Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or any character from any of the books.
Author's Note: Once I thought about what'd happen if Mundungus Fletcher didn't leave his post while watching Harry.
Mundungus Saves Harry
"Expecto patronum!" Harry heard someone shout while he was about to shout the very same thing to save his bully cousin Dudley from dementors. After the dementors fled, Harry looked around and found someone he never saw before holding a wand. "Who are you?"
"The name is Mundungus Fletcher and I'm a member of the Order of the Phoenix." The man explained.
"The what?" Harry asked in confusion.
"Are you saying Headmaster Dumbledore never told you about the Order of the Phoenix?" Fletcher asked in surprise.
"He knows about it?" Harry asked.
"Know about it?" Fletcher asked in amusement. "He founded it! The Order of the Phoenix is made of people not satisfied with the Ministry's efforts to stop You-Know-Who. We had disbanded after you saved us back in 1981 but, now that he's back, Dumbledore decided to reform it."
"And what're you doing here, Mr. Fletcher?" Harry asked while hoping not to sound ungrateful.
"Some members of the Order are taking turns watching you for your safety and those bloody dementors had to show up during my shift." Fletcher complained. "By the way, 'Mr. Fletcher' is too formal. You may call me 'Dung'. All my friends call me that."
Judging by Dung's looks, Harry wasn't surprised. "What do we do now, Dung?"
"Keep your wand ready before those things come back." Dung ordered Harry. "We must get back to your Aunt's house where your mother's protection will keep you safe."
"My Mum's what?" Harry reacted in confusion since Dung mentioned another thing he didn't know about.
"I shouldn't be surprised by now with the stuff Dumbledore doesn't tell ya, boy." Dung commented. "When your mother sacrificed her life to protect you, she did more than preventing You-Know-Who from killing you that night. She also left you an extra protection that'll last until you're seventeen, assuming you'll live with someone related to her by blood until then. If you don't, the protection wears off earlier."
"Is that why I have to live with the Dursleys?" Harry angrily asked. "I thought it was just because Crouch denied Sirius a trial."
"We don't have time to discuss it now." Dung stated as a matter of fact. "The both of us must go to your Aunt's home right now."
"What about Dudley?"
"If you care so much about him…" Dung groaned as he started to levitate Dudley just like it was done to Professor Snape during the climax of Harry Potter's third year as a Hogwarts student except that Dudley's head wasn't being hit by anything. While they were going back to Number Four, Privet Drive, Harry noticed Mrs. Figg approaching and hid his wand. "What do you think you're doing, Potter?" Dung asked in exasperation. "Keep your wand ready for use."
"What about Mrs. Figg?" Harry asked out of concern for the Statute of Secrecy.
"Squibs can't use wands, Potter." Dung explained unaware that Harry still thought she was just another muggle. "Didn't you know that?"
"She's a squib?" Harry asked in shock. All this time and he thought he was just an eccentric muggle with too many cats.
"Did you think she was a witch who put up too much of an effort to pretend to be a muggle?"
"No, I thought she was a muggle."
"Dung, I'm so glad you're here!" She exclaimed in joy. "I'm taking back some of the bad things I said about you."
"Whatever, Arabella." Dung replied, surprising Harry. Up to that moment, he didn't know what Mrs. Figg's given name was. "Do you mind informing Dumbledore about the Dementors? I'd do it myself but I must take the boys back home before they return."
Usually, she'd insist on Dung acting as the messenger because he'd be quicker but she understood his point and tried to inform the Headmaster as soon as she could. After she left, Dung and Harry resumed taking Dudley home. "My son!" Petunia screamed. "What did you do to my son?"
"We rescued him after the dementor attack, Madam." Dung explained. "Name is Mundungus Fletcher but you may call me 'Dung'."
"What would Dementors do away from Azkaban?" Petunia asked out of skepticism. "Were they sacked for not keeping the boy's godfather from escaping?"
Harry was surprised that Petunia knew something about Dementors and even more that she'd admit it. However, he had no chance to voice his surprise because Dung decided to answer her question. "It wouldn't be the first time. Don't you remember about the time there were Dementors posted at Hogwarts to recapture Sirius Black?"
"Dementors at a school?" Petunia was horrified. There were things she believed no child, even 'freak' ones, should be subjected to. "What was Dumbledore thinking?"
"It wasn't his decision, Ma'am." Dung explained. "Minister Fudge insisted." Noticing the looks of confusion from Vernon and Petunia, Dung decided to explain. "Cornelius Oswald Fudge is the Minister of Magic."
"Freaks in the Government?" Vernon asked in derision. "No wonder the nation is going to the dogs." He then glared at Harry. "And why would the Ministry send Dementors here, boy?"
Before Harry had a chance to think about an answer, an owl showed up to deliver a letter informing him he's been expelled from Hogwarts for two violations of the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery (the Patronus Charm and the Hover Charm); two violations of the Statute of Secrecy (using those charms in the presence of a muggle); and one charge of muggle-baiting (using the Hover Charm on a muggle) and that he must wait until a Ministry officer shows up to snap his wand. "What?" Harry asked in outrage. "It wasn't me and the Hover Charm wasn't meant to do any harm!"
"That's how the trace works and Fudge would do anything to discredit people trying to warn the Wizarding World about You-Know-Who's return." Dung explained.
"Trace?" Harry asked in confusion.
"That's how the Ministry is informed whenever and wherever underage freaks like you do magic, boy." Petunia clarified while mentally berating herself for using the 'm' word. "Unfortunately, it cannot tell the difference between magic done by underage freaks and magic done by others in front of underage freaks. Since you're the only one of your lot living in Surrey, the Ministry will automatically assume you're behind every magic detected in the area."
"Who's this You-Know-Who?" Vernon asked more out of a desire of not being ignored than actual curiosity.
"The crazy man who killed the boy's parents is so feared by that lot that few, if any, among them don't fear the mention of his name." Petunia explained.
"I don't fear." Harry stated. "It's Voldemort."
"And he's back?" Vernon asked while he and Petunia, to Harry's and Dung's surprise, didn't even flinch at the mention of 'Voldemort'.
"Yes." Harry answered.
"In that case, GET OUT!" Vernon loudly ordered. "I won't have anyone threatening my wife and my son. Your Aunt and I took you in out of the goodness of our hearts and that's the gratitude we receive?"
"GOODNESS?" Harry was outraged. "You have the nerve to claim you acted out of goodness after how you and your wife treated me? Dumbledore probably forced the both of you just to keep my Mum's protection active! Guess what? That protection isn't worth the price! I'll just live in hiding somewhere the Ministry and Death Eaters can never find me." They suddenly felt the ground shaking. "What was that?"
"The protective wards set by Headmaster Dumbledore fell down when you rejected them!" Dung exclaimed. "It's no longer safe to stay here!" Before he was about to disapparate with Harry, another owl showed up. This time, with a letter stating that the previously informed punishments are suspended pending a hearing to be scheduled.
"One less trouble, Harry." Dung commented. "Now we have to decide where to go. I'd take you to the Order's headquarters but the location is protected by the Fidelius Charm and I'm not the Secret-Keeper."
"I am." Dumbledore stated as he suddenly showed up. "Another freak!" Vernon complained but was ignored. The twinkle at Dumbledore's eyes and the jolliness at his voice were gone. "Harry, hold unto me. Dung, you know where to go." The two adult wizards disapparated and Harry went alongside Dumbledore. They appeared at a street called Grimmauld Place. It seemed to be an average street except that the number twelve seemed to have been skipped when the houses there were numbered. Dumbledore then handed Harry a piece of parchment. "Read it silently." The Headmaster ordered.
"The headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix is located at Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place"
"I don't understand, Sir." Harry was confused. "There isn't a…" A big manor showed up from nowhere and the nearby muggles didn't seem to notice. "Number Twelve is charmed to stay hidden from muggles, Harry." Dumbledore stated.
"The Fidelius Charm was added for further protection after your godfather allowed it to be used as headquarters for the Order." Dung further explained.
"Why would Sirius' permission be needed?" Harry asked.
"Let's get in first." Dumbledore stated and, after they did so, explained. "This manor belongs to the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black and Sirius Black is the current heir. Dung, I'd appreciate if you stopped telling Harry things he's too young to know."
"It shouldn't be your decision to make." Sirius Black intervened.
"Dung and I have to go to the Ministry to try to clear Harry's case." Dumbledore explained. "I'll leave Harry at your hands until I can repair the wards at the Dursleys'."
Dumbledore and Dung then went to the Ministry to see Amelia Bones, Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. "What can I do for you, gentlemen?" Madam Bones asked.
"Mr. Fletcher is here to testify on Harry Potter's defense, Amelia." Dumbledore explained. Dung explained that, since the muggle in question is Harry Potter's cousin and thus allowed to know about the Wizarding World, there's no violation of the Statute of Secrecy. Dung also claimed to have done the charms, thus clearing Harry. He also explained that Dung used the Hover Charm to take Dudley home so no muggle baiting charges shall be pressed over this. "I believe that clears it all except that I'm disappointed Harry didn't show up in person."
"Can anyone blame him?" Dung asked. "He's probably afraid he'd be sent to Azkaban to rot there without a trial like Crouch did to Sirius Black."
"Why would he be upset over his family's betrayer not receiving a trial?" Amelia asked in confusion. "Black confessed to the Wizengamot, didn't he?"
"Actually, Sirius Black has never been taken to court to answer for any crimes and the closest thing to a confession he ever said was just a case of survivor's guilt." Dumbledore explained.
"Black confounded Harry Potter and his friends into seeing Peter Pettigrew alive!" Amelia Bones exclaimed.
"Actually, Cornelius just took Severus' word on it and Severus just assumed they were confounded because he refuses to consider the possibility of Peter Pettigrew being alive." Dumbledore calmly explained.
"Who can blame him?" Bones asked. "Everybody knows Sirius Black killed Peter Pettigrew and twelve muggles with a Blasting Curse. Nothing but a finger was left of Peter Pettigrew."
"Peter Pettigrew caused that explosion and left that finger to fake his death." Dumbledore explained.
"How come the Aurors who checked Black's and Pettigrew's wand failed to notice this, if that's what really happened?" Amelia Bones asked.
"Nobody checked either wand." Dumbledore sadly stated.
"And why are you telling me this just now?" Amelia asked in anger.
"I thought it'd only get you into trouble and nothing but Pettigrew's capture would help Sirius." Dumbledore explained.
"I'll get to the bottom of it." Amelia stated with a frown. "Warn your pet Death Eater not to leave the country. I'll question him."
I'd make this in just one page but I'm afraid it's becoming too big. Next chapter will be about Sirius Black's case being reviewed.