Amelia Bones was in shock at what she just heard. So much so, that she had to ask for it to be repeated to her.
"I'm sorry, I don't think I heard you clearly, because it sounds like you said that Voldemort just freed his followers from Azkaban."
"I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this Madam, but yes, Voldemort used this small raid in Diagon Alley to distract us so he can go to Azkaban and free his followers as well as become allied to the Dementors. Dementors feed off of despair, and since Voldemort's army spreads it, it allows the Dementors to breed. They take care of the Death Eaters enemies, taking their souls, and demoralizing the rest of the population. It's mutually beneficial to both of them."
"This is just horrible." Amelia groaned, feeling drained from this war already.
"At least I know where their base is."
Amelia looked up abruptly. "You know where they are?!"
"Yes. They are located at Malfoy Manor."
"Brilliant! We can lay siege to the Manor and end this war before more lives are taken!"
"Actually before we can do that, I have to ask you to hold off on this, for now."
Amelia looked surprised. "But why, my Lord? With the large amount of Aurors, Hit Wizards, and Unspeakables that are on staff, we could easily over run Voldemort and his followers."
"Yes we could, but Voldemort wouldn't die completely in that siege." Harry replied.
"What do you mean, my Lord?"
"Tell me Madam Bones, do you know what a horcrux is?"
Surprisingly, she nodded her head. "Am I to assume that Voldemort has one?"
"He has several. I must confess that I'm quite surprised that you know what a horcrux is." Harry admitted.
Amelia just chuckled. "While I and my late brother are more politically neutral, the Bones House as a whole was dark. We were the practitioners of Necromancy before it became illegal in Great Britain. I don't have any issues with Dark families, but if someone does something illegal, that's when I have a problem. I don't like Malfoy, but not because he's a dark wizard, but because he bribed his way out of proper justice."
Once again taken aback, it took Harry a minute before continuing. "Right, well anyways, I have already paid the Goblins to hunt the rest of the horcruxes using a magical map from Japan, that I let them borrow."
"How does this map work, and it be replicated for the DMLE?"
"When a certain magical signature is placed onto it, it can tell you where anyone is in the world. No type of concealment magic could be used to hide them due to the large amount of complex runes that were used to make it. Also, you'd have to speak with Ryuujin-sama about a duplicate, since it was him who made it."
'No one can say that Ryuujin didn't care for his daughter's well being. He made that map explicitly for his daughter after... the Incident.' Harry thought to himself.
"How did you get a magical signature from Voldemort?" Amelia questioned.
"I found one of his horcruxes and guided it to the map."
Flashback
Directly after dealing with the Aurors after Voldemort's resurrection, Harry went back to his home in Japan with Akeno and Grayfia.
Both understood his need to kill the murderer of his grandmother, so they gave him his space to plan and do what he needed to do. Ryuujin also understood this, so he gave Harry a "vacation" from his bodyguard duties.
When Harry went to his house, he made a beeline to his little forest area backyard that was gifted to him by Yasaka. It was bathed in senjutsu, so it was the perfect place to meditate.
Once he stepped outside, he sensed the Reticulated Python that had the dark presence leeching off its soul. He found it poised cautiously ready to strike at him, but only hesitating due to the power she witnessed him release.
"Miss Nagini?" Harry hissed calmly.
"That is my name, Potter. Where am I? What are you going to do with me?" Nagini hissed back.
"You are in my backyard, and I am going to help you."
"What do you mean by help me?"
"I can sense that monster's taint leeching off of you. He's been making you do things hasn't he? Bad things."
Nagini remained quiet, because he's right. "Yes." She hissed sadly.
"I can remove him from you."
"YES! Do it, please! I've hurt so many people. I-I was living fine on my own in Albania before he shows up and murders someone right in front of me. Then suddenly I have a piece of him attached to me."
"Give me a moment."
Harry went back into his house to get the map. He unscrolled it and sat it next to Nagini's head. He then brought his staff out.
Using his magic, he forcefully took out the struggling Voldemort horcrux out of Nagini, and shoved it into the map. Immediately several different areas in the British Isles lit up, indicating where each horcrux was located.
"Thank you, Potter."
"I should be thanking you. I now have a way of tracking all of Riddle's soul pieces."
He closed the map and looked at Nagini seriously. "Now, I feel I owe you a debt. I will help return you back to your human form."
Shock racked Nagini's body, then anger at Harry for bringing her hopes up. "Do not joke about things you don't understand." She hissed in a dangerous tone.
"I dounderstand. You're a Maledictus, correct?"
A Maledictus is a female individual who carries a blood curse that eventually turns her into a beast permanently. The curse is carried from birth and passed down from mother to daughter.
"How do you know that?" Nagini asked cautiously. Not even Voldemort knew of her origins. He just thought she was a big snake.
"I was doing research on Dark Lords, and when I studied Gellert Grindelwald, there was mention of a Credence Barebone, the rumored youngest Dumbledore child, and his close friend Nagini. You caught my eye due to your status as a Maledictus. I knew you couldn't have been a truly bad person since you joined forces with Newt Scamander, one of the most caring Wizards in history."
Nagini stared at Harry in shock. Was her history truly that accessible?
"So may I repay my debt by helping you?"
She looked into this green eyed warrior and saw a chance to be back to her true self. She saw the honesty in eyes.
"Yes."
Afterwards, Harry brought her to Ryuujin due to one of his titles being the Master of Serpents. He blessed her, and she was able to return into the beautiful woman she was when she was with Credence.
The tight hug she gave Harry was reminiscent to her constricting others when she was a snake.
Flashback end
"I've already destroyed the one in Hogwarts. It was in my ancestor's diadem. I returned it to her daughter who asked me to place it in Rowena's private chambers. I'm not sure what the other items are exactly, but one of them was Hufflepuff's Cup, which was located in one Bellatrix Lestrange's bank vault. The Goblins were furious that something so foul tainted their vaults, so they destroyed that one for free, while I had to pay for the others, but at a reduced price for lending them my map." Harry finished.
"So all we have to do is wait a bit before we could fully kill him." Amelia clarified.
"Yes. Isn't great when a plan comes together?"
As he bid his farewells, he left her office to find somewhere private.
Once he did so, he immediately put up silencing barriers around him, then picked up a water beetle that was riding on the back of his hooded haori.
"Now Miss Skeeter, let us discuss what you can, and cannot report on tomorrow's article."
-DF-
Albus was furious. So much so that he threw a tantrum in his office, while the Sorting Hat just laughed, making him even more angry.
What was it that made him so angry? Was it all of the "unnecessary" deaths? Or the fact that Harry Potter wasn't under his control? How about Harry turning his words around and using it against him in a verbal spar?
No.
While all of that ruminated in the back of Dumbledore's mind, it wasn't what currently earned his ire.
What made him make a mess in his office was the front page article of the Daily Prophet.
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Albus Dumbledore: Death Eater Sympathizer?
By: Rita Skeeter
As you all well know dear readers, that You-Know-who has returned. His malevolent and murderous ways have made a return to our world. This reporter is also terrified to report that Death Eaters have been broken out of Azkaban, by He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named himself. From what a reliable source explained, it unfortunately seems that You-Know-Who was able to make a deal with the Dementors.
The Death Eaters are known to spread despair to the innocents of the Magical and muggle worlds, and Dementors are known to feed off the despair of others, so it benefits them both to work together.
However dear readers, this reporter assures you that we have little to fear. Thanks to the combined effort of the Aurors and the true Boy-Who-Lived, we can rest easy, especially when our hero already defeated You-Know-Who once, and forced him to flee the second time.
When Death Eaters started to attack Diagon Alley, a large Auror Force led by Amelia Bones and Harry Potter were able to quickly neutralize the threat long before any lasting damage was dealt. All those in the terrorist organization were killed, while only a few of those in our brave Auror Force had minor injuries.
But how, you may ask, is Albus Dumbledore involved in this?
Well dear readers, when the battle was ended, that's when the esteemed Headmaster chose to arrive. While Mr. Potter and Madam Bones were discussing certain matters, most likely assessing the damage done to Diagon Alley and its patrons, Mr. Dumbledore marched towards Mr. Potter, and began to loudly berate our hero for his actions in killing the Death Eaters.
Mr. Potter simply responded that they were Death Eaters, a group of murderers, rapists, bigoted monsters who take pleasure in causing innocent people harm.
This reporter agrees wholeheartedly at Mr. Potter's assessment. The Death Eaters shouldn't even be considered human anymore due to their deplorable actions.
Mr. Dumbledore doesn't agree with this assessment, though. He, quite loudly, made it clear that he felt that these monsters shouldn't be killed. In fact, he felt that they should be imprisoned.
But where could they be imprisoned? The only prison we had was Azkaban, but Voldemort already rendered it useless, due to the fact he could just walk in there and retrieve what was taken from him.
When Mr. Potter asked Mr. Dumbledore if You-Know-Who should be killed, he immediately said yes, and gave his reasons in believing so. Then Mr. Potter asked asked why keep the Death Eaters alive when they are doing the same as You-Know-Who? Mr. Dumbledore just left without answering.
Why is Albus Dumbledore so insistent in the death of You-Know-Who, but not his Death Eaters? Is he being paid to fight for them? Is that why so many Death Eaters were able to easily claim the Imperius Curse, and not be questioned with Veritaserum? Does he want to replace You-Know-Who as the Dark Lord wanting to take over Magical Britain, but needs an army?
I've received several anonymous letters stating that there is a Death Eater teaching in Hogwarts. I've dismissed them as pranks by the younger generation, but what if there is some merit to these claims.
This reporter was hoping that these suspicions were unfounded, but with all the evidence pointing the other direction, that hope slowly began to diminish.
Regardless of any threats or attacks, this reporter will always report the facts. Stay tuned, dear readers.
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"HOW DARE SHE?!" Albus roared as he continued to make a mess in his office. "I, who defeated Grindelwald. I, who led the first war against Voldemort. I, the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. I, THE LEADER OF THE LIGHT!"
The portraits of the previous Headmasters just shook their heads in shame at seeing just how deplorable their successor is behaving. Unfortunately that's all they could do, because they've been silenced for years now due to a silencing charm to their portraits. At least they could still hear things, and leave their portraits.
-DF-
Richard was sulking at the breakfast table with Ginny and a few random Gryffindors sitting next to him, mostly first years. It was the last day of the school year.
He hated the fact that he was no longer famous. He felt that he was being cheated somehow, and didn't know what to do.
This would prove to be detrimental to his future due to the fact that he doesn't know how to properly introduce himself, and keep a conversation going. New people he met already knew who he was, so he didn't need to introduce himself, and conversations would always lead to how great he was because he defeated Voldemort.
Now, because he always refused to be taught any boring lessons on how to be a proper noble in an Ancient and Noble House, he didn't even know how to speak to those of matching status, something his mother was determined to rectify in the near future. No son of her's would be socially inept.
-DF-
When it was revealed that he wasn't the Boy-Who-Lived, Ron immediately distanced himself. Why stay friends with a prat who didn't have any fame? While the Potters were a vastly wealthy family, what's the point of even staying with a secondary heir?
Ron was present whenever his mother read Ginny stories about the Boy-Who-Lived. Whenever he would visit the Pottery, he was always enchanted by the beauty of it. It was so large, and filled with priceless artifacts.
Ron was jealous of all of this, but he knew that if he could stay the friend of the Boy-Who-Lived, then he could get some fame too, and finally be out of all of his brothers' large shadows.
Bill was a Curse Breaker for Gringotts Bank, which was a well paying, but difficult job. He was one of the few wizards that the Goblins allowed to work for them.
Charlie was a Dragonologist in the employ of the Romanian Dragon Sanctuary where he cared for and studied dragons. It was another well paying, but difficult job.
Percy now works in the Ministry, first as the Personal Assistant to Barty Crouch Sr., now as the Court Scribe.
Fred and George, even though they are known pranksters, are also geniuses in their own right. The intelligence they show in potions, charms, and transfigurations to do their pranks proves that. Not to mention, the joke shop they are planning on opening after their schooling would bring in a lot of money.
The three eldest all being Prefects, while Bill and Percy also became Head Boy.
Ginny was special due to being the only girl in the family, and thus she was going to continue the Prewett line due to the fact that it continues in the female line.
Then there was Ron.
The lazy, and sloppy Weasley child. He had no defining skills, or distinctive qualities that would separate him from his brothers, besides the fact that he was the best friend of the Boy-Who-Lived, something he liked to state often, but now that was gone, and he didn't know what to do now.
-DF-
While Ron immediately threw away the friendship between him and Richard, Ginny was smarter and knew that Richard would still have a large amount of money in his vaults, not to mention the Potter name would still hold a lot of sway wherever she went. She wasn't stupid enough to try and seduce his older brother. She could tell, just by looking at the two women that came with him, that they were strong. Stronger than her. She'd rather not die in such a stupid way.
Her mother reading her stories in her childhood about the Boy-Who-Lived, his adventures and his wealth. This started a slight obsession with Richard Potter ('s fame and money).
She knew that her parents and the Potters were friends, so she begged her father to ask Lord Potter about a betrothal contract between the two of them. She was strangely asked to keep it a secret from Lady Potter, but she didn't question it.
Even she knew the stories of Lily 'Tiger Lilyx' Potter.
-DF-
Hermione was scared when she first started Hogwarts.
She was starting fresh in new school where no one knows her, so no more bullies. She was hoping to make friends by showing off her intelligence, but it only seemed to drive people away.
In her stubbornness, she felt that it wasn't her that needed to change, but everyone else just needed to grow up.
Then Ron went and insulted her when all she was trying to do was help. That caused her to run to the bathroom and cry, all the way to during dinner. She was unfortunate in the fact that she was attacked by a large troll.
Thanks to the teachers being warned by Richard Potter that she was in there crying, they were able to subdue the troll enough for Hermione to run away. She felt that she had finally made a friend since Richard cared enough to warn the teachers about her.
After four years of being the center of attention, being in life threatening situations, and letting both Richard and Ronald copy her work, finally Hermione realized that maybe she was wrong.
It wasn't everyone else that needed to change, she did. After it was revealed that Richard Potter wasn't the Boy-Who-Lived, she realized she was no longer under a certain level of protection from his title, so she decided to finally mentally take a step back and reevaluate herself.
She found that she was bossy, rude, and acted like an annoying know-it-all. It was time for a change, and time to begin networking. If she wanted to be Minister of Magic, then she would need the support of future Lords and Ladies. She wasn't a friend of the Boy-Who-Lived anyways.
