Chapter 12

Of Mutts and Councils

Wizengamot Chambers

Sirius Black's voice echoed in the chambers, "On the behalf of the Chief Warlock, I, Sirius Orion Black, the Minister of Magic for Britain would like to welcome the esteemed members for the 1897th meet of the Wizengamot Council."

With that, Sirius bowed down to the council before him and the members of the council bowed back in response.

One of the elder members spoke up, "Minister Black, could you please enlighten us about the reason behind calling an emergency meeting?"

Sirius replied, "Sir, Wizarding Britain is in a state of emergency. We have had numerous disappearances over the past few days and quite a few killings too. All the members of the Weasley family have been killed other than Ginny Weasley who has disappeared. Even one of our best aurors, Nymphadora Tonks was killed by a pack of werewolves who transformed during the day for some strange reason. Finally, our ex Chief Warlock, Albus Dumbledore was also found beaten to death on the streets of Diagon Alley."

There were some shocked sighs and gasps from the members when Sirius was speaking.

One of the elders spoke again, "That is indeed very disturbing news, Minister. But You-Know-Who was killed by Harry Potter. It can't possibly be him. Do you have any idea about who is behind this?"

Sirius responded, "Yes, Minister. I have good reason to believe that only two people possess the power to carry out the activities which have happened during the past few days. I believe that this is the work of Harry Potter and Daphne Greengrass."

There were gasps of surprise again and loud muttering broke out in the chamber. After a few moments one of the members spoke up,

"That is indeed a very serious accusation. Are you sure about this, Mr. Black? And if yes, what plan of action do you intend to follow."

Sirius replied quickly, "Sir, Harry Potter has developed quite a reputation as being the destroyer of He-who-must-not-be-named. There'll be a public outcry if any harm comes to him. I have called this meeting for the sole purpose of getting the esteemed Wizengamot's backing to my decision. I intend to issue the Aurors with a 'Kill-on-sight' order against Harry Potter and Daphne Greengrass. I want to find them and finish them off before they do anymore damage."

There was a moment of silence before the old doors of the Wizengamot Chambers blew apart with an unbelievable force. Five people walked into the room.

Harry Potter's voice boomed across the room, "That would not be essential, Minister Black. Both me and my soon to be wife are right here."

All the Fifteen members of the Wizengamot Council turned around and looked at the five people who had just entered with looks of shock on their faces.

One of the members shouted, "This is the meeting of the Wizengamot Council. How dare you interrupt us during our meet? You have no right to be here."

Harry smirked and responded, "Oh dear elder, in a few moments you'll realize that we have all the right to be here."

Daphne spoke up, "Yeah, so to begin with, we'd like to get the official business out of the way. I, Lady Greengrass, the Head of the Greengrass clan, claim my right to the 4 seats reserved for my family on the Wizengamot council."

Neville was the next one to speak, "I, Lord Longbottom, the Head of the Most Noble House of Longbottom, claim my right to the 4 seats reserved for my family on the Wizengamot council."

To everyone's surprise, the third person to speak was none other than the ex Head of the DMLE, Madam Amelia Bones, "I, Lady Bones, Head of the Ancient House of Bones, would like to transfer the rights to the 4 seats reserved for my family on the Wizengamot council to my niece, Susan Bones, who'll now be known as Lady Bones-Longbottom."

Lady Bones-Longbottom spoke up, "I accept the transfer of seats and thank Lady Bones for her kind gesture. "

The members of the council were deep in shock. This couldn't possibly be happening. They couldn't have a bunch of kids on the Wizengamot Council.

A slight Legilimency probe told Daphne all she needed to know. She grinned, "It's too bad that you didn't put a rule in the Council Handbook about the age restriction. It's time people realized that it isn't necessary to have 'white hair and a white beard' to become a member of the Council."

Harry started laughing and it was only after a few seconds that he realized that he still had something to do. He stopped laughing and proclaimed, "I, Lord Potter, Head of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Potter, claim my right to the 6 seats reserved for my family on the Wizengamot council."

Sirius Black looked on incredulously at the proceedings going on before him.

Harry declared, "Well, it seems as if we have a majority."

And it was then that the reality of the situation hit Sirius like a gunshot. Harry Potter and his group of friends had just taken over the Goddamned Wizengamot. They now had complete control over Wizarding Britain.

Harry called a motion to approve Neville Longbottom as the new Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. Only four hands were raised, but that was enough to pass the motion.

Lord Longbottom was the new Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot for Great Britain. All the elder members were forced to stand up and give him a bow, so that the old customs could be followed.

As soon as they had sat down after bowing to Neville, Daphne turned to the elders on the Wizengamot council, "You might have heard of a rule that says that the Council has a right to evict any member if majority of the current members vote against him or her. "

All the elders looked back at her with pure horror on their faces. One of them shouted, "You can't do this. We've been a part of the Wizengamot Council for decades."

Susan spoke up, "That is precisely the reason we want to throw you out. Your bigotry has made the Wizarding World reach its current deplorable stage. I would like to call a motion to evict all the Fifteen of you from the Wizengamot."

Neville asked, "All those in favour of this motion?"

Again four hands went up in the air and even though the elders tried to protest, nobody paid any heed to them. The motion was passed and they were evicted from the Wizengamot.

Just as they were leaving the chambers, Daphne noticed Harry giving a wave of his hand. She asked him, "What did you do, Harry?"

Harry replied with a smug grin on his face, "Oh, nothing much honey. I just took away their magic and compelled them to rough it out in the Muggle world. Let's see how their bigoted asses will like it, now that the roles are reversed."

Daphne grinned and pecked him on the cheek. This wasn't something that they had planned but it was excellent spur-of –the-moment thinking on Harry's part, and she admired that.

Sirius Black was watching his entire world crumble into bits and pieces right in front of his eyes.

It wasn't too long before a motion was passed which removed Sirius Black from the position of the Minister of Magic.

Madam Amelia Bones was named as the new Minister of Magic and it was nothing more than what she deserved.

After offering his congratulations to Amelia, Harry turned and faced Sirius who had a defeated look on his face, "I have to ask you something, Sirius. Of all people, you were the last one I'd have expected to betray me. Why did you do it?"

Sirius muttered out, "I'm so sorry, Harry. I didn't believe that you would do it but Dumbledore convinced me. I thought you had gone dark, Harry. I was wrong, please forgive me."

Harry asked, "Is that all the reason you have, Sirius. Is Dumbledore the only reason that you betrayed your best friend's son?"

Sirius nodded meekly in response.

Harry's face grew red with anger. He shouted, "I shouldn't have even bothered talking to you, you traitorous bastard. Goodbye, Sirius."

And with a pop, Sirius was gone.

Neville looked on in confusion and couldn't help but ask Harry, "What'd you do with him, Harry?"

Harry replied, "That guy seriously needs an attitude adjustment. So I did the same thing with him as I did with Ginny. I sent him for a trip down memory lane, but with a few modifications."

Susan got a knowing look on her face at this statement. She grinned and asked, "You sent him back to Azkaban, didn't you?"

Daphne laughed at this, "Nope, he didn't, Susan. Azkaban is actually a pretty good place to go to once you get to know the Dementors. I for one find Storm to be especially hilarious. She cracks the funniest jokes. I remember the one she told me about the troll, the mermaid and the hag..."

Harry cleared his throat and Daphne realized that she had been blabbering. She stopped her blabbering immediately.

Harry revealed, "I sent him to a Muggle Prison which I looked up on this Muggle thing called the Internet. It's named the Tadmor Military Prison and it's in Syria. It's one of the most brutal prisons ever. Torture, executions and untold brutality goes on within those walls. The medieval methods of torture have also been well documented. "

Daphne gave a grin as she said, "As for the inmates, let's just say that they have needs and leave it at that. Needless to say, he's in for a fate much worse than death."

Everyone got her implication and they all shuddered at the thought of what was in store of him.

Amelia Bones still had a question, "But he's a wizard, Harry. He could pop out of the prison whenever he wants."

Harry looked stumped for a second. He'd forgotten to perform the most important spell on Sirius. He couldn't believe that he had been so foolish.

Daphne started laughing at the look on his face. Harry looked at her as if she had lost her mind.

After a few moments, as soon as her laughter subsided she declared, "Don't worry honey. Didn't you notice that he tried several times to curse either of the five of us and couldn't succeed even once? I took away his magic as soon as I entered the chamber. I knew you'd forget something like that in a fit of anger. "

Harry's face broke into a smile as he heard this. He approached Daphne and whispered into her ear, "Just goes on to show how well you know me, love. I dream of the day when I'll be able to call you my wife. I can't wait to marry you."

Daphne responded, "Neither can I, Harry."

And then they kissed in the most unlikeliest of places, right in the middle of the Wizengamot Chambers.

At that moment, they didn't give a damn about the outside world. They had each other and that was enough.

(A/N: And that, my dear readers, was the end of the second last chapter of this story *pretends to sob because the story is coming to an end*. Only a short epilogue will follow in a couple of days.

To be honest, I am not really happy with the way that this fic turned out in the end.

As one reviewer correctly pointed out, it turned out to be more of a bashfest than a story with an actual plotline. It's one of the reasons that I have chosen to end it a little earlier than I had thought of before. The other reason is that am really running out of ideas to get rid of people in disgusting ways: P

I know I mentioned in the last chapter that Hermione will have a small role to play in the coming part of the story. I apologize to Hermione fans, that due to my decision to end this fic earlier, I won't be able to elaborate on her role. The role she plays will be mentioned as a small part of the coming epilogue.

Finally, I have a question. Those of you who read my other fanfiction 'The Wrong Choice' may know that I had asked about a preference of ship for my next story between Harry/Lisa Turpin and Harry/Tracey Davis.

However, due to some unknown reason the people at have decided to remove Lisa Turpin from the list of characters. Is there any way she can be listed again? If there's some person whom I can mail or something then please let me know.

Please Review. Thanks to those who did so already)