The Youngest Malfoy
Chapter 15: Dumbledore and Dursleys
Dumbledore stared at the ever growing pile of howlers, letters, and newspapers that spewed hate and questions towards him for the things that those blasted idiots had been posting about him in the things. With goblin authenticated supposed evidence, too. Because that is oh, so legit.
He rolled his hate filled eyes and wondered just how it was that everything had gone so wrong. How had he lost the girl? When had he lost the girl? And who the fuck was spewing this hate campaign towards him?
Severus, he thought, might have had a hand in at least some of this. He had sent him to check on the girl after all.
But Severus hated the girl, right? He wouldn't have helped her at all if he had seen anything.
He sighed, rubbing his hand down his face as he tried to think of something, anything, that he could do to fix this mess of a situation.
He would love nothing more than to be able to obliviate everyone. But that wasn't going to be possible. Not safely anyway. And as much as ruling over a bunch of crazy, brain-dead people might sound easier, it wouldn't be as fun.
No, he wanted dissent. He wanted fights. He wanted the people to not be easy. At least, not for a while yet.
But he needed a way to fix this.
He needed to find the girl and the baby she carried.
He needed them.
He stalked over to his bookshelves to browse the hundreds of old, mostly illegal books he owned which he disguised for everyone but himself and his closest allies.
He browsed and browsed, growing more and more angry as he continued to not find anything of any use. He even resorted to throwing things in fits of rage as book after book gave him nothing.
Another newspaper attached to an owl flew into the room and he stopped in the destruction of his books briefly to read the headline:
HAILEY POTTER'S LIFE BEFORE HOGWARTS! SHE WAS ABUSED BY HER MUGGLE FAMILY!
HAILEY POTTER, NOT A POTTER! SHE WAS KIDNAPPED BY ALBUS DUMBLEDORE FROM THE MALFOYS!
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN STEALING FROM THE POTTER FAMILY VAULTS SINCE THE DEATHS OF LILY AND JAMES!
He screamed in rage, his magic bursting out and destroying many of the artefacts in his office.
Then he was back to browsing his books, more desperate than ever for something, anything to get the girl back, to get back in control.
To win.
And to claim his place as the ruler of the wizarding (and muggle) worlds.
He needed something.
Then he saw it.
His eyes glanced upon an ancient book he had found whilst perusing some mines in Egypt a long time ago.
A book of ancient blood magic which he recalled now had a blood ritual in it that could be used to track down the person whose blood you used.
And of course he wasn't stupid enough to not have some of the girl's blood on hand.
It was stashed away in one of his safe's for emergencies.
This was an emergency.
And this would be the key to getting her and her brat back.
This would be the key to everything being right again.
He grinned, taking a moment to chuckle maniacally with relief flooding his body as he slid the book off the shelf and opened it to the correct page.
The page that held the answers he needed.
The ritual he needed.
He cast his Patronus and sent it to his allies with a message asking them to meet him at the school the next day. Then he went about preparing what he needed for the ritual in his little ritual room attached to his quarters.
He would find her. And she would fix this for him, no matter what he had to do to get her to do so.
Then everything would be back on track, and he could punish whoever took her away from him in the first place.
He cackled again.
Yes.
That would be very fun indeed.
…
"The Dursleys have been found guilty of their crimes," her father told her gently as she sat opposite him on her bed, looking up at him with wide eyes, relief and pain filling her, "Petunia has been sentenced to twenty years in a female only muggle prison. Vernon has been sentenced to life in the roughest male muggle prison we could find, although the goblins will be working to get him out after fifteen years so he can spend the rest of his life in the mines here for his… assaults on you. Dudley has been placed into the foster care system and is required to see a therapist every week until the therapist thinks he is able to be better on his own. He is also required to see a nutritionist to help with his health, along with a number of other doctors,"
Lyra breathed a deep, shaky breath as tears spilled from her eyes.
"Thank you," she whispered gratefully.
"You have no need to thank me, Lyra. I'm your father, it is my job to protect you, and punish those who hurt you," he smiled sadly at her before reaching out and pulling her close to him, "I love you, Little Star,"
"I love you, too, daddy," she said, clutching his shirt tightly in her hands as she felt at least some of the weight lifting from her shoulders.
She just wished that everything else was sorted so she could be free.
Truly free.
"Everything else will be sorted soon. I promise. We are making great progress. People are trusting Dumbledore less and less. They are questioning him. And he seems to be more focussed on that at the moment than on finding you. Everything will be okay soon," he said as he gently rubbed her back in comforting circles.
"I hope so. Because I… I want everything to stop hurting so much,"
"I know, baby, I know. It will, one day. And we'll all be here to help you along the way," he said softly.
She just nodded and burrowed further into her father, seeking more comfort, and love, and warmth. The things she had longed for her whole life and hadn't received until recently. She relished in it as she tried to get control of her emotions again.
She really did hope that things would be better one day. Hopefully soon.
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I hope you enjoyed the chapter, short as it was. But sometimes short chapters are good, especially when leading up to big things ;) Anyway, what do you think is going to happen next? What will Lyra do with the baby? How will this story end? Will Sev and Tom have kids at some point? I would love to hear your thoughts. But also, if you would like to vote in a little poll, then over in my Facebook group I am doing a vote for what Lyra should do with the baby. It is on the featured tab, the fourth post along, so you should be able to find it quite easily. I just can't decide on my own, haha.
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