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Harry talking through his mind
'Thoughts'
"Are you all ready? Lord Elrond asked.
"Yes." They replied.
"Good." He gave them a sad smile. "These are all gifts from me."
He gave them all the same cloak. Shadow sighed before he shifted. He accepted the gift. He put it on before he shifted back to his animagus form.
"I want to wish you all good luck." He said.
"Thank you ada."
The man smiled. "So you have a route?"
"Yes. We went over which routes we are taking and which ones we are avoiding." Aragorn answered.
"Good. Back up routes?" He asked.
"We discussed those too." He said.
"Good. Then it is time for you all to start your quest. Goodbye Aragorn." He hugged his son.
"Goodbye ada."
"Goodbye everyone." He gave them all a smile.
"Bye." The rest said as they started to walk.
"This way." Gandalf said.
He went into the front. Aragorn and Legolas walked slightly behind him. Boromir was behind them. Next was Shadow who was obviously guarding the hobbits behind him. Finally in the back was Grimli.
"How did you five meet each other?" Legolas asked the Hobbits and Shadow.
I had just come to this world. Shadow said.
"This is the second time something like this was mentioned." Boromir commented. "Where are you from?"
I'm from another universe. There it is called Earth and instead of one giant piece of land it is split into different pieces. I'm from a place called England. Shadow tried to explain.
"Oh I see."
Shadow left out how he had gotten to Middle Earth. Yeah. I had been on the side of the road asleep. The road I was on was in the Shire.
"Uncle Bilbo and I found him." Frodo said.
And poked. Shadow grumbled.
"What?" They gave him a confused look as the hobbits giggled.
Shadow shot Frodo a glare. The reason I woke up was because of a certain Hobbit poking me with a stick.
Frodo returned his glare with an innocent look. "I was just seeing if you were alive."
Still don't believe you. He grumbled.
"I know." He smiled at the wolf.
Anyway, Shadow huffed. Bilbo let me live with them. I met Gandalf and these guys while living there.
"I see." Legolas said.
The hobbits snickered while Shadow rolled his eyes. They truly enjoyed the fact that most of the Shire disliked him. He huffed as they continued while the others gave them another round of confused looks.
Shut up. He snapped although the hobbits knew that if he were in his human form he would be pouting.
"Sorry Shadow." Frodo managed to get out between his snickering.
I'm not buying that.
"What's so funny?" Gimli asked.
"We are the only ones in the Shire to like him besides the kids."
"Why?"
I'm a wizard so they assumed I was like Gandalf. Shadow answered.
"I see."
"I'm a little offended." Said Istari pouted.
So was I at the time. He said.
"Hey!" His pout deepened as the others laughed.
"What was your world like?" Boromir asked.
That question sobered the wolf animagus up. Okay.
"Okay?"
It had its good and it had its bad points. He answered.
"Oh." They could all hear the tone in his voice that said he would rather not talk about it.
(Back in Britain)
Years had passed and yet no one knew that a certain cell was empty. The goblins still refused to hand over his accounts and had given them to Andromeda Black until Teddy was of age. One vault went to Neville. Harry had made Teddy his heir and gave a vault to Neville. He was his god brother and his cousin. Andy took Teddy to America since they didn't discriminate against werewolves. Only Neville and those he trusted knew. Neville had been denied visitation and so had anyone who supported Harry. Susan Bones had been made Minister of Magic after marrying Hannah Abbott. She was now able to fix the problem that the last minister had caused.
Most of the wizarding world had been furious that Harry had been illegally imprisoned considering he didn't have a proper trial. The only people involved in that farce had been those against Harry and it had been held in secret.
Arthur, thanks to being in the ministry, had gotten away with it and used the reward money to spoil his wife. The two acted like royalty. Bill had been fired from Gringotts and his wife was the one to bring home the money while he took care of the kids. They didn't want that type of person working for them. Charlie had also been fired and now lived with Bill and helped him with the kids. Percy had been moved to a different department and promoted. Fred and George's business was near bankruptcy. Ron had been hired into the auror's department and despite not being qualified he was made head of the department. Ginny had been rejected by all the quidditch teams and worked under her brother. She used her power to bully those under her. Ginny remained single since most men stayed away. Hermione was made head of the unspeakables and kept going around with petitions so that she could get her way. Her and Ron had gotten married but didn't have any children due to them both being sterilized. They were heartbroken and wondered how it had happened.
Neville had married Dean and Seamus. They were the only ones to know about the vault and Teddy besides Luna. They had three beautiful children. Two boys and a girl. The oldest was fifteen. The middle child was twelve and the youngest was nine. Neville owned a famous herbology shop. Many went there due to the high quality inventory. Dean stayed at home with the kids and was an art instructor. He taught them at his home since Neville turned one of the unused rooms into an art studio. Seamus opened a pub across from Neville's shop. It was a popular destination.
Luna had married Draco and Daphne. They had a pair of twin boys. They were now fourteen. Draco had taken over his father's company and made his name better. Daphne had opened a clothing shop that was very popular with young witches. Luna worked with Neville. She usually worked the register while Neville tended to the plants.
Teddy, who kept in contact with Neville, was a fine adult. He had graduated from Salem academy, top of his year. He found that he had a gift for runes and had taken an apprenticeship with a rune master. Teddy had claimed his lordship over the Potter and Black accounts. He was also dating a kind American girl who was getting a masters in charms. Andy had retired and travelled around the world.
Neville sighed as Granger entered his shop. Luna was at home taking care of the twins since they had the flu. He was working the register and wished he had not opened that day. His customers fled. None could stand to be around her since she was pushy and irritating.
"Neville?"
"We aren't friends, Granger. Now what do you want?" He asked coldly.
"Oh come on! You can't still be mad at me for what happened." She rolled her eyes.
"Yes I can." He glared at her. "What you all did to Harry was wrong."
"Nothing we did to that freak was wrong!" She hissed.
"Yes, yes it was. Now what do you want?" He asked again.
"I need you to sign this." She shoved a clipboard into his hands.
He read it before laughing in disbelief. "You can't be serious! Why would I want the ministry to have more say in the bank? You just want Harry's money!"
"I have a right to this money!" She yelled.
"No you don't." He argued.
"Yes I do." She said.
"No Granger you don't. I don't want you in my store. Leave now." He ordered.
"You will regret this!" Her face was red as she stormed towards the door.
"If you say so." She had said that before.
She huffed before leaving. She purposely slammed the door. As soon as she was gone his customers returned. No one liked her and they sighed in relief as soon as she was gone.
"What a nasty girl." He overheard one of his customers say.
"I know. Have you heard what she's been doing lately? That is probably the reason she was here." Another asked.
"No. What is it this time? Freeing house elves again?"
"No. Granger has been going to different businesses in the wizarding world and asking them to sign a petition that involves the bank."
"The bank?"
"Yes. She wants the ministry to be more involved in the bank and of course they get to have more say and power over the goblins."
The one customer gave a disgusted snort. "Of course she is. She is such a greedy bitch. She has a job and a husband but still she wants more. She really wants that poor boy's money that badly?"
"Apparently. I hope she gets what's coming to her. I was so happy to hear that she wasn't able to have babies but that isn't a big enough punishment. I mean first she betrays Potter after all he had done for her and for us and then she and those bastards get him imprisoned. She did it all for money, power, and fame. Being sterile isn't enough."
"It doesn't matter. She can't get his money anyway."
"True."
"With no will his accounts go to next of kin."
"Plus there could have been a will."
"What do you mean?"
"Lily and James Potter could have had a will drawn up in case their son didn't make it or Potter could have had one made before the final battle and none of the backstabbers were named. The bank isn't obligated to make a will public unless the family requests it."
"True."
"I hope that was the case."
"Me too. Would his Will be legal?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well if he had a will would it be legal since he is imprisoned?"
A third customer answered. "Yes. Mr. Potter was illegally imprisoned. The goblins have many laws to help protect their customers and the only way they would freeze an account in a case like this was if Potter was guilty and none of them believed he was. He would technically still have access if he escaped."
"Oh good."
"Indeed. Granger will never see one knut of Potter's money."
"Good."
"Yes it is."
Soon a man ran into the shop. "You guys will never believe what I just heard." It was one of the ministry workers that had been fired when Granger became head of his department.
"What?" Neville asked in concern.
"Granger was just arrested and fired from her job. The new minister has found the evidence she needed to put her away. Apparently the old minister had kept a journal in his office and forgot it when minister Bones became minister. Since there was no name on it she read it and had it sent to the auror office. Not to the Weasley's but to the old head of the department, Greengrass. Granger had been arrested when she was in front of Gringotts."
"Nice." One of the customers said.
"Yes it was. Her trial is next week. That's not all."
"Is it about the others?" Neville asked.
"Yes it is. Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were arrested earlier. They searched the place and found potions. Mrs. Weasley admitted that they had been dosing their children so that they would agree with them. Apparently all their children except the youngest two disagreed with them about Harry. Hell they did it after any disagreements."
"So they dosed them?!" They all looked appalled.
"Yup. I heard that the goblins have given Bill his job back and have flushed the potions from his body. They said that it was thanks to the goblins' paranoia that Bill had only been dosed close to Harry's seventeenth birthday. They said that it must have been at the wedding. He had taken out his earring then and after that it went missing. It was why he had married Fleur. The Earring protected him."
"Damn."
"Indeed. Charlie also had to have been dosed around that time too. He was barely at the Weasleys after he moved to Romania. I also heard that he too was given back his job. Percy was dosed after he had gone back to his family. He decided to return to being an undersecretary. He wants to start from his old position and earn the promotion himself. The twins were the worst off. According to the aurors they are still in the hospital."
"What?"
"Their magic had fought the potion due to them testing their own experiments. It adapted to protect them so they had to be given three times the amount just for it to work."
"Shit."
"Yup. They are in a magical induced coma while they flush the potion out and after that they will need to take magical therapy classes to help them with their magic."
"Wow."
"Lee is taking care of their shop until then and it has been flooding with children and teens buying their products again. Their business is booming once more."
"Good."
"Yes it is. The oldest three disowned their parents. Bill is now Lord Weasley."
"He will have a lot of work." Neville commented.
"Yes he will."
"Wait, I thought the Weasleys could no longer have that status after they broke a wedding contract between Bilius Weasley and Articus Malfoy?" One of the women asked.
"They gave it back after what happened to them thanks to their parents. Lord Malfoy felt that the family had been punished enough."
"Oh."
"Yup. The goblins are going to help him out."
"Oh good. What about the youngest two?"
"They were also arrested. Their parents' trial is in two weeks and theirs is in three and four weeks. Bill disowned them when he found out they had not been dosed and knew what their parents had done."
"Good."
"Indeed. Now for the bad news."
"Bad news?"
"They went to go get Potter so that he could have a fair trial. His cell was empty."
"Empty?"
"Yeah." He explained the condition of the cell. "They believe one of the old guards killed him or buried his body after they found him dead. Problem is those guards have already died due to old age or disease so we don't know,"
"I see." Neville put up a fake smile that they all saw through. "I'm sorry everyone but I am closing up early today."
"We understand."
They bought what they needed and left. Neville closed up shop and went home. Dean had been worried so Neville filled him in. Dean hugged his husband as they mourned for the loss of Harry. Seamus joined them later on after he had heard the news. Many mourned for Harry as they waited for the trial. No one knew that he was alive in another universe. A funeral would be held once the trails ended. Most of the order had been arrested. Finally justice would be served.