Chapter 10: Consequences
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"It was fair! We were all following the diet so that Dudley would feel better about it. We all lacked food while he was on that diet." Vernon tried to defend.
"How is it fair to starve a child who is already underweight? That is referred to as abuse and neglect, Mr. Dursley, even the muggle world frowns on such things." Dumbledore was standing in fury now. Harry saw the same look on Dumbledore's face only twice before. Once in fourth year when he broke down the door to Crouch Jr.'s office and once more when he had dueled Voldemort.
Draco was scared as well. He had never seen the old man this angry before. It was terrifying. Draco swore he would do anything he could to keep that anger from ever being turned on him. Lucius was less terrifying than this when he was in one of his moods. Voldemort was less terrifying than this.
Harry snuck a glance at his brother who had turned extremely pale at the site of Dumbledore standing in anger and the feeling of power radiating from the wizard. Hermione and the Weasleys were also shocked at the site (though not as much) and looked as if they were frozen.
"Mr. Dursley, I, Albus Dumbledore, revoke you and your wife's rights to guardianship of Harry Potter, Draco Potter, and Dudley Dursley under the charge of mental abuse, physical abuse, and neglect to the aformentioned Potter twins and declare that you are unfit to be parents to any child due to such charges. If you do not sign rights over to me or to a person that I see fit to care for the boys properly, I will take this to a muggle court where you will most likely have no choice in the matter and be sent to jail. If we take this to court I cannot control where the boys will go but I can tell you I will win. I suggest you sign." Dumbledore waved his wand and the appropriate papers appeared.
Vernon stared at the old man. His mouth fell open as he was handed a quill and inkpot.
"Sir." Harry addressed Dumbledore quietly almost afraid to speak to the infuriated Headmaster.
"Yes Harry?" Dumbledore asked with the twinkle returning to his eye. He would not turn his anger on the boys. He had been at Hogwarts too long for that.
"Who- who will be my new guardian?" Harry stammered still afraid of what Dumbledore would say.
"That will be up to you and Draco. We will discuss it in the Order meeting this afternoon and you can decide who you think would be good at that time." Dumbledore explained his plan.
"Is there a chance you could be our guardian sir?" Draco asked when he had regained his voice.
"We will talk about it later." Dumbledore quieted the young man and turned to Mrs. Weasley. "Molly, can you take the kids somewhere? We will have dinner later. I'll come find you when I'm done here." Dumbledore was obviously going to say some choice words to Vernon and Petunia.
Harry and Draco stood when Mrs. Weasley gestured for them to follow.
From what Harry knew of Mrs. Weasley, he could tell she was fuming. Draco stared at the angry red head.
'I have to remember not to tick her off.' Draco thought as they were led to a sitting room.
A/N: Yay! I updated. For those of you who care, my keyboard didn't work right so I couldn't or rather wouldn't update till I got a new one. Now I have one that works and its summer so I'm bored and have a lot of spare time. Whoo! I'll update a lot now. I go to my grandma's later this month and she has DSL so I can update easier. Enjoy the next chapter should be up tomorrow.