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This is my take on the reptilia28's "Don't fear the reaper" challenge:

> ## CHALLENGE OUTLINE
>
> * Harry is killed at 17 during a fight with Voldemort. He's sent to his
>   Death's office (explained later) and finds out that this isn't the first
>   time that this has happened.
>
> * Harry's Death (who can have a human name) is mad at his arrival. Apparently,
>   people dying before their time is a black mark on the various Deaths'
>   records, and Harry is getting perilously close to getting this particular
>   one fired.
>
> * When Harry asks what was supposed to have happened, Death goes off on a rant
>   saying how he was supposed to have killed Voldemort, found his soulmate
>   ("Some Granger girl..".) and lived to be a centennial age. But since Harry
>   keeps getting into life-threatening situations for one reason or another, he
>   keeps dying before that happens. Harry is surprised about the soulmate part.
>
> * Death gives Harry a paper to sign that allows him to retain his memories
>   (the previous times, he wasn't given this option for some reason). Harry is
>   deposited to a previous time of the writer's choosing.
>
> * Eventually, Harry gets it right. He kills Voldemort, gets the girl, and
>   lives to a ripe old age of whatever. And Death doesn't get fired.
>
> ## MISC REQUIREMENTS
>
> * Harry had to have died at least three times before this one.
>
> * The memory keeping contract must be included.
>
> * Death must refer to Hermione as "some Granger girl" when Harry's soulmate
>   turns up in his rant.
>
> * Obviously, must be H/Hr.
>
> * Have fun.
>
> OPTIONAL:
>
> * Dumbledore's manipulations can be a factor in Harry's premature demises.

Here's my outline so far:

* Death has no idea who Voldemort or Tom Riddle are. They just aren't important.

  * Upon investigation, it turns out that Tom Riddle died while he was attending
    Hogwarts. Cause of death: Horcrux creation. What's left behind isn't really
    alive in any meaningful sense.

  * Because he's not alive, Voldemort can be permanently destroyed by a simple
    exorcism. On any fragment of himself.

  * The prophecy applies to some dark lord in South Africa. He was vanquished,
    as per prophecy, in 1984 by someone else.

    * The dark lord Tom Jerry Aspheart.

    * Defeated by some kid named Avernus Seeps.

    * By poisoning him with Aconite.

  * Why is Harry getting a special chance to keep his memories this time?
    He's reached the limit for mortal reincarnations. This time he has to go
    back as an official "employee" of fate, obligated to keep his memory, have a
    healthy long-term relationship with Hermione including children, and survive
    to at least age 134.

  * Why don't other people get this kind of chance? See, the timelines are like
    fibers, and only people with a certain kind of magic can cause the
    necessary tangles to allow time travel. You can identify them by their
    hair. Harry and Hermione both qualify. But you still can't travel
    arbitrarily, you have to go to a moment when the bad hair magic manifests
    itself. Like when Petunia shaved Harry's head and it all grew back
    overnight.

  * It's his last chance; if he fails, they'll just rewind time to before the
    first blood purity war and use someone else; Harry and friends will never
    have existed.

* Because I need a villain, this is going to be a manipulative Dumbledore story,
  will all the clichés that entails.

  * Dumbledore will never believe that Voldemort is gone.

  * Dumbledore is stealing Harry's money.

  * The Weasleys are in on it.

  * In large part I'm still going to keep Dumbledore/Harry interaction to a
    minimum.

    * Harry undoes manipulations as he discovers them.

    * Harry does everything he can to keep a low profile and prevent Dumbledore
      from noticing and raising the stakes.

    * Primary source of action is going to be unforeseen ramifications of
      Harry's actions. Turns out that the 90s are just a shitty time to be at
      Hogwarts, even without a Dark Lord out to kill you.

  * Need a reason to not straight-up murder Dumbledore early on.

    * Dumbledore is distracted by his multiple jobs, and can be easily kept at
      bay by continually manufacturing new minor problems.

    * If Dumbledore dies, he'll be replaced by multiple people, all pureblood
      bigots, and all much harder to distract.

    * If Dumbledore insists Voldemort is returning, then Harry can pit him
      against the Ministry and distract both parties from his own actions.

* Return date: pre-Hogwarts; age 6 or 7?

* Voldemort is defeated entirely pre-Hogwarts on this next go around for Harry.
  Mostly off-screen; I want it to be a completely minor obstacle.

  * Harry's first action upon getting reset: Find adult Wizard and steal wand.

  * Harry's second action upon getting reset: Cast single spell at scar; defeat
    Voldemort.

* Harry doesn't leave the Dursley's, but without remorse he straight-up imperios
  them to be a loving family for him.

  * Dumbledore left charms to keep them mad, but they are overpowered by Harry's
    compulsions.

  * Dumbledore never notices, as he never checked up on Harry anyway.

  * Harry puts on a show of pretending to dislike his living conditions for
    Dumbledore.

    * In the weeks prior to his Hogwarts letter, Harry moves into the cupboard
      ("for an adventure, like camping!") as part of the scam to keep Dumbledore
      in the dark.

* Some early interactions with Hermione?

  * Harry wants a childhood, and with the Dursleys under compulsions and
    cooperative, he's damn well going to get one.

  * Harry excels at his studies instead of being held back to Dudley's level,
    and is transferred to an accelerated program, where he meets Hermione.

  * Harry practices Occlumancy as "meditation" because it helps him "keep his
    thoughts organized". Hermione might as well get interested in this, too.

  * Harry fakes some accidental magic around Hermione, mostly to make her not
    feel like a freak.

  * Harry is present when Hermione gets her letter, but is not recognized by
    McGonagall because he has already permanently altered his appearance.

  * McGonagall does not approve of telling someone not in the family, so Harry
    is sent home.

  * Hermione of course immediately tells Harry everything, as she recognizes
    that he has also performed "accidental" magic.

  * They go to Diagon Alley together and find the books about him. They all talk
    to the Goblins together. These meetings go a long way towards preventing
    Hermione from viewing adults in the magical world as trustworthy.

* Harry shows up to Hogwarts after some sort of permanent appearance alteration.

  * Metamorphagus? I'd rather not, to be honest. Permanent transfiguration
    appeals to me more, as metamorph Harry sort of wants to be its own huge plot
    point.

  * No scar.

  * No James-hair or other strong resemblance to his father.

  * Snape still hates him, but he's trying very hard to distance himself from
    the storybooks.

* Harry does something about the storybooks; suing for damages seems
  appropriate.

  * Lots of money-revenge from Harry where he gets the Goblins on his side by
    letting them keep all the money they can get out of people.

  * Setting up for a Goblin revolution courtesy of Harry.

    * Death told him he needs to stay alive because his purpose in life is to
      "play a pivotal role with regard to the last Goblin rebellion". Harry
      takes this to mean he is either meant to prevent it, or meant to minimize
      the bloodshed.

    * Harry spends the whole story trying to keep the Goblins happy, giving them
      more ways to make money, fighting for equal rights, etc.

    * The whole reason he goes to Hogwarts this time around instead of fleeing
      the country is because he wants to stay near the Goblins and try to keep
      them appeased.

    * Punchline of the story: The Goblins rebel, which they wouldn't have been
      able to do without Harry's monetary and political support, and proceed to
      brutally conquer Wizarding Britain with Harry as their posterchild.

    * Harry is not amused when this happens. Fortunately, the Goblins have
      already recognized him as a citizen of the Goblin nation, so he's safe,
      and his friends and the small proportion of Wizards who aren't wholly
      prejudiced are allowed to integrate peacefully under the new Goblin
      regime.

* Harry sorts into Ravenclaw along with Hermione.

  * On the train, Harry convinces Hermione that Gryffindor is the "bully house"
    because he doesn't want her to get trolled again.

* Harry does everything he can to avoid animosity with Draco, but it doesn't
  work.

  * They meet in Diagon Alley, and Harry tries to ask about why blood would be
    more important than magic, but Draco immediately writes him off as an uppity
    mudblood and leaves.

  * They meet on the train and Draco insults Hermione. Harry asks him politely
    to not insult his friend, and offers his hand. Draco refuses it.

  * Draco is essentially jealous of Boy-Who-Lived political capital, especially
    because this Harry is going out of his way to make friends other than Ron,
    and takes it as an insult that Harry associates with nonpurebloods and is
    rejecting his place in society as the hero.

* Quirrell isn't possessed, but still tries to steal the stone. Let's face it,
  he was evil to begin with, or else Voldemort wouldn't have been able to talk
  him into the possession scheme.

  * Turns out being possessed by an insane and technically dead spirit isn't
    really all that good for you. Unpossessed Quirrell is competent.

  * Halloween still has a troll.

    * Hermione was insulted by Ron in charms class, and ran off crying. Harry
      immediately rushed after her.

    * Harry is able to convince her to leave the bathroom before the feast
      begins.

    * They bump into Snape in the hallways on their way from the bathroom, and
      both get detention removing broken bristles from brooms.

    * Troll interrupts detention. Harry rescues Hermione by flying them out the
      window on a broom.

  * Harry has to intervene.

    * Steals the stone himself very early on, but Quirrell and Dumbledore don't
      know this.

    * Quirrell eventually takes some students hostage as part of his bid for the
      stone, including Harry.

    * Harry defeats him, while trying very hard to not make himself look
      dangerous or Horcrux-possessed to Dumbledore.

* Harry does not get on the Quidditch team his first year.

  * The flying class incident happens, but Harry is in the other class because
    he's a Ravenclaw, so he isn't present. We only hear about it happening
    off-camera; Ron and Draco both got detention and banned from further flying
    lessons.

  * Hermione does not like flying at all, and basically refuses to leave the
    ground during the lessons.

  * In the troll incident above, Harry rescues Hermione by flying a broom. He is
    seen by teachers.

    * Hermione gains a new appreciation for flying, and agrees to let Harry take
      her flying again sometime.

    * Flitwick and Hooch recommend that Harry try our for Quidditch in 3rd year,
      when some spots will open up.

* Harry gets the cloak first year, but realizes it has tracking charms and such
  on it courtesy of Dumbledore.

  * He gets the Goblins to fix it.

  * And leaves it in their care.

  * And tells Dumbledore he sold it to them, just to fuck with him.

* Pettigrew is dealt with first year.

  * Harry captures him, mails him to French DMLE, figuring that Britain is too
    corrupt.

  * France determines that Black is innocent, publishes this everywhere, parades
    Pettigrew around in the ICW.

  * As a result, Dumbledore loses his ICW position, and France takes over
    leadership of the European magical states.

  * Sirius is freed, and immediately co-opted by Harry into helping him bring
    down the British Ministry politically.

  * The Black fortune was largely exhausted, but there are lots of properties
    out for rent that haven't been paid for properly. Sirius, on Harry's advice,
    turns debt collection over to the Goblins and allow them to keep most of the
    profits.

    * Many purebloods, notably Malfoy, lose quite a lot of money and power.

    * It comes out that Harry is Sirius' heir, and so Draco hates Harry even
      more now.

* Second year we still get basilisk attacks.

  * The diary is already dead, but Lucius had communicated with it beforehand.

  * Draco is instructed to release the basilisk.

  * It doesn't help that he isn't a parseltongue and has no real control over
    it.

  * Students die. So does Lockhart.

  * Hagrid still arrested without due process.

  * Dumbledore essentially refuses to do anything, as per original timeline.

  * Harry, being a parseltongue, manages to assume control of the basilisk and
    divert it from its rampage.

    * He doesn't want to kill it, but it can't stay in the school.

    * Harry doesn't know the spells used by Slytherin and Riddle to put it back
      to sleep.

    * Harry gives it to the Goblins, who assure him that they have access to
      parseltongue Goblins and will use it for bank security.

    * The Goblins issue a statement (at Harry's request) saying they were paid
      to defeat the basilisk and have done so.

      * This lets Harry stay somewhat anonymous, which he greatly desires.

      * Also good press for the Goblins.

      * And we know why Hogwarts stays open.

  * Dobby, basically the same as canon.

    * Over the summer, Dobby has been stealing mail.

      * Hermione and Harry were communicating using the phone, and in person.
        Hermione had not realized there was a problem.

      * Harry had noticed the missing mail, because he was expecting statements
        from the Goblins and remembered the past timeline.

        * So he contacted the Goblins and arranged for Dobby's magical signature
          to be registered as a criminal elf with them.

    * Harry and Hermione arrive at the train station, and are delayed by Dobby
      blocking the portal to the platform.

      * The Weasleys arrive at about the same time. Ron is blocked with them.

        * Because Dumbledore is still hoping to setup Harry with his pet light
          side family.

      * Ron immediately overreacts and steals his family's car to fly to
        Hogwarts.

      * Harry and Hermione call the aurors. They are apparated onto the platform
        by one.

        * The aurors also record Dobby's magical signature and register it as a
          likely criminal.

      * Ron arrives at Hogwarts in exactly the same way as canon.

    * Harry is studying in the library with Hermione during the Quidditch match.
      Dobby still attacks him with a bludger.

      * Turns out that Irma Pince is a hell of a lot better at healing charms
        than Lockhart is. Also, she's **really** mad about a bludger somehow
        making its way into the library.

      * So she gets Quidditch cancelled until the problem can be identified.

      * Of course, Draco had bought his way on to the team this year. So now
        Draco hates Harry even more.

    * When the Goblins capture the Basilisk, they identify Dobby by magical
      signature.

      * Dobby is repossessed and forcibly freed, as supported by law regarding
        elves used in criminal acts.

      * Harry and Hermione get this whole lecture from the Goblins about how
        "some races need someone to rule them, or they devolve into chaos and
        violence".

        * Dobby goes to work for the Goblins.

        * Hermione does not start S.P.E.W., but instead asks if there's any way
          to help the Goblins with their situation.

        * This whole thing forshadows the Goblins taking over Britain, but of
          course Harry can't see it coming.

      * And, of course, Draco just lost his elf and blames Harry.

* Also second year, we need some political movements in the background.

  * Sirius has taken his seat on the Wizengamot, and is doing his best to get
    revenge on those who wronged him.

  * Goblin rights are supported by Sirius because hey, they helped him get
    revenge, and it's something that would've pissed off his parents.

  * Along with international pressure from the ICW, he successfully campaigns to
    have Dementors removed from Azkaban.

* Third year, the Dementors are running amok.

  * Turns out that forcing the immortal soulless killing machines to leave the
    island full of food may have been a bad plan.

  * No Dementors near Hogwarts to begin with, but there is talk about them in
    the background.

  * Harry signs up for runes, arithmancy, and care. Flitwick does not allow
    Hermione to sign up for everything, so she takes the same as Harry.

    * Dumbledore tries to force Harry to sign up for Divination.

    * Harry eventually just settles on the plan "I'll show up for Arithmancy,
      and I'll do the work for Arithmancy, and I won't show up or do the
      homework for Divination, and I'd like to see them punish me for attending
      class".

    * After a few faceoffs, Dumbledore eventually has to cave in the face of
      objections from over half his staff.

  * Harry, feeling like this is going to finally be a calm year, decides to sign
    up for Quidditch.

    * He plays Beater.

    * He's OK, but not spectacular.

    * Hermione decides to try out as well, having enjoyed flying with Harry.
      Turns out that she's rubbish.

  * Dementor attacks!

    * Hogsmeade weekend, resulting in evacuation interrupting Harry's first
      date with Hermione.

    * Quidditch match, resulting in serious injury to some players.

      * Harry isn't involved (it's not a Ravenclaw game).

      * Harry, fearing for student safety, petitions the school and gets
        Quidditch cancelled until the Dementors can be removed.

        * Draco, of course, is angered by this because he's now unable to play
          Quidditch *again*, and it's once more Harry's fault.

  * Harry isn't the one to solve the problem this time; ICW authorities step in
    and contain the Dementors.

    * They're shipped off to Canada, where they hunt their natural prey:
      Bigfoots.

    * The British populace starts to become more polarized.

      * A faction bemoaning the incompetence of the British Ministry.

      * A faction blaming the foreigners for creating the problem to begin with.

  * Lupin, as per original timeline, does not introduce himself to Harry as a
    friend of the family.

    * Harry knows that Lupin is in Dumbledore's pocket, and had already soured
      Sirius to him on the grounds that "he should have looked into your
      situation" and "why did he never try to find me as a child" and such.

    * Hermione decides to ask Lupin for Patronus training. He agrees, in the
      face of the Dementor attack at the Quidditch match.

    * Hermione "trains" Harry to cast the Patronus.

  * Snape outs Lupin at the end of the year.

    * Hermione, having liked Lupin, is incensed.

    * Harry agrees with Hermione that it's stupid that werewolves have no job
      prospects, especially as in this timeline Lupin technically never did
      anything wrong.

    * As a way to make Hermione happy, and keep Lupin from being a resource for
      Dumbledore, Harry arranges for Lupin to get a job with the Goblins.

      * This leads the Goblins to eventually hiring essentially all of Britain's
        werewolf population as guards and cursebreakers.

      * These werewolves eventually form a core of the army that the Goblins use
        to invade.

* Over the summer, Harry attends the Quidditch World Cup with Sirius.

  * Ireland is not playing. Harry recognizes this as just an example of how the
    timelines are becoming more and more different.

  * Hermione is incensed that the Veela are being objectified.

  * Bulgaria wins this time.

  * No deatheater attack.

  * So, as the post-game celebrations are not interrupted this time, Harry and
    Hermione have time to track down the Veela and talk to them about how they
    are also being treated as second-class citizens.

  * The Veela are put in contact with the Goblins, who at this point are
    starting to organize quite a large collection of "undesirable" magicals.

  * Mention that Goblins have hired almost 100% of the muggleborn graduates.

* Fourth year: Dumbledore has organized the Triwizard Tournament, primarily as a
  mechanism to restore some of Britain's fading glory.

  * The Defense teacher actually is Moody this time. He's too paranoid to do a
    particularly good job, but he's better than Lockhart.

  * Crouch Jr. escaped, but didn't go after Moody. We hear about the murder of
    Crouch Sr. in a newspaper.

  * Harry, having put a lot of thought over the years into how bad the security
    around the cup was, gives the twins a laundry list of ways to get names into
    the cup.

    * He is expecting them to enter themselves, which he thinks would be a
      laugh.

    * They decide to enter themselves, which they think would be a laugh...

    * ...and Harry...

    * ...and Snape...

    * ...and Fudge.

    * Obviously, every one of these names comes out of the cup.

    * Because the twins' names were on one slip of paper (and nobody can tell
      them apart anyway) they are required to compete as a *single* competitor.

  * Harry and the twins straight-up admit cheating the cup, although Harry
    expresses loud displeasure at his name being entered. Harry agrees to aim
    for low scores on purpose, and the twins are going for laughs; most of the
    school decides not to hate them.

  * Harry takes the opportunity to "research", primarily to create an excuse for
    his superior spellcasting abilities.

  * The dragon event:

    * Harry gets a different dragon; ideally, he goes first this time.

    * Harry requests a zero score from the judges, announces that he is going to
      try the only idea he has, and summons the egg. Of course, it works.

    * Judges give him a zero, as requested, except for Bagman and Dumbledore.

    * Harry sells his egg to the Goblins.

    * Fleur, Cedric, and Krum are basically canon.

    * Twins throw gillyweed at the dragon. It eats it, then falls over choking
      on air. Charlie, who has been told their strategy beforehand, manages to
      get the dragon to the lake before it dies. Everyone admits it was by far
      the most effective method used.

    * Fudge does a miserable job, poorly casting a few charms and
      transfigurations. He does not get the egg.

    * Snape is sabotaged, independently, by all the Hogwarts student champions:

      * Twins have replaced his hair grease with something very flammable.

      * Cedric has been working with Hagrid, and acquires some dragon pheremones
        which are then "accidentally spilled" on Snape's cloak.

      * Harry figures he won't need any "silly wand-waving" and carefully
        replaces his wand with a fake.

    * The dragon goes into an insane rage, and Snape is brutally slashed and
      burned within seconds of the task beginning. He is rescued, barely alive.

  * Harry takes Hermione to the ball, and they have a good time.

  * The lake event:

    * Harry gets Hermione. Cedric gets Cho. Twins get Alicia/Angelina. Fleur
      gets her sister. Krum gets his date. Fudge gets his wife. Snape gets
      Draco.

    * Harry uses gillyweed, as before. Gets to Hermione, rescues her, then uses
      a bubblehead charm to wake her. They hang out underwater right next to the
      platform until time is up, intentionally getting a low score.

    * Cedric/Krum basically as before.

    * Fudge casts bubblehead and immediately gets lost. He is rescued after an
      hour from the wrong side of the lake.

    * Fleur makes it to her hostage without problems, because

      * Cedric has dosed Snape with grindylow bait, so they all chase after him
        instead.

      * Harry cast a whole bunch of sticking charms on Draco while he was down
        there, preventing Snape from freeing him.

      * And...

    * The twins are riding the giant squid, which they have somehow managed to
      bribe. They rescue their hostages within moments, and spend the rest of
      the time harassing Snape.

  * The maze event:

    * The start order is Twins, Krum, Cedric, Fleur, Harry, Fudge, Snape.

    * The twins summon brooms and fly to the trophy before Krum gets into the
      maze.

    * The trophy is just a portkey to the awards platform. Remember, no
      Voldemort.

    * As soon as they arrive at the awards platform, the hedges vanish in a
      poorly-planned piece of magic designed to allow the audience to see how
      close each of the competitors was to the finish.

    * All the monsters from the maze are now loose.

      * And they charge Snape, who is covered in attraction charms courtesy of
        Harry and Cedric.

      * Harry has a paid-for Goblin bodyguard, who massacres the attacking
        monsters.

* Fifth year, Fudge is now convinced that last year was a setup by Dumbledore to
  humiliate him and drive him out of office.

  * Hermione is a prefect, but Dumbledore has prevented Flitwick from naming
    Harry as a prefect.

    * Hermione objects strongly, especially when she discovers that Ron and
      Draco are also prefects.

    * Flitwick makes it very clear to everyone that even though Harry does not
      have a badge, Flitwick himself will issue any point deductions or
      detentions that Harry asks him to, sight unseen. Harry is thus an
      "unofficial" prefect.

  * He sends Umbridge in to keep an eye on Dumbledore.

  * This time there's no particular animosity between Umbridge and Harry.

    * Harry swallows his distaste and sucks up to her.

    * Harry manages to trick Ron into starting Dumbledore's Army, then turns him
      in.

    * Umbridge foolishly targets Susan Bones with the blood quill this time.
      Amelia Bones finds out, and things do not end well for Umbridge.

  * Now halfway through the year and without a Defense teacher, Harry decides to
    try more Goblin integration and gets them to send a Defense teacher.

    * Dumbledore is disgraced and desperate at this point, so he latches on to
      the idea.

    * What follows is one of the bloodiest and most effective Defense classes
      Hogwarts has ever had.

      * Students showing up to their next class missing a limb becomes a regular
        thing.

      * Fortunately, it's all healed relatively easily.

    * At the end of the year, parents and the board absolutely *demand* that
      Dumbledore find someone else.

      * Goblins tell Harry and Hermione "should you ever wish to continue your
        education with us, the Goblin nation will be happy to accept you". They
        thank them politely, and tell them they will consider that after
        Hogwarts.

  * Harry and friends do well on their O.W.L.s.

* Sixth year: without the Dementors policing Azkaban, several prisoners escape
  with the help of Crouch Jr.

  * Lestranges, Carrows, possibly one or two others?

  * Harry is officially granted the prefect position this year.

    * The previous male Ravenclaw prefect for his year has nothing but respect
      for Harry; there is no animosity and indeed the "unofficial prefect"
      stance of the previous year was in part his idea.

  * Snape teaches Defense, and is predictably shitty.

    * After both the Christmas and Easter breaks, we hear about some students
      not returning to Hogwarts because the Goblins offered to tutor them
      instead.

    * Harry and Hermione got this offer at the end of last year, but didn't
      recognize it for what it was and stayed at Hogwarts.

  * Slughorn is teaching Potions; without the looming threat of Voldemort, Harry
    was not required to convince him to return.

  * The escaped prisoners have Dumbledore keeping Harry confined to the castle,
    except when he sneaks out.

  * Encounter in Hogsmeade; the escapees really do blame Harry for the death of
    their Lord.

  * Once it becomes clear that Crouch Jr. is alive and acting as a mastermind,
    the aurors begin to ramp up for Blood Purity War Part Two: The Bloodening.

  * Dumbledore becomes really loud about insisting that this means Voldemort is
    back.

    * Harry tells everyone who will listen that Dumbledore is crazy and starts
      writing letters to the Prophet distancing himself even further.

  * Harry really does start a defense organization this year.

    * Hermione insists he calls it the "Student-run Magically Useful Training"
      sessions. This probably helps attract members, to be honest.

    * Gets some sort of special allowance from the Ministry. Off-duty aurors
      help with training.

  * This year is spent with Harry preparing for what he sees as the final battle
    to end the blood supremicists.

    * Harry learns that the Malfoys are in contact with the escapees.

    * Harry manages to plant the clue about the vanishing cabinet for Draco to
      find.

    * Harry contacts the Goblins about what is going on, and pays them to help.

  * Some interaction with the younger Weasleys? Love potions, perhaps.

    * Ginny dosing them gives us one more way to show Hermione that magical
      society is disgusting.

    * Of course, Dumbledore covers up what's going on.

    * Harry manages to get the situation public enough to really embarrass
      Dumbledore.

      * At Slughorn's party, Harry and Hermione switch the love potion dosages
        so Ron is attracted to Ginny and Draco is attracted to Ron.

      * The resulting extremely public fight results in both Ron and Draco
        losing their prefect badges, and the disgrace of Ron and Ginny for
        participating in a love potion campaign.

  * Over the year and the following summer, there are attacks by the escapees.

  * The international community takes notice and officially quarantines Britain
    "to prevent the escape of unsavory elements of society".

* Year 7. Harry is only barely involved; this is pretty much the end result of
  his actions so far, and it comes together too quickly for him to realize
  what's happening.

  * Snape still teaching Defense.

    * A record low N.E.W.T.s in Defense were earned last year. Not counting
      students who were in S.M.U.T., it was in fact *zero*.

    * Harry continues to run S.M.U.T., and recruits enough help to offer it for
      all year groups.

    * Students take to referring to Harry and Hermione as Professor.

  * Hermione is named head girl, but Neville is named head boy. Most of the
    school, including Neville, think this is a joke.

    * Everyone knows that Harry is sleeping in the other half of the Ravenclaw
      head suite with Hermione.

  * Immediately after the Easter holiday, Draco activates the vanishing cabinet
    and signals to the escapees.

  * The Goblins have been prepared for this, and have a way to intercept the
    vanishing cabinet's traffic.

  * Purebloods meet basilisk. Basilisk wins.

  * Harry takes advantage of the confusion to stun Dumbledore in the back.

    * Having access to the cloak and ring already, Harry is now once again
      the Master of Death. He's expecting to be a part of the fight against the
      blood purists; as he doesn't yet realize how prepared he's left the
      Goblins for this fight.

    * The Goblins cart Dumbledore away to answer for his part in the bigotry
      against nonhumans.

  * A great many Wizengamot representatives were part of the planned attack.
    There is a huge power vacuum, paralyzing government.

  * The Goblins immediately place armed guards throughout Wizarding society,
    taking the place of the (confused, panicing) aurors.

  * Here we see Goblin-run werewolf armies subduing the British wizards, Veela
    using their allure to dominate the populace and establish order, house elves
    rebelling against their masters and going to work for the Goblins en masse,
    etc.

  * Without Dumbledore, the Order is flailing about and unable to respond in any
    adequate manner. They are quickly defeated.

  * Goblins apply for recognition with the ICW as an interim British government.

  * As soon as the ICW approves, the Goblins start interrogating *everybody*,
    holding them to the standard "are you as tolerant and unbigoted as Harry
    Potter?"

    * Needless to say, a great many people fail, and are slated for
      "reeducation".

    * The Goblins introduce themselves to the Muggle government, painting the
      Wizards in the worst possible light and arranging for assistance in the
      reeducation and integration of the Wizards.

  * Sirius, as it happens, has been conspiring with the Goblins for some time
    now; he's really mad at pureblood society for denying him a childhood,
    murdering his friends, and preventing his own justice for so long.

    * Sirius never told Harry because he has seen Harry as a child, not a
      co-conspirator.

    * He just wants Harry to grow up in a Britain where there can be no more
      Voldemorts.

  * Hogwarts is shut down as "a hotbed of bigotry and intolerance".

  * Harry and close friends are vetted and named the first Human citizens of the
    "Reformed British Magical Empire".

    * Goblins ask Hermione if she wants to help setup educational standards for
      their reeducation camps to turn the pureblood wizards into respectable
      people.

    * "Politeness and Open-mindedness Reeducation Network". Turns out that the
      Goblins can't name anything, either.

  * We end the story with Harry, horrified at what he's done, making motions
    towards fleeing to Australia with Hermione and a few others.

    * He is discretely notified that the Goblins are fine with this, but don't
      really realize that he's fleeing.

    * The Goblins want to know if he would like to be named their ambassador to
      Australia.