Chapter 15
"How are classes going Harry?" Ava inquired.
"Pretty good, I really enjoy this teaching gig."
"Its Hogsmeade village weekend, are we going to enjoy it without glamour charms?"
"I'm afraid that I'm stuck as one of the professors monitoring the students in the village."
"At least we will not have to worry about Nott as he has detention with Snape this weekend."
"So what was a little shit up to this time?"
"He was out after curfew, again."
"Ava I'm sure he's up to something as usual but I'm too busy to keep on eye on him. Snape can have that honor."
"And what about James?"
"As long as he stays away from us I really don't care. Better yet Voldemort can have him. I've tried to talk with him several times but he keeps blowing me off with his 'I'm the-boy-who-lived' crap. He won't hear a word about Dumbledore and how he is setting him up for a fall."
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Unofficially, Snape believed that the little shit Nott was merely sorted into the Slytherin House because of his family as he did lack cunning like Draco. Not that Draco was that cunning. Nott had become Draco's replacement but he Snape would not intervene other than what was expected from Dumbledore. The Dark Lord hadn't changed his mind over Lord Potter, the Dark Lord had just added James Potter to the list that must die. Snape was left out of the loop on their plans. Snape only hoped that he was not caught in the middle when Nott's mucked up the Dark Lord's orders. Lord Potter was beginning to impress as the boy continued to demonstrate cunning in handling Slytherin house students in his classes. Professor Potter was earning Snape's recognition but of course he would never outwardly approve, he would continue to ignore Lord Potter.
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"At least I got the morning shift here in Hogsmeade as this patroling is a boring way to ruin a perfectly good day. So what would my lovely wife like to do this afternoon?"
"Well I was thinking..."
Ava was interrupted as approximately twenty Death Eaters appeared on the main street in front of us.
I grabbed for the wand that Evelyn's people made for me and the fight was on. Ava and I moved toward the closest alley as serious curses were flying in our direction. Ava was no good in a fight. she could stay somewhat covered in the alleys entranceway and behind my shielding. With my shielding and my throwing of spells she could help with some of her cooking spell's or the few that I or the school had taught her. That's when Voldemort showed his ugly face. Not down the street, not facing away but ten feet in front of me. Not waiting for him to go into his normal oration I opened up with everything that could fly from my wand and wand-less from my wand-less hand. While I didn't feel I was using a pee-shooter against an armored tank he was still outclassing me in his variety of spells, curses and where did he get those shields? That's when my Harry Potter luck once again made its appearance...
I think I may have pissed him off just a smidgen as I did not try to respond any of his verbal repertoire and just sent a lot of nasty curses. The green AK was speeding toward me so I decided to return the favor using my wand and wand-less ability. Wand–less-ly a green curse flew straight at him as I sent a Defindo off simultaneously to both sides of him. I stepped to the right to avoid his AK. With any luck Voldemort might step into the Diffindo spell. Of course being the kluts that I am I tripped over my own feet and fell to the right instead of moving in that direction. It wasn't for my luck I would been in no position to defend any further curses he threw as I was sprawled on the ground.
Voldemort in his arrogance did indeed step to his right to get a better shot at me while simultaneously dropping his shield. He stepped right into my Diffindo spell relieving him a good portion of his neck and shoulder. His head flopped onto his other shoulder and a fountain of blood sprayed into the air. Voldemort collapsed to the ground and appeared quite dead.
Things started happening moments later. Aurors appeared up and down the street, some were staring at Voldemort's remains while others were chasing Death Eaters that were too stupid to leave. Dumbledore and the Order of the Phoenix popped in along with the press and their photographers, they arrived damn near on top of me. As I scramble to my feet to make sure that Eva was all right, the photographer's camera flashes were now starting to blind me, that's when everything went black.
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When I came to I noticed that I was laying on a stone floor in a small stone room with all of the amenities of a cell in Azkaban. The room had a small camping bed like at the Weasleys, a bottle of water and a chamber pot. I also had been relieved both my wands and my staff. My wand-less blasting curse was only absorbed by the wards and for some reason I couldn't transport out, apparently I was stuck. Now the question was where the hell am I and who did this to me?
Meanwhile:
The shit storm that followed Dumbledore's stunning of Harry Potter and escaping with him, using his Phoenix Fawkes, was unbelievable. Harry Potter had just put down the Dark Lord and Dumbledore attacks him in broad daylight. Aurors stormed Hogwarts in search of the two but could only determine that Dumbledore was possibly hiding somewhere in the castle. The public was demonstrating at the ministry demanding Dumbledore's head. Dumbledore started sending out messages to numerous people, the Daily Profit and requests for on emergency meeting of the Wizengamot. The contents of the messages stated that Harry Potter only appeared to kill the Dark Lord to take his place and Dumbledore had the proof and had again saved the day. Dumbledore was stressing that Voldemort was not gone and only James Earl Potter would be able to kill the Dark Lord. They did not need a new Dark Lord called Harry Potter. Further stressing the point Dumbledore said that Harry Potter had used the "Unforgivable Curses" and was thoroughly evil. Harry Potter should be immediately thrown through the veil. All this proof would be presented at the emergency meeting of the Wizengamot along with Harry Potter. Alas, Fate was not Dumbledore's friend.
In real time:
Well at least whoever kidnapped me is not letting me starve to death. Food is appearing daily, probably by a invisible house elf. I am unsure how many days passed but I'm guessing at least a week so far. I've given up trying to use wand-less magic to escape, the wards are too strong. Maybe even strong enough to keep Evelyn out?
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The magical community spent much time arguing over the fact that the Boy-Who-Lived had again eliminated He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named versus the great Albus Dumbledore the defeater of the Dark Wizard Gellert Grindelwald. Who could they believe? Had Harry Potter used an unforgivable curse? Did we really care if he did? Dumbledore kept insisting James Earl Potter was the only one that could put down Voldemort permanently. So rather than doing something most people did nothing but talk.
Meanwhile the ministry declared an amnesty for Dumbledore until after the emergency meeting of the Wizengamot. Apparently the members of the Wizengamot had other important business to conduct elsewhere and the session would not be held for weeks. Dumbledore could now be seen strolling down the corridors of Hogwarts and majestically overseeing meals in the Great Hall. Meanwhile Ava was stuck in Hogsmeade being unwilling to reenter Hogwarts.
While Dumbledore may have had his plans for the greater good he had again made minor mistakes. While he was able to sway the Wizengamot and the Daily Profit he misjudged Harry's time as a teacher and James Potter being an arrogant twit. A good number of Harry's students weren't buying Dumbledore's crap. Harry's wife had disappeared and the students weren't sure that Dumbledore was not again at fault. But as students there was not much they could do but be unhappy at the tales being spun. Of course a few days later a student did express his opinion. Albus Dumbledore was strolling majestically to the Great Hall for all to see his greatness. The green Avada Kedavra surrounded Dumbledore's back as his stroll along the Hogwarts corridor came to an abrupt halt.
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Apparently the wards have fallen and I'm not taking a chance as I head out the door. As I enter the next room I see that my two wands and my staff that are laying on a table. I snatch up the three but before I charged out of this room I wonder, what kind of trouble I could expect from the rest of the house or surrounding grounds. Sensing no other restrictive wards I transport myself to my house in Hogsmeade village.
"HARRY!" Eva tackles me causing me to fall with her on top while planting kisses all over my face and finally a super deluxe on my lips. God it's good to be home.
"Harry James Potter where have you been!" Well I thought, the kissing and the happy mood sure didn't last long.
"I haven't the foggiest of an idea Ava. I was transported and warded into a stone room and when the wards fell I transported here to you, my love. What's been going on since I was kidnapped?" As Ava explained everything, all I could do was shake my head.
The next day our house elf Dinky brought in the Daily Profit that she had found telling of the demise of Dumbledore. The Daily Profit sensationalized the attack for days. What was curious was that the assailant had not only killed Dumbledore but had taken his wand. Was this to be a souvenir of the crime? Was it possible the Dark Lord had returned? Had Harry Potter escaped Dumbledore's clutches or was he dieing slowly in some dungeon?
"Ava I'm at a total loss, what the hell are we supposed to do? If I show my face I may get thrown into prison over the jackasses' claims."
"He said he had proof that you were a Dark Lord and that you had used unforgivable curses."
"Good point, I'd best clean my one wand of all the spells I've used and start using your cooking spells." And for the next day Evelyn's special wand was used to prepare meals and clean the house. At least I could show I was a good henpecked husband.
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Being there was nothing else that I could do, and Ava insisted on accompanying me, I transported to the Ministry of Magic. We were immediately surrounded by Aurors and I was immediately hustled to a interrogation room. Before they could stuff veritaserum down my throat I screamed, "Ancient and Noble House of Potter, Black, and Slytherin, I demand representation with legal counsel before any questioning."
At least they didn't do a Sirius Black on me and I got a lawyer. There are areas that I did not want to be asked about and in fact that covered a lot of areas. The ministry and my lawyer came up with a set of questions they planned on asking which I finally agreed to and off we went. Easy questions asked were like...
"Are you a Dark Lord?"
"Do you support Voldemort?"
"Did you killed Dumbledore using an unforgivable?"
The questions I wanted to avoid were things like, "Have you ever used unforgivable curses?"
Questioning had been going along in those vains for quite a while. I had just been given the antidote to the veritaserum when Auror Moody stomped into the interrogation room and declared, "Madame Bones Voldemort is currently attacking Hogsmeade village." All I could say was, "Shit", the others in the room used more colorful language.
While I was being interviewed there was another significant death in Hogsmeade village. One James Earl Potter had received an AK from one of the Death Eaters attacking the Hogwarts students. The students were again on their weekend visit to the village. Later as the tale unfolded it appeared that James Earl Potter really did believe in Dumbledore's malarkey that only Voldemort could kill him. He had gone toe to toe with Voldemort expounding on how he was the best trained wizard in the world and received the AK in the back from one of Voldemort's minions.
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It seemed like we were back at square one! I was ordered back as a teacher since I was the one was able to semi-defeat the Dark Lord. Everyone wanted someone competent to teach defense against the dark arts but mostly how to survive the Dark Lord. Of course it probably didn't hurt that no one else wanted the job.
"Congratulation Professor McGonagall to your promotion as the new Headmistress." We were currently in the Headmistress's office having a staff meeting.
"I'm not sure I'm happy with the appointment Harry. There are a lot of open teaching slots since Snape did a runner."
"I also hear Professor Flitwick you have become the new deputy, congratulations."
"Thank you Mr. Potter."
"Since I was locked away by Dumbledore I missed a few things. Does anybody know why Snape did a runner?" All I got was negative replies and shaking heads though most thought he was responcible for Dumbledore's death at Hogwarts.
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"Harry isn't it about time we do away with these stupid glamour charms?"
"Ava I would agree with you except it's nice to be able to walk down the streets of Hogsmeade without the glamour charms and no one recognizing who we really are. You saw what happened last time with the glamour charms. How long do you think it will be before they recognize us without glamour charms? We would be like a magnet for Voldemort and his goons. No, let's keep one of our identities a secret."
"Good point Harry, but, can we find a place somewhere that is our little hideaway? Somewhere safe were we can relax and be ourselves. Someplace like the Seychelles islands we visited?"
"I think you're right my dear. All that money sitting in the bank is doing us squat. From what I know there is about one hundred and fifteen islands there in the Seychelles island chain. Maybe the goblins can buy one of those islands if you're so happy with that area."
"Oh yes Harry! It would be a super place to live and raise a family. It will always be nice to visit here but I can't see us living here even when the Dark Lord is finally gone."