Duel Enrollment | By : Blackkitten23 Category: Harry Potter > Slash - Male/Male Views: 61768 -:- Recommendations : 5 -:- Currently Reading : 32 |
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Pairing: Yaoi M/M, Harem – top Harry x bottoms Draco / Tom (TMR) / Cedric
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“I thought Uncle Severus said I wouldn’t get one” the young confused boy panted as his Dad looked at the letter. Brian’s eyes widened when he saw the letter was addressed to ‘Harry James Potter’ …
XXXXXXXXXX
To Harry James Potter
4 Privet Drive
In the cupboard under the stairs
“seriously? I lived under the stairs?” Julian asked curiously and looked a bit concerned too as he looked more closely at the letter’s envelope. He had only a few memories of when he was young and him recovering in his father’s care. Other than that he recalled some nightmares and little glimpses of memories like the bark of a dog or a really fat person, but not a lot about the actual abuse he knew he was recovering from. Admittedly something about this letter felt like someone was trying to poke open old wounds with a sharp stick. It made him uneasy.
Brian frowned not wanting Julian to think too much about this when it took years for the bulk of the memories and nightmares to fade “it’s best you don’t think about it” he said before handing Severus the letter. The potion master came the second Brian floo called him and he carefully examined every inch of the letter that shouldn’t even exist and opened it …
HOGWARTS SCHOOL of WITCHCRAFT and WIZARDRY
Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock,
Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards …
Dear Mr. Potter,
You are have been accepted to Hogwarts …
“it looks legit, but this isn’t right … Hogwarts should’ve canceled your letter when you were adopted … and this information is outdated and Minerva’s signature is off. It doesn’t look like her handwriting. Magic doesn’t make these mistakes. If the school wrote this magically it would be accurate, which means someone wrote this by hand and sent it to the Dursleys thinking you were still there. After all any owl would look for the person to give the letter to not dump it at a muggle’s home, especially not something so personal, unless they were instructed to. Dumbledore is the only one capable of this, but why would he think he had to write a letter personally in the first place if the school would’ve handled it- … Julian?” Severus paused just as his brain was close to exploding and saw Julian look at the letter almost as if he were in a trance.
The green eyes skimmed the paper “there’s two traces of magic on the letter. I sense a cold greedy aura”
“Dumbledore. I guess really does leave a slimy trail in his wake” Severus answered with a sneer.
Julian smirked in amusement at his godfather’s dry humor “perhaps … the other aura is ancient and kind, but trapped in a way … she seems so very sad and wants help … I want to stop at Hogwarts” Julian shivered and pulled out his most precious item from around his neck, which was the orb with fluttering soul fragments “Tom wants to go too it seems” he said as he saw all the little fragments moving against the glass as if trying to get the letter. No doubt the soul was reacting to the familiarity of the letter or perhaps it was one of the auras on the letters.
“we might go, but I think we should talk to the UK Minister” Brian said and raised an eyebrow at the horrified look on Severus’s face “what?”
“I’m just trying to wrap my head around the fact that you just said that … either you lost your semi-seer power or there was a new minister elected in the ten minutes I was gone because I can’t imagine Cornelius Fudge being very helpful in any respect” Severus remarked sarcastically.
“I feel it would be an eye opener” Brian said with a shrug.
“right … lets focus on something that actually makes sense. Julian did you get your grades?” Severus asked hoping to see all good grades to prove all is right with the world.
“hmmm?” Julian blinked more than a little confused, but he chuckled sheepishly as he finally remembered the other letter he received “oh right, I left it in Dad’s office, I’ll go get it” Julian ran off with the currently bird sized occamy trailing behind him and soon returned with the letter in hand “it’s all As” he announced happily after opening the envelope and reading the results.
Severus sighed in relief “well clearly the entire world hasn’t completely gone insane so since I’m sure of that now lets go meet Fudge” he said taking the Hogwarts letter with him.
‘he seems rattled’ Tanzanite hissed as he landed on Julian’s head.
“yeah … what kind of guy is the UK minister if you wanting to go to him for help would make Uncle Sev question reality?” Julian asked glancing up at his Dad.
Brian frowned “I don’t know, but I can’t shake the feeling we need to speak with him so it’s worth a shot” he said, but his frown deepened as he watched Severus mumbling to himself while checking his pulse “I think”
The headmaster of Legerdemain sighed and pushed the still stunned potion professor into the living room floo. Julian grabbed the floo powder and gave the container to his godfather who was the one who knew where they were going. Instead of going to the ministry Severus first took them to the Malfoy home in Australia. They found Draco with his family in the living room looking just as dumbfounded as them.
“ummm … is something wrong Brian?” Narcissa asked curious as to why they were there.
“not sure, ask Severus” Brian commented as he and Julian looked at Severus wondering if he lost it.
“I didn’t go insane. Lucius do you still have Ministry clearance?” Severus asked and that did make sense. It shouldn’t be that easy to floo into a government building.
Lucius nodded “yes. I’m still technically on the Broad of Education and Wizengamot among other things, why?”
“Julian got a Hogwarts letter” Severus growled as he held up the letter still in his hand
“WHAT?” Draco snapped and ran over to see this letter faster than his parents “it’s in your old name, but how? … you lived in a cupboard?” Draco looked at his friend feeling a strong urge to hug him and offer comfort so he did. He could tell this affected Julian who hugged back firmly.
Tanzanite looked down at Draco from the spot on Julian’s head and huffed ‘he’s smaller than we last met. You’re a head taller than him’ he muttered clearly just wanting to go and get this letter situation discussed so he can burn the one responsible to a crisp. No one messes with his human and lives to tell about it.
“this isn’t right” Lucius frowned as he took the letter and skimmed it.
“we were planning on speaking with the minister of the UK” Brian was starting to question his instincts when even Lucius gave him an odd look.
“you guys should go then. I’ll handle the Gringotts arrangements honey” Narcissa said as she leaned up and kissed Lucius.
“I’m coming to” Draco said as he and Sasha flooed away with the group leaving his mother behind. They appeared in huge hallway that had several large fireplaces going along the walls.
Julian looked down at Draco as Tanzanite shrank smaller and hid in his hair so he didn’t cause a commotion yet “what is your Mom arranging?”
The silver eyed blonde smiled “we’re having a moon room of my own built”
“that’s big news” Brian said cheerily as he followed Lucius and Severus.
“It is. He trained so hard with his elemental magic we thought it was time he had a place to meditate“ Lucius commented.
Years ago when he learned about Draco’s Cyclic disease and that his disease was the type tied to the Lunar cycles he would’ve been horrified at the thought of letting Draco get involved with anything moon related. Now he knew what Draco needed. If his son was going to prevent his magic from getting caught in that disease again he needed a strong foundation in his elements and a healthy bond with the moon’s magic. Draco’s magic, whether he would’ve developed the disease or not, was strongly connected to the night, the moon and the element of water. Since he was strong in those areas he found a familiar that was a jackal. A creature strongly connected to the moon. With a strong familiar and excellent training the disease won’t appear again.
The group went up a few floors in an old cage elevator and made their way to a desk where the minister’s secretary was seated “excuse me, we have to see the Minister” Lucius said firmly making it quite clear that this was an important matter.
“the minister is busy” she said with a sneer as she looked at the other, obviously foreign, people in the group.
“no I’m not Carol” the group turned to see a gray haired man putting a pocket watch back into his suit jacket “please follow me and you can tell me why you’re here” he said politely and lead everyone into the office ignoring the disapproving look the secretary sent him “now, Lord Malfoy, we haven’t seen you at Wizengamot lately and I was only elected a month ago so we haven’t actually met yet though it’s still surprising to see you with the headmaster of Legerdemain”
Severus’s jaw dropped “how do you know Brian?”
Brian chuckled at his friends’ stunned expressions “I don’t think he means he knows me personally”
“no no no. My apologies, I didn’t mean to imply that. You see I have family in Australia and they keep me up to date on the events including various school events” Cornelius said as he gestured for them all to have a seat.
Lucius raised an eyebrow as he sat next to his son “I’m sorry it’s just during your election you seemed so …”
“traditional? Close minded? Pigheaded? Perfectly willing to keep everything as it is so people can remain happily blind to the outside world so they can keep their foolish beliefs of superiority? … I know, that is what got me elected, but I don’t care to keep up the stupidity. Now what is the problem?” Cornelius Fudge asked happily.
“I adopted my son Julian when he was four and enrolled him in in school at five, but for some reason we received this” Brian said as he handed the minister the letter.
“my son, Draco, has gone to the same school as Julian for years, but, as we expected, he didn’t get a Hogwarts letter” Lucius remarked pointedly as he got over his surprise. He regretted not voting for this minister.
Cornelius nodded I understanding as he opened the letter that was a bit wrinkled from being passed around “Harry Potter? It was believed that Harry was being cared for. I was an auror and I would’ve heard anything saying anything contrary to that. May I ask how that adoption came to be and if I could see the records?”
“he was abused badly by his muggle relatives the Dursleys. I felt his magic dying and went to help. Gringotts arranged the adoption. I’ll call Daggerfang, he has all the records” Brian said as he pulled out his phone and began dialing.
The minister stood up and pulled down a huge book that definitely had a ‘feather light’ spell on it if he could move it and spoke quietly as Brian spoke with the goblin “this is the book that contains all the names of past and present magical people in the UK. This … is my name” he opened the book for the two young kids and pointed at his name, which unlike all the other names on the page, was grayed out and had the name Cornelius Fudge written next to it in crisp black ink “this is a book that magically records your name when your born and keeps track of your name changes like the way my name changed after I was adopted. It should react to bouts of accidental magic and your touch too, like this” he poked his name and it twinkled “now where is your former name- everything being sent?” he said when he noticed Brian put the phone down as he flipped through the book to find Harry Potter.
“yes, Daggerfang is coming with the records” Brian said and he raised an eyebrow, like everyone there, when the minister showed that the name was in crisp black ink, instead of the grayed out version it should be, as if claiming Harry Potter was never adopted “that’s not right”
“normally I would have good reason to assume you were all lying, but let me try this first” Cornelius took the Hogwarts letter and tapped it against the name. Nothing happened, which made the minister frown in confusion “this book should be connected to the one in Hogwarts. This name should twinkle when in contact with the letter … that is strange … wait a minute” he pulled out a hanky and blotted the name ‘Harry Potter’ and it started to blur “you have got to be kidding … someone erased your name and used regular ink to fill in the blank” the minister plopped down in his chair with a sigh.
Severus’s eyes narrowed “you said that book reacts to accidental magic”
“yes it does and under age magic. That’s how our obliviate team knows where to go to reverse the magic and remove he memories from muggles. Erasing the magical signature, which is not easy, would mean- … oh … I see. So that’s how you went through the abuse without anyone knowing. I wouldn’t be surprised if he- never mind, I see your goblin has arrived”
Brian frowned as Daggerfang approached the desk “yes this is Daggerfang the manager of Julian’s accounts”
“and these are the documents you require. Julian’s godfather, Severus Snape, and his godmother, Aster Jewel, were the witnesses to the blood adoption” Daagerfang reported.
Cornelius looked through the documents and nodded in satisfaction “this proves it, but this means someone took away your safety, which lead to this and it has to do with this letter from Hogwarts … actually now that you’re here Daggerfang, may I ask if I can see the Potter parents wills? Perhaps the magical guardian they assigned is responsible”
The goblin glance at Brian and Julian, who both nodded in approval, and snapped his fingers making two wills appear “the wills of Lily and James Potter”
“thank you” the minister said as he took hold of the wills. His eyes nearly popped out of his head “this says you were never supposed to go to the Dursleys … oh no, Sirius Black wasn’t even their secret keeper. Excuse me a moment, I have to arrange for his trial and release”
“WHAT?” Severus snapped once the minister left the room. He respectfully took the wills and read them through carefully. There it was in black and white. Peter Pettigrew was the secret keeper and both wills say Julian was never supposed to end up in the Dursley’s care. All the names of those who could care for Julian were unable because they were dead, in prison or, in the Longbottoms’ case, in St. Mungo’s. He may have hated Sirius Black and knew being in his care wouldn’t have been good for Julian, but the arrogant blockhead didn’t deserve getting sent to Azkaban. It will be annoying seeing the jerk again, but it wasn’t right to leave him there “Alice Longbottom signed each as a witness, but … no, he had to be involved somehow. Dumbledore was close to each of these people who could’ve cared for you so it would too coincidental if he knew nothing about this”
Daggerfang smirked “speaking of the Hogwarts headmaster I do have some information you might like to hear. Apparently through a complex family tree you actually own Hogwarts”
“so I can come and go as I please?” when the goblin nodded in affirmative Julian looked at his Dad looking for permission.
Brian sighed in amusement “our school starts later in the year so maybe”
“cool … hey Dad can I visit Julian?” Draco asked clearly not as innocent as he sounded.
“I’ll talk with your mother about it” Lucius said amusedly. No doubt his son wanted a small token of revenge against Albus Dumbledore who hurt his friend.
Severus’s smirk became a little sadistic “or better yet you two should try riding the train like any other student had to do and walk right out of the front door upon arriving”
“just so you all know I can hear what goes on in this office even when I’m not physically in the room” Cornelius said pointedly as he came back into his office.
“we’d be worried if you didn’t have such security charms in place” Severus scoffed as he gave the goblin the wills “besides, when you changed the subject earlier it seemed like you had an idea who was behind this … oversight” the potion aster said trying to find the most diplomatic term for what happened to Julian.
Cornelius sighed “yes and since you all have your own reservations towards the man I will say I believe he is involved with far too much. Just speaking about your past, Julian, it’s clear someone with Wizengamot level clearance managed to screw a lot up. That combined with cases I worked on as an auror I can honestly say Dumbledore is not as light as he claims. I won’t go into detail, but many of those cases were pretty nasty murders” he explained clearly not wanting to bring up gory details with 11 year olds in the room, which the adults greatly appreciated.
“if you want justice for any victims or even have a chance at revealing Dumbledore for what he is you’ll need just the right leverage” Brian said suspecting Cornelius realized he had the perfect opening sitting right in front of him.
The minister of magical Britain nodded and looked at Julian and Draco “I know, but there may be a solution … now neither of you have to agree. You both stop at Hogwarts, not as students, but as representatives of your own school. I’m suggesting pitting Legerdemain against Hogwarts to begin revealing the truth. Would you like to do this?”
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