Regulus Black
by Healer Teddylonglong

All recognizable characters belong to J. K. Rowling, and I am not earning anything by writing this story.
I am not a native speaker of English. Please excuse my mistakes.

COMPLETELY AU! Partly OOC.

It is my story, and I intend to write it the way I want it. If you don't like it, don't read it.
Reviews are very welcome, as they inspire my muse. Thank you so much for the kind comments on the previous chapter!

Apart from the wizards and witches in the Unspeakable robes, students and adults were unaware of the fact that Voldemort and his Death Eaters were on their way to the castle.

Snape was the first who entered the Great Hall, however, not dressed in his Death Eater garment but in his usual teaching robes, for which he had been famous before his arrest just a year ago. Therefore, barely anyone except for the Unspeakables, Mini Unspeakables and the headmaster paid attention to the wizard, who was in fact just a distraction allowing a group of Death Eaters to follow into the Great Hall and swiftly begin to attack.

"First and second years follow me," Harry shouted, as he rose from his chair, and all younger students quickly followed him, when he led them into the antechamber. "Remain here and put up your shields," he instructed them, before he returned to the Great Hall to face the Death Eaters.

'Mini Unspeakables, you concentrate on Voldemort,' he received a telepathic instruction from Croaker and looked around, sending back an 'All right', when he spotted his nemesis near the entrance door to the Great Hall.

He quickly walked by the Hufflepuff table to find his friends, before he led them towards the back of the Great Hall. Realising that Voldemort seemed to be looking for something, probably himself, he said, "Hi Tom," before he attacked the older wizard with a series of Japanese spells. "Honeori," he cast, silently, while dodging a killing curse that was aimed at him, causing all bones to vanish from the evil wizard's body.

At the same time, Susan whispered, 'Medori,' making Voldemort's eyes vanish from his face.

Unable to see let alone stand anymore, Voldemort blindly fired killing curses from where he had collapsed on the ground, however, the adult Unspeakables managed to put a huge shield up in front of the Mini Unspeakables, and a few seconds later, Harry cast, "Voldiyaki," causing Voldemort's body to erupt in flames.

A small pile of ash along with a wand with phoenix core was all that remained from the evil wizard.

'Let's help the others,' Harry thought to his friends, and the Mini Unspeakables turned around to assist teachers and students fight the remaining five Death Eaters.

Snape was the last of the Death Eaters to remain, and Harry shooed his friends out of the way before standing in front of the Potions Master.

"It's all your own fault," he spat and was just about to cast "Snapeyaki", when he changed his mind and wandlessly cast a silent stunning spell, just as he dodged another killing curse. Contentedly realising that Snape succumbed to the stunning spell, he let himself sink onto the ground. 'It's done,' he thought, just when another realisation set in. 'I'm a murderer. I killed someone, even if it wasn't by the killing curse.'

Barely realising that the adult Unspeakables sent the captured or dead Death Eaters away with Portkeys and that all around him a party was on its way to begin, he remained on the floor, sobbing.

"Harry!" Susan was the first to reach him. She pulled him into a bear's hug. "You did it. You vanquished Voldemort," she said with apparent enthusiasm. "Congratulations Harry. The war is over now."

"Thank Merlin," Harry replied in a small voice, before blurting out, "but I'm a murderer, Susan. I killed him."

"I know," she said in a soothing voice, "but you did it to save all of us from him, from a monster, and everyone is very grateful and happy now."

"Exactly," Raros spoke up, holding out a hand to pull Harry up from the ground. "Come on kids, it's party time."

HP

By the time Raros observed how Harry followed Susan to the Hufflepuff table, the house-elves had cleared the Great Hall from all evidence of the fight, Professor McGonagall had called the first and second years back into the Great Hall, and dinner had popped up on the tables anew. Raros once more took his seat at the head table.

However, before they could go back to their dinner, Dumbledore rose from his seat. "Thank you all very much for fighting for each other, for all of us and for our school. Thanks to you all, all the Death Eaters have been captured, Voldemort is dead, and no one from our side was hurt badly. There were only minor injuries, which Madam Pomfrey could all heal in the meantime."

He still looked as if he wanted to say something else, when the door to the Great Hall opened and Minister Weasley stepped in, closely followed by Amelia and Sirius.

"Minister, Amelia, Sirius," Dumbledore greeted the visitors in apparent surprise.

"We heard that a party was going on here, and we decided to join," the Minister spoke up. "I also wish to award the Order of Merlin first class to Unspeakable Raros and Mini Unspeakable Thor, also known under the name Harry Potter." He motioned Harry and Raros to step forward and handed both of them a medal. "The magical world owes you, Raros, for saving Hogwarts from a disaster and you, Harry, for vanquishing Voldemort. Thank you both very much."

Dumbledore offered Amelia, Sirius and the Minister seats at the high table, before he announced, "In addition, I wish to offer the Order of Hogwarts to two Mini Unspeakables. I'm not sure, but I assume that it was the Weasley twins, who managed to distract the Death Eaters by their joke products to allow our students and teachers to efficiently defeat them. Thank you, Messrs. Weasley."

Huge applause accompanied the twins, when they joined Harry and Raros in front of the head table. Many had observed in relief how their explosives blew up Death Eaters' wands or blurred their visions during the fight.

HP

During the remaining eight months of the school year, Raros only taught the usual Defence Against the Dark Arts classes and held one voluntary Duelling club, however, everyone knew that he was the best Defence teacher imaginable.

At the end of the school year, Dumbledore offered for Raros to remain on the post, assuming that the curse on the position had been broken with Voldemort's defeat, and after a longer discussion between the Unspeakables, Raros agreed under the conditions that his Unspeakable position would have the higher priority if a situation arose in which his help was needed and that he was allowed to return home every evening after curfew as well as during the weekends.

Apparently knowing that he would never be able to hire a better Defence Against the Dark Arts professor with the expertise and teaching ability like Raros, Dumbledore readily agreed to all conditions, much to the Mini Unspeakables' joy.

HP

The following years passed uneventfully. When Susan, Harry, Draco and Neville took their OWLs, the twins graduated from Hogwarts and were immediately hired as Unspeakables, responsible for the Research & Development section.

As much as Raros missed the twins at Hogwarts, as excited he was seeing Lydia and James become first-years. Just like their adored big siblings, they both became sorted into Hufflepuff, where Susan and Harry were prefects.

Once a month, Raros and Sirius made it a habit to meet at the Hog's Head for a drink, and at one of these occasions, they decided to solve the betrothal contract between Lydia and James and to suggest to Lydia to become betrothed to Draco. However, they did nothing official at that time but decided to discuss the matter with their wives and the children on Christmas.

HP

Ten months after Susan, Harry, Draco and Neville had taken their NEWTs and began to work as Unspeakables, something happened that greatly shocked the magical world.

Minister Weasley, who had always been very fond of muggle items and even as the Minister of Magic continued researching muggle equipment, had an accident with some kind of muggle machine, which he unfortunately did not survive.

HP

The Wizengamot spent the whole summer discussing possible new Ministers, however, Dumbledore was too old, Amelia did not want the post, Harry was too young, and the majority of the Wizengamot decided that they wanted Unspeakable Raros as new Minister of Magic.

'Cool, but Hogwarts needs a proper Defence professor,' Raros thought, when a sudden idea crossed his mind. Whilst being an Unspeakable like himself, Harry would also make a brilliant Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

"Please allow me twenty-four hours, before I shall give you my response," he told the Wizengamot and immediately headed to the Unspeakables Office to confer with Croaker and further to Hogwarts to speak with Dumbledore.

The headmaster reassured him that he would - of course - happily accept Harry as the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor under the same conditions as Raros as Unspeakable, that he, however, wished to resign and that he had been pondering to make Harry the new headmaster.

"How about Susan as headmistress and Harry as the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor?" Raros suggested, and the headmaster's eyes began to twinkle happily.

"If the two of them agree, then I'll hire them right away," he promised.

Susan and Harry, who had married right out of Hogwarts, both happily agreed and accepted the offered positions, causing Raros to take the post as Minister of Magic.

HP

At the Welcoming feast, in which he participated as the new Minister of Magic, he observed the Sorting of his youngest ones, Lily and Regulus, with interest, not really expecting that they would be sorted anywhere else but Hufflepuff. After the Sorting, when his oldest daughter Susan Potter-Black-Bones was presented as the new headmistress, he congratulated her and introduced himself to the students as the new Minister of Magic.

Knowing that it was the first time for the students to see him without his Unspeakable robes, so that they would neither know his face nor his voice, he said into the silence that followed his announcement, "Apart from the first-years, you've all known me for years as Unspeakable Raros, your Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. While I will still support the Unspeakables, I will now take back my real name as Minister Regulus Black."

Huge applause interrupted his announcement, as everyone loved their former professor, not only the seventh years who knew that many of them owed their life to him.

"Why suddenly?" a small voice asked from the Hufflepuff table, causing everyone to laugh and look at him in expectation.

Regulus smiled. Pointing to the head table, he replied, "One of my children and one of my brother's are sitting at the head table, and four more are students here. I am very proud of them, and I want them to also be proud that their father respectively uncle is the Minister of Magic, Regulus Black."

The End

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