Elizabeth Owens sat at her desk in the ministry staring at the name at the head of the file for her new assignment : Harry Potter. Flipping the file open and skimming through it everything seemed normal, well as normal as it could for The Harry Potter. And then she got to the end where stamped in big bold letters was Emancipated. So that would be her task then helping young Harry transition from being a child into a fully functioning adult. Flipping back to the beginning of the file she checked the address: number 4 privet drive, Little Whinging, Surrey. Elizabeth gathered her things and made her way to the apparition point.

On July 9th in the village of Little Whinging everything was normal, and in number 4 on Privet drive was the most normal family of all. All except for the boy in the second bedroom, one Harry Potter. Harry had just returned from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for the summer. He had only been back for a week and he was already to go back to school. His relatives, the Dursley's were awful, locking him in his room, barley feeding him and forcing to do all the chores. Not to mention he had to deal with the nightmares from being forced to compete in the triwizard tournament, and witnessing the death of Cedric and the resurrection of voldemort.

Harry was cleaning the kitchen when there was a knock on the door. As he was about to answer the door when his aunt came in and told him to keep cleaning. As she went to the door Harry snuck after her to eavesdrop.

"Hello my name is Elizabet Owens and I'm here to see Harry Potter."

Harry listened with baited breath as his aunt denied his existence. Eventually the woman said "if Harry isn't here can you please have him contact me as soon as possible, I need to speak to him about his future place in wixen society."

At this Harry rushed forward and shouted "I'm here, what about my place in the wizarding world."

The woman looked surprised and then sighed in relief and said " ah, mister Potter, my name is Elizabeth Owens is there somewhere we can talk privately."

Harry gaped and nodded before leading Elizabeth up the stairs to his room.

Once they got to his room Elizabeth looked around and conjured two chairs, a table and a tea set.

After serving the tea she gestured to the second chair "have a seat, Mr. Potter. Now as said before my name is Elizabeth Owens and I work for the social service department of the ministry of magic, I was just assigned to your case this morning."

At this Harry nearly choked on his tea " Since when does the wizarding world have social service, why haven't I heard from you before? I told Professor Dumbledore that I didn't want to come back here, that my relatives hate me. Why didn't you get involved then?"

Elizabeth closed her eyes and sighed " I'm very sorry that you haven't been connected before Mr. Potter, unfortunately the social security department is very understaffed and underfunded, as for what you told Professor Dumbledor there is no mention of it in your file which means that it was never reported. I can assure you that if it had been reported there would most certainly have been an investigation."

"So," Harry asked, "why are you here?"

Elizabeth replied "well Mr. Potter, first I would like to offer my condolences for all you have been through in the past year and the loss of Mr. Diggory."

She paused when Harry jumped up shouting "so that's what you're here about the ministry doesn't believe me about voldemort, if that's the case then you can just leave."

"Mr. Potter" answered Elizabeth "I assure that is not the case." She patiently waited for Harry to calm down before continuing "Whether or not I or the ministry believe you about you-know-who is irrelevant to why I am here. However I am here about the results of the triwizard tournament."

At this Harry got up to pace around the room before turning to her and asking "what do you mean? I didn't want to compete and I didn't kill Cedric, I promise."

"I believe that " breathed Elizabeth "I am here because you are an underage wizard that was entered into a competition that was meant for of age wixen only. As a result of your competing magic and wixen law has decided to emancipate you. My job is to assist you in transitioning from a dependent child into an independent minor."

Harry's eyes were wide as he perched on the edge of his seat. "Does this mean that I can leave and that I don't need to stay with the Dursley's anymore? Can I do magic outside of school now" He asked.

Elizabeth smiled "absolutely, you can live wherever you would like and do magic on your own, however there are some things that we will need to take care of first."

Harry grunted "of course it's not that simple. What do I need to do?"

"Well" replied Elizabeth "the first thing that we will need to do is go to gringotts for an inheritance test. This will tell us about any vaults, lordships, properties and even creature inheritances and marriage contracts that you may have. Once we have that information I will be able to help you decide what to do next. Do you have any questions?"

Harry thought for a moment before asking "what's a creature's inheritance?"

Elizabeth turned to her bag and pulled out several pamphlets and handed them to Harry, "here is some basic information on creature inheritance, basically many old wixen families have creature blood and some members of these families get a creature inheritance this means that they may have attributes or abilities that come from a creature. Wixen that do have a creature inheritance are either a dominant or a submissive. People usually go through their creature inheritance when they reach their majority at 17, because of your emancipation you may go through a creature inheritance early providing that you have. You can read more about it in the pamphlets I gave you. Any more questions?"

"No" replied Harry "just when can we go to gringotts?"

Elizabeth looked at her watch "It's getting quite late, perhaps we can meet at gringotts tomorrow morning. Does eight o'clock sound ok?"

Harry looked away and sighed "yeah that's fine I suppose I can stay here one more day"

Elizabeth narrowed her eyes, "Mr. Potter, Harry you do not have to stay here if you do not want to and especially if you do not feel safe, if you need a place to stay there is always the leaky or any of the other inns in diagon alley. If you need a way to get there simply raise your wand hand and the night bus will come pick you up. Now would you like me to show you how it's done?"

Harry laughed as he jumped to gather his things, not that there was much to gather just his school trunk and hedwig's empty cage. "Alright," he smiled, "let's go and never come back."

Elizabeth vanished the chairs, table and tea set, then led the way out the door out of the house and led Harry right into his future.