A/N: I would to thank everyone who has read and reviewed this story, it is appreciated. And a special thank you to XxAkuXxXTenshixX, that PM was helpful and I will keep it in mind with future chapters.
It was the morning of the 12th and Harry sat at his bedroom window looking out at the quiet street. It was almost 9am and he was waiting for Moody to turn up. The previous day he had received a letter from Remus mentioning that Moody would be on duty this morning and would come and see Harry at 9am. He sat there hoping that Moody would be early as he wanted him there when he spoke to the minister but knew that if Moody wasn't there when the floo connected he would have to leave him behind.
Harry thought about his visitor from a few nights ago. He was still trying to piece together everything the man had said and whether he could be trusted or not. There were some things that Harry just couldn't get his head around. He said he was 647 years old yet the only person Harry had heard of living that long was Flamel, surely the man would be as much of a living legend if he was really that old. Then there was the fact that he said he would be gone a week because his body was dying but that Harry would be able to reach him by owl once the week was up. Harry realised how smart the man actually was, he had given Harry enough information to make him curious but did not really answer any important questions about himself. All Harry knew about him was that he was dying, his age, his name and that he supposedly knew a lot of magic. Harry realised that that should be all he needs, he would speak to some people and try to find out some information on this Abaddon.
Harry was woken up from his musing by the sound of someone apparating onto the street. He looked down from the window and saw Moody walking towards the house. Harry sprinted downstairs and threw open the front door to greet him. "How am I to communicate with you if I am in trouble?" Harry asked.
Moody chuckled before replying. "By squeezing the gold coin you have, Remus and myself have ones as well which will inform us that you require help."
"Sorry Moody but I had to make sure."
"Don't be sorry Potter. Constant vigilance, although I am disappointed that you didn't have your wand out."
"But I do."
Moody's magical eye looked down to see Harry's wand barely sticking out from his sleeve and aimed at his stomach. "I assumed that you would be able to see through the door with the magical eye so I kept the wand concealed." Harry said grinning.
"Well done lad." Moody said before walking into the house and scanning it with his eye.
Once Moody was satisfied that everything was alright he turned both eyes to Harry. "So then lad, why did you want either me or Remus here this morning?"
"I have a meeting with the minister this morning and I wanted either you or Remus there with me during it."
"This was not bought up in the order meeting, does Dumbledore know?"
"No he doesn't and I would prefer it if he didn't find out. I do not trust him and at the moment the only order members I trust are you and Moony."
"There are others you can trust but it would be best to talk to Remus about that as I am not the most trusting person out there."
"This makes your suggestions on people I can trust even more appealing. If you of all people feel I can trust them then they must have done something big to warrant that trust."
"There are the Weasley twins; they would do anything for you without a moment's hesitation. Bill Weasley is probably the most trustworthy person in the order and even if he doesn't agree with you if you ask him to keep quiet he will. Filius is another, he is constantly arguing against Albus on his treatment of you. So you see Potter, there are some people who have your best interests at heart. Saying that, I believe the whole order has what they assume is your best interests but those four will listen to you and make a judgement based on what you say while the rest still see you as a child."
"That is why I have kept this meeting with the minister quiet, because I am not longer a child, I've got Voldemort gunning for me, I've faced death countless times and well, growing up here I doubt I've ever known what it is like to be a child. I've had to grow up out of necessity but very few see that. They are happy for me to face what I have to face but are unwilling to help me prepare. They say 'don't worry, let the grown ups deal with it' but it is me who deals with it. I am sick of it professor. I am sick of the order and their coddling, of Dumbledore and his lies, of the ministry and the public of their constant 'oh, Potter is a hero, he is a deranged teen, hero, deranged, hero, etc' but most of all I'm sick of falling into Tom's traps unprepared and getting out by the skin of my teeth."
"Well do something about it then."
"I'm sorry Moody, I don't mean to rant at you, it's just been building up inside me seeing as I've been here with no contact to anyone except yourself and Moony. I am going to do something about it though and that is what this meeting today is about."
With that said there was a whooshing noise from behind the blocked up fireplace that told Harry that the floo was connected. "Would you do me a favour and vanish the wall blocking the fireplace. The minister is waiting."
Moody walked into the living room and vanished the fire place wall. He told Harry to wait five seconds before coming through. He stepped through the fireplace and Dobby appeared when he had gone. Harry gave Dobby a slight nod and Dobby removed the tracking charm from Harry as he walked through the fire. Once Harry was through Dobby repaired the wall before disillusioning himself and apparating silently to Harry's side.
-HP-
Albus Dumbledore sat him in office. He was enjoying his first quiet day of the summer. He was happily looking over the new student applications while eating a lemon drop. It was one of his favourite parts of his job. When looking through the applicants he could see the magical potential of the children as well as see their faces when they first get a glimpse of Hogwarts. He missed going to the muggleborn student's houses to introduce them to magic. He used to do it every year but since the war started up again he had been too busy to make those trips. It made him sad that he couldn't do the visits as the look of surprise and glee on the children's faces when they first see magic brings him so much joy. It is a little unknown fact that his patronus is powered by the memory of those visits.
He looked down at the forms and sorted them into two piles, one of pure-bloods and half-bloods and a second pile of muggleborns who didn't know that they were magical. With a heavy heart he had sent copies of the muggleborn list to most of the staff for them to deliver the letters to the children personally while he wrote and sent the ones to those with parents who were witches or wizards.
He had just finished writing the first letter when a whistling sound from behind him grabbed his attention. One of the instruments on his shelf was spinning and whistling loudly, this indicated that his tracking charm on Harry had disappeared. Without a second thought he jumped up from his chair and ran down to the great hall where the order members who were staying at Hogwarts and didn't have to work today were most likely having a late breakfast. While running through Hogwarts he began going over possible reasons for the tracking charm to drop. The only reason he could think of was that Alastor had removed it seeing as the charm on the front door noticed him entering not fifteen minutes ago.
When Dumbledore reached the great hall he saw that there were only five people there. Remus and Tonks were sitting together quite closely and quietly talking to each other. On the other side of the table were Minerva and Filius with Kingsley who had just joined them. "Kingsley, can you go to Harry's house please. The tracking charm I have on him has just disappeared; he will be there with Alastor. Alastor entered the house twenty minutes ago and no one has yet left. I need you to reapply the tracking charm; we need to know where he is for his own safety." Dumbledore said in his normal calm tone.
"Of course Albus, I'll go and do it now." Kingsley said getting up from the table and walking out of the hall.
"Albus, you have a tracking charm on a student. This isn't good, what they do over the summer is none of our business and he doesn't need to be hounded down like a fox." Filius said.
"Filius, it is for his own protection, he is wanted dead by Voldemort."
"Surely if you feel fear for his safety at home then you would not have left him there."
"The blood wards will protect him from any death eaters or from Voldemort himself."
"You are not putting up a solid defence for this invasive breach of privacy on the boy."
"He could always leave the house and step outside the blood wards; we need to know when he does this so as to best protect him."
"Isn't that why you always have at least one person outside his house?"
"Yes, but with the tracking charm we can follow him even if we miss him leaving."
"I do not like this Albus, but he is not a member of my house, there is nothing I can do about this. If he finds out about this he will not be happy, it is a clear breach of his privacy and freedom. I'm guessing you know about this." Filius said turning to Minerva.
"Well some freedom must be lost if we are to properly protect him. It is all for the greater good." Albus said before Minerva could reply.
"I'm willing to bet that he will not see it that way should he find out." Filius said while getting up and leaving the hall.
-HP-
When Harry appeared on the other side of the floo he landed gracelessly on his face like he usually does. Before he could do anything Moody had grabbed him and pulled him onto his feet. Harry took a quick look around the room. It was rather plain which surprised Harry. The large wooden desk was situated in the centre of the room with a plush leather chair behind it and three rather comfortable looking chairs in front. The glass front cabinet behind the minister's chair was almost empty but contained a few certificates from the auror academy and a few medals for bravery. The only other thing that was in the room was a filing cabinet in the far corner and a weird green and red plant by the door. Harry looked up at the minister and other than his greying hair didn't really notice anything on the minister. Before realising it he had stuck out his hand towards the minister.
"Good morning minister. Thank you for seeing me on such short notice."
"I was happy to Mr. Potter, like I said in the letter I had wanted to meet you earlier but Dumbledore refused the request." Scrimgeour said while shaking Harry hand.
Rufus held his hand out to Moody as well but Moody just bowed his head slightly in greeting. "Well then, we are just waiting on one person before we start Mr. Potter."
"Please minister, call me Harry. Everything I hear Mr. Potter I expect professor McGonagall to appear."
"Of course Harry, and please call me Rufus."
There was a light knock on the door and Rufus waved his wand to open it. In walked a witch. She looked to be in her late forty's early fifty's although Harry couldn't give an estimate on how old she was. She wore a plain black robe with the DMLE logo on it. Unlike traditional robes which were put on over someone's head this looked more like a jacket or cloak as it was done up at the front. She had shoulder length brown hair which had started to go grey and he noticed that she didn't try to hide it like most people do. What interested Harry the most about her though was that her face held a firm look but if you closely enough at her eyes you could see that while it wasn't quite a façade she was kinder than she wanted to seem.
She stopped just inside the door and her navy eyes seemed to scan him before moving onto Moody and the minister. It is only then that he noticed her right hand came out of her pocket and he could see the faint trace of a wand on the outside of said pocket.
"Amelia, thank you for coming. Let me introduce you to Harry Potter, and you already know Alastor Moody." Rufus said signalling for Amelia to sit in one of the chairs.
"Hello Miss Bones. You're Susan's aunt aren't you?" Harry said politely while shaking her hand.
"Mr. Potter, it is madam Bones but please call me Amelia, and yes you are correct, I am Susan's aunt. I would like to thank you; she said she would not have been able to pass her defence OWL if it wasn't for you." Amelia said with a small smile on her face.
"Call me Harry. I only helped her; she was the one who did the hard work by putting the time and effort into learning those spells."
"I can assure you that she doesn't see it that way and I doubt the rest of your DA group would as well."
"Wait, you said she had passed her defence OWL, has she already received her grades?" Harry asked already knowing the answer.
"Yes, she received them yesterday. I was quite surprised as the results have never come back this early before but Griselda Marchbank, she is the head of the Wizarding Examination Authority, said she received a request from Albus to speed it up this year as he had a lot of work to do later in the summer and would not be around to forward the results off to the students."
"So professor Dumbledore gets the results and then sends them out to the students?"
"Yes that is correct. He adds the standard Hogwarts letter to it."
"Well that would explain why I haven't received my results yet then." Harry said more to himself than anybody else.
"No that wouldn't explain it, there is no reason you should not have received your letter. I would have though that Albus would want you knowing your results. I will bring it up with him when I next see him." Moody said.
"We will deal with that after the meeting." Minister Scrimgeour said while using his wand to pour tea for everyone minus Moody.
"I do not know how much you know so I shall start at the beginning. During the first war with Voldemort a prophecy was made with Professor Dumbledore as the witness. Professor Dumbledore is trying his hardest to keep the contents under wrap and away from Voldemort to the point of telling almost nobody it. Personally I don't see the point of hiding the contents of it seeing as Voldemort has already decided that it is me that the prophesy is talking about and I really cannot see what else he could get out of it. I don't mind telling you it as it will make going forward easier. It says: The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies ... and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not ... and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies." Harry stopped and drank a bit of his tea to give them time to let it settle in before continuing.
"Professor Snape heard the first two lines and ran off to tell Voldemort about it. That is why Voldemort has been after me and wants me dead."
"Do you believe this prophecy Harry?" Scrimgeour asked with a mixture of sadness and worry on his face.
"You know, you are the first to ask me that minister. To answer your question, I don't know. I do not trust the source of this prophecy but part of it has already come true with Voldemort giving me this scar. What I do believe and know though is that both Voldemort and Professor Dumbledore believe the prophecy. That is why Voldemort is actively searching for me and trying to kill me as well as why Professor Dumbledore locks me away at my aunt's house each summer."
"Yes it is fair to say that Voldemort does want you dead. What I am curious about is how you came to lose trust in Professor Dumbledore. I have always heard that you two were rather close."
"A few months ago you would have been right, although he has spent the past year ignoring and avoiding me. I have lost trust in Professor Dumbledore for several reasons. Every year he places me with my aunt and uncle for the summer saying it is for my own protection and the greater good. Well, one part of that is right, the other, not so much. It has only been this summer that I have been able to put the pieces of the puzzle together and see what he is really like."
Harry took a few seconds to compose himself because he could feel his anger rising. The minister and Amelia waited patiently, they guessed that whatever happened between Harry and Dumbledore was still a fresh wound and that it still affected him. He downed the last of his tea and took several deep breaths before continuing.
"When my parents died he took me from my home and placed me with my aunt and uncle. He was not my legal guardian, my parents left that responsibility to my godfather Sirius Black, and at that time he wasn't in Azkaban and had gone to my parent's house because he feared they had been betrayed. He saw Hagrid there holding me and wanted to take me but Hagrid said he had orders from Dumbledore to deliver me straight to him. He left me with my aunt and uncle who he knew didn't like my parents and he expected them to raise me properly. While growing up they beat me regularly, they did this to, in their own words 'beat the magic out of me'. They despised anything they didn't see as 'normal'. I lived in a cupboard under the stairs for the first eleven years of my life. I refuse to believe that he didn't once come and check up on me, if I really was so important why would he leave me and not look in every now and then? His excuse for this was that he wanted me to grow up outside of the wizarding world. This was not his choice to make yet he still made it."
"Harry, we have laws that protect children, even young wizards in muggle homes. Albus knows of these, hell he wrote them. As chief warlock it was his responsibility to check in on you to make sure you were happy and safe." Amelia said speaking up for the first time since sitting down.
"There was also the fact of the blood protection my mother left me. I have been told by someone who supposedly is an expert on the subject, as well as the person who taught my mum the magic, that the protection was put on me and would protect me from anybody wishing me harm. Dumbledore put me with my aunt and uncle and then removed that protection and placed it over the house. He explained that it was put there by my mum because my aunt shared her blood but that was not the case. There was no need for me to be there other than it is what Dumbledore wanted."
"Who is this 'expert'?" Amelia asked.
"He called himself Abaddon."
Harry could see the confused looks on Moody's and Scrimgeour's faces and the look of concern on Amelia's.
"I have heard of him and yes he is an expert but he isn't what you can class as a good person."
"He managed to get past the blood wards on my aunts house and right into my room. He could have easily killed me but all he wanted to do was talk. He trained my mum and is willing to do the same for me."
"We'll discuss this later but for now continue with the background info."
"Ok, as chief warlock Dumbledore could have given Sirius a trial, but he just let him get sent to Azkaban. A trial with a bit of veritaserum would have proven his innocence and then I would've been able to grow up with my godfather but that would go against Dumbledore's plan. Like I've mentioned several times already each summer he has put me back there. Between my first and second year they locked me in my room, they bolted the door closed and put bars up at my bedroom windows and fed me through a small flap in the door, right little cosy prison cell that was. If it wasn't for the youngest three Weasley boys coming and rescuing me I would've most likely stayed in there like that all summer."
"Wait a minute; they actually turned your room into a prison cell?" Amelia spat. She tried to hide the disgust and anger in her voice but failed miserably while saying that.
"In every possible way. The past two years have not been as bad as they could have been but that was because of several people threatening my aunt and uncle, something I might add that Professor Dumbledore was against doing. This year he sends me back there within weeks of my godfather dying and pays for my friend's family to go abroad for the whole summer. It was to keep them safe but they could have stayed at Hogwarts, the Weasley parents are both order members. So I have had to deal with the death of my godfather on my own without the support of my friends, and it is just laughable to expect sympathy from my aunt and uncle, they would have celebrated had they found out Sirius was dead. Sorry, I've kind of gone off on a tangent."
"Don't worry Harry. You obviously need to get this out." Scrimgeour said while waving his wand and the teapot refilled everyone's tea cups.
"It was also just after Sirius died that Professor Dumbledore told me about the prophecy, had he told me this earlier then I would not have fallen for Voldemort's visions and fallen into his trap at the department of mysteries."
At this point Harry had tears freely rolling down his face. He stopped talking, unable to say another word as it hit him that Sirius' death may have been avoided had Dumbledore been up front with him. Amelia gave his arm a gentle squeeze letting him know it was alright to let it out. They waited patiently for Harry to finish crying before Scrimgeour spoke up.
"Feel better Harry?"
"Not really, can we continue though?"
"Of course, so Voldemort can put visions into your head?"
"Yes, we are linked together, he can implant things into my head and I can feel and see him whenever he has a strong emotion. Professor Dumbledore arranged for Snape to give me occlumency lessons but he would just tell me to clear my mind and assault me with legilimency right away. He left me feeling weaker and weaker after each lesson. He said I was not trying hard enough to learn it but all he did was assault my mind without telling me how to block him. I managed to get off a protego spell one time which forced me to access his mind. He was furious at this and refused to teach me afterwards."
"So he didn't get you doing mental exercises for an hour before each lesson? He didn't give you reading material or show you how to create the proper shields? He just got you standing there while he mind fucked you every lesson." Amelia was practically seething at this point and Scrimgeour noted that if she squeezed that chairs handle any harder then she would shatter it.
"Wait, so what he did was completely wrong?" Harry almost yelled showing as much anger as Amelia was at this point.
At this point there was a knock at the door and a small plump witch entered followed by a patronus. The patronus flew over to Moody while the witch turned to Scrimgeour. "Mr. Scrimgeour your 10am appointment is here." She said professional while ignoring everything else in the room.
"Rearrange it for this afternoon and cancel the rest of my afternoon meeting please Monica." Scrimgeour replied without looking up at her.
Harry faced Scrimgeour. "If you have another appointment I can come another time minister, I don't want to take you away from important business." Harry said as the witch closed the door.
"Nonsense Harry, this is important and the broomstick flying regulations can wait for a few hours."
Scrimgeour wasn't about to tell Harry that he was meant to be meeting with the Hogwarts board of governors as he might think it too important to skip. Luckily for him Harry accepted the lie without question and sat back down.
"Well it seems Albus knows we have left your house Harry." Moody said as the patronus disappeared. "He is requesting to know where we are and that we return immediately."
"Damn, I was hoping he wouldn't have found out until we returned."
"If you had told me about the tracking charm then I could've moved it to another object instead of shutting it down and he wouldn't have found out at all. How did you remove it?"
"My house elf did it."
"Well Albus can wait." Amelia said. "Now where were we, yes Professor Snape. It was like he didn't want to teach you occlumency and just used that time to mentally abuse you. He didn't do anything he was meant to in teaching someone the art and seeing as he is a master occlumens and legilimens he would know what he was meant to do in training you."
"Is there anything else you would like to add Harry?" Scrimgeour asked.
"Yes, Dumbledore could have taught me it himself but he wanted to give Voldemort the impression that we were not close even though anyone could have told him different. I am sure there are more than two occlumens in the world and that he could've got a proper tutor for me but he somehow felt that someone who hated me should teach me how to defend my private memories and thoughts from intrusion." Harry replied still trying to digest what Amelia had said.
"Right, shall we get to the points of why you wanted this meeting. You expressed a wish to be emancipated."
"That is correct. With Voldemort after me I feel that I need all the time I can get to train myself to be able to properly defend against him."
"Train yourself?"
"Yes, it has become evident to me that the only way I am going to learn anything worthwhile is if I teach myself. Professor Dumbledore has had five defence against the dark arts teachers at Hogwarts since I've been there. The first was a stuttering fool who had Voldemort hiding under his turban. The second was a fraud who could only manage to perform a memory charm. Admittedly the third was rather good and it was from him that I learned how to produce a patronus charm. The forth was a death eater, although he was an able teacher and the fifth was a useless toad who believed if we knew the theory then we would be able to perform the spell."
"You are talking about Dolores Umbridge correct?"
"Yes, but please do not get me started on her. You do not want to have to listen to me go on about her after Professor Dumbledore and Snape."
"Actually I would like to hear what happened to her, she is in St. Mungo's at the moment but is rather incoherent and Dumbledore is not very forthcoming with what happened regarding her last year."
"The short of it is: She would not teach use how to do spells only have us read about it from a book. She gave me plenty of detentions where she had me write 'I must not tell lies' with a blood quill. She tried to give me veritaserum to tell her where Professor Dumbledore was hiding. She almost used the cruciatus curse on me and then while in the forbidden forest she was stupid enough to insult the centaurs. Not the best teacher we've had."
"Excuse me?!" Amelia said wondering if she had heard right.
"Amelia." Scrimgeour said before the head of the DMLE could act on what she heard.
"Rufus, she used a blood quill and the cruciatus curse on students. Not to mention feeding Harry veritaserum."
"Actually she didn't use the curse on me; she was about to when she got interrupted. Also she technically didn't give me veritaserum, she put it in the tea she gave me but I didn't trust her enough to drink it so I pretended to and poured it into a plant when she wasn't looking. But yeah, I've still got the scars from the blood quill."
"In any case, she will stand trial for this should she ever recover from whatever happened to her in the forbidden forest. Should that happen Harry you will need to stand as a witness but we shall discuss this closer to the time."
"Ok sir, where was I, oh yes, DADA teachers. On top of those Professor Dumbledore was willing for me to teach other students in the DA club which as Amelia mentioned, Susan said it was because of the club that she was able to pass her DADA OWL. Voldemort first appeared at the end of my first year, Professor Dumbledore has known about him since then, if not before, but considering he knew that I have to face him he has not bothered training me one bit to do it. So yes, I believe I will have to train myself and that is why I want to be emancipated, not to mention it means I will be out from under Professor Dumbledore's control and be able to leave my aunt's and uncle's house."
"Well Harry, unfortunately I cannot grant emancipation, only your legal guardian or the Wizengamot can and seeing as Albus is chief warlock I do not see it happening. What I can do is remove the restriction of underage wizardry from you enabling you to be able to perform magic which should be a little help especially if you do not let people know about it. The main reason I asked Amelia to sit in on this is because she has offered to give you a condensed auror training course and help you to prepare."
"While it will not give me as much freedom as I had hoped it will help me a lot. Thank you minister."
"Also Harry. I know Sirius was the last of the Black family line and most likely left most to you. While I do not know what he left you or if he even left you anything. If he made you head of the Black family then you will be emancipated. All of the older pureblood families have it stipulated that the head of the family must be considered an adult in the wizarding world, that means they had to be emancipated if they were under age. Speaking of which, the Potter's should have had the same thing seeing as they are an older pureblood family than the Blacks." Amelia said.
"I do not know what Sirius left me in his will, the will reading is not until tomorrow, but if what you say is true and he did make me head of the Black family then there is still hope."
"While we cannot emancipate you I can promise you that you will not go back to your aunt's and uncle's house. From what you have told me there has been enough physical and emotional abuse going on there for years and as the head of the DMLE I have the power to and am placing you in protective custody pending a formal investigation."
"Very well Amelia, you have the power and right to do that, but where will Harry go? Usually in these circumstances the child will stay at a Hogwarts but considering his relationship with Albus that might not be a good idea." Scrimgeour said.
"He can stay with me. I have more than enough room and I am sure Susan would not mind having another friend around her."
"Are you sure ma… Amelia? I could always stay at the Leaky Cauldron. Also, what do you mean another friend, do you have multiple students living with you?"
"No, Albus was right about one thing, you do need protection, and I can provide that at my house but not at the Leaky Cauldron. You would be an easy target for Voldemort there and no, I don't have multiple students living with me." Amelia laughed. "But Susan has her friends Hannah Abbot and Neville Longbottom around almost everyday."
"Thank you, I appreciate this."
"Anything else you would like us to discuss Harry?" Scrimgeour said while getting ready to finish the meeting.
"No, the rest I believe I need to bring up with Gringotts… Actually there is one thing. You said you were going to train me Amelia."
"Yes that is correct."
Harry turned to Moody. "Professor, would you be willing to help train me as well?"
"Of course lad."
"I am also going to ask Professor Flitwick for his help. He was my head of house when I was at Hogwarts and has proven himself time and again to be an excellent dueller." Amelia added.
"You were in Ravenclaw? I expected you to be a Hufflepuff like Susan."
"No, Susan's parents, my brother and his wife were both in Hufflepuff but I was in Ravenclaw."
"Hmm ok. Minister Scrimgeour, thank you very much for this meeting. I appreciate everything you have done for me."
"It was my pleasure Harry. Amelia, it is always a pleasure." Scrimgeour nodded while getting up from his desk and opening the door for them. "The restriction on underage wizardry will be removed by the end of the day Harry, so to be safe I would wait until very late tonight or tomorrow before you start using magic."
"Thank you minister."
"Now Harry let us head to your aunt and uncle's house. You can pick up your belongings while I inform them about the investigation as well as have a little chat with Albus." Amelia said and after seeing the look of worry sweep across Harry's face she added. "You do not have to speak to any of them if you do not wish to."
"Thank you."
"Alastor, will this put you in a vulnerable position? I know you are in Albus' order. Turning up with me while I am removing Harry from that home may not work in your favour."
"It is fine. I know what I will be saying to Albus and he will most likely like it as much as what you've got to say." Moody said while walking out of the minister's office.
The three of them walked through the ministry towards the apparition point. They got quite a few stares from the common folk. It was not often that the head of the DMLE, the most famous retired auror and the boy who lived walked through the ministry together and it got people talking, within a few hours most of magical Britain will have heard of it.
They reached the apparition point rather quickly as while people stopped and stared at the three figures they also all moved aside to let them pass. Amelia turned to Harry. "Harry, we will be apparating to your aunt's and uncle's house, have you ever apparated before?" Amelia asked.
"No I haven't." Harry replied while thinking about the other forms of magical transport and not looking forward to it.
"All you need to do is keep hold of my arm. It will feel like you are being pulled through a thin tube but the feeling will only last a second and we'll be on the other side. Take a deep breath before we go as you cannot breathe while in transit." Amelia explained.
Harry followed her advice and once he had done that Amelia apparated with Harry holding onto her. It lasted a second and Harry opened his eyes to see number 4 private drive in front of him.
"How was that Harry?" Amelia asked.
"I have yet to experience a form of wizarding travel that I enjoy… save flying of course."
"Don't worry, you get used to it after a while, hurts like hell when you splinch though."
"Splinch?" Harry asked confused while Amelia walked towards number 4.
"It's what happens if you do not apparate properly, the witch or wizard will usually leave a part of themselves behind. It is rather painful but relatively easy to fix, it can sometimes be fatal though. I've known of one person who left their head behind, it was reattached to the body as few hours later when it was found but it was too late by then to save him. Don't worry though; it is usually an arm or leg that is left behind. Shall we go in?" Amelia asked deciding that Harry need not be scarred at the prospect.
Amelia went to knock on the door before Harry told her not to bother and just opened the door and walked in. Harry walked into the living room and it was as he expected. Dumbledore was sitting in the armchair with an order member (Shacklebolt) standing next to him while his aunt and uncle sat on the sofa. Vernon was purple and looked like he would burst if he got any angrier.
"YOU BOY! YOU GO RUNNING OFF CAUSING THESE PEOPLE TO TURN UP AT MY HOUSE, I WILL BE HAVING NO MORE OF THIS!" Vernon yelled as soon as he saw Harry.
"Mr. Dursley please sit back down and keep your voice level." Dumbledore said from the chair he was sitting in. "Harry, I am disappointed, I thought you realised how important it was that you stayed here."
"So Albus, are you saying that he is not allowed to leave his own home?" Amelia said walking into the living while Moody closed the front door.
"Amelia, what are you doing here?"
"I am here as a guest of Harry's. What are you doing here Albus?"
"I have come to check up on Harry."
"Funny, this is the first time that you've come to check up on my Professor." Harry said with a questioning glance.
"Harry, I have always come to check up on you periodically since you were left here as a baby."
Anger flared up in Harry and everyone felt as if a weight had been placed on top of them. Amelia and Dumbledore seemed unaffected while Moody and Shacklebolt were slightly surprised by it and the Dursley's were afraid. Amelia placed her hand on Harry's shoulder and gave it a squeeze.
"So Albus, How regularly did you check up on Harry while he was growing up?" Amelia asked curiously.
"I do not see what that has to do with anything Amelia."
"I was just curious, considering Harry grew up in a cupboard I was just wondering if you were lying just now or were privy to his abuse."
"Abuse! What lies have you been telling this woman Potter?" Mr. Dursley said getting out of his chair again.
"Sit down Dursley. I will get to you in a minute." Amelia said forcefully causing Vernon to fall back into his chair.
"Only the truth uncle Vernon, from the years in the cupboard to trying to beat the magic out of me and turning my room into a prison cell."
"Now see here one minute…" Vernon began saying before the angry look from Amelia shut him up.
"Harry, why don't you go and pack your things." Amelia said in the calmest voice she could manage.
"Wait Harry." Dumbledore said as Harry went to leave the room. "Why would he pack his trunk Amelia?"
"Go on Harry. He is packing his things because I have placed him in protective custody pending the result of the formal investigation into the abuse he suffered here."
"He cannot leave, the blood wards have not fully charged."
"Really, because according to Abaddon the wards don't need charging. You know who he is; he said that it was you who approached him about taking me on as an apprentice, funny how I knew nothing of it until he told me." Harry said before departing up the stairs to his room.
"The blood wards are not my concern, Harry's safety on the other hand is." Amelia said to Dumbledore.
"The safest place for him is here."
"Really, from what he has told me he is far from safe here."
Dumbledore gave a sigh as he knew Amelia would not let up and he would not win this one. Dumbledore did not give up though; he still had a few tricks up his sleeve that he could use.
"Then why are you removing Harry and not his aunt and uncle?"
"WHAT?!" Mr. Dursley again shouted but this time instead of glaring at him Amelia just put a silencing charm over him so he couldn't talk.
"Because Harry has not decided whether he is going to press charges or not."
"Then why are Mr. and Mrs. Dursley being investigated."
"While Harry may not press charges he is not happy with them as his guardians and does not feel safe here, which is why they are being investigated."
"So he will be coming back to Hogwarts with me then?"
"No, he feels as safe with you as he does here and does not want to go to Hogwarts. He expressed a desire to stay at the Leaky Cauldron for the rest of the summer but I persuaded him that he would be safer staying with me then there."
"This is highly inappropriate Amelia. Whenever a child has been removed from their home for their safety they have always gone and stayed at Hogwarts."
"True but it is not as inappropriate as placing a tracking charm on a child from your school whom you are not a guardian of."
"It was for his own safety."
"It is also illegal, and I do not doubt for one minute that you do not know that seeing as it was a part of a law you passed. Is it as inappropriate as placing a child with muggles when it was expressed by his parents that his godfather was to be his guardian?"
"Sirius Black was in Azkaban at the time and considered a criminal."
"He wasn't when he turned up at the Potter's house to see it in ruins and Rubeus Hagrid refusing to hand Harry over to him because you said Harry was to be taken to you."
"I was told he was the Potter's secret keeper and did not want to give Harry to who I thought was a death eater."
"Yet you still placed him here bypassing all of the normal ministry processes."
"It was for his own safety."
"Great job you did putting him someplace safe."
At this point Harry came downstairs with his trunk and Hedwig's empty cage. He looked around at everyone and saw the tension in everyone's face.
"I'm ready." Harry said while moving to stand next to Amelia.
"Mr and Mrs. Dursley." Amelia said while removing the silencing charm. "If it is found that Harry has suffered abuse by you then we will try you to the full extent of our laws."
"Amelia, they are muggles, they cannot be tried under our laws." Dumbledore said.
"Yes they can."
"We have not put any laws into effect that allows for a muggle to be tried in a wizarding court."
"We haven't but the ICW created a law almost twenty years ago which allows for muggles to be tried if they are parents or guardians of a young witch or wizard and if the criminal offence involves said young witch or wizard."
"That law is meant for if the young witch or wizard commits a crime and is not of appropriate age to be tried themselves."
"True but the wording of it also indicates that they can be tried if they commit a crime on the young witch or wizard, just because it hasn't happened before doesn't mean these people cannot be tried under that law."
"What? We took that boy into our home, gave him a roof and clothes and this is how he repays us." Vernon said.
"I do hope 'this boy' as you so affectionately put it does decide to repay you for all the love and hospitality you have shown him. We will be in touch." Amelia said with no hint of wanting to hide her contempt at them while waving her wand. "I have put tracking charms on both of you, if either of you attempt to go within five hundred meters of an airport or the coast then you will be apprehended and placed into a ministry cell."
"If you take them to court and IF they are found guilty then what? Will you place them in Azkaban? You know muggles would not last a month in there with the dementors." Albus said while feeling a little defeated and showing his age.
"No, they would be held in a ministry holding cell until we are able to sort it out with the muggle authorities for them to go to a muggle prison. Child abuse is a very serious crime in both worlds and I have no doubt that they will comply with our request." Amelia replied full of confidence.
"And who will represent them? A muggle lawyer cannot and they do not have access to magical ones."
"I honestly do not care Albus, you can if you want, as head of the Wizengamot you can demand this or they will be provided with one by the ministry when a court date has been set."
"Who will preside over the court if I am to defend them?"
"I do not know, none of the details have been set seeing as we are not taking them to court yet and are only investigating but know this, because of your involvement you will not be presiding whether you decide to help them or not. You are too close to the case to be professionally detached."
Amelia waved her wand and shrunk Harry's trunk and owl cage before putting them into one of her pockets.
"Shall we go Harry?" Amelia said holding out her arm for him to grab.
"Just one more thing." Harry said walking into the living room. "I would like you to send me my OWL results professor."
"I didn't want to send them by owl in case it got intercepted and planned to give it to you when I next saw you."
Harry held out his hand for the professor to give him his results.
"I don't have them on me Harry; they are in my office at Hogwarts."
"Well seeing as I doubt I will see you before the start of term I would appreciate it if you gave them to Professor Lupin to give to me. He will be seeing me tomorrow at Sirius' will reading."
Without waiting for a reply Harry returned to Amelia and grabbed hold of her arm. "Harry read this." Amelia said handing Harry a piece of parchment.
Bones manor is located on Down Lane, St Neots, Cambridgeshire.
"Fidelius?" Harry asked and Amelia nodded while taking back the piece of parchment.
"Do not think I have forgotten about you Kingsley. You should not be here; we will discuss why you are here this afternoon when we are both in the office." Amelia said before apparating away with Harry.
"Well that went well Albus." Kingsley said while shaking his head and walking out of the house followed closely by Moody.
A/N: I was planning on adding an Abaddon piece to this chapter but seeing as it is already 18 pages long I thought it might be a bit too much and have decided to add it to the next chapter instead. I must admit I am a little surprised with how well Abaddon has been accepted by readers. I love his character but I expected there to be some resistance to a character that greatly out powers all other characters in the HP verse. I am very pleased that he is a hit and apologise for not adding him this chapter.
Next chapter will focus on Abaddon, Dumbledore and Voldemort as well as introducing the HP/SB relationship that I have decided upon for this story although it will be just friendly and nothing serious at first.
As always I have no beta so just myself checking my work so it is not perfect and any mistakes bought to my attention will be greatly appreciated.