Chapter 3: Plans
Harry turned back to his best friends as soon as the letters had gone. "Right, we have three hours till we need to deal with everyone. We need to have a plan and a department in place by that time." Harry rand a hand through his mess, black hair. He tried to think of a plan. He sat at his desk and pulled out a new piece of parchment. He began to sketch a plan out on the parchment. "I need ideas. You two and I are the heads. The auror department currently has no missions. In fact everyone is just sitting in their offices doing who knows what. We can turn the auror department into the resurrections department for now." He wrote this idea down as Ron and Hermione nodded. Then he said "Second, What are we going to do once the people are awake? How's it going to work? What about wands? How are they going to find out about their deaths?" Hermione and Ron stayed silent as Harry rambled off all the questions that popped into his head. He wrote each down in it's own section. That way when they had the answers they wouldn't have to rewrite anything.
They took turns answering. First Ron and then Hermione. After the war, Ron was a lot more rational and thought things through. It was why he was such a high ranking auror. Hermione had finally been able to drill the need of planning in both Harry and Ron. "Well, we'll bring them to the Ministry. Set up an office. One of use will fill out a form with all their vital information." Harry scribbled it down. Within seconds of him finishing, Hermione was answering the next question. "We can release them after that. We can give them addresses to family or housing. If we know them, maybe we can have a part in that." Hermione knew that both Ron and Harry wouldn't be able to just act professionally around their loved ones. He wrote it down while Ron thought about an answer for the next question. When he had one, Harry was looking up and waiting. " I'll owl Ollivander's when we finish here. Inform he'll have a lot of wands to make and customers. Although, some of us still have their wands." Harry nodded. He knew what Ron was talking about. But some people's wands, like Sirius', were long gone or lost. Ron continued " We'll have then check first." This was written down while Hermione came up with an idea for the next problem. Slowly she began " After we're positive no one else is going to pop up, we can have a class for them. Tell them about the war. I'll teach." Harry smirked. Hermione always wanted to be a professor. But, after the events of the war, she was needed in the auror department. She had decided to stay after that.
Harry finished the rest of the plan. He decided that assign one auror per two people. As soon as they received their post, then they'd head out to the location and bring the people back. Harry hoped this would work as smoothly as it seemed to in his head. One by one, as the deceased came to the Ministry, Harry, Ron, and Hermione would write down the vital information from each person. He decided they should make sure who they said they were. He guessed he needed to go get a lot of Veritaserum. He made a note of it on the side of the plan and nodded at his friends with a smile.
"Okay. This might just work. Thanks guys. I owe you one." Ron and Hermione smirked at Harry. After all these years they had gotten used to Harry saying that. He owed them a lot, but they never brought it up. Harry continued "I will go inform the aurors they'll be a meeting soon. The meeting should last half an hour. That means we have a little over an hour after that to set everything up. " He looked up from his parchment and said "Can you make some forms and tons of copies?" Hermione and Ron nodded quickly. She followed it up by saying "We'll have them done by the meeting." He smiled at them in thanks and left the office.
The aurors all worked in a large office on the second floor. The head auror's office was down the hallway from the rest of the auror offices. Harry walked down the hallway and pushed open the door. He walked in, all of the aurors looked up at him. The secretary quickly walked to him and asked "Mr. Potter, How may we help you?" Harry smiled at her kindly and addressed the entire room. We're having a meeting in fifteen minutes. This is of utter important. If you miss it, don't feel the need to ask anyone about it." Not only was this very important, but he didn't want to word out, not until this whole ordeal was over. With that he turned, and with a swish of his robes he left.
He went back to his office and Ron and Hermione still there. They were bent over a piece of parchment. He went over to them. Both Ron and Hermione had become very in tuned to Harry's footsteps over the years. Hermione looked up and said "Harry, we've just finished. We'll go copy them." Harry nodded. "Thanks again. Try to be back by the meeting. I've decided when this is all over we're taking a massive vacation." They smiled and said "We'd deserve it." Then the two were off.
Harry smiled in their wake. He checked his watch, it was the same one Mrs. Weasley had given him many years ago. He only had ten minutes to get to the meeting room. He grabbed the plan, that was still sitting on the desk, and walked down the long hallway to the auror department meeting room. For everything for the department to be on the same floor, the hallway was very long. A few minutes later, he arrived in the meeting room. He opened the door and made his way to the front. He set the plan on the ambo. He stood back and waited for his aurors to come. Soon, the began to file in in groups of three of four. When the fifteen minutes had passed, he took note of each person there. Every auror had made an appearance. Even the ones that didn't usually come to meeting. Everyone was there except Ron and Hermione. He suspected everyone thought they'd be hearing some sort of gossip. As for Ron and Hermione, they were probably still copying the forms. He tried not to let his lateness worry him. But, it still did.
He took a step forward and began to speak. He had already come up with a speech and now it was time for it. "Thank You all for coming. An hour or so ago, the alarms in the Death Room went off. I was informed about it after the fact. However, a few minutes prior I found Sirius Black in the lobby. They all gasped and whispering could be heard in the audience. Harry, however, ignored them and kept talking. Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted Ron and Hermione, quickly enter and take a seat at the back. He breathed a breath, he didn't know he had been holding and continued with his speech. "One of the Unspeakables then came to alert me to the alarms. She informed me that the levels of magic were much greater than they should be for a single person coming back. We checked. Everyone died in the First or Second Wizarding Wars is back." They gasped again.
This time they stayed silent. Harry smiled ever so slightly and continued. "We have set up a plan to get the returnees and let them start their lives again. You will go to them and bring them back to the Ministry. I, Mr. Weasley and Mrs. Weasley will collect all their vital information, inform them about housing, wands, and their families. When this all blows over we will be holding a class for them. Mrs. Weasley will be teaching. Please come to the front the receive your assignment.
All the aurors stood and filed in a line to Harry. They all received a piece of parchment with two names and a location on it. Once they each received their assignment, they left the room, and cracks from disaperation could be heard. When all the aurors had left, there was still one piece of parchment left. Harry looked at it, he was about to call an auror back to do it or leave it for when someone arrived. But, he looked at the names and realized he wanted to do it himself.. He called to Ron and Hermione. "Guys, there's one left and we're doing it. They quickly walked down to wear he stood and Hermione asked "Why us, can't you just call one of the aurors back to do it?" Harry shook his head. He was still staring at the names. Hermione ripped the piece of parchment out of his hand when he wouldn't answer her. She read it and gasped. Because, on that piece of parchment the names James and Lily Potter could be read along with the location Godric's Hollow.
AN: Thanks for reading! If you have the ability can you review, thanks! This chapter wasn't that hard to write. It seems rather basic to me. You should be looking forward to the next chapters. There going to be of Lily and James, Tonks and Lupin, Fred and Dobby. I look forward to reading your reviews! Oh, I'm going on a trip until Sunday. I plan on writing a chapter each day. But, I have no way to submit them. So expect a couple of chapters by Monday afternoon.