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“Albus, he needs to be sent to St Mungo’s, I don’t know what is wrong with him!” Poppy said I wasn’t surprised he the headmaster told her he had faith she could handle whatever was wrong with the school’s potion master.
“Poppy what is wrong with him?” I asked once the headmaster was out of the Hospital Wing
“I don’t know! All my spell come back that he is now a squib. But I know that cannot be true. You don’t lose your magic just like that. Not over a potion accent,” she said
“True if that where the case all the students in that class would have been effected and yet you cleared most of them to leave for dinner,” I said she just looked at me flatly.
“Don’t give me that look I didn’t tell you how to do your job. I just trying to help you find out what could be wrong,” I told just as Filius came in with one of his second-year girls.
“Ahh, Ladies could one of you be willing to help Miss Jones with her lady issues?” he asked
“I can help her. Maybe you could help Poppy with her problem. With your past as a dueler, you know a little about medical magic, right?” I asked. He nodded at me. While Poppy glared at me.
“Miss Jones take a set on the bed and I will be over with a few things and we will have a talk okay,” I said the blushing girl was quick to do as I said.
It did not take me long to have her delt with and back on the way to her common room.
“So do you know anything else?” I asked
“Minerva I should be mad at you but Filius was able to help. Is seems Snape has broken an oath and may have lost his magic because of it,” Poppy said; I almost yelled out at that.
“This will hurt the school when it comes out. We need to find the student involved and help them. Filius can you have the other professors bring all the students to the great hall. Poppy call in two teams from St Mungo’s. Have the DMA take this man away to be held until he wakes up,” I said before heading toward the doors.
“And what will you be doing?” Filius asked me
“Dealing with Albus,” I said as I left the hospital wing to head to the man’s office or maybe soon to be former office.
I glared at the paintings of the former Headmaster after they told me Albus had up and left the school.
“Where did he go?” I asked; I did not like the answer that they didn’t know. All they knew is he had opened a letter he had gotten a few days and jumped up knocking his chair over than flooed out.
His chair was in fact still on the floor; I sighed then asked where the letter was. I let out a hiss when I was told he took it with him.
“Minerva, Poppy sent me to tell you the students are showing up in the great hall and she needs the floo open,” Pomona said. I nodded at that before walking over the shorting hat.
“Tell her it will be just a little longer,” I said as I put the hat on.
“What can I do for you Deputy Headmistress?” The hat said so I alone could hear.
“A Professor’s oath has been broken. I need to protect the students better; I cannot do that as Deputy and Albus failed as the headmaster,” I said allowed. I heard my co-worked gasp at that.
“We see and saw and have seen,” was said by two voices I shuddered as the wards settled over me.
“He is no longer welcome in the grounds,” I said before taking off the hat.
“He will have felt that. I will tell you as I told him the wards are not meant for one person alone. It was after all four people whom founded the school of Hogwarts,” the hat said as I but it back in its place.
“Minerva,” “Come we need to have a meeting before we talk to the student body and allow those we need in,” I told her.
Pomona, Filius and Poppy all quickly agreed to help me hold the wards for the school.
I left the school to tell Madam Bones what had happened and why we needed her best people. I knew my co-workers would with the help of the healers soon find the student Snape had harmed.
I flooed out not wanting to risk walking into Albus as he tried to return to the school. So I was shocked when I flooed into a mad house. I grabbed one of my former students and demand she take me to Madam Bones and if they could tell me what was going on.
I quickly learned the Albus had collapsed in the home of a known squib by the name of Figg. And the reason he was in her home is because she had be placed to watch over Harry.
“Say no more take me to Bones now,” I said she nodded at me.
“Word has already reached Hogwarts?” she asked when I came into her office.
“Seal the room,” I said looking at her and the Minster. She just looked me up and down before doing as I had said.
“What do you know?” she asked after tapping a quill. I took a breath and sat down and told her everything that happened today and the night I had been a part of placing Harry where he was.
“So, you never went back to look in on him?” Madam Bones growled out. I told her how I tried but could not remember how to get there and when I had demand answer out the Albus he said that meant the blood wards where working.
“That fool placed blood wards,” said making my jump. I had not noticed the Unspeakable in the office before they had spoken.
“He said he had I am no ward breaker so I do not know. Has something happened to him?” I asked they all seemed to understand I was asking about Harry and not Albus.
I was sick to learn his family had almost killed him and the reason for doing so was because the boy had done better on a test then his cousin. And if not for muggle healers the boy would be dead.
I was told to go back to the school teams would be there shortly to help us with our search. I could only nod. “Before I go where is he at?” I asked she glared at me before saying a holding cell.
“Good; when Snape in collected put him in the one across from him. That way they can see the no one is coming to get them out of the mess they have found themselves in,” I said before leaving.