Only a very pale Ginny had the nerve to ask what she meant and Cho told her, smirking slightly as she spoke. "You could have been named as his personal property. His slaves. Especially you since the life debt you owe him is so very clear and impossible to deny." Cho said pointing a long well manicured finger at Ginny. "You have walked around this school bragging how you own him. How he belongs to you and how he has to do whatever the three of you tell him. Merlin knows, there isn't a student here outside of the firsties that hasn't heard it more than a time or two. But reality is you belong to him. He owns you. Because you took his coin to hold yourself available to him for him when he has a need of you. But you didn't follow through on that did you? Michael Corner ring any bells for you? In my native country, that would be literally. He would literally own you for the rest of your life. The government there would hand the three of you and your relatives to him on a silver platter and there'd be nothing you could do about it. In my native country, your behavior would've doomed your entire family."
The twins nodded. "In India as well. Because magic found you guilty, there would be no questions asked."
Cho continued. "He could've given you to anyone he felt like giving you to and done as he wished with any offspring you might someday have produced. Of course, he could also have chosen to have each of you sterilized and Ronald here castrated before giving you as door prizes to someone he wished to make a deal with or appease in some manner. Because everything about a slave belongs not to them but to their master including the children and mates. And no. Those children could never inherit from his estate because they'd be a part of the estate. But that's if the master decides to let the slave have a mate at all which he doesn't have to do."
Lavender spoke up quietly from her place next to Parvati. "And all three of you would've deserved it. No one would've spoken up for you or asked for leniency. Because you took his coin and then tried to kill him to prevent him learning of your treachery. Don't bother denying that's why you were setting him up on all those end of the year events. You wanted him dead before he could learn what you were doing behind his back. You told him he owed you for the rest of your lives because he stayed under your roof for a few nights and dined at your table. But I'll bet you anything the food he ate under your roof was food he paid for. So he'd every right to eat it. I'd also hazard a guess and say the clothes on your backs are clothes he bought and paid for while he walks around in rags. What makes it worse is, I know for a fact he takes better care of his rags then you do your clothes."
Su Li, a shy, quiet Ravenclaw, who had been attracted by the size of the gathering decided to weigh in with her own opinion. "Because of him, you are receiving one of the best educations money can buy so you have a chance to make something of your futures. And what are you doing to repay him for his generosity? You, Ronald, take only the easy classes as electives and don't even bother to actually study so you can pass them with decent marks. You, Ginerva, spend all your free time daydreaming of the day you become his wife and have open access to all his vaults, property, and power. But you study nothing worthwhile. Nothing his wife will need to be adept in. He'll move in the highest societal circles. He needs a wife who can easily navigate those waters. You say you'll hold that position but from what I can see, you don't deserve it. All you'll do is disgrace him."
"And you Hermione, are no better. You tell everyone how he's your best friend and how much he cares for and about you but what have you actually done for him? When have you ever truly been worthy of the things he's done for you? When have any of you? He's put his very life on the line for all three of you and you repaid in by a knife in the back."
"In my country, you'd be dead by sunrise and your parents and brothers sterilized lest they breed any more children like yourselves." She shrugged. "Of course in my country you'd have been lucky to survive your childhood at all, Hermione Granger. The Chinese muggles don't like magic and routinely put all magic users to death when they find them. So the magical community exists in deep hiding. When they learn of a magical child born to muggles they'll sneak out and grab the child if they can. If they can't, they'll kill it to prevent the government from nosing around looking for more magical people."
The group of girls turned and left the trio standing there with their mouths hanging open and extremely grateful they were citizens of England and not China, Japan or India. Ron muttered something to that effect to Hermione and Ginny as the girls walked away to which his girls nodded quietly.
That was when Susan Bones decided to burst that bubble. She knew the law through her Aunt Amelia and knew exactly what Cho and the twins had described as a suitable punishment for them was indeed a possibility should word reach the Ministry of what they had done. She told them as much adding, "If I were you three, I'd rediscover how to pray to every deity that ever was for divine intervention. The Wizarding World loves Harry despite how every school year since he's returned to us has turned into a deadly nightmare and scandal. When this gets out, and those girls are right -it will get out-, people will be clamoring for the Ministry to do something to prove it. I do believe you're familiar with how very much our current Minister likes to be seen 'Doing Something' when things go wrong?" She titled her head at them questioningly waiting for their acknowledgment. They gulped and nodded clearly remembering how the Minister had arrested Hagrid when the Chamber was being opened and how he'd sent the dementors to patrol around the school to keep the students safe when Sirius Black was on the loose.
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