Ch 15 So Much Bad Luck, He-he-he-he.

After the battle of Hogwarts, there was many changes in the magical world. The new minister, Kingsley Shacklebolt along with the new members of the Wizengamot worked on new laws and got rid of all of the old prejudice and discriminative laws. The members of the Wizengamot was one of the first changes that was made. Any person that held a seat that had been death eaters or supporters of Voldemort automatically lost their seat on the Wizengamot, even if the family had held the seat since the Wizengamot was first formed. If any family member of a death eater proved under veritaserum that they were not dark or supported Voldemort, then they could take the family seat. So far only two people were able to claim their family's seat.

Elections would be set so the people would vote for new members. The ones on the Wizengamot now were all from light families. But they planned to hold elections every ten years to bring in new blood and new ideas to help their world. Kingsley had made sure Arthur Weasley had a seat, but the new minister had also given Arthur the job as his advisor. Harry Potter, the saviour of the wizarding world was also given a seat since he was now an order of merlin, first class recipient. Even though Harry had the Black seat due to Sirius's death, he made Harry his heir, all order of merlin recipients also had seats. The Black seat was only allowed due to the fact that Sirius was classed as a hero, a light wizard and when he died he left everything to his godson, Harry.

Another change that most people like was if you wanted to get a job at the ministry first you needed the appropriate newt scores, then take an aptitude test. There would be no jobs to anyone due to their blood status, bribes or a family member. Nearly everyone wanted people to be able to do their jobs properly and work to make the magical world better for everyone.

Due to the deaths of many, on both sides, they had to reorganise the departments at the ministry. They needed to integrate three or four departments into one, until they can determine what departments were needed and what departments needed to stand alone then find the staff for those departments. They also knew that some departments would be dismantled completely.

One thing Kingsley wanted straight away was an oath that all employees would take. He wanted to make sure that there were on more dark witches or wizards inside the ministry. Any captured death eater or anyone supporting Voldemort were questioned straight away with the use of veritaserum. All the ones guilty of atrocious crimes were sent through the veil. Anyone guilty but did not commit torture and murder but still committed crimes and supported Voldemort and his death eaters were sent to Azkaban. That was also one of the first things Kingsley had done. He wanted them taken care of so he could concentrate on getting the ministry back up and running. Draco Malfoy was one of those sent to Azkaban, but for only five years. He had willingly taken the truth potion to prove he never once killed or tortured anyone. There were a few others that got light sentences even if they had the dark mark. Kingsley and people like Harry knew that those young adults had parents who were death eaters who had basically forced their children to take the mark and follow Voldemort. Malfoy might be a blood purist but he was not a killer.

So apart from repairing and in some cases rebuilding parts of the ministry, they had to find staff so the magical world in England could finally move forward.

Ordinary people would turn up at Diagon alley, St Mungo's, Hogsmeade and Hogwarts to help with repairs. Harry Potter, even though he tried to stay out of the spotlight, stayed at Hogwarts to help repair the castle. He always loved Hogwarts and he just didn't feel right seeing the old castle so damaged.

He planned to stay there until it was fully repaired, then he planned to completely change and decorate Grimmauld place so he could sell it. He never wanted to live there even if he could turn it from a dark and dreary house to something that was more like a comfortable home, he didn't want it. He also knew Sirius would not want him to live in the house just because it had once belonged to his godfather.

Harry already had Kreacher removing all the books that would be stored in a storage shed Harry had rented. Harry had spoken to Winky and asked if she would work for him. She has not changed since she was dismissed by Crouch. So Harry decided that since Winky helped during the battle, he would help her out. He bonded to the elf so she was now his. Like Kreacher though, Harry would never really order the elves or allow them to hurt themselves. He treated them like paid servants, and he did actually give them money. He said like with anyone he was close to, he gave them gifts and money was the gifts he gave to the house elves. He figured giving money would be easier that way Kreacher and Winky could buy what they wanted or needed. He had Winky go to the house in Godric's Hollow and remove everything and place it in a second storage unit. Harry would go through it all when he felt that he was ready. He had already told Kingsley that he planned to have the house torn down, since it was badly damaged, and he planned to have another house built on the property. A few at the ministry had tried to argue that Harry could not demolish the house as it was left as a monument. Harry explained that since it was his and he didn't want that type of monument he had the right to do what he wanted with the house and property.

Molly Weasley had originally wanted Harry to stay at the Burrow, but she came to realise that Harry was an adult now, not a boy. She also knew that he had basically been living as an adult for the last year. She had hoped Harry and Ginny would resume their relationship, but the young adults had talked and realised they were different and had different ideas on what they wanted with a partner. Harry and Ginny would stay good friends, nothing would change that, just as nothing would change for Harry's friendship with the rest of the Weasley's. With Hermione and Ron now a couple Harry wanted to give them some space without the three of them always being together. What Harry didn't tell anyone is that he had plans. Some would be just getting on with his life and working out what he wanted to do. But one lot of plans was for some payback on the Dursley's.

Harry found out from Dedilus Diggle that the three Dursley's had heard what had been said about Harry Potter, saviour of the wizarding world. They had no choice but to listen to the wizarding wireless network as Dedilus always had it on when they were in hiding. They had heard about the battle that had taken place at Hogwarts, and they heard that Harry had killed Voldemort. Even though only Harry, Hermione and Ron knew the reason why Harry survived the killing curse for the second time, it made the Dursley's wary of the boy they had mistreated. They knew he was now an adult and could use magic outside of Hogwarts. That had always been one of their fears. If they had bothered to think about how they treated Harry and what he would be like as an adult, they should have done the complete opposite to what they did when it came to Harry. If they had treated Harry as a member of the family and cared for him, he would have done everything he could to help and protect his family, just as he had done for his friend. But since they made Harry feel like he was a burden and a freak, not to mention he was their slave, they knew sooner or later Harry would want some revenge. He was now an adult wizard who could take his revenge any time now.

Harry wasn't going to just confront them and curse them, as much as he would have liked to. Even though he knew he could probably get away with it if he did. He did not like to hurt people, even people like the Dursley's. No, Harry was going to make it seem like the Dursley's had continuously bad luck which they would end up broke and destitute. Harry had been planning how to get his revenge for years, but only the last few months he had finally worked out what he was going to do to Vernon, Petunia, Dudley and Marge Dursley.

It didn't take long before Hogwarts was repaired, along with the ministry and St Mungo's. So Harry concentrated on demolishing the house in Godric's Hollow. He made sure there were strong muggle repelling charms around the property so none of the muggles saw him using magic to remove and vanish the house. Once it was just an empty property, Harry went to see a builder about the house he wanted built. He saw a magical builder that way the house would look like a normal muggle cottage, but inside would be a lot bigger. Harry also wanted to be able to expand the house if for any reason he ended up with guests or a lot of visitors. The builder would make sure all the charms and wards were on the property by the time he was finished, which would only take a couple of months.

Now that Hogwarts was repaired and had organised the building of his home, Harry decided to stay at Grimmauld place so he could begin making changes to the house so it would end up being a nice spacious and comfortable home.

When Harry began to work on the old Black house, the first thing he did was remove the wall that held the portrait of Walburga Black, Sirius's mother. The moment the wall was down the portrait became unstuck. Harry took the portrait out into the back courtyard, gave the old woman a smirk then set the thing on fire. He did the same with all the other portraits in the house. He didn't care about any of them since the people in them were all dark. He knew Sirius would be laughing if he was watching what Harry did to the house that he detested.

Like with the building of the house in Godric's Hollow, Grimmauld place was finished quickly. Harry said it again, "I love magic"

Just before Harry was due to buy things for his new home in Godric's Hollow, he went to the storage shed and went through everything that Winky had taken out of his parent's home. He found many portraits, not talking ones, which made him sad. But he did have a far few portraits of his parent's, Sirius, Remus and even of Harry. He got rid of any picture of the rat. If there was a portrait that had Peter in it with others, he was able to work out how to remove the rat without affecting the rest of the people in the portrait. The furniture was all in good condition and Harry loved the style so he moved it all back into his new home. With magic it didn't take Harry long to have his home just the way he wanted. To Harry, it was a home, his home.

Now his home was finished and Grimmauld place was on the market for sale, it was time he began working on the Dursley's.

The first thing Harry did, while he hid under his invisibility cloak, was petrify Vernon, pour some scotch down his throat, and a bit over his clothes , then dried his closed. He then removed the memory so Vernon would have no idea. He then cause Vernon to crash his car into a dozen parked cars. Harry had used his magic to create these cars and create fake identities of the people who owned the cars, and all the cars were expensive cars. There were BMW's, Mercedes, a Porsche, even a Ferrari. Harry also placed a compulsion charm on Vernon so he would lose his famous tempter, and take a swing at the police but also swear and insult them. Vernon Dursley was arrested and taken away in handcuffs.

Harry made sure that Vernon's insurance would not cover so much damage to so many expensive cars. One of the conditions in the contract was his insurance would not cover any damage if he was found to have been driving while drunk. Vernon was a man that tried to get everything as cheap as possible, and Vernon didn't think he would need many additions on his insurance. So it was easy for Harry to work it all out, especially with confundus charms.

When Vernon appeared in court, Harry was once again under his cloak and used the compulsion charm so Vernon would lose his temper again but this time he would try to hit the judge but also everyone else in the courtroom.

Vernon Dursley was sentenced to five years jail which caused Harry to laugh as he walked away from the courtroom.

Because Vernon was in jail, there was no more money coming into the house. Petunia had to tighten the budget so she and Dudley could afford to live. Dudley chucked a big tantrum when he found out his mother could not afford to buy him things like computer's or game consoles. It took a while but Dudley realised if he was going to get the things he was used to having, then he would have to do it himself. Dudley told his mother he got a part time job which would pay for all the things he would want, as long as his mother kept him fed. Petunia believed her son just as she had believed him when he lied about Harry or how he used to beat up the kids in the neighbourhood. Dudley, along with his gang had begun to sell drugs, while using it themselves, they had also began their new lives as thieves.

Harry would follow Dudley, watch what he was doing and take pictures ready to send to the police. Harry didn't send the pictures straight away, he wanted the police to see that Dudley was violent and would rob a rich house just as easy as he would rob a church. Harry didn't want to use any magic on Dudley or his gang unless it was necessary. When he knew that they wanted to hurt someone that is when Harry would step in. He wanted Dudley and his gang to be photographed hurting people, but Harry used magic to protect the victims. He would then use magic to make it seem like the people had injuries, and the doctors would treat those injuries, or so they believed. It was all done with memory charms, compulsion charms, some fake documents and confundus charms that affected muggles. Magic was a wonderful thing.

When Harry finished taking his pictures, which was over a hundred, he left them on the desk of the same policeman that Vernon had taken a swing at after the car accident.

Once again Harry was under his cloak as he watched Dudley and his gang being sentence to spend eight years in jail. Since they were now adults, they would go to an adult jail. Harry knew Dudley would be crying and begging for his mother before nightfall. Harry couldn't help grinning at Petunia as she cried for her Dudders.

'Two down,' Harry smirked then left the courtroom and the muggle world, heading straight back to his house.

'Marge and her dogs next, then Petunia's going to find many things breaking at the house that will need a lot of money,' Harry chuckled as he thought about the compulsion charm he planned to use on his aunt. When she realised she would need a lot of money, more than she had in her savings, or what was left of it after paying for a lawyer for Dudley and Vernon. She would need to get a job. Since Petunia has never worked and had no skills apart from keeping a house, Harry planned for her to become a cleaner, where she would end up doing all the types of jobs she forced Harry to do when he was a young child.

'Payback's a bitch,' Harry said then laughed again.

Apart from how the Dursley's had treated Harry, he found out that they had been paid to look after him. Since he never received anything from the Dursley's and was only given Dudley's old clothes, none of that money was spent on Harry. He wanted to make sure they ended up punished but also broke. They basically stole from Harry, then he was turned into their slave. Now the two male Dursley's were paying for what they did and soon it would be Petunia's turn.

Harry only wished he could get some payback on Dumbledore and some of the order. It was Dumbledore who made sure the Dursley's got money for Harry, money from Harry's family's vault. Since the old man had worked it to be his unofficial guardian in the magical world, after Sirius was sent to Azkaban, he could enter Harry's family's vault to organise money for Harry's care. Dumbledore had told Harry that he knew he would suffer at the Dursley's, and he knew how Snape had treated him. After everything, Harry came to hate Albus Dumbledore. If he was ever questioned about the old man, Harry planned to tell everyone just what type of man the old wizard was. He couldn't just go out and start badmouthing Dumbledore, no one would probably believe him even if he was thought of as the saviour. No, Harry would do it gradually and hoped he could ruin Albus Dumbledore's reputation. He had already told Kingsley that the old man never taught him anything nor told him anything useful but left Harry to save the world. It was the reason why Dumbledore never got a second order of merlin when they were handed out.

Harry had thought about writing a book about his life, which would include Dumbledore's manipulations and how he and the order kept Harry prisoner inside number four Privet drive. He had begun to keep notes and while he had been helping at Hogwarts he had used the pensieve in the headmaster's office so he could write down exact details and dates. If he did write a book about his life then Harry wanted to make sure he could prove what was written.

Right now because Harry was alive and thought of as a hero, he knew Rita Skeeter or anyone like her could not write anything that would make Harry out to be insane, trouble, attention seeking or whatever else he had been called over the years. If any of them tried Harry wasn't going to just sit back and take it, he would deal with them in his own way, without anyone knowing it was him. Harry had enough of the way he had been treated, he wouldn't take it anymore. For now he was dealing with the Dursley's. But eventually he would write the book about his life, he would also add stories about many different people. Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape were on the top of his list, but he planned to add people like Rita Skeeter, most of the people that worked at the Daily Prophet. He would add Cornelius Fudge and Delores Umbridge. Fudge survived the fighting, but Kingsley refuse to allow him to work in any important department. Umbridge was sent to Azkaban after it came to light in her trail that she sent dementors after Harry, along with torturing him and other students with a blood quill. And how she planned to use the cruciatus curse on Harry. So much was going to be in the book that Harry thought he might need to write two books.

While he had helped repair Hogwarts, Harry had snuck away a few times to use the potions room. He wanted to prove, if only to himself, that he could make potions and that it was Snape that caused most of the problems with the students learning. He made simple ones to start then he began making ones that sixth and seventh years would make.

There were two potions that Harry made the moment he read about them. Because of his nightmares, Harry had taken to drinking of a night in the hope being drunk would keep the nightmares at bay, it did. But he hated the hangovers in the morning. That was the first potion Harry attempted to make. It took a few tries but he was finally able to make the hangover potion perfectly.

The second potion was one Harry knew he would need. This potion was for men so they could not get any girl pregnant. Because of the way Harry was now thought of, he often had woman coming on to him. He had taken a few up on their offers. He made sure they knew he wasn't interested in any type of relationship. If they offered sex, they would have sex, but that's all he could give them. Even though he wanted children when he was older and ready, and found the right woman, he would, but he did not want kids now. He wanted to go back to Hogwarts and do his last year. He wanted to work out what he wanted to do with his life. He already knew he didn't want to be an auror anymore, he just didn't know what he wanted to do. At least now he was protected from any Harry Potter fan from trying to trap him by getting pregnant.

Harry used his cloak again, snuck a potion into the water supply for the dogs in the kennels, before he slipped into the house. He had cast a silencing charm on himself along with a charm to remove scent. He didn't want Ripper to begin barking. He took the other potion from his pocket, dropped some in the water, then put a lot more into the dog's food. Ripper would die, and in a lot of pain. Harry still had scars from the dog. He knew it was partly the owners fault and partly the dog's fault. But even though he was going to make sure Marge Dursley ended up with a terrible reputation and have to pay a huge fine, no one will ever trust her again. Since she won't be able to breed dogs anymore, she will not have any income. But Harry wanted the deal with her dog as well. There was no use allowing the dog to live, it was old and had been trained from a pup to attack Harry who had been a child at the time. Harry knew the dog would hurt another child if it could, so Ripper had to go. The potion he used in the water supply would make it look like the water, along with the dogs and the property was contaminated and dangerous to animals and people. Harry planned to use magic to make it seem like the animals were put down, but he wouldn't let innocent animals die just because of that woman. It took more plans, but nothing that Harry couldn't handle.

Marge Dursley lost her home, her precious Ripper and her reputation before she was forced to pay a huge fine. She was now living in a small one bedroom council flat and living on a pension. But she only got part of the pension as she did not have enough in her savings to cover the huge fine. That was one thing Harry worked out, that Marge would not have enough money to buy herself any alcohol. He had seen her drunk enough and it was those times when she set Ripper on Harry or kept saying cruel things about his parent's. The few times she had hit Harry around the head was when she had been drinking. Now she only had enough money just to eat and pay her rent and even then she struggled.

'Three down, one to go.'

Harry waited until Petunia went to the shops then snuck into the house. He used magic on the plumbing so the pipes would begin leaking. He placed compulsion charms around the house so the plumber would tell Petunia that all of the plumbing was old and needed replacing. Harry planned to do the same with the electricity after she had paid the plumber to fix all the pipes. He would put termites into the frame of the house.

Harry found out that within a few months of Vernon going to jail that he suffered a heart attack and died. Harry didn't feel any guilt over this. He had heard Vernon and Petunia talking about what the doctor had said to Vernon. He needed to lose weight and if he kept getting angry or stressed he could easily have a heart attack. At first Harry was going to find out what caused Vernon to have a heart attack, but he decided that he just didn't want to know.

Hogwarts was finally ready to re-open and letters were being sent out to new students, along with the returning students and people like Harry, Hermione, Ron and others who could not do their last year. But even people that had been at Hogwarts while it was under the control of Voldemort were allowed to return to redo their last year since what they learned was not going to be on their newt tests.

Harry knew he would have to deal with Petunia before he left for Hogwarts. So he waited until Petunia paid almost the last of her money to have the plumbing replaced then he made sure all the wiring inside the house began to short out, which also caused every electric item plugged into the walls to explode. So not only did she have to replace the entire wiring, but every electrical item she had owned. Harry wasn't finished, he also put the termites in the frames so they would begin to eat the frame of the house. As soon as Petunia spoke with an electrician, she realised she would need to get a job to help pay for the electrical work and to replace things like her fridge and washing machine. The compulsion charms Harry placed on her worked perfectly. She ended up getting a job with the council, cleaning the public toilets and cleaning up the parks and reserves.

Harry was under his cloak watched Petunia picking up the rubbish in the park. He waited until there was no one around before he placed a fake billboard in the park showing Harry donating over one million pounds to children orphanages and also buying all the orphans children toys, computers and clothes. Harry did really donate some money to orphanages, but not a million pounds, nor did he buy things for them. He had money but not enough to spend that much. He would have liked to, he just couldn't justify spending so much when he still hadn't finished school.

Harry had to force himself not to laugh when Petunia began to scream then cry when she saw the billboard. He removed the cloak and moved close enough so she could hear him.

'Payback's a bitch, isn't it Aunt Petunia.'

Petunia whirled around to see her nephew. She was shocked at the sight of him. He was tall, with a well-built body and very good looking. He no longer wore glasses, which meant Petunia could see his eyes, Lily's eyes.

'You did all this. You're the reason Vernon and Dudders ended up in jail, which caused Vernon to die.'

'Yes, I did. I'm sure you knew I would make you pay for how you treated me, and how you used the money meant for me on your son. But really, I didn't do a lot, Vernon always had a temper that he couldn't control and Dudley had been breaking the law even while he was in primary school. You allowed that fat lump to get away with anything so naturally he believed he could always get anything he wanted and never get into trouble,' Harry gestured towards the billboard, 'As for that, it's true and if you had treated me in any way decent, then I would have made sure you were looked after.'

Harry knew he was practically lying to Petunia, some of it was true, he just made it seem like more.

'You see Petunia, my mother used the money her mother left her to invest. When she died everything was left to me. When I turned eighteen I was able to go through it and found that I am very rich in the muggle world, but also in the magical world. My father's family is very old and since I had a trust vault, the family vault's money also got invested. You were a cruel vindictive woman just because my mother was beautiful and a witch, yet you were told you could not attend Hogwarts because you don't have magic. And you took it out on a helpless baby. I hope you enjoy the rest of your miserable life Petunia. When you do cross over, my mother is waiting for you to make sure you will continue to suffer. If you think that can't happen think again. I have spoken to my mother and father, they are so looking forward to seeing you, along with Dudley and Marge. But they are making sure Vernon is paying for his treatment of me. There will be no peace in the afterlife, not for any of you,' Harry flicked his hand and using wandless magic removed the billboard. He gave Petunia one last look before he turned and walked away.

From that moment on Harry would never spend one minute thinking about the Dursley's. They got what was coming to them. Now it was time for Harry to get on with his life. He was returning to Hogwarts as head boy and quidditch captain. He would join his friends not just to learn what they need but to enjoy their last year at Hogwarts knowing that this time there would be no danger. Harry would finally get to have the normal life that he had been after for so long.

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