September 5, 1995-Hogwarts
Harry was still laughing the next morning after his big reveal, how could he not? It was silence before Fred and George started laughing, realizing what he had pulled off at a level they could have if they had the time and unlimited prank materials at their disposal. Then the dam broke and the rest is history. Harry floated down the hallway to the great hall, Flear, Baby and Lizzy below him. When the group reached the hall, Harry landed next to his girlfriend and they entered, to find a lot of wands pointing at his chest. "Ok...what is going on here?" Harry asked, giving the leader of the wizards a pointed look. "You are under arrest for impersonating Harry James Potter!" A squat, toad of a woman said from the back of the group, grinning widely in her supposed victory. "Uhm...I see. Lets get some facts straight, I am who I say I am, under what right do you have to arrest me, and who the bloody heck are you?"
The woman's face changed to a scowl before saying in a falsely, sweet voice "I am Dolores Umbridge, senior undersecretary to the minister! You are a dark creature that is not Mr. Potter, just claiming to be him!" Harry gave her a once over before snorting in disgust at her proclamation, "Yeah and I'm the next merlin incarnate. I am Harry James Potter, toad and I will not allow you to tarnish my family's name with your bigotry." Raising his arm, Harry cried "EXPECTO PATRONUM!" and the enormous silver stag erupted from his hand, scattering the aurors. "So, toad, what about now? The real Harry Potter's patronus is a stag, the shape of James Potter's animagus form. Need I say more?" Harry asked coldly, the silver stag pawing at the ground and looked ready to charge the undersecretary at any moment.
"That is you, Potter. Should have known that Umbridge was barking." Mad-eye Moody growled, his magical eye spinning and staring at the toad, his normal one on Harry. Harry grinned as he repeated Moody's motto "Constant Vigilance" and made the auror smirk. "No! You will arrest this creature, NOW!" Umbridge screamed before pulling out her own wand and casting several body binders at Harry. Harry raised his hand and the ropes disintegrated mid-flight, "You just dug your own grave, toad." Harry hissed as he changed to his nightmare form, the spirits of the murdered children appearing before him, leading the kids was a 12 year old looking girl, the one that possessed golden freddy. "You harm our savior then you have to get through us!" The girl snarled as her suit appeared and formed around her.
The other spirits had nightmare versions of the suits they possessed form around them as well and they were not happy at all. The aurors backed away from the nightmare animatronics, giving them a clear path to the undersecretary, who was shaking in utter fear. Harry started singing as the sunlight seemed to dim in the hall "Welcome little child to the darkest fears inside. Come and join the fun, take a journey through the night. Watch the closet doors, or else the night consumes you more. Taking every piece of innocence that never sees the light. SO!"
"Grab your only ammunition, your common sense and torch. The corridors are filled with fright, when something's on the porch. How long will you last, through these memories of the past, since without a light to shine the only soul that's left is yours!" The nightmare animatronics started joining in on the singing, their voices were beautiful so the song continued "Forced down to reckoning, Your dreams become the sickening, You thought you were alone, No they bite you to the bone, you shout!" Then Fleur, Lizzy and Baby added their voices to the ones as they closed in on the toad.
"Break, break, break my mind,
Break it till the tale unwinds,
Force my thoughts through hell and back,
Or leave me alone tonight!"
"Break, break, break my heart,
Break me till I fall apart,
This can't be real, this can't be right,
Now die inside the flames of your fright!"
When the last word was sung, the nightmares attacked. Darkness engulfed the room and when the lights returned, all that was left of Dolores Umbridge was a torn pink cardigan and her wand. "They're Here...!" Harry finished in a whisper, as the spirits returned to their normal bodies. "What h-happened to her?" An newbie auror squeaked as he looked at the torn clothing, Harry answered as he shifted to his original form "To a place that will be her nightmare, forever…" Moody grunted but said nothing as what Harry said sank in. "Its going to be a mess in the ministry, tomorrow." Another auror muttered and how right his was.
September 6, 1995-Ministry of Magic
Harry looked around the ministry with boredom, Fleur at his side with the same look on her face as well. "Well, lets see...my 'trail' is on the 9th floor, in courtroom 10." Harry said as he looked at the paper with the instructions to the courtroom on it. That the lift down and walking with Fleur, Harry mused at what charges besides the death of the undersecretary, that the minister could pull up. "Fleur, don't worry. If anything happens then I can ask Lizzy's kids to help me out." Fleur giggled and Harry joined her, Lizzy was great at being a mother for 5 murdered children. "Ah, yes...Courtroom 10." Harry kissed Fleur on the lips before entering the large chamber.
"You're late!" A voice called out and Harry grimaced as he floated into the center of the courtroom. "By about thirty seconds, I'm here aren't I?' Harry said heatedly before taking a seat on top of the chair, the same chair that the Lestranges sat in and told the wizengamot that they would remain loyal to Voldemort. "Yes, now I call this court to order! On September 5, 1995, Harry James Potter of Number 4, Privet Drive, Little Whinging, Surrey killed Dolores Jane Umbridge." The Minister of Magic, Fudge, boomed and Harry could only roll his eyes at the minister's theatrics. "You know," Harry said "Your secretary tried to arrest the last of a Most Noble and Ancient house on trumped up charges." The caught the court's attention, charges against Most Noble and Ancient houses were serious business. A woman raised her wand and Fudge said "The chair recognizes Amelia Bones." Harry waved to Amelia, who was barely holding a straight face at his antics. "Mr. Potter," She began, 'straight to the point, I like her style' Harry thought as he nodded "The ministry proclaimed you dead on July 21, 1995, so how can you be both dead and alive at the same time?"
"Yes, I did die but I came back to life and here I am now." Harry motioned to himself as he waited for the next question. The ministry was fuming, but he was ignored as Amelia asked "Could you elaborate?" Harry nodded before saying "The ministry can proclaim someone dead if Gringotts proclaims the person in question dead after a 36 hour period. If I had been truly killed then my vault would have been open to just about anyone after the goblin of Gringotts proclaimed me dead. But, Gringotts never proclaimed me dead and someone here tried to open my vault while I was not dead." Harry glared at the minister before continuing "Gringotts has items that are keyed into that person, so they can tell who is dead and who is alive. If you need more proof, then go to my vaults manager, Ragnok." At that, Amelia asked "Wasn't your vault manager Griphook?" He replied "Yes, but Griphook was the one to lead the person to my vault while I was recuperating so I told the head of Gringotts, that's Ragnok by the way, that if I can't trust Griphook with my galleons then I couldn't trust Gringotts at all. Well, Ragnok gave me a very powerful magical oath and became my vault manager. I also beheaded Griphook because it was his punishment."
That was met with silence as the information was digested, Harry looking around the courtroom. Fudge was stock still and then said "That means nothing, you're here because you killed Dolores Umbridge!" Harry gave Fudge a tired look and answered "She also attacked me and as the last of my line, I have the right to defend myself. My memories can be viewed but I can't take veritaserum because I'm a animatronic." Another woman spoke up, harry noticed that she wore a vulture on her hat. "I say we clear the boy of all charges!" Fudge now started stalling "Potter doesn't even have his head of house ring yet-" "Hem, Hem!" Harry said in a perfect impersonation of Umbridge and raised both of his hands. "I have the Potter ring, all of the founders of Hogwarts rings and this ring." Raising his right hand, his middle finger had a ring that was black with white stripes and showed a blue and red music box in the center. "The Puppet Master ring, any more objections, Fudge?"
"Fine, fine, fine!" Fudge said "Cleared of all charges!" Banging his gavel, Fudge got up and left quickly. Harry floated over to Amelia and smiled. "You know, your niece wants to be like you, Amelia. I hope she does." Harry said and Amelia smiled at that.
September 18, 1995-Hogwarts
To say that everything blew over would be a lie and Harry knew it. Even after 12 days, Harry was now being ridiculed even more. Harry pulled Fleur closer to his chest, smiling as he felt Fleur's heartbeat with his magic. He still remembered, vividly, Fleurs outburst from last week when she read that edition of the Daily Prophet. It was not pretty, but that was Fleur and he loved her no matter what. Yes, it was sappy but it was the cold hard truth. "Harry, could you rub my back?" Fleur asked as she got up, Harry's grin grew even wider as his girlfriend pulled her shirt off to reveal her bare back. "Only for you." He said as Fleur turned her head so she could see Harry's face. Harry started rubbed her back, making his hands warm up with warming charms, as he asked "So, what's on today's agenda? Visiting family, going to see a wonder of the world, or staying in bed until we're forced out of it?"
Fleur groaned as his hands massaged her shoulders before answering "We'll see what the day has to offer, hows that for a plan?" Harry could only smile "I like it." He continued massaging Fleurs back until something shook Hogwarts. "Or they could interrupt our time together and replace it with something like that." Harry sighed, why couldn't he and Fleur just get some time alone without having something that was probably connected to Voldemort happen?!