Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:17:12 -0400
From: ron <wolfwalker@glwb.net>
Subject: Return of the King - chapter 12

Breakfast in the great hall three weeks later was a subdued affair. Most of
the students were busy trying to eat and study at the same time.


Ar'Ron looked around the hall and noticed that roughly three quarters of
the older students had taken the Mages Oath and those were the ones that
had books open in front of them and were taking notes in between bites of
food.


Ar'Ron leaned over towards Harry and said, "Mel'Anin is it normal for it to
be so quiet at breakfast?"


Setting his goblet down Harry looked up and took a glance around the great
hall before answering. "During OWLS and NEWTS, it is like this" Harry
noticed all the ones that were doing the most studying were those who had
taken the Mages Oath. "I have noticed that the past two weeks how eager my
students are to learn."


"I have noticed that myself, the older students are the most vocal to have
just one more moment when class lets out" Filius said from the other side
of Ar'Ron.


"Yes it seems the students have a renewed thirst to better themselves"
Ar'Ron said noticing Draco walk up towards the head table where he was
sitting.


When Draco had stopped in front of Ar'Ron he asked, "Sir, do you have some
time this morning to go over something with me?" Seeing Ar'Ron gaze at him
thoughtfully he continued, "It has nothing to do with class work, I want to
ask you to go over a proposal I worked up to buy up a block of buildings in
the muggle world and convert them to flats."


Waving his hand Ar'Ron conjured an extension to the table along with a
chair. Pointing to the chair Ar'Ron said, "I have time right now."


Draco hurried back to his table to gather up his belongings as his friend
Ben helped bring his pack up to the head table.


Ben patted Draco's shoulder as he leaned in and whispered, "Don't worry you
did a good job on the proposal" and walked back to the table and his
breakfast.


Nervous Draco opened his bag and started to remove piles of parchment and
place them in different areas of the table. Then he sat down as he pulled
out a roll of parchment that had renovation designs for his project on it.


Taking a deep breath he started, "I wanted to ask if you would allow me to
take some of the money out of the trust to add to my allowance to buy this
property in the muggle world and fix it up into flats. The amount I need is
equal to three months of allowance payments; I would pay back the money
over the next three months. I have done a lot of research and as the
buildings in question are going up for auction by the local tax assessor in
three weeks time, I believe the present owner would be happy to sell them
for the price I am willing to pay, that way he gets to pay off the assessor
and pocket a fair amount" Draco stopped and paged through his notes quickly
looking for the note he had made about muggle money, "Ah yes, a fair amount
of pounds."


Biletooth over hearing the conversation moved his chair closer and started
to pay attention to what was being said.


Handing Ar'Ron the first pile of parchments Draco sat back for a few
minutes while they were gone thorough. "I have also detailed what is needed
for each flat to be complete and have on hand floor plans and cost
sheets. Magic would be used for almost all the construction and duplicating
charms on the supplies and appliances, costs can be kept down to a
minimum."


Ar'Ron passed the pile of parchment he had finished going through to
Biletooth and accepted the rather large rolls of parchment that contained
the blue prints for the project.


Spreading them out on the table in front of him, Ar'Ron saw that not only
were they very detailed with notes in the margin listing spells and magical
energy required for each stage of the remodeling of the old warehouses into
plush flats, with lush gardens in the middle common area between the four
buildings. Passing the floor plans over to Biletooth Ar'Ron accepted the
last set of parchment which included the cost and return projections with a
projected return on his investment of four months after full occupancy.


Sliding the last set of parchment over to Biletooth Ar'Ron looked up at a
nervous Draco and told him, "This is quite well thought out and well
planned Draco. It shows that you spent a lot of time researching and
planning everything down to the tiniest detail."


Biletooth looked up from the last of the notes and cocking his head
sideways he said, "This is extremely good work Mr. Black, in fact this work
could be handed in as part of the advanced course's first project and
receive an outstanding. The only thing you overlooked and I do believe it
is because of the way most wizards not having been raised in the muggle
world, is that muggles require insurance to be placed on these types of
buildings. Other than that it is perfect."


Draco smiled at the warm feeling of accomplishment he was feeling, the
pride of being praised was still new to him and he liked the
feeling. "Thank you, I did have help though.  Ben helped with the research
and he was the one to draw up the floor plans and the gardens."


Ar'Ron looked up and towards the table that the young Wilder boy was
sitting at and noticed that the lad was shifting nervously in his seat with
expectation. Facing Draco once again Ar'Ron picked up the page with the
list of all the spells that would be placed on the buildings.


Draco nervous once more explained, "I offered to pay Ben for all the work
he has put in on the drawing and floor plans, but he refused and told me if
you approved I would owe him a nice dinner out on the town and my help on
his own project mimicking mine after mine was complete."


Ar'Ron looked up and smiled. "That is a commendable way to do things and I
am pleased that both of you pooled your resources."


Ar'Ron looked over towards the fidgety Wilder lad and motioned for the
young man to come up to the head table.


Ben was watching with some anticipation to see how their work was received
and was shocked to see that he was being called to the head table. Walking
slowly up to the table Ben thought 'well here it is, now we will know if
all the hard work was good enough.'


Waiting for Ben to walk up and stand next to Draco, Ar'Ron conjured up a
satchel and placed all the notes in it leaving out the parchment with the
drawings of the gardens.  Pulling out a blank sheet of parchment Ar'Ron
wrote a note on it to Roakthorn for him to implement Draco's plans as soon
as possible, and for him to make sure all the appropriate muggle insurance
was in place.


Noticing Ben standing next to Draco with one hand absent mindedly on
Draco's shoulder Ar'Ron spoke to the two. "Draco I want you to take your
proposal over to Roakthorn, and I am asking for him to fully implement your
plans from the trust instead of letting you use your allowance. I want you
to save your allowance to use on a smaller project next term for your
advanced business course."


Seeing the eager expressions on the faces of the two young men Ar'Ron
continued, "I have two changes I would like to have made to your plans. The
first is to build a brick wall that connects all four buildings enclosing
the garden area from the outside world. I want to make sure that the only
ones using the gardens you crate are the residents."


Seeing Ben give the parchment a thoughtful look and then nod his head
Ar'Ron finished with, "I noticed that you planned to do much of the work
yourself, but I want you to hire the appropriate Magical trades to do the
work and make sure you watch how they do things. So for your next project
you know exactly what to do when you do it all on your own."


Ben pumped his hand in the air and shouted, "YES" before pulling Draco into
a hug.


Ar'Ron smiled as he noticed how close the two young men had become and
thought there might be a connection being formed. Just wait until he told
Harry later, he was sure that he would get a chuckle out of it.


Draco grinning said, "Thank you, thank you for believing in me."


Biletooth tapped the table with one of his talon like fingernails to get
the attention of the two celebrating lads. "Mr. Black I do believe that you
have my class before lunch today.  I am excusing you from class to give you
the time to go to your managers office and get this project underway before
some one else gets the jump on the purchase."


Ar'Ron answered the unspoken question in Draco's eyes, "Yes Draco you are
allowed to go as soon as you finish your first class this morning, that
will give you roughly two hours to go over everything with Roakthorn you
need to before you have to be back for afternoon classes."


Handing the parchment of the gardens to Ben, Ar'Ron said, "Can you redo
these in full color with the added wall in them. I find having a plan in
color does help when doing this sort of work."


Smiling, more apt to be called beaming with pleasure Ben said, "Yes Sir, I
will get right on it" before running back to his spot at the table and
grabbing his things and running out of the great hall to the amusement of
all the teaches who had overheard the conversation.


Professor Sprout spoke up, "Mr. Black when Mr. Wilder comes down to earth
once again please tell him to meet with me after supper and I will give him
some help with finding muggle plants to use."


Smiling Draco said, "Thank you professor.  I best be off and track him down
before first class."


XXXXXXXXXXXXX


It was breakfast two weeks after Draco had first proposed his project, when
the doors to the castle were thrown open and in walked a worried pair of
Torian guards.


Looking up towards the noise coming from the hall Harry stopped his
conversation with Ar'Ron about the clueless antics of Draco and Ben as he
noticed Dargoth and Kingsley stride into the hall with very worried
expressions on their faces.


Stopping in front of the head table Kingsley said, "My Lord I am afraid
that the attacks we have been waiting for have started." Seeing Harry whip
his head towards Ar'Ron he continued, "So far this morning over one hundred
emergency portkeys activated over the span of several hours. There were
some severe injuries, but the healers assure me that they will recover with
no lasting physical effects."


Dargoth then added, "My Prince, one of the groups that had their portkeys
activated was a group of muggle students. They are the direct royal heirs
to the British throne."


Harry started to say, "Kingsley inform the other members of the council
that they are..."


Harry stopped speaking as he noticed Frank and the other members of the
council walked through the doors into the great hall. Taking in their
expressions Harry wondered what else had gone wrong.


Most of the students at this point had left to get ready for their first
class of the day, though a few were watching the head table with nervous
anticipation and fear.


Harry looked around the great hall and noticed the students that where left
looking on in fear. Rising from his seat he said, " First let me tell you
that none of the attacks last night resulted in death, the emergency
portkeys worked wonderfully and the few people who were injured will be up
and around by dinner time. Now I want you to all go on to your first class
I am sure that the Hogwarts rumor mill will say a lot of things, but
remember you know the truth."


Seeing relief wash over the faces of the remaining students Harry finished,
"Get yourselves off to class now before you are late."


Waiting for the rest of the students to leave the hall Frank noticed his
son helping Harry's ward pack up his belongings. A slight curious frown
crossed his face as he watched the two interact. Turning towards the head
table he noticed Ar'Ron watching him closely and he nodded his head in the
direction of the two lads and gave Ar'Ron a questioning look only to
receive a smiling nod in return


Looking back at the two now leaving the hall and how their body language
showed them to be close frank smiled, it was about time he thought.


Returning to matters at hand he sat down at one of the chairs that appeared
at the head table and decided to pay attention to the conversation.


"The only thing that all the attacks had in common was the fact that there
were boys in the household ten years old at the time of the attack"
Kingsley finished.


'Strange' thought Harry, he then asked, "And what about the attack on the
muggle school, how exactly did the children who escaped activate portkeys
without being magical."


Frank answered this question, "One of the teachers at the school is an
unspeakable on assignment to guard the heirs of the British throne. When he
noticed the death eaters attacking he used his control orb to activate all
the portkeys, the children in question of course did not know they were
wearing them."


"Speaking of remote activation of portkeys, is there a way they can be set
to activate if anyone with the dark mark comes within say twenty meters of
the portkey" Steven asked.


"The reason why I ask is that some of the people who were injured did not
have time to wake up fully and tell their children to activate the portkey"
Steven added.


Thinking for a minute Ar'Ron said, "Yes I do believe there is a way, seeing
as the portkeys are Elven made we should be able to remotely change them."


"Back to the attack on the muggle school then, what happened?" Harry asked.


"From what little information we were able to gather before the unspeakable
passed out in the infirmary it was a slaughter. It seems that Bellatrix
Lestrange led the attack, the school was an all boys school that between
the day students and the boarded students housed fifteen hundred boys, add
in another fifty or so for staff" Frank paused to take a deep breath.


"Davidson told us that Bellatrix was interested in lads between the age of
ten and twelve and she was scanning them with some sort of spell and after
deciding on twenty or so that she had portkeyed away, they slaughtered the
rest. Roughly fourteen hundred children and staff were killed" Frank
finished very pale.


Harry leaned back in his chair in shock, face paling he wanted to be sick
hearing what had been done to children. The guilt started to rise within
him as he thought about how he had ignored for the most part Voldermort as
he was so busy trying to...


"Mel'Anin" Ar'Ron gently grasped Harry's chair and turned it so that he
faced him. "It is not your fault. I can feel that you feel guilty, but it
is not your fault."


"But..." Harry started.


Placing both hands on either side of his soul mates face Ar'Ron said slowly
"It is not your fault. You have done everything in your power to make your
people safe. You can not spread yourself so thin trying to do too many
things at once, to do so would not allow you to protect anyone."


"He's right Harry, you had to make sure that your people then the school
was protected, to do otherwise would have left them vulnerable to attack
while you were trying to protect the muggles" Mario told him.


Still feeling some guilt but letting it fade for now Harry straightened up
and said, "We need to find out why those twenty boys were taken and not the
others and we need to start capturing every person who has the dark mark
and finding out everything they know under Veritruserum."


"If we can take prisoner several high ranking death eaters we can compile a
list of death eaters and start to decimate Voldy's ranks" Harry told them.


Dargoth reached over and tapped Kingsley on the shoulder, when the man
turned towards him he pointed towards Kingsley's glowing belt.


Kingsley reached down to his belt and pulled out a long box that was a
duplicate to the one Harry carried to keep in contact with his goblin
managers. Placing the box on the table in front of him Kingsley tapped the
box to enlarge it and opened it up.


Seeing no note he pulled on the lid enlarging the communication screen and
saw Mad Eye in the mirror. "What's happened now Alastor?"



"Kingsley, you better gather the council, Amelia just came through from the
MLE with the muggle prime minister and he is hopping mad." Looking over his
shoulder Alastor faced the mirror once again scowling, "The bloody git is
making a scene and if you don't hurry up I am going to hex him to within an
inch of his pompous life."


Harry made a motion to Kingsley to turn the mirror in his direction. Seeing
Alastor's scowling image Harry told him, "Alastor, escort the muggle prime
minister to the hall of judgment, we will be there shortly."


Seeing him nod in agreement Harry stood up saying, "Well it seems we should
resume this in the hall of judgment."


Letting the others walk ahead of them Harry turned to Ar'Ron. "Just what we
need, he must really be unbearable for Mad-Eye to act that way."


"Just remember Mel'Anin, you are the leader of the Wizarding world,
according to the old treaty, you only have to have dealings with the
reigning monarch. I believe their queen is named Elizabeth" Ar'Ron said as
they approached the front doors to the castle.


Catching up to the others they continued their discussion on the best way
to quickly break the back of Voldermort's followers. Reaching the edge of
the wards they apparated to Commerce Street and started to walk up the path
towards the castle finalizing plans to take the war to Voldermort.


Walking into the great entry of the castle they were met by Alastor.


"I left him in the hall. If you can believe it, he is a bigger pompous fool
than Fudge was" Alastor growled out.


Kingsley and Dargoth walked into the hall first to scan the visitor for
weapons. Upon entering they were verbally accosted by the muggle.


"Well it is about time someone showed up. How dare you lot leave me hanging
like this" the prime minister ranted.


Ignoring the man Kingsley and Dargoth walked within a meter of the man and
started to cast scanning charms on him to his extreme verbal displeasure


While the man was ranting at Dargoth and Kingsley Frank, Steven and Mario
walked into the hall and sat down behind their desks.


Harry and Ar'Ron having walked into the hall under an invisibility charm
took their seats on the two thrones at the top of the hall and waited for
the right moment to become visible.


Frank having heard enough shouted out, "Be quiet and let them do their
duty, you are not being harmed in any way."


Shocked a the tone of voice directed towards him, Prime Minister Tony Blair
turned towards the front of the hall and scowling in anger demanded, "Now
see here, I am the prime minister of her majesty's government and as such
shall be treated with respect."


Seeing the disgusted stares he continued, "Now get your minister out here
so he can answer my questions and be quick about it" Blair said.


The arrogance of the man thought Frank, "I know for a fact that your
government has been informed of the fact that the Council of Twelve once
again rules over the Wizarding world."


Mario continued, "Fudge was found guilty of high treason and his sentence
was carried out weeks ago. You would do well to know your facts."


"Enough of this grandstanding, I want the leader of your kind in front of
me now. If not expect to pay the price" Minister Blair shrieked out.


Steven caught the shimmer out of the corner of his eye as Harry and Ar'Ron
dropped the invisibility charm they had placed on themselves. Standing up
he took his staff from his belt and flicked it causing it to enlarge and
tapped it soundly on the floor several times.


Turning to look at the man Tony Blair noticed two figures sitting on the
thrones behind him. He stopped his tirade seeing the two occupants of the
throne like chairs were in fact wearing ornate crowns.


Staring at the muggle prime minister with disgust Steven said, "His Majesty
King Ar'Ron and His Majesty Prince Potter, Ruler of the Council of Twelve."


Steven smirked at the grimace Harry threw at him when he announced his
titles.


The man in front of Harry reminded him to much of Fudge for his comfort,
"Why are you here?"


Gawking in astonishment Tony Blair replied, "Are you completely daft..."


Harry interrupted the man before he could go on another rant, "I know
perfectly well about the slaughter at the boarding school and steps are
being taken to track down those responsible. So I repeat, why are you
here?"


Minister Blair was getting quite angry at the arrogance of the people in
front of him, "I am the leader of the government of the British Isles and
if you refuse to answer to my demands I will have our armed forces take
into custody every one of your freaks we can find..."


Harry was beyond mad at being called a freak once again, 'Silencio' he said
as he pointed at the muggle minister.


"I am going to give you a small history lesson before I remove the spell
that is silencing you. After that I will allow you one final statement
before you are removed from my presence." Looking at the red faced man
Harry told him, "Nod your head if you understand."


Angered but starting to feel fear and not in control for the first time
since arriving here, Tony Blair nodded his head.


Sitting back in his chair Harry steepled his fingers and said, "Good, It is
wise of you to understand the situation. One more question before I begin
the history lesson. IS it my understanding that the current monarch Queen
Elizabeth II of the house of Windsor is in fact not the head of your
government except in name only?"


Once again Tony nodded his head, finding out in the process he could not
move any other part of his body.


Waving his hand a podium appeared in front of Minister Blair at the correct
height for easy reading, on the podium was an archaic document that after
reading the first few lines caused the minister to pale in shock and fear.


"Now the treaty in front of you was first ratified under the rule of King
Edgar of the house Wessex and since then every ruler of Britannia has also
ratified the treaty within an hour of taking the crown. Including I might
add Queen Elizabeth II the current monarch.

As you can see it is very straightforward, and binding even the non magical
peoples of the British realm" Harry told him.


Making a motion as if he was turning a page the document in front of
Minister Blair turned the page, "And you can see that under the rule of
Queen Elizabeth I in 1601 the treaty was modified after the witch trials
and the attempt to wipe out Wizarding kind.  Which includes the right of
the council to judge and if need be remove the current head of the monarchy
lest another madman come to rule.

The up side to this of course was to be access to our healers if asked and
trained body guards during times of war to safeguard the crown."


Making the motion one more time Harry let the man read the last page that
had the penalties section if the treaty was broken. "And you can see the
penalty for breaking the treaty is very severe. The removal of every non
magical being from the Isle of Britannia and the erection of displacement
wards. Make no mistake Minister, Britannia was never yours and never will
be."


"And to answer the question I kept asking you, only the current rightful
ruler or the heir primus has the right to come before us, which means of
course you do not.

You have twenty four hours to hand back the reigns of power to the rightful
ruler, your queen, at the end of that time the contract will be deemed null
and void and all the penalties will come into play.  I will be contacting
Elizabeth shortly to return her heirs that we rescued from the school
before they too became casualties" Harry said ending the conversation by
waving his hand at the man removing the silencing spell.


Trying one last time to try to assert his authority Minister Blair said,
"We have weapons and technology that you have no defense of. I will not
stand by and let you..."


Holding up a hand to stop the fool, Harry snapped his fingers when he had
stopped talking and summoned one of the expensive spy satellites from orbit
to appear next to the stunned prime minister.


Snapping his fingers again the satellite disappeared and Harry said, "You
might want to tell your military that their spy satellite was destroyed,
that is seeing how it could not withstand the intense heat of the sun when
it re-appeared there."


Motioning for Kingsley to remove the now extremely frightened and cowed man
Harry conjured a table and parchment and started to write a note to the
muggle queen.


Finishing the letter and setting his ring to it to seal it Harry looked up
to see all eyes on him with shocked admiration in them.


"What?" Harry said out loud.


"Masterly done Mel'Anin" Ar'Ron chuckled.


Looking at them all like they had lost their minds Harry called out for
Dobby.


Once the Impare' had popped in Harry instructed him to take this letter
explaining that her grandchildren were all right and would be arriving
shortly directly to Queen Elizabeth.


"Dobby does errand for most important Harry Potter Sir" Dobby said excited
to be of .help


"Dobby one last thing, if you could get some of the house elf's to help
take back the muggle children in the drawing room when you go, it would be
a great help" Harry asked his little friend.


Nodding his head enthusiastically Dobby popped out with a huge grin on his
face.


"Now lets get back to the issue about how best to capture death eaters"
Harry said.


XXXXXXXXXXXXXX



Approaching her lord as he sat in splendor on his throne Bella covered from
head to toe in blood knelt down on one knee and waited for her lord to
acknowledge her.


Voldemort smelled the blood, looking down he noticed one of his faithful
prostrating themselves before him and he felt powerful.


"Bella my faithful servant, tell me were you successful in your task?"
Voldemort asked with a hiss.


Crawling forward to be able to kiss the edge of her masters robe she said,
"Yes master, we captured twenty innocents for the ritual and killed
fourteen hundred in the most gruesome way and left the symbol of your
righteous rule behind for the muggles to fear."


"Rise my faithful servant" hissed out Voldemort.


Turning away from the woman standing in front of him Voldemort yelled out,
"Wormtail step forward."


Shuffling his feet Wormtail moved forward and kneeling down at his master's
feet kissed the edge of his robes. Before being kicked in the face and
knocked across the floor by Voldemort.


"You have failed me once again" hissed an angered Voldemort as he softly
said "Crucio"


Holding the curse for several minutes Voldemort raised his wand and settled
back in his chair as he watched the pathetic fool try to move after being
released from the curse.


"That is for failing in keeping your charges in separate cells and for two
of them loosing their innocence to each other, making them useless to me"
eyes glowing red in anger as he spoke


Looking up at the mass of masked servants Voldemort hissed out, "Goyle step
forward I have a reward for you."


The large lumbering man stepped forward stupidly with a smile on his face
only to be met with a well placed cutting hex aimed at his voice box
effectively making him mute.


"That my dear Goyle is your reward for not keeping your mouth shut and
letting two of the innocents overhear my plans for them and thus they
taking the virtue from each other" said an enraged Voldemort.


Looking over the death eaters one more time Voldemort bellowed out, "Leave
me" as he threw 'Crucio' at those not fast enough to leave the chamber.


XXXXXXXXXXX


"Victor, please have the car brought around, we need to get to Buckingham
Palace straight away" Queen Elizabeth said as she finished reading the memo
sent over from parliament on the disappearance of the heirs to the throne.


"Right away your maj..." Victor stopped when he saw the weirdest creature
appear before him with a loud pop


Elizabeth turned around when her main body guard stopped in mid sentence to
see the visage of a strange being standing in the drawing room. He stood
around a meter and a bit and had large ears and gray skin with huge bulbous
eyes wearing what looked liked a renaissance era uniform.


She watched as the strange creature turned its head and looked around to
see who was in the area before holding up its hand and snapping its fingers
causing smaller versions of itself with huge floppy ears to appear each
holding one of the missing grandchildren.


Eyes wide with shock and tears starting of joy of seeing her grandchildren
without harm she did not notice the strange creature approach until it
spoke causing her to jump.


"Dobby brings message for queeney. Harry Potter sir is sending his Dobby to
Give message" Dobby said as he held out the letter.


Hesitant she reached out slowly and took the parchment from the creatures
hand, and turning it over gasped out loud seeing the gold impression in the
seal.


"Boys please go with Victor to your rooms so that you may change and
freshen up before coming back to my rooms so we can discuss what has
happened today and what it means" Elizabeth the second told her
grandchildren in a kind voice.


Waiting for the boys to leave she watched as all the strange creatures left
with the same strange popping sound save the one who had given her the
letter. A letter she had hoped in her long life to never see.


Sighing she reached for a small key that she always carried every where she
went. She walked over to the dresser and using the key opened a small box
and removed the ring inside. Placing the ring on her right finger she went
back to the table near the window and placed the ring against the seal
causing it to break in two.


Opening the parchment she began to read.


		Elizabeth II House of Windsor


Two matters have been brought to the Councils attention. I shall address
them in order as follows.

We were notified early this morning of the attack on the private boarding
school by the actions of Unspeakable Davidson as he preformed his duty of
protecting your young heirs as the treaty requires.

Please note that they came through the ordeal physically unharmed but yet
might need the understanding that only family can give.

We grieve with you at the deaths of such promising young men at the hands
of the Terrorist Voldemort and his group called Death Eaters.

We have taken the following action to try to put a stop to repeat action
from this terrorist group.

Being terrorists though I must mention that they attack from hidden
holdings and retreat back to the same

The followers of Voldemort can be identified by a brand of s snake coming
out of the mouth of a skull. This is his symbol that he uses to spread fear
into the populace.

We have taken steps to hunt down his followers and I have made the decision
that any that willingly bears his symbol on their forearm shall be
executed.

Justice shall be done. War has been declared.

The other matter that has come to our attention through Prime Minister Tony
Blair is that you are ruler of Britannia in name only.

This can not be allowed to go on any longer. The magically binding contract
you signed, as your ancestors before you, have precludes this condition.

You are herby notified you have twenty four hours to take your rightful
place as the ruler of your people or the contract shall be deemed null and
void with all the penalties coming into play.


		Prince Harry James Potter

		Lord Potter
	Lord Black Lord Ridgestone Lord Rothland Lord Donaldson


Elizabeth Queen of England sat stunned after she had read the letter.


Placing the letter on the table she looked up to see her two grandsons
being escorted back into the room by Victor with her son, Charles
following.


Sighing she motioned for her family to sit down. "Victor I am afraid I have
had the most disturbing news, though it was only a matter of time."


Looking up and searching the head of her protection details face she
continued, "I am declaring Case Zulu."


All the blood drained from Victor's face as he heard what his queen said
Case Zulu, treason by the government during time of war; the act that made
the crown absolute once again.


Coming to attention Victor said, "Right away your majesty, I will have your
car and escort downstairs in fifteen minutes and recall all members of the
House of Lords for your announcement in four hours time. Your armed forces
shall be ready in three hours time."


"Thank you Victor, one more thing before you leave" Elizabeth said staring
in his eyes.  "Tony Blair is to be arrested for High treason against the
crown."


"Yes Ma'am" Victor said before saluting and leaving the room to make
preparations.


Picking up the parchment Elizabeth handed it to her son to read.


"My word" Charles whispered as he read the document. Placing it back on the
table he looked at his mother and saw the determination in her features.


Sighing he started to remove the ring from his finger and looked towards
his eldest son "I know my duty Mother, as much as it pains me to do so I am
a Windsor and will do my duty."


"William this ring is the symbol that the heir to the throne of England
wears, or more accurate the heir to the throne of the non magical
Britannia.

You have had an abrupt awaking of the knowledge of the magical world.

I am rambling forgive me. This ring is now yours to wear as you are now the
heir to the throne, as under the old laws I may not inherit the crown. I
knew this day might come when I divorced your mother" Charles explained.


Handing the ring to his eldest, "Place the ring on your finger, and take up
the mantle of your duty to the people." Facing his mother, "Mother it is
time they where told all they should know."


Standing up and moving over to the window overlooking the Thames, Queen
Elizabeth the second of the royal house of Windsor started to talk.


"Almost two thousand years ago the island of Britannia housed the ruling
Council of Twelve. They and they alone ruled the Magical world.

You have to realize that this information has been passed down through
generations of our family, but never written down, so it might be a little
out of date.

Every ruler of the kingdom of Britannia signs a treaty that pledges by
their very magic and soul to follow it to the letter as law.

This might shock you that we are of magical lineage but when we sign the
treaty the magic of our heir is taken as part of our pledge pooled in the
document until the day the treaty is broken and the magic is vast enough to
enforce the expulsion of every non magical person residing in the British
Isles and erect barriers that none can cross by non magical means."


Looking at her grandsons stunned expression she continued, "Yes William
that means if you do not sign the treaty now that you are the heir apparent
not only would you never sit on the throne as King, but your children would
be magical. It is the price we as Windsor's pay to rule."


Sitting down she glanced at her grandsons before she once again started to
explain, "Over the past one hundred years our power has been eroded so that
we are no more than a figure head to the government. We are now at a
crossroads in history, thanks to that pompous fool Blair. I intend to take
control once again by an obscure law that has never been changed. By the
old laws Treason against the crown during time of conflict lets me dissolve
the government.

Now the law was intended that I would of course place in power a new
government, but was never worded that I had to. So in four hours time I
will dissolve the current government and the house of Windsor will once
again in fact rule the land.

It is the only thing I can think of that will allow our people to remain
and the treaty not to be broken" Elizabeth finished.


'This was a lot of information to take in' thought William, though he had
seen first hand that the magical world was real. Making his decision
William slipped the ring on his finger and straightened up in his chair. "I
will do my duty gladly Grandmother. What do you need me to do?"


Smiling for the first time since reading the letter she said, "I need for
you and your father to Go to Toria, the seat of the Wizarding world and
explain and remind them that we will stand by the treaty. Anything else you
can find out about this terrorist Voldemort would be helpful."


"Mother how do we get to this Toria?" Charles asked.


Dobby who had been waiting to see if there was to be a message sent back
walked over to the table from the shadows. "Dobby be taking."


Charles jumped slightly when the Impare' spoke and stared at the little one
in fascination.


"Thank you Dobby, it would be appreciated, and if you could make
arrangements for a permanent way of transportation I would be thankful"
Elizabeth told the little fellow.


Victor ran into the room, "Your majesty the Prime Minister is at Scotland
Yard arranging for troops to attack the Ministry of magic building in
London."


Elizabeth looked toward her son, "Go now warn the Council, we will try to
stop it from our end."


Dobby nodded his head and reached out and grabbed both Charles and William
and disappeared with a pop.


Picking up the red phone off to the side Elizabeth spoke into it, "Get me
General Franks on the phone immediately."


XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX


"The plan is a sound one Harry. All we have to do is bend the wards into a
u-shape that includes the Quidditch pitch and leaves an opening that the
death eaters can be coaxed through from the forbidden forest onto the
school grounds at the point where the wards are bent, then activate the
forbidden forest wards points and you would have them trapped and easily
taken out when the school wards would snap back into place" Frank
explained.


"Yes it could work, but what do we use to lure them to where we want them
to be?"  Harry asked as he pointed top the map on the table.


"Could we leak the knowledge of a secret underground chamber belonging to
the founders? Maybe let it be known that it has secrets of power to rival
that of the Elves" Mario asked.


Harry sat back in his chair and staring at the plan in front of him began
to think of the possibilities.


"If we do this we have to build the chamber and ward it and then start to
dig it up" Harry said thoughtfully with his eyes closed.


Looking at the drawn map of how the wards lay around the castle Frank said,
"We could reason that the schools wards help reinforce the wards around the
chamber, which would give a plausible explanation for why we bent them in
the first place."


Steven added, "If we dropped the hints in several stages through the Diagon
Ally branch of Gringotts and then let a spy see what we want him to see and
report back, but if we stage this like it was real, how is the spy going to
get close enough observe what we want them to?"


Harry opened his eyes, "Wormtail."


Seeing everyone turn to him with questioning looks Harry explained, "If the
first spy sees it is to well guarded and reports back, Voldemort will send
Wormtail in his rat form to get closer. I just have to make sure Remus or I
are not around or the temptation to kill the bastard might be to great."


A loud popping interrupted any further conversation, and when Harry looked
up he saw Dobby with two people. On closer inspection he noticed one of
them was the young prince that was rescued from the school massacre earlier
that morning.


Dobby walked up to the table and with a slight bow, "Majesty, Harry Potter
Sir the bestest Prince's ever. Dobby is bringing answer to letter from
queeney."


Looking at the Impare' Harry smiled before looking over at the two who
seemed to be the answer to his letter.


The first thing William noticed when he appeared in the large room
interrupting what seemed to be a planning session was that the two at the
head of the table were wearing crowns, the most ornate crowns that seemed
to shimmer with a life of their own.


Seeing that they were being motioned forward he walked forward with his
father and to his credit did not jump like his father when he saw two
chairs appear out of thin air as they were invited to sit down.


Harry watched the two walk towards the table and was slightly impressed
with the young prince when he did not so much as flinch when two chairs
were conjured by Steven for them to sit in.


After they had settled Harry spoke, "To your right is Lord Wilder, Next to
him you will find Lord Hawthorne. To your left is Alastor Moody commander
of guard training and next to him you have Lord Lombardi."


Seeing the two nod in greeting as he introduced his council Harry
introduced the last two.  "Next to me is my soul mate Ar'Ron King of the
Astarii and I am Harry Potter Lord Potter and too many tittles to be
comfortable with."


Steven chuckled, "What Prince Harry is trying to say is that he rules the
council, and as such he rules the Wizarding world."


Charles was shocked to hear the young man in front of him was the ruler of
the Wizarding world. 'Blair you fool' he thought, 'it is so like you to
alienate the one man who has not only the power but the resources to rule
the non magical world also.'


Charles cleared his throat, "I am Charles, My mother the Queen has asked
that we convey her regrets for what happened earlier this morning, and has
sent my son Prince William Heir to the throne to meet with you."


William for the first time spoke up, "Excuse me please if this is improper
etiquette, but my grandmother charged me to inform you that the prime
minister, soon to be arrested minister, at this moment is leading an attack
on the London Ministry Building with troops from our anti terrorist
squad. I think that takes precedent over anything else for the moment."


Harry called out for Dobby as he rose from the chair. After the Impare'
popped in Harry did not give him time to say anything, "Dobby take our two
guests to the third floor sitting room on the family side of the castle and
send Narcissa to take charge of them."


Looking at the two royals Harry said, "You will be made comfortable and we
will determine later if the treaty has been broken or not."


Walking swiftly to the door Harry placed his finger over one of the runes
next to the frame and pulsed his magic into it causing the alarms to start
for the second time in five hundred years.


Looking at the royal pair directly in the eye Harry's voice could be heard
echoing through the castle, the city of Toria and Hogwarts, shocking the
students who were just sitting down to lunch. "All guards and support meet
in the entry hall in five minutes.  The MLE in the old ministry building in
London is under attack by muggle soldiers.  Healers assemble to the right
and search and recovery to the healers"


XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX


A long line of counter terrorist vehicles sped through the streets of
London their lights flashing and sirens blaring all congregating on a
central point in the rundown London warehouse district.


"Prime Minister I must object to you placing yourself in danger. My boys
are all highly trained and will not have time to protect you from this band
of terrorists or their advanced weapons" Colonel Marshal told him.


Tony Blair waved him off, "I am the only one who knows how to access the
underground base Colonel. I am going, you can't stop me."


As the truck slowed to a stop Marshal sighed in resignation as he jumped
out of the truck to give his assembling men their orders.


XXXXXXXXXXXXX


Placing a sonorous charm on herself Minerva yelled out, "QUIET"


Seeing she had every ones attention she removed the charm, "You are quite
safe here, our job is to get the castle ready to receive the injured."

Continuing Minerva told them, "Third years and below please return to your
common rooms, those that wish to help will be given the opportunity after
reaching your common room. Fourth and fifth year students please assist the
sixth and seventh years in the potions labs brewing healing potions,
special emphasis on blood replenishing potions."


Looking over the hall she noticed now that the students had direction and
something to do they had lost their panic of a few moments ago. "Mages
please remain behind."


Seeing every one still seated she waved her hands and said, "Off with you
quickly now."


XXXXXXXXXXXXX


Percy was sitting behind his desk as he watched the smooth flow of visitors
that came through the front doors. He was very pleased with how his life
had changed for the better.  He had a job that while was satisfying was
rather important, and he was a department head to boot. He had finally
reconciled with his family and while both sides had been wrong, all of them
had come out stronger than before and with more respect from the rest of
the Wizarding world.


Percy's musings were broken by the booming of the alarm and his Lords voice
informing everyone of the attack on the MLE'S base in London.


Jumping up and knocking his chair over in the process Percy pulled his wand
and started to prepare the entry hall as a staging area. He was not going
to let his Lord down.


XXXXXXXXXXXX


The first clue Amelia had that something was wrong was the large explosion
that was heard through out the complex when the muggle explosives ripped a
whole in the street above directly into the first floor of the ministry.


Grabbing her wand she ran out of her office and down the hall to the main
staging area for her Aurors.


Looking up at the map she noticed that they were under attack by muggles.


Amelia yellowed out over the din of the alarms, "We are under attack by
muggles use kinetic shields."


XXXXXXXXXXXX


On the other side of the Thames the House of Lords had been assembled and
as the confused leaders of the country looked around they could see the
television cameras and reporters ringing the balcony, but as yet no one had
the answer to why they were here.


Outside the door Queen Elizabeth the second spent one final moment making
sure the crown was properly seated before motioning for her guard to open
the door to the chambers.


'BAM' the doors to the chambers of Lords flew open with such force all
heads turned to see the Queen in full regalia walk through the doors with
her guards in full military combat gear.


Silence reigned in the chamber with only the whispered sounds of the
newsies reporting to the world at large what was happening.


Walking slowly up to the throne at the front of the chambers Elizabeth
could not but hope she was not to late to save her people.


The Lords watched as the guards took up positions around the chamber and
the queen walk regally up and sat on the throne.


Shocked and not sure what to do they all took their own seats in the
silence.


After the Lords had seated themselves Elizabeth stood up, "I come before
you in a time of great shame. I come before you to tell you of a great
treason against the people of Great Britain."


Standing there with everyone hanging on her very word Elizabeth pulled out
a piece of old fashioned parchment and started to read, "Pursuant to the
law of 1893 Paragraph 6 subsection B, otherwise know as the law of regency,
I Elizabeth the second herby dissolve the government of Great Britain. For
the crimes of treason against the Crown, I herby order former Prime
Minister Tony Blair to be taken into custody and his cabinet to be held for
questioning."


Folding the parchment the Lords shivered at the coldness in her voice and
looked away after seeing the fires of hell burning in her eyes as she stood
there and judged them all.


"From this moment on the crown is ascendant" Elizabeth told them all.

To the stunned and shocked galley of Lords they heard a shout from the
guards and newsies in the balcony


"Long Live the Queen"


XXXXXXXXXXXX


Harry walked into the entry hall and noticed that most of the department
heads along with some of the teaching staff and most of the Torian Guard
were assembled.


Looking to the right side of the hall he noticed the healers giving their
filed packs one last go through and Draco and a group of mages with the
healers.


Making eye contact with Draco, "Be safe" Harry whispered to him.


Draco feeling pride at his acceptance as the healer squads guard detail
swelled with pride and nodded his head back


Standing in front of those assembled Harry gave the orders, "Kingsley, open
a portal to the closest ally to the outside entrance. Authors take the
department heads and use the transport stone and come at them from the
rear. The rest follow Ar'Ron and I through the atrium portal."


Trying to catch each and every eye of those assembled Harry finished,
"These are muggles so they have rifles and guns, these are kinetic weapons
so cast solid shields. As much as I would like to say to stun them we are
at the disadvantage here so I am ordering you to use whatever means needed
to take them down."


Seeing every ones grim expression Harry turned and drew the outline of a
portal and brought it to life before turning and yelling, "Go"


XXXXXXXXXXXX Amelia was pinned down just outside the lift to the main
atrium. Looking over to the side she told herself there would be time to
cry for the dead after the battle.


Aiming she sent a reductor curse towards the lift and a feral smile crossed
her face when she saw an arm minus the body fly out of the lift.


She was revitalized when she heard the Harry's voice booming through the
building


"You are authorized to use whatever it takes to take down the intruders."
Looking down at the still form of an eight year old girl every one heard
the venom in his voice
 "NO MERCY."


XXXXXXXXXXX


Colonel Marshal paled when he heard a booming voice say 'no mercy' when
talking about his men.


About to tell his men to pull back he was interrupted by a squawk in his
ear piece.


"Fox One this is Eagle One, Abort" the voice told him.


"I say again abort, abort."


Marshal's trembling hand keyed his mike, "Eagle One I am fully engaged, the
Tango has ordered no mercy, advise again."


Minister Blair hearing the order to abort flew into a rage and rounded on
the Colonel and started to demand that they kill everyone inside, they were
not to abort


The General on the other end heard the voice of the former Prime Minister
and said coldly, "Fox One I declare Crown 1, I say again I declare Crown
1."


Fear then rage swept through the Colonel as he heard Crown 1 being
declared, a scenario where part of the government attacked the other in an
attempt of pulling off a coup, replacing the crown with a rogue government.


Turning slowly to face the Prime Minister he pulled his service issue and
pointed it at the mans forehead and through clenched teeth said, "Tony
Blair, by order of her majesties government I place you under arrest for
high treason."


Kingsley who by this time had crept up behind the two and heard the
conversation, but not understood most of it sent a stunner towards the
Minister hitting him squarely in the chest and watched as he crumpled to
the ground and then turned to the Colonel


"Put the weapon away Colonel and tell your men to surrender. There has been
enough bloodshed here today" Kingsley told the man.


Nodding his head and feeling like a failure Marshal keyed his mike, "All
Fox units ABORT, I say again Abort. Place your weapons on the floor and lie
face down with your hands behind your head. Crown 1 has been declared."


Dargoth walked up and growled out, "Kingsley the building was full of
children visiting their parents, the prince is furious."


Marshal fell to his knees in shock, "God please not children."


XXXXXXXXXX


Harry sent a shock wave of magical energy through the barricades in front
of the invaders destroying their cover and exposing them to the spells from
the teaching staff.


After seeing the little girl torn apart by the muggle bullets his magical
aura could be plainly seen and it spoke of the rage he was feeling at the
time


Private Dunheim had taken up position behind a large weird statue in a
fountain closest to the hole the dropped through and watched in horror as
those in his unit were decimated.


Then to his horror he heard over the command net the order to abort with
Crown 1 being declared. Dropping his weapon into the water he crawled out
of the fountain and laid face down with his hands interlocking behind his
head hoping that he would not be killed outright.


The last thing he heard was a voice above him say 'Stupefy'.