Chapter V The will reading
/AN: In the magic world there are paintings that move and talk not only talk but can have a conversation, here it's a crystal and a goblin crystal to that. The person buying this service are bonded to that crystal, and as long that person are alive /or if the connection are stopped by other means/ the crystal updates. And at the execution of the will it have the possibility to mentally read the true part of options if there was options at that passes, - as long persons involved are inside that room. The '…' are places where the crystal updates options for the outcome.
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:-: The will reading aug 5 :-:
"Welcome to my last great performance. The presenting of my last will and testament, let's see how many people I can piss off. Now as you all are in a Gringotts room, can view me announcing my decisions for the distribution of both my family possessions and mine, it means that I'm dead or have been declared dead. There will be some differences between the two. First, if I'm confirmed dead, there would be a, body. Now hopefully I left behind a outrageously handsome body, or parts of one, to view and weep at the injustice of it all. Second '…' ok sorry it doesn't appear that I died that way more pity to you. You missed your last chance to worship my gloriousness in the flesh. So then at this point I must be declared dead by the ministry. For that reason I have set aside five hundred thousand galleons together with a letter with detailed directions to cover for that eventuality.
"This official viewing of my last will and testament can't and won't be a session for you to act like vultures on a feeding frenzy. As the goblins would have already stated, if I was alive this crystal would not play as it's linked to my lifestone. However, if it should also be mentioned that, if I was kissed by a dementor the connection would still break. If that inconceivable horror has occurred, and there is be a living body somewhere, then I demand that the body be given the draught of living death and be put in stasis. I do not want a child born from my DNA where I did not actively participate in its creation.
"As there is no body then it means that I reserve the right to keep everything in the family. Now, many may believe that I have no family '…' Cissa, stop smiling and wait for it, I know what's coming and I am happy, so you probably won't be. Bella, Bella, Bella '…' you're out and on the loose, for the moment, but as she can't be here due to her legal difficulties '…' well I can still laugh about it from the other side as her representative tells her all about what I have done. So Narcissa and Bellatrix, I have a bouncing baby boy, a son, and well he may not be quite a baby but ehh you get the idea. He is a son, by blood adoption and that means that he is my legal heir in accordance to the Black family charter and laws of the estate. It is just as if he were born of my contribution into any pureblood woman., so suck it!
"I had decided to set aside a fund for other members of the Black family. This fund is for those who lack any personal or alternate family funds to assist in their continued living expenses. Well, I think I will start with you Narcissa. Cissa, if everything was handled correctly. You should have received a message from me. In that message I gave you some options I would like to think you didn't have before. The opportunity to separate yourself from the Malfoy family '…' Okay, whelp the update came in and it looks like you chose not to do that. I am a little saddened by that. This means you have chosen to remain as part of that family. What this means for you, as far as your part in the Black family, is that I have instructed my heir to cut you from the Black family. This will prevent you and your son from ever gaining access to the Black family heritage even if my heir were to die. I guess this is my last goodbye to you Cissy.'…' To the goblins handling the viewing please ensure that Narcissa Malfoy and her punk offspring leave as nothing that will be mentioned from here pertains to them '…'" At this image freezes. The goblin running the will reading barks out an order in gobbledegook and two goblin guards appear beside Narcissa and Draco to escort them from the room before the crystal restarts.
When the door shuts after the Malfoys the crystal restarts "Bellatrix Lestrange is '…' as I previously mentioned, currently having some legal difficulties. She has chosen to ally herself with the wrong people, the wrong group. What I say next is legal from old inheritance laws. I, Sirius Black, Lord Black, call for my heir to follow and enact my wishes. Bellatrix herself is a Black and as such, part of the Black family even though she married Lestrange. Now those pesky pureblood inheritance laws can be of good use. Bella and her husband were sentenced to life in Azkaban and, at the time, no one else in the family had the legal opportunity to manage either their property or finances. I hereby request my heir to act on the inheritance law from the year 1586 in paragraph 57.8. I direct my heir to recall the family Lestrange's estate. As the Lestrange Heir married a Black family member, and there are no members of Lestrange line left to carry on the family name, based on the previously quoted law we shall absorb all that remains of the Lestrange line. This will be done after Narcissa Malfoy is cut from Black family. Unfortunately, Bellatrix will be a Black as long as she lives. By enacting this law she can't be cast out of the family and her children, if she ever has any, must be cared for. As of when last we checked, there were no children.
"Now on to the family members I can stand and actually proudly claim as family. Andromeda, such a lovely name really it is. Your situation is '…' Okay, updates complete and I leave five hundred thousand galleons to you. I am instructing my heir to speak with you privately and assist you in considering whether you wish to once again be part of the Black family. There will, of course, be some old laws and paperwork to be handled should you choose to return to the house of Black.
"Nymphadora. Hah! I said your name and you can't hex me. I'm blowing raspberries at you from the other side. '…' Well, I was hoping that you would consent to taking care of Harry for me. To this end I have placed a million galleons into your account.
"Ronald Weasley '…' initially when I created my will I had thought to leave you galleons in the ballpark of 50'000 or so, but with my update completed '…' well you now receive 5'000. I strongly suggest for you to break your alliance with Dumbledore. Because you are still Dumbledore's man I am not allocating a larger amount for your use. Grow up and use your head, the sun doesn't shine out of Dumbledore's backside.
"Ginerva Weasley '…' OK wow! I never thought that this would be a possibility, but I added the option anyway. I have set aside one thousand galleons for you because I still want to give you a chance. The amount would have become 50'000 if you had not tried to use a love potion on Harry. You also need to grow up and possibly get help from a healer dealing with mind issues. You must try and learn the difference between love and obsession.
"Fred '…' George '…' Sorry to say this but you two can be managed together '…' I leave you 50'000 galleons each and a chest of personal journals that you may find interesting. You may ask yourselves why? Why did Sirius Black leave me that much and why would I care about some moldy old journals. You will understand about the journals once you look at them but no one else needs to know.
"Molly Weasley as you are representing a part of the Weasley family '…' oh, ok I really did not believe you would do that to poor Harry. With the information that is available now I will leave you 10 galleons for each day that Harry has a say in your home '…' I could not believe you were that low, if you had asked he would have freely given you whatever you wanted. Theft is never a good idea between friends. So 10g per day and Harry is the one to count when the conditions are met.
"Arthur Weasley '…' Well, you will receive '…' ok as I said earlier, I did not think your family stole '…' now while it was not you that committed the theft you are the head of the family and are ultimately responsible for their actions. I had at first thought to leave at least 25'000 for your family but with the possibility of the amount going up to as much as 500'000. With what has now been updated, the amount now stops at the lowest possible amount of 25'000 galleons. Get your house in order Arthur.
"Charles and William Weasley, I have attached no conditions to what you shall receive. You shall each receive 10,000 galleons to be used, I hope, as a starting point to form your own families.
"Hermione Granger '…' well, there really isn't much for me to say other than I have allotted 50'000 galleons to you.
"Albus Dumbledore '…' I foresaw the possibility of several things. That these things are now coming true well... To you I leave one knut. Of all that I imagined what you did was still the worst thing that I could even have dreamed of. Are not you ashamed of yourself Albus? I hope you think about it when you see James and Lily in the afterlife or when you see them looking out at you from Harry's eyes. If you truly think about it, you are may not end up in the place I envision your going to. Since it is my will we are now officiating, I wanted to let you know I will be here waiting for your arrival. Once you arrive this place is going to become a true hell for you Albus '…' Harry '…' I love you Prongslet be good and do whatever you can to keep him away from you. He's dangerous to you. In his view of the world it is more important to him that his rules are followed by all and that he and Voldi eat at the same table as friends '…' than it is for you to survive this. So Harry I beg you... do not go back to Hogwarts, disappear . . . leave the country run . . . do anything you need or have to but stay away from him. I took this option only as a last or worst case scenario. While I did this it was not something I could imagine would ever be of use.
"You Harry are the son of my heart and by blood. I know that others in the room may be thinking this isn't true but according to blood adoption we did they would be wrong. I did this, the blood adoption, so that you would inherit everything the tangible, such as properties and money, and the intangible, such as the family magics, titles and rights.
"Thus, all bequests are complete. But Harry there is a few last things I wanted to say.
"First, DO NOT TRUST either Albus too-many-names-'Dumb-as-a-door' or the ministry '…' oh hey did '…' but who '…' damn it. I don't think he is a better choice than precursor, he is to much like most politicians, and no, don't trust the minister either. I am sure your thinking to yourself Why? He is the minister they are in positions of power. Well the door opens both ways, right? But now I need you to think to realize there are THREE DOORS. The same person that runs three full time offices, is either regularly using a time turner and aging three times faster than we all are. The only other option is he is doing appallingly bad work at all three of them. But, even if he is doing a bad job in his positions, he is still one of the ministry officials that declared you to be of age. None of four other officials objected when they could and should have. There was no less than seven adults in power who, through their inaction, declared you to be an adult back in 1994 as the tournament started. Oh, I just forgot, but the dumb door, '…' is still here, good. He did something I think you Harry should know about so listen good.
"He put you with the Dursleys. On November first I was still a free man, I was still able to take care of you. Even if I was unavailable for whatever reason the Longbottom family was intact at that time. But Albus still chose to leave you at the Dursleys. I learned, a while after it happened, that he and Molly Weasley got together and signed a marriage contract for you and Ginerva Weasley later that day.
"On the fourth of November I finally caught up to and confronted the 'rat' Peter Pettigrew. For my efforts I was tossed in hell without a trial or even questioning.
"The fifth was a busy day for him. He got the Wizengamot to assign him as your guardian and had your parents will sealed. Now he signed that blasted contract without being in any supremacy over you. You have the right to call upon it and demand the magic of the offenders. That would only be Albus as Molly was not aware that Albus was not truly and legally qualified as your guardian. You can just burn the contact or rip it to pieces. However, if you just let it be, the moment Ginevra marries someone other than you, she and her mother will die and their magic transfers to you. Tempting, isn't it? To get revenge on those that tried to capture you through marriage, but what's sad is you can't get the magic from all three of them.
"Ok, so as Abus had the ministry sign guardianship of you over, he was in four seats officially at the point you were declared to be of age. That counts as eight officials indicating you as adult.
Last summer Fudge confirmed it again by bringing you before the full Wizengamot for trial. But even so, all that could have been revoked in a sitting of Wizengamot. But that's history now, as the last Black who is at age sixteen you are of age.
"I know I have said it a few times, but I like reminding you and also rubbing their noses in their mistakes. As of your sixteenth birthday, you are considered of legal age through the family charter and ministry law, as the last Black and if you're lucky kiddo I won't say it again. Now because I've legally been declared dead you're officially now known as Lord Potter-Black. This fancy title comes with ten seats in the Wizengamot and if I remember correctly, the Potter's had seven total. Two from Ravenclaw, two from Gryffindor, and one from each of your great-grandfather's which was a personal assignment with the inheritance added to what the family already had. To this you can add one from the Black family and two from Slytherin. Not many knew that the Slytherin family lineage was added into the Black line through my mother's side. It makes our seat contribution to you a total of ten seats and you also have the majority of the Board of Hogwarts. '…' Oh, one more thing I have not been provided and can't touch this. Congratulations to it. With that I conclude now my recitation. Sirius Black in my right mind '…' I think.
Tears had started to run from Harry's eyes when Sirius first began to speak, but he still had a smile on his face throughout the reading. Only Sirius could manage to get it so that what would normally be sad and devastating, now makes you laugh. During this he had also received a lot of confirmed information. The question now would be, could Ron and Ginny pass the entrance exam for his new school? This however, was not something written in stone.
"Harry, are you okay?"
"Yeah thanks Tonks. I'm probably ok…. No I take that back I may not be ok, but I will be … soon. Someone needs to keep Albus away from me or I will kill him. I have thought about things, concerning Ron and Ginny. If they can just be Ron and Ginny without being Ron the spy and Ginny the obsessed fangirl stalker then I will let everything be. But if they are still in contact with Albus I would be concerned they might continue. The question that would need to be answered is, due to the required oath, if they continued to spy on me, stalk me, or dose me with potions, would it fall within the scope of hurting me if they continued? This would only be an issue if they come to my school and take the oath on entrance to the school."
"Harry, do we have a relationship that is more than a bodyguard and client, more than just friends?"
"Hmm, I would guess we do. I know I'm not against it and I'm an adult."
"Harry, okay so we really need to sit somewhere quiet and talk about this later. But I do want to say that if we go out and we start to see each other as boyfriend and girlfriend, I think it could really hurt us if a friend dosed you with a love potion. Are you willing to declare us as a couple soon? Like really soon?"
"Yes, I would like to, actually the thought of it really appeals to me."
"Good." She said and placed her lips on Harry's in a quick chaste kiss. "Then it will be done."
"Come on, Griphook is signaling to us. I think he is going to help us escape out the side door." says Tonks.
"Yes, I have assumed that Albus will have something or someone waiting for me outside the bank. Inside here he doesn't dare try anything. Well this is good, I see they got him out of here quietly. Maybe we'll see some red-heads before they go." Harry did give a signal Griphook that he may be around a little more.
"Okay, it's your show Harry."
"Mr. Ron and Miss Ginny Weasley. We had heard during Sirius Black's will reading that you, Ronald, have been spying on me and that you, Ginerva, tried to dose me with love potions. These types of actions will cause you problems if they are repeated, problems both legal and magical. Hogwarts is closing down probably because there is a better alternative, one that is basically free and may also teach their children in safety. I know that both of you are on the entry list. Ron, your espionage counts as something that hurts me or my friends either directly or indirectly. Having done it before is not the point but what's important is the future, spy on me and you're out. If you don't and then you have nothing to worry about. Ginny, you need to know and understand that Tonks and I are a couple. If you try to break us apart by lying, seduction, potions whatever then it's considered to be hurting me. Leave me alone, don't try to use potions on me again or anyone at my school. Ron & Ginny are you OK with that? Can you stop from doing or attempting to do these things?"
Ron took a moment to think, and Harry knew he was actually thinking because he looked really constipated, before he nodded in agreement with the conditions set forth. Ginny seeing Ron agree and Harry's resolve on the matter agreed as well.
"I have nothing against you, but I will not hesitate to send you home if you don't fit in or if you bully someone to do your work for you. You actually have to do the work. No last minute easy homework fixes, Dumbledore has deceived you, somewhat like Voldemort tricked me to get me to the ministry. Life is not easy you can't just coast through because Dumbledore lets you. At my school you will work for your better futures. The future is now, we're are talking about it, living it, breathing it, I will welcome you if you come. Mrs. Weasley, you would have made ten today. I made a couple of quick counts when I went through the details. Do you have any idea of how often I have enjoyed your cooking?"
"48 days Harry. But Harry, it was Albus who has lied and cheated. He said you gave it to me. I will pay back everything."
"It's too late, it done and over Mrs. Weasley. But please keep in mind that I have opened and, as of the first class, will be running a school for 1,000 students. I will be paying the teachers, for the supplies and almost all other costs. There will be only a pittance given by the students to go toward food supplies. Now as you think about the money that I am spending doing this, I want you to understand that I could have given it to you, if only you'd asked me. I still can if it's needed. But now you have the money from Sirius as a base to build on."
"Can you forgive me, Harry?"
"The money is trivial. It's that you went behind my back that has messed with me so badly. I can't just forget about it and drop it. So we are stuck. You are the mother of two of my teachers and mother of two of my students. For this reason I would like to keep and maintain a good, healthy relationship with you."
"Teacher's? Is it my Bill and Charlie?" asked a surprised Molly
"No, its Fred and George. They will continue their learning while teaching so they can get a master's degree. You should be proud of them they will be doing the master's program while they train the lower classes, that is a lot of work."
"Thank you, Harry. Thank you for what you do and for helping my family." said Molly.
"Hey Harry mate, how did that thing with Snape happen?" asked the spy Ron.
"Is it you that is asking Ron, or is it perhaps some compulsion charm placed by Dumbledore that is still active? Mr. Weasley I would advise you to take Ron here to St Mungo's for testing. It would just be to see if there are any mind or behaviour altering charms on him. I need to say that WHEN they are found, not if they are, that Mrs Weasley also gets checked. She is going to argue to not do it but I do politely request that all four of you get scanned for compulsion charms and any other possible irregular spells or potions in or on you. If it becomes necessary I can stun the four of you and take you there myself to get the testing done. I will just say you were acting irrationally and I was concerned.
"Also to be clear. Severus Snape is a marked man, well was a marked man. In fact he is still marked but now he's a dead marked man and so much less of a pain in my ass that way to. He tried to stick a portkey in my hand and then, when that didn't work, he tried to attack me. I merely defended myself, which is my right. However, when I do that I am going to do it my way. It won't be stun them and put them in jail. It would just result in them talking, trading favors, or buying their way out just for them to try again. Oh no! I am not playing that game anymore. I will take them down hard. Some may live but they will never be a threat to me or mine again if they do. It will be by the law because I am a law abiding citizen but that is all I will promise. Now this slip of paper is part of the result from the aurors' forensic testing. It states they recorded that the portkey had two magical signatures and two destination's set on it."
"Albus held a meeting of the order. He said at that meeting that you were teetering on the edge and could be going dark. He said he was worried about you, that the stress from the attack just after losing Sirius may have been to much for you to bear. That it was urgent that we get you to come to him so he could get you medical help. He thought you may have broken with all that you carry and to stay on the side of the light that maybe you needed the help he could give you or arrange for you to get."
"He will say whatever he thinks fits or work best at that particular moment. He will spew forth lies freely to discredit me. NO, I'm not going dark, I am dark. Albus's actions and inactions molded me to be this way. Ten years at Dursley's helped to pre-program me. Then add in the years at Hogwarts directly under Albus Dumbledore's thumb. His yearly tests and non answers to direct questions confirmed what I knew and learned the ten years of my life I spent at the Dursleys. So just to be clear so there can be no possible confusion, yes I am dark. If I am threatened then my response will to remove the threat because I don't want to be in pain anymore and pain usually follows after a threat to me. Dark, light or gray, they are just words and they mean nothing to me other then possible colors. Magic is about intent. That is all that matters.
"Let's take my reaction to Snape as an example. For five years at Hogwarts he made it clear that he hated me, my family, and my friends. He made that clear by thought, by word, and by action. That, in my mind, constitutes a threat to me and my friends. He was held somewhat in check, for the most part, by Dumbledore and the peace we had before Voldemort came back. He couldn't justify any stronger actions against me or injury to me. But once Voldemort came back and peace was over he had a lot of wiggle room to maneuver. He could have tortured or killed me and blamed someone else. I say and believe this to be true just based on his previous treatment of me at Hogwarts. By law it was in my right to have him executed, by my hand or another, as he was disrespecting a noble lord, my deceased father.
"This behaviour towards me started five years ago, at least to my knowledge, as that was the first time I remember meeting Snape. I had no ability to act then, but I did put it on my 'to do list'. From that moment Snape was a dead man walking, and has been for five years he just didn't know it. If I need to do things in a way that most would consider me a dark wizard I will, if it gets the job done. Dark to me? That would have been for me to grab Snape, torture him for days, kill him slowly and maybe leave enough of a body for you to analyze to find out the body's name. Most likely however, I would have just fed him to something in the forbidden forest to get rid of the evidence. As it is, I have been reading his crime list, and all I can say is wow. Now you might ask, how I could how know of any of the crimes he committed?
"To answer that let me tell you that, by the order of Albus Dumbledore, he was using legilimency to mindrape me. The reason given for this was that Albus wanted me to learn Occlumency and it was officially termed as remedial Potions as a cover through the school year. What it actually did was tear down what little defences my mind had. Both Albus and Voldi had become aware of the link between my scar and Voldi from when I dreamed about Mr Weasley getting bitten by the snake. They both used that to plant false images right into my wrecked mind. It was this that lead to the death of my godfather. It was so bad that I almost couldn't tell a dream from the visions they both gave me. Had it continued I could have lost my mind.
"After that I decided that all my years at Dursley's and the lessons I learned there could pay off. I learned to stay down, be quiet, let what happens happen, to not draw attention to myself and to try to get what information I could of and about the attacker. Yes, as Snape set about mindrapeing me under the guise of teaching me, I snuck into his mind and was able to copy parts of his memories. He had opened the link from his mind to mine, whether or not he realized the link was open both ways I don't know. I call it his crime list, but in truth it's more. It also contains an accounting of most of his actions or inactions for both Albus and Voldi. When I realized I could get into his mind I made a point to copying the memories without actively viewing them. I think because I did it that way he did not notice me in his mind copying his memories. I also say I made a copy but it was more like I was sucking in the information that was around me sort of like a dry sponge sucking water. It was just all there so I took it and stored it for later review and possible use.
"With that being explained to you let me now assure you that had Snape been placed on trial he would be either kissed by a dementor, thrown thru the veil, or enjoyed the rest of his life in Azkaban. That is of course if he had lived long enough to be put on trial. Albus was keeping him as his pet attack dog, had the dog bitten the hand that kept him Albus would have put him down hard as well. My way of dealing with a threat is to kill them fast. They and I would no longer be in pain. I will say in defence that he attacked me and not the other way around. I didn't go looking for the fight. What I did was all by the law. I honestly had other things to deal with before Snape and had thought that he would die by the hands of one of his masters before I could do anything. It was either Dum-Dum or Voldi, if not the both of them, that tried to kidnap me. Dum-Dum might not have blood directly on his own hands but he did get the hands of others stained with it through his actions. So indirectly we could say his hands are stained so badly they will never come clean.
"I have the approval of the DMLE to defend myself, even if I use deadly force when I am attacked. If I assume that it's Death Eaters or if it's time-critical situation, like Snape who was a fit on both, then I will use whatever force I deem necessary. When was shot and Vernon was dying Albus commented, behind my back, that I killed two people that turned out to be muggles. That the two muggles were out to kill kill us didn't seem to matter. If I had not intervened when I did they would have finished killing Vernon, then killed Petunia, Dudley and me just for being there. Had I even been ten seconds later my aunt would have been shot to death. If I had waited five seconds longer in making a decision on whether to use deadly force or not then Uncle Vernon would never survived. In a fight there is no true decision to be made, it is you or them, I will choose me and my family every time.
"When the ministry aurors reviewed my memories of the incident they cleared me of any wrongdoing. They even complimented me on my level headed thinking and quick reaction time. However Albus is the one who believes it is only his will or desire that should prevail. I'm seeing an image of him that suggests that he is more like Voldi than he believes himself to be. It's looking more like when Christianity began to spread. They were all about 'confess to or (worship) ME and my God or die. Before I start on another little tangent I will stop there and thank you all for listening so patiently."
"That was acrimonious, Harry." Commented Arthur as Molly was to shocked to utter a word.
"Possibly, but with Albus, I just can't come up with anything other than that he tried to play God. All I can say is it is dangerous when you aren't God. Who are we to play with the lives of so many others like that, to decide who lives and who dies? Albus in effect was and still is doing this. Now added to this crazy situation is the fact that Voldi is still out there and we really can't afford for Albus to play his games. Albus keeps saying that there is a prophecy about me and Voldi. He says that it's either kill or be killed and I want to live. What has Albus done to support me or train me? Nothing beyond basic education if that it's like he wants me to be killed by Voldi. Of course my death would only occur after your daughter was pregnant by me and he would have the Potter estate at that point. Now that I am trying to take care of it myself what does he try to do? Why of course, yes, he is trying to stop me and telling any that will listen that I am going dark. It is as if, in Amelia Bones and my opinion, that he is working in Voldemort's best interests not the people's. I ask at this point who is it truly that is going or gone dark? Me or Albus?"
"It doesn't look better any which way you look at it but Snape was helping us."
"You were told this by Albus. But think about this, Snape has been out on several Death Eater raids, raids in which he has killed innocent people. This is only in the past year what about the first war? How many innocents did he kill, torture, or maim then? Snape was given a safe haven at Hogwarts and done nothing to try and prevent or mitigate the bigotry that is rampant there. He instead actively worked on promoting Voldi's blood purity and hate filled slogan. In my eyes Albus used Hogwarts and the children taught there to protect a criminal. If Snape was a spy for our side then his information on enemy activities would go to the aurors, not stay in the hands of a old man and his group of vigilantes. He can say that his bird club is fighting for the light and for the people however much he wants. But I say that if he truly was then he would work with the aurors. Left to do things on his own he has been making error after error and these errors got more than one good person killed. Had he worked with another person or group, like the aurors, Voldi may have been taken care of before I was even born. I can also say that if someone did not bend to Dum-Dum's will, well he had Snape to remove the problem. Ok I really have to stop there as I have to go. Let me just say good luck."
:-:-:
After saying those final words Harry and Tonks left for the backdoor exit. It wasn't long before they had signed all the documents and completed whatever else they needed to to finalize what they had received in the will. With that handled they were just about to leave Gringotts when, at the last moment, Tonks stopped. Harry had been watching Tonks and learned to quickly react to any possible situation. He watched and listened as she picked up a small mirror and said "Accept."
"I have information that Albus Dumbledore is waiting for you outside Gringotts. When he left the will reading he apparated not far away and became invisible. He was going to try to grab you when you left Gringotts. Also Alastor is out there, his mission was to tail D but to make it look as if he wasn't. He is experienced enough to know not to look at him too much. If you see Alastor then you know that D is not far away. At the moment that's all I know."
"Thank you the information it's good to know, and since he used a spell to be invisible, my ring will make him visible. Yes, thank you Amelia" said Harry from behind Tonks.
"Nothing to thank me for, good luck and good hunting. Please try not to kill him."
"I, no, we will be careful but I will not let him drag me away."
"Yes that isn't a risk you should take or allow, close." With that final word the image of Amelia vanished.
"Well, what do you think Harry?"
"Ooohhh, … that it was good to have the information, but let's wait a bit."
"Ok but what are we waiting for?"
"Hedwig, she's out there nearby. I didn't know this before but I could feel her but now I know. Before I just thought it was my own intuition or something. Now however, if I am interpreting the information she is giving me right, Albus is outside the glass bar. I am getting the images from her, he must be in position to have the best view of the road leading to the cauldron."
"What is your plan this time? If I am allowed to know?"
"Anti-Magic, when he takes out his wand, I will make sure the ring is active. He will get humiliated but not hurt, to much. A quick pop in the kisser should do the trick because I have the right for all he has done to me and my family. It's also for all years of pain at Dursleys."
"Ok, that's useful."
"One more thing, when we go out there, we will be holding hands. When I lead you get behind me, I need you to listen to me but keep your eyes open to what is happening. Magic can be coming at us from anywhere even longer distances than the ring can block. We can't rely solely on the ring to keep us safe from magical or physical attack. The magic is suppressed only within a certain radius."
:-:-: The cursed wand :-:-:
:-: Albus POV :-:
Albus didn't notice when his invisibility suddenly disappeared, as he had done the concealment charm himself he thought it was flawless and undetectable. The charm allowed him to see himself close to normal but when the magic failed he didn't notice as he was too busy looking at Harry. He watched as Harry began walking slowly down the street and, with what Albus thought proved him to be, looking truly careless as he was holding hands with the Tonks bint. Albus's portkey would take them directly into a holding cell/room at Hogwarts. It would be there that he would separate them and where he would give orders. He had Fawkes as a reserve, if the portkey didn't work for any reason Fawkes would come down and bring them both back to Hogwarts. He could and would fix Harry to be what he wanted.
Slowly he started to walk towards Potter. When he reached him he held out the hand with the portkey and rested it on Potter's shoulder before saying loudly "HOGWARTS." He was quick to prepare himself for the portkey trip, but surprised when nothing happened.
:-:-:-: Harry POV :-:-:-:
Harry had seen Albus approaching him and was able to guess what was going to happen. Simultaneously, while this confrontation was starting, he was receiving faint signals from Hedwig. Just as Harry had asked her to, she approached from behind and once in range she grabbed the fancy hat and left with it.
"So Albus you don't know when to give up do you? I mean, lying in wait for me to leave Gringotts, launching an attack against me and attempting to kidnap me. Those actions alone give me the right the kill you, but if I were to kill you that only makes you a martyr in the eyes of the people. The people wouldn't care about the details overly much, not with the Merlin like persona you have built up over the years. In fact, all it would do is set me up to be the new evil dark lord. Of course that would be after I take over from the real dark lord in disguise … you." Harry said in a tone of voice that was slightly higher than needed. It was loud enough to be heard by the people that had already seen what happened.
"You have given me no alternative Harry … Fawkes now." A couple of times there was a hint of fire in the air but Fawkes did not appear.
"If he was to try to answer your call a few times more he would end himself. I have learned to block phoenix fire transport, I have found it to come in handy sometimes. Kind of like now."
The next thing Albus tried was forced side along apparition to forcefully take Harry. He was baffled when once again his attempts ended without success. Yes, he was able to pull power as if what he had attempted would be completed successfully, but he was truly confused why none of it was working. Albus then tried few quick attempts at apparating which ended up only draining his magic. Albus had pulled his wand into his hand and began to point it at Harry. Harry, who now had thirteen months of goblin training fine tuning his muscles and movements, had all the power he needed to physically dominate one week old man. Before Albus could so much as point the wand in Harry's direction, Harry balled up his fist and punched Albus in the solar plexus. Albus, who was truly not expecting physical contact, quickly bent double. As his face went downward it was met with an upwardly mobile knee. The result of the knee meeting a somewhat large and crooked nose was a loud crack as said knee broke the aforementioned nose. Harry had to consciously restrain himself to not just end the man then and there. All it would take to do so would be to complete the attack and bring his hand down on the back of his neck to break his spine. Albus was already falling down completely surprised.
Albus's wand had disappeared from his hand with Harry's first punch. When Albus heard a sharp cracking sound he realized that Harry had broken it over his knee. To those other than Albus who saw and heard the destruction of the wand it was as if they could hear a mix of sounds like the sounds of souls writhing in agony, nails running down a chalkboard and the murder of innocence.
At this point Harry deactivated his ring and using his own basilisk wand, magically bound Albus using a parseltongue binding. After securing Albus he proceeded to burn what was left of the broken wand while Dumbledore watched. Aurors were already on the way, when the last glow of legendary wand Albus had used for so long died.
Harry had felt the cold emanating from the wand during the short time he had held the wand in his hands before breaking it. Once he broke it, it was the sound that it emitted that confirmed his suspicions.
There was now more than enough reason to take Albus Dumbledore to a secure room and to use veritaserum on him. It was like a dream had came true for Amelia, similar to every birthday and Christmas wish coming true at the same time.
However, as all this was happening, so were other things, things that at first may not have been as noticeable. What Dumbledore hadn't known was that the magic of the wand that he had used was cursed. Initially it helped the user, but as time passed the user absorbed more and more of the wands magic into themselves. After fifty years of use Albus had fallen victim to his own wand, to tell the truth it had probably happened much earlier but no one had noticed. While it was true that nobody could beat him in a wanded fight, put him in a field that suppressed magic, were a physical attack was your only attack or defense and he had no defense. Additionally, the one who took the wand had not held it long enough for it to even start to make or create a contact with it's new owner. Now the wand was beyond saving, as what was left where only ashes. The grip Albus Dumbledore had on the wizarding world had disappeared.
When the magic of the wand had ceased its effect on him, Albus found he began to age rapidly. The longer he was away from the wands affects the more it was like he slowly began to wake as if from a long hibernation. Amelia, never slow on the uptake, began to realize that it was urgent to question Albus as quickly as possible. As he was currently willing to talk, he began to tell of how he acquired the wand and explained the wands impact on him. He did frequently argue, to whoever he was talking with at that point, that he was grateful that he had finally was released from the power of the cursed wand.
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Hogwarts was missing its Headmaster, its teachers, and its students for the coming year. After all the many truths that had been disclosed it was found that many conditions had also changed. It was these changes that had Harry considering whether or not to turn his inheritance over the castle of Hogwarts and the school.
However, to many dark memories surfaced for him when he thought to long about it. The dark memories that he had were what would change their plans. After some quick meetings with the Department of Mysteries for various studies they were able to create a new opportunity. The one drawback would be that it would not be an appropriate opportunity until the issue with Voldemort was dealt with.
:-:-:-:-: Snape's last visit :-:-:-:-:
Currently Hogwarts is shut down and Harry decided to just pop in to visit. He needed to bond with the elves and wanted to reminisce about seemingly simpler and happier times.
After bonding the elves Harry starts walking halls of Hogwarts. He spends the time with ghosts of times past. He is reliving old fights, memories of classes, second year and the polyjuice potion in Myrtle's bathroom, third year and the Whomping Willow tree but just as he turns the corner to head to the stairs he sees the ghost of Severus Snape.
He is just going to ignore him and continue on when Snape floats over and starts to speak. "Potter…..Harry….. I'm sorry. Merlin this is hard to say but I have left it to long already. I mean look at me I am dead. Look I know I am the last person or ghost you would want to speak with. I guess I was a little hard on you." At these words Harry justs looks at Snape like 'Are you serious?' before turning to walk away. "No Potter, wait." Harry keeps walking not even acknowledging Snape as he floats in step with him.
"Ok Harry wait, look I am sorry for being a mean vindictive ass alright? Is that what you want to hear? Please….. I just want to, no, I have to say this and then I will be gone ok? I only have a short time before I go on. I think Dumbledore would call it my next great adventure or some such rubbish. You know your mother Lily and I were friends while we attended Hogwarts, up until that disastrous fifth year." Harry looked at Snape and nodded his head yes that he was aware and followed up with a look that said 'So what'.
"Back then before that fight she and I completed a small ritual together. What no one knew except for me and maybe her parents, hell I don't think she even told that toe-rag husband of hers this, was that she was a seer. She saw or just knew 'a lot' of things. Some things she would say came to her in a vision, some she would just get a feeling, like a gut instinct telling her this or that and when those things happened she would tell me about it. We could talk about it for hours hashing out different things about what she saw or she would tell me just the base facts and then never speak of it again and I would just accept that. With the gut feelings she would just react and there was no talking before or after it, she would just react then carry on as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened."
"Anyway the reason I stopped you was I was entrusted to tell you a secret. It was a secret she wanted you to know but as I'm dead I can't exactly tell you in a believable way but I can still show you. I can, with your permission, transfer the secret if you will trust me. If you can find it in yourself to trust me this one time I can give you more than just the secret that Lily wanted passed on."
"You have never ever give me a reason to trust you, how do I know you are telling the truth?"
"You don't really, I guess I am asking you to take a leap of faith."
Harry just looks at Snape for what seems like an eternity before seeming to come to a decision "Ok so what do you need me to do?"
"Thank you Harry. I appreciate you letting me fulfill Lily's last request of me. So to start the process I need you to find a comfortable chair to sit in." Snape follows Harry into a nearby classroom where Harry takes one of the school chairs turns it and sits down after placing a cushioning charm on it. "I could have just conjured or transfigured a chair in the hallway but I figured the classroom would give a little privacy from the portraits that may still be active. As for the school chair with a cushioning charm I always found them perfectly comfortable." said Harry.
"I appreciate the privacy. I would have suggested something like this but you were already being gracious enough to hear me out I didn't want to push my luck. Ok so what happens next is this. I am sure when you attended here as a student you have run into a ghost quite literally right?" at this Harry just nods yes. "As you know when they pass through you normally you just feel a cold tingling sensation. What I plan to do is somewhat similar but totally different at the same time. I will come to hover over you as you sit and then slowly lower myself to align with your body. From there a sort of 'fusion' will take place between you and I. This can only happen if both parties are willing. When I do this with you all my memories will be transferred into you. This will give you the secret that your mother asked me to pass on to you as well as everything else. You will receive any potions I was thinking of creating, any spell knowledge I had and unfortunately everything else. I will warn you I didn't have the happiest of childhoods and I saw some bad things during the war. Are you ok with that? If there was another way I would try it but this is the only way available to me now."
Harry takes a moment to think about what Snape just told him before slowly nodding his agreement to the transfer. Snape sees his nod and acceptance of everything that he will receive with the transfer and says "Trust me and I will give you all that your mother wanted you to have and know. You will know the things that she hid from the rest of the world and all my knowledge as well. If you have an reservations speak now. Once I start this it is a one shot deal. I can never offer this again, there is no second chances with this."
Harry discovers with the transfer that Lily's final secret or gift is the truth about her family. She was adopted into Evans family and Petunia was not her biological sister. She has left a legacy for him in Gringotts hidden from everyone. She has protected it as much as she could by using a obscure family name and had put protocols in place so that before access is granted you must verify the password. In addition to that access was only granted by using the secret password at the Gringotts bank in Madrid, Spain. No other Gringotts anywhere in the world would grant you access to the vault.
With the transfer completed just a few brief moments later the secret was passed to him. But unfortunately that's all that Harry learned today. He now knows that to learn more he must journey to Madrid to discover what that secret fully entails. For now he is content just knowing that there is something from his mother just waiting for him to come and get it.
"Thank you Harry. I failed your mother in so many ways but at least this was the one thing I didn't fail to do for her. She really did love you. She knew of you years before you were born and she loved you sooooo much." With those final words Snape, who had been fading since the transfer completed, faded completely. Harry stared at the space that Snape had occupied before fading and thought that maybe before going on to his next adventure he may be able to stop and see his mother. Maybe they could catch up and he could get that true closure he seemed to always need and want. Either way that was last Harry would see of him now that he did what he was determined to do.
With Snape now gone Harry was now alone again. He stood there thinking of, well, really he was just trying to think. It was kind of hard to process anything as he had all of Snape's memories, the good and the bad, then he had his mother's secret, and then he had all his memories and experiences. He realized he just need to take a moment to organize everything because as good as it was that he had the memories, even if they were Snape's, he also needed to have some organization to it to use it. Once he was able to take a mental 'breath' as it were he then used his occlumency skills to sort Snape's memories and store them away. For the most part the memories were sort of compressed like a closed book or even like a box with books that he need to open. Even with that being the case he still had a lifetime of memories that needed to be put somewhere.
When Harry had mostly sorted the memories, into what amounted to a 'mental junk drawer' to be looked at more closely later, he came across where Snape's memories of his mother, Lily. Compared to everything else from Snape they weren't compressed or book like, they were actually bright and very clear. He assumed they were this way because she was a bright spot, if not the bright spot, in Snape's life. When Harry finally reached the memories of Snape and his mother completing the ritual for the secret he realized his mother was a true genius, well ahead of her time, and a great loss to magical society. His mother, it appeared, had greatly modified a spell. Harry thought it actually may have been the fidelius charm. What he found unique was it allowed Snape to know he carried a secret to give to someone else, it even let him know who to give it to, but it wouldn't actually let Snape know the secret itself. So after all these years Snape was reduced to just being a messenger boy. He did not know about the legacy in the the Madrid branch of Gringotts and he knew nothing about her true parentage. He truly thought that she was an Evans by birth.
:-:-:-:-: Voldemort's tailpiece :-:-:-:-:
Most who read the morning paper had their morning tea in their throats. It was speculated that the populace that read the paper the following day, performed the most spittakes ever recorded or not recorded anywhere.
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Open letter to Lord Potter-Black
Dear Lord Potter-Black, I convey my congratulations to you on the elimination of a common enemy. He was the one we both had to thank for molding us into what we have become. But then again, thanking him is perhaps not my first thought or even the second thought I think of when thinking of him.
My life was not the best from the beginning. When I was growing up, there were disagreements between different groups in our society, we were segregated by choice. It was because of these disagreements and segregation that I grew up as an outcast. Each summer, I would be forced back to the orphanage in the muggle world where I lived in pain, terror and hell.
Over the years I had learned and adopted a very interesting attitude. Let me tell you a few things, first if you like to be the one that everyone looks up to then you will eventually become addicted to the feeling. You will want it, no you will need it, to stay that way if you reach that position. What you may not realize at first is that over the years people grow, they get older, children become adults, and they younger generation don't see why they should look up to a relic of the forgotten past. To keep it the way you like it, the way you want it, you have to create a need for the sheep to place their trust in you again. I found out that Albus was one of these people, the one that needs to be looked up to and he was going into withdrawal. The younger generation wasn't looking to him to solve their problems they didn't see him as anything more than a teacher, a headmaster. So he came up with a plan to be adored, to loved again, so all the little sheep would look up to him again. He decided to use me and placed a deep hatred in me. I was to weak to see it for what it was, as Albus Dumbledore forced me back to that place every summer. I slowly lost who and what I was, I lost my dreams, ambitions and my goals in life. I have to ask do you recognize yourself Harry?
It was during my school years that I learned who my father was. I learned that he abandoned my mother and me when we needed him most. It was because of this abandonment that I was orphaned as a baby. Guess who told me all about it? I will give you three guesses and the first two won't count. Why yes! The third answer you gave was correct. Our esteemed Albus Dumbledore. My biological father was alive but he had abandoned mother and me. I, upon learning this, of course directed my hatred to him at least to begin with. At this point I did not understand that I was being manipulated. All I knew was that I had a direction to aim all my anger, all my pain, all my hate to. As I killed my father the curse took complete hold on me and was sealed. I can feel its grip loosening now as Albus Dumbledore's life is fading. I think that some day Albus might have had you to kill your mother's sister so that you would fall to the same curse he had on me. But I wanted to say don't blame the man Albus D, he himself has fallen long ago. He fell to that vile wand he took from his lover Grindelwald. The death stick, that vile cursed object, is called a death stick of a reason.
It was much later, totally by chance that I came to learn what made Dumbledore invincible and I can only once again congratulate you. Over my years at Hogwarts, I learned to hate. I was an outcast because of my background but I was feared because I learned to intimidate and could cause pain. It's was a combination that inspired respect or so I thought. What I now understand was it wasn't respect but fear. Fear is what drove most people to serve me and call me lord.
I finally fully understood when I noticed that almost all the Hogwarts student body chose to leave Hogwarts with you. That you have qualities that Dumbledore could never even imagine or did he know? It would certainly explain why he felt he needed to eliminate you it certainly looks like he tried often.
I can see now, looking back at various times in my life, that hatred drove me something terrible. I wish to make you aware that all my marked servants will follow me to the grave and that process has already begun. When I was younger, I gave an oath that I would live forever, that I would live to see the day Dumbledore died. I find the wording of that oath is costing me now, for when he finds his death I shall find mine as well. This vow was made long before your time in a moment of rage and youthful arrogance.
The fight between Albus and I became a paradox. He could not kill me, because I could not die as long as he lived. I could not kill him because he was too strong for me.
I want you to imagine something for me. Imagine no one could kill you because you had to eliminate me before you could die. I hear that is what that prophecy said, correct? So in this scenario that I helped to create, this paradox, I could not die as long as Dumbledore was alive. Dumbledore somehow found out this information and did a ritual. He found and forced a seer to predict a way to end me. He wanted to kill me but he also wanted a possibility for him to stay alive and running everything. When the seer finished the prophecy your life was then marked and he set your parents on a course to their deaths. Yes, I was the destructive pawn that destroyed all in it's path to complete his bidding. I, in my madness and rage, took your parents lives and countless others. This was all in an effort to end him but he allowed or even orchestrated those deaths through his manipulations. I want you to remember that he sent a man with no legal ability to fight magic, to collect you. He was prohibited to come in contact with you. Think Harry, has he ever been in skin contact with you? I don't think so.
Had he not lost himself to his own arrogance and slipped up, you would not have won against Dumbledore. Through magical strength alone you may have been stronger who really knows but he had the wand. With that wand we could have lived to play this back and forth game for a long time. Dumbledore's wand would have easily kept him, there by us, alive for at least three hundred years longer.
Then you came along and broke his wand and the curse on him because of that wand. He will now die and with my oath connecting me to him, so shall I. In one fell swoop, one comically short, almost battle you have eliminated both of us. To this I say 'Congratulations'.
I did not die when that death curse reflected back on me that night because Albus Dumbledore still lived. Though the pain was unbearable, and in certain moments of clarity I wished or even begged for death then, I could not die. No Harry, whatever he may have told you, it was not you that defeated me then. When I attacked you and your family that Halloween, it was Albus Dumbledore's manufactured weapon that temporarily ended me. That it happened to be you in that room was just happenstance. At that moment in time, when I came into your nursery, I did not know and understand the complete meaning of the prophecy.
When you later returned to the wizarding world and it turned out that you were on his side, you also became my enemy. My number one enemy just because you had survived. It was not something I could ignore.
As I said earlier, what I really didn't know at the time, was that when I stated my oath I did it in such a way that I tied my life to his. With his life tied to the wand that he used it was only when you broke the wand and burned the remains that I felt relief come.
Also as said previously, all those who have sworn their allegiance to me will follow me to the grave. The link that was created through their marks and their oaths to me will end their life. While to some it may seem cruel, to me? I honestly don't care. With the majority if not all of my followers being cold blooded murders you could consider it my last, if not my only, good deed for the wizarding world.
How you survived the disaster at the ministry I don't have a clue. My ministry informants advised me that the men that I sent to end you had all disappeared and that you had saved your family. That should have been impossible, the men I sent had never failed a mission before. I now feel I must offer my congratulations, you seem to be impossible to kill.
Just so you know, Severus Snape had orders from Dumbledore to give you a letter with a portkey. I changed the destination on it and if he had it succeeded in giving it to you, then you would have come to me. So when you refused the letter and defended yourself against Snape killing him, you put down the double agent and foiled one of my plans as well.
Yes, I've created a horcrux. Several in fact, but they are pointless now. They all were created after I had stated my ritual oath to see Dumbledore dead. They will wither away as well.
I choose to write this open letter to you because I'm dying,I'm withering away at about the same rate as Dumbledore. I will take my marked servants with me and have included a separate listing of them as well as a listing of the properties they are staying at. The main point that I am focusing on is that Dumbledore's era will end.
One may wonder why the war became what it was. What many may not know was that I had been harassed, and in some cases tortured, by the fine pureblood boys and by Dumbledore. Dumbledore also represented the light side of the war. My only chance was to become stronger than those who bullied me. Once I was stronger then them I saw to it that they had no choice but to choose to be my slaves. As for free will, don't make me laugh. The dead were the only ones that had free will.
From what has been printed in the paper, virtually all of Hogwarts has decided to follow you Lord Potter-Black. They did so not out of fear of you but out of a desire to learn and for friendship. I recruited my followers, during the first war, by using fear and torture or by allowing them to utilize all levels of depravity. I do not think anyone who has chosen to follow you will do so out of fear. Of that I am truly envious of you, you know. Had I not so few remaining days, I would have liked to gotten to know you better. However, what I've recently learned about you is that you are a worthy successor. Of the magical area, let me just say with our deaths, Albus Dumbledore and I hand over the reins of the control to you to cherish.
Harry, think about this, Albus had that prophecy about a savior that would eliminate the Dark Lord. Now it's test time, was the prophecy about me or him? As I was temporarily out of the picture, so to speak for that couple of years, he needed a way to have control over 'the one born as the seventh month dies.' He had your godfather taken care of by sending him to prison and by a stroke of luck there, right when he needed it, was another Black family member primed to take care of your godmother. Think Harry, I was gone and Dumbledore couldn't accept that anyone other than he had control over you. Think Harry how could he do that? Well, I can help you to understand that. He had a messenger boy in place to give hints of what he liked be done but phrased in such a way that when it was imparted to my death eaters it seemed to be from me. Bella later told me that Snape was the one that planted the idea of seeking information from Longbottoms. As a gift let me tell you to look for mind spells and curses in the Black family library. You will find, in the library, a spell for that caused what happened to them. What happened to the Longbottoms is a curse, but not the Cruciatus curse. The curse that was used in effect locks the spirit of the person it's used on inside their body. Yes, the book explains the curse and provides you with a counter curse. It isn't a cure, per se, but more of a release. I do not and have not ever supported long lasting suffering. However Albus needed them alive but out of the way so that he could get his claws on you and also have access to the spare.
My time is now over and gone. Lord Potter-Black, I charge you to clean up what's left of the mess we have created. In a better world you and I would have been able to work together to achieve that goal, if only I had not fallen victim to my overwhelming hate. I had no mother to place a shield around me to ward against it. Your mother used runes powered by love and life force, hers, to protect you from me. That shield also then prevented the hate, Albus tried instill in you, from taking root. If the hate had taken root he would have used it to have you kill the Dursleys. Then after you had fallen to it you would have been the next lunatic Dark Lord that Albus, the All Mighty GOD of wizarding Britain, would have had to save the sheep from. But only to keep his glory bright, shiny and illuminated in the eyes of the masses.
I will leave behind some documents for you. These documents will tell which families deaths I had nothing to do with and which of those deaths can be laid at the feet of my followers. Most thought I was behind it but I rarely personally took the time to kill families. You see there are, or was more than one head to this hydra. One head of the hydra was a masked Albus Dumbledore. Through his guidance, manipulations and spellwork he created Voldemort to be the second head of the Hydra but to appear to be the only head. I know he also had a few more he controlled. He reprogramed poor Umbridge's mind but he might have overdone it. With Umbridge following his directions he controlled Fudge. I had Malfoy try to both steer and partly hinder Dumbledore's pawns if it lead to far from the way I liked it.
Both Snape and Malfoy participated in raids that killed entire families and family lines. You must know and understand that not all of these raids were completed on my orders, but I will allow you a free guess about who else was giving the orders.
Fudge, had help from Lucius to erase a threat for the seat in the powerhouse. Unfortunately for him, Umbridge found out about it. It turns out Lucius is somewhat chatty when drinking a nice glass of scotch. He was apparently sitting and drinking with Severus one night and let it slip about how he helped Fudge out. Now Severus being the good little spy and turncoat that he is told his good buddy Albus. Albus sees that he may be able to use this to advantage so he fed the information to his pawn Dolores. With Dolores being the typical politically inclined female that she is, realized she had excellent blackmail material. She went to Fudge and blackmailed him with the knowledge she had. That is how a lot of her creature and werewolf regulations were able to be passed into law. Now while it was before your time, I felt you may be interested in finding out about it.
Snape has a troll personality but when he wants to he can really charm someone. He steered others to Dumbledore so that he would have pawns to use. He is scum of the worst sort but somehow Dumbledore trained him to do what he wished done, as an example look at Longbottoms. Then take a look around you. Not all of those controlled are killers. One also needs to wonder why there has only ever been one werewolf allowed to attend Hogwarts. Of course this is only accurate if what my informants have told me has any veracity. How many close friends do you have at Hogwarts? Is Ronald Weasley truly your friend or is he keeping you from making true friends from the other students that attend? Is he perhaps another rat? A rat that is this time controlled by or loyal to Albus.
Oh, I suppose one day you may find out that the wards at Hogwarts do report more about what happens than most think. For instance, it tells the the ward holder who has entered or exited the warded area and it also reports who exactly is currently moving around inside the castle. I grant you if one was to use a time turner it may be a little confusing to the ward holder to be advised there were two of the same person within the wards. But back to my previous point, Dumbledore could NOT have been ignorant of Peter 'the rat' residing in Hogwarts. Especially not if he was tied to the wards which he was. Then during your fourth year when that little pesky bug was flying about making your life hell, THINK Harry. You need to take off the rose tinted glasses and really take a look around you.
Yes, I have really left you a wasp's nest to clean up. I have perhaps kicked it one to many times so you may need to tread carefully to avoid getting stung. To aid you in your efforts to clean things up I have left you my documents, they contain more information you may need. Clean up the magical world and make sure that Hogwarts is returned to a school that is for all with magic.
Goodbye, Lord Potter-Black
Tom Riddle / Lord Voldemort
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Over the next few days there were many who appeared at St. Mungo's ill with various symptoms but within a week they were all dead. No medical treatment could save them and in the end the medical staff could only give them palliative care. Albus Dumbledore passed away quietly, while taking an afternoon nap, the same day the letter to Harry from Voldemort was in the newspaper. Voldi died a few days after Albus passed, both died alone. The Daily Prophet reported the tragic news of Dumbledore's death. The article went on to report the truth of how Dumbledore had fallen victim to a cursed object and how that object had twisted him. Several possible explanations for things that had happened over the years were offered up and one enterprising reporter had even walked the streets of Diagon Alley to get comments, for the article, from shoppers. Many began to understand the underlying reasons for the DE's actions. Amelia had received the documents giving a listing of unmarked death eaters. What had followed, after she received those names had been whispered about in hushed voices for years. After Amelia was done all would later agree that she had done a really great job in cleaning up her auror force and in securing the unmarked death eaters in holding cells.
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If you like to try your quill, and be free to put your own mind to one of the big ones I have, It was my first FF, And If you live arond Brainbridge - Yorkshire Dales National Park - It's in your backgarden. Well, it starts there. and my swedish version are 350k+ words.