When Harry Potter is captured along with his Godfather and forced to attend Hogwarts no-one in the Wizarding World of Britain were prepared for what was to follow. One shot, no slash.
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Welcome Back Lord Potter:
Harry sighed as he reached up and felt the collar on his neck for the umpteenth time. He did not care the look the Aurors gave him, he did not have to like being dragged off to Hogwarts like this. Merlin if this was how heroes who defeated the second darkest wizard in a hundred years, well no wonder no-one had stepped forward before now. Harry was all of fifteen years old, a slight teen who stood around five and a half feet tall, he had messy black hair he kept short and intense green eyes, no glasses, he wore contacts instead. He did not look like a threat and really he was not much of one at all, unless you counted his loyalty.
He was being led to the school as entertainment as far as he could see, it was not enough to take him to Hogwarts, no he was the main event this evening. It was really too bad the sorting happened tonight, the cap to that entertainment. So here was being drug, like some Rome prize from days of conquest of yore, a mer boy before the students of the school. The Aurors, both cloaked and hooded so he could not see their features marched him up to the school. How utterly humiliating, if he was one to give into such emotion, the fact he was clad in the robes of a student did not make him happy, well at least the dammed collar could not be seen. He was led into the school and straight to the great hall, he barely took in the four tables and the enchanted ceiling before he saw the fifth table with a man he really did not like seat there.
Seated as if on a throne was the headmaster of Hogwarts, a man Harry partly blamed for what had happened in the past, Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, ext, ext, long silver hair and beard, flowing robes he styled himself after Merlin, or what people thought Merlin had looked like. Well, Merlin would never have dressed in such a lurid fashion at all! Harry was led between the students to where there was a stool, with a hat on it and he snorted but bid his time as he was not to tip his hand until the headmaster had his say. He was a well mannered youth, he had been taught well and he would let the aged headmaster have his say.
"This is Harry Potter, as you know his godfather, a traitor and murderer was caught and will face the Dementors kiss for his crimes." Dumbledore said, "however as Harry Potter was kidnapped and held hostage by Black he will be allowed to be part of this school and be sorted. Mr. Potter if you will take a seat we can get your sorting under way."
"No sir." Harry said bowing slightly.
"Harry you promised you would come to Hogwarts." Dumbledore said frowning.
"True I did, and I came, your guard and binds were not needed, I agreed to the date and swore I would come, I have been treated more like a common criminal." Harry said. "What have I done to deserve such treatment?"
"Just get on with it." Severus Snape, the hooked nosed, black haired, eyes and clad potions master growled, "we don't have all day Potter."
"Severus!" Dumbledore warned Severus Snape.
"Well he is right, I came but not to be sorted, no I came on mission from her most gracious majesty queen Elisabeth the second, right ruler of the United Kingdom both magical and mundane, long may she reign!"
The hall went silent and Harry took this time to take out his hidden wand and transfigure his robes back to the formal robes of the House Potter. These were dark red trimmed in green and blue, they were open to show the modern looking armor and fatigues under that were in black. The two Aurors threw back the hood of their cloaks and the hall gasped in one as these were not Aurors they knew at all though they looked familiar to them. Both were tall standing at six feet tall, the one on the left of Harry looked so like Severus it was clear he was a close relation, quite possibly his son. His black hair was tied back and instead of sallow skin his was lightly tanned. The other had long shaggy near black hair, gray eyes and he too was lightly tanned. Both were very young and could not have been much older than Harry, and in fact they were not. Harry reached up and to the shock of all in the hall he easily removed the suppression collar and tossed it aside.
"See no need for that, though I did have Aurors, well Aurors in training bring me." Harry said, "let me introduce you to lord Alexander Harold Snape and lord Phineas Charlus Black, I am lord Harry James Potter, ambassador for her majesty and I am here to state she is not pleased with you at all."
"What do you mean, the queen has no right here, she is a muggle!" Came a shout from the Slytherin table.
"Hold your tongue boy or I will give you a taste of the lash for speaking against your queen!" Severus said rising getting Dumbledore to look at him in shock, "lord Potter, it has been too long."
"Indeed lord Snape, I must thank you in your help in bringing in the traitor." Harry said smiling.
"What traitor lord Potter?" McGonagall, an older woman with her dark hair tied in a tight bun, clad in robes of green asked.
"Why Tom Marvolo Riddle of course." Harry said. "You know all he had to do was make nice and go to his father and claim his part in the Riddle family, instead he did kill the head of the Riddle family one Lord Riddle, the heir Tom Riddle and his grandmother, then he did take a title he had not earned and could not be claimed by the murderer, not to mention her majesty does not recognize him as a lord."
"Lord Potter, as much as I respect the queen, she does not have much in authority." Dumbledore countered, "she cannot decide who is lord or not."
"Ah yea she can." Harry said, "if she says one is not a lord or lady then that is it, she does have more power in the magical world through me."
"You?"
"Yes sir, where do you think I was these past years? I stayed in England and it was Sirius who contacted the queen and pleaded for amnesty, she granted it but in return I was raised as the head of all the Wizarding lords, a job that is not easy let me tell you." Harry said, "anyway we have a traitor to deal with here and now, lord Black, lord Snape bring forth the prisoner!"
There was a pop and a trunk appeared, the boys opened it and drug out their prisoner. They flung the battered and bruised captive to the floor and there were screams of fright as the students realized who this was. Voldemort looked pitiful not terrifying as he lay sprawled on the cold stone floor. He was clad in a worn black robe and he was bound in chains with a collar at his neck and he looked weak and clearly in pain. He was pale, and his red eyes were dull and it was clear he had not had an easy time of it. He was drug forward and thrown before Harry who looked down at him his face cold and closed, his eyes glowed and the students already terrified back to the walls, just in time as Harry with a wave of his wand vanished the tables, all but the head table.
"Hello Tom, I have a bone to pick with you." Harry said glaring at the kneeling dark lord, this very act shocked and thrilled so many, the most feared English dark lord was on his knees before a mer boy! "I am, that is, we are most displeased with you."
"I will come back you worthless boy!" Voldemort spat and he was backhanded by none other than Ginny Weasley.
"Peace lady Weasley, you have had your say against him." Harry said causing more shocks, the Weasleys were not nobles surely they were not! "I must thank you for capturing him."
"It was not hard lord Potter, he thinks himself above us, but he is not even above the worms of the earth as they do much good and he does none!"
"I have ways to come back, you cannot conquer me." Voldemort snarled.
"What, oh yes those things that made you undead and took your humanity. As you are not human and even if you were the charges of treason would be the least of your worries. As such I am going to make this easy for all of us, in creating Horcruxes" here there were a gasp from a few students at this evil word "you have become more vile than the most evil of the Vampires and as such I will have your head."
"I will come back" Voldemort snarled.
"No, you will not." Harry said tossing the Horcruxes to the ground before Voldemort. "Now let's get rid of you so we can get down to real business shall we?"
Harry looked over at the Gryffindor table and saw Fred and George Weasley, identical down to almost the last freckle with grim looks on their faces. Ah the Weasleys, Harry owed them so much these past few years. He had been raised well by his godfather, trained by the royal court in both muggle and magical ways he was a formidable wizard in his own right. However he had chanced on the Weasley family shortly after Ginny had nearly been killed by Riddles diary. All had taken the oath to serve the Queen and the rest, as they say was history. After Harry was taken prisoner by Wormtail and Voldemort came back the Weasleys had made their moves and now, nearly three months later this was the result. Harry had to make sure to get to Hogwarts and they, like Alex and Phin had helped bring this day about. In fact for their hard work the Queen had made Arthur a baron and his children lords and ladies and made Molly a dame.
"Lord Fred and George will you escort this filth to the tower where he faces an ax?" Harry asked.
"Yes my lord!" Both said walking forward and taking Voldemort away.
"So that all of you will know that this filth is truly dead this will allow you to see his execution." Harry said then with a snap of his fingers the house elves appeared, "in case any of you get sick they are here to help with that. Once Voldemort's head has rolled well that will end him."
"Harry I cannot allow this." Dumbledore said and Harry turned to him a look of annoyance on his face, "this is murder Harry, you cannot murder someone!"
"Headmaster I know you have a tender heart and hate to kill, however the queen and I agree that some need to die for their crimes, unlike the death eaters with their victims he will get a quick death."
Everyone turned to the screen and watched as Voldemort was led to the chopping block. He was forced to his knees and bound and with a spell from one of the wizards there he found he could not move. Unlike a certain ghost here at Hogwarts the ax used on him would not be dull, it was razor sharp and the executioner, complete with traditional hood brought the ax down and hued the head off the dark wizard. Several children did get sick and many cried at the horror of seeing a beheading but it served as a lesson to not go down the path that Voldemort had or they too would die in such a manor. The house elves cleaned up the hall and the students before Harry got to the next bit of business.
"Now, headmaster Dumbledore, the queen is pleased with you." Harry said turning to Dumbledore, "she sees you do have a good heart, sometimes though she believes you can be a bit too soft and sometimes a bit narrow sighted, but she recognizes all the good you have done. You showed you did care about me when you did all you could to find me and rescue me. I do know that the way I was brought to Hogwarts was not fully your doing. However you can no longer be head of the Wizengamot as it has been dissolved by the queen and as that goes nearly hand in hand with the head of the ICW you are no longer head of that."
"Harry may I ask why?" Dumbledore asked looking sad and so very old.
"You have done so much good in the world." Harry said choosing his words carefully, "in compensation for the loss of your titles another shall be given you, that of duke."
Now the queen did not trust Dumbledore or most of the Wizarding or muggle world, however as she had more control over the magical she was going to reform it with young men like Harry. Harry knew this and took his duty seriously. By giving Dumbledore a peer-ship it was throwing the old man a bone but he would not fully complain about this, in fact it was hoped he would stay at the school now and spend more time running it. Harry started to go over the changes, a new magical house of lords and house of commons, the house of commons, like it's muggle counterpart would be of elected officials. There would be more but Harry had one more bit of work on behalf of the queen and it was one that would show this was not something to be taken lightly. Fred and George came back from the execution with one more prisoner, the battered, bleeding, pitiful form of one Peter Pettigrew.
"Ah yes, the blood traitor, a true blood traitor." Harry said glaring at Wormtail. "I know how many of you of the Pureblood persuasion throw about the words of blood traitor to those who do not agree with you, that stops now as you will learn just what a blood traitor is, lord Malfoy come here!"
"Yes lord Potter?" Malfoy said getting all but the Weasleys to look at the pale white blond haired gray eyed Malfoy heir with shock," what can I do for queen and country?"
"Give the true meaning to the term blood traitor if you please?"
"Yes my lord." Draco said, "a blood traitor is one who is bound by blood, wither born or shared later who willfully turns those they are bound over to their enemy willingly and for a price. This price can be money lands or freedom. It does not include those who refuse to take a families stance that goes against the laws of the land and against the laws of nature."
"Thank you, so who here is a blood traitor?" Harry asked.
"Peter Pettigrew my lord, he did knowingly and willingly join the pretend lord Voldemort and did sell out James Potter, Lily Potter and you lord Potter, he killed your parents then tried to kill you."
Harry nodded grimly and very nearly grinned even at this awful time. Draco Malfoy knew how to survive, he did not want to be a death eater but he had not found a way out of it. Until Sirius approached him and found out the young man's dilemma, one oath to the queen later, a mission and his title of lord verified and returned to him he had helped to bring down Voldemort. Even if his father was taken down he would still get the estates and monies of the Malfoy family. So many had thought he was just a pureblood bigot, and though he would only marry a pureblood he was loyal to the queen and would do what he had to in order to survive.
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A few years earlier, well ten years earlier Harry was living in hell with his evil relations. He was treated as a slave, locked in a cupboard under the stairs of a large home with four bedrooms and fed only scraps and beaten by his evil aunt. That had changed when Sirius Black had escaped from Azkaban and found his abused and scared godson and spirited him away. They had been caught by Severus Snape who had seen how abused Harry was. Sirius begged him for help, actually begged him if he were to kill him to protect Harry from his relations. Instead Severus had taken Sirius and Harry to the queen who had offered them protection in return for Harry becoming her servant fully.
It was at this time that that both Severus and Sirius learned that their sons they had thought dead were not, that they had survived and were in a orphanage. They were able to find them with magic and bring them to where Harry was and all three boys were raised together. Over the years Harry had grown and learned both magical, muggle and the things he needed to become a lord. He had made friends, and had shown many children of the death eaters a new way and created a new life for them secretly. His "capture" soon after Voldemort had come back was staged, it was merely to show that Voldemort was captured and to move in to forcibly change the magical world.
Another surprise was Severus Snape, he had taken a chance, he had not even been sure the queen knew of the magical world, however she had and she had set him a task, to spy for her and to do all he could to take down Voldemort, from the inside. That was exactly what Severus had done, joining Voldemort and spying on him and then, when he had heard the prophecy and given part of it to the dark lord (he knew all of it but acted as if he did not) he had hoped Dumbledore would do as much as he could to protect both children of the prophecy. That had not worked and both boys had nearly died, yet they survived and Harry had thrived, Neville had a harder road but now the boy was doing well as he had come into his full strength.
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Now Harry stood before the school looking powerful as a magical lord should. He could have chosen a darker path, he could have led troops against the magical world and would have had full support of the queen. Yet he chose this way to show he wanted to do what was right, not what was easy. His punishment against Wormtail was very fitting, death was too easy for him but so was putting him with the Dementors. No the punishment he had for the traitor would be very fitting indeed.
"Peter Pettigrew you are cast from the magical world, you are no longer part of any family, nor do you have any citizenship. You will not die, not yet, you are to be bound and turned over to the goblins and you will serve them to the day you die." Harry said, "now as for the death eaters, I lord Harry James Potter do command all death eaters to come and face me by the powers of magic and nature so mote it be!"
"Hope this works." Severus muttered.
"Oh it will, and I am going to enjoy culling their numbers." Harry said darkly.
Harry was not playing with kid gloves, he never had, he had lost his parents in this awful war and he was not going to allow this kind of thing happen again. He was allowed to set judgment and that his exactly what he was going to do. He had to leave the school for this, there was no need to have all these death eaters here and he went to the tower of London, to the magical sector where he waited for the death eaters to come and come they did. All were disarmed and many were shocked to see Harry here with Severus Snape standing by him. Harry glared at them knowing just what he would be required to do this night, a night he knew would go down in history as a warning to others. While the death eaters were disarmed two more men came up, one was tall with shaggy near black hair, goatee, grey eyes and pale skin, the other was shorter with long dreaded brown hair, a pale pocked marked face and copper eyes.
"What took you guys so long?" Harry asked them.
"The Dementors took a little longer to get rid of." Augustus Rookwood said, "the minister would not get out of the way, I had to kill him and several others."
"Ah, well he deserved it." Sirius said, "I mean trying to frame Rookwood here as a death eater? Good thing you went to the queen."
"Yes, and my calculations held up and worked." Rookwood said, "why the minister wanted to keep the Dementors around when there was a way to destroy them is mental."
"What gets me is how long the ministry knew how to destroy Dementors and did nothing to do so." Harry said, "no matter, a new age is before us and starts now, death eaters!" Harry called, "I am lord Potter, representative to the queen of England her majesty Elizabeth, queen of all British isles, rule of both magical and muggle in all the realm, you are here to swear loyalty to her and the realm or die this day! Choose wisely, for you will be bound by magical oath!"
Only a scant few took the oath, Greg Goyle, Vance Crabbe and Timothy Nott were the only ones, the rest were executed that very night. Fourteen executioners faced the daunting task of killing seven hundred death eaters. Seven hundred people who had the choice to live free or die a slave and they had chosen slavery. The deaths sent shockwaves through the magical world, but Harry was not done there, nor were those on his side, the reforms were fast and shocking and in the end there would be little left the purebloods could do.
It had started with one simple change, that of Sirius Black taking his godson and running and seeking refuge in the royal court. It had ended with a well educated Harry Potter coming back to the magical world not as a weak powerless little boy wanting only love and too shy and put down to go against anything he was told. No the boy who had come back was vengeful, strong and not going to sit by while the magical world fell apart before him. Some might hate him for what he did, but he was fair and was going to lead the magical world into a new light, a new golden age. Those that called him dark were laughed at as Harry was anything but dark!
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So there is that, another one shot where Harry refuses to be dark and once more reforms and saves the magical world. Hey you make him the chosen one make sure you understand what he can and will do if he has a chance.