Here is the next chapter of my story. Please read and review love Sag x
In the morning Tilly woke Harry up very early with a full and hearty bowl of porridge into which she had stirred some butter, sugar and his nutrition potion. He took his time savouring the yummy flavour. "Tilly where do you get your food from that you feed to me?" he asked suddenly very curious.
"Well sir my last master was bad so I steal some food from him to give to you and the rest of it comes from Hogwarts Kitchens. The head elf there Ivy is my sister so she lets me take any food I need without question. My old master was a bad one and doesn't deserve food. Besides which he won't miss it" she answered with a smile. Because she'd woken him up early he was able to relax and enjoy his breakfast. He had enough time for a nice relaxing bath with lovely hot water as well before his aunt would wake him up. He was clean, refreshed and dressed with a few minutes to spare so he put pen to paper.
Dear Madam Amelia Bones,
I am a highly concerned citizen who knows that the previous administration has committed a great crime you need to fix unless you, yourself wish to take the blame for their faults. If you check for any records anywhere in the ministry relating to the trial of Sirius Orion Black I can assure you, you will find none because he was put in jail without a trial. Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew are guilty of being unregistered animagi. Sirius Black takes the form of a large black dog which closely resembles a grim and Peter Pettigrew who is very much still alive might I add takes the form of a rat with a missing left toe.
Bartemius Crouch has a son who is a death eater and he'd rather that didn't get out so he placed Black in jail without a trial. Please see to it that this is rectified at once or I will tell everyone this is the fault of our new current minister and that is not to be trusted. I know that Sirius Black performed the godfather ritual when his godson Harry James Potter was born because my friend Lily Potter nee Evans told me about it. She gushed so much about how wonderful he was with his godson. If there is a spell you can use to summon an animagus I would highly suggest you do so. Peter Pettigrew was their secret keeper and went by the nickname of wormtail. If you do nothing about this then I will know that our Ministry which I love dearly has gone to hell. Do not disappoint me.
Signed, Concerned Citizen.
He sent Tilly to personally leave the letter on Amelia's desk which she did. Soon afterwards he heard his aunt shouting for him to get up and make everyone their breakfast. Tilly had a face like thunder when she heard this. It wasn't fair at all.
"But sir surely you are not expected to do this really are you?" she asked as he smiled sadly at her.
"Tilly I must do this every morning before school or as this is the summer holidays just every day. It is very tiring for me but as I feel good this morning it should be fine. If you can when everyone is downstairs please clean the entire upper floor of the house. Take whatever time you need. In the second bedroom upstairs you will find some broken toys which I need you to fix and place in the local charity store here so others may benefit from them!" he asked kindly as she nodded that she would do it and was in all honesty happy to be getting work.
Being sure she was not seen she exited with him as his old bed rose up to normal level again. When Petunia wrenched open the door and saw him there she scowled asking him not to take all day. He exited the cupboard in his new clothes as Petunia looked at him weirdly. He was obviously gaining weight or so she thought anyhow. She clearly thought the clothes were still old cast offs from Dudley and so did he when he entered the kitchen. As he went to punch Harry in the arm he felt his hand hit something firm he couldn't see but he merely assumed he was still tired and continued towards the table. He'd just get Harry later on anyway. Harry glanced to the side to find the coffee already made silently thanking Tilly in his head. Thank you so much Tilly for being the elf in the whole world he whispered as he felt her pat his lower back lovingly. Petunia either hadn't heard him or ignored him. Uncle Vernon stormed in looking vile and shouted at Harry to get him his cup of coffee.
"Yes uncle Vernon. Here you go!" he said placing the cup of coffee on the table before him and returning to the cooker where he was cooking some bacon. He saw some of the bacon go from the packet and knew Tilly had taken it so he could have it at lunch time. Petunia didn't notice it when she put the bacon away again because she would have automatically assumed Vernon or Dudley had just eaten it. In fact Tilly had taken three slices of it. Two would go in a nice bacon and cheese sandwich and one would be on the side for him to enjoy on his own. She had told him when he'd asked her about what food she would be eating that she would eat elven food with her sister at Hogwarts now that she was free unless he forbade her from doing it. He seemed genuinely stunned by that until he remembered how close to death she had been because of her old master.
He had told her she could do anything she wanted to and was forbidden only from ever telling his secrets or anything he asked her to do unless he said it didn't matter if others discovered about it. He said most things he asked her to do were fine anyway it was just if he asked her not to tell anyone about it that she was not to do so.
He put the cooked bacon on a plate and brought it over where Vernon was sitting reading the paper. "You've been bloody slow today boy. Next time make it faster or we'll have problems do I make myself clear?" he thundered as Harry who normally would have shrunk back stood taller.
"Yes uncle Vernon I will try to be faster next time I'm sorry!" he said as Vernon eyed him weirdly.
"Well then get out. Haven't you got something to do for the day?" he snapped as Petunia came back in looking freaked out.
"Well I was going to ask him to tidy upstairs but it would seem Diddykins did it before he could because he's just that great aren't you poppett? Well freak put on your jacket and go find something to do. Enjoy your breakfast Dudders mummy loves you so much!" she said placing kisses on the boys cheeks as he squirmed to get away from her. Upstairs Tilly fixed all the toys and left them at the local church for the needy children of the area. She watched her master leave the house and walk towards the park when shortly afterwards Dudley ran out and away from Harry towards another house. She watched him rattle on the door as another boy joined him and they finally collected another boy at a house further down the street. They decided to play a game of what she heard them calling Harry hunting. She was shocked as they charged down the road after Harry and cried tears of deep sadness and rage as one of them punched Harry to the ground and Dudley kicked him while he was down. As they all reared back to punch and kick him once more they were flung backwards in such a way that didn't hurt them at all but they ended up far from where they had been deep inside the park itself. Harry's nose was bleeding where he'd been punched and he now had a bruise forming on his tummy. At that moment Tilly's resolve strengthened.
"Don't you worry sir they will NEVER hurt you again I promise! Each time they try to hurt you they will safely land far away from you. No one will ever hurt my little sir again!" she said whilst sobbing and healing him. In no time his nose had stopped bleeding and he didn't feel sore anymore. With a little bruise salve his bruise was now going away as well. Elsewhere at the ministry Amelia Bones had received the note and read it her eyebrows rising high in surprise. She rushed to the minister to show him the letter at once.
"Minister this is worth checking out don't you think? I don't want someone blaming you for the things the previous minister did do you?" she asked him pointedly as he paled. He reached out to floo call Lucius his trusted advisor and stopped himself at her words.
"You are right Amelia. I can't have whoever this is thinking it is my fault because if one person thinks like this soon enough they all do. Dolores please come here for a moment I need you!" he asked pressing his intercom. She entered smiling brightly at him and glaring at Amelia behind her back. God she hated that woman so much.
"You asked to see me Minister how can I help you today?" she asked him in a sickly sweet kind of voice.
"I need you to go now and fetch me a list of every single trial which took place in the year nineteen eighty one please!" he requested as she frowned at his order but agreed to do it. She was gone a while but returned twenty minutes later with it in her hand. She handed it to him and waited to see what he would do.
"Thank you Dolores. You may go now until you are needed again!" he dismissed as she smiled and backed very slowly out of the room in an attempt to try and overhear anything. Once she closed the door she cast a eavesdropping spell at the door however Amelia had anticipated that and so she heard nothing much to her chagrin. As the minister of Magic himself was the one to request the files no one could say anything about it. He thumbed through the pages finally landing on the file of Sirius Black and opened it. Inside he found a fine for landing his motorcycle in an unauthorised place and nothing else. He went puce in the face and ordered Bartemius to come up and explain himself at once. Bartemius said they'd had so many cases at the time that he must have slipped through the cracks.
"Yes and this would have nothing to do with your own son being a death eater would it?" he snapped slipping the letter into his desk drawer without being seen. All the colour drained from Barty's face. A trial was ordered with veritas serum at once. Dumbledore was stunned to get the summons for an emergency Wizengamot meeting and turned up very confused. When he heard that Sirius was being put on trial because he never got one he was utterly disappointed. Sirius never should have been in jail without a trial. Just what were the Ministry thinking doing this? Every single head of department was ordered to attend the trial as well. The trial went ahead with a press presence as well behind a silent barrier where they could hear and watch the trial without disturbing anyone else. Millicent Bagnold was now dead so could not be also held accountable for this but would have been if she were still alive. When the spell to call an animagus forward was cast and Scabbers arrived in the arms of a now screaming Percy Weasley everyone was stunned indeed. He was immediately stunned and taken away from the screaming boy.
Arthur jumped up at the sight of his own son there in the Wizengamot screaming. "Please don't take my pet rat away. Leave Scabbers alone! I don't have another pet please!" he cried out as Arthur who wanted to rush forward and comfort his son was held back by auror forces. Scabbers was hit with another spell whereupon he transformed into Peter Pettigrew.
"Mr Weasley we are sorry you will lose out on your only pet and that's not fair. As compensation for losing your only pet and the danger you may have been in we hereby award you five thousand galleons to secure yourself a new pet! Arthur you may escort your little boy to the floo so he may return home and then you are to return to your seat so this trial may commence!" Amelia ordered as a now very sobered Arthur took his boy to the floo and flooed home with him momentarily explaining everything quickly to a stunned Molly who had just discovered the brand new luxury wool and clean home. Molly almost fainted but managed to hold herself together somehow. When she learned of who Scabbers had been she shivered deeply and was just relieved her little boy was safe. With this money they could all have new wands of their own and new pets for each of them. They could finally retire Errol and get a new family owl. Molly figured if she was careful enough they might have some money left over for their vault too.
Arthur flooed back to work and sat down to witness the trial of Sirius Black who was doped to the max with veritas serum just to be sure he told the truth and boy did he. He essentially sung like a canary and was set free immediately. For his actions in putting an innocent man in jail Bartemius himself was sentenced to ten years in jail. Barty Crouch Junior was summoned and both himself and Pettigrew were put through the veil of death to be sure they couldn't harm any other people. Barty was saying his master would reward him in paradise and everyone was disgusted by it. Bartemius begged his son not to be killed which earned him even more disgusted looks. Sirius was not in terrible shape having only spent seven years in jail mostly in his animagus form. He was registered immediately and everyone was stunned in his trial when he confessed that he was not the only unregistered animagus he knew. He claimed that Rita Skeeter was one as well while telling everyone what a great shag she had been. People were disgusted by that and Rita was ordered to pay a huge fine and register herself which she very reluctantly did. Dolores Umbridge had tried to say that there was nothing wrong with Rita being unregistered but when someone said they knew who her father was she soon shut up.
Petunia frantically searched the second bedroom for all of Dudley's old broken toys and couldn't find them. She ripped the cupboard under the stairs apart looking for them but still didn't find any accept for a few lone and broken soldiers she'd always known he had but hadn't cared about all that much. She put everything back and just tried to forget they were gone. Unfortunately for her Harry was gone and had been all day. She'd seen him leave too and he'd had nothing on him. They'd just vanished and she knew he wasn't capable of that. At least it was clean even if she was freaked out by it. At lunch time both boys came home and Harry was banished to his cupboard to wait while Dudley ate his lunch. His stomach rumbled loudly as she smiled at him evilly and closed the door in his face. Man he hated her so much. She loved hearing how his tummy rumbled as he got no lunch and making him wait while he knew Dudley was eating. It was things like this which gave her life. She didn't believe in beating him as that was a man's job but boy could she starve him!
She gave Dudley an extra-large portion of fish and chips for lunch smothered in vinegar and salt which smelled so good. Tilly popped in with his small cheese and bacon sandwich which had his nutrient potion poured on top. The bread was slightly soggy because of it but still tasted really good. Whilst eating Dudley blinked and it seemed like a piece of his fish and some of his chips were gone but he knew they couldn't be because he'd not eaten them yet. He thought he must be seeing things however Harry who was now eating them in his cupboard knew better. Tilly was awesome. In all honesty it was so much easier to steal food from someone when they were constantly overfed as was the case with Dudley. From now on he'd be getting normal sized portions and the extra bit would go to Harry. As a growing young boy anyhow Harry needed more then he'd been getting and losing some weight might do Dudley good. She vanished the smell of the fish and chips from his person and gave him a mint so his breath wouldn't give him away. As Petunia once more opened the cupboard she smiled at him.
"Freak! Dudley and I are going shopping and will be out most of the night. You will see us back here again at eight. Clean up the kitchen after our lunch. Then you must paint the garden fence outside and the shed. I've locked the fridge and I have the key so no food for you. Don't worry the cupboards are also locked. I wouldn't want you think you can eat anything when I don't say you can. Vernon will be back at eight with us. Make sure at that time that you are in the cupboard and out of sight. The less we see of you freak the better. Come on Dudley get your coat!" she snapped turning on her heel as Dudley stuck out his tongue at his cousin once more attempting to punch him and failing to his own confusion. He was so angry about not getting Harry that he slapped Petunia in the bum which she saw and frowned.
"Don't slap mummy! Come on and we'll get you some sweeties to make it all better. Don't worry Diddykins!" she cooed at him as he smiled brightly and cheered up. They left at once and Harry relaxed. Tilly got to work on painting the house fence and the shed absolutely loving the work he was being given to do. Keeping busy made her happier and stronger for when he needed her most. She'd been close to death when she met him and her health was now at eight five and climbing. By tonight after all this work it would be once again full. In the Weasley household Molly was very confused. Why was her house so suddenly clean and where had the luxurious wool come from? She thanked Merlin and shed some tears. When Arthur came back he found her crying.
"Oh Arthur I prayed for things to get better. I asked Merlin to make my situation better and he did so. He cleaned the whole house, gave me twenty galleons and the most luxurious wool I've ever seen in my life. He can't give everything to me because he helps everyone but I will never forget this wonderful gift. At least now I can relax and actually with all the dust gone I feel like I can breathe better too. Oh Artie cleaning the house will be so much easier now! We'll all get new wands and pets tomorrow!" she cheered as he smiled at her. Things were indeed looking up for the Weasley family.
Algernon Longbottom was now eating his words as Neville was way more powerful then him and had managed to somehow confess what he'd been doing to Neville behind Augusta's back. It was Neville's own accidental magic at work here not that he realised that of course. It was now so powerful it was forcing him to tell the truth and saw a horrified Augusta having him arrested and sent through the veil for his crimes and nearly killing the heir of an ancient and most noble home several times. At night time the Dursleys returned but as asked Harry was in his cupboard. Petunia looked outside and gasped at the excellent job he'd apparently done.
"Well Tuney my darling it looks like you putting the fear of god into him insured a good job. Tomorrow you, Dudley and I can hit London in your car and he can stay here and service mine. Lord knows it's a mess!" he sneered as he thundered down the hall to the cupboard and wrenched it open to find Harry reading a school book and sneered at him.
"Boy! Tomorrow you can spend the day washing my car and cleaning the interior. It's a mess and good luck you'll need it. Go to fucking sleep!" he snapped reaching in to slap the boy when he suddenly seemed to think the better of it and slammed the cupboard shut. Thanks to Tilly making him see otherwise he'd elected to leave the boy alone. The amount of times they wanted to hit her sir was very troubling indeed! Things could only get better from here.