I've made a few other minor amendments to Eat Death, making the Bulstrodes a Noble and Ancient House and Draco having been adopted and made the heir by the Bulstrodes to stop the family name from dying out. The titles, holdings and seat taken from the Bulstrodes were all given to Daphne in her own right until she took over as the Head of the House of Greengrass. Arthur was allocated a seat as Baron Weasley in his own right, seeing as Bill now had the House of Weasley seat as the Head of the House of Weasley and Narcissa and Andromeda were also bequeathed Baronies and Wizengamot seats in their own rights.
Taking the additional seats for Daphne, Arthur and the Black sisters were to a) prevent the traditional purebloods grabbing them, and b) to get Narcissa and Andromeda into the Wizengamot so that they could use their extensive knowledge of noble house politics to supplement Angela's and assist her by keeping an eye on what was going on and providing advice.
Also went back to check my Wizengamot vote counts and confirmed that they were too short, so I had to go back through and adjust the total votes for the Wizengamot up from 300 to 400 and clarify that it was mostly made up of at least noble houses so that it'd make more sense.
Usual disclaimers, no rights to any characters portrayed and this is neither the real world nor a Disney Princess tale.
Amelia's Aurors and the witches and wizards of Her Majesty's Special Task Force were growing stronger with the magic taken from the captured Death Eaters at around the same rate, because while the task force were capturing a dozen times more Death Eaters than the Aurors, there were over five times more witches and wizards in the Task Force, and Amelia trusted less than half of her Aurors enough to boost their magical power in this way.
What most in the wizarding world were either ignorant of or ignored was the fact that the makeup of the Hogwarts intake was usually pretty much an even split between Muggleborn, half-blood and pureblood students, but while Muggleborns and half-bloods were sometimes pushed out in the lower years, that bias swung away from the purebloods in the NEWT years as more purebloods were too lazy or stupid to do their NEWTs. However, the political control of the wizarding world traditionally being in the hands of the purebloods meant that the Muggleborns had been locked out of most decent positions, and half-bloods had a hard time of it as well, so over eighty percent of Muggleborn and almost two thirds of half-blood witches and wizards left the wizarding world and went back to the non-magical world after Hogwarts to try and make a life for themselves.
This meant that around half of Hogwarts' graduates were effectively lost to Magical Britain as soon as they finished school, and what the traditional purebloods would never admit was that the majority of the brightest and most powerful witches and wizards were among those who left. The pureblood noble families saw no problem in this, because with magic keeping many witches and wizards alive and active for twice as long as Muggles (more in some cases), there was always a shortage of decent positions in the magical world anyway, so the way they saw it was that it was only right that the Mudbloods and half-bloods should go back where they belonged.
What this meant in terms of the Task Force being put together to deal with the Death Eater attacks on Muggles and the Muggleborn's families was that they had hundreds of intelligent, knowledgeable and powerful Muggleborn and half-blood witches and wizards that they could approach to offer positions on the Task Force to when the time came, and with the assistance of Harry and the others, they did. The fact that their options in the non-magical world were limited due to the large gaps in their traditional education and the knowledge of the evil that the Task Force was fighting against meant that most of them jumped at what was offered.
This was how they had the power available to magically transport the Ynys Môn around as required, they had large teams of these witches and wizards on duty 24/7, and if the duty teams were drained from doing too much, other teams could be quickly switched in to take over. In a worst case scenario, other witches and wizards could be called in from the third of the Task Force who weren't based on the Ynys Môn.
Most of the witches and wizards on the Task Force were also given Auror training and non-magical weapons training, as they made up the magical half of the Task Force. The non-magical half of the task force was drawn from Britain's military elite, the Royal Marines, Special Air Service, Special Boat Service and the like. While the conventional military would never admit it out loud, it was accepted by many in the know that this 'Task Force' that Her Majesty had created was in fact the most capable command of the British Military.
What few in Magical Britain cared enough to notice was that the majority of the witches and wizards who were going into the expanding Auror force and excelling through their drive and ability were also Muggleborn and half-blood.
The reign of the traditional pureblood families in Magical Britain had come to an end, but many of them failed to register this because they believed the dealings of common Muggleborns and half-bloods to be beneath their notice. They were so entrenched in their beliefs that they even ignored the fact that the most powerful person in their world (both politically and magically), the one who was spearheading all of these changes to their world, was himself a half-blood. They also refused to accept that a mere teenager could be behind this tsunami of change, and so focussed on the older members of the Potter Alliance as they tried to predict which way they'd turn next, never understanding why this failed to work.
Their main focus was on Countess Lupin, the erstwhile Potter-Gryffindor (and Black) Regent and her coven of witches. Countess Lupin was now the Potter-Gryffindor Steward as Duke Potter-Gryffindor was officially an adult, but she was also the Ravenclaw-Slytherin Regent, as well as being Regent for Countess Greengrass and holding the voting proxies for most of the houses that made up the Potter Alliance, and the other houses aligned to them as well, such as the Minor House of Diggory. Under the traditional Noble House rules, this witch should be the power behind the Potter Alliance. She was supported by the Dowager Countess Longbottom (who had changed from Longbottom Regent to Longbottom Steward with Earl Longbottom's miraculous recovery, as well as being the Chief Witch of the Wizengamot), Madam Bones as the Bones Regent, Baroness Black (previously Malfoy) as the Black Steward and Baroness Tonks as the Lupin Steward. This was frustrating their pureblood watchers, because no matter how closely they watched the Countess and her coven, the majority of the time their predictions as to which way the Potter Alliance would turn were proven wrong.
The major problem that came out of Her Majesty's Special Task Force's successes in dealing with Voldemort's Death Eaters' attacks was that it moved many of the old school families to rally behind Voldemort, enraged by the very idea that those filthy, inferior Muggles could kill witches and wizards. In the Wizengamot, 'light' and 'dark' no longer existed as factions, as they had now banded together as the 'Traditional' faction to push the agendas of the proper pureblood families.
A further reason for this change of stance was that the traditional purebloods had now become insignificant in the Wizengamot, with the Potter Alliance (which included all five of the Most Noble and Most Ancient Houses, three of the Noble and Ancient Houses plus Daphne in her own right and two of the Noble Houses plus Arthur, Narcissa and Andromeda in their own right) controlling fourteen of the fifty seats and over half of the four hundred votes. That filthy Goblin Ambassador and Muggle Governor each controlled a seat and nine votes and always voted with the Potter Alliance. For that matter, the common Muggleborn Block's twelve seats and forty two votes, and the Progressive faction's eight seats and thirty eight votes usually voted with the Alliance too. This meant that the traditional pureblood families now only controlled fourteen of the seats and seventy of the votes in the Wizengamot, making them toothless tigers in the seat of power where they used the rule the roost up until a few short years ago.
The Magical Noble families who had ruled magical Britain with an iron fist for over half a millennium (allowing only a token handful of Minor Houses to be part of the Wizengamot to speak for the common people in later centuries) had lost control of their world. The most the traditional families could do in the Wizengamot sessions now was argue and try to obstruct the proposals of Potter Alliance and the Minister of Magic going through, and they were furious about this.
Of course the traditional purebloods would never accept the fact that they had brought this on themselves, even with the way that they'd lost twenty seven seats and around a hundred and eighty votes through the Wizengamot rulings that were made in regard to their desperate attacks on members of the houses of the Potter Alliance, rigid attitudes towards blood purity and refusal to accept the Muggle Queen's authority, not to mention supporting Voldemort (who was never a Lord, even his Muggle father had been no more than the heir to a minor family) or being outright Death Eaters.
These losses were quite separate from the titles and holdings of the Marquess of Wessex and the Earls of Leinster and Morgannwyg, which had all been recovered and reallocated to their rightful holders when the titles had been reinstated by the Muggle Queen and bestowed upon members of the Potter Alliance. Three of the traditional pureblood houses had lost their Wizengamot seats as a result of that because they no longer had sufficient holdings to meet the minimum requirements for a seat, as the pureblood houses had lost almost fifty votes between them through the reclamation of those titles and holdings from the houses who had misappropriated them over the centuries. Of the other pureblood houses who had hung onto their seats, five had lost enough titles and votes to be downgraded and over a dozen more had also lost votes, even though they'd managed to avoid being downgraded.
The purebloods had only managed to regain nine of the thirty seats that they had lost, and their other seats had lost more votes due to the need to allocate sufficient holdings to those seats to meet the minimum requirements to sit on the Wizengamot. This was another grievance that they held against the Potter Alliance, because they'd used the titles and holdings taken off the traditional families when they claimed their titles and holdings by right of conquest to secure most of the seats that they caused to be vacated, and used them to make that filthy Goblin and Muggle the equivalents of senior noble houses, along with their minor members.
Under the rules of the Wizengamot (instigated by the noble houses in the early days to control how much say non-noble houses could have), the Minor Houses on the Wizengamot were required to maintain the holdings needed to stay within three votes of the average votes of the Noble Houses, and Noble Houses had to hold more votes than Minor Houses or they'd be degraded (after all, poor nobles were little better than commoners). With the Noble Houses of Weasley and Lovegood, Baron Arthur Weasley, Baroness Black, Baroness Tonks, the Ambassador of the Goblin Nation and the Governor of Magical Britain all holding at least nine votes, this pulled the Noble House average up to around six votes. Therefore, Minor Houses had to hold at least three votes to maintain a seat on the Wizengamot and the pureblood Noble Houses had to give up some of their holdings to their supporting Minor Houses to avoid losing them.
Of course the fact that they had been the cause of their own demise would never be accepted by them, and that was what made the proper pureblood families turn to Voldemort as their only hope to stop the Potter Alliance from turning their established world upside down, and regain the glory that they knew was rightfully their's. They somehow missed the fact that most of those who joined Voldemort and assisted in his attacks against Muggles, the Muggleborn or the blood traitors were being killed by either the Muggle Task Force or the Aurors who responded to those attacks.
Amelia made an example of any Death Eaters captured by the Aurors who survived the ritual used to strip them of their magic, showing how they'd been drained of their magic and obliviated before she handed them over the Task Force to be buried in a Muggle prison somewhere. The obliviated non-magicals that Amelia paraded around and the piles of Death Eater bodies left after each thwarted attack were usually the only indications that Voldemort and the pureblood families got of what had happened to the Death Eaters that Voldemort kept sending to attack the Muggles, Muggleborn and others who opposed him. One thing that was obvious to anyone who was keeping count was that the tide had been turned and the Death Eaters were the ones who were doing most of the dying this time.
The old school pureblood families just saw this was an unwarranted attack on their traditional way of life and an attempt to withhold what was rightfully their's (IE: Anything they wanted!) from them. They also regarded the DMLE and the Ministry in general as traitors for going against them, so even the 'light' families felt justified in rallying behind Voldemort. They weren't exactly subtle about their views, going around harping on about their motto of 'blood over all' to anyone who would listen.
Harry smiled every time he thought of Jimmy Durrant, the grizzled old American Hit Wizard that they'd brought in as the world's leading authority on the subject to train Harry and the others in duelling and combat. Jimmy had learned his craft from the gun slingers of America's wild west back in the heyday of gun fighting and he had laughed at the traditional purebloods when he met them. "Them old boys would fit right in with the inbred hicks we have back in hills in the Appalachians, they're so inbred they probably call their Pa Uncle Daddy!" Jimmy had taught them to be faster and more accurate with a wand (or a gun) than anyone else, but it was his biting sense of humour that Harry remembered whenever he came to mind.
By this stage of the war, between them they had taken out well over a thousand Death Eaters, far more than they had managed by the end of the last war. Fortunately (for them), this meant that most of the Death Eaters who were coming up against them now were inexperienced and had limited ability, and while they had no compunctions about torturing, violating or slaughtering Muggles en-mass, when dealing with witches and wizards (even Muggleborn and half-blood), they expected the old duelling rules and standards to be followed. The family, the witches and wizards of the Task Force and even most of the Aurors laughed at the very idea of this, because as far as they were concerned, anyone who was willing to don the Death Eaters' hooded robes and masks and attack defenceless men, women and children didn't deserved to be treated any better than the animals that they were.
Whenever they engaged with the Death Eaters they had one rule, and one rule only, take them down as fast as possible to eliminate the risk that they represented. If it was possible to do so without killing them, this was done so that their magic could be harvested, but if it was too risky to try that they were just cut down as quickly as possible. One of the things that Jimmy had kept stressing to them was. "If someone comes at you, take them down hard, fast and permanent, don't give them a chance to get up and try again!" Harry and the other boys had asked why he was always talking straight at them when he said this, asking whether he didn't think the girls could do it. The girls laughed with Jimmy in agreement when he answered. "Hell no! Girls are practical, they understand the need for this, it's you boys who need your stupid noble ideas drummed out of you!"
They knew that Voldemort was holding back his core inner circle while he was building it up again, and that the more experienced ones leading the attacks were disappearing the moment any resistance showed up, but they were prepared to settle for eliminating any sheep that they left behind because wiping out his sheep would keep Voldemort and his inner circle tied up in recruiting and training more sheep, or 'Cannon fodder' as Jimmy called them.
It was in the midst of this that Hermione had their son, James Henry Potter. Mother and child were both fine, and Fleur, Gabi and their Grandmother were a little in awe of the aura of power coming from him, James was going to be as powerful as his father, if not more! With his mother's tawny hair, which looked as though it would be halfway between his mother's curls and his father's wavy hair, and his father's emerald eyes, everyone agreed that James Henry was going to be a heartbreaker. The men all groaned in sympathy for him though when Fleur's answer to this was that his two big sisters would be right there to keep him in line and make sure he behaved!
The veela magic and healing that Hermione gained from her bond with Fleur and Gabrielle meant that she was back on her feet and active inside a week. Hermione knew that Voldemort's Death Eaters were continuing their attacks and the time that Voldemort would come out and attack himself was growing closer so, now that James was born and should be safe from any overflows of magic bleeding through their bond, she released Harry to take Dumbledore's magic.
Hermione was still worried about the ritual, so they brought Dumbledore down to Potter Manor to perform it. Tally and Winky looked after the babies during the ritual, because Hermione and Fleur wanted to be there to see for themselves that everything went OK.
It actually looked more like an arcane ritual than the magic transfers generally did, because the entire family group were arrayed around Harry, Dumbledore and Remus (who was performing the ritual). Most of them shared Hermione's fears that absorbing Dumbledore's magic might be too much, because even if he wasn't the 'most powerful wizard in the world', as he and his followers claimed, he was still a very powerful wizard and they weren't sure that Harry's magical core would have the capacity to contain his magic on top of his own.
Dumbledore was looking frightened and beaten when he was brought in, because Amelia and the others had been taking some pleasure in telling him what was going to happen when the time was right. Amelia had taken it further and told him that this would probably be the first and last time in his life that he would actually involved in doing something for the good of someone other than himself, because his magical power might help Harry do what he should have done over fifty years ago when he had the chance, destroy Tom Riddle once and for all.
That started Dumbledore off on his usual shite about how Riddle couldn't be destroyed without his assistance and the things that he knew, but Amelia cut him off. "We've destroyed all the horcruxes you old fraud! Now we just have to wait for Riddle to show himself and finish him!"
"No! You don't understand, none of you do, Tom is too clever for you, he created more than one horcrux!"
"Shite! How stupid are you old man? I just told you that we destroyed all the horcruxes! Riddle's Diary, his grandfather's ring, the Slytherin locket, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, Rowena Ravenclaw's diadem, Riddle's snake familiar, and the one that you left on the head of a baby when you left Harry on those monsters' doorstep all night in the middle of winter!"
"What? How, how did you know about all of that?"
Amelia gave him a look of disgust. "Some we worked out, like the diary and Harry's scar, some we hunted down and the rest we got out of your head!"
"You, you had no right to do that to me!"
Dumbledore tried to scuttle away as a furious Amelia advanced on him. "We had no right? After all of the terribly obscene things that you've done, you have no right to live you bastard! You had Harry's parents killed, tried to do the same to Neville's parents and we've only just got them back, you dumped Sirius in Azkaban without any investigation or trial to make sure he didn't get in the way of your sick plans for Harry. You sent Harry into that horror existence with the Dursleys that was even worse than Azkaban as a baby and you've destroyed untold hundreds, if not thousands, of lives in your pursuit of your bullshit greater good! We saw that you purposely left that abomination on Harry as a baby to further your plans and we saw your sick plans to use and abuse and sacrifice him for your benefit! No, Ankles, you deserve far more than we have or ever could do to you, and the only reason that we allowed Harry to stop us killing you years ago was what's in your head, and after we found the ritual that allowed us to harvest it, your magic. Enjoy your last few hours Ankles, because if you somehow survive the ritual I and the rest of the people who love Harry will happily remove the blight that is Albus Dumbledore from the world!"
At that moment, Dumbledore realised that the elf in the room with them was looking at him with an expression that he didn't believe possible on a house elf. This elf obviously wanted to kill him, and it appeared that the only thing that was stopping him was the upcoming ritual to strip him of his magic and transfer it to Harry. The death stare only stopped when Amelia held out her hand and Dommy took it to pop the two of them from the room.
Dumbledore tried to fight the ritual, tried to escape, but he came to the frightening realisation that young Harry wasn't the only one in the room who was more powerful than him, Hermione Granger and two other young witches were as well, and they easily controlled him through the ritual. As he collapsed in the chair he was secured to, dying, Dumbledore saw that the three witches had also reacted when Harry absorbed his magical power, and his last thought was to wonder how they were connected.
Any thought of Dumbledore died before he did, because Dobby popped in in a panic, saying that something was happening with Master James and Miss Henri and Harri. Harry, Hermione and Fleur were gone in an instant and they had their children in their arms the moment they arrived. Quick (and panicked) scans showed that all three babies were fine, but they also showed that their magic had increased, and their parents looked at each other in fear at what might have happened.
They had recognised that magic would probably bleed from Harry into Hermione, Fleur and Gabrielle in the ritual, but they hadn't realised that the magic would also be shared between the two mothers and their babies. They berated themselves for not considering this, especially as they'd held off until after James was born for that very reason. It didn't take long for the babies to settle down in their parents' arms and further scans confirmed that they were in fact fine.
Once they'd put the babies down in their cribs, they returned to the room where the the ritual had been to collect Dumbedore's body and his magical portrait and pop off to a sea cliff where a strong wind was blowing out to sea. A number of the family members made their opinions of Dumbledore known one last time by spitting or pissing on the body and Fawkes left her droppings on its face before Harry, Hermione, Fleur and Gabi summoned veela fire to incinerate the body and portrait as the trash that they were, letting the ashes blow far out to sea so that they would be dispersed without polluting the living.
The next day they processed summary judgements against Dumbledore in the Wizengamot to ensure that his family did not benefit from his evil deeds. Dumbledore's brother Aberforth got what was rightfully his as the last member of the immediate family, but everything else Dumbledore had went towards making partial reparation to those it had been stolen from, or who were harmed by him.
They also brought forward evidence to prove that Dumbledore had in fact been Gellert Grindelwald's lover, how he had in no small part been responsible for Grindelwald's rise as a dark lord and how he had killed him by shooting him in the back after they had had sex. Dumbedore's Order of Merlin, First Class, was withdrawn and any mention of Albus Dumbledore was removed from all of the history books after that.
When people rose up in outrage about their hero being treated this way, the true story of the deeds of Albus Dumbledore was published in the Daily Prophet. Anyone who decried this as lies were told to go and check the facts themselves and soon enough, even his staunchest supporters shut up as they came to realise that most of the stories about the great deeds of Albus Dumbledore had actually been made up by Albus Dumbledore.
They did give his brother Aberforth closure in regard to his sister Ariana though, as they showed him the memory of how Albus had deliberately killed Ariana when he had the opportunity in that fight between the two of them and Grindelwald to ensure that she couldn't do anything to interfere with his own fame and reputation. Aberforth had always believed that Albus had killed his beloved little sister, but knowing this for a fact spared him the frustration of constantly wondering whether he had, as Albus had of course always vehemently denied doing this.
Harry and the others got a degree of satisfaction from knowing that they'd ensured that Albus Dumbledore had been denied the very thing that he'd caused the pain, suffering, death and destruction of countless numbers of people for, the fame and glory of Albus Dumbledore.
Sitting with his children one day, Harry had to laugh at Sirius when he asked how long he thought it would be before James started talking, and waving at the twins he responded. "Well Henri and Harri are talking at six months and Hermione can out talk all of us, so I'd say sometime within the next five months or so." Unfortunately Hermione had walked in as he was saying this and he got whacked over the back of the head as Jean burst out laughing. "You have to admit you deserved that, but you're right, with Hermione for a mother our little Jimmy will be talking sooner than anyone else!"
Taking in the hands on the hips and the indignant glare her daughter was directing at her, she answered her unspoken retort. "Hermione Jean, don't you look at me in that tone of voice! You know very well that what Harry was saying was true! You were talking by six months and with the extra magic, James will almost certainly be speaking earlier than that!"
That make Hermione quirk a proud smile and reluctantly nod. "Yes, he will, but that doesn't make what my loving husband said acceptable!"
Harry reached back to scoop her into his lap and kiss her, getting a happy gurgle from James and laughs from the twins and the others in the room. Hermione summoned James into her arms and kissed him on the forehead, which was followed by Harry blowing a raspberry on his stomach to make him kick and gurgle happily.
Of course, the fates didn't seem inclined to let them have a quiet happy time for too long, and reports started coming in that indicated werewolf, vampire, dementor attacks, as well as what appeared to be inferi, dragons and trolls, or perhaps even giants. It looked like Voldemort was calling in all of his old friends from before his attack on Harry backfired, and that wasn't good for anyone.
Working with the Task Force, they used the satellite imagery recordings to determine that some of the werewolves and trolls, most of the vampires and the giants had come over from the continent, they also saw that some dragons had come over from the northern dragon preserves (Harry was glad to see that none had come from the Romanian preserve were Norberta and the others he'd dealt with were). The dementors were the ones that Fudge had had at Azkaban and the inferi appeared to be homegrown, but Harry didn't draw any comfort from that.
They now had an idea of what they were up against even though that was a daunting prospect, so the magical and non-magical teams got together to make plans about how they were going to deal with them. They had Alistor, Frank and Alice, Angela, Sirius, Remus and Amelia who had had experience fighting them in the last war, and Fred and George and Harry and Hermione to come up with ideas from Magical Britain, and they had some of the more experienced soldiers, some experimental armourers and engineers and some of the more creative witches and wizards from the Task Force.
The ones who'd fought these foes in the last war did most of the talking while the rest of them scribbled ideas and asked questions. They thought that they had a solution to the inferi, so Fred and George were working with the armourers and some of the other witches and wizards on that. They also had them working on ideas in using the known weaknesses of the werewolves, vampires and dementors. Failing specific solutions, they were planning on ripping them apart with heavy machine guns or blowing them up with grenades.
The dragons, trolls and giants had no obvious weaknesses, so they were outlining plans for using heavy machine guns, canon, anti tank rifles and rockets on them and pointing out the more critical target areas. Harry was hoping to have a chance to try and talk the dragons out of fighting before they destroyed them, but he had to accept that there was little hope of that.
They knew that the Death Eaters and Tom Bloody Riddle would be harder to kill than ordinary humans, but they'd already proven that fully automatic weapons, heavy sniper rifles and grenades were quite effective against them, so they weren't really worried about dealing with them.
The final confrontation was approaching, and so long as they could come up with proven ways to destroy every element of the force that they would come up against, they were quietly confident that they could prevail. They were in agreement that until they were certain that they'd killed Riddle, everything that they came up against was to be destroyed, but the question was what to do after Riddle was dead. In the end, they reluctantly agreed that they needed to wipe out the rest of the opposing force, and accepted that that might mean having to deal with the wider werewolf, vampire and pureblood communities as well if they took up a feud over the deaths of the ones who fought beside Riddle.
A/N: I can neither confirm nor deny that the inspiration for Jimmy was someone with a large nose and a penchant for saying "Ha cha cha!" ;^)