Harry Potter: The Witty Wizard

McGonagall's gone, completely, never allowed to even visit. Flitwick has lost his position as Head of Ravenclaw House - due, in part, to the bullying that Luna Lovegood has suffered - and is never allowed a position above simple Professor ever again. Snape's gone, prison for life. Sprout has managed to retain her positions, the only one of the senior staff to do so. Hagrid is back to being only the Groundskeeper and Keeper of the Keys and no longer CoMC Professor; and is forever banned from another position in charge of children, including leading the first years from the train to the castle over the lake. Binns has been exorcised, finally. Pomfrey, after finding out Dumbledore had dosed her with loyalty potions (like Hermione) and been Obliviating her, came all-too-close to losing her magic through breaking her oath as a medi-witch, so has quit.

If you think I'm the slightest bit sorry to have been the trigger that started all that happening, you are - like I've been calling a lot of wizards and witches, of late - daft morons.

I did not 'set' any of them up to take a fall, as some I've heard about think and have said. Each and every one of them, with the exception of Poppy Pomfrey, made their own choices and they were the wrong ones. I just brought it into the light of day. Now they're paying the price for those wrong choices. Therefore, for each of them, it's their own damned fault.

I have no idea when classes are going to recommence - and, therefore, the school returns to being a school again - but I've been assured Headmistress Lady Marchbanks will be working hard to see that happen as soon as possible. Just don't expect it to be until after the Christmas break at the earliest.

As for the invitation to come and visit, I don't think that would be wise due to Ronald's recent behaviour and my actions leading to your mother being fined for breaching the Statute of Secrecy back on 1st September, 1991. However, thank you, anyway.

Now that I know Dumbledore will still be a professor at the school, even if it's in a much diminished capacity, I'll be in talks with Lord Black and others as to whether or not I'll ever be returning to Hogwarts. As an adult, I have no legal requirement to. However, I do wish to complete my education. That may now very well be through private tutors. It's not as if I cannot afford them.

Because of her feelings towards Dumbledore, I'm in negotiations with Hermione's father about her joining me. As my best friend, bar none, I'm determined to protect her.

Take care, you two.

Harry

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Because he wanted to make sure the twins received the letter and it wasn't first intercepted by Molly, Harry called Dobby. He felt safe doing so as Hedwig was already out delivering a letter to Angelina Johnson, in which he apologised for what he said about quitting the Gryffindor Quidditch team. But, stood by his decision.

"Yes, Master Harry?" asked Dobby.

Harry handed him the letter and said, "Sorry, buddy. I need you to act as an instant delivery mail owl again."

He handed him the letter and said, "Can you please put a charm on this so only Fred or George Weasley can read it and deliver it into their hands? They should be at The Burrow. Just don't do it until one or the other is alone, or the two are together alone. Got that?"

"Yes, Master Harry," replied the elf. "Dobby understands." Before he popped away.

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At The Burrow, Dobby had handed Fred the letter from Harry and the twins had read it together.

"What do you think?" asked Fred. "Do we tell Mum about the letter or show it to her?"

"I have a better idea, my slightly more daft brother," declared George. "Let's take it down, call a 'Burrow' meeting of those here and read it to them."

"Capital idea, my uglier brother!" replied Fred. "That way, we get to see the expressions on their faces as they hear what Harry has to say."

"Brilliant!" cried George. "We can switch off reading a paragraph each so we can take turns watching their expressions!"

"Also brilliant!" cried Fred. "It will take time, though. Harry sure wrote a lot."

"Do we have anything better to do?" asked George.

"Nope!" grinned Fred. "Lets!"

And the two dashed upstairs and down, knocking on bedroom doors as they went. At each door they yelled, "Meeting in the kitchen!"

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After everyone at the Burrow at that time assembled around the kitchen table, demanding to know what the twins thought they were doing calling a meeting, George brandished the letter from Harry.

"We have, here, a missive most massive," he declared.

"A note most notable," added Fred.

"Written by the personal hand of..."

"Lord Harrison James Potter of..."

"The Noble and Most Ancient House of Potter!"

"What?" asked Molly, quickly wiping her hands clean of baking flour.

"I thought we were clear," said George.

"It's from Harry," said Fred.

Molly immediately rounded the table and plucked it from George's fingers.

"Hey!" they chorused in indignation.

However, before she even had a chance to read it, the whole text immediately blurred until it was illegible.

"It has a secrecy charm on it," she grumbled, thrusting it back into George's hands. "You're going to need to read it to me."

"That was our plan," said George.

"Until you snatched it away," said Fred.

"Don't be rude!" she snapped back. "Now, read it to me!"

The two glanced at each other with both thinking, 'And she calls us rude?'

With the text back to rights, George cleared his throat and began to read. "To Fred and George Weasley, The Burrow, Ottery Saint Catchpole, Devon. Hi guys..."

Fred began, "I know you've probably been wondering, 'What happened to Harry Potter to make him so different?' So, I thought I'd let you know more of what's going on."

Then George took over again.

As they each read, the other watched the rest of the family. Sitting at the table was Ron, Percy and Ginny with Molly at the counter and Arthur having just entered, wondering what was going on, hearing the boys read, quietly finding out from Ginny it was a letter from Harry and then just as quietly taking a seat to listen. Bill and Charlie were both out of the country again.

As they read they had to stop at one point when ordered to do so by their father, who was getting sick of hearing Ron muttering snarky comments, and said to him, "You will keep your opinions to yourself, or you can go and wait for me in the shed to come and deal with you."

Ron immediately clamped his lips shut, folded his arms across his chest, scowled and shut up for the rest of it. Even listening to a letter from Harry being read aloud was better than the alternative.

Fred finished the last line with, "Harry."

The table was silent for a moment before Molly shrilly stated, "He can't just quit Hogwarts! What about his education!"

"He said he's looking at hiring private tutors for him and Hermione, Molly," said Arthur. "Therefore, he's considering his education."

"Hogwarts is the premier school of magic in the world," declared Percy. "He won't get that with tutors."

"Hogwarts is nothing at the moment except a... a... boarding house!" declared Ginny. "Where's the education?"

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