Chapter 2—Now you see me now you don't

Ok dummy, you got free now where are you going to stay?

It was a little hard trying to convince the landlord that an eight year old was going to be the tenant, and that his parent would be traveling a lot. Actually, it was impossible until I rented a father for a few days and he did the renting. Open contract, rent due on the first of the month.

A new set of clothes and a baseball cap changed my image for the few who knew me, the rest of the sheep never were interested in seeing an ordinary kid. Diagon Alley was not a safe place for me, there was always one who would recognize me as the area was Pro-Dumbledore, so Knockturn alley was my place of shopping. I got many weird books that covered many strange subjects all of which required a wand. Therefore, off to Knockturn alley's wand maker who while making my wand said something about wand-less magic. That sent me back to the bookstore and while chatting I got a few mind magic books. For entertainment I got to the movies, I saw a kung-fu movie, and I was enrolled in the local muggle class the next day. There my pipe was laughed at and they told me to get a stave and training for it. So back to the wand shop, who got me real fancy one and some nice knives.

The time just seemed to fly by and it was now my eleventh birthday plus five days. Ragnok was thrilled to see me until I emptied my school trust vault. He lightened up when he told the Dumbledore story.

"You had to be their but I thought he would have a heart attack. I told him there was no money for him to withdraw, as he is no longer your guardian. He gets a Wizengemot warrant to empty your main vault and has me escort him to your vault and when it is opened, he sees nothing. He was sputtering all the way out of the bank." Ragnok was really enjoying this.

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Well the 50,000.00 Galleons converted to about 200,000.00 English, which made the muggle bank manager happy. Therefore, I had the Goblins investing Slytherins money and the Bank of England investing my muggle money.

Now I must say that being a wizard did not impress me, what I wanted to be is me and only me. I did recognize that there was still Dumbbunny's group hunting me as I had many a narrow escape. I was caught a couple of times but I had obtained my black belt and my metal stave, well there were a few hobbling around after I was done with them.

Flashback:

I had just exited Knockturn alley, I only had to cross the street in Diagon Alley to enter Gringotts. They were part of Dumdum's bird club and were spread out from the Magical Menagerie to Madam Malkin's. If I charged across the street they would cut me down with a spread of stunners. When you are twenty feet or more away from your target your accuracy degrades unless you are a very practiced at dueling. I made a right turn towards the Ice Cream Parlor and then charged across the street at the three casting 'Stupify' at me. I threw a couple of seriously hurting spells their way before "The cat was among the pixies". My 'stave' got a stomack, head and a knee with outstanding success, three down. I charged towards Gringotts and the four dummy's charged towards me from the Magical Menagerie. We both were throwing curses I only hoped that... yep here came the screaming Goblin warriors. Needless to say the bird club flew away via port-keys.

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My wand-less magic was coming along well and I had some nasty curses and spell I could do. I was studying up on animagus transformation and some of the more advanced spells.

Well I am now twelve years old as it is the end of July so I want to celebrate with a good dinner and a movie. I got out of the front of my flat and got a stunner to the back.

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I come around in the hospital at a place called Hogwarts. It seems that Madeye Moody is the lucky finder of the boy-who-lived. They have taken my money, wand, stave and knives. Someone is going to suffer for this; I will not be controlled and confined again. I then found out that I could not 'apperate' in Hogwarts and I had a 24/7 guard assigned to me, the duffus and sons had left my ATM card in my shoe. Next, they raid my flat, round-up all my stuff, and put it in a trunk I am supposed to live out of, well everything that they did not consider dangerous. They do not know me yet but they soon will.

The female guard drags me up to the Headmaster's office and the fun begins.

"Ah, Mr. Potter how nice of you to join us, lemon drop?"

First mistake;

I approached the bowl as if I was going to take one but instead jammed the bowl and the candies in his face, breaking his nose, his face and the bowl as lemon drops flew. The guard tries to grab me and is neutralized with a simple hip throw. The greasy headed person grabs my arm, wrong play, as I spin; I drive my foot into the side of his knee. Knees are not designed to move that way and it snaps. He does not give up and pulls his wand to find my foot smashing his hand and his wand in many pieces. Some one stuns me and I awake tied to a chair in Dumdum's office.

Some one has fixed the headmaster up, Greasy is gone but others have entered the room. Now comes the mind probe by the Headmaster, is he nuts? I grab his probe pull and then jam it back with as much force as I can. He crashes backward into oblivion, he may come too by tomorrow. The guard charges, and while I hate to hit a women, I have released my ropes binding me, standing on the chair I inserted my fist into her face.

"Mr. Potter please!" said a stern-faced woman with her arms and hands in the surrender position. Next to her is a short man who also raises his hands in the surrender position.

"I want the head of whatever police department you have here as soon as possible. I have been obliviated, kidnapped, mind probed, my property stolen and my wand confiscated as well as cursed and I want some revenge."

The shorter man goes to the fireplace and the next thing I see is three people with wands drawn. I was about to attack when McGonagall says to everyone to stop. While the three do not look comfortable in the situation, they decide to listen.

"I am Lord Slytherin and who do I have the pleasure of meeting?

"I am Amelia Bones head of the DMLE".

She is now listening to Lord Slytherin, who was kidnapped, wand removed, robbed, mind probed, etc, etc. She then starts yelling at my female guard who is sporting a black eye for moonlighting for Dumbledore while being an Auror trainee. I do a double take as her hair starts to change colors.

The good news is Amelia carts off Dumdum and my guard after taking my statement. The bad news is I must attend a school until I take my OWLs whatever they are.

"Mr Potter, I must apologize, Filius and I were on vacation and we just got back this was the first that we knew that you were in the castle."

"So I have to go to school?"

"I'm afraid so, you are soon to be Lord Potter as well as Lord Gryffindore, your being Lord Slytherin is going to be a large shock here, two of the founder's heirs attending."

"I assume I am going to be allowed to leave this castle at this time?"

"Of course you can, but are you returning?" asked McGonagall.

"If I must then I will, I have to get the books on this place, at least here I have some sway over that old goat you call Headmaster. I would ask that you not say anything about me being Lord Slytherin."

I smiled and said my goodbyes and headed home. I paid the landlord for a year with the thought of never returning and went to Ragnok for Hogwarts books, rules and regulations. I headed back to the wand maker in Knockturn alley to replace what was taken. This time I was going to be sneaky because I just felt they would confiscate everything the minute I stepped into the front door. They tried and found nothing, Dumbledore had returned.