The women were all in tears while Dan and Sirius prepared to commit murder, even Dobby looked fierce, while trying to offer comfort to a now sobbing Winky as they all watched the full scene where Dumbledore the Obliviator reigned supreme in Privet Drive.
Harry sat cuddling with his wife as everyone got a small sample of his childhood.
As the memory finished Harry asked "Madam Pomfrey can you detect if the professor has been obliviated more than once?"
Poppy cast a complicated spell round her friend's head and her expression gave the answer.
Hermione asked, "Sirius, how did Dumbledore know where to find the Potters?" his confusion caused her to continue, "if only the secret keeper can reveal the location surely Peter would have to tell him!"
Sirius looked ready to vomit while Minerva kept repeating "the bastard!" her voice barely above a whisper.
"He wanted Harry beaten and broken so he could manipulate him, and with the help of the Weasleys control him! There's a will? Disregard it! Legal guardian in the way? Azkaban with no trial! Anyone who gets a glimpse of the truth looses their memory. The great Albus Dumbledore, hero of the wizarding world. MY ARSE!" screamed Hermione.
"I happen to be very fond of your lovely arse Mrs Potter" as Harry tried the same calming tactic from the bank.
Unfortunately Minerva wasn't at Gringotts or she would never have asked, "What have the Weasleys got to do with this?"
Harry stood straight up with Hermione cradled in his arms and headed out onto the balcony, kissing her attention away from the question and onto other matters while inside the Grangers and Elves explained why it was an extremely bad idea to mention the red haired ones in Mrs Potter's presence.
It was a slightly dishevelled Hermione who walked back into the room, arm round her husband and resumed sitting on his lap as if it was perfectly normal to be dragged from a room and kissed senseless.
Dan and Emma had huge grins as Harry looked pleased with himself.
Minerva and Poppy were chatting to the portrait as the teen's returned, she glanced at her two students and wondered how they were coping so well, she was barely handling the changing situation and that was on the outskirts of the storm!
Minerva had read that in the centre of a hurricane it was calm but she didn't know what, or who to believe in anymore, she was pulled out of her mental wandering by hearing her name called but it sounded different!
"Headmistress McGonagall" said a smiling Harry for the second time "you looked miles away there. I would offer you a galleon for them but last time I made that offer I ended up married!"
A dig in the ribs from Hermione followed that remark before Minerva finally cottoned on to what Harry called her.
"Oh no Mr Potter we need to contact the board about Albus in fact the ministry would be better although the state it's in at the moment he could probably end up as minister considering the last one supported Voldemort!"
Harry and Hermione just smiled and said as one "he's being dealt with!"
The utter conviction in their voices left no room for error but Sirius wanted blood "how can you be so confident? He'll pull something out those ridiculous sleeves and probably claim all the credit!"
"Ragnok won't let him pull any stunts and he'll be tried under goblin law for crimes against friends to the goblin nation, namely us!" said Hermione continuing, "The Weasley's and Dursleys are also being tried under goblin law!"
Sirius looked as if Christmas had come early.
Harry and Hermione knew they needed McGonagall on board if their plans for Hogwarts were to have any chance of succeeding.
Hogwarts School was the centrepiece of their scheme to change the wizarding world and a Head was required who would insist nothing but the best from students and staff while dealing fairly with all.
Their choices were Minerva McGonagall for Headmistress or leaving the magical world as neither could envision bringing children into the current magical society. It was time to reveal some of their plans!
Harry spoke, his voice trembling with so much emotion, that everyone was held spellbound as this young man bared his soul
"When Hagrid came to my rescue he told me that I would be going to the finest school of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the World! He also told me that I'd be under the greatest Headmaster Hogwarts ever had, Albus Dumbledore! I would really like one of those statements to be true."
"As Lord and Lady Gryffindor we own Hogwarts and there's only one name on our list for the Head of Hogwarts and that name is Minerva McGonagall. Before you answer let me say a few things that we would like to see happen."
"The most important would be that bad teachers will no longer be tolerated within these walls. You must know that the standards in some subjects have been poor to say the least."
Minerva could only nod to Harry in acknowledgement. Ashamed, not only that he was right but because she'd been powerless to intervene.
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