VILGILANTE

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Chapter 1 – The Prince

Draco Malfoy was a proud child. He was considered to be the "Slytherin Prince" if only by his parents and himself. In some respects he was as his Father was a wizard not to be trifled with due to his power, wealth, standing in the Magical British community and having the morals of the real Albus Dumbledore, namely none.

Whereas Dumbledore had a carefully publicized persona as the Leader of the Light and the benevolent grandfather figure he showed as Headmaster of Hogwarts, his enemies, his "allies" and certain of his minions knew better and the rest of the world (or at least in Britain) either sensibly turned a blind eye to his real agenda or followed him like the sheep they were.

However, everybody knew exactly what Lucius Malfoy was and just how far he was willing to go to obtain his goals. He did it the old fashioned way – by bribery, intimidation, slander and terrorizing all of those who would cross him. It was a time-honored recipe and had always worked for people of his ilk throughout the centuries and would continue on until the end of time in both the Magical and Muggle worlds.

Draco was the only son and heir that Lucius would ever have. He was lucky enough to finally get a healthy and magical son due to heredity, too much in-breeding and a few unfortunate curses which Lucius had so rightly deserved and received. The fault could not be put on his wife Narcissa (although he always would blame her) but on Lucius himself. He wasn't thrilled how Draco had turned out but…one had to work with what one had and hope for the best.

Although Lucius would never admit it, Draco was a lot like his Father in intelligence, magical ability and personality. The portrait of Lucius' Father, Abraxas Malfoy, had told this to his proud son again and again but Lucius never saw any similarity between himself and his rather disappointing son. Just like Draco Lucius had been a very spoiled, headstrong boy who even with being given every advantage, the best of tutors and had the powerful Abraxas for a Father, Lucius had been found to be "unsatisfactory" to his Father.

It wasn't until "Daddy Damnest" had met his "unfortunate end" that Lucius came into his own. By then he had been a member of the Inner Circle of the Dark Lord, courtesy of Abraxas' influence and not due to any great talent of his own. Once under the control of the Dark Lord, Lucius had to learn – fast – how to survive and please his Master otherwise he would have soon joined his Father.

In the end the only thing which had saved Lucius from impending disaster was when Harry Potter "defeated Voldemort" on October 31, 1981. Then Lucius was able to bribe his way out of Azkaban, saving his own skin and that of his chosen vassals while screwing over some relatives, "friends," allies and his main competition at the same time. The last thing Lucius Malfoy would have wanted to happen was the return of the Dark Lord but since he had never believed his Master's boast that he was immortal there was no danger of that happening so once Lucius (or someone else) finally managed to get rid of Dumbledore, Lucius would be the one to rule Magical Britain just as he had been planning and scheming to do since the end of the Dark Lord.

Meanwhile his only heir Draco would "rule" Slytherin House not because he had any real talent or was powerful and definitely not possessing any real cunning but because he was the son of Lucius Malfoy and any wizard not allied with Dumbledore would dance to Lucius' tune if they knew what was good for them.

It helped that Severus Snape was Head of Slytherin House and he saw to it that Draco was protected and if not liked or feared for himself was still a power in that House because he used his Father's name to threaten and intimidate his housemates. It also helped that Albus Dumbledore was playing his usual and incomprehensible games and had taken over the life of Harry Potter, kept him ignorant of his heritage and power in Magical Britain, isolated him and allowed the boy to be constantly abused by his peers and the press.

Draco was allowed to verbally abuse Potter – and the Longbottom heir – without fear of retaliation and it greatly enhanced Draco's standing and power being allowed to humiliate and slander two powerful heirs. To use a disgusting Muggle saying "it looked good on paper" but in reality would prove to be the downfall of the House of Malfoy.

It was the year of the Triwizard Tournament and Draco was dressing for the Yule Ball. He was on top of the world as he was at the height of his power at Hogwarts ever since…he helped to rid the world of Potter.

The stupid, ugly, ignorant, worthless, talentless Half-blood son of a Mudblood whore had been chosen as the fourth Champion in the Triwizard Tournament. He had been framed – anybody with an ounce of sense knew that – but Dumbledore had forced him to participate. Then, Dumbledore allowed the entire school to believe the git had lied and cheated his way into the Tournament and everyone had virtually abandoned him even his best (and only) friends or the only ones he was allowed to have.

The human cesspit, blood traitor Ron Weasley was happily slandering his "friend" and he had been ostracized by all of Gryffindor House except for the miserable, weak, stupid, worthless Squib Longbottom. Even the Mudblood Granger had abandoned him and it was known that she was refusing to "help him survive" the Tournament unless he "admit that he lied and cheated his way in and then publically apologized to all of Gryffindor House and then to the entire school and the guests schools as well as to do the "proper penance" and whatever other garbage she was spewing.

Snape had admitted to all of Slytherin House that "the arrogant bastard was actually innocent" but that Dumbledore was allowing the abuse and slander in order to "catch the culprit who had put the boy's name in the Goblet" and making Potter a pariah was the only way to lull the culprit into a false sense of security. The entire House had laughed at that pronouncement. However, for once they were willing to help Dumbledore in his grand plan by making Potter as miserable as possible.

Much to his great glee the Weaselwipe had approached Draco with the idea for the "Potter Stinks" badges and Draco happily supplied the funds for the manufacture and distribution of the badges going to so far as to give every student (and teacher) of all three schools a complimentary badge. Weaselwipe had also suggested that they be distributed outside the school but Draco had used up all of his generous pocket money so he settled for sending an anonymous note containing various "interviews" of students to Rita Skeeter with a few badges for "distribution" and permission to duplicate and distribute them.

It was open season on Potter and the bastard couldn't walk down the halls or attend a class without being openly booed, hissed at and being hit with curses and jinxes right in front of teachers, including his own Head of House who, as usual, did absolutely nothing to stop any of it.

Then Draco had the idea of a lifetime. In fact it had come to him in a dream and he bounced out of bed the next morning to make the necessary arrangements. His Father was going to be so proud of his son when he heard what he had done.

Besides Longbottom, the only person who had anything to do with Potter or showed him any kindness or gave any moral support was the old grizzled Auror Moody. The week before the first task Potter had been in hiding and didn't attend classes or eat in the Great Hall. Rumor had it that the Malfoy's former crazy house elf was bringing food to where Potter and Longbottom were hiding. Longbottom still attended classes but Potter was legally excused because he was in the Tournament. Both boys had been kicked out of Gryffindor House and Longbottom had been attacked for siding with the $%#*$ #*^ former Gryffindor so both had to keep a low profile to survive.

The night before the first task Harry had been forced to come out of hiding to attend a special feast as this tradition was part of the Tournament so he had to attend or suffer severe consequences. He came but Neville didn't as they both knew it was one last chance to humiliate and abuse Harry before the Tournament started. And that was exactly what happened. It seemed the entire meal was dedicated to torturing Harry Potter. Finally it ended and Harry was escorted out of the hall under the protection of Moody who led him back to his quarters.

Just as Potter and Moody were about to reach Moody's quarters Draco's hirelings attacked. They knocked both Moody and Potter unconscious, left Moody lying in the hall and took Potter with them. Potter was magically silenced, bound, blindfolded and hidden away in the "safe house" of Slytherin and would stay there until after the first task. Since he wouldn't be able to participate he would automatically lose his magic.

Draco couldn't wait to see the expression on Potter's face when he, Draco Malfoy, told him what had happened to him and that it was Draco who had arranged for Potter to lose his magic as that was what happened to worthless, pieces of dung, bastard sons of blood traitors and Mudblood whores.

Draco and his sycophants could hardly contain their joy during the first task. It was finally admitted that Potter hadn't shown and despite Dumbledore demanding that the Tournament continue until Potter could be found, he was actually (to his great personal shock) shouted down and disobeyed and Cornelius Fudge had been forced to take control and declared the first task over because so many people in the stands had been shouting out that Potter was a coward who rather lose his magic than his worthless life and a riot was starting to break out.

A gleeful Draco practically ran back to Slytherin House along with his lackeys so very eager to confront Potter and taunt him unmercifully. However, when they burst into the secret room Potter was gone. No matter, he had definitely lost his magic and once he was found he would be expelled from Hogwarts and kicked out of the Magical World forever. Eventually Draco would get his day of fun and now he would have time to think of more things to say to the new Mudblood Squib.

In any event he, DRACO MALFOY, HAD CRUSHED, RUINED AND TOTALLY DESTROYED HARRY POTTER AS WELL AS ENDING THE LINE OF AN ANCIENT AND NOBLE HOUSE. His Father would be delighted with what his clever son had done and that was the best thing of all.

Because he had been hidden in the Slytherin secret room Moody hadn't been able to find him nor could Dumbledore or Fawkes as this room was known only to Slytherins who swore a sacred oath not to reveal it to anybody. Snape had no idea what Draco was doing and definitely would have stopped it had he known. Harry Potter had to survive and have magic if he was to defeat the Dark Lord.

It had been Dobby the house elf who finally found Potter but too late for him participate in the Tournament. He had overheard one of the elves assigned to Slytherin House bragging what was happening to Potter and "Dobby had to beat it out of the elf to tell him where the secret room was but it was too late…Dobby was too late to save Harry Potter's magic" the sobbing elf told Dumbledore and the others.

Dobby had taken Harry to the Infirmary for treatment and then fetched Dumbledore and the others. An examination was done and Harry had indeed lost his magic and was now a Squib, maybe even lower than a Squib as everything remotely magical (like a certain curse) was gone from the boy. An angry Dumbledore immediately expelled the unfortunate child because without magic, Harry was no good to him except to die. He would die but not according to Dumbledore's elaborate plans many of which would now have to be completely remade.

In an act of vengeance against the helpless and innocent boy Dumbledore took him back to the Dursleys, explained the situation and just left the boy in their "care" and Vernon asked "Will we still be getting that money" as Dumbledore was flashed out by Fawkes. Dumbledore immediately flashed to Gringotts to check on the trust fund and sure enough now that the boy had become a Squib his trust vault automatically reverted to the Potter main vault and was forever lost to Dumbledore.

On December 1st when Fawkes didn't flash in with the Dursleys' monthly cash payment for them to "take care of the boy according to Dumbledore's special instructions" Vernon realized that they were screwed and without the money they had been getting there was no way in hell they would keep the boy. He'd be going to an orphanage – the worst one Vernon could find – and that was that. However, before that happened he was going to give the boy one last well-deserved beating for "robbing them" of the £1,000 per month they had been paid since they were forced to take him in.

However, although Vernon had given the boy several beatings since he had returned he failed to notice that the bruises, cuts and broken bones had not healed like they always had because Harry had had magic to protect and heal him. Now he didn't and when Vernon gave that one last beating – oops – he beat the boy to death. So in the dead of night had anybody been looking they would have seen Vernon dragging a large trash bag and putting it into the boot of his car. He drove to a little used dump and got rid of the body while Petunia scoured up the evidence.

They would have gotten away with it had not a reporter from the Daily Prophet (not Rita Skeeter but an up and coming young cub looking for a story) decided to follow the Muggle and see what he had dumped. After throwing up several times, the reporter took Aurors to the spot and then ran off to write his career-making story.

All hell broke loose but Dumbledore "took care of things" so that he came out smelling like a rose as usual while the poor boy was just vilified in death much as he had been in the past few months. Nobody mourned except for Neville and a few other "real friends" Harry had secretly managed to make and Draco Malfoy. Draco was pissed that he had been denied his chance to taunt Potter but at least he had had the satisfaction of making his Father proud of him and that was what truly mattered to him.

Draco had won and Potter had lost. Potter had paid the ultimate price for daring to snub Draco Malfoy but now Draco was alive, had his magic, wealth, heritage and position in the world while Potter had been totally robbed of everything before he had met his painful and humiliating death at the hands of a mere Muggle.

Draco ruled. When he got around to it he would completely crush his other enemies like the Weasley vermin, the Mudblood Granger (who he had special plans for) all the other Mudbloods and eventually anyone in the school who refused to side with Draco or had ever rebuffed him.

He'd let his Father take care of Dumbledore as that had always been one of his main goals. Draco rationalized that he was still a student and did have some learning to do and vendettas to carry out.

Yes the world was now in the possession of the Malfoys, which was their right. They were all powerful and Voldemort was just a memory, a memory which would quickly fade just like the "legend" of Harry Potter.

And Draco was the one who accomplished it, the one who won and always would.