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Harry Potter

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The Bounty

Ch 3

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NOTES: Here's chapter 3. Thank you for all the revwis and I hope this chapter answers all of them about what Harry is going to do to vordy. Chapter 4 is almost finished as well as chapter 5 (original 5 was chapter 4) and part of 5 is finished) I am almost healed and now i need to register my van in AZ and find a table for my PC and a good chair. Sigh, had to leave my desk and chair in florida due to no room in my van.

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This will probably be only about 4-5 chapters and I have the first 13k written. Enjoy.

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Fifteen year old Hermione Granger opened the door to the kitchen and slipped into the room. Going to the table she sat down at the table in what was the hidden headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix or otherwise known as #12 Grimmauld Place to start eating her breakfast. Around her the Weasley family was scarfing the food that Molly had made down. Sirius was in the corner sipping a cup of hot tea with Nymphadora Tonks next to him as Molly ranted about the house, Harry not being there, Sirius and anything else that went through her mind. The flapping of several wings brought the morning paper. Before Molly could gather them up, Hermione had snatched her copy.

"Dear, you don't need that," Molly stated as she reached for the paper.

"Mrs. Weasley, this is my subscription and I'll read it," Hermione replied as she opened the paper and gasped out in surprise.

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YOU KNOW WHO! WELL HE'S BACK!

By Penelope Clearwater

Yes folks, just as the picture shows. Lord Potter was telling the truth about what happened after the third task. It shows a gentleman later identified as Peter Pettigrew firing the deadly killing curse at Cedric Diggory. Then Lord Potter was tied to a gravestone where his blood was used in a ritual to bring You Know Who back from the form he was in. Lord Potter used his normal name, but for safety we used what we always used. Lord Potter then told us if we can't call him by his fake name then to use his real name, which is Tom Riddle. Harry showed us how You Know Who changed the spelling of his real name to his fake name.

We did some searching and the only Tom Riddle we could find, attended Hogwarts fifty years ago. He was sorted into Slytherin and was Headboy in his last year. We also found out his father was a muggle and his mother was a witch by the name of Merope Gaunt. Yes folks, the Dark Lord we have feared is a halfblood. Since these pensive memories prove that Lord Potter wasn't lying, we wish to offer our apologies for what we have said in the paper at the orders of the ministry and show his followers flocking back to him. We can only hope Amelia Bones; head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement can quickly round up his followers before they can escape. See page two for more.

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Sirius Black Innocent

By Penelope Clearwater

Sirius Black is innocent of the crimes he has been convicted off… wait don't you need to have a trial first? Seems that Sirius Black of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Black was just chucked into prison without a trial. He was accused of murdering Peter Pettigrew and twelve muggles as well as being the secret keeper to the Potters. Mister Black spent twelve years in prison for a crime he did not commit. That makes this reporter wonder how many others were tossed in there to rot by the former head of the DMLE Mr. Crouch. We hope that Amelia Bones will be able to rectify this travesty of justice. See page seven for more.

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See page three for more information on Lord Potter

See page four for more information on Lord Black

See page five for more information on Amelia Bones

See page six for more information on Azkaban

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Everyone jumped when a shrill voice shattered the morning feast.

"WHAT?" screamed Molly as she read the morning paper.

Ron missed his mouth with the next forkful of pancakes and stabbed himself in the nose. Ginny was taking a sip of her pumpkin juice and it went flying across the table splashing George who was about to eat a slice of bacon. His elbow smacked into his brother's nose breaking it causing him to fly into Sirius who saw his cup of hot tea go flying into his cousin's face burning her and causing her to turn her hair bright red.

The floo flared in the other room and Albus Dumbledore stepped through the kitchen door with an angry expression on his face followed by Alastor Moody and several other members of the Order of the Phoenix.

"Tonks you and Alastor are to go to Mister Potter's house and bring him here. He has some answers to give us. Kids, go upstairs and stay in your rooms," Dumbledore ordered.

The kids quickly left the room while the adults started arguing over the paper.

"QUIET!" Albus shouted as Professors Snape and McGonagall entered the kitchen.

"Everyone take a seat. Now who was on guard duty yesterday?" Albus asked once everyone sat down.

"Tonks and Fletcher were on duty yesterday with Vance during the night. Fletcher is on duty right now," Arthur Weasley replied as he fixed his robes and said, "I better get to the Ministry. Hell is going to be breaking loose there."

Kingsley Shacklebolt ran into the room gasping out, "Fudge has issued an arrest order for Harry Potter for treason and ordered the Prophet to issues a retraction."

"I've sent Tonks and Alastor to get Mister Potter. What was the response from the Prophet?" Albus asked.

"The Prophet issued a statement that says they will not issue a retraction due to the owners demand that it be printed…"

"The ministry owns the paper, how can they go against them," Molly asked.

"Wrong. The Prophet's majority owner is Harry Potter," Kingsley stated.

"Fudge is not going to like that," Molly said as Sirius started laughing.

They heard the front door open as Sirius mother's portrait started screaming. Sirius ran out of the room to shut it up as Alastor, Nymphadora and Fletcher entered the kitchen.

"Alastor, where is Mr. Potter?" Albus asked when he didn't see the raven haired boy.

"Wasn't there. The muggles said he vanished three days ago around noon, or that's what they think," Alastor stated as he sat down.

"Damn that boy, he's causing so much trouble. We need to find him and bring him here to Headquarters where he'll be safe," Albus stated and then said, "I want you all to spread out and check every place he would go. Molly, I want you and Nymphadora to go check the burrow. Min, you and Severus check Hogsmead. The rest of you but Sirius I want you to check the Caldron and Diagon Alley. Those are the only magical places he knows in the country. I will head to the Ministry and try and get Fudge to back off on the arrest order…"

Emmeline Vance stepped into the room with a shocked look on her face. Walking over to her chair she sat down.

"Emmeline, what's wrong?" Minerva asked.

"Fudge has been arrested along with several members of the Wizengamot," Emmeline said as she looked at her former head of house.

"I better get over there. Fletcher, check Knockdown Alley just in case he is there. Emmeline, you better get back to work," Dumbledore said as he walked out of the room.

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Later that night, Albus walked into the Headquarters kitchen and dropped into his chair. He was exhausted from searching for Harry Potter by using magic. The rest of the order was the same. Looking up at the members of the Order he said, "Does anyone have anything to report on the location of Mr. Potter?"

"Nothing," came the reports from around the room.

"Kingsley, what about the Prophet? Did they know where he is?" Albus asked.

"No, and I was told even if they knew, they wouldn't say because he is an emancipated minor with full control of his vaults. Barnabas Cuffe said you emancipated him last year along with three other high ranking ministry officials…"

"I did not emancipate him," Albus stammered out in surprise.

Kingsley's hand came down on the table in a loud slap as he looked at his former headmaster, "Yes you did. When you and the rest of the officials for the Tri Wizard Tournament forced him to compete, you made him an adult. So now you have to bite the wand and except it," Kingsley said as he reached for his cup of tea and took a sip.

Albus groaned and leaned back in his chair as he closed his eyes, "What have I done?"

"How can Harry be an adult?" Molly asked in confusion.

"Molly, when they forced Harry to compete in the tournament, a tournament for adults they basically stated Harry was an adult. So now he has full control of his vaults, stocks and access to all the Potter property that were locked down over ten years ago. He could be anywhere," Kingsley said as the door opened and Bill Weasley walked in.

"Bill, just the person I wanted to see. Do you have any information on Harry Potter?" Albus asked.

"No, Sir, and I was told by my boss to keep my nose out of House Potter affairs if I wanted to keep my job," Bill replied as he sat down in one of the empty chairs at the table and grabbed a butterbeer.

"Please try and find out anything but don't put your job at risk we need you to keep an eye on the Death Eater accounts," Albus said and turned to Sirius, "Sirius this is not a laughing matter. Harry has to be found and brought under control before he causes too much damage."

"Yes it is. You've lost control of Harry legally and cannot do anything about it. As to damage, the only damage I see is he brought out the truth about Voldemort. If you cannot handle that, then maybe you need to step back and let the younger generation fight…" Sirius stopped talking as several owls delivered the Evening Prophet.

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Sirius Black cleared.

By Johanna Herbrise

Sirius Black was cleared of the murder of Peter Pettigrew and twelve muggles in a special announcement by acting minister Amelia Bones. With the revealing of Harry Potter's memories that Sirius Black was innocent of the murder of Peter Pettigrew, it was determined that he wasn't responsible for the whole thing. We have no idea where Mister Black is, but we want him to know that he is a free man and his vaults have been restored to him. We are also offering twelve thousand galleons in compensation per year of imprisonment along with a ten thousand galleon bonus due to inflation. This is for lost wages as Sirius Black was an upcoming Auror in the department. More on page two.

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Death Eaters Arrested.

By Penelope Clearwater

Several prominent members of the government were arrested as they arrived in the Ministry this morning. Those arrested were Lucius Malfoy, Gregory Goyle Sr. James Nott and Walden Macnair. All will be given trials and long stays in prison if found guilty of being Death Eaters. Amelia has already stated they would be questing under Veritaserum. More on page three.

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Harry Potter Abused.

By Penelope Clearwater

Yesterday, I sat with Lord Potter, yes I mean Lord Potter as Earl Potter has taken up the mantle of head of the Most Ancient and Noble House of Potter and the headship of Earl of Anglesey. He has control of a significant block of votes in the Wizengamot and a seat in the House of Lords of the muggle government. When Lord Potter was left illegally with his mother's sister's family it started fourteen years of physical and mental abuse. He was whipped by his uncle when he showed magic, forced to slave for his family since the age of five cooking full meals for them. He was also forced to do all the chores around the house, dusting, cleaning, laundry, washing dishes, painting the house, mowing the yard, cleaning the gutters, weeding the flowerbeds. He would be woken up at five am every morning to cook food for his abusers and if he didn't mess up the meal, he would be given a slice of bread and a glass of water for breakfast. Nothing if his cousin ate all of the food. He would then do the dishes, clean the house or be forced outside to work on the yard. This happened in the winter, summer, spring and fall, no matter what the temperature was or the weather. His cousin invented a game called Harry Hunting and if they'd caught him, he'd be kicked and punched until he lost consciousness. Now before anyone says why didn't he use magic, remember this. He didn't know about magic. In fact his first letter was addressed to his bedroom which was the cupboard under the stairs. Yes, for ten long lonely years… More on page four.

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Harry was sitting at his desk reading the night's edition of the Prophet. With a grin he set it down and leaned back in his chair placing his feet on the desk. On his lap was a pad of paper and he was writing out what he wanted on the next issue of the paper. To his right, Dobby was dusting off the massive bookcases of the Potter library. Harry continued to scratch out his article and then stopped as part of a famous muggle quote came to him that he had read recently but couldn't remember how it went.

Harry pulled out his wand and pointed it at the bookcases and said, "Accio Edmund Burke writings."

Harry dove out of the way as twenty books and ten scrolls of parchment came flying at him.

Harry stood up and looked at the books and said, "Shit, better not do that again," as Dobby popped over and quickly had the books stacked on his desk with the scrolls beside it. Harry opened the book and checked the index for what he was looking for and finally found it in the fifth book. Adding it to his article he continued writing and never noticed when Dobby cocked his head to the side and vanished. Ten minutes later he finished the article he was writing and looked around for Dobby.

"Dobby?" Harry said.

Dobby popped back in and said, "Sorry Master Harry. She called me and said she will see you in thirty minutes."

"Thank you Dobby. Can you pop me over there after I change?" Harry asked as he stood up and headed for the door, his elf right beside him.

"I can, and I have laid out your dress robes on your bed," Dobby replied.

"Good. If all goes well I'll need you to take this to Barnabas Cuffe for me?" Harry said as he entered his bedroom and stripped down.

"Gladly Master Harry Potter, Sir," Dobby replied as he took the folded paper and waited for his master to finish dressing.

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Albus was sitting in the kitchen at headquarters, sipping his coffee as he waited for reports from his friends on their search for their missing student.

"Albus, here, eat this," Molly said as she laid a plate of food in front of her old professor.

Albus looked down at the plate and picked up the fork, "Thank you Molly, it looks wonderful," he replied as he picked up a forkful of eggs just as several owls flew in dropping the morning paper on the table.

Albus looked at his forkful of eggs and then the paper. With a sigh, he set the fork down and reached for the paper to see what new mayhem Mr. Potter had caused.

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The Queen Speaks.

By Harry Potter

Good morning everyone, I am sure this story will cause problems for some. While others will look down on me for my audacity for doing what I did to solve the problem of Tom Riddle or Lord Voldemort as he calls himself and his Death Eaters. What are Voldemort and his Death Eaters? Why they are terrorists. They are murders, rapists, thieves and scum that need to be put down in my book and one other who agrees with me. So in her own words she says, By order of Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of this Realm and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith do hereby decree a sentence of death on the terrorist Tom Marvolo Riddle also known as Lord Voldemort and his allies called Death Eaters. While WE would rather have him in prison, WE know that no prison would hold him. See page two for more of the story.

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The Potter Bounty.

By Harry Potter

Today our world is a little darker for evil once more stalks the land. A great man (Edmund Burke) once said, 'When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle,' and he also said this,' 'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' I refuse to allow this to happen, so on this date, I place the following bounty on Tom Riddle, a three million galleon reward for his capture, dead or alive. A one million galleon bounty for his inner circle members and a one hundred thousand reward on his minor members. Payment will be delivered when the person is delivered to the DMLE dead or alive.

I know that a certain headmaster will say, 'I'm disappointed in you.' And my response to him is 'Sir, I'm disappointed in you for allowing him to return and having his Death Eaters free by saying they were imperialized. They should have ALL been questioned under Veritaserum. You did not try them and let them go with a slap on the wrist and said; 'Don't do that again,' but you left my Godfather Sirius Black to rot in prison without a trial. So Sir, as I said, you disappointed me.' You will then say, 'Everyone deserves a second chance and I say, yes they do, but they must suffer the penance of their crimes as well. You let these bastards walk free without paying for their crimes. The Death Eaters lay death and destruction behind them wherever they go. Well I say as Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet said in World War Two. They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind.

Now I want you to know, we're at war, it's a war against terrorism and I will leave a quote for the Aurors. This one was said by a great American general named George S. Patton, during World War 2. 'I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his country.' What does this mean? It means you cannot win a war where the enemy has no problem of killing you and your companions while all you try to do is stun them… See page three for more of the story.

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How the Death Eaters we're caught.

By Harry Potter

I know you're all wondering how the Death Eaters were caught by the DMLE. Well the answer is real easy. At midnight the day before the story broke, I being the owner of the Daily Prophet sent Amelia Bones, head of the DMLE the next day's edition of the paper showing her what had happened at the Cemetery and the Murder of Cedric Diggory. From what I have learned the first one caught was Lord Malfoy as he came out of the floo. He was stunned and carried to the holding cells before he could clean himself off from the floo travel. See more on page two.

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Death Eaters Named!

By Johanna Herbrise

After questioning the captured Death Eaters, Lucius Malfoy, Gregory Goyle Sr., James Nott, and Walden Macnair using Veritaserum. Amelia Bones released the names of ninety-seven wanted Death Eaters. Those captured showed no remorse for their crimes and were quickly pushed through the Veil of Death following the Queens command. Death Eaters sentenced to Azkaban were also brought to the Ministry and taken down to the Department of Mysteries where they followed their fellow Death Eaters on to their next great adventure as Albus Dumbledore headmaster of Hogwarts says about Death. One Death Eater, Bellatrix Lestrange screamed out that her lord would avenge her as she was pushed in the veil. Albus Dumbledore stated that he was disappointed in Amelia Bones for what she had ordered done to the Death Eaters. Stating that they could have been brought back to the light where… See Page seven for more.

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See page three for more information on Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

See page four for more information on Queen Elizabeth the Second

See page five for more information on Tom Marvolo Riddle

See page six for more information on Edmund Burke

See page seven for more information on George S. Patton

See page eight for listed Death Eaters

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Albus started rubbing his eyes as he dropped the paper, "What have you done Harry."

"Albus, what is wrong?" Molly asked as she reached for the paper.

"Harry is going to shatter our world," Albus replied as he stood up and left the room before Molly could scream. He reached the floo and threw some floo powder in just as Molly scream shattered the still air of the house. Her scream woke up everyone in the house including the portrait as Albus said, "Ministry of magic," and stepped into the fireplace.

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First Edited By Deenara, Cass63

Final Edit By TeNdErLoin

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