Headmasters Office
In hindsight, doing a magical oath to be truthful wasn't such a good idea, I need to be his guide for the Greater Good This is the thought that went to Dumbledore's head, Then again my self-preservation won when I looked at those claws. He definitely isn't risking getting ripped to pieces by Harry Potter, all things he had done in the name of the Greater Good will be uncovered when Potter chooses to, so I'll have to play my cards right. These thoughts unbeknownst to Dumbledore were being read by Charles and Jean, and to say they were not happy was an understatement, this pretty much raised the suspicion the two had of the old man. Charles was saddened his friend had sunk this low, and Jean wasn't pleased that an old man who's viewed by The Wizards as a God was using a child for his own gain.
"Cockroach Clusters" said Dumbledore, and the huge, ugly, stone Gargoyle stepped aside and allowed them entrance, and they walked up the spiral staircase to see the Headmaster's office.
The office in question was a mess, the damage from Harry's temper still evident, a shredded portrait, several silver instruments destroyed, in short, The Headmaster's office was trashed.
"Sorry about the mess," Harry apologizes though not sounding very sorry at all, satisfied more like, This is gonna cost me a lot Was Dumbledore's thought, Hopefully he can convince Harry to lend him some money to fix the mess his emotional explosion created.
"You telling me you did this?" Logan asks with a raised eyebrow, looking at the state of the office, he's impressed this kid didn't just outright kill the old man, because he can sense the tension between the two.
"Yeah, well the old man told me some, er" Harry pauses, trying to find the right words, "unpleasant news, and I kinda blew up and trashed the place." Harry says with a hint of pride.
Dumbledore waves his wand and conjures several seats, he then starts with his famous opening line.
"Lemon Drop?" said Dumbledore offering the sour candy.
"No Thanks" was the reply from everyone, he shrugs and pops one into his mouth.
"Right then, let us start with why you are here in the first place, Charles you may start." said Dumbledore.
Charles turns to Harry, who only responds with a raised eyebrow.
"As you said a while ago, we are The X-Men, and you know me as Charles Xavier." said Charles introducing himself, and Harry quickly cuts in
"Lets skip all the introductions and shit and get straight to the point." This made most of the X-Men snort at this very Logan-like sentence.
"Alright then, You're a mutant, plain and simple, and to your abilities, lets start from the beginning." Charles said.
"Logan here is of undetermined age, but he is far older than he appears. His abilities and yours are exactly the same, minus the adamantium fusion in Logan's skeleton." said Charles, and Dumbledore is surprised and says "Adamantium skeleton? How on Earth did you get it?"
"An experiment"Was Logan's short reply and that's about it.
"Continuing, the few things we know about his past is that Logan was born James Logan Howlett sometime in the 19th century, He was active in many major American wars, The names James Howlett, or Logan were found in many military records, the earliest one we found was in 1863 a Sgt. James Howlett. Still Logan doesn't remember much, and there is so much false memories that you can't tell it from the real ones, and we've tried everything to clear it" Charles was again interrupted by Logan who asked Dumbledore
"Do you think your fancy magic shit can fix my memories?"
Dumbledore replied "Yes, there are many mind healers in the Wizarding world, I can direct you to the ones I know of."
"After this Chuck we're trying these 'Mind Healers' out." said Logan, "Of course, Logan" was Charles' reply.
"Continuing once more, in 1879, James Howlett met Elizabeth Potter, only daughter to Edward Potter and Grace Potter and had a brief relationship as Edward did not approve of James, they spent one night and then James Howlett disappeared, but his x-gene was passed down onto his son, Henry Potter, who had a significantly slowed healing factor, he then passed it onto his son Charlus Potter, who passed it to your father James Potter, and he passed it onto you, but instead of a slow healing factor, you inherited Logan's claws and rapid healing." to say Harry Potter was shocked was an understatement and he quickly says
"Prove it" Logan unsheathes his claws out, and Harry shocked once again summarized what he felt in two words.
"Holy Shit" The X-Men held in their laughs, as that was a very Logan thing to say.
"As you know Harry, I run a school for mutants, to help them develop and control their powers so as to avoid any catastrophes, what I'm saying Harry is, would you look like to join us for the summer?" Charles offers
"Hell Yeah I will!" Was Harry's quick excited response, Dumbledore then has to put his foot in his mouth and say, "Harry, the blood wards.." only to be interrupted by Harry
"Fuck your Blood wards, and fuck the Dursleys. If you send me back there, I might lose control and end up painting Privet Drive in red." Harry fires back. And Dumbledore quickly shuts his mouth, Damn, how can I control the boy if his relatives can't abuse him, damn those mutant powers of his, my plans have to be readjusted. These were the thoughts the two telepaths read from Dumbledore's mind, both of them quickly share a look.
"We'll fetch you at King's Cross station Harry when the school year ends, Farewell now" Charles says, then gestures for his X-Men to leave the office, as they leave the office and walk down the hallways, Charles and Jean have a mental conversation.
I don't trust that man, he's using Harry as a means to an end, but for what end? Jean says angry at Dumbledore.
I don't know, Dumbledore wasn't always like this, defeating Grindlewald must've made him like this. was Charles reply
Whatever happens, we must keep Harry away from Dumbledore's influence
Agreed, Professor and they both nod at one another.
The mutants finally arrive at the Blackbird's hiding spot, board it and takes off.
Meanwhile back at the office, Harry bids Dumbledore goodnight and walks off to Gryffindor tower for a well-deserved, much needed rest, while Dumbledore thinks up new plans.
Time Skip
The Great Hall, Morning
Harry Potter was sitting in his usual spot in the Gryffindor table along with his friends who accompanied him to the Ministry last night, including Luna, who wasn't at the Hospital Wing as she hadn't sustained any injury, and was dragged off by her father who hugged her, then berated her for risking her life.
"You know, for the first time in my life I'm actually excited to see this issue of The Daily Prophet." Harry says to his friends.
"I know, can't wait to see the faces of the gits who called you liar all year." said Ron, smirking at the reactions of Harry's doubters
Further conversation is interrupted by the morning owls bringing the newest edition of the Daily Prophet, The six have mischievous looks on their faces, waiting for the reaction. They were not disappointed.
"WHAT! YOU-KNOW-WHO IS ACTUALLY BACK!?" a shout coming from the Hufflepuff table, which caused a few heads to turn, and several to read their own copy.
"BLOODY FUCKING HELL!" another shout, this time from the Ravenclaws, Terry Boot blushed when he was stared at. The reactions in the Great Hall were more or less the same, The Slytherins were mostly quiet, but some of them looked gleeful, Malfoy was smiling the mudbloods will surely pay then he saw the casualty list.
"WHAT! MY FATHER! DEAD!?" was his reaction, and Harry had a sick sense of satisfaction on seeing Malfoy's face, other Death Eater kids were reacting the same.
This is the article in question:
HE-WHO-MUST NOT-BE-NAMED-RETURNS, BATTLE OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MYSTERIES
In a shocking statement Friday night Minister of Magic Cornelius Fudge confirmed that He-Who-Must-Not-Be Named has returned to this country and is active once more.
"It is with great regret that I must confirm that the wizard styling himself Lord — well, you know who I mean — is alive and among us again," said Fudge, looking tired and flustered as he addressed reporters. "It is with almost equal regret that we report the mass revolt of the dementors of Azkaban, who have shown themselves averse to continuing in the Ministry's employ. We believe that the dementors are currently taking direction from Lord — Thingy. "We urge the magical population to remain vigilant. The Ministry is currently publishing guides to elementary home and personal defense that will be delivered free to all Wizarding homes within the coming month."
The Minister's statement was met with dismay and alarm from the Wizarding community, which as recently as last Wednesday was receiving Ministry assurances that there was "no truth whatsoever in these persistent rumors that You-Know-Who is operating amongst us once more."
The details of the events that led to the Ministry turnaround are hazy, we have managed to at least find out a rough outline of what happened from overheard conversations from the Aurors and members of the vigilante organization The Order Of The Phoenix (a group founded by Dumbledore to assist aurors in apprehending Death Eaters)
Death Eaters (Followers of You-Know-Who) broke into the Ministry on Thursday evening, in search of something, what they were searching for is unknown, The Order seems to know, but they refuse to talk about it. Meanwhile a group of six students led by Harry Potter also broke into the Ministry and encountered the Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries, no one knows how Harry Potter knew of the Death Eaters, but the students held their own against fully trained Death Eaters, but were surrounded in the Death Chamber, until the timely arrival of the Order saved them, The Order forces were shockingly led by alleged mass murderer Sirius Black, The Order fought the Death Eaters to a standstill, until Sirius Black was pushed into the veil by his insane cousin Bellatrix Lestrange (née Black), what happened after is unknown, but Bellatrix Lestrange was found ripped to shreds and her mangled head was not far, the same fate can be shared with the other Death Eaters in the Death Chamber as they were violently killed, pieces of skin, mangled limbs, innards painted the Death Chamber red, while all that was happening, You-Know-Who himself appeared in the Ministry Atrium, he encountered Albus Dumbledore who he fought to a standstill, until Harry Potter arrived and made Voldemort flee from the scene, how he did it, the aurors or order members won't say. But as you can see Dumbledore isn't the only wizard Voldemort fears, The Boy-Who-Lived has made the most powerful Dark Wizard in recent times flee in fear, not even Dumbledore has achieved that.
Casualty List:
Dead:
Antonin Dolohov
Bellatrix Lestrange
Edward Crabbe
Frederick Nott
Hector Travers
John Avery
Lucius Malfoy
Rabastan Lestrange
Sirius Black
Walden Macnair
Wounded:
Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody
Ginny Weasley
Hermione Granger
Kingsley Shacklebolt
Neville Longbottom
Nymphadora Tonks
Ron Weasley
END ARTICLE READING
"Back to being 'The Boy-Who-Lived' now eh?" said Ron darkly, "Not such an attention-seeking liar now is he?" He piled some food on his plate and started eating in Ron fashion. Hermione could only shake her head, the others just smile fondly.
"They're being very complementary about you now, Harry" said Hermione, flipping the pages of the newspaper. "'A lone voice of truth...perceived by many as unbalanced, yet never wavered in his story...forced to bear ridicule and slander...'Hmmm" Hermione said, frowning as she read more and more of the article
"Funny how they forgot to mention they were doing most of the ridiculing and slandering." said Hermione, still frowning.
"Well, that's how the media is, Hermione, they fuck things up and they'll shift the blame on other things like how they got the wrong information, or they were having problems with their printer. D'you know what I mean?" said Harry, serving himself a lot of bacon and mashed potatoes.
"Harry, Language" Hermione reprimands, Harry only shrugs in reply, Hermione just sighs.
" 'You-Know-Who's Last Attempt to Take Over, pages two to four, What the Ministry Should Have Told Us, page five, Why Nobody Listened to Albus Dumbledore, pages six to eight, Exclusive Interview with Harry Potter, page nine . . .'" Hermione folding up the newspaper and throwing it on an empty space on the table.
"Exclusive interview? You mean the one Harry did for the Quibbler months ago? Gives them a lot to write then" said Hermione eyeing the newspaper with distaste.
"Daddy sold it to them" Luna said vaguely, flipping a page on her copy of the Quibbler "Got a good price for it too, enough to fund us an expedition to Sweden for the summer, see if we can catch a Crumple-Horned Snorkack"
"That sounds lovely" said Hermione, who was struggling with herself for a moment.
Harry caught Ginny's eye and both snickered.
"So anyway" Hermione said, suddenly sitting up straight and wincing a little "What's going on in school?"
Ginny answered "Well, Flitwick got rid of Fred and George's swamp, except for a small spot near the window-"
"Why?" Hermione said, looking startled
"He said it was a brilliant piece of magic, so he's leaving it as a monument of sorts to Fred and George" Ginny said, shrugging
"They sent us a lot of Chocolate Frogs last night, joke shop must be doing alright then?" said Ron, propping one of the Chocolate frogs he brought with him.
"So, has all the trouble stopped now that Dumbledore is back?" Hermione asks "Yes" Neville replied "Everything is more or less the same as it was."
"Suppose Filch is happy then?" said Ron, who just filled his plate with another serving.
"Not at all" Ginny said "He's very miserable actually.. keeps saying Umbridge was the best thing to happen to the school."
Everyone just snorts.
"So what happened to the toad-faced hag?" asked Harry, curious as to what the centaurs have done to her.
"She was brought in to the Hospital Wing last night by Dumbledore, why he came to save her, I'll never know, she was better rotting off in the forest anyway." said Ron to which Hermione said "Ron! Do you actually wish death on Umbridge, even if it is deserved?" Ron replied "You said it yourself Hermione, she deserved it, torturing students with Blood Quills." at this Harry subconsciously rubs his right hand, and to his surprise he didn't feel the scars, Harry brings his hand up and looks at his hand, looking as if it never had been forcefully cut open.
He then checks his forehead if he can still fill his lighting bolt-shaped scar that has cursed him to a life of hell, he still feels it.
"Huh, guess my healing factor doesn't heal all scars" said Harry, flattening his bangs down concealing his scar.
"The marks on your hand still there?" Neville asks, "No, it's this one" pointing to his forehead, where his scar should approximately be, he then shows his friends his scar-free hand.
"Almost forgot Harry, what happened last night in Dumbledore's office?" Hermione asks, Harry quickly replies "Not here, we'll meet at The Room of Requirement tonight."
His friends reluctantly nod and continue their breakfast.
(A/N: Well, that's the end of this chapter. Finally, after countless times I pressed refresh or accidentally closing the tab this chapter is over, I took some liberties from the book like some of the dialogue and the news article.)