Harry Potter: The Witty Wizard

Harry had his quickly polished off and was munching on a banana when he noticed the aurors suddenly move again. "It looks like this might be them now."

With his half-eaten banana in one hand he rose to make his way to meet the person. When Sirius rose, though, Harry pressed lightly on the man's shoulder and said, "Eat your lunch. I can take care of this."

Sirius just gave a grunt as he had food in his mouth and, for the moment, re-sat.

When the person came in to the parlour, a witch, she was frowning.

As soon as she saw Harry she said, "Lord Potter. This is a muggle home. I will not break the law by installing a floo connection in this muggle house." Then spun about to leave again.

"Oi!" he barked at her, causing her to spin back. "Stop jumping to conclusions, you stupid woman!"

As the witch stood there spluttering in indignation, he continued, "The floo connection is not for this home. It's for the property out the back!"

She finally found her voice and said, "The property I have listed is this home; a muggle one. I will not be installing a floo connection here."

"And I agree," he immediately shot back. "That's why I'm telling you... yet again... the property is out the back.

"Now, come with me and I'll show you."

Not waiting for the woman to even acknowledge him, he spun on his heel and stormed off to the stairs leading down to the lower ground floor. Her flicker of a sneer each time she said the word 'muggle' had annoyed him.

Obviously curious enough, the witch followed. She was still muttering to herself as she did so.

Once outside he led her to the 'Doghouse'. Indicating it, he said, "This is where you'll be installing the connection."

Still not waiting for her, he undid the lock and led her inside. Then, pointing to the fireplace, he said, "There."

"This is still the same property!" she declared with a huff.

Walking in through the door after he'd followed them down, Sirius said, "No, it's not."

Then he pulled out the Bill of Sale for the little building and said, "I own this building." And showed her the Bill.

Almost snatching it out of Sirius's hand with the hand that wasn't holding her clipboard she'd brought with her, she glared at it as she read it before thrusting it back. "It's still the same property!"

Starting to lose his temper, Harry snapped, "No, it's bloody not! We've already had a law-wizard look over the same and confirm for us that, by law, this building is now considered a wizarding property."

As one of the aurors stepped in, Sirius smirked and handed the Bill to the auror and said, "Auror. This is a Bill of Sale for this building and the land it sits upon. As I am now both the sole owner of this property and am a wizard, does this make this property a wizarding owned property?"

The auror accepted the Bill, read it, looked between Sirius, Harry and the witch and looked back at the Bill.

When he looked up again, he smirked and said to Sirius, "Very clever." Looking back to the witch he said, "As there is, indeed, documented evidence that this property, irregardless of its size, is wizarding owned, there is no ban on a floo connection being installed here. You're in the clear to install one."

"It's just a... trick!" she firmly declared. "It's just a... a... legal nonsense to get around the law! Well... it won't work! I will not install a connection here!"

Sirius stared at her and said, "Very well. I will need your name and under what you believe is your authority in making that determination. I will need that information for the Law-wizards of Record for both the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black and the Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter; both of which are of the Seven.

"Our Law-wizards of Record will then be filing complaints against you, personally, your boss and the Ministry in general. I hope you're able to afford a very, very good law-wizard of your own, because you're going to need one.

"As you've already been informed our Law-wizards of Record have already confirmed, as per the law... and it has also just been confirmed by the Senior Auror, here... that there is no legal grounds by which you can refuse to install the floo connection, you have no grounds to refuse.

"If you do not install the connection when you have no grounds to refuse, then you have opened yourself up to being dragged before the Wizengamot to face litigation."

Then he smiled and said, "The last time I was before the Wizengamot I not only won the case, Lord Potter here... acting as co-defence with Law-wizard Tonks... forced the Wizengamot to strip an entire Statute from the books. He proved, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that the law was both unworkable and unenforceable."

Turning to Harry, he asked, "Lord Potter; how many cases argued before the Wizengamot have you lost?"

"None!" Harry firmly stated, crossing his arms and glaring at the witch.

The witch glared back, but it was easy to see the fear in her eyes. So, Harry decided to go for the 'kill'.

"Back when Riddle was running about with his thugs, a lot of pureblood homes were attacked in the middle of the night. He was able to catch those people in their homes.

"However, that should not have been possible. While his people obviously erected anti-apparation jinxes and anti-portkey wards to block apparation and portkeys, they should not have been able to block those victims from using their floos. There is no jinx, curse or ward that blocks floo travel unless it's done from within the home.

"So, I'm now thinking, the only way for those floos to have been blocked is by the Floo Network Authority... that's you and the people you work with... deactivating them at those very specific times. When you then consider the number of homes where that was supposed to have occurred - and then consider the likelihood of the floo network having failed at that very specific time at that one location, in each case - it is not difficult to determine the likelihood of that happening is so remote... so unlikely... as to lead one to conclude it was deliberate to coincide with those attacks.

"That, therefore, means there are those within the Floo Network Authority who were actively supporting Tom Riddle and his band of thugs. They were probably even marked Death Eaters."

"Oh... Hell!" exclaimed the senior auror, suddenly realising what Harry was overtly implying.

With a sharklike grin at what he'd heard from the auror, while not taking his eyes off the floo installer, Harry continued. "Now, while Director of the DMLE, Madam Director Amelia Bones, might not have been able to go and root them out because the minister of the day blocked her from doing so, that Minister and her likewise reluctant replacement are now gone. That means, Acting Madam Minister Amelia Bones can now order Director of the DMLE Madam Director Amelia Bones to investigate. I cannot see Acting Madam Minister Amelia Bones not giving that order. Can you?"

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