I forgive you: Chapter 27

Harry's POV
When we reached Hogsmeade, Severus took me from Remus and cast a disillusionment on us. Siri and Remmy cast the disillusionment charms on themselves.

We walked to Hogwarts and slowly opened the gates and sneaked in.

Severus and I didn't want Siri, Remmy, or us to be registered in the wards. Severus, who knew the best about wards, said, "We didn't get registered. If we did, there would be a slight fluctuation in the magic of the wards."

We smiled and walked to the meeting room.

Our timing was impeccable. The letter Severus had written to the Board had reached just at that moment.

When one of the board members opened the letter, they read the context of the letter to everyone. Then the person showed the contract and the highlighted part, and they passed the resignation letter.

The member of the board said, "We have to accept Severus' resignation. The letter has come from Gringotts. We know we cannot fool the goblins." Then he looked at Dumbledore and said, with his voice very cold, "If the headmaster would have read the conditions of the contract thoroughly, we wouldn't have lost a competent professor like Severus." The ending, though, turned into snarling.

Severus was impressed. So were Sirius and Remus.

"It was not my fault. I asked the goblins for a standard teaching contract." Dumbledore tried to tell that it was not his fault but the goblins.

"All standard contracts for a master of the subject have that clause headmaster, or have you forgotten?" Another member asked.

"I do not have the same clause in my contract. Mine is also a standard contract." McGonagall argued. No one wronged Dumbledore in front of her.

"You had the clause, professor. Headmaster Dumbledore had it removed." The person told her. They were given the original contract by the goblins, and if any modifications were made, the contract would show it, including the one who modified it.

McGonagall could not believe Dumbledore had done that. She didn't want to stop teaching, but now that she knew about the option of quitting midway, she wanted it.

"Or have you forgotten that Professor Snape had not one but double masters. He is a Potions master and also has a mastery in defense. That clause cannot be deleted for professors who have more than one mastery." Another member questioned.

The more Dumbledore was questioned, the angrier he looked. His face looked like he was constipated.

I would be thanking my guts for casting the silencing and privacy charms around us. I could not hold my laughter in. I started giggling and then laughing.

Sirius, Remus, and Severus looked at me shocked. When they noticed the charms, though, they didn't hold back either.

Right at that moment, another letter from Gringotts had arrived, and the letter was dropped in front of Dumbledore.

Before he could grab the letter, the board member who pointed Severus' double mastery had snatched the letter, opened it, and read it out loud.

"Lord Dumbledore,
While conducting an audit, we, goblins, have discovered that a large sum of money was being transferred from the account of Lord Severus Tobias Prince-Snape and Lord Remus John Lupin without their consent to your accounts. When they were informed of this folly, they demanded their money be returned with 25 percent interest. The money will be taken from your personal accounts, and if insufficient, your properties could be ceased.
The goblins responsible for this folly have been found and executed on the spot.
We, goblins, from Gringotts, thank you for your cooperation.
Yours,
Ragnok
Chief of Britain Gringotts"

What the poor soul didn't know was that I had wordlessly and wandlessly cast the Imperius Curse on him to read the letter out loud.

The more the letter was read, the more Dumbledore paled. In the end, he excused himself and all but ran out of the room.

Then, the outburst began.

When I was looking around, I saw a green beetle resting near the window slab. I pointed the beetle over to Severus. He didn't know who it was.

"Reeta. No. Good." I said.

"You mean to say that the green beetle is Rita Skeeter. The reporter who is set on destroying lives?" Severus asked.

I nodded.

He grinned as he pulled Sirius and Remus out of the room back to Hogsmeade. He had then explained about Rita to them.

When we saw a green beetle flying around us, Remus had caught the beetle. We then walked into Three Broomsticks and asked for a room and ordered for three butterbeers and a few treacle tarts to be delivered there.

When we entered the room, Remus let out Rita, who turned back to herself.

"We all know that being an illegal animagus is wrong, dear Rita. You could easily be thrown into Azkaban for it." Severus chastised.

"What do you want?" She asked.

"Do not write anything about us unless we ask you to or your secret will be out. But before the aurors could get you, I would have my way with you." Severus threatened.

Rita nodded and said, "Deal."

We nodded and smiled as we waved our hands. She walked out of the room in silence.

We got our drinks, or in my case, tarts, finished them, got down, paid for them, and walked out.

Then we apparated back to Diagon Ally and walked to Gringotts and into Ragnok's office, who was waiting for us with a pensieve.

Chapter 28