Here's the next chapter. Please read and review love Moon x
They were making their way down the corridor when Amelia stopped. "Head Hogwarts house elf please come here it is a matter of student safety!" she called out as Ivy came quick looking terrified.
"Missy Bones I be Ivy head house elf. What is you be needing?" she asked as Madam Bones smiled at her.
"Please take Auror Green somewhere all the darkest artefacts in the school would be and have him sort through them please!" she instructed as Ivy looked confused.
"I be taking him to the come and go room on the seventh floor. He be needing to walk in front of the wall by the tapestry three times and be asking for a room with all the evil and bad things in it. Then he be doing as he likes with them. Auror Greenie you be coming with Ivy now. Hold on please!" she said taking him away quickly.
"That certainly went easier then it could have. I am relieved. I will not have my Susie in danger here at the school. Come on we've got an arsehole to arrest and not for the reason he is thinking either!" she said as they stormed up to office but not before removing his silly little notification charm. If he knew they were coming up he could prepare something but taking him by genuine was the better option.
They blasted open the door making him shriek in shock and shot a spell which created a gentle barrier around Fawkes from which he couldn't' flame fly or anything.
"Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore you are under arrest for harbouring a level 4 x dangerous beast within the walls of this school where it could break free from its position and harm the children. You are further under arrest for not listening properly when Mr Hagrid mentioned him to you. I would assume it is your normal practice to allow Mr Hagrid to do as he pleases without checking it out first. He may not be the brightest tool in the shed but you should be. Don't bother looking to your blasted Phoenix. She cannot save you. Come with us now as it would not do you well to resist arrest she proclaimed snapping magical suppressing cuffs on him.
He was thoroughly searched as was their right upon arrest where they found ten different types of portkey in his various pockets along with loads of lemon drops and various other sweets. He had various too not all of which were his or even recent. How in the hell old were they? Deciding to break protocol she asked her deputy to look at the back of the office for anything suspect while she cast a quick befuddlement charm on Dumbledore while quickly dosing him with veritas serum. He would be so confused he wouldn't remember a thing.
"Over here Madam Bones! This is the invisibility cloak of the late James Potter no doubt about it. He showed it to me often enough and even pointed out where the Potter emblem had been stitched into the corner here. Why does he have it when it should be with Harry Potter?" he asked as she looked at Dumbledore removing the befuddlement charm wandlessly as his mind came back into focus once more.
"Yes Mr Dumbledore please tell us why you are keeping a family heirloom from the heir to the Ancient and Most Noble house of Potter?" she asked as he squirmed.
"Well keeping is a relative term. I wasn't keeping it but studying it. I think it's one of the deathly hallows and I wished to prove if I was right or not. James leant it to me for study before he died. I had intended to give it back to Mr Potter as a gift at Yule. I really didn't think he'd miss it seeing as I'm not done with it and he doesn't know it exists so what does it matter if I keep studying it an extra few weeks" he answered telling the truth but hating it. Fawkes looked at him with an expression that said he deserved it and she wouldn't have helped him even without that ward around her. He was bitterly disappointed in that.
"Did you intend to give it back to Mr Potter unharmed?" she asked suddenly.
"Unharmed yes, uncharmed no. I planned to magically stitch a tracking charm into the lining of it so I could track his movements with it. I would be fascinated to see what he would do with it. Would he cause a lot of trouble or not? It would be interesting to see where he went when he thought no one could see him but really the only person who would be able to see him would be me!" he said sounding highly confident and very sure of himself. He clearly thought nothing of it.
"What would you do if he were to refuse to use it without getting it checked for charms first as he might do that?" she asked curiously. I mean they didn't know he might choose to do that.
"Well what could I do then? I guess I'd have to stun whoever was fixing it and make them forget he asked them about it at all. I might have to obliviate him too as I wouldn't want him to remember needing it to be checked for charms. If I didn't arrive in time I would merely seize it and reapply the charms again. I need to be able to keep a close eye on him!" he answered surely again seeing nothing wrong with all he was saying which was being recorded the magical way.
"Why did you attack Mr Potter this evening and leave him in front of a Cereberus to die?" she asked scathingly as he blanched.
"I would never intend to kill him and I don't like that you are assuming that I would. It was meant to be a test to see if he could once more outsmart Voldemort who I don't believe died at all fully at least. Nicholas Flammel asked me to look after his Philosophers Stone and keep it safe so I kept it hidden behind various obstacles created by the teacher of each of the main subjects. It was my hope to lure Voldemort here to get the stone so either I or Harry could kill him for good. If Harry couldn't do it then I would step in and do it myself. It really was a great plan" he said casually as though it was nothing getting her back up immensely.
"What would you have done if Mr Hagrid had not managed to secure his Cereberus well enough and it had escaped and killed children?"
"Well then I'd have to save his skin again wouldn't I? I'd have to kill the beast obviously and pending on the blood status of those children killed do something for their families. Let's not shit ourselves here people we all know that the government doesn't care about people who are not pureblood. Hagrid would be a social pariah and everyone would move on as though nothing had happened at all!" he said shocked as a huge gong sounded. It was one he'd never heard before in his life at this school. It resounded all around the school twelve times.
"What does that mean Mr Dumbledore?"
"In all my years here I have never heard that sound before I don't know what it means" he answered honestly confused by the whole thing. She jumped as Auror Green burst in.
"Just what in the hell is going on in this school? I found a bloody basilisk in that room which thankfully I was able to kill before it petrified me. I got an elf to cut its eyes out since they are not susceptible to death via basilisk. Then once it was dead this gong sounded above me and a door I never noticed before opened for me!" he snapped forgetting himself due to fear and running on adrenaline.
"What is the point of that indeed? Mr Dumbledore I suspect you know Auror Green has a family at home and another child on the way. He almost died because of a basilisk. How many dark creatures does this school have in it?" she snapped.
"I actually don't know the answer to that one as I've never cared enough to count them. Yes I know that probably sounds lazy but when you have as many titles and things as I do things just get put on the back burner and you do forget about them. I am sorry about that. In all fairness though I never knew anything about a Basilisk. That is news even to me. I am sorry Auror Green I didn't mean to put you in danger even I didn't directly do so. I mean this is my school and I guess I should care more about what happens here" he said seriously as she face palmed in rage.
"Why did you use the imperious curse on Mr Potter?" she asked seriously once more.
"Because he mocked the mirror of erised and everything it stands for. That fool called it loud and garish a bit like me. He laughed in the face of power and then what does he do he goes right ahead and beats the fucking thing! Yes beats it. It may look ridiculous but it is more powerful then he could ever know and he didn't even want to look in it so I had to make him do it. I had to know what he sees!" he said as she sighed.
"What is it designed to show you?"
"It is designed to show you not your reflection but your hearts deepest desires. Harry Potter broke it because when he looked at himself he saw something I don't remember but then proclaimed it was nonsense as he doesn't want that. Then he saw only himself as he was. There was nothing more his heart desired. How in the hell is that even normal? He shouldn't have been in Slytherin it has turned him evil. He is no longer emotionally attached to things as he should be" he said sounding very lost indeed.
Auror Green got the urge then to ask a sudden question and he blurted it out not caring in the moment.
"Why do you wear glasses?"
"My boy I wear glasses so I can look into people's minds. No one feels bad about an old grandfatherly type of her person looking into their mind if he is wearing glasses. I don't even need them you know. They are just plain glass with charms on them. Besides which I do look bad ass in them I think was the phrase I overheard that muggleborn student using one time. Well anyway I look good in them" he said admiring himself in another mirror in his office but this one just showed his reflection as he was a normal one.
"How many students have you looked into the minds of?" she asked again not even bothering to reprimand her auror as he had uncovered something else.
"Oh all of them of course. Just a cursory glance mind you. I don't do anything unless someone has too much knowledge if they are not pureblood. In that case I obliviate little bits of information from their minds so that the purebloods always do better in classes. No one understands that I would have people like Lucius Malfoy breathing down my neck constantly if I don't do this and to be honest I would do anything for a quiet and easy life. Besides which what are a few measly test answers anyhow? Muggleborns are too smart these days and they are academically outshining the purebloods and it needs to stop!" he thundered now looking very annoyed.
"Well maybe if they'd stop interbreeding they might have smarter children. Do you ever accept bribes from anyone in the Wizengamot to make things go a certain way?" she asked cautiously.
"No of course not that would be wrong. I mean I do control what people think some of the time because sometimes they are going to choose an outcome I don't condone and I can't have that. The purebloods need to feel like they are the most important in the room otherwise we all suffer and to be honest it's not worth it!" he said nonchalantly. He was escorted to the Ministry where he was placed in a cell ready to be questioned at the emergency meeting later on. This was turning out to be a clusterfuck and Auror Green wasn't even remotely finished in the room of dark artefacts. He'd just let them know he'd killed a basilisk. Bill Weasley and the other curse breakers had been called in to remove the charms on all of the items. It would be a long week that's for sure.