Chapter 39– There once was a man from Nantucket who needed a bucket-
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It was inevitable, I sold gold, at a discount to the Goblins for their Galleons, and they sold some of the gold to the muggles, at more than 100% profit. When I converted the Galleons to muggle money they had another 10% conversion rate to charge me. It was a great deal when you could get it, and they thought I was uninformed of their profiteering. I should complain? I only had the cost of some lead bars and a 10% conversion rate. Why the wizards never took the Goblin coins and melted them down I will never know, I think that the coins were just gold-plated or they had special Goblin magic on them. It didn't really mater, gold on the muggle market collapsed in England. While the wizard community never noticed the Goblins were having trouble as is was a closed society using only Galleons. The Goblins now had to give more gold to get less muggle money. So I was requested not to provide more gold for a while, it would give me time to figure out how to do the rest of the legends of the stone.
The Dailey Profit was on to the "fight" at a social gathering of the élite. Hermione and I were again made into losers that should be shunned or ostracized.
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Our Apartment London England:
~"Hay Foxy what are we doing today or is it another duck and run day?"
~"Hush you, we are going to Diagon Alley to pick up a few things. It's almost time to get back to Hogwarts."
~"Poo, must we?
We shopped the entire day and had not one problem; it was going to be a record for us. With only a quick stop to the Goblins to add a pool to our new place, we were done.
"So my love what shall we do this evening besides making mad passionate love?"
"Well there is always the take the wife out to dinner and a movie before you ravish her."
"Lovely idea my love lets swing by the Dragons Nest and see if there is a reservation for us, I hear they actually have a dragon behind the restaurant doing the flaming."
"Yes we shall, although I have heard that you do a fair job at flaming, I can't wait for us to have our own little nest with BBQ and pool."
So we stopped by and they had a open table. We did a movie and I got to ravish my wife multiple times, thus an end to a fabulous day.
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Foxy and I had a few conversations of serious nature type. That caused us to visit Gringotts a few times before we made our decisions. We were of mixed feelings when the clock turned to 'Return to Hogwarts'.
The Red and Black steam engine was producing its normal steam as the normal confusion rained on platform 'Nine and Three Quarters'. Animals chirped, squawked, squeaked, mewed or croaked but soon every thing and everyone was loaded on the train and it started is regular trip to Hogsmeade Village Station.
Not two minutes into the trip there came the runners of rumors.
"Did you hear they killed that Malfoy that kill Dumbledore as he tried to get on the train?"
"Did you hear that half of the students on the train cursed Draco as he tried to get on the train?"
"I wonder who got cursed." Foxy giggled.
"I hope it wasn't some first year who had silver blond hair, or Luna who has silver blond hair."
"Thank you Harry for your wishes." Luna stated as she entered the compartment.
"You're quite welcome Luna." I was sure that it wasn't her now that she was in the compartment.
"It was Draco of course; he tried to find a compartment and a lot of people though that they had to curse him since he was a murderer." Luna giggled.
"Are you sure it was Draco?" Hermione asked.
"Oh yes! His father bribed Fudge into stating that Draco was under the 'Imperio' curse so he is now back as a student. Well a very cursed student as I last saw him on the floor." Luna stated in her normal calm factual way.
~"You know Foxy if things keep going this way I think we need to get out of this insanity. Fudge won't admit Voldemort is back, is bribed to let Draco back in school, hell all we need is to find Snape sitting at the head table." I was not happy.
~"Relax dear; all of this is not going to help anyone do anything. Let's see what is said or has really been done before we start shooting up the place." Hermione must have been viewing some western DVD's.
We arrive and grabbed a carriage to Hogwarts. The first thing that we saw as we entered the Great Hall was the head table. Big as life, sitting at the head table, was the greasy git Snape AND the Ministry's Umbitch. Further down the table was Weatherbe and the pink haired Auror Tonks. There were not a lot of happy students in the Great Hall that evening.
It appeared that McGonagall had been dumped by the Board of Governors, Malfoy senior was on the govening board . Fudge had crapped on Macgonigall via Umbridge the new headmistriss, since Macgonagall had no power to stop what was going on now at Hogwarts.
I sat back and kept my and Hermione's temper down which was not normal for me or Hermione.
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We made it to the next Hogsmeade Village weekend which was almost canceled by Umbitch. She thought that the students were to excited over the comming weekend. Between Snape and Umbitch half the school was in detention or worse.
"God Harry it's good to get away from all that insanity."
"Well dear it's more than confusing, how can they all keep their heads in the sand yet cause everyone else misery? I have never heard of half the laws that Fudge is passing and Umbitch is back to her ugly croaking self."
"I understand and agree, how can these idiots not see white masks and black cloaks killing people in the streets and say Voldeshorts is not back or around?"
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To say that Voldeshorts was not back was the wrong questions as Deatheaters appeared all over Hogsmeade Village and us. We were on the main street by Zonko,s when the Deatheater appeared. The whole village was under attack. We ran to the alley by the Cauldron shop across from Zonko,s and then Paws and Foxy charged forward toward 'The Three Broom Sticks'. When we got behind the Post office we change back to human form and I stepped out from the Alley between the Post Office and the Hair Dressing Shop and into the main street.
It was as always, we step out and run back into an alley. The Deatheaters charge into Pheonix sun fire. Paws and Foxy then charge to some place and I step out and the alley turns into sun fire. A great number of Deatheaters died that day. There is however a limit and soon both Foxy and I were ready to called it a day, the fight raged on in Hogsmeade Village but we were exhausted. That's when Voldemort made his grand appearance on the main street. I had just stepped into the street to lure another group of Deatheaters into an alley and there he was.
It was just too much, there was no way that I was going to super-up and kill Voldemort. If I tried to leave he would be able to hit me with an A-K curse. I felt that I only had on flame left in me. I was tired and was just able to hole up my wand and felt like shit. All these thoughts were swerling in my head ad Voldemort as usual gave his super deluxe speech of his greatness. He continued on how he was going to kill me most horribly when he got hit with a "Diffindo' to the neck. Foxy had flamed behind him, cut his head off and we watched it roll into the street.
Being totally surprised by Foxy's energy I suddenly find myself being flamed by Foxy to our quarters. I am dumped into our super tub and we do a long soak.
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The next thing I know I am in our bed snuggle up against my sexy Foxy. The world is wonderful. "Are you enjoying your self there Paws?"
"Oh yes my dear, I am in heaven."
"Well get your lazy bones up and washed we need to get to breakfast and classes start very shortly."
"Yes my love!"
After a very enjoyable shower, we dried off and dressed. The Great Hall was abuzz with rumors and food. We attacked the food as if there was no other point in life. Our enjoyment just could not be allowed to last.
The doors of the Great Hall were thrown open and one pompous Fudge leading a team of Aurors arrive into the Hall.
"Harry Potter you have killed your last innocent person and are now under arrest." Fudge shouted.
~"Foxy, Fudge has been a problem since day one; this wizard world is nothing but sheep to follow Dumbledore and now Fudge, not to mention the Goblins with their gold problems. Do we stay and fight or just leave them to their misery?"
~"My that is quite an insightful statement, I leave it to you but I say let them stew in their own cauldron."
Hermione and I stood up and I stated, "To the students of Hogwarts I apologize leaving you in this cesspool. To the loser Fudge, I have a statement for you and the wizard world, fuck off, you have us brassed off. You want to be in charge, great, you got it, you want to ruin the economy, you got it, but I have the following statement you haven't got me to do your dirty work anymore. Youve got the fight with Voldemort and the Deatheaters, me and mine are gone! Cheerio, you dog's dinner".
In a blinding flash Lord Harry Potter and his wife disappeared. Throughout that day Fudge made speeches stating the safety of the wizard world was all his doing and he had everything in hand and controlled. He made his speeches in the Great Hall, to the Dailey Profit and in the Ministry. He led everyone to believe that he had personally done in Voldemort the previous day. He only enjoyed a very short time of pompous exultation. Voldemort had already had a fathfull servant retrieve one of his Horicrux, he would return with a vengeance.