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Chapter 4

The Ministry is Full of Idiots

As the end of the summer drew near, Mrs. Weasley's agitation with Harri and Fleur grew more intense. She couldn't stop Fleur and Bill from spending time together. They both worked in the same building, but that didn't mean she didn't vocally tell her son that he was making a mistake getting involved with Fleur. Her eldest would brush off her scathing comments and defend Fleur instead, much to her distain.

She was constantly trying to separate Harri and George, who were rarely seen apart. She hated Harri even more because she encouraged the twins pranks.

It was the morning before they went back to school when Mrs. Weasley was finally pushed over the edge.

Harri, Hermione, Cedric, Draco, Fred and George were all sitting at the table in the kitchen of Grimmauld Place. The twins had decided earlier in the summer that Cedric was alright. Cedric had given them half of his winnings from the Tri-Wizard Tournament for their joke shop. Harri had given them all of her winnings. She knew the twins needed the money and she and Cedric didn't want to the money from that stupid game. The minister gave it to them to shut them up. He figured he could bribe them with money to get them to stop talking about Voldemort.

As the teens were talking they were discussing what they wanted to do after Hogwarts, something Mrs. Weasley wanted to know. Harri watched her cooking slow down and her head turn slightly to listen in. Harri knew that Mrs. Weasley was hoping that Hermione, Draco and Cedric would steer them in the right direction for jobs. She didn't have any faith in Harri, "considering who she was raised by."

"I'm going to try to become an Auror when I graduate, but I don't think the ministry is going to let me..." Cedric said sadly, head lying on the table and hands spread out in front of him in despair. Hermione put her hand on top of his and gave it a reassuring squeeze.

"Cedric, they'd be stupid to reject the head of Hogwarts' graduating class at the Auror Academy," Hermione said soothingly, but the seventh year only groaned.

"What do you want to do when you graduate Hogwarts, Hermione?" Draco asked, changing the subject, it was obvious that Cedric wouldn't want to talk about his lack of job options.

Hermione, blinked surprised at the prospect of job opportunities in the future. "I want to work for the rights of magical creatures! So many of them are treated cruelly for something they can't control!" she stated passionately.

"Amen to that!" Harri said in reply lifting an imaginary glass up to her friend. The magical community consider Veela human and have just about equal rights as the average witch and wizard, but Remus, who wasn't even born as a werewolf is considered subhuman...it disgusted Harri to no end. "So, Draco, do you have plans after Hogwarts?"

"I was planning on getting a Mastery in Potions. Sev says that I have the talent for it," Draco admitted shyly. He didn't talk about his godfather very often when other people were in the room, since not too many of his students liked him.

They joked for a few minutes after that, like teenagers should. Then they got back to talking about jobs. The next two down the table were Fred and George.

"We all know what the twins want to do when they graduate, but what do you want to do, Harri?" Cedric questioned the emerald eyed girl and she grinned.

"I was thinking about a Curse Breaker or an Unspeakable. I really good at Ancient Runes, Defense and Transfigurations, which would be good for either job. The only perk of an Unspeakable is that they work with the ministry mostly, so I won't be far from home. I'm still trying to figure it out," Harri admitted with a shrug.

"And where do you plan your home to be, Harriet?" Mrs. Weasley asked as she brought the food over to the table. This was obviously a test and that brought a devilish grin to her face.

"Well, I was planning on living in Diagon Alley not to far from a joke shop owned by Fred and George," she replied innocently.

"You better not be living with said jokester," a voice from the doorway said. Everyone in the room jumped to see Sirius leaning against the door frame, his grey eyes dancing mischievously.

Mrs. Weasley turned red at this. "Sirius, I don't see how you can condone that kind of behavior! What kind of lessons are you teaching her?" she shrieked.

"Not to live with your son for the sake of her innocence?" he answered unsure of what she was referring to.

Mrs. Weasley puffed herself up and approached him, much to Harri's annoyance. "How can you let her talk to my children like they have a chance of opening a joke shop? They should be getting respectable jobs at the ministry!" she shouted, raising her arms in aggravation.

"Molly, it's the boys' dream and opening a business is a very respectable thing to do and Harri should support her...boyfriend...in what he wants to do," he told her gritting out the word boyfriend. Harri rolled her eyes. He really did like George, but he was very overprotective.

By the time the words left his mouth most of the other occupants of the house had gathered by the doorway, which consisted of Ginny, Ron, Mr. Weasley, Remus, Tonks, Bill, Fleur, Moody, Snape, and Kingsley. Some of them were just here for the time being, since they had to get to work, but they all came to watch the show down between Sirius Black and Molly Weasley.

"Sirius, how can you approve of your charge entering a serious relationship at such a young age?" she asked, getting to the route of the discussion. She was trying to get Sirius to break Harri and George up, instead of doing it herself. She didn't want her son to be mad at her.

"Molly, Harri is a responsible girl. I don't like that she's dating. I would prefer that she wait till she's in her fifties to date and even then it might be too soon, but she found someone who she can confide in and I'm not going to break that up. I'm honestly glad that she won't be rejected for years like her father was. It's a nice change of pace to watch a Potter find a relationship quickly," Sirius answered and Harri smiled at him, giving him a thumbs up, but Molly smirked. That was obviously not the correct answer. Harri frowned, what was wrong with what her godfather had said?

She gave an almost haughty laugh before continuing. "She isn't James, Sirius. Stop treating her like your dead best friend," she told him in a superior tone.

Harri could see Sirius tense up, Remus was being held back by Tonks, who looked murderous. "What do you mean I treat her like James?" he growled, almost sounding feral.

"Do you see how she's dressed? She's like a cross between you and James! You haven't been raising her right?" She told him sternly.

Harri looked down at her clothes. She was wearing tight ripped jeans and a tight fitting grey shirt with a graphic design on it, her basilisk fang necklace falling to the center of shirt. What was wrong with what she was wearing?

"There isn't anything wrong with the way she dresses, Molly," Tonks said from the doorway. Tonks had helped Harri pick out the majority of her clothes after all.

Sirius was about to say something when Harri cleared her throat, gaining the attention of everyone in the room. Her eyes were flashing green and a few magic sparks were given off as she stood up and slammed her hand down on the table.

Her hair started to change to dark shade of red, making her look more like her mother. "The only reason I look like my father is because my hair got cut off in a fight with a Death Eater! I dress the way I like to! It's nothing extreme! You have no right to tell Sirius how he should raise me! I'm one of the top in my class at Hogwarts and have saved the life of your children! So, how dare you, a woman who doesn't let her children do what they want with their talents, tell my godfather how to raise me!" she shouted.

Mrs. Weasley looked shocked, turning red and then very pale. "This is what I'm talking about, Sirius. Are you going to let her talk to her elders like that?" she asked him, insulted.

Sirius grinned and walked over to Harri and hugged her, which Harri returned gladly. "You bet I'm going to let her speak her mind. As long as the person deserves to be spoken to that way!"

"I don't want my son associating with a girl like you!" she hissed and George stood up angrily.

"Mum, you have no say in who I can and can't date! I'm of age!" he told her, blue eyes icy.

Mrs. Weasley was about to retaliate, but Mr. Weasley put a hand on her shoulder. "Molly, that's enough."

Harri avoided Mrs. Weasley as much as possible during her final day in the house. She spent her time packing her trunk and talking to her friends.

When they all got onto the train Hermione, Cedric and Draco all went to the prefects meeting. Harri, Fred and George decided to lounge in their usual compartment and discuss the joke shop. Fred was sitting on one side of the compartment and Harri was sitting on the other with George laying down across her lap.

The twins had found a shop in Diagon Alley with a flat above it and were getting close to having enough products to open and sell things at their store. She was honestly surprised that they came back for their last year.

"So, while Hermione isn't here, what products are you planning on testing this year?" she asked curiously.

"That's a secret. You won't know until you see it," George said with a wink. Harri sighed, she tried. The twins were being very secretive of their new products. They had sworn Draco to secrecy on the products he was helping them develop.

Fred left a few minutes later claiming he had to find Lee, but George and Harri knew he was going to look for Angelina. This left them sometime for themselves. Harri was absentmindedly playing with George's hair. The seventh year dozed on and off as the train ride continued.

"I can't believe that you stood up to your mum like that," Harri said, breaking the silence and waking George up slightly.

"My mum is being ridiculous. You're the best daughter-in-law she could ask for," George replied with a smile as he grabbed Harri's hand and kissed it.

The fifth year leaned down to kiss him, but right before their lips met the compartment door flew open and Draco, Neville, Wendi, Hermione and Cedric came piling in, followed by Luna who seemed slightly out of place. Harri and George glared at their friends, but they didn't even seem fazed.

"Was the prefects meeting so boring that you had to run back to us?" George questioned, sitting up to make room for their friends.

"No, but we figured that we could interrupt you, so we came as fast as possible," Draco answered with a smirk. George flipped him off and put his head on Harri's shoulder.

"I'm guessing that you and Fred were up late making products?" Hermione asked, watching the exhausted Weasley twin before her. He nodded and snuggled back up to Harri.

"So, who are all the new prefects?" Harri asked after George went to sleep.

"Blaise and Daphne are the prefects for Slytherin, Hannah and Justin for Hufflepuff, Draco and Padma for Ravenclaw and then me and Neville for Gryffindor. Not bad choices," Hermione answered and Harri then turned to Neville and congratulated him. Neville had grown a lot over the summer. He was growing out his awkward stage and becoming a very handsome young wizard. Wendi was sitting rather close to him and Harri wondered if something was going on between them.

"Oh, Harri, Hermione, Wendi, I was told to talk to you. Professor Flitwick has decided that the bullying was out of hand last year by the girls in my house, so he's decided to move me. McGonagall offered to room me in Gryffindor Tower...would you mind if I roomed with you? Otherwise, I'll be in the Hufflepuff dorms and the girls there don't like me very much," Luna asked shyly.

Harri didn't even need to ask her roommates to know that they would be more than willing to let Luna room with them to keep her safe. "Luna, you are more than welcome to room with us," Harri told her and Luna smiled brightly. It was obvious that she had never roomed with anyone that was friendly to her.

Before the group knew it they were at Hogwarts and were taken to the Great Hall. Sirius and Tonks were sitting next to each other at the Professors table. Tonks' hair was bright pink to show her happy mood and Harri was excited for them. On the opposite side of the table was a woman dressed all in a pale pink, that seemed rather boring with Tonks' hair in the room. She also resembled a toad. Harri didn't like her and she could feel the pink toad glaring at her from the table.

The regular professors were there as well. Snape was glaring at Sirius, but the Marauder only gave a cheeky wave back. McGonagall looked to be at her wits end and Flitwick was pretending that nothing was going on. Hagrid was missing from the teacher's table, but she figured that he was away for the Order. Dumbledore was seated in the middle pretending that everything was going swimmingly and he wasn't going to regret hiring Sirius.

After the sorting Dumbledore stood up to announce the new teachers. "Let me introduce this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts Professors. Professor Sirius Black, will be teaching forth to seventh year students, while Professor Nymphadora Tonks will be teaching first through third. Both of them were respected Aurors-" a slight cough could be heard from the pink toad and Harri's eyes narrowed.

"Ah, yes, the ministry is going to be evaluating our teachers this year. The woman dressed in pink is Dolores Umbridge," Dumbledore introduced and the woman looked over to the Gryffindor table haughtily.

She then gave a fifteen minute speech on how the ministry was going to be taking an active role in trying to shape Hogwarts students into model citizens. She said that ministry was going to tighten their leash and stop any disgusting rumors that were going around. Any attempts to try to fight the new system would result in immediate punishment.

"Challenge accepted," Harri murmured. This year was going to be fun.

Alright, for everyone who wants to know what happened to Harriet Potter: The Marauder's Heir, this is a small message for you: I DID NOT REMOVE IT BY CHOICE! Fanfiction took it down saying I'm using music lyrics in it that I don't own. I don't know where they found lyrics, but I'd like to know! I don't use songs in what I write so it should not have been taken down. I don't think that I'm ever going to get it back. I'm uploading all the old chapters to wattpad! I'm using the same user name, so it's easy to find me.

Okay, now, back to the current story! Umbridge isn't going to know what hit her when Harri gets through with her! I'm glad that everyone enjoyed me killing off Skeeter. I figured that you guys would like it.

Anyway, thank you for the reviews! It was great to see that so many people enjoyed the chapter! I was also told that my hints are too subtle and I should make them more obvious. Well, go back to the last chapter and pay attention to Snape. (there a very obvious hint, kind of.) Snape is my hint master. He holds all the hints to the sixth book. If he's speaking he might be giving you a glimpse into the future… or he might not, depends on my

So, the goal for Tuesday is 44, not too bad. Let's do some Horcrux counting. How many Horcruxes have been destroyed? Leave a review with the number! Remember there can't be more than or equal to seven destroyed, yet. And here's a hint…there's more than one that has been destroyed. =)

~Animerocker

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