A/N: Thank you all for the reviews. Harry Potter is not mine, this is a story from a fan.

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Lucius watched how Albus walked away after Bartimius had told them everything that had happened tonight. The only positive thing he had heard was that he had seen his lord as a despicable baby and that he wasn't there for his resurrection. The only one that was there was Peter Pettigrew and he wasn't here to tell them that Jr. was right. A couple of steps behind Albus were Minevra and Isabella. They were carrying Harry between themselves and were making their way to the infirmary. Harry was walking, well he was mostly dragging his left foot before the other to then do the same with his right foot.

That picture only told Lucius that his Master had not been at a hundred percent. Harry Potter did fight back but his master had gone too soon. If he had waited another hour or so the brat would have been dead, Lucius was sure of it. So even if the brat had become lucky one more time he had to do something to save his master. If Fudge would see Bartimius Jr it would all be over. The truth about the return would be public and they would have to fight even harder and all would have been for nothing.

Severus Snape was the last one who walked out of the room where he had left Bartimius Jr. alone bound in a chair. He looked left and right and had seen that all the students had left the hallway. He was definitely happy that he didn't see the friends of Potter. When he turned the other way again he saw Lucius standing there looking at him. "Lucius what are you still doing here" came his angry voice.

Lucius blinked twice as he gazed at Severus. "Severus, we have to do something" Lucius stammered.

"What are you babbling about man, there is nothing we can do now. "When Fudge gets here Albus will make him repeat himself and there is nothing we can do about it. He will know that our Lord is back. Now I do not know if you know it but I have still to go to him. I didn't show up when he called me and when I do now I can only hope that I can come back alive". It was then that Severus looked both ways before he went on. "Now I could run away but the old man still wants me to play the double spy".

Suddenly Lucius snapped his head up and looked at Severus with big eyes. "That is it, that is your saving grace. You go to Albus and tell him you have to report to our Lord to tell it all. I will go and get Fudge here. That little shit is so easy to manipulate that it isn't a challenge anymore. I know that Albus is also on his way to him but knowing that old man he will take ages while you are waiting here. It also helps that if you go to him now you can keep him away for a little while longer".

Severus looked at Lucius and wasn't really sure if he understood everything Lucius was saying. But he was very determent to do everything for his Lord. Mostly so he could keep his head on his shoulders for a couple of years longer. With a firm nod, he left the hallway with Lucius at his side and went looking for Albus while Lucius went looking for Fudge.

*#*

Minerva and Isabella had placed Harry on to a bed in the infirmary. Halfway on their way back to the infirmary Harry had slumped down and had to be brought back by a levitation charm. It wasn't the most ideal way to take him but they just didn't know how to do it differently.

"Poppy we need you" Isabella screamed.

It was a minute later that Minerva smacked herself on her forehead with a flat hand. "Poppy isn't here Isabella," she said. "She is in the medical tent near the maze. We have left her there when we went looking for Harry. DORA" she screamed.

A little house elf popped up beside her and gazed up. "Yes mistress kitty, what can Dora do for yous".

Minerva smiled at the little elf. "Dora, I want you to stay here with Lord Potter until we are back. If the friends of Lord Potter come here, then you have to keep them here too. Other then his friends there is no one else is allowed here or anywhere near Lord Potter".

Dora nodded and watched on as Minerva and Isabella were leaving the infirmary. "Minerva, why are we going to get Poppy, you could have poped her here by Dora".

They were one floor down when they saw the friends of Harry and Minerva pointed behind her. "He is in the infirmary. You all go there lock the door and stay there. I do not care who is in front of the door you only open it when I get back together with Poppy and Isabella, is that understood" all the friends nodded. Minerva turned to Isabella "Yes, I could have Dora pop Poppy into the infirmary but I do not know if she is busy. She is the only healer that is here and you never know what she has. Now if she has nothing I will get another house-elf and pop her here immediately". This time it was Isabella that nodded.

When they got outside Minerva saw Albus walking back to the castle all by himself. "Isabella something isn't right. Albus was going to get Fudge but he didn't because he is going back all by himself".

Isabella just looked at her but didn't understand what she was talking about. "Never mind Isabella," Minerva said. "You go to Poppy and pop her to Harry as soon as you can. I will go and see what Albus is up to".

*#*

Albus had walked down the hallway as he looked at how Minerva and Isabella had taken Harry up to the infirmary. He had known all along that Bartimius Jr had been the spy in the walls of Hogwarts. He also knew from the start that it had been he who had placed the name of Harry into the cup. So to make the cup was turned into a Portkey wasn't that surprising, especially because he told him that a Portkey could get someone out of the wards. He had told it all on the day he had come into the castle. That day he knew that it wasn't Madeye he was talking to and had already given him the Portkey to escape if needed. he had done it with the line every Professor had one. So from the moment, he walked into the castle Albus knew that Voldemort was on his way back.

While Albus was walking to the outside he realized he still had two problems. one was Minerva and the other was lady Hogwarts. Lady Hogwarts was the one who could beat him in a duel so that was the last one he wanted to fight with. Minerva had been easy up until this time. Here and there a little modification of her mind and it was all done. This time however it could not be done. Too many people had been there to listen to Bartimius and he could not modify all those memories. He had seen all the members of house Hogwarts and also all his friends so they would already know what had happened.

While he walked down the steps his gazed went over the crowd. He was looking for Fudge and found him quickly but he didn't go to him. He still had to find something to help himself to get this all looking good for his greater good. He found his way around the people and heard a lot of good things. The most things he heard was that Harry Potter was thought of as the murderer of Cedric Digory. He knew that Harry didn't do it and that his claim of the return of Voldemort was right. Still by hearing all of this he knew he could make it so that Harry would be on his own again. No one would willingly stand next to a supposed murderer. If he could make it so that he would look like the only one he would be standing next to him then he could get him back to his side to take his place in the greater good".

In his walk around the crowd, he had lost his gaze on Fudge. So he placed his grandfatherly smile on his face and started to walk between the people to find him. It was then that he saw him walking into the castle with Lucius and Umbridge running behind them. He didn't know why but it could only help him if he would let Lucius do whatever he was planning to do.

*#*

The friends were already sitting around the bed of Harry. in the fifteen minutes they were there he hadn't woken up for a minute. the wound he had on his lower arm hadn't closed and it wasn't closing at all. Bella and Daphne had tried all they knew and even used some healing charms Poppy had taught them.

Bella and Daphne just didn't understand it. every time they had closed the wound it started bleeding again after only a couple of seconds. something that happened over and over again every time they heald it.

Poppy walked in right before Isabella. Without saying a word she rushed to the side of Harry where she started to wave her wand all over him. After a couple of minutes, she started to curse and curse. she was saying words none had ever heard coming out of her mouth. Let alone hearing her curse over and over again was something that frightened them deeply.

"Really the kid has been kidnaped and comes back all bloody and beaten. He is twisting all over so it doesn't take a genius the figure out what had been done to him. So the first thing they do is take him away from the place he needed the most. ME, for all the lowlifes that are in the castle I was the one he needed. But do they do it, No? That bunch of low-lives, egotistical, self-centered, sons of B"

"Aunt Poppy" Bella started.

"With the name Albus. Wait, what O Bella what is it".

"Aunt Poppy, what is wrong with Harry," Bella asked again only this time in a near whisper because she was a little afraid of what her aunt was about to say after a tirade like that.

Poppy who was just about to let another string of curses leave her mouth closed it with a snap. She had bearly heard the words Bella had spoken but knew that this girl was as scared as all the friends of Harry were. The moment she thought it, she saw all of his friends standing around the bed. With a deep sigh, Poppy looked at the others. "The flesh wound on the arm of Harry has been made by a ritual knife. This means that it can't be closed by magic. But it also means that he will be in more pain then you would be in when I close it with the muggle way".

"You mean with" Daphne started but stopped when she realized that Harry would get another scar just because they had to let the DorkLord come back.

"Yes, Miss Greengrass. I will have to stitch up the wound the muggle way just like I have done a couple of years ago" Poppy answered her.

Daphne wiggled her nose a little as she looked at the needle and thread Poppy pulled out of a box.

"Lady's would you hold him down. Because of the magic from the ritual, I can't sedate him just like I could two years ago. And this time his pain will be much more then it was back then" Poppy told them with sadness in her voice.

Daphne and Bella were a little worried when they took a seat at one side of Harry. Neville took the arm with the wound and held it very close to him. This was the hardest part and he had to do it while Susan and Hermione took one of his legs.

Isabella who had come back with Poppy had been standing to the side as she looked on. She knew that she had the hardest part. She had to share the Pain. So she positioned herself behind Harry as she circled her arms around his waist and opened her self up to his feelings. With one hand she placed a stick between his teeth and knew he would wake up the moment Poppy would push the needle through his skin.

*#*

Minerva was on her way to Albus. she didn't know why but he had led all the people into the great hall. He had taken his seat in the middle of the high table and it aggravated her enormously. That was the place of her cub and he knew it. Her cub who had done it all while he was sitting on his backside. She stormed between the tables and then she heard a scream in her mind. The scream of pain was followed by a sharp pain in her lower arm and she slumped down to her knees with tears welling up in her eyes.

Zanita saw her go down and how all the people were just staring at her. She rushed to her favorite Professor, while she was followed by Amelia and Apolline who had followed her back from the medical tent.

*#*

Lucius had given a last look at Bartimius Jr. before he too left the castle to look for Fudge. his only hope was that he would get to him before Albus did. When he got to the outside of the castle he was in luck. Albus was walking the other way as he gazed at Fudge standing next to Umbridge. In the distance, he saw Severus leaving the gate and knew that he was on his way to his Lord.

In a slow run or a very fast walk, he walked over to Fudge and grabbed him by the arm. "Minister, you have to come with me right now," He told him as he pulled him along.

Fudge who didn't know what was happening looked to his side. When he saw the face of Lucius he had to smile. This was the one who could help him with everything that had happened. This whole Tournament had been one big drama. at the first task, they lost a couple of people and almost lost two others at the second. Now they lost their own champion and they were all blaming Harry Potter for it. Now he did hate that boy because he was always doing the things he wanted to do. Only he did it first and much better. In the end, he was always smelling like roses and that really rubbed him the wrong way.

This time he was hearing people telling each other that Potter was a murderer. As Fudge listened on he could not say he believed it. Yes, he was everything they said he was but a murderer, no that was something Potter wasn't. He had the right to kill him when he was in his house. He had the right to ask for a duel to the death when he won the case in front of the Witenagemot. However, he didn't, he just asked for an apology and nothing more, so a murderer he was not. Fudge gazed up at Lucius again and had to ask. "Lucius, where are you taking me".

Minister I know this will be hard to believe and I do not know how they did it but Bartimius Jr. is still alive. He escaped Azkaban and is now tied up in the office of Professor Moody. I will tell you again that I do not know how, but I was there when he told Albus that he had been working for the Dark Lord. He told Albus that he dressed himself up as Mad-eye and in that way, he placed Potter into the tournament. He played us all for the whole year and now he is being kept in his office".

"Lucius, are you saying Potter was telling the truth and that he is back".

"No, No, minister. Bartimius was talking about the Dark Lord who is now a misformed Baby. We all know that you can't come back from the dead, so he can't. Now it is my opinion that Bartimaeus has gone mad in Azkaban. He believes that the Baby was the Dark Lord and when Potter was taken to him Potter believed it too. I even think he has been placed under the Imperious Curse".

"Lucius are you telling me that Potter has been used all year long".

With that question, Lucius knew that he had placed his seed of doubt into the mind of Fudge and that he could now push him into the direction he wanted to go. "Yes and no minister, I think that Potter has been used today and today alone. The rest of the year he has been played like the little fool he is. All year long Bartimius has pushed Harry into the tournament and pushed him all over till today. All that just to used him to say the Dark Lord is back".

Fudge nodded but it was clear to Lucius that he just nodded because that was what he was supposed to do. This again told Lucius that he had Fudge where he wanted him. "Now I do not know how mad he has gotten in Azkaban but it is clear he has. I do believe that he had taken Potter to another place. Most likely a cemetery as Potter said. There he used Potter to kill Cedric just to put a fright into him. He then tortured Potter before he sent him back. I even think he used morphing spells to make himself look like the Dark Lord. That is why Potter things he is back".

"Do you really think he used Potter killed Cedrick".

"I really don't know minister. Bartimius has tortured the Longbottoms and you see how they ended up. So to use Potter to kill Cedrick isn't that unbelievable is it. However, Bartimius has been here all the time and that tells me that He had someone to work with. He most likely killed the other boy before he sent Potter back. But I do not know who that could have been".

Fudge nodded again "Yeah, I can see why you would say that. You have been under that curse and you have done terrible things".

Lucius gave a fake shiver when he thought back to the time as a Death Eater, making Fudge think that he was ashamed of it. "Yes, minister, I did so, so why not Potter. Now I do know that Potter will tell everyone that he is back if we don't do something about it".

"But, Lucius, I do not know what I have to do or can do about it".

Lucius gave him a little smile. "Well, we have to stop Potter in any way we can. First, we have to take care of Bartimius. If Potter stands alone he can't do that much damage then when he has Bartimius at his side screaming the same thing. That will only make it worse".

"But his friends will be standing behind him" Fudge argued.

"Not for long Minister. If we can get rid of Bartimius then Potter will stand alone and his friends will leave him. Then you will get the ministry back under your control. But that will only happen if we can get rid of".

It was now that Fudge stopped him. "We can give him a Dementors kiss. Every prisoner that escaped Azkaban can be kissed. That law was placed when Sirius escaped and we never retracted it. So we can still use that law on him". Fudge knew that Lucius wanted to do something about Bartimius and also that there was another reason for it. He didn't ask about it because if he didn't Lucius would give him another bag of money just to keep him quiet.

Lucius knew that it wasn't what he wanted to happen. He didn't know what his Lord would say if one of his people would be kissed. then again he has told them all about his return and Lucius could say that this had been the only way to make it look like he had lost his mind. While they had been talking Lucius had taken them to the office of Mad-eye.

"Merlins beard that is Jr." Fudge screamed as he saw him.

Lucius had to roll his eyes when he heard Fudge bud he didn't say anything about it. With a little sigh, he said. "That is what I have been telling you, minister" Lucius told him as if he was talking to a child. Something Fudge never understood and that made him the perfect tool for the job.

Fudge was still thinking and never heard what Lucius said or in what way he said it. "Lucius, I can get a Dementor here within a minute, I can use that Floo right here. I as minister do not need to go through all the legal things, because I'm going by the law as it is".

Lucius smiled a little, he knew that Fudge didn't have that authority but he would let him think he had just to get this done.

"The only problem I have with it is how to keep Potter quiet for what is to come after he has been kissed".

"HEM, HEM" sounded from behind them making the two-man jump. None of them had realized that Umbridge had followed them all the way to the office.

As the two men turned to Umbridge she began to speak. "I do not think we have to worry about Potter all that much. Albus has agreed to help me with a plan I have and to turn away when I'm handling it. I can't say everything jet, because I still have to work out some plans but I will and I will tell it all to you when I'm done".

Fudge nodded as Lucius took over. "So you are going to make sure that Potter is seen as a lier" Umbridge nodded at that. Then I might help you by pulling some strings with the Daily Prophet". The one thing Lucius didn't tell them was that the owner of the paper was also a marked follower of his Lord. He wasn't high enough to be a part of his inner circle but it wouldn't be long before his Lord would show himself to his followers.

"Yeah, Yeah good you do that Lucius," Fudge told them and showed that he hadn't listened to him at all. "I have to get a Dementor here so we can handle this before other people will be getting here," Fudge said again as he made his way to the Floo.

Lucius just gazed at Fudge as he walked to the Floo. Just thinking about what he could tell his Lord but he knew that he could spin it in his direction because Jr. had told them everything. The other thing he was thinking about was that not everyone in the ministry was as stupid like the minister. As he thought about that, he was saddened that he didn't have the power to throw Amelia out because that would have made his life so much simpler.

While Lucius was buried in his own fantasies of throwing out Amelia, Fudge had just told the Dementor what to do.

"MINISTER".

*#*

Amelia saw Minerva slump down as tears sprang into her eyes as she held her hand to her lower arm. "Minerva what's the matter," she asked as she sat down next to her.

Minerva didn't say a thing and just looked up at the ceiling. Amelia could see at the tears that something was happening with Harry. Not only could she see it at the way she looked into the direction of the Infirmary. But also by the way she whispered Harry.

Amelia looked around for a moment and knew that they had seen Lucius walking with Fudge while Albus was sitting at the head table. It took another fifteen minute before Minerva had come to herself. As her eyes fixed them self at her lower arm, Her eyes became wider when she remembered how it felt like a thread going through her flesh, it was then that she told them that Harry had been sowed together the muggle way.

"No," Amelia screamed.

"Offcourse he has stitches as the muggles have. He has been cut by a ritual knife. Those knives are full of runes and magic. they are mostly used for satanic and sadistic rituals like this one and cant be heald by magic" Zanita told them as if she were giving them a lecture as she would do in class.

Both Minerva and Amelia just looked at her.

"What, that is how it is when you do a ritual like this. I do not like it but in the old days, it was done more than you would ever know. Some of them are really sadistic but like every sort of magic, it can be used for good as well as evil". It was at that moment that Zanita threw her head up to the sealing. "Merlin, someone has gotten a Dementor into the school by Floo" and she disappeared into nothingness.

Amelia saw her go as she turned back to Minerva. "I wish she would take some of us whither when she does a thing like that. How will I ever know where she is at this point".

PLOP sounded next to Amelia and before she knew it she was standing next to Fudge and Lucius. "MINISTER" she screamed. But all that was left for Amelia to see were the lifeless eyes of Bartimius Jr. looking up at the ceiling.

*#*

As the sun started to shine through the window Harry awoke from his peaceful sleep. In the bed next to him were Bella and Daphne all wrapped up in each other's arms. At the other side, he saw Fleur and Victor lying in different beds. He knew that Fleur had hurt her ankle and that he had helped her out of the maze. He also knew that Victor had done something but he wasn't himself when he did it. At the far end of the infirmary stood a bed behind a black screen. He didn't need to know what was behind that screen because he knew, he had seen it all.

He wanted to get up but was pushed back by Poppy who stood next to him in her nightgown pushing him back. "Mr. Potter, I the head healer of Hogwarts order you to stay in bed. As your aunt, I'm telling you to stay in bed or no presents at your next birthday". She smiled at him as he smiled back " I have already told your grandmother that you were waking up. She is happy and on her way. I also placed a silencing ward around your bed so you do not wake the others".

Before Poppy could finish with whatever she was about to say next was stopped when Minerva rushed into his arms. She had just left her bed and it was clear because all of her curlers were still in her hair. It was Poppy who asked her with a smirk as she looked at her hair "Did I wake you Mini"?

Minerva looked up and saw a loose curler in front of her face. She smiled back but said nothing as she hugged her grandson again. It was an hour later that everyone was sitting around the bed of Harry when Albus walked in. Everyone looked at him but held their tongue. They didn't know what he was about to do or say and just waited for whatever was to come.

Albus didn't walk to Harry but straight to Minerva. "Minerva, we have to bring back the order. Now that he is back we can't wait any longer. We have to prepare our selves on what is to come. So get the gang back to gather while I bring Harry back to his aunt and Uncle for his own safety".

A/N This was it again for this week. see you all in two weeks.

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