Vengeance through Escape

'And they booed him when they didn't get it. Like the Romans back in the Gladiator days. It was barbaric and we all know it but none of us did anything. He was mocked and ridiculed again when he made no attempt to find a date for the Show-And-Tell Ball at Yule time. No one said anything except to castigate him for not taking that redheaded girl they'd set up for him to escort. Albus saw the event as a first chance to begin circulating the myth of James and Lily living on through the new generation and understandably Harry wanted nothing to do with that. Albus wants to write Harry completely out of the equation. Naturally, he's going to resist that."

"None of us have done anything still. Children die and we do nothing. People do bad things that hurt others and we shake our heads and wring our hands. But we do nothing of substance. We don't change our laws or, for the most part, even try to arrest the people breaking the current laws. Our leaders openly lie to us and we let them get away with it while shaking our heads and telling the children not to lie. They take and give bribes to get their own way even when what they want isn't in the best interest of anyone but themselves and we do nothing but shake our heads and pretend we don't know about it. Then when new laws are passed that restrict our rights and freedoms we whine and complain. But when those same politicians, who made those laws, run for office again, we cast our vote for them so they can do it again. I think he's tired of it. Tired of all of it."

"Yeah, I agree society needs to change. But surely he doesn't think he can bring about that change," Severus said doubtfully. "He's still a child with two almost three more years of schooling before he becomes and adult. What can he realistically do?"

Sybil shrugged. "I don't know. That's why I wasn't expecting him to do anything right now. Not for society. Or against his three detractors. I fully expected he'd come back here and play Albus' game again just as he has for the last four years. But he didn't and he isn't. So he must have a plan. I just don't have any idea what that plan is."

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Of course, Sybil was wrong. Harry's plans weren't nearly that convoluted or elaborate. All he planned to do was study for his Owls, take them, passing as many as he could with marks as high as he could get and leave this place behind. He already knew he only needed his Owls to keep his magic and his wand rights. So all he wanted to do was get through this year, take them and then disappear somewhere off the British magical grid. And as soon as he was sixteen file for his emancipation so he couldn't be forced back here or anywhere else by anyone. No matter what their reasoning for doing so was.

To him, the people had shown themselves completely satisfied with their world and the way it was run. Yes, they wanted him to kill the current accepted Dark Lord for them but they refused to admit who the true Dark Lord in their lives actually was. They showed no inclination to prevent the rising of another to take the place of the one they thought to be the source of their problems, either.

 In fact, with their fervor to find excuses by which to let his followers walk away when they were caught in the act of breaking the current laws, the people showed a complete willingness to continue the status quo as it was. And so long as that was the case, there would always be someone rising up to the status of Dark Lord.

Harry just knew if he survived the taking down of today's Dark Lord, the people of this backwards little world would fully expect him to live his life on standby for the rising of the replacement Dark Lord. Whom they would also be expecting him to handle for them. All the while they'd be listening to and obeying the real Dark Lord who'd probably be the source of the replacement Dark Lord they currently feared.

 Just as he'd been the source of the current title holder. Because once upon a time Albus Dumbledore had been the mentor/teacher of Tom Marvolo Riddle. And it was Albus Dumbledore who had turned Tom down when he came to apply for the position of Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts which in turn gave birth to Lord Voldemort. But just as the people didn't blame Albus now, they wouldn't blame him when the next contender for the title of Dark Lord arose from the ashes of this one.

There was also a good chance the sheeple would try to arrest him simply because he did what they couldn't. He, in his humble opinion, had sacrificed enough for their fears. He wouldn't sacrifice his life just because they were cowards. Nor would he sacrifice his inheritance for them. After this year, the goblins already had their orders of what to do to protect that for him and he knew they'd do it. They were too afraid of his Aunt not to.

You could say he was planning to get his vengeance but to understand the vengeance he planned to take, you had to first understand Harry and no one really did. He'd get his vengeance by walking away and letting them sink or swim in the mess they had made because they refused to moderate their leaders behavior and hold them accountable to the laws of the land.

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