Harry Potter, End of Second Year, Beginning of Third Year, Canon Divergence

Standing

Harry listened to the headmaster give out points to each of the three of them for breaking the rules. He watched as his House…. His “Family” got happier with each point addition and finally jumped up screaming at the win of the Cup by ten points.
The House of the Snakes was looking like at any moment if Voldemort were to walk in the hall door, they would join him to get revenge. The Claws and Puffs were both clapping politely with mutters heard about winning by breaking the rules, and Dumbledore’s Pets. Which he agreed with to an extent.

As the Lion’s laughed with joy, Harry stood up and quietly waited to be acknowledged. Which happened loudly by the angry Snape who gave him detention through the next school year for “Being just like his father.”
No one said anything though, just looked at him as he quietly asked Lady Hogwarts to show what actually happened from the talk with Hagrid until Dumbledore took him away.

A flash of light and then everyone’s eyes seemed to be drawn to the ceiling as they watched and heard Hagrid tell the trio about the Cerberus on the third floor and how to get around it. From there, they watched as McGonagall blew them off and the talk that the only way to save Flammel’s Stone was to do it themselves as no adult was listening to them.

Everyone was silent in fear as they watched the trio go through the traps the adults had set up to stop an adult intruder. Then screamed as Quirrell, Stuttering, Useless, Quirrell, was the villain after the stone and just who he had attached to him and how he attempted to kill the Boy-Who-Lived. Only to die himself. Voldemort’s wraith attacking the boy as he flew off, then the boy waking up to Dumbledore telling him that the whole school knew everything. Oh, and by the way, the Flammel’s were going to be dead soon.

Silenced reined as the show ended and Harry asked to show the birth and eventual evacuation of Norbert with Hagrid calling out NO! But Hogwarts ignored him to show him hatching a dragon through to Ron getting bit and McGonagall taking the 150 points off from the Lions without allowing either Harry or Hermione to really explain themselves, yet only taking 20 points off for the same offense from the Snake House, then at the request, showing each and every punishment Harry received from members of his house for daring to lose those points. Getting those on his team to sink under the seats as it clearly showed them attacking him during practice and then not allowing him to get medical care.

Finally, he had it show the same leader of the team, daring to tell him that he wasn’t allowed to leave the team, then yelling at him while he was in the infirmary bed with burns on his face and hands that it was HIS fault the team lost to the Ravens.

With the fading out of the ceiling the party feeling had ended at the Lion table as most the students were slumped half under it trying to hide that they were caught doing what they had done.
Harry turned to a white-faced McGonagall and politely told her he would no longer play on a team of abusers no matter if she threatened to take away his magic and life like she did to force him on the team to begin with.

He then turned to a satisfied looking Snape and told him that he would never be setting foot in any class taught by a man that betrayed the supposed love he had claimed he had for his mother by being an abuser to her blood and kin. As far as he was concerned, the Life Debt he had learned from the school while hiding from the abusive staff and students would NEVER be successfully fixed and he would die painfully because of his betrayal of the Potter wife and son.
A green light connected the two of them no matter how much Snape tried to avoid it, exploded and killed him for the renunciation of the man’s ability to pay the debt.

When Dumbledore tried to blame the boy for the death of a man he trusted, Harry just told him that he had also trusted Quirrell enough to hire him to teach Defense spell casting around impressionable children. He was also the one who told him that he was the one responsible for the death of that man, even though he had given his soul to Voldemort. He was also the man who blatantly hinted it was his fault the Flammel’s were going to die. So, what was one more death in the scheme of things?
Dumbledore told him he was going dark; he told Dumbledore he was grey and was going to stay neutral from there on. As far as he was concerned, with the attitudes every one of the staff and wizarding kind had towards him, they could now solve their own problems. The adults started the fights between the two factions they could finish them as getting CHILDREN to fight their WARS was making dark child soldiers. That, MR. Dumbledore was the act of a Dark Dictator.

There was no answer to either accusation, though the witnesses sure had a lot to think about during the summer, even if the charm work Dumbledore put out kept them from letting any adults know about what happened. The reaction to the what the Ministry tried with Dumbledore refusing to say no was certainly not what either of them was prepared for as the students didn’t head to the school from the train after the Ministry Dementor attack, they as one, headed to the town and made sure everyone safely flooed either home or to the Leakey.
Refusing to have anything to do with the soul killers the Ministry was sending after each and every one of them. And with Dumbledore’s consent.

Neither man lasted long in their position after that. With the new Minister and elected headmaster removing the danger to the students so that they would return and the parents would return the payments to the school and the Ministry. Payments the parents of those students had the bank removed as those being paid had reneged on their part of the contracts made.

Fin
6/6/2026

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6/17/2026