Claimed

Chapter 20

Rescued and buying out the Daily Prophet and SHOCKING INFORMATION

The vampires were standing around the Great Hall of Severus' castle, a place they had regularly met up for years. Seeking ways to bring down Voldemort, Dumbledore, and planning their next feed. They never fed from innocent people, only went where the most evil humans lived. Quite a few had died around the area of Privet Drive, Vernon would have been one of them had they not found Harry. They didn't need to feed very often, preferring instead of feed from one another. Some of the vampires actually only drank from animals, they didn't like the thought of harming another being. Evil or not, some of the vampires believed they had a right to live. They weren't sneered at for their beliefs as there were many, with different beliefs from different backgrounds. Hell, more than half of the vampires were hundreds of years older than Severus. Yet they chose to follow him, and join a clan they could be a part of. Some of them were actually Muggles, that didn't have a drop of magic blood in them. Those that were couldn't go with the others to Azkaban, but stayed to protect the castle. Vampires were too fast for magic to hit them, so they weren't at a disadvantage. Well other than not having magic to help them along, and to fight with.

"You know the cell numbers?" asked Severus gravely. They could not afford to linger, they were to apparate, get to their target and then leave. Contrary to popular believe, vampires' did indeed have souls. They could be sucked out just like humans, although it was much harder as Dementor's didn't affect vampires quite the same way. They did not fall unconscious under their on slot. They all had cell numbers and the name of the person they were to collect. Two were to go to each one, one for backup and the other to help the Witch or Wizard they were to save.

They all replied the affirmative, the vampires' were excited, and they now had a purpose. Far too long had they been waiting for the opportunity to take Dumbledore down. For years they had sat around useless against Dumbledore's popularity. Nobody would believe them, there was nothing they could do. Then one little wizard came along, or rather they went to him and he changed the name of the came. The humans were fickle; the vampires' knew that, a small rumour would be all it took to make Dumbledore loose popularity.

"I have a small share of the Daily Prophet, as does Neville and Draco, the rest of them are on this list. I got it from Gringotts' if we can convince them to sell to us I'd have controlling shares. Which means I could print whatever I liked, Gringotts said they would be able to keep it on the DL." said Harry coming into the room giving Severus the list.

"Good work," smirked Severus in satisfaction.

"So I'm going to get in touch with Griphook again, see if he can do the hard work for me. Or someone else will have to go, either way I want to give them an offer they cannot refuse. It wont harm me any, I've got plenty of money and I've never spent a penny over the years. Well I suppose I did spend the money in my trust vault but that's it the main vault was never touched. The money in my trust is gone, but I've got all my money from my main vaults that nobody other than the heir can enter…thank god for that." said Harry despite all the vampires around him. He knew most of them, and got on well with them all, other than Malachi.

The main vaults had plenty of money still being deposited each month. For organizations they had shares in such as the Daily Prophet. Then there was the interest alone which was vast in itself. So there was never any fear of the Potter's going broke, he was the only pureblood who hadn't been regularly dipping into his inheritance. So it wasn't hard to believe that he was one of the richest heirs in the Wizarding world. He had more than the Malfoy's for all Draco's bragging over the years. That had been a sore spot for the young spoiled heir even after they became good friends. For years he believed the Malfoy's were the purest and richest in the world, to have that belief stripped was worse. Of course then were was the fact that Lucius was giving most of it away to charities, Fudge, Death Eaters, bribes he was paying out to people, then larger amounts still withdrawn and given to Lord Voldemort. The Malfoy family would never recover from that, Draco probably didn't have much left the poor guy. Growing up wealthy getting everything you wanted, then ending up…well he wasn't poor but he wasn't as loaded as he liked to think. It had nearly destroyed the blonde, but Harry, Neville and Luna had gotten him through it. Only after he got over it, Harry had defeated Voldemort and kicked out of the wizarding world.

He hadn't even known what had become of his friends.

In fact he still didn't, well he knew Neville stayed at Hogwarts, and Luna was still a student, just like Ginny should have been. Draco though was still far too weak, he came round but he didn't talk, couldn't focus much. Harry was glad Severus had told him it would take a month; otherwise he would have been terrified.

"Alright, we are leaving as well, we should be back in around five minutes if all goes well," said Severus. Given what Severus was told about Harry's adventures, he had lay down with him last night and told him how it was going to be. To his shock Harry hadn't argued, he had expected Harry to want to go. Poppy had warned him that he would fight him on it, it seemed Poppy didn't know him as well as she liked to think or he had changed. Until Harry explained why he didn't care, he believed when he did something someone else always got hurt. Harry would fight at some point, and he would realise it wasn't true, but it wasn't this time or this day for that. He didn't want to risk Harry, he wanted him safe and in his house waiting on him getting back. Plus he really didn't want Harry to see the state of the others; unfortunately he had no control over that. Harry was going to want to see the others as soon as they came here. A Hospital ward had already been made, Poppy had made her excuses yesterday and was already here, and Andrea was already here they were more than prepared for the sudden rise in numbers.

"Be careful and good luck," said Harry quietly.

"I'll be back," reassured Severus softly, kissing Harry passionately before drawing back with great reluctance.

Harry nodded, before he extracted himself from Severus completely, taking the list he walked off. He wrote a quick letter to Gringotts' explaining his instructions to Griphook. To offer them money and put it up until they accepted, cost was no concern, he wanted the paper. Only Neville and Draco had been taken from the list, he wanted everyone else's shares.

"Listen, I've found someone who's related to Gellert Grindelwald I want to talk to her," said Fred seriously as Harry walked into the room.

"Who?" asked Harry surprised.

"Someone called Bathilda Bagshot," said Fred looking down at the piece of paper. "She's his great-aunt…Harry she lives in Godric's Hollow."

"Oh," said Harry swallowing dryly.

"We are going to see what she can tell us, we will be back as soon as possible," said George.

"Okay, just be careful…they might expect me to go there," said Harry quietly.

"Don't worry," said Fred "We'll be fine."

"Okay I'll see you both later," said Harry nodding his head smiling at them, more for their benefit than his. One day he would finally go home, see where he had been happy before Voldemort had destroyed it all. It's funny how one single night could ruin all dreams of happiness. Then again it hadn't been one mans actions, but rather two.

"Bye," replied Fred and George as one before apparating away.

"Come on, I want to be there for Harry, just in case it's not alright with Moony and Padfoot." said Fred walking faster. He could never call them by their real names; they had admired their childhood names for so long.

"I only hope its good, or Harry just might loose his head over it, or should I say Dumbledore will?" said George grimly, they walked up to the woman's small house. There wasn't a single candle or light to be found. There was an awful smell though, coming from under the door. Narrowing their eyes, the twins took out their wands and entered the house.

"What the bloody hell is that smell?" gagged Fred in disgust. It was getting stronger the further they stepped into the house.

"I don't know, but for some reason something's telling me not to use magic," said George managing to keep himself from being sick.

"We need a light though," said Fred, "I cannot see anything."

"Come on then," said George "Lumos!"

"That's better," said Fred relieved, narrowly avoiding knocking into a table.

"Let's just hope we don't regret it," warned George, as they searched for any clue to what on earth was going on.

"George!" hissed Fred his voice sounding sort of strangled, as if he had to force the word out.

George cautiously, walked over to his brother and almost did loose his breakfast and lunch. There lay remains of the half decayed woman they came to see, Bathilda Bagshot, she looked utterly disgusting. That was most definitely what was causing the smell; they could feel the distinct magic of evil over her. Voldemort must have killed her a long time ago, judging by the decay it was a good assumption. Witches and Wizards did not decay fast; their magic remained for months afterwards the body retaining its perfect appearance. When the magic faded away they decayed like any normal muggle.

"Well we might as well leave," grunted George pissed off.

"Let's see if we can find anything here…we might get some decent information," suggested Fred.

"Like what?" asked George doubtfully.

"I don't know," sighed Fred, but he didn't like coming away empty handed. "A diary or something of the sort."

So for the next twenty five minutes, they searched the small house from top to bottom. Hoping to find something, anything. But there didn't seem to be anything there, they were just leaving when Fred did knock the table and spill its contents flying. It was then they found it, it looked like any normal book, but magic shimmered slightly. Fred used the 'Finite incantantum' spell and the real contents lay underneath it.

"Oh you beauty," said George looking shocked, his brother had been right after all.

"Brilliant, let's get out of here," said Fred, apparating away with the book in his hand, George was beside him three seconds later.

"Is he alive?" asked Harry swallowing fearfully. He was sitting on his bed, reading through everything he owed still utterly stunned by the amount of properties, shares and money he owed. He had concluded his aunt and uncle knew nothing about it, or they would have wanted a piece of the pie too. He actually felt like rubbing it in Vernon's face, and maybe one day he would. Vernon had always been a money grubbing bastard, and to think his nephew he despised had lots of it. He could almost see the veins popping in Vernon's head and Petunia's horse face going pasty white. After all the years of calling his father a good for nothing drunk…well it would suck.

"I'm not going to lie to you, it doesn't look good but Poppy and Andrea are doing all they can," said Severus softly, going over to Harry and wrapping his arms around him to comfort the distressed teenager.

"I hope he pulls through," sighed Harry, he didn't think he could handle loosing him again. Ironically enough he had lost Remus an exact year after loosing Sirius. At the end of his sixth year, on the very day Sirius had been deemed dead.

"As do I," said Severus, for no other reason than Harry. "Where are the twins?"

"Following a lead," explained Harry, "An old woman lives in Godric's Hollow; she's Grindelwald's great aunt."

"Hm," was all Severus said.

"When will we know? I mean if he's going to survive?" asked Harry hesitantly.

"Poppy or Andrea will let us know once everyone's stable or declared beyond their healing," said Severus.

Harry simply nodded in understanding. Just then two pops followed by the smell of Fred and George Weasley, but they had a distinct smell of death around them.

"What have they been up to?" asked Severus getting up, Harry followed curiously.

The two vampires walked casually out of the room and down the stairs, until they got to the hall, the twins were outside the doors. The other vampire were inside, just relaxing having successfully without a problem pulled of their mission. They wouldn't be there long, most had significant others, they liked spending time with.

"Okay, boy's what's going on," said Severus as soon as he saw them.

"She was killed because she was going to write a book about Dumbledore, Voldemort and Grindelwald." said George handing the book over.

"What?" gaped Harry his face showing nothing but shock deep rooted shock. He didn't know whether to think she was extremely brave or suicidal.

"Yes, Dumbledore…dated Grindelwald according to the woman…right up until the so called battle," said Fred.

"What's Voldemort got to do with it?" asked Harry.

"She thinks Dumbledore abused Tom as a child, she think's that's what caused him to open the chamber, the Basilisk was never meant to kill Myrtle, but Dumbledore himself…" explained George "According to this Tom confided in her, I don't know if any of it was true though."

"It would certainly explain why he is truly afraid of him," said Harry. Voldemort had always gone utterly insane when Dumbledore was mentioned, even at the age of seventeen. In the diary, Harry had seen raw fear behind the ignorant answer that 'Dumbledore had been driven out of the castle by the mere mention of him'. Had that truly been Voldemort's true goal? In the beginning before he started killing needlessly? He felt sickened at the possibility.

"Unfortunately she presents absolutely no evidence in her book," said Severus "Hearsay doesn't exactly help us any."

"It's not exactly hearsay, if Tom confided in her," Harry pointed out his stomach churning in disgust. Had Tom suffered the same betrayal as he himself had? He hated having so much in common with such an evil man as him. Had he been evil? Or just pushed to the brink by anger, betrayal and disgust at the injustice of the world.

"It says here Tom told the Ministry," said Severus handing the book over a look of contemplation on his face.

"If that's true…then they know." squeaked Fred hardly able to voice his own thoughts.

"Or just cried him a liar," sighed Harry. Closing the book utterly stunned by what he was learning Dumbledore truly was a disgusting man.

"Do the Ministry keep things like this?" asked George looking green.

"They couldn't get rid of it, if a complaint was made it will still be there." said Severus knowing the rules of magic better than them.

"Please tell me it's in a different room than the records for Azkaban?" asked Fred hopefully.

"I have no idea where they are, I'd suspect they would be in the main Auror department," said Severus, "However I couldn't say for sure."

"We need someone from the Ministry then?" guessed George disgusted.

"Not necessarily, there are a few Order member's I want to get my hands on that happen to be Auror's," said Severus his lip curled in disgust. He would kill them all slowly, and painfully there would be no mercy for them. Not for what they had done to his mate, they would suffer the hell they said people suffer by Hades in hell.

Harry looked worried, after what the Auror's had put him through it was no wonder really.

"Do not worry yourself Harry, they wont get their hands on you again, if they did you would kill them," said Severus it was a demand not a question.

Harry nodded his head the familiar anger and hatred coming forth.

"Alright so me and Fred go and get an Auror," said George.

"Not tonight, tonight we rest and sleep on this new information," said Severus. "And see how our new house guests are going to fair."

"Of course," said Fred and George together as one. They would be there for Harry should the worst happen, they had meant what they said. Harry was indeed like a brother to them, more than Ron would or had ever been.

"Good, now let's relax, enjoy dinner and get some proper sleep," said Severus, nobody had any decent sleep the past few nights.

"Good idea," said Fred.

"Very," said George.

That said the twins, Severus and Harry all entered the Great Hall, beside the rest of the vampires and sat and ate their fill. Severus and Harry were the first to leave, when they did most vampires ended up leaving three minutes later. Fred, George, Luna and Neville had a fair idea why they had done and just laughed. Harry had someone to take care of him now, they were very happy it was someone like Severus. He was protective, loving, and headstrong and kept Harry happy. That above all else was what they wanted for him, after everything he had gone through. Neville and Luna had the book, they were going to read it after dinner, and that was what was going to help Neville become like the rest of them.

what did you think of this chapter? will it be true or speculation they will never know? will tom have given them his memory of it? will that be the first thing in the papers? will people withdraw their students from hogwarts and leave hogwarts lacking? will Mcgonagall know what dumbledore is like or will she be blinded and also furious when the truth gets out? which Auror will be the first to go? Shacklbolt Awery Dwalish? they were all mean to harry so...they will die horrid deaths anyway! haha! R&R PLEASE! who else would you really like to see join their side? any characters you like that dont play big parts in the films or books you'd like to come forward and spice up the story a bit?