"Hear me out" Harry spoke calmly "we need to convince him your still firmly on his side or he'll fire you or do something worse, as for you Ginny he'll probably get your mum to go overboard on you. We could handle that but I'd prefer it if we do that at another date. When you go in there you'll be unsure, you'll claim that I'm an honest boy but you'll also think that I'm just confused and angry at Dumbledore. Say just enough for him to believe your loyalty and not expect you of having sent those letters.
Ginny your letter needs to be anonymous as well, in court you'll be supportive of me as it'll be out of character for you not to be. Naturally I'd publicly 'forgive' you later but in court you'll have doubts and be unsure, just enough to please your mother and Dumbledore so they don't try to split us up"
"Split you up?" Flitwick growled once more
"Yeah" Ginny answered him "if I don't keep Harry in 'the light' then Dumbledore and mum will try to keep away out of fear of me pushing him to the other side or him doing the same to me. Listen I know it'll be hard to act like you still like Dumbledore but if Harry can do it then so can the rest of us" A silence filled the room
"Very well" McGonagall spoke for the group "we shall do those letters and get back to you, perhaps later we can continue to discuss how we should act in court"
"Thank you" Harry wiped away a tear, the Professors stood and they all walked out of the Headmasters office
"Where is Albus anyway?" Snape asked
"While you were looking at my past I spent some time delaying Albus" Harry spoke, everyone looked intrigued so he continued "I may have hid during his meeting and cast a few minor hexes at the minister" Their eyes expanded in shock but Harry wasn't done
"Eventually he got furious and thought Dumbledore was playing some sort of joke on him, he left, presumably to get some new clothes and a new hat then go to St Mungo's to fix his nose" Everyone raised an eyebrow "nothing harmful or permanent I assure you, but then when Dumbledore was walking up here, a well-placed tripping spell and he fell down the stairs and broke his hip."
"You broke the headmaster's hip?" Ginny didn't know if she should laugh or not, the others appeared to be having the same internal debate
"I did not" Harry answered "the stairs did, I just assisted them. Besides Madam Pomfrey is so good that I estimate he could be out of there by the end of the day if she didn't insist that he stay. I also took the opportunity to relieve some anger and give the headmaster some additional work"
"Additional work?" Snape asked, this would be good. The others also had given Harry their complete attention.
"First I went to the quidditch pitch, I wanted to cause some damage but not enough to cause the games to be cancelled so I destroyed a hoop, I then destroyed one on the opposite side to keep it fair. Lets see, then I went to the divination classroom and I wrecked it"
"I can't believe I'm hearing this and not punishing you" McGonagall wanted to appear angry but was too amused "do tell me why you chose the divination class room?"
"Well we all know she's a fake" Harry shrugged "besides it'll keep Dumbledore busy and it's payback because I'm tired of hearing about how she keeps predicting my death to the other students, perhaps her student would wonder why she didn't predict her class room getting destroyed. I also went into the history classroom and to say I destroyed it would be an understatement, I don't think Bins noticed though.
Oh and fair warning I placed a ward on the teachers room that will randomly stop a random teacher from entering, I keyed you all into it though so you won't have to worry about it and I blew up a random class room and before you say anything it wasn't one of yours and it was an unused class room. I also made sure nobody saw me."
"Just to sum up" Snape spoke "you've basically damaged the school in a way that will take months to prepare and your planning to pile that on Albus along with the court thing"
"Yep" Harry nodded "maybe he'll be so overworked that he forgets to fire Lupin, even if he does it's just more work finding a new defense professor. He may just end up giving it to you for the rest of the year Professor Snape"
"So you're hoping he put on enough stress to lead him to death?" Ginny joked, Harry was about to laugh but then he actually thought about it
"No but if it works then brilliant" He smiled and wrapped an arm around her shoulder.
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