The hardest working person in Great Britain was a young page in the Supreme Court's Office. He would go days without sleep as he was always looking up something, recording something, or delivering important documents.
The second hardest working person was Madam Amelia Bones, Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement of the Ministry of Magic of Great Britain. Even before the insanity of the last few days invaded her life Madam Bones worked insane hours. Amelia arrived at her desk promptly at 6:45 in the morning five days a week. From the moment she sat down she was busy; reports to read, aurors to slap around, decisions to be made, Ministers to investigate, and so forth and so on. On top of that she was battling corruption in the ministry and also investigating Voldemort's followers who had paid off the right people to walk free.
When she was not at work working, she was also overseeing the Bones Estate. Once one of the top five estates in all of Europe in regards to goods produced, the Bones Estate was now a relic of the past. As the only Bones of age, the Estate and all that went with it fell to her to manage. She did not even have a husband to help her as she never married. In fact the only person she spent time with outside of work was her niece Susan who she raised like her own when her brother Edgar was killed in the last war.
So when three individuals appeared in her office, 2 days ago, she was already a little busy. What these three people would drop in lap would make sure she did not sleep for days. What shocked her was that they arrived without using the door or the floo, which was thought to be impossible. Of course one of the individuals had sat in this office as the Director himself in his past, which happened to be their future.
Flashback
Amelia has been doing paperwork at her desk when three people suddenly appeared from nowhere. Amelia reached for her wand when one of the individuals spoke rather harshly.
"Madam Bones, if you care for the safety of your wand and your hand, you will leave place your hand on your desk."
"Remus Lupin? How in the hell did you get into my office?" Amelia asked.
"That will have to wait a while. However, to prove that I am who I say I am, our Defense Against the Dark Arts Teacher at Hogwarts reminded us about a specific phrase every class 'Because sometimes an Auror needs to listen, instead of shooting first and asking questions never'."
Amelia smiled, realizing that one of the men in front of her was her old friend indeed. She just needed to confirm one more thing "And the password?"
Remus sighed and spoke ago "Sir Moony swears Prongs and Padfoot were up to no good while I studied hard because of my 'Furry Little Problem'. Sir Moony also swears on his magic that Padfoot did not betray Prongs, Tiger Lily, and Prongs Junior; that honor fell to Mr. Wormtail."
Remus' entire body was surrounded by a golden aura, proving that magic did indeed prove he was telling the truth. Amelia was floored. Sirius and Amelia dated when they were in school, even though Sirius was four years younger than Amelia. Sirius received his 'Tom Cat' image thanks to his and Amelia's friends. Truth be told, whenever Sirius was 'dating' someone, he was normally off the grounds with Amelia. In Sirius' 6th year, he, Remus, and James Potter were approached by Amelia to join the Auror Corps and do some undercover work at Hogwarts at the request of the Headmaster.
Dumbledore knew there had been a string of rapes and assaults on students, but there was never any evidence. Amelia, a fresh out of the academy auror, talked her boss, Alastor Moody, into the plan. Remus was the researcher of the trio, James Potter was the Intel Man. Using his family connection to the castle and her magic, James would spend time looking for offenses or clues. Sirius would be the person who would talk to the students, normally girls. Sirius would take the girls to quiet remote regions of the school. James would protect their privacy by asking Hogwarts to help.
"Remus what is going on?" Amelia finally asked.
"Amelia, allow me to introduce to you Lord Nicholas Flamel and his Apprentice, Duke Gryffindor Harry James Potter" Remus said as both men removed their hoods to reveal their faces.
"Madam Bones, we have a lot to talk about." Nicholas said.
For the next four hours, Amelia was briefed on the cover story Harry, Nicholas, and Remus had come up with. Harry had been found by Flamel and was trained by him to beat Tom Riddle. During one of their lessons on the Wizengamot and the Ministry of Magic, Harry made connections that no one else ever had, which led them to this meeting, after meeting with the queen.
"So let me get this straight, the queen wants to raise the protective wards around Great Britain, clean up the Ministry and get all of the Death Eaters who escaped justice investigated and arrested?" Amelia asked after taking a long swig of firewhiskey from a glass Remus had poured her earlier.
"It's more complicated than that." Duke Gryffindor said. "The Queen is reasserting control over Magical England. The Ministry and the Minister of Magic will be dissolved. In their places will be The Queen's Ministry for Magic, and the Queen's Minister for Magic. The Minister will report directly to the sovereign and to the Muggle Prime Minister."
"Oh Lord." Amelia said.
Since that day, Amelia had learned just how bad the Ministry had been thanks to documents Duke Gryffindor had been giving her. They had sent an innocent man to hell, bribery had become the rule, not just the exception, and morons were running the government. However, right now she was preparing for a meeting with the Prince of Gryffindor and one of the newest Lords of the Wizengamot, Neville Longbottom. After seeing them this afternoon, Madam Bones and Albus Dumbledore escorted the convicted Death Eater Lucius Malfoy to the Death Chamber in the Department of Mysteries where the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Great Britain waited for them. After reading the sentence, the Chief Justice ordered sentence be carried out. Lucius calmly walked up to the Veil and stepped through, knowing that if he did anything, he would die and his wife and son would be killed as well.
After finishing the last of the paperwork on Lucius Malfoy's execution, Amelia turned to the information that was gathered during Malfoy's tribunal and the meeting that was about to happen. As if they appeared from her thoughts, Sirius Black and Albus Dumbledore appeared by phoenix flames.
"Good evening gentlemen." Amelia said.
"Hello Madam Bones." Albus said.
"Hello gorgeous." Sirius said to his old girlfriend somewhat shyly.
"Sirius Black, are you really being shy around little old me?" Amelia asked.
"It's been a while since I've had a chance to use any of my moves on anyone except for the dementors."
"And they do not like to date, do they?" Amelia asked.
"Only dinner dates, and only if souls are the on the menu" Sirius said.
Amelia stood up and walked around her desk and hugged Sirius tightly. "I am so sorry Sirius. I am so sorry for the hell you went through. If I would have realized what happened, I would have broken you out myself. Moody and I assumed you had a trial. It is one of many things I need to have a chat with Barty Crouch and Fudge about."
"When you do, make sure you check out Crouch's house." A voice said from the shadows, a moment later Harry Potter and Neville Longbottom appeared.
"Madam Bones, it is an honor to see you again." Harry said. "May I present the Longbottom of Longbottom, Lord Neville Francis Longbottom, my god-brother. Neville, this is Madam Amelia Bones, Director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. She is also Sirius' ex-girlfriend, and by the looks of it, maybe once again too."
"Madam Bones." Neville said, bowing.
"It is an honor to meet you Lord Longbottom. I knew your parents very well. Frank and I were partners while your mother was on maternity leave." Amelia said.
"My Grandmother said you were good friends with my family." Neville said "Also that our families are cousins, closer than many other families."
Amelia smirked. "Yes we are."
"Madam Bones, there are many items we need to discuss. Is Susan at home? Do you need to make sure she is alright?" Harry asked.
"No. Susan is staying with the Abbots tonight. Something happened earlier today and Susan is assisting her friend in research." Amelia said.
Neville sighed, already knowing what had Hanna's family bothered. The manor and the family magic recognized there was an Heir Apparent. Unfortunately for Neville, he was it.
"Something else to add to the list of items we need to discuss." Neville said.
"Under the circumstances about what we are going to speak about, may I suggest that we adjourn to another location where we can be more comfortable and more secure?" Harry said.
"Where?" Amelia asked.
"Lord Flamel & I prepared a location for this meeting already. It also has a time dilation field so that we can take as much time as we need." Harry said.
"I am not going to like this, am I?"
"No." Harry said.
Ten minutes later, Harry, Albus, Sirius, Neville, and Amelia were sitting in a comfortable sitting room. In the corner of the room sat a dicto-quill and parchment as well a pensieve.
"Madam Bones, what I am about to say here is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I call upon magic to prove this to be true. So mote it be." Harry said as the golden light of the vow encompassed him.
"We lied to you. I am from the future, over one hundred years from now. My adopted sister and I came back in time to fix a number of disasters that occurred including World War III and the end of life as we knew it." Harry said.
"And you all know about this?" Amelia asked.
Albus and Sirius nodded, Neville sighed. "For some reason I was brought back from the future as well. I am also the reason why the Abbot Family has an Heir Apparent. If someone were to check with the Lovegoods, you would learn the same thing."
"WHAT?!" Amelia, Sirius, and Albus asked.
"I was married and bonded to Hannah Abbot for seven years before she died in childbirth, giving me my son Francis. Mum Weasley helped me raise Francis as I tried to pull myself back together. It took almost a year before Luna walked into my bedroom, ripped off my clothes and had her way with me. That pulled me back from the brink I didn't even know I was on. It took another year for me to get my head in gear and marry and bond to Luna. She had three children from Lysander, who had been killed in a horrible accident three days before Hannah died. We raised them, Francis, and our last three children together."
"I assume that all your bonds in this world are still active?" Albus asked.
"Yes. In my time, Francis became the head of the Abbot family, Luna's oldest became the head of the Lovegood Family and our first son became the Longbottom of Longbottom after I retired."
With that out of the way, Harry and Neville began to tell the complete story of their lives. Included in this tale were many secrets that Albus Dumbledore had held onto for years. It took hours to go over the history and then to go over the plan Harry and Hermione had put into place. To say Amelia and the other two adults were shocked to say the least. Finally after almost 16 hours after they started, Amelia spoke up.
"Can we really do this?" Amelia asked.
"Yes we can. There is no other choice. If we do not, then we will die. The fallout from a Nuclear War would kill all life on this planet. We were lucky that only parts of the planet were hit hard. The middle of the Atlantic Ocean even after all of our magic and abilities to deal with the fallout was still a toxic wasteland." Harry said slowly.
"What will you have me do?" Amelia asked.
"The documents and other information are accurate to this time period, as you already know. Even while I was getting sick, I had people compiling the information I needed to bring back. Thanks to our legilimency and expertise in the Mind Arts, Hermione and I committed tones of facts to memory. I've had a dicto-quill inside a pensieve with hundreds of sheets of paper since we arrived, getting all the information out of my head."
"Nice idea Harry." Sirius said. "Learned that trick from your granddad's portrait?"
"Yes I did." Harry said. He took a moment to center himself before he dropped the biggest bombs. "Madam Bones, you only have a few days until the wards drop. With Malfoy gone, everyone will be trying to get the hell out of England. Eventually, when Fudge is tossed into Azkaban, I think you will make the best choice for the Queen's Minister of Magic with the Dowager Longbottom serving as Chief Witch of the Wizengamot, replacing an aging Albus Dumbledore who has decided to spend more time at Hogwarts." Harry said.
"Is this true Albus?" Amelia asked.
'Sorry Albus, but it needs to be done. You know as well as I do.' Harry spoke to Albus via legilimency.
"I had not thought about it until now, but Harry is correct; it is time for a change in leadership. I support the idea of The Dowager Longbottom to become the new Chief Witch. Truth be told, I never wished to be Supreme Mugwump or Chief Warlock. After Grindelwald's fall, I felt it was my duty to serve as the Chief Warlock, to help England recover from the Second World War. I had thought to only serve a few short years, however that did not happen. People continued to rely on me and more as a politician, not as just the Headmaster of Hogwarts." Albus said.
"So you will remain the Headmaster at Hogwarts, and no more?" Amelia asked.
"Yes. However, I will offer my support and advice whenever it is asked for." Albus said kindly.
"And what of you Duke Gryffindor? What are your plans?"
"I plan to beat the damn snake head once and for all. After that, I plan to make sure that we mend the bridges with our mundane cousins." Harry said.
"I have a feeling you are going to be a pain for me for years." Amelia rumbled.
"A lot longer if Sirius has his way" Harry said with a smile which caused Madam Bones to blush.
The meeting broke up after that, with Amelia heading back to her office via Fawkes and Sirius heading to Saint Mungo's for his evening potions treatment. Albus was returning to Hogwarts to look over the new education program the Duke of Gryffindor was imposing, which left Harry and Neville to inform the Dowager Longbottom that it was time for her to serve her country. Neville and Harry were not looking forward to this discussion.
Amelia returned to her office to find only an hour had passed since she left. Even though it had taken many, many hours to get through the information, thanks to the time field, Amelia still had a number of hours left to work on this insane plan that she had been dumped with and many hours to think about one Sirius Orion Black.
In the back of her mind, she still thought about what she might have had with Sirius if she fought for him. For all she knew, Susan and Harry would have grown up as siblings, not including any other children they would have had together. She was brought out of her thoughts by someone knocking on her door.
After removing the wards around the room, Amelia opened the door and returned to her thoughts. "There is only one person who would cause you to have those worry lines." Kingsley Shacklebolt said. Out of all of the Aurors in the department, Kingsley had been the one Auror who knew Amelia best.
"There are two of them actually Kingsley; Susan and Sirius Black." Amelia said.
"Sirius? What in the hell Amelia?"
"Sirius and I…we dated while at Hogwarts and while he was going through Auror Training." Amelia revealed.
"I know."
"Remember the raid where I was critically injured in late 1979? The one where I took the cutting curse across my chest and abdomen?"
"Yes. You ordered me not to tell Sirius. I remember Edgar and his wife staying by your bedside for days. It was then that we learned that Emily was pregnant with Susan…Oh god Amelia, please don't tell me what I think you're telling me!"
"That Susan is my daughter and that her father is Sirius Black. Yes I am. When I was injured, I was rushed to surgery; Emily performed the surgery to save me and she transferred the fetus I carried into herself. It is an ancient ritual that is considered extremely dark, but it needed to be done to save Susan. When I came to, Emily told me what happened. We knew that if the truth came out, Emily would be thrown in to Azkaban and I would be relieved of duty and the Ancient House of Bones would be exiled." Amelia said.
"Does Susan know?" Kingsley asked.
"No. After Edgar and Emily were killed and I took custody of Susan, I went to Gringotts and asked that Susan undertake the Inheritance Ritual and Blood Adoption Ceremony. It showed me as her Aunt, though the Goblins at Gringotts knew differently."
"What are you going to do?"
"I don't know. But I do know that the moment Sirius sees Susan, he'll know. Don't ask me why or how, but he'll know who Susan is." Amelia sighed. "I have no idea Kingsley, but I have more important matters to deal with right now."
"Not more important, just more pressing." Kingsley said.
"Point conceded." Amelia said, then getting back to business. "Kingsley, here are the files on those Death Eaters who have escaped justice. I want them brought in. Contact Moody and put a team together. It needs to be people you trust implicitly Kingsley, there are a lot of people on that list that have powerful friends."
Kingsley looked over the files for a few minutes running lists of people he thought he trusted for this mission. There were fewer and fewer by the minute.
"Amelia, I'm going to need some outside help."
Amelia sighed. "You mean members of the Order of the Phoenix?"
"And some Unspeakables; Amelia over half of the upper Aurors are on this list. I need to get some help." Kingsley said.
"Go see Crocker in the Department of Mysteries in person then. Then contact your friends in the Order." Kingsley got up to leave when Amelia stopped him. "And King, we are pressed for time."
Kingsley nodded and exited quickly, leaving a very overwhelmed Amelia in her office.