Alex Hale Book 1 by Spielar

Chapter 40

I woke up the next day feeling refreshed and took a shower before heading to Dumbledore's office. I had a house elf bring me some food while I slowly walked.

When I reached Dumbledore's office I found Harry, Ron, Hermione, Sirius, Arthur, Hagrid, Mrs. Weasley, and a number of other people. They looked at me with looks filled full of understanding and sadness while I took a seat.

"If you all don't stop looking at me like that I swear I'll throw every last one of you into the lake." I threatened them while glaring.

Everyone let out smiles and chuckles at my threat and turned back to Dumbledore who had been having a meeting with them.

Hermione came over and sat in my lap while hugging me and just kissed me on the cheek before also turning to listen to the meeting.

"So as I was saying." Dumbledore began. "The ministry is still being controlled by the leftover people of Voldemort's army. While they might have heard of his passing by now it would only cause them to panic and cause chaos within the ministry."

"I propose we go and let them know of his passing and that you are still alive sir." Arthur said. "It will cause them to scatter and will make it much easier to catch them as individuals instead of as a group."

"That is a plan." Dumbledore nodded. "However I think we need to be careful since if they scatter to other countries then we'll never be able to catch them."

"I wouldn't think on it to much." I told them. "When the war started I had already sent my army to the ministry to kill all of Voldemort's followers while stopping them from sending a message to Voldemort. I figured that this way they would be to busy dealing with the attacks in the ministry to get involved with the attack on Hogwarts. It would also allow us more time to go after them in the event that my army failed, actually speaking of."

I called for Salt and asked her for a report concerning the state of the wizarding community.

Salt told me that the army had attacked the ministry the way I had requested and had eliminated all of Voldemort's followers and supporters in the ministry. They had then gone on to find all of the snatchers and active death eaters in Europe and killed them as well. The army had lost two thirds of its members, but they had succeeded in finishing their mission. They had already given the proper funeral and carved the names. The ministry was in lock down at the moment until I had given further orders.

I nodded and turned to Dumbledore before saying. "So I could probably take over the European wizarding community and claim myself as king, sounds like a good plan to me, what do you guys think?"

Hermione whacked me on the chest lightly causing me to smile and hug her closer to me before whispering to her. "What, don't you want to be called queen?"

She then blushed and smacked me again.

"Don't worry, even if I don't take over you'll still be a queen to me." I whispered to her again before kissing her lightly.

Everyone just groaned at my flirting. Arthur looked at me and sighed before saying. "Alex I have to say that while that was meant as a joke, you actually do have the ability with the current ministry to do actually that. Though I really would there rather be no more bloodshed."

Sirius looked at me and said. "Arthur is right, you could do a hostile takeover and claim yourself king. I can't really picture it though."