The Founders' Intervention
By: Sheltie
I still don't own Harry Potter at all
Chapter 8
Harry and his friends got off the Hogwarts Express they did say goodbye to their new friend Luna and wished her luck in her sorting before heading to the carriages that would take them to the castle. They made it to the castle safely and heading in.
"Well, we're back" Harry said.
They all nodded then headed to their seats at their house tables. Soon McGonagall led in the first years and the sorting began.
Harry and Hermione sat the Ravenclaw table listening to the sorting when Harry heard Rowena in his head.
"Hello Harry" Rowena said.
"Rowena, what is I can do for you?" Harry asked.
"The student that I am sorting right now. Luna Lovegood. She'll make a great addition to your friends" Rowena said.
"That's what I thought. I like her" Harry said.
"Yes, anyway I'll put her in Ravenclaw so you can watch over her" Rowena said.
"I'll guard her with my life" Harry vowed.
"I know you will" Rowena said.
When Luna was announced to be a Ravenclaw Harry made a spot for the little blond and waved her over. Luna skipped over and hopped into the open space.
"Welcome to Ravenclaw, Luna" Harry greeted.
"Thank you Harry. When do I get to meet your advisers?" Luna asked.
"What do you mean Luna?" Harry asked trying to act dumb.
Luna just stared at Harry for a while then blinked.
"I hope there will be pudding" she said.
Harry looked at Luna with a confused look then shrugged. He turned his attention back to the sorting.
When the sorting was done Dumbledore called the feast to begin. Food filled the tables and soon chatter arose throughout the hall.
"Welcome to Ravenclaw, Luna" Hermione said.
"Thank you Hermione, I do hope there won't be too many Nargles in my bed" Luna said.
Snickers were heard after this, but Luna didn't seem to notice them. Harry though did and he sent everyone a glare, which shut them up.
Once the feast ended Dumbledore introduced the new DADA professor, Lockhart. Harry groaned and placed his head on the cool wooden table. As the grinning idiot beamed his shiny smile at everyone. The girls all sighed at this with Harry's group all rolling their eyes at the sound. Once Dumbledore finished up his announcements, which include the usual no using magic in the halls, the Forbidden Forest is forbidden and other miscellaneous things.
The Prefects led the new first years to their houses with Harry and Hermione meeting up with their friends.
"Bloody idiot, I can't believe he's teaching here" Harry mumbled.
"Oh come on Harry, he might teach us something worthwhile" Daphne said sarcastically.
"Yeah, like how to keep our teeth white while you shit your pants" Neville said.
They all laughed at this though Hermione did reprimand Neville on his language, which was hard since she was laughing while she was doing it.
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The next day Harry and his friends arrived in the Great Hall and sat together at the Ravenclaw table. They all chatted about what they might be learning this year. Once their schedules were handed out they finished eating and headed to their classes.
They started to include Susan more in their time together. At the start Susan was still a bit shy and timid. But as they got to know one another the Hufflepuff began to contribute more. As for Luna, she seemed to fit in seamlessly, which perplexed Daphne and Hermione with how easy Luna integrated. Harry found the little blond very interesting and had many conversations with her about the creatures she and her dad were searching for.
There was a new wrinkle in Harry's year this time. This wrinkle was one Ginny Weasley. The girl seemed to follow him around like a lost puppy. Daphne commented that it would cute if it wasn't so sad and creepy. Harry though found it annoying since the little redhead would stare at him whenever he wasn't looking at her and when he did she would squeak and turn her head.
Hermione found Ginny annoying since everyone in the school knew Harry was off limits with her betrothal to him. But that didn't seem to stop Ginny from staring. Daphne did hold Hermione back from confronting the little stalker. Daphne feared that Hermione might not just use words in talking to Ginny and hexes and curses would go flying.
As this was all going on classes did too. Harry found Lockhart utterly boring and full of shit. He wanted to kick the idiot of Hogwarts, but was stopped by the founders.
"But why can't I kick the ponce out. He's doing nothing, but ruining this school" Harry complained.
"We know that Harry, he's needed here so that later he can be exposed as the fraud he is" Salazar said.
"Can't we do it now?" Harry asked.
"No you can't. If you do then a new teacher will take over and who knows how the time stream will divert" Rowena said.
"But we've already changed so much" Harry argued.
"We did, and it seemed the even with those changes the general things haven't. We want to keep it that way to preserve a bit so we could guess what is coming and not be totally blind" Godric said.
Harry huffed and folded his arms pouting.
"Lets move on to another topic. I think it is time to bring Susan and Luna to see us" Helga said.
"Alright, I can't wait to see Susan's reaction" Harry said smirking.
There was laughter with this.
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Susan and Luna's introduction to the founders was memorable. Susan actually faint. Luna however curtseyed to the founders. It was like she sees the four founders of one of the greatest magical schools everyday. Once Susan regained consciousness they got to work. Susan's Occlumency skills were so-so, but needed drastic improvement if they were to hold Harry's secrets.
As for Luna, the founders saw that Luna's mind was hard to read. The girl thought in terms of chaos. She didn't organize her mind like Hermione or Daphne's. Her mind was like a overfilled warehouse. There were things everywhere and some not in the right place, but she could pick out the correct memory or what have you from anywhere. This system she had helped confuse whoever tried to read her mind because they were left with a very big headache from how 'messy' her mind was. This also gave Luna insight that was far deeper than what Hermione or Daphne could come up with.
Rowena was thrilled with this and had Luna be a part Harry's advisers. She was going to their secret weapon. The girl could think outside the box and create the most interesting plans when needed to.
Susan was relegated to healer since she didn't like fighting too much. So Helga and Salazar worked with her on potions and healing magic. Though the others had skill in this department it was nice to have someone in the group centrally focused on healing.
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Dumbledore was not happy with what was going on. How did his pawn get betrothed and without his guidance. No, this wouldn't do. He needed to work some magic (pardon the pun) and have some laws put into place so that Harry had to call off his betrothal to Miss Granger. Harry needed to be with a pureblood family. A light pureblood family. A light pureblood family in his pocket. The one family in mind was the Weasleys. He knew that the youngest Weasley, Ginny, already had Harry Potter on the brain 24/7 if her mind was anything to go by.
Yes, he needed to whisper into a few ears and manipulate a few people and then the laws will be passed.
He sat back grinning as he patted himself on the back. This was after all for the greater good.
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Breakfast a couple mornings later was an interesting one.
"Uh Harry, you might want to look at this article" Neville said.
Neville, Susan, the Weasley twins and Daphne were at the Ravenclaw table with Harry, Hermione and Luna. Thanks to Penny and a few other Prefects there was not much commotion as to why two Hufflepuffs, two Gryffindors, and a Slytherin were sitting there.
"What is it Neville?" Harry asked.
Wizengamot Proposing New Law that limits Betrothals To Some
Harry read the article and it smelled like Dumbledore. The knew that the old man would try and do something to break his and Hermione's betrothal. The whole law seemed to be discriminating against muggle-borns and half-bloods though half-bloods got off easier with certain conditions than muggle-borns. The law basically said that you could not be betrothed to a muggle-born unless the muggle-born in question was judged and found worthy by a panel of experts that will be created with this new law.
"Hmm, looks like we need a talk with the founders" Harry said.
The others nodded. This needed to be nipped in the bud before this law was passed by the Wizengamot.
After classes that day Harry and his friends were in the founders chambers. The founders read the article and were all very upset. Not just for Harry, but what it could do to the wizarding world in large.
"That old coot is going to kill us all" Helga said furiously, "without the infuse of new blood in an old line it will die out in time."
"Yes, he's seeking to wipe out the oldest magical lines way before their time" Salazar said.
"I'll strangle him with his own beard for trying to interfere with Harry" Rowena growled.
Godric stepped back from his wife since Rowena was in her ultra angry mode. And when she was in that mode bad things happened. She wiped out an entire army once when in her ultra angry mode. They had interrupted her when she was doing some big research thing and they interrupted her from it. There was no one left alive when she was done.
"Okay, we must do something. Salazar, Daphne see what you can do" Godric ordered, "Harry, please and try calm Rowena. You seem to be the only one that she won't hex when she is angry" Godric continued, "The rest of us lets keep up what we are doing in getting Susan and Luna up to date."
With that everyone nodded and got to work.
Harry wandered over to Rowena, who was thinking of very creative ways of killing Dumbledore that caused the most pain. Harry cringed upon hearing some of her more inventive ideas. He gently placed a hand on her shoulder. This caused Rowena to turn to him and her eyes, which had fire in them died down at the sight of Harry. He then pulled Rowena into a hug.
"Thank you Rowena" he said softly.
Rowena smiled and hugged Harry tightly.
"I promise you Harry that you'll marry Hermione. There is no way I'm going to let this go" the founder of the house of knowledge vowed before getting up and heading to Daphne and Salazar to help plan.
Harry almost felt sorry for Dumbledore, almost.
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What happened next was a whirlwind.
"Order, order. This session of the Wizengamot will come to order" Dumbledore said loudly as he pounded his gavel.
Soon the room was silent.
"Good, the first item of business. The proposal of the new Betrothal law. Are there any who wish to argue against it?" Dumbledore asked.
"I do."
Mutters were heard then Harry made his way to the floor.
"Harry, what are you doing here? This isn't a place for students" Dumbledore said.
"Chief Warlock I am Lord Potter head of the Ancient and Noble house of Potter and also the head of the Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin houses. I have every right to be here" Harry said firmly.
Gasps and soon mutterings filled the room.
"Do you have any proof to back this up Lord Potter?" Amelia Bones asked.
Amelia and Augusta knew what Harry had planned. They were the ones to tell Harry when the session would be happening. They wanted to have front row seats to Harry's coming out party. They just wished they had some snacks and refreshments for it.
"I do madam Bones. First the Potter ring" Harry said.
He showed off the Potter ring signifying that he was the head of the Ancient and Noble house of Potter.
"As for the other four" Harry said.
Godric's sword appearing in Harry's raised hand, which verified Harry's claim since whoever could call upon the sword of Godric Gryffindor was the head of the Gryffindor family. Neville was also able to, but his branch was from the younger son of Godric while Harry's was from the eldest.
Harry then called on Ravenclaw's diadem, which had thought lost. It wasn't, it was just buried with all the junk in a room that Harry and his group had found. They found that Rowena's diadem was tainted with dark magic and with Rowena's help cleansed it without destroying the priceless item. Hermione was working on what the dark magic was.
Next Harry called on Helga's, which was Hufflepuff's staff. Hufflepuff's staff was legendary that it could heal a hundred people with one sweep. It was made of rosewood and had core contained a heartstring of a Hippogriff, a hair of a unicorn and a feather of phoenix that had belonged to Godric.
And last Harry called upon Slytherin's dagger. It was made of a basilisk fang that he took from his very own basilisk. He then had it crafted by the goblins with certain runes that made it forever sharp and able to inject basilisk venom into your victim if stabbed. There was no other dagger like it.
Each item verified his claim since it was said that only the heir of their houses could call upon their most prized item.
"Are there any objections?" Harry asked.
The whole hall was silent after watching Harry's little act. There was just no words that could be spoken.
"I thought so. Now I wish to declare my disapproval to this proposed law about betrothal contracts" Harry said firmly.
"Now see here Harry" Dumbledore said.
"Oh shut it Albus, Lord Potter is well within his rights to argue his point unless you wish to censure him?" Augusta said with a questioning glance.
Dumbledore shifted as he saw people looking at him with a slight glare. If he tried to censure Harry now it will come out bad for him. So with a solemn nod he gave Harry the floor.
Harry took a deep breath as he remembered the speech Rowena drilled into his head.
"Members of the Wizengamot. I come before you to think about what you are doing. I am sure you all want to protect your families and keep them from making very bad choices, but I ask you to think about what you are really doing. Do you want your lives and the lives of your love ones controlled by the Wizengamot or the rules dictated by your own house. I for one don't want to be told what to do by anyone in what happens in my own family. It is not the government's business to intrude on what is a private matter. I am a law abiding citizen and have earned that right to go about my life without the government telling me what to do. Do you want your government to throw away years if not centuries of family laws that your ancestors have put in place to keep you safe. Do you want to throw away the traditions you hold close just to be another cog in the machine. I ask you all to think about what you are really throwing away" Harry said.
There was silence afterwards and Harry went to sit down.
"I agree with Lord Potter, I do not wish to throw the laws and traditions that the Longbottoms have established for themselves to appease the Ministry" Augusta said speaking up.
"I concur, the Bones family is not willing to part with our traditions either" Amelia said.
Soon outcry was heard all over and ones for the proposal had changed sides. They didn't want to lose their family traditions. When finally the hall was back in order there was a vote. It was unanimous. There was not one vote for the betrothal law. Dumbledore abstained since he knew he couldn't win.
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Harry made it back to the founders' chambers exhausted. He was soon accosted by Hermione and Rowena.
"What happened?"
"Did it work?"
"Why are you so exhausted?"
"How'd Dumbledore take it?"
Harry had to chuckled slightly since the two had said the exact same question the exact same time. It was like hearing each question in stereo.
"Everything worked out fine. The Wizengamot shot down the proposal. I'm exhausted since it was very tiring doing all that magic summoning the founders' items. Dumbledore was shattered" Harry said.
Both Rowena and Hermione pulled Harry out of his seat and they began dancing around the room. The others have heard what Harry had said and they too were celebrating.
Once Harry was out Rowena and Hermione's grip he got back to his seat and slept. The magic he did was immense even for him. His core was still growing and doing all that magic within in a certain time limit was tiring. He had to magically summon each item with magic that no witch or wizard have ever done in many years.
The celebration went on as Harry slept.
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Harry Potter Claims Not Only Potter Title But Titles To The Four Founders
That was the headline on the paper the next day with pictures of Harry and each item of the founders. Also was a small story about each item and what it all meant for the wizarding world. Harry had people looking at him all through breakfast, but he was used to it by now.
"So Harry, what kinds of changes are you going to make?" Susan asked.
"What do you mean Susan?" Harry asked as he buttered his toast.
"Well since you're heir to all of the founders that means you control the school" Susan said.
"I do, don't I" Harry said with a smirk.
"Oh Harry, quit teasing Susan and tell us what you're thinking" Daphne said rolling her eyes.
"You're no fun Daph, you know that" Harry said mock pouting.
The others laughed.
"Harry, I'd like to ask you to come to my office" Dumbledore said stepping in.
"Sure professor, but could it wait til after classes?" Harry asked.
"No, I must talk to you now" Dumbledore said.
Harry sighed.
"Don't worry Harry. I'll get your assignments for you" Hermione said.
Harry nodded. He then followed Dumbledore out with everyone who was in the hall watching them. Soon they were Dumbledore's office. The portraits there all awoke when they saw Harry and got up and bowed.
"Welcome back my lord" several said.
Dumbledore was miffed at this, but acted like it didn't happen. Harry just nodded back with a small smile on his face.
They both sat down.
"What is it you want to talk to me about professor?" Harry asked.
"I thought we could have a nice chat about the future of our fine school" Dumbledore said.
Warning bells went off in Harry's head.
"Oh" he said.
"Yes, I think Harry that the two of us can bring many wayward wizards and witches into the light" Dumbledore said.
"And how do we suggest we do that sir?" Harry asked.
Dumbledore's eyes twinkled, which annoyed Harry a bit.
"With me to guide you Harry. The wizarding world will be a better place. It is for the greater good" the old wizard said.
"Sorry sir, but I do not need your guidance. I have my own" Harry said firmly.
"Now Harry, I am much older and wiser than you are and I can help you a great deal" Dumbledore said.
"I agree that you are older than I am sir, but that doesn't mean you are wiser. I have advisers that I trust and in no need of another. Especially one that manipulates rather than guides" Harry said.
Dumbledore looked like he was punched in the gut.
"Now sir, is that all?" Harry asked.
"Yes, for now" Dumbledore said.
Harry nodded and left.
Dumbledore was left wondering what to do. Who were Harry's advisers and what sort of advise have they been giving him.
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Halloween soon came and Harry was once again somber as today was the day his parents had died. Hermione was by Harry's side the whole day with Luna on his other. Daphne, Neville, Susan, and the twins were also there for Harry. They hated seeing Harry so morose. So the twins played pranks on their dear little brother to cheer Harry up.
In the founders' chambers there was a quiet meal for them all. None wanted to leave Harry alone. They were able to get back to their dorms before their curfew. The next morning there was talk about Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat being found petrified in the hall. Also writing written in blood. This of course caused everyone to look at Harry since he claimed to be the heir of Slytherin.
Harry denied being in the hall when Mrs. Norris was attacked. His friends back him up on this. But still rumors swirled. Ron got in the habit of calling Harry the new dark lord. He was of course taken care of by his brothers for this.
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Meanwhile with the founders and their students were making progress.
Susan was making great strides and was coming to be a very good healer. Helga loved the girl as she was her own. Luna was a quirky one, but was a joy since she no one was ever bored with her. She brought in different view of things and nothing shocked her it seems. She did however have a mental handicap that she needed to get over. The death of her mother weighted heavy on the lithe blond. Since she was there when it happened and saw the life leave her mother's eyes. Rowena seemed to adopt Luna like she did with Harry. She helped Luna through this and Harry seemed to take on the role of big brother for Luna. He stopped the bullying before it even got started.
The first time Luna was missing a few of her things Harry had the elves of Hogwarts find them and they told him who did it. Harry took this to Flitwick and the Charms teacher took care of it personally. He knew that Harry had great power and wanted to help the lad. Flitwick saw Harry as the new leader of light and knew where his allegiance laid. So Ravenclaw was weeded out sort to speak and bullying ceased.
This seemed to cause a ripple affect and the other houses did the same. They rooted out the bullying and put a stop to it. Slytherin house was the only one to not do this. But the other teachers seemed to decided that any bullying was not to be tolerated. Every time they saw a Slytherin bully another student they took point and/or gave a detention. Snape was not happy with this and it became a war between him and the other teachers.
In potions class he seemed to get away with it since he was in charge of the class and the other teachers had no say whatsoever. He was more ruthless to the non-Slytherin students than ever.
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"Harry, you've got to do something about Snape. He's a bloody menace" Fred said.
"Yeah, he's taking points for no reason now. He's always gave a stupid reason before, but now he just takes them without one" George said.
"He's also assigning detentions left and right" Fred added.
"Alright, I'll talk to the founders and see what I can do" Harry said.
"Thanks mate" Fred.
"Yeah, before potions was bad" George.
"Now it is unbearable" Fred.
Harry shook his head. He'll never tell them a part.
Later in the founders' chambers Harry talked with the founders about the Snape situation.
"You can kick him out, but it would help if we had more leverage against him than just the school records" Helga said.
"Yes, we need to see him in the worst light possible" Rowena said.
"I can talk to Amelia and see what we can do" Harry said.
Rowena was proud of Harry. The boy was willing to listen to others and get help when he needed it. Yes, this would a big reason why he'd never turn dark. With their support along with his betroth and his friends he'll be a shade of gray.
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Amelia got a letter from Harry by house elf asking for her help to get rid of Snape. She was totally on board and got some of her trusted people to look up records. What she saw was horrible. The number of healers, aurors and potion masters have be declining since Snape took post as potions instructor. This was the evidence Harry needed and she was going to give it to Harry personally. She sent a letter by elf to let him know she was coming.
She headed out and apparated to Hogsmeade from there she made her way to Hogwarts. She didn't stop to chat with Hagrid like she sometimes did. She was on a mission. Once in the castle she saw Harry waiting for her.
"Amelia" Harry said with a smile.
"Harry, I have what you need" Amelia said.
"Good, come with me and we can see it" Harry said.
Amelia followed Harry and was wondering where he was taking her. Harry led her to the founders' chamber since he felt and the founders agreed that Amelia was trustworthy enough. So when Amelia met the founders she was shocked. Her monocle dropped from her eye and her mouth gaping like a fish.
"Welcome Amelia Bones, please have a seat" Rowena said.
Amelia walked over on shaky legs to the offered seat and slumped down. The founders, Harry and his friends waited patiently for Amelia to regain her senses. Susan thought it was funny to see her aunt so stunned. It took a lot to surprise the head of the DMLE. Once Amelia was back from la-la land they began with introductions. Though it wasn't really necessary since she who the founders were and she knew Harry's friends from meeting them in the summer. Luna was the only one she didn't know.
After that they got down to business.
Amelia showed them the files she had and it enraged the founders.
"That man, he's the reason why the wizarding world is so weak now. Potions is needed for the most critical jobs in our world" Rowena said.
"He's weakening us for his lord" Salazar said.
"Yes, but let's remember that Snape isn't in this alone. Dumbledore was the one to place him in the position he is in. He put a twenty something with no teaching experience in a position of power and let him run wild" Godric said.
"Yes, Dumbledore is to blame, which means he must get equal blame" Helga said.
"But how, Dumbledore holds a lot of power?" Amelia asked.
"We must attack where it will hurt the most" Daphne said.
"Where is that Daph?" Neville asked.
"His pride" Daphne said.
Salazar got up and pulled Daphne into a hug.
"I'm so proud of my Slytherin" he gushed.
Daphne was blushing madly as she was being hugged by Salazar.
"His pride?" Amelia asked.
"Yes, we attack his base. We first send out an article destroying him publicly. The man thinks he's invincible. We show that he isn't. We air out all of his dirty laundry" Daphne said.
Salazar looked ready to hug Daphne again, but Helga held him back this time. Daphne was grateful for that.
"I have controlling interest in Chocolate Frogs, I can have them changes his card" Harry piped up.
"That's great, lets start with that" Rowena said.
Thus the planning in cutting Dumbledore down began.
End of Chapter
A/N: the end of another chapter. This one took a long time to write and to write it well. I hope I did a good job on it and hope it all makes sense to you. The next chap will be Snape's fall and Dumbledore takes the blame and more of the Chamber. Until next time. Thanks for reading and please review.