My thanks to those who liked the beginning of the sequel to A Slytherin Potter. With a lot of soul searching I decided to write Harry's revenge chapter completely. I hope you enjoy it and please remember, I don't own Harry Potter.

Revenge.

Molly was surprised when an owl dropped the edition of the Daily Prophet, and she turned her head and glanced at the clock. The Daily Prophet didn't normally send out editions at this time of day, but they would if a really important event or story was taking place that couldn't wait for a future edition. She and Arthur and indeed the rest of the Order were currently awaiting Albus's message after the Order had been notified Harry Potter had made a return and arrival in Gringotts which had been reported by Kingsley when the auror had been patrolling Diagon Alley.

Truthfully Molly was uncertain what to think.

When Dumbledore announced to the Order a few years ago Harry could potentially return as a Dark Lord, Molly had believed him. But it wasn't just her faith in the old wizard that made her believe Harry could turn to the dark side. Molly, like several other members of the Order, were responsible for wiping the boy's memory from time to time whenever Harry discovered something or did something Dumbledore did not like.

But at the same time, Molly and the others would have needed to be incredibly shortsighted and stupid not to realise Dumbledore had his own plans for Harry.

Was it any wonder Molly and Arthur hadn't come up with their own plans for the Boy-Who-Lived? For years they had conditioned the mind of their only and youngest daughter to idolise Harry and believe they were destined to fall in love together. But both Arthur and Molly had only suggested it was going to happen; they hadn't outright conditioned the girl with the same kind of pressure the Death Eaters had indoctrinated their own children with their diseased ideology, but it was close. Ginny proved that she was extremely and exceptionally strong-willed and if there was one thing Molly knew deep inside herself it was strong-willed people eventually fought back and they did not want to alienate their own child. Unfortunately, Molly was too shortsighted enough to realise her eldest children had moved out and gotten away from her when they first had the opportunity.

Bill had become tired and frustrated with her telling him to settle down and marry an English girl and get a job at the Ministry, and eventually, he had become so pissed off he had taken his curse breaker training away from the United Kingdom. She had restored to using love potions during her eldest sons' years at Hogwarts when she believed respectable girls were the only ones for her children. Unfortunately, she had been found out, and it was only due to Dumbledore's intervention she hadn't been imprisoned in Azkaban.

Dumbledore had made it clear the next time she tried something like that, he would not save her. Molly, so grateful had capitulated.

It was the same with Charlie. Her second eldest son had two passions, dragons and Quidditch but he had become so tired of her trying to force him to work for the Ministry even though he had the grades he had left for Romania

Percy, however, had proven to be the apple of her eye. He had wanted to work for the Ministry, but he didn't let her realise he had done it to change the world for the better, and because he was desperate to get away from her. To Percy, his mother's domineering attitude had driven away his elder brothers and he had been a first-year at the time when Bill and Charlie had been treated with suspicion when Molly had resorted to Love potions. He didn't want the same thing to happen to him, regardless of Dumbledore's warnings.

Molly had believed she and the others had gotten away with it, but when they discovered that Harry had slipped the net and achieved phenomenally amazing grades, it hadn't taken the Order long to rally around Dumbledore when he claimed Harry would come back and get his revenge as the next Dark Lord. What made it so terrifying was it was possible and likely Harry would take that course when he discovered what the Order had done.

For the last few years, the Order had been waiting for Harry to return while Sirius and a few others had been disgusted with their current views - Molly didn't really miss the ex-convict, he was a certified man child and reckless. He had been imprisoned in Azkaban for a decade, which didn't help that opinion and he was blind to the reality that his precious godson could become a monster - but nothing had happened. Molly was chilled the boy whom they'd all been manipulating while ignoring the abuse he'd suffered at the hands of his muggle relatives could return and kill them all.

People like Sirius were stupid if they thought the boy wouldn't go dark.

But for years there had been nothing. There had been none of the typical signs of a Dark Lord rising to power; Potter hadn't risen to any kind of political power. He hadn't used his fame to get himself into the Ministry of Magic. He hadn't even approached the Wizengamot with laws to pass. There were no strange and unexplained disappearances of muggles or muggle-borns. There were no rumours of a Dark Lord on the rise. There was nothing.

As the years had passed by, several members of the Order tired and resigned quietly. Molly didn't understand them. Albus had told them of the danger and he had never been wrong in the past, so why was everyone convinced Potter wouldn't become a Dark Lord?

Molly unfolded the newspaper and her eyes flew open. "Arthur!" She shouted when she was speed-reading down the front page of the newspaper and as her husband reached her and began reading, she saw out of the corner of her eye Arthur's aged face slack.

"Merlin's beard," Arthur gasped.

The Daily Prophet used a format similar to muggle newspapers. There was a headline, typically followed by a front-page story which was continued on another page, accompanied by a photograph. This edition was incredibly different. The newspaper was enchanted so when it was unfolded it would expand and spread; Molly had unfolded the newspaper over the dining room table of the Burrow, and the newspaper quickly covered it; the edition would have knocked over the old vase filled with wildflowers, had Molly not had her wits. The article on the front page was focused on Harry Potter's childhood. Everything was laid bare, but what made it worse were the photographs containing clear memories of his past. One photograph showed how Harry was being beaten by his uncle, another showed him being beaten up by his cousin Dudley, one photograph showed the Dursleys sadistically beating the tiny form of a toddler version of Harry by tying him to the bannister in the Dursley home and laughing as he cried.

Those were bad enough, but it got worse for the elder Weasleys, and they knew it would be even worse for the Order members responsible for watching over Potter during his life. There were photographs squashed onto the page which showed Order members like Daedalus Diggle and Mundungus Fletcher, Minerva McGonagall, and several others who were wiping Harry's memories of specific events; in one photograph Harry had been found trying to escape from the Dursleys, and yet he was found and quickly sent back by Fletcher, who wiped his memory and those of his relatives so they wouldn't recall the event. Minerva McGonagall, however, had caught Harry learning from a Slytherin and wiped the memory of the event from their minds.

The moment he saw the photographs and the accompanying paragraphs near them, Arthur knew there would be no mercy for the Order of the Phoenix members. The kind of spells listed in the memories used on them muggles in Harry's neighbourhood, the compulsion charms and memory spells were against the law. While wizards were expected to wipe the memories of muggles if they saw too much, the laws drawn up to support the Statute of Secrecy were harsh and clear about what would happen if muggles were placed under the control of wizards and witches.

Arthur didn't do anything when the aurors showed up at the Burrow. Molly, however, not sharing her husband's realisation the gig was up, immediately went for her wand. Molly was a skilled and powerful witch despite what people said and thought about her, but the aurors, benefiting from a lack of Snape from Hogwarts as well as a rigorous new training regimen at the Ministry of Magic now Fudge had been kicked out of office as well as Amelia Bones and her staff rectifying as much of the damage left by the Fudge administration as well as Dumbledore's negligence during his tenure, were more than a match for Molly.

X

In other parts of the United Kingdom's magical world, other members of the Order of the Phoenix were being arrested by the aurors. At Hogwarts, Minerva McGonagall was personally met with Amelia Bones. The two formidable women stared at each other.

"For your sake, and I hope you don't use the legendary excuse of the Order Dumbledore said to explain your actions in wiping the memories of one of your students, you had better make your explanations phenomenally good," Bones glared at McGonagall, her lip curling with a pure distaste for the woman's lack of loyalty or thought for one of her former Gryffindors.

McGonagall looked down at her feet in shame. "I never wanted to wipe his memories, but Albus said if-."

"Oh, take her in charge; it's clear she'll use that stupid and senseless excuse all the way through," Bones waved at her entourage in disgust.

As the aurors - she recognised them all as former students of hers - slapped on the magic-dampening cuffs, McGonagall cursed Albus for his plans and manipulations, but she piled more blame onto the shoulders of Harry Potter for getting her and her friends into this mess.

All across the magical world, every member of the Order of the Phoenix was taken into the Ministry where they would be interrogated. Many of them tried to claim that Harry Potter was a Dark Lord and that he was evil, but when they were pressed on this matter some of the more intelligent members of the Order were unable to provide an example other than their own predicament for Harry Potter's darkness and evil. Sadly for their case, they didn't have any more proof.

However, as the aurors interrogated the Order of the Phoenix members, paying a lot of attention to members like Elphias Doge, Mundungus Fletcher, Minerva McGonagall, and Daedalus Diggle, some of them debated whether or not Harry Potter had enough reason to become a Dark Lord, considering just how far they were willing to go.

Some of the members took longer to interrogate than others; Elphias Doge was now so old, he had the magical equivalent of Alzheimer's and it was virtually impossible for anyone to get him to understand the questions. In the end, a mind healer and an expert in the mind arts had to be brought in to gently probe the ancient wizard's mind and discover the truth. Doge's mind was badly corrupted due to his ailment, and it took time to gently pry out some of the things he had done under Dumbledore's orders, which were claimed to be for the 'greater good.'

Not only had Doge been despatched along with several others to keep watch on Harry Potter when he was growing up, but Dumbledore had used Doge and a few others to help pass off laws through the Wizengamot that he couldn't pass off himself. Some of these laws, while seeming innocently harmless, had actually gone on to do a lot of damage to several people's lives, especially the ones involving muggle-borns which stopped them from owning old magical properties, and for putting up the red tape in them establishing specific types of business like wandmaking, opening and distributing potions and other potion-making equipment. When word reached the Daily Prophet what Dumbledore had done, it began to shatter the image of the former grandfatherly wizard as a muggle loving individual. The muggle-borns were up in arms; while the prejudice towards them had caused problems, some of them had been able to find a niche in the magical world, but when they learnt what Dumbledore had passed through the Wizengamot, they were furious. They had believed Dumbledore would have supported them, but a lot of them remembered only too well when they brought their concerns of the bullying they suffered at Hogwarts that he wouldn't do anything. More of the older muggle-borns who had been attending the school during the first rise of Lord Voldemort recalled how Dumbledore had done nothing to stop the hate festering in the castle. It had all been covered up and forgotten over the years, but not by the muggle-borns.

Doge's involvement with Dumbledore went back several decades, and many of the things the mind healer unearthed sparked a lot of debate about whether or not Doge should be sent to Azkaban, or just merely left to rot with his mind virtually gone. Some actually preferred the second option, but many believed Doge and the others should be punished.

A search was made in the muggle world to try to track down the people who were routinely spelled by the Order members. But it was a waste of time; it had, after all, been decades since the teachers and neighbours in Little Whinging who'd tried to help Harry had their memories wiped, and because of the lack of access to the muggle government's records, the Ministry quickly gave up the search. But regardless, they were able to question a few of the neighbours on Privet Drive, and there were enough records in the muggle Police Station which showed the muggles had been close to helping Harry Potter, several times in fact, but the record had been covered up and the minds of the muggles had been adjusted to forget the records existed.

The ICW caught wind of the investigation and they immediately took over. The focus on Harry Potter was not the only thing the ICW looked into, they also began checking the country for signs of other muggle-borns or muggle raised half-bloods and purebloods who could have gone through the same thing. They didn't find any sign of interference, but the implications that it could happen at all made them sit in a meeting in their headquarters for over nine hours.

Several members of the Order of the Phoenix were sent to Azkaban, but not many. A few of the former members who had realised what they were doing by following Dumbledore's word that Potter was going dark came forward, and they gave their questioners a much easier time by not being stubborn. The ICW had known about Sirius Black, of course, but they hadn't known about the scale of injustice facing them. They learnt a lot from Sirius and a few others such as Nymphadora Tonks who despite her involvement had been disturbed by how they had cared more about keeping a teenage boy under lock and key than fighting Lord Voldemort.

Others like Hermione Granger, who had attained a position within the Ministry, were also questioned. The ICW and the DMLE were disgusted by the young woman who had retained her self-righteous arrogance in her adult years to say nothing of how many viewed her. Hermione had never been well-liked at Hogwarts, and many of her classmates had bemoaned the fact she'd followed them into the Ministry. They remembered only too well how the young woman had always reacted like a spoilt child demanding a new toy and throwing a tantrum whenever one of them got a score higher than hers in a test, how she holed herself up in the library to study endlessly.

Hermione didn't show any kind of guilt for what she had done when she was interrogated and it was discovered she had made use of memory charms, but what Dumbledore hadn't realised thanks to her naturally ordered mind was she'd had her own plans for Harry Potter; she had planned to feed him love potions and turn him into a puppet for her own ends. The magical world was horrified, and many purebloods were up in arms at the 'jumped up little mudblood,' whose crimes were analogous to line theft.

However, when they discovered what she had in mind, the purebloods in both Britain and in other countries, wanted to see her handed over to the dementors. It was discovered Hermione had dozens of ambitions for transforming the magical world into a wand-waving version of the muggle world, and she wanted to tear down centuries of tradition because she considered it barbaric. That was bad enough. Hermione had never learnt nor realised nor understood, and she had never truly had any interest in properly understanding, that every culture was different and possessed its own traditions to the one she knew.

Muggle-borns were similar to tourists or foreign exchange students attending school or university in other countries, but Hermione considered it her right to judge other countries traditions. She didn't care if that culture existed for centuries, she didn't care if she was making statements many considered to be taboo.

The smartest thing Hermione should have done was to accept the judgement of the ICW, but she went off in a rant which made the judge and presiding witches and wizards decide to send her to see a mind healer before she would be imprisoned in a facility without dementors present.

The karma spell of Luna Potter was working dividends.

X

Harry was looking over the newspaper reports before he looked up into his wife's eyes. "Is this a joke?"

"No," Luna's normally dreamy expression made some people wonder if she was retarded but instead hid a mind that was sharper than folded steel sharpened into a razor blade and honed by such an out of the box way of thinking, was dark with anger. Harry was relieved his wife was not angry at him; whenever Luna was angry with him, she found much better ways of expressing it, but Luna was clearly angry with Hermione's section in the Prophet it was bleeding out right now for all to see.

Harry looked down at the newspaper article. "I never knew she wanted to do all of this; the things she wanted to do…I was so determined to escape the magical world, it never occurred to me she'd have ambitions for me. But I do remember times when Hermione usually went out of her way to make me work with her. She was trying to make me fall in love with her."

"And when she realised it wasn't working, she was planning on resorting to potions," Luna nodded, her expression darkening visibly.

Harry ground his teeth. He had never liked the mind control methods in the magical world, but love potions were a kind of rape that he had never tolerated. What made it worse was how Hermione had giggled stupidly along with Ginny to Mrs Weasleys' story of dosing someone with love potions, and he knew that was likely where Hermione had gotten the idea, although he doubted it since Hermione had likely already been researching methods of controlling him long before that point.

Either Hermione had not seen the damage a love potion could do, or she hadn't cared. The scary thing was he didn't know for sure which one it was. One of the things that sickened him the most was how Mrs Weasley had made it all sound like it was some kind of harmless fun. There was no doubt in his mind Mrs Weasley was likely one of a large majority of people in the magical world who saw nothing wrong with that kind of thing, dressing it up as a kind of twisted romance.

In Harry's mind that made the so-called light a bunch of bigger hypocrites than what he had seen and experienced already.

"What will happen to her, do you think?" Harry asked.

"It's hard to say; the ICW have taken over the case. All magical communities around the Earth have similar if not identical punishments for things like line theft or attempted line theft, but the older communities like the ones in Asia have more severe methods at their disposal. There's a chance Hermione could be imprisoned, however, I'm hoping she has her magic bound and she's sent back into the muggle world. It would be ironic if they did that, Hermione wanted to change our world into a facsimile of the muggle world then she'd feel right at home."

Harry didn't know whether to feel sorry for the girl or not, but he actually felt the punishment suggested by Luna was appropriate. He had never liked Hermione; while he had shared her desire for knowledge, he had not liked how the girl had taken it to the extremes that she had, how she had felt as if only she had the right to read books, answer questions in class and act like the hypocrite that she was, neglecting her health…. All to get better answers on some stupid test that in the years to come wouldn't make much difference.

Luna was right, it would be ironic if Hermione was sent back to her precious muggle world after spending so much time trying to transform the magical world into another muggle world.

"And the rest of the Order?"

"Some of them will likely be sent to Azkaban," Luna didn't even need to think about her answer, tapping her finger lightly against her lips gently while she briefly hummed. "Many of the spells they used on muggles were outlawed for use on muggles, but the sad fact is I doubt many wizards would actually care. I was always ambivalent of you getting true justice there."

Harry nodded. "I know. You said so many wizards and witches hate muggles that they would only uphold the law because it was the law while they didn't care for the muggles manipulated by Dumbledore and the Order."

"It's a sad fact, Harry. Hatred towards muggles will never go away."

"I don't expect it to. But that's why you planted the karma curse on the entire Order, wasn't it? You knew the ICW and the DMLE would only give them a diluted punishment, that they didn't care much about muggles even if it was the law to make sure spells are not used on them in general," Harry sighed.

He could understand the magical world's stance on the need to protect and maintain the Statute of Secrecy, and how wizards should be punished should they use magic on muggles but he had quickly gathered while wizards were willing and capable of repairing the damage, the old hatred and contempt towards muggles made their punishments hollow. Wizards were only sent to Azkaban for things like muggle baiting which was punished only because the Ministry didn't want the muggles discovering their existence.

But the worst thing was, try as he might… Harry found he had little sympathy for muggles anymore than those wizards had themselves, and he had spoken with Luna at length, and he had discovered the contempt was there in the dreamy young woman, only it wasn't severe like it was with witches like Parkinson and Narcissa Malfoy. She didn't have a lot of problems with muggles, but it was genetically written it seemed for wizards of all blood ranks to come to see muggles as beneath them. Oh, she liked muggle culture, but she found it hard to care about putting magic on muggles so long as it didn't damage the statute. It was more of a mild indifference rather than anything nasty or potent, just like himself.

And truthfully he didn't care about the muggles who had tried to help him deal with the Dursleys - it had been ages ago, and he had moved on since then. He only wished they had spread the word to more people, which would have caused problems for Dumbledore and his people when they tried to clean up the mess.

Harry sighed and pushed those thoughts aside. Luna and he didn't know what would happen to the Order under the effects of the curse; there was a chance some or all of them would die unpleasant deaths, but he wasn't going to hold out much hope. He decided to just ignore the Order and consider them inconsequential.

He wrapped his arms around Luna, smiling as his hands encircled her abdomen, feeling their third unborn child. He didn't care about the Order; he had gotten his revenge, and that was enough for him. All he wanted was to live with his family, enjoy his job and live a normal life.

Author's Note - The part about Harry and Luna seeing muggles with contempt... I realised while people like Arthur Weasley like muggles, they don't bother to truly learn more about them. I think because wizards and witches are capable of magic, they see muggles as beneath them, to varying levels. And even Hermione mistreated and ignored her parents, so I think the contempt spreads like a disease among muggle-borns, while Harry only just cared about the Dursleys...something I would never do. To me, the Dursleys should have been dealt with in a manner Judge Dredd would find poetic.