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Chapter 9 – Orientation

Because Roddy Owens really needed to earn a lot of money so he could build up his now almost non-existent bank account, he took a very high-paying job in an exclusive Swiss clinic. It was both a Muggle and Magical clinic staffed by mostly Muggleborn and Half-blood personnel all well-trained in both Muggle and Magical medicine. It served both Muggles and Magicals but was divided by the exclusive Muggle side and the partially hidden exclusive Magical side. The two sides never really met so this pacified the Magicals somewhat.

There were some things that magic could not heal, or at least heal legally. Curse scars, such as Harry Potter's famous lightning bolt scar, could not be healed with magic and glamours could be detected. Thus to really get rid of it, Harry had to have Muggle plastic surgery done on his forehead, around the scar from the basilisk bite and the scar from his blood being taken and used at the time of Voldemort's resurrection.

Roddy had been interested to find out that although the dark mark had faded more after Voldie's final death than it had after 'his first death' it did not go away entirely. It still could be seen albeit faintly. Thus, any former Death Eater with any money had come to this clinic to have the scar permanently removed the "Muggle way' since the mark, being a magical curse, could not be removed by magic – unless Voldemort did it.

It was Roddy's first day at the clinic. He had had a tour and orientation in the morning and he was now on his way to the cafeteria to get some lunch.

A healer on the magical side of the clinic, whose name Roddy had already forgotten, decided to attach himself to Roddy and "join him for lunch." He had mentioned to Roddy that "Maybe Harry Potter could have removed the dark mark, it was said, if he still could speak parsel tongue and found the original spell used to create it," the healer had laughed, "but then he lost the ability to speak snake and it is a well-known fact that the boy was so stupid and magically inept that if it hadn't been for the Hero Ron Weasley, helped slightly by that Mudblood whore, You-Know-Who would never have been defeated."

Although slightly annoyed Roddy kept the smile on his face before innocently asking, "I heard Potter was a powerful wizard as, after all, he did defeated old Voldie when he was just 15 or 18 months old."

The healer laughed slightly before revealing the 'real facts' of what happened on October 31, 1981. "No, that was just the story that old Dumbledore spread about. The 'real' national hero, Ron Weasley, revealed what really happened."

"Oh do you know this Ron Weasley?" Roddy asked innocently wearing his Pure-blood mask to hide his anger.

"Well no, not personally, but my cousin had the honor of going out with him for nearly a month. He wrote several books after the war and while he was autographing his book for her he asked her out. While they were dating, he confided to her several things which were not told in the books because the Ministry thought it would tarnish the Great Albus Dumbledore's reputation. However, although certain things were not printed in the books, Ron made sure that people found out by word of mouth."

"Like what?" Roddy asked.

Sensing an audience, the healer continued. "It seems that it was James Potter who really killed Voldemort before dying of his wounds."

"Really? How did that happen? I had heard once it had really been the boy's mother, who was considered the most powerful witch of her age, who had cast some protective spell on her child using her own death as a catalyst so that after she was killed and Voldie…"

"Stop saying his name," the healer shouted.

"I am just saying Voldie not Voldemort. I mean the guy's been dead for.…"

"Well you still shouldn't say it…out of respect"

"Respect! Respect for Voldemort?" asked a shocked Roddy.

"No. Just respect – for something, I don't know but you just don't say it. Now where was I. Oh yes. From what the Hero Ron Weasley said, James Potter, as only a real Pureblood could, fought off You-Know-Who for over an hour. Unfortunately he was distracted by his hysterical wife – a Mudblood, no less and why he ever married her nobody knows but it is said she used Amortenstia on him."

"Anyway James Potter was distracted, and You-Know-Who gave him a death blow and not the AK curse (the healer just couldn't bring himself to say the full unforgiveable curse) because he was a Pureblood and had fought so well so You-Know-Who told him he did not deserve a death curse which had originally been used to kill cattle and lately used to kill, and only should be used to kill, Muggles, Mudbloods and Half-bloods and the occasional cowardly blood traitors who did not fight well. Instead You-Know-Who mercifully used the disemboweling curse on James Potter."

"Oh how kind of him," said the Voice inside Roddy's head.

"Ron Weasley told your cousin that?"

"The HERO RON WEASLEY," the healer corrected. "My cousin Alison says you must always say the 'Hero Ron Weasley' because next to James Potter and Albus Dumbledore, it was really the Hero Ron Weasley who saved Britain."

This was the only time Harry regretted not asking Andromeda what lies Ron had been sprouting in the books. Then again, Ron might not still be alive if he had had.

"Continuing on, You-Know-Who went up the stairs where the stupid Mudblood – the Hero Ron Weasley's words, not mine – was frantically trying to gather up a treasure in galleons, jewels and precious heirlooms of the Potters so she could take her bast….ah child and flee."

"She spent an hour while her husband was fighting off the worst Dark Lord in a century to gather loot?" asked Roddy.

"Yes, yes she did. Amazing isn't it. Anyway, she had almost finished when You-Know-Who walked in and actually gave her a chance – since her husband had been so very brave – to stand aside and let him kill the child."

"Of course, she would have to drop all the money and leave so she could go off and live with her lover – and considering she was a Mudblood slut – the Hero's words, not mine – Snivellus Snape, who was probably the real father – but being…what she was, she just screamed 'not the money, never the money, kill the kid but let me have the money' so You-Know-Who just had to kill her – I mean, who wouldn't?"

Roddy didn't say anything but just stared at the healer in total shock.

"So You-Know-Who justifiably killed the Mudblood – Hero Weasley's words, not mine – and he threw such a violent curse at her it caused the cot to actually break and the wood to splinter off and hit the screaming baby – as according to the Hero Ron Weasley, Harry Potter was always screaming and crying about something. A piece of wood hit the baby and that was how he got the famous lightning bolt scar. Amazing isn't it?" the healer asked again.

"Unbelievable!"

"By then James Potter, as only a true Pureblood hero could, had crawled up the stairs and took the opportunity to cast the AK curse at You-Know-Who…"

"In the back?"

"I don't know, he just did. He was the one who really killed You-Know-Who."

Roddy sighed as he had to do something – otherwise he would be strangling the $%#*^#$^# bastard in front of him. "Then why was it said that it was Harry Potter who defeated VOLDEMORT and why was he called the Boy-Who-Lived?"

The healer sighed before saying to Roddy, as if he was talking to a small child, "That is what Dumbledore told everybody."

"Why?"

"Because you have to know – you are not English are you? "

"My father was Welsh, my mother was German, and I was raised by an aunt and uncle after my parents died in a car crash. Since my uncle traveled all over the world due to his job, I was basically self-tutored in magic because my mother was a Muggleborn, my father a Muggle and my aunt and uncle were Muggles also."

"I have heard of this Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter, VOLDEMORT and others, but know only what I have read about them and what a witch I met some years ago told me. She went to Hogwarts and knew this Harry Potter and that Ron Weasley person…."

"The Hero Ron Weasley," the smug healer corrected.

"The Ron Weasley you are speaking about. She told me many things concerning the last Voldemortic War and some about the first, but never did she tell me any of what you are telling me. So why then did this Albus Dumbledore tell everybody that Harry Potter was the Boy-Who-Lived?"

"Because he was a shameless Muggle lover. This is a fact few knew. Dumbledore, while an excellent and noble wizard, valued Muggleborns above all others. Some say it was because his own mother had been one, so he became their defender and champion."

"According to the Hero Ron Weasley, Dumbledore had gone to the house where all of this happened, cast a spell, saw what really happened and then decided to further Muggleborn rights by lying. He told everybody that the baby defeated the Dark Lord and as the boy's mother was a Muggleborn, he hoped this would influence people to respect Muggleborns more."

"Why would he do that?"

"I don't know exactly why just that he did. You should really read the Hero Ron Weasley's books as everything would be explained to you."

"I thought you said you only know about this because Weasley told your cousin these things and THEY WERE NOT IN THE BOOKS because of Ministry pressure."

The healer tried to correct his error. "You should still read the books."

"Do you have copies of them and if so, could I borrow them?"

"Well yes and I will be delighted to loan them to you."

Harry had never wanted to read the books but after all of this he just had to.

"You will probably have to kill Weasley," the Voice whispered.

"Probably, but not until I actually read the books and listen to what that ass told everybody."

"To continue, Harry Potter grew up spoiled and big-headed with his horrible Muggle relatives. He was too lazy to find out anything about the Magical World and depended upon the Hero Ron Weasley to tell him everything he needed to know."

"Yes, I understand that but WHY DID DUMBLEDORE TELL THE WORLD THAT A BABY DEFEATED VOLDEMORT IN THE FIRST PLACE?"

"Because he was very dear friends with and the mentor of Minerva McGonagall and wanted to do her a favor."

"Oh this has to be good," the Voice said.

"What has that got to do with anything?"

"Well you see," said the healer puffing up his chest a bit, "Dumbledore had singled out McGonagall to be his replacement as Transfiguration teacher and Head of Gryffindor House once he became the Headmaster of Hogwarts. For some reason she didn't know what was best for her and wanted to keep doing her job as an Unspeakable and not become the protégée of Albus Dumbledore. She was also engaged and Dumbledore doesn't allow Hogwarts teachers to be married as it was his contention they should be 'married to their career' and what better career can someone have, especially a witch, than to work for Albus Dumbledore."

"Ron Weasley told your cousin this?"

"Of course, he told her."

"How did he know?"

"His own mother told him," snapped the healer as if that explained everything.

"But Dumbledore had made up his mind that Minerva McGonagall would come to work at Hogwarts and that was that. It was for the Greater Good after all."

"According to the Hero Ron Weasley's Blessed Mother, Dumbledore managed to break up her engagement and have her discharged from her position so that she would not have any option but to take up his gracious offer. Apparently she didn't want to but then some people just don't know what's good for them. Eventually she had no choice but to work for Dumbledore and eventually she even became the Deputy Headmistress. Now you would think she should have been immensely grateful wouldn't you?"

"Brace yourself," the Voice said, "You probably will not like what he will say next."

"I already don't like what he has been saying, but you are probably right."

Roddy paused for a moment supposedly to think but in reality to control his temper which he was fast losing. "Personally if I was that witch I probably would have wanted to keep the job I had and marry my fiancé."

"Well then you would be like her – too stupid and ungrateful to appreciate the honor which was being given to her," snapped the healer.

"Well that is just me," said Roddy dangerously, "but you still haven't explained why this Dumbledore…"

"If you hadn't interrupted me I would have. Now to continue, this ungrateful, silly woman had a job that only few could even dream of and what do you think she went and did?"

"I don't know."

"She gets pregnant!"

"Oh she got back with her fiancé?"

"No! It seems that, from what the Hero Ron Weasley's Blessed Mother told him, this stupid woman was a whore!"

"No!"

"Yes! She was a wanton who slept around with all types of men and, it was rumored, even some of the students. She had tried to seduce the Hero's own brother William before the Hero's mother had to go to the school and thrash the hussy senseless and then she left William alone."

Roddy thought he was going to die if he didn't laugh soon, but he just had to ask, "So this McHorrible witch was making money off of the students…."

"NO! She was a whore and was just seducing students and men."

"Well then she would technically be a 'slut' as a 'slut' has sex for pleasure and not money whereas a 'whore' has sex for money so this witch would be a 'slut' and not a 'whore' and therefore.…"

The healer was sputtering his outrage, "Stop with the semantics. The fact of the matter is that this witch had given birth to several bastards but Dumbledore always forgave her and covered up her shame. Her last known bastard was the Mudblood Lily Evans, the mother of the Coward-Who-Really-Just-Had-A-Head-Wound. Dumbledore decided to use this Evans bitch as a heroine and her bastard as a symbol thereby ignoring Pureblood James Potter's true…"

Roddy was about to explode. He tried to picture in his mind Minerva McGonagall – siren, sex kitten, seducer of wizards and child predator. Minerva McGonagall actually having sex with anybody was a stretch for Roddy's imagination, but actually running amok, bed bouncing with who knew how many males and potentially dragging Bill Weasley into a broom closet (and why not Charlie Weasley while she was at it) and having her wicked, wicked way with him. Also popping out kids resulting from her various liaisons – nah, it was just too big a lie even for Ron to tell. It had to be a warped idea of Molly, no doubt in revenge for something McGonagall did which Molly didn't approve.

But then Roddy realized that the healer had just said that LILY EVANS was one of McGonagall's bastards. He had also said HARRY POTTER'S MOTHER SPENT AN HOUR GATHERING LOOT AND VOLDIE COULD KILL HER SON IF SHE COULD KEEP THE MONEY.

Now he really had to keep control on his temper otherwise he would be chocking the stuffing out of this fool.

"Wait, I thought you said that Lily Evans was a Muggleborn."

"Well yes…

"But if she was McHorrible's kid and McHorrible was a witch and did the dirty with wizards, wouldn't that make Lily Evans at least a Half-blood?"

The pompous healer stopped to think about the fact but quickly came up with an excuse. "More semantics but I suppose that could be true. However, even if she was a Half-blood by birth, she was a true Mudblood by morals and personality."

"Ask him who the father was," urged the Voice.

"No. Besides he already said it was Snape."

"True, but let's see if he sticks to it. You could also ask if 'McHorrible' as you are calling old Minnie knew who the father of Lily was."

"So this Harry Potter was the grandson of McHorrible, the son of her daughter Lily but who was Lily's father and was James Potter definitely Potter's father."

"No, I already told you who the Hero Ron Weasley thought was the REAL father of Horrible Harry."

"I forgot."

"He said that it was probably Snivellus Snape, although it COULD HAVE BEEN OTHERS. Now what were some of the names…ah yes. There was a wizard named Lucius Malfoy (Roddy's eyes bugged out hearing that said), Filius Flitwick (Professor Flitwick!), Peter the Pettifour (the healer's neck looked to be begging to be choked), Batty somebody – ah Barty Junior (Crouch? thought Roddy – well he did have dark hair like Harry's) Fenrir Blackback or something like that (a werewolf but not Remus) and, who else did he say now? Ah, Mundungus Fletcher – no wait, that was not Harry's father it was the mother's father."

SLUG, BLAM, CRUNCH, CRASH, SPLAT were the sounds of the healer being hit and hitting the floor after Roddy struck hit him. He couldn't help himself. Mundungus Fletcher as his mum's father! McGonagall shagging Fletcher – that wasn't funny or even ridiculous just downright disgusting.

The shocked face of the healer looked up at Roddy who had to come up with some reasonable excuse for hitting the pompous ass without exposing himself as Harry Potter. The first thing that came into his mind wasn't much but it would have to do.

"Mundungus Fletcher was the uncle and godfather of my mother's dearest sister-in-law and wife of my mother's brother! How dare you sully the name of such a man who would have been a great uncle to me had the uncle and aunt who raised me not travelled out of Britain for my uncle's job. For you to besmirch his name and to infer that he…he…coupled with that SLUT McHorrible…well it is not to be borne."

With that said Roddy made a hasty escape.

For the first time ever the Voice was actually laughing in Roddy's head. "You just have to write McGonagall an anonymous letter and "tell her you are a former student or something like that and you heard scandal being batted around in Canada or someplace and ask if she knew the Weasleys were spreading such lies about her. Have one of the elves take it to Britain and send it by public post owl and then hide in her office just to see the expression on her face and…."

"No, I am not going to do that! As tempting as it is I am still too mad at McGonagall and no doubt she knows about it already."

"Doubt it. Just because you have reason to loathe her doesn't mean there aren't others who would protect her from the lies. It might not have been printed but I am certain Molly Weasley made it up and had her Ronnie blab it to anyone who would listen, but McGonagall does have a good personal reputation and is liked by many of her former students some of whom might have taken steps to protect her from hearing about it."

"Hmmm. Yes that makes sense. I'll draft a letter and have Winky write it out and then take it to Britain for public owl delivery – but I won't have her lurk around to watch McGonagall read it – too risky."

"Then why write the letter?"

"Just in case she didn't know about the lies. I know it is cruel but that is why I am doing it. Let Minnie beat the dung out of Molly and/or Ron."

"You won't enjoy it as much if you don't know."

"I'll know because I'll probably be able to hear the screams over here and I'll get copies of the Prophet for a few weeks to see if there have been any murders committed."

"Are you going to read the books?"

"Yeah, if that ass won't loan them to me I'll have Winky pick up some used copies – as cheaply as possible."

It took him a week to get around to writing the letter. The pompous healer did come up and apologize to him. Apparently he had been informed that Owens was not only a very powerful wizard but knew many ways of harming someone the "Muggle way" having spent much time learning various forms of martial arts in the Far East. He did not want to get on his bad side. He did loan Roddy the books so he didn't have to waste money buying them.

The books were fairly well-written which meant that Percy had probably ghost-written them. The content was definitely a mixture of mostly Ron with some Molly and Ginny exaggerations thrown in. The first book was about the war, probably to establish Dumbledore and Ron as the real heroes of the war, followed quickly by the second book concerning the Hogwarts years.

The first book was a great work of fiction. Ron had been generous giving some praise to certain people like Remus Lupin and Tonks and naturally his brother Fred. George, Bill and Charlie were also mentioned as great fighters getting credit for the things they had done but also for things which other people had done. A lot of Hermione's brilliance and research had been credited to Bill.

It was "revealed" that Percy had been an undercover agent for the Order of the Phoenix, risking life and limb and just pretending to be anti-Dumbledore on the orders of the great wizard himself.

Ginny had been made into a veritable Joan of Arc and credited with all the work which Neville Longbottom and others had done during the year the Golden Trio had been "on the quest." It was she who had single-handedly and at great personal risk, took control and led Dumbledore's Army during her sixth year and what would have been Ron's seventh.

It seemed that the organization "supposedly founded by Potter and Granger had actually been Ron's idea and it had been Ron who really ran it and taught everybody the spells they needed to fight and survive the war.

Harry Potter was painted as a craven coward and the "quest" they were supposedly on was merely Ron and Granger chasing down Harry and dragging him back to Britain to face the Dark Lord.

For some reason that even Ron didn't know about, Dumbledore had cast a spell on Harry Potter which would cause the killing curse to bounce off of him and hit the Dark Lord. It seemed that Harry Potter had not been "killed" in the Forbidden Forest he had merely fainted and the Death Eaters had brought him back for Voldie to taunt and kill him, but Dumbledore's last spell had actually killed Voldie and ended the nightmare.

There were a lot of "errors" in the book which anybody who fought in the Battle of Hogwarts could easily refute but apparently no one had come forward to defend Harry and call Ron a liar. NO ONE. Not Neville, Luna, Order Members, definitely not McGonagall or any of the other teachers and certainly no one from the Ministry. Harry didn't know whether to be seriously angry or heartbroken.

WHY? Not one person? Had those who had been there been obliviated? Well Harry Potter would never know as Roddy Owens refused to find out. The only way he possibly could find out would be to go back to Britain – which is what the Ministry wanted.

He had a new life now and intended to live it, stay away from Britain and attempt to forget the past. He tried to tell himself it didn't matter, but as the Voice said, "Oh but it does matter as you are, despite your many talents and notable accomplishments, a mere human with feelings, curiosity and the need to know the truth."

"But I won't like what I would find, would I," Roddy responded to the Voice. "Therefore, I will ignore it – at least for now."

"Ah, after the Deluge?"

"Perhaps."