Chapter 5: Dancing on the deck of the Titanic. Maybe.
08/05/2016
Beta: Alix33. Thank you. Only playing.
- Harry Potter and The Revenge of the Goblet of Fire. -
Madam Bones watched as the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement returned to the Great Hall and terminated the magic of Snape, Bagman, Karkaroff, Percy Weasley, Yaxley, and finally after a lot of hopping about, Umbridge. Then the fist rose up and looked around the Great Hall for the next victim, and everyone noticed that the headmaster was nowhere to be seen.
The Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement hesitated for a moment before it bashed the stone floor of the Great Hall in frustration, shaking the castle as its red flames fanned out to strip all the residue of the headmaster's magical signature from all the runes and wards of the castle that he had used to control the tone and the culture of bullying in the school, while the Goblet of Fire belched up gentle blue flames that fanned out and swept over everyone to remove the compulsions and hexes of manipulations and influence that contained the headmaster's magical signature that he had placed on the students and staff of Hogwarts, including everyone who had ever passed through the doors of Hogwarts since he became headmaster.
The effect was immediate as the fear of the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement faded and the doom and gloom of Hogwarts was lifted to be replaced with hope for the future, as the gentle blue flames gave them a warm fuzzy feeling. Harry and Hermione smiled as all the headmaster's magic that maintained all the compulsions, obliviations and bindings was burnt off and removed. They hugged each other, then Tonks joined in, as they watched Luna chase after the gentle blue flames wanting more of the warm fuzzy feelings, while everyone else was ashamed and wondered why they had treated each other so badly. The words I am sorry and I forgive you, were used an awful lot that night. Particularly to and from Luna, Hermione and Harry.
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Eventually the red and blue flames reached the Owlery and the red flames removed all the controlling and re-direction runes from the Owlery, while the gentle blue flames swept over the owls and removed the redirection hexes powered by the headmaster's magical signature. A frightened, shy, fearful Neville Longbottom watched the red and blue flames approach like a wave of the sea, and then the gentle blue flames pounced on him and burnt off all headmaster's compulsion, obliviations and insecurities hexes with the bindings that had limited his magic and plagued his life. Neville was filled with warm fuzzy feelings of hope and confidence. He added a line to his letter to his Gran stating that he needed his own wand and he wished to give his father's wand in a place of honour on the mantelpiece. He attached the parchment to Hercules, the Longbottom family owl, and sent him on his way. Then he rushed back to his Luna.
- Harry Potter and The Revenge of the Goblet of Fire. -
Satisfied at its handiwork in the castle, the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement flew out the window and headed south towards London. Madam Bones could imagine that the next victims would be the Minister and his cronies. Well she could dream a little, after the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement had terminated the magic of the Minister's delightful Senior Undersecretary; it would certainly get her vote. Maybe she should move a motion to use the Goblet of Fire to handle the voting in the Wizengamot and for trials. It would certainly stamp out the corruption and it could decide if someone was innocent or guilty, and carry out the sentence immediately.
Ten minutes later the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement returned for its last victim, the clumsy-boy-who-had-knocked-the-Goblet-of-Fire-over. It pounced on the red dunderhead, and crushed him to the stone floor as it broke every bone in his body. But didn't terminate his magic as he scarcely had enough to register a magical signature. It was not punishment for declining his championship, as that was never his. The Goblet of Fire just remembered the clumsy ass that had dared to touch it.
Having finished its list of the terminated, the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement had one last duty to do as it burst into a million stars that filled the Great Hall with magic that radiated out, and travelled over Great Britain. It removed all traces of the headmaster's magical signature with all the runes and enchantments he had placed to control and spy on everyone for his Greater Good.
The flame red blood diamond turned to dust, and Goblet of Fire went out and stayed out. The students clapped and cheered as they had never seen nor felt such a powerful display of magic and all the right fools had been punished.
But Percy Weasley was very angry that he had lost his magic to the Goblet of Fire, but to watch his brother Ronald Bilius being crushed to the stone floor was the last straw. Enraged he charged the Goblet, only to be stopped by about a dozen high-powered stunners.
No one wanted to disturb the Goblet of Fire or awaken it again.
Madam Bones arrested the newly squibbed and ordered two of her Aurors to take them to the secure ward at St Mungo's for observation, while the other three pairs of Aurors were sent to find out where the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement had been and what had happened.
Order was slowly restored the Great Hall as everyone noticed that the castle seemed to be a brighter and happier place. Professor McGonagall sent the students back to their dorms as Poppy had tried to help the newly squibbed but there was little she could do other than making them comfortable until they all went to St Mungo's, while Ronald Bilius Weasley's bones were so badly broken that they were all vanished, his body scooped up like jelly in a large bucket, taken to the hospital ward and laid out on a bed while being force-fed Skele-Gro. Fortunately Ronald Bilius had been unconscious and couldn't tell how terrible it tastes or how agonizing slow and extremely painful the process was.
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During the lull in the proceedings, Luna Lovegood, ace reporter for the Quibbler, pulled out her wand from behind her ear and carefully extracted a memory of tonight's events and placed it in an unbreakable phial. She called her invisible pet Weetimorousbeastie, Ralph, and gave the phial to him and sent him home with so her father could start writing the headlines for the Quibbler. She could hardly wait for the new magical world to start. There would be a bumper issue of the Quibbler tomorrow.
After the excitement of tonight, a Tri-Wizard Tournament without Harry Potter as the fourth champion, will be a dull and boring affair.
Luna's boyfriend, Neville, returned from the owlery with a grin, Gran Augusta was on her way.
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As Neville returned to the Great Hall he saw a very angry Draco Malfoy with his wand drawn approach Harry and Hermione who were still at the back of the Great Hall.
Some people never change. Instinctively Neville took out his wand.
"You have murdered my godfather, Scarhead!" Draco sneered as he ignored the hot pink haired Auror, and held his wand at his back where Harry couldn't see it. "When my father hears about this, you and your Mudblood will be kissed or rotting in Azkaban."
"Open your eyes, Draco! No more scar!" Harry said as he lifted his bangs to show the faint outline of his scar.
"Harry had nothing to do with this, Draco!" Hermione answered as she readied her fist. This time she would really hit him hard.
"This is all Dumbledore's fault." Harry answered reasonably.
"So if want to write to your father make sure you only blame the headmaster." Hermione twin spoke.
"But you'd better hurry, if your father is a Death Eater like Snape and Karkaroff, he is probably already dead!" Harry finished.
Enraged, Malfoy whipped his wand to point at Harry. "Avada-!"
"Expelliarmus!" Screamed Neville with all his might at the same instant, as his wand was already pointing at Malfoy, with Dobby, Winky and Tonks sending their curses towards Malfoy, as Harry pushed Hermione out of the way of the curse, and rolled so she would land on him.
"Kedav-!"
Neville's curse hit Draco a moment before he finished saying his killing curse, and ripped Draco's wand from his hand.
"-ra!"
Draco couldn't stop himself and the evil green glow started to appear but without a wand to focus it, it had nowhere to go and stayed in his hand, as Draco's face was frozen in a look of sheer utter terror a moment before his own curse instantly killed him, as the rest of Neville's curse threw his body into the adjacent wall of the Great Hall.
Dobby, Winky and Tonks' curses missed Malfoy but did hit Crabbe and Goyle who were standing behind Malfoy, and threw them hard across the Great Hall and into the opposite wall.
"Bloody hell, Harry! I didn't think my cousin hated you that much." Tonks said as she took charge of the situations as Hermione, Dobby and Winky wrapped their arms around Harry and Luna hugged her boyfriend.
"What? He was your cousin?" Harry asked.
"Well, he was your cousin too!"
"WHAT?"
"Didn't you know? Your grandmother was a Black. She was my mother's great-aunt." Tonks explained. "You are related to most of the Pure-bloods families, the Longbottoms, Crouchs, Prewetts, Weasleys and even the Malfoys are second cousins. It is what the Pure in Pure-blood really means."
"That foul... loathsome... evil…. Manipulative…. Little cockroach!" Harry and Hermione hissed together.
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Only five minutes later, Madam Longbottom was walking into the Great Hall as the students were leaving for their common rooms. Neville and Luna saw Gran and went to inform her what had happened. She was so proud of Neville trying to protect his friends and shook her head about Malfoy.
"Malfoy's father and grandfather were evil Death Eaters. I have seen it so often in the inbreeding of the extreme bigoted Pure-blood families. If there is something wrong with the father, there will be something wrong with the son." Said Gran Augusta as she joined Luna to hug her grandson. "Your mother and father would be so proud of you, Neville, that you used your father's wand to protect your friends from a Killing Curse and stop a Malfoy. Tomorrow I shall take you to buy your own wand and we will mount your father's wand in a place of honour on the mantelpiece."
Luna had to hug Neville twice as hard as he was fit to burst as he was so happy to hear his Gran tell him that his parents would be proud of him. He was on cloud 9 and his lopsided grin made Luna go weak at the knees.
But that was nothing compared to the little gift the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement had left for Neville at St Mungo's after it had terminated the headmaster's magic on his parents.
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While the professors and Madam Bones wondered where the headmaster had disappeared to.
"Minerva, where is the headmaster?" Madam Bones asked. "His twinkling blue eyes won't save him tonight."
"I don't know, Amelia." Minerva replied. "The castle is telling me he has left the building."
"I need him to explain what happened here tonight."
"So do I!" Minerva replied. "I don't know what he has against Mr. Potter but he was obviously trying to get him into this Tournament. Thank you for your timely entrance and your help to protect the students. I never thought Albus would run away and abandon the students like that."
"You're welcome; it was the least we could do. That flaming fist terminated the victims of their magic and the headmaster ran away before it could take his." Amelia said. "You look very worried, Minerva?"
"I am. I fear that the headmaster has a Time-Turner."
"A Time-Turner? Are you sure?"
"Yes, I am certain. Last year he messed up the third year class roster with a number of the elective classes clashing, particularly Divination, Ancient Runes and Arithmancy and then insisted on me obtaining a Time-Turner from the Ministry so the top student could attend all of her classes, while all the others students could only select one class from either Divination, Ancient Runes or Arithmancy."
"But I took all the classes and didn't need a Time-Turner."
"So did I. The headmaster only changed it for last year's third year students."
"Terrible things can happen with Time-Turners. Why would he do that?"
"At first I thought he was trying to ingratiate himself into her friendship given how close she was to the Boy-Who-Lived, but now I think he was trying to mentally, emotionally and magically exhaust her and send her over the edge. But with the help of her friends, she dropped classes and gave the Time-Turner back to me at the end of the year."
"Wouldn't be the first time the headmaster has done that."
"It wasn't. The first time the headmaster obtained a Time-Turner for a student that I know of was a young Slytherin called Tom Riddle in the 1940's and then after that was Lily Potter." Minerva said slowly recognizing a pattern.
"Oh really?"
"Yes."
"What happened to the Time-Turner?"
"It was returned to the headmaster. The class roster went back to normal for this year and it wasn't needed."
"Damn! Does he still have it?"
"I am sure of it and I am certain he used it tonight to escape the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement. It would have got him if he was still in the present."
"Yes it would have. The headmaster always seemed to be in the right place at the right time and already knew way too much. If anyone needed a Time-Turner it would be Dumbledore with his three full time positions."
"All knowing, it is one of his titles." Minerva joked.
"How powerful was that Time-Turner?" Amelia asked not amused.
"Grade 3, it could turn back three hours in a 24 hour period."
"Damn! Please excuse me for a moment." Amelia cursed as she cast a personal Muffliato charm so no one could hear her as she cast a message Patronus, a cute little silver King Charles Cocker Spaniel. She spoke the message in code. "Go to Croaker, MELE emergency! Dumbledore has escaped the present back to the past with a Grade 3 Time-Turner, find him and terminate with extreme prejudice. Be very careful as there will be two of them. Terminate both if you need to. Fond regards Cranium."
The Patronus raced off. Dumbledore had been suspected of using a Time-Turner for years but he had always covered his tracks well. Amelia had done what she could and hoped it was enough. Slowly the cheerfulness of the Great Hall raised her spirits as she turned to greet Madam Longbottom. "Hello, Aggie."
"Hello Amelia and Minerva, terrible business tonight. Neville and Luna have told me what has happened. Dumbledore was a damn fool to bring back this Death Trap Tournament. I and the Board of Governors were totally against it from the start but Dumbledore, Fudge and the Toad were all for it, and once Malfoy's gold was involved there was no stopping it." Madam Longbottom said.
"Yes, after the disaster of the Quidditch World Cup, the Minister pushed for the Tournament to take the focus off the Ministry of Magic." Amelia said. "He totally ignored all of my recommendations security."
"Yes but did you see the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement terminate the magic off that obnoxious pink toad?" Minerva asked. "She had only been here for three days and everyone hated her."
"No, I missed that." Madam Longbottom said.
"Oh, that was so beautiful. I will find a Pensieve and share the memory." Amelia said.
"Great, I must see that." Aggie said. "Well, I could stay with Minerva to help sort out this mess here, and Minerva, you will be acting headmistress until the board can make it permanent."
"Thank you, Aggie." Minerva said.
"I had better go and find out what is left of the Minister and his Ministry of Magic." Amelia said as she turned to say goodbye to her niece. "This will be a very long night."
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And it was. Madam Bones was ecstatic to find that the Minister and his cronies had third degree burns and all had lost their magic. They were at St Mungo's with the other newly squibbed. She went there with more Aurors and attested the Minister, his cronies for endangering a school full of students, while she happily arrested any the newly squibbed Death Eaters as they arrived for treatment.
The Auror team that had gone to the muggle village of Little Hangleton came to St Mungo's with a burnt squibbed undead Death Eater, Peter Pettigrew, a large flame grilled snake and a book on very dark resurrection rituals. Madam Bones was able to free Sirius Black with the arrest of Pettigrew, while the Unspeakables from the Department of Mysteries took the snake and the book away to study.
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Sort of Epilogue.
A few days later Ronald Bilius' bones had healed enough and he was released from Poppy's gentle care. The Slytherin students did catch up with him for knocking their names out of the Goblet of Fire. They bound, silenced and painted him dark green and silver, and because he liked to levitate, they stuck him to the ceiling of the Great Hall. No one noticed the redhead was missing for two days until Errol, the Weasley family owl, delivered a howler from his mother directly to the ceiling of the Great Hall during dinner time. Then they saw the dark green and silver red dunderhead stuck to the ceiling covered in sticky smelly owl droppings, silently screaming for help. The red dunderhead was actually terrified of heights, which why he hadn't tried out for the Gryffindor Quidditch reserve team in second year.
Errol only delivered the howler because he agreed with Molly, that the stinky, dark green and silver, red dunderhead, cannibal was an insensitive git.
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(For Alix33 as requested. Enjoy.)
Madam Bones had been very busy dealing with the aftermath of the events of that Halloween night, but the following Saturday night found a group of witches with Madam Bones, Longbottom, the real Mad-Eye Moody and Sirius Black, gathered together to watch the memories of that Halloween night. They had collected the memories of Madam Bones plus Minerva and couple other professors, and included the information contained in the headmaster's journals that were found (Dobby) in a secret office underneath the headmaster's office, while they searched the castle. Dumbledore had kept the journals up to date to the day before Halloween, and they provided an open window into the thinking of the headmaster as he must have written down everything in meticulous details; all his plans, his thoughts, what he ate, and even his bowel movements, all recorded before he went to sleep each night. Dumbledore had recorded that he knew who was hopping around Hogwarts, what He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named's plans were for the fourth champion, and even included suggestions to fine-tune them.
So seven witches with Moody and Sirius entered the Pensieve to watch that evening unfold. They watched carefully what the headmaster did. The ever so slight glances, looks, sounds and actions he gave as he stalled as he waited for the fourth piece of parchment to be spat out of the Goblet of Fire, things that they had never noticed or paid attention to before. With the 3D surround effect of the Pensieve they were able to pause and move around to look over the headmaster's shoulder to see the actual piece of parchment. The name of the school and the Weasley boy's name on the back, written in what looked like his own blood. They could see every micro-expression on the headmaster's face so that they could almost read his mind and get very close to what he was thinking.
They marvelled at the way the headmaster controlled the Great Hall and manipulated everyone there. How he wandlessly zapped the Toad with a Confundus charm to render her useless so that she could not interfere, while everyone was distracted. Then he stuns the polyjuiced Mad-Eye in the back after it was too late to save Barty's mind. In two moves he had eliminated all the other main players, and had complete control over the proceedings.
They were astounded at the way the headmaster's twinkling blue eyes and manipulations got him the answers he needed to get the redhead boy out of the Tournament and spare himself the wrath of Howler Molly. They had all suffered more than a howler or two from that loud, opinionated, narrow-minded witch. Minerva and Pomona were surprised to see the redhead boy control his temper when facing the headmaster, usually he would just explode like his mother until he got what he wanted. They also spotted the moment when the headmaster announced Harry Potter's name as the fourth champion, and the redhead's mind broke as he literary turned a darker shade of Prewett Rage red. They feared what the red dunderhead would do now.
They were aghast and appalled at the blatant way the headmaster attempted to manipulate Harry Potter into the Tournament, and the surprising self-control Harry showed when Hermione Granger was guiding him. They cheered for brilliant arguments Harry and Hermione came up with to counter the headmaster's manipulating politeness and demands.
They saw it was Luna Lovegood who had started to chant Cedric's name to try and gain support from Hufflepuff, and were amazed that she was so astute of what was happening to make that brilliant move. They paused to see the glance the headmaster gave Hufflepuff to shut them up so suddenly. They too felt the power of the headmaster's eyes and facial expressions.
Now they understood how the headmaster had survived for so long in the three most important roles in the Magical World, and get his way against all opposition for his Greater Good. Everything only happened with the approval of Albus Dumbledore.
They cheered for Harry and Hermione as they danced around in that verbal duel with that master Machiavellian manipulator, while they were stunned how the headmaster just glossed over the fact that it was his friend Moody the Death Eater, who had placed Harry's name in the Goblet. They laughed themselves silly when big mouth Bagman stuck his foot in his oral cavity, and granted that Harry was declared of age, while the toad added her 'Hem, hem' in agreement and the headmaster fumed.
They stared in wonder as Harry glared at Snape and stopped Bagman and the headmaster from interrupting his closing statement. Sirius, Minerva and Pomona gasped at the expression on Harry's face. Those emerald green eyes lit up with a look of determination that was purely Lily Potter.
They cheered and danced around as Harry read his statement that formally withdrew him from the Tournament, and cancelled the fourth championship. They watched with glee as Harry and Hermione ran from the stupefied, flabbergasted, dumbfounded headmaster, as he watched the boy and the muggleborn witch, who had successfully outmanoeuvred him, before he could strike back.
Sirius was jumping up and down with so many emotions as he saw Dumbledore's flabbergasted face after his godson and his witch had beaten the headmaster at his own game on his own turf. The final look of anger was the closest he had ever seen the headmaster to losing his cool. After what they had found out about the real Albus Dumbledore and all the evil he had done for his Greater Good, Sirius had never been so proud of his godson and his witch. All he had to do now was think up a suitable Marauders' name for the couple.
(Can you help? Please leave a review to help Sirius as he is still not thinking straight after so many years in Azkaban at Dumbledore's pleasure.)
Aggie was so proud of Neville, watching him with Luna, to be the first to stand up, clap and cheer for their best friends, while Pomona and Amelia were so proud to watch Susan and Hannah be the first Hufflepuffs to stand up and join in. Minerva was more than a little peeved at how long it took her Gryffindors to cheer for two of their own. Sadly she had no idea what to do with the redhead idiot, Ronald Bilius Weasley, or that pompous loudmouth McLaggen.
They clapped and cheered to see the big smiles on Harry and Hermione's faces as they waved and bowed to their cheering supporters, and that kiss almost made them swoon as they were moved by the magic. While Sirius was even more proud of his pup, and followed his example to kiss the witches, starting with his Great-aunt Griselda Marchbanks, but the disapproving glare from Madam Bones, Longbottom and McGonagall, encouraged him to behave. So he only gave them a kiss on the cheek, after all, he still was an incorrigible marauder and wasn't going to lose any points or get a detention. And let's face it, after thirteen years in Azkaban, even Sybill Trelawney would look good.
They saw Madam Bones make her grand entrance into the Great Hall just before it happened.
They watched as the Great Hall darkened as the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement rose up out of the Goblet of Fire and crushed the Death Eater Mad-Eye Moody, while the headmaster cowardly and disgustingly abandoned the students to try and save himself with Bagman and Weasley.
They watched as the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement left the Great Hall, they saw the fireball in the distance, and paused at the moment the headmaster disappeared just before it returned to terminate the grovelling Snape of his magic.
They replayed the memory to hear what the headmaster was saying, as he cursed and talked about how close the boy and his muggleborn witch were to winning everything. But their cheer vanished as he continued to talk about fixing this Time-Line for his Greater Good, before that Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement returns to send him on his next great adventure, and something about a GGMELE! And a fail-safe backup plan called the Omega 13 and ¾! They didn't know what that was but they would search the journals and pass to information along to the Unspeakables who were already searching for Dumbledore in the past.
After deciding what to do with that information, Amelia encouraged them to watch the rest of the memory as it was the best part and had a very exciting finish. So they restarted the memory from when the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement left the Great Hall, and saw the fireball in the distance and the moment the headmaster disappeared just before the flaming fist returned to terminate the grovelling Snape of his magic. Sirius loved that bit. It was even better the second time, and he saw the look of dread on Snivellus' face. After everything he had done to his godson, the miserable Death Eater deserved worse.
They saw that the Minister's Senior Undersecretary was standing next to Snape when the flaming fist crashed down on him, and that seemed to break the Confundus charm on the toad and she shrieked loudly in her high-pitched girly voice as she tried to run as fast as her little short dumpy legs could move across the Great Hall to where Bagman and Weasley were standing, trying to look official after they came out of the chamber where they had been hiding, only for the flaming fist to leapfrog over her to crush Bagman to the stone floor and terminate his magic, after all Rules were Rules. The toad shrieked as she skidded and turned around to run back, only for the flaming fist to leapfrog over her to crush the grovelling Karkaroff on the stone floor and terminate his magic. The toad shrieked again as she skidded and turned around to run back, only for the flaming fist to leapfrog over her to crush Weasley to the stone floor and terminate his magic. The toad shrieked as she skidded to a stop, exhausted and out of breath, while the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement rose up and appeared to be looking at her, daring her to run again with its middle finger up.
The antics of the flaming fist cracked up Sirius and Mad-Eye, and they laughed themselves silly as they rolled around the floor. They could see that the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement really loved its job of painfully terminating the magic of the wicked.
The exhausted toad turned and tried to run as she cursed that her Ministry of Magic approved Emergency Portkey didn't work inside Hogwarts, only for the flaming fist to leapfrog over her to crush the grovelling Yaxley on the stone floor and terminate his magic. The toad shrieked as she skidded to a stop, extremely exhausted and completely out of breath, while the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement rose up to taunt her with its middle finger up, daring her to run again. The exhausted toad turned and tried to run, but before she had taken two painfully exhausting steps, the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement pounced on her like a playful cat to crush her to the stone floor and terminated her magic as she finally croaked.
Seeing the obnoxious evil toad get her comeuppance, they laughed, and jumped, and hugged, and danced around the image of the crushed toad, as Great-aunt Griselda Marchbanks led them singing an old muggle song about a doorbell and a fictional dead wicked witch, as they remembered all the pain, suffering and frustrations that loathsome, repulsive, bigoted hag had caused to so many magical beings.
Then the Flaming Red Fist of Chastisement bashed the floor of the Great Hall when it discovered the headmaster missing, and the red flames stripped the headmaster's magic from the castle while the Goblet of Fire belched blue flames that fanned out to remove the headmaster's magic from the witches and wizards. Even in the memory they were surprised that they could feel the warm fuzzy feelings from the gentle blue flames of the Goblet of Fire as they fanned out to remove the residue of Dumbledore's magic.
That last cheerful memory would with them forever, and it was so much more than Madam Longbottom had imagined.
Madam Bones shared her idea of having the Goblet of Fire handle the voting in the Wizengamot including for trials and punishments. They would give their vote to the Goblet of Fire to be a fair, unbiased and impartial judge with a flaming right hook.
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The following week saw great upheavals in the Magical World while the surviving squibbed Ministry officials, the squibbed Death Eaters and their squibbed supporters, were fairly judged by the Goblet of Fire before being thrown through the Veil in the Death Chamber by its Flaming Right Hook of Chastisement. The Pure-blood bigots lost their stranglehold on power, opening the way for half-bloods and muggleborns to join the Wizengamot. Madam Longbottom had taken Harry and Hermione with Neville and Luna to Gringotts for the reading of the Potters' will and the exposure of all the evil Dumbledore had done for his Greater Good, including the murder of his parents to get complete control of Harry, so he could manipulate the prophecy to be fulfilled his way.
The times were changing as the Magical World was brought into the twenty-first century and everything looked bright for Lord Potter and his Lady Hermione.
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