Chapter Five
After we had gathered our sleepy friends and commissioned Dobby to make breakfast I pushed a piece of paper onto the table.
"What's this?" Neville asked.
"It looks like a training schedule of some sort," George said.
"Yeah," Fred said,
"0500:0630- Morning activities/breakfast,
0630:0730- Gym,
0730:0830- Hand to hand and armed combat,
0830:1100- DADA,
1100:1300- Dark arts,
1300:1330- Lunch,
1330:1600- Transfiguration/ charms,
1600:1700- Potions,
1700:1830- Wandless/ silent spell casting,
1830:2030- Animagus training,
On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 2030:2230 we have Apparation training, and on Tuesday and Thursday we have occlumency and Leglimency training, with the weekends off," Fred finished.
"Wow if that is indeed our training schedule then we certainly have a heavy load and there are things on that list I don't know and others I don't know how you learned," George said.
"That is indeed our schedule, I know it's a lot and that's why I've given us the weekends off but starting tomorrow we are going to follow this religiously and when we go back to school I'll have a revised schedule but we can figure that out later. Now George you said you don't understand a couple of things so ask away."
"Well Harry, I'm wondering where you learned the terms animagus and apparation and what occlumency and leglimency are?"
"Well it all goes back to when I was hiding out. In my library there were multiple books and so when I was done with my main studies I would just pick out books at random, that's how I figured out what a metamorphagus is and that's also how I figured out what an animagus is and what apparation does. How I didn't figure out what an animagus is before this I don't know, I should have figured that out earlier, I mean McGonagall is one but I never took the time to learn how she changed into an animal. Now occlumency is the ability to protect your mind from mind readers which is what leglimency is. I know we should learn this because I'm pretty sure that Snape and Dumbledore read our minds on a regular basis and if we want any of our plans to work then we need to stop that from happening.
Now I know all of you are wondering why we need to exercise and the fact of the matter is that wizards aren't healthy, they expect there magic to do everything and therefore they tire easily, if we are physically fit then we will last longer in a fight and if we last long enough our enemies will tire to the point where they can't fight anymore and then they will be easy pickings. However we will not be working with the weights yet, it's dangerous for people of our age to lift weights, that will wait until were sixteen, so yes Fred and George will get to use them first."
"That makes a lot of sense, plus if we work out regularly we will get good bodies and the girls will be all over us," George said.
"Yeah but I don't see the point of learning muggle fighting," Neville said.
"Oh that's easy, it's for the same reason we are working out, witches and wizards expect there magic to do everything but what if they get in a fight and lose their wand, then they are screwed, if we learn muggle fighting then we have another weapon in our arsenal, I'm pretty sure if we were to punch a dark wizard he would be so stunned that we would easily defeat him."
"That would be pretty funny, I can just imagine the look on the person's face," Ginny said.
"Now Harry I'm wondering why do you have us learning the dark arts, aren't we the good guys?" Fred asked.
"Of course were the good guys Fred but I'm a firm believer that in order to defeat our enemies we need to know what they know, I'm not saying that we are always going to use them or whatnot but we do need to learn them although I only expect us to use them in the direst of situations."
"Alright that's fine then," Fred said.
"So does anyone else have any questions about the schedule?" I asked and when I saw no one had I went to the next part of our planning but was interupted.
"Actually Harry I know I should of asked this yesterday but I'm wondering how you fit all of that stuff in the chamber. It wasn't that big when I was in there and it is hard to believe all that would fit in there."
"It wouldn't of fit in the chamber we were in that is why I burrowed farther into the ground and built the facilities into the new areas after strenghtening the chamber so it wouldn't collapse."
"Oh that clears things up then."
"Ok moving on, if we are actually going to topple Dumbledore and the government then we are going to need more people than just ourselves so any suggestions as to people we can add would be appreciated and I also think we need people from every house."
"Well Harry what about the Gryffindor quidditch team, you know Oliver, Angelina, Alicia, and Katie?" George asked.
"I'm fine with Oliver, he's always been a stand up person and he's always supported me but I don't want Angelina, Katie or Alicia involved in this, we can't trust them."
"What do you mean we can't trust them?" Ginny asked.
"Well it goes back to my first year when we lost one hundred and fifty points in one night, everyone in Gryffindor hated us for the rest of the year and wouldn't talk to us and that included the quidditch team besides Oliver. Now Fred and George apologized for that and all was fine between us but Angelina, Alicia, and Katie never did and last year when everyone thought I was the heir of Slytherin they did as well and they never apologized when it came out that I wasn't, who's to say that the next time public perception is against me they won't betray me, no they can't be trusted."
"Alright Harry we understand, I say we don't let them in right away, I think we can be slow about it and let them know how disappointed we are in them," George said.
"That could work, but let's put that on the back burner and focus on people we are sure we can trust, so more suggestions."
"I have a friend, she was a first year like me, she's a little weird and she has some off-the-wall theories but she's very loyal and if you are her friend she will never betray you, I think that we will have to go slow with her as well but I know for sure that we can trust her. Her name is Luna Lovegood."
"Alright Ginny, I trust you and if you think she's trustworthy then we will put her on the list of allies, now I think there is another first year that we can trust, he's really annoying with his hero worship of me but and as much as I despise it we can use that, he's blinded by his loyalty of me and would never question me. His name is Colin."
"That's a great idea Harry, plus I think Luna and Colin like each other," Ginny said.
"You already know that I think we should contact Susan," Neville said.
"That's a great idea as well, if we get Susan on our side then we can get Amelia on our side and she's the head of the DMLE, that would definitely help us," Ginny said.
"Harry, George and I think you can trust Tracy Davis, she's a Slytherin but while her family is pureblood fanatics she's neutral and hates her family, Dumbledore and Malfoy."
"Yes it would be a good idea to get a person from Slytherin, she could direct us to other Slytherin's with the same mindset but how did you learn of her?"
"Oh well Fred actually has her as a partner in potions."
"Oh cool, so that's it for humans right now but I think we can recruit animals as well."
"What were you thinking Harry?" Ginny asked.
"Well I was thinking that we could get the house elves to join us, look at Dobby he loves to serve us and I was thinking that maybe they can't fight for us but we could get them to spy and we could set up a whole network of spies."
"That's a wonderful idea but how would we go about it?" Neville asked.
"Well that's easy we just have to ask Dobby," and with that I called him.
"You called Master Harry?"
"Yes Dobby, I was wondering how we should go about garnering the house elves support for the war?"
"You would have to visit our counsel and talk to them directly; I could set up an appointment if you like."
"That would be very much appreciated."
"I'll go do that right away then Master," and with that Dobby popped away.
"While were waiting for him to come back let's continue, now along with the house elves spying for us I think we should recruit the centaurs and acromantula. I know they might be hard but I think we can get the spiders on our side by telling them that Voldemort (flinch) is the one that let lose their enemy, the centaurs might be tricky but I'm sure there's some way we can get them on our side."
"That's a good idea; centaurs are really smart if you can discern all of their metaphors and similes and we can use both the centaurs and spiders to spy on what might be happening in the forest and protect things coming from that area," Neville said.
"Alright I was also thinking that if we could come up with a way to persuade the goblins we could get them on our side, we would have to come up with something convincing but I think it can be done, although it might take a few months or years of meetings."
"That's a great idea if we can somehow garner the goblins support then will have control of all the wizards assets, imagine what we could force the magical population to do," George said.
"That's exactly what I was thinking," I said.
"Now there's something else I was thinking of, I don't know if it will work or if it's even possible and even if it was we have no way to check but I was thinking since I'm a parstletongue, I might be able to talk to all amphibians and that would include dragons, if it's possible we could gain the dragons support."
"Well I can definitely see how having large, flying, fire breathing lizards on our side could help," Ginny said.
"Now the final people I think we could recruit and this is a long shot is the giants. We would need a proxy that could help convince them to join us, the problem with that is there is only one person I can think of that would even stand a chance against the giants is Hagrid and unless he is under some strong compulsion charms he is firmly on Dumbledore's side."
"The giants would help but let's wait till we get to Hogwarts to question and test Hagrid, in fact let's wait till school starts before we actually focus on starting the revolution, for now let's focus on our training, after all we should be better than the people we are going to be training," Neville said.
"Your correct, but I do think we should still talk to certain people on our list before we go to school. In order to implement some of my plans we are going to need some of our people already in place."
"You're right, but the question is who should we talk to?" Ginny asked.
"I think it comes down to where everybody lives and if they could get away to meet with us without it being suspicious. I'm of the feeling that if we don't know where they live then we will just wait to talk to them at Hogwarts."
"That seems like a sound idea, so where does everyone live?" Neville asked.
"Well Oliver moved to Hogsmeade to get his own place and has a flat above Rosmerta's," Fred piped in.
"Luna lives on the other side of the mountain from us," Ginny said.
"Susan practically lives at the ministry, I could meet her there and tell her what's going on, it wouldn't be suspicious for me because my gran is always taking me there," Neville said.
"Okay that settles it, after lunch Fred and George will talk to Oliver, Ginny will talk to Luna, Neville will talk to Susan, and I'll have Dobby take me to this Remus fellow. Now that all that is settled I can tell you what I have planned for more recruitment while at school."
"What do you have planned?" Ginny asked.
"I think we can form study groups where we help the younger students with their grades and stuff, while were doing that we let them overhear some off our complaints about the way things are run and give them the opportunity to check out things for themselves and when we feel we can trust them we tell them the truth about what's really going on. It makes me feel better this way because then we're letting them make their own decisions."
"I like that idea as well, if you just manipulated them then you wouldn't be any better than Dumbledore," Ginny said.
"Exactly, now as we are going to have loyalists in all of the houses we can ask them to send out some feelers and subtlety recruit other followers, also I think it would be a pretty good idea to have a school newspaper and a national newspaper as well that is separate of the Daily Prophet, we could have different reporters, of course we would have reporters that follow the ministry, follow Dumbledore and follow us that why no one could accuse us of being bias. Our side would start dishing some of Dumbledore's small transgressions and steadily increase the transgressions until by the time we are ready to start dishing out the huge sins he has done his reputation will already be destroyed."
"Wow that's excellent; I can't believe no one thought of this before," George said.
"Oh, I'm pretty sure people have tried this before, the problem is that no one had the right power, influence, fame, and money to get it done but we have that. I mean I must face the fact that even though I hate my fame it can get things done and I'm fairly rich as well."
"Okay now that we've figured out what we are going to do for the foreseeable future, I would like to know what you were doing last night Harry," Fred said.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that you didn't go to bed until very late, you had your light on and there were periods where you were making a lot of noise and then none at all so I'm curious about what you were doing."
"Oh, okay, so even though I obliviated everyone's memories of me being at Hogwarts this summer I figured I'd better make sure that no one would even think that I left the Dursley's while also making sure that I never had to return there."
"How did you do that?" Ginny asked.
FLASHBACK
"Dobby," I called out.
"You called me Master Harry?"
"Indeed, I was wondering if you knew of a way to make someone appear to be somewhere they're not?"
"What do you mean master Harry?"
"Well I know I'm expected to be at the Dursley's and I know Dumbledore might have people watching the house so I would like it to seem I'm there, you know like a clone or something?"
"You could do a solid duplicate, it's a very complicated spell, but I'm sure you could do it. What the spell does is make a clone of you that will also have your magical signature. The clone has limited brain capacity and is only capable of simple tasks but for the casual observer everything would appear normal."
"That's perfect, thank you Dobby."
"You're welcome master Harry; would you like me take you there so we can do the spell?"
"Yes," and with that we popped back to a house that after today I never planned to go back to.
We arrived in the back yard and crouched down so Dobby could whisper the spell into my ear and when that was done I created the clone and snuck into the house. Then I placed some gloves on my hands and conjured a knife. Then I made a large gash in my arm and walked around the house spreading the blood, once that was done I slit the clone's neck. It was a fake body so there was no blood but the effect was the same and the clone died. When the clone was dead I picked him up and threw him down the stairs and heard some of its bones break. Then I strangled his neck so he would have strangulation marks. After that I slipped into my aunt and uncle's room and placed the knife in my uncle's hands and implanted memories of my aunt strangling me and my uncle slitting my throat. When that was done I slipped into Dudley's room and implanted the memory of him throwing me down the stairs, with that done I picked up the phone, called the police and informed them that I had heard screaming from this address and then I waited in the front yard under my invisibility cloak.
A couple of minutes later the police and ambulance arrived with loud sirens that woke up the whole neighborhood. Then I followed the police as they knocked on the door and my relatives opened the door wide open where they saw the body in plain sight. The paramedics rushed in, checked my pulse and then shook their head no at the officers. The standard procedure followed after that, my relatives made a full confession and were promptly arrested, I didn't stick around after that and returned home.
END FLASHBACK
"So now I know I will never have to return there as they will be looked away for a long time if not life, they might even get the death penalty," I finished.
"Wow by faking your own death you insured that Dumbledore won't be able to do anything about your living situation," Ginny said.
"Exactly, but that wasn't all I did, I also paid a visit to the goblins. I knew that my money had been there for awhile and I didn't want them to think that I had offended them so I talked to them and they understood. But they also toldme they had noticed some discprencies in my withdrawls and asked me to review the packets showed that the Weasley's and Granger were being paid a thousand galleons a month out of my vault for some reason. When I read that part I immediately informed the goblins and they stopped it. They asked me what I wanted to do to fix the problem and I told them I wanted all the money back with a five percent interest and that if they couldn't afford it the rest of the money was to be taken from Dumbledore's vault.
Then I put half the money into stocks, I now own half of Diagon Alley and have some stocks in muggle corporations as well and the rest of the money was sent to an orphanage. Once that was done I inventoried everything from my vaults, I picked out a few things I wanted to keep and other things and I want to sell. For instance there were a lot of ancient magic books that I added to our already large library and there was also a lot of jewelry, the jewelry was already labeled as to who it belonged to, I decided to keep the jewelry that belonged to my parents as well as a couple of pieces I saved for possible birthday presents but the rest I'm going to sell and that's pretty much it. So who's ready to meet some potential allies?"
Fred and George left the house and walked until they were about a mile away from the house and then called the night bus. They were surprised and angered by the revelations that Harry had told them and now they wanted revenge not just for what Dumbledore had done to there sister but Harry who they viewed as a little brother. They would do whatever they had to do to ensure Dumbledore got what was coming to him and the first step would be to talk to Oliver.
After an hour long ride on the bus they arrived at there destination and walked right into Rosmerta's.
"Good morning boys, fancy seeing you here, does your mother know?" Madame Rosmerta asked.
Fred and George looked at each other and opened there mouths not sure what they were going to say when Rosmerta saw there looks and pre-empted them.
"Say no more boys, I understand, do you need a place to stay?"
"No we already have a place, we were wondering if we could talk to Oliver?" Fred asked.
"Of course, of course, first door on the left."
"Thank you," George said.
"My pleasure."
The twins walked up the stairs and knocked on Oliver's door.
"Give me a second,"was the answer.
A minute later Oliver opened the door and was surprised to see Fred and George. "What are you guys doing here?" He asked.
"Can we come in before we talk?" Fred asked.
Oliver invited them in and then closed the door. "So what's this about mates?"
"Before we answer that we need to know if you trust Harry even if it means going against Dumbledore and the ministry, if you do then we can reveal everything?"
"Yes of course I do, Harry is a great kid and usually knows what is best, plus Dumbledore is an old man who is going senile and Hogwarts seems to be getting dangerous and I think it's time he's removed from his position but I know that won't happen and the ministry is full of idiots. In fact I'll go one further to prove my trust in Harry." Oliver pointed his wand in the air and said "I Oliver Wood swear on my magic that I will never betray Harry Potter and will only reveal secrets told to me to people that already know of them."
"Good Oliver welcome to the fold," and with that they told him everything.
That was pretty much how the rest of the day went, they secured allies with everyone although some had reservations and by the end of the day everyone was at Harry's house and ready for a busy day tomorrow.