A/N I would like to issue an apology to all my loyal readers/followers of this story. Its been a while since I have updated Pureblood Supremacist. I feel bad about it. Sorry. One change that is going to take effect is in Chapter 14 I mentioned that at one time England was a fair society where all blood types were treated equally. I am changing it to Wizarding Britain was never a fair society. That is why they are trying to change the feelings of the general public. I felt I missed up when I was explaining that point of the Shadow Order.
I cant start this chapter until I give away the disclaimer.
I do not own anything associated with the Harry Potter universe. That goes to JKR.
Chapter 15: Shadow Order Planning
Harry woke up the day after the meeting a little bit tense like something was going to happen. He knew that he was safe here at Potter Manor but that still didn't calm his uneasiness. He just couldn't shake the feeling any longer so in order to take his mind off whatever was bothering him he decided to grab his Firebolt and take it for a flight around the Potter property. Harry grabbed the broom from its special storage space inside the shed and mounted that broom. After taking off Harry flew around the property and started thinking about the Shadow Order. Harry realized although they had a general idea on what the Shadow Order was going to accomplish they still didn't have specifics and that was what was troubling Harry it seemed. Deciding to go find Hermione, he landed and went straight to the library where he knew he could find her. Hiding behind a stack of books so tall that a double-decker bus would be easily hidden was Hermione.
"Hermione, what are you researching?" Harry smiled at her.
"Well, just looking up some general defensive magic that we could cover in the next meeting of the Order." Hermione told Harry without evening looking up. Harry just had to shake his head. Nothing could tear Hermione away from studying, nothing.
"Well, I just came back from flying and I had a great idea. Why don't we visit your parents this morning. You haven't seen them in over 3 weeks." Harry smiled over at her.
"That's a great idea Harry but how are we going to get there? It is not like you have been there before so you have no clue where you are going." Hermione looked Harry in the eyes.
"Well I don't but you do. Remember when you accepted the promise ring you can also set the destination on the Potter Ring. Here lets get going." Harry said offering Hermione his hand. Hermione grabbed his hand and they were off to see her parents. Harry was a little nervous because he has never met them before and after all he was pretty much engaged to their daughter. They arrived at a nice looking house on the North Side of London. Hermione practically ran up to the front door. Harry on the other hand slowly made his way to Hermione's side. Nodding over to Hermione, Harry turned and rang the door bell. A women who looked like a carbon albeit older copy of Hermione answered the door. When the lady saw who was at the door she put a huge smile on her face and ushered Hermione and Harry in.
"Hermione, its so good to see you. I've missed you." Mrs. Granger said giving Hermione a gigantic hug.
"Same here Mom. Where is Dad?"
"He is out working on his cars again. I tell you, that man spends more time working on his cars then working in a week." Mrs. Granger said rolling her eyes.
"Well can you call him please I have some things I want to talk to you guys about." Hermione said in a cheerful tone. After a couple minutes Harry noticed a man walk into the sitting room. Harry immediately noticed this was not a man who should be crossed, he looked like the type of person who would kill you just by staring at you. When he noticed Harry in the room, his smile immediately fell.
"Hermione it is so nice to see you. Who is this boy?" Mr. Granger motioned over to Harry. Harry was scared but he had to guess this was how all Dads acted when his little girl brought a friend over that was a guy. Harry felt that he would probably end up doing the same thing if he had a girl and she did the same thing.
"Mr. Granger, my name is Harry Potter and I have been friends with Hermione since first year." Harry moved towards Mr. Granger his arm extended. Mr. Granger shook his hand, but Harry could tell it was more of a forced politeness.
"Well Mr. Potter, why are you here?" Harryd decided most of the truth would be good here. They wouldn't spend time covering the magic aspect of it. Harry and Hermione already decided that they would ask them to join the Shadow Order as adults. They knew stuff as Muggle adults that Dudley wouldn't know.
"Well Mom and Dad since both of you are here now I think Harry and I can talk to you about why we are here." Hermione smiled at them. Hermione continued to talk.
"We are really here to just visit, however there are other reasons why we are here. The biggest reason I could say is that Harry and I are pretty much considered engaged by wizarding customs." Mr. Granger practically jumped out of his seat at this turn of events.
"ENGAGED? Hermione you are only 15. No I will not have any of that." Mr. Granger was glaring daggers at Harry.
"Dad, calm down. Yes, we are practically engaged but not engaged. Harry offered me his mothers old promise ring. A promise ring in the Wizarding world means that Harry at some later date to promise to ask for my hand in marriage." Mr. Granger still looked like he wouldn't calm down.
"Mr. Granger, yes I did offer your daughter a promise ring however that was to prevent her from being forced into marriage with somebody else. In the Wizarding world, a Muggleborn like Hermione is pretty much considered property. I wasn't about to let that happen to Hermione. I care for her too much." Harry had to avoid looking away from Mr. Grangers eyes. Harry felt that if he would have looked away he would have shown weakness.
"What do you mean property? I thought that dowries were outlawed in England?"
"They were Dad. However that law does not apply to Wizarding culture. Even though Wizarding Britain is part of Her Majesty's kingdom they are a separate country all together. I would think the only Muggles who have any idea that a separate culture in England is Her Majesty, other High ranking members of Parliament and Muggles like parents of students attending Hogwarts. They is a law called the Statute of Secrecy that basically states Muggles are not to be informed about magic. Plus Dad Wizarding Culture, at least Britain is still stuck in the Victorian times. That's another reason why Harry and I want to talk to you."
"So what you are telling me is that the lady who came before your first year lied when she said Muggleborns have equal rights." Hermiones Mom started to look unhappy.
"Unfortunately yes, It is really the rich and the purebloods control Wizarding Britain. However Harry and I have a group that is starting to form an underground movement to try to make a fairer society. We have people from all oppressed groups even a couple purebloods. We were thinking of asking you to join us."
"Is your friend Ronald Weasley also part of this group" At the mention of his name both Harry and Hermiones smiles became a lot more forced. Harry decided to answer this question.
"He and I used to be considered best mates and with Hermione we were known as the Golden Trio. However this summer I found out he was paid to be my friend and he was supposed to be given Hermione for his cooperation. Meanwhile I would be married to his sister Ginny because she looked like my Mom. Basically the only people who I am talking to in that family are his two older brothers Fred George."
"So your also telling me that Hermione was pretty much given away because this boy wanted something else in return of being your friend." Harry almost felt bad for Ron. The way Mr. Granger was looking, it didn't matter that he knew no magic, he would kill Ron anyway. While Harry was having this thought he went another tangent and thought maybe the Shadow Order should be trained in Muggle warfare. After all, if a Muggle was using a handgun they could probably get off 2-3 shots at least by the time that a wizard was able to fire the killing curse.
"Yes, that is the gist of what I am trying to say. Will you guys be willing to join the Shadow Order?" Harry looked at each of them in turn. Mrs. Granger looked a little hesitant and Mr. Granger only had his jaw set in a grim smile.
"Well because the lady that visited us lied and the fact that our daughter is basically treated like a slave if you guys need any help just let us know." Mr. Granger answered for the both of them.
"Thank you Mom and Dad. Harry why don't you give the portkeys to one of your properties?" Hermione said. Harry nodded and brought out two watch attachments that functioned as portkeys for Muggles. He received this technology from Ragnok the last time he was at Gringotts. After showing them how to use the portkey they sat down to a nice lunch. As they were enjoying the dessert that Mrs. Granger prepared a knocking sound was heard from the front door. Harry sneaked over to the front sitting room and looked to see who was at the door Harry was amazed. How did Dumbledore find them here?
"Mr. and Mrs. Granger would you please open the door? I have to talk to you about your daughter." Harry noticed even though Dumbledore was asking kindly he was fiddling with his want looking like he was waiting for a reason to open the door.
"Coming." Mrs. Granger said. While Mrs. Granger and Mr. Granger were making their way toward the front door, Harry and Hermione snuck around so they were in the closet in the living room. From there they could hear everything that was being said in the sitting room.
"Mrs. Granger thank you for seeing me." Dumbledore said just walking into the house, eyes twinkling madly. Mr. Granger however wasn't taking any of this.
"We didn't invite you inside sir. I don't know who you are." Mr. Granger stepped in front of Dumbledore. Dumbledore just smiled at him with a look that said I don't give a care.
"I am sorry for not introducing myself. My name in Professor Albus Dumbledore and I am the Headmaster at Hogwarts." Dumbledore then made his way to the sitting room and sat down at one of the sofas.
"I don't care who you are, you could be the Queen. I own this house and unless you decide to tell me why you are here I will have to call the authorities and have you arrested for breaking and entering." Mr. Granger sounded like he was really angry.
"I don't think we need to involve the authorities. I only came here to talk to about Hermione and a certain Harry Potter." Dumbledore said like that solved all problems.
"What does your visit have to deal with my daughter?"
"I must warn you. Harry Potter has entered an illegal relationship with Hermione. Hermione is in trouble. Harry Potter has been known to use dark spells on females so they bend to his wishes. Hermione is already in a committed relationship with her best friend Ronald Weasley. I must urge you to contact me whenever Hermione shows up here so we can rescue her from the clutches of a truly evil boy. She is also a bad influence on him. He needs somebody who can look out for him whenever he gets in trouble. We might be able to save the both of them." Dumbledore sounded like he was smiling. Harry and Hermione on the other hand were fuming while they were hiding. Dumbledore couldn't get on Harry's good side so he was trying some pretty underhand tactics. With that Dumbledore made his way out of the house. All the other occupants in the house let out a deep breath as they avoided some major trouble. Harry and Hermione waited for a couple minutes to make sure the coast was clear before getting out of the closet.
"Was this guy telling the truth being honest with us?" Mrs. Granger said because Mr. Granger looked like he couldn't talk.
"No Mom he wasn't. Most people see him as a great wizard however Harry and I discovered he is the type of person who resorts to some pretty underhanded tactics to get people to do what he wants. He is a great manipulator. All he goes on about it is the "the Greater Good" but nobody has any idea what he is talking about." Hermione gave her Mom a hug who looked relieved.
"Mr. and Mrs. Granger thank you for having us. We better get going before we are discovered here. Remember if you are ever in trouble use the portkeys I provided you guys with. When you get to your intended destination just call out Star and somebody will then let us know you in trouble." With that Hermione and Harry walked out the back door, neither of them noticed Professor Snape follow them and cast a tracking spell on them. While the two of them went back to the Manor Snape went back to Hogwarts and went up to Professor Dumbledores office.
"Sir, when I cast the tracking spell on Potter and Granger I noticed the same thing you did. I ended up in the same field that you kept landing in. That might be where they are hiding. " Snape said all in a sneer.
"That is very good Severus. I think I have figured out where Harry and Hermione are hiding. If I remember correctly that is probably Potter Manor." Dumbledore inwardly smiled. He would just have to go to Knockturn Alley and get some curse breakers and maybe he could break down the wards on Potter Manor. He was never in Potter Manor but if the rumor was true it had a library that rivaled the Library at Alexandria Dumbledore would finally be able to have time to really research how to take down Voldemort. Muggles believed that the Library was destroyed and all that ancient history was lost. What they didn't know was Egypt wizards hid it.
"That will be tough to break into. Most of those Family Manor houses have better wards than Hogwarts." Snape said knowing full well what Dumbledore was thinking.
"Now that I know where he is staying I have a feeling I might be able to use this to my advantage. I think I will write him a letter. Thank you for your help Severus. You will be rewarded greatly." With that Albus got out some parchment and Severus made his way out of the room.
Dear Harry
I have been searching for where you have been hiding for the past couple weeks and I think I have been able to narrow it down to one location, Potter Manor. Yes, Harry I know about Potter Manor. I just didn't think you would go and hide at that location. I give you credit, I would have thought you would have hidden somewhere in Muggle London. I just ask that you drop the wards surrounding the place so I can inspect them to make sure they are proper and up to date. Potter Manor has been around since the early 1100's the wards are probably not as strong as they were when they were cast. I would also like a chance to see the Potter Library because we don't have access to the Black Library and I would like to research how Voldemort gained all his power. I would also like to know if you would be willing to continue to run the D.A. again this year.
With Regards,
Albus Dumbledore, Professor Dumbledore, Headmaster at Hogwarts
Albus smiled as he cast the tracking charm on envelope. Harry didn't know that the reason he found out about Potter Manor was that even though the Goblins killed Killaxe for being discovered as a spy, Dumbledore had other people who had sources inside Gringotts. If Harry didn't let him come to Potter Manor, Dumbledore would have a talk with him when Harry came to Hogwarts. Dumbledore wanted him to sign up for Auror classes and he would suggest that idea when Harry and he met after the Sorting Feast. The public would look more highly on Harry when he went off and fought Voldemort, and when Harry did end up killing Voldemort, the betrayal of Harry Potter would be even greater.
Meanwhile at Potter Manor Harry received the letter that Dumbledore sent him. Harry had to decide is he was angrier or just confused on what Dumbledore was up to. Harry knew he was a great manipulator who always made himself looks good, didn't matter who ended up getting thrown under the proverbial bus. Harry decided it was time for another Shadow Order meeting because Harry had come up with some ideas during the day. Harry pressed his wand tip to his Shadow Order coin and all members would get the message that a meeting was coming up. It worked on the same principle as the D.A with some major improvements. Harry refused to call it the Dumbledore Army anymore because of this summer. While Harry waited for the meeting to start, Harry decided to check out and see what Hermione was researching.
"Hello, Hermione, what you up to at the moment?" Harry sat down next her massive pile of books.
"I am just looking up ways charms can work with Muggle equipment and electronics. The Potter library has some amazing books on Muggles and their devices and it's pretty up to date also."
"Yes, that's what Ragnok and Star told me, I guess any new book that comes out, The Potter family automatically gets a copy of. Some of these books are from America, Germany, even Asia."
"Yes, the books that were from different countries are actually a lot more modern than any of the books we use at Hogwarts." Hermione was shaking her head at education. For priding itself on one of the premiere magical schools in the entire world they were pretty far behind on the times.
"Well what would you expect from a set of people who refuse to attempt to move forward. That is one of the reasons why I decided to have meeting tonight. I had a couple good ideas that I would like to vocalize and here other people's opinion on. Speaking of which, Hermione let's get ready for the meeting. I have it at the same place as before." With that Harry and Hermione cleaned up the library a little bit and made their way to the Potter House in London. Once they arrived at the location, they set up the meeting room, calling Dobby and Winky to help with the prep of the area.
Harry and Hermione finished with the setup of the meeting at exactly 8 o'clock. The first person to arrive was Dudley who was still in awe of Harry's wealth. Once everybody had arrived and was seated the meeting could really start. Harry and Hermione had the meeting in sort of a informal setting where Harry and Hermione were facing the other members with a bulletin board behind them. Harry decided to start the meeting.
"Thank you guys for coming on such short notice. Before I talk about the reason for calling this meeting, I would like to hear what all of you have been doing with the missions that I assigned to all of you last night. Draco, why don't you start us off?" With that Harry sat down and Draco made his way to the front of the room.
"Well, Slytherin is pretty much all Dark Lord supporters like I mentioned last night. However I do know at least 3 people that we might be willing to approach. They are Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davies, and Blaise Zabini. Those are the only people I was able to contact. I have to be really careful on who I talk to." Harry nodded in understanding.
"Draco, why do you feel these members can be approached then?" Harry wanted to the reasoning behind Dracos choices.
"Well Blaise is a quiet person who keeps to himself. Daphne uses her ice queen persona to scare away people, and Tracey is best friends with Daphne." With that Draco sat down.
'Thank you Draco, Neville how are you doing with the Hufflepuffs and Gryffindor." Harry looked over at Neville.
"Well, Hannah Abbott and Susan Bones would definitely follow you, Ernie MacMillan could use some convincing. On the Gryffindor side of things Seamus and Dean are a definite yes."
"Thanks Neville, I think Seamus and Dean are good choices. I know they hate Ron so it's a plus on our side. What about you Luna."
"Well, I think I will have to wait until school starts before talking with anybody."
"That's okay Luna just take your time. Fred and George how about your other brothers."
"Well, Bill, Charlie and my dad would be yeses and in a surprise Percy but it might stem from his hatred of Dumbledore. Another person could be Fluer seeing as she is dating Bill which created a huge fight with our dear old Mom." Harry would still have to get used to the fact that Fred and George could be serious sometimes. Hermione decided to interject with a piece of advice.
"From what I am seeing with surprising people maybe being interested I think it comes back an actual Muggle saying, which basically translates to our common enemy leads to an acquaintance." After all members reported to Harry about their missions Harry was finally able to tell them why they were here today.
"Okay, now that that's all out of the way I can finally tell you guys why you are here tonight. I had some really good ideas over the day and I feel these should be brought up. The biggest one is how are we going to fight. Neville any ideas?" Harry wanted to see what purebloods who had no idea about Muggle warfare to answer this question another reason why Dudley was here.
"Well I guess we could learn Auror level and beyond magic." Neville looked confused when he was saying this.
"We could but that's not the point I am trying to make. The point I am trying to get across is thinking outside the proverbial box. For those people who are confused on what I am talking about, it's a saying to think of a new solution to a problem that may be way out there. One of the ideas I came up with is learning Muggle warfare." Harry was quiet for a moment just to judge everybody's reactions.
"What do you mean Muggle warfare? Wouldn't spells be a lot easier to learn." Draco still had a little pureblood prejudiced in him.
"It could be easier but what I was going for was the fact a person trained in Muggle firearms could fire off 2-3 shots easily by the time the killing curse was said. If the person was a good shot, they might already kill you. There are about 5.2 Billion Muggles in the world now. There are probably only about 100,000 total wizards and witches in the world today, so that's why an all out war on the Muggle Population would be not the smartest idea." All purebloods were shocked. They have been taught that Muggles don't have magic so they are defenseless to all attacks. Draco was the first one to speak.
"So now that we have that established, who is going to teach us Muggle warfare." Harry had to smile at his planning.
"Well I know Mr. Granger was a member of British Special Forces. I am sure he might be able to help us out. He is the type of person who you want on your side instead of against you. Are we all in agreement that Muggle Warfare would be a good way to go." Everybody nodded except for Luna. "Yes Luna do you have question to ask?"
"Yes, how is this group going to be funded, because most of the Muggle objects that you mentioned sounds like it costs a lot of money."
"Don't worry about the money Luna, everything that needs to be bought I will use my money on. I have a ton of money to use and its wasting space if it's not being used plus I don't think we will end up spending over 5.5 Billion Galleons. Okay now that's taken care of I think we can start talking about the next point I wanted to bring up and that is the structure of the group." Harry grabbed a glass of water that the elves left on the table for them to use.
"What do you mean Po..Harry, I thought you would be running this group and making all the decisions." Draco Malfoy still had trouble getting over his old habit of calling him Potter instead of Harry.
"I was thinking that but then I realized that this would make our group too much like the two main groups I am trying to get away from or neutralize. Does that make sense to you?"
"Sure does Harry. I guess I wasn't thinking of that." Draco looked like he was telling the truth. Hermione who decided to use her intelligence caught up what Harry was trying to say.
"I have an idea on what we should do for the group structure. We still should have a leader, which is probably going to be you Harry. We should also have a inner group that leads the main fighting force, a group that is good with charms and such, sort of like a research and development department, infiltration into enemy groups would also be a good section to have, I guess the last section would probably be made up of people who their primary objective is to make sure that the Shadow Order is running smoothly. Even though people would be part of separate entities in the group they could still help out in other areas that need help." With that Hermione drew a graph on the bulletin board to show how the Shadow Order would then be laid out.
"Thank you Hermione for that great plan. I knew there was a reason you are my best friend. Okay, anybody want to volunteer for any of the subgroup?" Several people rose their hands including Dudley which surprised Harry. 'Yes Dudley what group would you like to spend time focusing on?"
"Well, cousin, I would like to be mostly part of the fighters. I know I have no magical experience in me but I feel that I can be a help seeing as I love playing Command and Conquer. Strategy games appealed to me so I might be able to help you guys with developing a strategy for your battles." Harry had to inwardly smile at the irony of that statement. The previous Dudley was just known for fighting, Harry liked this Dudley a lot better. After Dudley volunteered everybody else gave their spiel to Harry. After it was all said and done Draco, Neville, Remus and Dudley wanted to concentrate on the fighting aspect of the group, Luna, Hermione, Fred and George were part of the Research and Development group and Hermione and Draco, surprisingly wanted to help run the group. Dobby, Winky and Ragnok all wanted to help infiltrate their species and Harry decided that everybody should spend time working on infiltrating other parts of wizarding culture.
"Thank you everybody for volunteering for each of the subgroups. I guess the last bit I would like to cover would be what should be the plans for the Shadow Order and how would we go about doing this. I say we take a five minute break then come back and create what our objectives are going to be." After everybody came back from the little break they all hashed out an idea of which way was the Shadow Order was headed. Hermione wrote the list down and made copies for everybody. Harry looked over the list and had to smile. It looked very complete.
Shadow Order Objectives and Timeline
-Spend time training in both Wizarding and Muggle Warfare for the rest of the summer.
-During the first Month of school recruit possible member s, reveal the secret of the Order when the oath has been signed.
-Find somebody that can be a fake Daniel Watson
-After Harry's trial, start secretly infiltrating The Order of the Phoenix, Ministry, and Wizengamot, look for possible infiltration of the Death Eaters
-Start to sponsor (secretly) laws that would make purebloods less effective, but word laws that Purebloods lose power through loopholes.
-Secretly create a dossier on Tom Marvolo Riddle
-Start suggesting potential missions for the Order of the Phoenix
-Start researching ways to destroy Voldemort
-Prepare for final battle
-Act like Harry and Dumbledore are on the same side again
-Secretly create Law that Harry cannot be charged with crimes committed during the war
-Reveal that Harry is Lord Potter-Black
-Final Battle with Voldemort
-Start working on creating a fairer Wizarding society, use blackmail if needed
"Well I think that is all I feel like covering tonight. Thank you all for coming." With that everybody left for wherever they needed to go. Harry and Hermione portkeyed back to Potter Manor. Hermione made her way to bed, but Harry decided to write a letter to his esteemed Headmaster first.
Dear Professor Dumbledore
I do not appreciate the fact that you know where I am hiding. The wards are completely acceptable by my standards. I will not tell you how the wards work because it is a Potter Family Secret and since your last name is not Albus Potter you have no right to know. On that same token, I will not grant you access to Potter Library with the same reason. You might have still had access to the Black Library if you would have handled things a little bit differently. I might consider continuing the D.A this fall because I feel that everybody has a right to protect themselves. I am sure you are going to ask me to meet with you after the Welcoming Feast about the D.A. Let me make this clear, when we have this meeting, I will come to this meeting with a list of conditions that I would like met, if they are not met to my standards I will abandon reforming the Student Defense Group. Its for the "greater good"
Mr. Harry Potter
Harry sent the letter off and then retired for the evening.
A/N This ends Chapter 15. It took me over a week to write this chapter and I went through 6 different versions before settling on this one. I will start writing Chapter 16 in the coming couple of weeks. I have a couple of tough classes this semester and with work hours increased it will be written probably in 30 minute intervals. Finally, I am thinking about finally getting a beta for my story. If anybody would be interested in doing that shoot me a PM and ill look over your work.
Ginnyfan99-Ron always struck me as a jealous, not the sharpest knife in the drawer type.
AprilUnderground-I didn't think about those two countries, thank you for bringing it up. I guess I thought of the US because well once reason im from the US.
Ravenclaw-Girl28- Good job bringing up Hermiones Parents, I always enjoy reading stories where Mr. Granger kicks Wizarding butt.
Bethrothed-to-a-ferret- Good mission for Dudley, I might just have to do that. Thanks for the idea
Silkentracker-Your right, enemies should just hand over their wands now
Troyguffey-I always thought Dumbledore was blinded by his own fame too much, in canon I really didn't like the fact that everybody toke Dumbledores word as it was.
Until Next Time,
Hrddawg306