spoiler:after realising that Harry is having sex with multiple girls in chapter 34, she spends the next few chapters learning the full details of the situation and being inadvertently 'teased' until she fully commits herself to aiding Harry in chapter 46]]. Harry subsequently [[spoiler:bonds with Demelza in Chapter 58, has a full orgy with all seven girls for his birthday in Chapter 63, and bonds with Susan, Katie and Fleur on the same night in Chapters 75 to 77 through use of a time-turner when they have to complete the ritual prior to the final confrontation with Voldemort]].

* AbsoluteCleavage: It isn't a constant part of Harry's attraction to any of the girls, but chapter 48 explicitly acknowledges that [[spoiler:his first serious sexual fantasy was about seeing Fleur in her bathing suit during the second Triwizard task]].

** This becomes more significant later when Dumbledore [[spoiler:is shown making plans to deliberately isolate Harry from his friends during the summer to stop him performing the ritual, and the headmaster is also depicted as using the resurrection stone to talk to the recently-deceased Grindlewald about his plans; when Hermione views Dumbledore with her magic vision, she can actually see that his aura has become darker than it was]].

** ZigZagged with [[spoiler:Ron. When Harry first tells Ron and Hermione about being a horcrux, Ron is as supportive as he can be. Once Hermione discovers the ritual, she and Ginny convince Harry not to tell Ron, convinced he'll react poorly and there's no guarantee it will work. Once they get their first success bonding Harry and Ginny, they still talk Harry out of telling Ron. Ron finds out when he sees Harry and Hermione having sex, and reacts about as well as you'd expect. Things get worse when Ron starts stumbling on Harry and other girls, watching them in secret until he gets caught, and finally he accidentally spills the beans to Lavender, believing that she's dumping him to be part of Harry's harem. Lavender being Lavender, the whole school knows within a day. This pretty effectively burns Ron's last bridge between him and Harry, though Ron does start trying to make amends, becoming Harry's spy in the Order of the Phoenix to see what Dumbledore may be planning against Harry. When Voldemort captures Demelza to lead Harry into a trap, it's Ron who plans out the rescue (though Lupin tweaked the plan a bit with his greater experience). Ron eventually returns to being, if not a close friend, then a dependable ally and friendly acquaintance.]]

** Ginny quickly becomes passionate once she learns that Harry might die if the ritual doesn’t work and has become particularly sexually active, [[spoiler:to the point that she is the first of the girls to initiate an encounter with one of the others (specifically Demelza) without Harry's involvement]].
** Luna is very eager to kiss him after the possibility is presented to her, and [[spoiler:quickly becomes fond of giving Harry blowjobs]].
** Demelza already had a collection of pornographic novels and a couple of brief sexual flings, [[spoiler:quickly settling into a Master/Submissive dynamic with Harry]].
** Katie [[spoiler:is quick to agree to what she believed would be a purely sexual thing, and privately reflects that she's had a threesome with Fred and George]].
** By contrast, Hermione actually tried to arrange a schedule for her and Harry to have their first kiss before being encouraged to just go for it, and is still sometimes uncomfortable about her new sexual desire for Harry even if she has come to accept it [[spoiler:to the point of masturbating with her wand at one point]].
** While Susan [[spoiler:was willing and eager to go all the way with Harry once he explained the situation]], she has experienced some hesitancy in initiating encounters on her own, to the point that [[spoiler:she is the most conservatively dressed when the six girls arrange an orgy in chapter 39 before Hogwarts ends for the summer, and expresses some uncertainty about having sex in front of the other five even if she genuinely wants to participate before Harry helps her. Susan is the most shy and reserved, and takes to using some of Hermione's "special" potions to put such things behind her]].

* AmazonChaser: Harry is just as attracted to the athletic builds of Ginny, Demelza, and Katie (explicitly from their time playing quidditch) as he is the softer figures of Hermione, Luna, Susan, and Fleur, such as [[spoiler:going out for a run with Demelza and Katie to get some exercise that ends with the three having sex in the showers]]. Of course, all of them are bona fide {{Action Girl}}s, being witches in their final years of school (or actually graduated, in Fleur's case).

** Ginny finds that she enjoys watching Harry with other girls, to the point that she gets turned on while looking at Luna naked and picturing Harry’s reaction to her, and [[spoiler:makes sure that Hermione is watching when she and Harry are completing the first stage of the ritual]]. This becomes more explicit [[spoiler:when Ginny's link to Harry allows her to 'observe' Harry's first time with Hermione from Harry's perspective, inspiring Ginny to fantasize about a threesome with herself, Harry and Hermione, which becomes reality the following chapter even if she and Hermione don't do much with each other directly]].
*** For a time, Ginny tells herself that her enjoyment is just based on seeing other girls react to Harry; in chapter 25, she [[spoiler:muses that while she hasn't explicitly 'inherited' Harry's attraction to girls, she derived emotional pleasure from helping Luna pleasure Harry, and gets peripherally turned on by sharing Harry's reaction to looking at Demelza naked, to the point that she makes Demelza eat her out when they're alone in the dorms]]. However, Chapter 35 sees [[spoiler:Ginny finally admit that she is at least somewhat bi on her own when she acknowledges that she fell victim to Fleur's allure when she unintentionally witnessed an encounter between Bill and Fleur back at the Burrow long before she formed a bond with Harry]]. By Chapter 67, [[spoiler:Ginny has basically acknowledged her attraction to women to the extent that Harry fulfils a fantasy of himself and a woman double-teaming Ginny as a reward for Ginny's recent efforts, with Fleur being the third partner]].

** Although Hermione [[spoiler:has been kissed by Ginny at least twice]], she does not appear to be independently aroused by the experience, and tells Luna that she isn't explicitly attracted to women on their own. Hermione not being aroused by women is reinforced in chapter 48 when [[spoiler:she is the only one of Harry's existing bond-mates who can just acknowledge that Fleur is beautiful without feeling attracted to her]], Ginny reflecting that Hermione is definitely straight by chapter 67 even after Ginny acknowledges her own interest in women pre-dates the bond with Harry.
** Demelza was fully aware that Harry and Ginny were having sex before she learned about the ritual, and chapters 23-24 feature her [[spoiler:watching Harry have sex with Ginny and Katie]], but Demelza's thoughts were always focused on Harry's actions and reactions rather than being explicitly aroused by the other girls. In chapter 25, [[spoiler:Demelza eats Ginny out while masturbating, but this is clearly demonstrated as an extension of her submission to Harry- Ginny essentially 'acting' as Harry's proxy- rather than Demelza showing any sign that she is sexually attracted to Ginny on her own]]. Although [[spoiler:she shows an attraction to Fleur later, this only occurs after Demelza bonds with Harry, suggesting that she is more affected by Harry's own attraction to Fleur rather than having such feelings on her own]].

** Ron [[spoiler:swiftly distances himself from Harry and Hermione when he learns about Harry's new 'relationship' with Hermione and Luna, officially angry at Harry essentially 'cheating' on his sister even as part of it almost certainly involves his undisclosed feelings for Hermione. Ron seemingly permanently ruins his reputation with the others in Chapter 29 when they catch him spying on Harry having sex with Demelza, Ginny, and Katie in the changing rooms, although he takes steps to amend this after he is disfigured by Greyback]].

* CannotTalkToWomen: Downplayed; with help from Ginny [[spoiler:(particularly after they form the first bond)]], Harry becomes better at flirting with girls, but on his own he still makes mistakes, [[spoiler:such as unintentionally making Susan think he's not interested in her when he was just judging her based on Ginny's greater sense of sexual confidence where Susan is a bit more shy]].

* ControlFreak: Applies to Harry in a sense; he doesn't ''need'' to control everything, but his lack of control of his life is an essential aspect in his relationships with [[spoiler:Katie and Demelza in particular, Katie teaching him that it's OK not to be in control on some occasions while Demelza's absolute surrender of control to him helps him feel like he can cope with the burdens placed on him]].

** Harry shares some details of his childhood with Susan to establish the foundation for her as a potential partner. In addition, Ginny finds out about Harry's childhood and comforts him [[spoiler:after they become bonded]]. At one point, Harry [[spoiler:actually starts experiencing flashbacks of all the times the Dursleys treated him as worthless after he nearly falls victim to a love potion from Romilda Vane, requiring emotional support from Ginny, Hermione and Katie to be assured that they don't blame him for what almost happened]].

** Chapter 28 confirms that [[spoiler:Katie Bell is one, as she had a bad first sexual experience where it turned out her partner was cheating on his girlfriend with her and since then she prefers to be the one in control during her sexual encounters, only allowing a few cases such as Harry to get close to her emotionally. Even after she learns about the ritual, Katie only explicitly agrees to participate after Harry confirms that he isn't expecting monogamy, as she enjoys sex without emotional attachment. She does explicitly get off on exerting power over these boys, seducing them and knowing that she knows them in a way few others do, but she doesn't seem to be ''malicious'' about it]].

* FriendsRentControl: Averted; [[spoiler:Katie is shown initially living in a very small flat as she is only working as a teller at Quality Quidditch Supplies after leaving Hogwarts, prompting Susan to suggest Katie moves in with her as she has plenty of money and has no living relatives]].

* HappinessInSlavery: As their sexual relationship deepens Demelza is shown to be particularly turned on at the idea of becoming Harry's, [[spoiler:to the point that she explicitly calls him 'Master' during their first true sexual encounter, and later reflects that she's had fantasies about being given a collar or a tattoo to mark her as Harry's]]. These fantasies are reinforced in Chapter 58, [[spoiler:when Demelza's bonding sees her wearing a collar (and nothing else) and serving the other seven with drinks and food as they discuss their next move before Harry actually bonds with her]].

** A lesser example of this is shown when Harry [[spoiler:first tells Susan, Demelza and Katie the truth about the current situation, as he assures the girls that they are all free to walk away if they want to, despite the risk that this will leave them short the necessary seven candidates for the ritual to work]].

** Chapter 30 sees [[spoiler:Susan warning Dumbledore that he can't expose what Harry's doing with the girls without falling victim to this, as Dumbledore has no physical evidence that they've done anything, would actually get in trouble for using legilimancy on minors if he provided anything he read in their minds as proof, and can't let Harry go on trial without risking Harry revealing the truth about the horcruxes]].

* HyperAwareness: As Hermione becomes more aware of her ability to 'see' magic, she realises that [[spoiler:she can actually see the magically-charged internal organs of her classmates, with that energy being focused around their sexual organs]].

** In Chapter 29, [[spoiler:Harry concedes that it might be slightly hypocritical of him to admit that he'd be fine if Katie wants to be with other guys when he'd have more trouble if it was Hermione or Ginny making such a 'demand', but none of the other girls criticise him for this view]].
** Chapter 30 sees [[spoiler:various male and female students either denouncing Harry and the girls as sluts and whores or trying to catch Harry on his own for a quick shag, although all members of the harem shoot them down; Katie explicitly notes that the males in particular are hypocrites denouncing them as slags while desperate to have sex themselves]].
** Chapter 36 has [[spoiler:Fleur accusing Ginny of this, as Fleur feels that Ginny has been judging her for her attitude towards sex even when she just accused Fleur of doing that to Ginny. The other girls also wonder if it's hypocritical of Ginny not to want to ask Fleur to get involved in their relationship just because she's marrying Bill when Ginny has no problem letting them into her relationship with Harry, but Ginny clarifies that this is because Bill is "a one woman for all time kind of guy" who would be hurt if Fleur wanted such a relationship even if he'd try to understand it]].

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Chapter 36 sees [[spoiler:Demelza express a desire for this as she feels as though she's the 'expendable' one of the six girls so far; Ginny was Harry's first girlfriend, Hermione has a long-standing history with him as well as being the most intellectual, Luna's creative, Susan's good with politics, and Katie's experienced enough to take care of Harry's other needs, but Demelza doesn't see where she fits in. While the other girls assure Demelza that Harry doesn't choose them based on what they bring to the harem but because he genuinely cares about them, they also clarify that Demelza is important as her faith and submission to Harry helps him gain confidence in himself after a decade of being emotionally undermined by the Dursleys and the lack of control he's faced since he came to Hogwarts]].

** Basically applies to Snape in Chapter 32, [[spoiler:as he has heard the reports of Harry's new relationships but doesn't mention it to Voldemort as he doesn't think it's relevant]].

* IntimateOpenShirt: Discounting cases where Harry and the girls were stripping down in full knowledge that they'd have sex, the first true example of this occurs after [[spoiler:Harry explains the situation to Susan and they start removing each other's clothes, with Harry giving Susan the kind of genuine compliments she hadn't been expecting while assuring her that she doesn't need to take this any further than she's ready for]].

* MrFanservice: The girls might get most of the attention, but Harry still proves himself to be very attractive to them all, to the point that [[spoiler:he creates an intimidating impression in a confrontation with Ron in Chapter 29 despite the 'handicap' of being completely naked in the changing rooms in front of the six girls he's 'recruited' so far]]. Later on, [[spoiler:the bonding makes Demelza so turned on by him that she's swiftly horny just seeing him exercise]].

* PokeInTheThirdEye: Unintentionally. [[spoiler:When Harry and Ginny form the first bond, Voldemort wakes up screaming in agony. He feels some pain for a time later, implied to be the love bonds formed by the ritual traveling down his psychic link with Harry.]]

* RebuiltPedestal: Basically applies; [[spoiler:while Harry will never respect Dumbledore as much as he did in the past, he acknowledges that the headmaster has accepted the need to retire after he was nearly corrupted by the Hallows]].

* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Taken far more literally than some cases; sex magic of the nature required to save Harry's life is technically illegal in magical Britain, but so far only Hermione, Susan and Dumbledore directly acknowledged this, [[spoiler:and while Dumbledore believed this thus ensured nobody will use it, Hermione and Susan explicitly stated that they don't care about the legality of it so long as Harry's life is saved]].

* SexMagic: The ritual used to save Harry's life is an example of this, [[spoiler:which is complicated as Dumbledore muses that such magics are illegal in Britain]].

** In chapter 30, [[spoiler:Harry and the six girls fall victim to various examples of this after the truth of their relationship comes out, ranging from girls protesting that they aren't interested in Harry when he hasn't shown any interest in them anyway to others trying to accuse his current partners of being sluts]].

** A minor example occurs in chapter 26, [[spoiler:as Hermione impulsively takes Harry to a broom cupboard so they can have sex while Harry tries to present a rational argument against it]].

** Chapter 35 [[spoiler:essentially sets up Ginny and Fleur as acting the way the public would expect the other to act, with Ginny the sexually promiscuous one while Fleur is more of a prude as she tries to repress the strong sex drive of her Veela heritage]].

* TeamMom: Katie seems to take on this role for the group, showing concern for Harry and Ginny's physical and emotional well-being even before she becomes an active part of the relationship, [[spoiler:later offering Demelza advice on how best to pleasure Harry during their first true sexual encounter and providing the girl with emotional support after some of Demelza's friends reject her as a slut once the relationship goes 'public'. When she spends time with Harry on their own, Katie finds herself musing that she simultaneously wants to wrap him up and tuck him in as much as she wants to strip him and ravish him, with chapter 35 depicting a sexual encounter between them that focuses on her offering him nurturing support as much as it is about them having sex. When Harry is abducted, Katie seems to take it upon herself to care for Luna, Demelza and Ginny as the three are inconsolable with grief (Fleur locked herself away and Hermione and Susan were pursuing other possible angles)]].

* TeenyWeenie: Pansy muses at one point that [[spoiler:Draco has a small penis, and wonders how Susan found out about it when she makes that accusation (in reality, Susan was just teasing Pansy)]].

** Fleur, [[spoiler:when she learns the details of Harry's childhood]]. Being part-Veela, she ''has'' to keep a tight reign on ''all'' her emotions, [[TheFettered lest her powers run rampant beyond her control]]. [[spoiler:She muses that if she didn't keep her fury tranquil when confronting the Dursleys about their treatment of Harry, she'd burn the whole house down]].

* WithDueRespect: Dumbledore receives one in chapter 30 from [[spoiler:Susan Bones of all people, as Susan makes it clear that he doesn't have a leg to stand on if he tries to stop the harem doing anything to save Harry's life]].

* ActOfTrueLove: The fact that Ginny is willing to let Harry sleep with six other witches is presented as this at first, although downplayed as she realises that it’s not that great a sacrifice for her as she actually ''enjoys'' seeing Harry with other witches. For the other girls, being willing to enter into this arrangement is basically this. . . proving they love Harry enough to tie their lives, fates, and very souls to his.

* TrueLoveIsExceptional: [[spoiler:A sign of Fleur's commitment to Harry is shown when she gives him a series of 'coupons' that entitle him to make a series of demands that go against her usual nature, such as allowing Harry to tie her up and deny her]].

* NotSoDifferent:

* RealityEnsues:
** Susan in particular has fallen victim to the realities of their developing complex dynamic as she feels as though Harry hasn't shown that much interest in her after their initial encounter; Harry promises that he'll work on that and just made a mistake judging Susan's approach to their relationship by comparing her to Ginny's greater sexual 'aggression'.
** Despite Demelza's submissive attitude and fantasies about being controlled and dominated, she acknowledges that certain fantasies like having sex in public or being ordered to walk around the school naked are too much, accepting 'lesser' orders like walking around without underwear.
** After [[spoiler:Demelza's parents are killed, she only seeks comfort from the six she already knew even after Fleur has become officially part of the group as she doesn't know Fleur that well]].
** Although Ginny is generally 'accepting' of her [[ThePeepingTom peeping tom]] kink, at one point she needs to ask the others (specifically [[spoiler:Harry, Katie and Demelza]]) that nobody actually thinks she's "pathetic" for getting off like that.
** While Ginny has had a few fantasies of herself and Harry with another woman, she acknowledges that her 'original' fantasy of doing something intimate with Hermione is impractical as Hermione genuinely isn't attracted to other women, with Ginny's fantasies 'evolving' to [[spoiler:feature Harry and Fleur double-teaming her]].
** Eventually, [[spoiler:time constraints and the fear of losing Harry prompt Susan, Katie and Fleur to abandon the idea of each of them having their own 'special night' to bond with Harry so that they can destroy the horcrux in him in one go]].
** In the epilogue, [[spoiler:it is noted that their sex life has 'died down' after Voldemort's defeat as there's less urgency for them all to be together, to say nothing of baby Victoire to look after, but Harry and the girls all accept that they have the rest of their lives to be together]].

* AmnesiaMissedASpot: After [[spoiler:Harry is trapped in a fake reality where he never went to Hogwarts, he retains enough memory of his real life that he knows Ginny's name when she manages to make contact with him even though he's never met her in his current memory. He starts to show more recollections after Hermione comes to him, although he still consciously remembers relatively little of his true life]].

* AmbiguouslyBi: For the most part, only [[spoiler:Ginny and Luna]] have shown an interest in doing anything with the others without Harry involved, but there are certain 'exceptional circumstances'. In short, [[spoiler:Ginny and Luna are fully bisexual, Hermione and Susan are fully straight, and Katie, Demelza, and Fleur are somewhere in between (in rough order of "most to least straight," as it were).]]

** Initially Luna just has no problem [[spoiler:stripping down to engage in a mutual masturbation session with Ginny, but later she explicitly asks that Ginny be present the first time she and Harry have sex, although there was no sign at the time that Luna was especially aroused by Ginny's presence in the room]].

** While the harem have no problem watching each other get Harry off, Hermione and Susan soon realise that they have no attraction to other women as they don't get aroused seeing the others do anything on their own. By contrast, Ginny and Luna are soon confirmed to be bisexual, to the extent that Ginny recalls being turned on by Fleur even before she bonded with Harry, to the extent that she and Luna have been shown masturbating each other to warm up for a few of the harem's orgies. As for the other three, Fleur comes to realise that she is at least academically curious about how her allure affects other women, while Demelza and Katie have no problem watching or engaging in sexual activities with the others during a group session, but never show much interest in doing anything to the other girls on their own initiative.

** While the harem have no problem watching each other get Harry off, Hermione and Susan soon realise that they have no attraction to other women as they don't get aroused seeing the others do anything on their own. Ginny and Luna are at least strongly implied to be bi as they have been seen masturbating each other, and Fleur comes to realise that she is at least academically curious about how her allure affects other women, while Demelza and Katie have no problem watching or engaging in sexual activities with the others during a group session without showing much interest in doing anything to the other girls on their own initiative.