18. A talk with Dumbledore

The next day, Harry met Snape and they had a long chat with each other. Snape told him about his old days, both good and bad. Harry told him about his bad days at Dursleys.

While all this was happening, Alexander was sitting in the newsroom at Galaxy tower, preparing for the live interview. The interview was to be conducted by Rita. She was currently the most popular news anchor in his company.

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Rita: Good morning everyone, today we have a special guest to talk about the recent events that conspired in Hogwarts. Mr. Universe, we are very happy to have you here. Hopefully, we'll get some much-needed answers today.

Alexander: Haha, pleasure is all mine, and yes I also want to rectify some misunderstandings in the public's mind.

Rita: Yes, so my first question is, how did you find you-know-who?

Alexander: first of all, please stop glorifying Voldemort by not saying his name in the name of fear, you are indirectly making him happy. He wants people to fear him. Just call him Voldemort or snakeboi. Now to the main question, I didn't find Voldemort but someone else did.

Rita(shocked face): who did?

Alexander: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and Ron Weasley, together they uncovered the mystery.

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BLA BLA...

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Rita: how powerful do you think he is?

Alexander: not much, he still hasn't gotten a physical body for himself. He's still alive because he did a very dark magic before dying. I can assure the public that I will find him and kill him. He's no match for me. If I am right, his main goal is to acquire magical strength and revive himself.

After this, he would most likely go to breakout his death eaters from Azkaban. Seriously, why are those death eaters still alive? Why have they not been given a death sentence? Is the ministry waiting for Voldemort or some other dark lord to rise up and free those dogs?

Rita: Yes, but we have no idea how the Wizengamot works so it's not possible to judge the ministry.

Alexander: Exactly my point Rita. The ministry works as if it is above us and not for us. They have zero transparency in their work. The public has the right to know the law and how it is being used. The ministry should not act in secrecy but in the open. The trials in Wizengamot should be made public except for some sensitive cases. We need reform in the ministry.

For Merlin's sake, the ministry was formed in 1707 and in 284 years there have been no reforms. We are stuck in the old rules which let dark wizards come to power in the first place. Each time a dark lord rises up we just fight it and after winning, act like nothing happened. Even in the last wizarding war, so many death eaters got away from punishment by claiming that they were under imperious. Well, I say bullcrap... They got away with it because all of them were a member of some pureblood family.

Even muggle governments are more organized than ours. To bring more knowledge to our people I will be publishing a book soon and it will have all my knowledge of muggle administration and law that I've collected in my journey. You can read it and be your own judge.

Rita: That is wonderful news, Mr Universe. I hope that your book will be beneficial to us all and as you said, there is no need to be scared of Vol... Snakeboi. I am still surprised that the ministry was not able to track the most dangerous dark wizards, which was their biggest job but thank you for coming here and answering our questions. Thank you for watching us, stay tuned for the international news segment coming up next.

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The reaction of the public was normal. Alexander's image as someone stronger than Voldemort had been stuck in people's minds so they were not that afraid anymore. However, the same could not be said about the ministry.

The next morning, the Ministry of magic released a statement through various newspapers.

"For spreading false information, we have banned the Daily Prophet and its news channel."

In response to this, the Daily Prophet and it's news channel openly started to slam the ministry. Telling them to show the rule book where they are allowed to ban a private business. Their job was to monitor magic and they should stick to it.

Universe industries clearly had an advantage as they controlled the mass media. The world was watching the news about U.K magical society.

The image of the ministry of magic fell to an all-time low. Then they made another stupid move. The ministry sent its Aurors to the Galaxy tower with orders to arrest Alexander and shut the company.

Bad for them, the tower was filled with overpowered security systems. But he still let the Aurors wreak some havoc.

As soon as they entered the building they started shouting.

Auror 1: shut all the shops, we were ordered by the ministry to seize the building and arrest Alexander. Nobody will move.

Auror 2: Mr. Universe, come down now.

The Mall was filled with hundreds of people and the majority were foreign nationals.

Random french guy(hired by Alexander): hey, this is a public place, you can't do that here. You have no jurisdiction over foreign nationals, I will move however I want.

Auror 1(taking out his wand): This is my last warning, Don't move.

Random french guy(Taking out his wand): huh, what if I did.

Auror 1: STUPIFY(he cast silently)

The spell hit the french guy. Although it was just a stun spell, the guy flew 10 feet in the air before falling down. Seeing that, the rest of the people started panicking and ran towards the exit.

Auror 2: what have you done? (looking at his partner)

Amidst the shouts and screams of people, a loud voice reverberated.

"CALM DOWN"

Alexander came down flying from the 5th floor. The people looked at him and felt a bit relaxed.

"What are you doing? Is this how the ministry operates? You just attacked a foreign national. Do you want to start a war, Auror." he said and cast Petrificus Totalus on them. Both of them fell down, unable to move.

Then he went to the injured random french guy and healed him.

"I apologize for what happened today. I will make sure that this never happens. In compensation, I offer everyone free food and drink for today." He humbly apologized and left with the two bodies of Aurors.

In a matter of minutes, video footage of the whole incident was uploaded to social media. The news started to endlessly run the video.

It started an uproar on the Unibook and Unitube app. People started to openly condemn the ministry. With a slight push #What_the_Fudge and #Fudge_must_resign started trending. The French ministry of magic also condemned the British ministry for attacking its citizens. Cornelius Fudge's ass was truly on fire now. People had lost faith in him, but he still had many backers inside the ministry for now.

And now, it was time to hammer the last nail in the coffin of the minister of magic.

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Hogwarts just had its end of term feast and Alexander was invited by Dumbledore to his office.

"Where is the stone, Alex?" He seriously asked.

"Oh, it's with me, my friend. Look" Alexander took out the philosopher's stone from his dimensional pocket.

Dumbledore was surprised to see that. The reason being that he couldn't feel the stone on Alexander's body before he took it out of his pocket.

"Why did you take it?" he asked.

"Well, I wanted to study it and seeing that Voldemort wanted it I decided to keep it with me. This way it would be safer than even the best prison in the world." Alexander shrugged.

"You are probably right. Nicolas wanted me to destroy it but if you want to study it then you can keep it." Dumbledore said. He wasn't worried about Alexander using it for wrong reasons as the mirror wouldn't have given him the stone if that was the case.

"Thanks my friend"

"By the way, you were right about the ministry. It has become too corrupt and unorganized. I met Cornelius a while ago and tried to tell him that Voldemort was back but he refused to believe. I'll be straight with you. What is your plan?" Dumbledore asked hopefully.

Alexander was assessing the behavior of Dumbledore the whole time, to find out if he was just acting to make him tell his plans. But thankfully he did not detect any lies.

"My friend, tell me... What do you think about the world as a whole? I am not just talking about Magical beings but also magical creatures, and muggles?" Alexander asked, hoping to see Dumbledore's thoughts.

"Well, we are divided. Magical World is divided by foolish thinking, Muggle is also divided based on skin color and magical creatures are treated as third-class beings. The world is one but its inhabitants are yet to unite... Why are you asking this?"

"Haha... You just told yourself my answer to your question. I am trying to truly unite the Magical world, Albus. I want the whole magical world to unite and work as one. At first, I wanted to unite the muggle and magical world but considering the behavior of humans to things they do not understand, I decided to change the plans. Once we are all united we can manage all things magical better than before. We will be able to deal with any dark lord and if one day the muggles do find out about us then we just have to use some magic and make Mars habitable. We can have the whole damn planet to ourselves and it will all start from here."

Dumbledore just heard him with a shocked face.

"I don't know, Alex. Your mission is too big," Dumbledore said.

"My friend, every big thing starts from a small thought. Hogwarts was also just a thought at some point but still, the 4 founders united to make it. We can also do that Albus. We can truly make a united magical world." Alexander lifted his hand towards Dumbledore.

"Why do I feel like I am young again... Haha" saying that, he shook Alexander's hand.