Narcissa had a real quandary on her hands and only had a few hours to make a decision before her decision would be made for her. She still couldn't seem to decide what to do however.
She had agreed to take Draco to see his father for Christmas because first of all she felt like it was the right thing to do, Draco should be allowed to see his father on Christmas even if he was a criminal.
She also knew, however, that if she had come with him to see him, Draco would not have been nearly so talkative nor would she have learned just what Lucius was up to.
After knowing Lucius for so many years, she knew that he was never the type of person to give up, he had a plan in mind to get himself out of prison and she wanted to find out what. Her previous attempts to find out what or how he was still communicating with his men had proven fruitless.
However, Lucius' one major weakness had always been his son, which admittedly had always been hers as well. She had hoped that Lucius would tell whatever plan he had to him.
After telling Draco that she simply did not want to see his father, Draco proceeded on alone or so he thought.
She had borrowed Harry's invisibility cloak, not telling him just what it was she needed it for, and managed to smuggle it into the prison.
After putting it on, she had proceeded secretly with her son to where his father was.
She watched the whole thing, Draco bribing the guard, to Draco's offer to help his father escape, it had all been so sickening to her, just how eager Draco was to break laws and make any sacrifice to break his father out.
She had hoped that his devotion to his father hadn't been that deep, but that appeared to be false. Her dream of reforming Draco seemed to have already failed. All she could hope now was avoid Draco going to prison.
At least she knew just what Lucius wanted him to do, and it was not something that would easily lead to him being caught and thrown in prison as she had feared.
Bringing back the Dark Lord was one she hadn't been expecting however. It meant that Lucius was getting desperate.
More disconcerting than that however was Lucius trying to involve his son in such a dangerous venture. She knew enough about the Dark Lord that he was the type to probably kill her son after he had served all of his purposes. Draco was only a boy and highly impressionable and she feared just what the Dark Lord might do to him.
In addition, she suspected that Draco wasn't Lucius' only choice to relay his plan and if she stopped Draco then he would only somehow find another way.
Yet as she sat there she realized that there was no easy answer as to what to do. The most obvious answer was simply stop Draco immediately before he had had a chance to contact Goyle.
However if she did so, she felt strongly that Draco would only resent her all the more and try some other way to get his father out of prison, something that he could go to prison himself for.
She also couldn't simply keep him locked up to prevent him from doing anything illegal, as that would of course be illegal in and of itself, and would totally defeat the point.
Nor could she simply let him get away with what he was planning.
That left some sort of spell that would prevent him from ever being able to commit any crimes.
A forced unbreakable vow would likely be broken. She couldn't bring herself to ever imperious him or some other way to bind his will. If she Obliviated him however that might work. She might have to Obliviate a great deal though, perhaps even the memory of his father altogether.
What kind of mother would she be to take away her son's treasured memories of his father?
She decided to give him one last chance.
Opening his bedroom door, she found him already writing the letter he was intending to send to Goyle.
"How dare you come into my bedroom without permission?" Draco raged as he tried desperately to hide the letter.
"I know, Draco." She confessed, "I overheard your conversation with your father and I know what you two are planning."
"You had no right woman, father is a great man and if you won't help him, then I will!" Draco answered.
"Would you really risk prison or even your own life?" Narcissa asked incredulously.
"I would do anything to free father, even kill if I have to." Draco declared.
As she studied the young man, and just how depraved he had already become at such a young age, she began to cry, cry for the son that she had apparently already lost.
"If you insist on going through with this then I'll have to tell Amelia that you are aiding and abetting criminals, this could mean prison time in the juvenile department." She announced, "Is that really what you want?"
"You can't stop me!" Draco yelled.
"Then you leave me little choice Draco, this is for your own good, I can't bear to be the one responsible for putting you in prison or have you losing your soul over your father's mistakes. Obliviate!"
She felt guilty as her spell hit, yet she knew that it was necessary. If she had to remove the poison that was the near brainwashing that his father had sown for him in order to save him, then so be it.
Searching around in his mind, she locked away a large portions of memories of his father along with much that he had taught him that could only be used for evil. Some things could not be so easily detached from his active mind without risking harming him but she did her best while still trying to keep intact at least some memory of his father. Most of all she made sure he had no memories whatsoever of ever plotting to try and break his father out of prison.
Hopefully she had done a good enough job that he might abandon any further such thoughts and hopefully still become the man that she knew that he could be.
After finally being satisfied, she left a memory of him reading a book during the time she was modifying his memory.
Taking Draco's unfinished letter to Goyle with her, she left his room and shut the door.
Retiring to her own room, she wept bitterly at what she had been forced to do.
Over the rest of the Christmas holiday, she monitored Draco, but he seemed to be totally unaware that memories of his father had been taken from him, and seemed to be much better because of it.
At least he seemed to have given up with his plans for breaking his father out and instead was much nicer to her as he no longer had any reason to be mad at her.
While everyone commented that Draco was feeling better, she told them that he was only trying to turn over a new leaf and be better, to which they tried being nicer in turn.
Draco was not instantly a perfect angel, but he also wasn't as bad as he had been before. She had high hopes that he still become a decent human being.
DUELDUELDUEL
After having seen the children off to Hogwarts again, Amelia had finally decided to stay longer at Malfoy Manor as Narcissa had invited her to.
She tried to tell herself that it was actually for convenience sake as both she and Narcissa had been kept busy as they worked to find more and more evidence against former death eaters and other criminals.
As for Goyle, they managed to capture him at his hideout.
Amelia also dispatched a few Aurors to try and track down Voldemort in Albania where he was rumored to be.
It turned out that Malfoy Manor had ended up being a treasure trove of evidence as Lucius had kept meticulous records as he ran an illegal empire.
Such documents she never could have gotten on her own, nor could anyone else have for that manner. They were extremely well hidden and required spells that she never would have known about.
Narcissa however had somehow learned all this from spying on her former husband or at least so she said. She suspected that it wasn't as simple as that but as long as it wasn't illegal she really didn't care how she did it.
Working with her had led to a grudging partnership and even possible friendship as she was forced to conclude that the real Narcissa was not at all like she had acted.
She had not had to give custody over to her, nor convince her to still try and mend things with Sirius, help her with fighting crime, or the many others things that she did.
Narcissa had even told her of her grand plans for working with Squibs and Muggleborns to get involved with Muggle manufacturing and improve the stagnant wizard economy.
As this actually did seem like a really good idea, she offered her full support in the Wizengamot, and Narcissa had been more than happy to lend hers in many different laws that she had wanted passed concerning improving the prison and magical law enforcement, in addition to Muggle rights.
In response she had warmed considerably to the blonde former Slytherin and she had decided to encourage Sirius to maintain a relationship with Narcissa in addition to her own with him.
She was no fool, as such a position would allow her to keep an eye on Narcissa and help encourage their partnership, but also she felt obligated after the many concessions Narcissa had made for her and the fact that she was carrying Sirius' child.
Her own relationship with Sirius on the other hand had improved steadily, and since Narcissa seemed to want her to continue it, she had learned to deal with sharing him as they mostly just traded off. Her one night and Narcissa the other. After all, if Susan could share Harry with five other girls, she could certainly share with just one.
DUELDUELDUEL
One night later in the school year, Harry was only just finishing up some homework late at night when Gabrielle came into his room.
"I had a bad dream." She confessed.
"You want to talk about it?" He asked.
She shook her head and said, "I was wondering if we could just cuddle."
"All right," He agreed easily, "let's use my bed."
She got underneath the covers with him and he wrapped his arms around her so they could cuddle.
"This is nice." Gabrielle concluded as she began to relax into him.
He'd cuddled plenty of times before, just not ever alone in his bed.
After a few minutes of simply laying there in silence, she finally said, "I love you Harry."
"I love you too." He answered without hesitation, surprising himself.
Yet it wasn't really too much of a surprise as he had recently decided that he really did love all the girls and had started telling them I love you back.
"Mmm, it feels so good to hear you say that." Gabrielle confessed with a warm smile as she snuggled even tighter into him.
This had the rather unfortunate result of a certain part of his anatomy to get bigger and since he was currently facing directly into her, it was now pressing right into her butt.
"Sorry." He tried to apologize, perfectly aware that she must be able to feel it by now.
"It's okay, to be honest I've been rather curious just how big it was. If what I feel pressing against me is any indication I shouldn't be disappointed." She answered before turning around, "Is that any better?"
Since her chest was now pressing directly into his, which had admittedly grown significantly since last summer, this was of little help.
"Sorry Gabrielle, I guess you're just too sexy no matter which way you turn." He concluded with a badly concealed grin.
She laughed and said, "Well, I guess I can't fault you for that."
How did I ever get so lucky? He thought as he continued to hug Gabrielle. She was just so beautiful, all the girls were, both on the inside and outside.
While he knew that if he had asked any one of the girls by now to go even further physically in their relationship, they would let him - although he knew most of them weren't really quite ready and the ones that were he felt he should wait on as he himself really wasn't ready.
He'd given his word to Amelia that he would go into things completely ready, with no doubts in his mind, and he just hadn't reached that point yet.
"Can I just sleep with you here?" Gabrielle asked, causing him to blush, especially after what he'd been thinking about.
"Sure I guess if you really want to." he admitted.
Allowing himself to relax and breathing in the wonderful scent of Gabrielle's shampoo, he drifted off to sleep with her.
The next morning he awoke to find himself with Gabrielle still wrapped around him, although he had somehow managed to get his hand onto her bum.
Before she woke up and noticed, he carefully slid his hand up to a safer spot and instead allowed himself just to enjoy having her so close to him.
Yet it was only for a few minutes until he noticed Su come into the room.
She seemed to take in the sight with a shocked expression on her face before whispering quietly to him so as not to wake Gabrielle up, "Did you...?"
Blushing, he whispered back quickly, "No, she just had a nightmare and ended up sleeping here. Nothing actually happened."
She nodded and instead of leaving or saying anything further, she went around his bed and got in on the other side of him.
"Good morning, by the way." She whispered with an mischievous little smile as she snuggled into his other side.
Now surrounded by two different girls in his bed, he realized that this was already shaping up to be a fine morning.
"I love you, Su." He told her.
"I love you too Harry." She replied, grinning.
Eventually Gabrielle woke up and both she and Su returned to their room to get ready. He did the same, and after waiting for the two girls to finish, they headed down to breakfast as evidently the other 4 girls had already left by then.
On the way there however, they ran into Peeves.
"Yipppppeeeee!" Peeves yelled in a very gleeful tone.
"Hello Peeves." Su said. "You seem extra happy today."
"Dumby finally agreed to allow ickle firsties to join House Peeves!" He announced.
"How did you manage that?" Harry asked.
"I still gots his Sorting Hat! So I said, no House Peeves, no Hat! Nobody's getting Sorted nowheres." Peeves replied smugly, brandishing the Sorting Hat, which he was still wearing.
"Shouldn't you give it back to Dumby then?" Su asked.
"This hat is mine now, I'm one of the Founder's and this is the Founder's hat." Peeves claimed as he threw the hat into the air, "I'll give it back to him before next year's Sorting."
"How is Flopsy doing, coming with you on all of your adventures?" Harry asked.
"Flopsy likes coming with Peevesy to play pranks on students and teachers, much more fun than stuffy old Professor Head's office." Peeves answered.
This was a question he had wondered for awhile but since the Sorting Hat seemed to be happy, he supposed that it was alright, even if it was a rather odd partnership between the poltergeist and the headwear.
Moving on to breakfast, they found the other girls currently sitting at the House Peeves table eating.
"We just talked to Peeves and he said that Dumbledore agreed to allow new students to join House Peeves." Su informed them all.
"Darn it." Fleur said, sounding unhappy with this news.
"Why are you so unhappy Fleur?" Susan asked.
"Well I kind of liked having an entire Common Room and House to ourselves." She confessed, "Besides that, I was kind of hoping we could do stuff when we were older and not be disturbed."
"Just what kind of stuff were you thinking?" Tonks teased.
Fleur blushed, but refused to look away, "I think you know very well what I mean."
"Not as well as I'd like..." Tonks replied as she then looked at Harry. "I'd just need a decent partner."
"I swear you're too much for Harry." Susan claimed, "Poor Harry is going to either have a heart attack or have you in his bed by year's end at this rate."
"Gabrielle already beat you to it last night." Su answered.
Immediately there was several stunned reactions, Pansy spewed milk out of her mouth, Susan nearly fell out of her chair and Tonks only sat there grinning.
"You didn't!" Susan asked in complete shock.
"We only slept, that's it!" Gabrielle insisted.
"Gabrielle had a nightmare and couldn't sleep so I let her sleep in my bed with me." Harry answered, extremely grateful that Su had not caught him while he was still asleep and touching Gabrielle's bum.
"So does this mean we can start sharing your bed with you to sleep?" Pansy asked.
"Nobody is going to be doing that, it was just a one time thing." Harry reassured them all.
"I've got to say I love you Harry, getting offers like that and deciding to turn them down." Tonks laughed.
He gave her a glare as she really wasn't helping.
"We already discussed this," He told them all, "and all agreed we needed to wait a few years so don't worry Pansy, you won't be missing out on anything."
"That was before we all realized we love you and now that we do, shouldn't we try and take things a bit further now as a way to express it?" Fleur pointed out.
He shook his head, but he his argument was having some serious holes blown in it, so he decided to bring out a more serious reason. "I don't need anything more than to know that you love me. Besides I'm not sure if I could help myself if I was in that situation much more, it was already pretty tempting just last night and this morning."
Tonks looked at him with what appeared to be respect.
"You know Harry, I thought that I was going to be keeping you in line but it appears you keep the rest of us in line." She told him.
He sighed and continued, "I think you all forget sometimes that I have a say as well in just what we do. I know some of you are ready for more, but that doesn't mean that I am. I love you all but I'm not going to be doing anything I know I'm not personally ready for."
The girls all now looked guilty.
"We're sorry if we're pushing you, Harry." Susan apologized.
"I think we can all do a lot better, not just in how far we take our relationship but everything." Fleur concluded.
"It's all right, I usually don't mind, but some things I have to be firm on." He answered.
"We'll wait until you are ready then." Pansy said, "I'm not really ready either, and it bother me to feel like you are being pressured by us in anything. I went through it far too much at home growing up."
"Thanks for understanding." He said gratefully.
DUELDUELDUEL
Three months after their conversation, Sirius and Amelia were currently on one of their dates at a Muggle restaurant.
"Amelia, do you love me?" Sirius asked her.
"You should already know by now that I really do love you Sirius." Amelia answered.
Indeed this was true, over time their relationship had grown and she had truly fallen in love with him. Despite everything that had happened, despite so many things that could have easily split them apart, they had somehow managed to come back to each other and by then she had no excuses left.
She allowed herself to simply give in and love him, and they had finally confessed their love for one another only a month before.
As a result they had ended up consummating that love with their very first time together. It had been wild and incredible, and had left her wanting more, which he had proceeded to do so many times over.
As she sat thinking, Sirius still hadn't answered until just then, "I'm crazy about you Amelia, I really don't know what I would do without you, and that scares me."
"Why should it scare you?" She asked.
"Since I still have Narcissa, who I also can't give up, I love her now too, which makes things so much harder. Narcissa has been great and supportive of me in my relationship with you, she really didn't have to do that but she has. The thing is I asked Narcissa to marry me a couple of nights ago, and then she finally said yes this morning." Sirius confessed.
"To be honest Sirius, Narcissa already came to me and asked for my permission before she said yes to you." Amelia answered, "That's the reason she took so long in answering."
"I had no idea." Sirius said flabbergasted.
"She wanted to make sure I was okay with it and I really am, we both knew where this is going to go, you'll be marrying both of us." Amelia told him.
Sirius seemed to be stunned but using his Gryffindor courage he asked, "Then would you be willing to marry me as well?"
"Yes Sirius, I will." She said, giving him a kiss.
Sirius looked like he was on cloud nine as he gave a monumentally huge grin.
After sitting back to really savor the moment, Amelia announced, "However I think it would only be fair that if me and Narcissa are going to share, we are really going to need to share, and she agrees with me. So that means starting to take both of us out on dates, and also marry us at the same time so that we won't have to worry about first wife status and instead share that responsibility."
"Would sharing also include...?" Sirius asked tentatively.
She rolled her eyes and said, "Yes Sirius, that includes sex, but you had better even things out in the bedroom or I'm kicking you out of it for the rest of the night."
"Agreed." Sirius answered happily.
She had a pretty good guess just what he was thinking at that moment, probably envisioning his ultimate threesome.
Since she'd already realized that was going to end up happening, she had already had plenty of time to get used to the idea, and admittedly it was a surprising turn on for her.
"I love you Amelia." Sirius said.
"I love you Sirius." She answered back.
DUELDUELDUEL
Had Sirius still been in his right mind and not thinking about marriage and sex, he would have thought that he couldn't possibly be that lucky. Whenever something really good came into his life, it only meant trouble was right around the corner.
He would have been absolutely correct.
DUELDUELDUEL
Zesper Antinov had been one of the Aurors assigned to try and track down the Dark Lord.
Of course, no one knew that he used to be a Death Eater himself.
He had been one of the lucky ones, one that had never been caught and never been suspected, and ever since the Dark Lord's downfall he had kept his identity a secret, staying within the Auror force and gained everyone's trust.
During the war he used to secretly tip off the Death Eater's on any incoming attacks on their forces from the Ministry but after wards he had padded his finances with money that Lucius Malfoy supplied him with to keep him aware of any movement against him or his criminal organization.
He had been caught entirely unaware of Malfoy's arrest as Madame Bones had kept it a secret until the very last minute.
Now his extra income was gone and he had numerous debts to pay off.
When he heard of Goyle's arrest, it was yet another blow to him, as it meant that Madame Bones was getting more and more cautious in information getting out. Whether she suspected a leak or not he wasn't sure but he wanted to take advantage while he still could.
Malfoy managed to get word to him, and promise to pay off his debts in exchange for getting himself on the Auror task force sent to locate the Dark Lord in Albania, and then after doing so, do whatever he needed to assist the Dark Lord.
It was only a matter of time before he found him.
DUELDUELDUEL
Having heard about Amelia's engagement to Sirius yesterday, Harry had to admit that he was now really worried about Susan and how she felt about the whole thing.
She said she was fine but he knew better.
Thus he went and found her in the Peeves Common Room currently doing homework.
"Could we talk Susan?" He asked.
"Not now Harry, I've still got homework to do." Susan declared without looking up.
"It can wait." He announced.
Finally she looked up and said, "Alright."
Looking at the other girls, also in the Common Room, he gestured for them to go somewhere more private.
Leading her into his room and shutting the door, he said, "I have to confess that I'm a little worried about you Susan."
"I already told you I'm fine." She tried to insist.
"I can already tell that you aren't actually fine." He observed.
She sighed, "Well maybe I am a little worried and upset."
"I saw the homework you were doing, that essay for Professor Binns isn't due for another week and it was already twice as long as it needed to be, so either you have suddenly found a new appreciation for the goblin war of 1262, or you've been burying yourself in homework so you won't have to deal with how you feel." He concluded.
"How would you know how I feel?" She answered somewhat angrily.
"You're right, I don't, but I do know you, and I know that you are currently suffering." He admitted.
"If you really want to know how I feel, use Legilimency on me." She said.
He looked at her for a moment longer, finding her completely serious, before doing as she requested. As he entered her mind, having gotten quite good at Legilimency, he managed to find her recent thoughts and emotions on the subject.
She did not resist, allowing him to find it all.
He soon realized that she was just scared, scared for her aunt, and scared for how she would be treated by her new husband. Susan had been raised solely by Amelia and because of that they shared a very deep connection. For most of her life it had only been the two of them, and then he had gotten betrothed to her and it then included him, and then the other girls as well, and while it had been difficult, it had still been okay with her as she had gotten to know him and the girls and actually wanted her life and her family to include them.
Sirius and Narcissa were different however because she didn't really know them and she was worried about how her aunt would be treated and how she would then be treated by her as she now had a new husband and sister wife. Perhaps she might lose her.
Finally pulling away, and coming out of her mind, she finally asked, "Do you get it now?"
He gave her a huge hug, not entirely sure what to say as he gathered up his thoughts.
"Your aunt would never forget about you, I know that. She loves you, and just because she is getting married doesn't mean that will ever change." He finally said.
"It's still hard." She confessed, as she hugged tightly back with tears now running down her cheeks.
"I love you, but I have to share my love with each of the other girls as I love them as well, yet do you think that means that I love you any less?" He asked.
"Well no, but I know you, and I know them." Susan countered.
"You may not really know Sirius or Narcissa, but you know your Aunt Amelia and you know she would never allow anyone to get between you two. She would fight a dragon and 100 Dementors for you, and so would I."
"I know." Susan confessed, hugging him back.
DUELDUELDUEL
Dumbledore sat in his office, still stewing over the loss of guardianship over Harry. It was a major setback in that department, something he hadn't planned on and would definitely have its repercussions.
However he now considered it to only give more reason that his plans needed to succeed, as if they did, it would be of no great consequence.
After last year in getting the Basilisk venom and Hufflepuff's cup, he and Snape had soon realized that the next step in the process was finding a way to make Ariana and Lily's bodies take on the bodies that they had had before they died.
This had actually proven to be rather difficult as Polyjuice potion proved to be too weak and broke down too easily after only an hour.
Next he had tried using blood and hair samples from McGonagall in her Animagus form, hoping that by changing the Polyjuice potion enough using it, that their bodies would stay permanent.
Although he was careful to come up with some cover story so that she wouldn't be suspicious, it proved not to work anyway as an Animagus required the use of their own magic through force of will to achieve any changes.
Since both Lily and Ariana did not actually have any magic or will of their own yet it failed to work.
This had finally forced him to look for something that would initiate transformations even if the subject was dead.
There was only one type of being that he knew of with such a capability: werewolves.
However the problem lay in finding a willing werewolf who would be willing to conduct tests and take samples from them on a frequent basis.
This had been what caused him to go find Lupin and ask him to fill the vacant DADA post, and in return he would provide him with the wolfsbane potion that would allow him to keep his state of mind during his transformations.
Lupin had of course leaped at the opportunity given to him, and did not initially suspect anything when he said that the samples that he took from him were to help make a better potion for him.
Now however, he was starting to get suspicious, but it really was no matter as he already had gotten what he needed from him, and if he really needed to, he could simply fire him.
However as he flame traveled to where Snape was, he found Snape currently looking angry and throwing a few potions bottles around.
"It won't work Dumbledore!" He raged.
"What seems to be the matter Snape?" Dumbledore asked
"Over a decade now we've been at this and it still doesn't work!" Snape roared.
"We've made many recent strides, we can't just simply give up." Dumbledore cautioned.
"I've figured it out, we can make them look like Lily and Ariana, we can make someone else look like them, but we can't just simply bring them back from the dead no matter how hard we try." Snape replied.
"We could still capture their essence, what makes them them, we could even implant memories into them, make them believe that they are Lily and Ariana only not put in any of the negative things, such as when my sister had her outbursts or the bad memories that Lily had of you that caused her to scorn you." Dumbledore suggested.
Snape seemed to think for a moment before saying, "I'm afraid it just wouldn't be the same Dumbledore, it just wouldn't really be Lily."
"We could make an even better Lily, one that will always love you." Dumbledore coaxed.
"I won't do it Dumbledore." Snape insisted.
Dumbledore sighed, he needed Snape or this plan could never succeed.
"Do you really want to just give up Snape after spending this long? I promise you that we will succeed. Not only will you have Lily back, but a Lily that will always love you and make you happy. Let's face it, Lily never loved you when she was alive, were you to actually bring her back from the dead that would not have changed. This Lily will be the Lily of your dreams, you can make her into anyone that you want."
Snape seemed to consider this, and Dumbledore waited for his response. If he could not convince him then he would simply have to force him to do it. There would be nothing stopping him from his plan.
"All right Dumbledore, we'll do things your way." Snape finally agreed.
"Good man, I knew you'd see reason eventually." Dumbledore approved.
After speaking with him for a bit longer, he flamed traveled again, not back to his office, but to another room entirely, one that only he knew about, and had worked very hard to keep that way.
This was the reason why he could never have any Aurors poking around, as he feared that they might find this room, or detect it using any protection spells that they tried to put up.
It was still quite doubtful that they would ever find it, even if they were actually looking for it, but he decided that he simply couldn't take that chance.
What this room represented was the future and the destiny of the Magical World.
While he had hoped that Snape would be able to succeed in developing a spell that really would bring back the real Ariana, as he still held a deep amount of regret over this, but this still would have no effect upon his overall plan, as it had always been focused instead on simple cloning.
Looking out upon the vast room, he turned to numerous shelves lining the walls, all with various hair, skin, and blood samples, collected over recent years from various important magical people from numerous countries, which he had gotten secretly throughout various meetings with them as acting head of the International Confederation of Wizards.
Many were leaders of their magical countries and held a great deal of power, others were simply quite wealthy, but all were collected for one purpose; to make clones of all of them and implant memories of his own choosing so that they would all agree entirely with his way of thinking. He would even make them be forced to obey his will whenever he desired.
Gradually he would replace such leaders that he felt disagreed with the Greater Good and secretly install clones of them.
The real ones he would capture if he could or kill if he must and put them where they couldn't do any more harm until they understood the error of their ways through indoctrination.
It was of course an extreme plan even in his mind but a necessary one for the Greater Good, as leaders and people all with the right way of thinking would lead the Wizarding World in the direction it needed to go.
All injustices, all wars, all everything would be eradicated and instead usher in a new era of peace.
Having switched the Sorcerer's Stone with a piece of rock candy, which admittedly was quite delicious, he had the sorcerer's stone now to allow him to live long enough to make sure this was carried out.
This was not an evil plan he reasoned, as any losses or collateral damage would be nothing compared to the violence and problems that he would be avoiding, and soon everyone would surely come to see that his way of thinking was the best.
He had of course not chosen to show Snape this, as he would no doubt think that it was insane, but only a man of true intellect and vision such as himself truly understood the possibilities or how surprisingly easy it would be to infiltrate and replace magical world leaders.
While he still needed Snape to work on the two test subjects, once that was perfected it wouldn't take long to replicate the results, along with a few additions.
He could not only create a total false identity for each of the clones, but also do things that he couldn't with any ordinary already living person, such as add knowledge of fighting and magical combat skills, or enhanced speed or strength. In essence he could even create an army of super soldiers, even better than their original counterparts.
Looking at the hundreds of samples, he knew that he had a lot of work to do.
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Author's Note: Super long author's note. First, while toying with the idea of actually bringing Lily back to life after that many years had passed I decided that it would just mess with the laws of science, magic, religion, etc so instead I ultimately decided on cloning, which can actually be done in real life even though very controversial and of course very illegal. Since I like controversial stuff in my story, this was an easy decision for me.
So now you finally know just what Dumbledore's plan is and just why he has been so secretive and protective and makes such rash decisions. It's a plan I can actually see Dumbledore doing but he would not consider himself to be evil in doing so, as in his mind he is doing the right thing, and admittedly he does want to do good and make the world a better place, but unfortunately has some pretty messed up methods to do it.
I find a very strong and interesting parallel however between him and Narcissa in that they both desire great power and want to make the world a better place but are also pushed into difficult situations and walk a fine line between right and wrong. Ultimately however Narcissa has proven to be much better than Dumbledore is. Modifying someone's memory being one of them. Dumbledore obliviates people to stop them from the learning the truth about him or prevent him from doing things he knows are wrong.
Narcissa on the other hand only modified Draco's memory when she saw no other option. She simply loved her son too much to let him ruin his life, so she recognized that Draco had practically been brainwashed by his father and so was forced to remove that negative influence so that Draco could still be saved. Such tactics have also been tried on children in real life that have suffered severe abuse or brainwashing and so without removal of those memories would not be able to function and most if not all was not really the child's fault. As always I love exploring what is truly right and what is wrong in this story, and having Narcissa be forced to make such tough decisions are based on what she personally feels is going to help others and not necessarily herself. She still feels deep remorse.
That is something that Dumbledore I feel never understood even in canon, as he constantly tried doing the right thing but would make sacrifices and allow others to suffer such as Harry so that his aims might be achieved. He also would never listen to anyone else or seek council from others, always believing that he knew what was best for everyone. His plan is only a greater plateau of his already messed up all for the Greater Good logic. Stupid Dumbledore.