One shots pt 2

The Toy Shop

Harry Potter’s power released the moment he arrived in the graveyard. He stunned Cedric, without the boy knowing Harry was the one that did it. He wanted to protect the older boy. He allowed the ritual to go ahead then he pretended to be in pain when Voldemort touched his scar. He had no idea why he’s power was released. He wasn’t even sure it was released or if he somehow was given extra power. Either way, he wasn’t going to question it, he was going to use it.

As Voldemort turned and used Peter’s dark mark to call his death eaters, Harry instantly knew what to do to save himself and save innocent lives. He waited until the death eaters arrived and formed a circle around Voldemort.

Harry concentrated on the power surging through him. He turned Voldemort and all the death eaters into toys, except peter. He binds Peter into his rat form and makes sure he remains unconscious until he can speak with the head of the department of magical law. He wanted his godfather free. He removed the bindings holding him to the tomb stone before picking up his wand. He put that in his pocket. He wouldn’t need it when he was alone, not now he could do magic without a wand. He wasn’t planning on telling anyone so he will use his wand when others are around.

Harry stared down at all the toys scattered on the grass in front of him. He couldn’t help but laugh. Lord Voldemort, a feared dark lord was now a cute little red eyed baby goblin. The death eaters were all turned into toys as well, they were now house elf babies, they even had on nappies and had a dummy in their mouth and a bib around their necks.

It took Harry a while before he got himself under control, then waving his hand, he collected all the toys then shrunk them down. He placed them into the pocket of his champions uniform. This also gave him an idea. He might be able to do the same to some of his enemies, but also to people who proved they were either trying to get him killed or manipulating him for some reason.

‘Well, Snape has to be the first, then Malfoy and a few other Slytherin’s. Dumbledore has got to go, along with Ron,’ Harry knew that Dumbledore was up to something and it had almost cost Harry his life from the time he arrived at Hogwarts. It was time to get rid of such a dangerous man. He thought for a few more minutes before he realised he should hurry. He needed to get back to Hogwarts before anyone worked out he was missing.

Harry took hold of Cedric’s arm then thought of where he wanted to go. Without apparating or using the portkey that was attached to the triwizard cup, he made sure he arrived inside the maze and near the spot where the pedestal sat with the cup. He placed the cup on the pedestal, removed the extra portus charm, but left the first one. Harry knew that the first charm was meant to take the winner to either the judges table or to the entrance of the maze. Harry figured it would make sense to take the winner to the judges. He removed the last half an hour of memory from Cedric, of when they were talking about who should take the cup and how they were both transported to the graveyard. Once he knew the older boy was ready, he woke Cedric just as he placed the boy’s hand on the cup. They disappeared.

Harry wasn’t planning on telling anyone what happened in the graveyard or that he was taken. He turns and jogs back the way he came but he made sure he wasn’t going to have to deal with the creatures again. He finds Fleur who was still tangled in fines. He frees her but leaves her unconscious. He levitates her as he heads to the maze entrance.

The cheers went up but stopped after a minute when they realised Harry Potter was levitating another champion, the Beauxbaton’s champions.

‘What is wrong with Miss Delacour?’ Bagman asked.

‘I found her unconscious and wrapped in vines, so I cut her loose. I figured since Cedric got the cup first, I would have to make my way back out, that’s when I found her. I don’t think she’s serious hurt though. Madam Pomfrey should check her out.’

Poppy hurried over and took care of the girl. Albus, the minister and Maxime hurried to where Harry was.

‘You said Cedric got the cup, Harry,’ Albus said.

‘Yeah, we were both running towards it when his longer legs won out. I saw him disappear when he grabbed the cup. I figured he would appear near the judges.’

‘We should search in case the portkey malfunctioned,’ Bagman said.

‘Yes, Harry, go see Madam Pomfrey, you have a few injuries,’ Albus said.

Harry nodded and as he stepped into the tent, he cast his silent and invisible spell on the impostor. Mad-eye Moody, or Barty Crouch junior, disappeared. Another toy baby house elf appeared inside his pocket. He sent another spell to release the real Mad-eye from his trunk and send him to the hospital.

‘Just sit Mr Potter, I will get to you soon.’

‘Take your time Madam Pomfrey, I don’t have any serious injuries,’ Harry sat on the bed and cast his spell again. Harry had no idea where Snape or Malfoy was right when he cast his spell, but within seconds two more toys were added to his collection. Harry wanted to do Dumbledore but figured he would wait until the old man had found the confused Cedric in the maze. He also figured he should wait until later that night, when everyone would know he was in the common room with the rest of the Gryffindor’s. But while he was waiting, he cast an enhancement charm on his eyes so he could keep an eye on everything that was happening outside the tent. There was another person Harry wanted gone but he wanted the man to disappear when he was alone.

While Harry was sitting there, he thought about the toys in his pocket and it gave him an idea. One thing the magical world lacked was things like games and toys. At least compared to the muggle world. Harry decided he was going to open his own shop that sold real toys, but he liked the idea of making goblin toys and house elf toys. He will do average age goblins but then do baby goblins as well. He began to think about games like monopoly and clue, he could easily make wizarding versions of those games. Once he began to think of games he realised there were a lot more he could do, he could also do jigsaw puzzles but the pictures could be things like scenery’s, but he could do things like Hogwarts and Hogsmeade. He decided to leave working on that for later and get back to what he was doing.

It only took an hour before Cornelius Fudge said he would return when Cedric was awake. He wanted to present the cup and money to the boy for winning the triwizard tournament. Harry was waiting to get rid of the man who refused to believe Sirius was innocent. Before the last task began, he had seen Fudge with a woman who looked like a toad and he had seen that woman speaking to Lucius Malfoy and they were friendly. He knew it wouldn’t be just Fudge he was going to deal with, it was the woman. When she had come to Hogwarts with Fudge the toad woman sneered at people like Fleur and Hermione. She also glared at Hagrid and Madam Maxime. That told him she was one of those pure-bloods who thought they were better than everyone. If she worked with Fudge at the ministry, then she probably stopped people like muggleborns from getting decent jobs.

Harry kept watch and as soon as he saw the minister begin to make the turn to apparate away, he cast his spell but not just on Fudge, on the toad like woman as well. Harry felt the two toys land in his pocket.

Harry hadn’t forgiven Ron and still isn’t talking to him but from the few looks Ron had given him, Harry knew the red head would curse Harry if he thought he could get away with it. Harry had no idea why Ron didn’t seem to like him or believe he lied and liked being famous. He wouldn’t have to deal with Ron for much longer. He wanted to take his time to deal with Ron and the rest of those that could hurt him or innocent people. While he was watching Madam Pomfrey deal with the few injuries on the other two champions, she had finished healing him. Harry thought of Hermione and even though he only just talks to Hermione she would never deliberately hurt someone, only if they were trying to hurt her. He didn’t spend any time with her, not anymore, not when she kept badgering Harry to forgive Ron. Harry mainly spends time with Neville, Susan, Hannah and Luna. It’s Luna who told him that the head of the DMLE is a good person so if he finds himself in trouble, she’s the one that he should contact.

Harry kept his eyesight enhanced so he could keep an eye on what was going on. Once he knew Ron was alone in Gryffindor tower and the few other students who Harry knew were dark, he cast his spell again. Once more he felt the extra toys land in pocket. There was a few more he wanted to deal with but he wasn’t sure if distance would stop the spell working. He figured all he could do was try. He had no idea why he had all this power or how he just seemed to know what he could do with the power. He had a feeling it has something to do with his parents.

Harry decided he would think of that later, he cast the spell and turned Vernon, Marge, Petunia, Dudley and Dudley’s gang into toy mice. He also turned Ripper, Marge’s dog into a toy dog, but Ripper looked like he did when he was a puppy. Now he only had to deal with Dumbledore, but he would still wait to deal with the old man.

When Harry was finally allowed to leave the tent, he found Neville, Luna, Susan and Hannah waiting for him, but Hermione was standing near them. He greeted the others and not Hermione.

‘So, what happened?’ Susan asked.

‘Yeah, they haven’t told us anything,’ Hannah said.

‘Well, me and Cedric were racing for the cup, he has longer legs than me, so he got there first. The cup was a portkey so he disappeared. I figured it was going to bring the winner to the judges. I overheard Dumbledore, Bagman and Fudge talking, they found Cedric holding the cup not far from the entrance to the maze. He was unconscious, but Madam Pomfrey said he was fine.’

‘You don’t look disappointed mate,’ Neville said.

‘I’m not. I didn’t want this but I had no choice but to compete. When I saw the cup, I admit I got a bit excited. But it’s over now, thank merlin.’

‘We should get in, it’s close to curfew,’ Luna said.

The five of them walked away, still ignoring Hermione who was close to tears. She knew it was her own fault that Harry stopped talking to her. She was hoping Harry and Ron would become friends again. She was wrong and now she had lost her first ever friend.

As Harry lay on his bed, pretending to sleep, he thought about Voldemort and how he had finally dealt with the dark wizard who murdered his parents. He just seemed to know it was his parent’s that was allowing him to do that. As he was thinking about what he had done and his parents, he got a strong feeling in his heart, a feeling of family. Harry instantly knew it was his parents. He also knew it meant they could rest in peace now. He had one more enemy that had been involved in his parents deaths to deal with, Peter Pettigrew. But he was going to deal with him the day after the holidays began. It was time now to deal with the man that had been manipulating Harry’s life, Albus Dumbledore. He cast his spell, but he didn’t turn Dumbledore into a goblin or house elf, he turned the old man into a toy goat. Harry had heard the rumours about Dumbledore’s brother, but that wasn’t why he turned him into a goat. No, Harry sometimes called Dumbledore, the old goat.

Harry woke later than normal the following day. He noticed that Neville was sitting on his bed reading. Dean and Seamus must have already gone down to breakfast and he knew where Ron was.

‘Did he end up in bed after I went to sleep?’ Harry asked the moment he stood up.

‘No, I saw McGonagall and told her Ron didn’t sleep in his bed and we never saw him from the time we came back to Gryffindor tower.’

‘He’s probably off sulking somewhere or eating. I won’t be long then we can go eat.’

‘We have time.’

Harry gathered his things and headed to the bathroom. He wondered if they were still searching for Ron, Snape, Dumbledore, Malfoy and some of the Slytherin’s. He also wondered if people knew Fudge and the toad woman was also missing. Harry did get curious about those death eaters he turned into toys in the graveyard. He knew some worked at the ministry, so maybe people had already realised they were also missing. Harry didn’t really care. He only had to get through breakfast and he would be away from Hogwarts. He hoped his spell worked on the Dursley’s. If it didn’t, he would pretend to go with them then make sure he was seen leaving the house and they were seen as well. He didn’t want anyone from the ministry pointing at him if they also went missing.

Harry and Neville ate breakfast. When they were getting ready to leave to get on one of the carriages McGonagall announced that Dumbledore, Snape and some students were missing, the aurors were investigating and during the holidays the aurors would be calling on every student to get a statement about the missing people. She also announced Cedric as the winner of the triwizard tournament making Hufflepuff cheer. But Harry and Neville also applauded the Hufflepuff. They were surprised when some of the Slytherin’s applauded Cedric’s win. Normally none of the Slytherin’s showed anything but disdain if they didn’t win something.

Harry and Neville joined Hannah, Susan and Luna in the carriage. It pulled away just as Hermione was hurrying towards their carriage. She missed it and got onto the next one.

The group of friends had a great time on the Hogwarts express. They didn’t get annoyed by Malfoy, or anyone else, but only Harry knew why.

As Harry said goodbye to his friends. He noticed aurors standing around the platform. So far, they were just watching. Harry shrugged then walked through the barrier. He didn’t see the Dursley’s, so he just walked away from Kings Cross station. He didn’t want Hermione or anyone else to ask where his relatives were. It was a bit of a walk but Harry made his way to the Leaky Cauldron, where he got himself a room and paid for the week. He explained to Tom he was about to stay with one of his friends and his relatives didn’t bother picking him up, not that he cared. Tom gave him the same room he stayed in before his third year. He got settled, opened the window for Hedwig then headed out to get some money from Gringotts.

The following morning Harry ate breakfast in the Leaky Cauldron. What was different for Harry was he actually spoke with many people in there. He thought it was time people realised he was just an ordinary, almost fifteen-year old boy. There was nothing special about him. He might be powerful, but no one was going to know that which could end up saving his life one day.

Right after breakfast Harry went back to his room where he wrote his letter. It was time to deal with the person who betrayed his family.

It was the following day that Harry got a reply, he had an appointment with Madam Amelia Bones, the department head of the magical law enforcement squad. When Luna first told him who she was, he asked if she could watch memories to prove he was telling the truth. When Luna said she would, Harry sent a letter to Sirius and asked him for a couple of memories. He also removed his own memory of what had taken place in the shrieking shack.

The following day Harry picked up the cage with a stunned Peter rat, covered it then used the floo in the Leaky Cauldron to the ministry. In the letter he received from Madam Bones she told him which floor to get off and how to get to her office. The moment he was seen by the secretary, she squeaked as she jumped up. She showed Harry to her boss’s office. Harry did give her a smile as she closed the door.

‘Thank you for seeing me Madam Bones. Your niece speaks very highly of you.’

‘It’s nice to meet you Mr Potter. I did not know Susan knew you very well.’

‘Oh, when someone entered me in the tournament, Cedric and I spoke. He realised I was telling the truth so he explained to the rest of the Hufflepuff’s. Susan and Hannah spoke with me and said they were sorry for every thinking I lied. We ended up spending a lot of time together during the school year, along with Neville Longbottom. We became good friends. Another friend of mine, Luna Lovegood, she explained if I need to speak with someone about laws or injustices, then you were the one to see. I asked Susan and she explained more about you and what you do. I don’t really know much about this world, not until I became friends with Susan and Neville.’

‘I always believed there should be a class to teach children raised in the muggle world more about the wizarding world. But now onto why you wished to see me and not just an auror?’

‘Well, I told Fudge this at the end of my third year, he refused to believe me, he wouldn’t even investigate. This is about Sirius Black and Peter Pettigrew,’ Harry uncovered the cage, ‘This is Peter Pettigrew in his animagus form. My father, Sirius, who is my godfather and Peter became animagus during their Hogwarts days. It was to help their friend, Remus Lupin on the wolf nights. Peter killed those muggles and he was the secret keeper for my family. Sirius told me he wasn’t given a trial. He was in shock and didn’t know what he was saying when Peter killed all those muggles. Someone stunned him and he woke up in Azkaban. I have my memory of Peter confessing and Sirius sent me his memories of Peter, which was the same time I saw Peter. Sirius also sent a memory when he spoke with my parents about Peter becoming the secret keeper. Sirius was supposed to be, but they secretly switched. They figured Peter could turn into such a small animal that he could easily escape if he was captured. Peter is a death eater, he admitted it. I was with Sirius, Remus Lupin, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger when he finally admitted what he had done. I found him skulking around Hogwarts right after the third task. I knew it was him by his missing toe. He cut that off the night he set Sirius up, before he escaped in his rat for down the sewers.’

Amelia listened to the boy and even though she had been an auror back then she wasn’t involved in the capture of Sirius Black. She was tracking down the Lestrange’s at the time.

‘If you are telling the truth Mr Potter it will easily be dealt with. First, place the cage on the floor,’ Amelia then cast the charm to reveal an animagus, it showed the rat to be an animagus. She sent for two senior aurors, ‘Once I have proof, which I will get using veritaserum, then we can work out who is innocent and who is guilty. Two senior aurors will be with me when I question this person.’

‘That’s all I’m after Madam Bones, for someone to hear the truth.’

A man and a woman in auror robes stepped into the office. They showed their surprise at seeing Harry Potter, the-boy-who-lived, but they looked confused about the rat in the cage. Especially as the rat looked dead.

‘This is an animagus that Mr Potter brought me. He tells me it’s the real betrayer of his family, Peter Pettigrew. Tim if you would remove him from the cage, Connie as soon as he has been forced to return to a man, place the magic suppressant shackles on him. I will keep him covered.’

It only took a minute then Peter Pettigrew was shackled to the chair and being force fed veritaserum before being woken up.

The questions were answered and proved he had been the secret keeper to the Potters. He admitted to killing the muggles and being a death eater. Harry had already removed the parts of his memory of when he was with Voldemort from the time he escaped during Harry’s third year.

After the questioning, the two aurors and Amelia watched the memories Harry had brought. It was just a formality but it would give them everything they needed to convict Peter Pettigrew and free Sirius Black. The one from Harry showed Peter confessing. The one from Sirius Black when he spoke to James and Lily Potter proved right there that Peter was the one to betray the Potters to Voldemort. He was easily guilty, but he still had to have a trial.

‘With everything that is going on right now, we would not have time for a trial. Tim, I want you to get him to Azkaban but keep a file about this and the trial is pending. Make sure he goes into one of the cells in the lowest level. No one can assess their magic in those cells. Connie, release a statement that Sirius Black is innocent of all charges.’

Both aurors nodded then left, with Peter. Amelia stared at Harry, ‘Did you help Sirius Black escape from Hogwarts?’

‘Yes ma’am, I wanted to protect my godfather from the dementors that Fudge was bringing. Dumbledore gave me and Hermione Granger the idea on how to rescue him and how to get him away from Hogwarts. I don’t know where Sirius is as all we do is send letters to each other. He didn’t want to put me in danger.’

‘If you I give you a letter will you send it to him? It will explain what happened in here today.’

‘Yes ma’am, Hedwig is at the Leaky Cauldron waiting for me.’

‘Why are you staying at the Leaky Cauldron?’

‘Well, my relatives didn’t turn up, not that I care. But I was hoping if this all went well, I could finally have someone like family to live with. Either way I wasn’t going to return to those people. I would rather live in a tent than stay with them.’

Amelia was a good auror, she knew just by the look on the boy’s face and the way he said “those people” Harry Potter didn’t have a good like with the family had had lived with. She was going to investigate. The boy might end up living with his godfather, but he deserved justice, especially if he had been mistreated.

It was all a formality. Sirius instantly contacted Harry and Madam Bones. He was escorted into the ministry to have a small hearing, where he was questioned using veritaserum. He was given papers which proved he was innocent of all charges. After Sirius hugged Harry, they went out to have lunch and a drink to celebrate.

Even though Harry lived with Sirius at Grimmauld place, Sirius was already working on another home for them to share. Harry had the best time during his summer holidays. He got to spend a lot of time with Neville, Susan and Hannah. They got to meet his godfather who had them laughing, a lot. Harry did receive a letter from Hermione, apologising for pushing him so much. She wrote she only did it because she didn’t want Harry to throw away four years of friendship with Ron. After speaking with her parents and telling them everything about Ron and the way he acted, she finally realised Ron had never been a good friend. He mainly used Hermione to help with his school work, otherwise he always said something to upset Hermione. But she mainly wrote that if Ron had been a true and loyal friend, he would not have called Harry a liar. She did ask if he would forgive her, but only if he felt she deserved forgiving. If he did, could he write to her. She also asked if he did forgive her if she could join him and his new friends when they studied.

Harry read through the letter twice before he finally decided to forgive Hermione. He realised that she had been like him, sticking with Ron because he was one of their first ever friends. She finally realised Ron wasn’t a proper friend. He was using Hermione and he was using Harry’s fame. He wrote back to Hermione, he said he forgave her, but he did tell her that she had to stop telling him what to do or ask him where he was all the time. Everyone had the right to keep things to themselves and everyone had the right to have privacy. After that he wrote about how he captured the rat which is how Sirius ended up free and he was now living with his godfather. He wrote what Susan told him about the investigation into the missing students and others.

By the end up the summer holiday, Madam Bones decided that the case would remain open but they could not find what happened to all the people who went missing. It was a long list, which included the minister for magic, his undersecretary, the chief warlock who was also headmaster of Hogwarts. There were also a lot missing who had seats on the Wizengamot. They would keep investigating but they had a lot more to do than just look for missing people. The trainee aurors would do most of the work on those that were missing.

There was about to be a lot of changes at the ministry. Minerva McGonagall was announced as the new headmistress of Hogwarts, but elections for the new minister would take place in another two months. Amelia Bones was the interim minister as she had the next highest job at the ministry. She did not want to become minister, but she would if she found out dark wizards would try to get the job. She was hoping that Amos Diggory ended up minister for magic.

Harry finally got around to telling his godfather what he wanted to do when he left Hogwarts, which would be either at the end of his fifth year at Hogwarts, or his sixth. For what he wanted to do, he didn’t need to continue on to his newts.

‘Are you sure Harry? I mean you could find that the shop doesn’t do too well and need another job that will make you more money.’

‘I don’t really care about money Sirius, as long as I have enough to live on. But I have a feeling this will be a big hit. I mean there were many evenings in Gryffindor tower where I was bored silly. I had finished my homework and the only games were chess, which I hate, or gobstones. I believe if the students had more to choose from then it could help as well. Bored teenagers get into trouble, you know that more than anyone. But this could lead to other things that could help our world. You told me about those mirrors. Why not work on those. If a little firstie was able to speak with their parents once or twice a week, they might not end up as homesick as most do. It’s such a big change for them. Going from living at home with family, to living in a huge castle with hundreds of students. Also, I was never comfortable speaking with McGonagall. If I had you at home where I could have spoken to you, I doubt I would have ended up in so much danger.’

‘Your dad thought about selling the mirrors, but at the time we didn’t want anyone to find out how we were communicating to plan our pranks. We’ve played a couple of those muggle games and I can easily see them being adapted to the wizarding world. Monopoly would be easy, but clue would be the easiest. All we do is change the rooms to match Hogwarts, change the weapons change to wands, potions, brooms and so forth. Then we change the suspects to famous witches and wizards. We could even keep the names that are already there just make them wear robes.’

‘We could do either. You could help if you want. Starting off is just changing them to match our world, but after some time we might come up with something original. But also, jigsaw puzzles. You and I could easily go visiting places, take pictures and turn them into puzzles. We add places like Hogwarts, or even just a picture of the black lake. Maybe a picture of a quidditch game, that would make a great puzzle. Places like Hogsmeade in winter looks beautiful, that would look nice as a picture. I’m sure we could work some magic so the pieces all turn over without having to do it manually. We could also make the puzzle like pictures, so when it’s finished, it moves. If it’s a quidditch game, then you’ll see the players flying around and the crowd cheering.’

‘I like it. We could add magic to the games as well. We could have the doors automatically open or see a potion boiling away, things like that. But you know what would make great puzzles, pictures of famous people.’

‘You mean like Krum?’

‘Yeah, but add other quidditch players, or even pictures of the four founders. But Harry, if we added some of the-boy-who-lived, they would be big sellers. You could have a picture of you sitting on a broom or casting a spell. You could even have one where you’re just sitting under a tree reading.’

‘I have enough girls asking for pictures,’ Harry groaned.

‘Then this would satisfy them and make you money as well. But I’m sure if we visit quidditch teams they might just allow some pictures of them to be used. They would want a percentage of the sales or they might just want to be paid straight away then it’s all yours, free and clear. But adding pictures of you, Dumbledore, Merlin, the founders wouldn’t need you to pay anything, yet it would earn you a lot.’

Harry stared at his godfather and realised he was right. What he told Sirius was true, he wasn’t that worried about money, just enough to live on. He knew people still wanted to see or hear about the-boy-who-lived, why not give them pictures in puzzles, it would give people those pictures but make him money at the same time.

Harry and Sirius ended up talking over idea’s for the rest of the night. Eventually they wrote everything down and by the time they went to bed, Sirius was going to be Harry’s partner in the shop. They would start by taking some muggle games, change them to match the wizarding world, but also begin by working on a few puzzles. Sirius was going to have a shed built on the property that they could store everything until Harry left Hogwarts. Harry hadn’t told Sirius he wanted to add toys, stuff toys, like baby house elves and baby goblins. He planned to add stuffed dragons and merpeople, even the giant squib. He also figured he could add normal stuffed toys, like tigers, zebra’s, dolphins, sharks and even dinosaurs. Sirius could work on the communication mirrors while Harry would work on the stuffed toys.

By the time Harry was ready to return to Hogwarts, he had asked Susan to be his girlfriend. Neville had gotten up the courage to ask Hannah to be his girlfriend.

When Hermione found her friend on the train, she was surprised to see Harry and Susan kissing but so was Hannah and Neville. Luna was sitting between the kissing couples, reading the Quibbler. She gave a small cough, which worked instantly. The two couples stopped kissing.

‘Sorry Hermione, didn’t hear you come in,’ Harry grinned as he stood and gave his friend a hug.

‘I was surprised to find you kissing, not that you were with Susan. A few comments in your last letter told me how you felt. I see you got the prefect badge,’ Hermione had her badge on just like Harry.

‘If they gave it to someone else in Gryffindor, I think many would protest. Harry has always had the best scores out of the boys, then add that he saved you and Ginny,’ Neville said.

‘I hoped you would get it. You deserve it Harry.’

‘Thanks Hermione, so do you.’

After greeting everyone, Hermione sat down. Susan and Hannah began to talk to her while Harry and Neville began to chat. Luna continued to read her magazine.

‘So did your aunt end up finding out what happened to Professor Dumbledore and the others?’ Hermione asked.

‘No, the case will remain open until they do find out but for now it’s been handed over to a couple of junior aurors. There are no clues at all as to what happened. Harry was officially questioned.’

‘Why would Harry be questioned?’

‘It all began at the same time as I finished the task. They just wanted to ask if I heard anything or saw anything. Cedric still doesn’t remember everything that happened after he began to run towards the cup. They aren’t sure if it’s connected or not.’

‘So many disappeared yet not all of them have things in common. Some of the ones that worked at the ministry had been accused of being death eaters. Then you have people like Professor Dumbledore and Ron Weasley. You also have the minister and his undersecretary. Aunty is baffled and not much can baffle her. She even questioned Sirius since he had been sneaking around in his animagus form at the time. She hoped he might have seen something.’

‘He didn’t, he mainly spent his time at the house or in the cave not far from Hogsmeade.’

‘What cave?’ Hermione asked.

‘Sirius said my dad found it when they were students. Sirius and I met there a few times. He was helping me learn spells that might help in the tournament. He was also spying and listening so he could tell me what to expect. Since I was entered by someone, he didn’t want to take the chance that it was Peter who would want to kill me, or if it was someone like Draco Malfoy who just hoped to embarrass me. We did find out that Mad-eye Moody hadn’t taught us at all. His memory had been wiped and he was found in a bad way in the hospital right after the last task finished. Some of his hair was missing so they believe someone was using polyjuice potion. I did hear Snape blame me for steeling potion ingredients that would make polyjuice potion. The aurors are working on all of it, but they still haven’t found out why I was entered or why some people went missing. They are checking to see if Voldemort is somehow involved, but I haven’t felt any type of pain or connection to him since the second task.’

‘Before the champions were selected you were getting strange feelings.’

‘Yeah, I explained all that to Madam Bones,’ Harry brushed his hair away from his scar, ‘It’s smaller. She had a theory but that’s all. She thinks he might have been trying to return and used some type of dark ritual that went wrong. He ended up dying properly which ended the connection we had. Sirius even had a curse breaker check my scar. He couldn’t find anything. A healer scanned it as well, he found how often my scar hurt, now, nothing. I think Madam Bones was right, he tried something and it went wrong, wrong for him, right for all of us.’

‘She thinks the death eaters that disappeared did so because of him and what he was trying to do. It’s like anyone marked ended up dead with him, but they also disappeared,’ Susan said.

‘Maybe their bodies disintegrated, sort of what happened with Quirrell,’ Hermione said.

‘It’s another theory and I explained all that to Madam Bones. But I doubt we’ll find out,’ Harry said, ‘I’m not worried, he’s gone and Peter is in Azkaban, so I’m happy.’

They continued to talk until the train pulled into Hogsmeade station. Harry and Hermione helped the first years over to Hagrid. They even spoke to the big man for a minute before they joined the others in the carriage.

The friends walked Luna to the Ravenclaw table before Hermione went to the Gryffindor table. Harry and Neville kissed their girlfriends at the Hufflepuff table, surprising all the other students.

‘I don’t get why kissing our girlfriends should send the great hall silent. We’re teenage boys,’ Harry shrugged, then he saw who was sitting at the staff table, ‘I’ll murder him.’

‘Who?’ Neville asked then turned to see what Harry was looking at, ‘Your godfather is sitting at the staff table. Does that mean he’s now one of our teachers?’

‘He said he had a surprise for me but refused to tell me what it was. Bloody Marauder.’

‘So, your guardian is going to be one of our teachers,’ Neville said, ‘Strange, for you especially.’

‘Yeah, I mean I will have to call him Professor Black. I’m going to lose so many points.’

‘Why would you lose points?’ Hermione asked.

‘Because I’m bound to say Sirius or Padfoot.’

‘I’m sure he will realise it will take time for you to get used to saying professor. I wouldn’t worry about it mate,’ Neville said.

‘Neville’s right, it would be expected.’

After the feast, Harry and Neville quickly kissed their girlfriends again before Harry helped Hermione with the first years. Most of the new Gryffindor first years kept staring up at Harry. He just smiled and spoke about Hogwarts.

Towards the end of the school year, Harry couldn’t help smiling. Normally he hated leaving Hogwarts, even with the danger or being shunned. Since the start of the first term it had been quiet and he had a normal student’s time at Hogwarts. Harry also liked the fact that he had made more friends. He got to know more Hufflepuff’s, some Ravenclaw’s, but he was only friendly with those that didn’t bully Luna. He made sure they bullies heard why he would never have anything to do with them. What did surprise Harry was he also became friends with a few Slytherin’s.

Harry did all his tests for his owls and he knew he did well. He had to pull back his power so no one would notice. But he used enough to make sure he got an O in every subject.

The moment he arrived at platform nine and three quarters he saw Sirius waiting for him. Even though Harry could apparate, no one knew it since it wasn’t allowed until you were seventeen.

They didn’t end up at Grimmauld place, they ended up in a beautiful and large country home. The first thing Harry noticed as they appeared at the front of the property was the quidditch rings. Sirius had made sure there was a quidditch stadium. He also saw the large shed off to the side.

After Sirius showed Harry around his new home, they went downstairs to get a drink.

‘So, have you decided if you are going to return to Hogwarts or start the shop?’

‘I want to do both. I don’t want to be away from Susan for months on end and only see her on Hogsmeade weekends. Yet I’m anxious to get started on the shop. What about you?’

‘I’m the same. I found I enjoy teaching, yet I know it’s not something I want to do for a long time. Maybe we should do the last two years while you finish your education. We can still go away and begin to get pictures. It’s going to take us a while to make the pictures into puzzles then make the games.’

‘Yeah, it will. Well, we can work on visiting Viktor and the team. They all agreed to have some pictures taken. Susan introduced me to Megan Jones, her cousin is Gwenog Jones, the captain of the Holyhead Harpies. Megan believes her cousin will go for it, especially when I said we either pay outright or they get a percentage of the sales.’

‘If we do put the shop off for two years it means this summer is going to be busy. It doesn’t mean you can’t spend time with your girl. We’ll just have to work that out for before and after we go overseas.’

Harry and Sirius spoke until dinner was ready. They finally decided to take the two years to get everything they need including plenty of stock. During the last term, Harry had spoken to Hagrid and looked through the library for different magical beings. Harry found out that there had been other phoenixes before, a white one and a black one. He decided to make those toys as well, but also thestrals, unicorns and even owls.

Over the last two years that he spent at Hogwarts, Harry would use his spare time and use the room of requirement to turn things into stuffed toys. He had spoken with the staff about adding their pictures to his jigsaw puzzle collection. People like McGonagall, Flitwick and Sprout were well known and respected teachers. It took some convincing, but they agreed in the end. Professor Sprout told Harry he should add pictures of things like devil’s snare or mandrake for people like Neville. That ended up giving Harry more idea’s. There were many people who liked flowers, he decided to take pictures of different flowers or garden beds and turn them into jigsaw puzzles.

Harry graduated sharing first place with Hermione. At first, he was going to hold back a little so she could have first place. But he thought it might be good for her to realise there are always others that could be just as intelligent as her so it was best for her to find out now that she may not always be number one. Harry did end up with the highest ever defence against the dark arts score. He evened that out with Hermione when he deliberately got one question wrong in herbology. Otherwise, they both got perfect scores in the rest of their subjects.

Harry and Susan remained together and got engaged during the Christmas break of their last year. Most people had expected it and apart from a few fan-girls, most were happy for the-boy-who-lived. Only two people were angry that Harry was going to marry Susan Bones. Ginny Weasley and her mother. Ever since Ron and Harry had the fight when his name came out of the goblet of fire, Harry hadn’t spent any time with the Weasley’s. All his time had been spent with Susan, Neville, Hannah and Luna. Molly tried many times to get Harry to visit and even stay at the Burrow. But Harry would have Sirius write that their holidays were spent overseas. Sirius was giving Harry the life he should have had. But Harry had explained to Sirius about Ginny being a fan-girl and didn’t want to spent time with her so Sirius worked it out so Molly and Ginny would not get to see Harry during the holiday.

Harry and Sirius had a month break before they opened their shop and it was the shop right next to the Weasley twins joke shop. Sirius had financed their shop, for a small percentage. The twins like the idea that they were so close to Sirius, now they could discuss jokes with him and Sirius had given them some great ideas.

The shop was a huge success. All aged people bought the jigsaw puzzles. The games were bought mainly by the students of Hogwarts, but some older people bought them as well. The stuffed animals were a big seller. Every day the shop would be filled with parents bringing in their kids and the young kids seemed to love the baby house elves toys. On Sirius’s advice, he did make stuffed toys of people like Merlin, the founders, Dumbledore, but the biggest seller were the ones of Harry Potter, the-boy-who-lived.

Even though Harry still didn’t like it, the jigsaw puzzles of him were the big sellers just as the stuffed toys were. He ended up having pictures of him taken doing many different things so the people that bought them got to see a normal boy, or young man while they put together the puzzle. The stuffed toys had only three different types. There was baby Harry with his scar. One was how he looked now, without the scar and the last was flying on his broom. The people did finally see that he wasn’t just a hero, even if people still saw him that way.

Harry married Susan only six months after leaving Hogwarts. They had a two-month honeymoon where they spent their time going to many different places in many different countries.

Harry loved his life and even though he still had no idea why he got extra power, he would use it to keep their world safe. Susan knew he was powerful, but she had no idea that her husband was the reason that so many disappeared. Harry didn’t like to keep things from his wife, but he knew this was one secret he would take to his grave.

From the time Harry got the extra power, his life was perfect and he wasn’t going to do anything that could ruin it.

The end: