Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot line and the original/new characters
in the story. The rest belongs to JKRowling.
A/N: I'm glad you all like it so far. Here's the next chapter!
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New Powers
Chapter Two: Rescue Time
Harry had been in the middle of a very pleasant dream where Voldemort had been destroyed, Wormtail had been captured, Sirius had saved him from the Dursleys after turning them into flobberworms and had just been moving onto a slightly erotic part in his new bedroom with someone he couldn't see when he was rudely awoken by the light bulb above him bursting into shreds.
Slightly disturbed he tried to listen to what was going on outside of his cupboard. He swore he heard Madam Hooch screeching, "WHAT IN MERLINS NAME HAVE YOU DONE TO MY STAR SEEKER? WHERE IS HE YOU IDIOT MUGGLES?"
Normally, Harry wouldn't be thrilled at the idea of being saved by the Quidditch coach, but was slightly bothered that his seeking abilities were what brought her here. That is, until he heard a voice that was not so easy to identify say, "You will show us where you have put Mr. Potter or we will blow your house apart finding him. The choice is yours, but he will be found, and you will be punished accordingly based on his condition upon his retrieval. Regardless of your present idiotic choices, we'd like to offer a small chance of your house surviving this endeavor. Show us the boy."
Someone must have pointed at the cupboard or made some indication that he could be found in there because thirty seconds later he was staring up into Albus Dumbledore's face. Albus took one look at the boy and felt his heart breaking in two. Smiling, forcedly, at the boy Albus said, "Well Harry, let's get you to Madam Pomfrey then shall we?"
Harry was much to tired to do anything other than say, "Yes sir. Mind my snakes please Sir."
Albus raised an eyebrow and asked, "Snakes, Harry?"
Harry didn't say anything, Alissa, Tayen and Sifra started to quietly hiss so as to draw attention to themselves. Albus blinked and asked, "Have they bitten you Harry?"
"No, Sir. I'm their Master, they would never bite a Parseltongue."
Albus nodded and closed his eyes briefly before saying; "Alright then, just hold still and I'll have you out of here with a simple levitation spell."
Albus carefully levitated Harry out and onto a stretcher that Filius had conjured up. Emily, Anna and Minerva took one look at Harry and simultaneously burst into tears. Filius muttered under his breath about using the Dursleys to test new charms and curses on. Severus however said, "Albus do you remember mentioning asking you to look the other way when we wanted to use the unforgivables?
Albus nodded and said, "Just wait for me to get Harry off the threshold Severus, make sure you cast a charm so the Ministry doesn't see, and then bring those rats to Hogwarts. I think I'll let Sirius Black have a go at them before I turn them over to the Ministry."
Severus nodded, "Of course Albus. I think I'll personally wrap them up in a nice little box for him."
Harry spluttered out weakly, "Professor, they're not worth Azkaban."
Severus looked at Harry and said, "Fine. Good luck convincing your godfather of that fact."
Vernon paled considerably and said, "That g-godfather of his-s is real?"
Everyone turned to look at him with distinct disbelief and loathing before Minerva answered, "Of course Sirius is real. Put me and every other Hogwarts Professor through seven years of hell with his friends' pranks. If I were you, I'd be thanking your lucky stars Hedwig went to Hogwarts and not to him. You'd likely be dead by now had she gone to him instead of us."
Dudley looked between his parents and said, "You're not honestly letting these freaks get away with this are you Daddy? Mummy?"
Anna Sprout is not one that is easily pissed off, but by now she'd had enough of this. She screamed at the whale-like boy, "FREAKS! YOU'RE THE FREAK! YOU'VE JUST INJURED ONE OF THE LAST THINGS STANDING BETWEEN VOLDEMORT AND MUGGLES! YOU'VE LIKELY BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS TO THE POOR BOY WHO LOST EVERYTHING SAVING US FROM HIM!"
Petunia snorted and said, "Well I'm afraid you have the wrong boy. This boy did no such thing, he's a useless, ungrateful, troublesome little leech that sucks the money right out of us. He deserves every beating he got the little brat."
Severus looked her in the face and said, "And I'm sure Lily Potter wants to come back from the dead if only to murder you herself. How she is related to you I'll never know, because she was possibly one of the nicest, kind- hearted people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing in my entire life. And I'm quite sure the only reason she hasn't succeeded in doing so is because that idiot James Potter is trying to do the same thing at the same time."
Albus sighed from the doorway where he had Harry floating beside him and said, "That's enough. Minerva, you take the boy. Severus you take that hideous man. Emily and Anna I trust the two of you can handle that banshee of a woman? Let's get to Hogwarts, I'll send Arthur Weasley over for his things later."
Vernon chuckled evilly and smugly said, "You won't find them. We burned them all."
Emily nearly had a heart attack, "You BURNED a FIREBOLT?"
Minerva on the other hand had heard about the photo album from Hagrid and said, "You monsters burned all those pictures of Lily and James? The only pictures he has?"
Albus on the other hand was furious, "YOU BURNED MY INVISIBILITY CLOAK!?! THAT'S BEEN IN MY FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS YOU IDIOTS! MY GRANDSON DID NOT GIVE IT TO ME FOR SAFE KEEPING TO HAVE IT BURNED BY MUGGLES!"
Petunia immediately covered up for her husband saying, "That's what we were going to tell the brat. They're buried in the garden; I refused to have that nonsense in this house. We didn't know how it would react to being burned as it's abnormal nonsense."
Albus looked down at Harry and asked, "Is your wand in there Harry?"
Harry nodded and everyone in the room that owned a wand gasped. Anna said in a shaky voice, "Oh Albus, what if they'd been attacked? He'd have been defenseless! We would have lost him!"
Severus finally said, "You know, we really need to get back to Hogwarts now."
Everyone agreed and Albus lifted the anti-apparation wards from the house before apparating to Hogsmeade with Harry. Minerva transfigured the three Muggles into fluffy pink rabbits before picking up the one that used to be Dudley. Anna picked up Petunia and Severus picked up Vernon. Filius was busy charming all the windows back to their normal state before everyone apparated to Hogsmeade together.
Albus and Harry however, were making their way to Hogwarts Once inside Albus put Harry in Poppy's care and left to write to Remus and Sirius. The rest of the teachers met him inside his office. Albus didn't address them at first, merely sat down behind his desk, and took out parchment, ink and a quill before writing two very, very carefully worded letters.
"Remus,
It has come to my attention that Harry Potter's Muggle relatives are extremely abusive to him. I have drawn up papers to change his legal guardianship to be in your name and would appreciate it if you came to Hogwarts whether you wish to accept or refuse guardianship of Harry. He is here, and there will be charges pressed against Vernon, Petunia and Dudley Dursley.
I, for one, have never seen Severus Snape more willing to clear the world of three people then he was when we retrieved Harry from his Muggle relations' home today. His owl, Hedwig, landed in my lunch covered in blood and broken glass. Hagrid recognized her and we went to investigate. I'm quite certain he will have to re-grow several bones and tonight will be very painful for him. It would do him well to wake up to a familiar face, please come quickly.
Thank you,
Albus Dumbledore"
"Snuffles,
Come to Hogwarts. Forget the rest of the mission, your godson is here and he needs you.
~AD"
Giving the letters to Fawkes, who disappeared with a pop, Albus sighed and sat back down behind his desk. Finally Albus looked up and said, "Well, let me just call the Minister. Then we'll decide what to do with the uh, rabbits."
The room chuckled slightly as Albus turned to the fire, threw in a powder and yelled out, "Cornelius Fudge!"
A moment later the Minister's head appeared in the fire and said, "You called, Albus?"
Albus nodded, "It seems we have a slight problem, Cornelius."
Fudge sighed and said, "What is it? Not that you-know-who business again is it?"
Albus shook his head, "No, Minister, it's Harry Potter."
Fudge narrowed his eyes and said, "Well? Get on with it then. What's the boy done now?"
Albus shook his head again and said, "He's done nothing Cornelius, his Muggle relatives however, have."
Fudge raised an eyebrow and asked, "What've they done Albus?"
Albus sighed and said, "His owl landed in my lunch this afternoon covered in blood and broken bits of glass. When Minerva, Severus, Emily, Anna, Filius and myself checked on him we found him beaten within an inch of death thrown in a cupboard under the stairs."
Fudge visibly paled. Fudge managed to get out an extremely controlled, "Is he alright Albus? I can contact St. Mungo's for you, send over specialists."
Albus shook his head once again and said, "No, Poppy has it under control. Luckily we got there before they could do more damage then they had done. I believe he only suffered through one beating this summer. I'd like however, for you and a few Aurors to come talk to him and take his relatives into custody. And Cornelius, unlike the last time when you stopped me from placing Harry with Remus Lupin, he's no longer a child and knows to stay inside or away from Remus's containment area on the full moon. I'll not have another incident like this, Harry will be placed with Remus."
Fudge looked like he was going to try and object and Albus said, "Cornelius, would you like for me to let that information slip to the Daily Prophet? That someone who loved him wanted him, had back up for the two days he would be unable to while he was a child, and that you pushed him into the Muggles that have now abused him so badly?"
Fudge stuttered out a, "N-n-no-ow see here Albus, you'll do nothing of the sort. Of course he'll be living with Remus Lupin now. No reason why he shouldn't. But really couldn't Molly and Arthur Weasley take the boy in? Or what about that Muggle-born friend of his?"
Albus glared at Fudge and said, "He needs a parental figure that isn't one of his friends' parents. Remus loves the boy as much as James and Lily did I daresay. Need I remind you that Harry is MY great-grandson? He will be in Remus' care or I will have your office."
Fudge finally sighed and surrendered, "Fine. He can go with the werewolf. If he gets bitten or hurt it's on your head. I assume he'll have wolfsbane provided?"
Albus glared again and said, "Of course he has wolfsbane provided for him. I expect you'll be here soon, Cornelius?"
Fudge nodded, "Just need to go get a few Aurors, and then I'll be over there Albus. Do you have the relatives in custody?"
Albus nodded and said, "Minerva transfigured them into rabbits to cut down on their disagreements. They were rather proud of their work I daresay. They told us that he deserved it, and they were glad to have the cupboard space back once again."
Fudge sighed and said, "Just this once I'm going to get Aurors with special backgrounds for this case Albus. I'll bring in O'Reilly, Weasley and Turpin. They have little patience with child abusers, and even less patience when it comes to crimes against Harry Potter. We'll be over by the end of the day Albus."
Albus smiled and said, "Thank you Cornelius. I'll see you later today."
They ended the conversation and Albus turned to face the teaching staff. Minerva was attempting to discretely hex the rabbit in her hands, Anna was making no effort to hide her attempts at choking the rabbit in hers and Severus had just finished casting a rather painful curse on the rabbit he had taken up into his hands.
Albus merely smiled when the Aurors came, explained the situation to them, showed them to Harry, let them question Poppy and handed over the still transfigured Dursley family to the Aurors who looked ready to give them all the Dementor's Kiss. The Aurors left with the restored to normal shaped Dursleys, and a smug looking Minister Fudge who just knew he'd be in the papers the next few days as being one of those who helped save The Boy Who Lived.
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Responses to Reviews:
About the Pairings:
I haven't made a firm decision on who Harry will be paired with, but it will not be Severus, Sirius or Remus, though I do love to read him being paired up with any of those three. I've decided the three men in this story at least, are needed as father figures for Harry. I have something fun planned for Draco as well, but very, very doubtful that in this fic they will become more than friends. We'll see though.
I want to say, "oops" about the spelling mistake, REALLY, I read through it before I posted it! I'm just an overly excitable Harry Potter lover and literally forgot to check for those kind of mistakes. Hopefully those will be kept to a bare minimum, but I am human, and I love to know you're paying that much attention to my work to notice such a thing! I know it's a huge pet-peeve of mine when someone else does that, so please keep helping me catch those!
Keep reading the stories I'm posting! I'm hardly done with all of my HP ideas, and have many, many more stories I've yet to even post, including a time-travel piece (I know, it's over done, but I can't resist, there are simply too many things I'd love to see the Marauders' reactions to if they found out about the future or if a love life was changed by the time visit, or anything else.) Anyways, Keep reading and reviewing!
A/N: I'm glad you all like it so far. Here's the next chapter!
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New Powers
Chapter Two: Rescue Time
Harry had been in the middle of a very pleasant dream where Voldemort had been destroyed, Wormtail had been captured, Sirius had saved him from the Dursleys after turning them into flobberworms and had just been moving onto a slightly erotic part in his new bedroom with someone he couldn't see when he was rudely awoken by the light bulb above him bursting into shreds.
Slightly disturbed he tried to listen to what was going on outside of his cupboard. He swore he heard Madam Hooch screeching, "WHAT IN MERLINS NAME HAVE YOU DONE TO MY STAR SEEKER? WHERE IS HE YOU IDIOT MUGGLES?"
Normally, Harry wouldn't be thrilled at the idea of being saved by the Quidditch coach, but was slightly bothered that his seeking abilities were what brought her here. That is, until he heard a voice that was not so easy to identify say, "You will show us where you have put Mr. Potter or we will blow your house apart finding him. The choice is yours, but he will be found, and you will be punished accordingly based on his condition upon his retrieval. Regardless of your present idiotic choices, we'd like to offer a small chance of your house surviving this endeavor. Show us the boy."
Someone must have pointed at the cupboard or made some indication that he could be found in there because thirty seconds later he was staring up into Albus Dumbledore's face. Albus took one look at the boy and felt his heart breaking in two. Smiling, forcedly, at the boy Albus said, "Well Harry, let's get you to Madam Pomfrey then shall we?"
Harry was much to tired to do anything other than say, "Yes sir. Mind my snakes please Sir."
Albus raised an eyebrow and asked, "Snakes, Harry?"
Harry didn't say anything, Alissa, Tayen and Sifra started to quietly hiss so as to draw attention to themselves. Albus blinked and asked, "Have they bitten you Harry?"
"No, Sir. I'm their Master, they would never bite a Parseltongue."
Albus nodded and closed his eyes briefly before saying; "Alright then, just hold still and I'll have you out of here with a simple levitation spell."
Albus carefully levitated Harry out and onto a stretcher that Filius had conjured up. Emily, Anna and Minerva took one look at Harry and simultaneously burst into tears. Filius muttered under his breath about using the Dursleys to test new charms and curses on. Severus however said, "Albus do you remember mentioning asking you to look the other way when we wanted to use the unforgivables?
Albus nodded and said, "Just wait for me to get Harry off the threshold Severus, make sure you cast a charm so the Ministry doesn't see, and then bring those rats to Hogwarts. I think I'll let Sirius Black have a go at them before I turn them over to the Ministry."
Severus nodded, "Of course Albus. I think I'll personally wrap them up in a nice little box for him."
Harry spluttered out weakly, "Professor, they're not worth Azkaban."
Severus looked at Harry and said, "Fine. Good luck convincing your godfather of that fact."
Vernon paled considerably and said, "That g-godfather of his-s is real?"
Everyone turned to look at him with distinct disbelief and loathing before Minerva answered, "Of course Sirius is real. Put me and every other Hogwarts Professor through seven years of hell with his friends' pranks. If I were you, I'd be thanking your lucky stars Hedwig went to Hogwarts and not to him. You'd likely be dead by now had she gone to him instead of us."
Dudley looked between his parents and said, "You're not honestly letting these freaks get away with this are you Daddy? Mummy?"
Anna Sprout is not one that is easily pissed off, but by now she'd had enough of this. She screamed at the whale-like boy, "FREAKS! YOU'RE THE FREAK! YOU'VE JUST INJURED ONE OF THE LAST THINGS STANDING BETWEEN VOLDEMORT AND MUGGLES! YOU'VE LIKELY BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS TO THE POOR BOY WHO LOST EVERYTHING SAVING US FROM HIM!"
Petunia snorted and said, "Well I'm afraid you have the wrong boy. This boy did no such thing, he's a useless, ungrateful, troublesome little leech that sucks the money right out of us. He deserves every beating he got the little brat."
Severus looked her in the face and said, "And I'm sure Lily Potter wants to come back from the dead if only to murder you herself. How she is related to you I'll never know, because she was possibly one of the nicest, kind- hearted people I have ever had the pleasure of knowing in my entire life. And I'm quite sure the only reason she hasn't succeeded in doing so is because that idiot James Potter is trying to do the same thing at the same time."
Albus sighed from the doorway where he had Harry floating beside him and said, "That's enough. Minerva, you take the boy. Severus you take that hideous man. Emily and Anna I trust the two of you can handle that banshee of a woman? Let's get to Hogwarts, I'll send Arthur Weasley over for his things later."
Vernon chuckled evilly and smugly said, "You won't find them. We burned them all."
Emily nearly had a heart attack, "You BURNED a FIREBOLT?"
Minerva on the other hand had heard about the photo album from Hagrid and said, "You monsters burned all those pictures of Lily and James? The only pictures he has?"
Albus on the other hand was furious, "YOU BURNED MY INVISIBILITY CLOAK!?! THAT'S BEEN IN MY FAMILY FOR GENERATIONS YOU IDIOTS! MY GRANDSON DID NOT GIVE IT TO ME FOR SAFE KEEPING TO HAVE IT BURNED BY MUGGLES!"
Petunia immediately covered up for her husband saying, "That's what we were going to tell the brat. They're buried in the garden; I refused to have that nonsense in this house. We didn't know how it would react to being burned as it's abnormal nonsense."
Albus looked down at Harry and asked, "Is your wand in there Harry?"
Harry nodded and everyone in the room that owned a wand gasped. Anna said in a shaky voice, "Oh Albus, what if they'd been attacked? He'd have been defenseless! We would have lost him!"
Severus finally said, "You know, we really need to get back to Hogwarts now."
Everyone agreed and Albus lifted the anti-apparation wards from the house before apparating to Hogsmeade with Harry. Minerva transfigured the three Muggles into fluffy pink rabbits before picking up the one that used to be Dudley. Anna picked up Petunia and Severus picked up Vernon. Filius was busy charming all the windows back to their normal state before everyone apparated to Hogsmeade together.
Albus and Harry however, were making their way to Hogwarts Once inside Albus put Harry in Poppy's care and left to write to Remus and Sirius. The rest of the teachers met him inside his office. Albus didn't address them at first, merely sat down behind his desk, and took out parchment, ink and a quill before writing two very, very carefully worded letters.
"Remus,
It has come to my attention that Harry Potter's Muggle relatives are extremely abusive to him. I have drawn up papers to change his legal guardianship to be in your name and would appreciate it if you came to Hogwarts whether you wish to accept or refuse guardianship of Harry. He is here, and there will be charges pressed against Vernon, Petunia and Dudley Dursley.
I, for one, have never seen Severus Snape more willing to clear the world of three people then he was when we retrieved Harry from his Muggle relations' home today. His owl, Hedwig, landed in my lunch covered in blood and broken glass. Hagrid recognized her and we went to investigate. I'm quite certain he will have to re-grow several bones and tonight will be very painful for him. It would do him well to wake up to a familiar face, please come quickly.
Thank you,
Albus Dumbledore"
"Snuffles,
Come to Hogwarts. Forget the rest of the mission, your godson is here and he needs you.
~AD"
Giving the letters to Fawkes, who disappeared with a pop, Albus sighed and sat back down behind his desk. Finally Albus looked up and said, "Well, let me just call the Minister. Then we'll decide what to do with the uh, rabbits."
The room chuckled slightly as Albus turned to the fire, threw in a powder and yelled out, "Cornelius Fudge!"
A moment later the Minister's head appeared in the fire and said, "You called, Albus?"
Albus nodded, "It seems we have a slight problem, Cornelius."
Fudge sighed and said, "What is it? Not that you-know-who business again is it?"
Albus shook his head, "No, Minister, it's Harry Potter."
Fudge narrowed his eyes and said, "Well? Get on with it then. What's the boy done now?"
Albus shook his head again and said, "He's done nothing Cornelius, his Muggle relatives however, have."
Fudge raised an eyebrow and asked, "What've they done Albus?"
Albus sighed and said, "His owl landed in my lunch this afternoon covered in blood and broken bits of glass. When Minerva, Severus, Emily, Anna, Filius and myself checked on him we found him beaten within an inch of death thrown in a cupboard under the stairs."
Fudge visibly paled. Fudge managed to get out an extremely controlled, "Is he alright Albus? I can contact St. Mungo's for you, send over specialists."
Albus shook his head once again and said, "No, Poppy has it under control. Luckily we got there before they could do more damage then they had done. I believe he only suffered through one beating this summer. I'd like however, for you and a few Aurors to come talk to him and take his relatives into custody. And Cornelius, unlike the last time when you stopped me from placing Harry with Remus Lupin, he's no longer a child and knows to stay inside or away from Remus's containment area on the full moon. I'll not have another incident like this, Harry will be placed with Remus."
Fudge looked like he was going to try and object and Albus said, "Cornelius, would you like for me to let that information slip to the Daily Prophet? That someone who loved him wanted him, had back up for the two days he would be unable to while he was a child, and that you pushed him into the Muggles that have now abused him so badly?"
Fudge stuttered out a, "N-n-no-ow see here Albus, you'll do nothing of the sort. Of course he'll be living with Remus Lupin now. No reason why he shouldn't. But really couldn't Molly and Arthur Weasley take the boy in? Or what about that Muggle-born friend of his?"
Albus glared at Fudge and said, "He needs a parental figure that isn't one of his friends' parents. Remus loves the boy as much as James and Lily did I daresay. Need I remind you that Harry is MY great-grandson? He will be in Remus' care or I will have your office."
Fudge finally sighed and surrendered, "Fine. He can go with the werewolf. If he gets bitten or hurt it's on your head. I assume he'll have wolfsbane provided?"
Albus glared again and said, "Of course he has wolfsbane provided for him. I expect you'll be here soon, Cornelius?"
Fudge nodded, "Just need to go get a few Aurors, and then I'll be over there Albus. Do you have the relatives in custody?"
Albus nodded and said, "Minerva transfigured them into rabbits to cut down on their disagreements. They were rather proud of their work I daresay. They told us that he deserved it, and they were glad to have the cupboard space back once again."
Fudge sighed and said, "Just this once I'm going to get Aurors with special backgrounds for this case Albus. I'll bring in O'Reilly, Weasley and Turpin. They have little patience with child abusers, and even less patience when it comes to crimes against Harry Potter. We'll be over by the end of the day Albus."
Albus smiled and said, "Thank you Cornelius. I'll see you later today."
They ended the conversation and Albus turned to face the teaching staff. Minerva was attempting to discretely hex the rabbit in her hands, Anna was making no effort to hide her attempts at choking the rabbit in hers and Severus had just finished casting a rather painful curse on the rabbit he had taken up into his hands.
Albus merely smiled when the Aurors came, explained the situation to them, showed them to Harry, let them question Poppy and handed over the still transfigured Dursley family to the Aurors who looked ready to give them all the Dementor's Kiss. The Aurors left with the restored to normal shaped Dursleys, and a smug looking Minister Fudge who just knew he'd be in the papers the next few days as being one of those who helped save The Boy Who Lived.
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Responses to Reviews:
About the Pairings:
I haven't made a firm decision on who Harry will be paired with, but it will not be Severus, Sirius or Remus, though I do love to read him being paired up with any of those three. I've decided the three men in this story at least, are needed as father figures for Harry. I have something fun planned for Draco as well, but very, very doubtful that in this fic they will become more than friends. We'll see though.
I want to say, "oops" about the spelling mistake, REALLY, I read through it before I posted it! I'm just an overly excitable Harry Potter lover and literally forgot to check for those kind of mistakes. Hopefully those will be kept to a bare minimum, but I am human, and I love to know you're paying that much attention to my work to notice such a thing! I know it's a huge pet-peeve of mine when someone else does that, so please keep helping me catch those!
Keep reading the stories I'm posting! I'm hardly done with all of my HP ideas, and have many, many more stories I've yet to even post, including a time-travel piece (I know, it's over done, but I can't resist, there are simply too many things I'd love to see the Marauders' reactions to if they found out about the future or if a love life was changed by the time visit, or anything else.) Anyways, Keep reading and reviewing!
