A/N I have a four day weekend in school, no school Monday or Friday, so instead of doing one single weekend update as I usually do, I have this one-shot today, a new story Friday (tommorrow), and Morrigan Returns on Sunday or Monday. Also, by chapters 6 or 7 you will find out why the story is called that, apart from Ray's middle name and ancestress (i don't know when for sure, I have a general idea of the plot, but the story writes itself, it's hard to keep the plot in line with my original idea). The first few weeks of the story will be long. A lot happens. But it will stay as close to the canon timeline as I can.
Georgina Smith was pissed. Scratch that/ She was enraged further than a bull at the color red. This had gone too far. Voldemort had stepped over the edge. He was a goner. Riddle would die.
Riddle? Oh yeah. Tom Marvolo Riddle. He really couldn't keep a secret. Voldemort, flight from death in french, really? Really? He was an idiot and she hated being related to him. Even worse than she hated being related to Dumbledore, that old (now dead) idiot, or Potter, the naive and oblivious idiot. But then again, she was a pureblood and was unfortunately related to every single magical idiot, and a few of the muggle (well, really squib) ones. Didn't everyone know that magic was a gene (no muggles had not invented the concept, it was a pureblood squib who had his parents use a bit of magic to get the grant to research it). Magic was a gene, and it was necessary for life. Muggles had it, magicals had it, humans and non-humans had it. The only true muggles were dead muggles, usually the stillborn ones. The killing curse forces the magic out of a person, killing them. Oh, and on that line of thought, least knows truths.
Fact: Tom Riddle was absolutely crap at research, Dark Lord with legions of followers or not.
Fact: All the founders were parselmouths, it's just a branch of magic that requires a magical core and talking to a snake before the age of eleven to master.
Fact: Salazar Slytherin didn't have any children, he was the bachelor of the founders because his family had a maledictus curse that skipped over him, he didn't want to pass it on, his sister did though, to the Greengrass family.
Fact: Georgina Smith born Selwyn was a descendant of Hufflepuff married to a descendant of Huffepuff's cousin, therefore resulting in one child, maybe more in the future, who weren't inbred morons with barely enough magic to cast a lumos. Her brother-in-law, Zacharias, on the other hand, was very close.
Fact: Georgina was teh last of her line, and richer than the blacks, Malfoys, Peverell's, and Lestrage's put together, she just didn;t advertise it, she had a healthy sense of self-preservation, thank you very much.
Fact: Georgina was tired of Riddle's claims to superiority when her family's tapestry clearly stated that the off-branch of teh Selwyn Family, the Guants, those inbred morons who could barely cast a lumos, had one last descendant, the son of a muggle and an inbred pureblood moron of a squib.
Fact: Georgina was the last of her family because Malfoy, legendary victim of the imperius, had not been under the curse, but had cast it on her brother, and he had just gotten out of it and killed himself instead of killing Gerald Abbot.
Fact: the Selwyn family's absolutely secret (and not rumored by all the pureblood families so they know about it but can't prove anything, or tales of beadle the bard secret, but nobody not born or contractually married into the family, not sworn by oath not to tell of it knew about it secret) told her that there wass a prophecy about Harry Potter defeating Riddle that had been destroyed, and everyone knows real, unfinished, not self-fulfilling prophecy cannot be broken. So it didn't matter, but her fifth cousin twice removed Potter obviously thought it did.
Fact: Georgina was taking down that Dark Lord, whether Potter wanted it or not.
Fact: Georgina Selwyn-Smith knew she was a horrible dueller, although a very good potions mistress.
Fact: Georgina was not closely related to the black family enough, or not nearly insane enough to duel Riddle, because for all his faults, he was ****ing good with a wand.
Fact: Dumbledore was an idiot. There was a very simple way to get rid of Voldemort without martyrs, heroes, sidekicks, or legendary drama.
So Georgina did. How? Gold. Money makes the world go 'round, and Georgina was taking a page out of the not too inbred or moronic muggle government's book on how to get rid of annoying terrorists' the general population found terrifying. Money. A million galleon (double the size of the Malfoy fortune) bounty on Voldemort's head would get rid of him in a week or so. Done.
The sign in Gringotts Bank (they would display any sign for the right price, and Voldemort wouldn't dare attack there unless he was trruly insane enough t go on a suicide mission. Saying Goblins were vicious was like calling a dragon a little lizard who can breathe a bit of fire. True, but an understatement to the largest possible extent). A sign saying "Anyone who can kill the one who calls himself Voldemort and has proof of doing so should come to the account manager Grimclaw to receive a million galleons". That would do it, no target on her or her family necessary. Nobody knew account manager's responsibilities except the families they served. Another few signs were also there. Four thousand galleons for a marked Death Eater, alive and not tortured. Ten thousand galleons each for Bellatrix Rodolphus, and Rabastan Lestrange, Antonin Dolohov, Lucius Malfoy, Fenrir Greyback, and Augustus Rookwood, Dead or Alive. people had out their lives on the line for less, the Triwizard tournament being proof.
Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour got married without interruptions other than Muriel Prewett. Harry Potter did not die, Voldemort did not get resurrected because even though he couldn't die, there was a milliion galleon bounty on his permanent destruction, and each horcrux only allowed one resurrection. Voldemort might have been that stupid, but Georgina Selwyn Smith had ten million galleons set aside, to be spent only for the permanent destruction of Voldemort, or when her family was on their last knut. But they wouldn't be. Not when they didn't spend their millions bribing politicians left and right like the "rich" families. Better to have enough money to last comfortably for a hundred generations than to live richly for three. And the world lived happily ever after. Or as happily as they could with a million dollar bounty getting claimed (and actually deserved) once every decade for the next decade. And the Potter famaily were millionaires. All that Georgina did to save her distant cousin from killing Riddle, he still wouldn't accept help, even if he didn't know he was being helped. And the potter family defeated Voldemort every decade, until James Potter IV realized there was no more Voldemort to defeat and his family settled down to become the next Selwyn's with their money management. Oh well.
