Fixing the Wizarding World, a.k.a Headmaster Potter of the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry
by Power Star Pawan Kalyan
Beta: Antidote
Wizarding world was sick and it all came back to the Hogwarts, every small mistake made there made the world more sick. This time Harry was not going to just put on the Band-Aid, this time he was going in and was going to remove the rot from the root for once and all, as the Headmaster Potter of the Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Disclaimer: J. K created an amazing universe but ruined it by writing horrible books.
Chapter 1: The Hat
"Merlin," shouted the hat as soon as it was placed on the head of Harry Potter.
"You can't do this, Mr Potter."
"I had to Mr Hat, I dint have any choice, just look through my memories and you will see that what happened."
"Alright Mr Potter, please lower your Occlumency shields and I will go through each and every one of your memories. I must warn you don't try to conceal or mislead any memory or I will declare you as what you are to the whole world."
"No, Hat, please this is the very last resort. I will not try to impede you at all."
With that Harry lowered his barriers and Hat started scanning all his memories. His childhood, abuse under Dursley, his discovery of the magic world, Hagrid, his memories of being sorted into Gryffindor because he dint like Malfoy. His first year and foolish attempt to save the stone. Dumbledore's refusal to tell him anything meaningful. His second year and basilisk and Parseltongue debacle. His third-year fight with Dementors and Acromantulas.
"So this isn't really your first foray into past Mr Potter, I see you made quite unusual use of Time Turner in your third year."
"But that was to save the Sirius. We all would have been kissed otherwise."
"Uh-huh," replied hat noncommittedly.
And the scanning of his mind continued, his fourth year and goblet of fire, his fight for his life, tom riddle's resurrection. Hat hissed at that memory and Harry felt pain in the head. Grumbling hat continued. His sixth year continued and on the memory of Umbridge using blood quill, Hat got extremely angry, how was this travesty allowed at Hogwarts? What the hell was headmaster doing?
"Umm well Professor Dumbledore was avoiding me and Professor McGonagall told me to keep my head down and not antagonise the woman." Hat sent a searing hot pain through his head, this is a place of learning, this is no place for adults to play their game, first and foremost the only thing that should be done here is the education and learning. I shudder to think that blood quills were used to torture students of this ancient school and headmaster was too busy to meet the student and student was advised to keep his head down? "Why I never..."
"Mr Hat can you please continue. It will get much worst..."
"What can get much worst then students getting tortured?"
"Umm... How about students getting actually tortured by unforgivable as part of their education in detentions?" Harry asked in meek voice.
"WHAT?" Hat bellowed at the top of his voice. Everyone was as such looking at Harry Potter and it was taking a long time, already 20 minutes had passed and people were getting impatient and then they heard Hat shouting in what can be described in an apoplectic voice.
Harry winced in pain at apparent volume and started feeling the heat that was being radiated from the hat.
"Please continue Mr Hat."
Harry could feel Hat ripping through his memories with no regard for his pain or any subtlety. This sixth year with assassination attempts and people dying. Hogwarts was invaded! from inside none the less. Hat saw white! Harry felt blind shearing pain at hat anger. People being cursed and killed. His seventh year continued, Hogwarts taken over, teaching vilest of dark and evil arts to students. Students being placed under Cruciatus curses and unforgivable as part of their education. Hat was weeping at this point. The sentient being that was created by the founder thousands of years ago could literally feel the pain as was his anger and rage.
"Mr Hat," Harry hated how his 11-year-old voice sounded like, "please ... it goes on like this..."
And the hat continued his assault on Harry's mind. It didn't get any better even after the light side won. Minster still followed the rules. And the laws that were created during the Tom Riddle era by the Death Eaters continued. Money, bribery and corruptions ruled the Ministry. Even though Harry and the light side had followed the Dumbledorian teaching of non-lethal violence and dark side hardly suffered any casualties. All those captured successfully pleaded Imperious curse defence and Minster Kingsley allowed this as he was promised a proper full ministry post rather than being just an interim Minister. There were some minor cosmetic changes, but Malfoys were back in power in no time. Meanwhile Harry lost all his gold which was confiscated illegally by the goblins. And Ministry refused to help the wizarding hero who saved the world because they could not afford another war with the goblins so soon.
Slytherin still ruled the Hogwarts through fear and Malfoy's son still pranced around like he owned the place. Muggleborns were still racially discriminated. And abuse and bullying continued under the Hogwarts under the new headmistress McGonagall. Muggle-born registry still continued except that this time, good guys were trying to sell it as it that was something that benefitted Muggleborns and it's for their own protection. Things were going for worst and Harry's own friends had deserted him for a cushy job and protection. Him speaking out against injustices and reforms started ruffling wrong people. He had started stepping on too many powerful and important people's toes with his equality agenda. They decided that now it was time to get rid of him and a smear campaign similar to that of the 5th year started with Malfoy's deep pockets and Harry's friends and McGonagall and Kingsley and Weasels providing details on his personal and private life as fuel for ammunition. It started as a slow campaign to build people's opinion against him. Prophet was already ministry's mouthpiece but Luna Lovegood and Quibbler which had got major boost during the war as reputed truth teller also joined the campaign with personal attacks, to digging up his old history, to outright attacking and challenging his motives. Removed him from the pedestal of the wizarding saviour. Harry already had no gold, and not having support of his friends or Dumbledore's protection and being pitted against veteran politicians who were the master of playing dirty games, poor Harry never even stood a chance. So, before he was going to be labelled as Dark Lord and people started baying out for his blood, Harry decided that problem originated from Hogwarts, it had let the wound fester and had let it become septic, to the point that even the amputation was no longer even option. Deciding it was the time to actually save the wizarding world, he jumped to past, right to where he was sorted as it was time to fix the Hogwarts.
Hat had become much calm by the end.
"Hmmm ... very difficult Mr Potter, what you are asking of me has never happened before. But when the Founders created me and made me sentient by infused their personalities. Protecting the students has always been the primary purpose of Hogwarts, even teaching comes secondary. The castle was built so they would be protected from being killed by Muggles or by rival wizard lords who would wipe out their opponents' clans. These students could have been taught anywhere and a simple portkey can bring and return a student home every night, but they stay in the castle mainly for their own protection. I can see that the current headmaster and future headmasters and mistresses have failed their duties quite horribly if they let the harm befell the student while playing their political games. That is the one and only stipulation that they were supposed to uphold and they have failed quite miserable."
"So, Mr Potter, what is your plan to protect the students?"
"What?" Harry was caught totally off guard.
"Hogwarts is not interested in future and who won or who lost, it doesn't care about you fixing your mistakes, what it cares about, is protecting its students at any cost. What is your plan of action in protecting the students so the things that happened in future will never happen again here?"
"I have the knowledge of the future and experience of someone who fought, survived and won a war. I will create such an environment that things like this will never be allowed to happen."
"Mr Potter, I judge you to be honest, however, if a single student is harmed because of you, you will pay with your magic and life." Thundered the hat. Harry had no doubt that the hat will carry out that threat if it felt Harry had crossed the line.
"Alright Mr Potter, please put me on stool and get ready to face the music," with shaking hand, Harry took off the hat of its head and put it on the stool.
"I PLACE Harry Potter AS THE HEADMASTER OF HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY!"
There was pin-drop silence as not even a breath was heard.
In the background, deep rumbling was heard from the somewhere deep inside the castle as something was happening.
Then like a dam had burst open, everyone was at once bellowing on top of their voices, outraged, shocked, non-more so the Albus Dumbledore.
It took a loud crack from the headmaster's wand to bring some semblance order. He got down from his chair to the Sorting Hat. "What do you mean young Harry is the headmaster, Sorting Hat?" he asked in grandfatherly voice. He really was confused. He expected Harry to go to Gryffindor. Hagrid had done excellent work and Weasleys took over perfectly as the station. Sweet Trolley Lady had already informed him that, youngest Wesley had sat alone with the boy so he would be properly biased against Slytherin by now. Also, if he knew the father, the Malfoy Jr must have also made his move further cementing Harry towards the Gryffindor. The boy had a long difficult destiny ahead of him. Now what's this nonsense hat was sprouting.
"Albus Dumbledore you are hereby removed from the post of the headmaster of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry on the ground of violating the first and foremost principle of the Hogwarts set by the founders. Please remove yourself peacefully from the castle or you will be escorted out."
"Why I never..." Minerva McGonagall jumped right in at the moment she saw her mentor being targeted.
However, Hat had already turned towards Harry,
"Headmaster Potter what is your next command, shall I continue the sorting as planned?
"Hmmm," said Harry. "Yes please..."
"Now look here Sorting Hat, there must be some mistake, why don't we talk about this in my office after the sorting? Harry, my boy," Dumbledore beamed at Harry from his half-moon spectacles, why don't you go sit at the Gryffindor table while we sort out this misunderstanding later?
As Dumbledore started moving towards his chair at the centre of the table. He heard a great rumble from the deep inside Hogwarts bowels. He felt the control of the wards was lost from him and being shifted to Harry Potter. This was unacceptable. He turned sharply taking out his wand in the process. "Harry, my boy I think that this prank has gone too far, now please return the control of the wards back to me, you have no idea what kind of powers you are playing with." And the teachers in the hearing distance gasped at the news that Dumbledore lost the control over wards. It looked like Harry Potter was really going to be the headmaster.
Harry took back a step towards the hat and it erupted, "Albus Dumbledore you have overstayed your welcome at Hogwarts. You had been allowed time to collect your personal artefacts and settle your affairs before leaving. Having violated the peace you are hereby expelled from Hogwarts, Headmaster Potter?"
Harry nodded and snapped his hands. And with that Albus Dumbledore was forcefully ejected from the Hogwarts and thrown outside the ward boundaries.
"Where is Albus? You bring him back this very instance you hear me Potter," Spat Minerva starting to advance on the Harry.
Harry calmly faced her, "It's Headmaster Potter, deputy headmistress and unless you would like to join his fate by threatening me, I suggest you choose your next words very carefully." It actually stopped her in her tracks. Like her future self, her basic nature reverted to choosing her job security instead of standing beside those whom she owed her loyalty.
"Please continue the sorting" and Harry walked towards the golden throne on the high table and sat down on the chair that belonged to once Great Albus Dumbledore.
And now there were only three people left to be sorted. "Thomas, Dean," a black boy even taller than Ron, joined the Gryffindor table. "Turpin, Lisa," became a Ravenclaw and then it was Ron's turn. He was pale green by now. Harry crossed his fingers under the table and a second later the hat had shouted, "SLYTHERIN!"
Entire room again went into collective shock. Weasley twins were shedding fake tears, "A slimy snake in our home, oh horror oh horror". Ron was on the verge of fainting.
"How can my brother be a slimy snake, Ronald is no brother of mine?" said Percy Weasley pompously as, "Zabini, Blaise," was made a Slytherin. Professor McGonagall rolled up her scroll and took the Sorting Hat away.
Harry just realised that by now how hungry everyone would have been. His sorting took more than an hour and drama with Dumbledore went even longer. People were really hungry by now. Not wanting kids to suffer anymore, Harry got up to make short speech.
Casting a soft sonorous on himself, which raised eyebrows from teachers surrounding him.
"Greetings students, I know you are all ravenously hungry so I will keep this short. Classes are cancelled for next few days while some new changes will be incorporated. I will make more detailed announcement tomorrow so attendance for breakfast tomorrow is mandatory. Make sure that no one is missed, there will be a headcount. Thank you and please dig in."
Feast was just like Harry remembered in his first year. Food was so delicious. He kept getting weird staring from everywhere, he knew both Quirrel and Snape were squirming in their seats. Having thrown Dumbledore from the wards was enough of a show for now for anyone to attack him outright, but he knew everyone was dying to ask him questions to throttle him to death if the glares by McGonagall were anything to go by.
Alas dinner got over eventually, even though Harry would have loved nothing more than it to continue.
"Alright, Perfacts, please lead your dorm mates to your houses and make sure to do the head count. For safety reason your dormitories will be sealed till morning. Hogwarts informs me that there is a dangerous three headed Cerebus inside the school ground which will need to be put down. So, for your own safety if anyone is found outside their dorms it will result in automatic expulsion and snapping of your wand, you are hereby warned. I will personally seal all the houses. For any emergencies you will be able to contact you head of the house which will be with you in your dorms tonight along with all the prefects."
"Please follow your prefects in orderly fashion."
Harry watched as last of the students trooped out of the halls with prefects leading them. It's go time, Harry smirked mentally before whirling and angrily stalking up to the teachers. Appearing to be absolutely livid, he spoke with gritted teeth.
"Wards just informed me that right now somewhere in this school where 11-year-old children are sleeping is a full-grown bloodthirsty Cerebus. Did any one of you know this because so help me God if you knew that the abomination was here and you still let the children enter the building. I will not only fire you on the spot but I will have you prosecuted to the fullest extension of Wizengamot for endangering the entire future generation of heirs. And if you escape Azkaban I will personally make sure that you will be unfit to ever hold any jobs near any children".
All the teachers were utterly shocked and some were properly ashamed. Harry could see Snape and McGonagall panicking. "Deputy Headmistress, I am sure you were aware of the Cerebus? Please tell me in which infinite wisdom did you think that it was a great idea to have a Cerebus near children of all people?
"I ... never... Albus ... told ... us..." Macgonagall spluttered speechless.
"I can see that how seriously you are taking the safety of children and school if you let such beasts inside. Effective immediately you are fired as deputy headmistress and the head of the Gryffindor house. You also are on probation as transfiguration teacher, your class will be evaluated to new standard and if you do not meet the standard you will be let go. Said Harry coldly.
"I... I... I" Minerva McGonagall was speechless, any 11-year-old James and lily's son whom she left at Dursley's doorstep and just fired her, she shuddered at what would happen if he came to know about her role, in him getting placed at Dursleys.
"Before I appoint someone as the new head, I have to clean the mess here, so make yourself useful and spend the night inside the Gryffindor Tower and make the headcount. See that none of the students are missing or left out and make sure that no one gets out while I am dealing with the Cerebus. I will instruct the portrait to seal the common room entrance, but none the less make sure at least you don't fail in this duty. You are excused." And with that, Harry turned his back on her.
"Did anyone else also know about Cerebus but did not do anything? Please speak up and don't lie to me because if I come to know later that you knew and did nothing, I will have you prosecuted."
Flitwick was first to speak up. "I did object but Albus never listened to us and we really can't question him given how much we owe him." Harry raised his eyebrow at half goblins knowing that he would have a hard time getting hired anywhere else, which was also true for pet deatheater, fraud seers and few other riffraff that Dumbledore hired knowing that they would be totally dependent on him for employment. Not to mention the gratitude and debt they would owe him.
"I am disgusted that you would choose the security of your job over safety of innocent eleven-year children." At least Flitwick had decency to look totally ashamed and properly chastised.
"Headmaster, Dumbledore assured that all the precautions will be taken and the Erebus will never get out or children ever get in and plus that Oaf Hagrid was supposed to keep the dog well fed, our protest would have fallen over Albus's deaf ears. Said Snape in oily smooth voice.
"Bastard thought Harry, you would have liked nothing but if the Erebus takes bite of few heads of children but was so slithering about saving his own ass."
"And you Madam Sprout?" Harry turned to head of Hufflepuff who had laid her life in the defence of Hogwarts. She had the decency to look ashamed.
"I was unaware of any such Cerebus in particular headmaster, abuse or my colleagues had failed to inform me of any such thing. I was only asked to get some Devil's Snare but that was it I have no idea how, what or where they were used." Harry detected that she was speaking the truth.
"Very well, Filius Flitwick and Severus Snape you are both here by fired as the heads of Revenclaw and Slytherin house immediately for failing to protect the student and you are also both placed under probation similar to McGonagall. This matter will be properly investigated with your roles in it and those responsible will pay."
"Madam Sprout, as you were unaware, I am not removing you as the head at present but please make sure that no Hufflepuff is roaming outside of their dorm tonight and take the head count while the Cerebus is taken care of. " "Yes, Headmaster but no offence, you are just eleven years old first year and dealing with Cebus she trailed off..."
"Don't worry Madam Sprout" Harry snapped his fingers and two suits of armour came to life, they immediately brought up their shields and drew their halberds in defensive protective position. They started marching and surround Harry searching for threats.
"Yes, of course, headmaster," she immediately started off towards the Huffelpuff dorms.
Any retort Snape had over his loss of position as head of Slytherin died in his throat when he saw the menacing way suit of armours were looking at him. He was sure that he would be cleaved in half before he could even raise his wand. It was much better to hold his peace for now as either Albus or the Minister was not going to stand for this and it was only time before Potter was shown his true place even if he has to dragged there kicking and screaming.
"Professor Flitwick and Snape, please do the same for your former house till I manage to find the proper persons to fill your positions. Please take the head count and make sure that none of house members are outside. You are all dismissed."
Harry watched all the professors leave. He was surprised that Snape had no comebacks, no snide comments and had so readily accepted his authority as the headmaster. He knew Snape was up to something and he might have to do something about it very soon.
Harry knew that there was no urgency in dealing with the Cerebus or the stupid traps set by Dumbledore as wards did actually prevent it from coming out of the door and it would be threatened only if the student went in, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't be removed. Harry had much more pressing issues. Wards felt weak and underpowered. It felt like something was missing, not complete. He needed to check the ward stone immediately.
Harry moved towards where he felt ward stone was situated, it took him to the bowels of the Hogwarts, through some cleverly hidden path that he had never come before in all his seven years. He checked the Marauder's Map that he had nicked from the twins before the feast. This part castle was not even in the Map so even his father had not come down here.
He came upon a wall that didn't feel natural, it looked like someone had recently constructed a fake wall to block anyone going from moving forward. "Dumbledore,' Harry hissed. Snapping his fingers, suit of armour struck the wall with mace crashing with a massive force. Harry continued his journey downwards.
He could see cobwebs and oppressive dampness. It looked like no one had come to these parts for years. Even the flickering torches had died out. Magic felt stagnated, stifled and oppressive. Harry walked down under the castle where he felt the ward room was. Only the headmaster could enter the ward room on the payment of blood. Founders were really not messing around with Hogwarts security. Harry slashed his arm and let his blood splatter on the wall. Where it glowed for the moment before it vanished. There was massive rumbling as the stones started grinding and the wall that haven't been opened in decades started slowly moving.
Harry entered a massive room. There was a massive gem in the middle on a huge ornate pedestal that was faintly glowing, it was cracked and there were various red and green streams of magical energy where being siphoned off, going up and disappearing in the ceiling. It was emitting faint sparks.
Harry couldn't believe the utter state of loss, the Hogwarts wards were in. They were barely surviving. It looked like someone had tempered them years ago. He could see the magic being leeched off from the ward stone and Hogwarts itself to power something unknown somewhere far way. It felt wrong. Whole room screamed of decay, neglect, loss and slow death. Now he knew why those Death Eaters were able to breach the wards in the sixth year, and how the Voldemort and dark beasts were able to breach the wards in the final battle. Ward stone must have died or lost magic to power the wards.
Before doing anything rash as he was so famously known for, Harry took out his wand and cast a diagnostic charm on the ward stone. He nearly went blind at the sensory overload that just occurred with the charm detecting so many magical anomalies. Harry decided it would take years to sort out what each headmaster had added and removed or tampered with. He decided to go with most obvious and most recent addition. He could see three massive drains right away, two massive red drains were going right up to the headmaster's office, Harry wasn't sure what they were powering but he was damn sure that it had nothing to do with the school related. Third drain was going outside the Hogwarts far, far away. It was a massive and constant drain. It was actually hurting the ward's strength and health. And Harry discovered the jinx placed by Tom Riddle on the defence position. It actually fooled the Hogwarts. It was such advance and ingenious piece of complex magic that was woven in the fabrics of Hogwarts wards. Harry could see that Riddle had failed to place any jinx on the ward itself or the result would have been much, much more disastrous. It baffled Harry that how this could have been made possible. Only two possible answers he could come up with was that at that point Dumbledore had already weakened the wards or maybe Salazar Slytherin had created some secret backdoor into the wards or his status as the heir of the Slytherin allowed him certain special leeway. Either way it was quite obvious and why on earth hadn't Dumbledore detected this anomaly or removed it was the mystery. Maybe he really wanted the next generation to be really weak in defence. Harry had no idea how the head of manipulative old goat worked.
Harry steeled himself, this was going to hurt a lot. He cut his hand and placed his hand on the ward stone. Immediately a massive semi-sentient but quite hungry, consciousness slammed into him. It was in pain; it was unable to carry out its primary directives of protecting the castle and its children and it was broken and its power was being leeched off. Harry immediately took the control, he started removing the massive blocks and drains Dumbledore had placed.
Starting with the one that was the biggest, Harry was shocked to find that it headed directly to Private Drive, Surrey. It was the magic from Hogwarts ward stone that was powering the illegal blood wards not some crackpot fiction about his mother's love that Dumbledore had cooked up. This was outrageous, not only he suffered but so did the Hogwarts. Harry wretched the cord and pulled with all his might to yank it away from the ward stone. There was a massive boom, castle shook and Harry got was thrown across the room in massive shockwave as the magic stabilised. Groaning Harry got up slowly and started on the two other drains that seemed to be leading to the headmaster office. Harry was again shocked to find that it led to some trinket that had some blood ritual done, it was a blood tracker that required constant magic being fed to it and more importantly it was tracking Harry by using his own blood. Harry saw red, during sometimes in past Dumbledore had bled him to extract blood enough to power an incredibly illegal ritual and place a tracking charm that would probably work on finding him everywhere in the world except perhaps when he was under a Fedalius. Removing that link shook that castle again and the pain was so intense that Harry would feel the actual coppery test of blood in his mouth. Harry no longer cared about knowing anymore about where each drain went and what was its purpose, he started removing every single drain Dumbledore had put on the ward stone with reckless abondement, it was supposed to protect Hogwarts and that what it was going to do. Harry tackled the Riddle's curse next; it was skilfully woven but once Harry informed its true intention to the ward stone, wards itself attacked the curse with help from Harry. Thankfully, there was no boom this time. By now ward stone had stopped a lot of magic from being drained from itself and it was slowly gathering the recovered magic but it still was too weak and broken to fully perform at its peak.
Harry could feel why wards felt so weak. Hogwarts wards always charged themselves by taking a minuscule amount of the students magic while they were sleeping. They took a teeny tiny fraction of ambient magic present in the wizard's body which the students wouldn't even feel anything and a good night's sleep would more than restore about thousand times more energy than what Hogwarts took. This also had the added benefit of children's magical core constantly growing and recharging. Not every child could or would cast hundreds of spells everyday like some lazy weasels or bookish know-it-alls. It stunted their growth much like never reaching their true height due to not doing enough exercise or eating proper healthy diet. Having hundreds of wizards recharging the wards in their sleep is what made the Hogwarts wards so totally impenetrable, not to mention whatever amount of magic that the headmaster and other powerful teachers used to contribute time to time. It was the tradition. It seemed that Dumbledore in his infinite wisdom as the headmaster had removed this. He had in his own misguided myopic way, had completely blocked off the Hogwarts means of reaching its wards from any sources including from the peaceful creatures in the lake and in the Forbidden Forest, who happily donated their inherent natural magic in return from the protection they received from the castle. Hogwarts protected all the peaceful sentient beings within its ward line including ancient magical trees who also donated their magic. Harry was too tired to even get angry at Dumbledore's reason behind such a stupid move. With a painstaking effort, Harry removed all the Dumbledore's blocks and damages done to the ward stone. It was like flood gates of the dam had all been thrown open all at once. Harry had to marvel at the level of complex magic founders had woven into the ward stone.
Hogwarts used individually scanned the magical core of each student and their mental and physical state, it only took the ambient magic only if the student wasn't going to feel drained the next morning. The way magical core was recharged was different for everyone, it depended on what you did, how much you ate, how well you were sleeping, your stress level, how depressed or relax and happy you were. Hogwarts used to lend its magic to those who got too weak or depressed, that's why all students always felt the special magical feeling of being at home and getting a relaxed and refreshing sleep at night. Dumbledore had blocked the entire magical conduit which used to go both ways.
Even after removing all the drains, ward stone was woefully empty compared to what it used to be at its peak when Hogwarts stood mighty and proud. Harry started feeding whatever energy he could spare for now to the ward stone. He knew that if he was going to survive the upcoming days with Dumbledore and Ministry and changes, he wanted to implement, Hogwarts needed to be at its strongest.
Luckily, even though the Harry might have the body of eleven years old, his magical core was that of the chosen one, the one who was prophesied to defeat the greatest dark lord of all times. Sensing the great source of power, ward stone started sucking in greedily. Harry was quite drained magically and collapsed once his hand left the ward stone, which was now shining so brightly that eyes would hurt. It would still need a few days before it was fully charged.
Taking out a pepper up potion from his robes, Harry chugged down a few more than strictly necessary, but he still had lots of work to do before the morning came up.
Once the wards were restored to full power, Harry realised that lots of actual wards schemes had been either missing or disabled. Knowing that it was disaster waiting to happen, he drew out his wand and kneeled at the base of ward stone and started drawing the runes. Chanting in the Gaelic and Druidic chants. He knew that these were the original ward schemes that were created in. There was a huge pulse from ward stone and suddenly entire cavern lighted up, on every surface area there were carved runes that kept glowing in bright light. Harry nearly wept with joy at the range of information that just came crashing into his head in wave after wave. Already expecting worst by now he was not surprised to see that Dark Magic detecting ward scheme was disabled, as was the animagus detecting ward scheme or the injury and accidents informing ward scheme. There was the ward scheme to detect the Dark Mark which was also missing, which was the first one Harry activated and wasn't surprised in the least when wards informed him that at least three death eaters were present in the castle. Snape and Wormtail, "who was the third one?" Harry frowned, "ah the Quirrel'. Harry had no idea Quirrel was marked, it never came up in his first year. Filing away the information for the future.
Harry restored the animagus ward scheme and Wormtail, Minerva, Filius all pinged up on the ward. Good to know, Harry activated the Dark Magic ward and nearly stumbled at the biggest and most forceful nudge it received from the Room of Requirement. Once aware even Hogwarts revolted at the very idea of Horcrux being stored inside it, the vilest of all vile, evil soul magic was utterly revolting. Harry resolved to deal it the first thing moment he got out. He was surprised as lots of minor dark artefacts started being picked up by the ward though most of them were located in Slytherin dorms, there were a few in teachers' offices and personal quarters, and a few here and there in Revenclaw, Huffelpuff and surprising Gryffindor too. Well, they were also going to be dealt with very soon. Lots of parents were going to be very, very unhappy very soon.
Harry was surprised to find that entire forbidden Forrest was covered by the extended Hogwarts wards, not the main castle primary wards but the secondary wards which were less taxing to maintain though equally powerful as they were spread over vast amount of area. And there were connected wards that extended all the way to the Hogsmead. It seemed that Hogwarts took the security of its student very seriously and did not leave them unprotected even on their weekend visits to the village or on their occasional forays into the forest. And it was no wonder why or by whom they were disabled.
Harry activated the forest wards first and massive boom was heard, entire castle shook before a very powerful pulse was ejected from the ward stone, it travelled in a translucent bubble that extended for miles and miles. Harry was utterly surprised as he was made aware of the dark creatures present in the forest. There were thousands of Acromantulas, deadly venomous magical snakes like Runespoor, Ashwinders and not to mention dangerous beasts like Forest Trolls, Banshees, Lethifolds, Manticores, Boggarts, Hydras, Gorgons, Chimaeras Hippogriffs, Skrewts, Thestrals and other dark creatures not to mention the entire portion of forest which was hijacked by the centaur, who claimed territory as their own. He could sense the merpeople in the lake, giant squid which was not native and was later introduced and was docile at the moment as it was regularly fed meat and fish, Harry had no idea what it would turn to the moment it stopped getting the meat. He could feel the dark water creatures as Grindylow, water snakes and scores of dark creatures who had made the Hogwarts their home. Harry had no idea that Hagrid's stupid misunderstood pets had already grown so much and posed such danger already. It wasn't safe for anyone to go to the Forbidden Forest alone and there were high chances that the student might not come back alive from the monsters. He shuddered at thinking how much they will multiply in the next seven years.
He realised that Forest was never supposed to have a single dark or threatening creature at all. Hogwart ground was a sacred and safe place for students to learn and thrive. They were not supposed to live next to extremely intelligent and bloodthirsty Acromantulas. Forest was supposed to be the peaceful sanctuary for pure peaceful animals like Unicorns, Thestrals and magical but non-harmful animals. There was never supposed to be any predators and centaurs were most certainly had no place claiming the forest as their own. Armed with weapons like bow and arrow none the less.
Forest was actually the place to forage for rare ingredients for potions and food. There used to regular classes conducted in the forest in herbology to understand and learn about plants and potions. Students often ventured into the forest to gather ingredients. There were regular rituals conducted under the solstices and full moon in the past. It was a safe, warm and welcoming place.
Harry was so pissed that Dumbledore had not only let an amazing treasure trove of forest being lost to Hogwart students, but he also let it run rampant with dark creatures and ruined it for generations to come. He would deal with Acromantulas personally but will probably have to hire some professionals monster hunters to hunt down the other dark creatures and not to mention he will have to make sure that no harm should befall unicorns this time.
There were anti-rape wards which were also disabled, there were anti-cheating wards that were located over classrooms and examination halls. There were wards that were disabled or missing in the hospital wing that informed the headmaster on the condition of patients. Surprisingly, there were anti-grime wards which were also not active. There were certain wards to preserve the lustre and colour of the walls and shine of the floor. There were wards to preserve the paintings in tip-top condition. There were wards for elves, there were wards for dragons, there were wards phoenixes which Harry implemented in a hurry to prevent Fawkes from teleporting something to or for Dumbledore, man was persona-non-granta but he still had lots of loyal followers who could do untold damage from the inside.
Then there were wards for the kitchen, there were wards which detected if the food in the common hall or kitchen has been tempered or potions had been added, there were wards to detect love potions, there were wards to detect possessed people, people under imperious or mind-controlling substance, there were wards for preserving privacy of bathrooms. There were wards that managed the temperature, suicide prevention wards that prevented people from throwing themselves off from the astronomy towers. There was this amazing ward in conjecture with charm over the Owlary, which immediately vanished any of the owl-dropping moment it fell on the floor and also maintained a fresh odour and made sure that bird feed and water never ran out. There were wards over animal pens, wards over the green house, at once upon a time Hogwarts was producing its own food which didn't seem to be the case now, Harry made a mental point to do something about this in future.
Harry found that much of these wards were not deliberately sabotaged but they had lapsed due to lack of sufficient power being provided and regular maintenance and upgrading they needed from time to time. Dumbledore never managed to bother on painstakingly work on creating or restoring any of such wards.
Harry started activating all the minor ward schemes that were missing.
Searching for the main defence ward, Harry was horrified that actual intent based defence wards were manually disabled and basic wards had been tempted to create a few special blind spots as well as exception list for certain magical signatures. Hogwarts had three layered defences, in the emergency's headmaster can activate War Wards and Anti Siege wards. However, these were massively draining and needed to be continuously maintained so other than being attacked by thousands of magical individuals and dragons and giants and werewolves they were probably not needed to be activated. Harry checked mentally and it seemed like ward stone was nowhere nearly charged to active the absolute war wards.
Speaking of loopholes, Harry mentally searched for basilisk or the chamber of secrets if the wards were aware of its existence and he couldn't find anything. Salazar had actually managed to keep it hidden from very impressive and powerful wards of Hogwarts. Knowing of the secret escape routes from the castle, Harry wasn't surprised to find that wards were tempered to ignore the existence of shirking shack or the secret tunnel underneath it, which marauder and werewolf used. He also tried to sense for a secret tunnel establishing a direct way between portrait of Ariana Dumbledore to room of requirements. Harry wasn't surprised that Dumbledore was not only aware of it but he had actually manipulated the wards to ignore its existence unless someone is specifically aware of it and goes looking for it, Harry activated the most dangerous of all Hogwarts wards, the intent-based wards. Not only were they lethal but they let the Hogwarts decide whether the person coming inside the ward line had the ill intent towards the castle or its inhabitants and then it could dish out the appropriate judgement, which ranged from getting stunned, bound in chains and being transported right in front of DMLE to being outright killed and your remains vaporised. There was a massive boom and the castle shook to its foundations as mammoth ancient wards groaned after getting activated after centuries. But Harry was still not done, he had some more modifications to make in the intent-based wards.
Harry made the main defensive intent-based wards to extent in a 360-degree dome all around the Hogwarts and then made them to extend right under the earth, deep inside so that even if goblins were to make tunnels, wards would detect and obliterate them. Harry closed off all the hidden exits from the wards. Me made sure that visible red sizzle wall of pure energy will be displayed so that even the stupidest or dumbest student would get the idea that going through them would not be a smart idea, and not to mention Harry will be informed if someone did try it, though. He was mostly worried about Twins.
Harry knew that one exit he couldn't bar purely using the wards was the way out through the Chamber of the Secret, but he could ward off the bathroom so that no one can enter it. He planned to seal off the entire wall.
Hogwarts had lethal wards; founders were not messing around with safety. Anyone with ill intent towards the castle or its occupants or any dark creature such as werewolves or vampire put its foot inside the ward would have been immediately incarcerated to crisp. Harry could guess why Dumbledore had disabled the dark creature ward which would have been to only way his pet werewolf could have been allowed as a student. And he could see that Dumbledore had sacrificed the safety of entire school but in return gained and cultivated a zealous mindless follower that day by doing small act of kindness. But Harry had also seen the results of that ward being down, Fernir Greyback ripping out throats of innocent and howling in the castle. It made Harry's blood boil again. "Never again," he swore.
Harry activated all three of defensive ward schemes and made them to maximum lethal force. Anyone trying breach would be killed, period. Anyone attempting to sneak in with ill intents such as pretender Moody or Death Eater will be killed on the spot. Hogwarts also had scores of internal defensive mechanisms in case the outer wards did get breached, such as suits of armours, gargoyles to various other hidden defensive traps set by the founders were activated and set to kill or decapitate any intruder with ill intent. The most important of all, Harry made sure to absolutely block any kind of transportation through wards either in the form of Phoenix Flame Travel, or House Elves' instantaneous transportation or through any other magical beast. He absolutely didn't want some nut case like Dobby or Winky running around trying to save students in their own twisted ways. Ward Stone was surprised when Harry created the scheme to block all kind of house elf movement either incoming or outgoing. Elves were always trusted and respected. Yes, Hogwarts elves, not the ones controlled by insane masters wishing to harm students. Ward Stone pulsed angrily at someone wishing to harm students, "yes" resonated Harry dryly.
Ward stone was no longer just shining, it was actively humming and pulsating on regular beats. Chains binding it had been just removed, it had been just awaked from forced coma. It had a massive castle to protect and take care of. Harry could feel the sizzling heat of raw magical energy that was just emerging from the ward stone. He could sense that the Hogwarts was prioritising sending over the power to the most critical areas of neglect and disrepair. It could feel that Hogwarts was healing itself, licking its wounds, cleansing itself.
Harry needed to give access to Hogwarts elves. And he'd better do it now before he activated the ward that would block all kinds of movement.
"Elves can you please come here?" Harry spoke out loud, wondering why he couldn't feel the population of elves in the kitchen through the wards. He had trouble sensing them in the kitchen, only when he focused on living magic in the kitchen could he detect them.
Pop! an old elf wearing absolutely horrible rags appeared. At least rags didn't have any holes but they were just as dirty as Kreacher.
"Why can't Hogwarts detect you? Harry asked kindly.
"Headmaster Harry Potter Sir, we were freed by Dumbledore. We are not provided with enough magic; we are barely surviving" old elf sail haltingly wringing his hands.
"Then how come you are still alive still? Harry asked totally astonished, by all means elves should have faded away, years ago without the bond to sustain them.
"There is enough ambient magic in the air that we are barely sustaining. We can only focus on kitchen sir, we are unable to maintain the entire castle or look after the children, which was there one of the main mandates.
"Oh, you poor dears..." Gather everyone here right now, I will bond you to Hogwarts this time rather than to the headmaster so that no one can free you ever again.
Tears of gratitude were flowing freely from old elf eyes who vanished in a very loud crack and within seconds some eighty elves flooded the cavern in various states of disregard, all crying, shouting gratitude and praising greatest master Harry Potter to the high moon and above. In seconds entire chamber descended into utter chaos. Everyone was stammering to be first to be bonded.
"Can I please have your attention elves?" Harry had to shout to be heard over the din.
"Yes, Headmaster Great Harry Potter Sir."
"I know you all want to be bonded first but let's start with the weakest or ill elves first, then women and children. Is that OK with everyone?"
They all immediately looked down ashamed and shuffled their feet. Nodding at old elf, Harry asked, "please bring the weakest elf near the ward stone."
Ward stone was pulsing angrily with alternating between red, green, blue and brown colours, it was sending out sizzling pulses of magic out in major waves, which were while not hurting anyone but made their teeth chatter and made all their hairs stand out. Harry could see the fear in the eyes of first very frail weak looking elf. Taking its hands generally Harry asked, "what's your name elf?" "I's Tilly great headmaster Harry Potter sir."
"Well, Tilly don't be afraid, place your hand on the ward stone and don't worry it will not harm you."
Hesitantly Tilly placed her tiny hands on the ward stone and Harry could immediately sense that the Hogwarts was wishing to protect, heal the poor elf. Harry performed the ritual to bound her to the Hogwarts.
And the effect was instantaneous, Tilly changed right before his eyes. He could feel the magic restoring her. She started gaining her weight, her features became sharper, she started developing an aura around her that was backed by tremendous power. By the end of bonding Tilly was radiating with power. She clung to Harry's leg crying inconsolably babbling mixtures of thanks and gratitude. Harry gently pried her from his legs and asked her to help other weak elves. With determination Tilly popped away. Soon the process started with all elves touching the ward stone and getting bonded. As soon as the elf got banded, Harry could feel their presence in the back of his mind like Hogwarts were aware of them and could actively track them.
Harry snapped his fingers as the last elf got bonded. "Can you all please listen to me very carefully; First Hogwarts elves should look very smart and elegant? So I order you all to wear a nice elegant uniform with Hogwarts's Crest. You will never overwork and always take rest when you feel tired. I want to stress this enough that safety of every child here is paramount. If you ever come across any child who is hurt, injured or in danger I want you to immediately transport them to the Infirmary and then come and inform me, but only after the child is safe? Is that understood?"
"Yes, Headmaster Great Harry Potter Sir" elves all chorused joyously.
"Also, I know that you have not been able to focus on anything other than food, but now if you can, you all should focus on keeping the Hogwarts look a little cleaner and better. I know that squib has no business doing your job. Castle looks dirty, there are cobwebs and the gardens and bushes are not maintained. I know idiot Dumbledore removed you from those important duties and gave them to squibs and useless half giants who don't know the first thing about maintain the ground."
Elves were all bobbing their heads, exited at the prospect of so much new work.
"I want Hogwarts in a pristine clean condition, the castle should shine. There shouldn't be any grime on the stones. I know that it hasn't been painted in ages since Dumbledore took over so." Harry pointed at Tilly "Tilly you are in charge of tapestry and art works; I need new and fresh coloured tapestries and banners and flags." "You." Pointing at random elf Harry said, you are in charge of painting this entire castle, "take as many elves you need as long as it doesn't hinder the daily routines and I want the castle restored to the original colours when the castle was old. I trust that Hogwarts will provide you all the materials you need as wards will give you access to the Vault and get any supply that's missing."
Pointing to a very muscular looking elf, Harry said, "You are in charge of repairing, please fix and repair anything in the castle, walls, doors, stairs, ceilings, cracks, and broken pipes, broken plumbing, broken furniture ... give priority to most urgent things first."
"Also, all elves you are no longer to go to come and go room, it has a very dangerous dark magic inside."
All the elves shuddered at that having felt it once.
"Until that has been dealt with, please deposit anything that you find lost to my antechamber. You all got that?" Everyone nodded with large teary eyes.
Calling the oldest elf that originally appeared first, Harry asked him,
"I have very special task for you" Elf visibly puffed up at being given so much importance by the greatest headmaster of all-time master Harry Potter, sir.
"I want you to go out and find any unbounded elf that's out there is not only here in Britain, but from entire Europe and elsewhere. Wherever they are dying or sick for lack of magic and bring them to be for being bonded. Tell them about how you are all treated and what kind of work and protection, security you all get. If I have to say anything about it, no elf will ever fade away for lack of magic."
All elves cheered and started crying at Harry Potter Sir's greatness. "Do any one of you knows unbounded elves? Please let me know as soon as possible."
And immediately all the elves started speaking up all at once, "Me... Me... I's knowing greatest Headmaster Harry Potter Sir... I know Billy... I know Mopey... Sir... Sir... I know Twichy is fading..."
"OK... OK... Alright, please bring all the unbounded elves who would like to join Hogwarts" and the effect was immediate, Elves started popping away like crazy and started popping in with new elves in varying state of disarray. If Harry thought Dobby was crazy, some of the elves were even in worst condition. Some were close to complete collapse from lack of energy, some were visible sick or injured, some were abused by humans or hunted by dark animals, some were utterly drunk trying to forget their sorrows, some were hyperventilating at the prospect of proper bounds. Nearly two hundred new elves had popped in back with Hogwarts elves. Noise levels had reached to deafening proportion.
Firing a cracker with his wand, Harry asked the elves to quiet down which they gradually did. "I can feel your pain, I really had no idea that elves were in such bad condition. Please forgive me." Harry was utterly shocked at the poor state of elves everywhere.
This led to another horrifying grasp and crying from elves as the greatest master Harry Potter Sir was asking for forgiveness from poor elves. And that too for no fault of his and for things he did not even have knowledge of.
"May I ask how this came to be?"
The old elf spoke up, "Sir after the last war, lots of families died leaving behind elves with no masters and nothing to look after."
"Dint you go to other wizards or Dumbledore for bonding?" Harry asked curiously." We did but Dumbledore was against bonding elves, he freed us all, including those of us that were already bonded to the headmasters of the Hogwarts throughout the ages. Wizards started forgetting the ways of old and many people who knew about elves bonding had already died by then or had moved away."
Harry had no idea that last war was so bad on elves. Getting an inspiration, he said, "Are there any Potter elves among you here? Perhaps belonging to my parents or my ancestors?"
Elves all looked at each other murmuring among each other before Tilly spokes "We are sorry great master Harry Potter Sir, but Potter Elves died defending the Potter Home during your grandparents' time in a death eater attack." Tears were freely flowing from Harry's eyes.
"Yous being bonding an elf personally as Potter elf," one elf dared ask hopefully which lead to massive frenzy will all unbounded elves jumping and pushing to get personally bonding to greatest headmaster Harry Potter Sir, while all the Hogwarts elves looking jealously.
"No... No ... all elves will be bonded to be Hogwarts personally and you all will live a very, very long prosperous life with your children too getting bonded to Hogwarts. No longer again will any elf will ever go without magic or protection as long as Hogwarts is alive and standing!" Elves all cheered but were still disappointed as not being bonded personally to Great Harry Potter, Sir.
No one could replace Dobby! Harry planned on break him out at first possible opportunity. He wasn't going to let his friend suffer in that hell hole anymore then possible. Only Dobby could be his personal elf.
"All right I want the weakest, ill and women and children here first to be bonded." "Tilly please help organize." And all the Hogwarts elves jumped into action right away. Elves were bound and bounded to the ward stone and left energised with amazing transformation. The population of elves tripped in spans of minutes and Harry felt secured that he had an army of loyal but crazy powerful beings who could do untold amount of destruction on the snap of their fingers.
"Do elves need anything? Will your sleeping and living quarters will need to be enlarged?"
And all elves jumped at greatest headmaster Harry Potter Sir caring so much about them but they assured the headmaster that they were fine, they dealt with sickness in different ways then humans and their accommodations were awesome and now the Hogwarts was provided for them personally.
Harry warned them that he is blocking the wards to not let any other living creature come inside the wards without permission so that elves, and phoenixes and all other means of travels were going to be blocked. And to inform him personally before bringing anyone inside the Hogwarts wards or the creatures will be met by some very hostile wards. Any dark creature not approved will be met with lethal wards that will incarcerate them on the spot while light creatures not having ill or malicious intentions will be thrown straight to DMLE with probably few broken bones and heavy bound in chains. Others will be killed on the spot.
"Security of the children and this castle is not something to be trifled with." Said the Harry in a deadly voice. "Anyone wishing harm to children will be punished harshly." All the elves nodded firmly in awe at the headmaster who was taking his responsibilities properly for the first time. "Alright everyone, Tilly and others please take the new elves and show them around and their duties and please start working on the tasks allocated to you."
"Yes, Headmaster Great Harry Potter Sir," one by one all elf started popping away. And Harry was aware of their location by the wards this time. Harry knew that Hogwarts was in good though slightly crazy hands but he knew that elves would never go against his orders or against the codes installed by the founders when they were bonded.
Harry was utterly tired by now but he still had a few important tasks and bases to cover before he knew that all the hell was going to break loose tomorrow. He knew that he was going to be fighting battles on so many fronts that it was enough to make his head spin just thinking about it. Dumbledore was not going to take his being booted out so unceremoniously particular by someone he was hoping to mould as his weapon and for whom he had created so many multi-layered plans. Neither was the Dumbledore loyalist teacher's brigade whom Dumbledore had carefully nit-picked so that they were either totally loyal to him or owed him too much to even think of daring to go against him. Dumbledore sure knew how to collect them, half goblin, half giant, squib, drunk, a ghost, pet death eater, matron who turned a blind eye to abuse, a stuck-up loyalist who would follow rules even if it meant coverups. These misfits were not going to take kindly to young Harry ordering them or bringing about changes. Harry might have coved them into submission by shock and awe but that wasn't going to last. Nor were students going to take it easily without creating fuss. Every house and kids will be jumping in the fray with their own agenda with Malfoy, Weasleys and Ravenclaws will all be protesting his authority for their own personal reasons. So, will also be jumping into the fray, the Board of Governors, who will fight for seeing their entire authority going up into smoke and Malfoy will do anything to personally settle score with Harry. Fudge and Ministry were also going to barge in with force with aurors hoping to cow him with Wizengamot. Harry might have to bring up the charter that Ministry had signed with the Founders. And then there was Quirrelmort which again was going to be very tricky to deal with. Maybe he could exchange him with the goblins in exchange for them releasing his entire Potter and Black inheritance and vaults. He knew that there was no other way they were going to let those accounts go otherwise. And then there was the Peter Petigrew who was going to flee moment the new changes were announced. Though Harry didn't have much hope for Sirius who was going to dance to Dumbledore tunes at the first available moment. And Harry was damn sure that Sirius was going to convince him to give up everything back to Dumbledore in the very first meeting. Harry felt for a moment to hold on to Peter for the time being.
Harry was going to be attacked on too many fonts by too many people and maybe all at once so if he was going to deal with them, he needed to be smart about it. Meanwhile Harry still wasn't sure that Dumbledore didn't have some secret way back into the castle. Old coot had spent a century in the castle, in position of power none the less and was the greatest sorcerers of his time if his achievements in alchemy were anything to go by. Harry needed to close those avenues fast.
Harry sealed the ward room with blood ward that only he can gain access after proving his identity in blood. Wincing at the deep gash where blood was flowing freely, Harry waved the wand mutter healing spell and clenched his teeth at searing hot pain which sealed the cut. He had lost too much blood today restoring the cracked and damaged ward stone and erecting the blood based identifying and access wards. Feeling that even this was not enough given the calibre of enemies he had, Riddle and Dumbledore... Harry erected another Parseltongue based ward that allowed only a Parseltongue speaker access the ward stone cavern and violently rebuff the commoners not speaking the noble serpent tongue. Harry was inspired by the Voldemort's ward that only let those having dark mark through, which had been used to great effect in his sixth year on the eve of Dumbledore's suicide. Harry also instructed two magically enforced suits of armour to patrol the corridor invisibly and silently and to never to let anyone pass other than the headmaster, meaning him. The entire corridor was hidden anyway, with only a handful of people were aware of its whereabouts. And most of those people resided outside the main wards at present. So, there was zero chance they could ever reach, much less open or do any damage to ward stone now that Hogwarts was fully active and on the defensive mode. It was not going to allow anyone to hurt itself again.
He swiftly started climbing up to the seventh floor towards the tapestry showing Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to dance the ballet. It was weird moving through an entire empty castle at night. Chuckling at old fond memories Harry reached his destination, the Room of Requirement, it was the greatest weapon ever known to the wizard kind and in the wrong hands it could lead to very well the end of Hogwarts and Wizarding World. Harry could not let such a power fell in the hands of fraud teachers who used it to store their empty sherry bottles or kids who used it just to snog. He had to take it away from all of them and with extreme determination, he knelt down on the floor started drawing runes on the floor and on the walls on either side. Getting up Harry started gather up his reserve magical power. He was going to unleash major magic energy and started up the chant in harsh foreign sounding words. At every interval his wand pulsed out the major wave of colourless magic. It was utterly drained but Harry dug his heel and refused to give in. with last wave, Harry fell down on the floor utterly exhausted but it had worked, Harry had successfully cast Fedalius charm over the room of requirements. Its entire existence had been removed from the minds all the living beings who knew about it.
By now his eleven years old body had given up and Harry fell down fainting from utter exhaustion. Hogwarts sensed that its headmaster had magically exhausted himself and immediately directed an elf for assistance. Tilly was the first to pop in, followed by the old elf. They gently carried the headmaster to his quarters and deposited him in the grand king-size four-poster bed. Harry would recover by the morning. With their work done, elves popped away ... they had the entire castle to clean and polish!
A/N: That was some start, its still just the first day. Updates will be erratic and Oh yes before I forget, I am looking for a good beta as Antidote can only help me so much