"Potter?" asked Croaker.
With a nod, Madam Bones replied, "Potter. He knows Riddle wants to know what the prophecy states and will make a play for it. He further believes Riddle should be allowed to have it - the false one, that is."
"Have your Croaker.
pensieve
with you?" asked
Amelia reached across to one of her side cabinets and pulled out 'her' solicitor's pensieve she kept in her office to immediately review evidence. She placed it on her desk in the back corner before pulling the memory Harry'd given her; and dumping it within.
"Shall we?" she asked, indicating the stone bowl.
Together, the two entered the memory.
When they came out a few seconds later, Croaker said, "Interesting. From the original they've only altered one line. However, that's a significant line."
"Would it stand up to scrutiny?" she asked.
"It would," he nodded. "They had everything else almost down to the last detail. The only things they got wrong where the clothes Dumbledore and Trelawney wore. However, they're very close there, too."
"Then, will you do it?" she asked. "Will you switch out the spheres?"
Croaker seemed to think for a long few minutes before he obviously reached a conclusion. "Yes," he said. "However, the real one will still exist. It will merely be in a safe within my office. This false one will take its place on the racks. It will then not be our fault Riddle believes it to be real." Letting out a sigh of relief from a breath she didn't realise she'd been holding, Amelia drew the memory back out of the pensieve and returned it to the memory phial before handing it to Croaker.
"Thank you, Algernon," she quickly said.
With a simple nod back, Croaker apparated back out of the office.
After replacing the pensieve back onto it's shelf in her cabinet, Amelia sat down and drafted a quick note to Harry.
Mister Potter,
He agreed.
Amelia Bones When the Ministry owl arrived at Grimmauld Place less than two hours later, Harry gave a whoop of delight before showing his wives the note.
"Now we just have to let him take it," smirked Daphne. "No need to run off to the Ministry to stop him."
"Well, in all fairness, we didn't go to the Ministry to stop Riddle getting his hands on the prophecy," said Harry, a little shamefaced. "We went there to rescue my godfather."
"Who wasn't there and was, instead, here having a nap or something," said Daphne before she suddenly scowled. "I'm glad Sirius got rid of that elf. Traitorous little so-and-so."
On the afternoon the day before the wedding the two girls Floo'ed from the Black House and went to Greengrass Farm. There, they'd be waiting for Tracey and Luna before all of them would be side-along apparated to the Granger residence, where they were starting the 'muggle' side of the wedding preparations that evening. Narcissa went with them.
As soon as the girls and Narcissa were gone, Sirius rubbed his hands together, gave an evil little laugh and immediately started making Floo calls. Harry and Draco just glanced at each other and grinned.
During the preceding two weeks the unlikely pair had developed a strong friendship. They still had their moments, but Harry came to understand that Draco had pretty much been brainwashed by his father into the pureblood doctrine. His three excursions into the muggle world had really opened the other boy's eyes, and put paid as fiction to much of his taught beliefs. Over the next few hours they were joined by Neville, the twins, Blaise, Cedric, Anthony Goldstein and Michael Corner. The last two had no idea Draco was now living at The Black House and they were asked, and promised, not to tell anyone until Draco, himself, announced it.
"Well, it looks like we've got a good mix of all four houses, here," grinned Sirius. He then turned to the twins and said, "Pranks are allowed, but nothing that causes damage or cannot be undone by the time we all eventually go to bed tonight. And no just picking on the Slytherins."
"Yes, oh great Padfoot," they both intoned, bowing in response.
The evening turned out to be a lot of fun. There was talking, some games played, a few pranks pulled - of which Harry was just as much responsible - but no real harm caused. The twins were amazed when Harry and Draco, working together, managed to prank them by giving them a potion that made them think they had been resorted, due to the deviousness of their pranks, and both were now in Slytherin.
When both boys were on their knees before both Remus and Sirius, begging and praying to both not to 'forsake' them because they'd been re-sorted into Slytherin, both Harry and Draco were rolling about on the couches roaring with laughter.
Neville was trying to convince them they hadn't been re-sorted but was quite unsuccessful. They just couldn't believe him.
Remus was the first of the two adults to work it out. He looked over to the pair of them and asked, "They haven't re-sorted, have they? How'd you do it?"
been
"A modified compulsion potion blended with a very mild nightmare inducer," said Draco. "They're absolutely convinced Professor McGonagall had had enough of the two of them and had them re-sorted. They, supposedly, ended up sorted into Slytherin, though they begged to be sorted into Ravenclaw. It's their worst fear."
"It'll wear off in about thirty minutes," chortled a red-faced, teary-eyed Harry.
"Clever," smirked Remus. "You're aware they'll be looking for payback, aren't you?"
"Not when we tell them we're giving them the recipe for product development for their store," smirked Draco. Remus snorted and said, "Harry's right, you're inherently a Slytherin with Gryffindor tendencies."
"Hey!" exclaimed Draco, mock offended. "Don't go spreading that around!"
When the potion finally wore off, the twins asked for the recipe and promised not to retaliate before the two had a chance to make the offer. They thought it was brilliant; scary, but brilliant.
Having already written the recipe down, Draco smirked when he saw the looks on their faces as he handed it to them.
A little later, he said to Harry, "If I knew just how easy it was to bribe the pair of them I'd have done it in first year."
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