Aftermath!

{Headmaster's Office, Hogwarts, Scotland}

{12:12 PM, 12th Sept 1991}

The Headmasters Office was one of the most colorful rooms in Hogwarts, through generations of headmasters that have used the room, each dying it in their very own flavor, Dumbledore went for mystery and open warmth. The room wasn't too big, it had enough place for a dozen people to stand in front of his desk, two stairs lead to a small balcony from where he could peer down at his school, and several trinkets decorated the top of the two bookshelves.

Dumbledore sat on his desk, calm and composed, in front of him sat Evan Selwyn, Lord Selwyn, and Lady Selwyn, they both had a displaced expression on their face. Dumbledore knew this would happen when he had decided that expulsion was the only option.

"Headmaster Dumbledore, you can't just expel my son just because of some pranks, the Jackson brat himself did that to Draco just a couple of weeks ago." Lady Selwyn said with a pleading tone, he knew Lord Selwyn won't plead, he would put pressure, he would try to bend the rules, hide evidence, coerce lies but he would never beg, not to Dumbledore.

"I'm sorry it's not something that could be changed, Edward, Anna" Lord Selwyn twitched at the casual use of his name but Dumbledore continued, "Your son, with three of his friends, attacked a first-year student with dark and illegal magic with full intent to do him harm, Mr. Jackson barely withstood the barrage of dark curses and has been in the hospital ever since due to trauma..." before Dumbledore could continue Evan spoke, "He attacked me too, with a bone breaker," Evan waved his hand which was in a cast, wincing slightly when he pulled a little too hard.

"I checked Hector's wand after the fight too as evidence Evan, the only spell he used during the fight was a stupefy, and the final protego, please stop lying Evan and escalate the case, if the case develops further, I would have to testify against you..." warning clear in his tone but Evan refused to shut up, he knew he fucked up but he had a plan to get away with it, but somehow everything was disrupted by that 'mudblood'.

"He has a second wand hidden somewhere professor, remember he got Malfoy like that too, he uses dark magic with his other wand and then uses his Ollivander-bought wand to escape from his crimes." Evan pleaded, he had thought long and hard about how Hector could escape with cursing Malfoy that day, and the same with them, he knew Hector used a bone breaker cause dammit it was his hand that was in a cast.

"Did you see Hector use an extra wand in your fight, Evan?" Dumbledore asked, Evan, shook his head, and before he could speak Dumbledore asked, "Have you seen Hector with another wand?" Evan shook his head again, "Do you have any proof that Hector carries an additional wand with him?" Evan shook his head but as he was about to refute again Lord Selwyn put his hand up stopping him from speaking.

"Are you sure about this Dumbledore?" Lord Selwyn asked with his eyes narrowed. Expulsion was a big deal, a permanent mark would be placed in Evan's record and as the records are public, a huge mark on the Selwyn family's honor.

"Say it then," Lord Selwyn challenged one more time, even if wanted to put up a strong front, he knew he was beaten, even if he had seen the memories of the event himself and he knew that the brat had played around with the four senior students who were stuck in their own arrogance, and was now playing with the victim card to deal with most of the enemies he could have in the house, well most that would be openly hostile to him.

Edward had seen the memories of the speech he had made about blood purity too, and he knew it was bull too, they just wanted an excuse to increase their influence and the Dark Lord gave an easy enough excuse. He had stood beside the Dark Lord at his prime and he saw in the brat the charisma required to rise up as another contender, but if he won't use blood purity as an agenda to fight the war but rather pick up Grindelwald's old slogan then it won't be as beneficial.

'Still, it would be a good idea to keep an eye on him, battling against muggles doesn't sound so bad and he knew several light families whose coffers he could get a hold of, especially those of the Potters, their family wealth had multiplied so many times over the last decade it wasn't even fair.'

"...Evan Selwyn is from today, expelled from Hogwarts, if Evan wants to return to Hogwarts to complete his schooling, he would have to wait for 2 years before reapplying." Dumbledore gave his verdict and Edward's eye twitched. He stood up and his wife followed as Evan silked behind, He reached into his pocket and pulled out a vial before placing it on the table.

'It would be a good idea to drive a wedge between the brat and Dumbledore, but the revealing the speech is too dangerous...'

"I'm sure you would enjoy how fair the verdict was, I know the memories of either of the 5 people present won't count for dung in a trial or to reverse this verdict, but I'll let you see what really happened and how a first-year student manipulated the greatest wizard in the world and 2 Head of Houses of Hogwarts" and with that Edward turned away and left.

Dumbledore let out a breath as he leaned in his chair and eyed the vial, he knew that Hector was lying, but if he really could cast the bone breaker wandlessly then the threat was a lot more than he had thought. He took the vial and opened the mirror beside his desk to reveal a pensive.

Two minutes later Dumbledore emerged from the pensive with a bitter expression on his face, a different face from decades ago flashed in his mind as he recalled how easily Hector manipulated Minerva. He pulled out the Elder wand and a bright blue Phoenix that looked remarkably similar to Fawkes erupted from his wand, he spoke to the Phoenix in a gentle manner, "Minerva, can you please come to my office?"

As Dumbledore watched his Patronus deliver the message, he turned to Fawkes and asked, "Is he really possessing the body of a child?" The beautiful trill of the Phoenix for the first time in decades failed to fill the old Professor with Hope...

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AN:I have an exam tomorrow so I didn't proofread this chapter, hopefully I didn't make any blunders and this chapter releases on schedule!

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