Chapter 13
Hadrian watched as the woman was escorted out, he didn't have any sympathy for her or Vernon as they deserved what they got, turning to Madam Bones "may I have your permission to ask my questions now?" he asked her
She inclined her head for him to begin.
"These questions are for the members of the Wizengamot!" he said while looking at everyone. "Let's start with this how did Dumbledore know to send someone to come get me? Why did he send Rubeus Hagrid and not do it himself? Why was I not given any medical attention? I just got hit with the killing curse, I'm no healer but I'm pretty sure that anyone who got hit with a curse like that would need to see a healer immediately. Furthermore, why was I left on a doorstep like some common milk bottle? Why did I have to endure my muggle family it was mentioned in my parents will that I was not supposed to go there? Last why was my godfather not given a trial?" To say Harry was pissed would be an understatement, if looks could kill then everyone would be dead by now.
Fudge spoke to him "Mr. Potter you have raised some interesting questions. Rest assure your questions will be looked into; I can assure you of that!"
Harry looked at the man with a gaze that made him squirm in his chair "no offense minister but seeing as how I was just discarded like a chess piece. My faith in adults is severely low!" he put some bite in the last word as it was true as there were only a few adults he ever trusted. "It leads me to believe that the ministry was part of the reason why I am here today. I can only theorize that maybe the ministry is not as grand as the public thought it was"
Madam Bones was about to speak when she was interrupted by a "Hem Hem". Only one person ever did that, and it was someone she deeply despised.
Amelia mentally groaned when she looked to the right of the minister. Delores Jane Umbridge was the Senior Undersecretary to the Minister of Magic, and a right bitch. It was well known that Umbridge was the most hated person to ever work in the Ministry. "The body recognizes Delores Umbridge, Senior Undersecretary of the Minister of Magic" she said as if it was a bad taste in her mouth.
"Hem Hem. Thank you Madam Bones" she said in a fake surgery sweet voice. Her eyes met Harry's and Harry immediately knew he didn't like her. She was a short woman with a face that looked like a toad in his opinion. Whatever she was about to do he was pretty sure he was not going to like it. "Mr. Potter I couldn't help but overhear that you were questioning the actions of the ministry. The ministry of magic is more than capable of dealing with situations like this, it is not the place for the emotional outburst of an unqualified 11 year old who hasn't learned his place yet." She may have said it in a girlish voice, but her eyes and voice were laced with disdain.
Harry hardened his gaze at the woman "and who might you be, you don't look important!"
Delores looked a bit miffed at what he had just said "I am Delores Umbridge, the undersecretary to the minister of magic" she said in a girlish voice that made Harry want to deck her right now.
"So, your job is to push papers and write notes, I suggest you do your job and let the real members of this body talk. What's your house?" He asked her.
She was making her teeth at him "I don't see how that is important here" she said trying to evade the issue.
He raised an eyebrow "really because it sounded like you were questioning my rights to be here a few moments ago. I looked into some of the more prominent families and I can't recall ever seeing the House of Umbridge anywhere. So, it would appear that you would need to learn your place as you are irrelevant at the moment."
Umbridge lost her smile and was now looking at the boy with rage. Not only did he call her irrelevant, but he also dismissed her as someone unimportant "Mr. Potter I am the Undersecretary here, you are nothing more than a filthy Half-blood tainting the lines of the Most Ancient and Noble Houses of the Potters with your unworthy magic".
The moment she said that the temperature in the room became very cold, some people thought the Dementors were in the chamber. "Minister, I was unaware that your undersecretary was allowed to decide what was best for the ancient houses. Perhaps you can enlighten me as to how members of your office can have a say happens in the Ancient Houses."
Cornelius swallowed deeply as now members of the ancient houses was either glaring at him or questioning why his secretary just spoke that way. "Heir Potter I am deeply sorry for what Delores has said, it is not her place to question what happens in your house or your family. In fact, she will remain quiet the rest of the meeting" he said giving her a look that said he meant it.
"I appreciate that minister but seeing as how your undersecretary not only disrespected me by getting my blood status wrong she also insulted my House and many other members of the Wizengamot. Apparently, she forgot the fact that I am a member of the House of Black through my grandmother. That's an insult to the House of Black as she called them into question. Next she insulted the Ancient and Noble House of the Davis."
The minister looked up to Lord Davis and saw that he was very angry "Lord Davis please forgive me, but it would appear that Umbitch here was questioning whether not I was an insult to the House of Potter and Black. It leads me to believe that she thinks your daughter is unsuited for her status as she is a half-blood herself."
"Worry not heir Potter, my anger is not directed at you" he said while looking at him. "It is true my daughter, Tracy is a half-blood that I won't deny. She has spoken of you rather fondly."
"Thank you sir," he gave him a respectful bow before turning his attention back to the now sweating Minister. "Last your undersecretary insulted the Most Noble House of the Malfoy family." That brought everyone's attention to Lucius Malfoy as he had to agree. Narcissa was still a member of the House of Black, Lucius was many things, but he would soon burn in hell if anyone insulted his wife. When he receive a letter from Draco telling him about his encounter with Potter he was shocked at the agreement they had. He didn't know what to think at the moment but thought it was for the best to be neutral, it would be mean less of a problem.
"I would have to agree with Mr. Potter minister, your undersecretary has just insulted my wife's honor by questioning the House of Black and by extension she questioned my House" he declared causing the man to pee himself.
Harry looked at the man idly enjoying his discomfort "Minister seeing as how it was your undersecretary that called me out, I won't hold you responsible this time." Cornelius let out a sigh of relief, but Harry was not done yet.
"That said however," he formed an idea in his head that made him smirk. "as she questioned my blood status. I have a right to prove that she is wrong, as it says in the Ancient Houses charter."
The ancient houses were talking amongst themselves until one of them stood up "he is correct. Our charter is says if a blood status is being challenged the person has the right to prove his or her blood line."
Fudge took a moment to compose himself after receiving the information "Mr. Potter please declare your blood status under a magical oath!"
Hadrian just smirked, his wand was still in his hand "I, Hadrian James Potter, do hereby swear on my magic that I am a pureblood and that Lily Potter and Petunia Dursley were not blood related. This I swear so mote be it!" said Harry loud enough. A flash of light glowed signifying that the oath took effect. He pointed his wand at the wall and a jet stream of water shot out.
The people were struck speechless, the boy was a pureblood. No one was more shocked than Albus who was confused he thought that Lily and Petunia were blood.
Delores paled as she expected the brat to lose his magic as she thought he was a filthy half-blood, apparently she was wrong. The brat was a pureblood this would be bad for her as the look he was giving her made her shiver.
"Seeing as how I just proved my actual blood status, I expect reparations" he said menacingly.
"What do you suggest Mr. Potter?" Fudge was squeamish when he asked.
"A duel between me and the toad Umbitch, with a prize involved" he said while enjoying the look on the woman face.
Delores found she needed to choose her words carefully as she was not looking good at the moment. "Fine, if I win I get all the money in your trust vault."
Harry smirked at her mentally saying 'gotcha'. "Deal but if I win the ministry will pay whatever compensation Lords Black and Stevenson decide."
The two lords smirked at each other as they liked this plan. "Deal!" She agreed to the terms and made her way down to face him.
Dumbledore wanted to intervene but a part of him wanted to see how good the boy was. He would just have to watch.
"Name the rules Mr. Potter" she requested.
"The unforgivables are off limits and so is killing anything else is permitted" he said narrowing his eyes.
"How do we determine a winner" she asked not aware of what he had planned.
"The duel will end only when one of us declares a wish to stop and it is accepted by the other opponent or one of us is physically unable to continue. We can use whatever we have at our disposal."
Delores thought for a moment then shouted her agreement. Dumbledore decided to referee the match between the two.
"Duelist take your stances" his voice ranged out. Harry spent enough time learning the art of magical dueling to know what to expect. He developed two different dueling styles and four different stances, seeing as she was in an offensive stance he decided to go with his second stance.
He was faced sideways back straight with his left leg in front and extended his left arm for balance his wand was angled for both offensive and defensive purposes. Under his father and uncles watchful eyes he was able to experience how some people moved and reacted.
Umbridge had little dueling skill and was not deterred by the boys' stance and immediately shouted her first spell "stupefy" the red spell shot toward Potter but he simply sidestepped out of the way. She then fired a cutting curse, he dodged it by taking a knee. To him her spells were slow and inefficient. She tried a disarming charm, but it missed him. She tried to send him a combination of spell, but he blocked them with a shield.
Delores was becoming angry as the boy was either blocking or dodging her spells, not only that he seemed bored with her. Her face was red as a tomato and fired a bludgeoning spell, to her shock he rolled out of the way and fired a well timed bone exploding curse that hit her right hip. She screamed in pain holding her hip she fired a confringo blast at him, but he put up a shield and deflected it back with the cutting curse and bludgeoning spell. She was able to barely dodge the blasting spell but got hit with a cutting curse to the hand a bludgeoning spell to the stomach that made her fall to the ground gasping for air.
"Please tell me this is not the limit of your skills, because this is boring" he said while looking down at her. "I expected more of a challenge from a ministry representative" he was taunting her.
It apparently worked and she started firing some less then friendly spell at him all of which he dodged, his movements were fluid and graceful. Noticing that she was getting redder and redder she fired a blood boiling curse that she thought would finish him but he backflipped and immediately fired a bone exploding curse that hit her shoulder making her scream at the pain.
Harry saw his opening, twisting his wand 45 degrees to the right and fired a torrent of hot water at her. The water hit her, and she fell to her knees screaming from the heat of the water. He followed it up with another torrent of water this time twisting his wand 45 degrees to the left, sending a rush of cold water at her that made her shiver at the cold. Not giving her a moment to recuperate he fired a pimple jinx at her and the words said 'I'm a filthy cunt' across her head.
When she got up to try and fire a spell at him he fired two more bone breaking curses one at her leg, the other at her other shoulder. The impact made her scream in pain as she underestimated the boy. "Wait please I surrender" she said loud enough.
Dumbledore took that as his cue "Delores Umbridge as conceded, the match."
He would have said more but Harry beat him to it "not accepted". That made Dumbledore look at him with worry on his face. The other members of the chamber were sporting different expressions. Members of the grey and dark families were enjoying the show as the boy was teaching the woman her place, the neutrals were divided as some were impressed with his spell work, the others were curious about him. The lights faction were a bit scared as the boy was ruthless, but then again it wasn't aimed at them. They silently agreed to watch what else he'll do.
Umbridge was now scared as the boy wouldn't call off the duel, she idly wondered what else he had in stored for her. Not one to take the chances she fired what ever spells she could think of at him. They never made contact as he just moved out of the way, he didn't even put up a shield. The shouting she was doing was making her tired as she desperately tried to catch her breath. Seeing his chance, he fired some stinging hexes, some hit her in the face causing it to puff out, he then fired a half a dozen cutting curses at her. She dodged two of them but the other four hit her on various parts of her body making gashes that started pouring blood.
Harry felt that he made his point used a banishing charm on her that made her hit the wall behind her, with her wand now out of her hands he fired a body binding spell that made her freeze. He gave a nod to Dumbledore telling him he was done. Dumbledore looked at him with worry as he saw that the boy was ruthless in battle, composing himself he announced, "Delores Umbridge is unable to continue the winner is Hadrian Potter." The occupants began clapping for him as some wished that they could have been the ones to curse the bitch, even Madam Bones was having a hard time concealing her smile. They watched as the woman was levitated on a stretcher and hauled out of the room with her wand in of their hands.
"Due to Mr. Potter victory! Lords Black and Stevenson will receive what ever compensations they want from the Ministry" his voice rang. Jack and Arcturus started discussing their prize and after a while of debating, the former addressed the body.
"The ministry will pay us the sum of 3 million galleons each!" he spoke. The members of the Wizengamot thought that was fair and with that Fudge banged his gavel and ordered the funds be transferred to them.
"Now that the duel is over is their anything else on the agenda before we wrap things up for the day" he asked around.
A member of the ancient houses stood up "I call for a vote to remove Albus Dumbledore from his posts as Chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump. He knowingly put a child in an abusive house and exceeded his authority as Chief Warlock on numerous occasion." The man was from the neutral faction, he had black hair and blue eyes, Harry quickly deduced that he was Lord Greengrass Daphne father. His dad had told him about the man, he described him as a good man who valued his family above all.
"Is the motion seconded?" Fudge asked.
Lord Puecy immediately agreed "I second this motion" he declared.
"Then it will be put to a vote. All those in favor of removing Dumbledore from Chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump show of hands!" With that every hand shot up immediately. The vote was over 2/3 as no one seemed to be favoring the man at the moment. "Dumbledore you are hereby, stripped of your positions as Chief Warlock and the Supreme Mugwump of the ICW. Please do not attend any more meetings as the representative of Britain and Ireland."
"No, you can't do this to me, everything I do is for the greater good" Dumbledore shouted.
Lord Greengrass was looking at him with narrowed eyes "you did it for your greater good you goat fucking asshole" he retorted. "I hereby, name Griselda Marchbanks as the new Chief Witch" putting the motion on the floor. The motion was passed and Marchbank was immediately named the new Chief Witch in place of Dumbledore.
Harry had his uncle do a background check on the woman and found that she not only attended Hogwarts. She was the grandmother of his Alchemy teacher and the Head of the Wizarding Examination Authority. From what he could tell she was a member of the grey faction and was not a fan of the old man either. He found out from his late dad that her brother fought alongside Dumbledore when Voldemort arose and was eventually killed. She apparently blamed him for getting her brother involved in the mess.
With the meeting now concluded everyone began leaving, Harry walked up to stand in front of the two adults "well done Hadrian. You not only got your revenge on those worthless muggles, but you also beat someone in the ministry soundly, and managed to get Dumbledore removed." Arcturus said in a voice of pride.
Hadrian reveled in the praise he received from the man; phase 3 was now complete.
"So how long would it take for my godfather to be healed?" he asked
"Due to being exposed to the dementors for as long as he has it will take a minimum of two and a half weeks." Arcturus replied with a frown.
Alex drew their attention to Dumbledore, Minerva, and Hagrid. The woman was berating the older man at the top of her lungs. She was really mad at the him. Internally Harry was laughing at the way the old goat was buckling under the woman anger.
With everything out of the way Alex took Harry back to Hogwarts. While Arcturus went to go see his grandson and inform his sister of the trial.
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By the time Albus and company made it to his office they were met by professors Flitwick and Snape who were in the office waiting by the wall. The short professor took a look at the headmaster only to see that the man was pale and looked like he aged some years. Dumbledore held up a hand before he could ask a question and immediately pulled out a bottle of Firewhiskey, poured it in a glass then downed the contents. Then pulled out a calming draught from his desk drawer.
"Obviously, something massive happened at the Wizengamot" Filius started, bringing the attention of Minerva and Hagrid to him. "Albus would never drink anything like that unless something big happened!" he pointed out.
Neither two said anything as they were still in the middle of processing the information themselves. Albus drank the calming draught then walked over to where his pensieve was located. Pulling the device out he pointed his wand at his temple and extracted the memory of what happened. The memory in the pensieve both Severus and Filius went to go see what riled his nerves.
After fifteen or so minutes the two exited the memory sporting different expression; Filius was crossed between anger, sadness, and excitement. Severus pretended to act angry but was internally smiling at what his son did during the meeting.
"I need to head back to my office," Filius said barely controlling his voice, he needed sometime alone and with that he was out of the office. Leaving only Severus and the others. "That meeting was… interesting" he said in a silk voice.
Albus looked at him "you have no idea my boy" he agreed with him.
Minerva seemed to have found her voice and turned her ire to the man "interesting is an understatement! How could you condemn a child to that hellhole!" she all but shouted. "Lily and James would be turning in their graves after what you made their son go through. As far as I am concerned those Dursley got what they deserved!" Severus gave a nod as he would have killed that fat fucking Walrus and tortured his horse neck bitch of a wife until she was a gibbering mess.
Albus did not want to have a conversation at the moment with anyone "Minerva I swear to you I had no idea things would end that bad. At the time I only thought Arabella was exaggerating the severity of the Dursley's treatment toward the boy." He didn't feel like facing the ire of his transfiguration teacher. This was going to be a longer day then he thought as he was preparing to deal with a pissed off Minerva McGonagall.
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The day of the first quidditch match of the year found everyone in the great hall. Today's match would be between Gryffindors vs Slytherins and each team were in their quidditch clothes and was sitting with their respective houses. Harry found himself sitting in between Wood and Bell eating his breakfast while hearing Wood go over the tactics for the game today. It was pretty easy to tell that his team captain desperately wanted to win today's match. His train of thought was interrupted when the morning newspaper came in.
The prophet depicted what happened at the ministry about how Peter Pettigrew was alive and the actual betrayer of the Potters, how Sirius Black was cleared of all charges and currently getting treatment for his time in Azkaban. It talked about Harry was actually a pureblood and gave a magical oath saying he was. Followed by his treatment at the hands at the hands at his relatives and the punishment he decided for them, that immediately caused everyone in the room to view him in a different light. Finally, it talked about him beating Delores Umbridge in a duel and how Dumbledore was removed from being Chief Warlock and the Supreme Mugwump.
The students were glancing at him as maybe they would need to change their views of Potter. Ravenclaw house were trying to understand him as he proved to be a mystery. Hufflepuff was shocked at what he did during the session as they were unsure how to look at him after reading what the paper said about him. The slytherins were divided as some were looking at him with a mixture of amazement and worry. Their fathers wrote to them and told them what happened at the trial, that immediately made them wary of Potter; and they were now questioning their whether not to have him as an ally or enemy. Gryffindor was in total shock at what they read as they were unaware of what life was like for the boy-who-lived. Some were more shocked at how Dumbledore lost his positions, the most vocal was Hermione Granger as she kept on saying it had to be a mistake.
Harry just drowned them out and resumed his breakfast while listening to Wood. Even though his eyes were not on them, he was still able to understand what they were talking about. Taking one last swig of his morning pumpkin juice he got up to go to the locker room for a follow up.
Once they were all in the locker room Oliver gave his speech about what they were to expect from the other team. Quickly making sure everyone knew their jobs and the tactics that were covered did he tell them to give it their all. They all mounted their brooms and were off they flew around the slytherin team until they were facing them.
"Welcome to our first quidditch match of the year!" The announcer appeared to be Lee Jordan a friend of the Weasley twins, he was speaking a magically enhanced microphone, he was seated in the commentators seats with the professor sitting behind him. "Todays match will be between the honorable house of gryffindors against the pathetic house of slytherins."
"Mr. Jordan" McGonagall was seated next to the boy shouted his name while the gryffindors cheered and slytherins booed! Snape did not like how Jordan called his house pathetic and started thinking about how he could punish him.
"Sorry Professor" he said not really meaning it. "Introducing the Gryffindor's first we have their keeper and Captain Oliver Wood along with the attractive chasers Angelina Johnson, Katie Bell, and Alicia Spinnet, followed by the beater twins Fred and George Weasley and last but not the least the youngest seeker in centuries Hadrian Potter."
The gryffindors started cheering as they heard that Harry was flying seeker for them. Their cheer ended when Jordan added to his announcement.
"Next we have the cheating Slytherin team…"
Once again McGonagall called his name "Jordan" she admonished him again but was drowned out by the booing from the Slytherins. Snape immediately spoke "fifteen points from Gryffindor for being bias during the announcements." This was mostly ignored by Jordan as she apologized to Professor McGonagall but again didn't mean it.
"Here first we have Captain and chaser Marcus Flint along with fellow chasers Adrian Puecy and Aaron Vaisey. Followed with their beaters Lucian Bole and Peregrine Derrick, Keeper Miles Bletchley and their seeker Terrence Higgs. Let's hope that they don't play dirty today" he added that last bit with a mock of apprehension.
"Jordan" McGonagall raise her voice again admonishing him, while Snape took another thirty points from the gryffindor house"
"Sorry professor" he said failing to sound sincere. Before he could speak again Madam Hooch blew her whistle to make her own announcement as she was refereeing the game today.
"Now, I want a nice fair game, all of you," she said, once they were all gathered around her. Harry noticed that she seemed to be speaking particularly to the Slytherin Captain, Marcus Flint, a sixth year. Harry thought Flint looked as if he had some troll blood in him given the way the fool looked. Puecy and Vaisey didn't seem bad as he did some research on their family and found out the latter had an older sister who was a fourth year while he was a second year.
His thoughts were interrupted when it was announced that the quaffle was up staring the game.
Jordan immediately announced, " the Quaffle is taken immediately by Angelina Johnson of Gryffindor - what an excellent Chaser that girl is, and rather attractive, too -"
"JORDAN!" McGonagall called out.
"Sorry, Professor." Lee was being watched by both McGonagall and Snape; they were paying close attention.
"And she's really belting along up there, a neat pass to Alicia Spinnet, a good find of Oliver Wood's, last year only a reserve - back to Johnson and - no, the Slytherins have taken the Quaffle, Slytherin Captain Marcus Flint gains the Quaffle and off he goes - Flint flying like an eagle up there - he's going to sc- no, stopped by an excellent move by Gryffindor Keeper Wood and the Gryffindors take the Quaffle - that's Chaser Katie Bell of Gryffindor there, nice dive around Flint, off up the field and - OUCH - that must have hurt, hit in the back of the head by a Bludger - Quaffle taken by the Slytherins - that's Adrian Puecy speeding off toward the goal posts, but he's blocked by a second Bludger - sent his way by Fred or George Weasley, can't tell which - nice play by the Gryffindor Beater, anyway, and Johnson back in possession of the Quaffle, a clear field ahead and off she goes - she's really flying - dodges a speeding Bludger - the goal posts are ahead - come on, now, Angelina - Keeper Bletchley dives - misses - GRYFFINDORS SCORE!"
After about thirty minutes of play both teams managed to score, with Gryffindors leading 90 to 40 for the Slytherins. Some of the Slytherin decided to play dirty as two of them pinned Angelina by the side and aimed her at one of the pillars, taking the quaffle away while she collided with the pillar. The impact only resorted to a few broken bones.
Harry was further peeved at the way some of the other slytherins were playing as they would most certainly be fouls. Whatever Hooch was watching it wasn't the game in his opinion. Apparently, the only ones that did play fair were Puecy and Vaisey, but Harry refocused his attention to finding the snitch.
He scanned the entire field to find a hint of the gold ball and immediately saw that it was above one of the stands, getting it in his sights he immediately sped off towards it. The Slytherin seekers was watching him throughout the entire game and pursued after seeing him chase something shiny. Higgs identified it as the snitch, and it turned into a race for it.
The snitch was in his sight, just as he was getting closer to it his broom started shaking violently out of his control. Harry saw that their was a jinx on his broom this was bad. He thought the shed was locked and secured as this happened with Longbottom.
'A little help! Someone Jinxed my broom' he sent through his mental link. 'Anytime please!'
I'm working on it' Severus said through the link 'just try and hang on until I finish the counter curse.'
Just Harry was about to be thrown off the broom. The shaking immediately stopped, and he got control of the broom again taking a moment to breathe a sigh of relief he readjusted himself on the broom and flew after Higgs. It didn't take long as the two seekers were neck and neck, Higgs noticed this and started running into him hoping to knock him off.
Higgs underestimated Harry as he was expecting the boy to fall off the broom. Hadrian shot him a glare and came to give him a taste of his own medicine, slamming into his side, he knocked the older slytherin farther away then the boy did to him. Higgs was momentarily surprised at the boys strength but didn't let it deter him and they continued slamming into one another.
As the two continued slamming into each other the snitch took a dive, it was quickly followed by the two seekers who were desperate to catch it. The snitch didn't show any signs of stopping and continued heading for the ground. Higgs quickly levelled out his broom trying to avoid hitting the dirt, leaving Harry alone to chase the snitch.
The snitch eventually levelled out, followed closely by Harry who impressed the crowd with his daring. The snitch was still a little far ahead of him, so he slowly stood up on the broom and held out his hand to grab it. The snitch was almost in his grasp.
Immediately, Harry thought of a plan he stepped forward knowing the broom would tip slightly due to his weight in the front. The broom appeared to be tilting to the ground, Harry used the moment to launch himself to the snitch seeing that he was close enough he took the chance and did a front flip and snatched the snitch in his outstretched hand. He then landed with one knee on the ground.
Noticing that everyone was waiting for him, Harry held the snitch in the air showing that he caught it and Hooch blew her whistle declaring the gryffindors victory. The rest of the team landed near him and raced toward him, Wood got their first grabbed him in a hug, momentarily lifting him in the air. This was followed by the others who led him to the locker room to get changed.
When they got into the common room it was in full swing. The entire house was celebrating their first victory, Harry pretended to enjoy himself to keep up appearance. Oliver said that with Harry on the team they had an actual chance at winning the quidditch cup this year.
After a while Harry snuck out of the common room to go wander the hallways. While he was walking the corridors, he wandered into the trophy room. Their he found where the quidditch awards were, spotting his dad award 'James Potter Seeker' it was next to the other prizes. That made him smile as he heard how talented his dad was on the broom.
Leaving that case behind he continued looking around until he stopped near the special services to the school awards. Looking at who earned the awards he stopped when he saw and that read Awarded to TOM RIDDLE for Special Services To The School. When he saw that name a rush of memories formed in his brain showing what the boy looked like. His expressionless mask was still in place but in the inside he was nervous as he was hoping it was not the person who he thought it was.
Putting those thoughts aside he put a notice me not charm on himself and ran to the room of requirement, getting to the room he muttered the password 'エレメンタルウォリアー'. (Elemental Warrior).
Entering the room, he saw Byakko on the couch next to the fire. The god sensed his partner turmoil and turned to look at him "young one what is it?"
"It started with" he told Byakko about how the quidditch game went, how it started off good then got heated. He mentioned how his broom was jinxed and that his dad was muttering the counter curse. After the game, there was a party in the common room, that he snuck out of to think about the masses and ended up in the trophy room. He mentioned that he saw the special awards to the school and saw the name Tom Riddle. It brought aa rush of memories to him "then I came here."
Byakko became alert and when to go stand next to him "this name you saw! You said it brought memories to your head, were they yours?" he asked critically eyeing him. Harry shook his head. "This is troubling summon Severus here immediately" he ordered. Harry did just that as the tone in Byakko voice was serious, reaching out he told his father to get to the room but be discreet.
The next few minutes Severus came into the room to see that his son and Byakko were waiting for him, noticing the look on Harry's face he knew something was up. "What happened?" he asked.
Harry told him what happened when he saw in the trophy room and the rush of memories that came in "I immediately got a rush of names like T.M Riddle and Tom Marvolo Riddle. Dad I think that was his name based on the memories." Severus immediately paled at this as he desperately hoped that it wasn't so, he was aware that his son received some of the dark lords memories but only passive ones. During their mentalist training he made sure to lock them in his son subconscious, so they wouldn't be a problem, like a few years ago.
Composing himself he looked at him with narrowed eyes "are you saw the name Tom Riddle in the trophy room." Hadrian gave a nod. Severus took out his wand and pointed it at the wall, mentally saying flagrate and spelled the name Tom Marvolo Riddle before slashing his wand. They watched as the letters formed I am Lord Voldemort. Harry was filled with rage when he saw the name, that bastard took his parents from him. Severus couldn't form any words as when he saw his former master name was merely an anagram. He did often wonder why the dark lord often shouted I am Lord Voldemort now he knew why it was a cover.
Severus remembered what happened Halloween during the troll incident, he cut Quirrell off as he was making his way to the third floor corridor. When he to confronted him, he felt the same dark presence he felt all those years ago.
"Where's the map at" he said turning to Hadrian. Hadrian summoned his bag and took the map out handing to his dad. Severus muttered the password to activate the map to show where everyone was, their was only one person he was searching for. When he spotted Quirrell in his office he saw the name Tom Riddle, seeing who it was he froze in place dropping the map.
Harry looked to see what made him freeze and saw why Voldemort was alive and in the castle. "How is this possible he is supposed to be dead" he said in a voice that was barely audible.
Severus turned to look at him "evidently not, this bad!" their was an edge in his voice.
"The wards here are bad this is catastrophic!" Harry said to him.
Severus sucked in a breath, holding his occlumency shields in place "listen to me" he said in a firm no nonsense voice. "you avoid Quirrell at all cost. If he ask to talk to you privately you make up an excuse to leave. I forbid you from communicating with him in anyway until I say so."
Hadrian wanted to say something but the look on his dad face meant that he was serious, so he just gave a nod. Byakko spoke up after remaining quiet "what about you Severus?"
"If the dark lord is alive, then I would have to make sure that he knows that I am still one of his followers" he said with disgust.
"That's suicide!" Harry said the worry in his voice came.
Severus saw the worry in his son eyes and placed a hand on his shoulder "if the dark lord is indeed possessing Quirrell then we have to know. Don't worry I'll do my best to convince them I'm on his side."
"But dad…" Harry tried to speak but Severus cut him.
"I don't like it anymore than you do. But this takes precedence as we don't know if the Dark lord has any of his power back yet." Harry didn't like this against his better judgement he agreed.
"What happened during the troll incident when everyone was panicking?" he asked.
Severus was determining whether or not to tell him about the Cerberus incident, wanting to not say anything he knew about his son's inquisitive nature. It probably be better if he heard it from him "when the teachers went to go to the dungeons I went to go confront Quirrell about what he was planning. I followed him to the third floor corridor and confronted him as he went into the room. Their I not only found him but a Cerberus, I dragged him out of the room but one of the heads bit me as we were leaving."
Harry's eyes opened wide as there was a Cerberus in the castle! If he had to take one guess he suspected the gamekeeper Hagrid, from what he read in his parent journals the man had a fascination with these types of creatures. "Why would there be a Cerberus in a school full of children?" something was amiss and felt like trouble.
"The headmaster has the philosophers stone and is using that dog as a means to protect it" he said in a silk voice. "The other teachers and I have added protections to it as well."
Harry was on alert "that would explain as to why he told everyone not to go anywhere near the corridor in the first place. But how did Dumbledore get his hands on it from what I've read it was created by Nicholas Flammel. I know it turns copper into gold and that it could be used to create the Elixir of life but how did he get his hands on it? I highly doubt either him or his wife would let it out of their sight!"
"You raise a good question; however, the headmaster is wanting to test you." He said darkly, the old fool is using his son as a guinea pig.
"Meaning what" came Byakko as he did not like where this was going.
"Dumbledore wants to see if Hadrian is capable in thwarting the dark lord's return to power."
Harry's eyes hardened "so he puts hundreds of kids endanger just to test me, he's insane!" The old goat was attempting to use him as a poster boy at the expense of others.
Taking a breath to calm his nerves he turned to his dad "what are we going to do?"
"For the time we will be patient go about our daily lives, keep your head down. I will try to get more information about the protections!"
Harry gave a nod. "What about Blaise? I don't want him caught in the crossfire!" he said firmly. Severus smirked at the concern Hadrian had for Mr. Zabini, the two were brothers in all but blood. They trusted each other.
"Tell him, but make sure he knows to keep quiet. We can't risk the fact of anyone knowing." Harry gave a curt nod.
"Would it be alright, if I did some more research about the stone" he asked the stone was a powerful object and he wanted to learn more about it and hopefully return it to its proper owner.
Severus raised an eyebrow considering his request "fine but you will have to go at night after curfew. Normally, I wouldn't agree to this, but it might be necessary for you to know more about the stone. Take your cloak and the map with you, make sure you don't get caught" with that he left the room to go find out more about the protections.
Resigning himself, Harry took a seat on the couch contemplating what was going on. He activated his watch and turned it five clicks to the right to call Blaise.
"Blaise are you there" he waited for a response.
"I'm here, what's up?"
" I need you to come to the seventh floor it's important!"
"Is it that important?"
"This involved the old bastard."
"I'm on my way!" His voice sounded serious.
"Be discreet, make sure no one sees you" was all he said before turning off his communicator.
Reclining on the couch he sat their idly petting Byakko. This whole situation is getting out of control. Byakko saw his discomfort and rubbed its head along his legs before going to pick up the dropped map. Grabbing it in his mouth he placed it on Harry's lap. He sent him a wave of gratitude to his partner and watch for Blaise to come to the seventh floor.
A few minutes later he saw his friend's dot appear on the seventh floor he placed the map on the couch and exited the room. He quickly found Blaise who wondering why Harry called him so urgently.
"What going on" he asked
"Shh" he placed a finger over his mouth "not here come on" he took him to the entrance of the room and said the password allowing them entrance.
Blaise was completely shocked as he never knew or seen this room before. "What is this place" he asked
"This is the room of requirement, one of the elves told me about it." He said letting it sink in "Blaise theirs something you need to know and your not going to like it" speaking in a serious tone, that got his attention.
Harry started telling him about the conversation he had with his dad about the giant dog being one of the guards around the sorcerers stone. He explained how it was possible that Voldemort was possessing Quirrell. By confirming his real name was Tom Riddle and that his name was an anagram. Last he told him about the marauders map on how his dad and his friend created it, even stressing the importance of him keeping it quiet as it would cause problems if the other students found out.
Blaise was having a mixture of emotions between nervous, scared, anger; he couldn't believe what he had just been told. But the look on Harry's face said it all as he understood what the situation was and plopped on the couch.
Finding his voice, he looked at Harry "this is a messed up situation. Between Dumbledore and Vol- Voldemort I don't know who is worse" he was not used to saying the name, but he was getting their.
"Between you and me" he started "both of them are terrible. One is a murdering psychopath; the other is a manipulative bastard who uses people."
They spent the rest of the day in the room of requirement discussing what was going to happen, Harry had to attend his dueling lessons with Master Sakai and when it eventually it came time for dinner instead of eating in the great hall they invited the girls to eat in the kitchen. The ladies agreed as they didn't want to sit in the great hall with their classmates either.
Tracy filled them in on what was discussed in the common room after the game, some members of the house were saying that the game was fixed so that gryffindors would win, others were of the opinion that they won fair and square. Some of the quidditch players were saying that they were cheated out of their victory.
"What about Puecy and Vaisey, from what I saw they didn't cheat or play dirty!" Harry said.
It was Daphne turn to speak "those two are some of the decent members of our house. They don't bully anyone often opting to stay out of the crossfires."
"Doesn't Vaisey have an older sister, that goes here?" He questioned as he was curious about his sister.
"Ooh should I alert the rumor mill that Harry Potter is interested in an older woman in Slytherin" she asked teasingly. "Here I thought you would have asked someone from your house."
Harry pretended to be offended by her words "Mrs. Greengrass you wound me" he placed his hand over his heart. "I would never had guessed you figure out that I was attracted to older women." He said with a smirk.
Daphne lips twitched upward "oh now we're getting to the juicy stuff. Mr. Potter do you know how many hearts you would break if word got out about your interest in older females."
"Please my fair maiden do soldier on without me. I'm pretty sure someone will be able to stand up to the ice queen of slytherins". He said with a smirk.
She playfully slapped him in the arm for using that moniker. "Prat" she called him, her short time at Hogwarts she quickly made a reputation for herself. Some of the heirs tried approaching her but they were met with a frosty glares and ice spell to their bits.
The four of them burst out laughing enjoying themselves.
"So why do you want to know about Vaisey sister" Daphne asked once she recovered.
"I'm wondering how I should react when I talk to her, from what I learned more families have a magical contract with each other. While I don't expect them and me to be friends hopefully they will agree to be civil."
His reasoning was sounded as they all agreed that it would be better if the families were to be civil. This way a feud could be avoided and not result in someone getting hurt.
Tracy was the first to speak "her name is Nicole Vaisey, she's a fourth year and has been one of the top five students in her year. She mostly keeps to herself, while she does have some friends in and outside of her house. While she maybe a pureblood she doesn't strut or act like her merlin's gift like a certain blonde idiot."
Harry pinched the bridges of his nose when he heard her mention his cousin "what has Draco done now?"
"What hasn't he done" Daphne spoke in an irate voice as she hated the heir to the Malfoy, "the prick struts around like he is the king of Slytherin house. If that's not all he talks about his dad far to much. I swear if his family didn't have the minister's ear then Draco would not be acting all high and mighty. I still cant believe you agreed to be neutral with him!"
Harry sucked in a breath "it's better this way. Me and him are from the House of Black; while we may not have to like one another, this way we won't be at each other's throats."
"How are you two related anyway?" she asked.
"My grandmother is Dorea Andromeda Potter née Black, the younger sister of Lord Arcturus Black."
Realization donned on the two girls "then that means" Tracy mumbled
"That I am one of the heirs to the House of Black, yes."
"Wow I can't wait to see the look on his face once he finds out. The way he constantly says he's going to be the head of both the Malfoy and Black, glad to see that he has some competition."
They continued chatting about various things, Daphne and Harry continued to talk in earnest with Harry giving her a few pointers about the different dueling forms. "Any chance you can show me what you know" she asked honestly.
"Let me think about it till tomorrow and I'll let you know" he said wanting to consider it by weighing the pros and cons. She gave a small smile and mentally thought well it at least it's not a no.
"On another topic here, Tracy started while eyeing the pair "do you guys notice that she gets all smug when she gets a question right. And when someone else give the answer she shoots them death glares. Not to mention she can't stand you" she said pointing to Hadrian.
"Granger is nothing more than an arrogant teachers pet with a superiority complex" he said while taking a swig out of his goblet. "Besides, I thought she would have thought the troll incident would have taught her better by now."
"Apparently, not the girl is a bloody nightmare. I'm just glad I don't have to share a common room with her" Daphne said coldly. "She needs to be taken down a few pegs."
"Easy sapphire" he said making her cheeks pink a bit "from what I can tell you and she are about even in your classes."
"Don't call me sapphire" she said while thinking about what he said about her being even with Granger.
Harry just smirked, "why not it's the color of your eyes and it sounds better than ice queen in my opinion.
Daphne started blushing and playfully smacked him on the arm while Tracy and Blaise started laughing. They finished dinner and went back to their respective houses except for Harry who returned to the room of requirement . He found he liked the room a lot better as it provided him with a place to be away from some of his housemates and converted it to his room back home. He asked the elves to bring his belonging to thee room and told them not to say where they were going if anyone asked.
His trunk with all of his belonging popped into the room and he dragged it up the stairs to the bedroom the room provided. Sitting on the couch he read from his family grimoire about Battle Transfigurations until it was curfew. He kept the map on passing occasional glances at it making sure that everyone was back in their dorms.
When he looked at the clock it read ten to eleven figuring that was enough time he put the grimoire on the table grabbed both the map and his cloak and stealthily made his way to the library. He added a spell to mask his scent as a precaution, Filch had a cat that was notorious for finding people in trouble.
As he went into the library he mentally thanked his animagus form as it allowed him not only to have enhanced hearing, but it also allowed him to see in the dark. So, he didn't need a lighting charm.
Walking into the restricted section he started scanning for anything about the philosophers stone, while looking along the shelves he finally found it. Pulling the book out he skimmed the pages until he found the section about how Nicolas and his wife Perenelle often used the stone to prolong their lives as they were more than 600 years old.
As he kept reading what he learned was staggering as he was still wondering why the Flammel would part with their most prized object. When he put the book away he kept himself covered under the cloak just as he was exiting the library he heard footsteps. Looking at his map he saw Filch heading his way near him, quickly making an exit he soon found himself in the dungeons where he found a room.
Using his elemental eyesight, he saw a detection ward on the door. Quickly disabling it he entered the room and saw that it was mostly empty with only a mirror in it.
Stepping forward he saw an inscription on the top Mirror of Erised. Looking into the mirror he saw himself with his birth parents standing behind him, he also saw Emily standing next to him and Severus was standing next to his mother with a hand on his shoulder. It felt like he was in a trance the longer he stood in front of the mirror and it felt like his magic was being siphoned.
Quickly regaining his senses, he exited the room and headed back to the room.
A/N: To summarize Harry had a duel with Umbridge and beat her. I was tempted to have him transfigure her into a toad, but I decided against it. Dumbledore was removed from his positions as chief warlock and the supreme Mugwump and replaced by Madam Marchbanks. The gryffindors won their first quidditch game despite Harry's broom being jinxed. They learn that Voldemort is alive and probably want the stone.
I plan on making Puecy and the Vaisey kids allies. As I don't believe that people from the dark families are evil. Before any of you say anything consider this is the light side really good and is the dark side evil?
As for the mirror of erised I'm going to have it labeled as a dark and dangerous artifact. Quirrell will be dealt with during the Yule holiday, don't ask how the only thing I'll say is that I have a plan to deal with him.
Next chapter Severus confronts Quirrell and sees Voldemort as a parasite attached to the back of his head.