Moving On

Chapter 15

The spells that were fired at the Goblins were sent back to those who had fired them. Some of them were lucky to move out of the way, others were not so lucky thankfully they stopped all magic and stood facing each other.

"How did you get in here?!" snapped Dumbledore in no mood to be nice.

"This house belonged to Harry Potter, you are no longer allowed to use it, move out or we will resort to force" said the Goblin. They looked fiercer than ever before, some of them wanted to get out of their way but Dumbledore was blocking their only exit from the kitchen.

Until they began using their heads, and more or less everyone apparated out of the house. "This is Sirius Black's he gave it to me to use as I pleased" said Dumbledore not giving in easily. Nothing was going his way, he would be damned if he gave up his Headquarters of the Order of Phoenix. He wouldn't.

"Headmaster, they mean business, we must leave" said McGonagall.

"I shall not be moved!" snapped Dumbledore "This property is mine"

"You signed no deeds Mr. Dumbledore, you have no claim to it," said the Goblin.

"Do not make the owner come back here and chuck you out he is in the middle of a dangerous mission" snapped Dumbledore.

"Sirius Black handed everything over to Harry Potter, when he was imprisoned they became legal property of Harry Potter." snapped the Goblin right back "You leave or we force you" the goblin wasn't going to give in either, and he was in a foul mood especially with Albus Dumbledore. The goblins hated thieves above all other things, which was why Gringotts was so heavily protected.

"This is my house, you are invading my privacy! If you do not leave I will take everything from Gringotts and make sure I take some very prestigious people with me!" snapped Dumbledore thinking he would get his way. Nothing would bother the goblins more than loosing their customers.

"You have nothing left" sneered the goblin "They money you stole from Harry Potter was put back where it rightfully belonged"

"You can't do that!" snapped Dumbledore, looking like he was about to have a heart attack on them.

"We just did, you have very little left, we had to sell some of the Dumbledore artefacts and books to acquire everything you stole" snapped the goblin, they usually would never EVER discuss peoples business in front of people but they had angered them beyond anything by first firing the curses and refusing to leave.

"NO!" yelled Dumbledore his want back out.

"Headmaster lets leave" said Severus his hand on Dumbledore's wand arm.

"STUPEFY!" yelled Dumbledore, he was determined to have this property if he got the goblins out he would ensure no one would have it. Even if he had to raise it to the ground, no Death Eater was getting inside here. Not with that witch of a woman who had sired Sirius Black on its frame who could tell them everything.

The goblins struck back, causing Dumbledore pain, before levitating him up in the air and out of Grimmauld place. It would be the last time Dumbledore ever set foot in it, ever even when Sirius Black got back.

"Get him out of here" snapped the Goblin to Severus before going back into the house and it disappeared altogether again. It was as if the house had once again got another secret keeper.

Dumbledore too much in pain couldn't protest when Severus and Minerva apparated him away. They couldn't risk expose to Muggle's by staying there too long, it would be bad for them.

Back at Hogwarts, McGonagall got Dumbledore onto the stretcher; his face went pasty white when he saw the students. The students were seeing the great Albus Dumbledore going by on a stretcher of all the humiliation things that had happened - this was by far the worse.

He thought that for a minute, until he saw the young faces were glaring at him with hate and distain. They hated him, he Albus Dumbledore was hated by the Students not just the Slytherin's any longer. His entire life's work was falling apart before his eyes and it hurt worse than anything.

No one would trust him now, he was done for. He didn't know that the worst was still to come.

They took him to Poppy then left immediately neither wanted to be in a room with Albus Dumbledore any longer. Severus went down to his quarters and laughed himself silly, before floo'ing his lover.

"How are you?" asked Severus softly.

"Not so good," sighed Lucius "I hope Harry can pull through for me" before a bitter laugh left his lips.

"What's wrong?" asked an alarmed Severus.

"Who would have thought Severus that we would have come to care for Harry Potter or thought of him helping us?" sighed Lucius suddenly very tired.

"How did Draco take it?" asked Severus softly.

"Very well, he no longer holds grudges against him, says he never really hated Harry but just did it because it was expected of him" said Lucius shaking his head sadly, his son was a good person and going to be a wonderful young man.

"I see" said Severus; he hadn't expected that one coming.

"He looks forward to seeing the real Harry Potter he says" said Lucius "It was like he knew it was all a mask, Harry being who he was"

"Probably was" said Severus grudgingly.

"Dumbledore is flying to pieces, he just tried to attack a goblin" smirked Severus.

"WHAT?! Why" asked Lucius looking completely shocked.

"Potter's plan no doubt" said Severus "First thing that happened was a prank; I thought he wasn't serious about bringing him down. Now I see why he did it, everything's going Harry's way it was just amazing!!"

"Merlin" was all an astonished Lucius could say.

"I wonder what he has up his sleeve next" mumbled Lucius.

"Whatever is it I cannot wait, I have to go some else is trying to call me through the floo" said Severus "Love you" before cutting the connection. Few seconds later McGonagall's head was in the fire.

"Come to the Hospital wing"

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"What's happening?" asked Severus entering the hospital wing.

"Just listen" sighed McGonagall, there was nothing she could do the Minster was determined.

"Albus you are close to loosing everything! There's a Wizengamont meeting about you tomorrow afternoon. You are to stay with Tonk's and Ulrich" snapped Fudge. Ulrich was one of the Azkaban Guards. "There are wanted posters up for Shacklebolt's arrest! He will not get away with this you Dumbledore are close to being arrested!"

"The memory was a lie" said Dumbledore.

"We shall find out wont we?" snapped Fudge "You will attend the hearing and Veritaserum will be used!"

Dumbledore paled drastically.

"Surely there is no need for that!" protested Dumbledore, McGonagall slumped realising the truth in the fact Dumbledore was set against the use of the truth potion. He must have had his hand in Harry Potter's death, it was a huge blow to the last shred of faith she had left of him.

"I'm going" snapped disgusted Fudge; he may not have been overly fond of the boy only because he thought he was lying for a whole year. To kill him? Plot and plan? It shocked him he had thought nothing of goodness of Dumbledore - even if he had called him a lunatic a year ago. Now it was appearing that Dumbledore was as mad as a hatter killing Dumbledore. Just wait till Shacklebolt was found, he was going to Azkaban for sure! Especially if he did kill Harry Potter.

"Here take this and get out" snapped Poppy giving him a few potions before standing back.

Dumbledore looked shocked; Poppy was actually throwing him out of her hospital wing? She never threw anyone that was ill out no matter the transgressions they had made.

"Harry Potter was like a son to me Dumbledore" she said coolly her voice chilled Dumbledore to the bone.

He got up of the bed; no one helped him, gathering his magic around him - what was left of it. He made it up to his quarters which were above his office; Dumbledore didn't know what to do everything was going so wrong.

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"How did it go?" asked Ron as soon as Neville was back.

"IT was fucking brilliant! Oh Harry I wish you guys were there! And I wish you could have exposed the bastard!" said Neville looking millions more confident if it was possible.

"Great Neville! Well done you know I can't" grinned Harry.

"Let us see it!" smirked Hermione giving him a pensive.

Neville lowered the memory into it, together they all went back in and viewed it. Ron and Hermione looked very impressed with Neville, Luna was beaming with happiness for her boyfriend and Harry - his face showed nothing but glowing pride for the boy. Neville saw it and felt over the moon, he had always liked Harry and admired him - to get a proud look from him felt amazing. The Dementors wouldn't be bothering Neville again, this memory he decided would be used to produce a patronus.

Harry noticed the look and inwardly cursed himself, wishing he had shown Neville how proud he had been off him way before this - preferably the times he had stood up to them and others.

Once they were out they all fell down laughing, unable to stop, seeing Dumbledore's face paling and turning red and gasping. The students faces Harry felt a little guilty about it wasn't really fair on them. However, if this was what he had to do to stop them being manipulated by Dumbledore then this was what he would do.

Decided against the goblin war! decided to just have Dumbledore totally skint! xD well there we go! now i need something to top it all off! the big masssive cherry on top! so ideas are very welcome! will harry show himself in public? or just to Dumbledore and freak the old man out? will Dumbledore try and attack Neville in public? or kill him elsewhere? R&R please