08 Madam Bones, It's Me Again
A/N: I'm not JK Rowling nor I'm not into slavery, so I don't own Harry Potter, or anyone else.
A/N2: I am aware of the problem in the previous chapter where Dumble tells Harry he's the head of the I C W. I've tried several times to fix it, it just will not stay fixed.
Someone had managed to free Wormtail before he could be thrown in Azkaban. Hermione knew where he would be. He was going to help Voldemort get himself another body at the end of the fourth task. She called Amelia and she had some of her most trusted Aurors join the champions and Hermione in setting up their response to Harry's kidnapping.
Wormtail was surprised when Harry turned up with the other three champions. The rat managed to activate a prearranged set of wards and called several key Death Eaters. The Champions were pinned down but the Death Eaters managed to capture Harry.
Amelia and her Aurors managed to bring down the wards. Voldemort was captured along with Wormtail and several Death Eaters. Because Petegrew had killed two well known and well liked Aurors he was tried and thrown through the Veil in the Death Chamber.
Harry was treated for his injuries as well as exposure to the Cruciatus Curse. The other champions tried to apologize to Harry, but he was having none of it. He knew just how tricky the rat could be. Madam Pomfrey let him go after two days, as long as Hermione monitored the potions he was supposed to take. He still had some trembling in his hands from the Cruciatus Curse, and walking very far tired him out pretty badly.
Harry had wound up rescuing Gabrielle again because even though they all thought they were prepared, Fleur under estimated just how much being under water sapped her power and her energy and as a result she forgot Hermione's warning. She again lost the battle with the Grindylows and the other Champions had to drive them off.
Harry wanted to deny the life debt but Hermione explained to him that would mean a slow, maddning, death for the girl. Instead Harry talked to the Delacour family and deferred the debt until Gabby was old enough to handle it. He proposed that she become one of his wives instead of a slave, which made her and her family happy.
Fudge wasn't there to cause the Daily Prophet to slander Harry, but Skeeter took that on herself. Although it was nowhere near what Hermione remembered from the first time, it was still bad enough. She decided to let Amelia handle her. She informed the head of th just how and whom had been leaking Ministry secrets, some of which had caused the deaths of several key ministry officials. Skeeter was arrested, tried using Veritaserum, and subsequently thrown through the Veil for leaking information that resulted in the termination of four very important family lines.
Harry had just left for his first detention with Deloris Umbridge. Hermione sent a message Patronus to Amelia asking her to bring some Aurors to the school. Hermione unlocked the classroom door and led Amelia and the Aurors in to the room. They all could see that Harry's hand was bleeding. Amelia stormed over and asked for the quill. Harry handed it to her as the Aurors were putting Magic Suppressors on Umbridge. "The Minister authorized me to use any means necessary to shut Potter up! You can't arrest me!" Umbridge simpered. "Watch me! Get her out of here." Amelia ordered.
Amelia looked over at the only human portrait in the room in time to see it close it's eyes and pretend to be asleep. She knew the portraits reported to the headmaster or headmistress about anything important that they saw. Dumbledore had to know what was happening. The portrait was in the perfect position to see that Harry's hand was bleeding. Yet another nail in the old man's coffin.
A week later there was a trial for Umbridge. Harry was called to testify. The Defense barrister tried every trick he knew to discredit Harry, all he did was wind up making Harry look like an abused and slandered youth. Harry was asked to show his detention to the Wizengamot by use of a projection Pensieve. One look at the letters carved into his hand and it was all over. A search of her office also turned up the order for two Dementors to be sent to Little Whinging on a search and destroy mission.
As a result she was also charged with deliberately trying to end the Potter line. That in it's self was a capitol offense. Especially since the Potter line now included the Peverell line, the Gryffindor line, and not to mention, the Emrys line. As a result Umbridge was thrown through the veil in the Death Chamber.
When Dumbledore tried to interfere with her sentence, Greg Smith got angry and slammed a large tome onto his table and snarled at the old goat, "I'm through being blackmailed Dumbledore! I did something stupid as a kid and you have held it over me far too long! Dumbledore, and Fudge were never legally elected to office.
"Dumbledore illegally used the Potter and Black block votes to elect himself and Cornelius to office. Charlus Potter never appointed proxies for the Potter block votes and James never claimed the seats since his father was still alive. Arcturus Black never appointed proxies either and Sirius never claimed his lordship so he couldn't appoint any either. So you see there could not have been proxy votes from either the Potter or Black block seats to elect either of the two men.
"Dumbledore appointed himself Harry Potter's magical guardian and a guardian can't appoint themselves as proxy for their charges seats on the Wizengamot. Dumbledore caught me and another boy being curious one time in my second year and has been blackmailing me ever since."
Amelia ordered the Potter Will red after hearing that and it was found that Dumbledore had in fact appointed himself as Harry's guardian. When it was brought out that the old man had been stealing quite a bit of the Potter wealth and disbursing it among his supporters, and the fact he had placed Harry with his magic hating relatives, against the Potter will, the old man was done for in Britain.
About that time someone yelled, "Check Potter's back!" Harry didn't know who it was that yelled, he didn't quite recognize the voice as it yelled out the demand. Amelia looked at Harry and asked if he would bare his back for the Wizengamot. It took Hermione coming down and encouraging him before he would comply. Amelia and Harry convinced the Wizengamot that Her Majesty's courts should handle the Dursleys.
Two days later the Dursleys were arrested. Several crimes came to light because of the arrests. Things like income tax evasion, Dudley and his gang beating up smaller children and stealing from them, vandalizing several neighborhoods, and play parks, and then the bombshell. At least as far as Harry was concerned.
Petunia had been adopted by the Evans family because the Evans hadn't been able to have a baby for several years. After they adopted Petunia, Iris, who had been trying so hard she actually inhibited her chances, relaxed enough she became pregnant with Lily.
So… Harry wasn't even blood related to the Dursley family hence, no blood wards at number four Privet Drive. Harry never had to stay there to, supposedly, recharge the wards. … Then Harry was told he owned not only number four… but the farm where Marge Dursley was breeding her dogs… without paying rent… while the utilities for both places were being paid for out of the Potter vaults.
Then to add insult to injury… Harry was told that his parents set up a, nearly dummy, company just so Vernon could have a job. Harry owned the company Vernon worked for, the new, expensive, cars Vernon always drove… and… that Dumbledore gave them money out of Harry's vault. Dumbledore went free by one vote. Harry wasn't allowed to appoint proxies until after the trials were over, unfortunately.
Dumbledore had no money, no properties left, and no friends close enough that would let him mooch off them. His brother was allowed to keep ownership of his bar with the agreement that he would not help Albus in any way. He had no problem with that at all. Abe wasn't sure which of the quarreling lovers had killed Ariana, but he knew one of them had cast the curse that ended his little sister's life, and if they hadn't been fighting Ariana wouldn't have jumped in to try to stop them.