A/N Thank you all for the reviews, Harry Potter is not mine this is a story from a fan.
(BSC 4 C11) C98 Molly the harpy is back.
Bogrod was sitting in his office with his head in his hands. The fact that he was sitting there wasn't that remarkable. It was his office so he had to right to be there. In Merlin's name, it was the office in his own home so he had double right to be there. Only today it was completely different from the other days when he sat behind his desk. Normally he would be a rush handling papers switching them from stack to stack signing then stamping them just working hard. Only this time he was sitting behind his desk without even twitching an eye. The only thing he had done was looking at an old letter over and over again.
Harriet who had entered his office thirty minutes ago sat on a chair and was just looking at him. She had come there to bring him something to drink. A thing she always did when he was working from home. The reason she stayed was that when she brought him his second drink, she could see that he hadn't even grasped his first, while he was still sitting there with the same letter he had when she had left the first time. While she was sitting there she looked over his desk. Something must have brought him to behave in this way. As she gazed around her eyes fell on the Prophet of that morning. There wasn't anything really special in it only the story that Fudge has told Hogwarts about the tournament, just like he had done later that night on the wireless. As she looked at the clock on the wall she saw that she had been sitting there for almost an hour and he was still the same statue as he sat there looking at the same letter in his hands.
As she thought back to the Prophet she knew that last night was the time that the fate of Harry had been sealed. It was then that she had to think about that little boy that was now looking down at them. He had impressed the hell out of her husband. Not only by declaring him a friend in the middle of Gringotts. It meant a lot but Lilly had done the same thing to his father or Grandfather, she didn't remember which one it was. No, what impressed them the most was the way he protected her from Albus. There were four goblin guards who could have handled it easily. But it was a boy who did it and not only the boy his friends too. Not the adults but the kids protected them. She shook her head with a smile and said. "Darling, you have been looking at that letter for more than an hour. I do not know what is in it, but it has to be something really important to get your attention like that. So tell me what is it that got you this way".
Bogrod was a little startled when he looked up. He didn't say a word but handed her the letter as he took the drink with his other hand. He could not say that he was proud of it but it has been one of the two things he kept from her. One of those things went against all of his own personality and the way the goblins normally did things. They were worriers first and businessmen later. In this case, he was a businessman first and not the worrier he normally was.
As Harriet was reading the letter he was looking at the expressions she had on her face when she read it. It was a very intense letter on a Muggle paper. It was a piece you get from one of those muggle writings books. A thing you never saw in a wizarding home. The only one who had one of those was Amelia and himself. As he watched closely he could see that his wife knew that the letter had come from none other than Lily Potter her only human friend.
Dear Bogrod.
You know that I have the gift of sight. It is not as strong as by most or as much as my experience seers. But all the things I have seen, have come true. Now the reason for this letter is because of one vision with two possible outcomes. Now I do have one problem with them because both of the outcomes are not really clear.
Again I'm sorry for asking this but the first version tells me that Voldemort will come back after he has been beaten one time, before. My little Harry will be the conqueror, over Voldemort. This will happen in both of the versions but one will bring him a lot of misery. If the first outcome will come out, then the world we know it will not exist anymore. But I'm also sure that it will never get rebuilt. My little Harry will be the hero but it will cost him everything he got.
By the second outcome, I do not see an end of the upcoming war against Voldemort. I do see signs that it will be one whit a lot less misery.
There are some similarities in both versions there are some things that are the same but also a little different. In the first one, James and I will die and there will be no return. In the second time version, I don't know. I know James and I will not be around but I don't see us die. The one thing I do know is that I the second version Bellatrix Black will be a big part of it together with Harry. However, to get to that version you have to do something for me.
Now before I ask you that I have to tell you that I have already done something to start the events with Bellatrix Black. There is no one that knows that Bellatrix has been a secret friend of me for many years. It has been something that not even James knew. The two that did know were Narcissa and Andromeda. But I'm sure they would never tell anyone.
Now if you can do what I will ask you then my changes will also take effect. It will be the version with a foggy outcome. Now my question will be hart but it will bring my son back to the side of his grandmother. The question and I am really sorry about this but could you arrange a scenario where the husband of Bellatrix will find his death. I know that it might not be the honorable way the Goblins normally do it but if you want to give Harry the best opportunity you have to do it for him. The next part of it is that you have to do it between now and his thirteenth birthday. How that doesn't matter but if you do it will bring Bellatrix with Harry and it will make the chance we all survive so much better for all of us.
Now I'm really sorry I have to ask you for this but you are the only one I know that wouldn't ask advice from Albus. I also know that you will think hard before you do it. Now if you don't then you don't and I will not think any less of you. You are my friend just like you always have been. You and Harriet are my extended family.
Greetings Lilly Potter/ McGonagall
Harriet placed the letter back on the desk and looked up at her husband. She looked back at the letter and again up to her husband. Every Goblin looked up at him as the leader of the Goblin race. He was a feared worrier who would never let the enemy live. Even if they begged for it. But this letter has brought him in a lot of doubt. And for her to wonder. Did he do it or didn't he. As she took the letter back in her hand she gazed at her husband. While she read it again she instantly knew what her husband had done. "I take it you did what Lily asked you to do. But I also see by the look in your eyes that there is something more, something you are afraid of".
Bogrod gave her another sad smile as he was collecting his thoughts. He had a hard time to turn them into words but he knew that his wife deserved at least that much. But how did you tell your wife something that went totally against all that made you a goblin? "Harriet darling" Bogrod started as he too gazed at the letter she was again holding in her hand. "you know that Lily was the first witch that treated us like equals after the Potters. She did it the first day she came into Gringotts and that was before she met the Potters. My father had given up hope when James had come along with his father. James was a stuck up piece of work. He was arrogant and very spoiled. It was something he had learned from his friends and just didn't have the gift his father and grandfather had".
Bogrod smiled as he stood and took down a picture of Harriet and Lily together at Potter castle. "Now a little over three years ago, Harry was brought into Gringotts by Hagrid. On that day I wanted to talk to him but Hagrid was really rushing him so I didn't interfere with it. I did have a quick look at him but never saw the things I saw two years ago".
"That was when Minerva and Augusta brought him here, wasn't it," Harriet asked.
Bogrod smiled again. "Yes, it was that day. I first saw him on the floor and thought just like everyone thought that day. This was Harry Potter the boy who lived, A spoiled brat because he had grown up in Potter castle served by all his house elf's".
Harriet frowned but held her tongue when Bogrod held up his hands in surrender.
The moment I walked up to him the picture I had of him came crashing down. He wasn't the spoiled brat everyone knew. He was way to small, way too thin, and way to fearful to be the boy everyone talked about. So I forgot all I had heard and went in blind just to see what was real and what was not. As you know I knew all about the will of the Potters but I as a Goblin wasn't allowed to share it. So when I saw Minerva standing there with Harry I had to wonder if she knew or not. But when they both heard they were really family it shocked her even more than I would have thought, she really didn't have a clue that she was his grandmother. Still, on that day I was a little hesitant but it all changed when he put me in my place. I immediately saw the hand of Augusta in it but he did it in a way his Grandfather would have done. It was exactly the same way he had done with my grandfather. But then again his mum had done it to my father when she was opening her first account in the office. Then to my surprise, he did the same to me, but he did it in the middle of the bank and stood his ground even when Augusta was shaking her head".
Harriet smiled "Just like Lily".
"No, Just like Charlus and Harry McGonagall," Bogrod told his wife. "Harry McGonagall was the only wizard I have ever known that would go toa to toa with a Goblin guard if he had to save Minerva, just like Harry did for you".
"It was quite a feat for a boy so young, wasn't it," Said, Harriet, as she thought back to that party.
"Yes, it was like a true Goblin, going into a fight without any fear knowing that you are outnumbered and outclassed," Bogrod said with a little awe in his voice. "Well like I said, I knew what was in the will, and I also knew about the contract between Bellatrix and Harry. However, that Contract wasn't activated yet but I did say it was. To get it activated I had to kill the brothers Lestrange. So to get that done I gave a shady wizard a big bag of gold to do it. How he did it, I don't know but the next morning the contract had been activated. Now I know it was before his thirteenth birthday but I still can't shake the fear that I was too late and that I haven't changed all that Lilly was hoping for".
Harriet stood and walked over to her husband to take him into a hug. "I'm sure that Lily knew that you would have a hard time with it and that you would do what was right. The one thing I don't understand what is the reason behind this contract and why Bellatrix and Harry".
That was something very political and surprisingly it was with the intention of Andromeda and James. It was Andromeda from the blackest family together with James from the whitest family there was. It would make a gray house that no one could go against. But it all went down the drain when Andromeda left the family for a muggle born and for love. Her father and mother were so mad that they to gather with the mother of Sirius arranged the other two contracts in a matter of minutes".
"But I thought that Andromeda left whit ted because her father wanted her with Lucius".
Bogrod smiled again. "Yes, that is also what they know. however, this contract was made in secret and only known buy Orian Black, Charlus Potter, and my Grandfather then me".
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Sirius was looking out of the window of there little house in little Hengleton. He was looking out of those binoculars things Dan had given them. He remembered having just one of them in one eye a spying class if he remembered it right. But that the muggles had the thought to put two sides together so you could look with two eyes was astonishing to him. "Brilliant, just brilliant," he said over and over again.
Andromeda just smiled at him an didn't have the heart to tell that they had been around for over fifty years.
"There he is, that little piece of hippogriff dung" Sirius snapped the moment he saw Peter Pettigrew walking through the garden of Riddle Manor. They had missed some time because all of them were on the side of Minerva just to see if she could pull through, and be there for Harry. Sirius had an even harder time because he had been back in Azkaban for a little while and that had given him some of his old memories and nightmares.
On the night the friends were back in Hogwarts. Sirius had a heart to heart with Andromeda. He knew that Harry was the Lord of the house and he did a great job. But he was still a boy, a boy who had a real problem with his emotions. When Bellatrix had told him that Harry could be a real dark Lord the darkest there had ever been it had taken him off guard. He had told it all to Andromeda. He just couldn't understand why the death of Minerva could be so destructive that it would be bad for Harry but mostly for everyone".
It was a talk that was repeatedly happening throughout the family. But for Sirius, it meant so much more. If that day would come and Harry would turn to the dark side, what would they do? Would they stand next to him or would they try and stop him. Could they stop him if that happened?
"Sirius" Andromeda called out. "Sirius if Harry goes dark then Tonks and I will stand next to him. Just like all his friends and grandmother will do it. There is no way we could be able to stop him. But I guess you don't know why yet do you. And so Andromeda told him about the live Harry had before he came back to the wizarding world.
In the end, it was all clear. Peter was the one who had done it all. Harry would be the one to save them, and Bella together with Daphne had to keep Harry on the good side. Sirius blinked and went back to watching Peter as he was looking around the garden, small tears trickling down his cheeks as he remembered what he himself had done the day he had given Harry to Hagrid as he himself went after Peter.
It was now that the Floo erupted and Amelia stepped out. It was her night to stay with Sirius as Andromeda went back home. The first thing she did after Andromeda had left was to hug Sirius before she took him into a passionate kiss. The had become an item they moment she and Sirius had laid eyes on each other. They were keeping it a secret for the rest of the family but somehow the friends knew about it. The others hadn't said a thing about it so they didn't know, at least they hoped they didn't.
Something the whole family knew but were waiting until they themselves came out whit it.
As Amelia settled down on the lap of Sirius she started the story of what happened at the ministry. Or in this case with Madeye Moody. "It was nothing Sirius, he got spooked by a cat and send off a couple of spells," Amelia told him.
"Madeye doesn't get spooked. When was the last time you caught him off guard? Hell if he steps into a classroom of firsties he still counts on every one of them attacking him" Sirius almost snapped.
"Well, maybe he did but it was all hushed up by Arthur Weasley. He was the first to arrive at the spot. I do not know how he knew but he took real good care of it. So Madeye is free for a year of teaching at Hogwarts".
It was after that story that Sirius told her about something that went on in Little Hangelton. A man named Frank something had been missing for a couple of days. Sirius didn't know his last name but he knew that it was the groundskeeper of Riddle Manor. He was the one who took care of the gardens but also the one that took care of the house for the last couple of months. Sirius told them he had seen the man but it had been just before the final. Not even in that little house, he lived in that was on the property.
As the talk went on he told Amelia that they found another Horcrux. And surprisingly it wasn't far from the point they were at. The others they found hadn't been destroyed yet. Because they didn't know if Voldemort could feel them. They did find out they had some pull on each other and so they were separated and locked up in boxes and placed in different vaults. Sirius then went on that they knew that Voldemort had made a new one only a couple of days ago and that they were the only two remaining. The last one they couldn't get because they needed Harry for that one so that would be done this coming summer.
It was then that they went back to spying at the house and Peter enjoying the muggle Magic they were working with.
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The first morning of a new year at Hogwarts.
The time was there and the fourth year had begun. House Hogwarts walked into the great hall like tide herd. They were walking like a unit and everybody knew that if you would mess with one you would mess with the entirety of house Hogwarts.
As they all sat down for breakfast they saw Zanita heading there way with there timetables.
Harry looked from his place at the house table to the head table. Albus was sitting in the middle. A place that was his by right and would be Zanita's in just a moment when she saw it. As he looked on he realized that he wasn't the only one who could sit there. Daphne, Neville, and Susan could sit there too. They were the heirs and with that, they had the right. They had talked about it but they decided that they wanted to go through Hogwarts like normal students. Yes, he was king but he was the only king of the ground of Hogwarts, meaning the castle, forest, and Hogsmeade.
As the king, he only had to keep the piece, nothing more. Making sure that everything was in harmony with the students and the magical beings living all around the forest. In Merlin's name, he could even count the elf's among them.
The next thing he did was look at the left of Albus where he saw Severus Snape sitting with a smug look on his face. A place that belonged to Zanita. On the right sat one Molly Weasley a place that belonged to his grandmother. He wanted to get up but suddenly the three chairs were raised up in the air. Albus sat quietly but Molly and Snape were screaming. They were stuck to them and only realized it when the chairs went upside down. It was only a couple of seconds later that the three chairs came crashing down at the end of the table. Zanita walked to the middle and conjured three new chairs one of her. One for his grandmother and the third one stayed empty.
Molly jumped to her feet and opened her mouth.
Zanita flicked her finger and Molly was slammed back into her chair with her mouth closed by a sipper.
As Harry was now bending over the table because he was laughing so hard and didn't realize that Daphne and Bella already had their timetables, with that, he also missed the looks they gave one and other as they looked at them. It was, however, Neville that got him out of his concentration by the yell he gave. "No, way, He did it again, Albus flipping Dumbledork did it again. We have Molly the harpy on the first hour, and she will be our head of house again this year".
It was on that moment that the entire hall held their mouths and all looked at the Hogwarts table. Even the Professors were looking at him in shock. Only Zanita had a smile on her face when she heard him. Before anyone could say anything it was Molly who stood and made her way over to the table. Both Zanita and Minerva stood to intercept but realized that the kids could handle themselves but still made their way over to them just in case.
"Mr. Longbottom" Molly snapped when she stood behind him. "It is not proper behavior for a Student to shout in the middle of the great hall. Now, because you are a student of my house I expect you to behave better than any other student in this school" Molly told him as she pointed her finger at him.
Harry who was sitting on the opposite of them could not help the feeling that she was laying it on a little thick. She was trying to get something out of it and he was just holding back his anger to see what it was. He, however, had to admit that she had learned something. Because she started with Mr. Longbottom. It was not quite right yet. But it was a start.
"So I'm sorry Mr. Longbottom but that will be fifty points from house Hogwarts".
"Way to go mum. Tell it to them, make them pay that bunch of attention seeking slimeballs" Ronald Weasley shouted from his place at the Gryffindor table. Molly said nothing but turned around and smiled a little smile at him before she turned back to Neville.
"Don't you think Mr' Weasley deserves some punishment. He was screaming just like Lord Longbottom has done only a moment ago" Bella told Molly with an angry look in her eyes.
"Molly turned her head to Bella and pointed her finger at her forehead and between her eyes. "Now you listen here, missy. I'm a Professor at this school and I decide who will revive punishment and who does not. I think that Mr, Longbottom here is the reason for much more problems than Mr, Weasley is. So, in my opinion, he doesn't need to be punished" she almost snarled at Bella.
Bella sniffed loudly and threw her nose in the air. "Sure we are the ones to get all the troubles while the walking garbage disposal over there gets off with a smile of his mum, "Bella said as she blew out her breath.
"Miss Smith".
"That is Miss Figg, Professor" Daphne told her without missing a beat.
Molly was turning red from anger as she looked at Daphne with hate written all over her face. "That will be fifty points Miss Greengrass for disrespecting a Professor".
Daphne looked up at Molly with total disbelief in her eyes, she opened her mouth to say something but someone else beat her to the punch so to say. "Now that is something completely new. You receive a deduction of points when you make a good observation. I wonder what Ronald will get for tying his shoos all by himself.
Jaws were dropped, eyes went big when they heard the voice challenging Molly like that.
Minerva and Zanita who had been waiting close by just to look out for them, held their hands before their mouths so they would not laugh out loud.
Ron got to his feet and rushed to the side of his mother just as red and angry as his mother was.
The first thing Molly did was look at Harry. He didn't do anything and was only looking back with a daring look. Molly turned her head to the one that had spoken to her. Her head was just as red as a tomato and ready to blow. The corners of her mouth were twisting and ready to scream".
"Mum, are you going to let them talk to me like that. You know I can tie my own shoes and don't need any help at all" Ronald almost whined.
Molly looked at her son before she again turned her eyes to the person that had said the thing she had just heard as her mouth began to twist even more.
"Yes, Professor Weasley, Are you going to tell him he is right, or are you going to get him out of his dream world and say that he can't tie his own shoes," Ginny told Molly with a sweet innocent smile.
"Ginny Weasley, I do not know what you are thinking right now or why you are acting the way you are. But I expect you to have a little more respect for your brother and mother" Molly snapped.
"Well for your information Professor Weasley. I have a lot of respect for my mothers. It was you who took her points away in a cowardly act, not me" Ginny snapped back.
The look Molly had turned into one Harry had seen enough on the face of his so-called Uncle and aunt. Her hand went way up in the air and came crashing down in a second. Just before it came in contact with the cheek of Ginny it was stopped by a little hand. The first thing that Molly saw were two emerald green eyes that were Turning bright like a killing curse. Those eyes were two or three meters away from her so it was not his hand that was holding her back. So if he wasn't holding her back, who was.
Her arm was still being held up in the air as she turned her eyes over the Hogwarts table. The thing she saw made her take a step back. Every eye was filled with hate and every hand was holding a wand pointed at the floor. Her gaze went to the hand and followed it along the arm to a face that went with the hand.
The beautiful brown eyes that held so much love for an emerald green eyed Wizard, had turned into the darkest black.
Minerva turned to Zanita and whispered, "That my dear Lady is the tiny form of Bellatrix Black".
Zanita nodded back as she whispered. "Yes, I know, this could be fun".
Bella who had a hard time to push down her anger opened her mouth and almost snarled. "How dare you raise your hand to my daughter. Not only will it give me the right to kill you on the spot but it will also give your family the blood feud it clearly wants. Ginny Potter is the daughter of House Potter. And if you ever, ever hit her like the way you were planning to right now I will personally put you in the ground".
The venom Bella used in her voice made many of the other students and Professors tremble in fear with every word she used.
The eyes of Molly were starting to show some fear as they turned to Harry. In his eyes, she could see that he was standing right behind this Bella Figg in every word she had said.
Molly still felt the hand holding her arm and she pulled a little. The hand tightened and suddenly there was a wand pointed at her face from another hand. Molly swallowed and realized that this Bella Figg was very important for Harry. She was living there together with her mother Arabella Figg.
The eyes of Molly turned back into one of hate and were back in fear the next second as she saw Daphne pointing her wand at her next to the wand Bella was still pointing at her. As she gave another pull she saw all the others from house Hogwarts starting to point their wands at her too.
Albus saw it and made his way to intercept.
Ginny who had seen enough stepped between Bella and Daphne as she placed her hands on their wands. "Mum Bella, mum Daphne, I'm alright you two can lower your wands and let go of her arm. I don't think this has to turn into a fight, and if it has to I think my father can handle that for us with Mr. Weasley" she said in a sad voice. The words she just said were hurting her more than she could say. It was something that had to be said but it still hurt her to call her father Mr, Weasley. Her dad that wasn't her dad anymore thanks to the things Molly had done.
"Come now, come now, Miss Weasley, that is no way for a nice girl as your self to behave in front of her mother" Albus scold her from a couple of meters away.
Before Harry got all the way to his feet, he was pushed back into his chair by the hands of Minerva and Zanita who had made their way behind him.
Before he could say something he heard the voice of Ginny that showed everybody why she ones was a real Weasley. The anger and fire her former mother had was nothing by the fire Ginny was putting into her voice when she turned to Albus flipping Dumbledore. "My mother" she shouted. "My mother, now listen here you old goat, you wrinkled piece of Hippogriff dung. My mother has given up that right the moment she manipulated me to open up my soul to Voldemort. It was her treatment of me, her greediness for money her hunger for political power. That drove me to believe that Harry Potter was here on earth for me. It was on the day I came here at the hand of her that I saw the real Harry. He wasn't there for me, he was there for Bella. He wasn't even the boy she told me he was. That night I told her but she took me to my room and beat it into me that he was mine and that I should do all I could to get him. She even told me to give my self to him".
Daphne had her hands full with keeping Bella away from ripping Molly into a thousand pieces after those words.
Why she had to do it was a riddle to her other friends but they immediately took their own wands and pointed them at Molly.
Ginny didn't see it all as tears started to fill her eyes as she screamed at Albus. "It was her treatment in the months after it and towards my first year that I got scared to face Harry. I wrote my heart out in a diary that was possessed by Voldemort. It was my actions that put all the students in Hogwarts in danger. They could have all been petrified or worse been killed. All of this because I had to give myself to Harry by her and you".
Ginny became redder and redder as her anger increased with every second she was screaming at Albus. She just didn't understand why her mother had done it. Why her mother had used her like this and why she kept on doing it. She had lost her daddy from the doings of this woman. Sure he was there whenever she wanted it but it was still on request not because he had to be there. "You did it to me. You made her do it to me. You were the one who used me" Ginny screamed as her hands started to shake, her knees started to wobble.
Her anger, sadness, and hurts were showing on her face. Bella saw it and stopped trying to get to Molly to claw her eyes out. Instead, she rushed to the side of Ginny and placed her arm under the arm of Ginny to keep her on her feet.
She was followed by Daphne who took her other arm.
Molly who was still oblivious or just didn't care said. "Ginny sweetheart you don't understand. I am your mother and I will always be your mother like I have always been. Your Brothers will always be your brothers. We want you to come home where you belong".
Ginny slumped to her knees and took Bella and Daphne with her. She was openly crying and just couldn't believe her ears. She had brainwashed her. She had driven her to write her soul to the first person that would listen. She had pushed her into the clutches of Voldemort. But still, she was standing there like nothing had happened. Most of the students of Hogwarts were still turning their backs at her. The only friends she had were Astoria and Luna. Sure Harry and the others were there for her but they weren't as close as her two friends were. But beyond that, there was no one that would look at her without giving her a look of distrust.
Through her tears, she looked at Molly and saw her getting closer to her holding out a hand to help her up. She leans back from fear and tried to hide behind Bella who took her in a hug. "No, get away from me, you have done enough".
"Miss, Weasley, please" Albus started.
"No Albus, just leave her. I can clearly see that Potter and his friends are still controlling her. I will never believe that he saved her from a basilisk, he just wants her as a slave. So I will not teach them this year. Not him and nobody from my house until they speak the truth and until they give my daughter back to me. I will only teach Ginny" and Molly turned around walking away with Ronald walking after her.
Albus turned to Ginny and was shocked when he saw the whole house of Hogwarts pointing their wands at him. He shook his head sadly and started to walk away as Bella and Daphne helped Ginny back to the common room of house Hogwarts.
"You can all go with her, the first two lessons of the day are canceled for everybody," Zanita said as she turned to Albus daring him to say something.
A/N: this was it for this week. I hope you have all enjoyed it as much as I did writing it. See you all in two weeks.
Gr WInmau