Chapter 39
Revolution of the Wizarding Britain
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Harry and Hermione had purchased their house, and they moved in there by the end of January. The house contains four bedrooms, one kitchen, one living room, and one dining room. They had purchased the necessary furniture, and the things they needed in a kitchen, such as the fridge.
As they moved in, they made contact with their friends, and their friends occasionally stopped by to see the house on weekends.
Hermione's parents occasionally visited the house, and Sirius often stopped by as well.
They were too happy to think about what the Wizards in the Wizarding world of Britain had been going through.
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Severus Snape decided that he would first find the locket and destroy it before he deal with the rest of the Horcruxes. He often walked in and out of the Great Hall feeling uncomfortable, although the expression on his face did not raise suspicion from the Carrows.
As soon as he went back to his office one evening, Dumbledore's portrait was speaking to him again.
"I understand that it is hard that the one that I had confided so much information in had not been able to make it, and I am glad that you had made a little bit of progress, Severus," he said.
Snape considered for a moment.
Perhaps if he changed the appearance of his face, it may help him to obtain the Horcrux more efficiently.
Or if he obtained hairs from Bellatrix Lestrange, he could use it in the Polyjuice Potion, which will enable him to transform into Bellatrix's appearance, and he could take stocks of it with Bellatrix's hair with him, so that he could drink it again before his hour is up. This would help him to get into Gringotts without detection.
As soon as he told Dumbledore's portrait about his idea, Dumbledore smiled.
"Whatever you do, don't let Voldemort discover your true identity, Severus," he said.
"I'll be careful," Snape said.
He decided to act as soon as possible, and he had come up with an excuse to leave Hogwarts temporarily, that he will say to the Carrows that he had an appointment with the Dark Lord.
But this way would be a bit tricky, as he knew that he couldn't be away from Hogwarts for too long, or else the Carrows may suspect him. If he met anyone else in the Order after he had gone out in the open, he didn't know what they would do to him.
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Harry and Hermione were both enjoying themselves in their new house, and Manual Walker arrived on Saturday morning around ten to visit them.
"Haven't been seeing you two for over a year," he said.
"Yeah, we missed you as well," Harry said.
"What are you doing at the moment, Manual?" asked Hermione.
"I am a Wizarding Newspaper reporter for Velion," he said.
There was a short silence, and Harry walked to the kitchen, returning with some tea bags, and three cups.
"Have you found a wife yet, Manual?" asked Harry.
"I have a girlfriend, that's all I can say for now," Manual replied.
"Who?" Hermione asked.
"Alyson Jensen," Manual replied. "She's in the same school year as me in Saint Acute. We started dating after we finished school."
"What is she doing right now?" Hermione asked.
"She is a Radio Broadcaster on the Wizarding Network," said Manual. "She only work from Monday to Thursday."
There was a pause.
"What job do you have?" he asked.
After Harry and Hermione briefly explained their jobs, Manual smiled.
"I knew that Love Potion has been banned, and I was also involved in the voting of the banning of Love Potions," he said.
Manual had lunch in Harry and Hermione's house, and then he left one hour afterwards, saying that he will visit them again some time later.
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Without any disturbance, Harry and Hermione slept in one bed on Saturday night.
On the following morning, Harry and Hermione woke up, and they got dressed, then they went down to the kitchen to cook breakfast.
The weather was rather pleasant, and they sat on the sofa, and they relaxed.
They switched on the TV, and they watched a Muggle sports game for about one hour.
Harry thought back after his fourth year in Hogwarts where he spent time outside Number Four, Privet Drive, this was an entirely different experience. He could enjoy the freedom that he wanted, without anyone interfering.
He knew that Canada was one of the best places for him and Hermione to live, and he knew that he found solace in the country.
He had to give thanks to his parents for providing the way of escape for him to leave Britain, such a way that no one would notice.
He wondered what happened to Britain now.
The last time he saw his parents, they told him that Dumbledore was gone, but now he didn't know what had happened to the Wizarding Britain.
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Luna, meanwhile, were being tortured by Lucius Malfoy and a few other Death Eaters, and later on, she and Dean were both killed. Xenophilius Lovegood committed suicide after he had heard about Luna's death.
Things in Hogwarts were tense, Neville was forced to hide in the Room of Requirement with a few others.
Soon enough, they were informed that Severus Snape was away from Hogwarts for a while.
Terry Boot and Michael Corner were rather happy with this news, but what with Amycus temporarily taking over Snape's position, they decided to be on the alert.
They had heard about Harry Potter and Hermione Granger's death during Christmas, and they had also heard about Ron's death, followed by Luna and Dean's deaths. Additionally, Ginny was nowhere to be seen.
"I am wondering what Snape is up to," Terry said to Michael.
"Maybe You-Know-Who called him," Michael said.
Back into the Ravenclaw common room, Terry could hear a few Ravenclaws complaining about the classes, and they were not pleased with the state of this school.
A few of them had decided to boycott the Dark Arts class and the Muggle Studies class, and they decided to hide somewhere, and they got the idea of Room of Requirement from Terry and Michael.
However, this brought up an issue, since they could not just boycott one class and turn up in another, or else it might make the Carrows to suspect them. They had to miss out all the classes, and they must not tell anyone about it.
Some of the Ravenclaws were a little bit terrified about this idea, but they still felt that this idea is better than nothing.
Terry and Michael could not disagree with their ideas to hide somewhere all week long, and they decided to help them out. It would also be a good thing for the Gryffindors and the Hufflepuffs to join in.
"Starting a fight in Hogwarts would do no good, though," Terry said.
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Harry and Hermione went to John Lemus's house on Friday after they left the Ministry of Magic, and John Lemus greeted them.
"Are you living alone right now?" Harry asked.
"Yes," John said. "I am doing newspaper reporting for the Wizarding Herald."
"Do you plan to change your occupation?" Harry asked.
"I might consider applying myself as a Nesassino Professor at the end of this year," John said. "I'll see, I knew that I cannot take the Defense Against the Dark Arts position because I failed the OWL."
There was a pause.
"So you two are together now?" he asked.
"Yes," Harry replied.
"I haven't found a girlfriend yet," John said. "I might find one when I get to Nesassino. Anyway, I am going to the kitchen for now, and cook. Maybe you want to stay for dinner?"
Harry looked at Hermione, and she nodded.
"Yes," Harry said to John.
Five minutes before six o'clock, John Lemus took a pizza onto the dining table, and he cut it into small pieces.
Harry and Hermione took their portions and began to eat, and they were feeling good about John's cooking skill.
A moment later, John went back to the kitchen again, and brought out a flask of pumpkin juice and three cups, and he poured the juice for Harry and Hermione.
Harry and Hermione told John about the places they visited during their honeymoon, and John was amazed with those places.
"Maybe I should go there when I have a honeymoon with my partner," he said.
After dinner, Harry and Hermione explored John's house a bit more.
"This house looks quite nice," Hermione complimented.
"My parents bought this house for me after I had been employed," John said.
Harry and Hermione lingered a bit more in the living room, and they departed John's house at nine o'clock, and John promised that he would go to their house on another weekend.
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Severus Snape, meanwhile, had managed to find the Locket in Little Hangleton, and he assumed that Voldemort must have been thinking that no one else knows about his Horcruxes, so he didn't put too much thought at where to hide the Locket.
Snape identified Slytherin's mark on the locket, and he knew that only a parselmouth could open it, so he went to the dungeons, and found Salazar Slytherin's portrait, with the Sword of Gryffindor in his right hand.
"Slytherin, I would like you to open this locket for me," he said.
"And why should I open this locket for you, young man?" Slytherin asked.
"The Dark Lord has hidden part of his soul in it, I need to destroy it," said Snape. "He kept himself immortal by hiding part of his soul inside objects."
"That means the Dark Lord had cheated death, something that even I wouldn't dare to do. For the sake of the fact that he had cheated death, I will open it," Slytherin said. "Should I open it now?"
"Yes, on the count to three, one, two three..."
"Open," Slytherin said.
The locket opened, and then Voldemort appeared, after that, Snape immediately stabbed it.
Voldemort screamed, and a moment later, he's gone.
Then Snape went back to his office, and informed Dumbledore's portrait that the Locket has been destroyed.
"That's a good news, Severus, but be careful, if Voldemort ever finds out that his locket was gone, you may have to make up a story that someone had taken it, but even so, Voldemort may still be worried about the fact that his Horcrux has been taken," the Dumbledore in the portrait said.
Snape suddenly heard a few footsteps outside the office, and he quickly turned away from Dumbledore's portrait, facing the door.
Sure enough, a few seconds later, he saw Amycus entering the office.
"What can I do for you, Amycus?" Snape asked.
"A few students were not present in my class," Amycus said.
"If you find them, what would you do?" Snape asked.
"I would personally punish them," Amycus said. "I may call the Dark Lord if I need to."
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Alicia, Angelina, Katie, as well as Oliver, were wearing masks, they had met a few Death Eaters who were trying to fight innocent Muggles. They had managed to overpower them, due to the fact that the Death Eaters were shocked by their appearance, they were delayed of thinking to defend themselves.
Bellatrix was among one of them, and she did not manage to shield or dodge the spell that Oliver had shot her, and she fell to the ground, unconscious.
"Are you all right?" Oliver asked the Muggles who were attacked.
"I am okay," one of the Muggles said.
Alicia, Angelina, Katie, and Oliver left the Muggles, and they went elsewhere.
"Where should we go?" Katie asked.
"Back to my house for the time being," Oliver answered.
Not knowing what else they should do, they rested in Oliver's house for a few days, but they were expecting attacks to happen any moment.
They remembered the time that they got attacked by the Death Eaters, but managed to survive them, and they knew from the Daily Prophet that Muggleborns were persecuted. This gave them the idea to disguise their faces to shock the Death Eaters and attack them before they do.
They were relieved that no one had attacked Oliver's house, and Alicia felt that it was safe for them.
"It doesn't mean that we should stay here forever, because there may be a chance for the Death Eaters to come here in the near future," Oliver said.
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Harry and Hermione had bought some games and puzzles, just in case if they have nothing to do during the weekends. Apart from working, they played games when they had nothing to do.
"My parents were right, indeed, there's no one coming after me," Harry said.
"We both know that we deserve a happy life," Hermione said.
"It's just that I had no idea what is going on in Britain right now," Harry said.
"You probably don't need to know this," Hermione said. "Whatever state Britain is in, it has nothing to do with us."
Harry nodded.
As they went to bed, they held each other before they fell into deep sleep.
On Friday evening, after Harry and Hermione arrived back home, they began to prepare dinner.
They ate dinner in silence, and after dinner, Harry cleared the dishes whereas Hermione wiped the dining table clean.
After a brief period of rest, they watched the television.
The news was reporting about what was currently happening in Britain.
Currently, there were explosions and deaths from time to time, and the doctors did not identify any cause of deaths. The policemen were involved in trying to find out who could be responsible for these deaths, but the result was yet to come.
Harry knew that it was most likely Voldemort's or the Death Eaters' activity that had caused these deaths to happen, and he knew that the existence of the Wizarding world must not be exposed in Britain.
"I am wondering what the Wizarding world is like in Canada," said Harry.
"What do you mean?" Hermione asked.
"Like are there policies saying that the Wizarding world must not be exposed to Muggles?" Harry said.
"We can ask our friends about this," Hermione said.
On the following afternoon, John Lemus arrived at Harry and Hermione's house.
"Hi John," Harry said.
He motioned John to sit down, and he went to get some tea for him.
"Thanks," John said.
"I want to ask you something," Harry said.
"Ask away," John said.
"Does the Wizarding world have to be concealed from Muggles in this country?" asked Harry.
"Not really, there's never such a policy in Canada saying that the existence of the Wizarding world had to be kept a secret," John said.
"You know, in Britain, the existence of the Wizarding world are concealed from Muggles," Hermione said. "Only certain Muggles know about the existence of the Wizarding world."
"One of the reason for this could be depending on how the Muggles respond to the existence of the Wizarding world," John said. "In Canada, the Muggles doesn't mind about the existence of the Wizarding world, as long as the Wizards don't cause trouble to the Muggles. In Britain, Muggles may be too resistant to the existence of the Wizarding world, which explains why the Wizarding world had to be concealed from Muggles in Britain."
"That makes sense," Harry said. "In Britain, if Muggles discovered the existence of the Wizarding world, they would have to have that part of the memory modified."
"Then there is no such thing as Status of Secrecy in Canada," Hermione said.
"Status of Secrecy? You mean that the existence of the Wizarding world must be concealed from Muggles?" asked John.
"Yes," Harry said.
"This country is excluded from the International Status of Secrecy, due to the fact that the Muggles in this country are not resistant to the existence of magic," said John. "You may want to ask the Minister of Magic about this for further details."
Harry nodded.
So on Monday morning, Harry had a little meeting with the Minister of Magic about the Status of Secrecy.
"Indeed, we do not accept the law of the Status of Secrecy, due to the fact that the Muggles in Canada are not resistant to the existence of magic, as long as magic does not cause negative effects on them," the Minister of Magic said. "However, we cannot say that the Status of Secrecy is a corrupt law. We don't expose the existence of the Magical world of this country through Muggle means such as the television and the Muggle newspapers, though."
"Not to mention that there are several laws established between the Muggle government and the Wizarding government," he went on. "Should such laws be breached, penalties would be given to the people who are responsible of breaching the laws."
"Can the Ministry of Magic detect magic?" asked Harry.
"Yes, but Wizards who are under the age of seventeen are still allowed to use magic in Muggle places, as long as the magic they use are not severe," the Minister said. "Whether we send warnings to them will depend on what magic they had used. If the magic they use are harmless, we wouldn't send warnings to anyone even if they are under the age of seventeen."
"Which means Wizards who are under the age of seventeen could practise magic at home," Harry said.
"To a limited extent," the Minister said.
End of Chapter
A/N:
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SotF, I want to point out that even though Harry and Hermione were not the ones who are responsible for making or placing the clones, the fact that they had allowed the clones to live in Britain would still cause them legal consequences if they were discovered. By doing this, they are deceiving the whole entire Britain, including but not limited to the Wizarding world in that country. The only difference would be that there would be less legal consequences for them that someone else cloned them and allowed the clones to reside in Britain than they made the clones themselves and allowing it to reside in Britain.
Finally, a couple questions for anyone who read this chapter.
How would Snape find out that there's a Horcrux inside the Lestranges' vault?
Do you think it is a good idea for Snape to use the Polyjuice Potion to disguise himself as Bellatrix and break into Lestrange's vault?
You are welcome to give me other ideas about how this story should end.