Chapter 3

Building a new world - Part 1

They began their journey around the world. The next day they found Hermione's parents Dr. Richard and Helena Granger and reversed the memory charm. They were very angry at first and it took Hermione nearly two weeks to convince her father and mother that she did it for their safety. After another week Helena accepted Harry, but it took a while for Richard to warm up to him. Richard was just happy that it wasn't the red haired idiot she bought home as her boyfriend. After getting to know Harry, Richard knew he could not have chosen a better man for his daughter. Richard and Helena decided to stay in Melbourne since they got used living there. When asked about the future plans Harry told them what he had decided, Richard was skeptical at first about how he was going to support his daughter but one look at Harry's financial portfolio and the bank statement was enough for him to know that his daughter will be taken good care of. The next month was busy as both Harry and Hermione prepared for their world tour they decided to travel by sea, so after much deliberation Harry decided to buy a Yacht with the help of Gringotts. Once he paid reparations for the break in as the only item they took were the tainted cup and the dragon. With the money harry paid as reparations the little buggers can afford to build a small dragon enclave and still have enough to run it for a few years. Harry and Hermione left to Brisbane in July to buy a yacht as well as for Hermione to register in the Brisbane school of magic to complete her NEWT's examination.

The yacht Harry bought was a 45m classic motor yacht built in 1989 that was available readily in Australia for 3.5 mil pounds. It had 5 cabins and can carry a maximum of 12 passengers and a ship crew of 8. Harry hired squibs and muggleborn wizards who were working for various ship building industries in England and Australia through Gringotts to finish the refitting of the yacht. The yacht had a cruising speed of 13 knots and maximum speed of 18 knots. Harry wanted to make the ship into the first magical yacht so with the help of Goblins and the curse breakers they started to ward the electronics and the engine. After making changes for accommodating magical use, which took two months, Harry and team began expanding the ship to be able to accommodate at least 25 people with the help of expansion charm. They also remodelled two of the guest cabins into a library and work space for Hermione. The team also enhanced the fuel capacity of vessel as well as engine efficiency with the help of the team members who had different ideas but were not able to implement them due to the laws prohibiting enchanting muggle devices in England. Weather resistance charms were applied to ensure highest safety during storm and also impervious charm was applied to the outer hull to increase the durability of the ship. Harry wanted to find an alternative to the fuel which he took as a long term project. It took almost six months to finish with the fitting and on May of 1999 the newly christened Mia's Heart set sail from Gold coast, Brisbane to Melbourne to visit the grangers.

Hermione took her NEWTs along with Harry, who studied independently, in April 1999. They completed their NEWTs with honors and it caused a huge scandal in England. Harry and Hermione received many job offers from England along with marriage offers but they decided travelling and learning the nature of magic and cultures were more important. They began their travel from Melbourne in June 1999 and went inland to meet the indigenous Australian people from central Australia. They lived with a small isolated magical community of Aranda (Arrernte) tribe in Alice Springs for two months and learnt alcherniga or dream-time which is a way to learn of the past of any region with the help of spirit animals, the spirit animals are also the animagus forms of the wizard or a witch. Harry and Hermione discovered that they had two spirit animals but only one appeared to help them to learn the past of the region. When they asked about it to the oldest member of the tribe he told them they belonged in two worlds one being this world and other a world of ice and fire. Harry's spirit animal was a black leopard with green eyes and a white lightning bolt scar on its head and Hermione's was a brown tawny owl with bushy feathers on its head. They were unable to complete the transformation but can change separate parts of their body.

Harry and Hermione then turned back to Melbourne and travelled to Perth, Western Australia they took a week to enjoy the sites in Perth like the King's Park, beaches of the Rottenest Island along the coast as well as the magical district of Fremantle. After that they traveled inlands to meet aboriginal tribe of Noongar who taught Harry and Hermione ritualistic earth magic for the prospering of the land and wildlife. They learned that not all rituals are dark and most of the rituals involving enhancing the already available resources need very little in the means of sacrifice when something is not inherently available and you try to create it artificially then the sacrifice required are very high. For example when a land which is less fertile and the yield of the crops is low then a simple ritual involving a sacrifice of few strands of hair or little blood is enough to make the land fertile again. When a land is a complete wasteland the sacrifice required to make it fertile may be as high as life. Harry gathered all the knowledge of these rituals as well as the books that the aboriginal people shared with him. Hermione on the other hand was little queasy with the blood sacrifice so learnt the runes and arithmetic calculations that were required for these rituals and the theory behind it.

During their time in Australia they did not contact anyone except Luna and Neville from England. People were curious to the whereabouts of their saviour but Kingsley kept their decision not to return to England to himself. For the next seven year the only snippet of news of the whereabouts of Harry Potter and Hermione Granger was a single photograph of their wedding in a small church in Goa, India published in magical newspaper in India.

After Australia Harry and Hermione traveled to New Zealand where there was a very small magical community that was under the control of Australian ministry for magical affairs. They just enjoyed being in New Zealand for two months and travelled to Solomon Islands from there to Papua New Guinea where they met with people from Korowai Tribe who taught them how to hunt and cultivate from tribesmen and learned of astral projection from the tribe Shaman who was actually a wizard. Harry in return taught the shaman how to conjure metals for hunting tools as well as the dream-time so that he can learn more about their own people.

From Papua New Guinea they traveled North West to island nation of Palau where they spent 4 months exploring the islands for magical creatures which they were able to sense due to their connection to the astral plane. They also noticed that their magical core strength also had increased as a side effect of the astral projection. It is in one of these islands they found a strange animal which looked like a mix between a rabbit and squirrel with a single horn which was in an odd shape. The sent a picture they took of the animal along with where to find them to Luna so that she can publish it. This also gave Hermione the idea of writing the books on things they learnt from the tribes and publishing them under a pen name.

The next leg of travel was from Palau to Manado in Indonesia during their time in Indonesia their first book was published under the name of James Evans and Jean Wilkins about their travels in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Palau. They however did not mention the names of the tribes since they did not want ICW (International Confederation of Wizards) to disturb these tribes' men. In Indonesia Harry and Hermione learnt magical arts of healing from dukun (term for shaman) from the Javanese people and also about rare medicinal plants that are native to Java island. Harry also learnt of powerful dark magic spells, rituals and wards from the wizards of Madura Island which required animal sacrifices while Hermione stayed away from the island. Harry's moral did not allow him to perform the rituals he learnt of it in case it was needed in the future.

They travelled from Indonesia to Singapore, Malaysia via Palawan. Palawan is a province of Philippines which has underground rivers, caves and national park which had a small amount of magical animals that was being maintained by the government of Philippines. In Malaysia harry and Hermione traveled from tribe to tribe who were collectively called Orang Asli meaning original people to learn if they have any magical users but came up empty there were a few squibs but there wasn't any magic users. They spent two months with the tribes' people and helped them in any way they can without magic.

They travelled from Malaysia to Bangkok, Thailand where they met seven different tribes under the Hills Tribe. They learned of their culture but again there were not many magical users even if there were the magic in them was almost non-existent. Harry and Hermione decided to travel further north by land. So for two years they travelled all over Laos, China, Mongolia, India, Nepal and Bhutan to meet their magical community and learn. They learned of wandless magic from Laos. From China they learnt of non-sacrificial rituals to improve the land with use of certain types of crystal most villages used jade. With help of this Harry devised a way to store magical energy with use of certain gems of high density like diamond. Even a diamond of smaller size can hold magical energy with correct rituals. In Mongolia Hermione learnt to control fire element from the shamans of the tribe as well as how to create magical songs and dances to make changes in the weather, which harry did not get due to the lack of finesse in dancing or singing. They learned mind magic from the monks of is where they finally merged the human mind to their spirit animal and completed the animagus transformation. In India they learned more control of wandless magic and a lot about parcel magic and different variety of magical snakes and various effects of venom and their medicinal properties.

After travelling through India Harry asked Hermione to marry him with a ring he bought in china flowers from India and music from Mongolia and she said yes. So they had small ceremony in Goa on November 5th 2003 with Hermione's parents, Luna, Neville and crew of Mia's heart. Neville stood as best man for Harry and Luna as maid of honor. After the ceremony they enjoyed two weeks of quite in Lakshadweep islands.

For the next four years Harry and Hermione travelled to the magical communities in Madagascar, South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, South America, Canada, United States of America and Green land. They gathered the knowledge of various forgotten and ancient methods of magic not all of their travels were successful the people in the remote magical communities of the African tribes were rather violent in not sharing their knowledge but there was always something available for them to learn during their travel. They learned about magical creatures care from the care takers of the Madagascar magical animal preserve. The tribes of South Africa taught them illusion magic. The magical people of Nigeria did not trust foreigners so they learned very little from them. It was in Egypt they spent two years learning runes and curse breaking from the Gringotts goblins. The goblins were highly impressed by Harry that they provided them with time turners to learn the art of curse breaking. The magical community of North America was just like British magical community was a tightly controlled by the Magical Congress of United States of America and the South American tribesmen are the exact opposite of the north. Harry and Hermione learned of enchanting and cursing different objects and healing using crystal rocks. Harry and Hermione received a great number of hoodoo potions used for physical enhancements. They also learned pow-wow which is a use of combination of all forms of magicks including spells, rituals, folk remedies and magical words to cure domestic ailments and rural problem. From the mapuche people Hermione learnt to tend to herbs, simple rituals to influence weather and intent wards.

Harry and Hermione wrote books on every country and their magical knowledge. It was published in every non International confederation of wizard Country and was a major success. The ICW banned the books and even went so far as to burn the books that travel into their countries. During their travels they did not once planned to sail in European waters since all the European countries are under the banner of ICW and magic is controlled by them. The travel was put on hold when Hermione got sick so they settled in one of the Black islands owned by Black Family near the Bahamas. The black island was a collection of number of uninhabited islands the biggest among them was roughly 6500 sq. miles. This collection of islands was the main reason for the myth of the Bermuda triangle. These islands were taken by the black family in the year 1025 when most of the family were pirates. The biggest and only inhabited island was underdeveloped but had rich flora and fauna it also contained an artificial harbour where Mia's Heart was to be docked along with the resident fishing boats and a Pirate ship. It had a huge fort which was maintained by the black family elves and the natives of the island. There was small magical community of approx. 100 people who were traders, fishermen and a few pirates. The community consisted descendants of squibs from black family who were shipped off during 14 - 16th century when the family took on the motto of "Toujours pur" meaning "always pure". The islands were under ancient wards that restricted entry to the island, only the families that were in residence when the wards were setup can find the island. The head of Black family is considered to be the ruler of the island due to the contract set up by ancestors of the black family but one of the ancestor during 15th century by the name of Taurus Black set up a governing body that consisted of few traders among the residents which still acts as a governing body and occupies eastern wing of the fort. While the western wing was used as school for children though most of the wizarding children go to Ilvermorny school of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the Greylock Mountains of North America, the southern wing consists of common hall where community gathering occurs and northern wing or King Tower as it is called houses the members of black family. Harry would not have known of its existence if the Goblins hadn't told him about the island and housing arrangements available there when he made his monthly flu call on the details of his current account. The island's only contact was through tropical birds that are breed for communication called the toucans which Sirius sent for Harry on his 14th birthday.

The island's healer after checking Hermione declared her to be pregnant and should not sail until she gives birth. Harry and Hermione were so happy that they were going to be parents did not refuse and decided to stay in the island. After a few weeks of doing nothing Harry got bored and decided to visit some of the inhabited islands. He took along with him Captain of Mia's Heart. They visited a small number of the islands that had vegetation the reason the blacks decided to take hold of the islands came clear when harry came across a strange bluish silver deposit in one of the small mounds in an island. After some examination Harry decided to bring Goblins who were natural miners to determine what the mineral was and is it worth extraction. Harry also found gold veins in another one of the island but decided not extract it as he had enough gold at the moment but leave a detailed note in the family grimoire for the future generations. Harry also decided to develop some of the islands and convert them to natural preserve for the magical animals that are becoming extinct due to the destruction of forest by the muggles.

Hermione meanwhile talked with the residents of the island and wanted to do something to improve their living. After talking to them she came to the conclusion that most of the inhabitants of the island don't have many opportunities to explore and most of the young migrate to United States and also the lands that are fertile have fewer farmers to develop into something useful. She wanted to create opportunities for all the people and make the island self-sufficient and wanted to implement what they learned from the tribes and experiment on them. So when Harry returned and told her of his plans for natural reserve she was happy that he too had plans and discussed the plans for the island.

A/N: Thanks for the encouragement guys. I have sketch for the story but still developing most of the plots and if there are any recommendations I welcome. Remember that this is my first Fanfiction so pls excuse me if I did anything wrong. Updates mostly I will do every other day.