Chapter 14 – Educational Decree 24 ~~~~~Power of Ancestral Magics~~~~~

October 7th, 1995, Hogwarts, Scotland

When Harry woke up on Saturday morning, he felt an odd mixture of emotions. His guardians had shot down his latest ideas for a spell chain, at least for use in class. He had then had to suffer through a two-hour long lecture on the uses of battle magic and why that was a big no, no, in your typical defense scenario. He did however learn a few new types of spells that weren't listed in the Hogwarts library, he had then learned why they weren't listed as well.

The spell types were inherently Roman in origin. In its prime Rome had jealously protected few things more than they protected their magic, not even teaching conquered lands the spells they were so well known for. The few written texts on Roman magic had been hidden in the bowels of the libraries of Roman family seats of power, the main manors of the Roman magical families. With the fall and sacking of Rome and its constituent city states, many of those family libraries had been destroyed along with the great city.

The house of Potter having had its manor attacked for several secrets the house had over a century earlier, had created a duplication charm set, so that the moment the main copy was damaged in the family manor seat, a new copy was created in the family heir library at the secondary house which had at that time been in Britain. This had meant that as the other Roman had scavenged and fought over the few remaining partial texts of Rome's magical tomes. The Potter family faded into the background making said tomes, and their very existence over the years a family secret. Over the years they had also purchased and collected many tomes that had not fared as well in the fires and had suffered the passing of time. They had restored these tomes and added them to the Potter family Library so that even though such tomes only accounted for less than a quarter of their Roman magical manuscripts they were known to have one of the largest collections of Roman magic in the world.

The magic of Rome was such that you couldn't just cast the spells by reading the old tomes, you had to have knowledge of the magics of Rome, understanding of the theory of these magics had to come first. A teacher was required to properly learn the magics, and to understand the convoluted theory that was half stated and half expected for you to understand. The question of who had enough mastery to teach it had allowed the magic to fall into disuse and become a lost branch of magic. Harry was now being taught by his guardians said magic, as although it was never to be used outside of the family lands, the house of Potter was one of the few that still new how to use the Roman magics.

Roman magic had three main branches that were now considered lost. Though not protecting from fire and flames, their wards were second to none and the basics of such were the foundation of Hogwarts own ward set. There wards had developed to the point that the city of Rome had a ring of defensive wards, one of the only defensive runes sets ever created outside the forbidden cities of China and Mongolia, and the overall, imperial ward schemes covering the entirety of the empire. With those wards fully powered Rome should have never been susceptible to such an attack, however the ward keepers had become fat and lazy in the maintenance of the main ward stone, and when needed most the stone had not been able to work. The Potter house now possessed the only known tomes of how to set up such wards. As the roman way of doing it was different and used less power than the traditional ward stone, this way would be highly valuable and restore an entire sub-branch of the magical branch of warding.

Tying into warding was the rune sets used by Rome. Roman runes had long been deciphered but it puzzled many scholars how the Romans of old had used the Runes in their possession as though long ago deciphered it was not known how to use said runes in a way to get the affects the ancient Romans did. They were able to forge time sets that instead of merely speeding time up by an extra couple of minutes or allowing you to go back in time like time turners a few hours, could actually speed time up to the point that years could pass in mere regular days. Though known to be possible it was not known how, as such Roman Runes were classified as a lost branch of magic.

The final lost branch of Roman Magic was one that house Potter was uniquely masters of. Roman Battle magic was second to none throughout the world, it could pull enormous feats of magic from its wielders, and more importantly had aided Rome in securing its empire. In the modern day Rome's battle Magic is more myth and legend, than fact but to this day some still speculated whether or not Saxon battle magic that Albion so prided itself with, could match up to its Roman predecessor.

Tomes containing the knowledge of all of these sat in the Potter Library gathering dust waiting for the day they would be revealed again. However, Harry had seen a use for them and had wanted to use spells from said tomes to increase the power of a few of his spell chains. He had been reprimanded for it and on top of the lecture on the difference between defense and battle magic had also been given a reprimand on the keeping and maintaining of the family secrets. Harry was rather upset by all of it, and a bit disappointed in himself. But in the wake of his realization of what today was he forgot his displeasure at his guardians as he was overwhelmed by a feeling of nervousness. Today was the second Hogsmeade weekend of the year, today was his date with Viktor, what was he going to wear.

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After getting some help from both Sirius, and the other bearers in the tower Harry had been rather pleased with his choice of outfit, the flash of desire he had seen in Viktor's eyes had helped as well. Viktor and he had laughed chatted and gotten to know each other as Viktor and Harry had explored the Villages nooks and crannies, even finding a rare tomes bookstore that Harry had found some old Celtic magic tomes in that he had purchased and sent to the Potter family library. They had both ruled out madame Puddifoots for lunch they didn't have many options for an actual lunch and so decided, on the hogshead inn.

Inside Harry had been bombarded with requests from the gathered students to teach the defense and to head up a defense club, however after seeing several of the names on the paper for their club Harry had refused to be its leader and had pushed it back onto Hermione's and Ron's shoulders. He had however eventually consented to helping teach a few techniques with Viktor later in the semester after things had settled down a bit more.

Overall although Silver and the other bearers lamented the absence of romance on their date, Harry surmised that it had gone well he had enjoyed it. It had shown that at least minorly they were compatible with each other a test of whether they were magically would take more time, but Harry could already see himself falling in love with this man.

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Harry woke up Sunday morning having had pleasant dreams and having had a few discussions with his two guardians that had soothed his anger from the previous night. He could have done without the wet and sticky sheets but that he supposed was a side effect of the first initial dream. He had however quickly showered and gotten dressed as he had to meet with his culture class group to work some more on the class project.

Surprisingly it had not been as bad as Harry had thought it would be. Their group was a mix of the already prearranged groups of two simply mixing together into a larger group. So, Harry had been rather happy to learn he had Hermione, Ron and Neville, as his partners. He and Hermione weren't quite what they had been but where certainly better than what they had been. Draco had not been too difficult to deal with as they had to work together in groups quite often. Pansy, Daphne, and Blaise Zabini however had been a little bit surprising and a little wavering, but the group had persevered.

Harry's group had been assigned the Most Ancient and Most Noble families. For the four houses to study they had chosen, Albright, Ravenclaw, Addams, and Mercier. All of whom where technically declared dead houses but who knew anymore with all the family lines that had been recently claimed. (Harry did actually but no-one was asking him about that.) It had been rather easy finding the simple answers for the houses, when they were founded and such even the how and when of their ascension had not been difficult. However, they had now chosen to start work on the bonus question. What steps must be taken by the houses you chose to ascend to the next level. However, what Hermione had not realized when she had asked for them to do that for their chosen houses was that it wasn't simply a straight shot up from the rank if most ancient and most noble, they would be discussing and explaining that later today, now it was time for breakfast.

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Walking into the great hall he was not surprised to see speculative looks being thrown his way as he sat down for breakfast. "So, Neville what did the Prophet say about my date with Viktor yesterday?" Harry asked Neville who was reading the paper.

"Well, not a whole lot actually, the article didn't get any space until page 4. No, that article was rather tastefully and artfully done, I think the article you are looking for doesn't actually have your name in it at all."

"Ok, what do you…" Harry asked confused before being interrupted by Hermione.

"Harry, I know you didn't want to support the defense club but there was no need running and telling a teacher about it." Hermione snapped at Harry angrily.

"What are you talking about Hermione? I didn't want to lead your club because I have enough on my plate as it is, I already have enough responsibilities on my plate as it, I can't afford to add another thing I have to prep and prepare for as well as making meetings for." Harry snapped back starting to get annoyed.

"Likely story Potter you just wanted to look like a good teacher pet when you went squealing to them about our intentions. You really are just a liar and a cheat Potter; Susan was right about you." Snapped a Hufflepuff who had been at the meeting.

"For your information Ameria, I do indeed have more on my plate than the average student, or did Susan forget to mention the responsibilities of a titled male heir once he reaches 15. As she obviously did not let me explain. House Potter has five house rules and laws that come into play when the heir turns fifteen. The first of which is the fact that I must have attempted at least one full courtship period with a person of my choosing by time I'm 17. That is courtship according to the old rules, Albion rules not modern rules which are far more extensive than the modern ones. So beyond the date Viktor and I have had, I also have to write him a moderate letter daily, find a courtship present of equal standing to the one he sent me and research properly the house of Krum so that I can properly honor his house when I choose said gift."

"The second and third do not come into play for me as my parents are dead. The fourth is the rights I had to do alone and unaided as again my parents are dead, and unlike Susan I have no immediate family close enough remaining alive to simply turn to, to aid me in performing those rituals."

"Lastly the final law was a removal from the Potter family account and being placed on a stipend for the traditional elder family monetary wealth testing to prove that I can properly handle the Potter wealth."

"On top of all that I am the last of the main branch of house Potter as such it my responsibility to see to the children, of all the cadet branches of the House, as well as the children of its vassals. That is over 350 students, that I personally must request and go through a progress report for, and then assure their parents of their well doing. Over 350 students I must monitor grades for, and behavior for, because ultimately that falls back onto me if something happens. And on top of it all those 350 students are just those that are of age to attend a magical school like Hogwarts. I have over a thousand children not yet in school that I must ascertain the wellbeing of among other things as is my responsibility, as the next head of house with a non-familial lord sitting as current head."

"Among all those responsibilities, I also have to oversee many of the business aspects of the house, and personally write letters of permission to every adult member of a cadet branch of the House for every job change, for all the votes that are cast for the house etcetera, on top of also going through every vote and law proposed by Wizengamot and the ICW as in all but official capacity to those bodies I am the head of House, and must give authorization for every vote. Even then I have also just added a whole new slew of children and families I'm to provide for until another house can stand as protectorate for them, among all my other responsibilities. So, no Miss Ameria, my answer of "I don't have time between my House responsibilities, and all my other classes" was not a joke. At this point I've already quit quidditch and received all of your censure from it as well. Moreover, for your information I never told anyone anything about what we talked about yesterday, but there were enough patrons in the hogshead, that any one of them would have told, now will people allow me to actually sit down and eat breakfast and perhaps read the paper for a moment so that I can actually understand why you all seem so concerned that I told something." Harry finally snapped, ranting and putting all his responsibilities out there for people to see. Come on this was common knowledge to most people.

"Oh, please Potter you aren't expected to do even have those things." Susan snapped back.

"Heiress Bones just because your aunt has taken most of your duties onto herself does not mean Heir Potter can do the same after all his guardian must do the same for his own house and is therefore unable to give as much aid as your aunt." Draco smoothly inserted himself into the conversation. "The fact of the matter is you've given your aunt all the responsibility of your house but only fed her the lies and rumors of what actually is happening here at school. You left your aunt your responsibilities but have all but sold the Diggory's your vote. You are a disgrace and I have no desire to hear anything more from you and I'm sure our fellow heirs who have actually taken up the responsibilities expected of our station feel much the same."

"Here, Harry you eat let me read the front-page article to you." Neville said before reading the article outlining the new educational decree 24 out loud. When Harry started chuckling, Neville wasn't quite sure what to do. "Um Harry what's so funny?

"I'd like to know to." Asked a Slytherin seventh year from behind Draco.

"Ok, I can explain but it will cost you." Harry answered.

The Slytherin narrowed his eyes, "name your price".

"Simple, I want the notes for every class for every year." Harry replied. "Until this rule is repealed."

"Done," the Slytherin said holding out his hand.

"Draco reread the entirety of the new educational decree." Harry paused for him to read it out loud. They now had the attention of most of the hall, though the teachers seemed to have put up a new privacy bubble to stop their meals from getting interrupted again. "You, Pansy and Blaise are heading to class when you enter a hallway that has three students in it already. The Hallway now contains six students, I should hope none of you get caught because you all just formed an Organization, Society, Team, Group, or a club and if caught as you will not have had permission from the High Inquisitor, will be expelled. I'm not even touching on the fact that all our classes have more than three students in them, its why I asked for the notes I very well can't attend classes when there's already three people in the classroom. But I figured if a single student from each of the three houses went to class, they could share the notes between the other students in the classes, so none of us miss anything until this gets repealed. I know myself if it's not repealed by the Wizengamot session that starts the first of November, I will be challenging the bill there as it infringes on my heir rights to have me and mine be tutored by an outside tutor."

"Wow, you are serious about this." Says Dean Thomas from down the table.

"No, actually he's not, being too serious actually. As heirs there are certain specific things that we are taught from a young age, decorum, politics, manners, and such things. By time we reach Hogwarts depending on you status in the world, other things are added to the mix, things like law and governance. One of the very first things I was taught about making laws, was to be precise in what you wanted, but not to precise as to leave loopholes for someone else to attack." The seventh year Slytherin answered.

"What is the loophole here?" Hermione asked.

"It's not a loophole like you are thinking. The problem with this law is that it's to precise, not that it is not precise enough. So the original wording of the decree is "All Student Organisations, Societies, Teams, Groups, and Clubs are henceforth disbanded. An Organisation, Society, Team, Group, or Club is hereby defined as a regular meeting of three or more students. Permission to re-form may be sought from the High Inquisitor (Professor Umbridge). No Student Organisation, Society, Team, Group, or Club may exist without the knowledge and approval of the High Inquisitor. Any student found to have formed, or to belong to, an Organisation, Society, Team, Group, or Club that has not been approved by the High Inquisitor will be expelled." (JKR OOTP Chapter 17)"

"The law is to specific, it catches to many things, the main thing that Heir Potter, is talking about is when it gives the definition of what consists of the band meetings, it's both to stringently worded, as well as being to openly worded, and able to be used in almost any situation."

"But that's using a literal application not the actual meaning." Hermione interrupted.

"Laws are made to be interpreted, it is why people get off on technicalities, and why laws are amended, Ms. Granger." The Slytherin answered snidely. With those words the hall descended into quiet debates on the decree, as students began trickling out of the hall.

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Since the group consisting of eight people could not gather in the school to complete their homework, they headed outside and sat in three groups, near each other but still within hearing distance so they could do the project.

"Ok, Greengrass you said my idea of doing the extra credit wasn't as easy as I thought it was, why." Hermione immediately jumps in.

"For the younger houses it is straight forward, achieve this get this, do this get this. Officially an Utmost house is simply 60 to 70 generations or in layman's terms to be Utmost Noble your house has to have existed for 1800 years and have five hundred million Galleons in the family Vault. Utmost Ancient has to have existed for at least 2 Millenia and have five hundred million Galleons in the family vault. However, the unsaid requirements are that they must also have been formally titled by the Royal of the land or have been 'named' by the king and have ended their service to the ancestral house they had previously served under. For Britain it would be they are no longer formal Vassal's of either the houses: Emrys, the house of light, Le-Fay, the grey house, or Eveningstar, the black House." Daphne Greengrass answered Hermione's question.

"You have to understand that over ninety percent of the elder nobility are sworn to one of those houses and stand as part of that houses court. Without sitting heads those ties can't be broken. Even if someone stepped forward tomorrow and took up one of those title's those house that wish to break ties couldn't until they passed whatever stipulation the head at the time wanted from that house." Blaise Zabini continued.

"Ninety percent, try one hundred percent, name one Albion house that is not sworn to an ancestral house of Albion." Pansy snapped. "You can't because there isn't one."

"Potter, House Potter ended its service of five hundred and fifty years to the house of Evanshade five years before the death of the last king. Evanshade's last lord fell to death during the fall of said king, and the house has stood without a head since then." Draco answered. "It's why so many houses have tried to ally themselves with house Potter, it wasn't even 1500 years old yet, but had successfully ended its required ancestral service to the Black house to boot and ended it without any casualties or sacrifice. Stories say that they had even made an alliance with another ancestral house, though it isn't known what the house is. It's why even today so many have begun distancing themselves from Bones and her lot. She's made an enemy of what could quite possibly be the first Albion house in over six hundred years to achieve the title of Utmost."

"Anyway, guessing the estimates for when a house would ascend, and witch houses are closest to ascending is impossible without a king and with the heads of the Ancestral lines standing empty." Daphne responded.

"Ok, I'm not going to say I understand that but without taking that into consideration which house would ascend next?" Hermione persisted.

"Potter," interjected Ron before anyone else could speak. "They already have been titled by the Royal house; they are the commanders of Albion's armies. They have if I'm doing my math right already achieved the 1800-year requirement for the title, I don't know about the vault part for the title of Utmost Noble though."

"Except the fact that Potter himself doesn't count as he is a half-blood, so the House still has almost 13 years left before they achieve the years required." Pansy interjected, sneering at Harry.

"Not according to my inheritance test I'm not, as such the only requirement house Potter still has to achieve is the vault number. If someone had left the investment vault alone, we would have achieved it at the beginning of the year. Now instead I'm having to figure all the investments out myself and have only just returned the vault to the standing it had at the time of my father's death." Harry grumbled his anger at Dumbledore's meddling evident on his face.

"POTTER" shouted a voice behind them all as they turned, they could see a smirking Susan with approximately half the teaching staff in tow marching across the lawn. The other nearby students also turned to look as more than half the student body was on the grass outside the school as it wasn't safe inside of it. Harry and the others felt someone else's spell quickly wash over them and Draco and Harry both identified it as a local sonorus charm that basically to those talking heard normally but those outside the bubble it was cast in heard the conversation at a normal tone to their own ears.

Rather than unravel the spell Harry merely address the approaching teachers. "High Inquisitor Umbridge, Professor's what can I do for you this fine day?"

"Arrogant as always Mr. Potter, well you won't be getting away with it this time, you'll be expelled for certain." Snape spoke glee evident in his tone.

"I'm afraid I don't know what you are talking about, what have I supposedly done this time." Harry blandly asked allowing his mask to fall into place.

"Give it up Potter your little rebellion is at an end, I'll see in Azkaban for this." Umbridge gleefully exclaimed.

"Enough Delores, my dear boy it has been brought to our attention that you have led a student plan to skip not only classes tomorrow but all classes until the convening of the next Wizengamot session. My boy inciting such a rebellion has not helped unfortunately I have no choice but to have you and anyone who aids you in this scheme of yours expelled." Dumbledore stated smiling sadly at Harry. "But perhaps this will remind you to listen to your betters my boy."

"As I have told you before Dumbledore, I am not your boy and I will be addressed by you and your ilk as Heir Potter. As to not attending classes I made that no secret, as you are well aware Miss Bones, exactly why I said what I did. You are treading a fine line on the path to blood feud Heiress Bones and this will be my last warning to you. As for you High Inquisitor if you wished for a smaller class size I'm sure the teachers would have done their level best to accommodate, you did not have to make illegal for more than three students to attend class at a time. It simply is a pity that to many students feel that being put into jeopardy of expulsion for merely trying to get to class is simply too much and have elected to skip classes until such a time as it is no longer dangerous to do so."

"Heir Potter if I might ask what in the world you are talking about?" Abraxas Malfoy asked before anyone else could speak.

"What do you think the boy is talking about Abraxas stuff and nonsense. He's just trying to get out of trouble now that he knows he's caught." Snape sneered.

"I find it had to believe I once respected you and thought that you were the pinnacle of an absolute Slytherin, Professor Snape. All I see before me now is an arrogant bully who can't put the past where it belongs." Draco spoke glaring angrily at his Godfather. "The answer Grandfather, that you are looking for is right there, in the wording of the bill the Ministry and the High Inquisitor passed, all you have to do is read it. But due to your own pigheaded, blindness I suppose I can explain what my friend Heir Potter pointed out to me, and a few other Slytherins this morning. Pansy, Blaise, and I are headed to charms but the 6th year charms class just ended. As we step into the charms hallway, three sixth years also step out of the charms classroom. We are now all under threat of expulsion as we now have a meeting of three or more students. For that matter Pansy, Blaise and I walking to class together count as a meeting of three or more students. You forced students to choose between going to classes and being threatened with expulsion between it or skipping class and only being forced to deal with detentions later. That doesn't even begin to account for the blatant violation of heirs' rights that decree infringes upon."

"Draco that was not the intent…"

"Godfather, you where there when father very articulating explained why a law must be specific in what it is discussing otherwise you may see yourself caught by said law. The same applies here, it does not matter if that was not the intent of the decree. What matter's Professor Snape is what the decree actually says. And is says the gathering of three or more students." Draco interrupts now openly glaring at his godfather.

"What is says is the regular gathering of three or more students Draco." His grandfather responds.

"If you wished to debate the loophole's in the high inquisitors decree I would be more than happy to, Grandfather. The first loophole would be in the words regular meeting. It would depend on who you are asking as to what that specific phrase would be translated into. Regular meeting as in we pass in the halls as my group head to charms and yours leave charms. That is a regular meeting even if it is unplanned, or a regular meeting that is planned, like quidditch practice. However, the decree merely says regular, so without permission the students in both instances are expelled without permission to meet by the high inquisitor."

"Second loophole, Grandfather, is in the words three or more students. My study group for your class's homework consists of eight people, without asking the high inquisitor for permission to reform our group, we either A) do not finish the group work and fail the assignment or B) do the group work as a group get caught by the wrong teacher, and have the threat of expulsion over our heads for our regular meetings to complete our assignment."

"Draco, that is not…" Abraxas attempted to corral his grandson.

"Not what the law means, no it is the laws literal translation, which is just as valid, and would be used by at least one teacher that I know of at this school. The fact of the matter is that I regularly gather with Pansy and Blaise, Grandfather. I have taken to regularly attending the tutoring session I have with house Potter and its allies. I regularly have a Saturday evening Business meeting with Theodore Nott, Heir Potter, and about a dozen other elder heirs so that we can all learn some better business acumen from each other. I won't support a decree that goes against everything you and father have taught me since birth. You were the one who said I needed to start listening and paying attention to what others are saying about me as the heir of house Malfoy, what does this say about house Malfoy when half the groups he participates in are denied reformation such as the business club for the mere point that Harry Potter heir to the House of Potter's name is also on the roster. It shows that we the elder houses in Britannia have finally allowed and permitted something to come between our ranks to the point that you would allow a bill to pass that endangers our own heirs. Right now, I am ashamed to call myself a Malfoy."

Shocked silence permeated the air for a moment. "Well family matters aside, you Mister Potter are still to be expelled." Dumbledore said gravely.

"Very well so long as you understand the cost of my unjust expulsion. Firstly, Hogwarts will face its first ICW mandated hearing in over a century when 150 students leave the school with me, which will be a black mark on your record as headmaster forever. Secondly in the wake of said hearing, you Madame Umbridge, High Inquisitor or not, will no longer be teaching at Hogwarts. Though as half of the present teaching staff will be going with you, I fail to see it as a problem. Thirdly as I was expelled unjustly, the Hogwarts education fund set up by my family when Hogwarts fist opened its doors to those not of the Nobility, will be closed and all money in said fund will be once more returned to the Potter family vault. Lastly as this has happened and I have found myself expelled, the house of Potter, our wealth, and the majority of our businesses will be transferring from Britain to another Albion country as will all the children of our Vassals, no doubt of our allies, but most importantly the protectorates we have most recently taken into our home will also be removed from Hogwarts and the further stain on your record and legacy Dumbledore will be that the first Potter since the opening of Hogwarts to graduate from a school other than Hogwarts and we have a bad habit of once that happens not coming back."

"Now Mr. Potter now is not the time for threats…"

"Headmaster I haven't threatened anyone, you did. I just said what the consequences of said threat would be if you followed through with it. What evidence do you have after all that I was as you put it, inciting a rebellion, other than the words of a former ally who is very near to having blood feud declared on her family for her actions to myself."

"Mr. Potter," a new voice spoke from behind them all as Madame Bones, the Minister and an entourage of various other Lords and Ladies followed. "You have no right…"

"I have every right to declare blood feud just for what she did in her capacity of heiress while our houses were still aligned. Mercy stayed my hand, I suggest you reign your houses heiress in before my mercy runs short." Harry interrupted.

"Enough you heir Potter have done enough, guards take him to Azkaban." The Minister snapped.

"On what charge," a question from the back was asked as the crowd parted revealing the current ICW head of education as well as the current head of ICW investigations. Harold Smith the ICW head of investigations spoke once more. "I will ask one more time minister, on what charges is Lord Potter to be escorted to Azkaban."

"Lord Potter, there is currently no Lord Potter." The Minister stammered out.

"The I sincerely hope I did not just hear you threaten an underage heir with Azkaban, considering I'm here to personally investigate exactly what happened there ever so recently. As the ICW's international courts have ruled that your investigations were inconclusive and incomplete at best or your ministry sabotaged, and downright impudently ignored the evidence at worst, considering the report on my desk this morning said that the blame rested on the head of Sirius Black, when I was with him for the convening hours both at the time of the attack and at the time of which he would have required to use a time turner or polyjuice."

"A simple misunderstanding I'm sure." The Minister said quickly backpedaling.

"Good, then as we are all here I can move onto my next item of business. Amelia Bones, Minister Fudge, Headmaster Dumbledore, due to the complaints we have had over the past month since school has started I have no choice, and by order of the ICW Education committee have authorized the head of said committee Joseph Arkwright to do a full investigation into the running of Hogwarts. As the house of Potter has recently given protectorate status to two of the four Heirs of Hogwarts by writ of the Potter Inheritance testing fund, and been given the guardianship of a third house by right of the child's former head of house being a known fugitive, the House has asked that a full audit of the schools finances be done as well. As such you Delores Umbridge in your capacity of High Inquisitor are dismissed, you will for the moment retain your position of Defense against the Dark Arts Professor. Following in said vein effective immediately for blatant violation of the rights of heirs, Educational Decree 24 is hereby revoked."

"The house of Potter thanks you Mr. Smith for standing up for the rights of the heirs when it seemed to be a minor issue in the eyes of others." Harry quickly stepped up with thanks.

"Your thanks are not needed, but appreciated all the same, the ICW wishes to cash in a favor from house Potter and borrow the services of several Hit wizards for our investigations."

"Consider it done, contact Sirius and he will handle searching out the one's you wish to use, I will give you fair warning now, some of them are not currently available as they are on assignment even if I myself believe me guarded well enough inside Hogwarts."

"Understandable, I will allow you to continue your group work, my apologies for the interruption to your work." He answered.

"Thank you and have a great day." Harry answered as he turned back to the rest of the group to continue their discussion.