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"Mornin' Teddy." I greeted him, getting inside the elevator after flicking a couple of Galleons in the fountain, "You ready?" I asked just as the elevator started moving and stopped at each floor, a female voice announcing each floor and which departments reside on that particular floor.
Soon our stop came, "Level Five: Department of International Magical Cooperation, International Magical Trading Standards Body, International Magical Office of Law, International Confederation of Wizards- British Seats." Came the female voice before we stepped off the elevator.
We reached the office and entered after the door opened on its own, revealing a bunch of people standing around and talking to each other. Most of them wore the Ministry Robes, few with different colour scheme, but I could also see a few foreigners in the room. The person to walk towards me was the Minister of Magic himself, "Minister Fudge. It's good to finally meet you sir.". I smiled cordially giving him a firm handshake.
It was pretty obvious he was surprised by my friendly approach to him considering my history with the ministry, I leaned forward to whisper to him, "Please Minister. You are a good man. I do not like the fiasco with the Malfoys spoil our friendship." Cornelius heard this a gave me a big smile, "Mr.Harry Potter. You have shown great maturity for your age. I must say, I am pleasantly surprised." He ushered me inside to meet the group of people.
They stood in silence as Fudge walked me to the front of the room, "Since Mr.Potter has promptly arrived, we shall comence our business. But before that shall we do round of introductions? For Mr.Potter's sake." A man who looked like a wannabe Hitler stretched his hand out with a small smile, "Bartemius Crouch, Head of the Department of International Magical Cooperation." I did not reciprocate and left him hanging moving on to the next person.
I'm pretty sure everyone understood why I did, what I did and expected this to happen. Fudge had a small grin on his face, obviously enjoying his political opponent's misery and also moved on to the next person. "Miss Bertha Jorkins, also from the same Department." I gave her a smile and shook her hand before moving to the rest of the people.
"Hamish MacFarlane and Ludovic Bagman from the Department of Magical Games and Sports." The two were exact opposites of each other. Hamish was a calm and stoican while Ludk was a boisterous and loud person who shook my hand vigorously in excitement. "And we have Miss Alma Shafiq here from the BRC - Broom Regulatory Control."
We moved on to the foreign wizard's, "Chase Brigham, from Australia. He is a representative sent by the ICW along with Vikram Shenoy from India and Rosalia Parker from America." We moved to the last person who looked Japanese, "Shinji Nakamura, from Japan here to oversee any legal issues the ICW and the BRC might have." I gave him a short bow which he reciprocated in kind with a smile.
Teddy and I sat for a couple of hours till all the details were smoothed over and the necessary tests on the Firebolt were made by the BRC till they were more than satisfied. The meeting concluded with the Firebolt being accepted in the next International Quidditch World Cup.
Ted and I were invited for lunch by the foreign dignitaries and I gracefully accepted. There were a few more hours for lunch to comence so we had gone to the Department of International Magical Office of Law, in the same floor and paid 78 Galleons on a thick book of International Magical Laws and MuggleTrading Laws that had the added function of revising itself if any laws were added or amended after the book was bought.
We went back after going through the book and met back again with the ICW members. I had steak and a Mug of Butterbeer, whilst most had the same but with Firewhiskey. We discussed various topics which I found rather dry and boring, but kept up the visage of being interested. I bade them all farewell, after I was invited to visit their countries to which I accepted and promised to visit them when I come.
With that done I returned to Diagon-alley and bought a massive tub of Florean Fortescue's Ice-cream and returned to the Burrow to have a fantastic evening with the whole Weasley family present, since Bill and Charlie decided to visit home for a week.
After developing brain-freeze from consuming too much ice-cream too quickly, we went of to bed without having dinner, much to Molly's chagrin.
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"HARRY! HARRY! WALE UP! WE GOTTA GO!" Ron woke me in a panic as I bolted awake, shaking away my sleepiness instantly. I grabbed my wand and broom and followed Ron down the stairs. The whole Burrow was dark and I couldn't here anyone nearby.
I raised my wand in front of me and followed Ron as we ran through the woods and reached the clearing where we usually play Quidditch in and noticed Ron wasn't there. "What the fuck..." I muttered. Fuck! This wasn't supposed to happen! I did not change anything that would affect the timeline, why the fuck is this happ- *snap*
"STUPIFY! STUPIFY! PETRIFICUS TOTALIS! STUPIFY! INCARCEROUS! EXPELLIARMUS" I mixed in a few stinging hexes and knock-back jinxes. I did not use any harmful or lethal spells afraid that I might accidentally hit the Weasleys.
I waved wand around and chanted, "HOMUNUM REVELIO" the magic shimmered and reveled two people had gone down and there were four more people. "Lumos Maxima" I casted the wand lighting charm and pointed it above my head, to not blind me and drew my pistol and pointed it at the four assailants, "TRY ME WANKERS! I DARE YOU! I DOUBLE DARE YOU!"
"HARRY!" I heard Ginny yell from the same direction. These bastards! "LET GINNY GO YOU COWARDS! FACE ME LIKE A FUCKING MAN!" FUCK FUCK FUCK! I don't know what to do... I never accounted for hostages.... I thought... fuck! Because of my fucking meddling! "HARRY PLEASE-" I heard her again "LET HER GO! I don't know who you are but if you have harmed her.... harmed any of them... I'LL FIND YOU AND-!"
"WAIT! HARRY!" Bill, George Ginny and Charlie came out of the woods carrying Fred and a bound Ron on their backs with their hands in front of them trying to show they were unarmed? Ginny looked terrified and scared of....me? Wtf? Why? Just when I thought of the worst possible outcome the revealing spell I casted also followed them. Wait..... Fuuuuuck.
"Nox."
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