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Harry rested in Ian's home trying to get well. Ian offered Harry the option of going to Gringotts for the goblins to discern what happened to his motor functions, convalesce at Ian and Gale's home, or come to St. Mungo where Ian's team could diagnose and monitor him. Harry chose to stay with Ian and Gale. He asked Gale if he could spend some of his days in her office watching them work and learning more about the ministry functions. He had Argile bring his television along with his belongings from Hogwarts to their home.



He had notified his muggle school that he had been injured and was currently being treated. They notified him that he could only pass the current year if he was instructed for 170 days out of a 180 day school year. He could choose to repeat the year or hire acertified private tutor to keep him current in his school work while he was bed bound. In addition hiring a squib tutor for his muggle classwork, he found aHogwarts graduate to help him work through the first year curriculum.



Ian came to him after a couple of days of treatment. "Harry, your problem stems from the exorcism charm Healer Chatney cast on Quirrelmort. Voldemort is bound to this world by soul anchors. Your curse scar acted as a leech powering Voldemort's spirit. When the goblins performed the procedure in August, we initially drained as much of the leech away from you as we could. We planned to come back throughout the year to follow up on what remained.



There were several complications along the way. You already know your memory was spotty and the leech was trying to get you to choose not to remove him from your body. It was like atic burrowing into your skin attempting to live off you to sustain itself. When you find the tic, you can take tweezers and tear the main body off. It might leave the tic's legs behind that will cause you later problems. In removing the leech from your curse scar we left behind the equivalent of its legs. The leech cannot drain magical power from you any longer. In fact, the majority of what was taken away is currently fulfilling Hemlot's contracts.



When Healer Chatney banished the conscious spirit piece to its home, it impacted the metaphorical legs which remain embedded in you. Without knowing if there are any active horcruxes, we believe the Quirrelmort version called forth as much power as it could find from the leech at Gringotts. Since that leech has a form and purpose, it is available and is sustaining Quirrelmort. The healers were able to save Quirrel's life although a portion of his life force has been removed. The man is still functional.



The ritualistic magic imbued in the leech will not allow Quirrelmort to completely drain the leech. The Falstein heir is the first contract which will be fulfilled by the leech. The leech is entering its second trimester. The heir's magic is fighting to survive. Your duty to the contractual heir is to protect its life from harm until such time as the heir is capable of protecting himself."



Harry stopped Ian, "It sounds like you are going to tell me something I absolutely don't want to know. Before you go forward with this tic-leech explanation, have you seen the muggle movie, Alien,Aliens, or that franchise?"



Ian asked Harry, "Do I need to understand something about this film that will help you understand what is happening?"



Harry responded, "Yes. If you don't know what I am talking about ask Gale to get that movie series. After you watch that horror movie, explain again. What you are describing means that I still have a soul anchor crippling me. Not only do I have a foreign entity inhabiting my body which your healers are trying to break apart piece by piece until it is gone but I also have a functional life clinging to me as alifeline. My magic is not sustaining the tic, but my physical body is sustaining the Falstein heir. As long as the heir fights, my strength will be engaged in that struggle. It sounds like I am hosting an alien chest buster. The movie will explain the reference.



Will this always be the case?



Come back when you have some answers. I appreciate what you are trying to do for me, but I just want aresolution. I want you to get me an expert on quadriplegic health choices. If I am going to be immobile for a length of time, I need to figure out how to live.



Why a Potter father would curse his children with this nightmare is beyond me? What short term gain would justify this?" Harry just laid there, looking at the ceiling.



Ian stood over him. He placed his hand on Harry's shoulder. "Harry, you are not a quadriplegic. You still have sensation to your limbs and trunk. You have control over your bodily functions. There is no reason to think this is long term. We will research typical quadriplegic care so you won't worry. It is better for you to have more information than you need. Otherwise, your mind is going to create scenarios which will be far worse than what you need to consider.



Your magic has been trained to fill in for any physical deficit you suffer. We have been caring for all previous childhood injuries by regrowing bones, fixing nerve damage, and refiguring your growth. Your magic is resilient. It has done tremendous feats to enable you to do your chores, go to school, and stay away from direct threats. It will adapt to this new demand as well. You are stronger than you think, Harry.



I will get you well. You will feel better than you ever had. You will be able to return to Hogwarts and your classes while I manage your care. When you need additional help, I will be there for you. Gale and I discussed this; we agree that I will become your primary healer. I will still handle other clients at St. Mungo's. I just won't accept any new patients."



Harry gazed into Ian's eyes. He wanted to make sure Ian was sincere. When he was satisfied, he agreed. Harry would make the most of his time on his back. He would get better. He would do all that he could to insure he never felt as helpless as this again.



Neville took up a helpless cause with his cohorts. He had heard Headmistress McGonagall explain what happened after the Feast. He knew they needed a new Defense teacher. He also was excited that the teachers were going to teach the students defense in a similar fashion as history: at least two segment covering different methods and time periods. When the first years started defense, Neville was sure he'd learn more than most other Hogwarts graduates.



His quest was to get the older Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs to teach the first years what they had used to subdue the trolls. He knew the seventh years had N.E.W.T. studies to prepare, but he wanted to know how those students had already resolved the trolls. As unlikely as it was to happen again, he didn't want to be in that same situation not know what to do. When he first approached the seventh year prefect, Marjorie, to ask for help; she turned him down. She said the firsties were not strong enough to learn the spells the sixth and seventh years chose.



Neville refused to take no for an answer. He lobbied each prefect until he finally found Percy Weasley. After Neville explained what he needed, Percy told him how to repackage his request. Instead of asking the older years to review the spells used on the trolls, Percy directed him to ask think in terms of O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. Percy told him the older years could review their first and second year studies but also give them insight on how the prefects chose their plan of attack. Then, Neville was not asking them to tackle a situation which would never happen again. Instead Neville asked them to review material they already had to understand if they wanted to successfully complete Hogwarts.



Neville asked Percy to present Neville's cause in Percy's terms to the prefects. Percy asked the older prefects to contact the graduates from the former two years to help them study for their tests. If they set up a schedule to review the last few years' worth of material, then each year could review something they knew and learn something different. Neville would have a varied number of teachers for the review segments. The upper years would be able to network and make the best possible marks.



Percy thought it was a win-win solution for everyone. After Percy talked to Bill about failing to protect everyone, Bill explained how difficult it was for a leader to make choices to protect the most people possible. Sometimes Percy would be in a position to choose who he could save and who was beyond his help. If Percy helped Neville with this, Percy might help insure those beyond his help would have a means to protect themselves. At least, Percy hoped so. He had relied on his teachers before. When he was beyond their reach, Percy had to make the best decision possible. Neville had to do the same.





The most surprising input Hogwarts received was from Governor Malfoy. After a Board meeting where Minerva outlined the Samhain events and the connected events, Lucius asked Minerva to hire a Dark Defense League person to be a place holder for the curse. Dumbledore could still work on the curse and teaching defense, but this defender could be the official Defense against the Dark Arts teacher. Minerva could choose whether she let the new teacher know the circumstances surrounding the teaching position, appoint the teacher for the rest of the year, or divide the responsibility with some other professor. The surprise stemmed from Lucius' recommendation. It was widely known that Lucius had no use for Gilderoy Lockehart. Lucius' sole explanation was that Lockehart was the perfect placeholder. He was in the midst of writing a book and would have no problem being the face of the defense position.



Life returned to normal at Hogwarts. The first years minus Harry completed the agrarian portion of original founders. They began studying what most recent classes learned when they entered Hogwarts. Madam Burbage explained that their classes would trade theory for practice until the first years reached the intermediate stage. Once they learned their magic worked, the teachers would teach them why it worked.



The agrarian portion demonstrated to the first years that they were already capable of taking care of themselves. In the founders' time, the founders had to give refuge to persecuted first generation magicals. Their philosophy directed the teachers to train new students to be self sufficient. If the new students knew they could care for themselves, they learned to resent their nonmagical relations less for turning them away from their homes. In time, this agrarian education helped students to understand their historical roots. The board and the staff agreed to bring it back, so that the first years had confidence in their later studies.



The few practical lessons that every Hogwart student learned to embrace were physical fitness, cooking, and household management. The staff had to learn new teaching techniques as they went along. Some enjoyed the new challenges, but others were irritated beyond belief.

Sybil Trewlaney was the most discontent. Headmistress McGonagall had forced her into a treatment regimen for her alcohol dependence if Sybil wished to remain as a teacher at Hogwarts. Sybil also had to register her gift at the Oracle at Delphi. They would be able to rate her talent and give her the support a proper seer needed. The body of oracles could also accredit whatever it was Sybil thought she had been teaching her students for the past decade. The Headmistress left no doubt about the fate of divination at Hogwarts if she could not fulfill her duties.



Headmistress Anise from the Derringer's Bistro of Culinary Arts was the most content of the extended Hogwarts staff. She and her assistant had verbally fought this expansion of her school for months now. When Lady Hogwarts first extended the invitation to build her school, she thought it was some sort of joke. No school that she was aware of had given other schools carte blanche access to their facilities. Most administrators were a jealous lot, afraid that new people would steal their secrets and coerce students to leave the home institution.



Assistant Headmaster Artie Kovach had to eat his doom and gloom. The Hogwarts elves were delighted to share their kitchen space. The elves first demonstrated their routine and shared their monthly menu with Derringer. They outlined the animals and plants the Hogwarts Farm provided and the producers who provided the rest. The elves even provided an overview of the food service most magicals could hope to prepare for themselves if they did not employ elves.



Anise and Artie reviewed their performance in educating the next generation of Trini chefs and tried to figure out how much they could reasonably be expected to share with Hogwarts students. Anise managed to convince Hogwarts elves to train under their guidance for the foreseeable future. She would be able to expose them to every cooking technique a Derringer chef utilized. Artie talked Minerva into requiring the N.E.W.T. capable students of understanding basic food safety and meal preparation.



Anise constantly tested the Trini Derringer students by assigning them particular meals. Usually Derringer students trained under master chefs as line cooks. These Derringer students were assigned as managing cook who had to coordinate their entire kitchen staff. Each Derringer started the year being responsible for one dish designed to feed 100 people. As the year progressed, each derringer was responsible for a plate that consisted of 5 dishes designed to feed 150 people. The more intricate the plate, the more kitchen staff each Derringer needed.



Most of the elves remained dedicated to the normal Hogwarts' fare. The others learned as much as they could learn from the budding Derringer chefs. Anise had arranged to sell its dishes with Aberforth Dumbledore's Hogshead clientele. There were a few local muggle taverns willing to sell a wider fare too. The space Hogwarts had provided for teaching were adequate, but Anise wanted to build her own institute in Hogsmeade if she could find enough willing local students. Anise thought if she spread enough Derringer food to the wizarding and muggle populace, then she should be able to gain enough new students to make a new building possible.



Minerva had asked Anise if she would be willing to feed the new Ministry led self defense classes. Artie asked Anise to consider bringing other competing chefs to Hogwarts so Derringer could spread the cost of building a new culinary institute to other culinary schools. She recognized that the British magicals did not disclose their status to muggles like Derringer did in Trinidad, but she also recognized that Hogsmeade was a haven in Britain for a different sort. If she could expand into these defense courses, she would bring the attention Derringer needed for students. Only time would tell whether or not what she wanted would be feasible. She had already let Hogwarts know they could fill her school's slot with a new institution for the following school year.

Todd McMillan seized on self starters as his basis for revolutionizing Hogwarts. With the smaller numbers, he was able to single out potential self study students. His theory as one of the Ravenclaws Flitwick invited to the school during the summer was change happened one student at a time. Hogwarts was focused on teaching the most students, the most lessons in seven years. McMillian believed a self directed student could make strides forward if they were acknowledged as they reached goal posts through their matriculation. Those goals could be within the Hogwarts core curriculum, but McMillian bet that the more meaningful goals the students set for their own lives would push Hogwarts the farthest.



Headmistress McGonagall and staff were worried about what their standing in the British community continued to be especially when forced to acknowledge how many students chose different institutions for the year. They would have to win those students back if they wanted to continue to exist as a primary school for magicals 11 to 18 years of age. With the students being exposed to schools abroad, Hogwarts would have to become as current and as relevant as any other institution. Their focus was top down.



In McMillan's view, the student satisfaction came from knowing what they were trying to learn and matching those expectations. Their parents would interact with their children directly about accomplishing their parent's benchmarks. McMillan used Hogwarts current library as a basis for setting up individual study, strengthening basic skills, and pushing the staff to take note of the ways they failed to meet their students' needs. McMillan had a difficult time convincing professors that they needed to focus on their individual students' shortcomings. He had taken the issue up with a number of Flitwick's team of innovators so that Flitwick could present the Ravenclaws' efforts to the Headmistress. McMillan's ultimate goal was that no child would fall through the cracks at Hogwarts no matter how many years it took for them to learn basic skills.



Madam Hooch was able to create aQuidditch camp and flying clinic with some her past colleagues from the Harpies. She worked with the Idady training academy, focused on teaching magicals basic auror skills, so Hogwarts students became physically fit. They had to a basic competency on broom flight, apparition, and carpet riding before they left Hogwarts. She used Idady's training guide as the basis for whipping Hogwarts into shape. She has already discussed a summer program which could offset the cost for new equipment for her department. She was thrilled the leeway she had been given to get Hogwarts moving in the right direction.





Much farther south, Arthur Weasley was contemplating a new summer program too. It was doable, but it required alevel of patience, deceit, and courage that he hadn't shown in years. Once Arthur explained what his original muggle based business entailed his older sons had leapt into action. Maybe he had been blind all these years, but without Molly's opinion or what now looked like interference, his sons had been more than willing to get involved even if they had their own career plans and paths that led them away from what Arthur was directly interested. Muggleborns and their muggle parents had bought his cars, his expansion charms, his accident resistant and acceleration runes, and had thought of new ways for their automobiles to be improved. With the ministery's licensing for his pursuits, he was able to give a few different people the option of opening their own muggle based businesses. They were all based at the Burrow.



In response to the level of interest, Arthur had paid off the Burrow and began buying surrounding property. He dumped any existing cash into paying for any additional training Bill or Charlie needed. Some of the newly bought land served as a reserve for animals Charlie wanted to rescue. Bill had spent a lot of time trying out new warding schemes on various pieces of the expanded Burrow. Some wards came from his time studying with the goblins, but Bill had been making creative individual wards for a long time. Once Arthur had appropriated the muggleborn registry lists from the ministry, he asked Bill to use creative wards to keep out any and all unauthorized users. Percy had found out how through his ministry hacker had been in accessing confidential muggle artifact files and he had led Arthur to notify the DMLE to review the security of their files. Evidently, what Amelia had found had caused her to renovate her section of the ministry. She set up a satellite office at her home. The only personnel able to work off site were those who Moody cleared.



Most of Amelia's staff was compromised. Moody had taken on the core of those who were not and began retraining them. Moody had joined the Auror Department when aurors were required to be trained for a five year introduction. It weeded out many of the bad apples he saw now. After the initial five year intensive training period, aurors were assigned to hot zones around the world so they became battle hardened and capable of quick deployment. By the time, Grindenwald had risen most of the Moody era aurors could independently track down dark wizards who would be prized above all others, seek out new recruits, and find access to hard to know information. The new era Auror Department leaned too heavily on the unspeakables and the influence of the politicians for muscle.



Amelia worked closely with Rufus Scrimgeour in tearing down the means of corruption for the remaining DMLE staff. With afew Ravenclaw charms, wards, and transfiguration masters, the DMLE put records in the center of the department. All the support staff and independent accounting firm worked in glass enclosed offices in full view of the records. The worst aurors had cubicles surrounding the support staff. The command captain reviewed all closed cases with each auror in a department wide review. After the initial investigation turned up inconsistencies, the auror would be turned over to the independent firm to close all oversights and point out malfeasance to the command captain and Amelia.



Unbeknownst to the good people of the wizarding world, their daily calls to the aurors were being answered by Auckland aurors. Amelia had called in favors with any nations where British aurors had performed any heroic deeds that the nation recognized. The foreign born aurors were headquartered at Bones manor and partnered with the uncorrupted British aurors. These nations loaned enough aurors to Amelia that the gap in policing was not noticed by any other ministry departments.



The Azkaban staff was reassigned to St. Mungo's for long term treatment to dementor exposure. After they were recovered, Amelia was going to send them to friendly nations to find out how they policed their prisoners. The corrupted aurors took the place of the Azkaban staff. Each auror's assigned Azkaban duty corresponded to the number of crimes they covered up, cases they ignored, and the harm they caused. Once their ultimate loyalties were discovered with veritaserum and their motives uncovered, they signed a binding magical agreement for the agreed time period. It was all done internally. The only people who knew exactly how wide spread the corruption went worked within the DMLE.



The first test case for the new DMLE was the case against Marcus Flint. Then Deputy Headmistress Minerva had laid out a plan of action to reform the head of house organization at the beginning of the year. The Ravenclaw contingent reviewed the dictates of each head of house's contract to Hogwarts for each student's well-being. The new Slytherin head, Barabbas Longfellow, discovered a number of rape victims in his house. He worked with Poppy's team from St. Mungo's to seek help and refuge, but he needed Minerva to expel the rapists and the DMLE to imprison them. When he started recalling former Slytherin students to Hogwarts, he found a legacy of tolerance for physical abuse and sexual favors.



Marcus Flint had a history of forcing unwilling girls and boys into doing his schoolwork. When he failed, he took his anger out on his helpers. Within the last year, he decided he should never go to bed alone. He forced his attentions on his helpers, boys and girls alike throughout the past year. His roommates had learned from hard experience not to confront Flint and ignore his conversations and behaviors. Longfellow noticed because those Slytherin helpers were falling apart. Some of them never slept in Slytherin house. They were repeatedly missing bed checks. Others could not concentrate in their classes and were badly failing. The worst cases were in the infirmary with injuries.



Longellow left it to now Headmistress McGonagall to investigate the staff for who knew and ignored the horrific scope and proportions of abuse in his house. His first official act that would have an extreme impact on the life of Hogwarts was institute a self defense class that operated outside of the Defense of Dark Arts curriculum. Each student had the ability to influence anyone they wanted to perform sexual acts, force menial labor, or any other service they wanted. Every student needed to know how to defend themselves against everyday laziness and corruption by other wand wielders. Longfellow consulted with the Ravenclaw contingent to develop a mandatory ethics course. If Hogwarts was producing unethical magical users, he doubted the U.K. could reach its true potential.



Headmistress McGonagall separated the accused students from the rest of the student body. She asked Pomona Sprout and Filius Flitwick to serve as fact finders to discover as much as they could about the favors and existing atmosphere in Slytherin as possible before the Headmistress confronted Dumbledore and Snape with their findings. The isolated students still turned in their assignments and received instruction, but their academic performance was reviewed from their beginning days. The emerging pattern forced McGonagall to send missives to all recently graduated Slytherins. Hogwarts had miserably failed its most ambitious members. The Headmistress could not retrain generations of Slytherins, but she could facilitate specialized learning for those who had been hurt the most. She asked Longfellow to hire a team of Slytherins to work out a set of objectives Hogwarts could use to harness these student's skills but protect the at-risk members.



Amelia Bones took the Flint case to Rufus Scrimgeour and Alaster Moody. They represented the political and practical wings of the DMLE. If Bones took the Flint case to the Wizengamot, Flint would never see a day in Azkaban nor would they stand for expulsion for Hogwarts. Amelia Bones needed to insure Flint learned to never force his attentions on another person or systematically demean everyone whom he came into contact. She knew from experience that Flint had the makings of a great Death Eater in the future. She tasked Scrimgeour to find a politically viable solution that would pass a public Wizengamot hearing. Since Moody was the law unto himself, she asked Moody to figure out a way to keep Flint's talents away from a risen Voldemort. There were plenty of Flint like Hogwart graduates which could serve as Voldemort canon fodder if Moody could not keep him otherwise engaged. Amelia let Scrimgeour and Moody know they were welcome to use other departments in the Ministry to help as little or as much as they wanted.



The Ravenclaw contingent had worked most of the year reviewing and revising Hogwarts' curriculum. They had worked with the Heads of House on social issues that affected student performance. When Longfellow uncovered the physical intimidation and sexual favors in Slytherin House, the called the others heads together for a meeting on student conduct overall. Ravenclaws had a problem with bullying. Gryfindors had the challenge following the most vocal students without struggling for individual voice.



Everyone was horrified to find the problem with ethical clarity and intimidation not limited to Slytherin House. The Headmistress was dismayed to find she failed her Gryfindors as badly as any other Hogwarts staff. The Ravenclaw contingent suggested that the Hogwarts staff be trained as a whole so they could be reminded how they could protect the students the best and get the best academic results. Filius Flitwick requested that the staff begin their retraining for 5 day weekends while the Heads of House plan student trips with adult or parental supervision. It would free the rest of the staff to explore the discovered concerns and labor toward workable solutions.

After Dumbledore received the dressing down Arthur Weasley gave him for sending unsupervised students to face trolls, Dumbledore took the advice Aberforth gave him to divest himself from any additional responsibility. He activated the old members of the Order of the Phoenix and let them know that the spirit of Voldemort had possessed ateacher and invaded Hogwarts. Sturgis Podmore, Arthur Weasley, Mundamus Fletcher, and Remus Lupin answered the call.



Albus reviewed the basic strategy he used to fight Voldemort after Albus discovered his rise. Since Sturgis practiced law in front of the Wizengamot, Albus explained the first inkling came when the number of deaths among muggles and muggleborns rose without any specific or targeted action from the Wizengamot. Albus began talking to the aurors about who was being harassed and what was being done to protect the public.



When Albus noticed to the shortfall in protection to half bloods, muggleborn and muggles; he called the first meeting of the Order of the Phoenix. It started off slow and their call to action was rocky when the Order was most efficient. Albus detailed the problems he faced in funding the Order and its missions. James Potter and Sirius Black's financial assistance made the Order possible. He asked them to think about what he knew of the half blood Tom Riddle who later chose to become Lord Voldemort.



Albus listed out the number of challenges he had choosing to become a light lord before Gellert chose to push for magical peoples dominance in the larger world. He outlined his oversight of Tom Riddle during his Hogwarts years. He explained that the European magical population as a whole lost at least a third of its number in the fighting. Voldemort came in behind Gellert and reduced the number of British magicals by another fifth. Albus explained that if the second rise had asimilar impact as the first rise, then Britain was looking at a disasterous future where the Wizengamot might choose to force people into bad marriages.

"Friends, my time as Albus Dumbledore the man who can do all things is over. I have been in the Wizengamot since my father was sent to Azkaban for killing muggles. I went to the ICW after I defeated Gellert and have served there for the past 50 years. I have taught at Hogwarts my entire adult career. I spent 10 years trying to reduce the impact Voldemort had on our world. I pass the torch of the Order of Phoenix to your generation. I will be here to help you plan and help you prepare, but it will be up to you to do a better job than I did 10 years ago, save as many lives as you can, and preserve a magical presence here in the U.K." Albus finished his spiel and felt relieved to have passed on this burden.