Harry Potter : Flash Forward

"You have no right to make such a demand, Headmaster Dumbledore," retorted Harry. "I have already informed you I'll be seeking to complete my schooling at another education institution. I remain only due to my unwilling participation in the farce you call a Tri-Wizard Tournament. And, you are bound by that same contract to provide me houseroom for the duration.

"In other words, I no longer consider you my Headmaster. You are the Headmaster of a school for which I no longer consider myself a student."

"You cannot just walk out on magical Britain, Mister Potter," ground out Dumbledore, as Professor McGonagall stood there looking horrified.

"I can't?" smirked Harry. Still standing, he looked around the Great Hall at all the students sitting there, watching the drama play out before them. "In my second year, many of you idiots... well, except for the current crop of first and second years... spent almost the whole year calling me the Heir of Slytherin, and claiming I was a dark lord who had released Slytherin's monster upon you all. You behaved most appallingly. It was, without any doubt, bullying. That the staff here did nothing to stop it when they knew damned well it was occurring is, quite frankly, disgusting.

"I assure you, in the muggle world, they have laws against this sort of thing. The muggleborn and raised can confirm that for you. Those laws would have been immediately enacted, and the entirety of the staff would have been, up to and including, arrested and charged for it.

"Many of you refused to believe it was me. You even raised the logical points that I could not be the Heir as I was the victim of the one who laid claim to that title, Tom Marvolo Riddle. However, you too found yourselves shunned. For that, I thank you.

"However," he continued, as he began walking around the tables, "There were some of you who did far more harm than your school mates." He looked to Susan Bones and said, "Miss Bones, for instance, completely forgot that there existed an alliance between House Potter and House Bones. I wonder what her aunt would say if I was to tell her that I declare the alliance terminated due to the behaviour of her niece, the next Head of her House, towards me."

The fourth Year Hufflepuff, Susan Bones, suddenly turned white in fear and shock. "No!" she squeaked. Harry smirked at her, "I have sufficient cause, Miss Bones. Your behaviour saw to that. Plus, even after you knew the truth, you never apologised for your disgusting behaviour. Even when you witnessed others doing it, as a reminder to you."

Turning to face others, he indicated them and said, "The same goes for Mister Corner and House Corner; Mister McMillan and House McMillan; Miss Brocklehurst and House Brocklehurst; and others.

"But, what many of you should know... and probably don't... is that I am also Heir Black. That means, all those who have alliances with House Black, are in the same leaky boat. The current Head of House Black, Sirius Black, has just taken up his Headship. He's also my godfather.

"That means... right now... I can ask him to call all debts due because of the actions of those who are Heirs of Houses owing Houses Potter and/or Black. I can terminate those alliances for cause.

"But, you didn't just slander me in my second year, did you? Did any of you not consider I would very likely hear of your words and behaviour concerning me, this year? I'm well aware what will happen if I decide to call those debts due. I'm well aware many of your families will instantly become paupers. Are you? I will, almost literally, own you."

Turning back to Dumbledore, he smirked and said, "As for you, Headmaster Dumbledore, there are so many families that, once I tell them how their heirs behaved towards me in my second year and so far this year, they're going to bend over backwards to give me what I want. Many of them you probably consider your allies. "However, if I was to make demands of them because of those debts, how many of them will side with you against me? How hard would it really be for me to demand of them a vote of no confidence in you as both Chief Warlock and Supreme Mucketymuck?"

Allowing his face to morph into a glare, he said, "Annoy me any further and we'll both find out. And, just think, you could have stopped it all from happening right from the start. All you had to do was stand up at one of the meals, said a few words about how you knew I wasn't the heir of Slytherin, and that someone else was responsible for the attacks, and you'd have stopped their bullying of me. That you didn't means I can now use it against you."

Dumbledore stood there in shock and not a little fear. Professor McGonagall was likewise stunned.

"But, of course, you were arguing that I couldn't just walk out on magical Britain, as you put it," continued Harry. "The way this student body has behaved towards me... the way I was continually verbally abused by someone on your staff you claim has your complete trust and whatever... the way blood bigots were freely allowed, even encouraged, to spew their vitriol and denigrate and abuse others... the way I have, at times, been slandered in the Daily Prophet and on the WWN... have all, as examples, more than adequately shown me that there'll be no great loss to the wizarding world if the Dork Lard, Mouldysnot or whatever silly name he chooses to use, does return and burns the bloody lot to the ground.

"I know you and Tom Riddle both happen to believe, somehow, I have some important role yet to play in the destruction of old Voles-In-His-Shorts. But, when you look at it from my point of view, why the Hell should I care? No one has given me reason to do so; and, as aforementioned, every reason to feel the opposite. With the exception of my godfather, Miss Granger, the Greengrass family, Miss Lovegood here, Mister Longbottom, Miss Davies, Mister Zabini, Mister Urqhart, and some of the Weasley family, I couldn't care any less about everyone else than I do now.

"That's why I have no hesitation in leaving, Headmaster. You've made it easy for me." Harry turned to his two bondmates and said, "I suppose it's time for me to go and slay a dragon. Coming?"

The two girls stood with matching grins, and joined Harry as he strode from the Hall on the way down to the new enclosure erected for the task. As they walked out they left behind uproar. There were quite a few crying, quite a few ranting at their House and school mates, others were ranting at the teaching staff; a few immediately left the Great Hall to run as fast as they could to the owlery to send off urgent missives. The bondmates just laughed about it all.

Dumbledore hadn't moved from his spot, wondering how all his plans had collapsed around him; and not being able to do a damned thing to get them back, again. The worst part for him was Harry had quite clearly shown him exactly the places where he erred; exactly how it was his own damned fault.

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