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"Yes it’s getting late, and you boys need your beauty sleep." |
"Says the old guy." Harry dodged a cuff from Sirius. |
"Harry." Albus called out. "It’s within the law as Chief Warlock, that guardianship could be revoked if your safety is in question. With Voldemort about, I could make a case for removal." |
Sirius tensed as he felt Harry’s magic spike, but to his surprise his godson along with George and Fred burst out laughing. |
Sirius looked confused. "Harry this is serious. He could actually..." |
The boys tried to get their laughter under control. "Oh." Harry wiped his eyes. "That was a good one Headmaster." |
"Mr. Potter, Messrs Weasley. I don’t see what is so funny." McGonagall said. |
"Sorry about that professor. I was just surprised that he thought he had a leg to stand on." Harry stalked back to the Headmaster’s desk. "When yourself, at least two other Ministry employees along with whatever geniuses decided that a fourteen year old boy should compete in a competition made for adults, you did me th... |
"What?!" The voices of Ted, Sirius, Albus, Minerva, and Snape rang out. |
"Oh yes. And to close any loopholes that you may be thinking about in the mundane world, my dear aunt signed over all custody in the mundane world to Sirius." |
"Lovely isn’t it. You see Sirius while you were with your account manager the last time we went to Gringotts, I was with mine. You’d made it clear that I was far behind in my Head of House education and I wanted to make you proud." Harry’s eyes stayed on the Headmaster as he spoke. |
"You see Headmaster, I have properties all over the world. All of which are warded to the hilt, and unplottable. My ancestors seemed to be paranoid like that. I have access to all of my properties and family vaults. If you ever threaten me with that again... I. Will. Vanish." |
Having made his point, he made his way back to the door. "Well let’s get out of here. Though none of us have potions or DADA, we still have those essays due for Natasha and Cara. You know how they are." All four in the know shivered, then proceeded to walk out of the door. |
"What do you mean that you don’t have potions or Defense Against the Dark Arts anymore Messrs Weasley? McGonagall asked. |
"How could we forget Forge..."Right dear brother how remiss of us..."We..."Have..."Our scores..."With us..."As well." The twins produced their exam scores with a flourish, after they made copies. |
Now all three of the professors, were in so much shock that Sirius wasn’t sure if he should go to floo Madame Pomfrey or not. |
George snickered at the inarticulateness of their prim and proper Head of House. "It’s quite simple really. Instead of trying to make us fit some mould, of how properly spells should be done. Every spell that we learned we had to list five ways to prank someone." |
Fred took up the tale. "You see our tutors didn’t want to kill our fire and our love for a good joke. They did teach us there was a line between bullying and pranking that you shouldn’t cross, but other than that they encouraged us to strive to be better without being judgmental."Fred gave an overblown wave. "Goodnight... |
Once in the hallway, the adults walked the boys to the tower and were about to take their leave. "We have to leave now that the emergency is over. Thanks for the call kiddos." Sirius said to the twins. |
"These rings are amazing! I could feel Harry’s tension and thought it best to call you...or expecto you. You get the point." Fred shrugged. |
Sirius pulled Harry into a hug. "Why didn’t you tell me you were emancipated?" |
"I..I didn’t want you to stop wanting me. I know I’m fifteen, but I still need guidance. I’m sorry." |
Sirius took Harry’s head into his hands and stared at him. "No force but death could stop me from wanting you as my son, and even then it will be so in the beyond." |
Ted hated to interrupt, but they needed to go. "Sirius." |
Sirius nodded and released Harry. He watched as George said "Mimbulus Mimbletonia." |
"Hey Neville had one on the train. I’ve got to get him to help me with my Herbology assignment that the ladies gave me." Harry muttered. |
"In you go." Sirius and Ted swatted their backsides. They watched as the boys slipped in, and then took their leave of the castle. |
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Back in the Headmaster’s office, everyone was sitting down quietly contemplating their actions. |
Severus refused to believe that Mistress Singh had taught the boy, and yet. Severus sighed. The scores proved it. And the abuse. How much had he suffered, only to have the world dropped on his shoulders at eleven. No knowledge of his fame. No knowledge of his heritage. No knowledge that he was a wizard until Hagrid sho... |
Minerva was a broken witch. She had not only failed her most favorite student’s son, but she had failed her whole house. She was smart enough to know that what Potter had said was right. She had let them down. Her unfailing loyalty to Albus had led her to do all of her work and most of his. |
Albus was just brooding. How could all of his plans have gone so wrong? But he could fix one thing he thought as he made his way slowly to Severus |
"Severus. One day I will pay for my crimes against Harry for leaving him in an abusive home, and for Sirius for not getting him a trial." Albus had his wand in his hand, his eyes intent on Severus. The fire in the eyes, and the aura of the magic pulsing from the aged wizard actually frightened the potions master. "I al... |
"Headmaster." Snape grew alarmed as the Headmaster slowly advanced on him. His wand tip glowing blue. He backed up into a bookcase. "It was necessary to keep my cover as your spy." |
"I have long known of your hatred of the name Potter and anything Gryffindor for that matter, but I had hoped that you would see that he is as much Lily’s son as James. You and I both assumed that he was being treated well and even spoiled, and we were both wrong. But you took your hatred of James Potter out on a child... |
Snape was trying to blend into the bookcase. "Headmaster..." |
Severus thought that the look in Dumbledore’s eyes was a close to demonic as he could get. Albus was an inferno of magic right now, and Snape had no way out. "I will be watching Severus. I see now that I have given you too much leeway as my spy. That ends now. You have lost your points reduction and adding privileges u... |
"If I ever again hear that you have treated another student so horribly, as to call them a Knockturn Alley whore." Severus made to defend himself, but the Headmaster interrupted. "Oh yes Severus. I know exactly what you meant when you said those words to her. If I hear of you saying something so foul or anything else s... |
Severus swallowed. "Yes. Headmaster." |
"Good. Now leave." |
Snape made a hasty retreat. |
"We need to..." Minerva began. |
"Not tonight my friend. I must get some rest." Albus was a broken man. |
Minerva left the Headmaster’s office, the door shut behind her. |
Albus stood staring out of the window. "What have I done?" he muttered. |
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Minerva walked through the halls towards her quarters in a daze. She thought through everything that Harry had said, and he had been right. The other Heads would talk about promising first years in the staff lounge, but she never had anything to say. She didn’t bother to get to know her first years until at least the t... |
As she made it to her rooms and got into her tartan night gown, she had made a decision. That was until an elf popped in and said that she was needed in the common room. |
"Can I please just have one night without a crisis.’ She got dressed again and went to the Lions den. |
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Harry, Fred and George had just entered the common room, when they heard shouting. |
"He’s the boy who lived! It’s his job to defeat you-know-who!" |
Ron shot back. "How about you bloody well defend yourselves! There are more of us than there are of them! Why don’t you actually fight back?!" Ron was pissed. |
"Is there a problem." Harry’s deceptively smooth voice cut in. |
All eyes turned to the entrance to see George, Fred and Harry enter. |
Seamus got back on his soap box. "We were talkin bout the article with Skeeter. Me mum didn’t want to send me back here with that rubbish you spouted off in the paper. How ya wouldn’t help us defeat You Know Who. You are the Boy Who Lived. You’re a Gryffindor! And if you can’t fight to the death than you aint worth the... |
Harry looked around to the people nodding. Some of whom where on the Quidditch team. At that point Harry made a decision. "Toffy." |
"What can Toffy do for Mas..." |
Harry cleared his throat. He had asked the head elf not to inform them of his changed status. |
"Please bring Professor McGonagall here if you would please." |
A few minutes later, Professor McGonagall appeared. "What on earth is going on?" She asked as she took in the scene. |
"My apologies professor, but it has been brought to my attention that It was my job alone to take care of Voldemort. And that if I didn’t I wasn’t worthy to be a Gryffindor. Isn’t that right Seamus?" |
Seamus said nothing in the face of his professor’s ire. |
"In light of his accusations, I have decided to quit the quidditch team." |
There was a collective gasp. |
"Harry! No wait we..." |
Harry shook his head. "No Katie. I saw you agree with what he was saying. If I can’t depend on you in the common room, I can’t depend on you in the air." Harry was pleased as Longbottom stood to his right, and Ron to his left. They both stood tall and proud at his side, while George and Fred stood behind him. |
Fred and George looked at each other and nodded. "We quit." They said together. |
There another collective gasp. The twins were legendary, with the beater bats! |
"Mr Potter and Messrs Weasley. Are you sure?" Minerva asked, but she already knew the answer. |
Harry nodded his head. "Absolutely. When we first arrived here, you said our house was like our family. Professor I have been stared at by my house for being the famous "boy who lived’ while they forgot that my parents died. I have been ridiculed for being a Parselmouth. Which by the way, I made two hundred galleons fo... |
"Messrs Weasley?" |
"We stand with Harry." They both said. |
"Very well. To bed all of you. And I do mean to bed!" |
Minerva watched as the children all scrambled to their dorms, except for Fred and George. |
"Call us if you need us babe." Fred kissed him |
"We’ll be right there." And then George did the same. |
The twins watched as Harry headed to his dorm. They both turned to McGonagall who was still standing there. |
"He doesn’t hate you you know..." |
"He’s just disappointed..." |
"He has his father’s journals..." |
"And it paints you in a different light..." |
"He’s more hurt than anything else." |
Minerva held her head high. "That will be changing soon. Of that I promise. Now off to bed." |
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Something woke Fred up. He extended his magic to determine if it was a threat, while at the same time grasping his wand and knife under his pillow. He immediately let go of both as he felt Harry’s magic call to him. Fred held open the blankets and held out his hand. |
Harry scrambled to get into bed with him. Fred held him close as he sobbed quietly. |
There was a dip in the bed behind Harry. He reached out and grabbed George’s hand and wrapped it around him. Fred stroked his hair as he hummed an absent made up tune. |
No words were said. The brothers just let Harry release the stress of the day as they held him. They occasionally gave soft kisses to his head or neck. Otherwise they let him grieve as he saw fit. They both knew that Harry had many pressures thrust upon him, but they never truly knew until now. Harry eventually fell as... |
"Absolutely brother." |
And the rest of the seventh year dorm didn’t say a thing, while they were pretending to be asleep. |
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All of Gryffindor house was forced awake by an army of house elves at six am. They were made to shower, dress, and groom before meeting in the common room promptly at seven. |
Both Professor McGonagall, and Professor Babbling were there waiting for them all to come in. |
"Good. You’re all here. Now. There will be some changes to Gryffindor House, and how it’s run." She looked to the twins and Harry only briefly, before it turned back to the rest of the house. |
She read the new rules out loud from a scroll. |
"1. There will be no more attacks on Slytherins, unless in self defense. All pranks will cease on that house just because they wear green will end here and now. If there is a problem, then I will investigate. And no matter the house, they will be punished." |
"2. All students of the Lion’s Den will be subject to mandatory meetings with me once a month. I wish to check on your progress as students." |
"3. Quidditch is no longer the most important thing to this house. If your grades are failing, you don’t get to play. |
"4. There will be a mentorship programme established. For the years five through seven, it will actually count as extra credit. See the bulletin board by the entrance." |
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