บท 132: Hedwig and Foolish Aurors
"Hermione." He called and she turned to look at him with an angry expression.
The fact that he had given her 20,000 galleons while he himself had only taken 10,000 galleons from the profit of the book did not sit well with her.
She had wanted to give him back 5,000 galleons so that both of them would receive the same amount of profit but he had refused and she had been a bit angry with him ever since.
The 20,000 galleons that she earned is now kept in the cold confines of a vault deep under the Gringotts Bank.
20,000 galleons was not a very large amount of money when compared to the other rich purebloods in the society but Harry knew that being his closest subordinate and future girlfriend, she would become rich over time so he had opened a vault in one of the safest place in Gringotts.
That action itself had cost him about 1,000 galleons and he had not told Hermione about that either in case she refused to put her money in that vault.
He had thought that her anger over the issue of the money would subside over time but apparently that was not the case as she still remained angry with him over the past few days.
Which was why he had bought an appropriate gift for her this time.
A gift that no other girl would ever be able to refuse.
"What is it Harry?" she asked curtly and he gave her a wide smirk before saying.
"I brought a gift for you." He told her and she gave him a suspicious glance because of the wide smirk he was sporting.
"Okay. If you want to bribe me so that I lose my anger over the…"
She could only speak so far before he took the cage from behind his back and presented it to her and she froze.
"Her name is Hedwig." He said with a grin, her frozen form bringing him more joy then he would have thought "I bought her for you because I knew that you didn't have a pet."
"Oh Harry… she's so beautiful." Hermione cooed as she gently opened the cage and took the small white owl in her arms. "You shouldn't have." She said with a gentle expression, all her past anger over the money issue gone in the wind.
"It's alright. This girl is a bit special and I wanted to have her for myself." He admitted "But I already had Selena so I'm gifting her to you instead. I hope you like her."
Hermione gently petted Hedwig a few times before tears started falling down her eyes and she quietly kept the little white bird aside before jumping at him with a hug.
"Thank you Harry. Thank you so much." She said between sniffs "This means a lot to me."
"It's alright Hermione" he said and petted her back gently. He had no idea that she would have such an intense reaction to getting Hedwig but who was he to refuse a hug from such a cute girl.
"It's alri…"
"Ahem!"
A loud voice from outside the room interrupted his words and Hermione stepped back from the hug before glaring at her father who was peeping inside the room and glaring at him in return.
"Dad!" Hermione shouted in protest.
"No hugging Hermione." Her father replied in return. "And don't close the door. I'll be watching you." Dan said while giving him the 'look' that every father gave their daughter's boyfriend.
He had to stop himself from rolling his eyes as Hermione shouted once again in protest and Dan went down the stairs back to the living room to do whatever he usually did.
"Sorry about him." Hermione said with an embarrassed expression at her dad's antics and shook his head.
"Nah… Don't think about it too much. And don't hesitate to hug me if you ever feel the need to do so." He said with a grin but was surprised when she did indeed hug him once again.
"Thank you for the gift Harry. You're the only one who has ever given me any gifts." She said while hugging him and he lightly frowned at her words.
Had Penelope and Daphne not given her anything?
Oh well, he'll talk with them at some later date.
For now, he just needed to enjoy the comfort brought to him by his hug machine.
Just as he thought that, his MP Pro started to vibrate in his pocket and he sighed at the timing before taking it out and accepting the call from Mia.
"What is it Mia?" he asked, knowing fully well that she would not have called him without a proper reason.
"Harry. Some aurors have come to the shop and are threatening us to close it down. They are also asking for you to present yourself to them. Ted Tonks along with Steve and the other guards are holding them off for now but those aurors seemed pretty determined to close the shop."
"Is that so. Wait a few moments for me. I'm coming." He said and cut the connection before looking at Hermione who was looking back at him with concerned eyes.
"Don't worry. A few idiots won't be able to close down my shop just like that." He said and kissed her on her forehead before standing up from the bed. Thankful that Dan was not peeping at them again from the outside.
"I'll see you later." He said and went out of the wards surrounding the house before apparating away.
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By the time he came to the front of the shop, the situation was already looking pretty bad.
Five aurors stood on the opposite side with their wands pointed at his Steve, Ted and the other employees.
The leading auror was someone whom he recognized as John Dawlish from the movies. He was currently in a fierce argument about with Ted Tonks about something while Steve looked on with worried expression.
Poor guy.
He would not have seen such intense confrontations back in the muggle world.
Unfortunately, the magical world was just that corrupt and rotten.
A wave of his wand and all the sound in the near vicinity went down at once.
The auror kept moving his mouth for a little while longer before he realized what had happened and looked around frantically before the auror's frantic eyes met his.
He calmly walked in between the two groups and removed the silencing charm. But before the auror could get another word in, he turned to the guards surrounding Steve and Ted.
"Lower your wands."
The guards looked uncertainly at each other before they followed his command.
"Now everyone go back to the shop. Ted, you wait here." He ordered and Steve along with the rest of them gave him a worried look but followed his command nonetheless.
With that done, he turned to aurors who were now looking apprehensively and asked "Now gentlemen. Let's talk."
John Dawlish stared at him for a moment before he said "You will close your shop and then you'll come with us to the ministry."
"And why would I do that?" he asked nonchalantly.
"Because I asked you to." The auror replied.
"And why would you ask me to come to the ministry with you so spontaneously. I don't remember breaking any law or performing some kind of injustice."
"Don't be a smart ass boy. Just come quietly or you'll regret it." He threatened and Harry let out a yawn before turning to Ted Tonks who was standing on the side.
"Tell me uncle Ted. If a auror come to me spontaneously and asks to come with him without giving any proper reason. Then would I be breaking some kind of law by not going with him."
"No. If the auror wants to apprehend you for something then they must give the appropriate reasons and show some kind of evidence in order to apprehend you. And yes, you can refuse to go them to the ministry if they fail to give an appropriate reason for apprehending you."
"Then I refuse." He said with a shrug while looking at John who was practically fuming at the disrespect he was being shown.
"If you have nothing else then I must going." He said and turned to leave before John shouted once again.
"The minister wants you in the ministry boy. Do you think you can just walk away if you want?"
Harry turned around to face the auror once again and threw him a bored look and said "I was under the assumption that the aurors are only supposed to follow the direct orders from the head of the DMLE or their own seniors during crisis time. I've never heard about the Minister having the power to command the aurors." He said and turned to Ted once again "Have the laws regarding such a thing changed recently Uncle Ted?"
Ted shook his head at his question "Nope. The aurors assigned to the Minister are only supposed to act as his bodyguard and nothing more. To see one of them acting like an errand boy is quite surprising actually."
The auror bristled at being called an errand boy and pointed his wand at him and snarled "You think you're pretty smart with your laws and bullshit. Let me tell you another law you brat. Come with me or I'll blow your brains all over the street."
The aurors standing behind looked worriedly at John while Ted who was standing beside Harry took out his wand as well.
Harry watched all of this with a bored expression before he yawned once again.
"Do it."
"What?" the auror looked at him shock and incomprehension and he repeated himself.
"Do it. Blow my brains all over the street. Go on. I'm waiting right here. And I won't even more." He said and his hands twitched in anticipation of the battle that might occur any moment now.
"You think I'm joking with you boy." John growled but there was now a look of uncertainty in his gaze.
By now the people in Diagon Alley had had already noticed the commotion and coming their way, trying to find out what was happening. The aurors of course could not murder the boy-who-lived in cold blood like this.
"Of course not. Go ahead and show me the law of 'Do what I say or I'll blow your brains.' I'm rather curious about how it works."
Despite the fact that he had not worked on his dueling skills for some time because of the large amount of work he had to do for the company, he was sure that if he used his cloaks and all the other weapons in his possession then he could easily go against Flitwick and come out on top.
And compared to Flitwick, who had won the International Dueling Championship multiple times, John Dawlish was nothing but a low chump.
It was not that he was underestimating the auror but he was just that confident in his skills.
John raised his wand and pointed it at him, looking like he might actually be stupid enough to attack him in but the female auror behind John looked nervously at her leader and said "John. I think this is getting a bit out of hand. I don't think the minister would…"
"Shut your trap Meledy. If I needed your opinion then I would have asked for it." He shouted and the woman flinched before lowering her wand that had until now been pointed at Ted.
"What do you think you're doing Meledy?" John growled and the woman shook her head at his question.
"You're making a huge mistake here John. I did not join the auror forces so that we could threaten young boys like this. I'm out."
"Like hell you are. Who do you think you are you mudblood bitch. Do you think that you can…"
"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" a loud voice interrupted his charade as Amilia Bones pushed aside the people crowding around them and entered the scene along with Kingsley Shacklebolt and Nymphadora Tonks.
"I asked you a question Auror John Dawlish. What do you think you are doing pointing your wand at one of your own collegues?" she asked harshly and the auror flinched under her gaze before he took a deep breath and said "She was not following orders maam."
"No that's not…" the female auror's protest was cut off by another harsh gaze by Amelia Bones.
Damn, the woman must have been the queen of glares.
"I'll come back to you." Amelia told the female auror before she turned back to John Dawlish "And what orders did you gave them Auror John?"
"I told them to apprehend the boy and she refused to give me her support."
Amelia scrutinized the auror like he was some kind of fool before he asked "And you the help of five aurors to apprehend Mr Potter for whatever crimes he may have committed? Am I hearing that right Auror John?"
The auror's cheeks turned red in shame and embarrassment before he gathered his courage and spoke up once again "The target was resisting Madam Bones."
Amelia turned to look at him this time and asked "Is that correct Mr Potter?"
He just gave a nonchalant shrug in return to her inquiry "I can deny his claims but then it'll just be his words against mine. So why don't you take my memory of this incident instead and we then everything will be clear at once."
At his words, all the color from John's face drained instantly and said "There's no need for that boy. Anyone with a bit of knowledge about memories could tell you that they can be altered so memories are thus not used as evidence in trails."
Harry gave the man a bored look and said "You're correct Auror John Dawlish. But anyone who knows anything about memories also know that it takes a lot of time and someone every experienced in the mind arts to change memories like that. None of us here, no matter how experienced in mind arts would have the time required to alter our memories. So there should not be any problem with using them as evidence. Isn't that correct Madam Bones?"
Amelia gave him a curt nod and said "You're correct Mr Potter. However, after you all give me your memory of the incident here, I'll still have to ask everyone of you to come with me to the DMLE office so that I can take your statements."
Harry gave a short shrug before he took out the memory from his mind and gave it to Amelia, who surprised him by putting the memory in her MP Pro instead of a vial.
Huh… he had not known that she had bought a Magical Phone from his company. And to use it like this.
She was not half bad.
He gave her a smirk and she gave him a curt nod in reply before taking the memories from John, who was looking rather distressed at this point, Ted Tonks and the other aurors.
Then they went to the public Floo in order to get to the Ministry.
They had an auror to fuck with after all.
And while none of the people were paying attention to him, he sent another copy of his memory to his own MP Pro and sent it to Steve who would know what to do with the memory.
He grinned at the thought of what was about to happen.
Author's Note- This chapter was twice the length of a normal chapter.
And yes, Hedwig has joined the group as well.
Unfortunately, Hedwig won't be a major or even a minor character in this fanfic as she is not Harry's familiar and won't be used all that much because of the invention of Magical Phones.
Plus, some fluff between Hermione and Harry.
I know some people don't like this pairing and I apologize for the people who didn't like this story because of their pairing.
I am actually not very good at writing romance and might have gone in the wrong path because of my inexperience.
Still I hope you guys liked the chapter.
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