December 27, 1995
Ok, where to start. Joined Hermione at her place for Xmas. Was pretty nice. Her parents are nice.
I guess you might be right about fast food not working as a full time thing. Might set up a stand during hogsmeade weekends or something and hire a pair of seventh year girls to run it. Have a elf with them that make pizza.
For fun if nothing else.
I still approached Lupin though about the possibility of work. You are right about expanding and I have been starting to look into putting up a store in the wizarding district in France for now and while I will hiring local talents ro run it, I need a manager to handle the potion store franchise thing.
I simply don't got the time!
Lupin actually got a O in NEWT level potions and got a good amount of work experience in both muggle and magical world, even if the jobs he did not always where so...nice.
I think I had him convinced before I even brought up the stasis cabinet. Sadly the idea of stasis restraints and such wont work. The area that are to be put in stasis need to be contained. Best you could do with stasis cuffs would to put the hands into stasis...which wouldn't do anything good to your blood flow.
He didn't want to think it was possible as it sounded to good but I talked him into trying it the next full moon which is Jan 6 to Jan 8.
It will work, I know it will.
Once he have confirmed it working I will start full blown mass production of cheap copies. Best idea I got atm and buy a few hundred from IKEA. They got some cheap cabinets that can fit a man I them. All I then need to do is to put them through a rune carving line and charge the runes.
Also, I approached the Blacks, Bones, Longbottoms and Weasleys about the possibility to buy into Arcanotech.
Black signed and gave me a slap on the back before I was done talking, saying he owed me anyway from catching the rat. He also payed up front.
Bones, Longbottom and the Weasleys was a bit more hesitant but they also signed with the 'no pay' option. After all there are no actual drawbacks to signing.
Sure, they wont start getting any gold anytime soon, but they also isn't putting any money in. Oh, and before I forget, I did have a few wizard and two squib lawyers look over the contract to check for loopholes and such.
As for that damn basilisk...I did think about basilisk skin gloves but that just wont work. The skin is a inch thick and stiff as hell. You cant transfigure diamonds or noble gems.
Also, about the Ring Nexus transport system...Its still giving me problems. Technically it works, you dial the address and you are sent to the correct destination and I got some basic security on it, like you cant step onto a platform before dialing out and blocking ingoing traffic and it wont activate until the shields are back up and everyone is clear of the rings.
The problem I got is getting the authentication security going. Its going to need at least a few more weeks of work.
Hiver, signing out.
PS: I'm taking most of winter holidays of from magic from now on. I need some relaxing time.
PPS: As for V not trying to recruit me yet i think it got more with the fact that he is still hidden than me being MB.
January 20, 1996
Back in school again.
As you guys want to know how school is going, lets start with that.
I'm around seventh year level in charms and transfiguration
My Potions, Arithmancy and DADA is late six year.
History and Astronomy is at Fifth year level along with CoMC.
So that's how it is. I have started to ask around about the possibility of Alchemy next year. At the very least Hermione want to take it.
So there you go.
Anyway, the magical TV idea is a good one, I might even be able to reuse some of the connection designs used in the Ring Network. I want to get that one up and running first though.
Also, I think I disagree with you about it not being worth expanding the potion selling. The UK might not be able to support more than one of the store as everyone shop at the same place(more or less), but in other countries the market is still open.
I have checked and France got the same damn blind spot. No cheap potion stores...
Also, Lupin have been hired full time after he accepted and signed the contract as well as confirmed that the stasis cabinet works!
I have ordered two hundred cheap cabinets from IKEA for conversion and have started to set up the rune carving production line in the CoS.
When the first units are finished I will put a add into the Prophet and they will be handed out for free at the Arcanotech potion store in Diagon.
About Umbridge, she was actively sabotaging the defense training of our side. She is a blood purist and are actively prosecuting werewolfs along with all other semi humans....and this is only counting things she have done in THIS timeline.
She was a enemy combatant and I neutralized her in a way that left her alive, more or less in charge of her own mind and with all body parts intact.
I don't think you would have complained if I did the same thing to Hermann Göring, so why do you complain about her? I could just as easy have made her disappear.
Either way, other than that, not much have happened.
Hiver, signing out.
PS: Dumbledore is bloody brilliant as a teacher!
February 10, 1996
Ok, something interesting enough just happened. A Auror came visiting me.
Turns out the Ministry want to hire me to put up the Patronus wards at the Ministry as well as around Azkaban to keep them in.
While the Array I turned in for my mastery already belong to the ministry(its part of the entire mastery thing) and anyone can copy one if at all possible they want the creator to do the arrays for wards that important simply because it greatly reduce the chance of it going wrong.
They offer Twenty Thousand Galeons for the entire job. You think i should take it?
Also, I already explained why I dealt with her like I did. At this point the only way to neutralize her as a thread would have been
A) Something like what I did.
B) Kill her.
C)Mind control.
Now which one would you have prefer I did? Should I have killed her? I likely could have gotten away with it.
Should I have tried to make some kind of rune based imperio?
Which one would sound the most 'moral' to you?
Any way to remove her in a legitimate way she would have very easily have blocked as one of the ministers favorites.
So what should I have done? Should I have let her stay and sabotage my friends and allies defense educations during the lead up to war, while she keep spreading propaganda?
There had already been students that had detentions with her. I saw them being careful with their hands afterwards.
So, please tell me which one you would have done?
Now I wont mention that sorry excuse of a human again as I got more important things on my mind.
I finished the Ring Nexus so I can now put up a secure Ring system. The Nexus will be placed on the moon where its safe.
Other than that, the Rings work as a combination of Gou'uld rings and a phone. You use the terminal next to the rings and state your destination and then enter your password(this is for private terminals, public ones don't need a password). The force field around the ring area and you then step on. Once the rings are clear the forcefields go back up and the rings move up to teleport you.
When you arrive the rings go up and materialize you before going back down into the floor and lowering the force field.
The ring wont allow you to transport to a station that's currently in use or got something or someone blocking the rings.
I'm thinking of arranging a demonstration for prospective buyers as well as offering to install one terminal and platform for free in both Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade.
The primary pro this got over other kinds of magical transportation is that its faster than floo and portkey, can carry more people at once, is cleaner(than floo) as well as much more graceful.
Hiver, signing out.
March 2, 1996
Yeah I decided to take the job and just got back from the Ministry.
I cam loaded for war, wearing everything I could possibly bring without looking like I was armed.
Badass longcoat with knife missiles and expanded pockets with potions of all kinds.
Both the simple protego belt and the MK33 interceptor belt.
The same Ortillery tracker I always go with me 'just in case'.
Either way I went there yesterday with a contract which I had looked over by two lawyers, both a magical and a squib.
We signed the contract(They read it. If they didn't, I would have lost what little respect I have left for the ministry.). They also had a contract but didnt much care which one we used and I demanded mine or they could put up their own damn ward.
Once that was done we headed over to look over the central ward array. That thing is a 'mess'.
The central concept is sound but now it look like the rune ward array version of the Burrow. Someone started with something small and instead of redoing it when new things where invented they simply strapped them on.
That's what they wanted me to do. Resisting the urge to facepalm I got to work on the array. I got about half of it done yesterday evening and got the day of from school today to finish it.
Sodding slapdash hack of a job.
Either way, tomorrow I'm heading to Azkaban to do their wards. If the array of that place is in the same condition, I will hurt somebody.
Also, I put a clause in the contract that if a Dementor get within 30 meter of me I can legally walk away.
I fucking HATE those things.
Also, I set up a meeting for next months at the ministry to demonstrate the Ring transports. Hopefully they look suitably magical that they don't complain about that.
Hiver, signing out.
PS: Yes, I read all your comments but as its like a month between my reports I only answer the ones I remember/think is relevant.
PPS: I remember a question ages ago whats my Boggart is. Its nothing. The endless void with nothing in it. But really, its best imitation of it looked like a black bowling ball so...
May 3, 1996
Things didn't go well.
Hiver
May 10, 1996
So I arrived at Azkaban early in the morning. The place is worse than you can ever think.
Due to wards stopping Portkeys, Apparation and Floo we took a boat. The place is made of dark rock and look like a giant fortress sitting in the middle of the ocean, over ten stories tall with the walls all the way to the water other than a small dock.
We where about a kilometer away from the fortress when you start to feel the effects of Those Things and the three aurors escorting me used their Patronus. I was going to as well but the cocksuckers had taken my wand, I am only allowed it back while working on the array.
These clowns are so clueless its silly. They are afraid I will do something on the way there but then give me full access to their central ward array? Where do you think I could do the most damage if I wanted to?
Either way, the Patronuses and a cheering charm I asked one of the Aurors to put on me took the edge of the aura of those...things. Black survived 12 years in this place...even as a animagus its a wonder he is as sane as he is.
The dock open into a courtyard which lead into the central keep where the array is engraved.
Its...better. Its still a bit of a mess but at least this one looks like it was planned with upgrades in mind and is somewhat modular.
Anyway, I got to work and almost 12 hours later(I was thinking of taking a Contractors lunch but I don't want to spend more time than needed at this place) I was ready to connect it to the rest of the array.
As they shut it down so I can draw the final connection rune there is a massive explosion from outside.
The aurors all react like trained and sound the alarm before rushing to combat the threat, one of them pulling me with him. Cant leave me unsupervised with the ward array he stated.
2 minutes later I found myself standing in the courtyard in the midst of ten dead aurors, facing Lord Snakeface and two DE's, masks and all.
I don't know how he resurrected, but he look more...human...than in the movies. He even got a nose and hair!
As he where congratulating me on giving him the opportunity to break out his allies I had my hand in my pocket, pressing the(new) rune control array for my knife missiles, getting them to stealthy move out of my expanded inner pocket and out beneath my coat, my Interceptor belt rings sliding out of my expanded satchel.
I would give you some detailed dialogue but to be honest I was to busy trying not to get myself killed to pay more than a general attention to what he was saying.
Blabla, glorious victory, crush the ministry, join me, ultimate power, apprentice, slytherin, rule the world. All that was taken up at more than one occasion.
The first warning they got that something was wrong was my knife missiles turning his two minions into kebab...but somehow that was enough and he shielded the ones aimed at him.
Hissing at me he threw a crucio at me only to have it reflected back by one of the rings.
This is where he start taking me seriously. I'm the first to admit that while he might talk like a movie villain he got a brain in his head. He started to poke my defenses, small spells, cutting curses, explosives...everything. And this is while i'm throwing the biggest things I got access to at him, including switching rubble close to him with explosive potion bottles, transfiguring cover and animating stuff to attack him.
I do all I can to attack him and he treat me as a sodding science experiment. He shield against explosions, sidestepping spells and transfiguring projectiles without even looking like he is paying much attention while trying to figure out my MK33.
Dropping one of those spheres of darkness gave him a bit of a pause but not much, The fucker can see IR!
Two minutes into the duel I am hiding behind one of the transfigured walls and calling for Zip. With the wards down I can risk trying to escape with one of the cabinets.
I was pulling the Ortillery tracker from around my neck...and that's the last thing I remember.
The rest I was told by Zip a while after waking up again. I had activated the tracker and was chucking it into a rubble pile when Zip arrived when That Fucker hit my cover with a overpowered blasting curse.
It threw me across the courtyard before Zip grabbed me, tossed me into the cabinet and teleported it away.
I woke up in the hospital wing a couple of weeks ago. I'm in a bad shape.
Pomfreys chart list:
7 broken ribs
Both legs broken
Serious Concision
Multiple deep cuts
And then the big one...Left arm missing from a decimeter above the elbow.
That's right. That MOTHER FUCKING SNAKE HUMPING COCKSUCKER TOOK MY LEFT ARM!
As you see, you understand why my last update wasn't very detailed.
I was the only survivor from Azkaban and I was interrogated under veritaserum. Luckily while unbeatable, you cant tell a lie while under it, you can however withhold information, at least while under only two drops.
Once it was over they where under the impression a one of V's old followers are faking his return and did something to cause the complete and total obliteration of Azkaban.
I then left a copy of the memory of the duel for Dumbledore at his request.
The Aurors are ramping up to either defend or help take over the British wizarding world, not sure which one.
I am currently writing this from the CoS while trying to adapt a smaller version of a golem arm to interface with my central nervous system. Other than eyes, the wizarding prosthetics suck balls. I got a book on making them sent to me from the Optician. I mean i can see out of it and i can move it so it must link to my brain somehow.
There is now way in hell i will go around without a working left arm.
Hiver, signing out.
June 6, 1996
Ok, if you think things happened last month, a ton of stuff did month as well.
First of all Hermiones reaction to my injury and duel with V...Lets not talk about that. Let's just say it was rather...strong.
About V...he have been either laying low or I actually kicked him back into spirit form for now. According to harry his dreams have stopped so thats a point in favor of scenario two.
As for Azkaban and the Dementors...The Ministry's questions revealed that Azkaban island is...gone. And they are unable to locate any Dementors. Other than that I don't know yet.
A few days after my last entry I managed to get a smaller version of a golem arm to interface with my nervosystem. I'm still working with a version of metal with a metric fuckton of extra functions and I'm still adjusting the control system on this one, but at least its almost as good as my original one.
I got out of the hospital wing with two whole weeks to get ready for my OWLs. I didn't even bother to study.
Instead I spent my time on the moon base, building large underground chambers and tunnels transfigured from the rock and making rune arrays. This is not only place to escape from anymore, its now a training camp.
The work on the arm gave me a Idea. I'm having problems making VI's smart enough, right? So I simply wont bother. I purchased the twenty smartest elfs I could locate with the seven of the ten thousand galeons I got from the ministry(the fuckers didn't want to pay in full as the work in azkaban wasn't completed!). They are currently being educated by Zip, Melly and Derpy.
I'm currently outnumbered and this will solve that. Knife missiles are good and all but sooner or later I need foot soldiers...or in this case, House elfs in mentally controlled powerarmor.
Well...more mechs for them, but anyway...Now when summer is up I will be checking around if there is any squibs around that are in the S.A.S or something to help train them when Zip and the others got them up with the basics.
Also, I did some experiments with unbreakable stuff that I forgot to tell you about. I'll tell you now before I forget again. Unbreakable stuff is unbreakable...unless it hit something else thats unbreakable, then they act like the materials they where made out of. For example, a unbreakable rock hitting a unbreakable sheet of glass will cause the glass to shatter as if it was normal glass. Also, the shattering break the unbreakable charm and the glass go back to normal glass.
Anything else I forgot to answer?
Anyway, Other than spending time on the moon, building a arm, making some preliminary plans for house elf power armor, making plans for my own armor and calming Hermione down I have spent most of the summer at That Place with That Library at her request.
Harry have been looking rather bothered by something after talking with Dumbledore at the end of term so I suspect he have been told The Prophecy. If its the same Prophecy, I got no idea. V wiping Azkaban of the map must have put more pressure on Dumbles.
I think that was pretty much everything important that have happened.
Hiver, signing off.
PS: I almost forgot! I got a trace on a pensive. It will cost almost a thousand galeons according to the shop owner but it should arrive before next month.
PPS: before you complain about Mechs, they will be roughly man sized and shaped. Also, wizards react to presentation as much as firepower.
June 20, 1996
V is still laying low, no attacks, nothing.
Also, none of the people in school are lacking parents so i'm not sure who stupid one and two where.
Never mind that, Harry asked to talk with me and Hermione. Turns out after his talk with Dumbledore he was told to keep the Prophesy a secret but he need to tell 'someone'. And knowing we are the only of his friends that got shielded minds he turn to us.
Well, at least he is using his brain now.
So we went into a room he have asked Sirius to ward for privacy(I also tossed out some portable rune versions I had with me after asking if it was ok.).
Dumbledore talked to him about V, why he went after Harry when he was a baby, told him the prophesy and then showed him the memory of my duel with V.
He then told us the Prophesy. Its not the same like before. And i'm sure you all realize the implications just as well as I do(I fucking hate Q). Here it is:
"The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lords approaches ... born to those who have thrice defied the First Dark Lord, born as the seventh month dies ... and the First Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the First Dark Lord knows not ... The Second Dark Lord will wield the power of the skies and the world will fall unless the vanquisher strike him down ... the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lords will be born as the seventh month dies ..."
Yeah...isn't that a kick in the teeth.
He then explained that he want us to help train him as after seeing that duel he realize he is fucked.
Dumbles did mention Harry will get extra training next year as well.
Also, my new arm is almost finished. It include features like a number of shield arrays, a way for me to mentally command knife missiles, unbreakable runes, feather light charm as well as other small things.
Other than that...My pensive will arrive in a week or so. This will be interesting...
Hiver, signing off.
June 26, 1996
Oh Hermione knows. She knows alright.
First words out of her mouth as soon as we where alone was "What the bloody hell are we going to do!?"
She know pretty much everything but that I KKVed Azkaban and that I am training twenty elfs. Also, she know nothing of this book.
We discussed things and came up with pretty much the same thing you guys did. We need to bring Harry to our side.
Current plan is to start slowly and expose him to the faults of the Wizarding world. He already know the flaws in the muggle one, time to show him the other side of that one.
Go to movies, relax, eat pizza...simple nice stuff to show him that muggles are not bad. Get him laid with a muggle girl if possible(and yes, Hermione gave me 'that look', you know the one, when I suggested that one).
Until Harry is starting to see the light so to speak, he stay in the dark. Or do you think I should go up to him and say "Hi, I'm going to make the world fall. Want to help?".
Also, Pensive arrived at the store early yesterday and I had Zip go and pick it up. Its quite easy to use.
Put your wand to your head and focus on the memory and at pushing it at your wand, you then pull the memory out and place it in the bowl. Same thing in reverse to put the copy back.
The pensive is a smaller version and can only hold a few memories at once and can only be used by one person at once, but got the other functions like projecting a hologram are still there.
So far I used it to get some not yet produced music into my magical music player.
Hiver, signing out.
PS: I'm taking Hermione to the movies now.
PPS: I'm stealing the design of that droid on the picture for the elf driven stuff.
July 20, 1996
I'm not building more bases right now. To sodding busy and got no need. If they can reach me on the sodding moon they can reach me everywhere.
Also, for those that are wondering, I'm 16 years old already. I turned 12 two months into first year and Hermione is a few weeks older than me. So I turned 16 during fifth year.
Anyway, for more important things. My arm is finished and I now got Knife missiles that react to mental commands.
I have now started working on a new eye. One of the new features will be a HUD as well as the ability to see where all my major assets are. For example I will mark all my knife missiles and I will be able to see where they are even when invisible.
Also, I still making designs on the Elf Armor. I blatantly ripped of the design of that droid thing on the picture you posted. The thing you must remember is that with magic the practicality of a design don't matter AS much as when you have to follow the laws of physics. To use a biped robot with technology you need to do a silly amount of RnD.
Magic can do the same with a couple of charms.
In other words, I can afford to go for style more than you can afford to with just technology. Besides, the Biped form isn't THAT bad. Humans use it after all...
Also, I have started thinking about weapon designs. More specifically, bolters. The main problem that I know about with bolters is that they have little room for ammo. Expansions charms easily solve that.
I mean, I COULD just sent zip down to africa and steal a truckload of AK47s and ammo from some random warlord to enchant, but that don't sound like it fit with the spirit of SB.
Bolters was one of the things 40k did rightish.
What do you think guys? Besides, mass reactive explosive shells work better against shields than just bullets.
Also, the corruption of harry have started. We went out a few days ago, the entire group(Hermione, me, Neville, Harry, Ron, Ginny and Luna.) with some 'adult supervision' the others insisted on. We had Tonks and Sirius come with us.
Movies, food and then we got into a club with the help of some magic from our pet auror. No, not the wand kind, she was wearing the kind of top that let the rest of us past the bouncer without a second look.
Either way, the night ended with a panicking order and a manhunt for harry. He arrived early the next morning with a goofy grin on his face and lipstick on his neck.
I'm actually going to be honest here and say I didn't do more than point out to him that a girl was eyeing him.
Other than showing him that muggles isn't all his evil relatives we have also started to expose him to the faults of the wizarding world, insisting that he read and learn the lawbook as part of his training.
Hiver, signing out.
PS: I did warn Filch and Lupin about that there might be retaliation for the duel with V, but they refused to give up their work.
PPS: Also, the demonstration for the rings was pushed up until August.