AN: Hi Peoples!
16 WEEKS LATER
Four months had past since Harry had begun his training and during that time he had successfully acquired beyond NEWT levels knowledge in all of the subjects he had studied. He had studied both Dark Arts and Light Magic without any prejudice much to the glee of the Valeyard. He had become very proficient with all the classes available at Hogwarts such as Arithmancy, Conjuring, Ancient Runes, Transfiguration, Charms and even duelling. He even had an advanced understanding of rituals, blood magic, spell creation and modification.
In the first three months Harry had to Old Harry's shock and happiness tripled the size of his previous magic reserves and core, more than doubled his stamina and greatly increased his strength and speed, His magical core had grown at such an accelerated pace that during his most resent Dark Arts lesson the Valeyard had actually presented Harry with a very ornately carved box, inside of the box Harry found a pair of bronze shackles, identical to the ones that the Valeyard himself was wearing.
When asked what they were the Valeyard had smiled before saying, "These Harry actually belonged to me, they were my magic limiters, they made it harder for me to access my magic by actually blocking about a quarter of my magical core from being accessed, forcing me to burn through more magic then I would normally use which in turn forced my core to grow, remember your magic is like a muscle, use it and it grows stronger, don't and it becomes stagnate."
Harry had thanked the Valeyard for his generous gift but after much thought decided that he didn't feel fight about using another person's most sacred belonging, even if that person though technically dead for many years had given them to him. Finally Harry came to the decision that he would instead make his own.
From his study of the limiters he discovered how to adapt and play with the design until he could create a version that could store large amounts of magic more or less permanently, gathered in tiny amounts over time and released either partially or all at once to refuel the wearer's reserves. So that he could throw large amounts of draining spells for much longer.
It was groundbreaking. It could change wizarding warfare forever.
Magic was the life and soul of wizard combat. It didn't matter if what they used was transfiguration, curses and hexes or Unforgivable's, they all used magic, and when that ran out a wizard was in most cases defenseless.
Simply put, the more magic you had at your disposable the more powerful and dangerous a threat you could be, and the ability to restore near depleted reserves with the limiters allowed wizards to throw around potentially ten to twenty times as many spells before depleting there core.
The trouble with runes was they could be copied. They were just symbols after all and they could be copied easily and deciphered at a later time.
The Valeyards originals were hidden with a powerful notice me not spell, but over time the bands would absorb the ambient magic and render it useless unless recast, but that would become tedious and painstaking.
When the Valeyard had originally designed the limiters they were merely a training tool so he wasn't to worried about having to recast the notice me not spell as he hardly ever found himself in a situation were someone would actually see them.
However Harry's new limiters were so much more than a mere training tool, they were a back up reserve and as such he would be wearing them into battle were he wouldn't have time to recast a spell of the limiters every hour.
Instead Harry would have to come up with a completely different way of hiding the inscribed runes, one that didn't rely upon magic.
Fortunately, Harry was able to come up with a solution pretty quickly.
Instead of inscribing the runes on the band Harry would instead make two halves to the same band an inscribed the runes on the bottom layer before fusing the two layers together, completely hiding the runes from sight, unless his enemies could see through metal of course.
It took a week worth of research and development but Harry had finally created his new and improved limiters, where the old ones looked like they were old bronze shackles engraved with complicated runes Harry's new limiter were two plain two and a half inch wide silver bands.
Old Harry and the Valeyard were giddy when Harry had shown them.
The Valeyard had mumbled something that sounded suspiciously like 'why couldn't I have thought of that.' before grinning and laughing about how Old Voldie wouldn't know what hit him.
The Valeyard was especially happy when Harry showed him the other function of his new limiters, using a simple storage rune Harry was able to store ten litres of blood in each band, enough for two fully powered Sanguis Contego.
2 YEAR LATER
Two whole years had past since Harry had started his tutelage under his past self's guidance, in that time Harry had surpassed all their expectations,
Over the course of the two years Harry's physical exercises routine and muscle enhancers had made his body go from skinny and malnourished to a more athletically ripped figure packed with muscles and due to the potions all of the damage done by the Dursleys mistreatment over the years had for the most part been reversed, he had even grown to the respectable height of 6'2. His hair had grown into a ponytail that trailed down to his mid-back, his face had lost the last traces of baby fat it possessed giving him a very chiselled and handsome look. He now wore a tight fitting deep blue Acromantula silk t-shirt, a pair of black Dragon hide cargo pants, which had been spelled with expanded pockets in order to store the many different things he liked to carry with him. To top everything off he wore a black hooded battle robe made of rare hide from a black Anubis, a practically extinct species of dragon whose hide was said to rival the Basilisk in magical resistants. The main reason for this change of wardrobe was for a couple reasons. He was now stronger and fast enough that he no longer needed the help of light weight, loose fitting clothing to give him an edge. He now could afford a bit tighter and heavier outfit in order to provide extra protection and room to store things on his person.
The second reason was because he wanted his appearance to strike fear into the hearts of his enemy's.
Harry's duelling skills had progress in leaps and bounds, he was even able to duel the Valeyard and Time Lord to a standstill now, but he was still being soundly beat by Old Harry, even if he put up a hell of a fight.
That night Old Harry once again called Harry to one of the training rooms but this time told him to come later that evening and that he had the rest of the day free to do as he wished, which he had not had since that day he failed to block the Time Lords slicing hex and nearly been disembowelled. Harry decided to once again wander around the place he had come to call his home.
As the evening came Harry began to head to the regular training spot wondering why training for the day had been pushed back so late.
When Harry got there he was shocked. Standing there was Old Harry with a serious look on his face along with all of his other teachers.
Upon seeing this Harry began to get worried and tried to think if he had done anything wrong, but he could think of nothing.
"What is going on? Why are all of you here?" asked Harry in a calm tone not showing his true emotions just like he had been taught.
"Today Harry is a very important day. Today is the day you will begin your true tutelage under us" said Old Harry very seriously.
Harry was not quite sure what he meant since he thought that's what he has been the past two years. All Harry could do was, wait for Old Harry to continue.
Instead of continuing with his speech Old Harry nodded to one of the other Harry's who calmly walked over and handed Old Harry what looked like a simple oak case which he handed over to Harry.
Upon closer inspection he saw that the top of the case had a beautiful Stag with a lily engraved on it.
After receiving the go ahead Harry opened it revealing a beautiful, katana along with a matching deep emerald sheath. Its blade appeared razor sharp, the guard was a deep gold and the hilt was pitch black with a large Grim engraved upon it.
"Thank you; I am very grateful for your gift." Harry replied almost reverently.
"You are welcome Harry, that blade was forged by the Ancient One himself, it served him well and now you have received the blade you to shall begin to learn you the art of swordsmanship, after all today's modern Wizard would never expect an attack by a sword. Knowing how to fight with a sword could give you an element of surprise. Over the past year you have come to show me that you are now ready to take the next step in your training" said Old Harry remaining serious and formal.
"For generations of Harry's it has been customary to craft a second wand as a part of there initiation and as such you to shall craft your own wand Harry, using the workshop you can accesses all the designs of your previous self's, use it and the repository to make your own." stated Old Harry to which Harry could only nod.
*****
With the exception of his morning workout and duelling practise all of Harry's other classes had been cancelled until he had crafted his second wand, a task that Harry persuaded with vigour.
In order to craft his new wand, the first thing that Harry did was to study much wandlore as he possible could, as always the Ancient Ones personal tome on the subject was very enlightening. Harry found it to be fascinating reading.
According to the Ancient One, the best wands should have a core made out of high quality crystal, the higher quality the better; however for best results the Ancient One recommended a core made out of magically forge crystal, whatever that was. The magically forged crystal core should if forged correctly be aligned with its creator's magical core which in turn allowed it to store the creators' raw magical energy.
A fully charged crystal core would act the same way as a laser pointer's multiple lenses, first purifying the raw magical energy and then concentrating it before releasing the purified energy with the crystal core acting as a focusing lens for the purified energy, boosting the power of any given spell by about a factor of ten if Harry's math was right.
Using the holographic projector in the workshop Harry was able to complete a rough design of what he wanted his new wand to look like. After going through the many different wood samples available in the Void ships storage Harry was able to decide what his wand was going to be made from, black oak and white willow. The handle was going to 6" long and made from black oak the shaft was going to be 8" long and made from white willow and the core was going to be made from magically forge crystal.
The wand was going to be engraved with many different protective Runes as another line of defence. An ancient Druid rune array to prevent anyone but Harry from wielding or summoning it, a Celtic summoning array so that Harry could summon it to his side from anywhere in the world if he ever lost it, a blood seal to make it impossible for anybody to track and an Atlantean illusion array to make his new wand look like his old Holly wand to prevent anybody from becoming suspicious.
With the design for his new wand finished Harry moved one to learning everything he could about magically forged crystal.
The theory behind there creation was actually pretty complicated; it was advanced permanent transmutation on a molecular level.
Even though there were hundreds of different types of rocks and ores in the world, most of them were made up of the same elements only organized in slightly different ways.
Quartz was one of the most common elements on Earth; there were literally hundreds of the worthless stones. However if the same molecule that made up quarts were organized in just right way it made citrines and amethysts, carbon was one of the most common substances in the world and yet the same elements that made it could make diamonds, the same principle went for gems like rubies, sapphires and emeralds to name a few.
It was actually a simple principle, once Harry understood the basic science behind it.
After practice turning wheat into grain, plaster into alabaster and turning carbon into diamond for a solid week Harry finally had the confidents to try forging his wands crystal.
Taking a large chunk of low quality crystal and sitting it on a stone table that he had conjured to act as a buffer between his magic and the quarts Harry laid his hands over the quarts and let his magic ooze into it.
Using the technique that he had learned Harry focused his magic on the foreign element within the quarts first, the elements that weren't needed to form crystal, once he had identified them Harry pushed his magic into them, willing them to change.
Slowly the molecules shifted and changed until they where pure quarts crystal, Harry repeated this process for over and hour until he had completely turned the whole block into pure high quality quarts, letting his magic soak into every atom of the block until it was brimming with his raw magical energy Harry super heated the crystal with a wandless Incendo, fusing the crystal with his raw magic, making it one hundred percent compatible with his magical core. Harry didn't stop until the block under his hands glowed red, with a flick of his wrist Harry levitated the glowing stone from the bench and lowered it into the nearby quench bucket. Minutes later Harry found himself admiring the pure crystal that sat on his conjured table; it was a flawless magically forged crystal.
*****
Gathering all of the necessary ingredients, Harry pictured how he wanted his new wand to look in his mind, down to the smallest of details, sucking in a breath Harry spoke in a unwavering voice his eye's closed his mind focused on his wands shape, "Formo Virga." The blocks of White Willow and black Oak levitated into the air, both spinning at an incredible speed as if connected to an invisible lave. Sawdust and other pieces of off cut begin to rain down onto Harry's bench as his wand took shape.
It felt like forever to Harry but when he finally opened his eyes there on his workbench sat his wand pieces just as he had imagined them in his mind.
Containing his excitement for the time being Harry sat down and began carving the runes arrays into the shaft and handle of his wand using a specialized rune engraver.
When Harry was done carving the arrays it was way past midnight and even though Harry wanted nothing more then to curl up in bed and fall asleep he knew that he had to finish crafting his wand, otherwise he would have to start the whole process over again.
Placing his magically forge wand core and sheath halves on top of the engraved sigil that sat in the middle of the room. Letting out a long sigh Harry pooled his magic and started the long incantation, the sigil and the other assorted runes that where drawn and engraved through out the room flickered to life, giving off a faint blue glow that was slowly growing brighter. The air had grow thick with magic and as the ritual neared it's end, the crystal core and other wand pieces launched into the air spinning around each other as if lost in an ancient dance known only to them, slowly the wooden pieces attached themselves with the core one by one forming into a black handled wand with a brilliant white willow shaft, he watched in wonder as the glowing runes flared white before fading away leaving his newly crafted wand laying on top of the inactive sigil.
Reaching out with slightly quivering hands Harry picked up his new wand, as soon as his hand grasped the wand Harry felt a rush of power flood through him.
Steeling his Grifinndor courage Harry gave his wand a quick flick, hoping that he had succeeded in crafting his custom wand.
The light that burst out of his wand was so bright that it was almost blinding to look upon, and the whole room was bathed in it warm glow. Harry could not believe the feeling he was getting from the wand.
His original wand couldn't even begin to compare to this, this wand felt like an extension of his body, like a piece of his very soul that had been finally restored.
"I can't wait to try this baby out!" Harry said as he hurried out of the room, heading towards the firing range to test his new toy.
*****
The firing range was basically a long corridor with a few charmed mannequins that appeared at random and glowed different colours red for hostile and blue for civilian.
Reading himself Harry pointed his wand at the closest red mannequin and cast a quick Reducto.
The spell leapt from his wand and slammed into the defenceless mannequin like a wreaking ball, the mannequin's torso had been completely decimated a hole as large as a full grown mans hand sat proudly on display where Harry's Reduco had impacted just moments before.
Harry just stood there with his mouth opening and closing like a fish, his eyes the size of dinner plates. "Where have you been all my life?" Harry asked as a feral grin spread across his face, with a laugh that would have sent shivers down Voldemort's spine Harry unleashed a wave of multi-coloured doom upon the poor unsuspecting mannequins.
*****
The next month past pretty quickly for Harry, his magical core's power was now just short of Dumbledore's own, his mastery of all his classes had also progressed to the point where there was very little that any of his teachers could teach him without him having at least some knowledge of how to do it by himself, he could even duel any two of his teachers in a two on one duel and have a good chance of fighting them to a stalemate if not winning.
Finally Old Harry had announced over dinner that night that Harry was finally ready to begin his true apprenticeship and gave Harry a new schedule for him to follow.
4:00-6:00 am Physical training running for 30 to 45 min, work on a set muscle group
6:00-7:00 Martial Arts/Sword play
7:00-7:30 Shower
7:30-8:00 Breakfast
8:00-10:00 Transmutation
10:00-12:00 Elemental Training
12:00-12:30 lunch
12:30- 2:30 Ritual Studies
2:30-3:30 First Aid Muggle/Magical
3:30-4:30 Battle Magic
4:30-5:30 Duelling Remotes
5:30-6:30 Spell Revision
6:30-7:00 Dinner
7:00-8:00 Duelling
8:00-9:00 Magical Creature Studies
9:00-10:00 Languages
10:00-11:00 Free Time
11:00-12:00 meditate
12:00 Bed
"Why do I have the feeling that this year is going to be worse than last year?" Harry asked with a half hearted glare.
"Well last year was all about training you up for this year and this year is all about training you to not only fight in the war but to win it." replied Old Harry with a small smirk.
"But still only four hours sleep, and no break in between all of last years work and this years?!" Harry said with a mock pout.
"Sadly yes, however due to the amount of power that has been drawn from the Void Ships core we will be dropping out of the void and recharging the ships core and power reserves, it should only take a eighteen or nineteen hours and in that time you can go and explore Daigon Alley, under disguise of course." Old Harry said his eyes twinkling.
Harry couldn't help the smile that forced its way onto his face, as much as he loved the Repository he had missed being around other people, his other selves not with standing, on the other hand he was fascinated by how the Void Ship recharged it's magical core but after a short mental debate a shopping trip to Daigon ally and possibly Knockturn Alley won out, and it wasn't like he couldn't research the Void Ship when he got back, even if Old Harry had tried to explain a few times about how the Void Ship worked or how it recharged it's magical core.
It was actually a rather simple concept: long before any human had even begun to develop let alone tap into their magical cores the Earth itself had been using vast amounts of magical power everyday from creating hurricanes, landslide and tidal waves to the small things that people take for granted like creating life, an impossible task for wizards but pitifully easy for a being of nearly limitless power and knowledge like Gaia.
In every being capable of using magic exists a core of raw magical power the larger the core the more powerful the magical being. Just like the heart in the human body pumps blood through a persons veins a persons magical power is also circulated though their body through a pathway system.
The size of a Wizards magical pathways for the most part determined how easily they could use and control their power, the Earth was no different, it too has a magic system whose pathways stretched out from its core to every corner of the globe, a system of interlocking seemingly random lines that man would one day name Ley Lines.
The Ley Lines for the most part were inactive but even so they still bleed a constant stream of ambient magic into the atmosphere. This magic was what the Void Ship used for power, when ever its reserves where running low Old Harry or the current master of the Repository would leave the Void and head for the nearest Ley Line.
******
Harry woke up early that morning just to make sure that he would be able to fit in his early morning workout, after all, he didn't want to mess up his routine. After he was finished, he showered and he opted not to wear his Anubis hide cloack and instead dressed in a deep hooded black travellers cloak that had been charmed so that instead of seeing his face all a person would see would be a pool of shimmering black liquid and would never move from his head unless he removed it, overall it was a beautiful cloak and Harry had all ready made plans to copy the concealing charms of the cloak onto his Anubis hide cloak.
Satisfied with his appearance, Harry made his way down to the kitchen to grab a bite to eat before heading for Diagon Alley.
After a quick omelette and a few pieces of toast Harry headed for the control room where he found Old Harry flicking some of the switches and typing some commands into one of the holographic view screens in what Harry recognised as Atlantean.
"Everything's ready to go?" Harry asked as he headed over to the consol himself.
"Good morning young Harry, we will be dropping out of void space in a few minutes, just after I finish recalibrating the perception filters to make sure that know one recognises the Void Ship." Old Harry said with a smile as he continued to type at a blistering speed. "Oh, before I forget, could you do me a favour, Harry?" Old Harry said as he turned away from the view screen to look at Harry.
"Sure, what do you need?" Harry asked curiosity getting the better of him.
"It's nothing to troubling, it's just that I would like to make a significant business investment and make a few galleons while I'm at it." Old Harry said as he pulled out a small box from one of his robes pockets, enlarging it and opening in to show what was inside.
The trunk itself was about a foot wide, two foot long and six inches deep, inside was hundreds of uncut jewels of verifying size and colour, their had to be at lest three hundred gems of each kind in each compartment.
"These Harry are transmuted gems, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and a few blood rubies. They are identical in every way to there natural occurring counterparts and each of them are uncut, I would be willing to bet that Gringotts' Accusations Department would be willing to pay a small fortune for them." Old Harry said as he shrank trunk wordlessly and handed Harry the small trunk that was now no larger than a deck of playing cards.
After double checking to make sure that he hadn't missed anything Harry apparated into Diagon Alley just outside of the Leaky Cauldron. He carefully walked down the streets, making sure that he didn't bump into anybody, unaware that the people themselves were parting as he approached to get out of the way of the intimidating figure that was stalking towards them.
A few minutes later Harry entered the Gringotts lobby and went to stand in line to wait his turn at the check out counter.
Harry stood in front of the counter and quickly cast a wordless privacy spell to make sure that there was no one would be able to recognize his voice, and said, "Pardon me sir. I would like to make an appointment with someone from the Aquisitions Department and I would like a tally of all my assets."
The Goblin looked at him for a minute with a calculating stare before replying with a stiff, "Key Please!"
Harry handed his key to the Goblin. The Goblin snatched the key from Harry and quickly crossed referenced it with his ledger before handing Harry back his key and saying, "Ah Mr. Potter, welcome we have an opening with someone from the Aquisitions Department later this afternoon and I do believe that at last tally you have a little over two-hundred thousand Galleons sitting in your vault, will that be all for today, Sir." The Goblin asked with a pointy toothed smile.
"Yes, thank you. Could you direct me to the Aquisitions Department?"
"Please follow the corridor on the left and go to the 9th door on your right." The Goblin said dismissing Harry with a glance.
Harry grabbed his key and followed the tellers directions until he got to a wooden door with a gold plaque that read; Aquisitions Department.
Harry entered the giant and well decorated office and nearly gaped, there was gold, artifacts, weapons and jewels everywhere.
"Ah, welcome Mr. Potter. Please take a seat." A voice said from behind Harry.
The Goblin was ancient, his face was pitted with wrinkles and scars, but his eyes still burned with power and skill that would make many jealous.
"My name is Gorshack the Greedy, head of Gringotts Accusations Department, what is it that you wish to trade Mr. Potter?"
"Greetings Gorshack the Greedy, I wish to barter some precious gems that I recently came into possession of." Harry said politely using the formal Goblin trading address.
"Gem stones, my personal favourite aside from weapons of course." Gorshack said with a sinister grin.
"Yes well I think then that this is your lucky day, feast your eyes on these." Harry said as he enlarged the dice sized trunk in his hand.
Gorshack looked dumbstruck for a second his mouth hanging open for a few seconds before he finally managed to get hold of himself a large smile or what passed for a smile on a Goblin plastered on his face.
"There is over 200 diamonds, sapphires, emeralds and blood rubies in this trunk, all uncut and none under the size of a Sickle." Harry said as he handed Gorshack a large emerald.
Gorshack picked up the emerald and with skills honed from years of practice checked the emerald over for any imperfection with a jeweller's monocle and checked for any magic that could have been used to fake the gems appearance.
"Mr. Potter assuming that all of these gems are of the same quality as this one I think that you and I can come to an arrangement that will please both of us." Gorshack said running his hands over the other gems in the trunk never looking up as he spoke.
"I think that your right, Gorshack. Now all that there is to do is come up with a price, now normally for gems of this quality, size and quantity it would cost at least 10,000 Galleons, each and that's being more then generous." Harry said his smirk growing as he saw a look of something akin to horror in Gorshack's beady eyes.
"Y-yes, normally that would be correct however Gringotts and its subsidiaries can not authorise such a large transfer or Galleons, even if all of the senior partners agreed to the purchase." Gorshack said is voiced faltering.
"I see, is there any way for you to contact one of these senior partners and ascertain just what you are able to authorise?" Harry asked as he closed the trunk full of gems.
"Yes, I could it shouldn't take to long, I will be back shortly Mr. Potter." Gorshack said as he all but ran from his office.
Over an hour and a half later Gorshack returned his grin fully on display.
"Good news I hope Gorshack." Harry said as he closed the leather bound book he had been reading.
"Very good news Mr Potter, after careful consideration, we have decided to have the Goblin Nation pay you for 1 million Galleons worth of diamonds, 1 million Galleons worth of sapphires, 1 million Galleons worth of emeralds, 3 million Galleons worth of blood rubies as well as trade you the deed for a goblin owned Dragon preserve in Romania, two tonnes of Goblin Iron and Steel and lastly, 1 tonnes of assorted Dragon hides and four tonnes of Dragon blood, organs and a rare ninth century phoenix amulet valued at a little over 24,000 Galleons. "
"I think we have a deal Gorshack the Greedy." Harry said shaking Gorshacks hand.
"I have been a rare pleasure Mr. Potter, the Galleons and other proprieties shall be transferred to your vault, will there be anything else Mr Potter?" Gorshack said with a grin.
"If I could I would like to have everything but the Galleons shrunk and put into a few of my trunks and brought to me." Harry asked after thinking for a minute.
"That should take to long to do, however normally there would be a small fee, but I think we can wave that just this once. While we wait would you like something to drink, tea or something from my private cellar a double malt brandy from the Scottish Highlands aged fifty-three years." Gorshack said as he placed the bottle of aged alcohol and two glasses onto his desk.
AN: Before I get FLAMED about the katana, I have no plans for Harry to have a katana, a sword, yes, a katana, no, it's just a training sword. Now while it does seem that Harry learned way to much in 4 months I would like to remind everyone that Harry is only sleeping 4 hours a night that's 20 hours a day to learn (plus potions and illegal Dark Arts that increase his learning abilities) Now as for the Anubis hide robe think Anubis from SG1 after he ascended! Also remember the phoenix amulet; I have plans for it…. Remember REVIEW!!
Translations
Formo Virga: to shape wand