The Mutt who Lived
by Teddylonglong

All recognizable Harry Potter characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story. I am merely borrowing the characters to play with them.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.

Warnings: Completely AU, partly OOC, Dumbledore/Weasley bashing.

If you don't like my stories, don't read them. I am only writing for my own fun and for those, who like reading my stories.

"Please take care of the Death Eaters. I shall deal with Voldemort," Inu addressed the Unspeakables in human speech, pulling the Elder wand out of his robe pocket, as he dashed ahead.

'Thank Merlin he's invisible to everyone but us,' Harry thought, as he followed his colleagues and friends onto the grounds of the castle. As soon as they had reached a sufficiently close enough distance to efficiently cast spells, they quickly fired one spell after the next at the ten hooded men accompanying Voldemort.

Before Voldemort could do as much as react, his followers were lying on the ground, not only stunned, but also too badly hurt to get up again.

Growling in anger, the evil wizard began to wildly fire spells in their direction; however, the Unspeakables' shield charm held for the moment.

They observed how Inu pointed the Elder wand at Voldemort and cast a spell, of which they did not know what it was. However, it became quickly clear that the evil wizard, as many spells as he sent against their shield, was not able to cast any magic whatsoever.

'Has he made him a Squib?' Harry wondered, when he observed Inu casting another spell that made Voldemort turn into a small, white bunny that was just a little smaller than Inu.

=This is our bunny to play with,= Inu announced, before he repeated the same in human language, only to add, "He doesn't have magic anymore."

Just then, a small group of girls, who were students at the PAPA, returned from Hogsmeade, and one of them picked the bunny up, cuddling it close.

"Oh Merlin, it's so cute," her friend blurted out, gently caressing the bunny's ears, which slightly looked like those of a rat.

"I wonder what it's doing here," another girl said. "Shall we take it with us? Perhaps Professor Lupin will know what to do with it."

"Yeah, let's go to the MAMA. It's ages since we went there," the girl, who was carrying the rabbit, agreed, and the group headed inside.

"Well, that was interesting," Arcturus spoke up, once the girls had entered the castle carrying the rabbit.

"We should still keep an eye on him," Harry replied. "Perhaps he'll get his magic back and will be able to transform back."

"He won't," Inu contradicted in a firm voice.

"Nevertheless, we should tell Remus what the matter is with the bunny," Neville stated, and the group slowly followed the girls through the connecting door into the MAMA.

"Inu," Harry whispered, when they headed out into the park looking for Remus, "why exactly didn't you kill Voldemort? You know the prophecy."

Inu smirked. =Ask Lucy,= he replied, before he dashed away in apparent excitement. "He's a present for her."

Following his familiar with his eyes in disbelief, Harry realised that Lucy was already in the park chasing the white bunny all over the grounds in apparent pleasure.

HP

Later in the evening, the extended family discussed what to do with the bunny. While several family members demanded that Inu should simply kill the bunny, others voiced that the bunny would make a good pet for the four-year-olds of the Unicorn class.

"Rubbish," Minerva said in a firm voice. "If the four-year-olds need a bunny to play, we can get them one. It doesn't have to be the evillest wizard of the world."

"I have an idea," Amelia suddenly spoke up, pensively. "In three weeks' time, it's Albus Dumbledore's 150th birthday. Why don't the Unspeakables gift him a rabbit for his birthday meal? We could ask the elves to prepare him accordingly."

Everyone remained quiet, before Sirius blurted out, "What a brilliant idea. Meli, you're the best."

The whole family, including Inu who knew that it would be his task to give the bunny the final bite, agreed. 'He won't survive it if Lucy and I play with him together anyway,' he thought, not feeling sorry at all for the evil creature.

HP

To his great surprise, Albus Dumbledore received a ready-to-cook rabbit for his 150th birthday. Ever since leaving Hogwarts and retreating to his home, he did not have any contact to the magical world – apart from closely following the Daily Prophet on a daily basis. In fact, he was attending the Computer Science course at Oxford University and was solely living in the muggle world.

"The elf who brought it told me that it's from the Unspeakables," Twinkle informed him. "Shall we prepare it for tonight's dinner?"

"Yes please," Albus agreed, knowing that the elves would prepare a delicious meal for him. 'Who of the Unspeakables would send me such a gift?' he wondered, while he absentmindedly studied for his class.

A few hours later, he was half through his birthday meal, thoroughly enjoying himself, when Fawkes flashed into the room handing him a letter from Harry Potter.

'Dear Mr. Dumbledore,
we hope that you are enjoying your meal and won't get sick by it, as the bunny is Tom Riddle AKA Lord Voldemort in his pet form. My family members were wondering why you did not attend any Wizengamot meeting since the Triwizard Tournament, so we thought to look after you.
Sincerely
Harry Potter
P.S. Happy birthday.'

"What?" Albus blurted out, before he rushed into the bathroom for his stomach to get rid of everything that he had eaten so far. By the time he returned to the dining room, Fawkes was gone and the remains of his dinner as well as the letter from Harry Potter, too, causing Albus to wonder if he had been hallucinating.

"Twinkle," he called his most trusted elf. "Could you bring me some fruit to eat, please? And some lemon drops, too," he added as an afterthought.

HP

On the trio's eighteenth birthday a few weeks later, Inu received the Order of Merlin first class for the demise of Tom Riddle AKA Lord Voldemort.

'Harry,' Inu thought to his twin, 'this is too much of a hassle for me. Can we go for a walk to the shore, just only you and me and Lucy and Luna please?'

'Of course,' Harry thought back, fully understanding his twin's problem.

"Luna, will you come with us for a walk?" he asked the girl, who immediately agreed, casting him a happy look.

'She's beautiful,' Harry thought, eyeing Luna in her white summer one-piece with embroideries of wild flowers in amazement. "Luna," he heard himself speak up like from far away, "will you become my wife?"

Time seemed to stand still for a moment, while he stood and – just like Inu and Lucy – stared at the girl in question, who was glancing over the shore, seemingly unfocused.

"Of course, Harry. Thanks for asking," she finally replied, giving him a loving smile. "I'd love to become your wife," she added, dreamily.

"Thanks for being you and for making me so happy," Harry replied, before he leaned over to capture her mouth with his lips.

HP

With the beginning of the new school year, Harry, Inu and Lucy moved into the founders' quarters at Hogwarts, much to the castle's delight.

Luna was still a full-time student at the MAMA in her seventh year and head girl. She had agreed with Minerva, James and Lily to remain at the school and become a student advisor for all students of the MAMA and PAPA, so that she felt it important to continue all subjects until the NEWTs. However, due to being of age in the magical world, she was not requested to live in the dormitory anymore and thus decided to join Harry in the founders' quarters, even if they were only fiancées and not married yet. If any of the students needed her and knocked at the supposed-to-be the head girl's room, an alarm sounding the founders' quarters would instantly alert her to the fact.

Neither her father nor Harry's parents seemed to mind, let alone Inu and Lucy. It was in the evening of the day when Luna moved into Harry's room that Lucy decided to bond with the young witch, causing them both to become very happy.

In the morning of Christmas Eve, just when Harry and Luna were discussing whether or not to attend the Yule Ball at the MAMA, that Inu informed them that their puppies were going to be born shortly.

"Puppies?" Harry asked in surprise, muttering, "I didn't know that you were getting puppies."

"Men," Luna chuckled, rolling her eyes in apparent amusement, before she placed a quick kiss onto his cheek to make up for it. "Of course, Lucy has been pregnant for a while," she then explained, giving him a dreamy look.

Late in the evening, when the Yule Ball was still in full swing, which they were both missing in favour of assisting with the puppies' birth, Lucy gave birth to six naked puppies.

"Oh Merlin, they're so cute," Luna blurted out, causing Harry to agree full-heartedly.

=You can keep them a secret from your friends and give each of them one for their wedding,= Inu suggested, causing Luna and Harry to agree immediately.

When Luna had told their friends that she and Harry were planning to get married during the summer after her NEWTs, their friends had spontaneously decided to make it a quadruple wedding. Neville had already proposed to Christa, Percy to Hermione and George to Susan, and each of the girls had happily accepted. Only Draco and Dorea would remain fiancées for another year, before Dorea would have taken her NEWTs. 'I wonder if they really manage to wait for another year,' Harry thought in amusement, knowing that Draco and Dorea had been in love with each other for years.

"Should we keep one of them for ourselves then?" Luna asked, gently.

=No,= Inu replied in a firm voice. =We can make more puppies at any time. Just give one to Dad, as he still doesn't have a familiar at all yet.=

James was thrilled to say the least, when he received a completely white puppy for his birthday at the end of March.

All the other puppies remained living in the founders' quarters with regular excursions to the roof garden at the PAPA that was unknown to anyone but Harry, Lily, James and Luna. Only in the morning of their wedding day on the first of July, 1999, they presented the puppies to the four other couples.

"We don't care that I still have to attend a few classes," Dorea told him, as she cradled the puppy close, which was a spitting image of Inu. "We're going to get married today, too."

"Well, I'm really glad that you're going to be my assistant soon," Harry replied. "I'm really busy with all the requests coming from all over the magical world."

HP

Only on the day after their wedding should he know how right he had been. When he entered his office before breakfast the following morning, his Merlin Strawberry showed nothing but 'Albus Dumbledore congratulates you to your wedding.'

He restarted the PC, however, to no avail. 'What the hell did that old coot do?' he wondered, only to panic upon realising that all eight PCs in the classroom did the same.

'At least my mobile phone works,' he thought, as he urgently phone called Dorea and Brian asking both of them over immediately.

In the end, they had to do the complete software installations on all nine PCs again.

"Oh well, at least the PCs at the MAMA are not affected," Dorea said, letting out a deep sigh.

"That's true, and we're going to install the Wizarding Operating System WOS 3.0 with integrated Anti Gremlin Software on these, and we should upgrade the ones at the MAMA as soon as possible, too," Harry replied, grinning as he showed his sister and Brian the new software, which he had developed during the last few months. "Brian, could you perhaps contact the Queen and suggest installing the new software with the anti-virus software for her as well?"

"That's a good idea," Brian agreed. "As the head of muggle Britain, she could be more susceptible to attacks like this one. I didn't even know that Dumbledore was a computer geek."

"Nor did I," Harry admitted. "Perhaps he just knows someone who did this for him. I don't think that it was a magical attack."

"I have an idea," Dorea spoke up, thoughtfully. "May I try something at your computer, Harry?"

"Of course," Harry replied, staring after his sister in surprise, when she dashed into his office.

A few minutes later, she returned, grinning mischievously. "I just returned it to him, telling him to leave us in peace with muggle methods," she admitted, seemingly proud of her achievement.

"That was well done," Harry commended her, "but please tell me how you did that."

By the time the new school year commenced, all PCs at the MAMA, PAPA and at the Ministry of Magic including the Unspeakables' Office as well as the Buckingham Palace were equipped with the new Wizarding Operating System WOS 3.0 with integrated Anti Gremlin Software, which Harry immediately got patented in the magical as well as the muggle world – just like his Merlin Strawberry system as well as his mobile phone.

"Thank Merlin that Charlus and Regulus are so interested in the computers," Harry said to Dorea, observing his younger brother and Sirius' first-born play a game against each other in his computer classroom. "We really need some efficient support in the near future, even if it'll take four more years, before they'll finish the MAMA."

Five years later…

Harry and Luna were sitting at the high table in the atrium of the MAMA, where the welcoming and leaving feasts for all students of the MAMA and PAPA used to take place, waiting for the students to arrive for the new school year. Their first-born twins, Blossom and Ebony, were sitting between them.

"Mummy," Blossom spoke up with the high, pitchy voice of a four-year old.

"Why is Inu sitting at the high table with the teachers?" her twin continued.

"Shouldn't he sit under the table like Barkymort is sitting on Granddad's feet?"

"Inu is sitting at the table, because he's the headmaster of the PAPA," Harry replied, smiling.

"And why…"

"… is a dog the headmaster?"

"… We thought that was you," the twins continued, making Harry inwardly groaned.

"Inu is the headmaster together with me, because he has received Os in all subjects in his OWLs and NEWTs," Harry explained to his children.

"And because he's the Mutt who Lived," Luna added, wearing a dreamy expression, just when the students stormed into the atrium, seemingly ready for a new school year.

The End

A huge thanks to the kind readers who supported my muse throughout this story by their kind reviews.

Several readers asked me to make Inu a human Animagus. Sorry, but Inu is not an imaginary character but my own muggle dog, and he cannot and will not turn into a human.

I hope you had as much fun reading this story as I had writing it.