Many things in Harry and Ginny's life were going great at the moment, hopefully they didn't jinx it but it was undeniable that things were great. They had passed their exams and left the school before Dumbledore or the annoying Duo could stop them, and Harry spent most of his free time hunting death eaters. The werewolf potion had been successful on the trial run and Lupin didn't even transform.
The man was the definition of happiness when he found out, they would have to do some more test and see if it had actually worked next full moon but they were pretty sure that it would work. The tears of joy that poured from his face could probably fill a bath tub. Malfoy did eventually come around, his mother sent a very enthusiastic letter of thanks to him but declined the offer of a safe house and said she already had one prepared. The two Malfoys took all their money, Malfoy removed the dark mark and left the country.
Daphne and her family had agreed to Harry's offer and Daphne had been adopted into the Potter family thanks to a blood ritual that the goblins were kind enough to perform after taking a reasonable amount of money. The goblins were also paid a bit extra as a thank you present and the goblins were understandably thrilled. Daphne Potter was now Harry's blood adopted sister, she moved into Harry's guest house once the Christmas holidays had started. Harry and Ginny popped by that evening to find that Daphne had decorated her entire room into a Slytherin green colour.
Daphne and the couple spent some time discussing many things such as Hogwarts without Harry and Ginny, quidditch, death eaters and even the Greengrass family marriage contracts. Most of them were from death eaters who, for unexplained reasons, have been moved to the top of Harry's kill list. The rest could be dealt with easily by the lawyers, as of the moment there was only one family left that ccould force the marriage contract but they were another neutral family and didn't seem likely to do it. But Daphne, Ginny and Harry made plans just in case they did. Life was good, Harry didn't know if it would last but he decided to enjoy it while he did.
He decided to visit Sirius one day but when he got there it appeared that there was another meeting of the order and they were all waiting for Dumbledore. Not one to waste an opportunity, Harry took the seat that Dumbledore usually took and sat as relaxed as a person could be and conversed with Sirius and Remus. After a minute or two, Dumbledore entered via the floo. He was about to make his way to the seat when he found Harry sitting in there.
He saw that some of the order looked amused as Harry talked with Sirius and Remus, the others were wondering what he was doing here. Molly, Ron and Hermione were all growling at him.
"Harry?"
"Dumbles" Harry nodded
"What are you doing here?" Dumbledore asked
"Well I came to visit Sirus but I didn't know that there was an order meeting until I got here. So...Dumbledore...done anything remotely helpful to the war effort yet?"
"Harry, please, I implore you to see reason. We need to work together if we are to stop Voldemort"
"Really? Because so far I have more than halved his forces and I have beat him multiple times. All on my own, I have made a bigger impact in my limited time attempting to stop them than you have since Voldemort started to recruit."
"What happens the day that someone decides that you need to be killed? What will you do then?"
"Tell them that they had better not miss" Harry shrugged "because if they do, then I won't"
"Harry, you need to listen to me! You need to return to Hogwarts! You need to allow me to guide you! You've fallen off the path Harry, you are turning dark!"
"Dark?" Harry laughed "so I'm dark because I don't obey the great Albus Dumbledore or am I dark because of all the death eaters I killed?"
"Harry, you know he is right" Hermione spoke up "you can't go around and kill whoever you like"
"I don't kill whoever I like, I haven't killed you for one." Harry replied "I haven't killed you, despite the constantly growing temptation to do so, the only people I kill are those who deserve it. Wake up guys! We are at war! People die in wars, but it's better to kill off the enemy then let our own die. We didn't start this but it is our job to end it. You all joined because you wanted to protect people, and you're doing that how? By chucking them into a prison that Voldemort can pull them out of?
Unlike you all, I have thought about the consequences. Yes I will be judged, yes you all think I'm evil, yes I have lost my innocence, yes I am willing to do things that you aren't and yes, my soul is probably dammed. When you kill, you take a life, a soul but when it disappears it takes a bit of yours with it."
"You can't just order everyone to kill" Dumbledore argued
"I'm not" Harry replied "I am just asking you to allow me to do so, while I will not kill innocents, I will rid the world of the rest of them and you lot don't have to put yourselves in unnecessary danger. The way I see it, you all have two choices, keep in mind that they could affect the entire war and your health. Your first choice is to do everything exactly like last time and listen to Dumbledore blindly and without question, and then take the responsibility of telling people that the reason they no longer have the same amount of family members is because you all weren't willing to finish the job or you were worrying about the 'greater picture'. Then once your done with that, you can hope another miracle child can come along and defeat Voldemort, good luck with that. Your second is to get out of my way. I'd recommend the second...it's the least painful"
The members of the order, except for the three stubborn ones thought about Harrys words. This is a war, and people will die but they'd rather the death eaters take that job than them. Azkaban wasn't working as good as it did in the past, and Harry was getting good results on his own, better then they've had in years.
"You can't threaten us!" Dumbledore bellowed.
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