Coming to Hermione's defence, Harry replied, "He had himself appointed my magical guardian in the days immediately following the attack on Godric's Hollow. And, he's been using that authority to control me ever since."
With a scowl Daphne huffed, "Well, we'll be getting that stopped, then, won't we? Now that we're bonded... if it's alright with you two... I'll see if I can get my parents to agree to get themselves declared as your magical guardians." Both other bondmates grinned back. "That'd be brilliant!" Harry happily exclaimed, before he calmed down again. "Of course, Dumbledore's going to fight it every step of the way. You need to let your parents know they'll be in for one Hell of a fight with him once it becomes public, and Dumbledore finds out about it.
"Plus, is it actually important? After all, I'll be emancipated around the 7th of November, anyway."
With a smirk, Daphne replied, "You leave that to us. The Greengrasses haven't been Slytherins just because it was expected of them. We know how the system works."
Smiling at each other, Hermione looked to her and said, "Do it. Harry needs every protection he can get." With a nod and matching smirk from Daphne, the three continued on to their next class.
That afternoon, while attending to assignments, both Winky and Dobby popped in.
"Guys?" asked Harry. "What brings you here?"
"Dobby and Winky be here to report on the status of their two missions, Master Harry, Sir," replied Dobby.
"Oh?" asked Harry, before he remembered. "Oh! The job of finding Luna's things, and about the blood monitoring devices in the Headmaster's office?"
"Yes, Sir," replied Dobby. "Then, let's hear it," replied Harry leaning back in his seat as the two girls listened in.
"Dobby and Winky, with help of the elveses of Hogwarts, have searched the castle, top to bottom," Dobby said as if giving a report, but elf style. "We found lots of Miss Luna's thingses. They have all been given back to Miss Luna, and she is very happy. She was very happy to get back her photographies of her mother, the most."
Harry nodded as Hermione said, "Thank you for doing that, you two. And, please, pass on our thanks to the castle elves for helping."
Dobby and Winky both nodded with tears of happiness in their eyes. Winky popped away while Dobby stayed, wiping his eyes and blowing his nose on a small handkerchief.
He then looked up and reported, "Dobby was also being sneaky-sneaky and sneaked into Headmaster Whiskers's office when he wasn't there looking at whizzy and whirry things with Master Harry's blood in them. Dobby finded four of them.
"Instead of just taking out Master Harry'ses blood from them, Dobby switched the blood," the little elf said.
Harry chuckled and asked, "And whose blood did you replace mine with?"
"Dobby waited until Headmaster Whiskers went to sleep," explained the elf. "Then Dobby taked some of his blood. Dobby switched Master Harry'ses blood with Headmaster Whiskers's. The little whizzy and whirry things now still whiz and whirr and Headmaster Whiskers not know it's his blood. Then Dobby destroyed Master Harry'ses blood." Harry roared with laughter as Daphne giggled and Hermione looked stunned.
"That's brilliant!" Harry finally managed to get out. "Very, very well done, Dobby!" he complimented the little elf.
Dobby dashed forward and hugged Harry around his legs before popping away again.
"He really is such a clever little thing, isn't he?" asked Daphne.
"He is," agreed Harry, nodding. "I'm so glad to have him."
"How long do you think it's going to be before the Headmaster figures out his devices are no longer functioning as he expects?" asked Hermione. "That depends," he replied. "However, I hope it's not until next summer."
"Depends?" asked Daphne.
"On whether or not... or how long it takes him... to notice the devices still show me as being in the school when he knows I'm not," he replied. "Remember, there's the Hogsmeade weekends, then there's all the running about outside of school grounds I've still yet to do..."
"Such as getting your eyes fixed and us taking you clothes shopping," she prompted.
"Exactly," Harry acknowledged. "And each minute I'm out of the school grounds when he's in his office is another minute when he can notice there's something... not quite right about... what his little devices are telling him." "Then, even with the devices no longer tracking you, we still have to be careful?" asked Daphne. "That's not right."
"Then, what do we do?" asked Harry.
"You had already planned for Dobby to go into Dumbledore's office and... basically... destroy any device that monitored you, yes?" asked Daphne right back.
"Yes..."
"At that point you knew Dumbledore would know he was no longer able to track you with blood monitors," she continued. "At least this way, he's not going to know until, and unless, he specifically notices something wrong," she explained. "I say, pretend the devices are already destroyed and Dumbledore knows you're not being tracked; and just live life."
"She's right, love," opined Hermione. "Ignore it. We'll have Dobby spy on him, if necessary, while we're away from the school."
Harry sighed and nodded. "You're right," he said. "It's just an advantage over him I'd like to hang on to for as long as necessary."
"That little advantage is too small to put up with the inconvenience of keeping it hidden," she explained. "Especially as it will, soon enough, be lost. The cons outweigh the pros."
Harry thought about that for a few seconds before he decided she was, indeed, correct. "You're right," he said. "Thank you for pointing that out."
"Besides," she grinned. "As the devices will still work, per se, it's going to drive him nuts trying to figure out why they're still working but not properly registering."
"Oh!" exclaimed Hermione, suddenly sitting forward. "You mean, he'll then dedicate time trying to figure out where the charms, runes, whatever went wrong. That's something he wouldn't have done if Dobby had just destroyed them. Clever!"
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