The next day, Harry decided to consult with his friends, to see how he could achieve his goals of taking over the world. First, he would go to Merlin Hospital to talk to Moody.

Merlin Hospital had been founded shortly after Harry had taken the Stone. It was a towering square of stone and iron, looming over much of the Hogwarts grounds. It had taken Alastor a full month to design and make the protections, and he was still trying to improve. To keep other groups from trying to steal the stone, Harry had said he had gotten ancient spells for healing, and offered the stone to magicians around the world. None had accepted, all saying that he was lying or trying to manipulate. So Harry had spent the past month and a half healing every witch and wizard in Britain.

Harry walked through the doors, past Amelia Bone's Aurors, whom he greeted, and up three flights of stairs to Moody's office. He had had to call Moody on a security mirror, and even then had had to repeat three security passcodes. He knocked on the door.

"Come in, son."

Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody could have been rejuvenated with the stone. He had decided not to, saying he liked his old appearance. His office was filled to the brim with artifacts, a large number of which Harry thought had been in Dumbledore's office. There was also a can of Comed-Tea lying inexplicably on the surface of Moody's desk. "What did you want to talk to me about? You said it was urgent."

"I want to take over the world."

Moody spit the can of Comed-Tea, which he had unthinkingly raised to his lips. "What? You want to what?"

"Take over the world."

"How exactly are you planning on doing this?"

"That was what I wanted to talk to you about."

"All right, son. I will tell you this now. You can't. Yes, you are the head of the Wizengamot, and broadly respected, and hold the Elder Wand, and have defeated a mighty dark wizard. Dumbledore held all of those too, and yet he did not control even Britain. And he was also an enormously powerful wizard, while you are a twelve year old boy."

"But Voldemort and the Death Eaters are gone now. There are very few on the Wizengamot who oppose me. "

"Son, even if you get the Wizengamot, even if you control all of Britain, that's still not even close to achieving your goals. Britain is maybe the seventh most powerful country, and that's counting the Americas. If you just count Britain, we're probably 15th. We don't come close the Russians or the Turks, yet alone the Indians or the Chinese. You try to conquer any countries and then the Chinese or the Indians will take an army of more people than live in Britain, and kill you."

"Yes, but I have the Stone. I also have the power of Science."

"Really son? Knowing a bit about science isn't going let you defeat countries twenty times the size of Britain."

"I have the Philosopher's Stone, an unlimited budget, and the background to recognize all of the stupid ways you fight wars. No one has any security. I can launch coups, and the people will support me. I can also use scientific experiments to tap the unlimited potential magic affords us."

"Two things son. One, what do you mean by the stupid ways we fight wars? And Two, what unlimited potential are you talking about?"

"Um, well there are deadly poisons that you can put in someone's tea, you can put a bomb in an envelope and give it to an owl, you tell your Patronus to find Lord Voldemort and then just take all the Aurors there. Honestly your wars should last five minutes. And for two, every you cast Aguamenti you create stuff out of thin air. And the energy needed for that is enough to wipe all of Scotland off the map."

"What." Harry heard a faint sputtering noise.

"Ok. Um. Those are all new ideas, and I can't think off any immediate reason why they are terrible. With that in mind, I'll at least try to help you. Now, why are you trying to do this?"

"To put it simply, the Muggles have weapons that can destroy a city."

"What. How? The greatest magics of the Founders couldn't do this. How could the Muggles?"

"It is far too complicated to explain. They can do this, and they have tens of thousands of these weapons. The Russians just collapsed, and now many of the weapons are in unstable hands. Using even a couple hundred could send the Earth into a deep and dark winter. I have a Vow not to take any chances in the safety of the world. This is a huge chance. I have to this."

Moody now had an terrified expression on his face. "Alright son, I'll help you because you have managed to convince me. Is there anyone else you have told?"

"Amelia Bones and Hermione Granger."

"Good idea."