Important AN: After some notes, that I still make some grammer errors and I know that I got some phrases wrong too, I decided to accept the beta-offer from Snifflers-Unite. This is the last un-beta-ed chap, that I post here. So the posting of the next chap may be delayed for some days. However, that doesn't mean, the story will not continue. The story is already finished and I will post the chaps one after one as I get them back from Snifflers-Unite. So don't get impatient!

Now, I hope you enjoy this chap... who likes some Dumbledore-Bashing will, I promise ;-)

Chapter 7 Fights

It was the last week before school. Harry has been reading and taking notes nearly all the day. He spent more than a half of the time with his studies for the NEWTS.

He was clearly surprised as Tonks came in.
"Hi Harry. What are you doing? I haven't seen you the whole day."

"The whole day? Oh shit! ... I am studying."

"Well how about a break? I could do with some attention." she said in a sweet voice.
"How could I decline such a wish?" He smiled and kissed her passionately.

What they didn't know was that just the moment she went to his room Moody and Dumbledore entered the house and were greeted by Remus.

"Remus, where is Nymphadora?" Dumbledore asked.

"Why?"

"I called a meeting. The members should be here every minute."

"I don't know. Upstairs maybe." Remus answered.

Moody's eye looked for her.

"She is entering Potters room... hell.. she vanished. I can't see her anymore."

Just in this moment came the first members Molly, Arthur, the twins bringing Ron and Ginny along and also Hermione who was back from her holidays, Shacklebolt and Snape. They stood nearly fifteen minutes in the hall talking.

"Say Alastor, is she still in his room?" Dumbledore asked.

"I can't tell. I can't look in his room."

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows.

"How is that possible?"

"Maybe they are making out and they charmed the room." Snape spat.

"Now. Now. I will go and look for them." Dumbledore chuckled.

Remus swore inwardly. Dumbledore would be pissed if he would find them snogging or even better ... making love.

They weren't doing such a thing. Tonks was talking with him about the last brutal duel and he was easing her mind. He did have his arm around her shoulder and she snuggled her head against his shoulder as the door opened and Dumbledore entered.

His eyes lost his twinkle and he asked coldly, "Miss Tonks would you follow me please. Harry, stay in your room!"

Harry looked at the old mage in shock.

They both were out as he came to his senses... and he raged.

He stormed out and downstairs.

"Tonks how could you do this. I trusted you! How could you seduce him?" Dumbledore berated her in front of the whole crew.

She stood in front of him on the verge of tears.

Harry stormed down the stairs and stepped between the two of them.

"Harry I told you to stay in your room!" Dumbledore scolded him with a steely voice.

They all could feel the crackling of building magic but it came not from Dumbledore. It came from Harry. Dumbledore made a step back surprised.

"How dare you?" Harry asked in a quiet icy voice that seemed to be able to cut through steel.

"How dare you to accuse an innocent women of such things? We did nothing wrong. She had a problem and I supported her."

"Harry stay out of this!" Dumbledore demanded.

"Nobody speaks back to their elders Potter." Snape snarled.

Harry turned his head and the potionsmaster was flung to the wall without a spell or wand.

"You will stay out of this or you will leave this house. Now to you!"

He turned back to Dumbledore.

"You will not tell me what I have to do or not in MY house. You are MY guest as all the others are. From my guests I demand respect to me and my other guests. You disrespected Tonks and you will apologize to her NOW!"

"I will do no such thing!" Dumbledore fumed, "You have nothing to say here."

"Oh yes I have. You have now a choice, Professor. Either you apologize to her or you and Professor Snape will leave that house immediately. And I do have that right because it is my house. Sirius left it to me. Now?"

"Sirius may left you the house. How you do know about that is a riddle to me. But you are not in control here because I have the control over your property." Dumbledore sneered.

Harry smiled evilly. "And here you are wrong. It is nice to know, that you tried to keep my properties from me. Tell me, are you hiding some other things from me?"

"Go back in your room boy!" Dumbledore said now in a dismissing voice.

Harry smiled in an eerie way and the most of the bystanders ran a cold shudder over their backs.

"Tell the others why you sent me back to my relatives every summer!"

"It was for your protection!"

"Oh, my protection. Why is it then, that I was attacked by Dementors last summer? Why were I there Professor? That isn't the truth. I would have been better protected here or at my home in Godric's Hollow. ... Now that's not the matter here. Will you apologize to my friend or not?"

"No!"

"Then let me show you something."

He raised his right hand. There on his hand were two signet rings and the most gasped.

"That... that is not possible!" Dumbledore stammered, "You are not of age!"

"But I am. I was declared of age in June!" Harry replied casually, "And now..." Harry straightened himself and closed his eyes in concentration.

"... I INVOKE THE MAGIC OF THE NOBLE HOUSE OF BLACK. OBEY MY COMMAND. I AM THE LAST HEIR OF BLACK. SERVE ME!"

They felt a wave of ancient and powerful magic sweeping through the old house and the ring of Black glowed brightly.

"I AM THE HEIR OF POTTER! I DECLARE THE LINE OF BLACK FUSED IN THE LINE OF POTTER! TRANSFER THE POWER!"

Now the ring of Potter glowed and the glowing of the other ring ceased.

"I AM NOW THE MASTER OF THIS HOUSE!"

A deep vibration ran through the house and all shuddered as he opened his eyes again. In his eyes was nothing but coldness, power and determination.

"One word from me and you will be kicked out before you can blink. Your last chance professor or you can look for another headquarter because I will not bear guests who show no respect or who are wrongly accusing people. I can tell you, I would be more then hurt if you would berate me in front of all the other people and wrongly by that too like you just did it with Tonks. And I tell you something else. Even if we would be dating, even if we had made love as you stumbled in... you are wrong in two ways. Firstly a simple rule even you have to obey, you are to knock before you enter a room which is not your own that shows respect and a sense of ethic and second and more important you have no saying to both of us whom we are dating or not. So you embarrassed her for no reason. You are not above other people and you are not above human rights Professor.

Either you apologize now or you will leave forever with or without your consent."

The others stared at the show of power before them and many members nodded at the words of the teen who wasn't a teen anymore.

Dumbledore thought about it for a moment then he sent Harry a piercing glare but he went over to Tonks and said in a silky voice: "Miss Tonks, can you forgive me for my rudeness? Harry is right. It is not for me to decide whom do you like or not as you are both adults before the law. I also want to apologize that I jumped to conclusions and I am sorry for your suffering. You did nothing wrong."

"I accept." she said and gave Harry a thankful look.

"May we use this house as headquarters, Harry?" Dumbledore asked now friendly.

"Surely headmaster, as long as you obey the rules of hospitality it would be a pleasure to me." Harry replied in a silky voice.

"Thanks for that. Now may I ask who protected your room against magical sight and why?"

"That was me and I value my privacy professor, that's why."

"That is very advanced magic." Dumbledore gasped but his eyes were twinkling again.

Harry shrugged.

"Now, here is somebody who wanted to meet you, I believe?" Dumbledore asked and Dobby and Winky appeared with two pops.

"Master Potter!" Dobby squealed, "Headmaster Dumbledore told me, you would... hire us?"

The tone in Dobby's voice made Harry instantly suspicious.

"If I hire you, Dobby would you serve me or somebody else?"

The crowd gasped but Dobby shrank together and began sobbing.

Harry shot a glare to Dumbledore and mouthed 'Backstabber'

"Dobby, I gather you are working for headmaster Dumbledore. Are you hired or bound?"

"Hi... hired."

"Well, if you wish, I would bind you and Winky to me and that would automatically cancel your contract with him. Do you want that Dobby?"

The elf jumped in the air and clapped his hands.

"It would be a pleasure to Dobby, Sir."

"Winky for you it is the same."

"You would let Winky serve master Potter, really serve?" she asked astounded.

"Yes I would truly became your master. You both are to wear nice clothes though but that doesn't mean, that you will be set free."
"That would be acceptable, Master."

"Then I bound you both to the family Potter and me as the heir!"

"So be it!" both elves said and a golden light connected them with Harry.

"Thanks for the elves Headmaster." Harry said grinning.

He however took it with twinkling eyes and nodded amused.

"I admit you have beaten me, Harry. Now... We have a meeting to attend. Harry, I am sorry but you are not allowed because you are not... no you are of age, but we have to vote about it."

"No, Professor. I have no intention to join the Order. I will serve no one, not Riddle and not you. We could be allied if you are interested."

"Who do you think you are Potter?" Snape yelled.

"Your host and you are disrespecting me again. Further I have a major role in this war if you are ok with that or not. And you will respect me as I respect you!"

"SEVERUS!" thundered Dumbledore's voice.

"But..."

"No but! I have tolerated your childish grudge long enough. Treat Mr. Potter as an adult, as you want to be treated by him and he will show you the same respect. Apologize now!"

"I apologize, Mr. Potter."

"Apology accepted Professor. You should know, I do respect you. You are a great potion master and you sacrifice a lot while you work as spy. For that you have my deepest respect. But you should acknowledge, that I am not my father and that fame is nothing to me. I hate my scar and I hate my fame. Now, you can use the kitchen or the sitting room for your meeting. Ask the elves to serve you with drinks and snacks. If there is anything else, I will be in my room."

All his guests stared at him, the most prominent was Snape. For once he stood there with an open mouth.

Harry turned around and asked his friends: "Are you coming?"

They hurried to follow him.

They gathered in his room.

"Harry. You are not to speak in that way to a professor." Hermione scolded him.

"But here you are wrong. We are not at school so he has no power over anyone. I am his host so he has to show respect to me. If he does that, I will show respect to him too. But he didn't and he embarrassed a friend of mine in a horrible way and that is not acceptable. So I had to make it clear to him, that he was wrong. Because he was closed to reason, I had to make my opinion clear by more convincing means. Do you want to tell me that I was wrong?"

"No. You were right. But it is hard for me to see a teenager talk back to a professor like that. Sorry." she admitted.

"No problem. And I tell you, that was only the beginning. The fun will continue at school with Snape and Dumbledore. But they will have another thing coming."

Ron grinned, "I want to see that. That down there was bloody fantastic, mate."

"Harry, was is it between you and Tonks? What were you doing?" Ginny asked.

"Well we trained until yesterday dueling but it has to kept secret."

They nodded.

"She had hurt me some days ago during this."

"She what?" Hermione gasped.

"Nothing bad, she broke my left arm and my left leg. Well, I healed them afterwards. But she felt guilty. And our duel yesterday was nearly the same but without the broken bones."
"And that was right that she felt guilty!"

"DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS HERMIONE. I had enough of that today!" Harry bellowed.

She twitched at his voice and Ron laid his arm around her shoulder.

He said loud. "HARRY!"

"Sorry, but I am a little bit pissed off right now. As I was saying. She was NOT guilty because I demanded from her that she wouldn't hold back. So I tried to convince her, that she did nothing wrong and I had laid my arm around her back to soothe her. Nothing more. And do you think after all that ruckus down there I would admit I even if I would be dating her? Then think again. She is a good friend though."

"I wonder, because I asked her, if she would tell me, if you were dating. She answered 'Not against his wishes'" Ginny continued and Hermione and Ron began to look uneasy.

"That is because she wouldn't. I shared some secrets with her and I know for sure, that she would never spill them. That is why she said that. She would never betray my trust."

They all stared at him.

"What secrets?"

"Well, for instance that I am of age, that I am allowed to perform magic, that I do know about all my inheritance... such secrets."

"She knew that all before today?"
"Yes, otherwise she wouldn't have trained me, wouldn't she?" Harry said grinning.

"That makes sense." Hermione said nodding.

"But why didn't you tell us?"

"I told nobody, unless it was necessary. Not even Remus knew that I was of age. And it has nothing to do with our friendship, I promise. But on some of these secrets may depend my life and that of others. Also I am not allowed to tell most of them."

"But... who forbade you to tell them if even Dumbledore didn't knew?" Ron asked aghast.

"Well... that is one of these." Harry said chuckling.

"But you said you serve no one." Hermione pointed out.

"I do not. I agreed willingly in a contract, but that means no serving. Maybe helping in an emergency but nothing more and that is what I already do. I prepare for war and that is the biggest emergency there is."

"Okay. You said we have more of those shocks coming?" Hermione asked tentatively.

Harry chuckled, "You bet."

"Merlin help!" she pleaded and the others laughed.

"Harry, why did you bound the elves to you instead of hire them?" Hermione asked him carefully not wishing to invoke his anger again.

"They were working for Dumbledore, most probably spying on me while serving me. As I bound them to me, I canceled Dumbledore's contract and ensured their loyalty to me. I am sorry but I had no choice. I needed them because the two free elves of Godric's Hollow want to marry and to have a baby. That puts Mela the female one out of work and I fear the male alone would work too hard. So Dobby will be pending between here and there and Winky will be in charge here. Also Winky is happier now than as free elf. Even you should have seen that."

"I agree." she sighed, "I know now that not all elves want to be free."

"But you know, I will treat them right."

She smiled, "Yes, I know. I have another question."

Harry smiled, "Let me guess... You want to know about the magic of the Blacks?"

She nodded eagerly and Ron laughed.

"Well, as I got the signet ring, I was able to read a special journal in the library. There were the wards of this place described in every detail, which exist by the way in the most homes of the old families. There I found out, how I could transfer the power and that there are wards, that would allow me to... uhm... get rid of unwanted guests." he said sheepishly and Ron and Ginny laughed while Hermione nodded.

"So, great owner of this fine place. Are we allowed to stay here the last days?" Ron asked grinning.
"Yes you are. It would be a pleasure to me. Your rooms should be ready. If not, feel free and ask the elves to help." Harry replied chuckling.

Dana: Don't worry, this story isn't going to end like 'In the end' it will be much worse.... only joking. It is going to be a more happier end... I hope ;-)

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