An old but youthful looking man sat in the study of his manor. Yes, he is both very old but still youthful looking. He is a wizard that got the dubious gift of immortality. The name of the wizard is Harry Potter.

The first seventeen years of his life was not something you would wish on anyone. He was orphaned as a one year old baby by a powerful evil wizard named Voldemort. It turns out that there was a prophecy about the two of them but Harry only learned of this when he was fifteen years old. The evil wizard was very powerful that few escaped with their lives once he wanted to kill you. Voldemort wanted to rule the wizarding world and it seemed that he was on the verge of doing so. When he came to kill Harry that All Hallow's Eve, the killing curse, which all previous records state was not survivable, was reflected back to Voldemort who supposedly died. Harry became the Boy Who Lived who had a lightning bolt scar on his forehead, the only thing he got from the killing curse.

Harry was placed with his magic hating relatives to be raised. The said relatives proceeded to abuse Harry physically, mentally and emotionally. He was not told his real name until he was about to start school, instead he was called freak and boy. He was treated as an indentured servant while being punished for doing better than his cousin in school.

The Chief Warlock, head of the wizard's legislative and judiciary body called the Wizengamot, was responsible for placing Harry in that personal hell. His name was Albus Dumbledore and was also James and Lily Potter's, the parents of Harry, former school headmaster. He disregarded the parents' wishes in their will which was sealed. This was legal and within Dumbledore's remit as Chief Warlock. Dumbledore was not an inherently bad man but he was a man who treated others more as pawns than as people with feelings. He never checked on Harry's well-being, he only checked on his informant and magical devices to let him know that Harry was alive.

Once Harry was eleven, he got informed of his powers and the hidden magical world. He went to his parent's former school, Hogwarts, where every year he had to overcome tasks where he almost lost his life.

During the end of Harry's fourth year there, Voldemort kidnapped Harry from a school tournament to resurrect himself. This was the start of a secret war in the wizarding world between Dumbledore and his followers against Voldemort and his followers with Harry caught in the middle of all this. Harry was told of the prophecy at the end of his fifth year there. It basically said that Voldemort marked him as an equal, hence the scar, and that one cannot live while the other survived. Up until this point, Harry was just cruising through school with mediocre grades.

Harry had unknowingly acquired a house elf named Dobby who bonded himself to Harry of his own free will after Harry freed Dobby from his former master at the end of Harry's second year in Hogwarts. He told Harry of a secret room in the school called the Room of Requirement which can transform into anything he needed. He needed to learn all the things he needed in order to survive. What he got was a set of rooms dedicated to this sole purpose. It had a bedroom with its own en suite toilet and bath, a library, a training and dueling room for practicing spells and physical training complete with swords, daggers, and archery. He needed time to learn all these so the room slowed down time when he was using the room. This process is called time dilation. An hour outside the room meant a month inside. Of course while Harry was smart, he cannot learn it all from books alone. What he got as instructors were portraits of the four founders of Hogwarts, all extraordinary witches and wizards.

Godric Gryffindor was a battle mage who taught him Defense along with Transfiguration. Defense with Godric did not mean just using magic in combat. He also taught him the martial arts on how to fight using weapons like swords and also how to fight barehanded. He told Harry to ask the room for training dummies he can spar with. Godric's wife, Rowena Ravenclaw, became Harry's teacher on Arithmancy, Ancient Runes and Charms. Helga Hufflepuff taught Harry the healing arts along with Herbology and how it related to Potions. The last professor put Harry a bit on edge.

Salazar Slytherin's reputation as a dark wizard preceded him. This drew a hearty laugh from the other three founders as it was true that Slytherin favored more brutal spells in battle to discourage evil by psychologically frightening them into thinking twice before they crossed him. He also told Harry that he only advocated that magic should be used on the families of those not from a magical family in order to safeguard the secrecy of their world. This was the only point of contention between Slytherin and his wife Helga who was of the opinion that a promise to keep the secrets of magic secret from the muggle world. This was also the opinion of the other two founders. After Harry learned of this, he got along fine with Salazar and privately told his instructor that he actually agreed with him. He got tuition in Potions, Occlumency and its counterpart Legilimency along with instruction in Rituals. When Salazar learned of Harry's parseltongue skills and what happened in the Chamber of Secrets in his second year, Slytherin promised to Harry that he will also be taught how to use this talent in order to defeat that bastard of an heir who used his beloved basilisk in such a disgusting manner. He told Harry he would make it his mission to teach Harry everything to defeat the upstart who was sullying his name.

Harry spent an entire weekend inside the room aside from the few hours he spent outside for meals and sleeping in Gryffindor tower. He had almost three years learning from the founders that weekend alone. Fortunately, the time he spent inside the castle did not age his body prematurely.

On the Sunday he was supposed to go back home to his relatives, Harry was given a special trunk by an elf sworn to Hogwarts Castle. The trunk was the property of Rowena Ravenclaw who designed the Room of Requirement in Hogwarts. Rowena, with a sly smile reminiscent of Salazar, told Harry that the trunk had a small living space inside that he can use while in his relative's care. He only needed to touch the eagle crest and say a phrase to reset the password which Rowena supplied him with. Harry's new passphrase was in parseltongue so that only Harry can open it. While Voldemort was also a parseltongue, only Harry knew the phrase. He doubted Voldemort knew of the song "Amazing" by Aerosmith anyway. It also contained a group portrait of the Founders in the living room so they can still communicate over the summer.

Harry was also advised by Godric and Salazar to consult with the Gringott's goblins to have an inheritance test done to see if he had any additional accounts there. He was told that there may be a few galleons fee but there won't be any harm in trying if there was none. Harry agreed and he said that he will have Dobby bring him there as soon as possible.

Harry was silent during the train ride home. His friends tried to talk to him and since it was only a few days since the fiasco in the Ministry of Magic for them, he acted all broody and morose. Harry's godfather died in the bowels of the Ministry in a trap set by Voldemort to get the prophecy which was in the Department of Mysteries. His godfather Sirius Black was initially jailed for betraying Harry's parents to Voldemort. He escaped jail in Harry's third year and was able to convince Harry that he was not the one to betray James and Lily to Voldemort with a series of unfortunate events that resulted in the real traitor's escape. Sirius has been on the run ever since and was allowing Dumbledore and his followers to use his family's old mansion as headquarters to fight Voldemort. Despite being innocent, he was still being pursued by the Ministry since the real traitor got away.

Harry was able to secretly visit the goblins and get his inheritance test. He found out that he was Godric's heir through his father's family. The Potter family was a cadet line of Godric's since his youngest daughter married a Potter. The inheritance of the daughter was not much since in the old days, the eldest son got the lion's share from the parent's fortune. But since the other more senior heirs of Godric had already died out, Harry got control of whatever was left. What Harry got from the inheritance test in gold and properties was from both the Potter and Black families since he was the heir of Sirius in his will. What he was shocked to know was that since the other lines of the Founder's families has died out; he got control of the Gryffindor and Ravenclaw legacies. He does not own Hogwarts since it was gifted to the magical people of Britain but he was granted access to the two founder's small vaults which contained their Grimoires and assorted books which contained spells and other knowledge the paintings could not impart to anyone who was not their heir. Harry was given the choice of being emancipated which of course he took. He did ask the goblins to keep it a secret that he will reveal at the time of his choosing. The Potter, Black, Gryffindor and Ravenclaw family rings were given to him and identified him as the head of these families. The rings merged into the Potter ring and Harry can choose which ring he wants to show. The ring can also be visible or invisible at Harry's whim. He was told by the portraits of Godric and Rowena in the vault that can access the books using the Potter family Grimoire. He just needed to tap the name of the book he needed from list on the first page of the book and then the book will morph into the chosen book until he chose another book in the list.

After being given an accounting of all the money and properties he owned, he found out that he was now quite rich from the Potters and the Blacks so he asked the goblins for a method of getting money from his accounts without going to the bank. He was given a wallet with credit and debit cards from Barclay's and a money pouch which were all keyed in using his blood to work only for him. He also called on Dobby to give him access to the account.

After the accounting, Harry asked the goblins if they had any healers who can help him with his scar. Helga was certain that the scar was not an ordinary one so she suggested that he ask the goblins for help if he found enough money in his account. With the new found wealth, the goblins were more than willing to provide goblin healers who were experts in curse scars. After the examination, they found out about a piece of Voldemort's soul lodged in the scar which was siphoning off a good amount of Harry's magical power in order to stay alive.

The goblin's method of removing the soul fragment involved transferring the soul into an animal, in this case a pig, which they would kill and then burn the animal's body. Harry was put to sleep for four hours and he woke up feeling exhausted but better than ever. Losing the scar felt like an unknown weight he had been carrying was lifted from his shoulders. He was told that it was like his magical core had been locked into fighting with the soul fragment that since it was now free, he should be able to access the full scope of his magical abilities. The findings dovetailed with the conclusions he and the founders formed. One give away of his new abilities was the way his hair started cycling through colors while he slept earlier. Once he woke up, the color went back to his original jet black. The goblins informed him that he might be a metamorphmagus or at least a partial one. He will be discussing it with his tutors later. He was also told to refrain from casting spells in the next forty eight hours to let his magical core to completely recharge.

His bad eyesight also got fixed. He no longer needed a pair of glasses to see clearly. The goblins asked him if he planned to still wear glasses to throw others off that trail. He was offered runes glasses which would look similar to the old glasses but now it is practically unbreakable and scratch proof. Its runic inscriptions also allow you to see the auras of magical beings, night vision, along with thermal optic. All of these can be Harry's for a small fee of course.

When he got home, he discussed the results with the founders. He was not surprised when they told him that they suspected it after he told them about using Gryffindor's sword out of the hat in his second year. Godric and Salazar suspected that the difficulties he was having with his Occlumency and Legilimency along with his metamorphmagus and animagus transformations were the result of the soul fragment's leeching his power. The founders were amazed that Harry was able to perform powerful magic even with the leech using part of his reserves continuously for the past fifteen years. They theorized that since the magical core was like a muscle and since it was constantly used by the leech, he should have more magic available.

Since the Dursley's were told to let Harry be alone because of his godfather's death, Harry spent all his time in the trunk. The trunk had four bedrooms each with its own toilet and bath. It also had its own kitchen and dining room. A potions and alchemy room along with a huge library that he asked Dobby and his house elf friend Winky, who also got Harry's blessing to bond with him after Dobby admitted his bond to Harry, to update. There was a special room dedicated for rituals. It also had a Room of Requirement which Harry would use for training under time dilation.

What boggled Harry's mind the most was what he found waiting for him behind the last door. When Harry stepped into the door, he found that he was outside a good sized manor house beside a small lake near a small mountain. There were gardens surrounding the manor. There were also farms, vineyards, orchards and a forest reaching all the way to the mountain about a mile away from the house. Harry went back inside and asked the founders how this was possible.

Harry found out that the founders were not your normal human witches and wizards. They were immortal godlike beings. The founders refused to tell him anymore than that since such information was better left unsaid. They explained that they were punished for meddling with the creation because they granted magic to some worlds. Their superiors had a policy of non-interference with other races so as punishment; they were exiled for a few centuries as powerful mortal mages. Their other powers were locked until they finished their exile. Rowena explained that the trunk was made before their powers were bound. It was her testing grounds for her powers when she was younger which she brought with her when she became mortal. The trunk existed in its own pocket universe with its own sun and moon. It was a world unto itself with about five percent of the total area of Earth just without people and other sentient beings. The founders established Hogwarts during the last century of their exile as a final gift to the magical community. All of this was believed by Harry since it was the only reason for their achievements and powers.

The founders taught him the location of the hidden room in his study that controlled everything inside the manor and its outside environment. It explains why the surroundings of the manor was not overgrown after a long time not being attended to.

Harry asked if he can bring his friends into the trunk. He was advised that it would be okay provided that he must be given magical oaths by his friends first. He was told to by Rowena how to attach one of the doorways leading outside the manor to a door from a different Potter property. He was not to tell them that they were in a trunk or that the founders were in anyway different from other witches and wizards. After thinking about the requests, Harry concluded that the secrets were very important so he agreed.

Harry continued his training under the tutelage of the founders. He spent about four hours a day under time dilation for the month he was in Privet Drive. He plans on doing the same number of hours under time dilation or even more once he was brought to Grimmauld Place. He decided to inform his friends about the available training once they got back to Hogwarts so that he can keep his emancipation and becoming head of house secret since he would not have to bring them anywhere near his properties. He will just bring them to the RoR in Hogwarts. Salazar agreed with this as the secrets can be his ace in the hole if ever he got into trouble.

During his stay in Privet Drive, he was able to master his metamorphmagus (hereafter referred to as morphing) and his animagus transformation. He can now change his appearance with little thought and can maintain it for weeks at a time even while sleeping without a problem. The problems that he encountered before with the animagus transformation was finally solved. He is now able to fully change after about two years.

The reason for this was the kind of animal he was. It was a shadow phoenix. A shadow phoenix can travel through shadows while also being able to travel through fire like the fire phoenix Fawkes. However, the fire a shadow phoenix uses is gray with silver mixed in. The physical colors of Harry's feathers were also silver and gray. His eyes stayed the same emerald green he had in his human form. The phoenix song of a shadow phoenix can uplift the spirits of a good person while it can also bring terror to the heart of an evil person. The tears of a shadow phoenix also have powerful healing properties.

Harry was also able to perform some rituals to enhance his abilities. He underwent rituals to get stronger, faster, and more acute senses. He also gained better agility and stamina. He is about as strong as ten men and can outrun a horse in full gallop for about three hours without getting exhausted. His sense of sight and hearing became several times more acute and he also seemed to develop a sixth sense for danger where he used his improved agility to dodge spells instead of just using a shield.

His mix of magical and physical training got to the point where he can no longer be hit or touched by a spell or weapon in fights with five or less opponents. These opponents were now at the maximum setting without being on a lethal setting. He is currently defeating ten dummies at the maximum non-lethal setting while getting hit with only a few spells and weapons.

His occlumency and legilimency still needed to be tried out by a person but Harry was confident that they can hold even Snape. He used traditional physical defenses like walls and dragons along with a dome made from titanium over his mindscape but his final defense was that his memories were stored in a computer with biometric scans for his eyes, voice, passphrase and magical signature to gain entry into the computer room filled with poison gas triggered by an infrared detection grid. The infiltrator would also need to know how to connect the computer terminal into a very well hidden data port using a long cable. One wall of the room had hundreds of identical data ports that shifted randomly every minute. Harry doesn't think that a pureblood supremacist wizard even knows how to use a computer let alone enter using the biometric scanners. All these were magically shielded so it cannot be overloaded.

Once he finished his animagus transformation, he also underwent a ritual to gain some of its powers to use in his human form. He got the ability to travel by fire and shadow along with being able to manipulate a silver gray fire as powerful as the fiendfyre spell but very easily controlled.

Once the founders felt he has a good grasp of the basics in his subjects, they began his education on Warding along with curse breaking. Harry gladly accepted their teaching him the difficult subjects. After all, who better to teach him warding than the ones who made the wards of Hogwarts. The castle's wards were the very best in the wizarding world. All four founders taught him since they all had a part in designing the defenses of the castle. They also told him where the main wardstone of Hogwarts is located and on how to access and modify it. Only Harry and Voldemort can enter the chamber since one needed to be an heir of the founder to get inside. Luckily, Voldemort doesn't know where the chamber is. The secret was lost after the founders died. This will allow Harry to bring the wards up to the most lethal settings if the castle was ever attacked en masse.

The elves of Hogwarts also brought the basilisk skin and other remains to the storage room. One of the elves was skilled in tanning leather so Harry asked him to make a few basilisk skin jackets, vests, pants, boots, and gloves. Harry also received a special basilisk leather backpack with feather light and unlimited space inside to hold all his valuables.

Harry bartered with the goblins to teach him the goblin secrets in forging armors and weapons along with jewelry making and enchanting for all the sixty foot long basilisk's meat. At first the goblins balked at his request. When Harry returned with a kilo of the very expensive delicacy, he was met by the ruler of the goblins, Ragnok XII. The leader negotiated a deal with Harry wherein they would teach Harry the secrets of their crafts for all the basilisk meat and a magical oath to never teach or show, in any way shape or form, anyone in this world about the crafts. He agreed to this however he asked that he be tutored in a place of his choosing and an oath to never betray, in any way shape or form, Harry or his secrets. Harry was to fetch the goblin artisan from Gringott's and portkeyed to a Potter property. They then went through the doorway connecting to the trunk. The goblin smith grew to like Harry personally and taught him above and beyond their agreement. It included tips on goblin healing, and training with the weapons they forged. Harry also got a practice partner for his occlumency and legilimency training. The goblin master named Goldenfist stayed with Harry for the rest of his stay in Privet Drive.

During this time in the trunk with Goldenfist, he saw that goblins wielded wandlessly like the house elves. He asked the founders and the goblin smith on how to do it. He was told that casting spells wandlessly was a purely on will power it was also a bit draining at first since you need to regulate how much magic was used. Harry found that he was able to banish, summon and levitate things easily without a wand however other spells needed finesse, not just the raw power he used to brute force it to work. The long hours of meditating on his animagus form along with the occlumency training did help a lot with regulating his magical output. Just before summer was over, Harry was able to do almost all spells wandlessly. He did prefer to use his healing spells with a wand since it needed precision.

Harry also learned from some magics of the elves that are possible for wizards to learn. Most of the spells were useful in housekeeping and in cooking. However, Harry learned important spells to use on creatures and plants.

Speaking of elves, he gained about fifty more elves in stasis from one abandoned property including Dobby and Winky's brothers and sisters. The elves were put in stasis upon reaching the bonding age. It turned out that the Blacks bred house elves to sell on the wizard black market. Harry transferred all of them into the trunk and woke them all up. He bonded all if the elves and tasked Dobby and Winky to be his Head Elves. The elves were so happy to be reunited with their family and bonded to the great Harry Potter. Dobby and Winky got permission from Harry to repopulate the surrounding areas of the trunk with animals and plants since there were now enough elves to care for them. The trunk became self-sufficient in food and drink and they were even able to earn money from the produce, meat and dairy products in excess of their daily needs. The gardens, vineyards and orchards were restored and put back into production. Some elves even fished in the lake. The elves formed a small community which grew to include the Hogwarts elves since there was so much space available. Eventually, Harry was asked by Dobby and Winky to take in abused elves which Harry whole heartedly agreed to. Since they were in time dilation for about four to six hours a day, they had a lot of money earned. Harry asked the elves to use it to build a town for themselves which included a school and hospital for them. They did not spend much since wood was plentiful in the forest. When Harry was first informed of the growing earnings, he was amazed they earn that much in such a short time.

When Harry was fetched by the members of the Order of the Phoenix, he went without protest. He was just silent since he was expected to still be grieving. When he arrived back in Grimmauld, he was immediately taken to his room by Ginny, Hermione, and Ron. They wanted to check on how Harry was doing since they were not able to talk much on the train ride home from Hogwarts. He reassured his three friends that he was okay and thanked them for the food they sent him while at the Dursley's.

The rest of the month before school started was more of the same routine he had in Privet Drive. Harry grew to love exercise and learning. Just before he returned to school, he figured he had about twenty five years of training and learning all sorts of stuff. The best thing was he remembered everything since his occlumency granted him near perfect recall of all the information he studied. He was already beyond a Master's education in his Hogwarts subjects excluding History of Magic, and Divination.

Whenever he was not in the trunk, Harry was in the Black library reading materials on DADA, Arithmancy, and Ancient Runes. He claimed that all he did in Privet Drive was learn these subjects. He claimed that he had an affinity for the subjects since it came easily to him. He wished he had these classes instead of Divination. However, he was alright studying it on his own. He did ask and received permission from his Head of House to drop Divination. Dumbledore initially refused to do so but further "persuasion" by the Transfiguration professor changed his mind.

Harry was used by Dumbledore to get an old colleague of his to return to teaching Potions since he had a hard time finding a competent instructor in DADA. Snape will instead be transferring to DADA.

The year started out normally. Harry explained what he has been doing and why to Luna, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Ron, he did get the oaths the founders wanted before he told them about the RoR and who his instructors were. All aside from Ron were excited to go into the training. He did not want any more studying aside from the normal load he had. He did promise to watch them practice. Ron usually just ate, sleep and bitch and moan about studying whenever they were under time dilation. After going with them a few times, he never went to train with them again. The others were able to learn faster since Harry was also teaching them some of what he was taught by the founders. He was not able to teach some other spells which needed a lot of raw magical power. None of the other four is near Harry's power levels.

Before Christmas break started, the other four people were able to successfully transform into their animagus forms. Luna was an owl, Ginny was a fox, Neville was a bear while Hermione became a cat. Harry just told them that he did not continue with his animagus transformation since his animal was quite embarrassing. Harry was advised by the founders not to reveal his metamorph or animagus forms. Secrets of that order can be his back up plans if there was a dire need to use it. The four also completed the studies that was being taught in Hogwarts and have moved on to independent studies.

On October, Harry was told by the founders of a Horcrux in the RoR. The founders taught Harry and his group a spell designed by the Egyptians on how to detect the abominations. The tiara of Ravenclaw was one of Voldemort's horcrux that Dumbledore was telling Harry about. Harry sent it along with a letter explaining what he wanted done with it to the goblins. Ragnok was incensed that there were more of these in existence that he ordered a sweep to be done in Gringott's. They found out about the cup of Helga's that way. Along with the ring that Dumbledore found, the diary that possessed Ginny in her first year, and Harry's scar they have destroyed five horcruxes. They did not tell any of this to the headmaster since they concluded that he was dying already from the curse on the ring. Hermione and Ginny tried to find a way to stop it but they were unable to find a solution.

The Christmas holidays was marred by many attacks by the followers of Voldemort called the Death Eaters. There was an attack just as the students were about to ride the train back to London.

Harry's group of four along with some help from the students from the defense class Harry taught in his fifth year were able to hold the death eaters to a stale mate until the aurors arrived. Harry and Neville were able to kill Dolohov, Macnair, along with the Lestrange brothers while Luna, Ginny and Hermione protected the students. They did not use any advanced spells other than cutting, blasting, and stunners along with shields. Harry used the piercing spells he overpowered to crush the shields of the death eaters while Neville used blasting curses. The four of them had very quick reactions that they were able to pull it off using just standard Hogwarts spells. They only plan on using advanced magic if things got out of hand. Their first engagement after training was a success.

Dumbledore, and the aurors questioned them on what they did and their wands were tested for the spells they used. They also had witnesses in the form of Hagrid, McGonagall, and Sinistra on what happened and what spells the students used. Aside from the four DEs that the boys killed in battle, there were another six stunned and bound by ropes by the girls and the DA.

Dumbledore was guilt tripping Harry and Neville for the loss of lives that could have been guided to a path of good. He was justly chastised by the parents who went to Hogwarts to fetch their kids. The DEs were using killing curses and other unforgivable spells while the kids only used standard Hogwarts spells to defend themselves. There were still quite a few students suffering te effects of the cruciatus or torture spell. Harry's group was seething internally for having their self-defense criticized while their faces showed only saddened expressions at the suffering students. The defenders were let go after questioning and were thanked profusely by the parents, teachers and students along with the aurors for doing their jobs for them. Dumbledore just looked on with a disappointed expression.

The return of the group to Grimmauld place was quiet. Neville's grandmother was staying with them at Harry's request. They were contemplating the deaths they caused since this was the first time they took a life. Mrs. Weasley was upset that the children had to fight at all while Mad Eye Moody was very happy with their performance. Remus and Tonks did take them aside after a few days to talk to them of their own experiences in taking a life. After this talk, the group felt better. They realized that this was for real and that it was kill or be killed in the end.

Their return to school came too soon and they continued to home their skills. Towards the end of the year, Harry was able to learn from Professor Slughorn that Tom Riddle as Voldemort was known in his student years in Hogwarts was fascinated with making seven horcruxes. They theorized that there were two more. Since Harry's horcrux scar was not properly anchored, they realized that it was more of an accidental horcrux rather than a deliberate one.

They were proven right at the end of the year. Dumbledore located a locket rumored to be Salazar's and took Harry with him to find it. Dumbledore foolishly forced Harry to let him drink the poison that filled the basin where the horcrux was located. When they went back to Hogwarts, Dumbledore was too weak to help Harry fight against the DEs that had infiltrated Hogwarts. The headmaster was able to send a distress call to the Order for reinforcements. Harry was forced to watch as Draco Malfoy and Snape killed Dumbledore. Harry was finally able to break free from the body bind that Dumbledore hit him in the back. He chased the two DEs while fighting other DEs. He was able to kill a few werewolves along with Fenrir Greyback using a bag of powdered silver as a distraction to drill piercing curses on their chests.

When he caught up with Snape and Malfoy, he was able to cut off Snape's wand hand with a laso made of fire. Since Snape was down, he took his former professor's wand and bound him tightly. Draco was more easily dispatched and he was bound and gagged within minutes. What saved Malfoy and Snape was the appearance of Bellatrix LeStrange and Neville chasing her. Neville let LeStrange get to him and used his emotions to outwit him. Harry had to save Neville from being decapitated which resulted in the three DEs escaping via portkey. As Harry placed Neville in a stasis and floated him up to the castle, they met the Carrow twins. Harry summoned Dobby and had him transport Neville to the infirmary. He concentrated on the Carrows to vent his frustrations at the escape of the three DEs. The Carrows were later found with holes from their foreheads to the back of their skulls.

In the aftermath of the battle, they found out that Draco Malfoy and Pettigrew led the DEs from the tunnel on the Shrieking Shack. The wards were disabled by a former Ward specialist in Voldemort's ranks.

The death of Dumbledore started a near panic that the ministry was unable to counter. Although many DEs and werewolves were killed and caught, this became a victory for Voldemort's forces. The Order became fractured and the ministry on the verge of collapse.

The only rallying point for the forces of good was Hogwarts. Harry had asked McGonagall to step up as interim Headmistress for the school which the board of directors had no choice but approve of since Harry gave his public support. No one could deny the Boy Who Lived's popularity. Harry became the Light side's symbol whether he wanted to or not.

Harry took this temporary lull in the war to scour the headmaster's office for books and valuable things with the help of the Sorting hat and Fawkes. He found out a few journals of Dumbledore's which outlined his thoughts on what the other horcruxes were and books on obscure magics he can use. He also found a journal by Nicolas Flamel about his Philosopher's Stone. He saved it for later since it was not pertinent to the present problems. He also took the ring of the Gaunt family to see if Salazar recognized it since it was supposed to be a family heirloom.

He told Harry that the ring was not his but that he knew what it was. It is called the Resurrection stone a part of the Deathly Hallows. The three hallows were rumored to be created by Death and that whoever controlled all three at the same time will become Death's master. Salazar and the other founders did not believe the stories but they told Harry that they knew what and where the other two hallows were. They were sure that Harry's invisibility cloak was the invisibility cloak in the legend and that the wand of destiny or deathstick was the one used by Dumbledore. They told Harry that since Snape killed Dumbledore and he defeated and took Snape's wand, Harry is now the master of the wand. They left it up to Harry whether or not to unite the hallows or not. Harry decided to let the wand remain in Dumbledore's possession when he is buried. He does not want to unite all three since he did not know what will happen. He will just keep the other hallows safe and hidden just in case.

Harry and the other three visited Neville and the other wounded in the hospital wing. After erecting privacy wards discretely, Neville made his apologies to the group. If he did not lose his cool, they could have taken two more of Voldemort's most trusted and powerful lieutenants. Harry and the others forgave Neville but asked him to never let it happen again.

Ron had been wounded grievously when he was fighting one of the DEs. Luckily, Hermione was able put him in stasis before he lost too much blood. Ron later admitted to being too cocky in the fight. He thought that since he disarmed the DE, he was no longer in danger. The DE had a spare wand that he secretly took out of his boot. He also admitted to being too lazy to put on the basilisk vest he was given. The others just shook their heads at Ron's attitude. Ron sheepishly asked Harry to let him join in the training sessions. Ginny and Luna will be helping the portraits being him up to speed. The group learned that the locket was a fake and that the original was taken by someone with the initials R.A.B.

After the funeral for Dumbledore, Harry went back to Privet Drive and talked to his relatives. The years he had spent training in time compression and conversing with the founders made him more mature. He offered his aunt money to relocate to a different country if they wanted to. The blood protections on the house would only last until his seventeenth birthday. Petunia Dursley recognized the danger they were in. She convinced Vernon to take the money Harry was offering to relocate to Canada. The couple had a big fight about it but since Dudley made it clear that he would migrate with his mom whatever his father decided, Vernon did not have a choice. Harry gave Petunia a cheque from Barclay's for eight hundred thousand pounds. Vernon was speechless after he called the bank to check if the cheque was really funded. Harry told them to make their arrangements quickly since they only had six weeks left. The Dursleys left a week before Harry's birthday.

That same day, Harry brought his belongings to Grimmauld Place. He had snuck out of Hogwarts with Luna the day after Dumbledore died to check and modify the wards of Grimmauld place since Snape was keyed into the wards. He also instructed his elves to make the place habitable since he figured that more and more people will be using it. He ad the elves put all suspicious items into an expandable trunk so that none of the soon to be residents were in any danger. The army of elves finished fixing up the house in one day. The mansion became more inviting to live in. The old furniture were shrunk and stored in a different expanded trunk. The walls and ceilings had a fresh coat of paint and new wallpapers.

During the cleanup, Dobby and Winky told Harry that Kreacher had a locket that was similar to the one they found in the cave. Kreacher told Harry about how it came to be in his possession and that he was unable to finish Master Regulus's last order to destroy it. Harry took pity on the elf and gave the fake locket to him in return for the cursed one. He told Kreacher that he will have the goblins remove the curse in it so he can fulfill his old master's order. Kreacher became more cooperative after that and he maintained the clean state of the mansion after Harry's other elves finished.

Remus Lupin, Mad Eye Moody, and Minerva McGonagall became the leaders of the Order. Harry offered the use of Grimmauld Place to them and told them that he had the goblins make sure it was safe to use again. A quick message to Ragnok was all it took to have Bill Weasley confirm it. Harry did tell them that they were guests in his home so he expected them to respect his privacy. Harry appropriated the top floor of the mansion for his personal use and that it was off limits to members of the Order unless he invited them. The order had free run of the first three floors of the mansion.

The group agreed with Dumbledore's theory that the final horcrux was the snake Nagini. Voldemort just had too much control over it even for a parseltongue. He did take Remus, Minerva and Mad Eye into the secret of the horcruxes. Harry told them that it was Dumbledore's request that Harry's group search and destroy them. Minerva collaborated Harry's facts since she was told by Dumbledore of his imminent demise. In the meantime, the group continued to hone their skills in one of the room Harry had expanded to use as training room.

The day of Harry's birthday, the ministry fell. The minister of magic was murdered in his home by Voldemort himself and a special message was left on the wall of the minister's bedroom for Harry, written in blood. "Happy seventeenth birthday, Harry. I will be coming for you." The department heads with the exemption of Arthur Weasley were killed that same night since the Weasleys were in Grimmauld. The ministry building was taken over by the DEs so the remaining light sided ministry employees destroyed critical parts of the ministry. The floo system's main wardstone and its alternate were stolen along with the self-updating list of witches and wizards living in the UK and their blood status. The magical trackers used to monitor spells by the ministry were destroyed so Voldemort cannot track down where witches and wizards are.

The downfall of the Ministry of Magic started a mass exodus of refugees relocating abroad or to the safety within the walls of Hogwarts. The three unused wings of the castle were quickly cleaned up by Harry's elves. The professors along with the aurors and other capable individuals expanded all the available rooms for occupancy. Harry was glad for the help of his elves and the stockpiles of food and drinks in his trunk. When the elves were questioned where they came from, the elves simply and honestly replied that they were friends of the Hogwarts elves who had nothing to do. Harry's elves were easily distinguishable since they all had gray shirts with black vests and pants. They were also very healthy since they had an overabundance of food in the trunk.

As it was inevitable, Harry took McGonagall aside, and after taking her oath of secrecy on her magic, to tell her that he was the heir of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. He told her that he would be activating the intent wards of Hogwarts. Anyone who has evil intentions against the students and Hogwarts castle along with any of its resident will be stunned once they entered the wards. A large sign stating this was posted on the edge of the wards where the entrance was. Anyone stunned will be taken to the dungeons for questioning.

The state of affairs in Britain continued in this vein until Halloween. On the evening of October 31, giants and werewolves were sighted the by scouts on brooms. When Harry found out about it, he asked Minerva to withdraw all students and refugees to stay within the walls of the castle. Once the scouts returned, he will be putting the wards on their maximum defensive setting and he will also be activating the secret offensive wards of the school that has never been used before.

Once the people were all inside the school, Harry activated the wards. A huge dome went up over the whole castle and seven huge enchanted stone dragons each easily the size of a fifteen story building rose from the Black lake. The dozens of stone gargoyles that decorated the castle came alive along with about a hundred suits of armors within the castle itself. The gargoyles flew to the walls surrounding Hogwarts and suits of armor patrolled the grounds of the castle in teams of ten.

All those who wished to fight voluntarily were told to assemble in the great hall while those who will not and cannot fight were escorted by Harry's elves to the cavernous chamber of secrets that was cleaned and prepared for this eventuality by Harry's elves. The warding and password to the chamber was changed by Harry with Salazar's blessing. It had stockpiles of food, drinks and medicine to last a month and it also had an exit which led to the mountains outside Hogwarts. There were hundreds of portkeys waiting for them there to take them to various places around the world in the event that Voldemort won.

Harry's group all wore their basilisk skin armor while the elves passed out dragon hide vests to te volunteers. Harry spent a fortune buying these vest from suppliers outside Britain. Luckily, the elves had a lot of galleons stored from selling their products. Harry only used a tiny fraction of his liquid assets to provide the fighters with the vests and emergency potion kit filled with pepper up, blood replenishing and pain killing potions along with burn had about two hundred pairs of vests and kits available. The fighters all got equipped and there were still about thirty left. The volunteers were a bit more confident now since they had some sort of physical protection. They were asked to wear the vests under jackets or sweaters to give the fighters some form of surprise. He only asked that these vests be returned if they won. He planned on giving these vests to the aurors and hit wizards after the war.

Harry discussed the use of muggle guns and explosives secretly with the founders. He wanted every possible advantage against a numerically superior enemy. The founders all agreed with Harry's logic. They also used muggle weapons in their time though it was just swords, daggers and archery. Harry did not discuss it with the others because he knew there might be some backlash from the more conservative leaning wizards. He also knew that Ginny, Neville, and Ron viewed muggle weaponry with distrust.

Harry's group all had a sword and a dagger and each had a sawed off shotgun strapped to their back. Harry took Dumbledore's idea of using a handgun against the Nazi's and Grindewald a bit further with the shotguns. The shotguns all had runes to keep them silent, accurate and devastating even at a great distance and to stop them from overheating. It had self-duplicating shells that are especially made to kill elephants. Each shell had a few silver pellets mixed in to be very debilitating for werewolves. Each shotgun was charmed to minimize the recoil and also had cushioning charms on the butts to further protect the user. This will be their main weapon for werewolves and giants with the swords and daggers for closed in fights. Harry also gave about twenty of the muggleborns and half-bloods a shotgun each. He and Hermione trained them secretly in a spare room he expanded and transfigured into a shooting range. They learned easily since the shotguns had runes which help guide the shots.

Harry had the elves plant remotely triggered anti-personnel land mines and claymores with silver metal balls inside using disillusion charms near the entrance of the castle. Harry shadow travelled alone to the top of the wall where the main gate stood in his invisibility cloak and waited for the giants, werewolves and death eaters to arrive.

Once the enemies were all crowded and in range near the main gate, he triggered the explosives. The silver metal balls from the claymores and the explosives from the land mines wreaked hell on the enemy formations. Almost half of six hundred strong enemy contingents died instantly. All the giants caught in the explosions were bleeding profusely while many of the werewolves were writhing in pain from the wounds caused by the silver metal balls. He mentally ordered the enchanted dragons to attack along with the gargoyles.

While the dragons and gargoyles were resistant to spells and physical attacks, they still went down after some time but they took many enemies with them. They were primarily used by Harry and his group as distractions.

After the huge explosion, he sent a patronus to Hermione to tell them to get to the wall above the main gate along with the other defenders with the shotguns. The wards of the castle shielded them so they took their time to aim their shots at the eyes, mouths, and throats of the giants. The enemy was distracted by the dragons and gargoyles so they did not notice the giants and werewolves' dying one by one until it was too late.

Harry felt an enormous buildup of power coming from the back of the enemy formation. He immediately asked the others to withdraw since he knew it was Voldemort. Just as the last wall defender flew away on his broom, the sky darkened quickly and one by one lightning bolts began to hammer the dome. Harry knew the dome could only take so much damage so he travelled by shadow to the wardstone to check it. The huge crystal was glowing bright from the strain the lightning bolts and assorted curses. He was advised by the founders from a painting within the room to drop the dome or it will collapse all the wards of the castle including the wards protecting the walls of the castle itself which they would need later against physical assault. He informed Minerva, Mad Eye and Remus who was coordinating the defense from the great hall of the situation before he collapsed the dome. He also gave orders to the suits of armor through the wards to go outside to the castle grounds to prepare for incoming assault troops. After collapsing the dome, he went to the back of the great hall under his cloak to join the defenders.

Dementors were the first wave of attackers. Harry and those who can cast patroni went out to meet them. After casting his patronus, he concentrated on his magic and drew Gryffindor's sword. He was told by Godric that it can physically harm a dementor. He charged the nearest dementor to test this. He was able to decapitate it. He did this a few times before he was able to meet the leader of the dementors. After he killed the dementor captain, the other soul eating monsters fled from the battle. This victory was short-lived since the werewolves and few remaining giants were now appearing on the horizon. Harry rested for a few minutes to conserve his strength and magic since he knew that he still had to face Voldemort later. After the brief respite, he rejoined the defenders. There were now about two hundred werewolves, a hundred fifty masked DEs and about thirty giants. They targeted the giants first.

From the forest, a hail of arrows greeted the werewolves. On Helga's advice, Harry gave to the centaurs about thousand arrow heads coated in silver. He did not ask them to join in defending Hogwarts. He gave it to the centaurs to defend themselves since they did not wish to evacuate. Harry thanked the stars for whatever made the stubborn centaurs change their minds.

The giants slowly fell one by one to the shotguns. It had to be targeted on the soft spots or it would just damage the hard skin a little. Concentrated fire by teams of five did produce better results. As the battle went under way in earnest, the wards Harry placed on Dumbledore's tomb alerted him to people attempting breech it. Harry told his group and Minerva of this so they can have it checked by the spotters on the Astronomy tower. The frightened response was that it was Voldemort with about twenty DEs and a huge snake.

This was the opportunity Harry was looking for. Harry asked Neville and Ron to sneak under their own invisibility cloak and try to get the snake alone and kill it. Harry, Hermione, Luna and Ginny along with her older brothers and a few experienced order members would try and distract the DEs and Voldemort.

Harry and company began the battle with overpowered blasting curses which took out about five of Voldemort's followers. The defenders of Hogwarts took cover behind the low walls that surrounded the graveyard. Harry engaged Voldemort in a battle of words for a few minutes while the grave robbers traded shots with the defenders. After some time, the DEs were ordered to charge and engage the defenders in a pitched battle while Voldemort and Harry dueled one on one.

The DEs and the defenders had to take cover in the middle of their own fights because of the amount of magic the two titans were unleashing. It was just the kind of battle the defenders were hoping their champion can give Voldemort. The dark lord was extremely surprised and perturbed at the power and skill his younger opponent was showing. Harry used both his wand and Gryffindor's sword in the fight. Charms, curses and transfiguration were flying from the two mages. Harry was on the defensive since he did not wish to use up his reserves until Nagini was dead. His chance came when a loud explosion from the area near Voldemort's rear. Voldemort was distracted so Harry was able to get near Voldemort and slice off his wand. Voldemort gave off a scream and banished Harry wandlessly. Harry was praising his physical training and armor since he was able to shrug off the overpowered banishing spell with just a sore left side. As Harry stood up, to return to battle, he saw Voldemort smile and draw the Elder Wand from his robes. Voldemort's smile became a puzzled from when he noticed that his spells were not more powerful than his yew wand. Harry smiled inwardly and doubled his efforts to defeat Voldemort.

At this time, both sides of the battle have stopped fighting and were watching the battle of the titans, each side well aware that the war's outcome no longer rested on themselves but on the two mages fighting for supremacy.

The battle ended with a something many still remember. Harry got close to Voldemort and once more their spells collided, just like the time in the graveyard after Voldemort's rebirth. This time the spell easily moved towards Voldemort's wand since it would not contest its master's will. The wand instead drained Voldemort's power. Harry smirked when he saw Voldemort's expression. Voldemort pressed his right thumb over his Dark Mark on his left forearm. One by one, his death eaters fell dead because Voldemort drained their life and magic to sustain him. Harry then experienced pain unlike any he had experienced before. His magical core was expanding very quickly to accommodate the raw magical power he was receiving. It was a good thing that Voldemort's wand hand exploded when it did from channeling too much magic since it was having trouble expanding to match the power he was receiving.

Harry staggered to his feet; he did not notice that he was down on his knees from the pain. He saw that all the death eaters were dead and Voldemort was lying down on a pool of his own black blood. Harry walks painfully to Voldemort and beheaded him. The evil that plagued him for all his life had ended.

Harry collapsed after this. He was taken by Dobby and Winky to the hospital wing. Madame Pomfrey immediately cast diagnostic charms and determined that Harry was in a magically induced coma to let his body get used to the size of his enormous magical core. Harry's group immediately went to him to guard him while he recovered. The order and the aurors along with the volunteers were busy getting the wounded help from healers. The werewolves immediately surrendered after they transformed back to their human form since the magic cast by Voldemort to force their transformation fizzled upon his death.

When Dobby was invisibly guarding his master, he heard that healers from St. Mungo's were pressuring Poppy to have him transferred to their care so they can run more invasive tests on Harry since Harry was now safe to transport and was now only in a very deep sleep to recover from magical and physical exhaustion, Dobby took hold of Harry and brought him to the trunk since he did not trust the people from St. Mungo's.

The healers and mediwitches along with the mediwizards were in a panic since Harry Potter disappeared. When Hermione learned of this, she immediately called for Dobby and Winky. She was told what the elf Dobby heard and his instructions from his master. He was to be left in Poppy's care and if he was safe to be transported and heal on his own without the need for monitoring, he wanted to be transported to his secret room. The elves were not to reveal the existence of the trunk under any circumstances. Hermione then relayed this information to McGonagall, Remus and Moody. They then rounded on the group of healers from St. Mungo's to take care of the other people injured and leave Harry Potter alone.

Harry woke up with mild aches on his body from a week and a half of bed rest. He immediately went to the bathroom to relieve himself. He asked for a soup and some hot tea to eat. After eating he asked the elves where the trunk was along with his wand, sword and other belongings. He was told the sword and other weapons have been cleaned and in the armory while his wands, a ring, his wallet and money pouch along with his cloak were in a drawer of his bedside table.

"Excuse me Dobby, what do you mean wands? I only have one wand. And what ring are you talking about?"

"Yous only haves one wand befores, master. Old whisker's wand and Tommy's wand also appeared when I tooks yous here along with the ring of old whiskers. Your cloak was in your pockets, Master Harry Potter Sir!"

"Oh. Okay, thanks Dobby."

Dobby bowed and popped away. Harry was a bit hesitant to open the drawer. He saw Voldemort's wand which has been repaired along with his holly wand and the Elder wand. The Resurrection stone was also there with his Invisibility cloak. When he reached out for his holly wand, the ring appeared on his ring finger while the Elder wand appeared on his wand. His cloak fastened itself to him then the three Deathly Hallows slowly dissolved into nothing. He felt a strange sensation from under his right bicep where he saw a mark about the size of his thumb. The mark was white with a line bisecting a circle surrounded by a triangle. The same mark he saw on Dumbledore's book about the Deathly Hallows. The mark began to dissolve into nothing. Harry went to a mirror to double check but he can't find it anymore.

He consulted with the portraits of the founders in his study. They suggested that he will the hallows to appear. The wand and cloak refused to appear but when he summoned the ring, only the black stone appeared on his palm. He willed it to disappear and it did. He did this a few times with the same results. The founders asked him to will himself invisible. On the third try, he felt the strange sensation again under his bicep. The mark was back but when he willed himself to be visible, it disappeared again. He tried using his magic without a wand. He tried to levitate a book and it went straight up to the ceiling with a loud thud. He tried it again with lesser power than he usually did without a wand. It still went up to the ceiling with a small thud. He tried again and again until he got it. It seems the power he absorbed from Voldemort and his followers is permanent. He thought it was just a temporary boost. He engaged the time dilation controls to have more time to figure things out.

He rested for a few more days before diving back in to training himself to control his new found powers. When he meditated on locating his magical core, he was still found it easily but he was boggled by the change he saw. His core which was a sphere of about twenty four inch in diameter was now as big as Hagrid! It still had the same color which was white, gold and silver but it was just very big. Harry had to spend about six more months in time compression before he was able to completely get his magic under the same amount of control as before. He never had to use a wand again aside from the very difficult healing spells which required a very precise wand movement. He made sure he was completely in control before he went outside the trunk. It was almost five AM when he first woke up from his deep slumber after defeating Voldemort. It was now almost noon. Harry smiled and willed himself invisible then he shadow travelled to the room beside the great hall which they used back in his fourth year after his name was called in the Triwizard Tournament. He was expecting that most of the crowds were gone since it has been a week and a half but the hall was still full of people. Harry tried to walk unnoticed to where he saw his friends eating but a loud shout of "Look! It's the Man Who Conquered!" was heard. A lot of shouted how are yous and thank you for killing He Who Must Not Be Named was heard throughout the great hall. He immediately cast a sonorus on himself and told the masses that their thanks are appreciated and that they should all go back eating since he slept for almost two weeks and he was very hungry. The crowd laughed and parted for him. His friends made room for him and let him eat for a bit before asking him what happened. He told them that he has just woken up and went straight here to eat. He will go to Poppy directly after the meal to have himself checked but he quietly told them that he checked himself out and he was fine just a bit overslept. Hermione just nodded silently along with the rest of his group since they were in a public place. They would question him later after his checkup.

Poppy was glad he was up and about. He got a clean bill of health but Poppy asked him to consent to be monitored for the next twenty four hours just to be sure. He agreed if he can be placed in a private room since there were too many well-wishers that he wanted to hide from. Beside the visitors will just disturb the real patients. Poppy agreed to his request so he asked the group to follow him.

Minerva, Remus and Moody joined them along with Kingsley who was the temporary wartime minister of magic in Hogwarts. He was asked to resign during Harry's coma by the Wizengamot. The supposed reason was so that an election can be held to determine a new minister. However, since the purebloods still have control of the Wizengamot, a man named Archibald Wallace.

After asking how Harry was doing with his recovery, Kingsley began to discuss recent events.

"Harry, the purebloods have been quickly amassing positive press to further their agenda and the sheep that is the wizarding public are eating it up. Five minutes after I was forced to resign, they elected a very pro pureblood minister. The new minister Waltham is just as bad as Fudge but smarter. He sent all those marked DEs we captured and seized their assets for the ministry. The new administration also quietly held secret trials to throw in the moderate purebloods not in their power bloc to the veil of death by saying they were secret collaborators to Voldemort. However those like Umbridge who are staunchly pro-pureblood are getting away with the old imperius defense which they can pass off since they are unmarked even though they were the ones in charge of the concentration camps for non-purebloods," said Kingsley.

"The only ones they haven't forced into the veil are the ones who fought with us against Voldemort. However I have been hearing whispers saying that they are going to be forced to resign like Kingsley by using blackmail and feeding rumors to the media saying they were just turn coats who sided with us when they saw Voldemort was losing," commented McGonagall.

"They are even now pushing more legislation to force werewolves like me to into registering. They claim these laws are for the protection of the public. The giants who did not participate in Voldemort's plans were exiled to other countries. It is very scary since they running very efficiently. It has only been a few days after the end o the war but they have steam rolled all these into force already," said Remus.

"My dad is also hearing some pretty insidious rumors about you Harry. They are saying that they are grateful to the things you have done but they are very concerned about the deaths of many pureblood family heads. They are saying that you drained the DEs o their powers on purpose and that you are going to be the next dark lord. They say that you were only fighting Voldemort to eliminate your competition and that since he's dead, you'll try and move in to replace Voldemort, said Ginny in disbelief."

"They want us six to appear this weekend to submit to an inquiry on how we were able to defeat Voldemort even though we are very young. They say that since I am muggleborn, I must have been stealing magic like you to become powerful since muggleborns should not have been able to defeat those of pureblood," cried Hermione.

"They are lauding Ginny, Ron, and myself as good purebloods doing their duty and that this inquiry is just to extoll us three and to vilify you Harry, along with Luna and Hermione. I am sorry Remus but they also plan to crucify you for being a spy of Voldemort," stated Neville sadly.

"My dad said Umbridge might be the one leading the inquiry and questioning. They said they have a source that will prove their claims," Luna added.

"I believe that we should not go to this hearing. We are being set up," said Harry.

"You might not have a choice. They have been playing up this inquiry as a chance to hear your story. Since the public are also clamoring for gossip, they all want it to happen too. The press, meaning Rita Skeeter, has undoubtedly been fed stories and the opinion section of the papers are saying that if your group don't show up, then you are hiding things," Kingsley informed them sadly.

Harry told them he needed time to consider a few things. He signaled Hermione and the others to follow but Ron said he was going to the kitchens to eat. All these bad news was making him hungry. The group just nodded their acceptance. They were used to Ron's behavior regarding problems.

When the group reached the RoR, they discussed what they plan to do. They were going to go along with the inquiry but they were going to be prepared for contingencies in case it turns out badly. Harry told them to pack whatever valuables they need. He asked them to wear their back up portkeys and wear their basilisk armors. He gave them small moleskin coin bag that has unlimited storage. He gave Ginny the one for Ron. He also told them that he was going to Gringott's to do a few things.

When he arrived in Gringott's he went to his account manager. He asked for a meeting with Ragnok. He told the goblin king what he thinks might happen on Friday at the inquiry. He asked them to procure passports and other legal identities and a set of false papers for Hermione, Luna, Ginny, Neville, and Ron along with Remus, Tonks and all their families. He also asked that trust funds for these people be set up in the Salem branch of Gringott's for one hundred thousand US dollars and another hundred thousand galleons. He also asked for all the contents of his vaults to be transferred there but to leave one hundred thousand galleons in his account here in Gringott's London. He explained to Ragnok that he had complete confidence in Gringott's but he did not want the goblins to be blamed by the pureblood idiots if they have to escape. They both know that the next step the ministry will take is to seize their assets. He also asked that the land and other properties be sold immediately to a foreign corporation called the Porter Real Estate Company Ltd. He would of course own this corporation under his alias as Henry Porter. He doubted that the purebloods would even get the obvious connection. Ragnok agreed to his requests and wished him luck.

Harry went back to Hogwarts and told the others that he was prepared for the event that they might be branded as the new dark lord and his inner circle as he laughingly called them. He just asked them to be ready with their portkeys or to grab Fawkes if necessary. Fawkes has taken to hanging around his fellow phoenix since the death of Dumbledore.

Friday morning came. Those called to testify in the inquiry were sent an invitation Wednesday evening. Harry, Luna, Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Ron along with Remus Lupin each received one that instructed them to be in the main Court Room at two o' clock pm. They all ate their lunch in Grimmauld place. The rest of the Weasley, the Grangers, Luna's dad and Neville's gran along with the Tonkses were all prepared. Neville's parents have passed away long before Voldemort regained his body. They had brought their most prized possessions and some spare clothes in shrunken trunks they carried with them. They had asked their loved ones to remain in Headquarters. Only Mr. Weasley and Mr. Lovegood will go since Arthur Weasley had to report to his ministry job and Xeno Lovegood had to get the news for his paper. Both men do have an assigned elf, Dobby and the reformed Kreacher, to transport them if their portkeys did not work.

They were all trying their best to be cheerful and positive but there was a cloud of foreboding that dogged their thoughts. The group picked at their food with the exemption of Ron. The quit luncheon was soon over and they retired to their own rooms to prepare. The group wore their basilisk armor under their finest formal robes. Remus, Arthur and Xeno wore dragon hide vests, pants and boots under their robes. They all left the mansion in one expanded ministry car that Kingsley secured for them.

Once they got to the Ministry, they were asked to surrender their wands. They did so willingly. The wands they surrendered were real wands made from the same wood and core that made up their wands. Their real wands were left with Winky who was secretly following the group. The group was all seated in a row that faced the audience. Percy Weasley gave a meaningful glance at Ron while shaking his brother's hand. Percy pointedly ignored his sister and the others. They all saw Umbridge smirk nastily at this.

Each of them was asked to answer the questions individually on a separate raised podium. The questions were as they anticipated, phrased in such a way that it paints a picture that the ministry wanted. When the group requested veritaserum to be used, they were denied reasoning that this was not a trial but only inquiry. They were also denied the use of a wand to swear oaths that what they will be saying is the truth. The stated reason being that if they truly believed what they are saying even if they were wrong, their oaths would not work properly. After the group along with Remus were questioned, the ministry representatives asked Ron to start his turn on the podium. Ron smirked at Harry before going to the platform. Umbridge took over from the ministry representative to ask Ron his questions.

Ron betrayed the group. He said Harry coerced him and Ginny to serve him as their new dark lord. He told the audience that the mudblood Granger and Potter along with Looney Lovegood masterminded the draining of Voldemort's followers and that Neville Longbottom was also a conspirator since he wanted revenge on those who tortured his parents. Granger, Lovegood, and Longbottom also wanted revenge for being ridiculed during their time in Hogwarts. He also went on to say that when Ginny and he wanted to back out, they were crucio'ed and then placed by Potter under the imperius curse. His sister was still under Potter's influence buy he got out with help from Percy and Umbridge. He also said Potter and Granger used muggle weapons to kill proper purebloods like him.

The crowd, already a bit leery of Harry because of the brutal way he dealt with the invaders, was reminded of the weapons that caused such destruction. They were also shocked at one of Harry's acknowledged best friend's revelations. Since it was his friend who confirmed the rumors, it must be true. This inquiry was going out live on the wizarding wireless. The audience who were really specifically chosen from pureblood families exclaimed their outrage and wanted the group arrested.

The group knew that they had to act fast so Harry unobtrusively gave a signal to the still invisible Winky to discretely distribute their wands. He whispered to them that he wanted them all to use shields and stunners only and that he wanted them all to trigger their portkeys now. However, the portkeys didn't work so he called on Fawkes to transport the others. Harry would cover their escape. He also signaled Dobby and Kreacher to get their charges to safety. Harry stood up and interrupted the testimony of Ron by first producing his wand and making an oath that the group has said was the truth and that Ron lied. He then produced a very strong golden translucent shield to cover the group who were flashed away by Fawkes after a short sad song. The aurors tried to disarm and arrest Harry but he just created the same shield on himself which reflected their spells back at them. Umbridge and the new minister were shouting at the aurors to kill Harry. Harry was waiting for this so he created a thick marble wall to take cover. He also summoned Umbridge to him and forcibly used legilimens on her. Her weak shields had no hope of stopping Harry. He learned what he can of the ministry's plans without turning Umbridge's so called brain into mush. He called Fawkes to get him after this.

All of this was broadcasted live on the wireless.

When Harry arrived in Grimmauld, he talked to the parents and brothers of Ron and Ginny. He told them that he did not blame them for the betrayal of their teo sons but he needed to know what they plan to do by tonight. He also told them that he was quite willing to undergo veritaserum questioning by them to prove him. He said he can get them settled out of the country or he can leave them all money so they can hide by themselves. He was willing to let them live in Grimmauld place indefinitely. As they were talking, he called on Dobby to get him the ledger which has a short list of names he allowed on the property. He deleted Ron's and Percy's names. He then left the hysterical Molly Weasley to go to the rest of the group and their families. He gave them the same choices and the same deadline. They immediately chose to leave Britain forever. Neville and Xeno both requested to visit Gringott's to have their family vaults transferred to the Salem branch. Harry told them to wait for Fawkes and he will bring them to the bank. Both wore their hoods up before being flashed by Fawkes. Harry told them to rest for a bit while he called for the private Boeing 747 plane he chartered for this possibility. They were going by muggle means to lessen the possibility of being tracked. He also got the huge luxurious plane so that the passengers can relax as much as possible for the trip. He booked the reservations under an alias of Edmond Dantes. He would just confound the pilot and stewards after they landed to show that Dantes was the only passenger on the charter. Neville and Xeno's business in the bank went off without a hitch since Harry mentioned the possibility to Ragnok so the transactions were fast tracked. He told them he had all their legal and alternate legal identities along with papers for each persona with him and that he will distribute it once they have boarded the plane.

The Weasley parents told Harry that they would like to stay in the headquarters. They receive some galleons and pounds which Harry insisted they take. He also left them reusable portkeys to a small home the Blacks owned on a beach in Brighton. Harry asked Kreacher to stay and look after them.

Fleur along with the girlfriends of Fred and George, Katie Bell and Angelina Johnson, would also like to come with them and they are asking Harry's assistance with their escape from Britain. Alicia Spinet and her family was not able to escape the prosecution of Voldemort. They died in one of the camps. It was not that hard to help them since only Katie's older brother Howard and Angelina's older sister Andrea remained from their families. Fleur on the other hand had her sister Gabrielle along with both her parents Francois and Appoline. They could flee back to France but they had wanted stay as a family even through Voldemort's short reign of terror. They have decided to join Fleur in fleeing to America. Both were healers so they can be useful. Katie's brother was a magical buildings contractor while Angelina's sister was a chef. He asked the goblins through a letter to provide two sets of identities for them along with the vault and dollars.

They should be able to fit in a residential building he had the goblins buy a few months ago in Boston the first two floors along with the basement would be used for any guests while the rest of the ten story building will be used as their temporary residence. Harry made a few changes to his plans since he had a wizard who specialized in constructing dwellings with them. He will plan on looking into buying some empty land to build a small enclave for the soon to be exiles.

The chartered plane left the country without any problems. The purebloods were a bit hesitant and Hermione was worried that they might experience some claustrophobia. It was soon laid to rest when they boarded the luxury plane. It was very roomy and plush that even the Grangers who are used to traveling in first class or business class found no room to complain. Hermione and her parents were bombarded by questions though about how it was able to fly with its huge bulk. Soon Harry gave out the identity papers for the passengers along with wallets and money purses connected to their new Gringott's accounts and what to expect when they deplaned. They discussed the living arrangements they would have when they reach Boston. A mini bus would transport them and their luggage to the brownstone apartment building. Harry asked that they refrain from using magic until they enter the new home. With the help of Hermione, they transfigured the robes of the wizards into comfortable clothes that can pass in the muggle world.

They reached the building with no problems. Harry immediately set about warding the home temporarily extending the wards of his trunk to cover the brownstone. Bill was surprised at the amount of time that it took Harry to ward the home. He just told him it was a Potter family secret. The guests chose their quarters but left the top floor for Harry to use. The women would have to shop for furniture tomorrow along with clothing and other necessities. For now, they all agreed to sleep on conjured beds by Harry and a relaxing bath. Harry had the elves put some food on the two big dining tables he conjured so they can all eat before the baths. He took aside Hermione and Emma Granger and asked them to be in charge of the group tomorrow. He also gave them each five thousand dollars cash and a black credit card from American Express connected to Gringott's.

After their respective baths and showers, Harry told Hermione, Luna, Ginny and Neville about some of what he saw in Umbridge's mind along with his plans. He saw that the ministry had people watching each of their residences which would then be burned down and then waiting for people to come out so they can be killed after resisting arrest. He also told him that on the morning after their deaths, their accounts in Gringott's would be seized. He was incensed at the way the Wizengamot did things. He told them that he will be offering each muggleborn and half-bloods like him an option for relocation to the United States along with interest free loans payable within twenty years for those who need money. He did ask the goblins to ask for oaths of secrecy before extending this offer and to keep his name out of the transactions though his money would be the one used. He also plans to shut down Hogwarts. He was the only heir left and he has claimed Voldemort's shares in Hogwarts. He will be using the money and valuables the goblins found in Voldemort's accounts to finance the relocation and loans he discussed earlier. He plans on visiting McGonagall in the coming week to tell her this. Harry would still employ the teachers in secret and let them live in Hogwarts if they wish, he only asks that they inform the incoming first years of the current situation under glamours and give them options on how to get education abroad. He would basically cripple the wizarding government of Britain. He would stop supplying food to them. True, it would cause terribly harsh collateral damage to the public. However, this was the only available option for Harry to avoid violence.

Hermione suggested that Harry use the teachers of Hogwarts to create a new school outside the jurisdiction of the Ministry. Harry told her that he would consider it but it would be on a back burner for now since it would require the permission of the government in charge of the location.

He told the group that he plans to leave Britain behind if there are no changes. The people have to do this for themselves. He had already done his part and he was done looking out for them. He would help as an individual but he would not be their personal savior whenever there's a problem.

After establishing their new home temporarily, he talked to the goblins about finding a large enough location on the outskirts of the city big enough to support several homes of modest size. He found a twenty acre tract of land about two hours by car from Boston. He put Katie's brother in charge of designing twenty homes about half a mile from the main highway. Hermione would be the one who provided Kevin with the money he needs while the elves would help him with the construction. The occupants of the brownstone

residence would give them their inputs on how they wanted their homes built. Harry told him that he wanted a simple three bedroom home for himself. One toilet and bath upstairs and downstairs along with a toilet and bath for the master's bedroom. He also specified a dine in kitchen along with a small library cum study and a sitting room for guests. He also wanted a two car garage and a basement for potions and alchemy. He proposed a communal gym with a heated pool for the residents of the enclave.

Bill who would begin work with the Salem branch of Gringott's after a month was make few ward schemes with the help of Neville and Luna who focused on Wards as one of their specific expertise.

Ginny and Gabrielle were spending time with Fleur since Bill's wife was three months pregnant. They were busy designing the baby's room.

The exiles received confirmation of the intelligence Harry got from Umbridge. All their main homes in England were burned down. There were now warrants for their arrests and Harry was not surprised that he was again undesirable number one. Mr. Weasley was terminated from his job by Undersecretary Percival Weasley. The main office of the Quibbler was also burned down. Mr. Lovegood had already removed his enchanted printing press from the UK so it was not a big loss. Has already started his magazine again in the US and hopes to find more readers here. Hogwarts is under close scrutiny by the Ministry and they had a representative there to keep them informed. Luckily Umbridge was not reappointed inquisitor. He got these reports from various sources. He and his group were being slandered by the Daily Prophet continuously.

During their second month in Boston, Harry received word from the goblins that they have been approached by the American Department of Magic that the Americans wanted to speak with Harry and his group. Harry and Neville along with Bill went to Salem and met the representatives there. They were told that they were welcome in the US and that full citizenship can be given to them and other refugees from England. Harry just needed to inform them of the identities so they can keep track. Only the minister and the head for international affairs would have access to the list. He found out that the International Confederation of Wizards planned to impose sanctions on UK due to the maltreatment of magical beings there. France and the US were the main forces behind the sanctions. Neville and eventually Hermione also would be the main liaisons for the department and the refugees.

Five months after their arrival in Boston, they moved in to their new homes in the newly dubbed Harry's Landing, Harry got word that the trickle of muggleborns and their families along with the half-bloods have become a flood. Almost eighty percent of the British non purebloods have migrated abroad. Many took advantage of Harry's helping hand and obtained loans for their relocation. Most went to progressive countries like France and the US. They did not wish to suffer in the secretly being reinstated concentration camps like they did under Voldemort.

One morning a few months after they moved into Harry's Landing, Harry was awakened by Dobby. He reported that the Weasley children were there to see him. It was only five o' clock in the morning. It turns out that Mr. and Mrs. Weasley were captured in a secret meeting for an organization against the ministry. They were being held in a concentration camp for purebloods who did not want to cooperate with the ministry. The Weasleys in America wanted to rescue them by force if necessary. Harry told them to wait a day for intelligence on how the camp was guarded. He would go today to England to do some reconnaissance. They were welcome to stay in Grimmauld place while they waited. Harry chartered a smaller G-IV to bring them to England. The twins, Charlie, Bill and Ginny along with Neville, Luna and Hermione were to accompany them. Harry was going ahead of them. He flashed to Grimmauld then sent a letter to McGonagall to meet him in the Shrieking Shack. He waited a few minutes for McGonagall to read the letter then flashed there. He was told the location of the camp. The camp was patrolled by only ten aurors loyal to the ministry. It also housed the remaining muggleborns and half-bloods. The most important news was that the prisoners were being executed at sundown today which was in five hours. Harry thanked McGonagall then apparated to a few spots before flaming home to Grimmauld.

He thought about his options. He figured he can take on the ten aurors. He was going to release the worthy prisoners in a warehouse in the magical area of France. He donned his armors and the wore a cowl much like an Unspeakable did which obscured his face and voice. He flashed to the nearest land mark of the camp then flew in his phoenix form invisibly.

He was surprised that only basic wards encompassed the camp. He was expecting heavy wards in a prison camp filled with high value targets. It was almost like stealing candies from a baby. He had all the guards down in less than five minutes. He got his info from the warden on whom he used the telepathy taught to him by Salazar the founder developed in secret and rarely used since occlumency cannot defend against it. He planted very real images of ten green clad persons assaulting the camp. He also found a separate detachment of five guards in a barracks. He also stunned these guards. He found out that there were about a hundred prisoners being guarded here. He located the storage facility filled with valuables and money confiscated from the prisoners. He then used his special telepathy to check who among the prisoners were innocent. It turned out that he didn't need to waste his time on it since the prisoners were all innocent. He cast a wide area sleeping charm then transfigured them all into marbles. He timed it to transform back into their human forms after six hours. He separated the Weasleys from the others then packed all the valuables and gold into a moleskin bag then flashed to Grimmauld to reverse the transfiguration on the Weasleys then put them into stasis. He deposited the marbles and valuables into the warehouse in France then waited until thirty minutes before they transformed back to report it to the French aurors. He waited invisibly for the authorities to arrive. When he saw the prisoners being taken care of kindly, he went back to Grimmauld. He called Hermione in Harry's Landing to call off the rescue and explained to the group via speaker phone what happened. He then undid the stasis and checked the health of the Weasley parents. Aside from some bruising which Harry took care of, he woke them up. The reunion was a happy one and e was able to convince them to go back to the Landing with him. He chartered a G-IV for them that took off in two hours. He told Kreacher to come with them but the elf refused politely saying he wished to care for the mansion and to forward news to Master Harry.

The reunion of the Weasleys in the Landing was a very happy one. It was filled with tears of joy and laughter. They later learned that all the prisoners were granted asylum by France and the valuables and gold divided amongst them so they had a good sized nest egg while they recuperate. This marked the beginning of the end of the Ministry and Harry's stay on Earth.

Time passed by in a blur. Weeks turned in months as months turned it years. The exiles made new lives for themselves. Even though within first ten years of their stay in the Landing the ministry fell from their own fault. Their problems mounted and they fell upon each other like starving dogs. None of the purebloods knew how to work. They had gold but they did not know how the muggle world works. The goblins took all their gold as fines in perfectly legal transactions because in their arrogance they did not read the fine print. One by one they starved to death. The purebloods of Britain went down not with a bang but with a slow shuddering whimper.

As bad as the things became in England, the good things became even better in the Landing. It became the hub of a new bustling community from the muggleborns and half-bloods along with a smattering of forward thinking purebloods. Hermione's suggestion became a reality. The New Hogwarts School of Magic was started. Harry with the help of the founders shifted the enormous castle to his lands in the Landing. He bought the remaining hundred acres that surrounded his land and put Hogwarts there. It became the cornerstone upon which their new community sprang from. Many shops and even a Gringott's bank opened oh the area surrounding the school.

Neville with the help of his wife Luna became premier herbologists and naturalists. They purchased the other lands surrounding Hogwarts and then started growing a forest. They collected species of flora from the Forbidden Forest and started a new one there. In the past few years it became a refuge for the animals they relocated from the Forbidden Forrest. They called it New Eden. They made it into a business by giving tours to see the natural habitats of animals where they roamed freely and not caged in like a zoo. Nevile and Luna were blessed with two children.

Hermione found love with Howard Bell. She became a transfiguration teacher of New Hogwarts. Howard made a small construction firm into the biggest construction firm in the east coast. They have three children.

Ginny eventually joined the American quidditch league with the team Salem Sorcerers as their lead Chaser and married an American. They have one child.

George married Angelina and Fred married Katie. They reopened the Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes and were great commercial successes. They now have shops in Paris and in Tokyo. Fred had twin girls while George had twin boys. Both sets of twins were as wacky as their parents.

Bill and Fleur worked at the Gringott's branch at the Landing and eventually settled down to have a sweet girl named Victoire. She had both sets of grandparents wrapped in her little finger.

Harry tried to find love and happiness like his friends. However nothing lasted beyond a few months. He morphed his appearance to age like his friends but he just stopped aging at the age of twenty five. He became restless so after a few years of helping out in the Landing, he travelled the world. He learned a lot of esoteric magics in the places he visits. He makes the headlines every few years for his saving people thing. He eventually unlocked the secrets of Flamel's journals to create his own Stone. At first his friends all took the potions but after the additional lifetime, they refused to take it again. They all had a wonderful life but they felt it was time to move on. Once Harry buried the last of the exiles, he resumed his travels. He faded out of the people's consciousness but every so often, a very powerful wizard would appear to avert disaster or to defeat a would be dark lord. Dobby and Winky went with Harry on all his adventures. Their children were fully grown and had families of their own. When Winky was dying, they tried the elixir of life and it miraculously worked. The couple were very happy to extend their lives to accompany Harry.

The main purpose of Harry's travels was to learn how to end his immortality and keep himself from getting restless and bored. He even travelled the small world inside his trunk for a decade. He was able to narrow the cause for his immortality; it was his phoenix animagus form. He also found out the truth about the Hallows. It was indeed artifacts created by a personification of death but it dis not grant immortality. It would grant him eternal youth so he will be free to enjoy his life without the pains of growing old but he can still die of mortal wounds and other life ending situations.

He kept hoping for death to visit him but he or she never came for him. He sometimes thought he might have died from fighting dark lords or powerful monsters but he would wake up the next morning without even a scar. Even getting hit by an Avada Kedavras did not work. He has also learned a lot from his travels that very kittle excited him anymore. He was an expert in almost every single branch of magic. He also tried working various jobs in the muggle world. He was a dish washer, a chef, a plumber, a construction worker even trying out being a mechanic. He became a doctor for a few years then he tried out being a classical musician which did not work out. He was also an electrician, a veterinarian, a civil engineer. He also joined the American military for a few years as a Navy SEAL. He did not last too long there since he almost got outed as a wizard and he now learned to avoid spilling blood. He joined the Peace Corps as a volunteer teacher. He loved that part of his life. He also became a sword maker in Japan. He became fluent in about twenty languages.

Finally the founders took pity on him and told him how to travel to a different dimension but he can never travel back to earth. The founders knew that being immortal simply wasn't what it was all cracked up to be and they knew this would be a balm to Harry's soul. They were only able to offer it to Harry since they had confirmed numerous times that he was indeed immortal. The ritual entails the sacrifice of one's immortality. He would lose the phoenix as his form. The founders did not know if he would be able to gain a new one after traveling to this new dimension. He would be able to keep his enormous list of powers and abilities along with the gift of the Hallows but he would lose the animal within him. Still he decided to go ahead with the ritual.

After a few months of preparation for what he might need on his journey, he called in all the elves of his trunk to let them know of the decision he made. He gave them a choice of remaining on earth and bonding with a family Harry will help them find or going with him on his next great adventure. The elves of his trunk fluctuated from as low as a fifty to as high as one hundred.

They were a species who were extremely long lived that sometimes reached as old as three hundred. However, they were not a species who easily multiplied. A couple usually only had two children in their long life time. This was the reason not every wizarding home had an elf. The elves in the trunk numbered at fifty six at the time. Thirty eight of them decided to stay while the others chose to be bonded to new families. These elves who stayed were the children of the elves Harry and Dobby found in stasis. They were very happy with Harry and they had plenty of work to do in the trunk.

Harry found nice families for the other elves while he travelled to pick up supplies. He also made a trip to Gringott's to see Ragnok's son, Silverfist for help in distributing his wealth. The descendants of his friends and co exiles received substantial amounts of galleons. The rest he left in a trust called the Potter Black Foundation. He established the foundation so that his ancestor's names would live on even though he "passed on" since he did not have any blood heirs. This foundation would manage Hogwarts and the lands surrounding it. He asked Silverfist to oversee it for him and to appoint a wizard employee of Gringott's to manage the day to day operations. He also begged Silverfist to have his descendants do the same. Silverfist studied the friend of his father for a minute then he agreed. It was a foundation which worked for the good of all magicals. Orphanages, free healthcare, free wolfsbane for werewolves, sanctuaries for sentient magical beings, these things were good things that benefited all plus it will be a press relations coup for goblins.

Of course Harry took a small part of his possessions with him. He bought plenty of things from books, brooms, potions, medicine to food, weapons, and raw materials.

He left the earth on the year 2474.

Time Dilation Equivalents

1 hr : 1 mo

12 hrs : 1 year

120 hrs : 10 years

240 hrs : 20 years