Claimed

Chapter 24

The Undeniable Proof They Had Waited On

Severus left the infirmary and made his way directly towards Harry, who was in the Dining Area. He was with his friends having breakfast, he seemed happier than ever. Perhaps having Sirius back in his life was a good thing, he forced himself not to think about James Potter. It would devastate Harry to ruinous portions if he found out about it. Merlin knows what he would do, probably something really, really stupid. For something that wasn't even his fault, but he knew Harry so well that it's exactly what he did. Blamed himself for things not even his doing, especially things Voldemort had done or his Death Eaters.

"Sirius has the proof we've been waiting on, do you have your contact at the Daily Prophet?" asked Severus.

"Padfoot's awake again?" asked Fred hyperly.

"Yes," said Severus wryly, it wasn't lost on him that Fred and George seemed a lot happier to have Sirius here than Harry was. "He needs informed on everything that's happened, take him what we have so far."

"We're gonna go see Draco," said Neville, as both he and Luna were finished breakfast. They had been spending an awful lot of time with Draco, and it pleased Harry to no end. Before they hadn't exactly been best of friends, just tolerated him for Harry. Now it looked as though all his friends were going to get along, and Harry loved them all for it.

"Alright, tell him he better get his arse out of that bed soon before he becomes permanently attached to it," laughed Harry in amusement.

"Will do," laughed Neville.

"Padfoot here we come," said Fred gathering up the things they needed and the book Bagshot had written.

"I kept Skeeter's on, she knows everything and is ready for it," said Harry once everyone had left, and he concentrated on his mate.

"You trusted her?" asked Severus surprised, he knew how much his mate hated her, he had wanted to fire her - quite adamantly so just a while ago. When he got majority share of the Daily Prophet. Nobody would know Harry had majority shares; he had made sure of it. The Goblins wouldn't risk angering Harry Potter to tell Dumbledore or even the Ministry. Plus the Goblins were above the Ministry and Dumbledore, for most part.

"Yeah, I went to see her the other day," said Harry.

"Ah, so that's where you went," said Severus surprised.

Harry nodded his head a little sheepishly.

"Well at least we are prepared, I'm going to get my pensive…do you want to come with me?" asked Severus. Harry had been very quiet especially regarding Sirius lately, and he knew Harry had something on his mind.

"No its okay," said Harry distractedly.

Severus shook his head, before sitting down beside his mate and asked him what was wrong.

"I'm a vampire now…what if he's not okay with it? What if he is okay with it…I'm going to live forever and he's going to die on me…I don't know which ones better." sighed Harry eventually.

"Sirius is fine with what you are, he understands why it needed to be done," soothed Severus hugging his mate comfortingly. "Sirius has a long life ahead of him Harry, sure he won't live forever but he has over one hundred years to live maybe longer. The most important thing to remember is you will always have me. For as long as we both shall live little one." he wasn't going to lie to his mate, obviously Sirius Black would die, he was just a human Wizard. He and Harry were Wizard vampires; Harry probably hadn't realized his friends would meet the same fate too.

"You're right of course…I'm just being stupid," said Harry feeling slightly better.

"Your concerns are not stupid Harry, its natural to feel this way," said Severus.

"Go on then, get the memory so I can send it to her…we have exactly," said Harry looking at his muggle watch, that Severus had got for him. Harry was too used to them to stop it now. Severus had gotten him a very expensive one (not that Harry realized that) after all he didn't know brand names, or many of them anyway. Even after all the years of living with the Dursley's. They spent a lot but it was never the best of everything at the end of the day. "Forty seven minutes until we can make the early morning edition."

"That isn't something I'd relish children reading at breakfast," smirked Severus in disgusted amusement.

"He's in for one hell of a surprise isn't he?" grinned Harry almost jumping up and down. His revenge against Dumbledore was finally coming, and soon Dumbledore would realize he had messed with the wrong one.

"Indeed, and Poppy at Hogwarts is going to ensure we get to see exactly what happened." smirked Severus in happiness and satisfaction.

"I've never really thanked you for saving me have I?" asked Harry a small bittersweet smile on his face.

"By remaining my mate, that's the only thanks I ever needed," said Severus smoothly, just because you turned someone didn't mean they stayed together. The fact Harry had stayed showed he loved him, and he was prefect for him. He only wished they had met when Harry was human, he would love to have curled up next to Harry and feel the burning heat radiating from him. The burning heat that could only come from hugging a human.

Harry smiled sweetly at him, and they remained there together savouring a few minutes together when they weren't tired.

"Albus there's absolutely no sighting or magical residue near or in Azkaban of everyone that escaped or were taken." stated Bill, unaware that this man was the reason his sister was dead. He thought it was because she had lost her child, just like the rest of them. If he had known he would have killed him where he stood. Instead he was going to find out along with everyone else just what he was capable. Worse still would only find out what he had done to Ginny after he was dealt with.

"That is disappointing," said Dumbledore, his calmness a façade for the all consuming worry churning in his gut. He knew exactly who had gotten away, everyone he had imprisoned, who knew who he was. For all he knew they might come to Hogwarts and start another war. He could only hope they were all insane, he knew it had to be the work of those vampires. First they get Harry, now everyone's broken out of Azkaban; nobody could accuse Dumbledore of being stupid unfortunately. Two and two did indeed make four to Albus Dumbledore.

"What else can I do? And why wasn't it in the paper? Who escaped?" asked Bill. It had been Grindelwald's cell he had been asked to check. Dumbledore hadn't wanted to risk him sensing the others magic. He knew Black and Lupin; he certainly didn't want Weasley finding out about them.

"The Ministry doesn't want to worry anyone, you know how it is now that Voldemort is gone William," said Dumbledore bluntly, he was lying, the Ministry didn't even know about the breakout. Well certain people knew, but that was it, it had been kept very quiet. They didn't want any more wizards or Witches finding out, the more people that knew the bigger the risk of finding out.

He had a sinking feeling that his time was running out, and it made him extremely irritated and afraid. He couldn't fight the entire wizarding world, and most of those people had proof. It was a good thing he had most of the Daily Prophet workers in his pocket.

Too bad he didn't have Rita Skeeter for she was going to blow the lid wide open on Dumbledore's can of worms.

"Makes sense I suppose," sighed Bill, nobody in the family had been the same since Ginny had died. She had been their little sister, they thought they had failed her in her second year, it was nothing compared to this. There was no making up for their negligence she was gone. Which was bad enough, Fred and George seemed to have faded from the face of the earth. Ron was acting as though Ginny's death didn't matter, Percy, himself, Charlie and Molly and Arthur were beside themselves.

"How's the family?" asked Dumbledore, inwardly rolling his eyes at this chit chat. He hated this part of his act, being kind and gentle. He had lost Harry as a good anger mat, then Ginny Weasley goes and kills herself- he was furious really.

"Taking it day by day," lied Bill, they were in a mess but he was a man he didn't like talking about his feelings, or the feelings of his family.

"I understand," said Dumbledore sombrely.

"I'm going to head home, I'm assuming there are Auror's out looking for whoever got out?" asked Bill digging for more information.

"There are plenty of resources out looking," nodded Dumbledore.

Bill just nodded; he obviously wasn't going to get any information out of him. He was becoming very, very uninformative these days, he had always kept things close to his chest, but now it was even harder to get information. Nobody in the order got together anymore; he hadn't seen a few of them in months. Aurors were going missing; he had seen that in the paper. Auror's that used to be Order members, could it have something to do with the breakout. He hoped it wasn't Death Eaters, or the few they had put away anyway.

He of course believed what he was told, that Dumbledore and the Order had killed Voldemort. He hadn't been close enough to see what had happened, what he didn't know was that, Ron, Hermione, Dumbledore and a few evil Order members had put up shielding spells to stop them seeing anything. Those that had seen (that weren't deeply manipulated or in Dumbledore's pocket) were Obliviated, and Bill wasn't one of them.

"Sev is there any way to get statements from Gringotts from another person's account?" asked Harry coming forward, the Pensive was full, and Severus had already made a copy of the memory. Harry had sent it off with an owl, and he could only hope that it got there in time to make the morning edition.

"You know that answer yourself Harry," said Severus shaking his head in amusement.

"Is there another way to get them? If we know who he's giving money to…we will know who he's paying and bribing to keep quiet and we could end this quicker," suggested Harry.

"That is a very good idea, unfortunately no Goblin would willingly do it," said Severus. "We would need to intercept an owl in hopes that it was the one we wanted."

"No…I know one thing that would have a goblin giving us what we wanted," said Harry looking indecisive.

"Okay…care to share?" asked Severus his eyes only for his mate, despite the other vampires sitting around staring at Harry in curiosity. For a boy who had only been in the wizarding world since he was eleven he knew a lot of information. He was sneaky, and knew how to get people.

"Well during Binn's talks he went on about how Goblin made stuff stayed in the families it was sold too. However, the goblins never intended it to be that way, they expected their things back…it caused a few goblin wars." said Harry.

"Yes but those pieces are long gone, we don't even have one up in the training room," said Trey, and they had a lot of weapons in that room. Harry had a pair of Merlin's daggers, which by the way he didn't part with. Severus made sure Harry kept them on him at all times. If he lost his wand, then that was going to have something as back up.

"I know the location of one," said Harry smirking his green eyes twinkling in triumph.

"You know the location of a goblin made weapon?" asked Trey impressed.

"Yeah…there's only one problem," sighed Harry sheepishly.

"Hogwarts," said Severus already knowing the answer was correct, he didn't need to wait for Harry's nod.

"Yup," replied Harry nodding his head.

"Well by the time we could get to Hogwarts and retrieve it, he would be arrested and everyone that was with him will be taken down…or at least we can hope so." said Severus.

"I just want to know who is with him before he's arrested…what if they kill Dumbledore to stop themselves being found out. We'd never know the truth if that's the case?" said Harry.

"He does have a point, but even if he is killed…the Goblins will still go through with it. Their weapons are regarded with great reverence, they'd do anything even give statements of a dead man." said Trey.

"I don't want him dead before he can see the world hate him, loath him, let him see what he's lost." growled Harry angrily.

"We don't have a lot of time if that's what you want to do Harry, unfortunately we don't have safe passage through Hogwarts." said Severus sadly.

"I have a map of Hogwarts, it's at the…" said Harry hesitating as he felt sick just mentioning the place "Dursley's house."

"Tell Trey what it looks like and where it is, he can go get it, we must make our move now if you truly want to do this." said Severus, he'd do anything to keep Harry happy, plus he did raise very interesting points. After everything Dumbledore did, he didn't deserve a quick death by someone trying to cover for themselves.

"Okay," said Harry, and he began talking to Trey for a few minutes before he apparated away.

There we go! what do you think? soon Dumbledore and everyone who knows will be taken down with him! all dementors kisses? or all in azkaban with their own personal dementor? you choose :) R&R PLEASE!