The silencing ward went back up and stayed up for a very long time. When it finally came down, Dantes looked oddly triumphant. "Fudge, your sentence has been determined, but whether or not it will be carried out will depend on whether or not the muggle government wants exercise its right to punish you for the breach of the Compact or let us administer the punishment."
Perrivor took over at this point. "If the muggle government chooses not to punish you then here is the wizarding world's judgement. You are removed as minister effective immediately, though you will continue to work at the Ministry."
Fudge perked up at this imagining some advisory position where he could move back into the centre of power. Perrivor's next words dashed that dream to smithereens. "From now until you are too old to work, you will be a janitor third class and you will be unable to rise out of that position. Each day when you arrive at work, magic suppression bracelets will be placed on you so that you have no more power than a squib and have to clean things the way a squib would. If nothing else maybe you will learn to think and consider before you do things from now on. You will also be bound with a loyalty oath that what you see, hear, touch, taste, and even smell in the Ministry will not be spoke of to anyone living or dead inside or outside the Ministry."
You Want To Run That By Me Again
Molly Weasley placed her daughter on the stone flagging that she had been standing on when she had been transformed into a dog by Potter. Albus had been nice enough to mark the correct stone so they would make sure she was on the right one at the right time. Stepping back she waited for her daughter to be restored to normal.
Ginny didn't move waiting for the spell Harry had placed on her to reverse itself. After a few moments she felt her bones growing and shifting. It was an uncomfortable and almost painful feeling. She bit her lip to keep from crying out as she once again looked upon a world that had colour in it.
Once she was fully human again, Ginny ignored the older witches and wizards coming toward her and looked around for Harry. She was going to make sure he understood that he was not allowed to do that to her ever again, or she would make their life together hell. She finally spotted him sitting with Luna Lovegood and started to growl as she headed toward the Ravenclaw table to pull her man away from that bitch. Harry was hers and it was time he understood that.
"Miss Weasley," One of the witches got between her and the Ravenclaw table. "You need to come with us please."
Not recognising her as a teacher, Ginny tried to push past the woman. "I've got to talk with Harry first."
"Actually, Miss Weasley, you need to speak with the Headmaster and your Head of House first." A man that Ginny vaguely remembered seeing before the Christmas break took hold of her arm and proceeded to drag her from the Great Hall.
Ginny dug in her heels as the stranger tried to take her from the Great Hall and the man who belonged to her. "Harry!… Harry!… Help me!.… You can't let this man keep us apart!"
Molly opened her mouth to berate Jessup, but Arthur quickly told her. "Not now, Molly, we don't want to make a scene in public."
Molly sniffed and stalked off after Mr. Jessup and her daughter. She was going to give that man a piece of her mind once they were in Dumbledore's office! How dare he haul her daughter off as if she were a common criminal? He should be hauling that Potter boy off, after all he was the one who made her daughter fall in love with him and then treated her like dirt because she made a mistake the previous year.
As the Great Hall doors closed behind the departing group, the level of conversation rose sharply among the students, but it didn't get out of hand since there were still a few teachers there to keep an eye on things.
Most of the older Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students couldn't help wondering just how much longer it would be before the Headmaster admitted defeat in the matter of Harry Potter. Those who had family, either in the Ministry or on the Wizengamot, knew that a law had been passed the previous summer whose sole purpose was to get Potter back to Hogwarts and force him to interact with his peers.
As far as they could see it had been one of the Headmaster's most spectacular failures. Potter not only refused to have anything to do with his housemates in Gryffindor, he had made it quite clear to anyone willing to look beyond the end of their nose that he was using this time to get his revenge on those he thought had wronged him.
About the only success the Headmaster's plan could claim, was it caused near school unity amongst the Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs, Slytherins and the first through third year Gryffindors. They all had one goal in mind: Not to do anything that would attract Potter's attention . One Slytherin fourth year had put it best and in a way it mirrored the school motto: It was better not to wake the sleeping dragon.
As they resumed eating the welcome feast, a couple of Hufflepuffs couldn't help wondering why Ginny Weasley would be expecting Harry Potter to come to her aid, given he had made it quite clear he loathed her.
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