Okay guys, this is the penultimate chapter. Hopefully this will quell some of the questions people have been asking. As always please drop let me know your thoughts if you have a few minutes. The final chapter should hopefully be up in the next few days once I have finished it. Thank you for sticking with this I hope you have enjoyed it :)

Snicket x

The next morning before breakfast found Severus, Minerva and Poppy all heading towards the headmaster's office, each had a firm mask in place and they were determined to put their plan in motion. Dumbledore was utterly bewildered as the three fiercely determined adults pounced on him and laid down their demands in such a way that he had no time nor ability to work his way round them. It was a rather frustrated headmaster that was left behind, having grudgingly agreed to allow for the young Malfoy boy's mate to come and stay at Hogwarts for a while in order to help relieve the distress and turmoil that he was facing. The Headmaster was rather frustrated, things were running out of his control and he did not like it one bit. However, for now he would let things run their course and keep close tabs on everyone.

Entering the great hall for breakfast Severus smirked as he saw Weasley and his little group of filthy bullies, he knew that they would get what was coming to them as he knew that that commupence was arriving any second now. It was mere seconds later that the doors burst open and several aurors came flooding into the room swarming towards the guilty students two of the burliest grabbed Ronald Weasley by his arms and hauled him up speaking loudly,

"Ronald Weasley, you are charged with the assault of Mr Harry Potter and with receiving illegal monies taken from the aforementioned. You will be taken to the ministry where you will face the consequences of your crimes." Ron was not the only one who had been taken, several other Gryffindors, mainly from 6th years but also from 7th and 5th were also taken including Hermione and Ginny who had also been some of te main perpetrators, these students were frog-marched from the hall despite the portests of other students and Dumbledore who had entered the hall just after them. As the headmaster tried to block the way Scorpius Malfoy stalked forwards, fuming at the headmaster's actions,

"Headmaster you will let them do there job! Too long have I allowed you and everyone else to walk over my family and the people I care about and this will stop. These men and women are here to do their job and ensure that Harry gets justice for what has been done to him, I know that you are unwilling to deal with the situation properly so I think it would be best if you stood aside, or maybe I shall have to make you!" at these words the whole hall gasped, nobody had ever spoken to the headmaster that way. Scorpius, on his part, simply turned on his heal and confidently strode back to his mate who had blanched a little, ut once Scorpius was back at his side he felt his confidence returning and when the Headmaster turned to him and came over,

"Harry my boy, you know that it was only a prank they never intended to hurt you, could you really let your friends suffer such strong cosequences for this." Harry gritted his teeth and clenched his fists,

"For one, Headmaster I am not your boy, I am simply a pawn to you someone to manipulate to get to what you want. But I have done my job haven't I? I have destroyed Voldemort for you? But now, now I am a threat and you don't like that, you want me to remain under your thumb. Well I am fed up of letting things go. No, what they did was not a prank, it was abuse and a violent, unprovoked assault, I will no longer allow you to weep things aside, I matter and I now have people who let me know that that is true. I will no longer allow you to control me and I assure you that you will face the consequences of you actions, just like my so called friends. Now I would ask that you leave me alone or I think here will be some consequences that you will not like!" the speechless Headmaster could only nod and head back out the door after the detained students.

Meanwhile over at Loukas' family home Narcissa was helping Chaos pack for his trip to Hogwarts. The young boy would be staying in Severus' chambers and would attend classes with Draco and his classmates. Narcissa had express ordered Chaos some plain black robes to wear while in classes and he already had the textbooks from his independent studies. The only thing that was a worry was the fact that he didn't have a wand, this was something that bothered Chaos as he didn't like it when people noticed that he was different. Narcissa had reassured him that nobody would dare to say anything horrid to him, Draco wouldn't allow them to.

The next morning found Narcissa stood with Chaos ready to send him through the floo to Severus, however the potion's master was in a foul mood, his classes the previous day had been dreadful despite the joyous entertainment he had had at breakfast, with many different accidents and infuriatingly insolent brats. Skulking back from breakfast with his usual scowl plastered on his face as he stormed down to the dungeons. In his annoyance and frustration he had completely forgotten that Chaos was meant to be coming through the floo that morning. Back at the manor Chaos and Narcissa could only wait for Severus to remember. It was only when Severus was halfway through his first class of that he did remember, consequently, between the two classes he hurried to his chambers, apologising profusely to Narcissa who simply waved him off knowing how caught up the brooding man could get. Severus welcomed the small teen, the centre of his godson's world, into his chambers and quickly ushered him into the bedroom where he could put his stuff down before leading him back to the potion's classroom where his third year class were waiting nervously.

Smirking in amusement at the fearful expressions, merely raising his eyesbrows at Chaos who threw him an amused glance shaking his head in exasperation at the older mans behaviour, Severus began the class. Chaos stood at the front of the class with Severus who began to speak, prowling up and down the rows of desks,

"This is Chaos, he will be assisting me today, helping me to keep you imebciles in line and prevent any accidents. I expect you all to be on your best behaviour and show him that you do all have some common sense somewhere in your pathetic, plebeian minds. Is that clear?I also expect you to be very respectful towards him as he will be giving you help" All of the students nodded hurriedly and began to rush forwards to gather the ingredients for today's potion.

Throughout the lesson Severus noticed how Chaos went over to some of the students pointing out mistakes and helping them to correct them, explaining what had gone wrong and hat they could do to avoid it or corret it in the future. Another thing that Severus noted was how the students gawped at the teen as he performed wandless magic when helping to clean up or assist them, however much to their hiw relief nobody said anything. At the end of the lesson, much to his shock more than 75 percent of the class had adequately decent potions, a first for this particular class and many of his other classes. Dismissing the group Severus turned to Chaos,

"I am impressed, the way that you handled their mistakes, I admit I maybe don't handle them in the best manner but in order to keep them viliglante and alert to help reduce their mistakes I have to be very strict. However, maybe I should try and find a happy medium, stern and strict but not terrifying, as I am beginning to tire of them making mistakes simply because they are too jumpy." Chaos offered him a gentle smile,

"Severus, I know that things have never been easy, I know that your time at Hogwarts was not the best for you while also being the best thing in your life. I also know however that, no matter how much you try to hide it, we both know that underneath everything you really do have a good heart. You spoke to me about Harry over the holidays, remember, you told me that you were beginning to understand how wrong your judgements are; I think that, no matter how much you deny it, your fearless dungeon bat mask is slowly being chipped away and believe it or not it is a very good look on you." Severus threw a playful glare at the young teen before ushering him back to the front of the classroom.

The next class was Draco's and Severus knew that the young boy would be thrilled to see his mate. Consequently after this lesson Chaos would leave his domain and go with Draco to his last lesson and spend the eveing with the blonde teen incuding dinner in the great hall, after this the young boy would return to Severus' chambers in evening for the night. From the next day onwards Chaos would stay with Draco and attend all of the blonde's classes for the duration of his stay. One other thing that would be happening today was a meeting with Dumbledore and Chaos as the headmaster wanted to meet the young boy who was being granted permission to temporarily stay in the school.

As the sixth years flooded into the classroom, a smaller class than usual due to the detained absentees, Severus saw Draco's face light up at the sight of Chaos, yet he quickly schooled his mask back into place. While the blonde was excited, the other students were curious as to who his young companion was. Severus ushered Chaos towards Draco's potion's bench and started his class, noting that none of the students dared to raise their questions. Later, when they had all started on their brewing for that day, as he stalked between the students he noted how Harry seemed more relaxed than usual and that the teen was actually doing fairly well with his potion. Passing behind the teen he quietly murmured,

"Slightly narrower slices." The teen jumped a little but nodded and began to cut his slices of flobberworm slightly thinner a small smile on his face.

At the end of the class, everyone filed out but Chaos and Draco stayed behind for a moment. The teens quickly thanked Severus and the potions master could not miss the knowing look that Chaos gave him as he left. Severus had no class during the last class period and so he decided to head up to the hospital wing to see Poppy, not shocked at all when he found Minerva there with the mediwitch.

Sitting down with the two women, Severus was glad when Minerva brought up the point that they were all thinking about.

"We need to talk about Dumbledore, we all know that things are going too far and I think it is time that something was man has ruined many lives, whether intentional or not, and he needs to be stopped." They all more than agreed on this point: the old man had gone too far. Quietly they discussed the several different options they had; the three decided that tackling the problem alone would get them nowhere, they would need to go wide with the problem, inform many people, as high up as they could: only then would they be able to finally take Albus Dumbledore down from his pedestal and get him to realise that power was not the only thing in the world. By the time they needed to head to the great hall for dinner they had a plan, a very sneaky plan in their opinion, and each of them had their part to play in order to help towards the success of this plan and each of them would discretely do their bit. Hopefully it would all come together with no way for the Headmaster to weasel his way out.

At dinner Severus caught sight of his godson and Chaos who were sat quietly amongst some of Draco's friends. He knew that the pair had been for their meeting with the Headmaster and the peeved look on Draco's face, quickly concealed by his mask of indifference, told Severus that the old coot had been annoying but that nothing of consequence had occurred; it seemed that Dumbledore had heeded Scorpius' warning and did not dare to do anything that may anger the Malfoy family in any way. The Slytherin table, as always, was the quietest table as the students politely ate the food, I contrast the Gryffindor table was alive with chatter and noise as the students sat there talked loudly, many of them speaking through mouthfuls of food in the most uncouth manner, even Minerva was disturbed by the lack of manners her house students had.

That evening the heads of houses spent time in their house common rooms as was usual. Minerva was settled amongst her students answering questions from the younger students. They were all rather shaken after the events of the ast few days what with several of the older students being taken by the aurors. The students were asking several questions about what would happen to those students and also about potentially apologising to Harry who was not present due to being moved to his own quarters with Neville. Suddenly one of the younger students piped up,

"Professor, who is that boy with Draco Malfoy and why is he here?" Minerva studied the curious faces of her students and thought about her answer before replying, she didn't want to give them more material to use against the Slytherin family as she knew that they didn't treat the Malfoy heir in the most pleasant manner, yet hopefully that would change with the new developments,

"His name is Chaos and he is Draco Malfoy's mate, as you may know the Malfoy family have been through a lot recently and due to certain personal reasons Chaos will be staying here in the castle for a while, especially while Lucius Malfoy is in St Mungos. Now I know that some of you have had a few unsavoury words with Mr Malfoy, and that some things have been said about his father. I would hope that you will all bear in mind that the Malfoy family were victims in the war, I appreciate that changing decade-long beliefs and opinions is difficult but at the moment you all need to be aware that things are not easy for the family and you would do well to remember that. You would also do well to remember that the Malfoy family are a powerful one and they will not let anyone hurt those they care about. You have all seen how harshly they come down on those that mistreat their loved ones, I doubt that your fellow students will get off likely for their actions, they will face the full consequences of their actions." It took a few minutes for everyone to absorb that information and it was clear that they had more questions but they were silenced before they could even voice them by the sharp look Minerva gave them all.

Over the next couple of weeks things ran rather smoothly: Severus, Minerva and Poppy each set about with their parts of the plan and it seemed to be moving along well. Draco was brightening up and he was much calmer and more settled having his mate around. Chaos was thoroughly enjoying his time at Hogwarts, he had decided that while Potions was his favourite lesson he very much enjoyed spending time with Poppy Pomfrey in the hospital wing, where she was more than delighted to talk to him about different healing arts. As well as this Chaos had noticed that his boyfriend, despite what he said, seemed to very much enjoy Transfiguration and Herbology: to the younger teen it was obvious in the glow that his boyfriend had during these lessons.

It was two weeks after Chaos' arrival that they received news that Lucius was now actually stable and was rapidly improving. That weekend it was arranged for Draco to leave with Chaos to go and stay with his family for a few days. Chaos would not be returning to Hogwarts as Draco's mental state and happiness had massively improved and with the knowledge of his father's greatly improved health and rapidly improving physical state, he felt that his mate would be needed more at his Uncle's manor, where his father would be moved for the remainder of his recovery. His father was being moved the next day and would be settled in one of the wings of his eldest brother's manor while a private mediwizard would be staying there as well in order to provide 24 hour care if it was needed.

Friday evening found the two teens huddled in front of Severus' fireplace, Draco with holding one of Chaos' small bags while said boy held his other bag and a small trunk. Severus was stood behind the two as they both eagerly waited for Loukas to arrive to take them back to his house. Finally the fire flared and the eldest Malfoy stepped through the fire, dusting the specks of soot from his robes. Gently drawing the two boys into an embrace he thanked Severus before ushering each of them into the fire and away to the manor.

Stepping into the grand foyer the pair were drawn into tight hugs by Elspeth who immediately summoned a few house elves to take their belongings to the chamber they would be using. Their aunt then led them upstairs towards the room where Lucius had been settled. The room was quiet as the blonde man slept, the mediwizard quietly and diligently checking him over, being very careful not to wake him. Narcissa was sat in an armchair next to the bed and as she saw the two teens enter the room her face brightened and she rushed over to them, drawing them in close and placing a loving kiss on their foreheads. Then, ushering them over to the bed she summoned two chairs and basically forced the two down into them asking them about the ast few weeks at Hogwarts and explaining in more detail about Lucius' condition.

Lucius woke about an hour later and was delighted to see the two boys, insisting they all join him on the bed he was much brighter, even better than when he had been recovering before and this made everyone feel much better. The healers at St Mungos had said that they believed he would be back on his feet within a month, especially with the care he was receiving not just in terms of medical care but also in terms of the care and love he received from his family, all in all everything was beginning to sort itself out.

Back at Hogwarts the headmaster was pacing in his office, fuming with anger. Dumbledore had just received a ministry owl stating that an investigation had been started into certain situations concerning Albus himself. The most worrying f those for Albus was the childhood, pre-Hogwarts, of one Harry James Potter; the ministry claimed that they had reason to believe that the was some foulplay on Dumbledore's part concerning to guardianship and placement of Harry after his parents death and a full investigation was being launched. As well as ths some monetary discrepancies for several funds that Albus oversaw were being looked into along with other matters. Having read through the list the Headmaster knew that he was going to have trouble and having been over to the ministry and finding a very strong suit against him there was no way for himto slither his way out, as he was usually able. In that moment the man didn't know what to do, everything he had worked for, all the power and persuasive skills had had built and the many people he had under his control, he could lose it all.

Down in Severus' chambers, the potion's master along with Minerva and Poppy were all delighted that their plan was working so well. Over the last fortnight each of them had been slowly gathering their contacts in high places and had taken the time to visit each one, explaining the many things that Dumbledore had done. With the help of the Malfoy's who were back with foridable force,especially Lucius who was definitely getting back to his confident self, yet this time he was not overbearing or cruel, they had initiated the investigations into the monetary issues, and Lorcan, in particular, had helped a lot with Harry's case as the younger boy had confided a lot in the young man. With all this work Dumbledore's schemes and plots would be uncovered, toppling the man's frightful pursuit of power meaning those who had been manipulated by the old coot for years would finally be free from his clutches, able to continue their lives, and in many cases achieve their full potentials. For Severus in particular it would allow him to finally leave his position in the school, one he had ben guilted into by Albus, and finally travel and search for his mate brewing potions at his leisure, in his own time and under his own rule: he couldn't wait. One other person who would greatly benefit from Dumbledore's fall would be Harry, the young saviour would no longer be under the man's manipulative gaze and now, with such a loving and supportive family to be with, he would be able to truly reach his full potential and live the life he truly deserves.

Dumbeldore's fall took a mere week as many things were uncovered in the Ministry investigations. It was during breakfast one morning when the aurors came to arrest him. The students were shocked and some of the staff too but many of them had suspected that there were somethings that were not quite right surrounding the headmaster. With the man escorted from the grounds Professor McGonagall was to take over as head, temporarily until Dumbledore's trials had finished and the verdict was heard: if Dumbledore was found guilty, something more than likely, then Minerva would be appointed the new Headmistress of Hogwarts and Professor Flitcwick would become deputy; it would be Severus but Minerva knew that with Dumbledore's sentencing the younger teacher would be handing in his notice itching to be free of the constraints of teaching potions.

The next morning the stoy was plastered over the news and in some ways it was rather sad if one thought about it: for years Dumbledore had been a great Wizard, well actually he still was a great Wizard. However, in a way not too unlike Voldemort, in the end the desire for power had been too much and had destroyed the good man that had once been Albus Dumbledore leaving only a power hungry man who would manipulate and step on anyone to get where he wanted to go. Sitting in Loukas' manor the Malfoy family were all celebrating as the man who had brushed them aside and helped to mould the way society thought of them was gone ad they now had more of a chance to rebuild their outstanding reputation and gain back the respect that they deserved.

There you have it, hope you enjoyed,

Snicket x