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Chapter 4 Making plans
After dinner Harry went into his dorm room in order to read the rule book without anyone disturbing him. It was too early for the other boys to go into their dorm room so he would have some hours of undisturbed quite which he would use to read the book that Viktor had given him.
He'd finished the rule book in two hours skipping parts that did not seem to be interesting for him. He's found that the two rules that Viktor had explained were the most important ones for him but there were several others that could be beneficial. As a champion he could ask for his own room in the castle. The rules stated that every champion would be granted an undisturbed working and sleeping space and this meant that he could gain his own rooms where he could prepare himself for the challenges that were ahead of him without being disturbed by his roommates.
Another rule was an addition to the permit to seek help from outside sources that Viktor has already explained. It stated that the tutors chosen by the champions could be given sleeping quarters at the school the TriWizard-tournament took place at. That would enable the champions to get help without leaving the school every time a training session took place. The rule was included because some heads of the schools decided that even though their champions were allowed to leave the school grounds they would prefer to have the training sessions at the school grounds because as the head of the champion's school they were responsible for them until they finished their magical education.
After spending some hours alone in his bed with his curtains drawn Harry was disturbed by the noise of an opening door. He did not really want to talk to anyone who believed that he put his name into the goblet and therefore he tried to peek through his curtains without making any noise as not to draw any attention. Fortunately for Harry it was only Neville and the Weasley twins that entered the dorm rooms. They had been looking for Harry and when he did not come down into the common room for several hours they'd decided to go looking for him. They approached him and found him still holding the book in his hand.
"Interesting book?" George asked but before Harry could answer Fred did in his stead "Should be or Harry would not have disappeared for several hours". It was Neville who read the cover of the book "TriWizard-Tournament rule book? Where did you get that? I was looking for it in the library today to see if we could find something to help you. But I could not find a rulebook or even a mention that there is a rulebook."
"Viktor wrote home to his parents. They send him the book and he read it to find rules which would make my life easier during the tournament. He told me the most important ones before dinner but gave me the book just in case I found some more rules I could use. The ones Viktor told me were the most important ones. Did you know that just because that stupid goblet spit out my name I am emancipated? And that I am allowed to get help from outside sources and even leave school grounds? These rules are really great. Just think about it. I can leave the school during school days and get help from other people who are not officially part of either the school or the planning committee of the tournament."
"That's great Harry" Fred and George said in unison. "That makes your chances of getting through the tournament without any injuries a lot higher." They smirked at Harry. "What else did you find?" Neville asked "I don't think these two rules are the only ones that could benefit you if you read the whole rule book"
"Yes, there are some other helpful things, too. Most of them deal with the fact that I can get my own rooms and that any tutor I want to hire can get quarters at the school, too. This means I do not have to deal with the whole Gryffindor house who did not believe me, apart from you three of course. And I can really get one or a few tutors and do not have to leave the school grounds every time I want to learn something."
"Do you know, what you should do Harry? You should make a list of the most important things you have to do. Just in case so that you do not forget anything!" Neville told him and the twins nodded. Harry saw the logic in that statement and got some parchment and a quill to make a list.
1. Write to Ministry because of emancipation
2. Get own rooms!
3. Find some tutors? Ask Remus?
The other three boys read the list and nodded but Neville looked as if he was thinking about something. "You should write to Gringotts, too. If you are really emancipated you become Lord Potter." "Lord Potter?" Harry asked not knowing what Neville meant with that. "Yes. The Potters are after all A Noble and Ancient House and therefore you become a Lord as soon as you are not a minor anymore." "A Noble and Ancient House?" Harry asked again, feeling stupid because he did not know what Neville was talking about.
"Don't you know that the Potters were one of the richest and most influential Families before they all were killed? I mean you must get monthly reports from you Gringotts' vaults..." "I have more than one vault? I should get monthly reports? My family was rich? Why don't I know these things?" "I don't know Harry but whoever is responsible for you in the magical world should have told you these things!" "But I thought my aunt was my guardian?" Harry was bewildered because Neville opened up questions that he had never thought of. "I don't know what to tell you Harry but upon starting Hogwarts you should have got a magical guardian. All muggleborns and some half-bloods do." "Hermione has one, too?" This time it was Fred who answered "Yes. At first it was Professor McGonagall but after she became friends with you and Ron my parents became her magical guardians."
Harry was thinking deeply. So he had a magical guardian who should have informed him about his status in the wizarding world. Then he did not get his monthly reports from Gringotts. These were things he would be looking into. "So whom do I ask if I want to find out about my magical guardian? And is this person still my magical guardian if I am emancipated?" "Let me think! I think you could ask the Department of Magical Law Enforcement they should have a folder dedicated to every witch of wizard who gets a magical guardian after starting Hogwarts. But if you are really emancipated this guardian does not have any power anymore, just like your aunt." George answered Harry's questions. After hearing that Harry had more points to add to his list.
4. Visit Gringotts because of vaults/reports
5. Write to Department of Magical Law Enforcement to find out about magical guardian
6. Ask Sirius what he knows about Potter vaults and my magical guardian
"Anything else I missed?" Harry asked his three companions. He was really tired and he did not think that the other boys who slept in the dorm would wait much longer before coming up to sleep.
These rules and his plans exhausted him and if the planning was already this exhausting he feared what the doing of these things would do to him.
"No, I can't think of anything else that needs to be done right away." Neville answered and the twins seemed to think a while before nodding. "No we can't" Fred started "think of anything else either!" George finished the sentence. But Harry had another idea "Are there some solicitors in the magical world that deal with private law? Because this whole tournament is going to put my name into the papers and I don't want them to write about me without somehow controlling it. I don't want them to slander my name or portray me as something I'm not." He looked at the three boys who grew up in the wizarding world and therefore should know more that he did. Neville nodded "Yes there are. If you want I could write to my grandmother to ask her for some solicitors she knows which you could contact."
Harry just nodded tiredly "That would be really great! So the first things I do tomorrow are some letters, first to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and to Gringotts. Then I'll write to Sirius, too, to ask about both these matters. Then I'm going to get Viktor's help in approaching Fleur and Cedric to inform them that they can get their own rooms and any tutors they like. After that I'm going to either Professor McGonagall or Professor Dumbledore to get my own rooms. Any other plans will have to wait until I got the responses to my letters. Or until Neville gets an answer from his grandmother. Anything you want to add to my schedule?" he asked again to make sure that he did not miss anything important.
When Neville, Fred and George shook their heads he just nodded "Ok! Then I'm going to bed before Ron, Dean and Seamus come up because right now I'm exhausted and I can't deal with them. Is that ok?" The others just nodded and while Fred and George left the dorm of the 4th year boys Neville and Harry got ready for bed.
Just as Harry was drifting of he had another idea about searching the Chamber of Secrets because Slytherin might have left something more than the Basilisk in there but before the thought could get a hold in his mind he fell asleep and did not even hear the other three 4th year boys entering the dorm room.
