A week after I sent off the letter to Amelia Bones, she showed up and demanded what the hell was going on and why the child was not at St Mungo's getting treatment, also if Dumbledore was daft in the head with waiting till the end of the year to revive him? A few days after that he came back to school, the only problem is that he didn't see who petrified him. This scared more people because they don't know what happened. But after a few weeks of nothing happening everyone went back to normal.
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Well it's been a quiet few months now, until today when we heard that Penelope Clearwater had been petrified. As soon as this was heard around the school I was given a note from Susan to give to her Aunt. I assumed the school would be closing now not just having Dumbledore kicked out. They can't expect that a change in leadership will stop that nonsense. And to let her know so she can come and make sure the minister doesn't do anything stupid or illegal things.
But before all this happened today, these months in Hufflepuff have been great. All the first years have gotten the hang of occlumency and with that they have started with their muggle studies. The older years have all been handing in all there correspondence courses through me. I have been using the PO Box I had set up for the dorm house to funnel the mail through. The house its self is one big happy group no one is pissing each other off. It's a wonder how things can change with kids when they have a good solid hold on their occlumency. It makes for a more stable puberty. I have no idea if it's changed the older student's sex life but I am still getting a decent amount of requests for condoms from the older years so I can say for sure it hasn't reduced.
The situation with Luna is what I expected it to be. She likes to rotate positions each night in bed as to get to hug a different person each time. She is fine in the morning with our Krav Maga workouts in the morning and has also been trying to flood her system with magic. She even decided to try and get eyes like Hermione's that can see magic, because she says it will be easier to see magical animals that are hiding. She's rolling around marbles on the ground right now while using her eyes on them and then let us know that our TK was not magic.
When she told us this we went into discussion about it and we came up with the conclusion that magic is force evolving our brain and fixing anything that goes wrong with that evolution. So in theory our brains are what they would be if the human race evolves that way naturally. I then asked them what they would want in their bodies that could be added with this idea. Halley asked if we could make another heart so if one was hit or had a heart attack we would still live. I thought the idea would be cool but we had no idea on how to go about that. With that in mind I spent a lot of time looking into the human circulatory system and brought more medical books and journals. I wish I had more to work with then our bruised and broken bones on our bodies that I have fixed. I think I might have to make my own lab and become a monster to try out these medical ideas I have. But I will think of another way before I start kidnaping people (death eaters and prisoners) and experimenting on them.
Also with the house fixing and selling situation the people are going at a stupid pace they are doing 1 a week now and after 19 weeks they have made me 1.95 million £. Now that's just plain stupid money for doing nothing but being the middle man that buys and sells the houses. Each employee has made around £175,000 and with that they have given me the money and I have given them enough Galleons to pay off the goblins. They next told the goblins they are quitting the magical world and going muggle. To say the goblins were not happy was an understatement. Since I let slip about their horrible loan practices no one anymore has signed up for them even though they lowered it from 20% to 15% I don't think they realize the muggle borns aren't retarded like purebloods. The reason I have so much money is because I have been selling off more things from the room that I don't need and making good money from it. Most of them have been old brooms that collectors want so there's a decent market there, and also I have sold potions the elves have made to St Mungo's. The money made from those 2 things and more are still being stored in the hive on the first level. I have yet to care about getting a vault because when my core stabilizes next year I plan on starting to cast the fidelius. When I am able to do that all the houses are going up under that along with all the boxes around the world.
I have yet to make any real guy friends. Sure I talk to guys but I still just mostly have Hermione and Halley as my best friends. Luna is a friend but I don't consider her a best friend as I do the girls.
I have finally caved and asked the RoR for books on legilimency, because I am starting to get tired of not knowing how to do it. The room had only 4 books on it so for the rest of the year I read it and practiced with the girls since we had nothing to hide from each other.
The cats are fully grown now but are still around the 25kg size and are still lovingly adorable and cuddly.
And again some 7th years have come to talk to me because they have exchanged letters with my 7 employees. They haven't been told what they do but they have told them they have a nice place, get to travel and their schooling is paid off. One of them is even a pureblood and doesn't want to work for the ministry. And low and behold even Tonks showed up to talk to me in private.
"Hey mark can we talk?"
"Sure. What's it about? Still pissed at me?"
"Yea I am but at the same time I'm a bit lost."
"Why are you lost?"
"Well….. I have talked to some of your employees (she gives me a bit of a confused look at that.) And they all say that there happy, they get to travel and they have already paid off schooling or paid back their parents. Mark why do you have employees?"
"I have them because I know a good way to make money and also because I felt sorry for them and wanted to help them out so I gave them a job."
"But your 13! How the hell did you start your own business at the age of 12?"
"That's easy, I paid the goblins to set one up in the muggle world where I could keep all my money. But then that turned into the easiest way to pay people to work for me and it kind of snowballed. I now have created 6 companies."
"….. I don't even know what to say to that. Here I am a 7th year graduating and I have no idea what to do with my life and there you are a second year who has 6 companies under his name."
"Well to be fair 1 has 7 employees as of right now, One has 1 and the other 4 have none. I just set them up for future use."
"Yea that does change much in my opinion. How much money did you make this year if my friends who I talked to could pay off their schooling?"
"Well that's between me and them, but let just say that if you wanted to own a Porsche you could in a year of working with me."
"Can you at least tell me the names of your companies?"
"Sure they're Umbrella Facilities, Umbrella Defense, Umbrella Metallurgy, Umbrella Technology & Research, Umbrella Legal & Records and Umbrella Information. Information and facilities are the only ones with employees right now."
"Mark what the fuck are you doing that require sub companies that have those titles?"
"They are there for when I need to hire people and need to put them and pay them from a corresponding company. I can't have someone who is researching for me get paid from legal when dealing with the muggles. That side of things is all up and up, I just need to hire outside companies right now that does the legal and accounting work for me. When I get people who want to do that kind of thing I will have them go to school for that in the muggle world and then do that for me."
"So what is Umbrella Defense going to do?"
"Can't tell you that."
"Why not!?"
"Well that's because I make everyone who wants to work for me or know what I do swear a confidentiality oath. I do this so everyone that work in the companies can trust each other, and anything they learn can't be used to compete with us or given to other people who might use it against us."
"Mark that's a little depressing, you think people will do that."
"Why wouldn't they, I have lots of resources and my money making ideas are not hard to do. so that means anyone can do them. Plus wouldn't knowing everyone that works with you can be trusted to have your back lift a burden from you, especially in defense?"
"Hmmmm I can see that."
"So was that all you wanted?"
"Ahhh nope I wanted to know what I could do if I worked for you."
"Well that depends on what you like to do?"
"What do you mean what I like to do."
"Well I'm sure I can come up with a job for you but I need to know what you like to do. I don't want you having a job you hate, so that you want to quit."
"Oh well I still want to do law enforcement. I love the thrill I get from dueling someone and catching the bad guys."
"Ok. But here's a question. Would you steal from the bad guys to make their life harder? Or hurt them permanently so they can't hurt anyone again even if you didn't have proof to show to police?"
"Mark that's against the law, which would make me a vigilante."
"All I'm doing is asking you a question it's up to you and based on your answer I can see if I can make a job for you."
"Fine yes I would steel from them but no I wouldn't permanently harm them."
"Well I can come up with something but you would have to swear the oath. But you can wait for when you graduate and we can meet when I meet the others that came to me looking for work."
"Ok mark I will think about it and my other options."
"Sure no issue. I just want people who want to work for me. I don't want people who feel pressured because of money."
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Later that night when we were having dinner Amelia Bones showed up again but this time she just marched up to the front of the hall while everyone was there.
"Ladies and gentlemen I need all your attention."
Everyone in the hall quieted down
"As of this moment we are going to have Aurors come in to inspect yourself and your belongings to see if we find any dark artifacts that could be causing this."
I quickly bent down under the table and called "Maggie"
She showed up under the table. "Yes master"
"Please remove the carriers and all the books in the common room and other books from peoples possession that I have handed out. I don't want them finding anything. Note who you took from and use all 26 elves to make it fast."
"Yes master"
With that I got back up after leaning under the table, while listening to the end of her speech.
"Because of this you will all be heading home. Because after the inspection you will be inspected and sent home when your belongings are double checked."
All the Hufflepuffs looked around and had worried expressions. Some of them looked at me and I gave them a nod and I waved them off. With that simple gesture they calmed down. When they did others who were looking at them and then looked at me they calmed down it just snowballed from there. The house went from worried to calm in under a min. I can't believe these people, just believe me being able to pull this out of my ass. If I was a normal kid I would not be able to do this, the only reason I was able to was because Maggie and her friends. I will just shrink and mail back everyone's things after.
We ended up sitting there till 9pm and then the Aurors came in and started casting charms all around. They started making their way over to Slytherin and the Gryffindor table. A lot of them where shying away and when they got to a 6th year boy in Slytherin they told him to pull up his sleeves. On his arms was a knife sheath with a knife in it. He was then escorted out of the hall with his head down with 2 Aurors a little behind him. Over at the Gryffindor table they made their way over to Ginny. When they got to her they asked for her to pull up her sleeves and after that to turn out her pockets.
The entire time McGonagall was protesting but Amelia was having none of it. When they got to the book Ginny lost it and tried to rip it out of the Aurors gloved hands. She was promptly stunned by another Auror and taken away between them. Everyone was shocked at the youngest Wesley's possession and action thereafter.
Now I don't know what I am going to do. I was hoping to get the body of the basilisk. Hell how am I going to get into the chamber? Well if the school is fucked this year I should tell Susan something that will just add to the fire.
"Hey Susan."
"Yea Mark?"
"Tell your Aunt that there is an entire colony of acromantula in the forbidden forest and they have already almost killed potter and Ron." I know in the series this happened after this but yesterday rumors spread about their adventure.
Her eyes nearly bulged and she looked to her Aunt. Amelia noticed the movement of her niece and came over to her and pulled her out of the hall to talk to her. About 5 min later she came back fully red in the face.
"WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU DUMBLEDORE! FOR HOW LONG HAVE YOU KNOWN THERE IS AN ACROMENTULA COLONY IN THE FORBIDEN FOREST!"
"Amelia my girl I assure you they are peaceful and will not attack students."
"That's right Aragog would never harm anyone. His kids can be a bit moody but Aragog would hurt no one." Said Hagrid
"If that's the case why has harry potter gotten attacked by them let alone you must know that no colony is safe to have near, especially near a school with children. If I wasn't closing the school already I would defiantly after hearing this. The entire colony will need to be hunted down and killed and it will take the whole summer to do this if not more."
"Amelia you don't need to…"
"Shut up! I'm tired of listening to your senility that could cause my niece to lose her life. And Hagrid since you seem to know of some of the colony you are ordered to help direct the Aurors to it for extermination."
"I will do no such thing!"
"Then I am placing you in custody as refusing to help the ministry appointed head of the DMLE. Please take him away since he can't see the danger for what it is and might warn them."
And with that the schools fate was sealed. Well I just truly fucked Dumbledore's plan now. I'm sure he knew everything that was going on but now his test is ruined and the child of one of his supporters has just been carted off. Wow I just majorly changed things, especially if they bring in the unspeakable to have a look at the diary. The one good thing is that Ginny will get to see a mind healer like she should have. Because I don't think in the story her parents shelled out the money for one. Instead they decided to go to Egypt for a vacation. I would be more worried about my kid who's been possessed for a year and what the spirit might have done to her mind or how it's changed her. Hell it could have turned her into a mini V and no one would no. Thank god it was Amelia that did this or I'm pretty sure I would disappear, and it would be in no small thanks to Dumbledore for messing with him.
After she then proceeded to tell the 5th and 7th years that they would be given there tests at the ministry and would be notified when through mail. Soon after she finished telling us this it was 10pm each house had 4 Aurors following us to get our things, we had 30min to get everything we owned. When we entered the common room everyone looked around wide eyed and noticed everything was gone. All heads took sideways glances at me. Thank god the Aurors didn't come in with us. I just said "you'll get your missing things back don't worry." And after that everyone just nodded and headed to their rooms including us. Everyone got there stuff and we all headed to the train with the Aurors surrounding us, till we got to the train. When we got onto the train they left us and 15min later the train was off with all the students. We were expected to arrive around 6am and our parents were notified.
We all sat down and we talked for a bit, and I let them know what I did in the common room and everyone's rooms. They told me they understood and said of course everyone trusts you when you say something because whenever you say something that you will do or get, it happens. When I thought about it like that I started to see why others would believe that from there end.
After they were all nodding off I called Maggie to bring a mattress to the compartment along with some blankets. I then locked the door and closed the curtains with charms so no one could enter. When Maggie brought in the mattress we all laid down to get some sleep. We stayed in our clothes we came with, so if someone did come in we would not be looked at funnily.
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We were woken up by banging on the door saying 10 min till the station then the person must have headed to the next compartment. Me and the 3 girls all got up and Maggie popped the bed away with the sheets and then came back with a toothbrush with toothpaste on it, for us along with a bowl to spit in.
"Thanks Maggie" we all said in unison. She beamed at the thanks and popped away with the bowl.
When that was done we felt the train start to slow down. Because of this I unlocked the door and opened the curtains. Through the windows I could make out a lot of tired looking kids. I don't think many of them slept or slept well. Thank god for the wonders of house elves and how great they can make your life.
When the train finally came to a stop we all got off and headed through to the muggle side, we then saw my mom and she waved us over. She was there to pick us all up and drive us home because everyone else had to work and she had the day off.
"So why are you guys home so early? The letter said nothing but the fact that there was a school closure and anyone with exams will be notified on when they can write it and where."
"Well some kids got frozen somehow and the teachers couldn't do anything to stop it, so one of our friends who's Aunt is a cop came in and searched for the cause. They found 2 kids with illegal things on them and took them away. While this was going on they found a dangerous spider colony in the forest that needed to get rid of. They just canceled school so they could get it all done by the start of the new year."
"Oh well that's horrible but all that matters is that you kids are ok. Did you guys get any sleep on the train or do you want to head straight to bed."
"No mom, we got enough sleep and that's because we made a friend who wants to work for our family." I hope this works. The girls turned to look at me and I guess they assume this is how I was going to introduce Maggie to my mom.
"Mark we have no extra money to pay someone. I don't know how you even get the money in the summer to pay for school because you won't tell me, but I know you don't have money to pay someone to work for us. And what are they going to do?"
"We won't need to pay her mom."
"WHAT!"
"Ok I should just tell this all in one go so you understand. In the magical world there are creature's called house elves. They enjoy cooking and cleaning and all around being helpful. The reason they live with wizards is they feed off there or the families magic. They are in a séance a symbiotic species; I feed them magic they make my life easier. Maggie has bonded with me but I want you to call her and be able to receive help whenever you need it. She can even transport things for you if you need it like grocery bags and what not. Maggie."
The little house elf appeared in the back seat of the car. Luckily we were not driving or my mom would have driven off the road.
"Yes master?"
"Maggie meet my mother. I was just telling her how you bonded to me this year and what you will be able to do around the house; I did this so she could call you and help her out when I'm gone."
Maggie caught onto what I was doing and said "Hello Ms. Holdings it's nice to meet you." She then popped away to where ever she goes or she just turned invisible who knows.
"Mark I don't know what to say so just let me drive us all home in peace and quiet and let me just think."
"Ok mom."
We all sat in the back seat of the car with me in the middle and the girls on either side. They ended up falling asleep on my shoulders on the ride home. When we got inside my mom asked if we brought things home and I said Maggie did it for us and she nodded. After that we headed to my room and crashed on my bed still fully clothed. At 9:00 my mom woke us up after peaking in on us. I'm sure she must have laughed at what she saw because the girls had trapped my arms and had their heads on my chest. When she left Maggie popped the girls in some clothes and we all changed and headed downstairs to go sit with my mom at the kitchen table.
"Ok Mark let me get this straight. You have a fully sentient being that wants to be your butler / maid for the price of living off a portion of your magic, and that is all it wants."
"In the bare bones or details, yes."
"Why you?"
"Oh that's easy because I'm a muggle born, and the purebloods don't treat them well. Her parents are owned by that type but she hasn't sworn to them so she came looking for a family and she found me when I asked for one to talk to. She then told me she would be such a minor drain on my magic I wouldn't notice and that she has wanted to find a muggle born to work for."
"Uh Hu and what else aren't you telling me."
"What?"
"Mark your scary smart, and that's not just me being your mom and having to say that. I know there is more to all this then you're saying. Hell no 13 year old can get £20,000 over there summer break. The reason I didn't press you on this is that I need to know now what's going on because you are essentially a slave owner."
"Maggie."
"Yes master?"
"Can you call me anything but master?"
"No master that wouldn't be right."
"Do you like working for me?"
"Oh very much so I love it. It's so much better than my old family."
"Ok thanks Maggie."
"Mark that doesn't prove anything other than she has white savior syndrome."
"She does not, it's just her kind of culture. And remember she was looking for a muggle born not me in general. She just wanted to work for a family that doesn't abuse her when she does something wrong or can't get it done in time."
"Fine but what else aren't you telling me?"
"Weeeeeeellllllllll I guess it would be better if you knew. Between me, Hermione and Halley we have 26 elves that work for us."
"…."
"Mom?"
"….. Ok I was not expecting THAT. So what are you and your friends doing with these elves? And where are they going to stay?"
"Well about that….. They don't have to stay here because I have somewhere else they can stay."
"Does this have to do with how you earned £20,000 last summer to pay for your schooling?"
"Um yea you see I started my own company that the girls are CFO and COO of and I own at least 2 houses. I also have as of right now 8 employees."
"…. Mark…. I don't even know what to say to this. And what do you mean you have at least 2 houses how do you not know?"
"Well you see I have 2 permanent ones and any number of others that are being bought and sold."
"And why and better yet how are you buying and selling houses."
"Well you see the company I made flips houses using magic to fix them up so it costs nothing practically but spell work and energy."
"Stop saying well all the time mark. And how did this all start and are the people working for you also 13. And how are you selling these things let alone buying them."
"Well…..sorry. The simple answer is magic. I found some things I could sell and some money at school. I used that to set up an identity in the real world as an older man named Howard Hues. Howard is me when I drink and aging potion and with that identity I got short term mortgages at the bank. When I found a house that was in a decent neighborhood and only needed fixing, me and the girls spent many days upgrading it to look nice and clean. After that I became Howard and called a real-estate agent and sold the house in about a week since we were going a bit under market price to make the sale fast. After that it was just rinse and repeat. I needed to make a company where I could keep all my money. Then at school a few people came to me saying they couldn't find a job that wasn't more than a janitor and assumed I knew of something since they learned about me heading to university when I leave Hogwarts. I then had them swear they wouldn't tell anyone and I made them my first employees doing the same. I take 60% of the profit but they get 40% split between however many people work on the house. So the better it is and quicker they do it the more money they make. They have already paid off their schooling this year."
"… wow…. Umm I don't know if I want to know this but how much money do you have?"
"I have about £243,000 in liquid cash at the moment. But if I was to sell everything ummm I would say £2.125 million give or take."
And there goes mom she just fainted in here seat.
"Enervate."
"What just happened?"
"You fainted mom."
"I think it's because you were telling me that you made more money in 1 year then I have in my whole life."
"uhh yea that's true. But look at it this way you don't have to work again if you don't want to."
"Thanks mark I like working but I might get a job with better hours with this news. Even though I don't want to take money from my 13 year old son."
"Mom don't worry about it. I have no problem with taking care of you. And this makes things easier because now you know what me and the girls are doing with our free time."
*sigh*" ok hun but please let me know a little sooner. With you going to this school it's easier to believe and I'm sure I wouldn't have believed before you gave me your schools tuition for the year. But please let me know if anything else big happens."
"Can you let the girls tell their parents? I'm sure they will come and talk to you when they get told."
With that all our parents knew 2 days later. They all reacted about the same but the girls said it was my money so there parents didn't try and demand they take care of it. My mom on the other hand has long since resigned to the fact her son was scary smart and probably knew what he was doing since he already had so much money.