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Chapter 8- 1994-1995 School Year 4
Harry was very glad he talked Sirius out of going to the cup because there was apparently a disturbance with the death eaters that bribed their way out of Azkaban. Such an environment was one where Sirius was likely to get caught. It was all the talk of the train.
When Harry got to the school he and Hermione were very excited. The reason for this is that Fleur was coming to Hogwarts this year. She had informed them that she was going to be one of the candidates for the triwizard tournament. The sorting hat (SH) had informed them of the tournament last year. Harry was pretty sure Dumbles was going to find some way to enter him but he wasn't too concerned.
No, what concerned Harry was the fact that Mad Eye Moody was their defense professor. It wasn't just that it was Mad Eye either. The man was notorious for being paranoid. Harry knew something was up when he saw the man taking a swig out of his hip flask every hour on the hour. Harry checked with the marauder's map and sure enough Barty Crouch Jr. was polyjuiced as Moody.
The real moody was locked in his trunk. SH told Harry that Dumbles realized what was going on too. Moody was his old friend after all. Dumbles response was pretty much to be expected now. It appeared that he wasn't going to do a damn thing because he figured that the DE was here to enter Harry into the tournament. Dumbles figured whatever the DEs plans were they involved returning Riddle to a body. Dumbles wanted Riddle back so that he could reclaim glory by defeating him or helping Harry defeat him, and tragically dying in the process.
Harry used telepathy on the impostor one night when he was sleeping to see what the situation was. Interesting was his first thought when he found that Crouch Sr. had been hiding the DE all these years at his dead wife's request. The wife had died in prison in her son's place. It seems that Crouch's job was to enter Harry in the tournament and get him through it.
During the last task he was to make a portkey to a graveyard where Riddle's father was buried. Apparently they needed Harry's blood to make a body, or more appropriately a magical construct of a body. Harry had observed all he needed to know and pulled out of the man's mind. It seemed wormtail had gone straight back to his master. Harry cast the same spells on Crouch as he did wormtail and Malfoy.
Harry couldn't believe the stupidity of this DE when they had their DADA class. He started throwing the fucking unforgiveables at a damn spider to demonstrate for the class. There were DE wannabes in that class and he was giving them a lesson on how to cast the damn curses. His actions were a dead giveaway to something being suspicious about him. He tried to imperio Harry and instead of giving away that the damn thing didn't affect him at all he acted liking he was under it perfectly.
Harry told Hermione to do the same thing. Only an idiot would advertise one of their strengths to their enemies that they didn't have too. It was always better to have every little advantage one could get. When the other schools arrived for the tournament Harry and Hermione were very excited on the inside to show Fleur around but were emotionless on the outside.
Fleur was going to use a golem to make her housemates think she slept in her assigned bed but in reality she would be sleeping in the RoR with Harry, Hermione, and Tonks. When the Bulgarians strode in with some retarded show, swinging around sticks, and some flashy incendio spells Harry had to suppress a laugh. They were definitely compensating. The youngest male weasel actually drooled over seeing Victor Krum. Harry wasn't that into quidditch. He loved flying more than playing quidditch, which distracted from the flying.
Sirius had gotten Harry a firebolt when Harry had set up a money pouch like his own for Sirius. Thank god the goblins didn't give a shit what the ministry said when it came to their customers. Harry kept the broom shrunken down in his trunk for when he didn't want to reveal that he was wearing a flight harness.
When Dumbles announced the age line for the cup Harry had to repress a sigh. The age line was probably the easiest ward to break or bypass but very few of the students would ever bother to take the time to look it up.
Harry did not like this Victor Krum asshole at all. He was always staring at Hermione with a lecherous look. Harry had taken to going everywhere with her except the girl's bathroom (he stood outside the door). He knew she could take care of herself but he couldn't help but be overprotective of the people he loved. Yes Harry had finally realized that he was in love with all 4 of his ladies.
When the time came for the drawing of the champions names from the cup Harry had to repress a sigh. This was going to be a prime example of why the majority of the wizarding public was
sheep. As Harry expected a fourth name came out of the goblet. Everybody went silent as they waited for Dumbles to call the name.
The whole hall silently turned to look at him when his name was read. Harry just sighed and stood up to walk up front and on to the room where the champions were congregated. He heard shouts of he's not old enough and other such shit. He decided to have a little fun. He stopped when he got to Dumbles and took out his wand. With his back to the rest of the hall he performed a spell that temporarily vanished the ass of his pants.
He then bent over and mooned the entire hall while letting a bit of his veela charm go. Harry could here McGonagal's gasp of shock and saw the flash of Colin Creevey's camera. He heard several wolf whistles from several girls at the display of his tight ass. He stood back up and proceeded to continue walking to the chamber with the champions while putting his pants right.
Harry walked down into the chamber and sat beside Fleur. He didn't even bother to acknowledge the other 2 champions beyond nodding hello to Cedric. Harry and Hermione had taken the opportunity to show Fleur around the school. They made their friendship gradual but quickly progressing as to not look suspicious.
When the school headmasters, headmistress, and various tournament officials came into the chamber and started interrogating him as to whether or not he put his name into the goblet or asked somebody to do it for him he simply raised his wand and swore on his life and magic that he did not. That shut them up immediately. The other school heads couldn't protest now. Madame Maxim knew Harry from when he visited with Fleur and liked him.
Karakof is a DE and would be getting some standard DE spells put on him by Harry at the next available opportunity. Harry decided that Krum might get the same courtesy just in case. It never hurt to be too careful when it came to potential stalkers of his lovers.
Harry got warnings from at least 3 different sources as to what the first task was. The SH told him, Hagrid showed him, and Harry smelled them as soon as they were brought into the area. Harry in turn warned Fleur and Cedric even though Fleur didn't need it. Cedric paled when he was told and thanked Harry. Krum could go to hell, the stalker.
Harry was torn as to how to handle the dragon. There were so many ways to go about it that he was having trouble deciding how to do it. If he didn't want to reveal his secrets then turning into a shadow dragon and fighting it in that form was out of the question. Fighting the damn thing with his bare hands in human form was out too. He was immune to it's fire thanks to his skin. He could stun the damn thing and levitate it out of the way and while that would certainly leave the crowd awestruck at his raw power it would probably tip Dumbles off that the shield on his core was off.
Harry finally decided to use his increased reflexes and speed to jump out of the way of it's attacks and to just run up and grab the egg. Doing flips and cartwheels off of a dragon's back was impressive enough that it should earn him first place. For extra insurance Harry shadow traveled out to the dragon enclosure in the night in his dragon form and threatened to tear the dragon's apart if they harmed Harry or his mate Fleur during the task. He also explained how they were just supposed to retrieve a fake egg, so the dragons didn't think he was taking one of their eggs. Harry let them know that Krum was fair game.
Both Harry and Fleur were quick enough to evade the dragons without problem. That didn't mean they weren't going to take the added protection of their flying harnesses incase they tripped and fell, however unlikely that was.
Harry's graviton drive as he was taking to calling it was coming along nicely. It was all based off of the levitation charm, telekinesis, and broom flight. All these methods used the direct manipulation of gravitons to "surf" the energy that wizards and witches call magic. Finding a method to do it with silicon based circuitry was the difficult part. The runes shaped the energy into a spell to perform a task. Runes could be combined to do more complex tasks.
Spells or as Harry had started to think of them, the energy matrices, were like computer programs that were designed to do a certain task. Unlike a computer program they had the ability to carry out the task without external help by manipulating the surrounding energy.
The unfortunate aspect of this was that the energy was too high powered for silicon based circuits. He needed to use the super conductive material employed in wizards' wand cores. Unfortunately it was expensive and supplies couldn't be obtained in quantities high enough to meet the demands that his products were sure to garner.
Harry ended up explaining his situation to the girls. They revealed a small part of their work to him in order to help. Their project required phoenix tears. They had used the chemistry techniques that Harry used on the philosopher's stone to learn how to synthesize phoenix tears. Harry took their technique and learned how to crystallize the synthesized super conducting materials. He now had conductors to make circuit runes.
If any mundane ever looked at his circuits they probably wouldn't make sense because the rune physics was beyond their current level. It was almost beyond Harry's level but he was able to understand it more and more everyday. If a sufficiently powerful wizard, of almost Dumble's power, were to examine these circuit runes they might be able to detect the energy that was running through them. So Harry designed all of the parts of the drive that contained these elements to be in the center of the device encased in the conventional silicon elements. There was also a shield separating the 2 incompatible types of circuitry that would block the high energy from disrupting the normal circuits by moving out of the contained area and would also prevent wizards from sensing the magic.
Outside of the conventional mundane circuits was another shield encasing the entire drive blocking it from the external high energy field of our dimension. The crown jewel of the design was a runic circuit that Harry decided would become standard in all of his designs. If the device was used in any way in breach of it's intended purpose or somebody tried to learn the design by opening the housing the device would promptly disintegrate. This worked by taking the runes in a wizard portrait and watering down how much they contained. Harry would use a watered down version of his own consciousness imbued into the runes to decide if the purpose was against what he would want. If it was then a concentrated reductor curse rune would atomize the device.
Harry would naturally have to put in safeties in devices that could kill people by their destruction, like a graviton drive powered car (which was to be Star Enterprises first product). He would probably just have those types of devices shut down after safely getting the occupants out of danger if the user breeched contract. If they were trying to get into the car body to study the device the car would eject the passengers and then either disintegrate or portkey to a designated location. The consciousness would be intelligent enough to know how to handle the situation.
Star Enterprises was coming along well. Nym had found facilities that would make a great research and production plant in an abandoned nuclear facility 20 minutes from CS (Colorado Springs). It had 30 floors below ground that were solid concrete. Not only were the facilities safe to experiment in but they would be away from prying eyes. She had started construction on the office facilities in CS on the opposite side of the town from the base.
She had found similar facilities on the outskirts of London for the UK facility. All of the facilities were having wards that showed a constant energy field in the magical background energy. It would be undetectable as having any magical research done by the wizards. There were also wards preventing anybody that meant the company or its' employees and their families harm from finding the place.
Harry also instructed Nym to have housing facilities built for employees and their families. Harry was also able to make his idea for using telepathy to explore computers and other electronics work. The device was a headband that Harry had inscribed invisibility wards onto. It was fairly simple. It converted the magical energy from the projected mind that a telepath used into electrical energy. Harry could mentally regulate the amount of power channeled into the electronics.
The short term effect was that Harry could now control low level technologies with his mind. It would take practice and exploration to be able to work with higher level technologies the same way. Harry was spending a lot of his Sundays in the time dilation field in his trunk to work on these projects. None of the girls except Hermione spent very much time in the field and even she didn't spend as much time as Harry.
Hermione was showing effects too. She was looking more like the 15 going on 16 that her body was instead of the 14 her birth date said. Harry wasn't worried thanks to the philosopher's stone.
During the weighing of the wands ceremony that the champions went through Harry was dragged inside a closet to give Reeta Skeeter an interview. At first she wanted to make him out to be an attention seeker by his entering himself in the tournament. He quickly changed her mind by swearing the same oath on his life and magic that he did in the great hall that he didn't enter or ask anybody to for him.
He pointed out that the real question was why he had to be in the tournament if he didn't enter his own name. Harry wondered how long this would take to bite Dumbles in the ass. A minor couldn't enter or be entered in a magically binding contract without the consent of their magical guardian. Dumbles had himself made Harry's magical guardian and then sealed the court records. The only way he could be forced to compete was with Dumbles approval which he gave by not forbidding Harry from competing and magically by knowing that Harry was going to be entered by the imposter moody.
That's what everybody but the goblins, Harry, and his family would think. Harry was magically emancipated so that nobody but himself could enter that tournament. Crouch didn't know that and neither did Dumbles. Harry by no means had to compete, but it served his purposes to do so.
Based off of the fact that the ritual to give Voldy a magical construct required his father's bones and Harry's blood Sal and Harry knew what Riddle was likely to perform. As such they figured out how to modify it to suit their needs.
They were going to make it so that the body the ritual built was that of a squib. It would have just enough magic to keep it held together and therefore keep his final soul piece constrained. Harry was planning on capturing the bastard and holding him prisoner until he was able to destroy all of the Horcrux devices. He already built a cabin that was on a remote corner of one of his properties. The place was under the fidelus and was warded to prevent anybody from tracking it. It had the most complex magical suppression wards Harry could create.
Harry was planning on keeping the bastard in a magical coma until it was time to execute him. Harry shadow traveled to the grave yard that Riddle Sr. was buried in and replaced his bones with a transfigured copy that was made of the appropriate ingredient for the modified ritual. He then did the same thing with Riddle's grandparent's bones, just in case.
When it came time for the first task it went off pretty much to plan. Harry went last in the competition having the Horntail. He watched the others using the x ray feature of his magical contacts. Krum attacked his dragon causing it to break some eggs, which he got penalized for.
Cedric did a pretty good show trying to distract it with transfigured animals. Fleur used her charm on it and quickly retrieved the egg. It woke up near when she was clear and singed her robes.
When Harry went out there he was half tempted to try his telekinesis. The egg was charmed against summoning and the levitation charm. That gave Harry a last minute idea that he considered better than trying to run around the dragon. He pointed his wand at a rock that was near the golden egg. He transfigured the rock into a sheet, which he levitated onto the egg. He used a sticking charm to stick the sheet to the egg. He then summoned the sheet and the egg with it. All of that took about 30 seconds. Everybody was speechless at the ease with which Harry performed the task.
His scores put him in first place by 5 points. Everybody but Karakof gave him 10's. Karakof gave him a 5. Harry didn't care, because he had managed to hit the DE with the standard package of curses during the time the man had been at Hogwarts. When the time was right the man would die. Fleur was right behind him with 30 points followed by Cedric then Krum.
After the first task the champions had to decipher the clue in the egg. It sounded almost as bad as a damn banshee. Harry may not have been proficient in mermish but he sure as hell knew what it sounded like outside of water. Based off of the clue he figured they were going to put Hermione at the bottom of the lake and he had to find her in an hour.
Over his dead body were they putting one of his girlfriends at the bottom of a damn lake. Fleur was worried for her sister too when they figured the clue out. On the eve of the second task Harry and Fleur had Hermione and Gabrielle stay in the RoR and used Golems to replace them. Sure enough the golems were called to the headmaster's office. Through the mental link that could be activated between a golem and it's creator they could see the golems were placed under stasis.
The next day when the four champions were at the lake side and getting ready to go in Harry just had to smirk at the reaction to his method to accomplish this task. Wizards had to do everything the hard way. When the signal went off for them to begin the task Harry cast a traction charm on his feet. He then proceeded to use a freezing charm to freeze a walkway to the spot directly over where a point me charm told him his girlfriend was.
Fleur had transfigured a rock into a canoe and was using her wand to propel it out to where he was. Cedric was using a bubblehead charm while Krum half transfigured himself into a shark. Air is a hell of a lot less dense than water. Harry dived into the lake after running to the end of the walkway and used his grav harness to sink himself straight to the bottom. Fleur was right behind him doing the same thing with her harness.
They both retrieved their captive and used the harness again to get to the surface. As soon as the surface was breached the stasis wore off and the golems woke up. Harry and Fleur both used the
methods they arrived on to get back to the starting point. They did this all in about 5 minutes. They both ended up tying for first place in this event with Harry in overall lead.
Harry was glad that he was able to use internal energy to regulate his body temperature so that the ice walkway didn't even make his feet cold. Cedric was third again taking up almost the whole time with Krum coming in last again because he broke some of his captive's bones. The Bulgarian was a walking disaster zone.
A few weeks later when the Yule Ball was announced Harry invited both Hermione and Fleur to go as his dates. The girl's taught Harry how to dance. Then they taught Harry how girls danced naked for a boy in the RoR. Harry both hated and loved his life. He had the misfortune of being an orphan and having insane individuals either trying to end or control his life, but he also had women who loved him and lots of money.
When Harry showed up at the ball with both beautiful ladies on his arms there were jealous looks all around. McGonagal looked like she wanted to protest but there was no rule against it. Polygamy was a common practice in the wizarding world a few generations ago and mistresses were still common place today.
That night was a truly awesome night for Harry. When the ball was over Fleur, Nym, and Hermione ravished Harry. He would have to make it up to Sam when he finally did tell her about the wizarding world.
The night of the third task finally came and found the champions standing at the entrance to a maze. Harry would be entering the maze first followed by Fleur. Cedric and Krum would be the next in the maze. As soon as the signal went off Harry went into the maze and turned the first corner. As soon as he was out of sight he melted into the shadows. Using his x ray contacts he walked through the shadows of the maze through the walls and quickly made his way to the center.
It took him about 2 minutes to reach the center of the maze because he didn't want to make it too fast. Harry walked up to the cup/portkey and grabbed hold. As soon as he landed Harry turned himself invisible and silenced himself. It looked like an alert ward was triggered because wormtail soon came out carrying the nasty piece of shit creature that was Riddle's current form.
He looked rather harried, probably wasn't expecting Harry to get there so fast. Harry walked up to him and disarmed and petrified him. What Harry took to be an expression of fear overcame the Riddle creature. Harry found the cauldron for the ritual all set up in front of him. Harry started to perform the modified ritual. When Riddle thought Harry was performing the ritual he looked pleased until Harry levitated him over the cauldron and harshly dropped him head first in. "Bones of the father check," Harry practically sang out as he levitated the bones into the cauldron.
"Flesh of the servant willingly given." He levitated wormtail over the cauldron and proceeded to use a cutting charm to slice the man's genitalia off. "Check," Harry cackled with barely restrained glee. This was where the ritual started to differ. The original called for blood of the enemy. Harry unzipped his fly and started to piss in the cauldron.
After he was done the cauldron disappeared in a yellow cloud of smoke. At this point in time a snake, which Harry had been able to smell as well as hear approaching, tried to bite him in the leg. It didn't apparently take into account that he had skin as hard as a dragon until after it broke it's fangs on him. Harry pulled out Gryffindor's sword and beheaded the thing. A green mist rose out of it and screamed. Apparently it was a Horcrux Harry mused to himself as he cast a cleaning charm on the sword.
The squib riddle looked really pissed after seeing his Horcrux destroyed. He used what was probably his most accomplished wandless magic to summon his wand from Pettigrew's pocket, or at least he tried to. When he couldn't do it because he was a squib he had a horrified look on his face. He looked like he was about ready to say an incantation so Harry stunned him. Harry suspected that the only thing he could do magically right now besides see certain magical things was to cast the spell that would start to drain the magic out of all his followers in the effort to replace his.
Harry didn't want to give him the chance until right before his execution. Harry cauterized the wound on Pettigrew. He then activated the spells he had previously cast on him to lock him into his animagus form until Harry released him. He stunned the rat and put him in an unbreakable conjured cage. He dropped a portkey on Riddle that transported him to his cabin then aparated there himself. He activated all of the suppressor wards and one that would keep him in a magical coma. Harry had added a nice ward that would torture a person in an unconscious state.
Harry then hopped over to Potter Manor where he gave the rat to Sirius and Remus to do with as they will as long as he was still sane enough to respond to confessing under Veritruserum when Dumbles and Riddle were dead. Although they probably didn't really need him considering that Sirius' confession under the potion would probably be enough.
Luckily it had only taken him about 15 minutes between the graveyard and the manor. He grabbed the cup and was transported back to the front of the maze. When he got there he found a very appreciative crowd. The other champions hadn't been in long enough to reach the center, except Fleur if she was really trying. Dumbles looked really upset that Harry was back without even looking flustered. He probably wanted Harry to proclaim Riddle was back.
He caught Dumbles eye and felt the Legilimency that was looking for what happened. Harry's illusion ward projected thoughts of facing some of the challenges in the maze. Harry was declared the winner. Harry pocketed the thousand galleon prize money. He would probably drop it off at the nearest orphanage.
Harry saw the fake Moody heading for him but he stepped over to a nearby Reeta and agreed to give her a short interview. Under his breath he activated the spell to terminate the DE's life. When he dropped the Polyjuice ceased to function and everybody saw him turn back. "Why that's Barty Crouch Jr.," Harry said loud enough for everybody to hear. I recognize him from reading the newspapers of his trial in the back logs of the library. "We've had a polyjuiced death eater teaching us all year."
With the hubbub that ensued Harry and the girls were able to walk away. In the coming weeks SH reported that Dumbles was seemingly getting more and more senile. He was completely confused as to what happened during the tournament. Apparently Snape reported that his mark came back to full color and then faded just as quickly. Dumbles concluded that Riddle's rebirthing ritual malfunctioned and there would be other attempts.
The charms on Crouch Jr. left no trace as to the cause of death. Dumbles and Fudge were both taking a lot of shit from the Prophet and ministry officials for their actions in letting Crouch Jr. escape and making Harry compete. Crouch Sr. was arrested after confessing to freeing his son under Veritruserum. He was sentenced to life in Azkaban because he used the imperius on his son.
With the graviton drive completed Harry designed a car body for it. The thing was powered from the magical energy of the surrounding environment. They would advertise it as a new proprietary fuel source. They didn't need to explain it when nobody could look under the hood without the car disintegrating.
Remus had hired most of the werewolves that didn't kill for fun and a lot of the muggleborns who couldn't find decent jobs after Hogwarts. Everybody who was hired swore magical oaths that they would work in the best interests of the company and wouldn't give away any of the company's secrets.
Thus during the summer between Harry's fourth and fifth year Star Enterprises began mass producing and selling the new product named the grav car. During that time James Evans who was the CEO of Star Enterprises turned in his doctoral dissertation, which was on the graviton. It didn't give too much away but it did show experimental evidence of the graviton. As soon as the physics community read his paper and saw the results in his company he was proclaimed as the next Einstein.
People were buying the grav cars faster than could be produced. By the time the demand died down to a reasonable level Harry had cleared a profit of 3 billion dollars US. Harry had used the time dilation field extensively to develop the manufacturing machines for the cars.
Harry had redesigned most of the known sensors using crystallized phoenix tears (CPT) as the conductors in the sensors. He figured out how to record spell signatures and reproduce them using circuit rune enchanted machinery. They were basically energy to matter converters and
spell generators. He used these to permanently conjure most of the materials needed to make the grav car components. Basically all he paid was labor.
The girls had finally revealed their finished project to Harry. They found a mixture of phoenix tears and elixir of life (they call it the ptel injection) from the philosopher's stone that when injected into a severely injured person would heal them of almost all wounds. It didn't heal lycanthropy or magical illnesses like that but it would heal all physical traumas, even if the person was almost dead. Harry hadn't had a chance to try it yet but he was assuming that with the necromancy spells he knew he could probably even heal dead people if they were very recently dead.
It unfortunately couldn't be released to the general public for fear that wizards will figure out what it is. Unlike the grav car the ptel injection couldn't be hidden behind concealment wards. Wizards would be curious about a new muggle miracle cure. All it would take would be one healer getting an injection for analysis and the magical world would attack Star Enterprises with everything they had.
Needless to say, now that Harry was a multibillionaire public figure he added a shitload of strong wards to the house in CS. That summer with Sam and the girls was certainly an interesting one. Sam was asking all sorts of questions about gravitons. The physics community suspected that Harry had a decent handle on a theory of quantum gravity (uniting relativity and quantum mechanics) and that he was holding back. It was true too. He couldn't release that information right now or there was the distinct possible of the technology getting advanced enough to detect wizard kind.
The girls and Harry decided to discretely use the ptel injection whenever they could. Each of them decided to start carrying around several in unbreakable containers. Harry gave a syringe of it to Sam in an unbreakable stainless steal tube. He told her if she was ever gravely injured or in need of serious medical attention to inject herself with that right away. She agreed to do it.
Harry and the girls used shadow travel during the summer to get into Saint Mungos hospital in London during the night. They went to the long term care ward. They were there for two patients, Frank and Alice Longbottom. They replaced them with golem counterparts that had personal illusion wards that would simulate the state that the Longbottoms had been in for the last 14 years.
Harry knew from his parent's journals that Alice Longbottom is his godmother. They transported the comatose couple to Potter Manor and gave them a ptel injection. It appeared to work. Almost right away they went from a vegetative state to talking. Harry explained to them what had been going on for the last 14 years. When Alice realized who Harry was she ran over to him and gave him a hug.
Harry had never experienced what it was like to have a mother. The closest he had come so far was Emma Granger. This was on a deeper level because this woman is supposed to be his mother now that his birth mother is gone.
The girls, Harry, and the Longbottoms talked through the night. After getting unbreakable vows from them to not divulge Harry's important secrets Harry explained to them everything that Dumbles had done. They were horrified to say the least. Harry told him that he expected if they came out of the damage publicly that Dumbles would find some way to permanently either control Alice or permanently get rid of her. She after all had the right to Harry as much as Sirius.
They finally came to the decision that the Longbottoms would go to America and start working at Star Enterprises. They would use a golem to replace Neville in England while he moved with his parents to CS. The old type of golem couldn't cast spells, but with Harry's recent ability to make spell generators he was fairly certain he could adequately simulate a wizard with a golem.
The spell generators that Harry currently had were rather bulky and wouldn't under normal circumstances be able to be carried around by a single person. The wizarding world's ability to create artificial pocket dimensions quite easily would solve this problem. All but the emitter would be in the expanded space of the pocket dimension. The emitter would be tied to the wand of the golem. Harry was quite proud of his work and everybody else was impressed.
Of course the spells wouldn't be as strong as a wizard's would be but luckily Neville was thought of as something of a near squib. When Neville was picked up this was found out to be untrue. He was so happy to see his parents that his magic manifested itself visibly. It was quite powerful. Harry used his energy sight to observe that Neville's magic was bound too.
Harry helped him unbind it. Dumbles apparently wanted to keep both prophecy boys under his thumb. Sirius and Remus were happy to know that their old friends were doing well. The Longbottoms settled in well to the growing community that was the Star Enterprises employees.
The employee housing was located near the research facility. That area was heavily warded against detection from magic, so it was the best spot to house a community of magicals. Harry ended up building a school for the families there. He hired teachers to teach both the magical education and the mundane. He had a grocery store and a hospital built too. The hospital also doubled as a medical research department.
Harry ended up spending a great deal of time at the research complex helping them get set up. One of the muggleborn wizards had gone to uni after Hogwarts when he realized he wasn't going to be getting a decent job in the wizarding world. He had gone into computer programming and engineering. Harry made him the head of the IT and Computer Engineering department and assigned him a priority project.
The reason that wizarding portraits didn't hold all of the memories of the person that the portrait was modeled after was because they weren't designed with enough power for storage to contain the memories in when the spells were created. Harry charged the wizard with modifying the memory spell to draw power from the surrounding magical energy to power an energy pensieve that was expandable a great deal, as much as the power provided. It would store the memories in an artificial pocket dimension.
The portrait consciousness was the perfect computer for any job. The human brain was an extremely sophisticated computer, so what better way to design a computer after. The consciousness would never need to sleep or tire. He also gave him a copy of the head band interface that allowed Harry to control technology and told him to incorporate that technology. Combined with a wireless internet terminal the computer would be able to access the internet from anywhere within the radius of the galaxy.
Sam seemed to have had a really exciting year at work. Apparently they made a breakthrough in something they were doing. Harry suspected that it was some top secret research. There was no way that somebody as brilliant as Sam would be doing deep space radar telemetry. He didn't push her for details and he wouldn't unless it was dangerous too her.
Chapter 9- 1995-1996 School Year 5
Year five seemed to be boring compared to all of the rest. That was just how Harry liked it. He and the girls were constantly doing research in their free time. It was Harry and Hermione's owl year. They didn't need to study at all because of their occlumency. Harry had discovered after his occlumency and telepathy progressed to a certain point that he could copy memories from his mind to other minds and vice versa.
It would make teaching in the future a much easier task. Harry was deep into his research to erase the Horcrux attached to his scar. It went hand in hand with his satellite project so he was working on them at the same time. It was about midway through his fifth year that he finished up the charms on the satellite. It would move using a grav drive and be controlled through a command center or by Harry's mental interface.
Harry didn't want to destroy the Horcrux devices until the one in his scar was wiped. The Horcrux devices worked in a similar way to quantum entanglement. When the soul was split into pieces the pieces were entangled. They wanted to rejoin and didn't enjoy being apart. The only reason they didn't recombine was because of the spells cast to confine the soul to the object. Harry didn't want the weight of the connection if he was the only soul fragment left outside of the currently comatose Riddle.
The real breakthrough in the technology came when Harry got the idea to scan the souls of several newborn babies. They all had their own unique signature, but they all showed common areas of their soul that appeared to be separate from their stored memories. This was apparently
what brand new unused soul was like. Harry recorded the readings and then devised a program that would reset the soul to the new state.
One of Harry's spell generators would do the job fine. It would take a while but it would work. The job ended up taking a week straight to do. The girls put him into a magical coma in the time dilation field in his trunk and set the machine to work. When it was done Harry checked his center and sure enough the scar was gone. The green shroud that had been over his childhood memories before that Halloween night was gone.
Harry started to organize the memories. He now had all the memories of the times he spent with his parents. After getting to know his godparents Harry considered himself to have 2 sets of parents which he loved. Sirius had grown on him even if the man was irresponsible. Alice Longbottom was a wonderful woman that Harry considered one of his mothers. He also loved his biological parents very much.
Harry experienced an easier time than he did before using his core and it did indeed seem to be bigger. Apparently the soul fragment gave him more room to store energy when it integrated. With that out of the way Harry launched his satellite which he decided to call phoenix 1. The satellite line would be the phoenix line followed by a number designation for the individual satellite.
The satellites were rendered invisible with invisibility fields to cloak them. Harry launched multiple satellites to create a global net. As soon as the system, which he chose to call the phoenix net or pnet for short, came online Harry got locations on all of the Horcrux devices. There was Ravenclaw's diadem located in a pocket dimension of the RoR. Harry also found a cabinet that had a link to it with another cabinet that could breach the wards if it was used properly. Harry destroyed the cabinet and relocated the diadem to the chamber of secrets where he had the diary stored. He next located a ring in a town called Little Hangleton. He recognized the location as the Gaunt house that the last Slytherin heir lived at, also the same town where Riddle's parents lived and were buried before Harry burned the bones. The ring turned out to be the missing family ring of Slytherin.
Harry stored this with the other Horcrux devices and moved onto the other locations. The next 2 were trickier. It turned out that the next locations were Gringotts bank and a house called number 12 Grimmauld place in London. When Harry mentioned the place to Sirius and Remus as a place he was trying to get into to retrieve a dangerous artifact to see if they had any ideas to get in without tearing down all of the severely dark wards that he could detect Sirius just laughed.
He explained how he actually owned the house and proceeded to take Harry there. Harry found Slytherin's locket in a safe behind a painting that refused to leave the wall. Harry ended up using a very small controlled burst of Fiendyfire to burn it off the wall. Sirius was happy to see the portrait of his hated mother go.
Harry was able to use the satellite network to pinpoint the exact location of the last Horcrux in Gringotts. He located the nearest shadow to the soul fragment container and traveled there using his shadow travel abilities. Luckily the ability was so rare that nobody had been able to study it in order to devise a ward to block it. Harry hovered in the center of the vault without touching anything.
Harry could see dangerous goblin magic on all of the objects. Harry used telekinesis to throw the object into the shadow portal which he went through right after. When he was back in the chamber he was able to disable the goblin magic. Harry had to decide what to do with all of the Horcrux devices now. He could easily destroy them with Fiendyfire or basilisk venom. He discussed it with Sally and they came to an agreement on the best option.
The soul fragments contained power and enhanced memory storage capabilities. The problem was they were currently corrupted and connected to each other. The method that Harry used to erase the fragment that used to be attached to the shield that his mother cast on him reset the fragment but also destroyed the link it contained with the others.
All of these items besides the diary were Harry's by right as the heir of all four founders. Harry erased the soul fragments in the objects. They were now all just objects enchanted by the founders. The soul fragments would enhance the power of the enchantments by an immense amount. When Harry put the Slytherin ring on he felt necromantic type energy in the stone.
When Harry asked Salazar what was special about the stone in the ring he told Harry about it being one of the deathly hallows. When Harry heard the story of the hallows he immediately thought about his invisibility cloak that he got from his father. It was a family heirloom passed down through the centuries. A normal invisibility cloak made of demiguise hair would have ceased to work after that long of time.
So he had 2 of the 3 hollows. It didn't mean much for Harry at the moment so he put those thoughts aside for later. He stored the soul containers in his trunk for a time if ever that he needed them. The enchantments that bound the soul fragments to the items would continue to do so until Harry nullified them.
It was now the end of the fifth year and Harry and Hermione had just finished taking their OWLs. They were both very confident in their scores. When they arrived back at King's Cross station Harry teleported himself to the cabin that Riddle was imprisoned in. He had permanently conjured a mundane gun after studying the design. Harry found it fitting that the person who killed so many mundanes would be ended by a weapon of their design.
The magical suppressor wards worked selectively in many ways. These particular ones worked to suppress Riddle's signature. They could also suppress anyone with an intent that their creator keyed to them. Say for example they could suppress the powers of anybody who meant their castor or beings under his protection harm. It was an extremely powerful tool.
Harry didn't want to be chasing down death eaters for the next few years so he woke Riddle up. As soon as Riddle saw him he said an incantation in parseltongue. The incantation activated the runes in the dark mark that would allow Riddle to drain the energy from his marked followers. Potter Manor, which is the grounds of which they were on, was built upon the natural energy or lei lines of the earth. The wards of the manor drew power directly from those lines. The older a magical connection is the stronger it can get.
Riddle would have needed enough power to overcome those wards plus Harry. The combined energy of 30 or so of the last DEs was nothing compared to the ancient wards and Harry. One by one the DEs all over England dropped dead from being drained dry of energy. When Riddle appeared completely out of energy Harry put the gun to his forehead and pulled the trigger. With a spray of blood and brain matter a dark lord who had killed thousands was no more.
Later that night Harry used his shadow travel ability to enter into the headmaster's quarters when Dumbles was sleeping on the bed. All of the wards that would alert Dumbles to an intruder were tied to Hogwarts. A wizard could erect personal wards tied to himself that would stop attacks in their sleep but apparently Dumbles was arrogant enough or trusting enough in Hogwarts to not bother. As the rightful owner of the place Hogwarts would never consider Harry an intruder.
Harry had added several modifications to his conjured handgun since earlier that day. He carved runes into it to cause silence, conjure more bullets when one was used, prevent summoning or disarming, make the bullets always hit the intended target, and clean the chamber instantly after every shot. The conjured bullets weren't permanent but by the time they disappeared they would have already done their work in the target. That damage wouldn't disappear, which made them the perfect killer.
Harry walked up to the man that was responsible for manipulating his parent's deaths and for his horrible early years at the Dursleys. He pointed the gun at the forehead and pulled the trigger. Without a sound the man's head exploded.
Harry then went to the man's storage room where he found the wizarding portrait. He ran a Horcrux diagnostic charm on it and sure enough it came up positive. Taking the portrait with him Harry searched the man's belongings. He found a journal like he was hoping for. Harry was able to break the privacy bindings. Harry made a copy of it and then sent the original to one Reeta Skeeter. The book could be magically verified as Dumbles and written of his own free will.
Over the next few days Harry made several moves that would change the wizarding world's view of power hungry people in the future. Harry took the portrait to his lab back in CS and erased it. He stored it in his trunk with the others.
Using his position as the owner of the Prophet, which he finally openly revealed, he ordered Reeta to write a book detailing the lives of Riddle and Dumbles. It would be about the 2 greatest
dark lords in the last several decades. When the book was released there was outrage at first but then when people read the books there was horror.
The man had manipulated society so much that it was no wonder they hadn't been destroyed yet. They were horrified in the atrocities he committed against Harry. Harry didn't tell the public anything beyond what Dumbles had written about. Dumbles didn't know anything about Harry's true power. He did know about Harry's heritage as the heir of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw.
Harry and Hermione went in the next few weeks to the ministry department of education and took their NEWTs. They saw no reason to wait now that Dumbles and Riddle were both gone. They both ended up getting straight Outstandings in every subject they tested on. They both tested on every subject Hogwarts offered except divination. They both didn't really believe that a subject that only possibly included 3 to 5 people a generation worldwide based off a genetic trait should be taught.
One of the first things Harry did now that he was graduated from Hogwarts was to have the goblins declare his mother's heritage publicly. They also declared him the heir of Merlin. He claimed all of his wizenmagot seats and rights at Hogwarts. He had the right to change anything the board of governors or school head did.
Harry immediately appointed McGonagal as headmistress and Flitwick as deputy headmaster. A new muggle studies teacher was found that was actually a muggleborn. Harry was tired of the wizarding world's prejudice against muggles based off of ignorance and arrogance. He changed the name from muggle studies to mundane studies. He used one of his werewolf employees that he personally taught at Star Enterprises as the DADA teacher.
Harry personally wanted to change the class so that it taught more of the so called dark arts but he would wait a few years before making that decision. He would make sure the concept of misunderstood and powerful magic automatically being evil was eventually stamped out. He would make sure they taught a distinction between dark and evil.
The new potions master who happened to be a muggleborn witch from America also taught chemistry. Harry added subjects in Physics, Math, and most other required subjects for schooling in the mundane world. No longer would wizards be ignorant. In order to facilitate the ability to learn these additional subjects Harry had classes created that taught every student meditation and occlumency.
The meditation would give them better control over their magic which would allow them to learn the magical subjects faster. The occlumency would give them superb memories like Harry had so they would be able to learn and retain all of the information faster for all of their lives. One of the new mundane classes was an ethics course. Harry wasn't going to have more powerful wizards and witches without better morals.
Harry decided to take a page out of Lucius Malfoy's book. The man had used bribes to pay off ministry officials who forced the profit to write their lies. Harry wasn't going to bribe ministry officials, no he put fear into them. With all of the marked death eaters dead there were a great many vacancies to be filled. There were also still a lot of supporters of Riddle that were unmarked out there.
Using his four founder's seats and Merlin and Potter seats Harry was able to make some swift changes. Harry discovered that Reeta Skeeter was an illegal animagus, a beetle to be exact. She could use this ability to get good information for her stories. Harry had the woman promoted and instructed her to dig up all the dark illegal secrets of his political opponents. Soon anybody who was thinking about opposing him learned that it was unwise because they would end up in prison when all of their illicit activities were revealed to the public.
Sal was very helpful with advice on political manipulations. Harry's political stance certainly helped to throw any would be opposition off. The wizenmagot was usually divided into known and declared light and dark sided families with a few neutral. Harry declared himself grey. He gave an impassioned speech about the fact that ever since Dumbledore took over the wizenmagot the dark sided families have been repressed and persecuted.
This would cause confrontations to arise that would bring rise to a new dark lord every fifty years or so. Harry explained that there was no dark magic, just magic used with the wrong intent. He gave examples of how to kill with light side magic and how to heal or help with dark side magic. He finally let some of his true power bleed through during his speech. This had the desired effect of causing everybody to be in awe of him.
Over the next few years rapid changes were visible in the wizarding world. Amelia Bones was elected the minister of magic. Harry was able to have pretty much all of the werewolf laws removed. Wolfsbane potion was provided freely for all infected individuals. There weren't actually that many left in England on account of most of them working for Harry.
Most of the prejudiced laws that favored purebloods were erased too. The statue for underage sorcery was abolished. It was changed so that any wizard or witch could do magic at any age as long as they didn't do it in front of somebody who wasn't in the know about the magical world.
The law about obliviating mundanes was abolished except for in extreme circumstances. Every obliviation would be reviewed by an ethics panel. Now instead of obliviating mundanes a spell was applied to them so that they couldn't reveal the magical world to those who were not in the know, and they couldn't seek to harm the magical world unless it was in self defense. The self defense was if they were being attacked by a witch or wizard they could defend themselves.
This spell was now applied to mundane born parents. Hermione's first book that published her genetic research was a real eye opener to pureblood supremacists. The books showed Hermione's research using heritage potions into a significant portion of wizarding Britain's
mundane born population. Somewhere in their ancestry mundane born wizards and witches had squibs and therefore wizards in their line.
The research showed that squibs were a result of the concentration of too much wizarding blood deactivating the genes that allowed magic to collect in a core. It was ironic. Very few pureblood wizards or witches would marry a muggle. If they didn't they eventually had squibs. The squibs were shunned into the mundane world if they survived long enough.
The squibs then reproduced with mundanes until eventually the wizarding genes were reactivated. Without squibs wizards would have all become squibs and died out long ago. The outlook on squibs and mundane born witches and wizards changed drastically after that.
There were still the occasional wannabe dark lords trying to fill the power vacuum every once in a while. The nice thing about dark lords is that they needed followers. Followers had friends who eventually let something slip. The older ignorant generation tended to not know any occlumency on average. Harry had a task force of werewolves who were trained in the telepathy version of Legilimency.
They were very proficient fighters that he charged to police the wizarding world. Their job was basically to track down and dispose of or imprison wizards or witches that tortured and killed for fun. They would use telepathy to find the names of the dark ones. Harry gave them access to the pnet to aid in their tracking. Harry had the pnet tracking any powerful disturbances in the background energy world wide. The wolf pack taskforce took magical oaths to not abuse their powers.
Harry got the magical government to create a council of ethics as they called it. The council had a representative from every sentient magical race currently in the world today on it. The council had the ability to veto any law passed by the wizenmagot. The way the members were selected for the council of ethics was one of Harry's proudest creations.
It was a variation on the goblet of fire that Harry was fairly confident would take more effort than anybody was willing to put forth to control or fool. It searched for certain qualities among the race in question that was wanted on the council. They were things like intelligence, high moral standards, and qualities of that nature. The members wore nigh impenetrable masking charms to keep their identities a secret from even each other so that nobody would know who to bribe or threaten.
The British established a magical orphanage and a school for pre-Hogwarts level students. It would start in on meditation and occlumency along with different branches of internal magics. They would also teach the primary mundane school subjects. The magical orphanage was in response to the story about Tom Riddle's upbringing. It was now a commonly known rule in the magical world that under no circumstances were you to ever abuse a magical child.
Harry eventually decided to reveal the truth about Riddle's Horcrux devices. The public was horrified by the knowledge. The fact that they caused insanity under every circumstance was reinforced. Harry admitted to destroying both Dumbles and Riddle's Horcrux devices.
Harry wasn't worried about a bunch of people trying to become immortal. If they had the will and the knowledge to create Horcrux device(s) then they would probably do it anyway whether it was outlawed or not. Harry set up a program in the pnet that would alert the wolf pack when a name showed up on the pnet more than once. That was an indicator of time travel, a Horcrux, or something else that should be looked into.
The program would only alert the wolf pack if the names stayed on there for more than a week straight to eliminate known time travel from the list and they would then investigate. There were still prejudiced people in the wizarding world but it was getting better and better as each new generation of students started learning at Hogwarts.