AN: Whelp, I finally had some time to write this short chapter and decided to post it ASAP. This is perhaps on of my shortest chapters and I'll try to stray from writing short chapters, most of my chapter are going to be around 6K words or up. This chapter really is a filler, if anything. As the titles implies it'll focused on Dumbledore and his scheming and an insight on how I'm going to depict McGonagall and Severus... I hope lol.
Main Pairing: Raiden's Harem: Senju-Potter Raiden/Uzumaki Naruto/Uchiha Itachi/Sabaku no Gaara/Neville Longbottom/Viktor Krum/Fred and George Weasley.
Side Pairings: Remus Lupin/Sirius Black/Yamato, Ron Weasley/Hermione Granger(temporary), Draco Malfoy/Blaise Zanbini, Seamus Finnigan/Dean Thomas, Luna Lovegood/Hermione Granger, Hatake Kakashi/Umino Iruka, Inuzuka Kiba/Aburame Shino, Haruno Sakura/Uchiha Sasuke, Hyuuga Neji/Rock Lee, Sabaku no Kankuro/Hyuuga Hinata, Nara Shikamaru/Sabaku no Temari, Akamichi Chouji/Yamanaka Ino, Sai/Tenten, Momochi Zabuza/Haku, Sarutobi Konohamaru/Moegi/Udon.
Tags: Dumbledore/Molly/Ron/Ginny Bashing, Alpha Raiden(Harry), BAMF Raiden(Harry), BAMF Naruto, BAMF Neville, Powerful Raiden (Harry), Smart Raiden (Harry), Jinchuuriki Raiden (Harry), Protective Raiden (Harry), Dom Raiden (Harry), Grey Raiden (Harry), Animagus Raiden (Harry), Animagus Neville, Animagus Fred and George, Shy Neville, Harem, Threesomes- M/M/M, M-preg, Creature Inheritances, Familiar bonds, Manipulative Dumbledore, Mokuton Raiden (Harry), Souton Raiden (Harry), Earth Elemental Neville, Water Elemental Fred, Air Elemental George, Fire Elemental Viktor, Eventual Smut, Fluff, Mild Humor, Mages and Sages,
~ Parseltongue~
{Taking in a different language"}
["Demon talking via mental link"]
'Thoughts'
Chapter Fourteen: Dumbledore's Interlude...?
August 2nd, 1992, 10:00 a.m.
Headmaster's Office, Hogwarts, Scotland
"Glad you were able to come, Molly." Albus smiled politely, greeting the Weasley matriarch as she entered the room. "Would you care for a lemon drop, or tea, perhaps?" He offered the red-headed witch with a grandfatherly smile.
Molly shook her head, "No thank you Albus, I'm quite alright."
"Very well, let's get straight to business then." Albus reached into his pocket and took about a letter. He handed the letter to Molly, watching carefully as her face morphed into shock as she read its contexts. "It appears Harry Potter will be attending Hogwarts this year. That's his confirmation letter, alongside his permission to partake on his placement test; which, will determine whether he'll be a first year or a second year. However, as you can tell, his letter lacks his current address and no matter what spells I use I cannot determine where the brat is hiding or who's hiding him."
"Wait, you believe somebody is aiding the brat in some way!?" Molly screeched loudly, causing countless portraits that littered the Dumbledore's office to cover their ears and groan in pain. Unfazed by her harpy-like screech, Molly continued, "But who could possibly be aiding him!?"
Albus' sighed heavily, "I wish I knew, Molly… I've tried every single charm I could think of; both legally and illegally, but alas, nothing has worked. The blood and magic trances I casted on him before I left him with the Dursley's have all but been destroyed. There's no possible way to reattach them without having the boy present to supply blood in order to reactivate the tracking charms; which will monitor him and his health… Even if a reapply those traces, I need his consent or else the spells won't work."
"What if you steal a vial of his blood?" Molly suggested, "Wouldn't you be able to use it, then?"
Albus shook his head, "If I stole his blood, or even forcefully take his blood without his consent, his blood will rot before I can cast the spells necessary to places the tracking spells on him." The wizen wizard stroked his long, white beard thoughtfully, his mind murky with ideas. "Until then, you must ensure Ronald and Ginerva befriends Harry as soon as possible. They must have Harry within their grasps before they arrive at Hogwarts." Albus told the red headed witch sternly.
"They need to watch him closely and make him dependent on them as soon as possible; we have no idea who raised him, nor how much he knows about our world. If he knows about our world, and knows his place as the Potter heir and Boy-Who-Lived, then it'll be much harder for us to control him…"
"Do you really think so?" Molly asked warily.
"Yes, I do." Albus nodded solemnly, "if he knows about his heritage and knows about the Lordship his father left him, he'll get suspicious and start looking into it, discovering his political power, as a Lord he'll one day become. He'll discover he has vaults within Gringotts, and gain access to them by his seventeenth birthday. He'll discover everything we have taken from him and there's no doubt in my mind he'll be quite shocked by how much we have stolen from him; but hopefully, he'll be dead before his seventeenth birthday, if everything goes as we've planned."
Albus paused for a moment, "Ronald and Ginerva must stop him from finding what we've stolen from him. He cannot, under any circumstance, find out we've stolen from him or else we'll lose any trust he'll have in us… Not to mention the countless laws, we broken to access his vaults… The goblins aren't fond of thieves… not even the Ministry cannot interfere with Goblin's Law."
Molly gulped heavily. She knew how ruthless the goblins were, and they detested thieves. She knew the Ministry couldn't save any wizards or witches who've stolen from Gringotts; since, Gringotts is under goblin's territory and therefore, under goblin law. If the Ministry were to interfere with Gringotts' affairs, it'll start another rebellion between goblins and wizards.
A rebellion the Ministry couldn't afford.
Little did they know, Raiden already knew what they've stolen from his family vaults, the goblins have been working extremely hard checking for everything they have stolen; auditing and pilling up everything Molly, Albus, Ronald, and Ginerva have stolen throughout the years and added a hefty interest rate as well.
As soon as the goblins finish their audit on the Potter's vaults, they'll be delivering it to Raiden via mail where then; the Potter heir will determine when to process the charges against Molly, Albus, Ronald, and Ginerva.
Of course, Molly and Albus didn't know. They'll get a real awaking as soon as they try to access the Potter's vaults, they'll be sweating bullets when they discover their keys have been rendered useless.
"How did you even get his letter, Albus?" Molly asked, not wanting to dwell on the consequences of their actions, or any future fallout they have to deal with.
"Well Molly," Albus started, "I was enjoying my dinner with the other professors, I was having a rather delicious Shepard's pie the house-elves prepared, when suddenly, Minerva busted through the Dining Hall with a letter clutched in her hand…"
- Flash Back-
July 31 1992, 7:30 p.m.
Main Dining Hall, Hogwarts's Castle, Scotland
Albus Dumbledore was having a rather pleasant day so far, somehow he was fazed by the fact he hasn't found the Potter brat yet, but he had a good feeling he'll find him soon. He didn't know when or how he'll find Harry, but there was a tingling sensation he has been feeling all day that, a feeling he could feel deep in his bones telling he'll his luck was about to change.
He was enjoying his dinner with his fellow colleagues when a rather frantic Minerva busted through the doors, causing the large wooden to bang loudly as they collided with the stone walls, echoing with a heavy thud throughout the Dining Hall. Every professor stopped what they were doing in favor of watching the normally put together Transfiguration professor looking rather haired and frantic; her eyes were blown wide with what seemed to be excitement and relief.
The deafening silence was broken as Minerva walked straight towards the Headmaster, clutching tightly on to an admission letter in her hand; she waved the letter in the air franticly, her shoes clicking against the stone floor. "Harry Potter is attending Hogwarts this year!" She announced loudly, causing multiple gasps to fill the dining hall from the professors who heard her claim.
Albus' twinkling blue eyes widen from her revelation. He wasted no time in grasping the letter from her hand, and he read its contexts carefully, making sure to pay close attention to the wording of the letter as he casted couple soundless and wandless spells on the letter, checking for its authenticity.
A frown marred his aged weathered face as his spells proved the letter's authenticity, but it didn't disclose from where it was written from.
"Minerva is correct; it appears that Harry Potter will be going to be attending Hogwarts this year." He addressed the room, clutching onto the letter; mentally sighing in relief.
He knew that the letter will satisfy everyone's curiosity, stopping the public from bashing him so publically, and it will also stop Fudge from harassing him every single day trying to make him disclose Harry Potter's location; which he did not know.
However, he wouldn't be able to disclose Potter's location considering, the letter lacked an address as to where Harry Potter is residing in; which could only mean one or two things: Harry Potter could be hiding behind a Fidelius Charm behind ancient wards which can only be found within an old Pureblood Family's manor, or somebody has aided the boy by casting an undetectable charm on his letter, using blood magic to prevent others from finding his location.
Either choice wasn't something he quite particularly liked… If only he had access to Hogwarts' registry…
The mere idea of the boy being found by a random Pureblood family didn't sit right with him, he couldn't fathomed which family could have possibly taken in the boy; whether they were a light family, or dare he say, a Dark Pureblood family. His stomach churned at the thought of any sort of Pureblood family taking the brat in, teaching his rightful heritage and giving the boy knowledge he shouldn't have ever learned.
'This was not going as planned,' he thought to himself.
The boy was never supposed to know about magic before he sent Hagrid to rescue the boy from his horrible family last year, under his command. He was supposed to be the boy's Savior, making the boy worship the ground he stand on! Thus, making himself trustworthy once the boy came to Hogwarts!
He gritted his teeth in rage. He needed to find the boy. He needed to make sure at least the boy was submissive from the abuse of his lovely family provided. He knew that the Dursley's would have abused the boy, and any sort of abuse took time to heal, and even as time passed, it still left scars and cracks behind, which he can exploit to his liking.
If the boy found about his magical heritage, it would make things harder for him to control they boy, and he couldn't have that.
He will make sure to find out the location of the boy and "rescue" him, the brat needed to go back to the Dursley's so they can break him. It wasn't too late for the boy to be broken, but he needed to act fast.
Time was of the essence, time he could afford to waste any longer.
He needed to retrieve his pawn back… Perhaps, he can check on the boy's vaults, surely the boy must've taken money from his trust fund to buy his school materials. Plus, he has been low on money himself and needed to take some more out and perhaps he'll "borrow" couple more books, surely the brat wouldn't needed them anytime soon. After all, they were soon to become his alongside all of the Potter's Family vaults and treasures.
His thoughts were broken when the letter was snatched from his hand by the dour potion professor. He watched the man read the letter carefully, his face showing no trace of emotion except for the wicked looking sneer on the man's face.
"It seems the brat has finally decided to grace us with his presence. Surely, he's hoping to make a huge entrance, just like his father." The potion professor sneered nastily; his baritone voice lay with thick poison which would've made a weaker man tremble.
Minerva frowned at the potion professor, "Don't be so quick to judge the boy, Severus. You haven't met the boy to judge him fairly, or have you Severus?"
Severus sneered, "No. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting the boy, but surely the boy will be just like his father: Arrogant and full on himself, he'll be using his fame as he pleases." He spat out, slamming the letter onto the table with a heavy thud.
Minerva shook her head, "Just because he's James son's it doesn't mean he'll be an exact replica of James. For all we know, he can be like his mother, Lily." Minerva's frown soften as she watched a flood of emotion pass through the man's dark eyes, she knew the man still grieved for Lily's death.
Severus' schooled his face and turn his head away from Minerva; he knew Minerva had a point. For all he knew the boy could be like his Lily, but from the tales Albus told, it pictured another different painting; one of a spoiled boy who got everything he every wished. It pictured the boy as a smaller version of his father, and just thinking about Lily's son acting like James made his blood boil.
Instead of saying anything else, he remained silent. He will have to wait until he met the boy, perhaps Minerva was right.
"Minerva," Albus turned towards the transfiguration professor, "do you know which owl delivered this letter?" If he could get his hands on the owl who delivered this letter, then perhaps he can use the owl to track the location where the letter was sent from.
Minerva sighed, "I'm afraid that's not possible, Albus. The letter was delivered by a beautiful snowy owl, and as soon as the owl delivered the letter, it vanished. It's almost as if the owl managed to apparate from Hogwarts, if it were possible."
Albus frowned heavily, "Surely you're mistaken, Minerva. No being, human or animal; with the exception of Fawkes, can vanish from within Hogwarts via apparition or any other form of traveling. Not even, I, as Headmaster can apparate from Hogwarts," Albus stated blandly.
"I know, but I'm telling you Albus! The snowy owl disappeared from my office leaving no trance behind with the exception of the letter." Minerva sighed.
She was shocked as she saw the owl disappeared right in front of her, it took couple of seconds trying to explain the owl's disappearances as a figment of her she imagination it due to exhaustion; but, when he noticed the letter on her desk after blinking couple of times, she knew she didn't imaging. The owl vanishing right in front of her eye's, and when she read from whom the letter belongs too, she almost fainted!
She was relieved to know James's and Lily's son was alright. She couldn't wait until she met the child, wondering how the child is doing. It's been a while since she has last seen Harry.
"Perhaps it wasn't a real owl, Minerva." The diminutive charm's professor offered politely, "It could've been a transfigured owl with a charm attached to it; making the transfigured owl dissolve after it delivered the letter."
Dumbledore nodded weakly at the charms professor, "perhaps, Fillius." He stood up from his chair, "either way, the public will be happy knowing young Harry will be attending Hogwarts. Now if you can excuse, I have matters to attend to." He smiled at his colleagues on last time before he exited the dining hall as fast as he could.
Once he arrived in his office, he made sure to lock his office, placing wards alerting him if anyone came close to his office and took out the letter from his pocket. He placed the letter on his desk before he took out his wand and started casting another set of spells hoping he'll be able to under the boy's location, but it all proved to me useless.
Dumbledore cursed loudly, rubbing the bridge of his nose trying to keep his temper in check. He wanted to curse the brat for making his life more difficult than it should be!
He paced around in his office in utter frustration sucking on a lemon drop, trying to think of a way to find the brat's location when he felt someone approaching his office. He quickly sat in his chair trying to look as if he's going over paperwork when he heard somebody open his door and walked into his office.
"Please have a seat, Minerva… Severus. Would either of you care for a lemon drop?" He offered kindly to the pair.
"No thank you Albus, I'm fine." Minerva shook her head as she sat down, followed by Severus, who sneered at the muggle candy as if it has offered him in some way before he sat down next to Minerva.
Albus sighed glumly; he didn't know why nobody took his offer of the muggle candy with the few exception of muggleborn children who actually took a lemon drop or two, "very well then, how may I help you both?"
Severus glared at the headmaster, "Have you found where the brat is hiding?"
Albus shook his head, smiling sadly at the dour man, "I'm afraid we'll have to wait until we talk to Harry where and with whom he's living with. Until then, we can only speculate where be might be living."
Minerva frowned, "Surely you must have some idea as to where Harry might be, Albus?"
The headmaster sighed, "I do have some ideas where he might be, Minerva. Even though the spells I casted on the letter proved to be useless, we can narrow down the possible locations by process of elimination." Dumbledore paused, "Harry must be residing somewhere within the British Isles, which would mean he's somewhere within England, Scotland or Ireland…. However there's a slight possibility he might also be in America; considering we sometimes receive students from America if their parents graduated from Hogwarts."
"If the boy was within the British Isles, surely somebody would've been able to spot him by now, Headmaster. Especially, since we've been out searching for the boy for the past year," Severus commented with a frown.
"My thoughts exactly, my boy!" Albus smiled at Severus, his blue eyes twinkled brightly, "which would increase the possibility of Harry residing somewhere within America; however, if he's somewhere in the British Isles then he must be hiding behind powerful wards, perhaps behind a Fidelius charms, that's the only why for his letter not to include his location… that or somebody must've casted blood magic on the his letter to prevent others from finding his location."
"But, blood magic is illegal!" Minerva gasped in outrage.
Albus nodded sadly, looking empathic with Minerva's utter shock. "Indeed it is, Minerva, but the America's wizards have very lax laws. They do not view blood magic as we do."
"Perhaps, his name might offer a clue as to know might have taken Harry in." Severus commented blandly, "If you haven't notice he didn't write his full name on his letter, instead of Harry James Potter, he wrote Raiden Senju-Potter. And if I'm not mistaken, Raiden sounds like a Japanese name and Senju is a Japanese surname as well, which would mean he must've been taken in by a Japanese family."
Albus frowned, "Are you certain, Severus?"
Severus nodded, "I'm positive, Headmaster."
Albus stroked his beard, "I don't recall ever having a Japanese student attend Hogwarts before, nor have a heard of a family called Senju…" He wondered if he could ask the Goblins to check if there's a Pureblood family with the Senju surname. Perhaps, he could have Molly ask her eldest son to investigate, after all, the young man is currently working for Gringotts; surely, he'll be able to found more information on the family that have taken the Potter heir.
-End of Flash Back-
"Which reminds me, can you have Bill check the records at Gringotts for a family called Senju? I believe they might be the ones who've taken Harry in and renamed him."
Molly frowned, "I've never heard of a Pureblood family called Senju before, perhaps they might be a half-blood or muggleborn family, but regardless, I'll ask Bill to look into it." Molly assured the elder wizard.
"Good, good." Albus smiled sweetly, "As soon as we find out who's taken him the sooner we can destroy them for taking the brat in."
EN: Whelp, that's the end of this chapter! I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter, I'm currently writing the next chapter which will be at least around 10K words and will consist if Kakashi's survival test. I'm so excited to write it and I hope I'll have it done by next month if everything goes well! Oh, and I want to address reveress-plegue comment regarding what universe/dimension this story will use. In this story, the Elemental Nations and Earth are parallel worlds (one of many, according to the Goblins who know of other parallel worlds...), which at certain points mesh together and create doorways in-between both worlds which can be open my powerful humans or entities. That being said, the Kitsune are going to alter the trunk which Raiden bought, as well as making a sister trunk, which will allow Raiden to floo between worlds as he pleases, when needed to travel from the Elemental Nations to Earth and vice-versa. This will facilitate Raiden's travels between worlds with the clone in the future, and just a heads up, I won't be writing Raiden's clone's perspective because it will confusing; however, I if need to, it will happened via dreamscape to differentiate between the real Raiden and his clone...
Er... that's pretty much all I have to say! I hope y'all enjoyed this chapter and now i shall answer some question/comment some of you had before I finish this End note.
To AJ Picard: I agree these couple of chapters have been really slow, but after the next chapter the story will move rather quickly! In about a month and a half, Raiden and later his clone will be attending Hogwarts and hopefully the story will pick up after that.
To Riddle-Snape: I'm sorry you didn't like my story based on my tag and I doubt you'll even read this; but hey, your loss! I did included what tags this story is going to have at the beginning instead in the middle of the story... So good luck finding something else to read!
To rigger42: I understand what you mean, Raiden going to Hogwarts is not only a waste of time for him, but utterly useless as well considering most spells he'll learn won't be useful in anyway, barring a few exceptions. The Kitsune have agreed to trained him and they will, but the reason i decided to have Raiden attended Hogwarts, if for couple of main reasons:
1st reason: Dumbledore's meddling, which would result in Dumbledore trying to kidnap Raiden from the Elemental Nations by force. Of course he would fail, there's no way Dumbledore can face against highly skilled ninja, no matter how powerful he is; plus: Kakashi, Yamato, Saruto, and other high level ninja who Raiden has befriend won't allow Dumbledore to kidnap Raiden without a fight... not to mention Matsu would come out to play as well... Dumbledore's odds aren't that high.
2nd reason: having Raiden go to Hogwarts willingly and wearing a mask will help him get a upper hand on Dumbledore. Raiden hates Dumbledore, but he needs to make Dumbledore believe he trust the old coot in order to get to know his enemy closely and find his weak points. However, Raiden won't be acting submissive nor acting weak minded during his stay at Hogwarts. Raiden will be extremely manipulative; turning his fellow classmates against and professors against Dumbledore by his fifth year by planting seeds of doubt. As well, as making a deal with a certain pesky beetle...
3rd reason and final reason: He'll be getting to know his future mates better. I want Raiden to develop a strong relationship with each of his mates and in order to do that, Raiden will needed to go to Hogwarts. He will also help his mates unlocked their powers and help them achieve their goals. The fourth reason and final reason would be for Raiden to enjoy his stay on Earth and be more involve with Wizarding affairs. Raiden has only had terrible memories of Earth thanks to Dumbledore and the Dursley's.
The method which Raiden will be using to travel from world to world is his altered trunk, and the Kitsune will make a semi-permanent clone, similar to a shadow clone but it doesn't disappear unless it's banish by Raiden. And yes, Remus understand he won't be going, he's going to stay in Konoha and the Okami in order to heal which would take him an year to undo all the damage he's done. He'll be returning to Earth for Raiden's third year. Oh and Remus doesn't have Potter blood, he has Lupin Blood and they both share Ryuusuke blood. I mention that James Potter and Remus Lupin were twin brother who were blood adopted by different families, Potter's adopted James and the Lupin's adopted Remus.