Disclaimer: I own nothing about this story but the plot and any new charaters.
Authors Note: Thanks to all those who reviewed. This may seem a bit plain right now but it is necessary to set the bigger plot in motion. This is my first fic and I've never really wrote anything this long, so I'm trying. All reviews are welcome.
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Harry sat at his desk with a small cake in front of him, the window open behind him and a clock to his left. It was presently 11:59 pm on the eve of his birthday and he was impatiently waiting for the next minute to go by. It had been a rough month since Harry started his training but his home life couldn't get any better, well leaving with the Dursleys that is. Vernon now treated Harry like his boss 24/7 so he didn't get demoted even more or fired at the worst. He had to sell his house to Harry because his new job as head of the cleaning division couldn't support his family. So now Harry controlled their lives because their lives revolved around their home and their money and Harry controlled both.
Harry's training had gone well. He was now somewhat physically fitter but he still had a skinny sort of look. Harry skills in magic and, to his surprise, potions were now perfected up to seventh year level, which was more than Harry had expected. He could hold his own in a fight against a regular wizard, but against for example an auror in a fair fight, he knew he would lose. Though Harry couldn't yet perform the spells he new a great deal of offensive and defensive magic in both light and dark forms. He had read a lot of advanced texts on theory and spells, but reading didn't give you skills. Of all the things Harry studied he had only mastered one thing, occlumency and was and was pretty good at legilimency. Harry was determined to get those two down because he didn't want Snape, Dumbledore and most of all Voldemort getting into his head and was determined to get the answers he wanted using this mean if necessary.
It was now 12:00 am and the owls started swooping in right on time. One bye one he took the packages and sent them to the dozen or so perches that he set up for them. The first one was from Hermione and Ron.
Happy Birthday Harry! Hope the muggles are treating you right. See you soon (hopefully) –Ron and Hermione
'That was short' Harry thought but shrugged it off and opened his gift. Inside was a Hogwarts rule book, obviously from Hermione, and a simple but nice wizard's chess board. He wrote a short thank-you note and sent it off with the delivering owl before moving on. From Hagrid he got the usual rock cakes and card and a small picture book of Hagrid's hairy friends. From others mainly order members and the Wesleys he got a whole bunch of food, chocolate and candy. He got his weekly report from Gringotts; apparently Dumbledore hasn't been there for a month to check on his money so they were obligated to send him a statement of his account. They told Harry to be prepared. Harry was glad to see that Dumbledore hadn't sent him anything and picked up the last letter and small package.
To our partner,
Happy Birthday Harry! We know that this is a bad time but it couldn't wait. We made a prototype of magical surveillance gear and put it into the "meeting room". This is some of what we got. For what its worth were sorry and just know we support and believe in you.
Gred and Forge
p.s. just hold it and say "activate"
Harry, curious and confused, opened the package and held the device.
"Activate"
White smoke started to come out of it and form a screen. Harry placed it at the top of his desk and leaned back to watch.
In the kitchen and number twelve Grimmauld Place…
Dumbledore, Ron, Hermione and Ginny were sitting at the table with the three students across from there Headmaster.
"Thank-you for meeting me her,e since I know your vacation just started" Dumbledore began "As you might have guessed I've gathered you here to talk about Harry."
Ron turned slightly red at the mention of that and Hermione looked a bit upset while Ginny looked like she could care less.
"Oh, I thought it was something important" Ron said bluntly
"It is important Mr.Weasly" Dumbledore replied "I need you three to keep an eye on Harry for me. To tell me everything he does, says and writes. Harry is very unstable right now and has been since Sirius died. We can't have him go anywhere near the dark side, Harry is too important for the wizarding world. He needs to be controlled especially while his powers are growing at a rate that is to fast than I would deem safe. As you all know Harry has emotional problems, and that's his weakness. He has a bad temper and is very rational, if we play with those emotions we can make sure he stays on our side. Harry has one purpose in life, a purpose that at this moment I can't tell you, but all in all he is the only true hope for the world. Until it is time for him accomplish this…task he needs to be kept ignorant and safe. You might ask why we won't train him to protect himself. The answer is that we can't risk the chance of him becoming to powerful to control. Its better if the only education he gets is from Hogwarts so we can watch, there are others that can protect him till the time comes.
"But professor…" Ginny interrupted
"Just a moment. This brings me to my next point. I want you three to train this summer, yes the whole two months, so you can be there to protect and or subdue Harry if he does anything rash.
You three will train with aurors in the auror training program. You will be able to learn advanced magic that you only learn after school. You will learn to be duelers and fighters. You three will be trained so that you can protect yourselves and Harry. School will also come a bit easier after these two months too. I will also make you three the first junior Order members. So do you three agree?
"Of course professor." Hermione answered for them all "You obviously know what is best for Harry, and I wouldn't mind some more knowledge"
"You're right professor Harry is bound to hurt himself with to much power, he is much to rash. It should be others keeping that boy safe." Ginny added
"Who cares about Harry, were practically going to be aurors. I'm finally going to get to show him up. Harry has always been better than me at everything and has always come first. I'm going to get the chance rise above him while he's stuck at his relatives. Come September we'll see who the better wizard is" Ron ranted in an all too gleeful tone.
"Right then, you start tomorrow. Oh and don't worry about the underage wizarding ban, I already got permission form the minister. Now I will be in this house for the first month to supervise, I must stay here full time to watch and maintain your magical growth. Just think how much mail is going to be waiting for me at Hogwarts. Harry can be ignored for a while. I can wait to read his apology letter next month when I return to Hogwarts. Now off to bed, we start at six o'clock am, you need your sleep."
As the three teens left, Dumbledore sat back in his chair and gave a week smile.
"I'm sorry Harry" he whispered to himself "But weapons must be kept under lock and key"
The picture ended and the smoke was sucked back into the device. Harry just sat there shocked, hurt but most of all angry. He replayed the seen over and over again just to make sure he got it all.
'HOW COULD THEY BETRAYE ME LIKE THAT!DUMBLEDORE THAT CUNNIVING SENILE OLD BASTARD!' He shouted in his mind
"Calm down Harry, this is what they would expect you to do. Fine they think they can control me. Well from this moment on the old Harry's dead. Make way for the new Harry, ill show them. What are they going to do when they can no longer read my emotions? I have four days before Dumbledore comes and gets me after reading his bank statement and finding out that I've been emancipated. I need to turn my room back to normal and pack. Hmm, four days is all I need. They better watch out cause its time for me to embrace the Slytherin within.
Meanwhile at Number twelve GrimmauldPlace…
Ron, Hermione and Ginny were having breakfast and getting ready for another day of training. There training had been taxing on them but still they agreed to continue training at Hogwarts at the end of every other day plus weekends. They found it hard even though during the summer they were just going over all the spells they already knew (while Ginny had to catch up) up to fifth year only (only Hermione was disappointed) and perfect them. They also had to do endurance training but it consisted of mostly running. There attitudes about Harry deflated a bit. They had been training for a month and none had become more powerful. The only thing they didn't believe Dumbledore about was that Harry's power was rising quickly, they thought it was another thing to convince them during his offer. They thought that Harry would get just as much out of the summer training as they did, which wasn't much. Ron felt a bit bad about his statement, thinking that he was just as good as Harry but withought the fame. Hermione and Ginny still thought Harry was rash and had a short temper but didn't shun him. On the other hand though they still spied on there friend and told Dumbledore everything that Harry wrote.After thinking about it for a while they thanked there lucky stars that Harry didn't know what they were doing and hoped that he would never find out.
Dumbledore had been disappointed that the magical growth in his three pupils did not grow that much. Besides the amount that grows with each passing year, it wasn't much to brag about. Luckily for Dumbledore they still made good spies. A month had passed and it was time for him to get back to Hogwarts and take care of ministry and post-school business. He left the young students with good-byes and statements of encouragement.
Half an hour later his was back in his office sorting the piles of mail. He was looking for one letter in particular, but to his surprise he never found one. 'Where is Harry's letter of apology' he thought to himself 'I'm sure he would have sent one…wouldn't he?' Dumbledore shook his head. 'Of course he would, probably to deep in his grief' Dumbledore did see one letter that did catch his interest. It was from Gringotts; he opened it and read it.
Bank Statement of Albus Dumbledore
Personal vault: 500 000 galleons, 20 000 sickles, 6504 knuts
Dumbledore family vault (controlled by eldest child): 2 000 000 galleons, 500 sickles, 15 000
knuts
Others:
Vault 2564: 0 galleons, 0 sickles, 1 knut
Dear M.Dumbledore,
We are writing to inform you that you are no longer are in the position to supervise or control any vaults, property and businesses owned by one Harry James (Black) Potter. We would also like to inform you that the money from vault 2564 has been returned to its rightful owner form lack of authorization.
Gorrstone
Gringotts Manager
"What!" Dumbledore almost shouted, almost "There must be some mistake"
With that Dumbledore made his way to the apparition point and apparated to the Leaky Cauldron. He swiftly made to his way to Gringotts and asked to see vault 2564.
He arrived at the vault and the goblin opened it. He looked inside and saw one knut and a note in the middle of the vault. 'Where is the money I took from Harry, I need that money for the order. This isn't happening'
He walked up to the knut and picked up the note.
This is what I owe you for everything you've done for me. Buy yourself a lemon drop
"He cant do that, he couldn't have done that. That's it its time to keep that boy under control, its for his own good."
He went back up to the lobby and left the bank. Back in the Leaky Cauldron he apparated as close as he could to Harry's relative's house. He walked up to the house and tried heading for the door but was throw back by the wards. The order member, which happened to me Snape, who was watching the house and swiftly walked up to Dumbledore and helped him up.
"What has that spoiled brat done this time" Snape sneered
Dumbledore wasn't listening. 'Why wont the wards let me pass' he thought 'Was I actually considering hurting Harry'
He walked up to the house with one thought in his mind 'Want to help Harry, want to help Harry…' the wards let him through, Snape close behind, but not for that reason, Harry let them in.
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