Harry PotterYou are my Cosmic Connection.
Chapter : 18
"I do have one proviso, though. Hermione... and you... are to cut all communications with any of the Weasleys and Dumbledore; nor allow anyone to act as a go-between, including someone such as Minerva McGonagall."
"Oh, believe me," said Marc, quite emphatically. "That was going to happen, at any rate."
Hermione winced, but didn't retort or otherwise disagree.
The subject was dropped for the rest of the afternoon and evening through and beyond dinner.
Just before he left, though, Sirius told Marc that Dobby would be instructed to answer Hermione's call when they made their decision. They could pass a note to him via Dobby and Dobby would immediately deliver it.
Dobby turned up at Grimmauld Place with a note bearing their decision only two days later. Though Hermione was at first against it, she came around and her parents accepted. In the end, all it took was for them to remind her Harry would not be at Hogwarts, either.
They were gone within two weeks. Sirius had everything arranged through the goblins in Gringotts, MaCUSA; rather than Gringotts, London.
Dumbledore, fully expecting to be reinstated as Chief Warlock and Britain's wizard-Ambassador to the ICW soon after it became apparent 'Voldemort' was indeed back, found himself utterly shocked when he wasn't.
The arrest and subsequent imprisonment for 'Life' of Severus Snape played only one part in that. When it became public, partly as a result of Snape's Veritaserum-driven statement that Dumbledore had deliberately cut all communications between the 'Boy-Who-Lived' and almost everyone else - and that cut in communications went a great deal towards why Harry ended up that night at the Department of Mysteries - no one was that stupid they did not quickly realise that Dumbledore's deliberate actions played a significant role in Harry's, their boy hero's, 'death'.
The only position Dumbledore managed to retain out the other side of it was the position of Headmaster of Hogwarts. And that was only because it was successfully argued by his law-wizard that the old man's dismissal as Headmaster was unlawful. What also went a long way towards Dumbledore keeping the position of Headmaster was that, while everyone now knew he was partly responsible for Harry's death, he was still the 'only' wizard Voldemort feared. Therefore, him being at Hogwarts and protecting the Heirs, their children, was where he 'needed' to be. It wasn't justice that had him retaining the Headmastership, it was the self-serving interest of the Members of the Wizengamot.
When he verbally railed against his denied reinstatement as Chief Warlock and Britain's wizard Ambassador before the Wizengamot, it was Augusta Longbottom who logically put forth that the position of Headmaster was a full-time position and Dumbledore really couldn't have time to properly attend to other full-time positions, such as being Chief Warlock.
She then further dug the verbal knife in by stating that 'traditionally' the Chief Warlock's seat was always held by one of the Lords of the Noble Houses. And Dumbledore only had a seat on the 'Mot (the Wizengamot) due to his earning the Order of Merlin. The House of Dumbledore was only a minor House, certainly not a Noble one. Dumbledore was utterly stumped for a logical rebuttal; because she was right and he knew it.
If anyone else had said it, he would have immediately done his damnedest to seek political revenge against them and fight for the seat. However, with Harry now 'proven' not to have been the Chosen One of prophecy to defeat Riddle simply by 'dying' and not by Voldemort's hand, he needed the somewhat elderly witch on his side to now mould her grandson, Neville, to be the One.
So, though he absolutely hated to do so, he 'magnanimously' and verbally acceded to her logical observations and didn't push it.
He left it for almost a full month before he began to subtly work on her about his training her grandson. That started with telling her and proving by use of a borrowed pensieve – now that the goblins of Gringotts had 'stolen' his - that there existed a prophecy it was Neville's 'duty to wizarding Britain' to complete.
One of the last things the Grangers did as they were leaving the United Kingdom - their last British act, as it were - was to send Hermione's official notice of withdrawal from Hogwarts to Minerva McGonagall, together with her Prefect's badge.
Sirius had gone into the Ministry to speak with Griselda Marchbanks's people in the Wizarding Examinations Authority to find out exactly what the Grangers needed to do so there were no loopholes someone could exploit against them when she withdrew. It turned out she only needed to make sure she'd earned the minimum required number of OWLs - she'd earned far more than the minimum - and send a formal letter, signed by her guardians, to the Deputy Headmistress/master stating her intent to withdraw. While there he was also able to collect a certified copy of her OWL results.
Because Hermione was considered a muggle-born and her guardians were non-magicals, and it did not specifically state it wasn't meant to be anyone but her magical guardian who made that determination, Sirius requested and became her magical guardian via the Wizarding Children's Services. Then both he and both her parents, plus Hermione herself, co-signed the letter. Sirius then sent that letter using Hedwig direct to McGonagall, just as he knew the Grangers' aeroplane was taking off from Heathrow Airport.
When McGonagall received the letter, she carefully read through it and sighed in extreme disappointment before setting it aside. It joined a small stack of similar letters from others.
The letter covered everything that 'went wrong' and specifically listed out and numbered each law and/or school rule that was broken by the staff - especially the Headmaster and her - regarding her, Hermione, and what she personally and specifically witnessed.
It also covered how she now had her OWLs and was free to withdraw, but did not state she was transferring to Ilvermorny; and would be 'seeing what she could do to further her education in non-magical schooling', but did not state outright she would be attending a non-magical school.
In the past, McGonagall would have taken the letter direct to Dumbledore. However, after what came out of the trials concerning how much Dumbledore was to blame for Harry's death - and of which she knew herself to unwittingly being a party to - those days were over. In her mind, Dumbledore would now be told as little as possible.
She was already working out how to do that so he wouldn't know Miss Granger would not be attending Hogwarts until the First of September.
Another to receive a personal letter from Hermione, co-signed only by Sirius this time, was Professor Filius Flitwick. As well as being both a Duelling Master and the Charms Master of Hogwarts, he was also the Head of Ravenclaw House.
The letter detailed what they knew of the near-unrelenting bullying Luna was suffering from; the ongoing thefts of her personal effects, the verbal taunting, the deliberate destruction of her assignments and other school work, etcetera.
Then, in the letter, Sirius wrote it was to stop - immediately - or he would personally challenge the little Duelling Master to a public duel.
What really set a fire under Flitwick's bum to immediately do something about the bullying was the line in the letter from Sirius regarding the duel which stated: 'It will, of course, not be an honour duel; because anyone who would willingly allow a child under their direct care to be constantly bullied has no honour.'
And Flitwick did not wait until the students returned on the First of September to address the issue, either. For the magical-raised, he was on the floo and visiting students and their parents in their homes that very day. For the muggle-raised he went to their homes by apparation. It took him a few days, but he got it done.
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