I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER
Also, my dear readers, I will be pairing Harry with someone, and no, it will not be slash. I'm not against slash, just not going to write it for this particular story. Maybe another time :)
But the girls that Harry might be paired with are Daphne, Luna, Hermione (if you guys so choose to let her come to terms with Harry's new position), and Susan. You guys can suggest other people, but it won't be guaranteed that I will put them on the list. Just know that Ginny is not an option. Please review on who you would like to see Harry paired with! Onto the story
"Hogwarts, does we really need a caretaker?" Harry deadpanned. The entity smirked before shaking her head no.
"Wonderful. Filch and his demon cat will be out of here by the day after tomorrow." Harry grinned ferociously, and the others began to grin along with him. "Let's move onto the teachers. Who's first?"
"McGonagall," Neville said.
Hogwarts handed Daphne a file, and the Slytherin girl looked through it before nodding. "She has a great track record, Harry. I say she stays."
Harry raised an eyebrow before looking through it himself. "That's pretty good. With about eighty percent passing OWLs, and seventy-six percent passing NEWTs. Also, she's pretty unbiased, and follows the rules down to the letter." he commented.
"She has too many positions though. Being the Head of Gryffindor, the Deputy Headmistress, and the Transfiguration professor, she's got a lot on her plate. How's she holding up as your Head of house?" Draco asked the Gryffindors.
Ron and Harry exchanged an uneasy glance. "Not too well, unfortunately." Ron sighed.
"I'll take being a Head of House off her plate, and let her concentrate more on being a Deputy Headmistress and a professor." Harry murmured, and the other Gryffindors agreed. "Now the only question is, who is eligible to replace her?" he wondered aloud.
"I say Professor Vector," Luna said, "she works very well with the students, and listens to their problems should they come to her for them. I know of many students who actually go to her rather than their own head of house." Harry smiled, and glanced over at Ron and Neville to see their thoughts on this.
"I like the sound of it. I know I don't take Arithmancy, but she sounds like she would be good head of house material. We should probably meet with her first before doing anything." Harry replied after seeing their nods of assent.
"Speaking of teachers, since many more students will be coming in with us improving the school, we should probably have the current ones teach only the fifth through seventh years while having another teacher teach the younger years," Susan commented.
"I agree. It will be too much stress on them with them teaching so many students alone." Terry said, and Harry gestured for Hogwarts to note it down.
"Next up, Snape," said Neville nervously.
The room exploded into arguments, and Harry had to roar, "SILENT!" in order to get them to settle down. "That's enough," he said firmly. "I know you won't like it, but Snape is a Potions Master, and it would be great if we kept him. Not to mention that from what I've seen, he takes his Head of House duties incredibly seriously. However, he isn't that amazing of a teacher, especially for the younger years. I say we keep him here for the older years because by then the students will have learned the basics of potions. I also think we should tone him down by explaining to him what his prejudice against all houses besides Slytherin is doing. Is that fair?"
The room's occupants nodded relunctantly, still shooting each other glares until Harry .
"Thank you. Let's finish up with the teachers and eat dinner before calling the Heads of Houses in." Harry said, and they agreed.
"Trelawney is out, no questions. I think Flitwick and Sprout are great teachers, and you guys discuss Vector along with Babbling." Harry said tiredly before calling in Dobby to order dinner.
The people who took Runes and Arithmancy agreed to keep their respective teachers, and when dinner came, they all only were too grateful for some silence. Taking a bite of his steak, Harry hesitated before asking, "What about Hagrid?"
The others glanced around nervously before Terry spoke up. "I'm sorry Harry, but he just doesn't understand how much fragile we as humans are compared to him. I suggest we keep him as an assistant or as a teacher for the older years who will have more experience with handling creatures."
Harry blinked slowly before saying, "Alright. I was going to suggest that anyways."
They all breathed a sigh of relief before finishing up their dinner.
"Professor Sinistra can stay, but kick out the Muggle Studies teacher. He doesn't know a thing about what he's talking about. We are switching out Muggle Studies with the mandatory for wizard raised Muggle World class anyways." Justin said.
"Let's call the Heads in, shall we?" Harry asked cheerfully. Hogwarts faded from the room to collect the Heads of Houses. A few minutes later, she walked back into the room with them following behind her.
"Potter! What is the meaning of this?" Snape barked.
"Severus, calm yourself." McGonagall snapped, and he growled before falling silent.
Harry looked to Hogwarts for reassurance, and she nodded. "I'm sure you all must be confused as to why we called you here, but please take a seat before we start." They all took their seats. "Now, I….was chosen as your new Headmaster. And I collected two people from each house to be in a student council to help me along the way because I know that I can't do this alone. I would like to show you everything we've done." Snape looked like he was going to burst out into a rant when Hogwarts gave him a sharp look and he quieted. After being shown everything via a Pensieve memory, they all sat back, stunned.
"I think...that I approve of what you've shown us. At first, I was confused at many points, but then you all explained everything afterward in the memory." McGonagall commented, and the others all voiced their agreements. Snape's agreement was reluctant, but he understood. Hogwarts giving him the pleasant smile of death may have also influenced his decision.
"Now, two things. First of all, if you're going to continue working under me Professor Snape, you must swear an oath to give up your Death Eater status forever. I will then be removing your Dark Mark with a simple parseltongue 'finite'. Second, I'll be going to Diagon Alley to check with Gringotts tomorrow, and since it's almost the end of the year, I'll make the announcement at the Ending Feast to let them all mull over it during the summer. Heads, you can tell you fellow teachers, but don't say anything to the ones we are going to fire." Harry said, rubbing his eyes.
Snape gaped at Harry for his offer to rid him of the very mark he hated with passion. "Potter, I don't even need to think about this. I, Severus Tobias Snape, hereby swear on my life and magic that I will give up my status as a Death Eater forever once Harrison James Potter removes my Dark Mark. So mote it be!" Snape quickly swore. Harry grinned happily.
"Brilliant!" Snape quickly rolled up his left sleeve, baring his forearm. Harry stared at the mark, pressing his wand to it and hissed §Finite§. Snape's eyes rolled back in pain as the mark screamed and writhed, bleeding black. Conjuring a cloth and wiping away at the black liquid, Harry grinned triumphantly at the now bare forearm. He yawned widely, feeling exhausted. "I'm heading to bed here, thanks. Student council friends, sleep here tonight if you want." he murmured, and a door leading up into a bedroom appeared. The teachers left, levitating Snape out, and the students in the room all headed up to bed.
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The next day, Harry woke up early and asked Dobby to take him out to Gringotts. "I would like to take an inheritance test." he requested, and upon seeing who was, the goblin growled,
"Follow me." the goblin led him into an office, and silently handed him a piece of parchment and a knife. Harry pricked his finger, letting a few drops of blood drip onto the parchment, and words appeared as the cut healed over.
Name: Lord Harrison James Potter-Black Gryffindor Slytherin Ravenclaw
Total monies: 50,000,000,000 galleons
"How can I be the heir to three of the four founders?" he asked incredulously. Th goblin- Griphook, Harry realized- grinned toothily at him.
"The Potter are naturally related to the Gryffindor line, so that makes you the heir of Gryffindor. Your mother, Lily Evans, was actually the daughter of the Ravenclaw line that had turned squib a few generations ago, so as you being the only prime male magical of the line, you are the heir to that line. And when you defeated Tom Riddle as a child, you can claim the Slytherin line by conquest." Griphook explained, smirking widely
"Can I claim these lordships now?" he asked, and Griphook nodded.
"Ironfeet! Get Lord Potter his lordship rings!" the goblin snapped, and the goblin guard standing at the door hurried out of the room. Ironfeet sped back into the room with a box in hand and knelt before Griphook, holding up the box to him.
Griphook gently took the box and set it down before Harry. "Place the rings on your fingers Lord Potter, and that will be all," he said, baring his teeth into a grin. Harry quickly placed the rings on his fingers, where they merged into a single ring, the Potter crest proudly on display.A few seconds later, however, magic exploded off of him, a black spirit leaving his scar screaming in pain as his scar burst open, blood leaking down his face. Harry's eyes rolled back, and he let out a scream of pain.
And just as fast as it came, it stopped. The black spirit flew out of the room, and Ironfeet chased after it, knowing that it was searching for the closest soul piece. Harry slumped forward and crumpled to the floor. "G-Griphook, w-what w-was t-that?" he gasped, his body spasming every few seconds from the intense pain it just went through.
"Your rings just cleansed your body, and in your scar, you held a horcrux, an evil magic that is."
"H-horcrux?"
"A piece of one's soul. It's incredibly evil magic, for you have to have no remorse and kill a person in cold blood. By making one, you have to be a monster." Griphook said coldly as Harry shivered at the thought. Ironfeet rushed back into the room, snarling under his breath.
"Sir, the horcrux revealed that the LeStranges had put another of those vile things in their vault, but both are from the same soul." the goblin said, kneeling.
"Riddle." Harry hissed as Griphook paled and barked,
"Get Ragnok!"
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"Why have you called me here Griphook?" a regal looking goblin demanded as he walked into the room.
"Your majesty, we have discovered a breach in the treaty thanks to Lord Potter here. The LeStranges have put a horcrux in their vault." Griphook knelt before the other goblin. Harry's eyes widened, and he knelt as well. Ragnok waved them off, and they stood.
"I see, remove it," Ragnok paused, "we will continue to search for more if he has already made two. Vile monster he is." The goblin king turned to face Harry and bowed low. "Thank you, Lord Potter, for assisting us in discovering this breach of security and of the treaty. For this, the Goblin Nation is in your debt."
"Your majesty, I must thank you for ridding me of this vile thing. Not to be rude, but I don't have a debt from you, you have already repaid it in my opinion." Harry said, shocking the three goblins in the room.
"You are very kind Lord Potter," Ragnok smiled, "for this, I name you a friend of the Nation." this statement caused Griphook and Ironfeet to choke on their air. Harry inhaled sharply in shock, eyes as wide as dinner plates.
"Thank you, your majesty," he said, bowing low. Ragnok barked out a laugh.
"Call me Ragnok, Goblin Friend."
"Then you must call me Harry."
"Thank you, Teller Griphook, and may your enemies cower before your blade," Harry said, bowing low. Griphook blinked in surprise at the use of goblin customs from the wizard before him.
"May your gold run freely Lord Potter," he replied, still shocked.
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Harry set out to get a proper haircut and better clothes, along with a proper magic trunk, and his own guitar. He left Diagon Alley with his hair cropped short with emerald green streaks in it. His new trunk had blood protections so only he could open it, along with having a dueling room, a potions room, a flat, and a music room that had his new acoustic guitar inside.
Dobby took him back to Hogwarts, where he noticed that it was barely past eight in the morning. Heading down to breakfast in the Great Hall, he noticed that Ron was waiting for him with Neville.
"Looking good mate," Ron whispered.
Harry smirked. "Thanks. Where's Granger?"
Neville, who had been told of what happened between the two, said, "She's in the library. She wanted to look up if Lady Hogwarts had ever decided to choose its own Headmaster before. She really didn't like you being chosen."
Harry nodded and decided that he needed to inform Dumbledore and the Order about him being Headmaster. Eating quickly, he muttered, "I need to go tell Dumbledore that I'm the new Headmaster, Dobby can take me to him. See you guys in the Gryffindor common room later."