A/N: Sorry for the long time between updates, I have had a lot going on and have not had much time to write. This chapter was hard to write and I am sure that some of you will see why as you read. I do hope that you guys enjoy the chapter though. I expect that this story will only be a few more chapters long as I don't plan to have multiple chapters per Hogwarts years and some years may be in one chapter. So this story will probably only be about five more chapter or so before it ends and the squeal begins. As always, if you have questions please let me know and I will do my best to get back to you through PM.
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Harry received his Hogwarts letter in June just after he had finished with his muggle school exams. After letting his uncle know that he had received the letter and that he would not be able to go to any day camps that summer, Harry sat down with Regulus to finalize their study and testing plans for the summer.
The summer before, Harry had taken his first tests at the Ministry of Magic with the Wizarding Examinations Authority and would be taking even more this summer. He wanted to be finished with all of his exams before he contacted the school though, so he was planning on holding off on sending his return letter so that he would know what his scores were. At this point he wasn't even sure that Hogwarts would be able to accommodate his study schedule as he was already so far ahead in some subjects that he would need a specialized schedule if he did go.
The Wizarding Examinations Authority only held three rounds of testing during the summer for people to take or retake tests. He wanted to get at least an Exceeds Expectations on each test if not Outstanding, and if he managed, then he would need to contact Hogwarts to see if they could even accommodate a schedule like he would need. If they could not, then he would just home school with Regulus. If everything went well, he would only be at Hogwarts for five years maximum.
Because of scheduling, Harry had eight-teen tests that stretched out for a good chunk of his summer and had taken twenty-four the summer before. Most would have completely lost it, with that type of schedule, but Harry stayed calm. It was a lot of tests, but a good bit of them were tests a year or two below his actual level, so they didn't stress him out much. It also helped that much of the material was theory. The fact that there were three separate testing periods also helped.
The summer before, the examiners had been worried for the little boy that had marched into the first test offered for the first testing round. By the time he had shown up for his sixth test, they were talking amongst themselves in excitement, thrilled at how well the Boy-Who-Lived was doing. With exams being something that they were required to keep confidential, nothing made it into the press, so they were the only ones that knew how smart he was or how advanced.
This summer, they were not surprised at all when Harry showed up for the first round of testing with his guardian, an average looking man with brown hair and brown eyes at average height and weight. For the first round Harry completed the tests for Third year Herbology, DADA, Fourth Year HOM, Study of Ancient Runes, and Ancient Studies, and his Muggle Studies OWL.
During the second round of testing, Harry took the tests for Second Year Charms, Forth year Arithmancy, Fourth year Astronomy and Divination, His OWL for HOM and the Certification test for Ghoul Studies (which was ridiculously easy as he was being taught by a Reaper).
Finally, during the third round of testing, Harry took the tests for Second Year Transfiguration and Potions, third year Care of Magical Creatures and his OWLs for Divination and Astronomy and Magical Theory.
A private talk with the head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority, Griselda Marchbanks, assured them that he would receive an official letter along with his scores for each class that would let Hogwarts know what classes he was eligible to take. She also assured them that she would more than happy to help them find qualified tutors if Hogwarts had trouble accommodating to his schedule.
After finishing all his tests for the summer by mid-July, Regulus took Harry to the zoo and to a few historical landmarks around England for fun. They often went on day trips, normally on the weekends, but this was three whole days of just walking around and seeing things that they found interesting so that Harry would have some down time after all that testing.
Soon, it was Harry's birthday, and during breakfast, he finally received the results for his tests along with an enclosed letter that was a copy of what had been sent to Hogwarts that morning. Harry had just given the ministry owl some water and a few treats when there was a loud booming at the front door causing Harry and his relatives to jump in surprise.
For a moment, everyone just stared towards the front of the house with wide eyes, all of them wondering just what was being used to bang on the door. Before anyone could move, they heard the front door slam open with the next round of booming knocks. It didn't sound like the door survived.
Everyone leaned so that they could look out the kitchen doorway into the hall to see who had just entered their house. Vernon getting up out of his chair in alarm. Harry's eyes widened along with his families as the largest man they had ever seen walked into the house and sat the door back into place, though it was obvious that the door had been completely knocked off its hinges.
The large man turned and looked at the pale faces peering at him from the kitchen and spoke in a loud booming voice.
"Now then, sorry 'bout the door. Where's Harry?"
Harry's eyes widened as he took in the large man that apparently was looking for him. He was quite thankful when his uncle stepped in front of him and drew himself up to look as threating as he could. "Now see here, you can't just come barging into our home like that. Get out!" Vernon looked like it took every bit of courage he had to force those words out of his mouth. Petunia was trying to creep over to the phone on the wall while keeping her hands on both Dudley and Harry's shoulders in an effort to pull them away from the door.
"Shut it Dursley, you great big prune. I'm here to see Harry and a great lump like you aint going to stop me." The large man pointed a very large finger towards Vernon.
"This here is breaking and entering. You get out now or we will call the police." Vernon was now shaking as he confronted the larger man.
"And what are they going to do? Muggles. I will be taking Harry to get his school things. Dumbledore sent me. Now where is Harry?"
With that, Harry pulled away from his aunt with narrowed eyes and stepped over so that he was in the doorway with his uncle, who put a hand on his shoulder to keep him from getting any closer to the man.
"Hold on." Harry tilted his head as he spoke. "Why would Dumbledore send you to take me to get my school things when I haven't sent my acceptance letter in yet?" Harry might only be eleven, but he was very smart and spent most of his time with Regulus who was very cunning, and if there was one thing that Harry knew it was that whatever was going on here was hinky as all get out.
"Harry, there you are. Last time I saw you were just a little thing." The large man held his hands out to indicate how big Harry had been with a great big smile on his face. "Alright, lets get going then, got things to do." He indicated for Harry to join him so that they could get a move on.
"You didn't answer my question. Why are you here when I haven't sent in my acceptance letter yet?"
The large man waved one of his large hands around as he spoke. "Dumbledore knew that your awful muggle family would be keeping you from answering your letter, so he sent me here to take you to get all your things."
"What?" Harry asked incredulously as Dudley snickered from his father's other side. "Dum Door."
Although Dudley clearly thought that the man's name was funny, the large man, who had still not introduced himself, puffed up in anger causing Vernon to pull both younger boys back into the kitchen a bit more.
"Don't you ever laugh at Dumbledore again in my presence." The large man took out his pink umbrella and pointed it at Dudley who suddenly squeaked as a pigs tail burst through his pants.
"What have you done?" Vernon and Petunia quickly converged on Dudley while trying to get him to calm down. Harry took one look at his cousin before turning to the Ministry owl that was still perched on the back of his chair.
"Come along Harry, we need to get going." The large man called out as Harry disappeared into the kitchen.
Harry, ignoring the intruder, quickly wrote out a note and attached it to the owl before sending it back to the ministry, this time to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. Once the owl was on its way, Harry returned to the door way. "I don't think so. I am not going anywhere with you."
"What, Harry, don't worry about these awful muggles. They won't be able to stop you from going to Hogwarts. If they try and stop you, why you just let me know and I will take care of them."
"What, you plan on giving them pig snouts too?" Harry asked sarcastically as he stepped in front of his family as his aunt and uncle tried to calm Dudley down.
Apparently, the man didn't understand sarcasm as it seemed to go completely over his head. "No, I meant to turn him into a pig, but it didn't work right. Best not tell anyone about that though. I'm not supposed to be doing magic." He winked at Harry, who was just staring at him incredulously again.
The larger man seemed to get flustered as he kept trying to get Harry to get ready to go and Harry kept refusing. It had been about twenty minuets before there were two sharp cracks and two Aurors appeared in the living room.
Harry quickly led his family over to the two Aurors and introduced himself, still making sure to keep himself between the large man and his family.
"I am Auror Gawain Robards and this is my partner Kingsley Shacklebolt. Was it you that sent a letter in about someone trying to kidnap you and bait your muggle relatives?" He was looking over at Hagrid with an odd expression on his face, who was now standing in the doorway to the living room flushed and stuttering that there was a misunderstanding.
"Yes, this man broke into our home, insisted that he was here to take me to Diagon Alley and that my family had no say in the matter, and when my uncle asked him to leave he did not and was quite rude while calling my uncle names, going so far as to call them Awful muggles. When my cousin laughed at how Dumbledore's name sounded, he did something to give my cousin a pig's tail. Then he proceeded to tell me not to tell anyone as he was not supposed to be doing magic and that it went wrong anyway as he meant to turn my cousin into a pig. He also told me that he would do more to my muggle relatives who he seems to think are there for him to pick on."
The two Aurors blinked at Harry for a moment before glancing over at his family and at Hagrid before turning their attention back to Harry. The one introduced as Kingsley Shacklebolt turned a little to the side and cast a spell that caused a shimmery gray Lynx to appear. "Dumbledore, there is a situation at the Potter's home. He is accusing Hagrid of muggle baiting and trying to kidnap him. You might want to come down here and clear things up." As he finished his message, the Lynx disappeared through the wall.
Because he had turned to the side and because Auror Robards was paying more attention to what he was doing than the boy in front of them, they both missed the darkening of Harry's expression.
Turning his attention back to Harry, Auror Robards smiled. "There now, it looks like we will have this all cleared up in just a few moments."
"No." Both men blinked as Harry interrupted the assurance the Auror was trying to give him. "We won't be having this all cleared up in just a few moments. Dumbledore is Headmaster of Hogwarts, the Supreme Mugwump and the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. Not one of his titles is the Head of the DMLE, which means that you had no business sending him any type of message about this issue. On top of that, this man apparently broke into my home and apparently tried to take me from my family on that man's orders. It is however clear that neither of you are capable of acting professionally in this matter. I formally request that you contact your superior officer and request their presence." Harry waited for a moment and when neither moved, spoke slowly just in case they didn't understand. "Now."
Both men were taken aback at the formal request and at the way that Harry Potter spoke. The lessons from Regulus on proper behavior and about the departments of the Ministry were proving their worth today. Harry was quite thankful for the lessons now as he put them to use for the first time.
"What?" Auror Robards finally stuttered.
Harry's expression didn't even twitch. "I formally request that you contact your superior officer and request their presence. Failure to do so will ensure that I press charges against the two of you for your failure to do so." Everyone had the right to request a superior officer to be called if they felt that those displaced were not doing their job.
Auror Robards finally tapped his badge with his wand three times, signaling that a Senior Auror was being requested. Both Aurors now just stood there staring at Harry in confusion, while Harry stood in front of his relatives and stared back blankly. Hagrid just stayed by the door and looked at everyone in confusion.
In the Teachers Lounge at Hogwarts, Dumbledore sat and chatted with Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Filius Flitwick and Pomona Sprout as they were about to have their yearly Head of House meeting that they held each year before school was in session.
They had just gotten started after each of them getting a cup of tea, when a silvery Lynx flew over to Dumbledore and Shacklebolt voice was heard. "Dumbledore, there is a situation at the Potter's home. He is accusing Hagrid of muggle baiting and trying to kidnap him. You might want to come down here and clear things up."
Dumbledore promptly sprayed his tea all over the table while he and the others stared at the spot the Patronus had disappeared from with wide eyes.
"What on earth is that all about?" Filius asked while Minerva stood from her chair with her own question. "Why would Harry think that Hagrid was kidnapping him?"
"I have no idea. Hagrid was supposed to pick him up and take him around Diagon Alley today, but I don't know what would have caused Harry to think that he was being kidnapped." Dumbledore was already halfway out the door as he spoke, the other four following behind him as they moved quickly through the halls.
"Why did you send Hagrid to take him to the Alley?" Pomona asked as they walked.
Dumbledore looked over his shoulder and sent her a smile. "Hagrid wanted to see Harry again quite badly after all these years. I thought it would be a wonderful opportunity for the two to meet while Hagrid showed Harry around the alley and helped him get his school things."
Severus scoffed under his breath as they approached the gates.
Once they were outside the gates of Hogwarts, Dumbledore pulled a sock from his pocket and tapped it with his wand to cast the 'Portus' spell. The four heads of house each placed a finger on the sock and were sucked away by the portkey.
They appeared at on Privet Drive and followed Dumbledore over to Number 4 where Harry Potter lived. Severus sneered at how dull the neighborhood looked while the Filius and Pomona just looked around with fascinated looks on their faces. They, unlike Severus, were not as familiar with the muggle world and were quite fascinated.
Not bothering to knock-not that it would have done much good with the door off its hinges -Dumbledore entered the house just as Harry finished explaining why he had requested a superior to the two Aurors and why he had requested Aurors in the first place to a flabbergasted Amelia Bones.
When Amelia got the notice through her badge that she was being formally requested, the file that had been created when the Aurors had been dispatched appeared on her desk. She quickly opened the file and read the letter that had requested for the Aurors to come and was stunned to see that the person making the request was Harry Potter, The boy-who-lived. The fact that the request was concerning a kidnapping attempt and muggle baiting of his family caused Amelia to quickly apparate to the location indicated by her badge.
She then listened to what had happened that morning with Hagrid breaking into the home-which was plain to see thanks to the state the door was in-and how, upon explaining everything to the Aurors, Auror Shacklebolt had contacted Dumbledore and then Robards had told him that everything was being taken care of. Hearing that one of her Aurors had contacted Dumbledore to take care of a matter for the DMLE had already caused her eye to twitch.
It twitched again when Dumbledore swept into the room in blinding orange and pink robes.
Even before Harry was finished with his explanation, Dumbledore was interrupting the conversation and talking over Harry.
"Ah, Amelia. So nice to see you. I am sorry that you have been called out for such a simple misunderstanding, but I will take care of everything from here."
Now Amelia, unlike with her Aurors, had been watching Harry Potter and had noticed the boy's expression getting more and more mask like. If it was not for the anger in his eyes when Dumbledore interrupted him, she would not have known just how angry the situation was making him. His family behind him looked to be just as angry, though they seemed to be equally scared. Considering that the boy they were holding on to was still sniffling about the tail he had grown, she couldn't really blame them.
"I am sorry, Mr. Dumbledore, as my presence has been formally requested this will be a situation that you will not be able to take care of. As a matter of fact, you should not have been called here at all." Amelia turned to address Dumbledore.
"Formally req…Harry, my boy. There was no need to bother Amelia. Hagrid is here to take you shopping for your school things. Why don't you just go along now, and I will talk to Amelia while you go with Hagrid."
"First of all," Harry spoke before Amelia even had a chance to start telling Dumbledore off, and it seemed that everyone wanted to know just what the small boy would say as the room was deadly silent. "I have never met you, so there is no reason for you to be calling me 'my boy' or for you to presume to tell me to go off with my would-be kidnapper who I have also never met and do not wish to go anywhere with."
Dumbledore just blinked, unsure of what was going on.
"Second of all. You have no reason to be here at all, nor do the people that you have brought with you. You are not a member of the DMLE which are the only people that have been invited into my home today. Third, you have no right to come into my home and tell me or the person I am reporting a crime to that there is a misunderstanding when the man you apparently sent to kidnap me also baited my muggle family, going so far as to try to turn my cousin into a pig."
Harry glared at the Headmaster while considering if he really wanted to go to Hogwarts if this was the man in charge of the school.
"Oh, how silly of me. Of course. Let me just take care of the tail and then we can get you headed on your way." Dumbledore pulled his wand and made to point it at Dudley, who squeaked in fear, only to stare at his empty hand in shock as Harry had immediately moved to smack the wand out of his hand as soon as he had it pointed in the general direction of his family. The wand clattered as it hit the wall of the living room before landing with a soft thunk on the carpet.
"No. No where in your titles are you called a healer of any sort. There is no reason for you to raise your wand at my cousin at all. He will be seen by a healer. And once again, this has nothing to do with you and you have no reason to be here nor for sending anyone here." Everyone was staring wide-eyed at the boy. No one could think of anyone telling Dumbledore No like that before. Just No. Not to mention that the boy had just literally smacked Dumbledore's wand out of his hand.
"Harry, my boy," Dumbledore ignored or didn't see Harry's eye twitch at his familiarity while he looked at him with an expression of disappointment, "I was only going to remove the tail. It is quite rude to do what you just did." Dumbledore made a motion with his hand to summon his wand. "And I only sent Hagrid here to take you for your school things as it was obvious that your family was keeping your letter from you. Hagrid was sent to protect you, my boy."
"Hey now, didn't keep the boy's letter from him." Vernon was clearly angry at everything that was going on this morning.
"Then why has Harry not responded?" Dumbledore asked as he raised a white brow in Vernon's direction. "There is no use in lying, Mr. Dursley. It is obvious that you keep the letter from Harry so that he would not have a chance to learn about his magic."
Harry addressed the headmaster with distain. "I did not respond as I was waiting for my exam scores to come in. Scores that would have also been delivered to Hogwarts this morning as they only arrived today. I was waiting so that I could make sure that Hogwarts was able to accommodate a schedule with my required classes. Though, now I wonder if Hogwarts is even going to be worth attending." Harry muttered the last as he continued to glare at Dumbledore.
"What scores, my boy?" Dumbledore looked confused.
Amelia Bones interrupted the headmaster with a frown on her face. "That will have to wait for a moment. For right now, Shacklebolt, I want you to take Hagrid here to the Ministry and place him in a holding cell. I will speak to him when I get back."
"Now Amelia, surly that is not necessary." Dumbledore was looking at her in disappointment.
"It is very necessary. From what I can see, at the very least I will be charging him with using magic when he is not supposed to have any type of focus at all, and that will have to be investigated. The issue with Muggle baiting is also cut and dried. Move out Shacklebolt."
The Auror looked over at Dumbledore with an apology before moving to Apparate away with a now sobbing Hagrid.
"Mr. Potter, it will take me a few moments to contact a healer to help your cousin…" Amelia paused when Professor Snape stepped forward and cleared his throat.
"I completed my Medi-Wizard proficiency with my Mastery in Potions. If you rather, I can take care of this now." Severus had been expecting something else when he had followed Dumbledore here today. The Potter boy was nothing like he expected, and he had been very entertained to see the small boy verbally smack the Headmaster. The fact that he had actually smacked the wand right out of the old fool's hand was a bonus.
"Severus?" Everyone turned when Petunia spoke. She turned to Harry after a moment of looking at the dower man before her. "Harry, let him help Dudley. Lily always was going on about how smart he was. I would rather have him do it than some stranger."
Severus raised a brow as he moved over to the boy and set about removing the tail. As he worked, he could hear Harry explaining his having tested out of multiple years of classes to McGonagall who had brought the subject back up.
"My dear boy, I am sorry to hear that you have wasted your time. You will of course be starting with your year mates in first year. I am so disappointed to hear that you have been venturing into the Magical world with out letting me know. It is not safe my boy."
Harry stepped over to the side of Amelia and frowned at the Headmaster. "Seriously, what is your problem. I have already told you not to address me as your boy." He turned his attention to Amelia. "He is acting like one of those men they told us about in school. Dirty old men that want to touch you in your naughty places. I half expect him to offer me candy next."
As his attention was on Amelia and not on the Headmaster at the moment, he completely missed the fact that Dumbledore had already produced a bag of lemon drops with the intent to offer one to Harry. No one else in the room missed it though, even Severus who had finished helping Dudley and had turned his attention back to the drama unfolding. Amelia just sighed as she watched Dumbledore shove the bag back into a pocket while Harry continued to talk.
"I don't know if I want to bother with Hogwarts if they cannot accommodate me as I cannot see taking first year classes when I already have Five OWLs, but I would like to request a Magically Binding Restraining Order against Headmaster Dumbledore. He is creepy and has way to much interest in me as evidenced by his attempting to have me kidnapped today and his continually referring to me as his boy."
Amelia just sighed and summoned the correct paperwork from her Auror's bag. Honestly, she really couldn't blame him.
"Now my boy, that is completely unnecessary and quite impossible as I am your magical guardian." Dumbledore was getting frustrated at the boy by this point. He just couldn't understand how the boy could turn out so different than he expected. It was worse that Amelia Bones and his employees were witnessing this.
"No you're not."
Dumbledore blinked as Harry interrupted him. "Not what, my boy?" Amelia had stopped filling out the form for the restraining order to pay attention.
"You are not my magical guardian."
"You are mistaken my boy. I was appointed your magical guardian when you were a baby and your parent's wills were sealed for your protection. Not only that, but I would have become your magical guardian when you arrived at Hogwarts, so it is a non-issue." He sounded a bit condescending, but with as irritated as he was he felt he could be excused.
"No, you are not. As I am the last of an Ancient and Noble house, the Wizengamot is not able to appoint anyone as my magical guardian as it would be a conflict of interest since I hold seats on the Wizengamot. The position would have simply gone to my physical guardians if they had been magical. As I was placed with a muggle family, you would not have been appointed my guardian at all even if I do accept a position at Hogwarts, as that would be the duties of my Head of House and not that of the Headmaster. The fact that that you are claiming to hold the position is a huge problem as the only person that can seal a will is the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot along with the Minister of Magic. That you are claiming to have been appointed is…suspicious at best. I do hope that you have not been pretending to hold the position as I will be having this investigated along with having my accounts audited by the Goblins. I will be interested to learn as to wither or not you have been overstepping your authority by using my name and…possibly my seats…to further you own agenda."
Dumbledore stood still as everyone in the room looked at him with wide eyes, already knowing that he had been using the Potter seats as Harry Potter's magical guardian.
Amelia sighed as she gathered up her paperwork and turned to Harry Potter. "Mr. Potter I will return no later than tomorrow at noon with your copy of the restraining order. For now, I think it best that Mr. Dumbledore come with me while we start that investigation. I will keep you updated."
Harry and his family watched along with the Hogwarts Professors as Dumbledore protested as Amelia and Auror Robards escorted him from the premises.
Professor McGonagall, though she was quite upset with Dumbledore at the moment, was even more worried about Harry deciding not to attend Hogwarts. As scheduling was in her preview, she turned to address the issue.
"Now, tell me about your exams and what kind of schedule you would be needing if you attend at Hogwarts. I am sure that we can work this out so that you get the most of your education. It is the least that I can do for James and Lily's boy, after all. They so wanted to see you attend Hogwarts."
She smiled at Harry as Vernon Dursley passed over his scores and set beside his nephew to discuss his education while Petunia and her son went somewhere else. This was something that she had never seen coming when they had left the boy on the doorstep that night so long ago.
