Midway through April, breakfast was interrupted when Cornelius Fudge, the Bulgarian minister, and the French minister were escorted into the Great Hall by Amelia Bones and a mixed team of Aurors from all three countries. As they approached the head table, only a low murmur could be heard as Fudge said "We want all three headmasters along with the other judges in the first floor conference room in one hour. In the meantime, we are going to speak to our constituents and try to get a better idea of how things have been going."
An hour later, the judges were sitting at the table as Cornelius fired the opening shots.
"The article put forward by Mr. Diggory has all of us very concerned. You all have been accused of being biased in your judging and have even gone as far as to punish a young man for doing what this whole thing was supposed to be about. We won't even get into the fact that the same young man should have never been allowed to compete in the first place. We are all in agreement on this so I'll make it as plain as I can."
"ANY irregularities, any favoritism, and oh screw it, if anything goes wrong at all in this last task that makes your school or our countries appear in a bad light will see every single one of you being sacked from every one of your positions and a black mark placed on your records so big that I doubt you will be able to find a job mucking out stables. Do I make myself clear?"
Albus evidently didn't have any sense at all as he replied "You can try Cornelius but you have no say in my position at the ICW."
The French minister stood and looked the old man straight in the eye. "Non, Cornelius may not be able to do it alone but three ministers calling for your removal will go a long way to seeing it happen."
The Bulgarian minister then added "If they don't comply with our wishes in this matter, I'm sure the withdrawal of our membership and support will make them see things our way."
Once the short meeting was over, every single one of them could only worry about what would happen and if Harry Potter would be at the tournament. His not appearing would be a quick death sentence for their careers. On the other hand, with the way things were going, his appearance would probably mean the same thing if the rumors were true that he would come back seeking revenge. In the end, they could only hope for the best as this would probably be their last few months in their positions.
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The lessons went well and by the time of the third task, they felt Harry was ready to face the five Lords which they scheduled a week after. Harry and Megan's academic studies were also going well and they had taken on the courses one at a time. Transfiguration, charms, defense, and potions were already complete and they only needed to revise for them before the exams. They had thrown out divination and muggle studies as the former was a waste of time and the latter could be passed without even studying. They were currently finishing up magical creatures and were about to go through herbology before tackling arithmancy and ancient runes.
It was Megan's idea as she had been taking the subjects and knew of the Potter's affinity for ward crafting. As she explained it to him, they would do that once they were away from school as he had two years of catching up to do before moving on the fifth year material. She felt arithmancy was something he would pick up quickly since he had algebra in primary school and runes would be the most difficult.
Megan convinced him by telling of his family's history of being some of the best warders in the world. It was how they made their fortune and how only since the death of Charlus had the Goblins managed to obtain the majority of the warding business.
She told him that the reason the Potter's wards were so powerful was based on the fact that the Potter's themselves were powerful witches and wizards due to the bonds they shared with their mates and some family secrets that had yet to be discovered. These traits and abilities were always passed to their children.
It was so typical of Harry to sit there and listen quietly as Megan talked about his family as she was the only one who had ever done that for him. It was evident she had put in a lot of effort on his behalf on top of all the studying she was having to do so that he would know of his family and it made her even dearer to him. As he sat listening to her, he knew that if he was to become Lord Potter, then it only made sense that Megan would be the Lady Potter. Not only was he sure that he loved her but he couldn't imagine sharing the results of their hard work with anyone else.
Megan noticed him zoning out and asked "Am I boring you Harry?"
He immediately replied "Not at all love. I was just thinking about how lucky I am that you came into my life and how pitiful I would be if I ever lost you. I do have one question though."
"What is it?"
"If my family were warders, then how come my father was an Auror?"
"I don't know. Maybe he was a DMLE warder. I'm sure Poppy would know."
He nodded his head but the words along with the patented Potter grin in shot her a few seconds ago were enough to see him tackled on the loveseat and the most intense snogging session between the two of them up to this point.
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