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."
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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.
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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.
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"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."
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"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"
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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"
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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"
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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."
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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."
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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'.