Harry Potter and the World at War

by shdurrani

Harry and Hermione trio breakup and Ginny joins the group transfer students at Hogwarts. This story Has been reedited so please read from start to finish. Ron Bashing is present. Heirs of Hogwarts. Elves, Goblins, Royalty all present.

3. Internation DADA New Minister Goblin Nat

Harry Potter and the World at War

By SHDurrani

Chapter 3

International Defense Against the Dark Arts Meeting and A New Minister and Diagon Alley and Goblin Nation

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from J. K. Rowlings Stories. All OOC characters are mine.

A/N: Please read my first two chapters again because I have rewritten them hence the reason for the delay in posting new chapters. Thank you.

The next morning was a busy one for everyone still at the Mansion. Harry and Hermione were the first ones up that morning and decided to give the house elves a break and cook breakfast. Now understand this, the house elves didn't give up the job easily that was for sure. It wasn't until Harry relented and said that they could help them that they would even let them even do some of the cooking.

Harry and Hermione had a lot of fun cooking together and weren't surprised at the reactions they got from the adults that finally filtered down into the kitchen with the smell of breakfast that was filtering up to the sleeping quarters. Ginny had already come down before the adults and was sitting with her jaw on the ground looking at the way the two were working like a well oiled machine making breakfast.

Remus was the first to recover and say, "Since when have either of you been able to cook?"

Harry frowned and said, "I had a lot of practice with the Dursleys since I was old enough to reach the stove, which apparently was 3 years old."

Everyone frowned and sadly looked at Harry who was in turn looking down at his shoes with their reactions. Hermione put the food that she was carrying down on the table and came over and hugged Harry.

Harry looked up to her and smiled and said, "Thanks Hermione. It is not easy to realize that what the Dursleys did to me is not a normal thing. Anyway Breakfast is ready if anyone is up to it. We have about an hour before people start showing up."

With that said everyone took their seats and started eating breakfast. Albus and Minerva came in and decided to join them for breakfast. After everyone was done eating, they all went up stairs to get ready for the incoming guests.

At exactly 10:30am the first envoy showed up. They were the North American contingent. Sikandar and Sarah immediately recognized them and greeted them. Hermione also recognized one of the representative students. She dragged Harry up to the girl and hugged her.

"Michelle it has been a long time since I have seen you last. I am so glad you were able to come as a representative," exclaimed Hermione.

Michelle smiled and said, "I am glad to see you too Hermione. Who is the stud standing next to you?"

Hermione smiled and said, "Harry meet my cousin Michelle Gault. Michelle this is my best friend and boy friend Harry Potter."

Harry smiled and said, "Hello Michelle and welcome to Potter Mansion. I am not sure if you remember me but we met a long time ago before my parents died and all."

Michelle smiled and nodded saying, "It is good to see you both again and yes I do remember you from back then. I am sorry for your loss of both your parents and godfather. We in the US never really thought he was guilty because there was no real trial to prove his guilt. Their case was based on circumstantial evidence."

Harry smiled weakly and said, "Thanks it is good that some people thought that. I believe that our guest from France should be showing up shortly as well as from Japan."

Just when he said that there was a gong announcing that someone was at the front door. Harry and Hermione walked down to the entrance hall and opened the door. There were a number of students at the door waiting to come in.

One of the French students was Ming. Harry and Hermione greeted her first and then introduced Michelle to her. After that small introduction Harry approached the rest of the new comers.

Harry smiled and said, "Welcome to Potter Mansion please come in. My name is Harry Potter and this is my girlfriend Hermione Durrani, we will be your host while you are staying here. Place your trunks to the left and follow us to the dining room."

It took another hour or so before all the representing countries all arrived and were seated in the dining room for lunch.

Harry stood up and started to speak, "I would like to once again welcome all of you to Potter Mansion and the first international student meeting ever. My name is Harry Potter and I have been asked to chair this meeting with the headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore. Let us go ahead and eat some lunch and then we can carry on with the meeting."

After Harry sat down the food appeared on the table in the same fashion as at Hogwarts (considering that there were House Elves working at the mansion) and everyone started to eat. Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Michelle and Ming spent most of the time talking about the differences between the education in the states and the education at Hogwarts.

By the time the meal was over everyone was anxious to see what was to be talked about at the meeting.

Harry got up and walked to the front of the room where a podium was set up. He then began to speak.

"As everyone seems to be anxious to begin let us do so. Let me go over what has been going on over here in England over the last two years. Two years ago Hogwarts hosted a tournament that was competed by three schools including Hogwarts. They were, Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang Institute. The last task of the tournament was to have the champions enter a maze and get to the cup first and winning the tournament. Oh let me say that I was forced to compete in the tournament against my will by a death eater that was impersonating an ex auror who Professor Dumbledore had hired to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts that year. Anyway in the end we had two champions for Hogwarts, me and Cedric Diggory. We reached the cup together after fighting off a Acromantula. I was hurt and I told Cedric to take the cup. Anyway, he refused and in the end we decided to take the cup together. What we didn't know was the Death Eater had made the cup into a portkey that took us to a graveyard in Little Hangleton. What we originally thought that it was part of the tournament but we still went on defense. Unfortunately we were not fast enough and a death eater who was there to meet the person who arrived was already ready. I heard a disembodied voice say, 'Kill the spare!' Cedric was hit by the killing curse and was dead before he hit the ground. I won't go into detail of what happened next but to say the least I was tied up and the death eater who I finally was able to identify as Peter Pettigrew. He went through the process of putting some things into a boiling cauldron and then proceeded to take blood from me and add it into the cauldron. After that I heard the disembodied voice that was wrapped up in a blanket tell Peter to cut his hand off and put it into the cauldron. Afterwards the wrapped-up bundle was placed in the cauldron and I am not sure if there was an enchantment said but afterwards Voldermort or if you want to call him anything, Tom, emerged from the cauldron and called the rest of his followers through Peter's dark mark. Anyway we finally dueled with him attempting to put me under Imperious curse twice and failing to do so. In the end he attempts to kill me with the killing curse and I shot a disarming spell. The two spells combined and a golden globe surrounded us and what I learned later the priori Incantation was in effect causing us to see the last people that were killed by Tom's wand. Cedric's image came out first then a muggle old man, then a witch and finally my parents came out. Anyway they were able to communicate with me and tell me to break the bond between us and make a run for the cup. Cedric's last request was for me to return his body to his parents. I broke the bond and summoned the cup while holding Cedric's body. I was transported back to the school where after being checked out by the school nurse I was left in the care of the death eater since the headmaster didn't know that he was one. He dragged me to his office and went about telling me exactly who he was and how he tricked the cup into thinking that there was a fourth school and I was the only participant. Professor Dumbledore immediately showed up and with the help of the other professors was able to subdue to death eater and find the real person who was supposed to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. He was in his multi-compartment trunk. Anyway that is the tournament and last year was the worst year for the school and the rest of the magical community in the UK. At Hogwarts last year we had a Ministry appointed Defense Against the Dark Arts professor that followed the minister blindly and later was responsible for an attack on me and my cousin the summer before with Dementors. I nearly was expelled for defending myself and my cousin but luckily we were able to take care of the situation. For those of you that are worried about the minister this year, don't because he has resigned from office. As we speak there is an important meeting of the ministry officials to elect the new temporary minister till there can be a general election next week."

Just then an owl appeared in front of the headmaster and delivered a note to him. He read it and smiled before handing it to Harry to read. Harry read it and it said:

Dear Albus,

Per your request I wanted to let you know that the temporary minister is Amelia Bones. She will be coming to the meeting shortly.

Arthur Weasley

Harry handed the note to Hermione before continuing on his speech, "Well it has been decided, the Head of the Magical Law Enforcement Division (DMLE), Amelia Bones, has been appointed to the position. She will be joining us soon."

Just then there was a ring through the mansion announcing the arrival of someone to the mansion. Harry called for an elf to escort the newcomer to the dining room. Madame Bones and Susan Bones walked into the room. Harry smiled and waved them to where he and Hermione were standing.

Madame Bones smiled and walked to the podium and turned to Harry and said, "Thank you for your welcome, I was given the message that when the new minister was selected to have them come here for the meeting."

Harry nodded and said, "Thank you for coming Minister. Hermione and I thought it was best that we included you in the meeting to get an idea on what is being planned. Professor Dumbledore agreed and sent the message to you. It is good to see you Susan. Why don't you go and sit next to Ginny over there and we can continue with the meeting."

Amelia smiled and said that she would join her niece and sit down with the rest of the representatives.

Harry then turned the meeting to Hermione and she pulled out a list of ideas that she and Harry had brainstormed the night before about.

"Harry and I have gone over quite a lot of things in the planning for this meeting. We had been given this duty only two days ago so bare with us. We would like you input and ideas for improving the list. Some of this list will be started this summer here at the mansion and will continue throughout the year. We will not be doing anything between now and July 31st. Somewhere between now and then the Hogwarts letters will go out and in the ones that are going to the D. A. members there will be an invitation to join us here at the mansion to do some training before the school starts," said Hermione.

Harry came up and stood by Hermione and interrupted her, "After consulting with Professor Snape and some of the Slytherine students I have authorized some letters to go to them. This year we are hoping to bring down the inter-house rivalry between the Hogwarts houses. The sorting hat made comments last year that stated in a similar manor to an American Revolutionary General's speech, "United we stand, Divided we fall." In order for us to win the battle against the dark lord we must unite under one goal, the survival of the world. (A/N: I know that is lame but hey I love the quote and I will use it again at the beginning of term for the rest of the school. (Hint hint))"

Harry stepped aside to let Hermione continue with her presentation, "Nice Harry, ok well this summer we would like to get everyone up to speed with the spell work we started last year and also sometime in the middle of August we will be meeting with the muggle defense instructor or sensei who will be teaching at Hogwarts this year. Harry and I will be working with those that want to in getting back into a physical training regiment. Harry's father was into doing the stuff and had the house equipped for such. Harry and I decided that it would be really good if we go ahead and also get everyone who is going to be staying at the mansion for the rest of the summer, and I understand that is almost all of you, up to speed on the Patronus Charm because word has gotten out that the Dementors of Azkaban Prison have abandoned the prison and rejoined the Dark Lord's side."

A representative from Asia raised her hand and asked, "How safe are we here at the Mansion against the Dementors?"

Harry answered that for her, "The Mansion stands on the ancient lands that once use to be Camelot. My ancestors date back to Merlin and Arthur. There are ancient wards around the mansion that have never been breached by the Dementors since they were created. The ministries over the last several hundred of years have tried in vane to breach the wards for their own purposes. After the death of my parents, the former minister of magic with the help of Lucius Malfoy tried to take control over the area but now I know why they couldn't, Malfoy, Sr. bears the Dark Mark and is marred with a dark or black aura. This is why I am certain we will be safe here at the mansion."

The student nodded and sat back down. Harry turned to Hermione and nodded for her to continue.

Hermione nodded and continued, "We are hoping to get a working group to help defend the Express on the 1st of September when we all return to Hogwarts. The more we have the merrier. That is one of the reasons why we are going ahead and inviting the D. A. to do some training during the summer."

Madame Bones stood up and approached Harry and Hermione and turned to the rest of the students and said, "I wanted to let you all know that before I came here I went ahead and signed a regulation allowing underage students to use magic if they are at least 15 years of age. I also put in the regulation a statement that any student younger caught using magic to protect themselves from attack whether from family or from D. E. they will not be prosecuted. While I was head of the DMLE, I saw quite a few kids get abused because they had been afraid to protect themselves with magic with fear that they would be expelled from Hogwarts which they considered their safe place."

Harry smiled and said, "Thank you Madame Bones. I will probably have to adjust the letters going out to the D. A. Members to let them know this so that their parents will not be afraid that they would be expelled by coming here. By the way here is the letter that I am sending out with the school letters."

Harry passed the letter around and kept a copy for himself.

Dear former D. A. members,

I hope that all of you are enjoying your summer with your families. As you have probably have already read the school letters this year we are hosting students from other countries at Hogwarts this year in the hope to help prepare students for the war that has come upon us. The governors of Hogwarts and the ministry of magic have approved the reestablishment of the Defense Association as an approved organization.

This summer I have taken control of my family properties and vaults and rights. In doing so, I have inherited the Potter Mansion that is under strong wards, and has survived many of dark lords including Voldermort's first rein of terror.

I would like to extend an invitation to all that would like to join us in the summer training to come to the mansion. If you would like to come we will be sending you to Hogwarts and the headmaster, Professor Dumbledore, will portkey you to the mansion. This is for security purposes only.

Please send your answers to the Headmaster no later than the 31st of July.

Yours Sincerely,

Harry James Potter, Lord Potter, Lord Black

After reading the letter to everyone, Harry passed out a copy to everyone present including the minister herself. He told Susan that she can keep the letter since she is welcome to join the group with her aunt's approval.

Madame Bones told Susan that she would talk to her later regarding it.

Hermione then began to speak again, "Other than that we also going to start getting the students into shape. There are a number of muggleborn students and Half-blood students that have experiences with muggle defense which more specifically will be martial arts. Ming who is from the French group has a grandfather who will be teaching this course. Both Harry and I are now black belts in at least 3 separate forms of the arts and in my case I am black belted in 4. Harry is working getting his final black belt and will hope to be done by the end of September. Ming's grandfather was his teacher and may be joining us mid-August to help start training the students here at the mansion. He is going to be teaching muggle defense this year in conjunction with the D. A. meetings and so forth. Those taking the muggle defense course will be required to do early morning training to get into shape. This will be a great help for students that play Quiditch too so we will leave the morning exercise open for anyone who wants to join. It will be required for everyone that wants to join the D. A. meetings and the muggle defense classes. That is all that is planned for now. If anyone has any suggestions we would love to hear from you about them."

One of the students from Spain stood up and spoke in broken English, "We were wondering if there was a chance to play some muggle sports like Soccer or something?"

Harry and Hermione looked at Albus and he stood up and came up to the front and spoke, "I am better at addressing this issue, we are willing to let you play the game on the grounds but it would probably not be a sport that is played for competition purposes."

Harry asked the Spanish student to introduce himself and explain what he had in mind.

The Spanish student said, "My name is Miguel Esperanza and the reason why I ask is because the games like soccer and so forth are similar to what you have planned with the martial arts work. It helps to, what is the word?" Harry understanding he is saying said, "Build?" Miguel nodded, "That's it, build our skills in working in groups. I know what you would think that Quiditch would be a good thing but to be honest it isn't."

Harry nodded having experienced watching the football games when he was younger and also watching the neighborhood kids play it during the past summer. Harry said, "Your right, in Quiditch we don't really play as a coherent team we are more worried about what we are doing for our part then you do in your games of football. I agree that it would be a great game to be played by those that are not able to get a real grasp on muggle defense work. And unfortunately here in the UK, the only people that are really any good for the muggle stuff are the half-bloods and muggle-borns are the only ones that have had exposure to these things. Hermione and I are familiar with it because we grew up in the muggle world even though we are pure blood students. I know that there will be other people that will want to start other sports like Cricket and so forth but we will have to see how much interest there is for the game when school starts. Is there anyone else?"

There seemed to be no other suggestions from the students at that point and so Minister Bones stood up and asked to speak a bit. Harry and Hermione nodded and sat down to allow her their undivided attention.

"I just wanted to welcome all of you to the UK and on behalf of my administration and the rest of the ministry I would like to personally apologize to Harry for what he had to go through last year at the hands of my predecessor. I would also like to apologize to Professor Dumbledore for the same reason. It would seem that my predecessor was keen in keeping his power and was being bank rolled by a death eater that had bought his way out of being in prison by making large donations to the St. Mungos hospital. Anyway we have got him caught red handed in actually participating in death eater stuff and he will not be able to get away this time. We are going to be discussing what we plan to do with the death eaters this time around in the near future. We felt that one of the ways that will help get people more capable of defending themselves as much as necessary to get away from an attack was to get the students trained and this was the result of it. Mr. Potter's organization was a real god send in that recourse since a few of his students have already proven that they are capable of defending themselves and their families unfortunately because of attacks that have started to happen in earnest this summer. The ministry and I are going to make any and all resources that will be needed available for this endeavor from now on. I thank you all for agreeing to participate in this venture and welcome to the UK."

Harry stood up and started clapping. Everyone else followed suit causing the new Minister to blush like mad. Harry walked up to the minister and turned to the group and said, "I know I speak for everyone here in saying that we will be proud to work alongside your administration and the Ministry in helping to defend the students and the schools. We appreciate your help and I for one thank you for your apology."

Hermione stood next to Harry and said, "For those of you that are staying for the rest of the summer, you're more than welcome to make yourself at home. While the rest of you, please stay behind while we make some plans to meet with you on September 1st at King's Crossing at 10 a.m. to prepare for their arrival of the students for the New Year."

Harry called a couple of house elves to show those students are staying at the mansion, where they were going to say. And also he told the house elves to show where the library is and where the sitting room is.

Once all the students that were not going to leave had left the room Professor Dumbledore stood up and walk to the front. He started to address the group, "I think that it would be a good idea, if everyone here would meet on September 1st at least an hour before the rest of the students should start arriving for the train to school. If the Minister agrees, we will hope to have some Aurors to meet up with you to help protect the students before they get on the train."

Minister Bones stood up and addressed the group, "I agree that we need some Aurors at the station and will have the new head of the Magical Law Enforcement division of the Ministry of Magic coordinate with Harry and Hermione to make sure that everyone is working on the same page."

Harry spoke up, "Thank you Minister for your support, and any help we can get to protect students is much appreciated. I agree with the headmaster, and we should probably meet at 10:30 a.m. on that day. You are all welcome to come back here early, if you would like we can set up some portkeys for you to use if you plan on coming back here before school starts. If anyone of you would like us to set up emergency portkeys in case your house or place of residence is attacked before the school year begins, we would be happy to do so. I would like to again thank you all for coming today and meeting with us and I hope you'll come back in the fall. If any of you have not decided if you come in early or not, you can let us know by owl or by e-mail. I hope to get some computers in the mansion by the end of the month, so that the students here can keep in contact with their family back home. If you would please leave your e-mail address is with Hermione we will let you know by e-mail our new e-mail address. If any of you in the meantime come up with ideas to help Muggle born and half blood students get familiar with Hogwarts and other magical schools, like Web pages and chat rooms, please let us know and if any of you have any experience with these your help would be appreciated."

Sikandar stood up and approached the front of the group and said, "We will be getting some cell phones (mobile phones) within the next few days to help stay in contact with everyone who has a phone at their disposal. Harry's parents had already had the mansion wired for telephones in the den, the study, and the kitchen. We hope to get a phone service reestablished here also. If any of you have cell phones or phones at home and would like us to have your number so that if we need to contact you we could, please leave the numbers with Hermione. Thank you."

Harry and Hermione then went about getting phone numbers and e-mail addresses and found that quite a few of the students that were leaving wanted to come back early, so with the help of Professor Dumbledore they went about making portkeys for those that were returning before the start of the term. After talking to everyone personally, they walked everyone to the front door, where they watch them leave either by portkey or by car.

Harry turned to the minister and the professors that were there and asked if they would join him and has study. He asked Hermione to join him to.

After everyone sat down in the study, Harry started talking, "I asked you to come here because I thought maybe we should get an idea as to what the Ministry would like us to do to prepare any future candidates for the Auror teams."

Madame Bones said, "What we really need for you to concentrate on as a group is to help those people that want to join the Aurors with their weak subjects like Potions and other subjects."

Hermione nodded and said, "We were hoping to do that last year but with everything that happened with Fudge's appointee taking over the school we were too afraid to set something like that up. The DA was one of the first study groups we had planned because we were so far behind in that subject."

Harry said, "We are going to go ahead and do study groups for all years including the first years to help them in any subject."

Professor Dumbledore said, "Professor Snape will not be joining the school again this year because he has taken up the Assistant Headmaster position at Durmstrang. I just found that out today before coming so I thought I would pass that along to you. Sarah here has agreed to take his place as potion master and Professor Sinistra has agreed to take the position as Head of Slytherine house."

Sarah said, "I have lowered the minimum requirement for the OWL scores for Potions to take the advanced NEWT level Potion classes this year. That alone has undermined our ability to recruit new Aurors from England and the UK who attended Hogwarts. Hopefully this will change for the best."

Harry nodded and said, "If I was actually going to be going for Auror I would have had a better chance at the class this way. But honestly the only reason why I don't do so well in class was because Professor Snape was always undermining my potions and was allowing Draco and other Slytherine to sabotage my potions. If by some chance I got it right he was always saying that I was cheating off of Hermione and I would then get a failing grade for it. I am not sure if I have ever anything above a passing score in that class. Even Ron was doing better than me and he was doing horribly in the class."

This saddened Professor Dumbledore and he said, "I had hoped that Severus would have gotten over his grudge with your father and would not have caused you so much trouble. Sadly you maybe right about how it has been so long that we have had a decent size Auror training class."

Madame Bones commented, "I think that last time we had at least 15 people qualified for the program was before Snape became professor. Albus unfortunately I don't completely blame you for this but I seem to think that your faith in Snape has failed us."

Sadly Albus nodded and said, "My faith in Severus has caused us more problems than I thought. I have decided that Severus will remain a very limited member of the Order now that he is not within my influence. I am glad in some way because it has been a hard time to keep him just in Potions. He had always wanted to do Defense Against the Dark Arts instead but it seems that the only subject he is good at is potions."

Harry spoke up and asked, "Albus did you know anything about what was going on in the Occlumency lessons that were being done last year?"

Albus shook his head and said, "The only thing that Severus said to me is that he refused to teach you anymore and that you were useless in the subject."

Harry spoke up then, "He pretty much mind raped me during the lessons. The only instructions he gave me during the lessons were to clear your mind. How exactly was I to do that he didn't explain. In the end I was left so magically drained that by the time I got to bed I wasn't in any condition to actually do anything to block Tom out. The second to the last lesson I had with him I started fighting back because with the help of Hermione, I was able to find some books on occlumency and I think that Snape knew this and that was why he stopped the lessons. He had purposely setup a trap for me to give him an excuse to stop the lessons. I need to ask Remus if he remembered the attack on Snape the end of their 5th year after the OWLs exams just to see how much was actually revealed to me."

Albus nodded and said, "I am sorry Harry, I had no idea that was going on. I would have had someone else help you if I had known that Severus was doing that. I understand that you have mastered Occlumency with the help of Hermione?"

Harry nodded and said, "Wandless magic is stronger and by using it we were able to learn a lot quicker. By the way I need to tell Hermione about what we discussed after the attack that night."

Albus nodded and said, "Like I said it is for you to decide who to tell it to and who not to. Just so that you know, Sikandar and Sarah already know it so you don't have to worry about telling them that."

Harry nodded and said, "Albus I think that Amelia, Hermione, Ginny, Remus, Tonks, Neville, Michelle Gault, Ming and Luna need to know. Sikandar I don't know if you know but Michelle is a very powerful witch and I think we need to get her into our group of friends to really help."

Sarah nodded and said, "That was one of the reasons why I wanted her to come here from now on. She has been attracting a lot of attention lately because of some of the things that have been happening to her lately. I think that the dark lord was sending feelers around her school in Texas I didn't want to take chances with being here and being able to protect her."

Hermione asked, "What about her parents?"

Sikandar sadly shook his head, "Hermione, I am sorry to say that they were killed in the attack on the WTC last September. They were helping out the evacuation of people from the south tower when it collapsed. They had made it out of the tower but were both killed by falling debris from the tower."

Harry took Hermione in his arms and held her. He looked up at Albus and said, "I am going to ask her to come in here now. I think it is best to have her join this discussion now more than ever."

Albus nodded and Harry called for one of the house elves to escort Michelle into the study. Once Michelle came in, Harry asked her to sit next to Hermione and then he started to talk to Michelle, "Michelle, we called you here for a few reasons. One of them is to say that we are sad to hear what happened to your parents. I remember meeting them when I was young and may they rest in peace. Both Sarah and Sikandar tell us that you have been experiencing some very strong magical surges that have been attracting attention from all sorts of people and the government and we want to help you control that as much as possible. And lastly Hermione and I want you to join our trio of leaders in endeavor with the DA."

Michelle was crying at this point and nodded and said, "Thank you both of you for your sympathy and all regarding my parents. I think I had a better control on my magic before the attack but now I am having a hard time controlling my emotions and all. I would be honored to join the lead group and would also be honored to receive any help from you and Hermione in controlling my powers."

Harry got up and hugged Michelle till she calmed down. The others in the room nodded to themselves in a silent thank god. They all figured that the best person to help her through this was Harry because he has gone through this also.

Once Michelle calmed down Harry brought his chair around to the other side of Michelle while Hermione sat on the opposite. Harry then started to speak, "Michelle we have been discussing a few of the details of the teacher changes this year and a few things that are going to be discussed when we can get the rest of the group of people we want to know here."

Just as he said that Ginny came in with Tonks, Susan, Neville, Ming and Luna. This surprised everyone because they didn't remember Harry asking for them to come.

Harry smiled and said, "I had asked Ginny before she left with the other students to get a hold of Neville and Luna and bring them with Tonks and Susan here right about now."

They smiled and Albus said, "No problem Harry I guess you had this thought out ahead of time. Do you want me to tell them or are you?"

Harry said, "I will tell them. Guys and Gals I asked you to come here because I wanted to let you know of one of the main reasons why Tom has been after me since I was 15 months old. There was a prophecy made about a year before I was born that states:

'The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord of... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies… and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not … and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives … the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies …' (From the Order of the Phoenix)

Now this is the exact prophecy made to the Albus while interviewing a prospective new Divination professor. Now, for those of you that have been to Hogwarts, you only need one guess who it is."

Even though Hermione had already heard the prophecy she was still shaken by it. Michelle hugged her cousin and they both had tears in their eyes. Ginny was the first to come to her senses and said, "I presume that when you say that the current Divination professor is the one that made the prophecy? How certain are you that she had made a proper prediction and that this was not just some hoaxes? I mean that her track record in classes has not been that good. "

Harry nodded and said, "Unfortunately it is a true prediction. Albus has a pensive version of the prediction and he showed it to me back in June. After I saw that I was certain that she was making a true prophecy because this was not the only one she has made. She made one other and that was in our 3rd year at Hogwarts. I can't be sure what it actually said but it in effect predicted that Peter Pettigrew would escape from us after the events in the Shrieking Shack where we were able to determine that Peter was still alive and that Sirius Black, who by the way was my godfather, was innocent of all charges. Anyway let us just say that we were not able to predict the untimely arrival of the full moon and Professor Lupin's monthly change. Hermione and I watched helplessly as Peter escaped and in the prediction he would join up with his old master and bring him back. Peter was there in the graveyard at the end of the tournament that the Cup took me and Cedric to. He was the one that killed Cedric at the order of an disembodied voice that sounded like Tom. Through a ritual that included taking by force my blood and a few other items, Peter was able to revive Tom."

This revelation seemed to surprise some of the people in the study, but not all. Harry took this in stride and continued to say, "It seems that some of you came to that conclusion a while back and this only confirmed what you have already figured out. For some reason, even I had realized that back in my first year. This is one of the reasons why I want to get as many of the Hogwarts students ready to protect their families, especially the muggleborn students, who will undoubtedly be targeted by death eaters during this war."

Amelia started talking, "I think that is a good idea and so does the governors of the school and that is why your group is going to be able to run this year without any concerns about having to hide your meetings. The only thing we request is that you do not teach any unforgivables to the students. Right now, we only teach and allow the Hit Wizards to use these curses."

Harry nodded and said, "I have never liked those curses and would never use them in battle even against Tom Riddle. To be honest I don't think that it will take any magic to kill Tom at all. In my opinion it will be a muggle way like using the Sword of Godric Gryffindor to do so."

Albus nodded and said, "I agree with Harry on this and that is one of the reasons why we are going to have a non-magical defense course available to the students this year."

Amelia nodded and was happy that they were going to be doing something to help get some of the purebloods to realize that the muggles are better at some things then they were.

Michelle spoke up and said, "I agree with Harry about the need to look at other venues of defense other then magic. I have a black belt in 2 martial arts types and am willing to help in the classes too."

Harry nodded and said that he and Hermione would talk to her later about it. Amelia asked about what they were talking about and Harry said, "One of the forms of muggle type defense is martial arts. It is the study of techniques of self defense where one uses their mind and body to take down their opponent. It is an old form of defense that dates back to the Ninjas and their form of training that was in Japan in the late 1800's and towards the beginning of World War II. My sensei that I have been training with this summer will be doing the muggle defense training this year. He is a wizard from Japan. By the way I have achieved mastery in 3 of the styles and am working on finishing my final one by the time school starts."

Hermione nodded and said, "I have achieved mastery of all four styles and will be working with Harry to prepare for the final test to mastery achievement test."

This was a surprise to both Sikandar and Sarah because they didn't know how much their daughter had come in her training. Amelia and Susan were surprised because they didn't think that it was that easy to attain the mastery of three forms much less one.

Harry smiled at the reactions but then realized that some didn't really comprehend just how much time it took for them to learn the arts.

Harry started to explain just how much time it took them to learn, "From the looks that both Amelia and Susan are giving Hermione I better clarify just how much training took place for this to be accomplished. Hermione has been doing this training for the last 5 years at least. Now I am going to say that I have accomplished this in the last few weeks only because I have had the pleasure of being helped along the way by my ancestors."

The shock that was going around the room finally wore off with Amelia when she asked, "Who are your ancestors besides Merlin and Arthur?"

Harry smiled and said, "Hermione and I are the heirs of the founders and Merlin. I am also the heir of Arthur Pendragon and in regards am the Prince to the Magical Kingdom."

Amelia then asked, "Harry I thought your mom was a muggleborn?"

Harry said that his mom came from a line of squibs and it wasn't till her mother that magic in her family resurfaced."

Everyone nodded and Hermione said that through both her parents she was the heir to the founders and Merlin only. It was only at this point that James and Lily made their presence known in one of the portraits in the study.

"Both Harry and Hermione are going to be the main fighters in this war. I just hope that this time it will be a final completion in this war not like the semi one we had last time," said Lily.

Harry and Hermione slumped down in their chairs and just looked at each other. Harry was close to breaking down remembering what had happened last time and this was all it took for Hermione to jump out of her seat and grab Harry into a tight embrace. Harry just broke down and started to sob while holding onto Hermione with all his life. Everyone got up and started to leave the study to leave the two to console each other.

Outside the study Sikandar and Sarah invited Amelia to stay for dinner which she accepted and went off to talk to Susan about her being able to stay till she went back to school in September.

Harry and Hermione finally calmed down and realized that everyone including Harry's parents had left them to release their pent-up emotions. After straightening themselves up and cleaning up the study, they left the room and went to find where the rest of their guests had gone.

It didn't take them long to find them and were not surprised to see most of them watching TV in the lounge and just relaxing. Harry went over to Remus and Amelia and sat with them. Hermione decided to go to her cousin and sat with her and Ginny, who had been sitting on the floor in front of Michelle and was discussing a few things that she was reading in Witch Weekly.

Harry spoke to both Amelia and Remus, "Thanks for giving Hermione and I some time to release our emotions, we needed it."

Amelia said, "We sort of figured that was the case and had thought it was best to leave quietly. Oh, Harry, Susan has asked to stay for the rest of the summer here with you and Hermione and I felt it was safer than her staying at the Manor for the summer alone since I will be busier than ever now that I am the Minister."

Harry nodded and said, "That is fine with me, we will have both Sikandar and Sarah here full time and Remus will be here most of the time minus the time of the month he becomes a furry pet." Harry said the last part a bit cheekily and received a swat on his arm for it from Remus.

Amelia smiled and said, "That reminds me, Remus I will be abolishing the racist laws that Umbridge put in place regarding werewolves and other non-human beings like the goblins and the house-elves on Monday and I will be setting up liaisons to the different groups."

Remus said, "I am glad that we have at least got some roadblocks out of the way regarding any chances of preventing the werewolves from joining the dark lord."

Harry spoke up and said, "Amelia, I think it would be a good idea for someone to go to the Goblins and get their help in this war. My suggestion is that we get them to lock down all known death eater's accounts and if that is too dangerous contact us if they have any visitors for the vaults and we, as in the DMLE, could have people there to arrest them. We could also get them to help guard the death munchers that were caught last month or will be caught in the future."

Amelia and Albus thought about and came to the same conclusion at the same time. Out of embarrassment, Amelia let Albus speak, "That is a great idea and we should approach them as soon as possible."

Amelia nodded and said, "I will get someone on it as soon as possible to get started with opening talks with them in the morning."

Everyone nodded and relaxed until one of the house elves came out and said, "Dinner is ready."

Everyone happily got up and went into the dining room and found that the table had been reduced to a smaller, more informal size then what was there for the formal lunch and conference.

Before everyone ate anything Harry stood up and got everyone's attention by ringing his glass with a spoon. Everyone turned to him and waited for him to talk, "This will be one of the only times I will be making announcements before dinner so don't worry. I just wanted to express my welcome to my house and hope that you enjoy your stay here for the rest of the summer. If there is anything Hermione or I can do for you to make your stay a bit more comfortable, please let us know and we will try to help you as best we can. As I believe I said earlier today, we are in the works of having some computers and a T-1 High speed internet installed to the mansion and should be done within the next few days. There are phone lines in the house already installed and if any of your families would like to get a hold of you at anytime we will get you the numbers they can call to reach you. That being said we will get everything sorted out before the end of the month. We expect the other students that are, I hope, joining us in the additional training to come either on the 31st or on the 1st of August. Let us eat. After dinner can I have all the students that have had experience and training in martial arts to come to the den to discuss a few things?"

After Harry sat down, the elves in their usual dramatic manner sent in the food to the table. In Harry's opinion they out did themselves with the dramatics. Harry turned to Hermione and said, "I think I need to talk to our little friends and insist that they try and cool down on the dramatics."

Hermione nodded and said, "I agree with you on that. It will probably be better if they just have it laid out for everyone by a certain time and we will let them know when at least most of us have eaten so they don't have to keep coming to check on us."

Harry conjured up a pad and pulled out a pen from his pocket and started to make notes on what rules they needed to set up with the elves regarding how things can be done a little less dramatically.

Albus and Minerva saw this and said as one, "Lily and James!" with a smile.

Sikandar nodded and said, "Your right about that. That was one of the reasons why we always thought they made a perfect couple. Even when Hermione and Harry were little they used to think alike."

Minerva continued, "I see it all the time at Hogwarts. I saw past the flippant untruth that Hermione told me their first year on Halloween when the troll attacked her in the girl's toilet. I just didn't want the others to realize that I had lost sight of her before the discovery. I later figured that both Ron and Harry had gone to get her after realizing that she wasn't around to hear about the troll and they wanted to make sure she was out of harm's way before going to the common room because they knew they wouldn't be able to get out of the common room to find her if they went back."

By this time both Harry and Hermione had stopped talking to each other and turned to the adults near them and heard Minerva's comments. Hermione blushed and it was Harry that spoke up for the two of them.

"Minerva there is something I should clear up regarding Ron's involvement in that rescue. The reason why Hermione was there in the first place was because Ron had made some hurtful comments about her while walking back from Charms class and because she had been hoping to make friends in a new school and not be shunned for being a bookworm she broke down and ran for the only place she could get to where we wouldn't find her easily. Now this had its good side and its bad side, one she missed the feast while two she helped stop the troll from getting too far and getting Ron to finally get the Windguardian Leviosa charm right. Anyway the only reason Ron was there that night was because I forced him to come with me to find Hermione. I think that the only reason why Ron finally got the charm right was because if he didn't he felt he would be shunned by the rest of the magical community for letting the Boy-Who-Lived die because he couldn't figure out a first year spell. At the time I was grateful for Hermione for telling you that she was responsible for our being there."

Minerva nodded and said, "To be honest it was a bit weird for an answer seeing as we all didn't see her in the hall the entire time and if I hadn't been more worried about you three being there in the first place I would have caught on more clearly. Well that is the past and now we have a future to look forward to."

The days leading up to Harry's birthday were filled with the kids playing around in the garden and reading in the study. Harry had already started working on the lesson plans for the Defense Against the Dark Arts classes while Hermione was working on reviewing some of the stuff that the DA were going to work on while they were canceled the mansion before the school year started.

Ginny spent most of the time either helping Harry or Hermione since she was like Hermione and had already done her homework for the New Year. Since they didn't know what the school books were for the next year she didn't have anything else to do.

Sikandar and Sarah checked on the teens from time to time to insure that they did have some fun during the summer instead of reading books all day.

One such day came up toward the end of July when Hermione suggested that they go to Diagon Alley for the afternoon. Harry readily agreed and Sikandar and Sarah contacted Remus and Tonks to get some help in escorting the teens to Diagon Alley that afternoon.

Remus and Tonks joined them for lunch where Harry and Hermione spent a part of the time telling them what they had already planned for the next year. They were impressed and said that they would look forward to coming to the meetings and seeing what they are going to do.

After lunch they all got ready to go to the Alley to do some shopping and then into the muggle world to do some electronics and clothes shopping before they return to the mansion.

Albus had arranged for two ministry limos to come and pick them up at the mansion and take them to London. The trip to London took 20 minutes due to the speed that the limos went and their first stop was Diagon Alley. Harry needed to stop at Gringots to get some muggle money and some galleons to shop with. Some of the other students with them also needed to get some money to shop.

Harry, Hermione, Sarah, Sikandar, Ginny, and Michelle approached as a group to one of the tellers that Harry had recognized. He greeted the teller, "Hello Griphook, I would like to access my vault and get some muggle money."

Griphook looked up sharply in surprise at a wizard addressing him by name and said, "How is it that you know who I am sir?"

Harry smiled slightly and said, "I remember you from my first time entering the bank almost 5 years ago. You had taken me and Hagrid down to get some money out of my vault."

Griphook nodded and said, "It is very unusual for a human to remember a goblin name much less recognize one. There is one thing that needs to be addressed before we I can take you down to your vault. The manager of Gringot's here in England, Ragnok, has asked to see you when you come into the bank. Also Mr. Potter, are you aware that you have more than one vault and if so which vault would you like to visit?"

Harry looked at Sikandar who shrugged and said, "We have time to meet with Ragnok and as for the vaults you remember that you inherited the black vault and since you are emancipated you are also able to access your ancestral vaults from both your parents."

Harry nodded and told Griphook he would decide after he met with Ragnok. He also asked if the rest of the group could come to the meeting. Griphook said he would ask the manager when he escorted him to the office.

Griphook got down from his stool and told one of the goblins he was escorting a customer to the manager and motioned the group to follow him. After walking for several minutes down two long corridors they came upon a door that was marked with Ragnok's name and his position as manager.

Griphook asked them to wait outside while he went in to ask the manager if they could all come in. After a minute he came back out and told them that they were all welcome to come in.

They all walked into the office and approached the goblin behind the desk. There were enough seats for all of them to sit down but they stood in respect to the manager till he offered them to sit down.

Harry came forward slightly and bowed while keeping eye contact with the goblin manager in greeting.

Harry greeted the goblin by saying, "Good day Ragnok, I appreciate you allowing my friends to join me in meeting you."

Ragnok stood and bowed back to Harry and said, "Good day Mr. Potter and thank you for agreeing to take time to meet with me in regards to some urgent matters I would like to discuss. I understand that the two oldest persons with you are your godparents and therefore recognize them as part of your family. What I would like to discuss with you isn't of any state secret or something which wasn't already discussed in the will of Mr. Black so there was no need for secure talks. Please all of you have a seat and we can start off by discussing some transactions regarding Mr. Black's will."

Harry and the rest of his group sat down and waited for Ragnok to begin. Ragnok pulled out a large file and put it on his desk. He began speaking, "Mr. Potter, as the primary benefactor and the new head of the Black family you needs to decide on what to do with the Black Family Vault. Also we need to know if you have any idea as to who will be your account manager for both the Potter and Black accounts."

Harry turned to Hermione and quietly discussed an idea about who he wanted to choose and after a bit turned to Ragnok and said, "I would like to have a goblin to be in charge of my accounts and the only one other then you that I have met more than once is Gryphook, he was courteous and straightforward with his information to me and I trust him to be the same in the future."

Ragnok smiled a toothy smile and said, "Gryphook will be pleased to know this. What you do not know is that before your parent's death, Gryphook was your account manager for your family going back to the beginning of the 20th century and was replaced by the ministry without your permission with a human one. I will call for Gryphook and then we can discuss a couple of things that popped up while reviewing your accounts after the death of your godfather."

Ragnok pushed a crystal his desk and another goblin came in the office. The goblin was then presumably told to send Gryphook in as quickly as possible.

It took only a few minutes for Gryphook to return and was told that the Potter family would like that he was to be the account manager for the Potter and Black family accounts again. This brought a smile (toothy one) on Gryphook's face and he then turned to Harry and bowed and said, "Mr. Potter it will be an honor and privilege to handle your accounts again. I was sad at the loss of your parents and grandparents who had been held with great esteem by my fellow bankers over the years and it would seem that your family reputation has not been lost on you and your extended family too. Ms. Durrani, your plights for the welfare of the House elves has been known to the goblin folk for a while and we feel that it will do well that when the public finds out that you are a pureblood instead of a muggle born they may actually take more notice then right now. I am afraid that muggle born students are treated as third class citizens in the wizarding world."

Hermione smiled and nodded and said, "That is what me and Harry plan to get rid of at least on the government level. This pureblood supremacy has gone on for too long and it shows. Purebloods are dwindling down to almost extinction due to the inbreeding in the families and other problems."

Harry spoke up and said, "What we are hoping to do and we have already talked to the new minister about setting up some kind of liaison between the goblin nation and the Ministry for real. I am aware that there was some sort of controlling group that was more menacing then actually helpful for relations between us."

What the goblin did next would cause many in the room to have problems with their jaws, i.e. sitting on the floor. The two goblins burst out laughing and after a minute of calming down they explained their reaction, "Mr. Potter, Ms. Durrani, your impressions of the wizarding world both regarding blood purity and the government's idea of providing a liaison between us and them is spot on if not an understatement. Mr. Potter, you are correct in your description of the officials that are supposed to be the representative of your government is spot on. Just to let you know, until the incarceration of Mr. Malfoy Senior, he was the liaison and you can imagine what kind of actions or talks took place between us. I am aware of a lot of sweeping changes in the government and that is one of the reasons why I wanted to talk to you today or sometime in the near future. I am well aware of your heritage and know that you have a lot of political pull in the government and hope that we can implement a lot of changes immediately. The first thing that I really want to talk to you about is the condition of your accounts and what the ministry has been doing to them."

Ragnok handed Harry a folder and kept another one for him to look at. He opened the folder and motioned for Harry to do the same thing. The top page showed the balances liquidity and assets like businesses, residences and stocks (muggle and wizard). Also there was a balance of loans that totaled more the 10 million galleons. Harry looked up after passing it too Sikandar and Sarah and said, "Ragnok, who were those loans made to?"

Before Ragnok could answer him, Sikandar started to growl and was about to stand up if it wasn't for Sarah holding him down. Harry and the rest of the group turned to him expecting an explanation for his agitation.

Sikandar spoke and said, "Harry I think we need to talk to Amelia immediately. It would seem that you have been paying for Malfoy and some of the other death eaters that you caught back in June in the ministry being held in prison. Ragnok, correct me if I am wrong but isn't that usually paid by the families of the prisoners and not by victims?"

Ragnok nodded and said, "That is one of the many discrepancies that I wanted to talk to you about regarding your account. The other is the amount of non-interest bearing loans that have been made to a number of small corporations whose parent company is TR and Associates. It is required by both magical and muggle law that any corporation has to have a public file of all its executives and investors and so forth. We found that the head of the TR and Associates is…"

Before Ragnok could finish Harry did it for him, "Tom Marvalo Riddle right?"

Ragnok nodded and asked, "Do you know who that is by the way?"

Harry nodded and said, "The snake head himself, I bet that the whole thing is being setup by Malfoy himself."

Ragnok nodded and said, "That is correct and what concerns me the most is that until we executed the Black will these transactions were still being done by Malfoy and correct me if I am wrong isn't he still in prison?"

Harry and Sikandar nodded and Sikandar said, "Ragnok I want you to call in all the notes that are not to the ministry itself and we will get back to you on the ministry loans as soon as we get in contact with Madame Bones."

Harry nodded and said, "I agree with Sikandar, hold off the ministry loans till we have an idea on what is going on there. Also stop all payments for the death eaters incarceration. Also can you try and get a message to Draco and his mother. As the head of the Black family I would like to meet with them and see where they stand regarding everything."

Ragnok nodded and Gryphook started making notes of what was being requested. He then asked, "At this point is there anything else you would like to happen before you leave regarding the rest of your holdings?"

Harry went back to look at the folder that Sikandar was looking at and found something that piqued his interest. He showed it to Hermione and she nodded in agreement about that so he turned to Ragnok and said, "The stocks that I have in the Daily Prophet, does that give me a majority ownership in it?"

Ragnok nodded and said, "That is correct Mr. Potter it does. What did you have in mind regarding it?"

Hermione spoke up and asked, "Is this our copy to keep regarding the files or can you just copy these papers showing his ownership in the Daily Prophet?"

Ragnok said, "The file is a copy of the originals that we have here, you may take the whole thing."

Harry nodded and said, "Then in regards to that we will deal with the miscreant that calls itself a newspaper after we leave here. Ragnok is there any way of getting a passport and other photo id's that we can use in future travels and so forth. Also do you have a Credit Card/debit card available here at Gringotts?"

Gryphook opened a box that was on the director's desk and pulled out what looked like a muggle wallet and a passport and handed it to Harry. He then said, "If you still want to go down to your vaults we can get the Credit card setup for you so that it will be ready for you to take with you when you leave. It will work in both the muggle world and the wizarding world."

Harry opened the wallet and found a drivers license with the Potter Manor address on it and an EU ID Card for him to use when going around Europe. He opened the passport that was from the UK and saw that it was valid for 5 years. He put the wallet in the back pocket of his muggle clothes and put the passport in his backpack that he was carrying. He then turned to Gryphook and Ragnok and said, "I do not have any questions regarding my accounts at this point. I think that we can forgo going down to the vaults till another day since I have means to pay for my purchases without going down to the vaults. Why don't we go ahead and discuss the other matter you wanted to talk about Ragnok."

Ragnok nodded and turned to Gryphook and told him to go ahead and setup the credit card for Harry. Harry interrupted and said to setup one for Hermione, Ginny and Michelle also. Gryphook nodded and left the room. The girls started to try and dissuade Harry from doing this but Harry wouldn't have any of it and turned back to Ragnok so that he could start the next bit of business.

Ragnok stood up and went to a file cabinet behind his desk and pulled out two medallions and took his seat again. He then turned to Harry and Hermione and said, "Mr. Potter, Ms. Durrani, both of your ancestors have been goblin friends since we have been fully active in the wizarding world and in some cases even longer. The goblin council of nations would like to extend the titles and privileges to both of you. They have also authorized me to make my own decision regarding any of your companions. Mr. and Mrs. Durrani and Mr. Lupin are also goblin friends from long before for their help in the last war in defending the bank from death eater attacks. I understand from my sources in the wizarding world that you are forming up and international coalition against the dark lord and we here at Gringots would like to work with you in the war. No offense to Professor Dumbledore but we feel that allying with his group will not bring a effective end to the conflict as would allying with your group."

Harry and Hermione both looked at each other then turned to Michelle and Ginny and talked to them for a bit. Harry turned to Ragnok and asked, "Ragnok there is one other member of the senior council that isn't here that I would like to come in so that we can talk with all representatives in full about this. I personally think this would be a very profitable and ideal proposition for an alliance between our nations. Ming Chen is waiting outside in the lobby for us to come back. She was chosen by her fellow European members to represent the European and Asian continent because of her heritage on the senior council. I think having her here would be a great help in this."

Ragnok nodded and before he could send someone to get her, Harry said he would instead since he knew where they were waiting. Harry left the room with a goblin following him to make sure he knew where he was going. Harry had memorized the way from the lobby so he was able to retrace with only a few mishaps that were corrected by his companion and made to the lobby. He asked Ming to join him and told the rest that they might as well do some shopping because they would be a while. He would meet them in an hour at the ice cream shop. If it will take longer someone will come let them know.

Harry and Ming followed the goblin that came with Harry back to the manager's office to find another chair by Ginny. Ming sat there while Harry sat next to Hermione. Harry asked if Ragnok wanted him to explain what was going on or did he. Ragnok said he could so Harry explained only the details of Goblin Friend status and the possible alliance of the council of nations to the group. He then explained that she was representing the European and Asian contingent in the group he wanted her here to work out the details and agree if necessary. After getting Ming caught up on what had happened so far he turned to Ragnok and let him continue what he wanted to do.

Ragnok started speaking after seeing all eyes were now on him, "As Mr. Potter has explained we goblins were burned by the dark lord last war and vowed to not repeat ourselves this time. In the intervening years the wizarding government here in England has not been too appreciative to what we provide for them and act like they are doing us a favor by letting us still exist this long. Mr. Potter and Ms. Durrani and their families have had a long history of being supportive of the goblins. In Mr. Potter's family seats on the Wizengott case this support died after his parent's death, pardon the pun. Mr. Malfoy and Fudge had corralled all the Potter and Evan's votes, which added together is the highest number for one family to have right now on the Wizengott and this was before Harry assumed the Black family headship. Unfortunately, Harry you will not be able to take control over the seats until after your 16th birthday next week. By accepting the inheritance from your godfather and parents you have at least suspended until you are 16. Now Mr. Potter the one thing we Goblins are really interested in is a new peace agreement and/or at least some new laws that will grant equal representation in the Wizengott. I am presuming that if this is done for us it would also have to be allowed for other magical creatures like werewolves and vampires."

Michelle turned to Sikandar and said, "Does this remind you of past history?"

Sikandar nodded and said, "The English monarch at the time was extremely stupid enough to be arrogant and say yes to something as big as this as a stalling mechanism to the colonies of the US and later of India. In India's case the distance between the colonies prevented more bloodshed because of the time needed and the war that occurred at the time."

Harry was lost to the conversation being played out between the two but was able conceive the basic premise and turned to Ragnok and said, "I am not at liberty to speak on behalf of the ministry even though I am more or less the crown prince to the magical world. I would need to talk to them and further talk to the muggle Queen because she would also have to agree to this in general. I have no reason not to agree since you should have a voting right to decide on issues that affect your business interests and your goblin nations in general. Only an arrogant person would be stupid enough to believe that his species is above others."

Everyone sighed in relief to see that they were not dealing with a totally naïve person in Harry. Sikandar turned to Harry and said, "I think it would be wise to talk to the Queen and her family with the minister of magic and Prime Minister present so that there are basically a sound agreement in all parties. Maybe we can setup a meeting in the mansion or otherwise."

Harry nodded and said, "We can set it up through Madame Bones and see where that goes. Ragnok if there isn't anything else we will be in touch after we talk to all who are concerned."

Ragnok nodded and said, "That would be no problem. We were not expecting you come this early to the bank so an answer is not needed urgently. But please think about previous history of both worlds when it comes to matters like this in making such decisions."

They all stood up and Harry and Hermione shook Ragnok's hand and said that they would get in touch. Gryphook came back in and gave Harry the cards that he wanted for his vaults. Harry gave Ginny, Michelle and Hermione their cards and kept his in his wallet. He turned to Ragnok and Gryphook and bowed respectfully and said, "May your gold and wealth flow freely in your favor. Good day gentlemen."

With that Harry turned to the rest of the group and followed them out of the office leaving two bewildered goblins in their wake. Gryphook nodded to Ragnok and said, "I believe that we have made the correct choice in Mr. Potter and will see many changes being made in goblin/wizard relations in the near future."

Ragnok nodded and said, "Very true my prince. When are you going to let them know your true identity?"

Gryphook sighed and said, "In good time, I think it would be prudent to wait and see how much pull Mr. Potter can make without playing that hand in the mix. I am quite sure that when he informs the Queen about who he is actually speaking with and who he has managing his accounts then she will be apprehensive on just how influential he is. With no doubt things are going to get very interesting around the UK for now."