Wizards of the Djinn

Chapter 9; The Occupation

Hogwarts

Albus Dumbledore stood looking out of the window of his office with his Deputy, Minerva McGonagall, beside him. A few Aurors were also in the room along with Professors Snape, Flitwick and Sprout. He'd called the meeting to discuss what to do about the changes around the school. Ever since the Golden Dome had erupted around the school the place had been chaos. Nothing solid could travel through the ward even through Apparition, Floo or Port-key, any attempts ended with the person hitting the dome and appearing on the ground.

That had been two days ago and since then things had only gotten worse. Minister Fudge had sent people to find out what the disturbance was but had been thwarted by the Dome. After failing to communicate with Owl mail he had tried Floo and had found that it worked. He then went onto putting the blame for the situation solely onto Albus' shoulders, blaming him firstly for the destruction of Hogsmeade hill and then for the appearance of the Dome, he had been officially removed by the Ministry of Magic as Headmaster of Hogwarts and the school was to be given into the care of a Ministry employee as soon as said person could arrive. It was later discovered that said person was to be Delores Umbridge.

"I say it's a good thing that that shield is in place otherwise we'd be under the control of that Umbridge woman!" Minerva shuddered at the thought of a repeat of the last year.

"The question is; are we being protected or being held hostage?" The Herbology professor put in.

"I have my twenty Aurors trapped here patrolling the edge of the forest to check for any attacks but we can't get far into the forest without being thrown out again. We've tried every type of immobilisation charm but nothing works for long enough to search the forest for the source of this evil." The Aurors' leader stated. He wasn't a man that well known by Albus so the wise headmaster had to be careful what he asked of the man also he didn't know what to expect from the man if he went against the ministry.

"What are you going to do with this replacement thing Albus?" Minerva asked in the silence that followed the Auror's statement.

"He'll give up control as soon as Secretary Umbridge arrives." Interrupted the Auror pompously. It was the first time that the subject had been brought up in front of the man and his response proved his alliances. He was greeted by several nasty glares especially from the Potions Master who had kept quiet so far.

"You are a fool if you think that woman will do any good whilst here!" He snapped pushing off of the mantelpiece that he had been leaning against previously.

"Shut up Death Eater, I have discussing matters with the Minister of Magic over the Floo and as soon as she arrives the Headmaster and most of your staff will be thrown out and replaced with good men, loyal to the Ministry. You will be put on trial for being a Death Eater. And the Headmaster will be put on trial for aiding in the escape of Harry Potter and for holding Hogwarts hostage!" He puffed out his chest trying to be intimidating. Chaos erupted in the office of the Headmaster of Hogwarts as everyone tried to say something at once. The room split in two with most coming to stand with the Headmaster and Deputy by the window and most of the Aurors going to stand behind their leader.

"Enough!" Shouted the Headmaster, "I may be on the way out but until Madam Umbridge arrives I am still in control of this school." He held up a hand to stop the arguments from the Aurors. "More importantly that means that I still have control over the Hogwarts Wards which can still evict you. I wonder what would happen if I evicted you especially with that shield holding everything in, I pity the person that is forced to try it."

"That was a threat for Murder, Dumbledore!" The pompous man shouted enraged.

"I heard no threat, Auror." Severus Snape put in calmly saying the last word in disgust. "He was merely stating a fact."

"Thank you Severus," Albus nodded at the man with a slight twinkle in his eye. "But for now Gentlemen this is still my office and I have matters to discuss with my staff."

The Aurors all left the room though disgruntled and glaring.

The headmaster slumped into an armchair he summoned along with others for the other fours occupants of the room and a full tea set. He waited for them to settle before speaking up.

"As unfortunate as Umbridge's arrival may be we have little choice. As long as the dome stays in place we have time but I will have to give over control of the school to her if it comes down. I highly doubt the wards will accept her as a holder which means I will have to give it over to one of you. Obviously in cannot be you Severus, Voldermort will expect too much from you if you were to take them."

Filius spoke up next. "Everyone knew that Umbridge and Minerva had their disagreements, I doubt it will be long before she tries to get rid of you, Minerva." The Herbology teacher nodded her agreement. "I think that Minerva should take on the wards. That way Umbridge couldn't kick her out without the wards falling."

"What about you two, wouldn't she expect on of you to take them?" Minerva asked.

It was the Herbology Professor that came up with the perfect excuse. "I could claim that holding that much magic would interfere with my work with the medicinal plants. No one would want Poppy's potions to be ineffective. Filius could claim a similar situation with the charms work or that he would have to stay unattached to them in case they malfunctioned in some way during the transferral."

"That's settled then." A smile graced the older features of the aged Headmaster.

Maridis

Luke was the first to awaken since he had been drained so much earlier than the others. Harry awoke soon afterwards; he had woken over a day after Tom had lashed out at him. Tom though had only woken ten minutes ago and now they were seated around a table in a large dining hall.

"So who exactly are you?" Chris asked. Chris, Alter, Gaia, Lucid, Denier and Tolan had all stuck around, they had explored the city carefully, watching for traps.

"I'm Tom, A Beta-ranked Marid, I am the last denizen of Maridis. Or was should I say." The young man stated. "When the Wizards of the Djinn started to bind us most of us destroyed any trace of ourselves and fled to the Daemon Realm. That way we couldn't be summoned by accident and forced into servitude. It wasn't until long after the Wizards of the Djinn fell that we felt it was safe enough to move back but without the presence of the Dratis family it was impossible to reopen the city."

'My family was the Dratis family. Hence why you are Develar Dratis. Dratis is the older name so that is what you officially take as your real name. Develar is the name given to you by my parents. It is tradition for the human new-born to be named by both Daemon parents and human.'

Harry realised that Tom was waiting for his internal conversation to finish and pondered how he knew. Though it figured it was obvious as he always tended to zone out when he talked to Carver.

"I volunteered to stay to keep the protections running and the city working if something went wrong. Also it is my job to guide the returning Dratis family. I have been here since the exodus of Maridis almost eight thousand years ago. There is a place in the City Hall that you can see over anything you wish and I watched the fall of the Wizards of the Djinn and the rise of the current Wizards."

"You've been here alone for a long time then?" Alter asked in her mother-hen type voice.

"I wouldn't say alone, there is already over one thousand Djinni-class Daemon here." Most of them live in the outer ring. Most of the buildings in the centre are Alpha-Marid houses. Like that of Dratis Hall, and the fours other great families. The other four are now extinct, two killed out in the forced service of Wizards and the other two in the fighting against the Golems."

'Golem's are magical stone constructs with immense power, greater even than an Alpha Marid fed by many Wizards.' Carver explained in his head.

"So what needs to be done?" Harry asked as Chris brought some food in and set it down for Harry as he was the only one that needed to eat to survive whereas the others only did if they wanted to. Harry dug in as Tom went on to explain.

"There are two things that must be done. One before the other is possible." Tom explained. "In the tower of the City Hall is a stone that when your blood touches will inform every Djinn, Afrit and Marid to the reopening of Maridis. Problem is they won't be able to get in until the Dome is lowered."

"What is the Dome exactly?" Harry asked.

"It is a joint casting of unknown magic by all of the Marids when Maridis was built. It stops any form of matter travelling through, by Magical or Mundane means. You can still communicate through it however." Tom explained. "The problem is that it designed and cast thousands of years before Hogwarts was built. It envelopes the school grounds up to about halfway towards Hogsmeade. What do you wish to do about the school?"

"The school has done nothing against me and is one of the only places I have ever felt safe. It is the same with many people and I don't want to see that destroyed. I want to keep it running and it would be better if Albus Dumbledore was left in charge." Harry decided after thinking about it.

"I should warn you then," Lucid said, "I ventured into the school yesterday. It seems that they have worked out how to communicate with their Ministry. The plan is to replace Albus Dumbledore with a woman by the name of Delores Umbridge."

Harry's glass of juice shattered in his hand under his Marid-enhanced strength at the name. "You mean that bitch is still in the Ministry! She tried to cast the Cruciatius curse on me!"

"She attacked a Marid, the others will kill her if the opportunity arises." Chris put in looking at the scars on Harry's hand that he was rubbing gently in irritation.

"For now I think the only option is to use our forces to occupy Hogwarts and declare it as part of Maridis. If you wish then to leave it as a school we can do so. We can leave Albus Dumbledore in charge." Tom suggested. "You must understand though Develar, it is not in the Marids custom to hold a place hostage for longer than necessary and never control something from the shadows. We either take control of it or leave it alone."

Harry thought everything over while he finished off the last of his meal of chicken and chips, courtesy of Hogwarts Kitchens. Finally he came to a decision. "We will occupy Hogwarts."

The Forbidden Forest; 30 minutes later

"Are we all ready?" Harry asked.

"Everyone is in place." Tolan said with a grin. "How do you want to do this?"

"There are ten Aurors along the outside of the forest. Send thirty Djinn out in small forms to take care of them and bring them to us. No deaths." Harry spoke to Gaia who concentrated on her designated group of Djinn before melting down into a cockroach and jumping up into the air and towards the ten Aurors along with twenty-nine others in similar forms. In less than two minutes the Djinn were back in place with ten unconscious forms. Most with sleep spells but a few had bloody noses and cuts.

"Leave ten Djinn here with them. Heal them as well as possible. When we have control of the entrance hall they can be brought forwards. Send fifty through the windows to open the main doors from inside and incapacitate any Aurors guarding the entrance hall."

No sooner had he finished they were moving. As order about fifty Djinn as well as Lucid and Gaia turned into birds and flew towards the building flying up into the late Saturday morning light. Almost one hundred and fifty forms emerged from the forest. Led by a quintet of powerful forms. One was Harry in his human form emitting his Marid Aura to scared any would-be-attackers. He was dwarfed by the other figures. Tom took on a form only slightly smaller than Harry's full form and Chris, Alter and Luke taking their preferred Daemon forms similar to Tom and Harry's forms but Harry's human height.

By the time they reached the main doors they were opening and Harry was met by an honour guard of around forty different animals. Mostly cats but the odd Daemon as well and a couple in the shape of Werewolves. A few stood off to the side of the hall guarding a group of conscious Aurors and a few students. He saw one man that rang true in Harry's memory as one of those that had taunted him in his cell so often. He stood defiantly until one of his guards changed shape from a small child into a muscle-packed Daemon and snarled in his direction.

Harry strolled over to the group to check on the students asking Carver to change his voice to that of Carvers before reaching it. He searched the seventh and hardest to find plane to read the Aura's of the guard and smiled evilly.

"Enough Lucid, stop scaring the man more than he already is. You'll make him faint." Harry snarled in a voice that brought everyone, captive and Djinn into silence as it was the voice of a Marid and therefore respected.

"I'm not scared of the likes of you Potter!" The man snarled out pompously.

Harry just raised his eyebrow and watched as Lucid's form rippled into that of a slim man, but most importantly one with pointed teeth and cat like eyes.

"I told you not to make him faint Lucid." Harry muttered quietly as he watched the man crumple to the floor with a faint whimper. It was then that Harry noticed the female student within the small group. "Granger." He snarled angrily having been told by Luke what they had said about him.

She went to say something but Harry cut across him. "Silence her, NOW!" He snapped at the Daemon behind her who snapped from his position to wrap a hand around her mouth. His claws digging into her cheek and drawing blood. "I would suggest you never say another word in my presence again or I will have you voice permanently removed!"

He was about to say more when a scream split the air. The doors were now closed again and the previous Aurors had now joined their comrades on the floor. The entrance hall was now packed with two hundred Djinn. All of these Djinn spun into action and no sooner had the sound been made then five Djinn had sprung from the floor onto the running balcony and had the girl silenced.

"It's too late!" Tom snarled in a similar voice to the others.

"Search the school!" Harry said over the Djinns sudden anxiousness. "Bring everyone that is here to the Great Hall. If anyone is fatally wounded for no reason you will pay! Tom, take control down here. Keep them all in control, leave their wands alone. It'll make them fell safer even if they are almost useless."

With that Djinn in all forms were spreading out across the school in search of students. Many were still finishing a late breakfast and were left to their eating after their fright as Tom, Lucid and Gaia strolled in the room along with fifty Daemons.

Harry, Luke, Alter and Chris headed upstairs to where he could sense the most power was coming from. He knew that the Headmaster was in his office as that was where the wards were connected to. Also thanks to Tom and his seeing stone he knew that Snape, McGonagall, Flitwick and Sprout were there with him.

They came to a stop in front of the Gargoyle. And Harry noticed something interesting about it or more specifically his Aura. That of an Afrit. Quite a high level one.

"Move aside Afrit, I have business with the Headmaster!" He said politely. When he got no immediate response he continued, "By whose charge do you guard this office?"

The Gargoyle changed shape into one more commonly used by Afrits. This one of just fire. "The Afrit Fawkes bound me here when this school was created." He gritted out with an ill-used voice. "I will let you through."

With no more said the Afrit moved aside. 'If this Light Afrit is inside this office you should warn the others. He could kill them with ease.'

Harry conveyed the warning and motioned for them to follow him. He walked up to the door and through it as it splintered into a thousand pieces in a hastily thrown detonation. He was instantly faced with five wands and he snorted in disgust.

He switched back into his normal voice and dimly realised that from his old Professors' positions they had become aware of the invasion. "Put those silly sticks away, they won't do anything against me and I am sure you don't want me to do what I did to the door to them."

No sooner had he finished his proclamation a spell was fired at him, a rather nasty one by the looks of the energy in it. 'Let it hit you.' Carver said instantly and Harry complied. Carver bent his magic to protect him and the spell dissipated easily. Harry flicked his wrist and used the normal Wizarding magic throw the wand from the wands hand and onto the floor at his feet. He raised a foot.

"Do you want me to do that same to your wand that they did to mine, or do you still believe me innocent like when I was in Azkaban?" Harry asked the man looking directly at him.

The man made a conceding step backwards dropping his wand arm to his side. Harry flicked his wrist again and banished the wand back to the man who caught it at the last minute slightly shocked that he had his wand back.

"Any one else?" He asked quietly. A flurry of feathers declared that Fawkes still had something to say, or do. Fawkes launched himself straight at Luke being the weakest of the group but never reached it. Half a metre from the 'boys' face he was thrown back by a cage of lightening that tightened so that he was forced to curl his wings into his body to stop himself getting shocked. Harry's voice came out as his Daemon voice forcing the wizards in the room to step back.

"That's enough Afrit. Never again attack one of my friends!" Harry snarled. Harry altered the shape of his confinement. "Take on a humanoid form!" He ordered.

The Light Afrit glared at him slightly before slowly shifting into a pale man. "Your race is become far too arrogant; your alliances with Wizards have changed your nature and blinded you from your instincts." Harry declared. Albus just sat in shock as his old friend morphed from a bird to a man.

"We had no choice when your kind left." The man said gentler, it was clear after these words that he was one of those that were around at the time but one that had no choice.

Harry dropped his confinement and the man looked anxious and in pain. "You really cant leave your phoenix form for long anymore can you?" Harry asked with sympathy edging into his now normal voice.

"It pains all of my kind to shift out of this form, even into that of pure energy so we cannot return to our realm." The man said with pain in his voice.

"Release your Afrit guard and you may return to your preferred form." There was a ripple of magic and then the sound of steps on the stairs before the man changed back into a phoenix and flew to land on the Headmaster's shoulder. Harry noticed the man's wary look. "He is as he always has been, just far more powerful then you ever believed."

Albus finally spoke, "What are you doing to my school?"

Harry smiled before simply saying, "I'm saving it."

"What do you mean Potter?" McGonagall almost stuttered.

"Actually it isn't Harry Potter anymore, that boy died when his best friends and the Wizarding world locked him in Azkaban. I am Develar Dratis. Lord of Maridis." Harry stated calmly. "By this point my troops will have completely occupied Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

"What of the students?" Flitwick asked in dread looking over the forms of Chris and Alter.

"As long as they don't put up a fight then they won't even be attacked, my troops are under orders to not fatally wound unless forced to." Harry said, "And my troops are completely loyal and trustworthy. By now they should all be in the Great Hall under guard along with anyone else found in this school or the grounds."

"The Ministry will launch an assault as soon as they find out." Snape warned

"They can't get through my Dome and even if they could they would face the one-thousand Daemons roaming your grounds." Harry smirked back at the spy.

"What now then Harry?" Albus asked.

"Not much will change, Hogwarts will officially stay in your hands. I will have little to do with it. Any student will be welcome if you welcome them. The wards will remain in your command. Your staff are free to stay." Harry listed. "I will protect you from the Ministries laws as I heard you were to be replaced and brought on trial for several fake charges."

He let this sink in before turning to Snape. "I also offer sanctuary to Severus Snape, as the Ministry has enough evidence to put you in Azkaban if not give you the kiss."

"I still need to spy, Voldermort will want to know what has happened here." Snape stated sadly.

"You can give up spying if you wish." Harry stated simply. "My troops can easily spy on him without any risk to themselves."

"Thank you. Can you give the same sanctuary to two of my students?" Snape surprised Harry with his softer tone. "Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zambini."

"Done!" Harry said simply. "Now I suggest that you address your students. Make sure they know that you will contact all of their guardians about this. I will be lowering the Dome shortly and summoning more help to us. Any student whose parents wishes them to leave and wish to leave themselves may after I drop the Dome. But remember that I have invaded this land and therefore it is no longer under Ministry jurisdiction. Any student not wanting to be forced to leave doesn't need to."

Harry then turned to leave but not without hearing a Thank You from his old Headmaster.

A/N; Bloodyraindrops; I was texting my friend Tom just before I wrote it…no more complicated reason than that.

Snowyyuki; Yes, they'll be in it.