Chapter 16-Does it never end

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In a way being incommunicado I was able to miss quite a bit. Daphne took good care of me and provided me with information or propped up the daily Profit in front of me or under me as the case may be.

They of course started a big roundup of Death Eaters which I was sure they missed the majority of them. It appeared every reporter in the world was attempting to gain access to Harry Potter who was now happily residing in is Hogwarts quarters and secluded from the questions. The Daily Profit was ripped into the Minister being ineffective and then there was the large funeral for Dumbledore. I have progressed from the boy who…To the chosen one… To He-Who-Conquered.

It didn't take a very long time. Since reporters couldn't get to me I was now being referred to as the next Dark Lord who is hidden away plotting the destruction of the wizard world.

Then about a month later…

"How are you today birdie mate?" I heard Daphne thinking to me, I was extremely happy that I could answer…

"I be a lot happier when I have hands to grab you, lips to kiss you and…"

"Don't get all excited Harry you still got a while before you can transform but it's nice to hear you're progressing." Daphne laughed as Hedwig flamed away. Moments later Hedwig returned with Fawkes.

"Harry I'm glad you're back with us so I can give you more information."

"Let me guess, Voldemort has returned and Dumbledore is waking up from a deep sleep and both be arriving for dinner tonight."

"Very droll Harry but no I'm here to spill a few more beans. The Phoenix Council has been informed that you should return to Hogwarts as an instructor come September. They believe next year is going to be very interesting year of the many yet to come."

"Well that's not too bad, I think Daphne and I can handle going back to Hogwarts. I can be content to be a professor next year since Draco and Ron are gone. Since you are shaking your head, what else?"

"Do you remember I mentioned before that Dumbledore made an assumption on his immortality? Well that was because he never became a Phoenix and never had a burning day he thought I was his guarantee to immortality." Daphne fainted and I quaffed up a chunk of ice that was suddenly choking me.

"Fawkes you're not serious, we can't be immortal."

"While you both may die by many physical means it won't be from old age for a very, very, long time. Since you are bonded expect your bond mate to have a burning day very shortly." That information was quite shocking but all I could see in my minds eye was me looking like Dumbledore. That was not a pleasant thought or image.

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One morning I was shocked into wakefulness by feeling like I was freezing to death. What I realized was Harry Potter was back and laying on a large block of ice. I needed a hot bath then I needed to find Daphne.

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The next morning Daphne and I flashed to our apartment in Knockturn alley. While under glamour charms we made it into Gringotts. The teller however was a little too loud when he asked what he could for Lord Potter.

"Harry I see you have been able to cause a bigger stir on our main floor than usual."

"Ragnot's good to see you also. It appears that I, the new Dark Lord, have panicked some of your customers. We just stop by to ask you how long a normal goblin lives."

"If the goblin lives to old age they usually can make it 200 years or more. Why do you ask Harry?"

"Ragnot you're going to have to introduce me to your successor before you go to the next great adventure." I really thought his eyes were going to pop out of their sockets as his jaw did a dive towards the floor.

"Actually I'm going to have to rearrange my accounts since I found out about being immortal not to mention what do financially about future descendents. First off there's all these lordships there must be a central vaults but a number of vaults for the children and…"

"Harry while I want a couple of kids I will definitely not be turning into Molly Weasley."

"Honestly Daphne I was just thinking of our child decides to have two children and their children had two children I may run out of Lordship rings to give but I don't want them not to have a vault of their own."

"Harry Gringotts will ensure sufficient galleons in the required vaults and they are available when needed. There is something I think neither of us have pick up on until just recently. While the previous Lord Slytherin a.k.a. Gaunt were penniless Voldemort never checked into the Riddle estate. He may have used their decrepit Muggle manson but he never checked the Muggle financial estate of the Riddles. The Riddles were legally married at the time Tom was born and you are now the Heir. Right now that estate is just this side of being a billion pound sterling."

"So where is all this money? Daphne queried.

"Barclays is the major contact point"

"Well right now I want to go home so do you think we will need an escort through the crowd to get out of the bank?"

We only made it as far as the main floor when, "Lord Potter" someone yelled and at least a dozen reporters descended on us with questions. I just wasn't in the mood to be misquoted or maligned so I gave them a statement…

"Sorry but as the next Dark Lord I have no statment as to when I we be taking over the world. Contact your local Ministry for misleading information for print."

We slam through the reporters and out the door. We then ran across the street then down into Knocturn alley. By the time they caught up and headed down the last alleyway that we had dashed into, we had transformed and flashed to the apartment.

"Harry I only have one thing to say! Let's go to the island for the summer, please!"

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The ocean was beautiful, the sand was warm and the sun was giving us a beautiful tan. The only depressing thing was that Hogwarts would be starting in a few weeks.

"Come on Harry smile. I know Hogwarts is starting soon but look on the bright side, I had my burning day and Draco, Ron and a lot of the bad Slytherin students have graduated. No more Dark Lord and Dumbledore is long gone so we should be happy to return to a safe Hogwarts."

"Your right Daphne, come on, I'll race you to the raft." Daphne was a swimmer, so she won but I got a snogging for being a good loser. Life was definitely turning better.

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Two weeks prior to the start of school the new Headmistress Professor McGonagall held her preschool, get acquainted and lay down the laws meeting. Daphne now had Transfiguration classes full-time and I had the DADA classes full-time. All of the normal characters were still employed but we had a new Potions Mistress called Lisa McDougall. We only just returned that morning so alot of McGonagall's information was unbelievable.

"Mr. Potter what do you mean you don't know? Haven't you been reading the Daily Profit?"

"Sorry Headmistress, Daphne and I have been out of country and we just arrived back this morning. Besides who could believe half of what is printed in that rag?"

"Aren't you interested in this country? Things are going on and you should be up on all aspects."

"What the hell are you going on about? I have just about had enough, what else am I supposed to do for this stupid country?"

"Aren't you aware of the new Dark Lords terrorizing the countryside?"

"No…I'm…not! AND furthermore…"

Daphne put her hand on my arm and basically finished my statement, "Harry has done his fair share, don't ask him to go running out to sacrifice himself when you don't have the courtesy to tell him what's going on."

"For your information there are two separate terror groups. One is the same as the last Dark Lord, murdering and killing for some pure blood agenda. The other seems to wants to take whatever he get his hands on whether it's gold, attention or food."

"Daphne just shook her head, "Harry why don't we just go back to our island and see if we can have a life of happiness and serenity."

"Daphne in general principles I agree with you. Let's check into this. If these new Dark Lords are going to be around for a while then the Hogwarts kids will need to be getting the best training they can get and that's us."

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Daphne and I were commandeered into riding the Hogwarts express on 1 September. After fairly quiet ride Hagrid took the first years for the boat ride and finally Flitwick performed the sorting ceremony. McGonagall did the spoon on the crystal goblet getting the attention of the entire hall.

It was deftly odd without Draco the antagonist or Ron the foodstuffer. Hermione was off to university while Wendy and Justin were off somewhere. My immediate first problem was the majority of the girls at Hogwarts were drooling over the new hero. I was assuming they were reading the Dailey Profit. The paper had decided that I was the hero again now that the wizard world had problems again.

"Noticed them haven't you Harry?"

"Right pane it is. That stupid Daily Profit is not helping it one bit. When we left I was the new upcoming Dark Lord and now I am their new hero who will take on the two new Dark Lords, bullshit!"

"Come on Harry let's have Dobby fix us up a nice dinner and a bottle of expensive wine." Daphne got a large smile as I offered my arm.

Sexual Interlude for Daphne and Harry

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I wasn't halfway through my second class when an Auror entered my classroom and declared the Prime Minister wish to see me immediately in the Headmistress his office."

As I entered the Headmistress's office I've course saw Skidmore and a couple of his nose picking Aurors.

"You requested my presence Headmistress?"

"No! I did! Now…"

"Sorry Skidmore I don't report to you nor do I work for you, if you will excuse me Headmistress?" I turned and started to leave the office.

"Who do you think you are? I am the Minister of Magic…"

"Big woop, tell it to somebody who cares." I reached toward the door handle.

"Aurors take him!"

I turned ready to fight if they were stupid enough but at that instance Hedwig flamed in and snatched me away in a ball of flames. I then found myself sitting next to Daphne in the Phoenix town hall. Hedwig had gotten me while Fawkes had gotten Daphne and we now faced the black and white phoenixes.

As the black and white phoenixes looked on as Fawkes was again spilling but this time we thought we were getting some real and total information.

"Sorry you two but there seem to be a problem. Normally we suggest what you should do but this time they are going to take action so asking is immaterial. So let me get on and explain what I can. The two new dark incompetent lords are Draco Malfoy and Ron Weasley. They would've caused a lot of incompetent confusion and mayhem which in the next two years would have brought you to become the Minister of Magic. You would become so bogged down in Ministry and Wizengamot minutia and become totally ineffective to handle the next real threat."

"Why hasn't Skidmore stepped on those two incompetent idiots?" Daphne growled.

I could almost feel something ugly slowly creeping up behind me but there was nothing there. "So what is going to happen to us Fawkes?"

"All I am allowed to say is that you will not lose any of your memories or capabilities but a new wrinkle must be added."

"Fawkes that leaves everything and anything, surely you can tell us something." Daphne always was the smart one.

"You will in this future engage the two new Dark Lords and win. This would catapulting you to become the presumptive Minister of Magic. Believe me when I say you were not the cause and in the end you had nothing to do with what caused the real threat to materialize. As you have seen before it is always your fault so politics would have you actually lynched before you finished being Minister. It just in the here and now that you can't win the coming battle. No more! I am not allowed to say anything other than remember the past and what could be your future." It was then the lights went out.

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The day had just fallen into night and the black striped cat remained perched on a near by wall as it had the entire day. Should anyone have paid attention to the cat they would get the impression that the cat waiting for something?

The old man with the long white beard and strange clothing was not Saint Nicholas but he was going to drop off a package. When the huge man riding a motorcycle landed he started to cry huge crocodile tears…

"I failed you Dumbledore, the little tyke jumped out of my pocket and flung himself out into the clouds just as we were flying over Bristol. I went after him but I'm sure he fell to his death. I could find no sign of him."

"Impossible! I put the sleeping spell on that kid and the only way that spell would not take effect was if he knew Occlumens. I fear the wizard world is in severe trouble. Hagrid I suggest you tell Professor McGonigaall where young Harry left you and then go and get a strong drink. I'm sure everything will work out.

"Minerva callout the Order of the Phoenix and search that area most thoroughly. I'll be at the Longbottom's if you have any news."

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Mrs. Greengrass just entered the nursery to check on her sleeping one-year-old daughter. The resulting scream from Mrs. Greengrass sent Mr. Greengrass rushing to his wife's side wand in his hand. He grabbed his wife and she grabbed him back. His first impulse when he entered the room was probably the same as his wife's and that was to grab his daughter. However both have been around magic long enough not to approach the scene without caution as a light display was in progress. The problem was what to address or attempt to do first.

Their daughter did not appear to be in danger but the whole thing was completely insane. His daughter was sitting upright next to and facing another child. The children had their arms around each other with their foreheads touching. The silver glow that surrounded them stopped the parents from rushing in, that and the two phoenixes perched on the foot of the bed. The whole scene was surreal but definitely full of magic. Interfere with magic could have disastrous results. Mr. Greengrass then noticed a trunk at the foot of the bed which added to the weirdness and oddness of the situation. They had never seen that trunk in this house before this day.

"Eric what are we going to do, what's going on?"

"Astora I have no idea but I do know that silver aura surrounding them is some serious magic."

"Shouldn't we call somebody Eric we have to stop this?"

"Our Daughter seems to be safe she's definitely not in distress... Holy Merlin!"

"Eric this is not normal."

With the two parents were seeing was two children kissing each others lips and then floating to where they laying next to each other entwined in each others arms. They apparently fell asleep and a silver aura faded as both phoenixes in the room started singing.

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The next morning in a Phoenix mind conversation: "Good morning dear did you sleep well?"

"Yes Harry but if my parents don't show up very quickly I think my nappy…"

"Yes Daphne I know what you mean and I hope they have a spare one for me."

"Or maybe if you started yelling and told them…"

"Daphne what would you think if a year and a half-year-old baby started talking in fluent Queens English?"

"I know we can hardly walk but how about we come up with a plan to strangle those phoenixes one at a time."

"No way! I'd much rather be on the good side so they can take us to Gringotts to get some money and then to the ice cream parlor. We are totally helpless if you haven't noticed."

Their plotting was interrupted by the necessary cleanup and by both being dumped into the bathtub... Oh the embarrassment at that year of age.