Chapter Sixteen: Welcome to the Future.

Harry walked with Diana, two Amazon royal guards, Daphne, Fleur, and Kara. One could say Harry didn't lack any backup in the Ministry of Magic on this day and many people would be right. The bodyguards weren't to protect Harry from any harm, but would be rather to deter people from doing something so stupid.

"So, it's settled, you're heading off for a vacation after this is over," Diana said. She paused for a long moment and turned to Harry with a smile. "Or are you going to stick around and enjoy the fireworks when they go off?"

"You know, as much as I'm amused with the fallout, I figure it's best to just leave," Harry said. "And I've been looking forward to this trip for a long time."

"But not as much as the Amazons have," Kara said. Her mischievous gaze looked towards her. "Right….and the goddesses gave their full consent for this little trip."

"Yes, which means they must be up to something," Diana said. She paused for a second and amended her statement. "Not I'm accusing the goddesses of being up to anything, but they rarely give out their blessing without payment."

Harry figured any single amount of payment the goddesses were up to would be more than worth it. Regardless, the young man stepped inside the chambers of the Wizengamot. The members of the press crowded around and one of them took a step forward to Harry.

"Is it true, Mr. Potter, you're snapping your wand and becoming a Muggle after your disappointment of how the entire Triwizard Tournament was handled?"

Harry allowed himself the slightest shadow of a smile. Leaning forward, Harry swept his eyes over the ground at hand.

"I prefer to keep my wand as a reminder. But this is not about me tonight."

"Yes," Daphne said. She stood to Harry's left side, with Kara taking his right side as well. Fleur and Diana further closed the circle around them. "Remember, today is the day where this community changes."

"Will people like the change?"

"Well," Harry said. He chose his next few words carefully, not wanting to let the cat out of the bag until it was the right moment. "People seldom do swallow change well…..unless it benefits them. There are a lot of people in this Ministry who will call for my head, but there will be countless more who will flourish."

The press chatted amongst themselves. Harry locked eyes with all of the girls. They knew a good portion of what Harry accomplished. Had it not been for this entire mess with the Triwizard Tournament, and trying to force him to compete, Harry would have waited to drop this bombshell three years for now.

The problems which started to show would be even worse three years from now.

"You think I'm going to start a rebellion, don't you?" Harry asked.

"If by a rebellion, you mean people are going to finally think for themselves, then I say yes," Daphne said.

"Well, there will always be those who follow the strongest leader," Fleur said. She gave Harry a shadow of a smile. "And you should use it to your advantage, wouldn't you say?"

Harry agreed, the sympathy card he received after being the victim of some kind of plot needed to be cashed in pretty soon, if he wanted to accomplish his goals.

"Crouch Junior died this morning," Nym said, joining them as part of security detail. The Auror noticed how obsolete she happened to be, given Harry had been flanked by Amazon guards.

"Result of the so called magical contract?" Daphne asked.

"My mother reckons it was because of him trying to forge Harry's name to the contract," Nym said. "However he died, it was painful."

"Given the atrocities he was capable of, I can't say I'm too sad," Daphne said.

"And his father wasn't too much better," Kara said. Her tone sounded fairly serious. "Although he tried to hide his misdeeds under the guise of upholding the law and justice."

Kara knew one thing to be true and those who tried to fight for justice often ended up the most brutal of them all. Granted, no matter what, a person would end up a hero in one person's story and a villain in another person's story.

The Wizengamot members started to file in the chambers. Harry noticed in an instant none of them looked too pleased at the Amazon guards standing next to Harry. Some of them muttered something.

"Good day, Mr. Potter, I hope you'll well," Amelia Bones said.

"Hello, Madam Bones….hopefully you've been able to get some sleep," Harry said, shaking her hand. "But, I can understand why you wouldn't."

"Eight members of Fudge's staff have been put away, and the ex-Minister himself is up next on the chopping block," Amelia said.

"It's hard to believe someone of Fudge's stellar reputation would ever be accused of any misdeeds," Fleur said.

Amelia heard the whispers of bribery for years, but the evidence Narcissa Black sent to her got the ball rolling. Her husband managed to keep a log of all of his financial transactions to ensure he knew where all of the Malfoy gold went.

In the end, the remainder of the Malfoy family gold funded the business ventures of Harry Potter.

"But, today isn't about Fudge," Amelia said. "I'm curious of what you intend to do, Mr. Potter."

"Well, as someone who is well-versed in law, surely you may have an idea?"

Amelia understood by the hints what Harry intended. She would have been a fool not to understand and he might have been one of the few to actually pull it off without being cut off at the knees and buried alive by the old crowd. Dumbledore could have enacted this a long time ago, but he craved the status quo about as much as anyone.

"Well, it would be a shame to lose you," Amelia said.

"Well, I won't be so far away, if this world steps out of it isolation."

The cryptic nature of Harry's statement made Amelia a fair bit curious. She would find out sooner rather than later if her hunch happened to be right.

Regardless, Harry addressed one of the biggest crowds to assemble at the Wizengamot since the Death Eater trials after the fall of Lord Voldemort. Ironic enough, given the Death Eater trials started the rapid fire decay into the state of Britain, and a lot of the other International Confederation of Wizard sponsored countries. They moved further away from their roots for each passing day.

"Hello," Harry said. "For those who don't recognize me, my name is Harry Potter."

Kara tried not to smile, and Daphne's grin spread over her face. Nym almost lost her composure completely, and Diana rolled her eyes at the entire thing. No matter what, in Kara's mind, the statement would never become old.

"Over the past years, I've made a decision to withdraw from the British magical community," Harry said. Judging by the gasps coming from the crowd, Harry might as well have insulted someone's mother from what he said. Regardless, he pressed on. "I feel the lack of security regarding the Triwizard Tournament, which we were ensured to be safe, allowed me to make this decision."

"So, what, are you just leaving us? You realize what it will do to us if you leave."

"Well, I hope it will give you a chance to flourish," Harry said.

"It is a much needed wakeup call," Fleur said. Harry offered the Veela princess the floor and she took it. "I think Britain could be a noble and great part of the magical community again, but they are coasting off past reputation and the way they treat sentient magical creatures is appalling."

Many heads hung in shame and many other people murmured angrily. Kara frowned and looked about ready to jump in to say something. Harry gripped Kara's arm.

"History of Magic at Hogwarts, well it's not the best subject if you want to learn about history," Harry said. "If you can power through staying awake long enough, you might be able to get a somewhat interesting view of magical history. If you're into Goblin rebellions."

Binns had been pretty old when he died and he had been a ghost as long as people could remember, so no one quite knew when his last live lecture was.

"Regardless, at one time, this Ministry was a branch of the sanctioned government once upon a time," Harry said. "But, the differences between running a magical and standard government became to be too vast. Therefore, the protocol was initiated. I won't bore you with the details, but the agreement would be, the Ministry would allow to run independently from the sanctioned government, providing the Ministry officials treated all of the citizens under their domain fairly. And any crimes from those born of non-magical parents would defer to the actual sanctioned government, and those who committed crimes against non-magicals would be put on a trial outside of the Ministry to prevent a conflict of interest."

Everyone sounded off with mutterings, wondering what Harry meant.

"To break it down," Andromeda said, breaking her silence for the first time. "The Ministry should have consulted with the sanctioned governments of the United Kingdom and Europe during the Death Eater trials, given the vast majority of their crimes occurred against non-magical."

"The result of breaking the protocol is the Ministry's sanction being removed," Harry said.

"You can't…you can't!"

"The Muggles will burn us if we couldn't hide!"

"The world is changing," Harry said. "At the rate non-magicals are improving, no magical person on Earth will be able to hide from detection for too long. It might be thirty years from now, it might be fifty, it might be another century, but it will come."

Everyone looked at Harry for a long moment. He figured they would give him a look like this. In one fell swoop, Harry obliterated the fact they were special.

"In the interest of fairness, Amelia Bones has agreed to put together a special council of trusted Ministry officials," Harry said. "And I'll give her the floor so she can tell you more about it."

"Yes, thank you, Mr. Potter," Amelia said. "The transition will take place over the next ninety days. A small adjustment in taxes will be needed to ease the burden. And everyone in the Ministry will get a chance to prove they are willing to help with this transition. This isn't the end, but a new beginning."

A few people clapped politely.

"The Auror department will be reimagined as a new and improved special task force," Amelia said.

Harry leaned back and really hoped everyone would be on the same page. A few people looked like they wanted to take a shot at Harry, but the look of the parties surrounding him, they thought better of it.

A few people in the Ministry understood what was needed to be done.

Harry smiled when the results of the NEWTs clutched in his hand. Overall, Harry smiled at the results of what he received in the examinations.

"So, are you satisfied?" Kara asked.

"Well, I can always do a bit better," Harry said. She smiled at him. "But, you know, for the highest marks I can receive, I did rather well."

If nothing else, the remarks rubbed into the face what they drove away. Harry purposely excelled just to show them what they could have had, if their attitudes had been a little bit different.

"Well, when you go for spite, at least you go all the way," Daphne said. "So, what a year this was, wasn't it?"

"Didn't really notice anything out of the ordinary," Kara said. Harry broke into a smile. "Granted, there was a couple of plots and plans, but overall, they were a bit uninspired."

Harry made his way off where Diana, Fleur, and Kori waited for them. Maxima would meet them on the island, so the gang was on here.

"So, we head to Paradise for a couple of weeks, and then it's the graduation party," Kara said.

"Oh, yes, it's going to end with a bang, I have a feeling," Kori said.

With Kori, no one could tell whether she meant her words innocently or in a naughty fashion. Regardless, Harry thought it would be interesting.

Would he cross paths with the Ministry? Well, they wouldn't be the Ministry anymore, they would be the British Department of Magical Affairs. The big announcement would take place this summer, revealing themselves to the world.

With super heroes active in every corner of the world, magical people seemed rather mundane in. Harry figured there would be a problem with them staying hidden for so long, but people always feared the unknown more than anything.

Regardless, the group made their way through the gateway. Harry entered the majestic wonder of Themyscira, with a new adventure around his corner, even if the world at large wouldn't bare witness to it.

The End.