Few people would directly cause trouble for Gryffindor the way Snape did, but he was also a friend of Lucius Malfoy, a school governor. Lucius and Albus had managed to get along despite occasional conflicts, until Harry Potter enrolled.
Pomona lowered her head, tugged at the cloth covering the picnic basket, and continued onward.
Although Harry looked very much like James, his personality was completely different. Otherwise, she would have dearly liked Harry Potter to take money from his family vault to compensate Lucius for the losses he suffered after leaving the Board of Governors.
Usually, the headmaster was chosen by the governors and had to obey them in all things. But this generation's Hogwarts headmaster was Albus Dumbledore, President of the International Wizarding Confederation and the "white wizard" who had once defeated Grindelwald. He could even drive Hogwarts's biggest "benefactor" off the Board of Governors.
She could roughly guess the two reasons. First, Lucius had been so eager to get rid of the item Voldemort had entrusted to him that he stuffed that troublesome diary into Ginny Weasley's schoolbag. The diary then unleashed the Basilisk from the Chamber of Secrets, throwing Hogwarts into chaos for the entire school year and even putting it at risk of closure.
The second reason was Harry Potter. He was a kind child. When he saw Dobby being brutally treated by the Malfoys, he wanted to help him, even though Dobby had nearly ruined Vernon Dursley's business, and Vernon had angrily nailed iron bars across Harry's window.
That was illegal. Vernon was suspected of unlawfully restricting someone else's freedom, and although he was Harry's guardian in name, if some nosy neighbor informed social services, someone would definitely have come knocking.
But children had their own solutions. The Weasley twins and Ron drove their father's