The trio was up for another regular day. After their morning routine they got dressed and went for breakfast in great hall and took their new usual seat. While eating Hermione remembered something and asked "when are we going to meet Slughorn, Harry ?"
"Just after my biggest weapon strikes the world" Harry responded with a smile.
"what do you mean?" Dora asked. Living so many days with Harry she was now able to understand his body language.
"Just wait for the prophet"
After 5 minutes the prophet arrived with headlines:
MINISTRY LOOSES ITS CONTROL OVER HOGWARTS.
HOGWARTS HAS A NEW DEFENDER.
3 CHILDREN OF PUREBLOOD HOUSES KILLED IN HONOUR DUEL.
2 SENIOR AURORS DEFEATED BY A FIRST YEAR.
Harry just looked and smiled at them and both shook their head with smile. Leave it to Harry for converting a very harming condition to a profitable one. Harry stood up and went to podium again. Students were thinking now what? Harry is not one who will justify his actions just because of some newspaper.
Harry started " dear student of Hogwarts a few more announcements. Firstly I received a few very disturbing memories about history classes so we are going to change the history professor." The students starting cheering and applauding like mad, when the cheering died down,"Now this question if for 4th ear and above. How many of you have divination as an elective? Please stand up" a lot of them stood up.
"Now those who took divination as an easy owl please sit down rest keep standing" Harry asked. More than half of them sat down.
"why am I not surprised? everybody sit down. Now firstly I would like to ask is owl necessary or is earning money is necessary." Harry asked gently "for those who thing earning money please raise your hand. More than 2/3 hand stood up. "So why did you took divination, I know you will say that It was an easy owl but didn't you said money is more necessary? My friends owls and newts are just a pieces of paper they does not define you. what defines and what will help you is how much you have learned. How much do you know? When tomorrow you will apply for jobs in gringots, ministry uh... cut the ministry part they only care for pureblood status but any other firm the owl and newts are just to get in the interview then what you will tell that I have read divination? Their first question will be are you a true seer? No and they will simply chuck you out. Ok there are only 3 feild in which you could go without runes and airthmacy. Auror healer and become a potion maker. Auror take what? 2 or 3 people per year same for healer. An year has a strength of 43 on an average so 3 went t auror, 3 went to healer, 6 are out then what? Rest of you will do what? Thinks guys think. Don't just blindly follow think about it, reason it by yourself. Just because I am or anyone else is suggesting do that, don't do that at once because I or other one is powerful or till the date has led you right question him, question me. It is your future we are deciding, it is not only your right but also responsibility to ask. Ask if you have any doubt in policies ask me or faculty why this is being done? Why is this thing not being done? You will either get the answer and sate your query and you will sleep better or we will get a new idea to implement for your betterment. If 9 or 10 brains of faculty can do so much good think what 300 brains not experienced so not clouded by the earlier notions of 'this is the way because it was like this when we were taught' could do. Now back to topic I am thinking to scrap divination and get a few more teachers in rune or airthimacy or any other topic you want it's up to you will get a form today with your new schedule do not fill it right away. Think and slep on it for 2 nights then fill the form. The last date of submitting the form is 7th day from today. For those who want to change the course from divination to runes or aithhmacy special classes for them will be held for them and them it a 4th or 7th all are allowed in it you will be brought up to speed and then you will leave for the students till owl and for 6th year it will take 2 year for you to be brought up to speed. At the end of this year you will give your owl and newt next year for 7th year I am sorry but you could only be prepared for owls which you will take with your newt. It is all if you wish to there is another form for enrolling in the classes take today's day by tomorrow morning I want your forms and classes will start from tomorrow evening. If a true seer graces these halls arrangements will be made for him/her so that he/she is able to wield his gift with fullest of his/her calibre. For those who have a DADA just after breakfast stay here only, thank you"
"Now what is this buster? What have you brought out of the sleeve of your sleeveless shirt?" Tonks asked.
"Well, a brighter future for the students" Harry said with a smile. For this he got a kiss on cheek from both of his girls.
Professor Flitwick on the other side was very smug about something he turned to professor McGonagall and asked "so Minerva, tell me now who thinks better about the students Harry or Albus? This person is in Hogwarts for what 3 days and the list of thing he has changed for good is already longer than what Albus had for it in all this years. He is not only thinking for their better life at Hogwarts but after it also. What Albus had done, just that they become either a meek sheeps by preacing only forgiveness and only forgiveness nothing else or savage animals by not controlling them, he lowered the educations standards. If this continues Hogwarts will again become a premier school in world once again"
She had nothing to say. What could she say, all the things Filius had said was true, word to word. She also had a lot to say.
After an hour letters begun to arrive there were many howlers Albus smiled he wanted to see this boy dealing with public's anger. Harry simply created a silenced field in a remote area of hall and directed elves to place howlers in that area and sort letter if any carried any curse in them write their names he will show what cursed letter really means.
"Harry is it necessary to send them cursed letter?" Filius asked.
"Sir, that letter could have been opened by Dora or Hermione and they could have gotten hurt, you have witness what I do to people who try it such thing so will know what happens to send any one a cursed letter. Don't worry it will not be dangerous jut extremely embarrassing like... belly dance"
"so... it was you but .. twins..." Filius sputtred while trio just laughed.
Breakfast was over and the class for DADA 1st-3rd year started started in the great hall with the trio started. Harry started "books away please"
"Now, let me ask you a few questions. what is difference between light and dark magic?" Harry asked and a few hand stood up and Harry motioned one to answer
" Robert Mathews, second year Ravenclaw sir, any magic which only has a bad use and used only for harming is called dark magic"
"hum. Name a harmless magic."
"Lavender Brown, 1st year , Griffindoor, hair charm ,sir"
"hum. A dark spell used only to harm other being?"
"Theo Nott, 1st year slytherine flaying cure sir"
"what if I told you that you all are wrong. Confused? Let me show you. Miss. Brown said hair charm is harmless. See" he said and then did a hair charm on lavender. Her hair started to strangle her he then quickly dropped and cancel it.
"No charms and curses are harmless. It just depend upon the creativity of the caster. The flaying curse is used by mother in kitchen to cleanly flay chickens and such. Blood vanishing curse is used to prepare the edible meat from raw blooded meat. Blood to stone is a curse you will learn to defend yourself against vampires. The real dark arts no actually the real Evil Arts are those that are crime against Mother Nature like bringing dead back to life, damaging ones soul by various rituals. They are real Evil arts and can be counted on fingers are not for you to know. Keep this in mind there is no light no dark only magic. The only thing you should care about is to be able to distinguish between evil and good and not join evil. Now to lesson's main part: practical- take out your wand and in a jabbing motion say 'pila pingere' when I command. A curse is effective if and only if it connects with a person otherwise just a waste of power" Harry explained then asked the elves to bring the target walls and place them between the rows of students. It had target circle painted on it. Students were doing the target practice while the 3 instructed them how to aim correctly at the target when grey lady floated in and said "Harry Madam Bones wants to come in"
"ok send her here" Harry said. The grey lady floated out.
After 5 minutes Madam Bones came in and her first expression was what the hell is going on here. Is an army training ground? Harry read her expression and said "no they are not training for a battle but for self defence. Today's lesson is how not to hit yourself or your friend."
"I wish I am in service to see this batch getting selected they will be the best of the best."
"thanks for the compliments but I don't think you are here for this so the question is why?" Harry asked/
"I like the way you don't beat around bushes. Wizengmot wants your presence this afternoon"
"Madam Bones don't you love your aurors or are you too blind to see the trap. They think that taking me out of here will ease their problems to remove me. They don't know that I anticipated this move also I have already rigged ministry with di-methly-mercury bombs that will explode at my command or the second I die. For what this weapon is, think of it as dragon pox but 100 time fast in spreading and far, far, more deadlier. Also I do not have time to meet anyone today. The only free time is lunch before it an interview out of Hogwarts and after if interviews in Hogwarts. I have 4 teachers to replace. Nancy"
"yes master Harry "
"bring those stones and mirror"
"yes master Harry " she came back with 2 mirror and 1 stones shape like mike and 2 in shape of speakers
"Madam Bones the stone in the shape of rod with a ball on its top has a voice activated eavesdropping charm that can be activated by command 'activate' and deactivated by 'kill it' you will have to press your wand on it while sayong
. The one with box shape will emit sound my voice to be specific place it podium or anywhere just the un-even surface towards audience. The blue mirror will show me place the red to the body you want me to talk to both have its partner with me and protean charm on them to reflect my real time image and yours too."
"Is there anything you have not planned? 2 steps ahead is alright but its is like you can read everyone's mind well they are not going to like you answer they are used to of people doing their bidding." Amelia said in awe. This guy could do a massive damage if he want to. He has means at his disposal and mind to make most common thing a deadly weapon with sense to anticipate every move of ministry.
"That is what it is wrong with this country. People are afraid of their government. Of one person in power or group of people not chosen by them but by birth, government must be afraid of their people. To protect themselves they simply crippled the education system so people cannot revolt. That is why special auror training is there to make them a bit more competent. If they want to meet me it will be..." his index finger was straight rest all were clenched in a fist pointing towards the floor. "This is where we talk or this is where they die, if they attacked us." The gong rang indicting that a period was over
"you will have to excuse us Madam Bones we have to go and meet some people"
"Sure Harry my work is complete any way. Thanks for the time"
"Madam the pleasure is all mine. There are far few sensible people in ministry to talk. Have a good day" Harry left the hall with his girls to meet Slughorn.
The trio was at the ward limit of house of professor Slughorn. Harry took out his wand and sent his patronus to deliver the message.
Horace was already terrified of one Harry James Potter. He had read the paper today and the image that it had printed of Lily's son was not at all good. He was about to have lunch when a panther patronus came in and an unknown voice said 'Professor Slughorn I am Harry James Potter I am here with my two friends and have some urgent matter to discuss with you. We are at your ward limit waiting. Please have no fear on mind we are here on a peaceful conversation"
What the hell this guy could want from him. Does he knows about... no he told that to no one, then why? There was only one way to find out. He went to ward limit and and saw a boy and 2 girls were there he went there and asked "Harry Potter?"
"Yes, Professor Slughorn?"
"Yes, What do you want?"
"Well I have a business deal for you, a very profitable one and is it not impolite not to ask someone to come in?
"Ah I am sorry please come in"
They all sat in the sitting room Horace was about to get some refreshment when Harry Interrupted "please don't bother yourself with it professor we are in a bit of hurry."
"You said about some business deal"
"Straight to point, good. We are in a dire need of potion professor I want you to teach at Hogwarts."
"A person like you should already know that if I turned down Albus I won't accept your offer that is not any different"
"Professor we both have something in common, we both like collecting. In your case students, in my case information on my enemies and there were a few that were common like William Avery, Rudolphus Lestranges, Tom Marvolo Riddle. In your long life you made many connection but also a very big enemy. My deal is your knowledge and connection comes in use of Hogwarts and your enemies are mine to handle." Harry said in an emotionless voice. Horace went pale at the name of Tom. He knew about it or some of it. So that was the real reason.
"So you just want to know about him, get out. I said get out." Horace said in temper. Harry just sat there smiling yeah his plan was working.
" 'can a soul be split only one time professor not 7' I know it professor, I know your closely guarded secret and I am in not need to that rubbish information. What voldemort was, was a mere symptom of the disease which took a deadly shape. I want to cure the disease at the root only, children are at Hogwarts for 9-10 months at their most malleable stage of 11 -14 years to change their outlook toward the world there itself, help me in doing that. We both know that he is not gone and will return. I know it better than anyone because I have met that bastard quite recently. We both know when he will return, he will come after you to bury his deepest and darkest secret, one responsible for his existence. What I offer you is not just a teaching post and a bit of gold but a safe heaven of being inside a fortress that can now face a full head on attack of voldemort and ministry at the same time. One should be insane to attack Hogwarts, well otherwise insanity wards will make you, that is if you survive hell fire wards" Harry said calmly. He saw the shocked looked at the information. He got that piece last night form voldemort's head. He knew it otherwise also that the only one that could have given him that information was either dumbledoor or Slughorn. Dumbledoor loved to get his dirty work done by others so he won't give that info to Tom directly that only left Slughorn. Then he looked the thoughtful expression so he decided to deliver last punch to show he was not desperate for him only and other options just to make him desperate " think about it professor you have 5 day otherwise I will have to keep someone else, have a good day"
The group stood up and left. They were at door when they heard "ok I will do but I want a pay rise and the office of professor Merithorn"
"Pay rise is not any problem office is, that office is converted into a student-parent meeting room. We have bigger offices for teachers I think that will do fine for you."
First time in the conversation Horace smiled. This boy was really good. He was outwitted by an 11 year old but that boy was worthy. He said smiling "yeah the will do just fine, have a nice day" Harry just nodded while smiling.
"You know, being your company constantly my mind has also started to think like your's" Dora said.
"How so my dearest Dora?" Harry asked in genuine surprise.
"We have a meeting in half an hour with whole Wizengmot, we should compile the list of the people who can benefit or harm us and any weak point of their's"
"Also we have their wind pipe in our hand. Their education system, we have to make sure that they get a strong message that what harm we can do. Most of their money comes from overcharging first born and halfbloods. We make sure that they get this massage loud and clear that they either bow to our conditions otherwise we will supply the student all the necessary thing like wands, books, dresses and likes that are made in foreign. A port-key costs nothing as you will make and ministry has no jurisdiction over it and it will bring the person and goods in no time. Their economy will crash upon itself." Hermione suggested.
"Even though you both say thing very often in public, Your minds are very sharp and up for these kind of things" Harry gave them an admiring look
"so shall we?" Dora asked.
"sure my ladies" Harry said while curtseying earning a light slap on his arms by both.
"Prat" Hermione said.
"But you both still love me"
"so for harmful group death eater and dumbledoor' men so at least 2/3 men outright, then we have neutrals they may agree with with us or may not. Bones is with us so her camp of 5 is with us, Longbottoms and their allies and Madam Marchblank may come with us on the educational policies but may differ on the way. We are fighting uphill here" Dora said.
"Yeah but for both sections we have their children they can't do anything like outright attack and by the Christmas we will turn their so addicted to Hogwarts that in their every second sentence will have Hogwarts in it. By the law they can't even touch us" Harry said.
"On finance we have got Ollivander, Madam Malkins, flourish and Blots, and the potion supply shop and trunk shops are the one that will get major hit some may have to close their shops. They constitute of 1/3-1/2 of the whole economy. Pet shop and bars will get a moderate hit. Pawn shops, prophet, joke shops will get almost no hit. If we do it, we will create a massive dent on English wizarding economy, legal one that is to say. They will have no way but to hear and follow us otherwise they will become paupers in a few years" Hermione said.
"Correct I can get gringots to open a very small money exchange counter here for it they only like profit with honour, how they don't care? Now only one thing is left to do before meeting"
"What?" Hermione asked
"Kissing my beautiful girls, not even a month and you both have wrapped me around your fingers and I don't think I will survive an hour of hearing some council of olds and assholes without it" with a puppy dog eyes at both of them.
"You are becoming worse and worse as days pass" Dora said smiling and pulled him into a passionate kiss whose repeat was given by Hermione.
While they had a very pleasant morning the wizarding didn't. The news of 4 executions hit wizarding like a tornado. There was an uproar in pureblood and they were out for Harry 's blood. They thought that they were up against a mere boy who used dark curses so taking his wand and then arresting him would do the trick. They were patting their backs at the cunning they will have their image strengthen by claiming that they saved lives of many children while killing the upstart. A good plan for common magical not Harry potter. His mother gave brains of likes of them, mixed in milk when he was 2 years old.
Harry curtsy of her girls and his mind had a plan and a very good one at that. He was going to make British wizards understand that they were not up against some child but a master mind, who was playing with them just like puppet masters play with puppets.
In the Burrow the atmosphere was very bad molly had read the news and was not happy. How dare that brat tried to think that he had any choice to select any girl apart from her Ginny, ok a little love potion will fix it. It was the same love potion that she gave her husband on the weekly basis and overdose has caused so many children. Unfortunately for her Harry had already ordered elves to check the mail and divided them into 4 categories normal, curses and charms, harmful potions and mind controlling potions and charms. Her letter went to 4 and Harry was going to check himself about it nothing can control his mind not even Amrotentia or imperious but the caster was in shit load of trouble. She won't know had hit her or rather won't be in a condition to know.
Rest of Britain was of 2 mind either Harry was a dark lord in making or a true savoir who saved the virtue of a damsel. Those who thought him dark lord was due to the assessment of wounds given by daily prophet. They said it clear cut that harry used dark curses. Just the word dark curses was enough for them rest be damned. Who gives a shit about intent he used a dark curse he should be in Azkaban. To other the intent behind was much important he gave a clear cut message mess with a girl's virtue in his presence at your own peril.
