The Boys Who Lived

CHAPTER 3

On their fifth birthday, yeah they decided that since their birthdays were so close they would just share one and make it two days long. Childhood logic, who knows. They were going to have their very first birthday party, and they were very excited about it. They had invited several people, mostly big people, but that is who they knew most, but some of the big people had kids so there should be some kids too.

Like Amelia Bones had her niece Susan who they met about six months ago, she is really nice, she likes to play blocks and tea party, although they don’t really like to play tea party too much. She says it teaches them manners, what ever those are.

Then there is Mr. Diggory he has a son named Cedric, he talks a lot about a game called Quittitch, and you play it on brooms. He even came by and taught Harry and Neville how to use their beginner brooms. Well Sirius and Frank had done most of the real work, you know…holding them on there till they got the hang of balancing themselves, and how to go up and down and left and right things like that. Cedric taught them the neat stuff like how to make a tight corner, how to stop on a sickle, how to switch directions mid flight, things like that. Neville could even do a figure eight now, and Harry could do really tight Circles or spins. They were getting better at catching a ball while on the back of a broom too. Sirius and Frank seemed to think they would be the greatest chaser team ever known to Hogwarts.

Then there was Mr. Weasley, he had a bunch of kids, most of them were pretty nice, Charlie liked dragons, Percy liked to read them stories, the twins like to get dirty and try and get into trouble, the one they had problems with was Ron. At first Ron was alright until he decided that he only wanted to play with Harry and not with Neville, he kept telling Neville to go away that he and Harry were playing. Then one day, it made Neville cry and that was it; Harry called Ron a bully, and that was one thing he hated was a bully and he turned around and raced after Neville and the two played together the rest of the day completely ignoring Ron. Every since then they refuse to play with Ron at all. They barely even talk to him, and then only if the big people made them.

Then there is Mr. Lovegood, he has a daughter who knows how to see things that other people can’t see. She used her imagination and bam there it is. Thing is, she knows things she shouldn’t aught to know, like things that are going to happen before they happen. And she is really good at it too. She doesn’t want anyone to know about it ‘cause she is ’fraid people will hurt her if they knew, but she told Harry and Neville ‘cause they are her friends, her best friends. Her only other real friend is Ginny Weasley.

Next there was Mr. Tonks. His name is Uncle Ted and his wife’s name is Aunt Andy. They had a daughter who’s name is Tonks which is a little silly, it really isn’t her name and they found out her real name but couldn’t say it so they just call her cousin Dora. She can make her hair change colors just by thinking ‘bout it, and her eyes too. She once gave herself a pig nose. No kidding, a pig nose.

Last there was Mr. Abbott, he has a daughter named Hannah, she likes all kinds of animals. She loved playing teddybears and dragons. She is best friends with Susan, they spend a lot of time together. When ever Amelia has to work, Susan stays with Hannah and her family. Apparently they live very close together.

And they had invited Mr. Shackelbolt, and Mr. Moody, they worked with Sirius and Frank a long time ago. Mr Dawlish was going to try and make it too.

Once everyone got there the party finally started, the kids started with a piñata and Neville was the one to break it, candy and goodies went everywhere. Ron tried to take it all, but Luna picked up a couple of hand fulls and gave one to his little sister Ginny who was too shy to let go of her mother’s hand to play the game.

Then they played tag and Harry tagged Cedric, who was good at being it, because he was so much bigger than everyone else he won by miles and miles. But little Hanna Abbot scraped her knee and had to have her daddy kiss it and make it better. Although he really waved his wand over it, then kissed it afterwards. It still got fixed.

Then they played hide and go seek. They thought they lost little Luna but she had hidden in a tree out in the back yard and had fallen asleep and didn’t hear people calling her name. So she didn’t know they were searching for her, her mommy found her though, she has a special pendant that can always locate her no matter what and after they found Luna and woke her up, Sirius said that he was going to get one of those things too.

They put on some music and danced for a while and that was really fun, Ron didn’t want to play so it made that much better and everyone else had a lot of fun. Fred and George were a lot of fun to dance with. So was Luna, she dances like a fairy and enjoyed dancing the most with Harry though.

Next they did cake and ice cream. Ron’s mother had to tell him to stop going back for more and to let the other kids have a chance to have some, which made him cry and he ended up having to be given a time out he threw such a fit. There were two cakes! Two whole cakes, each boy ate a small piece of each one, one was strawberry swirl the other was chocolate swirl. And they had chocolate chip and strawberry cheesecake ice-creams.

When it came time to have presents almost everyone got the same things for both boys, which was fun. Sirius bought both boys a Comet T60 broom, and all the safety stuff that went with it. They were a real brooms! Not some baby brooms… It wasn’t big brooms like Cedric’s but they was just their size. Ron was so jealous he got mad, and tried to make Neville give him his broom so he and Harry could ride together. When Neville said no, he punched him. That got Ron sent home. Neville had a bloody nose but Aunt Andy fixed it right up…did you know she was a doctor person?

Luna got them an ‘cyclopedia of magical creatures, it has lots of books in it. Luna loves magical creatures, like unicorns, and nargles. Alice is going to teach Harry and Neville how to look things up in the books and how to read too. They already knew their letters and could read small books but not big books like these.

The Weasleys got the boys a selection of candies from Honeyduke’s Candy Store. They got some more Chocolate frogs. They are frogs made out of chocolate and when you open them up they jump at you just like a real frog, but if you bite it, it stops jumping. It was gross the first time Harry ate one, but after that it was fun. Neville cried the first time he had to bite one, he thought it was a real frog and didn’t want to hurt it, but Frank told him it was just a candy so it wasn’t real, and he went ahead and bit it. Then he was okay. Now he knows they are just chocolate. Now they are both trying to collect the cards, but they decided to share their cards and so they have a pretty big collection now.

The Diggory’s got Neville a set of yard tools which he loved and Harry a little compass for his broom which he loved. They knew that Cedric had picked out their gifts because only Cedric knew that Neville like to play in the green houses with the plants.

Susan Bones and Amelia got the boys a new set of building blocks that inter-link, so they can make HUGE castles now! Their old set is great but it is too easy for Salem to knock over, this set will be harder for that bad cat to knock down.

Hanna Abbot got the two a real chaser ball, a quaffle, a real one, not the practice size one they had been playing with. This one was way bigger. So they may have to wait to play with it until they are bigger but they had a real one now.

Alastor Moody got each one of them a practice wand, it lights up when you say Lumos and shuts off when you say Nox. It works just like a real wand only it is for little people.

Mr. Shackelbolt got them each a desk set that had a book on how to learn to use a quill and their very own quill and ink set.

Mr. Dawlish got them a miniature Hogwarts Express set. He said they would have to let Frank and Sirius play with it too though, and everyone laughed about that for a while; although Frank and Sirius were real excited about that gift.

Alice got them clothes, a whole new wardrobe of stuff. Especially play stuff, thank goodness. They run out of play clothes pretty quickly. Mud seems to do bad things to clothes that you never can undo.

Frank got them several costumes and little outfits to play dress up in. And he got a toy box to put them all in. He also bought a set of Dragons so when they were playing knights and dragons they would actually have a dragon to fight, or dragon riders they would have their own dragon they would be able to ride.

The Tonks’ bought each boy a bicycle and spent a couple of hours teaching them how to ride it. They had training wheels but Uncle Ted still did all the hard work. It was great fun, Neville actually liked it better than brooms since you didn’t have to be off the ground to do it. But Harry liked them both equally, although the broom went faster.

Just as they were getting ready to sit down to eat lunch the alarms went off all over the place and in a sudden red shower, in popped a man and a giant flaming chicken. The man had on a set of purple robes with gold stars shooting across them this way and that, and he had a really really long beard.

All around the room wands were drawn and pointed at the old man and curses were on the tips of each person’s tongue until they realized who it was. Then some people decided not to curse him, unfortunately for him the two guests of honor has no such thoughts going through their heads.

“Bad Whiskers!” Was all they said and with only their raised hands this time they sent the old man sailing across the room and into the wall. Splat…just like ‘bad kitty’. Harry and Neville went up to the old man and Harry raised his hand and said “My wand!” And sure enough Dumbledore’s wand shot out of his sleeve and into Harry Potter’s hand. Dumbledore couldn’t believe what he was seeing. The wand of Destiny had a new Master and it was a five year old little boy named Harry Potter.

“Bad Whiskers, naughty!” Harry passed the wand over to Neville and before Neville could say anything else Amelia stopped him and rushed over to the boys and stopped them for the moment. “I know that he ruined your birthday party boys but we have to find out why he was here before we punish him.”

“No, He’s Naughty. He scared little Luna, look.” Neville pointed over to where Xenophilius and Luna were standing and there was Xeno with his wand drawn like every other adult but between his legs huddled on the floor was his daughter with her hands over her eyes, and she appeared to be crying.

“Well we will get Persephone to take care of little Luna and let me take care of Naughty Whiskers, for the moment, you can keep your wand on him though if you want… ok?” Amelia bargained, apparently scaring their little friend was a huge bad thing to the boys, and this was the best bargain she was going to get for now she hoped.

The boys looked at each other then nodded, both of them looked at the Naughty Whiskers and squinted waiting for him to make any kind of bad move.

“All right Dumbledore” Amelia said. “What are you doing here, I know for a fact you were not invited and you are not wanted here, so why are you here?”

“If you will remove me from this wall, I will give you the gift I brought for young Mr. Potter.” Dumbledore said.

Amelia looked at him and shook her head. “First, I didn’t put you there, so I can’t take you down. Second, the fact that you brought a gift for one of the boys and not the other… just insulted one of the hosts of this party so I don’t see them wanting to let you down any time soon. And third, you don’t have to be released from that wall for me to reach into your robes and get the item in question. So… no.”

“It is in the front left inside pocket of my robes.” Dumbledore sighed with resignation. This was definitely not going the way he expected it to go.

Amelia reached into the aforementioned pocket and pulled out a neatly wrapped soft packet then looked at it, scanning it several times, then handed it over to Sirius and Frank to scan it some more. Once satisfied Sirius opened it and couldn’t believe his eyes. It was James’ invisibility cloak. They had been through the wreckage of the cottage half a dozen times and hadn’t found this thing, and it was one of the things on the list to find too. “You stole James’ invisibility cloak! You bloody bastard!” Sirius took aim and fired a shot at Dumbledore’s head but Amelia fired as well and Sirius’ shot hit Amelia’s shield and fizzled out.

“I only borrowed, I didn’t steal.” Dumbledore exclaimed as he dodged as best as he could plastered to a wall.

“Liar! James would never let this out of his sight knowingly! This could have saved them, you stole this and they died for it!” Sirius shouted, starting to get red in the face. They had wondered why it hadn’t been in the ruble of the cottage but just assumed it has burned up before the fire could be put out.

Harry and Neville didn’t understand much about what was going on right now but they understood this, that Whiskers had somehow stolen something that belonged to Harry’s daddy that could have saved both his mommy and daddy’s life. Neville who had the wand at this time aimed it at Dumbledore and shouted, “Bad Whiskers tell the truth!” Then a sparkling ring encircled Dumbledore’s neck and he gasped for air, “Yes! Yes, I stole it! James had no clue what it was. He had no clue how valuable it was.”

“Bad Whiskers stole from Harry’s family? Give it back! Give it all back!” Shouted Neville as he pointed the wand at the old man. Before their eyes a huge pile of books appeared joined by a massive pensieve, two golden thrones (one he used in the dining hall, one he used in his office), and gold and gems, piles of the stuff. And the things kept coming, trinkets and pieces of jewelry of all kinds, wands, daggers, picture frames, even two house elves popped into the room looking around the room trying to figure out what was going on, a huge mirror, several brooms, more books and several robes… all quite distinguished looking, three large seven compartment trunks. The room was getting a little tight so Frank moved the lunch table to over against the wall to allow for more stuff to appear, and it did appear. Bottles of wine and liqueur, some candelabras and several candle stick holders, and racks and racks of potions. Then all the popping stopped. Every one held their breath for a minute and waited to see if it was over with.

“You stole all this from James and his vaults while we were in Mourning? How dare you!” Sirius started to approach Dumbledore again and this time it was Moody and Frank that were holding him back.

Amelia took charge of the situation and immediately ordered Shackelbolt and Dawlish to catalogue each and every item that had appeared and to leave the wrinkled wanker where he was until they were finished with that. Not that they could do much about it anyway, it would be the boys who would have to let him down in the end.
To start placing the catalogued items in the seven compartment trunks, leaving out the wine and liqueur…thinking that may come in handy in a little while. Alice went and got them some parchment and ever ready quills and they set to work. Dawlish started with counting the gold and Shackelbolt started with the bigger things, and shrunk them down and put them in the trunk first, like the pensieve and the thrones.

Neville passed the wand back to Harry and glared at the old whisked man on the wall. Stealing was wrong. Both the boys knew that and they were only five. Harry kept tapping the wand against his leg causing different colored sparks to shoot out of it every now and then. Which seemed to interest Luna some so Harry kept it up, calling out what ever color she wanted and making sparks appear to her delight. Both boys were just glad she was no longer hiding and took turns making sparks shoot out of the end of the wand, and as long as the boys were distracted Amelia was happy. An active wand in those boys hand was a dangerous thing. Then they heard Luna say “Butterflies!” And sure enough Neville made butterflies come out of the wand. Then it was Harry’s turn and she squealed and said “Humming birds!” And again little humming birds shot out of the trusty wand.

“All right moon child that is enough now, these young men are spoiling my little moon drop.” Xeno laughed and tickled his daughter, who giggled and blushed. But thankfully she quit calling out new ideas for things to spurt out of the end of the wand or else they might have ended up with a menagerie in Longbottom Hall.

Mrs. Weasley didn’t like the way that Dumbledore was plastered against the wall until he admitted to stealing the cloak and then things that he had stolen from the Potters started popping up; now she practically wanted to rip every scraggily hair out of his mangy beard. Stealing from the dead and from hero’s no less and then from a child! He should have his wand snapped. And when they get all that mess out of the way that is exactly what she was going to tell him too. Give him a good piece of her mind she would.

Alice went over to the little elves and asked them their names. “I am Jeeves Ma’am. And this is Misty. We were Lord James and Lady Lily’s House Elves before their passing. But since then Professor Dumbledore has been looking after us.”

“Jeeves? JEEVES! It is you! I thought you died in the fire!” Sirius heard the elf say his name and turned towards the sound and wrestled free of Frank and Moody and rushed over to the little elven pair. He knelt down and hugged them both. “Jeeves, Misty…I am so glad to see you are alive. I can’t believe he stole you too. How?”

“We were hiding from the muggles, and He showed up saying he was there to take us to Hogwarts, on Master James orders. So we went. We had no where else to go. And we thought little master was gone. We are so sorry we failed him.” Both elves started to cry and try and hit themselves with things that were around them. But Sirius stopped them and called Harry and Neville over to them.

“Harry, Neville I want you to meet Jeeves and Misty, they helped take care of James when he was little and then you when you were little. Misty was right there when you were born, and the one to change your diaper the very first time. She even taught you mother how to give you a bath and put you to sleep at night. Would you like for them to live with us again and help take care of the two of you?”

Harry looked over at Neville and smiled who smiled back and nodded. Then they looked over at the elves and nodded. The little elves who were not that much smaller than the boys began to dance around and hug each other, they had their family back.

Frank looked at Remus and asked, “Just curious, I noticed how Jeeves talks, how is it he talks so much better than a normal house elf?”

“That was purely Lily. She said that if they were going to be around baby Harry while he was learning to speak then they were going to learn how to speak correctly and she spent her whole pregnancy teaching them to talk like they do now.” Remus stated smiling a mile wide, remembering some of the lessons that Lily used to give these two back when she was pregnant.

“That must have driven James nuts,” Frank laughed “Proper speaking elves, what would she think of next,”

“It took the little things months to convince her they didn’t want to be freed, they moped around the house on the verge of tears all the time afraid to be in the same room as her alone, afraid she would give them clothes. Then James finally got it through her skull that they needed to work and be close to a wizard or witch in order to live and that freeing them was basically putting them to death. Finally she quit and started treating them like family. She told them she would never give them clothes but she wanted them to wear uniforms, which I am surprised they aren’t wearing.” Remus spoke up “Hey Padfoot, where are their uniforms?”

Sirius looked over to Jeeves and Misty and suddenly there was a pop and there were their smart little matching uniforms that they had made for themselves was back in place. Both of them were clapping and dancing again. Happy to have them back. No longer in a Hogwarts tea towel.

“Does that answer your question?” Sirius asked with a grin.

Harry and Neville were happy for the two so they started dancing and clapping too. This brought a round of giggles and laughter from all around. The seriousness of the Dumbledore problem seemed not so bad right this moment. Frank thought he might as well let all the kids enjoy it so he brought out a wireless radio and put on some music the kids could dance to, and let the kids dance while the adults dealt with Dumbledore.

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“I have all the miscellaneous things packed and we have most of the gold counted, we were up to fifty thousand in gold when I stepped over here to talk to you.” Shackelbolt said in a low whisper to Amelia.

“You’re kidding, he must have been steeling that from the inheritance vaults of the Potter’s that even James hadn’t gotten into yet.”

“I think so, a lot of those galleons were a hundred galleon gold pieces. That is why were able to count it so high so fast. I think about seventy percent of it is at least.” Shackelbolt said at barely a whisper.

Amelia shook her head, glancing over at the coins, one of those coins was worth more than the Weasley’s earned in a month. More than three months was more like it. As soon as Dawlish had finished with the coins he came over to the two of them and handed them the paper he had been keeping track on and both of their eyebrows went up and they looked at him to get confirmation, yeah almost sixty thousand galleons, in that pile at Dumbledore’s feet…and he knew it. The real question was how much had he stolen that couldn’t be replaced.

Amelia went over to Frank, Alice, Sirius and Remus and asked to speak with them in the other room. They led the way into the study, leaving Moody to guard Dumbledore. Dumbledore tried to talk to the others to get them to let him down until Harry noticed what he was doing and he aimed his wand at him and said “Be quiet Bad Whiskers!” Sure enough bad whiskers was silenced.

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“What do you mean sixty thousand galleons, there wasn’t that much money there?” Sirius argued

“Most of what was there was in hundred galleon gold pieces, Sirius. Over seventy percent of it.” Amelia stated,

“What the Hell! James didn’t have any hundred galleon gold pieces, he would have bragged about that for days if he would have had one.” Sirius stated.

“I am thinking this came from James’ inheritor accounts and this is some of the old Potter money. Maybe even Peverell money. Probably hasn’t seen the light of day in a millennia until Dumbledore broke into the vault that is.”

“I want him charged, fully charged. We all saw it all appear and we have plenty of witnesses, including yourself, Moody, Shackelbolt and Dawlish. If I can’t have him charged, I am going to challenge him to an honor duel.” Sirius stated looking more serious than Amelia had ever seen the man look before.

“No need for that, I fully intend to file charges the least of which is grand theft, it moves up from there. What I want to know is how he got access to the inheritor vaults to begin with. Either he was going in saying he was taking an account of things and loading down those seven compartment trunks full and using that cloak to hide it all under and then he just walked out of there with it. Or maybe he used another means, let’s see if the boys can get him to tell the truth about that shall we.”

With that everyone went back out into the dining room where everyone else was waiting, and went over to where Harry and Neville were dancing with Jeeves, Misty and Luna. Frank stopped the music and everyone went Ahhh but Frank explained they needed to ask Whiskers a question they stopped moaning and grumbling.

“Neville do you think you can do that thing you did about getting old Whiskers to tell the truth again for a few minutes.” Amelia asked.

Neville thought about if for a moment and then nodded, Harry handed Neville the wand and Neville looked over to Whiskers and said “Bad Whiskers tell the truth!” And a sparkly ring of magic appeared around Dumbledore’s throat just like last time.

“Thank you Neville. That is exactly what I needed.” Amelia hugged each boy and then went over to Dumbledore and began to question him.

Amelia began, “Alright Dumbledore I have a couple of questions for you. The first is, how did you manage to get all of these things out of James’ vaults?”

Dumbledore fought the urge to answer her question but it was no use, the spell was too strong. “James had written a note to the Goblins for me to be able to get into his main vault and make a trust account for Harry and get out a sum of gold from his main vault, I simply changed the wording to his inheritor vaults and took the note to the Goblins they tested the note for verification, it had James’ blood and signature on it so they let me in the vaults. I went in and found the three trunks, I found what I wanted and filled the three trunks with what I wanted and left.”

“How much gold did you take?” Amelia asked.

“A little over a hundred thousand galleons” Dumbledore stated shaking his head fighting the spell.

Everyone in the room gasped at the sum of money that was stolen.

“What did you do with that money?” Amelia asked.

“Bribed some people, paid off a few for votes, bought some nice things for myself. I deserved it. The boy would never miss what he didn’t know about.”

“Who did you bribe?” Amelia asked

Dumbledore began to list several people on the school board and miscellaneous members on the Wizengamot and a few politicians including the Minister for Magic himself. Then he listed the people he bought the votes of and that was more people from the Wizengamot, all total there were over twenty people that were now on Amelia’s list for accepting bribes and payoffs. She even got him to tell her the amounts and what it was for each time, so that she had all the information. What bill Dumbledore wanted to pass, what person Dumbledore wanted to be elected to what position, and preventing Severus Snape from being fired several times. The list went on and on.

“The next question I have is why do you want Severus Snape to not be fired so much, you have prevented him being fired three times now?” Amelia questioned.

“He is my spy, I want to keep him close to me. He tells me everything and helps me control the Slytherins. He is my best connection to all of the more wealthy individuals within our society.” Dumbledore stated

“But according to everything I have heard from my recruits he is a horrible teacher, why don’t you fire him and choose someone else?” Amelia just had to know.

“He swore his life to me if I tried to keep Lily Potter alive, and I did. I suggested the Fidelius Charm, I didn’t know that Pettigrew would betray them. He was their best friend all throughout school.” Dumbledore stated.

“So you keep him around because he is your puppet, is that correct?” Sirius asked.

“Sirius!” Amelia frowned.

“Yes, he must do anything I ask of him, even die if I told him to.” Dumbledore frowned now too.

“You gave quite a bit of money to secure Minister Fudges election, why did you do that?” Amelia asked.

“The man is an idiot. He is malleable and can be molded in to whatever I want from him all I need to do is talk with him for a few minutes and I have the results that I want. He is easily influence and if mere talking doesn’t work then bribery always does.” Dumbledore stated through clenched teethe, as if he was fighting saying it.

“Well the fact that you owe Harry Potter all that money back is going to clean out your accounts now isn’t it?” Frank asked.

“Yes, I barely have that much in my accounts but I should be able to cover it, maybe.” Albus Dumbledore admitted.

“That doesn’t matter, what matters is that you are going to pay him back and that you will be doing so immediately. Where do you keep your vault key?” Sirius asked.”

Amelia looked at Frank and Sirius and shook her head “I can’t let you two do that, not legally anyway.”

“You would allow him to keep the money he has stolen from Harry?”Sirius asked.

“Of course not, but it has to go through a court of law.” Amelia answered.

“Since you know he will either bribe people to vote the way he wants them to on the Wizengamot, since you have proof that he has done so before, you have two choices at this point…you can either go down to Gringotts and put a freeze on his accounts, or let Frank, Remus and I go down to the accounts and get what he has already admitted to stealing from the vaults and bring it back here and hold on to it until the trial is over with. I down care which one you do but I am not letting this bastard get off Scott free because he used Harry’s money to buy his way innocent.” Sirius stated, Frank and Remus nodded.

Amelia thought about it and agreed. Dumbledore did owe Harry the money…it was actually his money to begin with and they were just retrieving it. Dumbledore had admitted that he had stolen the money and that he had the appropriate amount in his vault, hopefully. Amelia nodded. “Alright, but count it out and take no more that the amount that should be taken if he has more than thirty five thousand galleons in that account leave what is left there. Understand?”

All three men nodded and went over to the closest empty seven compartment trunk and Remus shrunk the trunk and reached down to pick it up. It was about the size of a shoe box now so it was easy to carry. “Harry we are going for just a little bit, we will be right back, don’t have too much fun while we are gone. And watch Old Whiskers while we are gone too.”

Harry looked a little doubtful about them leaving but nodded and kept his wand focused on Dumbledore just incase he moved wrong or something.

Harry had just handed the wand over to Neville to hold for a while ‘cause his arm was starting to hurt and his tummy was making weird noises too when the three men came back smiling.

“Were back buddy, told you it wouldn’t take too long. Now how about that birthday lunch we promised you.” Sirius could hear Harry’s stomach growling from the door.

Amelia came over to the three men and asked, “Did he have enough gold in his accounts to cover what was stolen?”

“No, but it got close. I left one sickle in both vaults but took all the gold that was there. There were a couple of small jewelry boxes with stuff in it, so I took those to make up the difference.

At first Amelia looked skeptical about that but then just nodded. “That’s fine.” And she took back the two keys and put them back in Dumbledore’s pocket.

At first Dumbledore wanted to say that they couldn’t do that, but he knew that they could and he knew that with the truth spell on him, he would only verify their right to do so. So he kept silent. Frowning over to Sirius the ring leader of the three men. This was not how this was suppose to go. Now he was broke and destitute. His source of funds discovered, his house elves taken away, his fineries taken, his pensieve taken, even his thrones were taken from him. What was he going to do?

Amelia spent the next several minutes writing up her report and allowed Shackelbolt and Dawlish to join the lunch as she finished up a few things. Like asking Albus questions she would have asked down at headquarters but decided just to go ahead and ask them here. She had Alastor Moody standing with her as she asked the questions as a witness, and to help with the questions.

Harry and Neville went back to being the Hosts of Honor and enjoying the party. Each one loving the attention and their friends and family that were there. Even though Dumbledore had messed up their party for a while it turned out to be fun. After lunch the kids went outside and played on the bicycles and brooms, Frank even let the older Weasley kids and Cedric borrow the brooms from the shed to use. They used the quaffle that Hanna had gotten the boys and played ball for a while. Although only Cedric and Charlie actually knew how to play Quittitch they were trying to teach the others what they knew. They played outside until Amelia asked Harry and Neville to come inside for a moment that she needed their help with something.

The boys went into the Dining room and found Amelia looking at Bad Whiskers with four new Aurors standing there with her. “Boys I need you to let Bad Whiskers loose so that I can take him in, Just like we did with Bad Kitty, do you mind?”

Harry and Neville looked at Bad Whiskers and then at each other then Harry took the wand he had placed in his pocket out and pointed it at Bad Whiskers and said “Bad Whiskers Play Night Night.” Then put the wand away. Then Dumbledore was knocked out. Then they both raised their hands and said, “Bad Whiskers go!” And Dumbledore was released from the wall. Thankfully, Amelia had anticipated this and two of the Aurors caught Dumbledore and were holding him there. What she hadn’t expecting was the Night Night part, she probably should have if she thought about it though, she had told the boys to do the same thing after all. Well it saved her a lot of headache, since she was sure that Dumbledore could do wandless magic and he might have a portkey or something on him and she hadn’t been able to do a proper search of him yet. No problem, she just created a stretcher and the two Aurors lowered the now asleep Dumbledore onto the stretcher and began to lead him out of the residence.

“Ok boys you did really good, now I will need you to come down to Headquarters and wake up Bad Whiskers just like you did with Bad Kitty, but it can wait until after your party, okay?” Amelia asked.

Both boys smiled and nodded, then headed back outside to play some more.

It was near sundown when and the guest started to leave when the boys decided to go ahead and go down and help Amelia out with Bad Whiskers. Frank and Sirius took them back down to Headquarters and Amelia had Dumbledore ready and waiting in interrogation room three just like before. They had searched the old man and found a spare wand and three portkeys on him and had removed them all, so they were pretty sure that they were safe at this point. But they put him in magic restraining cuffs just to be sure.

“Boys if you could wake up Bad Whiskers for me I would appreciate it.” Amelia stated looking down at Harry and Neville.

Both boys looked doubtful but went ahead and nodded, Harry pointed the wand at Bad Whiskers and said “Bad Whiskers wake up!”

Dumbledore was awake and suddenly aware of his surroundings, he realized he was in an interrogations room at Auror Headquarters and immediately he tried to do the stupidest thing he could have done, he tried to get into Harry’s head. He just had to know how strong the boy was. How was he able to do all this without any practical knowledge or education?

No sooner had Dumbledore attempted to use Ligilimency on Harry, than Harry shouted “Bad Whiskers Out!” And he threw the old man out of his mind. Dumbledore was just lucky he was chained to the table or he would have been knocked across the room, as it was he was just jarred really bad and would probably have some pretty badly bruised wrists.

“Well that was stupid, trying Ligilimency on a minor is illegal you know, and in front of the Head of the DMLE no less. What kind of an idiot are you? Actually I think they have made a whole new breed of idiot just for you.” Frank stated.

Amelia noted on her paperwork the new charge and shook her head, then turned to Harry and asked if he was okay, he nodded and said he didn’t like the feeling of Bad Whiskers in his head, so he kicked him out.”

Sirius was about to go rabid on Dumbledore but Amelia managed to calm him down to a dull roar, stating that he can’t let little Harry see him act like that, even with Dumbledore. That was about the only thing that stopped Sirius from going postal on his ass. But it was a close thing. Amelia could see him visibly shaking where he was standing so he was having a hard time holding in the Grim and keeping the animal side of him from ripping Dumbledore limb from limb… he had dared to try and hurt his little pup, right in front of him no less. Mind rape him in front of him… oh Sirius was at a boiling point, and so was she.

“Now that you have committed another crime in our presence, which I must thank you for, you do realize that to use Ligilimency on a minor without the consent of their legal guardian is illegal do you not?”

“I had to know?” Dumbledore gasped, barely able to get the words out, he was in so much pain.

“Had to know what exactly?” Amelia asked.

“How he is doing all this? How strong his magic is? How he can do wandless magic? How he can use my wand?” Dumbledore choked out.

“Well those are somethings you may never know, since you may be locked up for a very, very long time.” Amelia stated.

Amelia looked over to Harry and Neville and asked if they would mind doing that tell the truth thing again and they did it, the sparkly ring appeared around Dumbledore’s neck and Amelia began her questioning, she allowed Frank and Sirius as well as Harry and Neville to stay for the questions. At points they (Frank and Sirius that is) had good suggestions as to question to add to the ones she had already thought of.

From the looks of it, Dumbledore had dug his own grave and was just waiting to jump right in and cover himself right up. Stealing, bribery, mind rape (not just on Harry), the use of illegal potions, and possibly two counts of homicide…if the theft of the cloak is considered. No Dumbledore was going away for a long, long time.