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Summary: Harry became disenchanted with Dumbledore, so he works toward enlightenment, and this has several effects on the wizard, but what effects will it have on the world around him.

Authour Note: Alright so this is a extremely short chapter about the 'New Trio' that is currently being created. I'm hoping that no one thinks I'm moving along too quickly, this is just the plan and the start of everything. It's still going to be quite awhile until everything plays out. As for why this chapter is so short, it's because I decided to separate it from the last chapter, which was getting too long, and the next chapter which will have the schools coming along, and a lot of different moves behind the scenes with Harry - So I plan and believe that chapter will be rather long as well.

This is also a good time to announce the ship results. At least, it's as good a time as any. Luna has won by an extremely wide margin. Now, I'm not the best at writing Luna, she has me scratching my skull and wondering just how the hell I'm going to work this out. If t starts to get too difficult, please keep in mind that I said before, I am not promising that I will keep the winning ship throughout the whole story. Just that the ship WILL be in the story and be majourly incorporated. (I honestly have always thought that Luna would be an amazing friend to Harry, perhaps not the best girlfriend. I know this is something people will undoubtedly disagree about.)

I also plan to have some aspects of a wonderful Guest review to make an appearance in my story. They had some ideas about the Lovegood family that I liked and will probably work to include in some ways. Probably not exactly the way they wrote it out, but I've gained a bit of inspiration.

This might as well just be half authour notes. LAUGHINGMYASSOFFANDCRYINGATONCE. I am looking for a potentially beta, but I don't want to search the beta listings because that takes too long. If you wanna potentially beta this story, probably should google docs, let me know.

Chapter Six: Scheming and Duplicitous Planning

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"That's exactly it Neville! Just like all the other humans that I am growing fond of, you go and surprise me. Who would have thought you would accept me for my current being, that you would not try to get me to change, or to outright reject me." Harry could feel his mouth stretching in a fully toothed grin, "I think I can trust you Neville. How would you feel about learning the true story of someone named Sirius Black?"

Less than fifteen minutes ago, Harry had brought the topic up – Neville seemed shocked, almost scared, but had a strong sort of determination.

Had Harry seen this emotion on more faces, he would have known what he was seeing was loyalty.

Moments later, Harry was dragging Neville along toward one of the least used hallways in the school, and into a classroom within it. Along the way, Harry knocked open several of the doors – If only to make sure they were as alone as possible. The behavior had Neville giving a small, almost worried frown, but the Herbology lover let the actions go without saying a word.

The classroom that Harry had chosen was at the end of the dead-end corridor – Yet somehow there was a little surprise held inside.

"Hello." The dreamy voice spoke, as soon as both Harry and Neville walked into the room.

Harry spun toward the familiar voice, startled, but not put off. In fact, it was a risk but, as soon as he made friends with Luna Lovegood he started to do research on his new favourite blonde.

She was a pureblood, her family didn't have the largest amount of political clout, but they did have something else. In the Wizaridng World Britain there were 3 main publications. The Daily Prophet, Witch Weekly, and The Quibbler. Luna's father owned one of them – Perhaps it wasn't the main reason that Harry wanted friendship with the girl, but it certainly didn't hurt matters. Neville was the same in his usefulness, although it had once again been an afterthought, the Longbottom actually had a lot of political clout in the Ministry.

"Luna~ My favourite blonde." Harry announced, practically skipping over to her, "Why are you in here? Quite the unlikely place, isn't it?"

Luna gave a smile to her first friend, "I don't really know, I just felt like I should come here." She looked around the classroom, her hazed eyes looking even more so with the confusion painted in them, "Do you think the Umgubular Slashkilters had something to do with it? Perhaps Fudge doesn't want the truth to come out – Me and Daddy should have foreseen this..."

What an interesting thing, Harry thought toward Luna, his pleased feelings growing in the face of the two most unlikely humans that had become his friends. Sure, Hermione and Ron were still his friends, but there was a drift there. It wasn't hard to see why – Harry befriended them within the limits of his Boy-Who-Lived mask, they weren't friends with the real Harry, the Harry James Potter that was currently evolving and becoming someone that... Quite frankly the two wouldn't be able to accept within their current moral spectrum.

"I don't think so Luna, in fact, I was coming here to tell Neville something very interesting about a member of my family. Maybe this is just happy coincidence." Harry doubted his own words, but spoke them even knowing Luna would know that.

Why did the red-eyed boy doubt them? It was weird, that two times in the past few days Luna showed up at such weirdly coincidental times. Harry didn't believe in coincidence, at least, he didn't think he did. Still, he didn't see a problem with Luna knowing things, as long as the, let's dub it, Luna Effect, worked in his favour.

Maybe if it happened more often, Harry could convince his darling blonde to an experiment to figure it out.

Now he was getting pretty far off his mental tracks.

"Would you like to stay Luna? You're unique perspective could be helpful." Harry asked, and was surprised by the happy grin that came over the blonde girl.

The happiest that Harry had seen her thus far, at the very least.

"I'll take that as a yes then. Alright, Neville, this is Luna, a Ravenclaw from a year below us. We became friends a few days ago when she helped me make an important choice. Luna, this is Neville, he's a housemate of mine from my year." Harry gestured toward each of them during his introduction, before sitting on the teachers desk, his right leg dangling with his left crossed over the right.

Neville seemed to gather his Gryffindor courage once again, "N-Nice to meet you Luna."

"It is nice to meet you as well Neville. Maybe you can be my second first friend." She smiled at the nervous boy, her response and atmosphere seeming to calm Neville down.

"Alright!~ Now that everyone knows each other we can get to why we've convened today." Harry spoke, leaning forward dramatically, and announced at a stage whisper, "Sirius Black is innocent."

Neville seemed stunned and disbelieving, it knocked any shyness out of him, "B-but he broke into the Common Room to kill you just last year, and he stuck near the school so that he could, and Ron saw him with a knife and everything. He was in Azkaban for Merlin's sake!"

It seemed that Neville was the type to believe in the justice system – Perhaps it had treated his family fairly at some point? His grandmother was part of it, being in the Wizengamot.

One of the hardest things about growing up was taking off your rose tinted glasses when it came to the state of the world and politics.

Luna didn't seem to respond at all, didn't even give a single twitch of reaction, just continued to stare at Harry, as though waiting for more information. Something that Harry soon after granted, "My father and his friends made up a group that played pranks – Which of course – is beside the point. They became illegal animagus, the members of this group were James Potter, Remus Lupin, Petter Pettigrew, and Sirius Black."

"Wow, I actually forgot just how long this story was." Harry murmured to himself, a small smirk pulling to the corner of his mouth, "Anyway, my parents went into hiding, and everyone knew that James and Sirius were best friends, so they came to the decision to pick Pettigrew to be the secret keeper – Expecting that no one would think the weakest and least intelligent of the group would be the one with the secret. Instead, James and Lily picked the spy in the mix, and Pettigrew went to Voldemort and told him my parents location. This is, of course, only one of the things Sirius is accused of. However, he didn't kill the Muggles either. When all was said and done, Potter family dead, Sirius left me in Hagrid's safe hands and went after Pettigrew himself. When he met with Pettigrew, the rat showed a surprising amount of cunning, blew up the street, cut his own finger off, transformed, and slunk away leaving Sirius to take the blame. Since people thought it so obvious that Sirius was the betrayer – There was no trial for my dear, innocent Godfather, and he was immediately sent to prison, until he later broke out, but that's a story for another time I suppose."

There was a silence at the end of the story, everyone seemingly lost in their own thoughts. Harry was thinking over just how much he needed to talk to his dear Godfather. The past few months, he'd been so distracted by his plans that he'd forgotten to write to his Godfather a number of times.

"Where is Pettigrew now?" Luna suddenly asked, her voice having lost the dreamy quality and seemed utterly focused.

"He's gone into hiding now that Sirius escaped and is trying to find the little rat."

"H-have... Are you telling us this because you want our help?" Neville asked, weirdly perspective, perhaps his grandmothers training shinning through?

"Something like that~ I came to the realization last year that Dumbledore could probably get my Godfather a trail. You see, the man knows Sirius is innocent and isn't doing anything about it. I want my Godfather free, so I'm going to work around that particular roadblock and get Sirius acquitted myself. You would be good allies in this, both of you." Harry admitted rather shamelessly, giving a helpless shrug.

Neville seemed a little bit hurt, but it was Luna that spoke up, "My first friend thinks of me as a tool... Daddy won't be pleased – but since you're my friend, I guess it's okay. I'm assuming that you want something written in The Quibbler?"

The red-eyed boy looked at his favourite blonde in shock for a moment – Having expecting anything other than just passive agreement. This was compounded by the fact that his plans were coming along almost too quickly. Harry hadn't planned on even attempting to get his Godfather cleared for a few years – Thinking it beyond his current capabilities. Yet with a publication willing to print the truth... Word would get out, and perhaps Harry wouldn't need to have an active hand in the matter. Luna truly was a gift, both in her actions, but also in her intelligence for working things out so quickly.

It would work smoothly, if the details were ironed out correctly...

"You'd be willing to do that, even knowing I befriended you mostly because you could be a useful tool?~" Harry asked, almost cheerfully, and looking for signs of deception.

Luna just gave Harry a dreamy smile, "I guess, in part, it's because you had no way of knowing the potential our friendship had prior to you initializing it. Plus... The situation would be mutually beneficial – You get the word out on your Godfather, and The Quibbler get's a hit story. It will make the sales go through the roof."

Harry could see why the blonde had become a Ravenclaw with that strategy. Perhaps he'd underestimated the blonde, Neville on the other hand, still seemed stunned.

"Is that a-all we are to you though... Tools? E-even if you couldn't know at first, you do now... So...?" Neville asked, almost shyly, and there was a subtle anger in his voice, or perhaps, was it hurt.

Harry could venture a guess into why the hurt was there. Over the years, Neville was systematically ignored by their fellow housemates, in fact, he was the only fourth-year boy without a strong friendship to anyone. Dean and Seamus got along, Harry and Ron were best friends, and that made Neville the odd one out. Harry had, perhaps twenty minutes ago, given Neville hope of a friendship that he was likely craving for years, and now the red-eyed boy had the potential to cruelly pull that away.

"I'm not a nice person I guess... I hate and have a deep fondness of humans at the same time. I generally view them as something to be watched, maybe even played with, and it's a bad trait that I sometimes wish I didn't pick up – I understand it too much now to turn back." Harry answered, without really answering, "I guess... No, you aren't just tools to me. You have potential to be my good friends as well."

The truth was, Harry wasn't sure himself anymore.

He didn't know what he was turning into. The love/hate relationship that he had going on with humanity was far too big an obsession at this point, one Harry didn't want to let go. It made Harry view humans as little more than a game – But they had thoughts and feelings and shouldn't be treated as such.

Neville didn't seem to have a response to that.

"Neville, no matter what, I think it goes without saying that you can't mention this to anyone else." Harry suddenly spoke up again, seeing Neville's indecision, and the Potters demeanor darkened into something almost threatening for the first time since his attitude change, his ruby eyes sharpening into blades.

The Longbottom contained a shiver, and went deep into though. Luna seemed perfectly okay with the idea of being used by Harry, but it just didn't sit right with Neville to allow that. At the same time, he was loyal to people that he thought of as his friends, or even potential friends. He didn't want to betray Harry's trust – and seeing the threatening air that had erupted the second that seemed to occur in Neville's mind – he was too scared to anyway.

"I get it... You should do anything for your family and friends. Sometimes you even need to go against things that should be considered moral." Neville said slowly... Tying his feelings of loyalty into Harry's explanation, to make it seem less sickening.

"I'm glad Neville! Me and this Little Gift could probably use the friendship." Harry practically sang out, Luna looking particularly happy with her little nickname, "I don't actually need you for anything at the moment Neville. I'm not using you, so you can go into this friendship with a clear conscience. I didn't save you from Moody so that you would owe me, it was simply empathy that triggered that. I'm not such a horrible person. You'll see~"

And with that settled, three weirdly likely people started to plan just what they could or should do about one Sirius Black's false imprisonment.

~Hello Padfoot~

I came up with a potential plan that should help qualify you to get a trail. I'm hoping that we can get the word to the right people. This should actually work, so I'm going to send you a copy and keep yourself updated on the current events in Wizarding World Britain, of course, you had better actually keep yourself safe as you do so.

We have a lot to talk about next time we get together.

~A Lowly Informant~

The plan that we had ironed out included several different pieces.

First, the article that Harry and Luna whipped up to be on front page for The Quibbler. The article would be about Harry explaining his childhood 'memories' of his parents and godfather, stating that he knew Sirius to be innocent but no one believed him. The Potter then paid out of his ass to get several of them made and delivered to everyone in the school – Who would go on to tell their parents what they read, possibly even sending The Quibbler itself to them.

The second part included the making of a, 'Black Dossier' that would be sent to several key figures in the Ministry. Neville had helped list out who the people receiving the list should be, and Harry would be the one making the dossier, sending the information via the moniker 'A Lowly Informant'

Both those things should force the public to consider the fact Sirius needed do process, and then the rest was relatively smooth. All they would need would be for Sirius to come to England and actually stand trial.

...

Scheming was actually quite the bond building exercise, because by the end of it, Neville seemed a bit more relaxed in Harry's presence, and Luna was practically humming her happiness, or was she literally humming? Harry himself was ecstatic – If it worked out, than he wouldn't have to go back to the Dursley's again. Of course, it wouldn't change other plans, it was far too late for him to go back now. He'd entered the rabbit hole, and now he liked the idea. He liked the cunning and intelligence he would need to use for the job.

He would be an informant.

Maybe he could get Neville and Luna to help him plan that out as well. Only after their current plan worked out, of course, Harry thought that Neville surely needed to get more comfortable with his new friendships before they could start more evil plotting, but maybe one day soon...

R&R

Do you guys want animagus Harry? If so, what type of animal do you think he'd be with his new personality?