Harry Potter and the Source Beyond Might and Magic
Chapter 14
Freedom
Emrys and Morgana Phoenix, also known as The Lord and Lady of the Phoenix, still at large
Late last night, The Lord and Lady of the Phoenix (recently discovered given names – possibly aliases', Emrys and Morgana) risked Ministry of Magic security, as they entered within a small Muggle village that was at the time under siege by You-Know-Who's forces attacking the defenceless Muggles.
However, the Phoenix's turned up before any fatal casualties on the Muggles part, and murdered forty-three pureblood mages, (blatantly not caring that the Muggles watched them use powerful dark magic's), three of which were wealthy contributors to our Minister Cornelius Fudge's election campaigns.
The Minister himself denies any knowledge of their involvement with He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. In addition, to his denial of any involvement with Death Eaters or You-Know-Who, he is condemning these two 'bounty hunters', as he is calling them, for ridding our streets of such monsters as the Death Eaters.
Minister Fudge is claiming that both Emrys and Morgana, are doing nothing but attempting to justify the murder of 'honest' and 'upstanding' pure-blooded sorcerers.
It is our belief that he is feeling threatened by the possible takeover by those-mage not pure of magical blood, but why feel so threatened? Anyone, of any magical background can run for office, and even become Minister of Magic. Though, with some magical decrees, and new 'laws' we should all feel concerned, even though Minister Fudge should be in jail, but because of the attack on the Ministry, he and his supporters, used that as excuse, to decree that with the Death Eater attacks, it would not do, to continue the trial, and with some legal buggery, he weaselled out of any consequences.
We now must ask ourselves: what is the Minister afraid of, or up too, or is he even working with or for, He Who Must Not Be Named?
It seems quite clear to a lot of innocent law-abiding citizens that The Lord and Lady of the Phoenix are doing more than either the Ministry of Magic or Albus Dumbledore put together, and in doing so protecting many innocent people from death or fates worse than. The Death Eaters got up that morning and chose to be horrible monsters, so they chose to accept the possibility that they might be slain like one.
However, there are others who are taking more active approaches during this: 'War of Blood' or whatever you might want to call it, as it all seems to be ridiculous, and people keep giving it so many different names.
Harry Potter and Ginevra Weasley, two very powerful and gifted students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, are also in the people's corner, be it somewhat less murderous!
The need to fight and kill was realised by a fair few people after the Battle for the Ministry won solely by Harry Potter, defeating a total of seventy-three trolls, and goblins while only killing eighteen, and taking a couple Death Eaters captive. Though, those Death Eaters mysteriously killed themselves while in Ministry custody, and we could have believed one may have, and two at a stretched, but all of them while in cells designed with magic to prevent self-deletion, and while all three were supposed to have been monitored constantly?
Unfortunately, we of the Daily Prophet have been unable to get an interview from neither Mr. Potter nor Miss Weasley on what they have to say about the Phoenix's, or the Minister of Magic getting a 'mistrial', and let free.
However, Mr. Potter has gone on record saying: 'I don't much care that the Lord and Lady of the Phoenix are offing the Death Eaters. It just means less for me and Gin (Ginevra) to deal with, and as long as they don't harm the innocent, we have no reason to step in – we're not Law Enforcement, after all'.
Harry Potter then laughed as if he just thought of something amusing, and disappeared in a crack of yellow lightning. (See page forty-five for a list of books on unique tricks to be used for making your apparation more entertaining. Warning: many of these party tricks can be harmful if you do not adhere to the instructions correctly).
We of the Prophet have however gotten lucky enough to speak with Professor Albus Dumbledore on the matters at hand. He was saddened to admit that while the Lord and the Lady of the Phoenix were going against his sense of morality, they had saved more lives from You-Know-Who's Death Eaters than he had in either this war against The Dark Lord or the first.
Albus Dumbledore admits it's a shame that anyone would have to dirty their hands with blood, but it may be a necessity, as the war could easily be lost without it.
The war could of course be easily lost if not for the valiant sacrifices those willing to die, and kill give to us, the normal, average mage, a future with freedom.
We have also spoken to other people - aurors, ministry employees, and even members of the public.
Some members of the auror department that spoke with us were eternally grateful to Lord and Lady Phoenix, as they would have lost their lives during the attack on Diagon Alley last week, and even more look up to Harry Potter and Ginevra Weasley for all they've done, being so young and talented, rather than playing games and hanging with friends, they have helped stop things grown men and women couldn't or wouldn't.
However, other older members of the ministry (from the Wizengamot) are upset with the destruction and brutality committed upon pure-blooded wizards, and witches saying: 'they hadn't even the chance to change their ways' … 'The Lord and Lady of the Phoenix could have easily stunned them all, so they could have been taken into custody, as Mr. Potter and Miss. Weasley have never gone out of their way to kill, and only Mr. Potter has been known to have killed, and done so sparingly, where no other options were complete at that present time, and he even went so far as to spare goblins and trolls' lives'.
One Ex-Auror, Alistor "Mad-Eye" Moody (and yes, he apparently likes the nickname) said: 'I think the Lord and Lady of the Phoenix are not all there in the head. I've seen insanity before… heck, I'm not exactly sane, but these two seemed to give nut-bars a new meaning, or they are extremely good actors, and just 'playing' a roll, which I honestly wouldn't be surprised to hear'.
Alistor Moody was in Diagon Alley defending the people, as he works with Dumbledore, and his anti-Death Eater group of talented civilians who do not work under the Ministry, The Order of the Phoenix (no relation to the Lord and Lady Phoenix) when it was attacked last week, and even he admitted being awed by the sheer audacity the two young anti-heroes possess, and add in the magnitude of talent and power and they are a force even the famous ex-auror found himself afraid of.
We, the magical people of Britain shiver in fright at the thought of anyone being able to frighten Alistor Moody. Mr. Moody was also the man that Lord Phoenix entrusted the then recently murdered Peter Pettigrew, believed to be dead friend of Mr. James Potter (deceased).
However, facts turned against him, and it was discovered that he betrayed his friends and murdered twelve Muggles, exonerating Sirius Black (before believed to be the criminal – and soon to be freed), which led us to question the competence of the Ministry of Magic and the criminal justice system. Not that we need to as it is quite clear justice is sleeping by Fudge not being in jail, and still being in office despite many protests by the public for him to resign.
Some members of the public such as a Mrs. Augustus Longbottom commented on events: 'all I can say is that this Lord and Lady's parents should be proud of the huge sacrifices that their children are partaking, while incompetent buffoons like Fudge make things harder for everyone to live peacefully.' And we of the Prophet must agree with her on that front, as we have had some dealings recently, where Fudge's office has demanded our silence in certain truths, but we can be rather childish, as the more you tell us not to look, or report on things, the more we want too.
Another member of the public and a close friend of Harry Potter and Ginevra Weasley was caught and confronted just yesterday in Diagon Alley, having used up her stationary had to get some last minute before school starts in a few days' time.
We asked, Miss Hermione Jean Granger (Muggle-born) what her opinion of the Phoenix's was. She was startled and seemed reluctant to want to speak to us, especially given that we had hired a reporter, Rita Skeeter awhile back, only to discover she was writing lies with the aid of her personalised Quick Quote Quill, and Miss. Granger was unfortunately a victim of this with Mr. Potter and Miss. Weasley, and we express our deepest apologies for this matter, and we shall no longer be employing Ms. Skeeter, or anyone like her, and with our assurances, Ms. Granger eventually relented to speak with us, (if only to get rid of our reporter).
Hermione Granger had rolled her eyes in exasperation, and told us that the Phoenix's were doing something, which was more than she could say about the –QUOTE– 'useless Minister, other than his criminal activity, that does not count towards, 'something''.
We also went on to asking about Mr. Potter's battle at the ministry just under a month earlier where he not only saved the lives of two young girls, but after discovering they did not have any family worth note, and that they were being trolled around the system, adopted them into his welcoming home.
Miss. Granger informed us that she believes Mr. Potter did the right thing, and that the two new young Potter's were very happy, and that Mr. Potter and Miss. Weasley take very good care of them together.
So, we of the Daily Prophet would like to congratulate Mr. Potter and Miss Weasley on their new family, and thank Mr. Potter for keeping the peoples hope alive and rescuing those two poor innocent little girls. And furthermore, give some gratitude to the Lord and Lady of the Phoenix…
Sirius Black was freshly freed from any need to hide away like a criminal, and had just returned to his hired Muggle bed and breakfast apartment (it was one of those huge chain ones, so it was not too homely, but it was nice, comfortable, and clean), while he was waiting for some work to be done on the old Black manor in London, to make it not such a depressing shithole. He slumped back onto his bed with a grin as he was staring at the paper after reading the front page, and staring at the moving magical picture of The Lord and Lady of the Phoenix taken from Diagon Alley a short while ago.
He could barely believe that these two had been good enough to get him freed. Sirius sighed in happiness. He had just returned from the ministry where he was not only exonerated, but quickly compensated, though with reluctance from that minister, twat.
Sirius knew that he could have sued for a lot more money, but couldn't find it in him to care about it anymore, and he was already very wealthy, so it didn't seem worth the bother when he was just glad to be free. He would have gone home, but Harry carted him off to the B and B, and told him to relax and enjoy being out of the shit hole for a while until the workers, Harry had secretly hired were done fixing the place up. Sirius was glad Harry convinced him to stay as he felt so light being away from his old home, and hoped when he got home that it was nicely done.
All that Sirius cared about now, was that he was finally free, and felt great, not to mention that he would be seeing his godson very soon, and apparently if the last month of articles was to be believed his godsons newly acquired daughters.
Trust Harry to go to the ministry to try and get Fudge ousted, and jailed, and return with a couple of little kids sharing his name. It was a shame he couldn't have gotten Fudge sent to jail, though, it was obvious something was extremely off with that, and with Fudge come to think of all the weird decisions he was party too recently.
Sirius stretched his muscles as he checked the wall clock. It was only seven in the morning, so he couldn't visit Harry yet. He supposed he should give it a little while longer, as Harry promised that they were going to have some barbeque at the Weasley's that afternoon, and he had a date with Ginny and the little girls, after that, as he promised to take them out for the afternoon, which Sirius took to mean to get some peace they were leaving the country, so either really Far East, or further West, before Harry and Ginny had to go back to school.
Smiling widely, Sirius grabbed the TV controlling thing, and turned on the huge black picture frame thing on the wall shaking his head in bemusement. He remembered visiting Lily with James when they were still at school, and her TV was huge and bulky and he would have most likely snapped his back trying to lift it without magic, but this one he was sure he could probably throw in the air and catch it again, and the screen was much bigger.
Laughing at that thought, and marvelling in such brilliant science and how brilliant the picture was these days, he began flipping through the crazy load of channels that the TVs had these days, and that was not including all the subscription services Harry mentioned where you can watch whatever you want, whenever you want, but he eventually came to some cartoons on a cartoon channel, so that would do.
Sirius found it amusing that the muggles got all these cartoon things from a flick book like process, and couldn't imagine any magical having that kind of patience.
The things Muggles came up with to keep the kids entertained made Sirius wonder whether the magical people had lost their imagination, as this was done without magical powers.
Sirius would have loved cartoons when he was little. Heck, he had only been at the inn for three days, and already he had some he liked more than others.
He realised that he would have to get a TV when he got himself a nicer, none-evil-magical house, or maybe the renovations would be good enough that he would just get those things for there. He was sure it would have pissed his mother and father off to no end, having muggle things set up in the house.
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Harry sighed quietly as he lay content in bed with only a few days before term started back up, just wearing his boxer shorts with Ginny snuggled in his right arm, her warm body only clad in her underwear, as she was pressed firmly up against him. Harry was powerfully built, and Ginny had wondered whether he had a godly grandparent he didn't know about or something, and Harry could only make a mental 'something like that', as he had yet to speak with her about goings on inside his head, and thinking about where to start hurt his head. Though, in fairness, Ginny's body was rather tone, and curved in all those perfect places Harry could want to enjoy, but boys and girls and men and women did have different bodies, and while Harry was lean, he would be physically stronger, but Ginny was exceptionally nimble, and flexible.
April just happened to be all snugly in Harry's left arm in her PJ's, and May in hers seemed to be sprawled over all three stretching every so often, and it was such an annoyingly hot and humid morning that when Harry raised his left hand and clicked his fingers, they all appreciated the cool breeze that pooled out of nowhere.
However, April and May had been unhappy the past few days, as the day draw nearer to their mummy and daddy's return to Hogwarts, so they wouldn't even sleep in their own beds afraid they might miss something.
It did put a dampener on their sex life, as the girls wouldn't let them alone for long, not that either Harry or Ginny minded too much; they understood both of the girl's reluctance, as they didn't want to be away from their new parents, afraid to lose them again, no matter that they were two of the most powerful sorcerers on the planet.
Harry had to work hard to check his watch a moment later, and not disturb his girls: it had just turned twelve O clock. They had a late night before, watching some cartoon with the girls, and reading them a bedtime story, as they were all going out later that evening, for a wonderful few hours together, just the four of them, even though Mrs. Weasley didn't want them 'wandering' off as she called it, she relented that they could handle themselves, and look after their children. Mrs. Weasley was even starting to come to terms that she was now a grandmother, and doted on the girls, so neither Harry nor Ginny could fault her worry. Harry frowned in thought. Sirius would be over soon for the barbeque, and then in a few hours, Harry would whisk his wonderful girls away on a wonderful evening date.
"Morning Daddy!" greeted May suddenly almost making him jump as her blurry eyes gaze turned up to him with a cute yawn.
"Good morning sweaty," he replied with a small grin as he brushed his lips on her check giving her a small morning kiss.
"Morning' papa," came April's call just as suddenly, and he smiled widely as she was rubbing sleep from her eyes and he quickly planted a quick kiss on her forehead.
"Morning you three," said Ginny as well, gently stroking her fingers along Harry's warm solid chest.
"Good morning mummy!" the girls chorused in unison wearing great big grins with the sleep seeming to have abandoned them.
Ginny giggled and moved so she could plant each little girl with a big kiss on the lips each honouring them with a huge grin before pulling back to her previous position.
"We should probably get up," Harry said lazily. "We have a long day with a barbeque, and then, we get to have a wonderful trip, just the four of us?"
"And get a pony ride?" May asked in hopeful delight.
Harry chuckled while nodding. "Well, I think they're actually horses, but close enough. Hopefully, we'll be able to get something sorted."
The girls both cheered as they scampered down from the bed, buzzing with excitement for their trip out, and soon the four of them were in the bathroom, and in the shower with Harry and Ginny washing their baby girls, and themselves before they dried off and dressed, and before long they heard the door.
It was a nightmare for Sirius Black recently pardoned ex-prisoner of Azkaban to wait as long as he did to get to The Burrow. However, he looked clean, tidy and neatly shaven and had freshly cut hair, and he had just turned up outside The Burrow. He had realised after watching half hour of cartoons that he should probably freshen up, so that took rather a… well, it didn't take nearly enough time, so he watched some more cartoons afterwards too.
Sirius felt excitement well up as he filially knocked on the front door to The Burrow waiting for someone to answer. He luckily didn't have to wait long as the door was pulled open by a pretty-little blonde girl who couldn't be any older than seven or eight. He realised this must be the oldest of his godsons' daughters.
"Hullo there," supplied Sirius after a few moments by which she just stared up at him looking befuddled. "My names Sirius Back, and who might you be?" he asked not knowing either of the girl's names, as the Daily Prophet had been ordered by Harry not too print it, and Sirius was sure they only agreed when the most vile and monstrous magics were employed: competent lawyers.
"I'm April Potter," she replied simply and proudly.
Sirius smiled at the girl and was about to reply when he spotted a smaller version of this girl peeking from under April's arm as it still held the door open.
"And this is my little sister, May Potter," she continued gesturing her little sister. "Daddy says I should take good care of my little sister, so you don't be mean to her or I'll tell daddy and he'll beat you up."
Sirius was startled, and stared at the little girl nervously. The mere idea of getting on Harry's bad side made him involuntarily shudder, as he had seen him just getting stronger, and one punch was enough to shatter concrete. It was a shame that Minister Fudge didn't quite reach the same conclusion.
"You have a very smart daddy then?" he said shaking away all the horrible things Harry might have done to him.
They both nodded in agreement looking very smug and pleased with themselves.
"Yes, they do," said Harry suddenly as he appeared behind them and placed a hand on each girl's shoulders. "It's just a shame that they don't always listen," he continued before looking down at his girls. "What have I told you two about answering the door," he asked in a playful reprimand even though they could tell they had done wrong by his serious tone.
"N-not to," April said sheepishly. "Sorry, daddy, I forgot."
He sighed and rolled his eyes. "Well, no harm done this time, but you must remember that next time you hear someone at the door you are to come and fetch either me or mummy okay?" he asked and they both nodded with sorry expressions. "Remember girls there are bad people who might try to take you both, and even horrible people don't deserve what I will do to them for even attempting something like that, okay?"
"Okay," they both answered sweetly, and Sirius gulped as Harry said all of that so pleasantly that it was scary.
"Well girls," Sirius spoke getting their attention. "You can call me Uncle Sirius, okay?" he said with a grin.
They both look up at Harry uncertainly. He nodded with an amused grin as he returned their gaze and they smiled widely back at him before returning their attention to Sirius.
"Okay Unki Siwius," the littlest said so sweetly he was surprised that Harry didn't cuddle her all day long. Then he internally frowned and shook his head clear. Damn Azkaban must have done a number on his manliness if he had started thinking such girly things.
Harry held in a smirk as he caught the girly hearts (metaphorically) in Sirius' eyes aimed at May. What did prison do to the poor bastard?
"Hey, Harry!" They all turned to see a slim girl with crinkly blonde hair and bright blue eyes as she walked the remainder of the path, as she didn't live that far, and was just a short bus or train trip away from the village. "Umm… well, Ron said I should come down, and stuff… wait, is Hermione here? She won't be mad or anything or something? I don't want things to be weird or anything like that?"
Harry chuckled and shook his head. "Nah, don't worry about that. They both have… well, me in common, and though I am rather amazing," he said with a grin and she couldn't help the small laugh, "I don't think that's enough for something more than hanging out as friend's, Levy!"
She seemed to sigh in relief and shyly looked over Sirius Black, and gulped before turning to the girls, "hey darlings, you wanna lead me to your Uncle Roni-pie?"
"Uncle Roni-what?" April blanched while May giggled, but shook her head as they both took her hands and led her into the house.
"You're going to take the piss out of Ron for that, aren't you?" Sirius asked with a straight face.
Harry nodded as if offended. "That's my job, mate… if I don't who else will?"
"Well, I'm certainly going too," Sirius quickly said.
"Us two!" interrupted two grinning identical red-haired brothers, which caused Harry and Sirius to laugh uproariously, as Harry and the twins let Sirius in, and the twin were all over the bloke for pranking advice, since they discovered he was one of the Marauder's, and built the map with Harry's dad, and Remus Lupin.
"What are you four so loud for?" Ron asked suspiciously, as he sat at the table in the back garden with Levander next to him while May and April were playing with Hermione and Ginny on their jungle gym, but any excuse to play on it was a good one, as Harry did good work.
"Oh, not much, -"
"RONI-PIE!" the four of them finished off together in a round of giggling while Levander pouted with a slight blush to her pale cheeks, and Ron went bright red, but most of the rest of the family roared with giggles, even Arthur Weasley who his wife, some noted, let him 'man' the barbecue, even though she did criticise him, and give instruction, Harry was pretty sure he needed that though, so it wasn't too bad.
to be continued…