"No, he asked for more information to make an informed decision on the matter as he also has several offers for scholarships at renowned muggle institutes." She explained.
"That's a good policy. What is the student's name?" He asked.
"Harry Potter." She said glaring at him now.
"What? But there shouldn't even be any question if Harry attends Hogwarts. He has been placed on the list since his birth." Albus replied shocked.
"You can thank those damn muggles for that. They abused the boy, physically and emotionally, told him lies about how Lily and James died, they painted them in the worst light. Harry told me he was told by them that his parents died in a car crash they caused due to being drunk. He was called freak by them until the day before he started school, his bedroom was a cupboard until today and the physical abuse only stopped because he scared them with his accidental magic. He paralysed his uncle when he was nine for four hours when he tried to beat him with a belt again. They didn't tell him anything about magic." She said. "I told you they were the worst sort of muggles, but you didn't want to listen to me, who had observed them for a whole day . But you said they would be the best people to raise him and explain him about his parents' deaths." She accused him.
Albus looked really pale. Did he really allow for Harry to be abused for ten years?
"Are you sure Harry is not exaggerating?" He asked and immediately realised that it was the exactly wrong question to ask seeing her face.
"Yes, I am sure. After I took Harry to Diagon Alley to get some reading material to make his decision, so far I have the impression that he got a good first impression of the wizarding world; I took him to St. Mungo's. Healer Ickings did a thorough examination and found several old injuries. He had several broken bones, two concussions, scars from the belt on his back and no vaccinations against muggle diseases. Hell, the only way he healed was because of his magic taking care of those injuries because his relatives never even took him to a muggle healer. The school nurse was the only one to ever treat him. His body having to rely on his magic to heal him so often also led to him not developing as many anti-bodies to common illnesses as he should have. Until his eighth year of life he was malnourished and the worst part is his curse scar still has a big residue of dark magic in it!" She shouted now.
He could see that her infamous Scottish temper was coming out. He knew to tread carefully around her now.
"Where is Harry now?" He asked.
"At St. Mungo's. Healer Ickings has told me he would have to keep Harry there for two days to take care of all the problems and have a specialist on dark curses inspect the scar. Meanwhile he is filing a law case against the Dursleys for child abuse with the Ministry." She answered, still glaring at him.
He knew he couldn't say anything against this. There was no way she would accept that Harry had to return for the wards to keep up.
"I have another question. My instruments informed me that the wards that protected Harry's home through the sacrifice of Lily are rapidly falling. Did he mention anything that could lead to that?" Albus asked.
"They are falling? Since when?" She asked surprised.
"Sometime early this afternoon." He answered.
"What were the terms for the wards to work?" She wanted to know.
"As long as Harry can call the place where his mother's blood lives home, he will be safe from Voldemort and any of his followers." Dumbledore answered.
"Then I know the answer. Harry himself told me that the Dursleys' house wasn't his home, just his place of residence until he could finally get out of there. That was about early in the afternoon." She informed him.
"I see. Well, with the wards falling we would have had to relocate Harry either way. It is just too unsafe for him to live there if the bloodwards are gone. If he doesn't see the place as home anymore, there is nothing I could do to save the wards, even if we could get to an arrangement with the Dursleys." He said.
" Didn't you listen? They abuse him! He will never have any contact with them again!" She yelled.
"Alright, Minerva, please calm down." He said trying to appease her.
" I will calm down as soon as you swear to never again place Harry with those monsters!" She replied.
"Okay, okay, I swear I won't place him with them ever again." He quickly promised. "What impression did you have of Harry?"
She took a few deep breaths to calm down. This man was just enraging her with his attitude sometimes.
"He is a very intelligent boy. He told me he was top of his year at primary school. He also is very good at football. His scholarship offers come from those two facts. Obviously muggle schools compete with each other in football regularly and having the best team is a matter of school pride. Therefore young talents are scouted by teachers from the schools and the children are offered said scholarships. Only the best get them. I guess they also do it for other kinds of sports. But Harry is also very cautious and doesn't give up any information he doesn't want to be known. I think he only told me about the abuse because he thought that magicals could finally help him because his pleas for help with the muggle police didn't bring any results. I will investigate the matter. If I find out that somebody interfered with their investigations, there will be hell to pay." She promised.
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