Interlude…
Albus Dumbledore - Part 2!
10th of September 2011 - The Headmaster's Office:
Our chapter begins with two Albus Dumbledore's, within his office surrounded by staff members, one Albus was sitting in his chair, with a newly formed beard growing. The other Albus had a two inch beard, who was looking around the room, taking mental notes as he looked around, not only that but everyone in the room, even the other Headmaster, didn't see the other Albus Dumbledore.
The people in the room were having a Staff Meeting about the first week of the term, it had been a few hours since the meeting started, and the only people left to talk were the School Healer and the Head Professors. It was the Albus Dumbledore with the newly formed beard growing, who said, "Before we hear from the last four of our Professors, Madam Pomfrey, could you tell us, how are the students coming along? Is there any incidents we should know about?"
A Witch with brown greying hair, wearing a Victorian nurse's uniform, wearing a cloth around her hair, said, "As suspected for the first week of Hogwarts, a few injuries here and there, mainly fights between Gryffindor and Slytherin." Here she gave the Dumbledore that was seated, Snape and McGonagall a look to say that they could have prevented these fights if they'd done more, but she didn't say anything about it as she knew it wouldn't get her anywhere.
Instead she went on to say, "There's also the suspected homesick students who haven't left home before, I'm suspecting more over the next few months, but I should have the potions to deal with them. I also should have enough potions to inoculate the Muggle Borns that haven't been inoculated yet. But I would like a few more potions just in case."
"I'll have the potions made for you Poppy," said the visible Dumbledore, "is there anything else?"
"Yes, I was wondering what happened to the Gryffindor/Slytherin Potion Class yesterday?" Poppy asked her boss, "As I often get at least two or three students from the first year class, so I was wondering what happened?"
"The Potter brat, he is what happened to the class?" sneered the Potion Master. He was truly unhappy that he was forced to change how he ran his class, never before had that happened, and he hated it. He would make the brat pay some day, if it was the last thing he did. It was like James Potter all over again. Because of who he was, the Potter brat believed he could do whatever he wanted, just like his father. But worse, he was the so called Boy-Who-Lived, and people would bend over backwards for him and the brat knew it too - which is why he could force him to change how the Potion Master ran his class.
Here Minerva McGonagall went on to explain what happened yesterday, and how Harry Potter threatened Dumbledore and Snape about making changes to the Potion Classes and what would happen if the changes didn't happen. Once McGonagall finished telling everyone what happened, whilst they didn't agree on how the Boy-Who-Lived made the changes happen, they couldn't deny that they were happy that the changes did happen, the School Healer was the happiest of them all.
"About time someone forced this change," Madam Pomfrey said with a sigh of relief, "you've had too many students come to me because of Potions accidents. Accidents that could be prevented if you would have done your job properly, Severus."
"It's not my fault that the dunderheads can't follow instructions." Snape sneered at the School Healer.
"I know what your so called instructions are, telling people to follow what is on the blackboard and nothing else." The Healer told the Potion Master, "That's not teaching, as young Mr. Potter told you, you need to tell the students the reasons why you have to do something, and the dangers of not doing so. That's the reasons I get most students in the Hospital Wing, because you don't teach them as you should. It's not like most of the students who come here have ever known about Potions before, or have been taught how to make potions before. It is your job to teach those who don't know about potions, to learn about the dangers of Potion Making, and why things are done in such a way. Whilst I don't agree with how Mr. Potter did it, I am glad that someone had the power to force you to change how you teach."
Here many of the Professors nodded, as they all knew what Severus Snape was like at teaching, but none of them could do anything about it. As either Albus would stop them somehow, and if they could get past their boss somehow and went to the Board of Governors, the Governors would not do anything because of Lucius Malfoy, and those who trust Dumbledore to do the right thing. So nothing changed. But with Harry being the Boy-Who-Lived, the Board of Governors would want to keep Harry happy and would do anything to do so. So if Hogwarts Potion Master didn't want to get on the bad end of the Governors, he would want to make the changes.
"Potter is nothing more than like his…" began Snape before Dumbledore interrupted him, "Severus, this isn't the time for your beliefs about young Harry. This is about the first week, so please keep the talks to that matter. So Minerva…" and with that the meeting went back about the classes.
When the Head Professors got to the first years, other than Severus Snape, they praised Harry for doing so well in their class. Although Pomona Sprout, who taught Herbology, said that Neville Longbottom was the best in Herbology, although Harry wasn't too far behind. McGonagall was happy to praise how Harry helped in his first class, and he made it easier for them to learn to turn a matchstick into a needle.
After a while the meeting was over, and all the Professors, other than the Headmaster, left the office. And when the meeting was over, the Albus Dumbledore that no one could see disappeared.
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20th of June 2012- Headmaster's Office:
The Albus Dumbledore that had a two inch beard, that disappeared from his office where the meeting had been held, reappeared in his office and begun to pace in a circle around his desk. The difference was that the date was 20th of June 2012 not 10th of September 2011. Albus Dumbledore's mind was a chaotic mess of churning thoughts that rampaged like blustering whirlwinds. He had come out of his Pensieve after viewing the memory of the first Staff Meeting of the year. It would seem that the Potter brat had already made a good standing amongst the other Professors, other than Snape, with knowing what he was doing, and willing to help other students in their class.
This wasn't the Harry Potter he had hoped for, when he first got the note from him before he came to Hogwarts, Albus had thought it was Potter being all talk or something, and he was giving Hagrid a show. To show people that he wasn't a meek and weak boy, so that people would think he was more independent than he really was. But it wasn't an act, not one bit.
His weapon against Voldemort was as independent as hell, and was just as powerful for someone his age. Something was against fully, as it meant that he couldn't fully control him as he would have liked. He had to wonder how the hell did he miss this, there must have been signs that he missed, signs that showed he had become powerful and independent over the years.
Dumbledore pressed the tip of his wand lightly against his wrinkled forehead and closed his eyes in concentration, searching for the right memory. There it was! Just as a fisherman would catch and reel in a fish, the professor grabbed a hold of the memory tightly with his magic and pulled. As he removed his wand, a small, shimmering strand of magic twisted slightly, attached to its tip.
He dropped the memory lightly into the pool of enchanted water. The liquid rippled out from the centre, until Dumbledore's reflection was replaced by images of the memories he'd selected. He also poured in a few memories from Mrs. Arabella Figg, the Squib that he planted near Harry, to keep an eye on the Boy-Who-Lived. Maybe in his and Figg's memories, there was something to let the old Wizard know what he had missed. Albus wasn't suspecting to find anything as he had looked at them a few times already and found nothing, but he hoped that taking a look at the memories again after taking a break he would find something that he missed the first few times.
At first he thought his plans seemed to be going fine, sure he seemed to be too smart and independent for his liking, and was able to make one change he didn't want: forcing Snape to alter his class. (The Headmaster knew that Snape couldn't teach, but that was the point. As the part of his plan was to make sure there wasn't many Potion Master's around, so that there couldn't be more Dark Magic Users around, or those who would go against him.) But even if this was the case, he was friends with Ronald Weasley, who was in part of his plan, seeing he was from a Light Family. It was Ronald's job to keep Harry from making friends with anyone that the Headmaster didn't agree with, and become Potter's best friend. But that didn't go to plan, as the Boy-Who-Lived made friends with Ember Vile, a young Mystic who had the power over gravity, who helped with defeating a group of Dark Mystics who attacked the Hogwarts Express.
But soon Albus learnt that things weren't going to be as easy as he thought it would be to keep most of his plans together, as over the next few months since the start of Hogwarts, things changed, and they changed fast. Potter became friends with a few others, like Antony (Tony) Booth, Hermione Granger. It wasn't part of the Headmaster's plan, but it was bound to happen seeing that they were in the same house and seeing how independent the boy was, he wouldn't be able to stop it.
But a few weeks into the first term, the Boy-Who-Lived made friends with the one person the Headmaster didn't want Potter to be friends with: Susan Bones. Her family was one that whilst Light, was one of the few families that didn't agree with his methods of dealing things, and often fought against him. To have Potter be friends with her meant she could rub off on him, and might be able to help her and her family in ways that could be damaging.
But the problem was that there wasn't anything he could do to break the friendship up, as if he tried, it could backfire and make things worse than there already were for him with Potter. So he had no choice but to allow the friendship to happen. At least Mr. Weasley was making it so that others didn't go near Potter to make friends. Being friends with Bones, made Harry friends with Hannah Abbott, which the Headmaster didn't mind too much about.
The problem he had was being friends with Susan, meant that Harry made with Cedric Diggory, the son of Amos Diggory, the Head of the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. This was bad as it meant Harry would have an ear to someone who had a top position in the Ministry of Magic, and that didn't bode well for Albus, as it would give Harry an in into the Ministry - something he didn't want. But because of who Cedric Diggory's father was, Albus had to be careful how he worked around that.
Other than making a few more friends in his Housemates over the year, he made one more friend that Albus didn't want him making: Su Li. The Li Clan was from Japan, and was one of the most powerful Warrior Clans within Japan, and the Li Clan taught their children Battle Magic at a young age. Whilst Su Li was the youngest and the shyest of the Li Clan, having brothers and sisters before her learning the magic, Su Li was the most skilled at her age. None of her brothers or sisters were as skilled as she was at her age, and for Harry to become friends with her was brotherism, and was unsure how to deal with that friendship right now.
And thinking about the friends that the Boy-Who-Lived made, there was one friendship that broke that the Headmaster didn't want to happen. It would seem that Ronald couldn't keep his mouth shut, or keep to the plan that he had lied out for Ronald. It would seem that Potter found out that the youngest of the Weasleys was using the fame of Potter for his own personal use.
Albus knew that given time Potter might have forgiven him, but Ron had to open his mouth without thinking and insult Hermione Granger, and Ember Vile in front of the brat. It was so bad that they got into a fight, and Potter was no longer talking to the boy in question.
Over the year Potter was getting better in terms, something he hoped wouldn't happen, he had hoped that he would be lazy and only want to do the basics. He hoped that before the fallout with him, he had hoped that being friends with Ronald Weasley, Potter would follow the lead of Weasley, but that wasn't the case. What is worse, from what he heard from Professor Helling, he took side of Morgana, blaming the reason she became dark on her step-father and his action on those who were magical. This was something that Albus feared, as it meant that Harry could be easily become Dark should people say the right things to do so. Albus knew he had to keep the Boy-Who-Lived away from such people, but with the brat being so independent, it was going to be hard, but something he had to do to keep the boy Light and defeat the Dark Lord Voldemort. But now that Ronald and Potter had parted ways, he didn't have an ear within the brat's group, he would have to talk to the Weasley Boy about this during the summer, and see if he could fix this.
It would seem that Harry tried to keep himself away from trouble, and unless it found him, Potter stayed as far away as possible. Seeing that Harry had shown no signs of exploring the third floor corridor, he had to make Hagrid slip about the Cerberus, and about his old friend Nicholas Flamel. And like any young child, Albus Dumbledore knew Harry would try to find more out about this and was happy to see Harry and his friends did this.
During the year Dumbledore was forced to give back the invisibility cloak that James Potter gave to him, but that was down to the connect that they wrote out that made Albus give it back within the first year of Harry being at Hogwarts. But it did lead Harry Potter to finding the Mirror of Erised, where he was happy to find out that the brat's Hearts Desire was to have friends and family around him, something Albus knew he could use against the boy at a later date.
Now at the end of the year, and Potter had two deaths on his hands, the Mountain Troll, and Professor Quirinus Quirrell. The Troll Albus was shocked about, it just showed the potential of Potter's powers, it took a lot out of the boy, but if he could kill a Troll at this age, Albus was worried about what the brat could do in the future. Quirrell's death showed how skillful Potter was in fighting, whilst Quirrell was more skillful at fighting, Potter only won by luck and that he surprised Quirrell. If Potter didn't lay his hand on Quirrell, and used the protection magic that his mother gave him when she died, Albus knew that Quirrell would win and Potter would be dead before defeating the Dark Lord once and for all.
Quirrell's death caused another problem for Albus, and the Magical Law Enforcements knew that Voldemort was still out there and would now prepare for his return. At least with the Ministry of Magic's Magical Law Enforcement, he knew that they would sweep it under the rug and pretend it never happened, as they wouldn't want to think about the Dark Lord still being about. But the Mystic Knights would be another problem, as he had no control over them, and they didn't fear the Dark Lord like the British and a few others around the world did. Albus wasn't sure how to deal with that problem yet.
Quirrell's death also gave the old Headmaster some more food for thought concerning Harry Potter, as like the Troll, Potter showed no real remorse over killing the Troll or Quirrell. This just showed that the boy was following a much darker path than Albus would have liked, and was unsure how to handle it. And seeing that the boy didn't trust him, he couldn't control him the way he liked. Not only that, but after getting the Philosopher's Stone somehow, gaining the boy's trust had gotten even harder than before.
He just wished that he knew what the boy was thinking, he wasn't sure the reason for it, but the brat seemed to have a some kind of Occlumency Shields when he first got to Hogwarts. When he tried to read Potters memories, he saw an icy fire in front of his mind, with a female figure behind the fire. But he put it down to having that damn familiar, the Ice Tigran, Aneira. Although many thought that Fawkes was his familiar, the truth was that Fawkes wasn't his familiar, but a dark ritual binding the two together. From what he learnt about familiars, some could create a kind of shield to protect their Master's mind.
But after Christmas, when he turned from returning from his Aunt and Uncle's, he seemed to gained the basics of true Occlumency Shields and over the months they became stronger. It would seem that during the Christmas break, someone taught the boy Occlumency, something Albus didn't like, as he couldn't read the boy's mind.
Either way, with Quirrell's death, the Magical Law Enforcements were once again in his school, to learn about what happened to Quirrell. Potter and his friends had to open their mouths about the third floor corridor, but luckily for Albus, he removed any signs that anything was up, and was able to come up with a decent enough story to cover up what really happened. He got an earful about bringing a dangerous creature into the school and not putting a decent enough protection over the door, but the rest of it was written off, as there was no real proof that he had done anything wrong.
As Albus thought about it it would seem that many of his plans weren't going his way lately. All his plans to rule the Magical World seemed to be crumbling around him. His grand plans all started with his best friend and lover Gellert Grindelwald; they felt that the Wizarding World should be controlled, as if it wasn't their way of life would be destroyed by the Muggles changing their beliefs and way of living.
Although Gellert might have had a good idea, but the way he went about it was all wrong, killing so many people. It was a great shame that he had to defeat Gellert, and put him into Nurmengard - the prison that Gellert made. With the defeat of Gellert, Albus realized how he could win, people treated him almost like Merlin and thought of him as the Leader of the Light.
However, he could only do so much with this new power and respect people were giving him. He knew that if he wanted to control the Wizarding World, he would need to become more powerful and respected than Merlin himself. So over the years he trained and trained, until he was the most powerful person in their world. Over the years he was able to gain the titles of Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards and Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot. However, even with these titles and control he had, he was still limited, he needed something more.
Albus thought that when the new Dark Lord, Voldemort, who he knew formerly as Tom Riddle came along, people looked up to him to defeat this new Dark Lord. Now normally defeating someone like Tom should have been easy, and with his defeat the people would have done what he wanted.
But three problems arose, the first was that the Mystics rose and begun to change things. Most didn't like them because they were Muggleborns, using their magic differently, but with the Mages of Earth Land, they couldn't do much with upsetting the alliance that the Ministry of Magic around the world had with the Earth Land Mages. But as much as he hated the Mystics, they did stop much of the unnecessary deaths, although they killed many of those Albus didn't want dead. But there was a Muggle saying that he somewhat remembered, something about not being able to make a cake without breaking a few eggs. Or in his case, he couldn't create a new world without a few deaths.
The next problem was that his old student had created Horcruxes, to keep himself alive, and until they got rid of these Horcruxes, Voldemort would be unable to be killed. Which made it hard for anyone to defeat the Dark Lord.
It got harder because of a bloody prophecy: The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies… and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not… and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives… the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies…
It described that someone other than him, would defeat the Dark Lord and that someone was yet to be born. At the time, there were two unborn children that fell under the prophecy's description. It was either a child from the Potters or Longbottoms, which he was later informed were named Harry and Neville, respectively.
It wasn't until Halloween of 2001 that he found out the Prophecy Child was Harry Potter. It was luck that the Potters were killed and he could control what happened next, but now he had to think how to control the young Potter so that he would be weak but loyal to him.
But the problem was the Longbottoms, should both the Potter's die, they made a Will saying that both Harry Potter and new-born daughter Holly should be looked after by the Longbottoms because of Alice being Harry's Godmother, and if not was Sirius Black who was also Harry's Godparent. There was a list of people should the two unable to look after them.
He knew that anyone in the Wizarding World would treat him very well, and possibly make it so Potter would think for himself and use his fame to get what he wanted for himself. But that's something he wanted, he needed Potter weak and controllable by only him.
But Albus knew that Lily had a sister, Petunia Evans now Dursley, who hated magic more than anything because she did not have any, and because she wasn't allowed to go to Hogwarts to see it. Luck was even further on his side, as her husband was a bully and hated anything that could not be called normal, leading Albus to correctly believe he would also hate magic, and consequently Potter because of it. It was the ideal breeding ground for a meek child ripe for brainwashing in the form of a 'saviour'.
The first step was to make it so that the Longbottoms would be so busy that they couldn't look after Potter, or find out about Holly. Luck was on his side as Death Eaters attacked their family, because they thought that the Longbottoms knew where their Master was. But for some reason though, the attack failed, as someone in their ranks informed the Aurors and stopped the attack.
Because of this threat, and that other Death Eaters might go after them, Dumbledore advised them to train their son to defend themselves. Dumbledore also advised them to allow him to look after Harry Potter, as there would be extra risk on them should they look after the boy. So until young Neville was old enough and able to defend himself, they should wait before looking after Potter.
After dealing with the problem with the Longbottoms, Albus was planning to deal with Black, but he found out that he didn't have to. The fool Black got himself arrested and sent to Azkaban, for when he went after Pettigrew for betraying their friends. So Albus didn't have to worry about Black ruining his plans, and to this day he was still there.
With the Longbottoms and Black sorted out, the next thing he had to do was to seal the Potter Will, so that no one could learn about Holly, and who should be looking after the children. Then he had to get rid of the girl, and by the looks of it no one knew she existed. This way Potter didn't have anyone but him to rely on, and so Albus just dropped the young girl off at a nearby church. To this day he had no idea what happened to her, nor cared.
Whilst he was doing all this, he was also dealing with his new weapon, where he sent it to the Dursleys . Over the next few weeks, he made himself Harry's Magical Guardian. Where he used that power to get some of the money from the Potter's Vault. He wasn't able to get much, as not to raise questions, he took out enough each month that was meant to be used to look after his weapon and put it into his own account. A few times he was able to take out much more, putting it down to the needs for Potter.
He was also able to blackmail Severus Snape into working at Hogwarts, so when Potter came to Hogwarts Snape could treat him badly, which Dumbledore would counteract by being using his usual grandfatherly routine, further indebting the boy to him.
Things were going well, that was until the time his weapon meant to enter Hogwarts, that's when his plan for the boy begun crashing down on him. First off it would seem that Potter knew more about magic than Dumbledore had planned for him to know about, because unknown to him at the time, Potter was attacked by some Witch Hunters one night and was saved by the Mystics who seemed to inform the boy of everything.
Still Albus thought that how Potter acted was nothing more than an act, so not to reveal how scared and weak he truly was. So Albus thought his plans were still on track and collaborated with Molly Weasley so her son, Ronald Weasley, would become friends with young Harry.
Sadly from the moment the Boy-Who-Lived entered the Great Hall, Albus Dumbledore knew that his plans for the boy was no more. He could sense the power and the independence coming off the young boy.
But Albus still hoped that he could at least rework his plans to fit around the complications. He had hoped that, being the incredibly lazy boy Ronald was, it would be passed on to Harry. That plan, sadly, bore no fruit; Harry's study habits were already too ingrained. Ronald still did part of his job at least; informing him of most of what the last Potter was up to.
It was a shame the Weasley boy couldn't do anything about Harry's friends, but for a boy for Ronald's age, it wasn't really surprising.
Sadly by the start of the new term after the Christmas break, another part of his plan failed, Potter had found about Ronald's actions and dumped the lazy boy as a friend. Albus sighed to himself at this, he should have seen this coming with the rest of the friends that Potter made, unless the young Weasley changed how he acted, the friendship was bound to fail.
Albus didn't even want to think about the latest failure in his plans, the incident with the Philosopher's Stone, Quirrell and Voldemort, was still fresh in his mind. The old Headmaster couldn't even dream that such an easy plan could fail so badly, and all because his weapon found out about his powers before the Headmaster had planned, and formed a network of allies before entering the Wizarding World.
The only thing that seemed to go his way that year, was the deaths of Susan Bones's parents, and her aunt losing her arm. That family was one of the few from the Light Families that didn't trust, nor agree with him, always trying to undermine him. Albus thought it was a shame that the very least Madam Amelia Bones wasn't killed too, so that no one would be trying to undermine him and get others to do so too. At least she'll be out of his hair for a while until she gains a new arm.
Other than the deaths of Susan Bones's parents, another thing seemed to go his way was that he became the Magical Guardian of his weapons female friend, Ember Veil, because she didn't have a family of her own and no where to live. This was a good thing, as he could place her with a family that trusted him and so keep an eye on the young Mystic, and if possible make the girl trust him.
If his plan worked, Albus could use the girl to spy on Potter, and would know what he is up to. Albus had one family in mind, the Weasleys, they were a Light Family and one who trusted him fully and did what was asked without many questions as long as they believed he was doing the right thing. It was how he got Molly to use the Muggle entrance to get into Merlin's Station, informing them that his Weapon didn't know how to get into the Station and asked to help Potter to get into the Station. Whilst the plan didn't go fully to plan, Ronald did make friends with the Boy-Who-Lived for a while. He would have to inform Molly to keep an eye on her youngest son, so that he didn't do anything to hurt Veil, or anything that could make things difficult for the family.
But that's not the only plan the old Headmaster had planned for his weapon, within the next week he was planning to go to the Dursleys, to cast a few spells on the magic hating Muggles to make them hate Potter even more and try to be more abusive him. He hoped that Potter would obviously write to him for help, and Dumbledore would assure him he would try his best to get him to the Weasley's a few weeks before Hogwarts started, which would be the 'best he could do.' He hoped that this would gain some trust with his weapon, and make some of his future plans easier.
For now though he had to deal with some end of the school year things, before he could do anything to try and get Potter back under his control. So he sat down behind his desk, and begun the long job of the paperwork.
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20th of June 1992 - Merlin's Station:
As Harry and Hermione walked through the station, they overheard a few things about a latest attacks by Dark Mystics, and how the Mystic Knights and those from the Ministry of Magic were working on covering it up so the Muggle World didn't learn about it.
It didn't take them long before Harry and Hermione were standing in front of the cafe where they met Hermione's parents at Christmas break, where Hermione spotted her parents, and with a smile she ran up to them and gave them a hug, as she greeted them. As she pulled back from her parents, she said, "Mum, Dad, you remember Harry."
"Nice to meet you again, Harry." Emmaline said with a smile.
"It's nice to meet you again too Mrs. Granger." Harry said with a smile, "Still gorgeous as the last time we meet."
Both the female Granger's blushed at this, with Hermione saying embarrassment, "Harry!"
"Still the charmer I see Harry," this came from Hermione's father Daniel, "I would be surprised if you didn't have a few girls already after you if this is the way you normally act."
"Well there might be a few." Harry admitted with a small blush of his own, 'Damn hormones!' Harry thought to himself, he hated how his body was affecting since he hit puberty. He had no real control over some of his body actions, like blushing and erections that he often got when he nears a pitty girl or women. "But than again I think they like me more for my fame than my charms."
"I bet right now that is a bother, but later on I bet you won't be complaining about them liking you for your fame in a few years." Daniel said with a knowing smile, as mother and daughter give him a dark look at this, "You're young and well… ouch, Emma dear what did you do that for?" He asked as his wife stubbed her foot onto his own.
"You know very well why," Emma said as she give her husband a dark look, "don't corrupt his young mind. I know you would if you had his fame."
Harry just laughed at this, he didn't have Daniel to corrupt his mind, that already happened, but he didn't have to tell Emma or Hermione that though. "Don't worry Emma, although I have to admit finding someone who wants me for me will be hard, as most will want me for my fame and money. So until I find someone who only wants me for me, I might use my fame for a bit of fun, to find out who wants me for me."
Emma saw her daughter's hurt look at this, knowing that Hermione had her own feelings for the black haired boy, and liked him for him, and for saving her life and not for his fame or money. But she knew that Harry was a young boy, and like most boys his age, they didn't know anything about women and how to detect their feelings toward them. Although, she knew that they were still young though, Harry was right in a boy way, he was young and to him the only way to find someone who wants him for him, was to use his fame and see what happened.
Although that didn't mean that she couldn't help Hermione, and so with a sly smile, she said, "You might be right, but on the other hand you might have met someone who wants to be with you for you already, but you don't realize it yet."
"You might be right Mrs. Granger," Harry said with smile, hiding a smirk as Hermione blushed hard, but didn't say anything, "we'll have to wait and see what the future holds. As feelings often change, and things happen and we don't get what we want."
"You're right Harry," Emma admitted with a sad sigh, "we'll have to wait and see what the future holds. Anyway, please call me Emma, we'll be spending much of the summer together and hearing you call me Mrs. Granger all the time will make me feel old."
"And that goes for me too, call me Daniel or Dan, like my beautiful wife said, being called Mr. Granger all the time will make me feel old." Dan told Harry.
"Thanks, Dan, Emma…" that was all he got when he heard one voice Harry did not want to hear, Neville Longbottom, "Hey Harry."
"Longbottom," Harry sneered at the young boy, shocking the Grangers at the way he was talking all of a sudden, "what do you want?"
"I wanted to introduce you to my parents." Neville told Harry, as the Boy-Who-Lived turned round.
Upon seeing Neville's parents, his face darkened, and with a sneer said, "So you are my so called Godmother."
"I am…" began Mrs. Longbottom, before Harry said, "So where the hell have you been for the last few years, I thought Godparents were meant to be there for when the child's parents were not."
"Harry, that's not the way you should talk to strangers." Hermione scolded him.
"Harry, what is wrong?" Emma asked him.
Then, whilst looking darkly at his so called Godmother, he told her and Dan how Alice was his Godmother, and how that she had abandoned him all these years, not once looked on him. When Harry was finished, Emma and Dan looked at Alice in disgust, not believing what they had done. "How could you do that to your own Godchild?" Emma asked darkly.
"You don't understand, our family was in danger, and we wanted to make sure our son could protect himself before we took in Harry." Alice told Emma, "And we were told by Professor Dumbledore, that he was being looked after and was being trained."
"And that makes it alright for you not checking on your Godchild?" Emma said in disgust, "If I had a Godchild, even though I couldn't take them in for whatever reason, I would at least to check on him to make sure he was okay and healthy."
"But we were told by Professor Dumbledore he was happy and well taken of." Mr. Longbottom told them, defending his wife.
"You should have checked for yourself, not take the word of someone else." Dan said in disbelief.
Before someone else could be said, Harry said, "Do you know Lily's sister Petunia Evans now Dursley and her husband Vernon."
"How could the Professor send you there, he knew how Petunia felt about magic." a piled Alice told Harry.
"Why would you care now?" Harry asked darkly at the woman, "If you really cared, you would have checked up on me sooner."
"Harry, my dear I'm sorry, truly I am." a now tearful Alice said, and her husband comforted her.
"I don't want to talk about it." Harry dismissed her, as he looked at Emma and Dan, "I'll wait for you outside Emma, Dan and Hermione." And with that Harry walked out of the station.
With Hermione, and her parents standing there, Alice looked at where Harry walked off before say sobbing, "Listen I know I haven't done my duty as his Godmother, but if I knew who was really was looking after Harry, nothing would have stopped me getting him. I know I don't have the right, but could you talk to Harry and ask him to give me another chance?"
Emma was in two minds at doing this, but by the look from the other woman, she could see Alice really regretted her actions. "I'll try, but I can't give you any guarantees, but I'll try and talk to him. But it'll be up to him if he does anything."
"I understand, I'll just be grateful if you try." Alice sobbed, as the two families parted ways.
To be Continued!
Author's Note: Here ends the second of the Interludes with Albus, I would like to thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoyed it. I'll be honest, I'm not all too sure about this chapter, it feels a bit off, but I believe I have gotten everything that I needed done. I hope you like his thoughts about what happened during the year. Either way not much else to say other than to ask for some feedback on your thoughts, as they'll help me write faster and give me ideas on how to make the story better.
Next time on Rise of Overlord Vulcan:Next time on Overlord Vulcan, the new saga called The Serpent's Lair begins. In the next chapter we finally get back to the second year of the story, the next chapter we'll be meeting Hermione's sister Melody, and learn a bit about her.
The next chapter is more or less done, all I have to do is write the ending, and write a better Dobby scene, so unless I have a problem with the scene, the next chapter should be done soon. Only thing that would stop me is a writer's block or my muse leaving me, I put my money on a writer's block rather than my muse leaving me, seeing that I want to catch up to the end of second year.