Snogging Pox

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"Ms. Granger get out of the pantry right now! I told you only two people in the pantry at one time and you are not to be near Harry! Out young lady!" ordered Slughorn as he shooed her away, but not before she shot Harry a glare ...

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"Nothing? ... this doesn't make sense. The potions should be working. I've been giving them to the boy since Severus's death. I can't imagine what is wrong. First, Remus goes missing and now this. It seems nothing is going right this week." Dumbledore mused as he stood with Minerva in his office.

"He's still missing?" Minerva frowned. "This isn't good. What are we going to do for money?"

"We can figure something out, but let's work on isolating Harry." Dumbledore said dismissively. "With two family members in the ministry and one in Gringotts I can't start potioning the Weasleys so how can I approach this safely? ... hmmm ... that might work."

"What?" A curious Minerva asked.

Dumbledore frowned "Unfortunately, it wouldn't be something I can wait to do. It will have to be fast."

Minerva twitched in annoyance as she realized the old wizard was too deep in thought to even hear her, "ALBUS!"

"What?!" The startled old man yelped nearly tripping over Fawkes' perch.

"Tell me what you're talking about. Do you have an idea?" Minerva asked still a bit annoyed that she had to ask again.

The headmaster chuckled, "Sorry, Minerva. I got lost in thought for a moment there. You see I am Harry's guardian so all I need is to do is use my legal rights to get control of him."

"In what way? He won't just break away from the Weasleys just because you say so. in fact, considering how close they are it may hurt his trust in you if you even suggested it ... unless you fake some information?" Minerva offered as a possible solution.

"Unfortunately, we don't have the time, money or people to fake the amount of information we would need, but we don't need to. All we need is for Harry's wife to tell him to break off the relationship." Dumbledore explained though still ended without a complete answer just to be cryptic.

Minerva raised and eyebrow as she pondered the old wizard's words, but suddenly her eyes widen, "You want to use the marriage vows to forcibly control the boy!"

"Exactly and as his guardian I can force him to marry while he's still underage. Harry doesn't know about the Black family policies allowing him to appoint a representative and there aren't any preceding marriage contracts so all I have to do is write a contract to bid Harry to someone that includes one sided magically binding vows. It's illegal to allow those kinds of vows, but since there aren't any other guardians who need to agree the goblins can't get involved. The ministry will file the contract and no one can do a thing especially since Harry doesn't know he can ask the goblins to review the contract." Dumbledore said as he actually started scribbling down the very contract he needed.

The transfiguration professor sighed in relief, "It's a good thing that you left him in the dark about so much. If we had to deal with another guardian it will go to the goblins and that would be bad enough. If we had another contract Harry would have to choose after the goblins explain every detail and that would be an even bigger mess. Who will you make him marry? It should be someone easy to manipulate or indebted to you so they will order Harry to do what you want ... this would solve all our money issues as well." She said with a smirk as she realized that Harry's spouse will be able to withdraw any amount of money without any problems. If the Order had the Potter fortune financing them they won't be stopped.