"And then Voldemort's spirit left Quirrel's body and Quirrel fell to the floor dead. I killed a man when I was 11 years old and was awarded a house cup for the effort. Yay me!" The last was said with a rich amount of sarcasm. Amelia could see the boy truly felt that the man's death had been his fault - although she knew Quirrel had signed his death certificate when he made that initial contact with Voldemort, it was clear Harry still had some unresolved feelings about that incident.
"Harry, I mean Mister Potter," Amelia couldn't believe her lack of decorum, "Quirinus Quirrel was dead the moment he was possessed by Voldemort, it is a shame and loss, but it is not your fault. I will do everything in my power to ensure you receive the necessary therapy to believe that fact as well, your guardians and teachers have failed you tremendously with regards to your own health and safety. I am going to insist once this meeting is complete you accompany me to St Mungo's, I am of the belief that you require intensive physical and emotional health care intervention that has been kept from you for an as yet unexplained reason." Amelia could see the young man was considering the offer, but that something seemed to be keeping him from accepting it.
"Firstly, do feel free to call me Harry, mister Potter reminds me of school, secondly I actually agree with you, I realized this morning that I have not adequately healed from the Dementor attack, but I am afraid that Dumbledore won't allow it. He doesn't like it when I leave Privet Drive."
"Well Harry, Albus Dumbledore has no say in the matter. He is your headmaster, and has no influence on your life outside of school, or at least should have had no influence outside of school, although I can see he has been influencing your life for a very long time. This segues nicely into our next topic of discussion." Amelia took a deep breath, trying to center herself and get the meeting back on its original track.
Before she could continue there was a knock on the door. Wild-eyed and worried Harry looked at the three people in his room whilst his aunt yelled into the room.
"Why are you just lazing about boy?! I need to get to my garden club and you have a chore list a mile long. Get out here right now!"
Indicating to the other three to hide in an opposite corner Harry quickly opened the door to speak with his aunt.
"I am almost finished with this assignment aunt Petunia. I will make sure the chores are done when you get back, just leave the list on the kitchen counter."
"I will tell your uncle of this, Boy! Laying about all day while there are so much to do! Make sure you get it finished or we'll see how much of you still fit in that cupboard of yours!" Without any farewell Petunia left the house. Dudley sneaking out just after she had gone down the driveway.
"If I had any doubts about their 'tender care' before, I have none now mister Potter, but we'll return to them at a later stage." Amelia could barely keep her anger in check.
"Now onto another matter mentioned in your letter. There are no official records of your placement with your family here at Privet drive. Your last updated address was your parent's house in Godric's Hollow, no official change in address has been noted at the ministry." Harry looked at the woman pondering that information. It made sense, as he never received any social worker visits or the Wizarding equivalent of it. He wondered what his address of record was in the muggle world. There was however a couple of things that made no sense when this information was taken into consideration.
"That actually clears up a couple of questions I had, but raises a lot more..." Harry murmured to himself, but the others clearly heard him based on Amelia's response. "I have a number of questions as well Harry, but please ask me yours first, I may have the answers, or we can search for them together."
"Well, it explains why I never received any visits from social workers or from any wizards for that matter, but how did Hogwarts know where I was, to a frightening extent, to send me my admission letter, and how did the improper use of magic office monitor my house to determine there was a hover charm used here in my second year." Amelia scratched her head, pondering the questions put her way.
"I am uncertain about the Hogwarts letter, as those are sent from the castle and the school may have more updated records of your address, but what do you mean by 'to a frightening extent'?" It had been a strange turn of phrase for the older Witch and thus she wanted to learn more about that Hogwarts letter.
"Well, it was addressed to my exact, uhm, room, with some detailed description of where in the house it was located." Harry did not want to go into details of the cupboard and his formative years spent inside it.
"Ah, now I recall, I believe the letters are addressed by a self quilling spell. The Hogwarts student register can magically detect your location, as long as it is not hidden by a fedilius charm or the like." Amelia made a note to check the records at Hogwarts. She had an inkling that the address on that envelope held some key information on the young man infront of her. Harry however was very glad to hear that tidbit of information. He had always wondered if the staff had known about his living conditions and willfully ignored it. Knowing that the letter was sent by a magical book made him feel a lot better about his professor's complacency in his upbringing.
"As for your second question, the ministry does not track the house of the student to determine magic use, it tracks the wand of that student. So if you used your wand for the hover charm, they could track it to this address and thus send the letter here. Why the department did not update your home address at that point, I could only hazard a guess, but would assume that everyone just assumed your records would have been up to date at that point in time." Harry scratched his head at that as he knew that he had not used his wand to cast the hover charm. Mentioning this to Amelia she looked at him clearly intrigued.
"It wasn't me that cast the hover charm. It was the Malfoy's elf Dobby. He had been trying to get me to stay away from Hogwarts, as he knew Lucius was planning that something evil was to be unleashed at the school. I guess Dobby must have used my wand to cast the charm, I'll have to ask the little bugger when I speak with him again."
Amelia could only shake her head upon hearing more layers being added to the chamber of secrets mess. "Remind me to look into that at a later date, we should be able to have that notice expunged. If you had a magical guardian of record they would have helped you with that as soon as the incident happened."
"Now, as there were no records of change of address, I looked up your guardianship records with the ministry, and this is where things get very complicated. There are NO record of guardianship for you after your parents death. I can only hope (and assume) that your aunt and uncle have legal guardianship over you in the muggle world, but there is no official magical guardian of record for you. This is not only completely out of the ordinary, it is in fact illegal. Every child who enters the magical world at age 11 is appointed a magical guardian. In cases where the child is raised by wizards, they are the defacto wizarding guardians of record, where a child is muggle raised they are usually appointed a magical guardian as soon as they are sorted into a Hogwarts House. The Head of House takes over your magical guardianship, unless in rare occasions where another family stands champion for the student. This usually happens when a pureblood sees a lot of potential in a muggleborn and wants their family to protect that witch or wizard until his or her majority. In your case, there is no magical guardian appointed to you at the ministry. Whether this was a mixup due to everybody simply assuming that another person was your guardian or something more nefarious in nature, I cannot determine. The consequences of not having a magical guardian can be vast. In cases like your notice of underage magic use a guardian should have been notified, and could have appealed the notice. Your injuries and so-called adventures at school should also have been reported to your magical guardian. Not having a magical guardian should however work in our advantage at this point in time." Intrigued Harry gave the woman a look that indicated his need for her to continue.
"At this point in time, if you allow it, I will file forms with the ministry to appoint myself your magical guardian. As your magical guardian I will then petition the Wizengamot to investigate allegations of child endangerment by your school and professors, I will also petition to have your parents will, that had been sealed until yesterday, read and executed publicly (I will admit I have already read it, within my official capacity and we will discuss what I found in said will shortly), and may ask you to testify and stand as witness to the happenings at Hogwarts during your first three years there. As your magical guardian I will also petition that your placement here with your aunt and uncle be investigated, and should their guardianship be found wanting we will petition for you to be placed with those your parents stipulated in their will."
"There are some aspects of the will I still need to investigate, and as such I ask your patience on that matter. I will discuss the details of the will once I have ascertained all parties involved's allegiance and suitability for child care. I am certain you can extrapolate from that statement who your parents' first choice of caregiver had been." Harry did not need to ask for more information, it was clear that his parents had wanted Sirius to look after him in the event of their death.
"That brings us to the final matter of your letter, and the part that was hardest for me to believe, yet should be easiest to rectify should all be as you said. Don't get me wrong, I believe you, we must just make sure that we verify every fact before bringing your godfather's case in front of the Wizengamot. I promise you, I will do all within my power to ensure he gets a fair trial. Something that was denied him all those years ago. Now I need you to tell me in your own words everything you know about your godfather's imprisonment and all that happened after his escape. I know what you wrote, and have corroborated the facts that I could - ie. that Sirius Black did not receive a trial as well as the existence of the rat called Scabbers in the Weasley household. I will now need your verbal testimony to get the investigation fully underway."
Taking a deep breath, Harry told Amelia everything he knew about Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and the previous year at Hogwarts.
"Let me get this straight, you used a time turner to save your own life and that of Sirius Black, and during that time you not only conjured a corporeal Patronus, it was strong enough to fight back over a hundred dementors! Let me guess, once again you were not taken to St Mungo's or at the least the hospital wing, and was just sent home without a care! Have you been feeling light headed, scatter-brained, nauseous or inexplicably tired during the last week?" Growing slightly nervous Harry could only nod in answer.
"I'm going to kill that man and all his staff!" Harry could see Amelia was extremely angry on his behalf.
"Getting you to St Mungo's has just become our first priority Harry. You are most likely suffering from magical exhaustion, should it be further left untreated it may cause a slight to significant decrease in your magical strength and reserves. I will accompany you to St Mungo's and retrieve the memories of all events we discussed while you are being seen by the mediwitch or wizard." Feeling a lot more worried over his health and magic than an hour ago Harry readily agreed before remembering the Dursleys.
"What about the Dursleys? My chores? My uncle will be very angry if I do not complete my chores." Amelia could not believe the boy would willingly risk his magic because of his fear for his uncle.
"Do not worry about the Dursleys Harry. Leave those people to us." Seeing the predatory glare shared between the three agents Harry did not want to ask what plans they had for the muggle couple.
Harry only packed his wand and most prized items, like his parents photo album and his school supplies, as he followed the aurors out of his childhood home and into a whole new life.