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Growing Up Royal: After TTTC	By : ladyedgecombe Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male > Harry/Snape Views: 10373 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Disclaimer: I do not now, nor have I ever contributed to the Harry Potter stories by J. K. Rowling. I do not make money at writing this fanfiction nor any others. But, I sure do like to borrow the characters and play for awhile. I promise to put them back so others can share too.

Summary: After The Third Time Charm, Harry, Severus and company start to raise Harry Potter while trying to help the Potter parents recover. AD was right about something, Becca said, all this fame could go to his head. Time Travel AD GnW RW HG MW bashing, Abuse, Anal, AU/AR, M/M, OC, Oral, Spank, Yaoi

Growing up Royal: After TTTC

Posted: 23 March 2011

Chapter 12: Taking Back the Castle

As the large contingent of beings was walking towards the Headmistress’ office, Salazar walked with a purpose few had seen before. Becca followed with the others behind her. She remembered the condition of the office a few weeks ago and knew there was much work to do.

Minerva followed in her usual stern manner. She wanted to tell them that they couldn’t just come in here and take over, but she knew they could. Since the last time Salazar had been there she had interviewed six potential teaching candidates, had to substitute several different classes including Defense for a week, and Aberforth was extremely busy and unable to help the last two days. She wished he was here now as she felt like she was drowning in a sea of problems and was on a sinking ship.

As the group of people stopped in front of the gargoyle guarding the office door, Salazar turned around and addressed them. “Alright, everyone knows what they are doing. I want all the elves to take your stations. There should be one elf for each subject in the each of the common rooms. You are to make sure the students are not distracted with our entrance and are studying for their exams.” All, but the elves dressed in gold, then left with soft popping noises.

“Lucius, you know the students will start making their way to the Great Hall for dinner,” Salazar then directed.

“I will be there to make the announcements,” Lucius answered the man and turned to make his way to the students. He would be directing them back to their common rooms after their evening meal and letting the other professors know they were needed in a meeting.

Sal turned back to the Governors that were left to issue his commands to them, “All of you are to maintain the corridors. Make sure the students remain in their dormitories. We don’t need some of the more daring ones to try to find out what is going on and start a bunch of rumors before tomorrow. The students are taking their end-of-year exams and need to study. The elves are the only ones allowed to obtain books from the library.”

The eleven men and women that were the remaining adults from the Board turned and left to go to the Great Hall so that they could monitor the return of the students to their dorms.

“Headmistress McGonagall,” Salazar then said to get the stern woman’s attention, “the rest of us are going to get you caught up in the office. The goblins and I will be going over the financial books while these others are going to help sort through the information for the progress, disciplinary, and evaluation reports of the students.”

Minerva sagged slightly in relief. Obviously, she was still the Headmistress as Slytherin had referred to her as such. Even with the military precision in which this visit was conducted, it seemed that he had the school’s reputation and best interests in mind. She nodded to Salazar with a slight hesitant smile on her face.

Without another word, Sal turned toward the gargoyle and as if there had been a silent command, it opened immediately to allow the group entrance.

Minerva watched as the team composing of four house elves dressed in gold uniforms, three goblins (obviously from Gringotts Bank), and the two Prince men started on the stacks and stacks of parchments that covered every surface of the desks and tables in the room. She vaguely remembered the two Prince men being here years ago when Albus was still the Headmaster. Then Rebecca and Salazar Slytherin were also in the group. They converged on the mountain of work like an army of organized ants.

All of a sudden parchment started to fly through the air re-sorting itself. Minerva watched in fascinated horror as her office was torn apart. There were dozens of parchments flying through the air, each one changing color as they were categorized according to what the elves determined the subject matter to be. The parchments were flying in a circle until it reached its next destination, filling boxes at each designated desk or table.

Each adult had a dicta-quill taking down notes as they spoke to it. Minerva wondered why she had never thought to use them.

At the Hogshead Inn…

Aberforth Dumbledore was getting very angry. For the last two days a group of vampires had descended on his establishment and he could not get rid of them. He wanted to go and 'help' Minerva so he could see the list for next year’s students. It never hurt to know who was coming while he was waiting for Harry Potter to show up. There were about four more years before he was going to be able to get his hands on the kid, but in the meantime he had been ingratiating himself in the school; sometimes he would eat dinner in the Great Hall with Minerva and the other students.

He had scoped out the kids that had been assembled there, and although there were many that had potential, none had the kind of power he knew the Potter brat had. He was a patient man though and would make himself indispensable at the school while waiting. It would be worth it.

For now, he needed to get rid of these disgusting creatures that were making themselves at home in his bar. None of his employees would come to work while they were there. He had been told that several of the dark creatures had intimidated and even threatened his staff. He had tried to close the bar and kick them out but they refused to leave and when one did leave another came in. All of them brought their own blood, and drank it in the open, scaring off the customers too.

He had tried calling on the aurors, but the only answer he received from the Magical Law Enforcement was that they were not breaking any laws. Unless Aberforth had proof that they threatened the employees or that they were of a rogue vampire clan intending harm, there was nothing the MLE could do. He had already been warned about serving Firewhiskey to under-age wizards (some parent had complained after a Hogsmead weekend), so he couldn't leave the bar unattended.

He knew that Minerva had need of help in the office. It had been like that for awhile now. He needed to infiltrate the school before Harry Potter appeared. If he had been helping for several years, it would seem less suspicious. He had to be there so he could monitor the child’s behavior so nothing was detected when his plans were fulfilled.

He had a spy in the school that had been slipping him information on an irregular basis. But he hadn’t had any information for the last few days. However, the students were taking their final exams so that should keep Minerva and the other professors busy for now.

He looked over at the vampire sitting at one of the tables. The ageless dark haired man had been watching everything going on while looking very bored.

“What can I get for you?” the old man asked the vampire.

“Nothing, thank you, I am just resting,” the vampire answered while taking a drink from his cup. As he placed his cup down, a few drops of blood could be seen at the corner of his mouth before he swiped at it with his tongue. Aberforth gave a shudder as the vampire started speaking again. “This is a nice, quiet place to rest for a few days.” For a brief time, the old man stared into the eyes of the vampire trying to read what the man was doing there. The odd creature just stared back until Aberforth had to look away. It never bode well to back down from a challenge like that, but he could no longer look into the creature’s eyes, so he pretended he was needed back behind the counter. It was going to be another long night.

At Hogwarts Castle …

Lucius arrived at the Headmistress’ office reporting that all the students were in their common rooms. The teachers and support staff were in the staff room waiting for the meeting that Salazar had called. The board members were patrolling the halls making sure that everyone stayed where they belonged.

Sal spent a few minutes briefing Lucius on what he was doing, what had been completed and what to pass on to the goblins. Then he motioned to Minerva so she would follow him and the two of them made their way to the teachers’ staff room.

“What is this meeting about?” the woman asked, sternly, as they strolled through the corridors.

“I would rather go over this only once, so we will all have the same information. Don’t worry; we are not going to get rid of anyone; however, we are going to make a few changes.” Sal told the woman. He smiled at her gently to let her know she was not in any trouble.

Minerva was silent after that. She wanted to know what was going on. She would have preferred to have some notice before all these people came in to change the school around. However, she knew they had the right and didn’t need to ask her permission for such changes. She was just glad she was going to be allowed to stay. The students and the school had been her life for a good many years.

As Sal swept into the staff room with Minerva following behind him, the room suddenly became silent. All the Professors had been chatting amongst themselves but the conversations stopped as they looked up. This was someone they had not met before and they were all wondering the same thing. “What is happening to the school?”

“Good evening, Professors and staff members, my name is Salazar Slytherin and we are here to talk about the school.” As usual, Sal knew when he dropped the bombshell of his name, it would get everyone’s attention.

“Yes, before you ask, I am a direct descendant from the founder. My family fled the country centuries ago and now I am back to establish the family honor and also the honor of the school.” Sal looked around to see what everyone’s reaction was before proceeding.

“This school has fallen very much below standard in the last fifty or so years. We are going to change that. Since the school is rated fifth in the International Wizardry Educational Society out of five schools, there are going to be some significant changes for the next term.” This statement brought a reaction. All the Professors started speaking in alarm at what the man was saying. Hogwarts had always had a reputation of excellence and a few of the staff didn’t miss the fact that Albus Dumbledore had managed the school a great portion of that time.

“I thought this school had an outstanding reputation,” one of the professors said. “We are rated number one in all of Britain.”

“Yes, in Britain, but not internationally; we are far below educational standards and drop lower every year. The Ministry has lowered their standards of testing, instead of us raising ours,” Sal informed them.

“So how are we going to fix this?” Sal was glad that one of the professors sounded like they were ready for the challenge.

“Starting next semester, every class will have four assigned elves to help. These elves have been training for many years in Wizarding magical theory and are ready to help the students. Each of these four elves will then be assigned to a house. If the students need help or have questions, the elves will be there as tutors.”

“You want house elves to teach our children?” exclaimed another professor. There was murmuring in the room and Sal waited a few minutes for it to quiet down.

“Are you telling us we are to have educated house elves?” another asked in horror.

Sal decided to put a stop to the comments, “We have elves that have been trained by Masters in Education, so yes, the elves are educated. Part of our problem is that we do not utilize our resources. The Wizarding world has become too acclimated to using house elves for just household chores and trying keeping them ignorant. But then we allow them to be nannies and keepers of our children. Also, the Muggle-raised have never seen them and should become familiar with our customs as soon as possible. This will actually serve several purposes. It will give you time to raise your level of teaching, help the students especially the younger years and show the Muggle-raised that we are a very different world and will not conform to the Muggle standards.”

“And you think this is going to raise the standards of the school?” Minerva asked as the other professors settled down.

“It will help, but there is more. We are adding classes for Wizarding Customs, as well as World History which will include Muggle History, Estate Management, Spell Creating for the older years and specialty classes such as Warding and Wandless Magics for the sixth and Seventh year students.”

“We don’t have enough teachers for all that!” Minerva butted in. She had enough problems staffing the classes without adding more subjects to staff.

“We already have teachers for most of those subjects,” Sal answered her. “The MLE has offered the use of Aurors to teach a one semester class per year for those sixth and seventh years that are interested in auror training and Gringotts has several goblins that have volunteered to teach Estate Management for those with estates that are currently not managed or are goblin-managed. You see, our standard of education causes both of these entities problems when our students become of age and cannot handle themselves. Did you know that the MLE now has a three-year course instead of two-year because students that want to become aurors don’t have the basic skills for warding or spell creating that is needed?”

Minerva pursed her lips and answered, “I know it is harder now to become an auror, but I didn’t realize it was because students were less trained when leaving the school. I just thought it was because of the activity of recent dark lords and the increase of dark magic use.”

“That’s not all. Prince Conglomerate has to train its new employees from this school twice as much as its international new hires. I am guessing that other companies are having the same problems.”

“Why hasn’t anyone said anything before? Albus Dumbledore was a great and popular Headmaster. Surely someone would have said something before now.” Minerva had never believed that he should have been given the kiss. She still thought there must have been some huge mistake at the trial.

“A great Headmaster is not a popular one, it is one that runs the school the way it needs to be. If everyone is undereducated and encouraged to underachieve, then they have to depend on the older, more educated, to protect themselves.” Sal could see the anger snap in the Headmistress’ eyes. He waited to see if she would say anything to the negative comment about the past Headmaster. As he watched her, she pursed her lips then her mouth settled in an angry line. She didn’t say anything else, though.

“A true teacher is one that trains others to go out in the world and make their own decisions, not one that has others constantly coming back to him for advice.” He hoped he didn’t need to explain anymore how the Headmaster didn’t need to hold all of the official titles in the world; he should be training others to do that. The entire Wizarding World did not need to raise one person on a pedestal; they needed to train others to do it.

Sal continued to explain the changes for the new term starting in September; new disciplinary measures, new scholarship requirements, new teaching regulations. The whole meeting took several hours as there were many questions. There would be more meetings but for now the professors knew what they would need to do over the holidays and could plan their time accordingly.

Salazar Slytherin and Minerva McGonagall finally made their way back to the Headmistress’ office. “You are making many more changes than you first indicated.” Minerva said to the younger man.

“It may seem that way, but some of the changes are according to the bylaws and regulations of the IWES and some are just needed to make the school run more efficiently.”

When they walked into Minerva’s office, everyone was still hard at work but at least there was not as much parchment flying around. The elves were busy filing the parchments in the school's expandable drawers and although it looked like there was still piles of work to do, it was much better organized and stacked neatly.

Lucius looked up when the two walked in, “How did it go?” he asked Sal.

“Better than I expected, but I think we caught them off guard. I would expect a few owls over the next few weeks and a few more staff meetings.”

Lucius nodded his head and said, “I think we are ready to retire for the night. I don’t know if you have been watching the time but it is nearly midnight. I actually sent Becca in the anteroom for a lie-down about an hour ago.” Sal took the news with a startled expression.

“I had not realized it was so late. Thank you for taking care of my wife.”

“Head Elf Kinty had rooms created for us while we are here. A whole corridor of empty and unused rooms has been blocked for us. The Hogwarts house elves have been working on them for the last couple of hours. I am sure they will be ready soon.”

“Alright, let’s get to a stopping point and get some sleep; we will reconvene here at eight in the morning.” Sal had turned to leave when he suddenly remembered something. “Sev, are the statements about the school going to come out tomorrow in the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler? It would be good before the students start making their own rumors about what’s happening here.”

“Don’t worry,” the dark-haired man assured him. “There has been a statement released to every major publication across Europe, and also copies sent to the other Ministries that participate with the IWES as well as the organization itself. All we have to do is produce what we said we would.”

“Well, we either will or die trying. I will not let this school dwindle down to mush.” Sal promised.

Harry had been working on some of the files for the disciplinary problem children, and needed to ask Sal something.

“Sal, why are the files not marked for the students on scholarship? I found out that at least half of the students that need continuous correction are on some type of scholarship funding. According to the rules, they should have been thrown out long ago, or at least held accountable under the scholarship guidelines.”

“We will go over all these problems tomorrow. For now, I think it is time we retired to our beds so we can be fresh and alert for the next step." Salazar then turned to the others in the room and stated, "No one, other than those present, is allowed in here while we are working. So I will be blocking the floo and warding the office when we leave. That way when we come in to finish, no one will have moved anything that we have worked on.

Back at the Hogshead Inn…

Aberforth Dumbledore was beyond tired. Those vampires were still sitting in his establishment playing cards or chess and not leaving. He wanted to close and go to bed but they just wouldn’t leave. He had tried compulsion charms and even an Imperio. All failed in expelling those awful beings from his business. He finally realized that they were staying (for what ever reason), and decided to go to bed, warding his upstairs rooms heavily with the strongest charms he knew.

As he left one of the men sitting at a table asked the other next to him, "When do we get to leave this place?"

The other man quirked a brow at him and simply said, "When they are finished at the school someone will notify us. We have bribed the employees to stay away for a week, which should be enough time for them to get things done."
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