Chapter Five

Hours later Harry was in the Slytherin dorms.

Thankfully there had been no talk from Snape.

He, like McGonagall, had a hands off philosophy with the kids in his house.

All that did however was create an environment where the inmates were running the asylum.

Thanks to that Harry had already been threatened due to his role in the defeat of Voldemort.

The most vocal of whom was Marcus Flint.

Harry snorted just thinking back about it.

“Not very Slytherin of you was it to pick a fight with me right away” Harry had said.

“Where was the cunning? What you should have done was waited until you felt you had the measure of me and then struck” Harry said.

The idiot instantly went for his wand.

Only to instantly be disarmed by Harry.

The fact he did so wandless (as Hedwig still hasn’t delivered his wand) instantly made the more intelligent of those amongst them reassess what they think they know about Harry.

They thought he was an incredibly powerful Wizard.

Little did they know that was one of the few spells he could do wandlessly due to his familiarity with the spell.

Harry then made his way to his dorm room to settle in.

There he waited for a few hours before everyone else was asleep.

He Disillusioned himself and left the dorm.

His first task had him head to Gryffindor dorms.

Thanks to his Pensieve he remembered what the Password was.

He then snuck up to the first year boys dorm.

There he stunned Pettigrew who was in his Scabbers disguise.

With the rat in his possession Harry placed him inside a charmed cage.

Next he plucked some of Neville's hair and borrowed a pair of his robes.

He then stealthily made his escape.

Harry then headed to a nearby bathroom to change into Nevilles robes.

As he did so he then downed a Polyjuice potion he had brewed in advance.

He didn’t think he would be using it this way but desperate times and all that.

Once he was in Neville form he made his way to one of the nearby passageways out of the castle.

Once free of the wards he Apparated to Diagon Alley.

The stores were obviously closed but that was no issue to Harry.

He hid in a rarely used side street.

There he plucked out his Time Turner and spun back time several hours.

He watched as time spun backwards.

The moon set and the sun rose.

With that done the shops were now open again.

He hid the Time Turner back under the robes he was wearing.

He then proceeded to Ollivanders.

“A little late seeing you Mr Longbottom” Ollivander said.

Harry shrugged.

“I assume you came for a wand” Ollivander then said trying to make small talk.

“Why else would I be here” was on the tip of Harry’s tongue but he did his best to remain in character as Neville.

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Harry then detailed the specs of the wand he knew worked well for Neville after the Battle of the D.O.M.

“That is not how this works” Ollivander said.

“Trust me I’ve seen it. I know it’s my wand” Harry said.

“Very well but don’t come back to me when it fails to live up to your expectations” Ollivander said irritably.

Harry however knew this was mostly because Harry wasn’t let him play his creepy weird wizard role.

Harry purchased the wand and pocketed it still in its box.

He then left Ollivanders.

Next he purchased some second hand robes as well as a second hand wand.

It wasn’t perfect but it would do for what he needed.

He then headed towards the Ministry.

Not until the Polyjuice potion had worn off however.

From there he disguised himself again.

This time as a nondescript random Muggle he plucked the hair from.

He then put on the second hand wands and thus his disguise was inplace.

He chose this method over Glamour Charms on the off chance Mad Eye was there.

After all, the man's eye was able to see through Glamour’s.

Polyjuice not so much.

And so Harry made his way into the Ministry.

He handed over the second hand wand on inspection.

The guard quickly handed it back to him.

And from there Harry made his way to the Auror’s department.

He knew of a secret way there from his time in the future.

“How can I help you?” The secretary said.

“Hi erm….” Harry stammered nervously.

He did so to sell the act and differentiate the disguise as far away from himself as possible.

“Can I speak to Amelia Bones please? I have a tip on a suspected De…….Death Eater” Harry said.

“Are you sure you don’t want to talk to one of our other Auror’s?” The woman asked.

“Actually it’s quite a d…..delicate situation” Harry said.

“It’s probably for the best that I bring this right to the top” Harry said.

“Very well” the secretary said before telling him to wait in the seat she directed him to.

Due to Amelia Bones being such a busy woman Harry had to wait a while.

So long in fact he was forced to drink another dose of Polyjuice before his disguise faltered.

Eventually however he was called through.

“So I hear you have a tip on a suspected Death Eater” Amelia said.

Her eyes were firm and took in every aspect of Harry’s disguise.

From the second hand robes and unfamiliar appearance she assumed him to be Muggleborn.

One who was concerned this tip would land him in trouble with those who got away with the Imperius Defence.

That’s exactly what Harry wanted her to think.

And thus he played his role to perfection.

Harry then confirmed this by mentioning a potential conspiracy.

One designed to keep Sirius Black in Azkaban.

And as such giving Malfoy the Black votes as proxy on the Wizengamot.

“I’m going to need some irrefutable proof of that” Amelia said sternly.

And so Harry pulled out the cage housing Pettigrew.

The stunner had long since run out.

And the rat was squeaking nervously from within the unbreakable bars.

“A rat” Amelia said, not at all impressed.

“Please perform the Animagus revealing spell” Harry said, causing Pettigrew to squeak louder.

Playing along Amelia did just that.

“What in Merlin's name” she said when it came back positive.

She instantly re stunned the rat and took him out the cage where she used the spell to revert the transformed Animagus into their human form.

“That's Peter Pettigrew” she said remembering him from her time at Hogwarts.

“And that’s not all” Harry said as he rolled up his sleeve.

There for all to see on his left arm was the Dark Mark.

“It’s certainly looking like your conspiracy is proving to be true” she said sternly as she glared down at the stunned man.

She proceeded to slap some magic nullifying cuffs on him.

“That should prevent him from transforming,” she said.

She then called in Kingsley.

To say the man was shocked to see a stunned Peter Petigrew was an understatement.

But ever the professional he simply rolled with it.

Amelia then explained to him the situation they were dealing with.

“Please k…..keep my name out of it” Harry said.

“That’s fine especially as I have yet to even ask you your name” Amelia said.

“Lets k….keep it that way yeah” Harry said and quickly left as soon as he could.

He was sure Amelia and Kingsley would take care of things from here.

Harry soon left the Ministry and Apparated to Hogsmead.

More specifically the cave Sirius hid during Harry’s fourth year.

There Harry got changed again just as the Polyjuice effects ended.

Back in his own body (granted still smaller than he would have liked) he snuck back into Hogwarts.

Doing so just as his younger self was leaving again thanks to his Time Turner.

Back in Hogwarts he headed back to the Gryffindor dorms.

There he left Neville his robes as well as his new wand.

A quick note told him it was from Harry.

He then headed back to Slytherin’s dorms.

There he got dressed into his pyjamas.

And upon making sure his bed and trunk was secure enough with security charms and hexes he fell asleep almost as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Thus came to an end Harry’s first day in Hogwarts.

It had been much busier than he expected.

But still a rather productive day to say the least.