"Headmaster's chair" the familiar voice rang out as Harry blearily looked around. Recognizing the shocked faces of the children around him he inwardly smirked, the spell had worked. He had come back in time to when he was first sorted with the compulsion charm hed woven into his hair intact.
Briefly he wondered if this meant that he had killed past Harry and had taken posession of the body, but just as briefly he brushed the feeling of guilt aside. He had seen the warnings in the book of spells from which he'd taken the ritual that would send him here and had come to terms with the idea that some lives were going to have to be sacrificed in order to set things right.
He schooled his face into one of confused, scared, child that he was posing as and said in as wavering of a voice as he could while looking down at his toes "W...what do I do?"
He was quickly whisked away from the main hall by dumbledore as Minerva was left behind to sort out the chaos. Predictable as ever Dumbledore brought his pet Death Eater to the Headmaster's office. 'Perfect, two birds with one stone.' He thought as he prepared himself for some serious acting.
He ignored Severus's taunts of "More trouble than his father! He should be expelled for such a prank."
"Did you ask another student to prank the sorting hat?" Dumbledore asked
Still looking at his toes and adding in some body trembling he replied " I..didn't even know magic existed before now sir. The only person I talked to was Ron...something? On the train, we talked about houses, and he'd only said something about needing to wrestle a troll? Do I have to do that now sir? Since I was not assigned a house? Oh please don't make me wrestle a troll sir! I can handle the strange men uncle makes me do...things with! I can handle the daily beatings! I can even handle the starvation! But I...please...please...don't make me wrestle a troll! I'll...i'll...make sure you are happy!"
Saying this Harry dropped to his knees and crawled over to Dumbledore, feeling pleased as he watched Severus's disgusted reaction and Dumbledore's pleased one.
"That will not be necessary child, nor will you ever have to do anything.like...that again. I will become your guardian while we sort this mess out. Severus, leave us."
Harry waited until he was sure Snape was gone, and Dumbledore was by the door til he scrambled up and sat in the Headmaster's chair. He felt the wards of Hogwarts fight for a moment as they sensed his malicious intent but not strong enough to beat a twice over heir to two founders in Gryffindor through the Potter bloodline and Slytherin through the Peverell bloodline. They settled nicely into the well of his own magic.
Dumbledore whipped from the door, suprise etched into his face as Harry summoned the Elder wand.
"Harry, what is going on? Why are the wards reacting to you?"
Harry smiled the biggest smile, "Why can't you guess? Or is thought too hard for you now that you don't have everyone's magic feeding into you from the wards?" Ignoring Dumbledore's shock, he continued "oh yes, I know about that. Tommy was ever so pleased to let me in on that and so many other secrets he found out after he used the magic stability he gained from draining the horcrux in my scar to take over Hogwarts after you so kindly handed me over like a christmas pig to the slaughter."
"You..are from the future?"
"Correct."
"And you have returned to the past to get revenge?"
"Correct again!"
"Well you may have Hogwarts, but you have not won yet! Fawkes! To me!"
Harry giggled as Fawkes chirped sadly from his perch but made no move to help him "He works for me now. Should have looked at those binding spells you put on him a little closer Albus! You put them on whomever held the position of headmaster, not on yourself as you should have. And the headmaster is...."
"You? But no one will accept that! You are but a child and as soon as I leave I will find a way to regain my position!"
"Oh but Albus, you won't because I hold all of the cards here. That and I have this," he pointed the wand if power at Dumbledode "Imperio!"
Harry watched as his suggestion took place where Dumbledore called a staff meeting to reveal the wards had accepted Harry as Headmaster but both had agreed that a first year could not be seen as Headmaster so they were going to announce later that Harry's odd sorting had been a prank done by a student that had been expelled.
"So then Potter really is Headmaster? When should we expect all classes to be cancelled?" Severus said bitingly
"I..don't really know anything about running a school and I'm too curious bout magic to cancel classes. But I'm also not afraid to do what's right by the school and I have to say you aren't making a very good impression mister?"
"Professor Snape boy! And was that a threat?"
"Now, now Severus, let's not let our temper get the best of us. After all, Hogwarts herself has named Harry Headmaster. This could be the power he knows not. Or it could be magics way of telling us that we nees new, fresh ideas. Either way it is done now and there is no going back. For better or worse Harry is Headmaster and he has my support. I understand there is bad blood between you and James Potter, but he is dead. Harry is not him. You would do well to remember that he is also half of Lily Potter and let go of your vendetta. Otherwise I cannot guarantee you will be allowed to continue as a Professor."
It took all of Harry's willpower not to break down laughing as Snape looked as though he swallowed a lemon.
"Now I suggest we all retire for the night, Harry will be sleeping in my quarters and I will be taking a bunk in hospital wing until we can figure out alternate arrangements."
Harry knew as he settled into Dumbledore's comfy bed that his revenge had only begun but this he could admit was a pretty good start.