Harry Potter: Go To Hell

November slowly turned into December. With Severus' help, Harry had approached both Lady Longbottom and Lady Malfoy during a Hogsmeade weekend when no one was likely to notice he wasn't seen in the Castle. They'd had to sneak Harry off the grounds but Mr. Filch was more than willing to help them since Harry had never been allowed to leave as all the other students were. Severus had apparated Harry straight to the Longbottom Estates where Narcissa and Augusta were waiting for them both. He helped him present his ideas for the future of Hogwarts with them leading the school in place of Albus, as Headmaster, and Professor McGonagal, as Deputy Headmistress. Both women had listened to his proposal and asked for background information as to what had prompted this change which Severus had promptly given them. Together they walked the women through everything they had discovered about Albus' tenure as Headmaster of Hogwarts. Most especially what he'd done since Harry had arrived at age eleven.

Severus had also spoken to the Dark Lord, who'd been looking ill and acting distracted, on the matter to get him to agree to the idea. Severus knew the Dark Lord would put pressure on Lucius to get the School Board to dismiss Albus in favor of the two women as he believed he controlled Narcissa through her husband and son. That, he believed, would give the Dark Lord control over Hogwarts which was why Narcissa would be the Deputy while Augusta would be Headmistress. Not that he told the Dark Lord that, of course. The Dark Lord believed Lucius would place Narcissa as the Headmistress while Augusta served as her second. And that suited Harry and Severus just fine.

Ever since October first, Albus found himself running to the bank twice a month now to try and get more funds from Harry's vaults as without the usual amount flowing in from Harry's accounts he was running low in his back-up stash. This most recent run was his third in the month of November but it couldn't be helped. He'd no idea what beans Ms. Granger would spill and there was no way he was going down with her just because she was a stupid little chit of a girl who couldn't keep her mouth shut.

It'd also make his first of December meeting more difficult because the goblins were unlikely to give him even as much coin as they usually did. Which was really irritating him and he had half a mind just to get Harry to write his will leaving everything to himself and then killing the boy off. Just to end these damn trips. But he knew the will would be challenged right now simply because the Brat was due to inherit the Black vaults and Young Malfoy was in line for those. So Lucius would definitely challenge a will that left them to someone else. He was unaware Draco Malfoy was also in line to inherit the Potter Estate since he and Harry were third cousins through James Potter and Narcissa Malfoy. So Lucius would challenge Albus' claim on those vaults also in Draco's name.

He'd tried everything he could think of including getting dominion over the Black vaults since he knew there was absolutely no way Harry knew about them. But Stoneaxe, the goblin he believed he was working with now, told him a board of trustees had been set up to oversee those accounts until the heir to them came of age. So there was no way he'd be getting any funds from them before Harry knew he had inherited them. He was still being led around by the nose by ToeScrape but because Albus couldn't tell one goblin from another he didn't know his demand to deal with a different goblin had been ignored.

Because of the freeze on the vaults, he had to go in person twice each month to lobby for the pitifully small amount the goblins would now let him have. And since the goblins were notorious hagglers he had to have all his arguments just right to even get that much out of them. Any mistake he made resulted in less coins for him and that meant making another reduction in his lifestyle as he couldn't afford not to pay his minions for their aid. And not paying them was NOT an option. Some of those minions were damned dangerous fellows. But since he honestly didn't believe Harry knew about his vaults, he couldn't blame the boy for his misfortune. Unfortunately. He really wanted to know who this Lady Tonguelash was. She was the reason he was having such a hard time getting to his money and he didn't appreciate it. At all. He needed to find her and make her pay for her interference.

He'd also had to spend a lot of time getting Ms. Granger squared away since she knew far too much to do otherwise. Luckily, he had managed to reach the Ministry with some funds before the stupid girl had spilled too much information. All she'd really revealed when he had gotten there was that she was sent down from Hogwarts for cheating and that Harry had marked her face. Upon seeing him enter the room, she'd immediately relaxed and shut her mouth.

Her confidence in him was reassuring but misplaced since he had no intention of getting her out of the trouble her mouth had landed her in. For one thing, he hadn't told her to cheat and claim dear Harry's work as her own. He hadn't even told her to rewrite dear Harry's assignments for him. Make the effort to lower his grades through offering suggestions and corrections, yes. But not rewrite them entirely.

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