I don't own Harry Potter or any rights pertaining thereto. This story will start with Harry Potter in the King's Cross Waiting Room and be AU to canon. Pairings may or may not be canon. Events may not be as first published by JK Rowling and are not intended to suggest new canon.
The moon set at 18:30 on 6 June 1994 and was a waning, not full moon. For this story the date will be kept as published as a full moon in The Prisoner of Azkaban and moonrise will by 18:30, when Remus Lupin began to change into his werewolf form. The sunset at around 21:00 will be 21:40 in story to reflect Hogwarts northerly location.
Hadrian James Potter or just Harry to his friends – and he realised that he had far too few of those – wanted to crawl into several bottles of Ogden's firewhisky. He had come back in time, only to have failed. Ginny Weasley had been possessed by the horcrux from the diary. Harry had to kill her. To think last time, he'd been tried by the Wizengamot for defending himself. This time it would be for murder. That's if he were caught. He'd come back in time to save people – all those who had died on the side of Light in the second wizarding war, Sirius Black included. He'd quickly concluded that Sirius had to be sacrificed. Did that make him as bad as Dumbledore? Harry did not think it did.
Harry had screwed up with the attack in the graveyard, as well. He'd assumed that only those Death Eaters he'd seen in his previous experience of this time would be present. There were 38 Death Eaters or wannabe Death Eaters at large. 2, the Carrows, were in France. They were preventing the French Ministry from sending their Aurors to assist Magical Britain. Harry and Remus Lupin had identified the pair as their next targets. Harry wasn't counting Greyback as a Death Eater. There were 200 registered werewolves in magical Britain and all but one, Remus Lupin, were part of the Greyback pack. Harry thought he'd killed all of them already. He wasn't counting them as deceased, what with the recent 12 previously 'executed' Death Eaters requiring re-execution thanks to a Dumbledore illusion.
Harry woke up to a July 3rd that required certain plans to be put in motion. Remus apparated away to integrate Crouch Hall into Black Holdings. The Hogwarts meeting on the second had been boring. McGonagall gave very little information away that was of any use. She did say that Greyback had been sighted near Newcastle, according to rumour. Harry wanted Remus present, when he finally tracked Greyback down.
Dumbledore had avoided the sack, by not turning up at the July Governors meeting. Harry had been fuming. Harry doubted Dumbledore would be present at August's meeting either. Hogwarts Charter was crystal clear that a Headmaster must be sacked in a face-to-face meeting. It was most frustrating.
Then Dumbledore had letters published in the Daily Prophet that Harry and his faction planned to use their majority to push Muggleborn rights through the Wizengamot and Hogwarts. Purebloods were going to have to pay 1000 galleons a year for each of their children to attend and that would be the price for all students. Muggleborn would soon outnumber the Purebloods at Hogwarts. That had the Purebloods up in arms. It had the merit of being true, somewhat. The Governors had sent out letters to parents detailing the new fees that they would pay from the September coming. There were an additional 280 Muggleborn who had registered their children. They had yet to hear back from Hogwarts. The Governors had counted on those parents being on the register to vote, especially Harry. If they were not, Harry would be lucky to get any Governors elected from his faction.
Remus Lupin was not available to give Harry good advice. He had to bring House Crouch into House Black and prepare for a Summer Solstice Ball that would be held there. The full moon was mid-month and Harry had to make the wolfsbane.
Harry had made Snape's ghost give him the names of all 36 currently living Death Eaters or wannabes, in magical Britain. He was sure the Dark faction would be back to making trouble sooner rather than later. It was indeed sooner. The Dark members of the Wizengamot had learnt that Amelia Bones was a half-blood. They insisted that the new Minister enforce the rule that all Ministry Department heads and sub-department heads had to be Purebloods. Amelia Bones was fired and her position given to Rufus Scrimgeour. Diggory had appointed Arthur Weasley as his Senior Undersecretary. He was undeniably Pureblood. That was all he had going for him.
Harry had to spend time with his 7 brides-to-be and with his 7 widows. Harry had little free time. He had to deal with his Curacy of Whinging. The siege had lessened in intensity, but continued. Harry's meeting with the Treasury centred around Whinging still using British currency and the Treasury wanted to be paid for that. Constitutional lawyers told Harry he could not be an English Baron, if he wasn't a subject of the Crown. Harry counted with the advice he had received from his Whinging Council that it would take an Act of Parliament to remove his peerage. Harry had completed buying what he'd needed to meet the terms of his 'Lords of the Manor' requirements.
The only good news Harry had was that French Aurors had used information he had supplied to track down the Carrows and killed them in an exchange of killing curses. That was countered almost immediately by Dumbledore announcing, by letter, of course, that Etiquette would not be taught and he was letting Narcissa Malfoy go. It was up to Wizarding families to teach their children how to behave. Cuffe would not print Harry's reply. He refused to print anything from Harry's faction.
The not-printing any letters from Harry, reached a dangerous point later in July when Dumbledore announced that You-know-who had returned and that the Boy-Who-Lived supported this. Harry did not, but could not tell anyone. He would use the Wizengamot to tell people.
Harry managed to keep his faction together, but only by letting Minister Diggory set the Agenda. Harry was not comfortable doing that, but he wasn't prepared to let his faction fragment, especially with Dumbledore pulling strings from outside.
Arthur Weasley was doing a tour of Diagon Alley with his family. It was a celebratory tour, according to the Daily Prophet, but never said what Weasley was celebrating. Harry took the opportunity to go Greyback hunting and use that as cover for assassinating a Tom Riddle possessed Ginny Weasley. It was not something he took any pride in. It had to be done. It was not done quickly enough to stop Voldie from arranging with the giants to cause mayhem across Britain. Harry had to deal with the giants. That he did. He wasn't sure Hagrid would ever forgive him for killing Grawp, assuming he ever found out. There would be no chaos and destruction spreading towards the capital from the south west of the country. Not this time.
Harry began to be called away to emergency meetings, when he was supposed to be meeting with his females or his faction. Most of these consisted of Diggory waxing lyrical about his plans for a Pureblood Golden Age. Considering that there were a total of around 3000 wizards and witches in magical Britain and no more than 600 Purebloods and Half Bloods, children included, Diggory's plans were pie in the sky, to use a muggle phrase.
Dumbledore was very pleased with himself. His schemes to keep Harry isolated were working. Moody had refused to come back to his Order of the Phoenix. Scrimgeour had proved more amenable than Bones. Shacklebolt had been reinstated. He was still working on getting Tonks back in the Aurors. His campaign to smear Harry's faction amongst parents was working and he was delaying the registration of new muggleborn students, so that their parents could not vote for Governors. Dumbledore was even meeting with Dark faction members. He wanted Harry to be forced to take the Hogwarts Express on September First. He knew just the steps to take.
Harry met with Moody and Amelia Bones. He explained that he did not believe Voldemort had returned. He provided them with the names of the Death Eaters and their wannabees. There were eyes raised. Both wanted to go after the Ministry employees and kill them. Harry agreed. The ones that weren't members of the Wizengamot, at any rate. That was one fewer task for Harry to do. Amelia told Harry that he should have supported her. Harry said she should run for Minister in November's election. Harry would file for control of the Carrows property, on the grounds he was the one who provided the French Aurors with the information as to their whereabouts.
Harry went into muggle London and picked up a deerstalker hat and 4 boxes of matches. He was going after the werewolves and he thought there was only one place they could be. The Forbidden Forest. He remembered seeing all of the werewolves as he moved through the Forbidden Forest. They would not do that unless they were close to home. Come the evening of July 12th, Harry apparated to the Forbidden Forest, just before sunset. He spread out the matches, around him. Then transfigured each of them into a silver needle. His first transfiguration lesson was coming alive. Then Harry lengthened each one to a yard long silver needle, hardened to penetrate armour.
Sure enough, the werewolves transformed and charged him from all sides. Harry banished his silver-steel needles at them. Only one survived, Greyback. He was at point blank range and ready to kill Harry, but Harry used his redwood wand to cast the killing curse. Greyback died with a surprised look on his face. Harry gathered all the corpses together and used fiendfyre to destroy them. He gathered all his needles that were still useable into a pile, shortened them and transfigured them back into matches. He divided them into four equal piles and put them back in their match boxes.
The village itself had to be destroyed. Harry couldn't be seen. That meant he couldn't rescue anyone, as much as he would have liked to. Fiendfyre soon destroyed their village. The werewolf threat was ended. Harry took a pepper-up potion and apparated back to his study in Godric's Hollow. He was looking forward to spending a few days there. He would then spend some time in Nurmengard hunting for information he could use against Albus Dumbledore and some interesting spells.
Harry missed his faction meeting, his meetings with his girls, his Summer Solstice Ball and his own birthday party. He missed the August Wizengamot, because he had a hastily arranged meeting with HMG over Whinging. The meeting lasted all day without anything being resolved. The Wizengamot passed a motion/law that all Hogwarts' students had to use the Hogwarts Express on the first day of term. That meant Harry would be missing the Wizengamot on September first, as well. Harry did gain control of House Carrow. Without him, his faction voted 18 Wizengamot seats. Two who normally sided with Dumbledore voted with Harry's faction. That was Harry's take, as he read the Daily Prophet. The Chudley Cannons had still not won a game. Some things hadn't changed.
The 22 on the list as Ministry employees started dying as Moody and Bones got to work. Remus Lupin went to work on absorbing House Carrow into House Potter. He'd not really spoken with Harry. Harry had thanked him for the work he'd done absorbing the assets of House Crouch into House Black. Even portrait Walburga agreed. Harry hadn't told Remus that Greyback and the rest of the werewolves were dead. Harry knew he had killed children whose only crime was to have been bitten by a werewolf, probably Greyback. This was war and harsh decisions were necessary. Harry had only just turned 15 himself. Years, Harry had to remind himself, that hadn't included the extra years he'd lived before he'd come back and his time here and now.
Harry was still having his schedule yanked about. He needed new clothes to meet the Westminster clowns in proper attire and wear expensive suits and clothing that defined his status. Harry liked spending the money. If only the Dursleys could see him now. Harry also liked going undercover in muggle land to see what ordinary Britons thought about his Curacy of Whinging. The most common view was that they were 'plucky'. People did not understand why their government had not taken Harry up on his offer to sell his rights back to said government.
Harry's not being around had run counter to the Daily Prophet's campaign that Harry was nothing but an 'attention seeking brat'. Mid-August they changed tack and started asking where Harry Potter had gone.
Harry's Fifth Year textbook list included Slinkard's work of fiction for defence against the dark arts. Harry bought that and the textbook that should have been used. He was more than a little upset that Umbitch was going to be the DADA professor, again – for him at any rate.
Harry was even less pleased that none of his faction got elected to the Hogwarts Board of Governors. They were 12 Death Eaters on the Wizengamot or Ministry employees. Yes, there were going to be the new Muggleborns. Something Dumbledore had failed to stop.
Harry was on board the Hogwarts Express. He had 13 votes on the Wizengamot and he was not there. The Head Boy, Cedric Diggory wasn't there either for the Hogwarts vote. Neither was Angelina Johnson, the Head Girl. That meant his faction had 18 votes and the others had the same. That meant they could deadlock every vote and with Augusta's casting vote, win every vote. That was if the faction held. Remus had worked in background to ensure that it did.
Harry made sure he sat with other Noble and Most Ancient families on the train. He found Hannah Abbot, Ernie Macmillan, Daphne Greengrass, Neville Longbottom and Fred Weasley. It could have been George, Harry didn't know for sure.
"Thank you for being here," Harry said. "It's been a tough couple of months for me and for our faction as well. I've had my schedule yanked around. My girls have not had the attention I would have liked to give them. This was Dumbledore's doing and he will pay. Not today, of course, but not too distant in the future. I do not believe Voldie is back. Had the Daily Prophet published just one of the letters I sent over the past two months, everyone would have known that.
I'm not an attention seeking brat nor have I fled the country in mortal terror. You'll all have noticed we have Slinkard as our defence textbook. It's more a work of a fiction than one of Lockhart's books. I'll ask Hermione to draw up lesson plans for each year, with emphasis on OWL and NEWT years. She put Hagrid's lesson plans together in her third year and she did one for me last year for the Triwizard's Tournament. I wish Hagrid didn't keep coming back here, but he's the only one who can keep the acromantula in line. I met them in my second year. Ron was there too, but he just whimpered the entire time I was protecting our retreat."
"I think Ron hates you," Fred or George said. "He is now a prefect and looking forward to docking you points."
"I'll stay close by," Neville said."
"Thank you, Fred. I'm sorry for your loss." Fred nodded his thanks, tears forming.
"Thank you, Neville, that's most appreciated. We'll have a junior faction meeting before the Welcome back feast. Gather everyone together. We've a lot of muggleborns joining this year and we're going to make them welcome. Fred, if you and George, will make house colours appear over the relevant benches."
"It will be our pleasure," Fred said.
"There are nearly 300 muggleborn joining this year. It will take too long to sort via the Hat," Ernie wailed. "We'll never start eating before midnight."
"I think I've an idea. Let's flesh it out as we travel towards Hogwarts." That was Daphne's contribution.
That's what they spent the next eight hours doing. Harry was met in Hogsmeade by Remus Lupin. He told Harry what had happened at the Wizengamot. Harry was relieved. His faction had held. He got back into the Hufflepuff dorms and prepared for his meeting.
The junior faction found an empty classroom. Evidently the new Marauders did not include Ron Weasley as part of 'everyone'. Hermione hugged Harry. Astoria Greengrass gave Harry a kiss. Luna Lovegood looked airily at Harry. Justin looked annoyed. Cedric was pleased to be there. George and Fred confirmed they had set up the prank. Susan smiled. Tracey hugged Daphne. Daphne explained the plan to deal with the new students. Cedric laughed. He promised he'd have a word with Angelina, but thought she'd be on board.
Yes, Harry noted, Umbitch was seated amongst the staff. The staff seemed to be the same number from last year and without the numbers to teach the expanded roll of pupils. The muggleborn were trying to cling to the edges of the Great Hall.
The new first years were sorted and Dumbledore rose to invite everyone to start eating. Harry cast sonorous.
"That's a bit premature, Headmaster. We still have all these new students to sort. Now, we can't possibly tire the Sorting Hat. It is nearly a thousand years old. Now, Muggleborn, remember you have just been ignored by Albus Dumbledore, who is supposed to be the great champion of the Muggleborn. Now, we've had a thought or two. You can see which house is which by the colours showing above the benches, care of our resident pranksters Fred and George Weasley. If you can't tell them apart, don't worry, neither can their mother."
The muggleborn burst into laughter. Fred and George waved and bowed, soaking in the praise.
"Against the far edge if you please, divide yourselves into seven groups, according to age and stand where, the Head Boy and Head girl indicate. If you're eleven you're first years. 12 and you're second years, 13, third, 14 fourth, 15 fifth, 16 sixth and 17 seventh."
The muggleborn soon formed 7 groups.
"If the girls could separate out and move in front of the boys. That's it," Harry encouraged them. "Now, there are Four houses at Hogwarts: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff and Slytherin. Each of your years have 40 pupils, except the fifth years who have 47. Now ask yourselves what you would say most describe you as a person. Let's start with the first year. Gryffindor is for those of you who are brave and courageous. Are there 5 boys and 5 girls who think those traits best describe them?"
There were. Angelina brought them to stand by the Gryffindor bench. Harry described the Ravenclaw traits as love of knowledge and self-improvement. Behind them, the Ravenclaw were aligned as 5 boys and 5 girls sorted themselves out. Behind them came the Hufflepuffs, after Harry described them as loyal and hard-working. He described the Slytherins as cunning and ambitious. They were the ones left over. Angelina looked after the second years and Cedric the third years. They sorted themselves, quickly. Angelina moved to the fifth years and Cedric to the fourth years. The sixth and seventh years sorted themselves.
Harry sent a thought to the Hat. "Any changes you want to make?" "You've done a decent job, Lord Potter" the thought came back.
Please join your housemates. For those of you joining Slytherin, I should point out that they are allowed to follow a practice the other Houses don't. They allow the issue of blood status to determine status within their House. Thus, members of Noble and Most Ancient Houses serve themselves first, Noble Houses next, followed by Half bloods and finally Muggleborns. Existing Slytherin members are of the opinion that you are going to seek to overthrow traditional wizarding customs. Last year, we made a course of Wizarding etiquette available. Sadly, that won't be available to you in this year's teaching, here at Hogwarts. I have seven adult women who will be around Hogwarts. They are Purebloods and will be happy to explain Wizarding etiquette. If you don't feel comfortable approaching them or me, the Head Boy and Girl will help you."
Angelina and Cedric nodded. They indicated that the muggleborn should sit. Slugthorn watched as the muggleborn followed the instructions through all the courses of the meal. Slugthorn wondered what it meant. Lord Potter was head of the faction to which Slugthorn belonged. He was showing support for traditional wizarding traditions. His position had not changed. That was the political point Lord Potter had made.
Saturday September 2nd 1995 was not a good day for Barnabas Cuffe. First, he had letters from 18 members of Lord Potter-Black's alliance demanding that the Daily Prophet print their letters. Then Remus Lupin had come in, brushed past his secretary who had tried to tell him that he wasn't in and told him in no uncertain terms that unless he printed Harry's letter in the next edition of the Daily Prophet, Lord Potter-Black would call an emergency shareholders meeting at which Cuffe would be unceremoniously fired and replaced by Rita Skeeter.
Cuffe printed the letters. He didn't like being threatened, but Lord Potter-Black controlled enough of the voting stock to make good on his threats. He didn't really understand why Lord Potter-Black had waited so long to make those threats. He only hoped he wouldn't get fired. He'd already had to change an article that had gone out today. The story had first been Harry Potter opposed Muggleborn in Slytherin and supported the removal of etiquette lessons. That those on the Dark side had countered that Harry had supported Muggleborns in Slytherin, Slytherin special rules and still wanted etiquette lesson going as far as offering help from his 'women', if the Muggleborn wanted advice on etiquette was not what Cuffe had been expecting.
Cuffe had always taken Dumbledore's money. He'd been told in no uncertain terms that he'd be ruined, if the ever did that again. He hadn't liked that Lupin had given Rita Skeeter an interview and presumably told her about the Editorship. Cuffe had to hand it to Potter-Black. He'd put Skeeter in his back pocket without having to pay her a knut. That was a move worthy of a Slytherin.
Harry slipped out of school on Sunday to meet up with Remus Lupin. They met in one of Rosmerta's upper floor meeting rooms. Harry made sure the charms were 'up'.
"Remus, how did the meeting with Cuffe go?" Harry asked, eagerly.
"He folded like we expected and Skeeter is now our firm ally. It'll take me til Yule, Christmas, to sort out the Carrows affairs and mould them into House Potter. I have to chivvy up the Ministry over your farm."
"That farm is yours. My great uncle only bought it to make sure you got it."
"I'll still have to chivvy up the Ministry."
"Dumbledore was very free with my property. Certainly, screwed me over. I'm still not seeing any reports from Potter Inc."
"I shall have to go across to the States in the New Year. There are some issues with Black Industries that I need to sort out, as well."
"How long will that take?"
"I should have finished sorting everything out by the end of the school year. You could join me out in States for the holidays."
"I've still got to sort out my Curacy of Whinging," Harry said. "Any news about Mundungus?"
"I've got the Black irregulars dealing with that. Permanently, this time." Remus' face hardened. He didn't like killing, but this was necessary. "You've not restored Andromeda and Tonks to the family, yet. Why?"
"I don't trust Tonks not to blab our business to Dumbledore. If she's back in the family, Family Magic will kill her. I'll start proceedings against Dumbledore, next Wizengamot. Dumbledore got himself a Dark Board of Governors. They installed Dolores Umbridge, who is the DADA professor this year, as High Inquisitor. Her brief is to investigate teaching standards. They also want to know why Dumbledore didn't hire extra teachers."
"Malfoy's estate is now paying a million galleons a year into the Ministry treasury. Cub, if you've the will, you could rule Magical Britain for the next two decades. All thanks the Malfoy wealth."
"Why do you say that, Remus?"
"The money gives you leverage to put who you want, where."
"Speaking of who, where, I think Amelia Bones would make a better choice as Minister. There's the election coming up?"
"There is that," Remus answered. He'd been less than impressed by Diggory. He had yet to remove the Ministry rule that all department heads and sub-department heads had to be purebloods. No action had yet been taken to remove the anti-werewolf legislation that had come in post 1969.
Albus Dumbledore was spending Sunday in shock. His first Governors meeting had been an unmitigated disaster. Dolores Umbridge being made High Inquisitor for a start. That had been a shock. The Governors had criticised him, him for not increasing the number of teachers. He had done everything he could think of to not have an increase in the number of students. He had been told to resume the teaching of Wizarding Etiquette. He, Albus Dumbledore was not going to be told what subjects to teach by a Board of Governors.
Harry had spoken with Hermione. That is to say he had dragged her into an unused classroom and snogged her senseless.
"I needed that," Harry told Hermione.
"That makes two of us," Hermione grinned back at him.
"You heard Umbitches speech?" Harry began.
"Yes, progress but not at the expense of tradition. Worse than Lockhart, I reckon," Hermione opined.
"I agree with you. You drew up lesson plans for Hagrid in your third year. Perhaps you can do the same for DADA. You pretty much did one for me last year for the Triwizard."
"I've already started it. It should be ready in a week, if we need it," Hermione said, confidently.
"Now, where were we?" Harry asked. "Ah yes, more snogging, I think."
"As much as I would like to, you've your other girls to see to and are meeting your women at noon," Hermione sighed. She went off to work on the lesson plans. Harry went off to find his girls. He noticed he had a Longbottom shaped tail, just in case a weasel tried anything. Daphne, Astoria and Tracey had been looking for him. Hannah and Susan soon found him, too. He wondered, if he already had a vacancy. Both the Patel twins had developed very nicely, from what Harry remembered. Su Li was prettier than Cho Chang, his previous life first disastrous date. Sally-Anne Perks had just vanished in Harry's fifth year. No explanation had been given. Harry wondered, if she would vanish this time around. Long blonde hair, heart shaped face and lovely legs summed up Sally- Anne's appearance. He'd ignored, well, pretty much everyone during his previous experience of Hogwarts. He shared classes with both Su Li and Sally-Anne. He thought he could see them checking him out. Harry thought Astoria too young for him. He didn't much care for Tracey's competition for Daphne. From the looks Neville had cast at Hannah, he had competition there. Harry had ignored his girls over the summer. Perhaps there would be some break ups. He'd find out during snogging. It was a hard task he'd set himself, but somebody had to do it.
"The five girls and Harry had found an empty classroom and Harry began snogging. Gone were the chaste kissing sessions. Now was the time for their relationship to deepen. Daphne and Susan were enthusiastic snoggers. Harry caught Tracey giving him the evil eye during his snog with Daphne. When her turn came around, Tracey was reserved. Astoria just wasn't ready. Hannah, well she responded, but she wasn't what Harry would call enthusiastic. Harry felt he'd have an additional three breakups before the end of the day.
Harry met his 7 women at Hogsmeade. He greeted them properly according to etiquette, he thought. Narcissa would later tell him that he hadn't and what he needed to do to correct it/them and how to make amends. Of course, Harry would do that. At the time, Narcissa had just pursed her lips and carried on. The eight had walked up to Hogwarts and been escorted to their guest quarters. Harry had waited whilst the women prepared themselves for dinner. He escorted them to the Great Hall. He should have escorted one of the widows from a Noble and Most Ancient House, but he just could not let Narcissa out if his sight. He got away with it, because she was a Black. A member of his House. That was the important thing. Harry realised he had been most remiss in not asking the women what they thought about having to have a child with the man who had killed their children and their husbands. He hadn't even bothered to find out which families the other six came from. Harry had been very remiss, indeed.
Sure enough, by supper, Harry had received four letters ending their relationships with him. They cited abandonment over the summer as their primary reason. Harry used the evening meal to invite four new girls to replace them. Squeals of joy accompanied their acceptances. They were all enthusiastic snoggers, Harry later discovered.
Headboy Cedric Diggory intercepted Harry on his way to discuss things with his 'women'. Cedric wanted Harry on the House Quidditch team as first backup to him as seeker to be able to take over in the event Cedric's Headboy hat meant he missed any of Hufflepuff's games. Harry tried to get out of it by saying how busy he was, how many other commitments he had and he couldn't guarantee his presence any more than Cedric could. Eventually, Cedric wore Harry down. Harry belatedly realised that he needed toned muscles to keep up with widow Bulstrode who had transformed herself over the summer from East German shot-putter to sculpted body-builder with every muscle group well-defined. Thus it was that he only had time to explain why muggleborn might approach them over the coming days, before curfew came into effect.
Neville had picked up his timetable for him. Monday morning, the first lesson was double DADA with Umbitch. Oh joy!
A/N It should be noted that in 1995 East Germany no longer existed. A fact Harry does know. It's more of a meme.