Harry Potter : Flash Forward

Madam Bones, from what Harry saw, cast anti-eavesdropping and a few other security wards.

Once done, both turned back to the rest. Harry said to them all, "Now that that's done; please, take a seat."

Once everyone who wasn't already sitting down sat down, Dobby popped in and supplied 'nibblies', tea and coffee for everyone. Harry, his two bondmates and the Greengrasses sat on one side of the table in the middle. Everyone else sat either opposite or at the ends of the table.

It was only their rigid senses of decorum that had kept everyone more or less silent until now. Harry was grateful for it.

While stirring his tea, he looked across to Madam Bones who sat opposite and said, "As I implied downstairs, I take it everyone here has Houses involved in an existing alliance between the House of Potter and their own, and have heard alarming reports from their heirs, or other members of their family, concerning how I currently feel about those alliances?"

"We do, Mister Potter," she replied. "And we would like to know why."

Harry could hear in her tone she was trying her best to suppress her own anger.

He thought about how to do this; how to explain to them all. He remembered Hermione once saying to him, 'Always start at the beginning.' So, that's what he did.

Nodding, he said, "Well, we're going to be here for a while. I think the best thing to do is, start at the beginning. At least, that's what one of my loves keeps telling me." and glanced over at Hermione with a smile.

"Through that hearing at the Ministry, you know a lot about the first eleven years of my life," he began. "So, here's the first question for you. I do not expect an answer. If we're supposed to be allied Houses, where the bloody Hell were you to allow it to happen? If the only excuse you can think of includes the phrase 'Dumbledore said' you may as well leave right now. I'll declare the alliance nullified for cause. Because, what you would be admitting to is abnegating your responsibility to House Potter to someone who had, effectively, kidnapped me."

He let that sink in for a few moments before he said, "Now, here's what's been happening over the last three plus years..."

He went through and covered everything that happened in first year. He described what happened around the troll, the stone, their suspicions, Norbert the dragon, and Quirrell.

He then smoothly switched to second year and covered the public supposedly formal duelling lesson; parseltongue; Mrs Norris's attack; the accusations from almost the entire student body about him being the Heir of Slytherin; the lack of action by the staff; Nearly-headless Nick, Justin Finch-Fletchley and the other students being petrified; the paper they found in Hermione's petrified hand; the second message; and touched on his and Ron's descent into the Chamber of Secrets, what happened within and later. He described how he was treated by the heirs from the time of the duelling lesson until the end of the year, and how it made him feel.

He moved onto third year and only gave it a cursory overview. And thanked Madam Bones for his godfather finally being able to prove his innocence.

Finally, he moved on to the start of fourth year. He covered Hermione and Ginevra's chat with Mrs Weasley about potioning Mr Weasley; Hermione seeing Mrs Weasley attempting to potion her and Harry; a very general overview of the chat in private on the train; Hermione and he seeking out Daphne; the story they concocted about forming the soul bonds; Dumbledore's attempt at compulsion charms and obliviating them; catching the two youngest Weasleys attempting to dose them again; their later chat with Dumbledore and Harry being quite prepared to leave the Wizarding world over all that had happened; their chat with the senior staff about getting things fixed; finding out about the Tri-Wizard tournament and how the draw was going to take place; Harry giving an oath he would not enter his name, either by himself or using another to do it for him; Harry then finding out about the mail redirection and how they were now handling that; then on to the actual draw; and, finally, how the student body were acting, even after he gave another Wizard's Oath in the middle of the packed Great Hall he had nothing to do with his name coming out of the Goblet. At the necessary points, Hermione gave her story about what had happened, confirming what Harry was saying. While he'd been speaking, Harry had watched as the gathered Heads and Regents of allied Houses gasped in shock or appeared appalled or angry in all the right and expected places. He now gave them time to absorb all he had told them before looking towards Madam Bones where she sat white with shock; her monocle dangling by its chain from the breast of her robes.

With his voice becoming more and more hoarse, Harry turned to each of those opposite and said, "We have the situation where each of your Heirs, or other members of your families, have actively denigrated me or otherwise publicly held me up for ridicule, scorn and derision, at the very least.

"And, quite frankly, I've had an absolute gutful. Right now, I've got your Houses... through the actions of those aforementioned Heirs and other family members... actively and publicly turning on me twice since I've been at this school. That is enough, right there," he said, jabbing his index finger onto the surface of the table twice in emphasis, "For me to terminate any and all alliances with your Houses for treachery and behaviour directly opposed to the purpose of those alliances.

"If you came here with the intent to berate me... or, otherwise treat me like a jumped up young kid... think again. The first person who opens their mouth towards me in anger I will immediately terminate the alliance for justifiable cause and call all debts due."

He let his gaze in anger sweep the table, ensuring he knew they'd all heard his words. Many of them had looks varying from absolutely horrified to shocked and appalled.

"Now," he said, sitting back. "Since you seem to be the spokesperson here, Madam Bones, perhaps you should go first with why I shouldn't terminate the alliance between our Houses."

She sat there for a few moments, breathing heavily and apparently trying to get her head around what she'd just been told. It was a long few moments before she finally began to speak.

"First," she said. "I want a copy of each and every memory of the highlights of what you spoke. However, that's me in my role as Head of the DMLE."

"I'll organise that for you, Amelia," said Matthias, quietly, from where he sat on the other side of Daphne. "In expectation, I've also brought a collection of memory phials for Mister Potter to use."

"Alright," she said with a sigh. "Now... onto the way Susan's been behaving. All I can say is that I'm truly, truly, sorry about her behaviour. Immediately following this meeting I'll be dragging her aside and demanding explanations and her own side of this.

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