Unspeakable Conspiracy: The Silencers
By: Tellemicus Sundance
Bourne Legacy x Harry Potter
After the Dark War, the Ministry desires a means of preventing the rise of another Dark Lord with well-trained, Ministry-loyal 'super Aurors' to fight such wizards. On the night before her appointment to Minister, Millicent Bagnold commissioned the Unspeakables to create a new breed of super fighters by any means necessary. The Unspeakables began numerous secret projects scattered throughout the UK. They tried brainwashing, heightened physical (SAS-levels) and magical training, child-soldiers, and various others. But the ones that held the most potential and promise were the advanced potions/elixirs for augmented mental, physical, and magical prowess(1) and transplanting organs from magical beasts(2).
When Mundungus Fletcher stumbled upon one of the programs, he bargained valuable information for his life and silence. He revealed that he knew where Dumbledore had hidden Harry Potter and he knew how to breach the blood wards and protections. The Unspeakables were overjoyed at the possibility of using the famed Boy-Who-Lived as one of their projects. They had Harry Potter's relatives send him off to a military boarding academy (age 4) where he'd be trained to be a soldier in the name of the Queen. When Harry demonstrated an unusually high level of skill in his training at age 9, the Unspeakables had Harry's commanders transfer him to a 'ghost recon' training unit. The unit was actually their child-soldier program. When he entered puberty at age 12, Harry was transferred to the potions program to be further enhanced.
The Wizarding World went into an uproar when it was discovered that Harry was not enrolled in Hogwarts. Dumbledore had the Order working tirelessly to find Harry and the Prophet badgered the Ministry endlessly. Rita Skeeter was convinced there was a conspiracy happening in various departments of the Ministry and that Potter was somehow involved. To ensure his silence, the Unspeakables had Fletcher discreetly assassinated during a bar fight in the Hog's Head. However, Fletcher had expected such treachery and had prepared a contingency plan to expose the conspiracy. He had discreetly stolen one of their research texts and hidden it in Hogwarts with a special charm that'd attract the most competent witch/wizard to it. The charm would activate in the event of his death.
At Hogwarts, Hermione discovers a mysterious potion book in one of the unused classrooms. It is filled to the brim with illegal and/or unheard of potions and alchemy. Like a good girl, she takes the book to Snape, thinking it had been his private research. Snape becomes obsessed with the potions in the book and decides to experiment with a few. He tests them on some of his students and keeps a careful record of their symptoms. One of the test subjects was Neville, who rapidly gained an inexplicable level of magical competence in a short period of time as a result.