Harry Potter: The Witty Wizard

"Now, Ludo good chap; those documents, please... Now."

Scrambling and almost toppling his chair and himself to the floor, Bagman shot to his feet, spun to a filing cabinet behind his desk and worked feverishly to pull out all relevant documents.

As he stood there, staring back, Ted thought, 'Oh, it's so good to be me.'

It took him almost a full minute, of which approximately three quarters of that time was lost due to his shaking and clumsiness, before Bagman had a haphazard stack on his desk.

Once he was done he stood as far back from his own desk as could while still having the desk between him and the law-wizard.

"Is this all?" asked Ted in a lazy drawl.

"Y-yes! That's all of it!"

"Do you mind if I make a legally-sanctioned copy of it?" same lazy drawl.

"N-no! Please!

Ted smiled back and, with a twist, swish and crossward flick of his wand, had an identical pile sitting alongside the originals.

Slipping his wand back into his wrist holster, he casually reached forward and picked up the copies.

Standing back up straight he tucked it under his off-arm, smiled at Bagman and said, "Thank you, Ludo. I'll let Lord Black know you were as helpful as you could be."

Then he gave a very slight head nod at the man and saw himself out.

As he closed the door behind himself he heard through the door the sound of Bagman crashing to the floor. It made him smile.

'Sounds like he clipped his chair on the way down,' he thought. 'Fainting at his age...' "Tsk!"

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Sirius returned to the Grangers' for his second business meeting with Wendell at just before six. Even though Andi was upset about it, she knew this was yet another meeting Sirius couldn't skip. But, she at least lost some of her anger when he took Ted with him.

The Grangers were running a little late and had called ahead to let Hermione and Harry know they would be.

"With Wendell and Monica running a little late I'd like to run something past you, Sirius."

"Then, lead the way," said his godfather.

So, Harry grabbed their two guests and Hermione to take them into the office.

Once inside and sitting around the desk, Harry told them what he and Hermione were thinking of doing regarding their schooling.

"Attending a school overseas or hiring private tutors―" mused Sirius.

"Is there any legal reason, or any legal reason that can be employed against us, that would force us to attend Hogwarts?" asked Harry.

"The contract of the Tri-Wizard Tournament is the only thing there could be," replied Ted. "I picked up a copy of it just after lunch, today. And I'm currently going through it and the associated rules."

"I thought there might be some dusty old law that said something like, as the Heir of one of the Seven I would have to attend there," explained Harry. "If there is such a law, Dumbledore will know it and will use it. Guaranteed."

"If that's the case, then if you decide you want to switch to a different school or go with private tutoring and Dumbledore then sticks his beak into it, we'll handle it and counter it," replied Ted. "Me trying to counter any move Dumbledore might make in advance regarding that is pretty much impossible; because we don't know what he might try to use. It would be akin to trying to 'argue the negative'."

"Well, the reason I ask is because you're currently going through the Tri-Wiz contract," explained Harry. "If I am actually bound by the Goblet, then I'm bound by the contract. But, the contract would not just bind me, it would bind all the 'other' signatories - including Dumbledore."

"Oh, I see where you're coming from now," nodded Ted.

"For example," said Harry. "The contract might say there can be only one champion from each school. Diggory's name came out of the Goblet first; therefore, he's the recognised Hogwarts Champion. Where would that then leave me?

"Actually, thinking of that, can I even be a Hogwarts student, if that's the case?"

"That's a valid legal argument," said Ted, a little surprised. "I'll have to look."

"Getting out of Hogwarts semi-permanently, if not permanently, is a good idea, Pup," said Sirius. "With Dumbledore back there..."

"That's our concern, too," said Hermione. "And Harry says he could easily afford tutors."

Sirius laughed and said, "He could build his own school, if he wanted to. And it still wouldn't put much of a dent in the Potter fortune."

"Oh, something else that's been playing on my mind," said Harry. "Do I own any property and can I live there? Can I make it my permanent address? As I'm no longer living at the Dursleys, I currently don't have a permanent fixed address.

"For instance, I'm led to believe the Potter cottage in Godric's Hollow has been... claimed... by the Ministry as a monument. Did they have a legal right to do that? Were I, or have they, paid me for it? Do I have a manor and it's yet another thing everyone has forgotten to tell me about?"

"Of course the Potter family has property, Harry," Sirius immediately replied. "What made you think you don't?"

"The goblins never raised it with me when I last had a chance to go there and see them about my finances," he replied. "Then again, I'm still waiting for them to get back to me with the response to a letter I wrote them asking them to collate all the parchmentwork I needed to do to bring the finances out of stasis, or whatever state it's currently in, ready to be picked up."

"Lord Potter," said Ted. "Write me an authorisation... actually, I'll write up the authorisation... for me to go into Gringotts to go into the Potter documents' vault to see what's there.

"Besides looking for the documents on what property you own, while there I'll see if there are other documents you need to know about now. After that, I'll visit with your account manager and see if he's already had some of the documents collected and collect those from him, too.

"Depending on what records I find regarding the Potter Cottage in Godric's Hollow, I'll have an answer for you regarding the transference of Title Deed of the cottage from you to the Ministry. If they just took it without paying for it... well, the Ministry's going to receive a rude shock.

"Then I'll get the lot to you and you can go through them. Oh, and since I've forgotten to tell you until now, I'll be happy to act as Law-wizard of Record for the House of Potter."

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