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Grey Is Better	By : Ace1984 Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female Views: 41005 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 11
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Hogwarts

Harry and his girls were just waiting to be signed out, so that they could go to Hogsmeade. Harry had received a letter from the Amelia Bones stating that she was interested in meeting him today. They were to meet at the Three broomsticks, Harry had already shrunk the cage carrying Peter, and it was safely in his pocket. They had just got the front of the line, when Harry heard the old fool speak.

"Huh Lord Potter, Just where do you think your going? Only students who have had their permission slips signed by their parents or Guardian are permitted to leave the school grounds, also my I enquire why you have Miss Greengrass with you, after all she is only a first year and is prohibited from leaving the school."

Harry gritted his teeth, the nerve of the old fool. It seemed he had forgotten that Harry was now an adult within their world and didn't need a permission slip, as for Astoria, Harry had spoken to her father and mother, who were pleased that he had taken her under house protection, the last think he was going to do was leave his charge alone, especially when her own house hadn't exactly made her feel welcome.

"With all due respect headmaster, you have forgotten that I am considered an adult in the wizarding world now, meaning I don't need any permission slip, as for Astoria, she is my charge and I don't trust anyone in this school except those who are with me. After all sir you paid Ron to spy on me, what's to say that you don't have other people watching me. I have a letter here from Lord Greengrass, stating that he is happy for me to carry on looking after Astoria as my ward. So as my ward I want her where I can protect her, and that is with me. So if you don't mind we have a village to explore."

Dumbledore growled, the brat was ruining everything, he had hoped that he would have been able to keep Harry within the castle, that way he could keep an eye on him. Dumbledore knew Harry must have been meeting someone, the only problem was who? For now though he decided to back off.

"Very well Lord Potter, just to let you know, if anything happens to Miss Greengrass it is on your head."

Hogsmeade

Harry kissed his two girls goodbye, he then led Astoria towards the Three Broomstick, he wished that he could allow Astoria to go off with her sister and Hermione, but it was just too risky. He opened the door to the pub, and stepped in. He noticed Amelia sitting in one of the booths, he walked up to the bar, he really needed a private room so that they were not overheard.

"Excuse me how, much is to hire a room for an hour or so."

The bar owner blinked, she then noticed the Robes and rings and immediately bowed. "2 Galleons for an hour My Lord."

Harry nodded, then removed a few coins from his pocket, he gave the bar owner 4 galleons as he wasn't sure on how long the meeting would be. He then walked over to Amelia.

"Excuse me Madame Bones, I've just hired a private room, the nature of what I want to discuss is not exactly something I can speak about here. Would you follow me please."

Amelia blinked then got out of the booth and followed Harry and Astoria into one of the rooms. Once inside she was amazed to see the young lord ward the room, with wards she had never seen before. She took a seat at the table in the middle of the room and removed a note pad.

"Well I must say Lord Potter, I was rather shocked to read your letter, especially regarding the attack on the Hogwarts Express. The other half of your letter was rather cryptic so I decided that meeting you would be the best options in finding out exactly what you meant."

Harry pulled a chair out for Astoria, he then took a seat himself. "Well before I say anymore. I need to know a few things. Please don't mind Astoria, she here as my ward. Due to her being a first year she has to stay with me. Now what I wanted to ask you was this. Was you aware that Dementors were suppose to search the Hogwarts express for the supposed escaped convict Sirius Black?"

Amelia eyes hardened. "No I wasn't informed, but due to my position in the Ministry, I should have been the first to know. It seems the Minister own under secretary gave the order for the search to take place, a woman called Madame Umbridge."

Harry growled at the name, he still checked the back of his hand now and again, to make sure that I must not lie, wasn't still etched into his skin. He noticed Amelia confusion and decided to move on would be the best option.

"Well they searched the train, for some reason they were drawn towards me. Over the summer I was able to go through several of my parents journal, in one of them was instruction on how to defend yourself against a Dementor, so I did just that. However had it been someone else who was attacked then it could have been very costly indeed. Anyway carrying on with the Dementor attacks, I had to fend of three of them from the school grounds. The headmaster told us at the opening feast that they would only patrol at night, however this was 10 in the morning. When I confronted Dumbledore about it, he seemed not too worried, if that doesn't worry a headmaster I don't know what does. So seeing he was going to be no help I decided to come directly to you."

Amelia nodded. "Well I am glad you did, had you not then I would not have known about the search or the attacks at the school, however something tells me that the dementors are not the only thing that is troubling you."

Harry grinned. "Just what I expect from an officer of the law, yes the other reason is regarding Sirius Black, you see I know he's innocent. Your reports at the Ministry mentioned that he killed a dozen muggles on a corner of a street after killing a man known as Peter Pettigrew. What I understand is all they found was a finger."

Amelia nodded. "Yes that's correct. Peter was given a Merlin third class award for trying to bring in Black, right after he betrayed your parents."

Harry placed his hand in his pocket, and pulled out the small cage. He then used his wand to un-shrink it. He placed it in the middle of the table,much to the confusion of Amelia. She noticed a huge rat was inside the cage. Harry grinned.

"Well you see the rat inside this cage is the real betrayer of my parents. He was also responsible for the death of the muggles. Notice anything unusual about its feet?"

Amelia wondered where this was going, she took a close look and noticed that one of the toes was missing, she looked at Harry confused.

"Well he is missing a toe, but I fail to see how that has anything to do with anything."

Harry smirked. "It has everything to do with it Madame Bones. Behold Peter Pettigrew."

Amelia eyes widened. "Impossible Lord Potter, Peter Pettigrew is dead, you yourself know they only found a finger... Amelia eyes suddenly widened, she looked at the missing toe and then the young Lord to see him smirking.

"I see you finally have made the connection. Feel free to perform a test if you wish, I would advice though a anti-amagus ward, just in case the rat tries to make a break for it."

Amelia nodded, she then placed various wards around the room. Once she was satisfied, she removed the rat from the cage and performed the revealing charm, just as the young lord had said the rat was a person hiding as a rat. She forced the rat into human form, and almost fell back with shock, as there curled up on the table was the supposed dead man Peter Pettigrew. She then levitated him into a chair. She made sure the he was chained before removing the status charm, as she noticed he was holding a all to familiar wand. She disarmed him then took the wand before conjuring a see through plastic bag. She then placed the wand inside. Finally she removed a vial from her pocket and poured it down Peter's throat. She noticed the young Lord had his wand trained on the man, and that he was shielding the young Greengrass daughter behind him. She then waved her wand and woke the man.

Peter immediately woke up, however when he noticed that he was chained up, and the all to familiar taste of truth serum, he knew he was in trouble. He tried to struggle and attempted to change again, however when he couldn't change he knew he was trapped. He looked around the room and cowered at the people in front of them, one had him more scared the rest.

"James...but how?"

Harry grinned. "Close but no award Peter. I'm Lord Harry James Potter, son of Lily and James Potter. I thought that would had been obvious especially with my eye colour being green the same as my mothers."

Peter then looked at the other person and his eyes widened. "Amelia...What are you doing here?"

Amelia growled. "What I am doing here is nothing to do with you Peter, however i'm the one asking the questions here. Did you betray the Potter's to the Dark Lord?"

Peter paled, he had no choice, the truth serum had began to take affect. "Yes I was the secret keeper and betrayed them to my master."

Amelia immediately began jotting down the answers.

"Did you kill the twelve muggles on the corner of the street when Sirius Black confronted you?"

Peter tried to fight the serum, but found it was no good. "Yes, Sirius knew that it had been me who had betrayed Lily and James. I knew my only chance to escape was to frame him, for the murder of the muggles standing around us. I then severed my finger, and transformed myself into a rat and escaped down the drain."

Amelia shook her head. An innocent man had spent nearly twelve years in Azkaban for a crime he had not committed, and now he was on the run, obviously trying to proof his innocence. Something was puzzling her though, Peter had mentioned that he was the secret keeper, so someone must have performed the fidlus charm, to make him the secret keeper.

"Mr Pettigrew, who performed the charm making you the secret keeper of the Potter's hiding place?"

Harry grinned in the background, the old fool was in for it now. Two birds were about to be killed with one stone.

Peter nervously answered. "Albus Dumbledore performed the charm. He convinced Lily and James that Sirius would be too much of an obvious target and to make me the keeper instead."

Amelia eyes glowed. The old fool had known all a long, yet he had sent Sirius to Azkaban, for crimes he had not committed. The question was why? What did he have to gain by imprisoning Sirius?

Harry noticed the cogs were turning within Amelia head. Now was the time to put the final nail in the old fool coffin.

"If you are wondering why Dumbledore did it, then I can tell you. With Sirius being my godfather, in the event of my parents death, I would go with him. Dumbledore couldn't allow this you see he had been finding a way to get at my family fortune. So with Sirius in prison it would mean that Dumbledore would become my magical guardian, allowing him access to my families wealth. He would then be able to control me, when I got older. You see madame Bones, instead of being brought up in the wizarding world, I was brought up by my mum muggle sister who hated magic, I was beaten and abused for a number of years. While I suffered Dumbledore was bleeding me dry, he also created a marriage contract between myself and Gineva Weasley. The contract stated that in the event of my death then the Weasley family would receive half, while the other half would be given to him. My question is this Madame Bones, why would Dumbledore add such terms unless he knew that I wasn't going to survive whatever it is I am supposed to die from."

Amelia herself was puzzled by the question. If she wanted answers then she needed to get Dumbledore in for questioning. Maybe more would be revealed, well the first thing was to get a pardon issued for Sirius, with the evidence from the interview, and the actual traitor in person, then the Ministry wouldn't be able to deny a pardon. She left the room leaving Harry alone with Peter. Now that Amelia had left, he was intending to ask his own questions.

"Well Peter it's just you and me. I am sure Madame Bones is now getting back up so that you can be taken to the Ministry. Let say this though, if you think for one minute I am going to allow you to be sent to Azkaban you have another thing coming. I'm planning to use my power to make sure you receive the kiss. Your dark lord won't be able to free you then."

Peter eyes widened, he suddenly wet himself at the evil grin Harry was giving him.

"That's right Peter, like you I know that Voldemort is not truly dead, and that he will be back. Here's the kicker though, I intend to make sure you and your other little death eater chums, are not around when he does return. Giving me the opportunity to finish him off for good."

Peter never got a chance to reply. Amelia stepped into the room flanked by two auror's. Harry smiled as he watched Peter dragged out of the room, once he had been removed from the room, he noticed Amelia look straight at him.

"I will be in touch Lord Potter, and don't worry, I will do everything I can to get Dumbledore in for questioning as well. With the evidence I have, I can say that Sirius will be pardoned by this time tomorrow. Well good day Lord Potter."

Harry bowed in return. "Thank you Madame Bones, I will give you a copy of the memories from my childhood, so that you can see that I wasn't lying."

Harry then placed his wand to his forehead, before pulling several memories from his head and placing them in a vial, he then handed it to Amelia, who placed the vial in her pocket. Once Amelia had left Harry turned to Astoria.

"Well Tori, that took less then time then I thought. How about we explore the town a little, if you want anything then just ask and I will buy it for you. It's the least I can do for you sitting through this meeting for so long."

Astoria broke into a huge smile, before dragging Harry out of the pub and into the various stores. Harry was wondering what he had gotten himself into it.
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