Beta'ed by Mad About the Boro
Chapter 10
Harry met Asajj in her room for a final check of all her gear.
"You have everything you need, right?" He asked, looking over her black leather pants, boots, button up shirt and vest. She had her weapons rig on, with her sword and sabers on her belt and her two gold 1911's in her shoulder holsters.
She slung one of his black leather dusters on and shouldered her pack.
"I have everything." She said, checking her gear over.
"Good. Stay armed until Minerva or Perenelle tell you it's okay. Then just carry your sabers and a gun. I don't know where the gateway is. If it's still in the Ministry, then drop into the shadows and pop to the castle. You can get there using my memories. I'll be right behind you, as soon as I can." He said.
"Dad, relax. You'll be sitting with me next to Mom's bed, before she even gets up. Uncle Obi is only four hours away by Reaper." She said, kissing him on the cheek.
She walked into the tab and saw the gateway glowing. She looked back at her dad one more time, before she walked through the Gateway.
Minerva was just walking through the door to her office, when the shrunken Gateway on her desk started to glow. She rushed to the Gateway, set it on the floor next to her desk and canceled the shrinking charm.
A few seconds later, a girl with pale skin and dark blue hair dressed in all black walked through. She checked the room with a glance and locked eyes with Minerva.
"Hello?" Minerva ventured.
"Hello Aunt Minerva, my Father will be along shortly, he is waiting on my Uncle to get to the ship so he can hand over the Command to him. Is my Mother in the hospital wing?" She asked calmly, as she pulled Saber out of an inside pocket of her duster and set him down on the floor by her feet.
It took Minerva a few second to process her words, but she caught up quick.
"Yes, dear. You must be Harry's daughter, Asajj. Welcome to Hogwarts. Your mother is down in the hospital wing, with Perenelle. Your grandmother had to finish the business they were attending when your mother injured herself. You don't need any of that." She said, pointing to the vest and guns. "We've been a very peaceful place since your father took care of things five years ago." Minerva said, coming around her desk to look her over.
"Do you have other clothes?" She asked.
"I do." Asajj said, slinging her pack off her shoulders. "Do you have a place I can change?"
"In here is a bathroom." She said, pointing to a door.
"Thank you." Asajj said, walking into the room with her pack. Saber jumped up onto Minerva's desk and gave her a sniff, before nodding.
"Well hello to you too, little cutie." Minerva said, petting the black kitten. "You don't smell like any cat I've ever met before." She said, picking up Saber and holding him to her chest.
"That's because he's a living sculpture." Asajj said, coming out of the bathroom dressed in her commanders uniform of a black skirt, white dress shirt, black corset and black long tailed jacket. She added her weapons belt with her sabers and a gold 1911 tucked into her back. "Saber." She called. The kitten jumped down out of Minerva's arms and shifted into his attack form. "Good kitty." She said, patting him on the head. He shifted back down and hopped up into her arms and sat on her shoulder. "He's my companion." She said, smiling.
"I see." Minerva said, returning the smile. This was definitely Harry's kid. "I can take you down to the hospital wing, if you would like?" She offered
"No need, I have my Father's memories." Asajj said, tapping her head. She waved her hand over her pack and it shifted to look like a hand bag.
As she walked out of the room. Minerva smirked as she took a seat at her desk. "It's like talking to a young Harry all over again." She remarked, feeling happy.
Harry paced the bridged of the Black Dragon in full gear. Pak walked up to him.
"Sir, Hunter and his men broke through the main supply base's outer perimeter. They are holding position until 5th company can get to the rally point. So far, they are recording no losses." He reported.
"Thank you, Pak." Harry said.
"Sir, do you find the Command chair uncomfortable?" He asked.
"No, Pak. It's just not my seat. You'll find Obi won't sit in it either, when he gets here. Shadows are many things, superstitious is one of them. That seat belongs to my daughter." He explained, proudly.
"I see, sir." Pak said, nodding.
"You're a good man, Pak." Harry praised, patting him on the shoulder. "My brother is not used to the pace First Wave works at. He will stumble at first. Make sure he can do so and save face. I can see the troops are already looking stressed that we are leaving. Try to keep them in line." He said.
"Will do, sir."
"Carry on." Harry said, going back to pacing the floor.
"Contact! It's a Reaper, and it's hailing us." Pak called out.
"Patch it through." Harry replied
"Hello, First wave." Obi called out, over the comm.
"Commander Kenobi. It's good to see you, brother. Ready to try your hand at real war?" Harry challenged.
"I've been waiting since the beginning of this war for some real action." He replied. "I'm on approach. I'll see you in the hanger bay." He said, cutting the connection.
Harry walked down to the hanger bay, with Bant at his side; as they got there Obi walked off his Reaper. "Brother." He greeted, pulling Harry into a hug.
"Obi. It's good to see you. How goes the second wave?" He asked.
"Boring. You savages in first wave leave almost nothing for us to do." He complained, boxing Harry on the shoulder. "Hi Bant, ready to take orders from someone that's not crazy?" He asked, slinking his arm around her shoulders.
"And who would that be? Siri and Luminara are not here and you can't be talking about yourself." She teased, smirking.
"Everyone is a comedian." Obi said, laughing. "So, where am I bunking, and where is my XO?" He asked.
"You'll be staying in my rooms. They are relatively empty and unused." Harry said, leading him to the room. "As you can see, I have the gateway in here."
"I see it. It takes up half the room." Obi said, smirking.
"You can leave your things in here." Harry said, before leading him to the bridge. "This is Pak, he's your XO. Pak, this is Obi-wan Kenobi. If he gives you too much trouble, knock him out, and lock him in my rooms. Now, unless any of you need me for something, I need to get out of here." Harry said.
"No Harry, I think we have it from here. I'll keep him in line." Bant assured.
"Thank you, Bant." Harry said, patting her on the back. He turned to Obi.
"Walk with me?" He asked, leading him back to his room. "I plan on being gone for eight days, tops. On my desk, you'll find a detailed list of things to do from Asajj. If things go bad and you have to evacuate the ship, shrink the gateway and take it with you. Other than that, the evacuation plans are the same as your ship. Always keep a running dialogue open with Pak. He takes good care of Asajj, and he knows what he's doing to keep this ship running and keep the war moving. Bant will run point with Hunter and his team. If they run into very heavy fighting, they have orders to fall back and wait for you to come and help. Hunter is running an op. right now, or he would have been here to greet you." Harry said, gathering up all of his things and putting them in his coat.
"Relax, Harry. I can handle this war for a week." Obi assured, stopping him in his tracks.
"I know. I'm just nervous about going home. I left in a hurry, and I was a real asshole when I was younger." Harry said.
"What do you mean 'when you were younger'? You're an asshole now." Obi teased, smiling. "Go home, see your family, and if all else fails, just say you're sorry. Chicks eat that stuff up." Obi said, patting him on the back.
"You're right." Harry said, letting his shoulders fall.
"Of course I am. Now, do you have everything?"
"I do." Harry said, patting his pockets.
"Then good luck." Obi said, pushing him through the glowing gateway.
Asajj made her way do to the hospital wing. Inside, she saw her mother laying on a bed, and a tall blond lady sitting next to her
"You must be Asajj, your mother told us about you." The lady said, looking up.
"I am, and you are my great-grandmother Perenelle." Asajj said, walking over to the bed. She looked down at her mother who looked pale, even with the charmed skin colour.
"She will be fine soon. She is recovering faster than I first thought. She is very resilient." Perenelle remarked, smiling softly.
"She's Mirialan. They are a strong race." She said calmly, as she waved a chair into existence next to the bed and sat.
She took her mother's hand, and concentrated on her mother's Force signature. She pulled on it and followed it to her mother's mind. There, she found her mother, in what looked like her father's meditation room, sitting on the floor at the low table drinking tea with an old woman with white hair.
"Hello Mother, and Mother Goddess." She greeted, calmly taking a seat at the table and pouring herself a cup of tea.
"I see what you mean when you say she's just like her father. It's funny how fast she picked up his mannerisms." The Mother Goddess said, with a smile.
"Let's hope she doesn't take everything from her father. If she did, she'll be running the galaxy in three years, and have to be told to take time off to have a life." Luminara said.
"Mother!" Asajj objected, indignantly.
"What? I want grandbabies. Anakin has it right, you know. A nice stable job, on one planet, with the woman he loves by his side. They will be married soon. Padme will take her place in the Senate. Soon after that, Shmi will have grandbabies to play with." Luminara said, sadly.
"Mother! Do you really think this is a good time to talk about this?" Asajj asked, tossing glances at the Mother Goddess.
"She knows what I'm saying. She sees everything, you know? She agrees with me on the matter." Luminara said, smirking a funny smirk.
"Mother, are you drunk?" Asajj asked.
"No, I most certainly am not!" Luminara said, before giggling.
"It's the power influx. She was drained and then she got a huge power boost from Perenelle. After that, she came here and has had two whole pots of tea. She'll be fine in a little bit." The Mother Goddess explained, smiling.
"Good, I was worried for a second there. Mother never drinks. She doesn't like the feeling." Asajj said.
"I do too like the feeling! I just don't trust your fool of a father to not do something stupid. It's hard being the sane one in a relationship, you know." She said, gesturing wildly.
"I don't think that's really a fair read of the situation. Father is not crazy." Asajj said, feeling the need to defend her Dad.
"That's what you think. You know, when I first meet your father he was planning on taking on a whole droid army? That's right. Just him and your uncle Obi. Two crazies." She said, taking another drink from her tea cup.
"And he did." Asajj said, feeling like her mother was pushing her to say something nasty about her dad. She was starting feel glad her mother never drank; she was a harsh critic when she was inebriated. "And Dad never needed someone to step in and finish his work for him, because he was too dumb to know the difference between reparo and using scrap metal and transfiguration to do the same job at half the strain." Asajj said, shaking her head.
Luminara stopped laughing. Her face got closed off and her eyes locked on to Asajj's.
"You think I'm a fool, don't you? You think I'm weak and a fool. You think you're so much better than me, don't you?" Luminara accused, looking sad.
"No, I don't Mother." Asajj said, feeling ashamed in herself.
"Yes, you do. You think I'm weak and stupid. It's why we never bonded. It's why we've never became close, like you are with Harry. You look down on me."Luminara said, staggering to her feet.
"No, I don't Mother." Asajj objected, trying to fix the situation.
"Yes, you do. You never respected me as a Shadow. As a Jedi. Not even as a woman. When you needed help, you always go to your aunts. Padme for advice about life; Siri about boys; hell, you went to Talia for style and sex advice. Don't deny it." Luminara ranted. "You think I'm stupid, but I can see everything, and I know you barely even like me." She accused, before she fell in on herself. "And I don't blame you one bit. I'm shit at life." She all but sobbed out. "I'm not strong, or smart, or powerful. I'm barely a Shadow." She said, crying.
"Mom." Asajj called out, as she jumped up and hugged her mother.
"Look at me. I couldn't even complete a shopping trip without ending up in the hospital." She said, crying on Asajj.
"Mom. Please believe me. I respect you. I love you. I need you, just as much as I need Dad. Who's going to teach me not to swear around company, or act like a lady?" She said, hugging her mother.
"Oh baby, you don't have to say things like that." Luminara said.
"How can I prove it to you? Do you want us to share a bond, like I do with Dad?" Asajj asked, taking Luminara's head in her hands and diving into her mind; but instead of taking memories from her head, she open the connection to her memories, and fed them to her mother.
Showed her everything in her head. Her life before she met Harry, and the memories he showed her. The feelings she had for her Mother. The respect she had for the strong woman that she was. The glue that held things together.
After Luminara saw everything in her head, she processed it all and shared her own memories with her daughter. Her time growing up. Meeting Harry and falling for him right away, but repressing her feelings for him because it was frowned upon. That night they first kissed. The time the spent together. The day Harry brought Asajj home with him and the instant love she felt for the younger woman. The sadness she felt when Asajj didn't bond with her. The pure joy she felt, right this instant, sharing something so deep with her daughter.
"And I feel the same way Mom." Came over the bond. And then it hit her. They were bonded. "Yes, we are Mother. We share the same bond that I share with Father. It's not as strong, because Father supplies most of the power for our bond, but it is strong." Asajj said
"Maybe I can help with that. If I take over the power supply, then maybe we can make this bond stronger?" Luminara offered "Now, how does your Father do it?" She asked.
"I don't know. He just does?" Asajj said.
Harry walked out of the Gateway in Minerva's office.
He looked around and smiled. 'Nothing had changed.' He thought as he looked around the room.
He was about to go talk to Fawkes, when he saw he wasn't sitting on the gold perch. That's when Minerva almost smashed him to death in a hug, as she ran out of the other room.
"Oh Harry, it's good to see you again." She greeted.
"Easy, Aunt Min. I'm covered in hard and sharp things!" He said, holding her back. He kissed her on the cheek and smiled. "I just came from a war zone and I didn't know what to expect walking through the Gateway. What is the climate like out there?" Harry asked, walking to the window.
"Peaceful. After you blew up most of the corrupt politicians Andy, Arthur, and Amelia took over. They stripped the system, got a mandate from the Queen, and worked with the muggle ministry to clean up the way things work. Crime is down to an all time low, and two years ago a group of old line purebloods were tossed into Azkaban for plotting against the Ministry." She informed him, coming to stand by him looking out the window.
"Good. It means I won't have to come back here and take care of things. It also means I can relax here." He said, letting his shoulders fall.
"Harry, this is your home. You should always be able to relax here. Come for a few days. We can set you up a suite here at the castle. Stay for Christmas. End of term feast, Halloween Harry. When was the last time you celebrated Halloween?" She asked.
"It's been a long time. I would love to have Christmas here. Bring my new family to meet my old family. All those years you guys raised me, took me in, tried to love me and I didn't appreciate it. Andy tried so hard to mother me, and I never gave her anything back. I was a fool. Not until I thought it was gone, did I miss it. I was so quick to leave. I have so much to say to her. To my mother." Harry said, looking out over the Scottish highlands.
"She knows. She knows you love her." Minerva said.
"I don't think I've ever said the words to her." Harry said, regretfully.
"But she knows. A mother always does." Minerva said, smiling. The castle just told her that Andy was coming up the stairs. She knocked on the door and Harry dropped back into the shadows. "Enter." She said and Andy came in.
"I just took care of Mike at the lot, and I've been to six junk yards in the last three hours, but I managed to get fifty Mini's for ten thousand pounds." Andy said. Harry saw it was Andy and came out of the shadows. "I have the bag…Harry!" She exclaimed, blinking.
"Hello Mother." He greeted.
"Harry?" She asked.
"It's me, Mum." He said, slipping into his British accent. With a big smile on his face, he hugged her. "You look smaller than I remember." He remarked, kissing her cheek.
"I'd say you've grown, but I can't tell with this bushy beard. And your hair is a mess. And is that the same clothes you left with?" She asked, holding him at arm's length to look him over.
"Yes, Mum. It's dragon hide." He said, smiling.
"I know that. What I meant was, you are living in your Armour." She said, tapping on his vest.
"It's the life I was made for, and it is the only one I know. But I am trying to change that. I've built a family. I found a home. I realised I had both already." Harry said.
"It's what you're supposed to do Harry. You have a home, and a family. Then you grow up and find a girl. You make a home with her, and later you make a family of your own. The trick is to not forget either family." She said, hugging him. "I'm so happy you're home."
"Me too Mum, me too." Harry said, pulling out his traveling weapons trunk. "Aunt Min tells me things are going good around here." He said, taking his weapons rig off and setting it on the rack in the trunk. "So I won't be needing these. I will keep a few things in my coat, but aside from that I think I can spend this trip relaxing." He said, pocketing his black saber hilt, and a 1911 in his coat. "There, now I'm off duty." He said, smiling.
"What about the dragon hide?" Andy asked.
"What about it? It's the most comfortable things I own. Plus, I don't have much in terms of wizards robes." He said, closing the trunk and pocketing it.
"Well then, we need to fix that. We'll go robe shopping, we need to pick out a few things for your girls anyways." Andy said.
"I also have to deposit the rest of the gold I have in the bank." He said, before going quite. "But right now, I'm being called by my daughter." He said, slipping into the shadows and vanishing.
"Five years for us, ten for him, and the boy is still the same." Andy said, walking out of the office.
Harry came out of the shadows of the hospital wing to see his daughter sitting next to his wife, with her head bowed. He also saw Perenelle trying to run scans on the two.
"That won't work. They are in a deep trance, and trying to form a bond with help from the Mother Goddess. What they don't know, is that I formed the bond I have with my daughter using a modified double slave bond." Harry said, sitting on the floor crossed legged. "I will begin to float and glow. You might want to raise the screens again. It may freak some people out." Harry said, dropping into the force and finding his way to the Mother Goddess.
"Hello. It looks like you're up to some scheming again." He said, looking at his two girls locked in an embrace deep in a trance.
"Would I do that, Harry?" The Mother Goddess replied.
"Yes, if you thought it might help. It's okay, but they are in need of my help." He said, touching the two on the head. Instantly, he was pulled into the link.
"How are my two favourite women doing on this fine day?" He asked, with a big smile.
"Father, how do you keep the bond open and stable?" Asajj asked, feeling the strain on her power.
"I used a modified double slave bond." He said. "What you two need to do is break the connection, and come out of the bond, and I will show you how to form a stronger union." He said, pulling the two out.
Harry dropped out of the bond first, then Asajj and Luminara fell over, still hugging. Harry took a seat at the table and took a cup of tea.
"Sit please." He said, waving them over. "That first night I found you Asajj, you were hurt, tired and scared. You just lost your Master, and you were all alone. I knew I was going to take you in as my student, but I also knew deep down that I was going to take you into my family. That night, when you passed out, I meditated over all of my knowledge and I came up with a way to bond with you. I knew you needed it. I knew you would thrive under constant contact with me, so I double slave bonded us together." He explained, turning around and waving his hand over the back of his neck.
When he lifted his hair, they saw the dragon on a shield. It was Harry's mark. The same one on Jango's arm.
"You have one too, it's just under a shrinking charm. It looks like a small dot at the base of your skull. Because we are bonded to each other, the flow of information is two ways. Over time, the bond got stronger as you got stronger; and as the bond grew, I started limiting the flow of information I see and that I pass to you. I see your general health, your feelings, and any thought you specifically pass to me over the bond. I also share the same information with you." He explained.
"Can you set up the same bond with me and Mother?" Asajj asked.
"I can, or I can let her into our bond. It's up to you." He said.
"I want a bond of my own with her. I don't want to share what you have. I want something different." Luminara said.
"Then I can cast the spells, but you two are going to have to spend some time working out what information you two share over the bond. In the mean time, was there something you wanted me to do in the real world?" He asked, getting up and walking around the table to stand behind them.
"Yes. I would like your opinion on the dragon situation. Talk to Sirius and he will fill you in. Also, if you could work on the cars I bought, that would be helpful." Luminara said.
"I can do that. Aside from that, I think I'm going to hang back this trip and relax. You two should handle things together. It will help the bond. If you need me, I'm just a thought away. Now, relax. Calm your minds, and breath." He instructed, placing a hand on the backs of their necks.
Using his old Padawan bond with his wife, he pulled the image up and cast the spell through both hands. With a flash of light, two shields seared themselves into the two women's necks. On the shields was a black and purple hawk, with it's wings out and it's yellow talons ready to drop on it's prey. Both of their heads fell forwards and they were lock into a deep bond.
Harry downed a cup of tea, and nodded to the Mother Goddess. In the real world, the two women glowed for a few seconds, and Harry floated to the floor. He got up and waved the bed bigger. He picked up Asajj and laid her on the bed, next to her mother.
"They will be out for a while." Harry said to the three women standing around the bed, as he covered them with a blanket.
"I will sit with them." Perenelle said.
"Thank you Gran." He said, hugging her.
"It's good to see you, Harry. Still fighting the good fight?" She asked.
"Wherever a good fight is needed." He said, smiling. He turned to Andy and Minerva. "Sorry I ran out on you two like that." He said.
"I understand. It's what parents do. I'm very proud of you, son." Andy said, hugging him.
"Now, my girls gave me a few tasks and I think you are holding one of them. You said you have the cars she bought?" Harry asked.
"I do. She bought a bunch of cars and bikes and trucks, but she wanted a lot of Mini's to give to people as gifts. Like souvenirs, from the trip to Earth, she said. I have fifty of them. Some are in really bad shape, some are fine." Andy said, pulling Luminara's bag out of her purse. "This bag has all of the cars she bought, this box has the Mini's." Andy explained, handing them to him.
"Right, I need a big room. Is the room of requirements open?" He asked, pocketing the two.
"Yes, but you're not going to hurt yourself like she did, are you?" Andy asked.
"No, in fact you two can come and watch if you want to. Anyone can. I'm going to use a trick Albus taught me. I can teach you, as well as leave a detailed lesson plan on how to do this the right way." Harry said.
A few minutes later found Harry standing in a huge room, looking at a line of cars. In the room with him was Andy, Minerva, Sirius, and Severus.
"Now, the key to this trick is working slowly, and working with good materials." Harry said, dropping into teacher mode. "Andy, you said these Honda's are not good?" He asked, pointing to the Honda Civics Luminara got for almost nothing.
"They were thrown in for free if you look at the numbers." She confirmed.
"Good, because I'm going to break them down into their base elements." He said. "This is the proper way to restore things. Reparo works for something like this, but as my wife demonstrated earlier, it's more taxing. When you reparo, you are rebuilding something out of the atoms in the air, using magic. With this method, you take something like this car." He said, pointing out a bright yellow Civic. "And you break it down to it's basic elements using a smelting charm modified to separate the elements." He lectured, lifting the civic off the ground with his left hand.
With a wave of his right hand, the car turned into a blob.
"Then, you separate using a goblin stone working charm." He continued, waving both hands. The blob separated into five big blocks and two rolls on the ground. "The five blocks are steel, aluminum, plastic, rubber, and copper. The two rolls are leather and carpet. Now, using these blocks, I can start working on the Mini's." He explained, lifting and dropping one of the less damaged Mini's out of line and put it next to the blocks.
"Using basic transfiguration, I can take some steel from the block and fix the frame." He said, waving and the first block got smaller. "I just keep doing the same for the rest of the parts I need. Magic knows what it needs to fix it, just like it does with reparo; only with this you are helping magic by giving it the elements it needs to get the job done." He said, waving one more time and the Mini looked factory fresh and the blocks got smaller.
"This can be done with anything else. Not just cars. If we had a tree." Harry said, and a tree grew out of the floor of the room. "Gotta love magic. Using the same set of spells, I can turn this tree into a real work of art." He said, waving his hands. The tree turned into a block of wood, and then into an exact replica of the gargoyle guarding Minerva's office.
"Does anyone want to give it a try?" He asked, smiling.
That night everyone had a go at the smelting, block forming, and transfiguration charms. Minerva was the best of the lot, but Sirius and Andy were a close second. Severus, however, was a dismal third.
"What's the matter Snivellus, don't have enough power to do the spell?" Sirius taunted, mockingly.
"One day, soon, I'm going to slip something into your food. You won't know when, you won't know what it does; but know that I did it, and that you are at my mercy." Severus threatened, just soft enough for Sirius and Harry to hear.
"You wouldn't dare." Sirius said, looking shocked.
"Try me, mutt." Severus challenged.
Harry walked up to him as Sirius walked away. "Would you really poison him?" Harry asked.
"I don't have to, the fear of me doing it will haunt him and when he next gets sick, all I have to do is smile and he will think I did it." Severus said, smirking.
"Now I remember who taught me to be a sneaky bastard." Harry said, patting him on the back.
"Yes, and don't you forget it." Severus said, patting Harry on the shoulder.
After the cars were all fixed, they retired to Minerva's office to talk and drink, tea for the ladies, fire whiskey for Sirius, and single malt Scotch for Harry and Severus.
"Where did you get the single malt from Harry?" Severus asked.
"It's from the batch I made with Moody, a year before I left. I made ten kegs of it and it sat in those wood barrels for a few years, while I was at the Temple. Years of grinding through the worst places the galaxy had to offer, and it sat in those barrels untouched. Six years before I opened one and tried it. I still have eight kegs, if you want one." Harry offered.
"I would like that a lot. You should consider bottling it." He said, checking the colour in the light of the fire.
"Good idea. I also have other things from the other universe." Harry said, pulling the TAB out of his pocket and setting it down. He expanded it and walked in, what he didn't see was the shocked looks on their faces. "I have a full wine cellar full of Alderaanian wines and champagne." Harry said, opening a door to the room full of bottles. He came back out with an arm full of bottles, and saw the rest of them looking around in awe.
"What?" He asked.
"Did you make this?" Minerva asked, tapping on a wall.
"Yes, why?" He asked, setting the bottles down on the counter.
"Did you conjure this?" She asked, running her wand over the wall.
"Is there something wrong? This is my home after all. I don't want the thing to collapse on itself." He said, feeling worried.
"No, nothing like that; it's just, Harry you made an expanded space inside of an expanded space, and then filled it with things you conjured. That's impossible." She exclaimed, taking readings of the room and the furniture.
"Oh, is that it?" He asked, breathing a sigh of relief. "For a second there, I thought my home was going to collapse. Next time, let's not scare me so much, please." He said, getting more bottles out of the room.
"Harry! You can't go around breaking the laws of Magic and think nothing of it." Minerva cried, indignantly.
"Yes, I can. This place took a long time to make. Hours and hours of conjuring. Making the lights just bright enough to light the room and still feel warm. Picking just the right shade of green for the walls. The plushness of the carpet. The height of the toilet seat. This is my personal sanctuary, and it took six months of work to get it this perfect." Harry said, running his hands over the wood carving of grape vines on the door to the wine room.
"Live the life I've lived, and you would see that Magic has very little rules, and almost none of them have to do with 'Silly Wand Waving' as Severus would say. Magic is a force. It's all around us, living and breathing. We ask it to do things for us. Sometimes, we wave little sticks at it and shout things in a long dead language. Sometimes, we point that same stick and ask without speaking. Then, there are those of us that know and respect Magic. Not for it's power, but for it's beauty. We clear our minds and commune with Magic. We open a dialogue. We ask softly and gesture at what we want, and Magic responds." Harry expounded, waving his hand and five baskets appeared on the counter.
Harry put five bottles in each basket and handed them out.
"This one is for Perenelle. I'm going to take it down to her, and check on my girls. If you need me, I'll be down there." Harry said, shrinking the TAB.
"Do you want me to set up a room for you, Harry?" Minerva asked.
"No thank you, Aunt Min. I'll stay in the TAB. The best part of having it is you never have to leave home, and more importantly, your own bed behind." Harry said, holding up the TAB.
That night, Harry sat and watched his two girls sleep. At a little after three in the morning Asajj's eyes fluttered open.
"Father?" She asked, feeling him close by.
"Yes, Princess?" He asked, coming closer.
"Mother and I have talked and we can handle everything but the dragons. She was pushing to try to do that too, but I talked her out of it. We will not need help with anything until then." She said, looking up at him with a smile.
"You two have bonded fully?" He asked, brushing a few hairs out of her eyes.
"Yes. It's amazing. We have so much in common, and we are sharing the things we don't have in common. By morning, we will be able to hold conversations with a look, like we do Father." She said, joyously.
"Good. Go back to bed, I will watch over you both." Harry said, kissing her forehead and pulling the blanket up.
"Okay, Father. See you in the morning." She said, tiredly before she was out again.
Harry smiled and pet Saber in his lap.
"Your master is a very special girl, you know?" He said to the cat. To which the cat nodded. "You're way smarter than Padme's dogs. I have to have Obi make a pet for me." Harry said, scratching behind Saber's ear.
Harry dosed off a little while later, and Saber jumped down off his lap and shifted forms. He hid under the bed, in the shadows.