Harry, Ginny, Albus, and Fawkes arrived in the formal entrance hall of the Royal Estate where the royal family was staying at. Upon greeting the Royal Crier, they were properly announced as the entered one of the formal sitting rooms.
Harry had barely entered when the queen herself engulfed Harry in a rather large and strong hug. "Harry James Potter, you scared us all to death what did you think you were doing?" It was an unusual sight; the queen being this open with her emotions, but Harry had grown on her, like he had done with anyone who has ever known him.
"Thank you your majesty. But I am here and I am fine. In fact, I am so fine that I believe now is the time to implement the plans based on your decision." Harry told the queen.
"What plans Harry?" Albus asked. He did not like how this sounded already.
"It is just the modernization of the Wizarding World Lord Dumbledore. For too long my subjects of magical ability have lived in a world that is far behind the rest of the world. Because of this, I have decided to use my right as the sovereign to implement changes in the ways my magical subjects live, work, and behave.
"You see Lord Dumbledore; there are many issues with the magical world. First off, your kind is becoming closer and closer to being discovered by the non magical world. Technology such as Global Positioning Systems and Satellite Imagining slowly revealing your hidden enclaves" The queen passed Albus pictures of Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, and Diagon Alley.
"These images were taken from space and this one here" she pointed at the picture of Hogwarts which clearly showed it in all of it's glory "was taken by one of the RAF pilots with a digital camera from his cockpit. It was very fortunate that his nephew is already attending Hogwarts and that his son is starting next year."
"You see Albus, magic can distort the development process of pictures taken on film, but it cannot distort anything digital. That is because no one has bothered to keep up to date with muggles; well actually that is a lie, the goblins and a few forward thinking witches and wizards." Harry said. Albus agreed with what the queen and Harry said. Wizards were losing to muggles very, very quickly. 'Maybe change is truly necessary, but I have a bad feeling about this.'
"Also, there are many witches and wizards who are homeless, jobless, and otherwise unable to help themselves. As the Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, it is ultimately your responsibility to protect those who cannot speak for themselves. Yes I am talking about Werewolves, Vampires, and others whom your society has shunned. Many of your laws are so archaic that if a muggle were to see the racist laws you have created that they would demand for impeachment of the entire Wizengamot and the Minister of Magic! That is going to change."
Harry took over the explanations of what was going to happen in the next few days. "When I address the Wizengamot tomorrow, I will be introducing a number of directives from the sovereign. The first will be the repealing of all laws against Vampires, Werewolves, Goblins, and other groups considered by many to be 'Undesirable.'
"Also, muggle baiting and any criminal acts against muggles and children will be considered capital offenses, punishable by death and yes I do plan on executing these sick individuals." Albus made to speak up, but was stopped by Harry "Before you embarrass yourself and object to these methods, let me explain a few things to do. There is no reason for anyone to pick on someone smaller than they are. I have seen enough abuse in my life to know what the effects are on a person. After all, it is what ultimately turned Tom Riddle in Lord Voldemort."
"Your Majesty, Harry…May I argue caution. While many will support this step forward, there will be strong opposition to any changes in the status quo. If we move slowly—"
"That is the problem Albus." Ginny said, speaking for the first time "The 'status quo' as you call it, has been responsible, either directly or indirectly, for the rise of the last two Dark Lords. Grindelwald rose to power because of the stagnant state of Europe thanks to there being no real advancement for well over one hundred years thanks to the 'status quo' and a thirst for power that hadn't been seen since Agamemnon went after Troy! His followers believed in the purity of the wizarding world and the extinction of all muggles. If not the Muggle Second World War, then the Statue of Secrecy would have shattered because of the amount of dead alone.
"Tom Riddle became Lord Voldemort because the 'status quo' told him that Slytherin House, the house of his ancestor, was a dark house and that no matter what you did people would consider you dark if you were sorted into that house. You add the fact that Tom Riddle was ridiculed at the Orphanage where he grew up in and that he was abused by other children and lacked being shown any form of love, and you get the self stylized Lord Voldemort. Now, yes Tom was an evil child to begin with, but maybe…just maybe…things would have turned out differently if Tom was loved by a family or at least grew up in an environment where his gifts were understood.
"And let us not forget Tom's followers. Fanatical to a fault, they believed in the Pure-Blood crap that Tom had told them, because their families had said the same things for GENERATIONS. Once again the 'status quo' was upheld."
Harry took over, once again while Ginny poured herself tea from the tea service. "Tom Riddle's life is the reason why the Department of Child Services of the Ministry of Magic of Great Britain will work in conjunction with the Office of Muggle Affairs and the Muggle Department of Child Services to help identify any magical children who are in the Muggle Foster Care System. Once they are discovered, they will be placed with a magical family or in one of the new Orphanages for Magical Children that the Marauders Foundation will be opening.
"Also all children, magical and muggle alike, will have to attend Primary School. Magical children, regardless of heritage, will have the option of attending one of the Primary Schools that will be run by the Marauders Foundation and over seen by the Department of Education of the Ministry of Magic. Of course families will have the option of teaching their children at home, providing they meet the requirements laid out of the Department of Education."
After giving Albus a few minutes to digest what they had told him already, Harry continued. "Let's not forget the families who have always been light sided or neutral as well; because they too have been ignorant of muggles and do not understand them. Though I will admit that they haven't killed any muggles, at least that I know of. We have people like Mr. Weasley who has an obsession with all things muggle because they fascinate him. He asks useless questions about things like 'what is the purpose of a Rubber Duck?' Then you have people like Molly Weasley, who like many magical people, do not understand how muggles cannot exist without magic. This is just the tip of the iceberg in the misconceptions and flat out wrong ideas witches and wizards have in regards to muggles. These needs to change…this will change."
Albus was floored. These were real world changes that needed to be made. These were things that a younger, more energetic, Albus Dumbledore pushed for after returning from his duel with Grindelwald. Unfortunately, the old pureblood families had a lot of influence over the Wizengamot and quietly pushed Albus' plans to the back burner. Albus finally gave up the fight and learned to pick his fights.
As he got older, Albus become more and more disenchanted with trying to change things and so began to gently push things around so that anarchy would not rein.
"Your majesty, Harry, Ginny, I hope you know that what you have planned will not be very well received by a number of people. However, you have my support and my help if you need it. I would suggest that you look over some of my older notes from shortly after Grindelwald's defeat. I believe that you will find that many of your ideas are in line with the ones I had from another lifetime." Albus said, looking somewhat sad as he remembered past promises.
"We will Albus, but this is only half of what we are planning on doing. We are also planning on introducing muggle technology powered by magic into the wizarding world. In fact we already have started." Seeing Albus' blank stare, Harry and Ginny laughed before Ginny explained.
"Albus why do you think the Order has been using so much Goblin Technology? It is so that the Order Members can get used to the idea of using it. Well, it really isn't Goblin Technology; the goblins are just the only ones who have the resources and the ability to do the research and development. Hermione and Harry have been talking about this blending of magic and muggle technology for years and even began to draw up ideas and detailed ideas. Before their third year, Harry was staying at the Leaky Cauldron, because of that Cow Marge Dursley, and sat down with Griphook and discussed the basic concepts with him.
"Griphook informed him that they were already working on similar technology, but that their principal researchers had already moved onto their Great Adventure. We later learned that Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel were whom they were working with, as well as with the RMG."
"Slowly over the next few years, the magical world will be introduced to things such as the Internet, Television, Jet Aircraft, and GPS to name a few items. Lord Gryffindor will be explaining things in more detail when we address the Wizengamot tomorrow." The queen spoke.
"Excuse me, Your Majesty, did you say 'We'?" Albus asked.
"For the first time in over seven hundred years, the sovereign will be opening tomorrow's session of the Wizengamot and I plan to explain a few things to those individuals who think they are better than my other subjects because of the purity of their blood. Do you have a problem with that?" The queen demanded.
Albus was shocked. The queen, with Harry's help, was going to turn the Wizarding World upside down, and Albus was not only powerless to stop him, but had no intention to stop him. Besides being the Lord Protector of the Realm, Harry also had Hogwarts, St. Mungo's, and Gringotts backing him thru alliances, money, or pure ownership.
Also, Albus agreed with the ideas that Harry and the queen had. He wasn't sure about how these decisions would affect the Wizarding World, but Albus knew it had to be done in order for the Magical World to survive. To top it all off, there was no one else more powerful than Harry except for maybe his wife, and that was a strong maybe; regardless, Albus did not want to get on Harry's bad side…again.