Harry Potter is not mine. This is a story from a fan.
When you're done, You're DONE.
Ch 28 Why don't we start from the beginning?
"We are here because he did magic in a Muggle area and he needs to be punished. We are also here because it is his third time" Fudge screamed.
Amelia looked up at those words as Andromeda looked at her asking did you know. Amelia shook her head and turned to the minister, "His third time. Why didn't I hear anything about that". Fudge didn't know what to say but Amelia did. "So tell me, if Mr Potter had done Underage magic three times. Why wasn't the head of the D.M.L.E notified that he did? It is and has been my task. Just because he is the boy who lived does not give him any privilege to do it. The Law is clear on this point" Amelia told him. "After the first violation the offender has to report to me the head of the D.M.L.E.". This time she turned back to Harry. "Mr. Potter why didn't you come to me after your first Violation".
This was something Harry didn't know. If he had known he was sure she would be more willing to listen to him than any other. Maybe if he had done it the whole Basilisk would not have happened. Just before he could say something Albus spoke up. "Mr, Potter never received the letter because it was sent to me. I have dealt with it and there was no punishment needed. After I looked at it it was a simple misunderstanding".
"Why are you receiving my mail? You already put me in a place where people hate me and now you are even reading my mail. Are you also reading the mail from the ferret over there" while Harry was pointing at Draco who he saw standing at the far side of the balcony. Albus shook his head but Harry knew he could go on, even more when Tonks whispered to go on to him in his ear. "You know I think you all are thinking I get everything but I wonder if you would say that again if you knew what I had before I got to Hogwarts".
"Now is not the time Harry" Albus told him.
"It never is the time Headmaster, Yet now that I found out I could have cleared myself back then it could have gone another way. Not only that but a moment ago I also found out that you kept it from me. I do wonder if there was anything else I had to respond to. Things what you did in my name".
"Your Gringotts accounts, and your medical vaccinations" Luna screamed.
"What do you mean by accounts Luna, I only have my trust vault and nothing more" Harry called out realizing everyone was looking at him in complete silence. His eyes turned from Luna to Albus and they slowly started to turn hard. "When I go to Gringgotts and see my accounts, will they be in the state my parents left them to me or not". Albus only nodded as he looked back into his eyes. "Let's hope you are right or we will be back here before you can call for your Phoenix".
Amelia had been looking on and knew that she had to jump in. But every time she wanted to she could not because another thing she didn't know was called out. She did look at the girl that was hanging over the Balcony and wondered how she knew. It was then she remembered Harry calling that girl Luna. Could it be that she was Luna Lovegood the daughter of Selina Lovegood? If she was she had gotten her name by her mother. Meaning she was the heir of the Lovegood estate and knew that every Lord had more than one fault. As she looked back at Harry she realized he wasn't wearing his family ring. He was too young to be a Lord but he needed to wear his heir ring of the house of Potter. If he had the talk at Gringotts, the one every heir gets. Then he would be wearing it right now. So he wasn't the next Lord Potter or he never got the talk. "Mr Potter" she started. "After we are done here you will be staying with me for as long as I need to get everything straightened out". Harry could only nod as Tonks placed her hands on his shoulders. "So Let's go back to that first letter you didn't get".
"Well, I got the warning but not the summon to your Office," Harry told her.
This time Amelia turned to Fudge. Her look was one of anger and Harry raised his eyebrow. He knew she wasn't mad at him but the question was why she was now. "If mister Potter has received his warning. And the ministry did send out the letter for him to contact us. Tell me, minister, why did I not hear about it and why didn't he report to my office". Fudge looked down and started to ruffle with his papers. He mumbled something but it was not clear to Amelia what he said. "Minister, I did not hear you, could you repeat that again?"
"Albus asked me not to and we cleared it together," he said again.
"So there was no hearing, no talk and nothing was done. Did Mr Dumbledore tell you why and how it happened" she asked Harry.
"I think he didn't because he did not tell me. If he did he is talking a lot about me and I do wonder if I have anything left when I get out of here" Harry called out, as Amelia turned back to Fudge.
Albus screamed and Amelia had to hide her laughter. She waited for Fudge to answer her but wondered if it would be any good. "Albus told me it was just accidental magic nothing more, We didn't need to investigate or do anything about it".
Amelia looked at Andromeda and told her to take it away. "So minister" she started, "You did not ask Mr Potter what it was about. So it could have been something else but we didn't know because you didn't ask him. Why do we not ask him now, maybe he was as innocent as he claims to be at this point".
Fudge thought he saw an opening so he jumped right in. "So you believe he is as guilty as I think he is, you clearly said he claims to be".
"You had walked straight into the trap didn't you, you fool" Tracy Davis screamed from her spot on the balcony. Everyone looked up and some smiled. Mr Davis told her to sit down but Tracy shook her head. "He not only claims to be innocent but he also is. He is here to explain himself and to tell you that the asshole is back.
"He is not BACK" Fudge screamed.
"Says you" Daphne Greengrass screamed over him. "Yet you are not giving him a fair trial. Why don't you let him tell you everything so we can have some fun when you get kicked out".
Fudge was hammering away and Andromeda had to hide her laugh a little. "You do know she got a point there" while she looked at the minister. We have just found out there had been mistakes made on both sides".
"He has blown up his aunt" Cornelius screamed. This was another thing they didn't know and they looked at Harry. He only held up three fingers and they knew it was before his third year. "He also did a repairing charm on a chimney, a shrinking charm on his cousin, and a Darkmark at the Quidditch World Cup. And he can't deny it because we had his wand and Mr Croutch proved it by performing a revelio charm. If that wasn't all, he also turned the hair of some muggle female bleu. He apparated without a license to a roof of a muggle building before the eyes of some muggles no less".
#*
This time Andromeda asked for a time out. She knew they had just started but as his lawyer, she had the ability to ask for a recess. Fudge wanted to deny it but when he saw the look from Lucius he thought twice about it. When she had one he could use it too to get together with Lucius and Umbridge. So before Andromeda could do something else, he had already rushed out of the chamber and back to his office. He left it to Amelia to say how long they would have before they had to come back. She gave them all an hour and it left some people to get something from the ministerial restaurant.
#*
Susan had made her way to the restaurant. She had been walking hand in hand with Neville as she looked at all the others. They were followed by Augusta who only smiled. She didn't know what was happening or what her grandson was doing. But she did know one thing and that was that the Potter Longbottom alliance was stronger than he ever was. She had hoped that he who must not be named wasn't back. but somehow she believed in Potter because her grandson did.
"Daphne, what do you think you are doing speaking up like that in full of everyone else" David Greengrass called out. Augusta stopped and looked at the side. David was a member who never said must but now he did. She had to give it to the girl. She herself would have a little fear running through her, but this girl didn't look away at all. "I have taken you along because you asked me to. But by the way you were interrupting this meeting tell me you had something else on your mind. As I told you before we are here to discipline the accused if they have done wrong".
"Really, Father" Daphne screamed back.
It was something that made Augusta look up. This girl was going against one of the biggest members of the Wizangemot. David had a Noble and ancient house status. They were one of the oldest. Only her own house, the house of Longbottom together with the house of Potter and Black were older and higher up. They were the Noble and Most Ancient houses. They could go back to the years of the founders and further. Greengrass is not that far just like Abbot, Parkinson, and Weasley. Malfoy was one of the lowest and only a Noble house. They came from France and had bribed their way into the Wizangemot.
"I'm not sure if I'm looking at it the same way. One of the oldest houses was down there on the floor. He was accused of the most terrible crime a Wizard could do before killing someone. He according to the ministry had brought the status of secrecy down by performing a spell before muggles. Yet after only ten minutes we all found out it wasn't so. Then there were the times he saved the school from Dementors. You have heard it for yourself. They had been there on the train and on the grounds. When they got to the quidditch match our headmaster had a lot of trouble keeping them back. He did give us enough time to get into the school. He saved us by closing the doors behind us and himself. If Harry did what he said he did then he took care of hundreds of them Something Headmaster Albus could not do. In our second year, he saved us from something that petrified us".
It was at that moment that Daphne stopped and looked at Susan. "I never told my father about our second year why can I do that now".
Susan had to think about it a little and it was Hannah who knew. "Susan the potion we get at Hogwarts must be wearing off". Susan snapped her fingers and all of the students started to lose their tops.
David Greengrass knew about the potions and stepped back. His daughter was one who could put the fear in a lot of them and this time she placed that fear in him. He did realize that they must have missed a lot more. Suddenly the words from his daughter were making more and more sense to him. They didn't even hear the tip of what really happened at Hogwarts during the year. "What kind of beast was it that was running through Hogwarts" he asked a little hesitant.
"According to Harry it was a Basilisk" Neville spoke up.
The color that was left on the faces of the adults that were around them was slowly draining from them and if it was true they needed to know a lot more. "So you want Harry to be free and not to be punished" David asked them all.
This time the group huddled together and were whispering a lot. It was when Luna nodded and Susan spoke. "No, we want Harry to tell us everything. We know him well and we also know he wants it this way. He wants to tell us everything and that everyone who was wrong gets their punishment. If he was one of them he would take that punishment too. He did it in his first year when he was out of bed at night. Hermione Granger and Draco have been complaining about it for weeks after they had done it. Harry just took it like a man just like my Neville did. They just did the punishment and didn't complain or anything".
"Wait, if you do that you only get some detention like cleaning cauldrons" David spoke up.
"Not with Harry, I was in the same detention with Hermione and Malfoy. We had to go to the forbidden forest and search for a wounded unicorn. Hermione and I went with Hagrid. Harry had to go with Malfoy but he ran away so Harry was on his own" Neville told them.
"He is right" sounded the voice from Minerva.
"Professor you are here," Susan asked surprised.
"Yes my dear, But I didn't know you all had started earlier. I wanted to give you all detention by cleaning the trophy room, But Albus wanted you all to help Hagrid. It was yesterday that I realized that I did wrong by Mr Potter. So I'm here to help him if I can. I do not know if he broke the status of secrecy. If he did he must have had a good explanation for it. He would not do it if he could help it". There was something more Minerva knew but she wasn't going to say it here in the restaurant. For the last month, she had gone home, where she had found out that she had been drugged while she had been at Hogwarts. So while she was here to help Mr Potter, she was also here to talk to Amelia about it. She knew about the potions in Hogwarts but they should not have been this strong. Just a little bit to calm everybody down enough that had been the idea behind it.
David had been thinking about it all. when he got here today he thought about a simple meeting. Just listen a little bit and place judgment. It was as simple as that, he thought. Now almost two hours further he knew it would be a lot more. At the start, he didn't know who they would have before them. When he saw it was the boy who lived, he also started to have second thoughts about the Dark Lord. The last thing he wanted was that asshole between them again. He remembered the horrors from those days. It were memories that were still haunting his dreams on many nights. As he thought about it he knew they were in the best position to find out the truth. Not only could they ask Mr Potter what had happened. But they also could place the blame on the people who had done it. But to get that they needed to be Slytherins about it. He held up his hands and looked at his daughter. "I do not know what you are talking about but I want to know it all. We have to get Harry a real trial. Not this one but one that will hear him out". It was now that he turned to Luna, "Do you really think Harry will accept punishment if he is in the wrong".
Luna looked up at him with her big wide eyes. "Yes, he would. There is only one problem. He isn't wrong and you will hear it if you hear him out. I believe him and I will stand behind him, as will my sisters".
David looked at the girls around him and he saw all of them nod. His daughter was one of them and he knew she would give him hell if he did not do it fair. "Alright, I will go to Amelia and make her a deal. I will ask if we can make it a big trial because there has been more than one underage performing of magic violation. Now we had to find out if it was a violation. If not we have to find out why and if we could have done something about it". David wanted to know what his daughter thought about it. But when he saw her point the way he knew he had to do it.
#*
Andromeda had taken Harry along to the office of Amelia where she sat him down in a chair and started to walk left and right. "Why didn't you tell us" she called out.
"I did tell you all, it is in one of those files, it is labeled as the thirteenth of year four," he told her as Tonks and Amelia walked in.
"Harry" Tonks called out. "when you gave us those memories you gave us the whole day at once. I know we need to know it but it is too much to watch in a day. I know watching memories is faster than it is in real-time. But an hour is still fifteen minutes in real-time. So eight hours of memory is two hours of real time. You have given us a week of memories. We could not watch it all".
Harry listened and nodded as he heard the words. It took him a little while before he asked what they could do. It was now that the others realized that it was the first time they had time to prepare a little. Before any of them could say a thing there was a knock on the door. Amelia first looked at the clock but saw that they had more than forty minutes left. So she opened the door and almost fell back in shock. "Aunt Dorea" Andromeda called out as she looked at the women that stood in the doorway.
Dorea Potter walked in and looked from all of them to the mirror copy of her son. His eyes were those of Lily but his face was of her son. Without a word, she walked to him and took him in a hug. It was the worst thing she could have done. Harry pushed her off and went for his wand. His magic grabbed around him and it pulled Tonks away from the fight. Spells were already forming in his mind as his eyes were looking everywhere. Andromeda was looking on in shock as was Amelia. Harry was looking at this woman that attacked him and Andromeda was looking at him. He did not know if it was fear or anger but she was another person to look out for. It all took a second in his mind but he saw it all. None of them had pulled their wand so it was the one thing that kept him from throwing spells.
It was then that another woman walked past the first one and her magic slammed him to the ground. Harry could not move and the fear took over. His own magic started to lash out and he was pushing everything to the side. The woman kept on coming but it was clear that Harry was fighting her. Her own magic pushed the others away as she made her way closer to Harry. Dorea could feel it and stepped away. She knew that Harry was her grandson but it was clear he didn't know her. She did wonder why he didn't know her because if he had lived in Potter Manor he must have known her by her portraits. To her shock, she could see how Harry pushed Morgana away and how he crawled back to his feet. He was fighting her with the same power as Morgana was fighting him. In a way, she was in awe but also in fear. Could it be that her grandson was stronger than Morgana? If he was and he did not know how to handle the magic. He could be a walking timebomb. There was one thing they knew and that was that Harry had been kept in the dark for a long time.
#*
David had left the restaurant and made his way to the one place he was sure to find Amelia. As he stepped out of the elevator in the bull pin he hit a wall of magic. He looked around and saw all the Aurors lying all over the place. He didn't know what had happened but he could bearly take a step. He did push on but he could not get far. There was a wall of magic that was nothing like a ward. He did look for rune signs but there were none. As an old Auror, he knew about wards and about barriers. But this was something he never felt or seen before. When the bell from the elevator behind him sounded he turned around.
Alan Croaker stepped out of the elevator. He was the only Unspeakable who showed his face. He didn't say a thing but only held his hand out to feel the air in front of him. He could feel the wall of magic and he swallowed hard. David was only looking at him and didn't dare to speak up. Slowly Alan shook his head and waved his hands around. "Damn, she is using even more magic than she had done when she stepped out of the doorway," he said.
"What are you talking about" David asked him.
"Morgana you idiot. I do not know how she did it or if she could have done it before but Morgana is still alive. She stepped into this world and left for Gringotts. I have heard she came back and that she went to this floor, I do not know why but she did. Now that I'm here I can feel her magic just like I did when she came here. But this time it is more powerful than it was two hours ago".
David listened to it all and wondered if he should go looking for a healer. One thing was sure and Allan Croaker was not all there anymore. He thought that seeing Voldemort returning from the death was a far-fetched idea. But seeing Morgana coming back was even worse. He did wonder if he would start seeing dead people too if he stood here long enough. Now he didn't believe Harry Potter, but he wanted to know why he thought it. Something had happened and his daughter was following and believing in him. Why he didn't know but he knew it started at the end of their first year.
#*
David had left the restaurant as Daphne turned around to the others. Her eyes rested on Susan but she didn't know what to say. It took her a couple of seconds before her mind became clear again. "Susan, what is happening to us? I know we can't and that I do not want to be with Harry. But I got the feeling that I had to be in some way. I feel like he is my leader or savior or something like that".
Susan looked back at her friend Hannah. They had the same feelings and also knew what Daphne meant. "Well, I want to be with him too, but not like that. Neville is my boyfriend, and that feels right. If I'm with Harry, it also feels right, but like a friend. If the three of us were together, I knew that Neville was still my boyfriend and Harry my friend. But he was also my leader or something like that.
"Like he is your teacher, your Lord, Let's say your highpriest with his highpriestress Nyphadora Tonks" Sounded a voice from behind them. All the girls that had been standing in a circle turned on the spot and looked at their divination professor. Susan could do only one thing and nodded as she thought about it. She had been having these feelings from the moment Harry had walked passed her when his name was called. She had already been sitting at her house table but she could feel him gliding passed her. So she nodded again. "You girls walk with us. We have something to tell you about Morgana Lafay".
One after the other, the girls followed Syble. On the side of the hallway were a lot of females who were part of one of the covens. Apolline was standing next to Bathilda and Rita. She looked on and counted the girls that were following Syble. I counted about nine girls altogether. My daughters will be among them. Because I know Fleur is already behind both of them.
Rita nodded because she had seen the same things at Hogwarts when she had spied on them during their fourth year. "I know I've seen it all. In their fourth year, it were those girls that never wore the Potter stink badges and they were following him in everything he did. At the end of that year only a little over a month ago. It were those same girls that believed in him from the start. Not only did they believe in him when he said he hadn't entered his name in the goblet of fire. Something I did believe myself, another thing I'm still ashamed about. They had believed in him from the moment he came back. It was clear in the way they were defending and helping him today".
Apolline nodded as she looked on at how the girls followed Syble to another office. It was now that she thanked her husband for being the minister of France. When she came here and visited Amelia. She immediately arranged a meeting room so she could get things done. Amelia knew it had nothing to do with anything for the ministry. But Amelia would never ask any questions. As long as it didn't bring any trouble for her, she would be fine with it. "Let's follow them. We do not have much time to tell them what is happening or what we want them to do. So we better do it quick or Harry might be left alone".
In the meeting room, Syble stopped and pointed them all to a chair. As the girls sat down the other ladies were all walking in. The girls could only look on as all of them stepped through the doorway. All of them pulled out their wands and waved them over themselves. All of their clothes changed into a black robe and a hood went over their faces. One after the other did it and took a place along the wall. When Apolline walked in as the last person the door was closed by spells. Slowly she walked around all the girls and turned around when she was at the head of the table. It shook her a little when she saw all of their wands pointed at her. When she looked them all in the eye she had to smile. There in the middle of them all stood Susan Bones. She knew her and it was clear that Amelia had trained her well. Something told her this would be a young lady you could not mess with. She held up her hands in surrender for a second or five, then slowly removed her hood from her head after those five seconds. It was now that she saw that Susan knew her and dropped her wand. "Thank you all for coming. We are the sisters of the Coven from Morgana. We are here to ask you all to join the head coven that will be ruled by".
"Harry and Tonks," all of the girls said in unison.
"What, how do you know" Apolline asked.
"We didn't but we knew it had to be Harry, and Susan knew it had to be with Tonks" Luna spoke up.
Apolline mumbled something about they were too smart for this but turned to Syble. "You are the head of it all and also the high priestess of England, so you tell them".
Syble nodded and turned to the girls. "Well, tonight we will all be going..."
This is it again for this time see you all in two weeks.
Gr Winmau
