Chapter Five…
Harry's Childhood - Part 5!
(Maverick!)
12th of April 2008 - Underground Layer:
It has been nearly a month since Harry learnt about the Mystics, and returned from the Island, and now he, Lucy and Charlotte could be found in one of Charlotte's underground training areas underneath Surrey. During this time, other than practicing his Fire Teleportation, and trying to close the tear in his jumps, he was dealing with what he had learnt on Mystic Island.
Charlotte was shocked to learn what Harry found out about the Mystics, more so that Harry was famous for defeating the so called Dark Lord. Just like Harry she was shocked that they would fear the name of a person that has been gone for almost seven years. Another thing she, like Harry, was shocked about was why the war lasted as long as it did, all the wizards and witches had power, and outnumbered the Death Eaters. Whilst they might not be skilled as the Dark Mystics, they had the Mystic Knights to deal with them, and they should have been able to deal with the Death Eaters themselves. They might not be able to deal with the Dark Lord themselves, but there were people like Dumbledore who could have, but they had done nothing. They had to wonder what was going on, and it give them another reason not to fight for the Light Side as some of the Wizarding World called it. Especially when they heard that Dumbledore was willing to give Death Eaters and Dark Mystics a second chance, sure once they do their time in jail and show true remorse they can be given another chance, but not before like Dumbledore was doing and those they were doing bad things because they were being blackmailed or was under a spell without proving it.
Either way, with the warning that Harry should hide who he is whilst he was in the magical world until he got stronger, the three friends talked about how Harry should do it. The idea of hiding behind a cloak whilst the easiest , wasn't the most ideal option. As wearing a hooded cloak makes you look suspicious, and some might try and find out who is under the cloak. Either by trying to remove the cloak, or trying to follow them. There might be other ways that the three didn't think of too. No, hiding behind a cloak whilst the easiest, was also the easiest way to get caught.
The only option was shapeshifting, as Harry would be able to blend in anywhere he wanted, and no one would know it was him. The only drawback they could think of was should Harry change into someone when another person knew they shouldn't be there. So for this reason, it was decided that Harry would learn how to become invisible. The three of them thought the skill would be very useful, as Harry would be able to move about and do more things without being noticed.
So over the following month, other than learning to master his other abilities he was trying to do, he was also working to become a shapeshifter and to become invisible - putting his plans learning to fly on hold for now. For being invisible, he was only able to get his hand to become invisible, it wasn't much but it was a start. As for the shapeshifting, he was shocked at how well it was going, he was able to change the colour of his eyes and his hair, and was starting to changing the skin colour and the length of his hair. Harry was surprised that his sister could transfer the information on how to transform into his mind so easy, he knew in some way he should know it already seeing that Lucy was part of him, but yet his sister was the one did all the work not him.
Either way, he was happy that Lucy was able to do this, as it made this so much easier, and within the next few months, he could fully alter his looks. He had to argue with Lucy not to give him the info for being able to change into animals or humanoid animals, something that she wanted him to be like, but at the end allowed Harry to only change his looks as a human and nothing else. She still got a lot to learn, and in return not to make it so that Harry could change into animals or humanoid animals, Harry had to help her to help him to learn more about shapeshifting. It was a strange request, but Harry decided because deep down he wanted to learn more about it himself, it was why Lucy said it - this was something that kept him sane with Lucy. Thinking that deep down, it was part of what he wanted, if he thought otherwise, it would be one of a hell of a headache.
Either way, back to the present, it was Saturday afternoon and Harry was training in one of the training areas in the underground layer of his and Charlotte's, and he was about to take a break when Charlotte came into the room. Seeing her, Harry said, "Hey Charlotte, I'm just finishing up trying to turn invisible."
"That's good have you made any more progress?" asked Charlotte, as she summoned an earth table from the ground, and two chairs.
"Not really no, just an inch or so," Harry admitted to his friend, as he sat down, "what about you. Have you given any thought about any extra powers you might want to learn other than your Earth Abilities?" Since Harry got back from Mystic Island with the things that he got from the island, he had asked his friend to think about trying to learn another ability other than her Earth Powers.
"To be honest with you I haven't," the black girl admitted to Harry, "as I just can't think of any abilities that would go with my Earth Powers. Other than trying to become invisible, I don't need to change my looks, nor do I need any other abilities other than I already have. I think that when you have a power like I have that you are happy with, you don't need any other skills. I can understand why most Mystics only want to learn one main skill, as they either learn a skill that has a lot of potential skills to learn, or they just don't need to learn anything else.
"Then there are people like you, who want to become more powerful so that they don't have to feel weak ever again, and so want to learn everything they can. Also like you, there are those who want to push themselves to see what they can do, see where there limits are before they stop. For me other than mastering my Earth Abilities, unless I find a skill that catches my interest, there isn't anything else I want to learn."
Harry had never thought of it like that before, he always thought that people didn't learn more skills because they won't strong enough to learn more. He never thought that people didn't learn more because they couldn't find a power to go with the skills they already had, or they were happy enough with the power that they already had. Then there were people like him, who either found a power to go with their other powers, or wanted to never feel weak again, or/and wanted to see what their limits were.
As he was thinking about this, Charlotte said nervously, "Umm Harry, there's something I, err, want to talk to you about."
"Oh? What is that Charlotte?" Harry asked curiously.
"Well I've been talking to Lucy for the last week and -" Charlotte began to explain, when Harry called out, "Lucy come here please."
And out of nowhere, Lucy popped onto the room, as she did so, Charlotte muttered to himself, "I don't think I'll be able to get over that." Over the last week, Charlotte was able to see the ghost like image of Lucy, and she was still getting used to seeing someone/thing that wasn't meant to be real.
But Lucy and Harry didn't take notice of this, as Lucy asked innocently, "Yes brother, what's wrong?"
"Sis, Charlotte said that you two have been talking," Harry explained to his sister, "and for some reason she is nervous about it. So what were you talking about?"
"About you becoming some kind of super villain," this came from Charlotte, "and about what you needed."
"Oh did she now?" Harry said darkly, as he give his sister a dark look, this was one thing he didn't want people to know about, especially Charlotte. As he didn't want to lose her friendship. "And are you going to tell me that I shouldn't or that I should stop before I start?"
"Oh no, not at all, instead I want to help you Harry, help you to become a true Dark Lord." Charlotte explained to Harry, shocking him, he was not suspecting her to say that. Lucy just gave her brother a knowing smirk at this. "I like you have seen how dark and corrupted the world is, in fact I know more about it then you. In an ideal world yeah I would like it if we us our powers for good, but we don't live in an ideal world. Whatever good we might do, those who would ruin it somehow, so that our good work goes for nothing. So why should we bother being good if it does nothing?"
Harry wasn't suspecting something like this from her, yes he knew she had a hard life and didn't trust many people because of what she had to do to live. But he never imagined she would be like this, willing to help him to become a Dark Lord of sorts. The way she acted, it was like she wanted to change the world for the better, not take it over. So when Charlotte said next, he was even more shocked, "So instead of helping them, I believe we look out for ourselves and screw everyone else. So I'm more then happy to help you become a Dark Lord, as at least I can trust you not to screw me over - well not just use me and throw me away at least."
"So… you and Lucy were talking about me becoming a Dark Lord, what were you talking about?" Harry asked in interest.
"About the money you would need for becoming a Dark Lord," Charlotte explained to her friend, "Lucy told me how much you have, but as you might already guessed it won't be enough for what you need."
"I know that," Harry admitted to his friend, and then explained part of his plan to get more, "that's why I'm thinking about going to one of those Mystics, and see if I can start a comic in my name. Seeing that I'm meant to be famous, if I set things up right, I could get quite a bit of money from it. Not only that, but from what I learnt from the Goblins, I'm thinking to convert all my galleons from to normal money, before converting it back into galleons again, and do it all over again."
"Those are two great ideas," Charlotte admitted, before pointing out a few problems, "but that won't be enough. First off the comics might not take off easy, the Wizarding World is from what you told us is backwards, and so might not take it well. And as for the Mystics, it'll take some time before it, if ever, takes off and sells the way you want it, and then it'll take a while to get the kind of money you need.
"And as for your selling your galleons, that is a good idea, but yet again it'll take a long time before you get a lot of money together. If however the Goblins sell the galleons, they'll need to do it over every few months. I heard that if you sell to much gold in to small a time would the cost will come down a lot and so you won't be able to get as much as you want. So the Goblins would need to move slowly with that idea."
"So what idea have you and my sister came up with?" Harry asked curiously.
"Well some kind of, hmm underground entertainment place," said Charlotte as she tried to find the right words to use for her idea, "a place where people could come and spend money."
"How so?" asked Harry.
"From what Charlotte told me," began Lucy, "there are many laws when it comes gambling, selling sex, and many other things. Our idea is to use that to our advantage, by putting it all in one place, where people would have to pay to enter and then spend their money as much as they want."
"Lucy's right, and whilst it'll be slow to get the money, you'll get more over time then you would from your ideas." Charlotte explained, "I got a few ideas to start us off, first is a casino where the betting well take place. Next is a hotel, so that they could stay for the night if they want. The hotel well combined as a brothel, so that those who can pay, can have female companionship for the night no matter the age of the women. Not only that, but there would be a bar and restaurant to."
"Not only that brother," Lucy began to put her idea out, "but I was thinking we could have a Fighting Pit too. We all know that people like to watch and bet on people fighting, but from Charlotte, people love it more if there was no rules in the fight. And seeing that the people we'll attract well be mainly magical, they'll like it more, seeing what will happen during the fight. I was thinking that we could hire out Private Rooms, so that people could have meetings and do whatever they like in them without the fear of the law stopping them. And our last idea is as things come along and word gets out to the right people, we could build an auction hall or two. This could be a place that people could sell and buy things that they couldn't normally get legal, like weapons, slaves and such."
Harry was amazed at the thought that they put into this, this would get the money coming in. Yes it would take time, but as Charlotte explained, this would being more of a turnover in the long run. Yes he would still use his ideas, but that would be to put money into Lucy's and Charlotte's plan. But though there was a few things that come to mind, so he said, "Whilst I love the ideas, I have a few concerns. The first one would be, where would we set this all up? We have to be careful where we do this, so that the police, both the magical and non-magical don't find us."
"Oh I've already started to sort that out." Charlotte said with a smile, "As you know I can make underground tunnels, but I can do so much more. This last week, I've began to create something like a huge underground entertainment establishment, about three miles under London. I wanted to go feather, but it was getting too hot to do so. We will need need to find someway to cool down the temperature as it is."
Harry was amazed that she had such an idea, and wondered how far she had gotten with it. He didn't have to wait long as his friend went on to say, "I've only started and not sure how it'll turn out, but I'm hoping to make it look like the inside of a coliseum, with the likes of the fighting pits and such. Have you ever seen a coliseum before?"
"I've read and seen pictures of them," Harry told his friend, "they were mainly from Rome, where they built them for their twisted entertainment, where they would iet gladiators against other gladiators, or against wild beasts."
"That's right," confirmed Charlotte, "and what I'm trying to do is to make this place look like the inside of a coliseum. As you know they have the about four or so floors where people could sit and watch the fighting, well I want to try and do something different. You know how the floors were set up don't you, like a football stadium, where behind the seats were food and other small football shops." Harry nodded, he had heard about them and read about them, but that's it.
"Well I was thinking the fitting pits would have at least for smaller pits installed, where people could walk around watching people fight against each other, and if they don't want to watch up close, they could watch in the stands on the ground floor." Charlotte went on to explain what she wanted to do. "I'm thinking to have at least three floors above the fitting pits, the first two floors would have the Private Rooms, Casino, Bars and Restaurants. And in time once we get a name for ourselves in the underground world, I was thinking of building one or two Auctions Houses. And as for the last floor, I was thinking that would be for a hotel, so that people could spend the night there should they want to."
Harry was amazed at the idea, he knew that his friend had put a lot of thought into this. But he had a few concerns about the idea, and so he had to put them out there and so asked, "Although that is a great idea Charlotte, how are people meant to get to this place? I don't think you would be able to use your powers to bring so many people there a day, you would be tired with hours of doing so."
"I know, and which is why I won't be doing it." Charlotte explained with a smile, "I have a friend called Blink, who has got a power to create portals at well, that allow her anywhere in the country. She's about eleven years old, and like me is on the game, and is trying to find a way off it. But like me, she cannot yet, as she has no one to look out for her, and need to be on it for the money to live. But with this idea if you agree to it, she would be able to come off the game, and able to live and work with us. She could use her portals to allow people to get here."
It sounded like that Charlotte's friend had copied the powers from the X-Men character called Blink. Who also was able to create portals at will, and it would seem that Charlotte's friend called herself after the character. "Hmm, that's one less worry, but what is stopping people from finding us?" asked Harry, "In time the law will be knocking at our door to stop us, how are you going to stop that?"
"Lucy and I are still working that out." Charlotte admitted with a sigh, "But we do have at least two ideas how to deal with that problem. The first idea is that I create another area, a Meeting Chamber of sorts, far away from the entertainment establishment, and Blink could use her powers to take them to our establishment. But before she would do that, they would have to their clothes searched and leave any items that they have within the chamber. And should they find a way to get some kind of item to help them trick our establishment, I was thinking we could ask the Goblins to set up wards to prevent this."
"Okay, what about who'll work for us?"asked Harry.
"Again, we're still working that out, but I was hoping that the Goblins could help us with that as well." admitted Charlotte, "From what I've been able to find out about them from the books you got, they can do almost anything as long as you got the money to make it happen. But for the brothel, I know a lot of girls and women who'll be willing to work for you, and if you agree to this, when you get older you won't find your bed empty at night."
Harry could only blush at this, as he realized what Charlotte was getting at, and she and her sister smirked at him. Trying not to let them win, he acted as if nothing was going on and asked, "Why would they want to work for me?"
"Mainly to get away from their pimps, the ones that control them and set up the clients for them." Charlotte informed Harry, "Most pimps beat them, and give them drugs to control them. Many on the game want to get away from pimps, but they have nowhere else to go, and need the money. Another problem is that, the pimps take most of the money the ladies earn, making it hard for them to get away from their pimps. They enjoy what they do, but not how their pimps treat them. If I told them there was another place where they can do what they love, but treated fairly without getting beaten, won't have take drugs, and get paid much better, I think there'll be more then willing to work for you."
"Okay four more things, I can think of right now. The first is where are we meant to get all the things we need to run this idea of yours?" asked Harry, "We don't have the money to buy the things that you need."
"Oh that's not really a problem," Charlotte said with a smirk, "I've got a friend who has got a client who runs a huge company that sells most of the things we need. But is in deep debt, and him and his business are being investigated. He often mentions to her that he wished that someone would either steal all of the things there, or burn it down, so he could claim the insurance and clear his debts - as of right now he can't sell anything until the investigation is over. He can't do it or be part of it, as not only would he not get the insurance money, but we would all end prison. So if we stole and set fire to his warehouses so that he could get the insurance, he would owe us and might be able to send others like him to us. That way we can get what we want and not pay for it."
Harry could only smile darkly at the thought of being able to burn things down, and get what they needed, he loved the idea and so was more then happy to do it if it meant he could burn things. Although he wanted to hear more, he had a few more things to ask, "These are all good ideas, but what do you get out of it? Don't get me wrong, I'm thankful and honoured you would be willing to help me with this when you don't have, in fact I was more or less suspecting you to tell me I can't do this, or running for the hills. But I have learnt that no one does anything for free, so what do you want out of this?"
Charlotte smiled at this, seeing that her friend was taking this point of view, it would help him a lot in the future. WIth a smile she said, "I don't want anything more than to be the Madam of the brothel. Whilst I want to be off the game, so that I don't have to fuck anyone else, I know that there are many who'll still want to do it as they like it too much to stop or they know nothing else apart for being some sort of sex thing for people to fuck. Whilst I can't do anything to change their minds, I can help and protect them from those who mean them harm. And as a Madam, not only can I make sure they are safe, but I can make it so they are healthy, clean and taken care off. And should you agree to this, as I said, I'll make sure that you'll never have to sleep alone when you get older."
Harry had to once again blush as he heard this, he wasn't sure how he felt about that, but the images he was having didn't help. As he knew that he shouldn't be thinking such things at his age, but he was going through early puberty. That would explain why he was feeling like this. But he could see why Charlotte wanted to do this, to protect those women, even if it meant becoming dark to do so. If Harry was an innocent and naive boy he use to be, he would feel somewhat guilty at this, but he wasn't.
"If you're suspecting me to be in charge of this underground establishment, it'll be difficult." Harry explained to his sister and Charlotte, "Even with becoming a Shapeshifter to change my looks so that people wouldn't know I was 'Harry Potter,' people wouldn't trust a child to run such a place. Ouch, what was that for Lucy?" Harry asked as Lucy hit him around the head.
"For being an idiot," Lucy said as shock her head in disappointment, "you think that we're only going to use Shapeshifting to change what you like as a child? You can be so dumb, I sometimes wonder what you'd do without me and Charlotte here. I'm going to show you how to change your height, and making your skin look older and such. So by the time we are ready to make our move, you can look like someone older and with another name."
"Hmm, you seemed to put some thought into this for only a week of planning," Harry said thoughtfully, although he could see that his sister's plan was a good one, "I bet you even got a name already picked out for me too."
"Who said anything about me planning for this for a week," Lucy admitted with a knowing smirk, "I was only planning this with Charlotte for about a week. I've been thinking about this for a long time, as I knew that should you ever decide to become a super villain, you would need money and have been thinking about ways in getting it. It was only in the last week with the help of Charlotte, that I, I mean we got a reasonable plan that might work to get the money. And to be honest yes I have a name picked out for you: Maverick. No other name than Maverick, it would be a title of sorts, it means someone who doesn't follow the law as such, but bends and twist it, even breaks it to fit their own needs. I'm not saying we use it for your Dark Lord name, but for gaining the money to do so."
"You have one twisted mind Harry." Charlotte said to Harry as she realized how much work Lucy had actually put into this plan of hers, and knowing that she was part of Harry's mind. It didn't mean that she was against the plan, seeing that she helped with it, but it was the fact that she had put so much thought, meaning that Harry most of done too in a deep part of his mind.
"Hey don't look at me," Harry defended himself as he held his hands up, "I'll admit I have a dark and twisted mind, and Lucy came from it. But whatever comes from Lucy's mouth now days is all her nowadays, she often thinks up things that I don't. So her thoughts and ideas for this are mostly all her."
Charlotte could only shacked her head at this, the more she heard about Lucy, the more she like Harry was amazed by the type of magic that created her. Sure Harry made her up, but magic give her life and made her do whatever it is she could do. Either way, as she was thinking about this, her friend asked, "Finally, how am I going to run this establishment? I'm a child and so have no idea how such things should be runned."
"That's not a problem," Charlotte said with a smile, "one of my clients used to be an Underground Pit Boss for the Mob, he ran an underground casino and had his hands in a few other jobs. I'm going to meet him later tonight, so I'll be asking him if he can help you train you in these things."
"Why would someone like him help a nobody child like me for?" Harry asked curiously.
"Two reasons, first is that he always wanted to pass on the knowledge he gained over the years, but yet he never found someone he could trust not to stab him in the back." Charlotte explained to her friend, "And I mean literally stab him in the back. Whilst there are many people who would want to learn from him, there's just as many who want him dead too. As for the second reason, he owes me a few favours, and I could call them in to help you."
"Do you think he'll really help me if you asked?" asked Harry.
"I do believe he will." said Charlotte.
"Well I can't see the harm Harry." Lucy said thoughtfully.
"You're right Lucy, I can't see the harm of Charlotte asking this person," said Harry, "the worse he can do is say no. So for now though, we should talk more about this idea of yours. Whilst it is a good one, we need to start off with something small and work up to this huge coliseum idea of yours. We'll be new and people won't know if they can trust us or not, so until we are well known it is better to start of small. And as we get more well known and trusted, we could use that money to make your coliseum idea even better."
The girls had to admit that Harry was right, they were aiming too big, too soon, as they won't be known in the underworld, and people wouldn't trust something like they were planning so soon. It would be better if they started small like Harry suggested, and slowly grow bigger over time as they get a reputation. So until Charlotte had to go to work, they began to talk about how to deal with this new idea and where to place it, along with what to call their establishment.
From that day, Maverick was born, and over the next few months the three of them planned what their establishment, and what Maverick should look like. The first thing that they done to deal with this was to get the money, as the old say goes, to make money you need to speed money. So the first week they went to Diagon Alley to visit the Goblins at Gringotts, about selling his gold as he planned.
It took awhile to sell his seventy thousand galleons, seeing that the Goblins were against selling the galleons into the Muggle World. Something about treaties with the Ministry of Magic, to keep the Muggle World from accidentally learning about the Magical World. However, agreeing that Gringotts would get ten percent of the money, and getting the galleons altered a bit, the Goblins agreed to sell Harry's galleons into pounds before some of it would be turned into galleons again. Seventy thousand galleons would go back into Harry's Trust Vault, the rest would go into a new Vault under the name Maverick, which no one to know who really owned it. And as long as Harry didn't do anything against Gringotts, the Goblins wouldn't tell anyone that he owned the vault.
Anyway, the Goblins were able to sell the galleons at twenty-five pounds a coin, to total one million, seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds. Out of that one hundred seventy thousand pounds was given to the Goblins. Half of the money would stay in pounds, where the rest of it would become galleons which would be: eighty seven thousand five hundred galleons. Harry asked the Goblins to to take seventy thousand galleons from the Maverick Vault every so often and repeat the process, but keep the money in the Maverick Vault.
And whilst he was at Gringotts, he talked to them about getting staff for his establishment. The Goblins suggested that for cleaning and cooking staff, he should get some magical creatures known as House-Elves from a place down Knockturn Alley. They explained that House-Elves were the ideal staff for Harry, as they would keep his secrets, and would normally stay of sight unless told otherwise. As for the other staff that Harry would need, Dealers, Cashiers and such, they would look into it, but they would be willing Harry to hire a few young Goblins as Cashiers.
They explained that this would allow Harry the people he needed, and give the young Goblins who want to work at Gringotts, the experience working with money and people. So it would work out not only for Harry, but for Gringotts too, as they would have a place to send the new bankers to learn how to deal with money and people.
After dealing with things in Gringotts for now, Harry went to the Mystic Alley to see if he could create the comic book as him as an Earth Mystic in it. Harry had to ask around, but he was able to find a comic publisher, and after some talks they agreed to do such a comic, even a few story books about him and he would have about ten percent of the sells once they come out.
Not long after sorting out his money problems for their establishment, Harry helped out one of Charlotte's friends clients by stealing from their warehouses and burning down said warehouses. This help Harry get the furniture needed for their plans, the furniture was high styled stuff too, which was even better. And over the following months before the establishment opened, Harry done two more jobs like this to get even more furniture that they would need.
Other than dealing with the money, getting furniture, Harry meet with the former Pit Boss known as Bowser came and taught Harry what he needed to run such an establishment. One of the things that Bowser told Harry he should do was to hide the identities of the people that worked for him by wearing masks, so that if the police were able to enter the establishment undercover, they could not find out who they were. And although he would be looking like someone else, he would still need to wear a mask too, as it would be suspicious if he didn't. Something Harry would have to decide about later.
And by December of that year, Harry was able to change his looks to a twenty-five year old black bald man, with a scar across his left eye, and on his arms. The idea was to make him stand out, make it so that people won't think about pushing him around. At this time with the help of the Goblins, the establishment The Underground Asylum (A/N if you guys can think of another name, I would like to hear it.) opened.
The Underground Asylum wasn't as big as the main establishment would be, it didn't have an have a big hotel or have any Auction Houses yet. But it did have a around one hundred guest bedrooms that could be used, and it had three small restaurants, one fighting pit, and a few small casinos.
To be Continued!
Author's Note: Here ends the fifth part of the Harry's Childhood Saga, I would like to thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed it.
I hope what I have done with the chapter, and how I set things up in the story. I'm still looking for OC Mystics, and if you were reading the side story, I'm looking for OC Books of Zeref's: Etherious. If you can help me, please let me know of any ideas you might have. Any that I like, I'll use in this story and give you thanks for them.
Either way, I would like to thank you once again for reading and I hope you spare a few minutes to leave a review and let me know what you think of the chapter, and any ideas you might have for the future chapters, and any powers you would like to be used in the story.
Next time on Rise of Overlord Vulcan: Unless you the readers can think of anything to add for Harry's Childhood, I'll be closing things up so that I can start Harry's first year at Hogwarts.
Harry's Powers: Jump, Summoning, Levitating, Banishing and Repairing, Shapeshifting, invisibility, creating and launching small spheres of earth, and low powered projectiles of earth.
Lucy's Powers: Other than the powers that Harry had, they were low powered, her main skills were the following: Shapeshifting and the ability to change into animals, humans and humanoid animals, cloning, and another pair of arms to grow out of the side of her body.
Charlotte's Powers: Earth Abilities…
Thought of the Day: Why Snape and Dumbledore are part of the problem within the Wizarding World… (I know that it isn't a real world, but this is something that bothers me.)
There'll be many of you who'll be shouting at me saying that they are the good guys: what I have to say is this. Yes they might be the good guys, who want to save people's lives and defeat the Dark Forces in the world. But to me, in the long run, they are part of the problem within the Wizarding World. Before you say I'm a basher of the characters, which is true, but here is my thought as to why I think they are a problem to their world.
Let's start of with Snape and how he was the reason behind the lack of Healers and Aurors, you might not think so but think about it. Look how at his attitude towards anyone who's not Slytherin, look at poor Neville Longbottom. Yes he needs to be hard as it is a dangerous class, but if he actually showed them what to do, and tell them where they are going wrong they would be better at the class. All he does is to make snide remarks and sneers at people. This is the reason why many people quit the class after their OWL's, because of his attitude towards him. That's even if they get the O in their the OWL's to get into the next year, with the way he teaches is hard to do.
Now with Dumbledore, he is the reason for Snape being at Hogwarts and let him get away with the way he acts, any other Headmaster would force the teacher to act more properly as they should act. Then it is the Defence Against the Dark Arts Class, he believed that the class was cursed and yet he done nothing to change it, he didn't get a Curse Breaker to see if there was one and have it removed, and if they couldn't, he could rename the class, change rooms or start a new class to deal with the problem. Now for two other classes, History of Magic and Muggle Studies: why keep a ghost teacher if only going on mainly about Goblins, and sending people to sleep. How were any of the students meant to learn anything, so that they won't repeat past mistakes? As for Muggle Studies, why keep a class that's so out of date from what I remember of the class?
Now the other problems that Dumbledore made for the Wizarding World, he has three important jobs: The Headmaster to Hogwarts. Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, who has the final say in Wizengamot, which is wizarding Britain's high court of law, when the votes are undecided or deals with people who can't agree with something and things get out of hand. And lastly he is the Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards, which is a wizarding intergovernmental organisation, roughly equivalent to the United Nations.
Seeing he was famous and respected for defeating the Dark Lord Gellert Grindelwald, so he could use his power as Chief Warlock and Supreme Mugwump to help and make up laws to make their world better, but he did not - seeing that people listened to him at the time, he could have made the world better. He let things stay as they were, and let things get worse. Or he could have started to change the children's mind whilst they were at Hogwarts, it is at school where people form opinions and thoughts that'll make them into the person they'll become in the future. But once again Dumbledore done nothing to change this, and allowed Purebloods get away with calling Muggle-Borns Mudbloods, and allow people get away with bullying.
I know that there are others to blame for the way the Wizarding World was the way it is, but Snape and Dumbledore, Dumbledore mainly, are part of the problem of the Wizarding World.
