AN: Who will win, Daphne or Luna? That question will be answered in this and the next chapter. After that combined with some minor trouble shooting Harry will have to do they board the Hogwarts Express and things start to heat up. Or should that be cool down? You'll see.
Isekaied by an inept Fanfiction Writer into Harry Potter
A story by DaManWriter, the inept Fanfiction Writer.
Disclaimer: If I did own Harry Potter or any other franchise that might get mentioned in this work, I'd relax on a tropical island right now instead of writing a disclaimer. I just borrow the characters for a bit and return them unharmed. At times.
Chapter 11
A seething Lucius Malfoy remarried Narcissa No-name and adopted Draco No-name. He did that in France, clandestine and as fast as he could. Not because there was love lost, but to keep secret how Harry Potter in one fell swoop had basically destroyed the Malfoy family. In the Ministry his people would make sure to vanish all documents mentioning the incident.
Back in the manor he called for his henchmen.
"I want everyone available searching for Harry Potter. Find him and bring me his head. If you manage to catch him alive even better, a large reward will be yours. Now go!"
The blonde ponce chucked the now empty bottle of Fire-whiskey against a wall shattering it. An anxious elf was quick in bringing a new bottle and cleaning up the mess before he would have to iron his hands again.
Malfoy poured himself a generous amount and caned it.
Damn that brat! He will exact vengeance for this humiliation!
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Said humiliation was only the beginning of Malfoy's due hardship, though. Only days after the return from France there was another article of interest in the Prophet, a follow up about the basilisk attacks.
LUCIUS MALFOY SMUGGLES DARK ARTIFACT INTO HOGWARTS TO RELEASE THE BASILISK
Lucius Malfoy, Wizengamot member and confidant of Minister Fudge, has hidden a dark artifact in the first year books of Ginny Weasley, who was about to start her education at Hogwarts. This artifact possessed the poor girl for almost the complete school year. It forced her to do all sorts of nefarious deeds while hiding away the girl's memories of doing it. The worst the little firstie was brainwashed to do was to open the Chamber of Secrets and release the basilisk upon the students at Hogwarts. The poor girl almost died just before Harry Potter killed the giant snake proving once more that he is our hero.
Despite all her hardships over the course of many months the traumatized girl got no medical help whatsoever. Dumbledore told everyone the girl is perfectly fine. A bold and completely irresponsible lie of a man who has no healer training whatsoever! Did the esteemed headmaster of Hogwarts do that because mind healers could have revealed some of the obviously many secrets of Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore? It is absurd how much damage a single man can cause!
The actions of Lucius Malfoy also cast a rather poor light on him. He obviously smuggled that dark artifact into Hogwarts to open the Chamber of Secrets and release the basilisk upon the students there. It seems Malfoy's goal was to kill Harry Potter, the nemesis of his former Master you-know-who. The man obviously did not care how many children could be killed in the mayhem.
Was Malfoy really imperioused or is he still a loyal Death Eater? How much influence does he exert on Minister Fudge who he is meeting regularly? Did Fudge incarcerate Hogwarts' gamekeeper Hagrid in Azkaban without a trial to cover up Malfoy's participation, his own incompetence or both? Can you bribe Fudge? Can you bribe parts of the Wizengamot? The public has a right to know!
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In Diagon Alley Tonks saw Harry enter Gringotts and ran after him. The metamorphmagus reached the wayward boy-who-lived just when he was done talking to a goblin and about to walk deeper into the bank.
"Harry! Wait!"
Turning around he saw the pink haired auror gasping for breath.
"Hello, Tonks. You were running without stumbling over your feet? Quite a feat."
The auror puffed out her answer.
"Very... funny... I'm... laughing... later..."
The grinning Harry watched the grumpy girl start to rant and pace while her hair circulated through various colors.
"So... what's up?"
"What's up? That's what I should ask. You just disappeared into thin air. We were looking everywhere. We have to talk to you."
Harry's face grew stern.
"Who is we?"
"Well, Dumbledore. The Order. Me."
He sighed.
"So you want a meeting? Only on neutral ground, like here at Gringotts. How about next Tuesday, same time?"
Tonks looked quite grateful now.
"Yes, that would be fine."
"Good. See you then, I have things to do and places to be."
With that Harry walked off together with a goblin. He had asked Gringotts to ward his two trace-less wands as well as their holsters against any attempt to disarm him and was here to collect them. He also had the goblins add more engravings to the less ornate wand so the two sticks now looked identical from a distance.
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The Wizengamot decided to adjourn Dumbledore's trial indefinitely so all the new facts could be checked. The case now also included Malfoy as a suspect. Nobody was even considering anymore that the trial might happen before Hogwarts started again.
Amelia Bones sighed after reading the newest reports and decided to use even more aurors to break this case. Her pet project, one Sirius Orion Black, went along even slower. Seemingly every document regarding the man was misplaced or didn't exist. She also had to work very carefully to avoid tipping of certain people about that investigation. It was frustrating.
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The Saturday before the meeting with the Order of the Burning Chicken Harry ported to the Rook. He walked up to the door which got opened before he could knock.
"Hello, Harry."
"Good morning, Luna. Ready to go? Where's Xeno?"
"I'm ready. Daddy went to get something done for the next edition of the Quibbler."
Harry grinned.
"Did he tell you about the interview we did?"
The excited girl bounced in place.
"Of course. He told me it will be published the day after Hogwarts starts in time for a breakfast delivery."
Harry smiled.
"Cool. Well, let's go."
He took Luna's hand and readied a portkey.
"Where are we going this time?"
"That... is a secret."
The girl pouted cutely when they vanished.
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They returned to the Rook in the evening where Harry delivered a tired but happy Luna to her father.
"That was fun! I have been on several expeditions, but there were so many animals I never saw before. I want to go back again to see everything that we had no more time for. Maybe they even have crumple-horned snorkacks or blibbering humdingers!"
Harry grinned. As expected going to the London Zoo was a great idea.
"I kinda doubt that they have magical creatures, but sure, let's go there again."
Luna kissed Harry's cheek.
"Good night, Harry."
"Good night, Luna."
The girl skipped into the house and started to tell her father about the many exotic animals they saw. Harry smiled, bid Xeno goodbye when he closed the door and ported home.
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Entering the Ministry hidden under his invisibility cloak was a cakewalk. Entering the Department of Mysteries was like shooting fish in a barrel. Entering the Hall of Prophecy was like stealing candy from a baby. Some fucking wards and a bunch of incapable dickheads called guards at the entrance of the Ministry was the wizard's idea of a high security facility? Those inbred morons are even dumber than I thought, quite a feat.
It was just as easy as getting the required material from that military base, SAS was it? The muggles at least had the excuse of not knowing about magic like invisibility cloaks, though. Un-fucking-believable.
What was even easier was taking a bunch of Time-Turners that were sitting there just waiting to be taken. Maybe he'll need one later. Probably not, but constant vigilance and all that shit.
After one trip around the Hall of Prophecy Harry placed his last 8oz pack of PE-4 in a shelf.
And done. Time to get out of here.
He made sure the hall was still as devoid of people as when he entered it, then started the timer. Harry left the Department and after an elevator ride walked to Umbitch's office when the bombs blew up.
The immense shockwave of the plastic explosives destroyed many racks, but most important it popped all the prophecy bubbles in the hall like party balloons. Seconds later alarms started blaring.
Harry waited until the office door opened, then stunned and threw a portkey at the ugly toad. It whisked her away to the first target of a chain leading to her final destination. With some luck the ministry might suspect her of blowing up the prophecies. Nah, the explosives should be detectable. Then again most wizards are inbred morons. Whatever.
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Prudenas Greengrass had sent people to various places in Diagon Alley and elsewhere. While they did see Potter several times he usually was gone before Daphne reached the place. She had managed to talk to Harry only three times since she began her hunt.
The last time they actually talked over some parfait he invited her to at Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour. Harry was quite different from what she had expected. He was no goody two-shoes but actually solid gray similar to the Greengrasses themselves. It was funny how he reacted when she called him the "Gryffindor Golden Boy". Even if he wasn't a girl it was nice talking to him making her feel kinda strange.
In a few weeks Hogwarts will start again and he would have no way to escape her clutches! She was actually looking forward to it.
Daphne also tried to smooth things over with her girlfriend Tracey Davies who was extremely unhappy with her going after Potter. In her last letter she wrote in quite clear words that it was her or him. Damn!
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After leaving the ministry Harry ported to a mountainous area far in the north where he found Umbridge still stunned. He hung her upside down from a tree and woke her up.
"Wakey, wakey, you ugly toad!"
After a punch or three she finally stirred and opened her bulging eyes.
"Potter? I'll see you in Azkaban for this! I'm the Senior Under..."
Harry ramming his Audit Blade into her paunch shut her up for a moment, then she began screaming until he gave her head a good kick.
"Now let's get to business, fatso. You blackmailed, tortured, killed and worse you are a fucking freak of nature. How do you plead, bitch?"
When the pink toad opened her mouth Harry kicked her head again shutting her up.
"Guilty. Thought so. Your application for early retirement is hereby accepted."
Harry ripped out his blade and walked away.
"Kreacher! Get him!"
Seconds later and enormous mountain troll appeared in front of Umbridge. He was almost 13 feet tall with a weight of about one ton. The elves found a prime exemplar.
"Strange... seems he wants to play with his food."
Kreacher shook his head.
"The troll is not hungry, Master Harry. We fed him a dead horse to make sure he stays around so we didn't have to start searching a new one. He just ate the last of that."
Harry's eyes suddenly grew large.
"Holy shit, that thing must be the size of my thigh... Ugh, I don't want to see this."
Both elf and boy went back home as the screaming began.
The troll was rutting and had his fun for quite some time, even when Umbridge was long dead, before he started to feed on the remains. Nothing was ever found of her.
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The next day's Prophet main article was about the destroyed Hall of Prophecy. The room had ended up full of magically saturated multicolored sludge mixed with the shards of the prophecy bubbles and remains of the destroyed shelves. It was impossible to detect if there was any magical signature of the culprit, let alone reading it so the DMLE investigation went nowhere. The Unspeakables actually did detect traces of the explosives, but the secretive bastards told nobody about it.
A short article in the middle of other knick-knack mentioned the disappearance of Madam Umbridge. This also was a case without leads, but save Minister Fudge nobody missed the fat toad.