Chapter 21-Attack on Hogwarts

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The next morning Hedwig is grumbly in my ear as I awoke with a… "Ha,ha ha… New minister of magic, ha, ha… Going to make a fool of yourself you are!"

"To be honest Hedwig you are probably right. Why don't you ask Daphne what color you would like to wear for the day." That's when I realized what my first act as Minister would be…

That same morning we waited in line for our wands to be weighed. As I placed my wand on the scale we watched in amusement as the guard on duty fell out of his chair. He scrambled to his feet while screaming for Aurors. While he wanted a security detail for the new Minister of Magic, I got stunned by the arriving Aurors. Being still a teenager never helps your stature in the eyes of adults.

After much confusion, yelling and screaming I declared for all to hear that…

"I did not want the job of the Minister of Magic. And since the Daily Profit said that I had been elected I now officially and formally resign!" Didn't want them to think I was power hungry or anything. Knowing the Daily Profit by next week I'd be the next Dark Lord, adversely should they kept this up I just might be the next Dark Lord.

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We had just returned a Hogwarts when got an owl from Amelia Bones. They were starting the trials of those captured in the graveyard today. The Ministry had sent a letter requesting that Lord Black attendance for the prosecution and and for his protection they were sending an escort. Moments later the escort arrived and we were headed back out of Hogwarts.

"Auror Michael's are you sure this is necessary?"

"My Lord, probably not but we don't want to take a chance that one of the accused's relatives doesn't want a little revenge or want to eliminate a witness."

Ron folded his arms over his chest as he leaned against the wall in the shadows. Slytherin and his trolups were leaving Hogwarts. What he was seeing made his blood boil with jealocy. Slytherin had that Greengrass slut leaning on him on one side, and that gorgeous Veela leaning into him on the other side which again made Ron sick. Slytherin was dressed in exspensive robes, on one shoulder the Griffindor crest gleamed, on his other shoulder was another crest, and on his chest was the crest of the Slytherin nest. Both girls were outfitted in similar and exspensive robes. The hooded figure with them, just wore a plain black hooded cloak and was ignored. Ron did not know that Slytherin and his Ladies were leaving because they had heard from Amelia Bones that the ministry was starting the trials. Ron only knew that Black had loust up what little that Ron had in his life. They were probably off to some fabulous party. With Longbottom gone what little fame and fortune Ron had was also gone. Ron lost it and shouted…"Reducto!".

The last thing that Ron Weasley heard that morning was, "Protego Totalum, Stupefy!". The black hooded Auror had him in magical suppression cuffs and levitating behind us by the time we entered the carriages. Ron would soon find himself not only expelled but also in a Ministry holding cell awaiting trial.

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The trial as a whole didn't last long and I was there more for symbolism than testimony. Lord Ogden was the interim Minister of Magic and supported Madam Bones. Madam Bones stuffed Veritaserum down each of the bad guys throats.

Dumbledore being the Chief Warlock was objecting to just about everything except the time of day. It just seemed that everything was falling apart. Dumbledore couldn't wait until Molly Weasley got on his case later this evening over her youngest son.

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The Weasley twins corner me… "We apologize for Ron's actions and hope you won't blame the rest of us Weasleys."

"Not at all, in fact if you turn Draco's hair different color on the train trip for summer vacation and will call it even."

They turn Draco hair multicolors, so Ragnot would be contacting the twins with money to set up a shop and I could get their help in develop some pyrotechnics.

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Two months had passed and we got to the island for the summer break, well as much of it as teachers were allowed.

"Harry you just got an owl from Ragnot who got a message from the Weasley twins." Gabby yelled as she rushed over clutching a parchment.

"And what do those two troublemakers want?" Daphne queried.

"Seems that they have become part of Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix. They overheard Snape reporting to Dumbledore that a big attack is eminent. They said they were using something called their extendable ears."

"Well girls looks like it's time to contact my silent partner and request some goodies. I'm afraid we need to get back to our apartment and contact Ragnot."

Ragnot was of little help, "I'm sorry Harry I don't see it, he just doesn't have the troops to attack Hogwarts. I don't say not to prepare, I just can't see it happening in the near future."

We stop by my vault to pickup a few galleons when I saw the bag that Ragnot had given me before I died. A quick check of its contents and I was shaking my head. Of all the crazy things that were going on in my life, did this bag crossed the timelines intact or just a duplicate? I planned on checking but first I needed to see the twins.

"Okay you guys, here's a list of things I need. Take the money out of my quarterly profits and if you need more, yell."

Our next stop, via at the Phoenix express, was the Muggle explosive storage area where we added to our plasic explosives PE-4. The idea was to cut up the plastic explosives into small balls and put them into sacks to make our own magical cluster bombs. The idea for the other explosives devices was to set them to go off by impact or a special wand spell. The twins were trying to come up with something so the explosives could only see be seen by special WWW glasses.

Daphne and I were past the point in time where I died or got sent back or whatever they called it. Everything coming at us was new as the timeline had been changing so we would have to roll with the punches.

Ragnot was right about us not having defend Hogwarts at this time as Voldemort attacked the Ministry of Magic. Well not exactly the Ministry but the Hall of Prophecies within the Ministry of Magic.

After the Minister had finished briefing the Daily Profit no one knew nothing, saw nothing nor heard anything. I couldn't pry the information from anybody that I knew in the Ministry. So Hogwarts continued as if nothing was going on outside its walls.

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"Harry this Hogsmeade weekend let's not visit all the popular places. I'd like a nice quiet weekend away from the crowds."

"What about you Gabby?"

"I'm with Daphne. Getting away from all the drooling boys would be a nice change."

"Harry isn't this a lot better than fighting the crowds at the three broomsticks?" Daphne asked but before I could answer…

"While it might be the case I could still use a butter beer right about now." Gabby added and I smiled.

"Well as I see it, at this end of the town, you have a choice between Madam Puddlefoots, the Hogshead or the Brews and Stews Café."

"Harry quit trying to be a smart ass." Daphne turned and headed for the Brews and Stews Café.

We all got our drinks and were deep into our lunch when the front door and a good part of the surrounding frame crashed inwards. There were two of them and they were damn fast. If it wasn't from my focus ring their lunch would've been us. My focus ring send 'Lamia sole', a needle-like yellow beam, which hitting the first one halfway across the floor. The second 'Lamia sole' basically turned the second vampire into a pile of ash on our lunch.

The screaming from the other patrons got me back to thinking somewhat normal. One side of my brain was thankful for the pictures showing vampires in DADA but the other side my brain was asking why the vampires came at us. There are four other people in the café yet they came directly, at my table? I was trying to calm down Daphne and Gabby when another question arose, vampires in broad daylight? I got the girls to another table and we calmed each other down.

It wasn't long before even this side of the town was swarming with Aurors.

"I'm Auror Johnson and I like you to explain what you saw and what you did."

We were a good ways into our tale when Madam Bones entered and took a seat. "It appears you're in the middle of it again Lord Slytherin."

"Yes ma'am, could you clue us in as this whole thing is bizarre. Vampires in sunlight and I'm sure they were looking for me."

"All we are sure of is that the Death Eaters brought in a handful of vampires. The Death Eaters just turned them loose in the middle of the street. Your two were the only ones that broken into a building that's what brought me here see if something of importance was in here. So you may be right. On the surface it seemed the whole exercise was just to cause panic and confusion. Each of the vampires were wearing jewelry which contains a spell to protect them from sun."

We headed back to Hogwarts since the day was basically ruined. Soon we were all back at Hogwarts and the normal routine was moving along. Nothing out of the ordinary was going on if one did not notice an increase in elf gardening on the grounds nor the deliveries from WWW Inc.. There was another set of activities that went unnoticed, Voldemort was amassing his troops.

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I just got back from a long session with Dumbledore in his office. He seemed to be on a never ending investigation into my family and my life. He tried to be sly or have Snape there to get me upset and lose control and let something slip. What I had done with my money and what my investments were was none of his business but he kept trying. It was obvious he had visited the Goblins and Greengrass manor. Was obvious he was trying to get something to use over my head. I just found myself down on the couch when the claxtons started and the announcement was made, "Hogwarts is under attack".

Wards sprang into existence as doors and windows locked down for a siege. Students were forced into their common rooms as panic ruled the moment. Daphne, Gabby and I headed to the Great Hall. I was interested in seeing what a dozen teachers and a few wards were going to do to protect the children of this school. I knew of no emergency plans other than lock the students in their dorms. We expected everybody to be looking to Dumbledore to save the day. What we found was the teacher's huddled around a wireless listening to the news of how the Ministry was under attack.

"Well it looks like there isn't going to be help coming from the Ministry. Gabby collect your broom and the sack we got at Gringotts. Daphne and I will be picking up some of the other special bags along with our brooms… And don't forget your goggles!"

As we were scurrying around we ran into a dozen members of the Order of the Phoenix. Apparently Dumbledore's "Floe' connection was still intact. I was smiling when I saw that the Weasley twins had arrived.

"Hey, you two did you bring your brooms?"

"Of course Harry there shrunk and in our pocket, you don't think we would miss out on seeing our products in action?"

"Okay follow me so we can get you loaded up."

"Professor Slytherin what do you think you are doing? You're going to be needed to defend the front door."

"Headmaster why don't you do that little thing, right now we are busy getting your Air Force off the ground."

We loaded ourselves down and trudged up and launched off the tower. We got a good look at what Voldemort had sent, they were now amassing at the front gates. Strategically this would be a head-to-head conflict as the enemy shouldn't be seeking entrance through the forbidden forest. Besides Hagrid's little brother, Hagrd's cute little creatures, the centaurs and of course the Acromantula, you would have to be nuts to be stomping through the forest.

From our vantage point high in the sky we could see that Voldemort had brought the whole gang. Three giants were trying to knock down the front gates while a number of Death Eaters were controlling about six trolls. A group of about twenty or so were huddled off to one side which we took to being the vampire contingency. Voldemort look to have about a hundred wizards surrounding him. All in all it looked like a good time to die.

As the main gates collapsed the Giants headed for the Main Doors of Hogwarts. The trolls were herded onto the grounds but kept together. The Death Eaters stormed in behind the Giants.

Fred and George could not wait and started to dump their bag contents which were the miniature cluster bombs. The Muggle C-4 had been magically enhanced so the pellets went off on contact. There was a flaw in that sometimes some of the pellets did not go off when they hit. They were there however waiting to be stepped on, then they would go off.

One of the Giants finally reached the wrong place and I sent the trigger spell. Call them land mines with ball bearings. My trigger spell activated it and when the Giant stepped on it, boom bada boom! Mostly it just removed a good part of his lower leg but it did stop him. We course we had number of them laid out for the Death Eaters as well.

While all this mayhem reduced the Death Eater population it did not eliminate all of them. The front door of Hogwarts opened and the Hogwarts defender rushed out into the battle

I've got to give credit where credit is due. Dumbledore was hurling some very powerful spells. His robes swirled around from the magic he was generating.

The green 'Avada Kedavra' curse could be seen zipping constantly across the grounds. Having emptied my arsenal I headed to the ground to join the fighting. It was still a big fight and I was kept busy trying not to die. Thats when I suddenly found myself face-to-face chatting with Voldemort over a few curses. The madness and mayhem all seem to go away and it was just the two of us. Well sort of...Gabby arrived and bombard him with his now defunct horcruxes.(The shrunken bag I had sent to my vault and found in my vault across the timeline).

Volde started scrambling around on his hands and knees like a little kid trying to colect all of his spilled marbles.

"Sorry about that Tom but I've sent the pieces you stored in your little toys on ahead."

Riddle finally realized his little toys were soulless, he stands and directs his anger and his wand at me when he made a fatal step, Voldemort exploded. I was hurled backwards from the explosion.

Of course I was not wondering if it was the vibrations from the Phoenix songs or whether Riddle stepped on a pressure detonator. Nor was I worried that it had been one of the many cluster bombs lumps of C-4 that was laying around, nor if the prophecy had been properly fulfilled. No, I was trying to take inventory and see if anything was broken. Besides 'Avada Kedavra' curses were still flying, regular curses were still flying but the good guys were winning. My wand was distroyed but that could be replaced that's when I received a curse to the center to my back and my world went dark.

I awoke in a Ministry holding cell. This time they had taken everything, focus ring, clothing, robes, you name it. I then got what must've been one of the quickest trials you could ever imagine.

"Esteem members of the Wizengamot I present to you Dark Lord Slytherin. He is currently silenced to prevent him from cursing you through use of his parcel tongue. I was there at that terrible day at Hogwarts when I saw this evil person using unforgivable curses, some of which I have never heard."

Dummy puts up evidence of my multiple crimes as Dark Lord Slytherin and has me sent to Azkaban. Who would argue with Albus Dumbledore the Defeator of Voldemort and Leader of the lLght.

From minister to Dark Lord just like I predicted, the quick trip to Azkaban I had not forseen.

The Great Leader of Light accompanied the Aurors to ensure that the Dark Lord Slytherin was securely tucked in…

"Harry you could never win as I am the superior force and the Great Leader of Light. I will ensure that you stay here for the rest of your life. Do enjoy your time here you pathetic little brat." Albus then erected wards on my cell to stop me from escaping as a phoenix.

Once again in my life was I was alone, so alone in my little cell, like the cupboard under the stairs. Azkaban was not anything I could not cope with and the Dementors were not always there.

The facilities were draconion. One serving of slop per day and a hosing down of the cell once per week. But! One day...

A pathetic guard came in to show me how important Dumbledore was or how much control he had over my life, well he made the mistake of opening the door to my cell. He met my Tiger and I bounced out the door and headed to the shore line. Once well past the wards a phoenix took flight.

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I flashed to the island, as I can only hope, because I was never able to find out if Gabby and Daphne had even survived the Battle of Hogwarts.

"HARRY!" Was music to my ears as two female bodies hurdled at me.

After a good soak in the ocean and a good bath I got to enjoy a good meal. It turned out that I was only gone for a couple of months so after a good nights sleep…" Ladies, never, ever, no way, am I ever returning to Great Britain. I would however like to find out what I missed while I was gone besides you two."

Daphne started, "Well there is Ron (who had been released by Dumbledore) and Draco's gang that is terrorizing the country side. The good part is Ron's time in Azkaban, with their low-calorie diet, so he doesn't want to leave his mother's kitchen. Draco wants to be the next Dark Lord and has called together what was left over from Voldemort's group."

Gabby continued from there, "Harry please remain calm everything is fine but I'll have to explain. Dumbledore and the Minister went to the ICW with a request to confiscate all your galleons…"

"So you're telling me I'm broke?"

"No, let me finish before you go nutters on us. When you and Daphne first went to Gringotts you told the goblins to take your tons of galleons and opened a new vault. The name on the vault was Slytherin/DeSluipen, Harold. Well the goblins are quite literal in their dealings so they never closed any of the old accounts they just opened a new vault and transferred the galleons. So all the deeds properties and companies stocks remained in their original vaults. Of course the wizard world is also never going to look for money in a Muggle's bank called Barclays."

"Okay I'm not totally broke but they definitely got a lot of money out of that vault."

"No Harry they got 30 sickles…"

"So what happened to the money?"

"You know that the phoenixes can lift heavy loads, and it was a lot of work so if you need any of the galleons that were in the vault, well there in the hut behind our house here on the island."

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Life on the island was not restricted to the island. With a shrunken trunk full of galleons in our pocket or a Barclays credit card we traveled.

On one visit to France to see Gabby's parents we met her grandmother, who looked about 30 years old, I was shocked. She then further shocked Daphne and me. Without all the technical jargon there was a fact that when a Veela found her life mate her age and lifespan was tied to that mate.

As much as I swore we would never be back the white and black phoenix convince us to visit Ragnot at Gringotts. Seems the 'Fates' wanted to mess with us once again.

"Nice glamor charms Harry, it's definitely nice to see you but what dragged you back here to jolly old England?"

"A little birdie told us to come visit you. Is there anything going on?"

"Well since you asked there are a few papers that need to be signed."

With magic you have to be careful about swearing as magic sometimes take it is a binding oath. We had just stepped out of the bank when the current Dark Lord, Draco-poo, arrives with about thirty of his followers throwing curses around. I've course put up a shield with my fairly new focus ring just in time to deflect a couple of curses and to see the arrival of Dumbledore and his Order of the Phoenix. Well the battle was on while the girls and I were basically bystanders. That's when I was about ready to start swearing but then I had one of my ideas…

I told Daphne to transform and sit on Gabby's shoulder and that's when I dropped my glamour charms and fired off the loudest canon blast I could muster. AND did it ever get some attention before I mind spoke to Daphne to flash us out of there.

An instant before we flashed I saw the expression on Dumbledore face as he raised his wand at me. His expression was pure hate before his face turned green.

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Fawkes turned up the island couple days later, "It looks like you fulfill that Goblet prophecy. When you dropped your glamour charm and Dumbledore's turning to curse you it got him an 'Avada kedavra' to the face. McGonagall found his mermories in Dumbledore's pensive. Seems he kept some special ones handy to relish up close. They clearly show that you were inocent so the Minister gave you a pardon. That's when the Wizengamot threw out your conviction and the Minister. You need to go see Ragnot as soon as possible.

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"Harry how good to see you again and so soon. You know everybody hopes that you will come back to fight the new Dark Lord?"

"Not on your best day! I'm glad they are not holding my breath but hell no!"

"I'm sure they will convince you Minister Slytherin, elected by a supermajority in the Wizengamot." Ragnot laughed. "Your back to being the 'Chosen One' once again."

"I'm sorry but you have to tell him Lord Slytherin is unavailable besides I am now Lord Potter as I should've been from the start."

"They're adamant Harry your name shan't make the difference, by any of your names you're the new Minister of Magic."

Hell if they wanted to be that way I'll just make their life miserable. Let me see if I can be kicked out of office within days of the appointment. Now here's what I want to find out. Can Gringotts Wizarding Bank..."

I popped over to the Ministry and called for on emergency session of the Wizengamot. I then then talked, no demanded the Wizengamot past few laws. The new Minister, Lord Potter, got everything he asked for.

"Harry you got to be kidding, they let you get away with everything?" Daphne was finding a little bit unbelievable.

"That's right, if there is an inkling that they were part of any terrorist group the goblins will freeze their vaults and when the vault owner complains Ministry personnel will pick them up and stuffed truth serum down their throats. If they are innocent they get a large apology, their vaults back and a large bag of galleons for the inconvenience. Otherwise it's Azkabon after a short trial and the goblins keep the vaults. There is provision to take care of family members so they didn't up on the streets.

Soon all the minor Dark Lords and their minions were rounded up so I'm again the hero, I wonder how long it's going work for me. Oh! That's right I'm the Minister again so it looks like they're stuck.