The Deceit of Man

Making Plans

Harry woke to find Draco still asleep and using his chest as a pillow. Harry sighed and settled in for a wait. In the meantime, he finetuned his plans for getting Lucius Malfoy thrown out of favor with the Minister and Wizengamot. He wouldn't be able to come right out and threaten the man, not with Fudge already accusing him of being crazy but there were ways to trick the man. Fudge was a worm of a man who would rather hide away and shame a minor than do his job and Harry had no love for the man who refused to listen to reason. In all honesty, it would be too easy to trick him. The man was too much of an idiot to really focus on real issues but rather the money that was being funneled into his pockets.

Harry had plans to change that though. Draco had told him about his Lordships in his letters. He had to go to Gringotts to work out the details, but Harry wasn't too worried about it. Once he had those in hand, it would be too easy to turn the Wizengamot in his favor. After all, Magic allowed the Boy-Who-Lived to take up his father's mantle. He can't be too crazy. Then a law on protecting children and voila! End of the line. There were more details involved of course but that was the overview. The biggest thing was trying to figure out a way to convince the Wizarding World as a whole that Voldemort was back. Lucius wouldn't have a hole to hide in once he was done with the reform of the system to better protect children. Once he managed to get his side of the story out instead of Dumbledore, whose reputation had been ruined by the idea that he wanted to be Minister, he was sure the Wizarding World would change their tune. Especially once the reporters got ahold of his memories. There would be no way that they could deny it, or him, any longer. Mind, he hadn't been the one constantly telling people that Tom was back, no that was Dumbledore, and the man would come to regret his words. After all, Harry just had to tell everyone that it may not have been Tom himself but rather someone pretending to be him in order to terrorize the poor hero.

It would also serve to free his godfather from Dumbledore's hold. Sirius and Remus, both men indebted to the meddling old coot, would no longer have to listen, and obey the man. Dumbledore created debts with people to shape the way that he wanted the Wizarding World to be. He was no better than the Dark Lord he claimed to defeat. Except his warfare wasn't as destructive as Grindelwald's reign of terror or Voldemort's own Muggle-purge. Dumbledore sowed the seeds of dissension by creating debts. Snape taught at the school even though he was a Death Eater, Remus owed Dumbledore for allowing him to attend school and so the list went on and on. Dumbledore twisted people's minds, convincing them that his ideas were their own, and pushed for integration with Muggles. He had missed the plot where they were concerned, and Harry knew it would be their downfall if Dumbledore was allowed to continue.

"Harry? What time is it?" Draco's voice was heavy was sleep as he stretched next to Harry. Harry couldn't help but compare him to a cat with the way he was stretching. It was probably the most adorable thing Harry's seen though he wouldn't be telling Draco that any time soon.

Grabbing his wand, Harry cast a quick 'Tempus' to find out the time and relay it to Draco, "Eight-thirty. Time for us to be getting up. We have a lot to discuss today, first, and most importantly being what we are going to do about your father. There are other things, but I want you to understand that you are more important than anything else. No one is going to be allowed to harm you in anyway, myself included."

"What are you going to do about my Father?"

"I won't kill him if you're completely against it, but I will make it so that he has no power in the Ministry anymore. After all, once the reporters get their hands on my memories of the Third Task, they're going to be calling for Fudge's head along with your Father's. Lucius won't have any sway as people will be too disgusted by the man. Though if you want him dead, I'm sure I could arrange it." Draco shook his head and Harry pouted. He had really wanted to kill Lucius but Draco, of course, had final say. Mentally crossing off all plans that involved killing the older blonde, Harry still found himself with plenty of ideas. It just meant that he had to get creative.