Chapter Four: Face-offs:
Harry walked from the bank sword in right hand, wand in the other and saw Voldemort there with his followers. Voldemort was clad in fine robes of black silk and velvet with a black velvet cap over his bald head, similar to the kind doctors wore in the middle ages. He was very pale, so pale he made Harry look tanned (which was impressive as Harry was a pale young man from his time in Azkaban) and what with his lack of nose, small lips and very thin frame he looked skeletal. Harry had spoken to the goblins and in short order they had gone and found the Horcruxes and brought them to the bank. Part of the fun Harry had had was destroying them and he was sure Voldemort felt something, which was why he was here.
"Hello Tom." Harry said calmly, "what do you want?"
"You boy." Voldemort said," you and me, a duel to the death."
"Well that I can do, thought you were here for something baser, I must tell you I don't swing that way, and really Tom going after a boy is really creepy if you think about it. I mean are you a pedophile Tom? That would explain your fascination with me."
"How dare you boy!" Bellatrix shrieked.
"Oh right I forgot your bitch here doesn't like to share you ." Harry said, "though that thought of you two, wow ewe. Oh and before I forget, Severus Snape come here!"
"You cannot order him he is mine!" Voldemort snapped.
"Er no, Severus, come, you belong with me not old men who cannot get it up so bring the world to war." Many in the crowd gasped at what Harry said about not only Voldemort but Dumbledore.
"Smooth Potter, you really know how to upset people." Severus said by his side.
"Yea well, okay Tommy boy, you get the first shot!" Harry said, "then I get the next one, deal?"
"Very well deal, you will die today Potter!" Voldemort snarled.
"I don't get up you take his head alright Severus?" Harry asked a very pale Severus Snape.
Severus nodded, he could do no more as he had to let Harry face his destiny. He had screamed and ranted and begged and cried when Harry told him what he was and Harry had forced him to promise to let him do what he must. For those like his mother and father, he had to do this and had to let Voldemort do his best to kill him. If he did then he did and if Harry said he was not scared he would be lying, he was very scared. He did not say so of course, instead he walked up to face Voldemort and gave a mocking bow. Voldemort raised his wand and as predicted sent the killing curse at Harry. Most people were stunned when Harry did not duck but let the curse hit him. Voldemort got out of the way of the backlash and laughed as Harry fell to the ground. He stopped laughing when Harry stirred and slowly got to his feet.
"Wow that hurts like a bitch!" Harry said getting up, "my turn!"
"You cheated!" Voldemort snarled.
"Ah no, did I set up a shield?" Harry said to the crowd, "no and so this one is mine!"
Harry raised his wand and used Sectumsempra with a lot of extra power behind it, he got the dark lord in the throat but the spell was so powerful it went through Voldemort's neck and took his head off. Harry was not done, with his sword he turned and sliced Bellatrix's legs from under her and then took her arms and last her head. He was on his fourth death eater when they realized they were all dead and turned to try and get away from him. Harry had no mercy for these fiends, he cut his way through them and left fifty dead before he was joined by goblins, wizards and witches to cut down the rest. The battle was bloody, violent and short. In the end of the thousand death eaters here only fifty remained alive and of those fifty only ten could still stand as they had surrendered before the battle started.
"I want the prisoners healed and interrogated quickly." Harry said to Griphook by him, "if you could get them out of here before the ministry gets them please?"
"Of course my lord." Griphook said bowing.
"Ah Harry good to see you here on this fine day!" Fred Weasley said walking up his sword in hand, he clapped a hand on Harry's shoulder after he used a death eater's cloak to wipe the blood off his sword.
"Indeed, your comeback is such a smashing success!" George added putting a hand on Harry's other shoulder. "Love what you did with the décor!"
"I am not sure it really suits the alley, I don't think everyone likes it." Harry said looking at the pale shocked faces of the witches and wizards here. "Oh well, guess we should clean up."
"Indeed dear brother indeed we should." Fred said.
"Let's get to it then." George replied.
The dead were moved out of Diagon alley and to an empty muggle warehouse. Here the bodies were put in stasis so that the families could come and claim the dead to bury them. There was no need to take revenge on the dead as it did no good but cause bad relations among the survivors. Harry wanted justice not revenge and he had got it, mostly. There were a handful of death eaters that had got away and he would go after them later. However today he would rest and see what the next day would bring him, with that resolve he headed back to Grimmauld place to rest up and heal from the battle he had just endured.
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Two days later Harry entered the ministry for the first time in over three years. This time he was free and under the protection of both the goblin people and the queen herself. If Fudge tried to arrest him he was in for a very real shock. With that in mind Harry headed down to courtroom number nine where he had been drug so many years before and convicted of a crime he had not committed. He was clad in his battle gear and robes and with sword at his side and his goblin guards walked with him into the courtroom. He saw the same chair he had been bound in and with a wave of his wand it was gone and a simple golden chair was in its place, he took a seat and looked up at the judge's bench nearly sneering at who he saw.
Albus Dumbledore sat as the head judge with Deloris Umbridge on one side and Rufus Scrimgeour, a decent man who really needed to know that some of his Auror's were monsters. Umbridge looked much the same, a toad-like woman who had helped set Harry up, he was going to have fun taking her down. Scrimgeour was a tall strong fellow with a lion-like face with grizzled tawny hair, yellow eyes behind small round glasses. Like the other members of the Wizengamot he was clad in robes and cap of plum color. Harry saw Ted Tonks come into the courtroom clad in the lawyer robes of black trimmed in red with matching black cap. He stood by Harry and gave his shoulder a light squeeze, he had done his best to defend Harry before but half of his evidence and his demand for Veritaserum were shot down.
"I would like to call this hearing to order." Dumbledore said rapping his gavel.
"I object!" Ted called out, "this hearing should not be run by those who allowed the unlawful imprisonment of my client."
"We did all we could at the time for Mr. Potter." Umbridge said.
"You did not, I have the transcripts, as for you my dear lady I call for your arrest in helping one Peter Pettigrew escape justice in this very courtroom, you knew he was an Animagmus and saw him in this courtroom and did nothing to alert the Aurors when he was found!"
"I did nothing of the sort!" Umbridge said.
"Would you be willing to state that under Veritaserum?"
Umbridge was at a loss for words, and she refused, she was led away to await her trial later. Next Dumbledore was asked to step down as he had conflicting interests in this case. Harry knew he would walk away free one way or another, so he sat back and let Ted do his work. Ted really knew his stuff and when he was allowed to do his job he not only got Harry off of any charges on killing Voldemort and the death eaters he was able to get quite a few things done that day. The one thing that made him smile a vindictive smile was the best, he had waited for this for a long time and he was going to have fun seeing the looks on the faces of his so called "friends" when they found he was not about to forgive them. Him sending hexes back to them with their letters had not deterred them but this would, they would learn never to mess with him again.
"Lord Potter I cannot express my personal regret enough on how you were treated." Scrimgeour said, "if there is anything I can do for you just say the word."
"Well, Mr. Tonks here has a list of Aurors who violated their duties in torturing me in Azkaban, I want to press charges against them. There are in addition three people I want to get a restraining order against, I do not want them able to visit me, contact me via letter, phone, telegraph, house elf, other being, animal, floo or any other means I have not stated here."
"Who are these three?" Scrimgeour said.
"Ronald Bilius Weasley, Hermione Jane Granger and Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore." Harry said a fire in his eyes, "if they do try to communicate or come near me I want them arrested for it at once."
"Very well Harry James Potter you a restraining order against Ronald Bilius Weasley, Hermione Jane Granger and Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore is granted, they are from this day forward until such time you wish to release them barred from any contact via letter, phone, telegraph, house elf, other being, animal, floo or any other means will result in arrest. So mote it be."
Harry did not look at the headmaster as he left the courtroom, so he did not see the hurt in the old man's eyes. Harry had been hurt badly and betrayed and so he had a right he felt to do what he did. He saw Ron and Hermione and glared at them as he passed. Ron looked as if he wanted to speak to Harry but Hermione put an arm on his shoulder. They had lost any hope of ever speaking to Harry again, he had made it so they could not. He did not care if they said they were sorry, friends did not do what they had done, they were right Judases for what they did and he would not allow such back in his life. He saw Neville and smiled at his good friend and walked out of the ministry with him talking about what they would do now the war was wrapping up.
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Such a simple way to get rid of Voldemort, just have Harry let him have the first shot and he gets the next one free and clear. As Voldemort loves to use one curse on Harry the most, the AK well that is what he used. He could not kill Harry this way and so Harry took the next shot as he deserved. Harry is not the only one who has been training, remember everyone else has three years of physical training up on him, he has a lot more knowledge but not as many years of physical training. Besides I like the idea of Fred and George in battle as they would be something else!
Now for the Wizengamot and what Harry did, can you blame him? This is the worst punishment he could give to those who betrayed him. He does have a lot of people who believe in him, I could not see everyone turning on him or believing he was ever guilty. There will be more Ron and Hermione later but of I do not hold out on them learning from their mistakes that easily.
I got some questions on the galleon conversion rate, so per Wikipedia a galleon is worth 5.12 pounds sterling, and the American dollar is worth .6918 to a pound. Ergo I simplified things a bit and instead of stating around 9.567 (give or take) American dollars to a galleon it is 10 American dollars to 1 wizard galleon.