The Midnight Bloodline

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Anisuke slipped into bed and was immediately followed by his mates. He was pulled onto Sesshomaru’s chest as Kouga took one side and Naraku the other, in what was going to become the norm, after all, this way they could all touch Anisuke. There were no dreams for any of them; they simply slipped into a deep slumber to regain the massive amounts of energy that they had used that day, unaware of the vast changes that were taking place.
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Fudge sat at his desk as he called his new secretary into his office, he had no idea what the boy’s name was but he was definitely a Weasley. “I need you to get all the information that we have on the guardianship of one Harry James Potter, this includes a copy of his parents’ will and the form of guardianship that was filled out when he was placed with his muggles relatives. I will also need you to contact a reporter from the Daily Prophet, not Rita, and request that they come to my office as soon as they can for a story that will most certainly be front page news tomorrow morning.”
Percy blinked at the rapid fire orders. “Sir is there something the matter with Harry?” He didn’t hang out with Harry, but the boy was one of the most incredible minds he had ever seen. He had watched as the boy fooled everyone into thinking that he was a jock with only Hermione keeping him a float, but if you watched him long enough you would see that he ‘corrected’ his homework to dumb in down before he even let Hermione see it and several times he had went to the library after hours when he was a prefect and found Harry surrounded by ancient tomes, completely engrossed in the words. He knew that he should have docked points or given him a detention, but he knew that the night was the only time that Harry had away from everyone.
Fudge looked up at the boy and really looked, so far the boy had just done whatever he asked without showing a backbone, perhaps there was more there then he thought. “Let us just say that he has been removed from an unhealthy environment, and is now somewhere safe. I need those files and that message delivered. If you prove that you are not a threat to Harry Potter you may become better be involved.”
Percy hurried out of the office, he knew that wasting anymore of the minister’s time right now was not a good idea, everyone underestimates Fudge but he would play the fool until he was better served to drop the act, like now. He found most of the files on Harry relatively easily, until he tried to find the transfer files and the will of the Potters. When he inquired about his guardianship he was told that Dumbledore himself was listed as the guardian, and that the Potters’ will had been sealed by Dumbledore. The seal was easy to get around when he used the minister’s name, he scanned the will on the way back out of the archive and found his anger rising, there was no way that any part of this will was followed; Dumbledore had a lot to own up to.
Fudge could practically feel the boy’s anger when he reentered the room to drop the files off before heading to the Daily Prophet. He placed the files on the desk and hurried out of the room, his face splotchy and his eyes focused, he must have read the files on the way up. He opened the first file and almost dropped it in shock, it was the file that listed any and all injuries sustained by the person it was bound to, and it was often used to prove child abuse as it was considered an impartial witness. This file was at least twenty times the size of a normal file, the injuries listed were almost unreal, everything from sprained ankles to massive trauma, this was absolutely unforgivable.
He felt his anger rise even more when he found that Dumbledore was the boy’s guardian. He left the boy at those muggles home without even taking the time to grant them guardianship, if they had been decent people they would have been incapable of properly caring for the boy. They would not have any say so when it came to medical care though at least this way they would have never known that he was the heir to quite a bit of money. That brought him to the finances file, it was rather obvious that Dumbledore had been using Harry’s own money to finance a rather detailed operation, large sums of money had been withdrawn since the boy was a toddler, he would have to inform the goblins that the money was not taken for the wellbeing of the heir, it would all be reclaimed from wherever it had ended up, even if it had already been spent, the goblins were not fans of fraud.
His true anger sparked when he looked at the will. It stated under no uncertain terms that Harry was to never even set foot in the Dursley’s household, nor was Dumbledore ever to have any kind of control other then that of a headmaster over Harry. There was also enough information present to prove that Sirius Black had not been their secret keeper, Peter had. He felt sure that if the man had gotten a trail he would have been cleared of both crimes, it was simply another crime that Dumbledore seemed to be responsible for. He knew that he would not have any trouble putting enough blame on Dumbledore to have him removed from any position of power, other then headmaster unfortunately, to remove him from there he would have to prove that the man was not capable of performing the necessary tasks, whether he was a waste of human flesh was completely irrelevant. Perhaps it is time for the Ministry to take a more active position in the shaping of the youth.
He wrote a detailed missive to the head of the bank and sat down with his favorite kind of coffee to plan out the best way to make that man’s life a living hell, he could hardly wait; he would also have to make sure that several of the wrongs the man committed were undone. Making sure that Sirius’ name was cleared would also go a long way to making Dumbledore look more like the insane old coot that he was.
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Dumbledore had the feeling that something big was going to happen soon, he didn’t know what it was and it was making him uncomfortable. He had checked to make sure that the Dursleys had made it back to England, as well as checking to make sure that Sirius was still going slowly insane, hopefully he would end up doing something stupid and offing himself, one could hope. He hadn’t spoken to Cornelius in quite some time, but that man was hardly a threat. He popped a lemon drop into his mouth and continued to ponder what could be coming, he would be ready, and his plans were too well thought out to fail now.
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Anisuke awoke sometime in the afternoon; he felt a lot better and wanted to explore his temporary home. It took almost fifteen minutes to wiggle his way out of his mates’ arms, luckily they were much too tired to wake up, and they had their whole world turned on its head after all. He crept out of the room and only relaxed when he was several hallways away. He wandered aimlessly, opening random doors to find bedrooms, drawing rooms, and studies. He had been looking around for more then an hour when he stumbled upon the rather large library, there were numerous rows of bookcases filled to the brim, Anisuke’s eyes sparkled as he immediately started to browse the aisles, he found a rather good book and curled up in one of the overstuffed chairs.
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Sesshomaru woke up to notice several things. One, it was close to evening which meant that he had been asleep for several hours in someone else’s house, something that he was not too comfortable with. Two, he felt much better then he had during the whole trip, he certainly did not like any of the modes of transportation in the future. The third thing it noticed was that Anisuke was gone; he shot up out of the bed, startling both of them awake. “Anisuke is gone, we need to find him.”
They all set out to find their little one; they would give him a talking to. They found him sitting in the library sitting in a chair that made him look twice as small as he was. They all found themselves without the ability to scold him; he was just too adorable curled up like that. Instead they made their way into the room and sat in various places around him, he looked up only long enough to give them a small smile before he returned to his book.
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Goldridge was most certainly not a very happy goblin. He received a missive from the Minister stating that one of the banks largest accounts had been stolen from, he hadn’t wanted to believe it but the information pointed to only the truth of the Minister’s statements. Someone had taken money from their favorite client, the only wizard that they could trust, the only wizard that treated them as if they were on the same level. Dumbledore would pay, oh yes; he would pay for every Knut that was taken out of that vault. He would soon know that it was not wise to mess with goblins, as would everyone who benefited from Harry’s money.
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The next morning one of the veteran reporters for the Daily Prophet was nervously waiting for the Minister to start with the interview. His name was Oryx Kinsey, he worked for the Prophet for years, but he had never interview the minister. Rita was normally the one who did interviews, so everyone was surprised when the Minister’s aide specifically requested that they send someone other then her, she had turned a shade of red that he couldn’t even name, served that lying woman right.
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The Savior Betrayed!


When I entered the Minister’s office I had no idea what I was in for, the revelations I was privy to were enough to leave me stunned and furious. We all know some of what happened that night when Harry Potter became the Wizarding World’s savior, but apparently more went on then anyone could have ever imagined.
That night after Harry was found within the rubble of Godric’s Hollow he was taken by Rubius Hagrid, the groundskeeper at Hogwarts, to the house of the Dursley family on the orders of one Albus Dumbledore, the Headmaster of Hogwarts. Dumbledore then proceeded to leave young Harry on the doorstep with only a thin blanket and a note to one Petunia Evans, he did not have the decency to even knock on the door before he abandoned our savior without a backward glance. He rationalized this move to us by telling us that he was placed with his only living blood relatives, he lied to us.
Harry is not a half-blood as was previously thought. His mother, Mrs. Lily Rose Potter, was from the prestigious Aeroius family, the only living heir. So Dumbledore left one of the richest infants in the world with a family of middle class muggles that had no desire to raise a young wizard within their household.
Dumbledore did not even stop with those injustices, he stopped the will of the Potter’s from ever being read as that would have put a stop to his plans. The will of the Potter’s clearly stated that Harry was to never even set foot within the Dursley’s household, and it listed many families that he was to go to in case of their untimely death. Some of the families mentioned were the Bones, Longbottoms, Diggorys, and many of the others that his parents went to school with. All of the families that were listed filed for custody of Harry but were denied without a hearing due to Dumbledore’s influence.
The will also contained information which has led to the clearing of Sirius Black’s name, he was not the Potter’s secret keeper, Peter Pettigrew was, it was also revealed through the Minister’s investigation of the ‘attack’ on that street so long ago that the spell could not have come from Mr. Black’s wand, as it was even listed in the auror’s report as having come from the opposite direction, from Mr. Pettigrew himself, this would have been enough to clear Mr. Black of all charges on that count but he was never given a trial. I decided to look into this matter myself and found that Dumbledore was the one who assured Mr. Crouch that a trial was not necessary. The Ministry has already issued a formal apology and transferred an unspecified amount of reparations for his time spent in Azkaban. This information also brings to light that Mr. Pettigrew likely survived through the use of some form of trickery, thought to be an animagus form, to escape and is likely living in secret, so beware. That could also be the reason for Mr. Black’s visits to Hogwarts a couple of years ago.
The Minister also brought to light the fact that Dumbledore has been siphoning money out of Harry’s vaults since he was a toddler. The goblins were enraged and immediately reclaimed the money from all of the various places it ended up. This led to the seizure of several of Dumbledore’s vacation properties, a very large amount of artifacts of a darker nature, the house that the Dursley’s lived in as well as the company that Mr. Dursley worked for. They also reclaimed many deposits that had been made to various families including the family of the Minister’s aide Mr. Weasley causing the young man to swear on his magic that he had no idea nor would he condone such a thing. There were also deposits made to the account of one Hermione Granger, a noted muggleborn friend of Harry Potter, which leads to the question of how good of a friend she really is.
With all of the evidence against Dumbledore it was announced this morning that all of Dumbledore’s positions including that of Head Mugwump have been removed. Unfortunately it is beyond the power of the Ministry at this time to remove Dumbledore from his position as Headmaster without solid proof that he cannot perform the task. It is with that thought in mind that the Minister announced that there will be three new professors at Hogwarts this year, Sesshomaru Taisho, Kouga Ookami, and Naraku Miasma. They will be teaching swordplay, physical education, and defense against the dark arts respectfully. The first two classes are to be added to the curriculum this year to help our young increase the amount of magic that their bodies can channel and will be core classes for all years. The teachers are also going to be watching Dumbledore and the staff, even giving evaluations to determine if they are suited to their jobs. When asked why those three foreign wizards were chosen the Minister revealed a rather startling fact.
When young Harry turned fifteen this year his magic was strong enough to send out the call, a rare event that summons the wizard or witches soul mate(s) to them. Harry managed to summon his three mates. You read correctly, he has three soul mates, more proof that he really is the savior of the wizarding world. The three foreign wizards are his soul mates and therefore have a vested interest in how well the school that their young mate attends is safe and well staffed. It will also allow Harry to spend time with his mates, which is a small compensation for all that he has gone through and this reporter can honestly say that he is glad that his mates will ensure that Hogwarts will be run the way it should have been all along.
I also took the liberty of looking into the records of all of the years that Harry has went to Hogwarts, which was quite difficult, as the files were sealed by Dumbledore, but with his removal from the position of Mugwump I was able to get them released and the information was startling. During Harry’s first year at Hogwarts there was a Cerberus placed on the third floor along with other traps to guard the Sorcerer’s Stone, it is unknown why Dumbledore would choose to protect the stone within the school. Towards the end of the year Dumbledore left the school unattended as one of the teachers, a Mr. Quirrell, attempted to obtain the stone and was stopped by our own Harry Potter at eleven years old. Mr. Ronald Weasley and Ms. Hermione Granger assisted in getting to the stone, but did not help Harry take on his defense teacher. The specifics of the fight are unknown but young Harry managed to take on a wizard three times his age relatively unharmed.
His second year revealed that he was a parseltongue which led the entire school turning his back on him as strange petrifaction of several students. The cause was a ballisk that was living in the chamber of secrets within the school and was being commanded by a dark curse that was placed on a diary that was brought into the school by one Ginny Weasley. Harry managed to not only find the chamber with his gift but he also managed to kill a thousand year old ballisk and save Ms. Weasley at age twelve. Once again Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger were credited with helping Harry get into the situation but not in getting out.
Third year is public record as it was the year that Sirius Black escaped from Azkaban and was believed to be after Harry. It is now believed that he found some clue as to the location of Peter Pettigrew and was attempting to gain revenge on his once friend. It was also the year that it was discovered that the defense professor, Remus Lupin, is a werewolf. He was terminated at the end of the year even though none of the parents complained about his condition as the students had scored higher that year in defense then they had in almost fifty years. Though something that was not public information is that Harry managed to cast a completely corporeal patronus and repel over twenty five Dementers, which may have been in defense of Mr. Black or because of his very strong reaction to their presence.
Fourth year is also mostly public knowledge with a few notable exceptions. Harry did not have to compete. The contract that Dumbledore stated prohibited Harry from dropping out only stated that a participant from one of the three schools had to compete, Harry did not have to as he was not chosen for Hogwarts but a fictitious school. The end of the tournament resulted in the cup being a portkey that transferred both Harry Potter and Cedric Diggory to an unknown location. When they reappeared at the starting clearing Mr. Diggory had been killed by a killing curse with Mr. Pettigrew’s magic signature and Harry was suffering from physical injuries as well as signs of the pain curse and a failed imperius curse that he had managed to overcome. It was also discovered that the defense teacher that year, Mr. Moody, had been placed within his own trunk while Barty Crouch Jr. used Polyjuice potion to take his place. All of this information leads to several questions:

Shouldn’t Dumbledore have known that Moody was not himself; after all they are known to have been friends for well over twenty years?

Why did he allow so many dangerous situations to occur within Hogwarts?

Why are Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger only noted for helping Harry get into these situations?

Why did Dumbledore make Harry compete in such a dangerous tournament?

Why did he allow Harry’s rightful guardian, Mr. Black, get sentenced without a trial?

Why did he fire the only good defense teacher Hogwarts has seen in fifty years?

Why is he always absent when these incidents occur?

This reporter hopes that the new steps that the Ministry is taking will lead to a safer Hogwarts as well as the answers to the questions above. I also hope that Harry has a quieter year to bond with his mates.

For a full copy of the Potter’s will see page 9

For more on the full extent of the Ministry’s plans see page 11

For more on Harry’s years at Hogwarts see pages 12-13

For more on Mr. Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger see page 14
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Quite a few miles away within the office of one Albus Dumbledore a scream of rage that even startled Peeves rang through the empty hallways followed by the sound of breaking glass.
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A very different sound rang out through Grimmauld Place, first was a shout of joy followed by what could only be called a squeak and the sound of a full grown man’s body hitting the ground.
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Anisuke’s mates on the other hand were enjoying Anisuke’s beaming smile as he read through the Prophet. They had spent hours planning with the Minister when he had come home last night to find a way that they could not only have the perfect excuse to continue to watch over their fox but to also make Dumbledore wish that he had never been born.
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