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Chapter 4 – Harry Gets Even
Yep, Harry was angry but what else was new. He had no doubt what Angelina had told him was true he just wanted to know how she knew it before McGonagall did as the Head had been surprised.
Well one thing was certain, Ginny wasn't getting his broom. He also was not going to date her even if he had to stand on the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall at suppertime and swear on his life and magic to that effect. Of course someone would probably stop him before he could complete the oath and he would have to borrow someone's wand to attempt the oath, but he'd worry about that later.
He didn't feel like going back to Gryffindor Tower yet because then he would run into Ginny and she would demand he hand over his broom, that he take her out this upcoming Hogsmeade weekend and who knew what else. Or Hermione would pounce on him once he set foot inside the Tower as she would, as usual, be angry that he had managed to escape her after dinner and go to McGonagall's office. Since she had lost Ron it was becoming harder to keep Harry in her sights but no doubt once Harry "started dating Ginny" Ginny would pick up the slack.
No, Ginny wouldn't because she would be the next to die. Making sure he was not near any painting, suit of armor or that Peeves or any of the ghosts were around, he donned his cloak and snuck off to an alcove and then activated his secret, untraceable portkey. He appeared in his "lair" and took off the cloak before calling out "Samson" and seeing his new house elf appear.
Samson had appeared to Harry late one night shortly after Harry arrived home from Hogwarts. Harry had just woken up his relatives with his first really bad "Cedric nightmare" and after he had been promptly beaten for waking up his "normal, hardworking relatives with his freakishness" he had been left to wallow in his pain and once again heal his injuries using his wandless magic.
As he lay on the floor trying not to move too much as well as not to cry, he heard a soft pop and then saw a familiar body shape in the darkness. Then a soft glow appeared revealing an unknown house elf who held in his hands a small box. Putting a finger up to his mouth the elf whispered, "Have no fear Harry Potter, Samson is here to help you, to heal you and tell you many things."
The elf must have cast a wall of silence around the room as even though he talked in a whisper one never knew if Vernon was lurking outside the door to strike immediately if he heard any type of sound coming from Harry.
As the elf took the supplies out of the box and began using the contents as well as his elfin magic to heal Harry, they had a very nice chat.
Samson belonged to a distant relative on Lily Evans side of the family. Actually she had been Harry's Great-Great-Grandmother. Her only child had been the mother of Lily's Father, who was a Squib. Lily had been the first surviving member in the Evans Family to have magic since Great Grandmother Evans. That meant that Petunia was also a Squib.
In an ironic twist of fate, Owen Evans had married another Squib, who knew nothing about magic as she had been adopted at birth. Owen didn't tell his wife until he noticed that Lily was doing accidental magic.
Due to a very silly and greatly regretted incident, "G3" as Samson said Harry should refer to his Great-Great-Granny to save time, had been maneuvered into taking an oath to not have anything to do with her descendants and had regretted it as soon as it was done, but that was a long story to be told, maybe, some other time.
Therefore G3 had not been able to step in and "save" any of her few remaining family members, especially a Great, Great Nephew who had been cruelly mislead and cheated out of having a decent life, but again that was another long story which Samson couldn't explain yet.
Thus G3 had been forced to watch helplessly as her family was destroyed, little by little and that Harry was basically all that she had left. However, she had made arrangements that after she died, then her agents could rescue Harry from his fate. She had died a week after the second task of the Tournament and it had taken the last four months for her wishes to be carried out and arrangements to be made and put into play.
"Samson must relay Mistress G3's sincerest apologies that things could not be done sooner, but much had to be done and Samson had to wait until Master Harry had finished with the Tournament. Then the Dark One came back and Samson could not risk retrieving Master until he be sent back here to place of evil and pain."
That certainly described the Dursley residence.
Unfortunately as Samson continued with his briefing, what Mistress G3 had always suspected was true and Master Harry could not be rescued immediately because Dumbledore had Harry tightly in his control and had ways and means of tracking him and keeping him from escaping. Thus, until certain things could be done Harry could not be rescued. It would take some time but it would be done as Mistress G3 had other elves helping but since Dumbledore had done so many "bad things" concerning Harry, it would be slow work correcting all of the wrongs.
"Samson can only tell Master that once everything is ready, Master Harry will be rescued and it will be done very quickly and probably without warning. Until that time Samson will care for young Master and tell him the many things he needs to know before that rescue."
So every night after Harry was locked in his room, Samson came, brought him food and nutrient potions, healed the injuries he received during the day and made him take potions which would heal him slowly but surely. He then gave him a few lessons as well as a few items which he was to wear on his person at all times.
"These be amulets which will protect Master from spells and hexes. Master will also be alerted when he is being given a potion which he should not be and then it can be flushed out. There are many spells and blocks placed on Master which cannot be removed until we elves can free Master but until then he must eat good food, take good potions and prepare himself for this next school year as the powers that be are gathering to do nothing but harm to Master, especially bad Wizard Dumbledore."
Samson told Harry some of the things which Dumbledore had been doing to him since before his birth. The elves were checking on things and they had heard that Fudge was planning bad things for Harry Potter so that he would be stopped from telling the truth that Fudge didn't want to hear. It would probably happen before Harry went back to school so Samson told him to be very careful.
Then the Dementors happened. It seemed Fudge was really desperate until Samson said that Fudge hadn't done it but was going to use it to his advantage. "Ugly toad woman sent Dementors to solve what she calls 'the Potter problem' but even though Master survived, it is being used to try and get Master expelled."
The Order had retrieved Harry and taken him off to Grimmauld Place. Samson didn't appear to Harry for three days as it had taken him that long to find out where Harry was and get there undetected. He also had to be careful not to be caught by the Order members or "crazy elf Kreacher" who, for some unexplained reason Samson urged Harry to make friends with.
Then the trial was held, he met the toad woman, there was Dumbledore's theatrical last minute "saving" of Harry once again and the last weeks of his holiday spent at Grimmauld Place. That in itself had been horrible. Harry had managed to make a sort of friend with Kreacher by confiding in the old, miserable elf that he didn't really like his godfather or any of the other blood traitors and filth and that he had recently found out his Mother was a descendent of Purebloods and not a Mudblood.
Harry had been telling the truth as he had never really gotten to know Sirius and had only been using him as a potential escape from the Dursleys. His behavior after Harry rescued him from certain death had not been impressive. Granted Sirius was in hiding from the Ministry and to get back his health but he had once again not kept his promises to Harry.
After finally being able to have a talk or two with Sirius at Grimmauld Place Harry found out that Sirius' "getting back his health" had consisted of going to a tropical area, spending time on the beach making up for lost time by finding and shagging as many woman and girls over 16 that he could find (even though he had to glamour himself to hide his Azkaban appearance), doing a lot of heavy drinking and eating and just "being himself" while his "beloved godson" went through the horrors of his fourth year.
He had promised to send Harry instructions and his notes on becoming an animagus, but hadn't, nor had he told him any more on the subject while Harry was at Grimmauld Place. No, Sirius just spent his time being yelled at by Molly, controlled by Dumbledore, picking fights with Snape and acting like the immature, spoiled, self-centered CHILD he had always been. All he talked to Harry about was how he and James had ruled Hogwarts, the hilarious pranks they had played (most of which were just plain cruel), the things they had done to Snape just because he was an ugly, stupid, Half-blood bastard Slytherin and because "they could" as well as all of the girls they seduced, shagged and then publically dumped.
Harry had asked about his Mother but Sirius would only say she had been stupid and it took her a long, long time to wise up and see how awesome James really was and that once James "finally got her" that he had actually married her. That had slipped out and had been hastily covered up by Remus but Harry heard it. He pretended he didn't and just smiled and kept on listening, but he did not forget.
Before Harry left Grimmauld Place he decided to write off Sirius Black as the man didn't care for Harry and just thought of him as a replacement for James. He only wanted to mold Harry into a James clone and the only "lessons" he'd give Harry was how to be like James.
Kreacher had been a wealth of information and Samson had managed to sneak in and give Harry more information about "his friends" and all of those who were supposed to care for him and "love" him. Dumbledore was the worst with the Weasleys coming in a close second.
The only way that Harry could avoid some of the things that were going to happen to him was to "get them before they got him" or in plain English, kill or be killed. So he had made arrangements with Samson and even Kreacher to payback certain people before he could be rescued, harmed further or…killed.
That was why Harry had allowed some of the things to happen to him. However, for everything accomplished, he just seemed to fall further and further behind. Most of it was Dumbledore's fault and perhaps it was merely Harry's imagination or the fact that many of the things he had suspected concerning Dumbledore over the years were actually true, but this year it seemed that Dumbledore was pulling out all stops because Voldemort was back and Harry's life was going to be even more horrendous, abusive and dangerous than ever before.
Samson gave Harry an update on how the "Dumbledore problem" was coming along, what was being done about Fudge as Harry was now really gunning for him and how they were going to "take care of" a few people before it was time for Harry to leave. Samson estimated that Samhein or Halloween, which was quickly approaching might be the "time" to escape. As something bad usually happened to Harry on that date, if he disappeared people would just think it was his usual "Halloween incident" and think nothing of it.
But first what to do about Ginny? Samson said that Kreacher had volunteered to see to that blood traitor slut. The entire time while she was at Grimmauld Place, Ginny was constantly teasing the portrait of Kreacher's beloved Mistress.
Ginny's brother Bill had secretly gifted his little sister with a special rune which when placed on the portrait would silence it until the rune was removed. It was their little secret as Ginny had to use her wand to activate and deactivate the rune and since Molly wouldn't allow any of her children, which also included Harry and Hermione, to use magic, Ginny would get in trouble if caught, so she simply wasn't going to get caught.
So Ginny had spent her time torturing the portrait and for that Kreacher wanted her dead. Harry couldn't wait for whatever surprise ending the old elf had in store for Ginny, he only requested that it be done as soon as possible and that he would have his usual air-tight alibi. Oh and that it would be painful, embarrassing and in public.
And possible it was and as it turned out would happen the very next day and not a moment too soon. Ginny had made the mistake of pouncing on Harry as soon as he walked into the Tower, even beating Hermione to the punch.
"I need your broom Harry. Angelina wants us to practice first thing tomorrow so I need it now since you won't be needing it," she had said coyly going even so far as to bat her lashes at him while hanging onto his arm and trying to snuggle up to him.
"Get your own broom and leave me alone Ginny. I don't like you, won't date you and would sooner break my broom into little pieces before I see you mount your skanky ass on it."
That definitely got everybody's attention. Their attention was held as a furious Ginny viciously slapped Harry's face before screaming "GIVE ME THE FUCKING BROOM. I DESERVE IT AND YOU CAN'T USE IT AND DUMBLEDORE SAYS I CAN HAVE IT SO TURN IT OVER NOW."
She said it so loud that Harry was momentarily deaf for a moment before repeating no, she couldn't have it and to go blow a Slytherin. He then attempted to go up to his dorm but was instead hit in the back with a curse and then repeatedly hexed with a few more before Neville managed to grab Ginny's wand out of her hand. She then slapped Neville and tried to wrench her wand out of his hands but he threw it at Harry as he lay on the floor in a lot of pain.
Now Neville thought that Harry would use the wand against Ginny but instead Harry knew better as he would just get into more trouble so he smilingly broke her wand in two, got shakily to his feet and shoved the pieces into Ginny' open mouth before shouting a few obscenities and then exiting out of the Tower. He then used a bit of wandless magic to lock the Tower portrait hole and ran (or rather limped away) for his life. He sincerely hoped that Neville wasn't being too abused but promised to make it up to him if he were.
Throwing his cloak over his shoulders, he limped off to another hidden alcove before calling out for Samson and being taken back to the lair. "Tell Kreacher it happens tomorrow."
He then asked Samson to rescue Neville if he could and gave him permission to bring him to the lair. However, Samson returned to tell Harry that he had difficulty saving Neville as Ginny had physically attacked him, then the Twins hexed him, Ginny gave him a few bad kicks to his torso and actually broke a few of his ribs and then poor Neville was thrown out of the portrait hole and left to suffer in the hallway as Ginny and the Twins left to complain directly to Dumbledore.
Yep, Ginny was going down no later than tomorrow if Harry had to do it himself in the middle of the Great Hall. As it was Samson was ordered to fetch Neville after he saw Madame Pomfrey and take him back to the G3's home and see to his injuries and needs. "Oh and don't forget to save Trevor as who knows what the Gdorks (Harry's name for the Gryffindors) will do to the animal."
Samson had just barely managed to rescue Trevor as Angelina was forcing Dean and Seamus to find the beloved pet so that "an example could be made" for Neville to understand that you don't go against the wishes of the Gryffindors who really matter. Luckily for Trevor he had done one of his famous escapes and was lurking a few floors down so Angelina's accio hadn't worked.
Samson then took it upon himself to seek out and "rescue" Crookshanks if only because for some strange reason cat and toad were friends and Trevor needed a friend. It would also upset "Bossy Bushy Bucky Beaver Bitch" (or B5) into thinking that one of the Gdorks had stolen and done something bad to her beloved pet. In any event Samson was well-pleased with his work. He then started some payback on his own.
The next morning all three girls of the Gryffindor Quidditch team woke up with a severe case of crotch rot. It was so bad (because house elves can be right bastards when they choose) that a very bad smell was being emitted from the girls' private areas which could not be hidden and the itch was extremely painful and embarrassing as they were itching uncontrollably all the way to the Infirmary.
Unfortunately for the girls, Madame Pomfrey was all out of the special cream needed to cure the itch – "I'll ask Severus if he has the time to brew some up for you" – and the girls had to be admitted to the quarantine section of the Infirmary for "modesty's sake" and because due to the severity of the itch, Pomfrey "feared it might be some sort of contagion" so she wasn't taking any chances.
Besides, she had treated poor Neville for his injuries and thought he deserved a little payback against those who hurt him – again!
The next interesting thing to happen at the school was Harry Potter calming walking into the Great Hall for breakfast with his broom. Ginny smiled smugly thinking that he was going to hand it over to her because she had barged into Dumbledore's office telling him about what "bad, mean, stupid Harry had done to her" and he swore he would order the boy to hand it over to his "future wife" as Dumbledore liked to call Ginny.
Dumbledore hadn't told Harry but instead had ordered McGonagall to order Harry to hand over the broom as Harry would be GIVING, not loaning the broom to Ginny because he had publically embarrassed her and it would be his way of apologizing to her as well as being punished for his bad behavior.
However, instead of walking over to the Gryffindor table and surrendering his broom, Harry went to the middle of the hall, pulled out what the Muggleborns recognized as a long type of lighter and set fire to his broom. He had taken the precaution of wearing fireproof gloves to protect his hands as he had dosed the broom in an inflammatory liquid. The broom burst into flames and was half destroyed before anyone could react.
He then thumbed his nose at Ginny – and the entire Gryffindor table actually – before expressing his true opinion of the furious girl to everyone and then started (and hoped) to make his getaway.
However, Ginny had recovered and unknown to Harry had been loaned a wand until such time as she could go to Ollivander's and purchase a new custom made (hence very expensive) wand which Harry would be paying for. She started screaming even worse than her Mother and pulling out the new temporary wand started throwing some very harmful spells at Harry while using language that would cause the most harden Death Eater or disgusting whore from Knockturn Alley to blush.
Harry's dodging skills served him well as he hoped someone would save him from the crazy girl's wrath but, not surprisingly, no one did. He was lucky that Madame Pomfrey had just made her way into the hall as she was the one to stun the girl into unconsciousness after she managed to hit Harry with an almost lethal and definitely forbidden curse. Pomfrey then rushed to Harry's aid followed by Flitwick who had come out of his shock and together they gave him emergency treatment to stabilize him enough so that he could be taken to the Infirmary.
Pomfrey started venting her spleen directing her indelicate but deserving foul language towards the Head Table, who as usual had done nothing to help, although Dumbledore did get out of his seat and headed towards Pomfrey but much to his great surprise, Flitwick sent a stunner taking Dumbledore down.
"You should all be ashamed of yourselves – especially you Minerva McGonagall," yelled Flitwick as he helped Pomfrey take Potter from the room.
No one said or did anything until the door to the Great Hall was closed and then the entire Slytherin table broke out in laughter. Then Snape actually laughed before he revived Dumbledore, helped him up and asked if he could accompany him to the Infirmary to give out the punishment that Potter was surely going to receive.
"Please let me handle the detentions," he asked nicely. "A month's worth should be sufficient."
"Now, now Severus, don't be greedy as I am sure Minerva would like a crack at the boy. Oh and let me un-stun poor Miss Weasley."
"Poor" Miss Weasley was unstunned and immediately started throwing a temper tantrum that shocked most and scared the hell out of the rest. Unfortunately for both she and Snape, Dumbledore decided he would see to Harry later and that all would finish their breakfast and head out to their classes. He did command that NO ONE, not even a Weasley was allowed to see Harry until after Dumbledore handled the matter.
He assured everyone that Potter would be suitably punished and that Harry would buy Miss Weasley a broom of her choosing to make up for his ungentlemanly and unsportsmanlike behavior. This pacified her just a bit. The stupid, greedy little bitch then had the nerve to demand – in public as she was in the Great Hall before the assembled student body – that she wanted more. Harry Potter was to pay for a shopping spree at Madam Malkin's and then maybe – just maybe – Ginny would forgive him.
Even the Slytherins were quiet upon hearing this demand. No one, not even most Gryffindors could believe what they were hearing. Had Dumbledore really gone insane? Draco had to admit that even Potter didn't deserve this even if he was…well Potter.
Draco had to immediately write and send off a letter to his Father as the Dark Lord had to know about this as soon as possible. Dumbledore seemed to be doing everything in his power to alienate the Golden Boy and it didn't make sense. Granted he had always treated Potter like dragon dung but this was ridiculous. What was Dumbledore hoping to gain?
Forcing Harry Potter to humble himself to the whims, wishes and plans of Albus Dumbledore that was what. Harry had been showing entirely too much independence and had not been acting as the abused, desperately needy boy he usually was. He was distancing himself from his "friends" and hadn't been showing enough grief for the death of Ron Weasley and was now refusing to date Ginny who was to take Ron's place in the Golden Trio.
For some inexplicable reason all of Fudge's plans of humiliation and slander were in ashes and according to Snape, Voldemort had nothing to do with any of it. In fact, the Dark Lord was very interested, not to mention amused, about what was going on at Hogwarts. He wanted constant updates from Severus and had sent his Death Eaters out to gather information concerning the strange occurrences happening at the Ministry.
But then a happy Dark Lord meant a lot less pain for his minions so Snape was happy because he wasn't in pain and James Potter's spawn was being treated much worse than usual. The Mutt was in mourning and despair because he had lost the Wolf and was too busy getting drunk to worry about his "beloved godson" and was staying out of Snape's way.
Molly Weasley was in deep mourning and pain so that was another thing for Snape to be happy about. Now if only a few more Weasleys would die and the Mutt would quickly and embarrassingly drink himself to death, Severus would be delirious with joy.
The day was turning out nicely for many people. Snape was happy, the Slytherins had been entertained, the Ravenclaw had food for thought and planned to have some lively debates in the Tower after the evening meal, Hufflepuffs got to laugh and be grateful they were Puffs and not stupid, weird, nasty Gryffs and Ginny Weasley was going to get the most expensive, top of the line broom, a custom made wand and at least 1,000 galleons worth of new clothes and accessories.
Even the beaten, battered Harry Potter was happy – sort of. He had his alibi and Pomfrey and Flitwick had stood up for him in front of everyone, saved him from Ginny and were taking care of him. They were both grumbling about Dumbledore, McGonagall, Weasleys and Snape and it cheered Harry's heart.
Now if only Kreacher would do his job before Dumbledore swooped in to chastise him, belittle him, give him the old "I-am-so-disappointed-in-you" look, "punish" him for his "disgraceful behavior" and all the other things he usually did when Harry was injured, down and out, then Harry would be happy. Hopefully Pomfrey would give him a dreamless sleep potion and then let him stay in the Infirmary to recover before Dumbledore got him.
For once Harry was lucky as Pomfrey did give him the potion and he was out like a light and off in the land of dreams when IT happened.
Ginny was making her way to her potions class along with her unwilling entourage (they were heading to potions so couldn't escape her) regaling them with the broom she was going to get and all the clothes she would soon be wearing. It was making most of them gag but what else was new. So lost in her thoughts was Ginny and so trying to ignore her were the other fourth year Gryffindors girls that none of them noticed the half dozen or so Dementors that were floating towards them until it was too late.
The Slytherins were following close behind them and heard the screams then saw two Gryffindor girls running for their lives, their school books dropped, fear on their faces, screams coming out of their mouths. Naturally they were stopped and grabbed by the Slytherins until one of the Slytherins saw what they had been running from. Then the two Gryffs and all the Slytherins ran for their miserable lives and didn't stop until they ran into Snape who started to yell at them until he saw why they were running.
Fortunately for them he was one of the few teachers who could perform a Patronus with ease and stayed to fight the Dementors off while telling his Slytherins to go for help. He wasn't able to send a notification Patronus due to fighting off the Dementors. The creatures had retreated back to where they came by the time Dumbledore and the others arrived.
Snape advised that Aurors be sent for and the Ministry alerted but as usual Dumbledore said no, he would investigate first and then decide if the Ministry should be told. As they headed towards the potion lab they saw a good reason to contact the Ministry. There on the floor lay three Gryffindor girls, Ginny Weasley being one of them. Their souls had been sucked out.
McGonagall stifled a scream and merely turned her head away from the scene only to see the fourth year Gryffindor boys arriving. They had seen the Slytherins and two Gryff girls running in the opposite direction but being Gryffindor boys, as well as already being late for Snape's class, they kept going to the potions lab. But that's a Gryffindor for you!
Professor Sinistra had come with Dumbledore and she was at first shocked and then extremely angry when she heard the Headmaster forbidding Snape from alerting the Ministry as he needed time to think.
'Damn the man," Sinistra thought, "he's doing it again."
She then made the decision to sneak away and alert the Ministry herself, flooing over to inform Amelia Bones of what had happened and casually mentioning that there were at least six Dementors lurking around Hogwarts and they had already claimed three victims and what DUMBLEDORE WAS NOT doing about it.
Harry blissfully slept all day and did not awake until very early the next day only to be greeted by a pale faced Pomfrey who told him about the events of the prior day.
He was totally able to look completely shocked because he was as he never expected Kreacher of being able to pull off something like that! It was pure genius and he hoped someone had a memory he could get and view in a pensive (a very useful article he had found out about thanks to Samson).
What he really wanted to see was a memory of Malfoy. The ponce and his cronies had been on their way to the Great Hall after being sent there along with all other students by Madame Bones while she and her Aurors searched for the Dementors. They had just entered the hall when out of the shadows three Dementors floated out and hovered directly over Draco, Crabbe and Goyle. Draco let out such a "girly scream" that despite the fear which suddenly and completely gripped the assembled students, much laughter broke out.
Draco panicked. The doors of the hall had automatically shut behind him and Draco kept screaming, flailing his arms wildly and had even grabbed Crabbe to use as a human shield. He even went so far as the yell out "Mummy" at the top of his lungs, he completely soiled himself – and it showed - and tears started streaming down his face as he kept trying to push Crabbe towards the creatures.
Fortunately for Draco, two Aurors had been assigned to the hall to protect the children and they managed to drive the creatures into a corner and subdue them with the special Ministry control device used to control the Dementors stationed at the Ministry. They had no trouble thinking up a happy thought as the son of Lucius Malfoy was providing enough merriment to fuel the Patronuses of a dozen Aurors.
Try as he might, Draco would never, ever live it down. It even made the Daily Prophet as the students and Aurors who had been interviewed all made sure to mention it and the many enemies of Lucius Malfoy delighted in reading about the antics of the Malfoy heir.
Voldemort actually laughed out loud and not his usual evil, fear-rendering laugh but a hearty, merry chuckle which evolved into a full joyous laugh. He was obliged to leave the presence of his assembled Death Eaters to control himself and to let them recover from their own laughter. Lucius merely wanted to crawl into a deep hole and pull a rock over it.
Since Pomfrey had allowed herself to laugh when she told Harry about Draco's behavior, Harry let himself go and also laughed. It was going to be another good day for Harry – until Molly Weasley tried fighting her way into the Infirmary.
Dumbledore had a charm placed on the Infirmary to alert him when Harry finally woke up. Unfortunately, Molly was in his office and when he excused himself to try to sneak off to interrogate Harry, Molly realized where he was going and followed him. Now there was nothing stopping Dumbledore from forbidding her coming even if he had to stun her. But being the total bastard he was he simply made excuses and only succeeded in delaying the evitable confrontation.
Thus, they would be arriving at the Infirmary just as Harry and Pomfrey would be laughing at Draco's antics but it could (and would) be interpreted as they were laughing over Ginny's death. Snape noticed it as had McGonagall, but this time McGonagall finally "grew some" and sent a warning Patronus to Pomfrey. Medi-witch and boy had had just enough time to flee to Pomfrey's office and floo out to the safety of St. Mungo's just as Molly Weasley burst through the Infirmary doors. Well actually she blew them open as they had been spelled locked and she was in a hurry to hurl abuse at Harry Potter because although he had an air-tight alibi, it was still his fault that Dementors had been waiting in the potions class to suck out Ginny's soul.
Molly was so grief-stricken and mad that somebody, even an innocent must suffer. She might even kill Harry Potter if only because he was alive and her Ronnie and Ginny were not. At the very least she would physically hurt him as much as possible. Then she would sue him for damages and get as much money from him as she could. At the very least she would demand (AND WOULD GET) the entire contents of his trust vault.
Molly had had seven children for the sole reason that she wanted to have a daughter to break the "Weasley curse" of producing nothing but males. Had Charlie or Percy been born a girl, she would have gotten what she wanted and stopped having children. It had taken her seven tries before she finally got her girl and stopped having children.
However, now she didn't have her girl and had lost a boy. Unlike Muggle woman, a healthy witch was capable of having children until they were about sixty. Molly was only 46 and thus could try again to get herself another girl as she had finally found the proper spell to have a girl and had used it to birth Ginny. With Potter's money she could dress the girl beautifully (or Molly's version of good taste) and give her an excellent dowry. While that would never bring back her precious children, all of that lovely money would help her cope with her grief.
However, she entered the Infirmary just in time to see Pomfrey and Potter flooing away. She hurried over to the floo to follow them but the floo was locked. She screamed for Dumbledore to reopen it and he did try but much to his surprise it wouldn't open for him. No matter, he would eventually find the boy and make him grovel so that he would protect him from Molly's wrath.
But once Harry reached the safety of St. Mungo's and Pomfrey had put the emergency floo lock into place, Harry made his escape to a nearby broom closet while Pomfrey was busy explaining things to a healer.
Once safely in the closet Harry summoned Samson and told him to take him to the lair until things calmed down. However, Samson suggested another alternative. Things had advanced sooner than expected and with Dumbledore currently away from his office and handling Molly in the Infirmary Plan A could not be put into action.
Thus when Albus Dumbledore was finally able to return to his office he at first did not notice that Fawkes was gone. No doubt the bird was out flying and would come when he summoned him. He called out for the bird but the phoenix didn't answer his call. That was strange as Fawkes had no choice in the matter as when Dumbledore summoned him he had to answer.
It was then that Dumbledore noticed that all of the many monitors he had on Harry Potter were missing! All of them.
It couldn't be possible. There was no way that Potter could escape as he didn't know what the twinkling, gaudy trinkets were or that they monitored and helped to control his life and every movement. Besides even if he did, there was nothing he could do about it as he couldn't destroy them and Dumbledore had the means to create more.
However, Dumbledore didn't know it yet but all traces of Harry's blood and even DNA had been carefully and painstakingly removed during the past weeks. Privet Drive had been completely sterlized as had Arabella Figg's house. Elves had snuck into the Burrow and had removed any trace of Harry Potter while leaving the dirt of the Weasleys intact.
It was the same with the Quidditch patch, the locker room, Hogsmeade, Diagon Alley and even Harry's old primary school and all parts of the Dursleys' neighborhood. Kreacher had purged Grimmauld Place the very day Harry had left for school. During the past week the elves had been cleaning all through Hogwarts on the sly and once Dumbledore had left the Infirmary, that too was completely cleaned and sterlized.
Harry's possessions had been collected and taken to a place of safety but most of them had been destroyed. Only Harry's photo album was saved as everything else had some form of tracker placed on it even Harry's raggity underwear. Harry had destroyed his broom the day before and its ashes were retrieved and destroyed.
The invisibility cloak was heavily spelled and the elves couldn't remove them so they did the next best thing and placed it and the photo album in a special magical box and then sealed it shut. It would not be able to be traced by anyone now. Even Fawkes had been stunned and magically boxed so that he could not be summoned by Dumbledore
Snape's potion lab and the classroom had also been purged and a few of Harry's new elves would spend the rest of the day removing every single DNA trace of Harry Potter from the school.
Dobby the elf had been called in to help but he had to been stunned and "boxed" until he and Hedwig could be taken to a wizarding firm on the Continent that specialized in removing charms/hexes off of living creatures as Dumbledore had placed tracking charms and compulsions on the lovable elf who lived to serve Harry Potter and Harry's faithful beloved owl. Hopefully he could be saved otherwise he would have to be obliviated and rebonded to some good family in another country.
Dumbledore knew he had thought of everything and he had, but G3 had had the time and resources to research and and outmanuever the old wily wizard. The elves didn't have to finish this day's cleaning but would do it anyway just to be completely safe. Besides they had to do Neville Longbottom's and one other person's DNA to be doubly safe just in case Dumbledore put two and two together and decided to look for them.
Harry Potter had just been freed but no one knew it yet.