Harry Potter The Kiss

Emma was openly sobbing into Dan's shoulder while Hermione had a cold, calculating anger bubbling below the surface.

Ragnok erupted "I'll have them tried under goblin law! Azkaban's to good for that filth"

At that moment no insurance company in the world would touch the Dursleys who's life expectancy had just taken a serious downturn.

Hermione had shared Harry's memory earlier when the bond had unblocked it so was still concentrating on Ragnok's words

"So Voldemort is mortally wounded and his backup just got wiped?" she asked

"Very succinctly put Hermione but there's one last piece of the jigsaw that means the clocks running on this plan. When Voldemort collapsed so did every death eater in the country!" answered Ragnok

"WHAT!" shouted Harry and Hermione.

Ragnok couldn't quite hide the delight in his voice, "Yes and when he dies so will they as their dark mark is linked to his soul"

Dan Granger felt compelled to state the obvious "are you telling us that we could sit here, enjoy another brandy and all the bad guys are going to do the decent thing and die because that sounds like my kind of plan!"

"It's easy to see where Hermione gets her intelligence from but you are not quite accurate Mr Granger, tell me Harry what happens if Lucius Malfoy dies?" asked the goblin

Harry thought for a second and understood precisely what Ragnok meant "the next generation step in, Draco is every bit as loathsome as his father and he would become the head of the Malfoy family with all the wealth and privilages that provides. The same would happen in most death eater families"

"Correct Harry and the whole cycle would begin again with you and your wife at the front of the fight but we may have a solution! The death eaters queued to willingly bind themselves to Voldemort and will die when he does, nothing can stop that but we may be able to stop the progression of the next generation."

Ragnok knew he had their undivided attention

"If a wizard were to kill Voldemort and cast an ancient spell that awards the victor the spoils of war we believe it would strip all the death eater assets and titles as well. This would for all intents give you almost total control of the magical world."

Harry felt as if he'd been hit with a stunner while Hermione was curious

"What is this spell and why isn't it still in use?" she asked

Ragnok chuckled "Hermione if Gringotts could afford you there's a job here for life! The spell is Praedia Bellica and fell out of use because along with possessions came the wives but as your soul bond takes precedent over everything Harry would become their head of house instead of husband. It would also put you in charge of most of the house elf population since Hogwarts already answers to you."

"Can we have some time to talk this over please Ragnok, have you any idea how long we've got? I am assuming you know where he is?" said Harry

"You've seen the form he's in Harry it requires constant care, between the pulse of love you two hit him with and all his death eaters dying I think we are talking hours. Oh I forgot to mention Minister Fudge and his senior undersecretary were among the casualties! We'll leave you with some refreshments, you can call when ready and of course we know where he is!"

All the goblins left while Harry stopped the elves leaving as all six of them sat round the table

"Ok one way or another this decision will effect everyone sitting here so all opinions will be listened to before Hermione and I make our mind up," said Harry

"Harry, are you ok with killing someone?" asked Emma who couldn't believe she was sitting discussing taking someone's life so casually.

"Mrs Granger he killed both my parents and tried to murder me when I was one year old and failed, I banished him. When I was eleven he possessed a teacher and attempted to kill me twice but failed and the teacher died. When I was twelve he possessed a student, petrified Hermione and tried to kill me again!"

It was Harry's turn to comfort Hermione; memories of her being petrified were definitely not good ones

Harry continued, "he failed and I now know I destroyed part of his soul. When Hermione and I bonded we apparently destroyed most of his soul without even realising it so now all that is left of the person that was once Tom Riddle is a small piece of his soul contained in a hideous baby sized body that's held together with dark magic and failing fast."

Harry was very serious now, "you ask me if I could kill it the answer is yes because as long as it's alive Hermione will never be safe and she means more to me than anything else."

Dan found himself thinking of Harry as a son already and he was so proud of his handling of this whole situation, he didn't know enough about the magic world but had realized what was going on here quite quickly.

Harry and Hermione would effectively govern the magical world and the fact Ragnok was willing to trust these two teenagers with that amount of power spoke volumes for Harry's character.

Dan had been observing carefully when Draco Malfoy's name had been mentioned and remembered that name from one of Hermione's letters and understood there was real animosity between them.

If this plan worked it would effectively cut off the next generation of terrorists at the knees, with a decisive government in place counter any more movements before they got of the ground.

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