Chapter13:
Albus left the great hall after declaring the suspension of classes. Albus knew that, it would be shocking for all of the Hogwarts students. However, he had no choice. He had to take that step as he came to know the truth.
Albus was thinking in his chamber when Hagrid informed him about the condition of Horace Slughorn.
At first, he thought his friend's condition was largely due to his old age. Slughorn was an old man and unlike Albus, Slughorn was a lazy person. Therefore, it was reasonable to think that, Slughorn's old age and poor fitness could cause some health problem for him.
However, Albus never imagined there could be some foul play behind the coma condition of
Albus knew that, despite being Head of Slytherin, Slughorn had favorite students from all four Hogwarts houses. Slughorn was also politically inactive therefore; he did not have any political rivals.
Albus still examined the food and drinks that were given to Slughorn. Nevertheless, there was nothing abnormal in that. After reaching infirmary Albus checked Slughorn however, he did not find any trace of offensive spell that could ca use coma to his friend.
"Poppy what happened to Horace?" Albus asked Poppy worriedly.
"I don't have any answer for you, Albus. I am still thinking may be his old age and poor fitness can cause this. However, I can't be sure about it as I can't even enter his mind." Poppy replied dejectedly.
Albus became worried after hearing Poppy's reply. He realized that, it should not happen. The coma patient did not usually have same mental defense mechanism like others. Healers also needed to enter the mind of a coma patient to heal him/her. If Poppy could not enter his mind then, there might be a chance that, Horace could never recover from coma.
Albus was suddenly feeling guilty, as Horace wanted to retire from teaching in that year but Albus requested him to continue to teach potion for another year.
"Poppy can you leave us alone, and please don't let anyone to enter this until I finish my work." Albus requested Poppy.
Poppy realized the gravity of the situation and left the room.
Nevertheless, Albus failed to enter Horace's minds. He tried to do that for 2 hours but he could not able to enter Horace's mind as his every attempt to enter his mind meet with emptiness.
The emptiness of Horace's mind shocked Albus. Albus knew that, a grown adult man could never have an empty mind only a newborn could have emptiness in his/her mind.
Albus could not able to sleep that night. He raided his personal library to find an answer of that mystery. At last, in early morning he found a way to do that.
"Albus, it seems like you did not have any sleep last night." Poppy commented after she saw the Headmaster in the early morning.
"I was doing some research on Horace's condition and luckily I find a way to communicate with him mentally."
Albus told her.
Poppy felt hopeful after hearing the answer from Albus. She also left the room to give Albus the privacy.
Albus started an ancient ritual in Coptic language. That particular ritual was mainly develop by ancient Egyptian wizarding community. That ritual was extremely hard to perform and it needed a very high amount of wizarding power to do that.
After half an hour, Albus felt he became successful in his effort, as he was finally able to hear the thought from his friend.
"How are you feeling Horace?" Albus asked Horace though their newly established mental link.
"I am feeling calmness and Albus you should not worry about me I will recover from coma in two days." Horace assured Albus.
"How do you know that and how you have fallen in coma?" Albus asked his friend. Surprise was evident in his voice.
"I just know it and to answer your second question I can't remember everything. It seems like I am gradually forgetting about the whole incident. I can remember that, I was waiting for Hagrid and the next thing I can remember is there was a boy present there." Horace replied. Confusion was clear in his tone.
"Who is the boy?" Albus asked anxiously.
"I can only remember bits and pieces about the boy. He was around 16 and 17 years old and he was wearing a Hogwarts robe. I can't able to remember his face and I don't know what he was doing there." Horace informed him.
Albus was feeling that, he would not able to continue that mental link for any longer. Therefore, he told goodbye to Horace.
Albus got himself engaged in deep thought the whole thing was very mysterious. Albus was now sure that, that mysterious boy was somehow responsible for Horace's condition. However, he did not know the identity of that student.
Albus decided that, he had to know about the identity of the boy to ensure the safety of Hogwarts. The whole thing was becoming a great riddle and Albus loved to solve those types of riddles.
Nevertheless, he was unable to solve the riddle. He found no fifth, sixth; seventh, eighth Hogwarts student left their house's dormitories except the prefects in previous night. That made Albus to think that, the intruder might not be a student of Hogwarts and their main target was someone else other than Horace.
The intruder might take shelter in one of the various empty abandoned classrooms. There was also some secret passage in the school, which could be used as hiding place.
Therefore, Albus had no choice other than suspending the classes for that day. He wanted to find that intruder and it would be difficult to do that if the whole student body present there. He also did not know about the capability of the hidden enemy and he could not let something happened to his student.
Albus called other professors to join with him in search of the mysterious person. For the next three hours they searched every classrooms and hidden passages to catch the hidden figure. They casted numerous spells; however at the end of their search their effort failed to bring any meaningful result.
The failure to catch the intruder made Albus disappointed. He was now thinking about the possibility that the intruder might be hidden outside of the Hogwarts. Albus vowed to solve the mystery of that boy at any cost.
Slytherin's common room:
Like other common rooms, Slytherin common room was also buzzed by the suspension of classes for that day. They were arguing with each other about the possible causes for the suspension of classes. However, the majority of the students agreed that, the whole situation was somehow linked with the condition of their head of the house.
Harry and his three close friends were sitting in the couch at the west corner of the common room. They were saliently observing the other students. They recognized that, Nott, Parkinson, and Moon came back to the dormitory as they were sitting in another couch and which was just opposite of Harry and his friends.
Malfoy still looked displeased while he was sitting with his three friends. They were sending angry glares towards Harry and his friends.
"You know, Lilith I am very furious at the moment." Pansy remarked angrily while looking at Daphne.
"I can understand your anger. I am also furious at the fact that, many so called Most Ancient and Noble houses are behaving like blood traitors." Moon commented and anger was evident in her voice.
Harry and his friends recognized that, their rivals were trying to label them as blood traitors indirectly.
"I think many pureblood house founders like Abraham David Sayre, Anthony Brian Greengrass, Alberto Hector Zabini, Alexander Edward Davies are raging from their graves at the behavior of their descendants." Nott remarked.
Harry and his friends knew they had to respond now. They could not show weakness when their rivals were trying to insult them though their proud ancestors.
"I think our ancestor would be proud at our self, as we are upholding the legacy of our houses inside and outside of the classes." Daphne uttered angrily towards her rivals.
"Greengrass just because you and your cousin know some tricks of magic that does not discount the fact that, the values you and your cousins are promoting are closely related with the value system of infamous blood traitors." Malfoy broke his silence and accused Daphne.
"Draco Lucius Malfoy don't you dare to accuse our houses as blood traitor. We always celebrated our tradition, culture, and rituals proudly. However, Along with our traditionalism, we are also pragmatic about the reality of wizarding UK. The assimilation of new blood wizard and witches to our culture is necessary for the empowerment and unity of our wizarding society." Daphne shouted angrily.
"You can't hide the truth by simply shouting at me. There is nothing pragmatic about your approach; you people are just against the pureblood cause. You people should be ashamed at yourself. You Daphne Athena Greengrass who is a direct descendant of both Anthony Brian Greengrass and Abraham David Sayre should be ashamed at yourself and the same applies to you Hadrian William Sayre." Malfoy angrily responded.
"I think Daphne and me are both proud of our ancestor's legacy. I also have to say that, just because we think, the muggle borns are now part of our society that does not mean we have ill fillings towards are fellow purebloods." Harry countered Malfoy's point.
"If you were really proud of your ancestors then you people would not talk like that. Do you know how Abraham Sayre lost his young two child at the hand of muggles and how he rescued his wife from being buried alive? In retaliation, he killed all the muggles that were involved in that thing. He single handedly forced muggles to leave that village by inventing muggle reparation charm and built a magical community there.
On the other hand, Anthony Greengrass fled from France to UK when rest of his family was killed by muggles. In UK, he killed several muggles while saving several wizards and witches and he was founder of a small wizarding locality in our country.
I can understand that, how Sayre did not know about that as his family was recently living in USA but you Greengrass knew about that and you should told your cousin about that." Nott furiously told them.
"I think Greengrass was more interested to trap Sayre into a marriage rather than telling him about the history. However, it does not surprise me as Athena Greengrass nee Sayre also trapped Lord Greengrass into a marriage in the past." Malfoy mocked Daphne.
The last few words of Malfoy were able to break the patience of Daphne. She was tolerating lecture about her and Harry's family but she would not digest insults about her mother and her parent's marriage.
"Apologize to me now Malfoy." Daphne demanded.
"I will not apologize for saying something that is truth." Malfoy strongly refused to do an apology to Daphne.
"There is no truth behind your statement Malfoy. Lord and Lady Greengrass marriage happened only because they loved each other. Lady Greengrass's is a woman from Ancient House of Sayre and House Sayre never compromised on the matter of integrity. Daphne is the heir of Ancient & Noble House of Greengrass and she upholds the value of her House gracefully."
Harry defended his aunt and cousin.
"It seems like Sayre has no objection of being trapped in a marriage. I think it should not also surprise us as his mother who belongs to a relatively new pureblood family also trapped his rich father in a marriage." Parkinson insulted Harry.
Both Harry and Daphne knew at that moment of time they had only one choice left to send a powerful message to their rivals that, it is not ok to insult their family.
In Auror Department of Ministry of Magic
Alistair Moody came into his office early in the morning. After the incidents of last night, he decided to get bottom of that mystery. He was an experienced auror; however, he still could not understand the whole situation.
It was around 2am when junior aurors called him as they found situation extraordinary. When Moody reached into the gate of Gaunt Manor, he realized the gravity of whole situation. The dead bodies of several big sized snakes were initially indicating that, some dark spells might have been used against those snakes.
Moody knew that, Gaunts were parseltmouth; therefore, he could assume that, those dead snakes were defenders of the manor. After, closely observing those dead snakes he recognized the signs of cutting curse in their body.
Nevertheless, he realized that the cutting curse that used against those snakes was somewhat different in nature.
With a curious mind, Moody entered into the manor. He was expecting some answer from his team members.
"Dawlish, tell me everything." Moody ordered.
"We don't know much sir. We felt major magical activity in that place. As Ministry of magic was informal guardian of this manor, we have to come here." Dawlish replied.
Moody always found that informal guardian thing strange. Ministry of magic always had an unhealthy interest in the properties of distinct houses. However, the Ancient House of Gaunt took several precautions to prevent any ministerial grabs of their properties. Therefore, ministry had to be content with being only as informal guardian.
"Do you know what really happened here?" Moody asked curiously.
"When we first came here we felt the wards are down. Then we saw several dead snakes. After watching that we entered into the manor and we found this elf." Dawlish directed towards a skinny elf.
Moody was surprised to find an elf there as he did not expect an elf into t manor of an extinct house.
"Who are you?" Moody asked the elf.
"I am the house elf of the Ancient House of Gaunt." The elf replied proudly.
"Don't you have a name?" Moody asked the elf curiously.
"I have, however, my original master forbid me to tell my name to other wizards." The elf smirked.
The elf's behavior was causing irritation to Moody. He knew that, Gaunts were crazy people, now he found out that their elf was also crazy.
"What do you mean by your original master?" Kingsley asked the elf.
"My original master was a proud pureblood. My last master was unfortunately a half-blood. It was a shameful day when that half blood became the lord of the Ancient House of Gaunt. Nevertheless, I had to serve him as he was the last male member of Ancient House of Gaunt." The elf cried when it was saying that.
"Do you know something about yesterday's incident?" An annoyed Moody asked the elf.
"I felt the wards of the manor came down. I also realized that, all the snakes that were protecting the manor were dead. I heard the noble parseltongue from the attacker. It made me fearful, as I recognized that, despite being a parselmouth, he did not have Gaunt blood and he was a very powerful wizards. After he entered into the manor, I saw him to search the manor thoroughly and then suddenly he disappeared by uttering parseltongue while holding a port key." The elf told them about the attacker.
The tale from the Gaunt house elf's mouth was clearly able to shock Moody. He wanted to know about the identity of the attacker desperately.
"Can you describe the attacker for us?" Dawlish asked the elf. She was equally curious about the identity of the attacker like Moody.
"He was around 16 or 17 years old mentally, I can estimate the physiological age of that intruder as the manor has a mechanism for that. I can tell you more about him but I don't think it will help you people." The elf told them in an emotionless voice.
"Why." Moody asked the elf. He was clearly surprised by the elf's answer.
"He was using glamour charm. It was not his real face. My master taught us house elves how to sense this type of charm in order to prevent the imposters." The elf finally told them.
Moody felt disappointed. He knew, it was pointless to ask any further question as they would not learn something new from the elf. The only thing he knew about the mysterious attacker was his age and nothing else.
He could not understand how a 16 or 17 years old boy could be that powerful and the intruder's age reminded him that, the attacker should be a student of Hogwarts if he was not homeschooled. The ministry did not give permission for the homeschooling easily. He decided that, he would get the list of homeschooled children from the ministry in the morning.
That was the reason for his early appearance in the ministry. He got the list from the ministry immediately as the office of Head Auror was very powerful in the ministry. He once again disappointed after reading the list. No homeschooled were matching with the attacker's description.
That could mean only one thing the attacker was a Hogwarts student. He knew that, Albus closely observed his entire student and Moody was feeling hopeful that his friend would be capable of answering some of his question about the intruder of Gaunt manor.
In RoR:
"Harry, Daphne did you have any need to engage with honor duel with Malfoy and Parkinson? Blaise asked his two friends in a concerned voice.
"We had no other option Blaise; we had to send a message to them." Harry replied in a clam tone.
Albus withdraw the suspension about the classes around the noon. Therefore, four friends got the chance to come into the RoR. Harry knew the only way to shut the mouths of their rival was to humiliate them in front of the whole house and their family.
Older Slytherins was not happy about them fighting an honor duel at the age of 11. However, they understand why Harry and Daphne invited Draco and Pansy into an honor duel. Nevertheless, they could not let other houses to see the infighting between snakes, Therefore they decided that, the honor duel would happen in Slytherin common room after two weeks in front of the four head of houses, headmaster, and the family of duelist.
Before coming into RoR both Harry and Daphne informed Lord and Lady Greengrass about the honor duel.
"You have to be careful Daphy as you know except for unforgivable curses everything is acceptable in honor duel. Both Malfoy and Parkinson is deep dark house, therefore, they will try to use dark curses against you." Tracy warned Daphne.
"Don't worry Tracy; we also have some nasty surprises as our weapon against them." Daphne assured her friend.
In Chamber of secrets:
Harry came to the chamber at 11 pm. He liked the clam environment in the chamber. He also liked his conversation with Tom. Tom's portrait was sleeping that period. Therefore, Harry concentrated on the books that, he collected from Gaunt Manor. There were several interesting books, however Harry got attracted towards a green colored journal .That journal belonged to Octavian Gaunt. Harry got himself engaged in reading the journal of Octavian. He was expecting some pureblood supremacy and praise of heritage of Gaunt family. However, after reading the journal Harry realized that Octavian was a philosopher and scholar.
Oct avian was from 1840s era. However, his thinking was much more advanced than his era. Octavian discussed how being a wizard was a privilege and honor for him. He believed that, nature presented the wizarding community with magic for some special purposes. According to him ordinary muggles had many human limitation, on the other hand wizards had the ability to redefine the definition of possible with their magic.
Octavian thought the true excellence of a pureblood wizard could never be showed by suppressing lesser blood wizards or muggles. He recognized that as wizarding population was already too small therefore it made no sense to kill muggle born, half-blood. He believed that, if properly integrated in wizarding culture, muggle borns and half bloods could strengthen the wizarding society. He also did not believe that muggles could steal magic from wizards.
In his opinion, muggle borns got the magic from nature. He thought it was nature's way of ensuring continuous existence of the wizarding community. He believed that, a pureblood should use his gained knowledge from his heritage in making contribution of various fields. He also expressed his disappointment in lack of effort among wizards in scientific invention.
Octavian was fascinated by Astronomy. The mysterious stars in the sky reminded him how big is the universe, however at the same time those stars gave him the passion to know more about them. He imagined there might be many more planets like earth in those stars.
He wondered if magic existed in those worlds. He also dreamed about the possibility that, one-day wizards would make a new home for themselves in moon or mars. After reading that part, Harry's respect for Octavian grew.
Harry realized that even with all the magical power wizards were still helpless in front of natural calamities. In Harry's opinion wizarding, community should concentrate upon making a new colony in at least on the moon and if possible, they should think about the potential of mars as wizarding colony.
Octavian also studied muggle science and knew about the human dependency on oxygen and water to live. He also invented a way to create oxygen, water artificially by summoning energy from the space that he believed would be needed in moon, or mars as he knew that, water conjuring spell would not work outside of the earth. However, the spell and ritual needed for that all should be done in parseltongue. Unfortunately, he did not found way to do the ritual and spell in any human language.
However, his invention was not appreciated, as the ministry did not recognize the need of that invention. According to them oxygen and water were already existed in the nature, therefore there was no need for artificial creation of them. They were also suspicious about the motives of Octavian Gaunt as House Gaunt did not have a good reputation. They also had a great dislike for the parseltongue, which was necessary for his invention.
It reminded Harry about his second year in his home universe where he faced prejudice for being a parselmouth. Harry also recognized that, the way of thinking of ministry about modern science did not change even after 150 years.
Harry also read about the personal life of Octavian Gaunt. Octavian was the nephew of Lord Joseph Gaunt. Lord Gaunt did not have any son and he had two daughters. To keep the properties and lordship in the family he forced Octavian who was the eldest son of his dead brother to marry his eldest daughter Patricia.
Octavian who was an orphan had no other choice other than to follow his uncle's order. Octavian knew there was no love between him and his wife at the beginning of their marriage. He tried his level best to make that relationship work. However, his wife did not appreciate his effort. Their worldview was different.
Patricia did not like so called the radical worldview of her husband and she often tried to insult her husband for that. Patricia also regularly mocked Octavian's passion for research. She found her husband's research projects useless.
Octavian's father in law also showed his displeasure to Octavian for his liberal view in regards of muggle borns and half bloods. He wanted Octavian to participate in his regular muggle hunting and extreme dark rituals. However, Octavian was not interested in those things.
Octavian was also a prodigious potion maker and he made some money by selling that potion. He opened a trust vault in Gringotts for his brother. He loved his younger brother a lot; he did not forget that how his mother told him to look after his brother while she was dying.
His relationship with his wife was becoming increasingly toxic. It was a mental torture for him. To escape from it he devoted himself more in his research. In the joy for inventing something new, he wanted to forget sorrow of his personal life.
When his daughter Sophia was born, he hoped that, the child would bring him closer to his wife. However, his hope was false, as Patricia neglected Sophia. His wife was brainwashed by her father. She only interested of having a male heir to continue the Gaunt line. Sophia was brought up by a personal house elf of Octavian.
Octavian devoted himself as a father of his daughter. He was hoping to pass rest of his life by looking after his child. He also wanted to make his brother financially secure, as he did not want him to be financially dependent on their uncle.
However, his entire plan was halted when he realized that he was poisoned. A normal person would not notice those signs of slow poisoning. However, Octavian was a scholar of different magical arts; therefore, he could recognize that poison.
He realized that, he was being continuously poisoned for months. He knew that, there was no remedy for him in that situation. He was already suspecting his family, nevertheless to confirm his suspicion he investigate the matter with the help of his loyal elf.
The revelation of the investigation was shocking to him. It was his own younger brother who was poisoning him for months. Not only that, his younger brother also had an affair with Patricia. Octavian's father in law knew about the affair between Patricia and Octavian's brother. However, he did nothing to stop that in fact, he encouraged it. Joseph found Octavian as too liberal as the future head of House Gaunt.
On the other hand, Octavian's brother had similar belief system like Joseph. Joseph also encouraged by the fact when he heard Patricia was pregnant with the child of Octavian's brother and the child was likely to be male one.
Patricia drank a recently invented illegal potion that let her know about the gender of her upcoming child.
After knowing that, Joseph made the plan to kill Octavian with the full support of Patricia and Octavian's brother. Joseph instructed Octavian's brother to poison Octavian, as Octavian trusted his brother.
Octavian was very shattered by the revelation. He was deeply hurt by his family's betrayal to him. Despite having a difference of opinion, he always respected Joseph as a paternal figure. He agreed to marry Patricia out of his respect for his uncle.
In pureblood culture, family was everything. Therefore, he never thought his uncle would betray him that way.
Octavian also did not expect betrayal from his wife. There was never any love between them. However, he always remained faithful to his wife. Despite, their toxic relationship he always honored their marriage. Patricia broke his trust by engaging an affair with his brother. Nevertheless, he never thought Patricia would support his murder.
But, Octavian was mostly hurt by the behavior of his brother. Harry read how much it pained Octavian to know that, his own brother was engaged in the conspiracy to kill him. Octavian tried his best to protect his younger brother from the time of his mother's death. He tried to ensure financial security for his brother by opening trust vault for him.
Octavian wrote how he could not breathe when he learned about the betrayal of his younger brother. Octavian did not know what to do at that moment. He realized that, how his brother's greed for money and political power and lust triumphed the sibling bond between them.
Octavian wrote that, how he was worried about Sophia's future. He was thinking how he could save his daughter's future, as he knew that, he had little time to live. Octavian sold many of his inventions in the black market at low prize. Then he made withdrawal of all the gold from her daughter's trust vault.
Octavian wrote how he eloped with Sophia with his loyal house elf's help. Octavian then performed a blood ritual, which would remove any trace of Gaunt family magic from Sophia's body. Octavian wanted to provide his daughter a life without the influence of Gaunt family.
Octavian then placed his daughter in a magical orphanage of France in the name of Sophie Garrison.
Octavian wrote about his last few days of his life. It was difficult time for him. He had no family left at his dying moment. He missed his daughter at that moment; however, he knew he had no choice.
Octavian dedicated last days of his life in his research. He made a note about the using a particular potion that could be used as energy for a small spaceship for two people. However, he did not test it practically. He also made a drawing of preliminary design of a space ship for two people in his journal.
Other than his invention, Octavian also wrote about some of his deeper thought about life. He wrote how the hunger for power, money, was same among both muggle and wizards, how backstabbing nature of some human being was observed in both muggle and wizards. He wrote how he saw pure love among both muggles and wizards of all blood status. At the end, he concluded purity of heart was always more important than purity of blood and he hoped that one day there would be a well integrated British wizarding society where people would be less power hungry than that time.
Octavian also indicated that he instructed his loyal elf to hide his journal into his secret room. For Harry reading the journal of Octavian was a fascinating experience for him. He never thought there would be a pureblood Gaunt who was not a bigot.
However, after reading the journal of Octavian he was proven wrong. Octavian was much more ahead than his era. His vision and thinking was revolutionary. Harry was astonished by the fact that, even after more than 150 years of Octavian's demise wizarding UK did not make any invention that could be compared with Octavian's inventions.
Octavian faced prejudice from others because of his family name. However, his family was also against him. The concept and formula he used in making various new potion was simply extra ordinary. His drawing of space ship was a statement of his visionary nature. If magical UK had a open mind about his invention than magical UK would reach a new high in terms of progress and science.
Octavian was only 27 when he died because of poisoning. However, he proved that, even in a short lifetime a human could leave the mark that would remain even after generations. His thinking about wizarding UK was still relevant in modern day wizarding UK.
Harry vowed to advance Gaunt invention. He knew that, it would take 3-4 years for him to learn and understand everything that Octavian wrote and then improve upon it. Nevertheless, Harry had no problem with that. He agreed with Octavian with the statement that said nature gifted wizards and witches with magic for a special purpose and that was to stretch the limit of possibility for humankind.
Harry also decided that he would make the wizarding UK to recognize the contribution of Octavian Gaunt. Harry wanted to do that not only because Octavian was a great inventor but also because Octavian was a good person. He tried to fulfill his every responsibility towards his family. He was a great father and brother.
Harry really felt sad when he read how his brother, wife and uncle betrayed him. Harry could feel how a brother's soul cried when Octavian found his brother's betrayal as Octavian treated his brother as his son not only his brother. Octavian sorrow for not being able to raise his daughter was also heart breaking.
When Harry invaded Gaunt Manor, he was hoping to destroy a Horcrux and he was clearly disappointed when he did not find any Horcrux. However, he was not sad anymore as he found a treasure in the form of Octavian journal. That journal again reminded him every wizard and witches had an individual identity along with their house membership.
Harry felt a strange personal connection with Octavian Gaunt. The desire Octavian felt to have a family that love him was very similar to Harry as he felt the same way in his old universe. Suddenly Harry felt a sense of gratitude towards fate for giving him a loving family in the form of Greengrass. Harry was now feeling more determined to fulfill the mission that fate gives him. With the help of his friends, Harry would try to build a prosperous future for wizarding UK and Harry knew in his heart that it would be best tribute for Octavian Gaunt.
In the Ministry of Magic:
A blonde male appeared at the office of official records of the ministry at early morning in the next day.
"Lord Malfoy! I am homered to see you in my office." The ministry official was clearly elated to see Lucius Malfoy in his office.
"I am happy to see that the Noble House of Murphy is still following proper wizarding tradition. The reason I am present here is to determine whether you are capable to do a small job for me." Arrogance was clear in his voice.
"What do you want Lord Malfoy?" Murphy asked respectfully.
"Can you give me a copy of the official ministerial report on the incidents of Gaunt manor?" Lucius asked
"Please give me a minute Lord Malfoy." Murphy went to other room after saying that.
After watching the departure of Murphy fake Lord Malfoy, aka Hadrian Sayre smirked. Harry collected hairs of Lucius when their family met in Diagon Alley. Harry knew that, in his various missions that related to Ministry using Polyjuice potion would be necessary. Lucius Malfoy was perfect candidate for Harry's Polyjuice potion project.
Lucius had great influence at the ministry and at the same time, he was a secretive person. Therefore, Harry thought faking Lucius by using Polyjuice potion would be very useful for him.
He knew the incidents in Gaunt manor caused public curiosity and he wanted to know what the ministry think about the whole situation. He also wanted to search the family records of Gaunt after reading Octavian's journal.
" Accio Gaunt family file." Harry uttered in parseltongue. Soon Harry got Gaunt family file. The size of the file became smaller as Harry used shrinking charm and then put it on his robe.
"Here your report Lord Malfoy." Murphy gave the report to fake Lucius aka Harry.
After taking the report from Murphy, Harry gave 500 galleons to Murphy as rewards for his service.
Harry decided to read that report later as he had several classes to attend.
At first, Harry attended Transfiguration class in which Harry again impressed Minerva by performing a third year transfiguration. Daphne also did well in that class. She was able to perform a second year transfiguration. Minerva told them she would give them private lesson on advanced Transfiguration within few days.
Then, Harry attended Charms class. In which Prof. Flitwick again found himself impressed by Harry's depth on knowledge on theory of summoning charm. Harry expressed his desire to start a charms project under Flitwick guidance. Flitwick encouraged him. Harry decided that, he wanted to "invent" Lumos charm at the end of his first year. Therefore, he expressed his desire to Flitwick to start a charms project under his guidance.
Harry thought Potion class would be suspended for that day as he guessed that, Slughorn would take few days of rest before teaching again. However, it did not happen the prefect of fifth year notified the Slytherin first year about the continuation of Potion class. Harry was expecting some easy potion tasks from Horace.
Nevertheless, Harry along with rest of his classmate got a big shock when they saw Head Auror Alistair moody came to the classroom to take their class. He never imagined Moody, as potion tutor as being an auror Moody was more suitable as DADA tutor.
Tracy and Blaise were also thinking like Harry, however, Daphne reminded them Good Potion grade in OWL and NEWT was one of the prerequisite for applying for the post of an auror. Therefore, it could be concluded that, Moody was a decent potioner.
Harry could sense that, the appointment of Moody was still mysterious as Albus could easily ask Snape to teach potion for few days. Harry had no doubt that, it was a joint plan of both Albus and Moody to solve the mystery of Horace's incident.
However, they did not know that, Harry had a clear determination to keep them in dark about the whole thing. They would feel the cunningness of Hadrian Sayre.
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In next chapter:
A week leap,
Planning of Albus and Moody to solve the mystery.
Harry's family time with Greengrass family.
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