AN: Hope you like this next installment.
Arthur turned to the barely awake children as finished talking to Auror Blaze, "Kids this man is going to take you back to school. Classes have been canceled for the next week until all the chaos there has been handled. Draco Neville, your parents and grandmother have been informed of what happened and will also be protecting you and it is okay for you to talk to them. You are not to talk about anything that happened last night or today with anyone else. Auror Blaze will be on your protection detail. His job will be to make sure no one tries to attack you and to keep people from demanding information from you. You are to follow his orders no matter what. "
All of the kids filed out the room or so Arthur thought until he saw that Ron was sitting next to Harry. Frowning slightly he spoke, "Ron you need to go to school. Don't worry I'll stay with him."
Ron shook his head staring at Harry, "I'm not leaving him. You don't know what it was like there, dad. All he did was get caught after curfew. Almost everybody has done that at least once, but they all just turned on him. It was as if they thought he was the next up and coming Dark Lord just because he wasn't perfect. Even George and Fred were being mean to him and they have lost ten times as many points. People shouted things about his parents in the corridors. They stole his homework and hexed him. He's my best friend and all I could do was hold him when he cried or tell others to bugger off when they tried to tell me that I should get away from him. When we met on the train I thought our biggest problem would be passing class; not this." Ron gestured to Harry.
Arthur smiled at Ron,"I don't think anybody did to be honest. When you were going to Hogwarts I worried that you would have trouble making friends. Bill was always charismatic and Charlie was so fun loving. Percy always wanted to help people and the twins had their pranks. Ginny I worry about to but that's another story all together. You an the other hand were always a lonely child. Though looking at it you've made quite a few; and you've been a good friend in return. I can't tell you how proud of you I am son. You could have very easily have done what the twins seemed to have done and follow the crowd, but instead you stood by someone you cared about. That son takes more courage than exploring any scary place. I'll tell you what. You can stay the weekend, but you'll have to return to school Sunday night. Agreed?" Arthur wrapped an arm around his son's shoulder as he sat next to him.
Ron beamed and nodded frantically. He looked slightly teary before he suddenly hugged his father around the waist. Arthur smiled and transfigured a chair into a bed. Turning towards his son he ordered, "Go get some sleep. I promise that Harry will be here when you wake up."
Arthur rubbed his eyes tiredly as he thought about his day. He definitely hadn't been expecting a knock on his door at 1:00am. Nor did he expect to be arrested alongside his wife and for his daughter to be sent to his son Bill. The horrified shamed glare his son had given him probably been the worst part. He hadn't had much in his life except his children and while he couldn't give them many things. He always tried his best to make them proud of him as a person.
The interrogation had been long just as much as it had been heartbreaking. His own wife had stolen money from a child and was planning to use it to run away with a man she had been seeing. Not only that she had conspired with Albus to marry his daughter to a boy illegally and to have the child enslaved to his daughter. Hell their whole marriage was a sham from the start. Her and her lover had planned to marry him to steal his family's money. Only the fact that she was pregnant with Bill kept her from disappearing after his father lost all their money to Abraxus Malfoy. Then apparently they were going to use his children to marry a wealthy family and have them steal money by using spells and potions. Percy and Ginny weren't even his biologically and he was going to have to go through one hell of a court battle to keep Molly's lover's family from getting custody of them. He couldn't wait until Bones caught Garrett Lovitt just so he could punch the man for planning to harm his children. Just the thought of all of it made him sick to his stomach.
He had given Amelia permission to take his son out of school for two reasons. One so that he wasn't any longer near that twisted man, but so he could also watch over the Potter child to some how atone for what Molly did and was going to do to him.
"Why isn't Snape under arrest? He didn't report the Gryffindor students missing and he was caught on the third corridor." McKinley asked Bones after the woman had given the Potions Master an apology after initially ignoring him to go check on her subordinates.
"Because he did nothing wrong. It wasn't his job to look after the Gryffs. His job is to make sure the Slytherins are okay. Which he did by looking for Draco Malfoy when he didn't see him this morning and by reporting him missing to us. He also wasn't in charge of their detention so it wasn't his job to see if they made it to their Common Room afterward. As for being on this corridor there is now law against it. He had no idea that we knew of this place and came here to make sure it was still protected. So no I'm not going to arrest him and have his lawyer charge us for harassment," Amelia answered with an unimpressed look.
Brian blushed embarrassed that he allowed his disgust of Snape cloud his knowledge of the law.
"Get ready for a long wait boys. There is no telling how long it will be for Amelia to get ahold of the owner of the object. When we go to sleep I'll take first watch. Dawlish you will take second, Lee third, and Mark you'll take the last." Moody stated as he started eating.
"What do you think Madam Bones is going to do with Quirrel's body. How is she going to explain he was possessed?" Clint asked.
Ella popped her back as she answered, "They'll do an autopsy to check how far the possession controlled him. If he was controlled he will be marked a victim and his body will be delivered to his family with compensation. If not then charges will be brought to him posthumous before his body is delivered to his family. As for the possession
she'll do her best to prove it's You-Know-Who that possessed him. If she can't she still say he was possessed just not who did it."
"How did Dumbledore not know that Quirrel was possessed? Don't the wards detect that kind of stuff?" John asked, puzzeled.
"The wards would have detected it and informed him. Dumbledore knew," Moody answered his voice sounding to have a tinge of betrayal in it.
John looked horrified, "But why? Why wouldn't he save Quirrel? Why would he endanger the students like this?"
"It's quite obvious if you really think about it. After two weeks of possession the victim can't be saved. If Dumbledore had banished the Dark Lord than Quirrel would be sitting in the St. Mungo's permanent ward for brain damage. Dumbledore brought the stone here to draw him out and to test the Potter kid probably. It wouldn't surprise me if the object were protecting is a fake. I mean think about the traps. They all were tailor made for Potter and his little band of friends. They knew how to get past the Cerberus by Hagrid spilling the beans. The plant was obviously for Longbottom. His Augusta is always complaining that the kid is more interested in plants than be a clone of Frank. Rotten woman if you ask me. Potter is a seeker and could have easily have gotten that key. Why is it even here in the first place? Why not a fake that would blow off a person's hand if touched? The young Weasley was obviously supposed to handle the chess set. Anyone who has listened to Arthur's boasts would know the kid is a chess prodigy. Not to mention you heard earlier how that tree of them took on that very same troll earlier. Then lastly was the potions. The Granger girl was probably supposed to handle that one. Why is their even a riddle in the first place and why is it even correct? These aren't protections. They're test for Dumbledore's little weapon." Moody's voice was filled with anger as he explained.
Everyone stared pensively at each other. It was Dawlish that finally broke the silence, "Madam Bones isn't mistaken is she? Dumbledore really did do all that? He isn't really who we all looked up to is he?"
Moody's voice was sad and disappointed, "Dumbledore is exactly what Amelia has found him to be. He is guilty and the effects of his actions are going to create waves. But you know what we got to do? We got to protect that kid. James and Lily did not give up their lives so that their little boy could become the world's chew toy."