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Cedric was really pleased. More than pleased, he was JUBILANT. Harry had sent him the score of the century: nude, bold, alluring women. Who knew?



As a hardworking Hufflepuff, Cedric decided to take Harry explicit package with him to Leit's Transport. He knew his father and mother well enough to know their reaction: unaccepting about the material and disappointed in him. He was not interested in having that kind of discussion with either of them.



He expected Leit to have a Lonely Hearts solution which could connect mates without embarrassing these witches.



Leit looked at the photographs and articles of clothing with a truly jaundiced eye. As a young man, Cedric was thinking with his wand not as a wizard. Desperate witches had ways to enchant and catch an unthinking wizard for years on end with this paraphernalia.



Leit took everything in the package to an enchantress to see if she could fulfill Harry's Lonely Hearts request and void any influence the wrong wizard might suffer.



Beverly the Enchantress struck gold when she looked through the Potter commission. She gave Leit a finder's fee and took the items to her Flask of Agape. This magical artifact had been passed down in her family for generations.



Her family's artifact had fallen out of favor with the Wizengamot because wizards had stopped seeking their perfect match. The patriarchs had resorted to marriage contracts to keep business alliances strong.



In this era, magical people believed love matches were rare and often unattainable. It wasn't actually true. Heads of households sought out spouses for their kin who could strengthen the family, not make their heirs happy.



Harry Potter had circumvented the practice by bringing these witches forward. Patriarchs can't deny a true love match especially when the male heir could still continue the family line. The Ministry had a special fund set aside for anyone who brought together a love match couple because the works produced within these marriages created the last Wizard Golden Age. If Harry Potter had a constant supply of 100 explicit messages in 8 days, he could fund her shop for a year if half these women followed through in these relationships. She decided to write Harry Potter directly.



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Dear Mr. Potter,



I want to thank you for forwarding these explicit items to Mr. Diggory. He sought out help from Mr. Leit. Mr. Leit knew an enchantress was needed. These ladies can find the man or mate they need, but don't realize they have an avenue available to them. Your diligence has allowed me to match over 80 women in the list you sent. I will split any funds the Ministry of Magic does release if any of these couples marry.



Please direct any letters like this to me here in Blues Alley. Be careful when you handle these items. Witches have access to love potions, curses to bind unsuspecting wizards, and charms to take your reason and ability to discern away from you. Never let these items touch your bare skin. Wear a mask just in case there are scent related potions. Don't take the time to question whether something is charmed or cursed, just forward the questionable items. I forwarded 20 of your articles to the Auror Department because the witches tried to rob you of your free mind.



Beware, Harry. Witches will take advantage of your good intentions.



Sincerely Yours,





Beverly

Enchantress

Blues Alley

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Ian took the school stroder to Flitwick. Harry didn't specify whether the students had to be current students or they needed to be students who had not been to magic school yet. Flitwick had been his head of house and knew more about what it took to select students than he did. He didn't trust Dumbledore or McGonangall in putting the right students with the right schools.



Flitwick asked Ian the primary question,"Do you want to make a political statement or match the needs of the students with the best fit?"



"I want to do several different things at once. Harry has offers from over 2000 schools or tutor/trainers. How in the world am I going to figure what is the right combination?



"The good news is the castle is empty so we can do as much or as little research as we need to do. The sorting hat determines a house to match students with year after year. We are going to ask him to sort students with schools.



The bad news is you and I are going to break into the Headmaster and McGonagall's office. We are then going to steal the sorting hat and take the Book of Magic Users in Britain. If we have more schools than students, we are going to the International Confederation of Wizards and take their book of magic users.



We are not going to tell anyone because Hogwarts lies to its students about other educational possibilities. I will not lose my job because I look out for more students than go to Hogwarts. The opposite is also true too. There are a lot of uninitiated magical people in Britain. There is a quota limiting the number of witches and wizards who are to be educated. This will be the first time in years where the maximum number of potential magical people is educated in Britain."



"Professor, we don't have to steal the magical registries. Harry has enclosed the spell he used to create stroder. We can enclose both registries with the offers from these schools."



"You can call me, Filius, since we are going to be partners in this illegal venture. Hogwarts is the only school who has access to that registry for Britain. Hold on, what is a stroder?



"Do you see this bound book here?"



Filius nodded his head.



"For simplicity's sake, it is a currently a bound book copied from the original letters sent to Harry Potter."



"Are you prepared to change the face of Britain?"



"Why not? The Ministry released all the Death Eaters who killed my family. They haven't treated mixed magical races that well either. Can you honestly say you care whether they will be upset?"



"No. They have tried to tax me more because I am not quite Goblin, but they don't consider me a wizard."



Filius put his hand on the walls outside McGonagall's office. He spoke his request to Hogwarts and placed a stroder copy of the request from Harry Potter. Ian used the copy/transfer spell Harry had given him. Ian put his hand next to Filius and stated his intentions.



"Hogwarts, please listen to our plea. You were built to give safe haven to magical students. We have uncovered a way to get all the magical students in Britain educated for at least one year without any of the students having to pay any costs."



Filius added, "Dumbledore, in anticipation of Harry Potter's arrival, pushed a law through the Wizengamot, that decrees that any wizard or witch who begins a magical education has to complete that education. If these other schools don't allow our magicals to complete their education at their institution, Hogwarts will have to expand to fulfill the need next year. We will meet our charter for the first time in centuries. Will you help us?"



Hogwarts responded by producing a bound physical copy of the Founder's Incorporating rules, a copy of Ministry rules that conflicted with the Founders Incorporating rules, and the binding punishment required for breach of this contract.



Ian asked Hogwarts, "Filius works here. Are you including me? I am a healer. I don't know the first thing about education or education policy?"



Hogwarts produced a lineage chart of the four Founders. Ian McZenzie was one of Ravenclaw's heirs. After he saw his name highlighted on the chart, Hogwarts gave him a journal of Ravenclaw's desires for Hogwarts. Hogwarts wanted him to know it was his responsibility to see it done.



He had no idea he was descended from Ravenclaw. He looked at Filius for some direction. Filius continued asking for direction from Hogwarts.



"Thank you for helping us with educating all British students. Is there any other role I should take as the Head of Ravenclaw which I am supposed to fulfill?"



Hogwarts gave him the manual for employees and a list of tasks the Founders completed each year to prepare Hogwarts and themselves for the current year of students. "Invite those schools who have a small number of students to teach here. Tell them we will supply them with facilities and resources to help train their students. There are 10 towers. Hufflepuff and Slytherin use neither. We can house 8 schools in these towers. In exchange for resources and our facilities, the school will allow our students to observe what they offer. The hat and book are in your office, Filius."



"We will both follow your lead."



Filius sought out help from his former Ravenclaws. Ian contacted Stan Shunpike to find as many hedge witches and wizards as he could find. The Ministry did not consider them real magic wielders. Their skills were limited in scope but their talents could be trained.



The sorting hat took the registries and the schools because there was no way to gather together that many students in this short amount of time. For the students he had already sorted at Hogwarts, his selections were accurate. He gave a range of options for any other students based on the family lineages. It would not be as good a match as if he had each student in front of him.



Hogwarts requested the Sorting Hat to contact each name listed in the registry of the International Confederation of Wizards. Generally, Minerva took the Britain registry and contacted students with an automated quill. She personally visited each Muggleborn student. Hogwarts directed the hat to dictate a different invitation to the automated quill. Hogwarts decided for herself that the registries would be used to continually contact all Hogwarts eligible students.



Hogwarts decided she had failed the Founders and she would correct the disparity between those who were invited by the Ministry and those who were eligible. She contacted the elves so they could repair and revive the 8 towers which had not been used in two centuries. She also directed the Sorting Hat to contact Vector, Burbage, Sinestra, and Hooch to return to Hogwarts earlier so they can institute new levels of responsibility and take over new housing and classroom units. Hogwarts also contacted the Board of Governors. She called a meeting for the next day and had the Sorting Hat to supply each governor with a copy of the bylaws of governance. She had the Sorting Hat to direct their attention to the failure to comply to the call of duty sections so they would know they were being invoked. If a governor could not make it to Hogwarts by 10 a.m. tomorrow, they would be released from duty and Hogwarts would call past alumni to serve on the Board. Everyone---faculty, staff, governors, and alumni---had to work hard over the next three weeks if Hogwarts was going to embrace the changes necessary to support the new students or the students who would be visiting other institutions for the next year.



Hogwarts was happy for the first time in several centuries. She would continue to contact new faculty and release those instructors who could not embrace the changes Ian and Filius set in motion. She might even move to 80% occupancy for the first time in centuries.



She set her sights on all the old trunks, clothing, books, and access personal property that students had abandoned over the centuries. She would make these items available for any impoverished students who came to Hogwarts unprepared. She would also restructure the towers and dungeons so that Madame Pince would now have to oversee 5 branches of the library. She would remain located in the main library, but each living space had a place for study and multiple copies of their school books. Madame Pince would have to get 4 new librarians to handle the overflow. She looked forward to spreading the hidden books to these new locations. She knew Albus would have a fit when he returned to the castle.



Day 8-9 since The Hagrid Day of Fate



Of course, Harry had no idea what a big miasma he had stirred up at Hogwarts by mailing Ian those school offers. He just wanted to make sure other students had a way out if someone had been treated like the Dursleys had treated him. Harry trusted Cedric and Ian because those letters made him feel like he was in over his head. They both seemed willing to step in and help him when he was in Diagon Alley. They said he could contact him with any questions he had. Those letters were more than he could handle. If Ian and Ced took care of those people as well as they had taken care of him, those students and women were in good hands.



Harry's attention was focused on all the work Master Dwarf Grimholde had done at Godric's Hollow. He took the Knight Bus sight unseen for his parent's house. The level of gloom loomed upon the house and the grounds. He knew he would never live there or ask anyone else to live there as long as the atmosphere was oppressive as it was. He asked Griphook and Grimholde to join with him in a ritual to consecrate the ground and strip the house of any looming evil spirits.



Grimholde informed him, "If I bleed with you, Harry, in a consecration ritual, I become responsible for you. You also become responsible for me, Harry. Do you understand what that means to adwarf?"



"No. Can you explain it to me?"



"It means that my kith and kin adopt your cause as our cause, but you and your family adopt our cause for your cause. We dwarves are not seen as good actors in the wizarding world. You will become apariah amongst this new society you plan to join. Our pride will not allow you to deny our alliance in public."



"The same is true of me, wizard. Your school will teach in the fall about how many Goblin rebellions have been waged against wizards. The wizarding world has many prejudices. This ceremony will elevate to equal status in the eyes of my clan. We will adopt you and prepare you for the magical world in the goblin way. Do you know the level of perfection we require for goblin warriors?"



"Will you expect me to leave the wizarding world and join your clans?"



"No. You will be required to show up to specific dwarven holidays at different points of the year."



"No. You must learn banking and fighting in the goblin way. You have until your 25th birthday to complete your training satisfactorily. We pool our resources to train our children. You would have to contribute."



"Will you expect me to ignore my wizarding heritage and take only the causes that make sense to you?"



"No, we dwarves would expect to have some say over any fights our alliance drags us into. If we are in trouble and you are called to help us, your will be given similar deference. You will also be involved in some of our yearly rituals. If you take this step, your family will be tied to us forevermore."



"We will not expect you to ignore your wizardry heritage. We will expect to treat all goblins fairly without prejudice. If we are in danger, we expect you to alert us to any threats to the Goblin Nation. If you have to make a hard choice between your heritage or your alliance, it must because you need to survive. Otherwise, if you betray us, we will fight to the last goblin."



"As long as these are reciprocal agreements, I'm fine with both of your terms. I want to allow spirits of my family to continue to dwell here, my problem is with the danger Voldermort posed to my family. The spirits should have risen up and defended their living family. There are entire sections of this book (he indicated his mother's journal) that show how devoted this family forebears were to the land and our continued existence. Someone betrayed this house."



"We need more warriors here."



"I've done the justice ritual once this month. I can tell you if we do both these rituals we might be here for a few days. It will take us a few days to recover. Contact whoever you need to contact, but I want to move forward with this today."



Within fours hours, seven goblins, dwarves and Harry sat in a circle in front of Godric's Hollow. The symbols were dug into the soil in front of each being. Harry invoked the words while the circle held hands. The burst of magic came from the Hollow itself.



Several things happened at once: Harry and Grimholde passed out, Griphook was cast out of the circle; 7 reference sets were placed within the circle; the Potter elves descended on the Hollow to repair and replace the ruined structure; and the Potter spirits were released from their burial sites. Once the elves finished repairing the Hollow's structural integrity, they brought those left in the circle into the house. The elves contacted Gringotts to pick up Griphook. As his betrayal against the Potters had already been judged, Gringotts could decide how they wanted to deal with their employee. Though they could forget their referral fee for the dwarves' services, the rest of the Gringotts delegation present in the circle could inform them what went wrong.