The-Catastrophic-Aftermath? (II) [Chapter 202]

There was only one person she knew who talked like that… Though how he managed to infiltrate the Wizengamot Chambers was simply beyond her. The Ministry lacked security as the public entrance was open to anyone, so it was pretty easy for anyone to infiltrate the Ministry building itself, but the Wizengamot chamber was completely stacked with various types of security and protection Wards.

Then how did he even manage to sit on the Black Family seat without being the Lord Black, she knew not… “It looks like you have a lot of questions and I don’t mind answering them, but if I let you speak, you aren’t going to scream are you?” Harry asked in an amused tone, only to receive a defiant glare from her. “After all, I am not worried about myself…” Harry took a small pause.

“...I am worried about them” Harry said as he gestured toward the crowd. “If you scream or try to alert anyone then a fight will break out… The Auror guards and some of the brave Wizengamot members would try to subdue me or capture me, and then I would have to kill them for their foolish attempts. You don’t want to be responsible for so many deaths, do you?” Harry asked mockingly.

Amelia hatefully glared at him for the next few seconds before her shoulders finally slumped down in defeat… Harry was right, she couldn’t alert anyone of his presence or people were going to die… After all, Amelia wasn’t delusional enough to believe some third-rate fighters could beat him when he had easily crushed all of her Aurors and Hit-Wizards with extreme ease.

So after considering all of her options, she simply gave him a nod with a defeated look on her face and Harry, who was disguised as Sirius, simply gave her a smile before she felt that she could move her mouth again… “You are a monster!” Amelia growled at him. It was probably a bad idea, but after what he had done, after the number of people he had killed, she wasn’t able to stop herself.

Harry snorted in amusement at her words… “It is a matter of perspective, Madam Bones” Harry waved his hand in dismissal before he frowned. “Maybe, I am a monster, but so are you in the eyes of a child whose parents were sent to Azkaban by you” Harry pointed out and Amelia stared at him in outrage, but before she could say anything, Harry spoke up again.

“Let me tell you a story…” Harry trailed off as he leaned back in his chair to get more comfortable. “There was a single mother, whose husband was killed in an accident just after their child was born… They weren’t rich, but they were getting by, but after her husband’s death, the bills started to pile up, their debts started to stack up… With each month, she started to become more and more desperate…”

“Then when she was finally neck deep in debt, she received an offer from a shady man. They wanted to use her to launder their dirty money… At first, the woman refused, but after taking a good look at her child, she ultimately accepted the job. All of a sudden, everything started to get better for her… She knew what she was doing was wrong, illegal, but she kept doing it so that she could afford a good life for her child”

“Years passed away, and then all of a sudden, someone like you, a believer of justice and righteousness appeared in their lives. You arrested the mother for her illegal activities, but the child was now big enough to understand what was happening. The child saw you arresting his mother who loved him more than anything… The only family the child had and voila! You are a monster!” Harry finished with a grin.

Amelia hatefully glared at Harry… She understood the story, but she refused to give him the satisfaction, instead, she decided to return the jab. “I can’t believe I am hearing this from a monster like you! Do you know how many people you killed tonight? How many women became widows due to you? How many children lost their parents?” Amelia whispered furiously as he venomously glared at Harry.

“I don’t care…” Harry deadpanned. “If they really loved their families then they should have surrendered. I spared everyone who surrendered, didn’t I? Then again, the risk of death is in their job description. They should have kept in mind that they could die in the line of duty… Their families should have also known the risk” Harry finished with a dismissive shrug.

Meanwhile, Amelia was practically gaping at Harry… She could believe the Hippogriff shit he was spewing, but from his words, she was able to understand what made him tick… For him, ‘Might was Right’ and with the amount of raw power he possessed, it was a scary worldview. To be honest, if she could, then she would have loved to haul his arse to Azkaban just to stop Wizarding Britain from collapsing, but right now, she was completely powerless.

Even though the Ministry would like to believe that they could still win, Amelia knew very well that they had lost completely… The surviving Aurors and Hit-Wizards weren’t going to stand against Harry and she had already started to receive resignation letters from the survivors… Harry’s actions were enough to scare the people who were primarily responsible to uphold peace and stability in Wizarding Britain.

Now, she was certain that the Minister would try to shove everything under the rug to keep pretenses, but this incident wasn’t small enough to shove under the rug and hope everyone forgets about it… It would come out and the riots would break out, but with the Aurors and Hit-Wizards unwilling to face him, the Ministry was going to collapse like a house of cards.

It was going to be a fucking catastrophe…

“How did you get in here?” After taking a deep breath, Amelis finally decided to change the topic. She was certain that there was some loophole in the Wizengamot chamber security, which was exploited by him, but there was a very small chance that he would give her anything useful, but she had to try… Even though the Ministry was going to collapse, she wasn’t planning to give up.

“Well, it was easy to enter the Ministry. Your security was hilarious and I have to admit, the Wards around the Wizengamot Chamber are really strong, but not strong enough to stop me” Harry revealed and just like she expected, he didn’t reveal anything useful to her. What was she supposed to do with the hippogriff dung he spewed if she didn’t even know anything about the loophole in the first place?

“Why are you here? Did you come to see how much chaos you caused?” Amelia asked as she threw him a disgusted look only for Harry who was disguised as Sirius Black to place his hands on his chest with a mock hurt look on his face.

“That hurt…” Harry ground out with a mock pained look on his face and Amelia hatefully sneered at him. “Do you really think so little of me? I came here to console you…” Harry revealed and Amelia frowned deeply at his words.

‘To console me?’ Amelia wondered aloud inside her mind as she was completely taken aback by his admission. “The hell are you talking about? If you are here to console me for the people you ruthlessly killed then I don’t need your consoling” Amelia spat out hatefully.

Harry seemed to blink at her in confusion. “Why the hell am I supposed to console you for them? I didn’t even know their names” Harry admitted with a deadpan. “I am here to console you… After all, this is going to be your last day in the office” Harry explained with a frown and his words confused her even more.

‘What the hell is he even talking about? My last day in the office?’ Amelia wanted to snort at him when all of a sudden, she finally realized what he was talking about. She glanced toward the Minister, who seemed to be talking with his pink toady and some of his so-called high-class friends. Even Lucius was there, but he was looking kind of subdued.

Amelia slumped in her seat as she felt the ground beneath her collapse and her whole world started to fall around her… She had been working for the DMLE for at least two decades and she had been the Head of the DMLE for more than a decade and now she was going to lose her job so that some weak-arse politicians could remain in power… If Harry was right then Cornelius wasn’t planning to shove everything under the rug, he was going to place the whole blame on her.

If she lost her job then how was she going to take her revenge on the people responsible for the deaths of her brother and sister-in-law? That was the primary reason why she slowly rose through the ranks of DMLE in the first place… So, yeah, her whole world was crashing around her… Is this what it came to at the end? She sacrificed her whole life for her job and now she was going to lose it for shitty politics?

‘How is this fair??!!’ Amelia screamed inside her mind.

“Don’t worry, I am here for you” Harry said as he started to pat her back soothingly and she turned her head to hatefully glare at him, but her body was still frozen, so she wasn’t able to punch his teeth in…