23Chapter 8
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Harry never liked The Sisters, who played music at the ball. Hence, The Serrators, after playing another dozen mass pranks at the school, decided to intervene in the proceedings.
The President of the Serrators, George, decided to play the keyboard. The Supreme Monarch of the Serrators, Lee Jordan, took the drums. The Lord Premier of the Serrators took to playing a modified Dragonrune. The Emperor of the Sea of the Serrators was to play a modified saxophone.
Harry had been asked to get a partner for the Ball. Dumbledore had pulled him aside and talked to him about the issue. "Harry, you are heroic and handsome, do not worry about getting a partner. I want to talk about something else, my boy. Our school is proud of your achievements, but I really need to ask, how did you learn to do those magic spells?"
Harry searched his CPU for an answer. Harry proudly came up with, "Sir, I learned them from a man who held a shield and had an 'A' painted on his face."
Dumbledore had indeed read of this mythical Muggle man. Dumbledore's eyes twinkled merrily. "Harry, you have been lucky indeed." After pasuing for a moment, he continued, "Remember Harry, Help always comes to those who ask for it in Hogwarts." There, Dumbledore was sure this was ture. By instinct again, of course.
The gullible old fool, he thought to himself when Dumbledore had left. Harry had bigger things to think about. Who was he going to take to the Ball? Luna? Ginny? Cho? Nah, she was already Cedric's. There wasn't anybody to take, really. The others were a bityoung for his liking.
The days leading up to the Ball, girls giggled and boys smirked. To the annoyance of all parties, Umbridge introduced a dress code for the Ball, as if there were not enough rules and regulations already.
Harry had decided TLK was going to disrupt the big event. On the day before the Ball, he released Skeeter. He'd captured her long ago, but now, Harry decided to let her go. But he had to 'reset' her. She knew too much, so now she was the new Dino Oracle's Editor in Chief.
A few hours later-
Blaring music could be heard over The Sister's tunes. The Ball had been awaiting Harry's arrival. As soon as he entered the Hall, The Sisters started playing. Trumpets blew on his ascent to the stage. Actually, the one who had just ascended the stage was a robot, not Harry. Robot Harry lit the modified Yin Yang. Now, it was evident that they were the Serrators.
Umbridge started to berate them.
TLK arrived from the entrance hall.
He walked towards Umbridge. TLK rumbled, "Toad?"
Umbridge looked shaken. She was mouthing something soundlessly when TLK lifted her off of the floor and threw her down with a force that was felt by everyone.
Crack!
The crack of a bone breaking ricocheted off the walls. Umbridge's brain was squished in the robot's grip. Her heart was ripped out of her chest.
Everyone was released from the illusion. Umbridge looked at herself, relieved, and then stared at TLK in horror.
"Umbridge, you are accused of destroying a new generation of humans. What do you think the punishment is?"
Umbridge screamed, "Instant Ministry favor to anyone who finishes this beast!"
TLK morphed into 5 Deinocheirus. They were one of the biggest and most ferocious carnivores of all time. Even its name meant 'Terrible Clawed Lizard'.
Umbridge backed up a few steps and ran. Harry gave chase through the grounds of Hogwarts, all the while The Serrators played their loud music. The twins and Jordan were unsure whether this was wise, but they played anyway.
Harry chased her into the forest one minute and chased her out with a trail of Thestrals behind her. They wove in and out of the forest, clearly visible to the people who stood at the entrance of the school. He took his time, and finally did the inevitable- he cornered her. "You're not going to control us anymore Umbridge. This is not your school. Stop, or I will kill you."
The cheers didn't stop for a good fifty five minutes.
The second task was supposed to be tough.
Crouch Jr. sat beside his son unknowingly. His poor son was controlled voluntarily by Voldemort and involuntarily by Harry.
Crouch Sr. announced, "Champions, you have fared relatively well on your first task. Rest assured this task will not be so easy. Are you ready?"
Without even pausing for a reply, the rhetoric person continued, "Your task today is to defend a glass goblet placed somewhere in the dungeons of this Castle. Each of you will pick a color and find a matching colored glass goblet. After that, you must defend it from waves of monsters and jinxes for 6 hours. Choose a color and begin!"
Harry chose black as his color. He put on his night goggles. Everything turned a shade of green. Harry searched the dungeon through a magical scan and found his goblet first. The Korean Admiral Chee set up a Fidelius Charm on his goblet. He noticed a sensory charm nearby, letting the audience know his movements. People would congratulate Harry on how he used rhythmic, successive attacks later. Really, he'd just sat down and ate a Pop-Tart and after some thinking, taken a nap.
Harry passed the second task, winning 42/50 points. Fleur got the highest with 45/50. Krum came in last with 40/50 points.
Voldemort sat in his chamber at the Malfoy Mansion. He was stewing over Harry Potter. He knew the boy wouldn't make it past the third task, but the Boy Who Lived still made his vision hazy.
Voldemort walked out into the hall. He had control over a guy's body now, but soon he would have his own body. Potter had to be taken care of first. A Dementor appeared without warning. It said in plain speech, "The Lizard King wishes to offer you a chance to surrender."
"My lord, shall we banish it? Bellatrix asked, her fingers twitching eagerly by her side.
Voldemort thought and replied, "What makes the Lizard King think we would ever surrender? I'm not afraid of him or his band of rebels."
TLK emerged from behind a curtain. Dinobots flew to surround the wizard. Anti-apparition wards were put up by TLK.
Voldemort surrendered begrudgingly. "Who are you?" he spit out venomously.
Harry pulled back his visor. Voldemort screamed in anger, and then, he was obliviated.
General Riddle was the Commander of the Dino Special Forces. The Death Eaters were annexed into the Dino Imperium.
Harry was getting cranky. He'd been up all night interrogating Umbridge. She had crossed the line again.
One of the things that intrigued Harry was that Fude had been a great frinedly man, right till Harry claimed he'd seen Voldemort. He'd even admitted once in his third year that he knew Voldemort to be hiding somewhere. But at the end of the IV year, he suddenly denying Voldemort's existence.
"Stop this at once!" she demanded shrilly.
Ignoring her, he took some Veritaserum out of his pocket and forced it down her throat. He cast a Sonorous Charm on both him and Umbridge. "Did you Imperius Fudge this year?" Harry made sure the interrogation was hear by everyone in Hogwarts, though he did the act privately.
"Yes."
"Why did you do it?" TLK asked.
"I hate Muggleborns. They're parasites!"
Harry had heard enough. Before long she was running naked into the forest, where Acromantulas wove her and ate her over the years. Then, after returning to the teacher's table, Harry raised his banner and put a plastic model of a Quetzalcoatlus there.
Fudge stared blankly at the wall. He was searching for a file, right? Something about Hogwarts. Feeling confused, he glanced down and saw that he was holding the exact file he needed.
The file held suggestions for the school. Dolores Umbridge's ideas were horrible. None of them were worth implementing, so he immediately called Dumbledore and advised him to ditch Umbridge.
But more importantly, WHO had appointed the toad in the first place?
But Dumbledore, to his astonishment, couldn't seem to locate Umbridge anywhere in the castle. Using his most advanced spells and alerting wards, Dumbledore searched for her, finally finding in an Acromantula nest, half-eaten.
Dumbledore decided she was not wirth rescuing anyway since she was someone else's food.
Harry glanced at his futuristic watch. The third task was set to begin in 5 minutes.
Harry realized that he had left out an important part of his plans- Divination.
Harry was enraged at how Divination was taught at Hogwarts. Divination did not require magic though it helped if one had it. Divining the future was a complicated process. One had to observe the past and the present first in order to be able to determine the future. However, Magons could see the future much more easily than through the slow process of Divination.
Those who called Divination untrue were more idiotic than Trelawney. She was more of a Muggle seer. She collected remote information and pieced it together, then, she would compose a prophecy. So, prior to the third task, Trelawney was kicked out of the castle personally by the Serrators, and she was replaced by a hot woman and a chraming guy simply so that people would concentrate better.
The third task was a piece of cake. The ball game didn't restrict the players from using brooms. Thus, Harry won from inside out. The tournament winnings went towards funding the Weasley Wizarding Wheezes, just like last time.
The Company wasn't done yet. They made themselves present by the end of the same day.
"Harry, we have given you plenty of chances, but you refuse to cooperate. We have decided to take action against you. We're sorry, Harry, but you've given us no choice. You will not live to see tomorrow," Hermione announced, then disappeared.
Harry was shocked. They were going to kill him? For his methodological thinking? Because of his theories? Harry had thought of this eventuality, though. Harry had been expecting this the moment he had discovered the Mistress. He summoned his second wand from The Junk. It was a Gingko tree wood wand, with a core of dinosaur brain. Harry's wand started to fire spells off on its own as if it was reacting to his Magon outsourcing. Then, Harry morphed into TLK. He picked up a minigun from The Junk, and he marched up to The Great Hall.
Dumbledore came into the room. "SILENCE!" he shouted. "Lizard King, I will not let you harm any of the students."
TLK laughed and said, "I am not here to harm the students. I'm here to take control of the school."
As if on cue, his General in Command, Lockhart, and Dementor Higgins appeared on either side of him. Elven Marshal, Grugina, Magoned over too.
There was no expression on Dumbledore's face when he raised his wand to defend the bots off.
Meanwhile, TLK received info that the United Front had leaked everything to Dumbledore, except the fact that Harry was TLK. He also received info that the United Front had allied themselves with Durmstrang and Beauxbatons. The UF had also allied themselves with the giants, courtesy of Durmstrangs. The might of three nations was against them.
TLK concentrated on the task at hand. The Hall was occupied by an angry wizard and a few students. The rest were hopefully in their common rooms.
He realized that if there were 500 secret passages hidden underground, secret hallways were hidden on the ceiling as well. They had been designed for bird animagi. His allies flew up towards the ceiling, locking their weapons on Dumbledore. Dumbledore turned, raising his wand, only to fall forward.
"Nice shot!" TLK praised.
Harry went up to Headmaster's seat. He picked it up and threw it out the window. In its place, Harry produced a white pedestal with his wand. He pressed a large red button, and Hogwarts started to shake.
The Hogwarts Project was set into motion. The castle was uprooted from its dungeons. Four more pedestals rose around the white one. TLK took his place on the center pedestal. The others took a pedestal each. With all of them combined, the Hogwarts Megazord was complete.
Dinobots secured the vertical and slanting planes, escorting students to their common rooms. Only the unconscious form of Dumbledore lay in the Great Hall. Harry imprisoned him in The Junk.
Harry stuck his wand into the pedestal and started fighting the giants. Below, Dinobots attacked and carried off the enemy right and left. AI was accessed. AI Alaric and Frederick Barbarossa were the main AIs used. Suddenly, Harry felt a spell hit him in the back. What the…? Draco. Draco Malfoy. He was with the United Front.
"Hello, Draco."
Draco's eyes were red with fury. "You're threatening our children with the very Dark Arts that I escaped from. You're not going to succeed, Harry."
Harry sneered inside of his helmet. Failure? Unlikely.
Draco was obliviated instantly. Harry surveyed the battle scene. The Hogwarts Megazord was moving forward. The giants crushed and beat at it, to no avail. Madame Maxime led a chariot into battle. Harry observed the chariot in which the Beauxbatons had descended from.
Harry was not one to waste anything. Why would Harry waste all of that energy to collect the crude oil in the Chamber of Secrets? Air Chief, Deronoth, was given orders to bomb the fortress the Beauxbatons had constructed. Stealth bombers, 100% energy efficient, and 1000% accurate bombed the fortress with amazing accuracy. Within minutes, it was rubble. Meanwhile, Dinobots continuously carried off and imprisoned the enemy.
Harry sent a message to the Azkaban Navy. The Durmstrang warship sunk like an anchor at sea.
Harry, The Lizard King, did you think we wouldn't notice you loitering about the castle and modding the castle? Unfortunately for you, we did," Hermione yelled.
She had thought ahead and manufactured a Magical Bomb-Ballistae. ICBMs were at the ready. The Hogwarts Megazord exploded with a loud and thunderous boom. Its oil reserve strengthened the explosion. While Harry and the others were unharmed, the Hogwarts Megazord had not been prepared for such an attack- it exploded right on the ground. Everything within a 5-mile radius was flattened. Even Hermione was lying several feet away, unconscious. Harry expected all of the students to be dead. Noway could they have survived a nuclear full blown explosion.
Harry quickly went to the unconscious form one of the students. She was breathing fine, and she didn't have any scratches on her. Harry couln't comprehend what had happened.
"Harry Potter, tell me, did you think you were the only wizard to discover Magons?" a familiar voice asked.
Harry turned to face Horace. Horace Slughorn. "H-how…wh-what…?"
"Harry, m'boy, I have taken a precautionary measure to keep these students alive, but that's not important. The Granger girl can be taken care of later when we have time. I must introduce you to the others, now that we have met," the man explained.
"Others? Do they know about the elementary particles of magic?" Harry asked, bewildered.
"Yes, m'boy. We are just like you. Come, I'll take you there."
Harry Magoned to follow Slughorn to a base op. It was a 3 storied, long building, completely unpainted, except for the door.
Inside, Harry met Grindelwald. "Hello, I am, as you know, Gellert Grindelwald. You must be wondering how I escaped prison. To be honest, I never was put in prison. A robot sits there in my place. Anyway, welcome to the Council of The Enlightened. Do you have any questions, Mr. Potter?"
Harry sputtered. Finally, he asked, "Who are the others?"
Grindelwald grinned, and said, "The others on the Council? Well, there's Merlin, but we hardly see him these days. Morgana, but she too has left. I am here, and so is Horace. Then there is Leonardo Da Vinci, also known as Chee von Hawkshaw…."
"Wait! Chee von Hawkshaw, Korean Admiral and Emperor of the Sea?" Harry inquired.
"Of course, Harry, how else would he have fun? He didn't mess with your head too much. Trust me; he is a good man."
First, a fat professor claims to have saved 2000 students as a precaution. Then, a man had invaded his mind and planted something there without his knowledge?
Just then, Chee arrived, grinning.
Harry asked "Is this all? You call this a Council?"
"Of course, we are low in numbers. Very few discover the base of magic, but you have. You are one of us now, Harry. Your personality takes the form of dinosaurs, yes?"
"...I suppose. Wait. What do you mean? They are just my animagi forms," Harry informed.
"Well, all of us link with certain kinds of organisms. Your personality is developed around dinosaurs, isn't it?" Horace asked.
Harry agreed with them. "It's great knowing that I'm not alone, but I really need to get back and finish the work I started."
"If you want any help, call us." Horace gobbled.
Harry assured them he would and returned to the Hogwarts battlefield. Horace had not only put them all into a deep sleep- they had also rendered them immovable. Somebody had alerted St. Mungo's, and medics were now trying to lift them unsuccessfully. Harry cleared the medics and transported the 2000 students to Azkaban, where they were all kept under watchful eyes.
Hermione and her gang were instantly obliviated and turned into free thinking, productive individuals. An integrated school was created, its location spread across Europe. It was named Beauxstrang Mogwarts.
Harry, with his Dino Socialist Imperial officials, went to the Ministry of Magic by using the Muggle entrance. Solah's voice asked them to state their name, profession, and business. Harry replied, "The Lizard King, Head of the Dino Socialist Imperium, and I'm here to take over the Ministry."
Harry received his batch. They took over the Ministry in a spectacular fight and soon, the rest of Europe fell too. They formed the magical equivalent of the European Union and succeeded in reshaping society. Harry had finally achieved something.
Harry eventually transferred his power to a more capable government. It would become corrupt, but Harry felt sure that it would endure a while before it fell.
Harry left Europe to his continue his research. Later on, he left to serve in the MIB for a time, balancing action with peace against and with Aliens. Then, one day, when Harry was 114, he visited The Junk again. Harry looked around. A lifetime ago Harry had sought to make things better, but he was done with it. He could understand why Merlin and Morgana had wandered off from society. Sometimes one needed to be on their own.
Harry ticked off the last requirement on his list and smiled. He set the power to the Chronons. He time traveled to the Triassic and the Jurassic ages.
Life was different as a dinosaur.
A/N: So this ends. Thanks to my beta foreverme98 for transforming this mess to an actual story.
And by extensions, thanks to abigailhuges for introducing the splendid beta.
And of course thanks to you readers, whether you like this story or not. Kindly leave a review so that I can improve my writing.