The One With the Test:
Harry came too slowly and realized he had failed. He had tipped his hand too soon and now he was a prisoner of Dumbledore, that evil fraud who wanted only to control him. He found he was sitting in a comfortable chair and was not bound, but then why would Dumbledore need to bind him? He probably was going to have the minister, ah yes, he was here now, and both were smiling. Harry knew he was headed to Azkaban, after all they would blame the death of Hermione what-was-her-last name on him.
"He lasted far longer than I would have thought." Cornelius Fudge said, "far longer, just as his mother said he would."
"Indeed, he did very well." Dumbledore replied.
"Not well enough." The eleven year old boy said, "now what, off to Azkaban with the new dark lord as you have painted me by now, I bet the whole school believes I killed Hermione."
"You have not even started Hogwarts yet." Dumbledore said, with a wave of his wand tea was set before Harry, "in fact you have just passed your last test from me."
"Test, what test?" Harry asked.
"Your mother told me a few things, that you needed to grow up at your aunt's house, to find the trunk and learn how to get around your relations. That you had them ignore you and did not use magic to make them pay, showed you had compassion, so you passed the first part of your test. Then you joined a martial arts club but did not use it on your cousin as you could have, you passed the second part of the test, and then getting the blocks removed on your own and learning all about the magical world and getting training from the goblins meant you passed the third part of your test."
"I thought you wanted me weak and under your thumb." Harry snapped.
Dumbledore looked said, very said and nearly as old as he was. His hair and beard seemed to droop and even the stars on his robes faded. Fudge looked unhappy too, as if Harry had said something that was horrible. Which he had and did not know it. In the room was another person, a woman that looked like she could be his sister, only older. She was in a stylish navy suit with long skirts, boots and purple shirtwaist today. Her long black hair was tied back, and she looked a bit amused.
"Oh come on dear headmaster, you have not given him a reason to trust you." Rose said, "and Harry, you should have known something was up when the goblins said you were heir to all four houses and that they would show you their vaults."
"I am not heir to all four houses?" Harry asked.
"Even if you were, there would be no money to go with that and you would be bound to the school to run it, and there is little money from that." Rose said, "nope your dear headmaster here, well he will be your headmaster."
"He wants me weak!"
"Hardly, why would I want a weak pawn that can't fight back?" Dumbledore asked, "no, you need to be strong, to show you are able to think for yourself and fight back. Well I would say you need to defeat Voldemort but with him dead, that is not the case."
"So I am not needed, going to toss me out like rubbish now?" Harry said, "I would ask one favor, at least kill me now and not make me go to the Dementors."
"Why would I kill my prodigy?" Dumbledore asked, "for that is what you are, you think I am some sort of monster that likes to torture kids and steal their money and then kill them and take the glory for what they did? No, I want you to me my successor as I am the successor of, well that is for another day."
"Successor of what, king of lemon drops?" Harry snapped getting Dumbledore to laugh, "it's my life after all."
"The light, the true light, to show people the way and be better than I ever could be." Dumbledore replied.
"You said Voldemort was dead, how did that happen?"
"Me, I am you only female and from another dimension, I swore to defeat Voldemort in all forms, and I do so in a very lady-like manner."
"Oh, okay, so Dumbledore is not trying to steal my money, force me to depend on him and then off me after I destroy Voldemort?"
"NO! Now that you have passed your full test, there are three weeks left in summer." Dumbledore said smiling widely, "I have one last thing for you before school starts."
"What?" Harry asked.
"A trip to Disney World, I made a promise to your mother once Voldemort was well and truly gone, we would go, he is gone and so I am taking you and Severus Snape! This will be the best trip ever!"
Harry realized then and there that A) the headmaster was off his rocker and B) he was not an evil mastermind. He wanted a strong Harry and Harry was not upset, it was a good plan. Even better Rose offered to come along as she had not been in all the dimensions she had visited. By the end of the trip Harry was calling Dumbledore grandpa, and he did not care if he was an evil mastermind, he was an evil mastermind that treated him like a beloved grandson. In short he spoiled him and gave him everything he wanted much to Severus Snape's annoyance. It's not as if Severus did not get him a few things, such as muggle gag gifts after all.
Harry would be sorted into Gryffindor and take Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley under his wing at once. She would learn how to navigate the world very well and would grow up to become minister of magic. Ron Weasley decided to go into business with Fred and George and, though many did not understand it, Ron did marry Hermione while Harry married Ginny who became a healer. Harry still felt bad at times in believing the headmaster was trying to hurt him and realized all Dumbledore wanted was the world to remain light and happy.
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OMAKE
Rose was reading a book on ancient Korean war tactics when AK came up and sat down. Rose turned the page then looked up to see AK was not amused.
"That was a boring world." AK said.
"Well sometimes people get things wrong." Rose replied, "and Harry did, but it is alright now."
"I am bored."
"Go annoy someone else."
"Who could I annoy?"
"I don't know, Q?"
AK flashed out and spent a long time annoying Q, Q could not kill him and so had to think of creative ways to get him to leave him alone. None worked and Q had to visit Rose and apologize to get Rose to stop aiming AK at him.
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Yea this is a poke at all the "Dumbledore is evil and want's Harry controlled and dead" stories. I bit of a twist and yes it did annoy AK. Which is what I was going for.
Do review please!
