Chapter ten

Harry thought since he was officially headmaster of Hogwarts even though only three people knew, he would wear some basic robes for his meeting with the minister who was going to take him into the department of mysteries so he can some of their advances.

Harry and Kingsley stepped into the large room where they were greeted by a woman who to Harry looked to be about fifty and had a very kind face and eyes.

'Minister, Mr. Potter, welcome, I'm Amelia Jones,' she smiled as she shook hands.

Harry noticed Kingsley nod to him which he knew meant get used to people calling him Mr and not Harry like he always tells everyone.

'I explained to Mr. Potter about some of your equipment that you have made, especially the ones taken from the muggle world.'

'I'm anxious to see these Mrs jones.'

'Then let's take you through,' she smiled again then led the way through another room, 'For ten years we have been studying muggle electrical items and tried to find a way to make our own versions. Now the Minister explained about computers and how you enjoy using them.'

'Yes, the few times I got to use my cousins I thoroughly enjoyed it.'

'These work exactly like muggle computers, with just one difference. We can surf the net as it's called, pull up all the information from the muggle world for people that grew up in muggle homes, but we have been building our own data base of everything in the magical world. So if you want to learn more about hippogriffs then that information is available at the wave of a wand, along with speaking what you wish to read. If you wish to read anything on the muggle prime minister, then again that information is available. Let me demonstrate,' Amelia tapped the computer with her wand, 'The queen of England,' she gestured for Harry and Kingsley to come closer.

'This is almost like what I saw on Dudley's computer. Would you mind if I try Mrs. Jones?'

'No, of course not.'

Harry smiled then tapped the computer, 'DNA.'

'DNA, what is DNA?' Kingsley asked.

'Something that would benefit our world, have a read and see what you think,' Harry smiled but noticed Amelia nodded.

Kingsley read the first few pages then looked at Harry, 'So with just a drop of blood we could match everyone to how they are related to others.'

'Yes, like me, if there was someone out there trying to say they are a long lost cousin or something, this test would prove one way or another. How I know about this is a show that my aunt was watching one night, it was used to catch criminals. There were some hair left on a murdered woman, but also…um, male, okay, there was semen; she was raped before she was murdered. They took samples of the hair and semen and when they had any suspects they would go to court to get permission to take blood from them and test it against what they had. The third suspect and the one they thought was innocent was found to be guilty.

'The muggle world doesn't have anything like truth serum or able to access memories, so this is one way it helps put criminals in jail. Another thing it's been used for is to determine parents; if a man was trying to make some believe he didn't have sex with this woman. The woman was pregnant so he will say just because I slept with her doesn't mean I'm the father of her kid, that happens a lot, this test will prove who the father is. Sometimes even the woman doesn't know if they have slept with more than one man during that time. As I said, I don't know much about it but those two things. This might be able to be used in our world, just a magical version.'

'Then I'm sure we can find out everything involved and if the minister allows it, we can start working on a magical version of DNA.'

'See what you can do Mrs. Jones because Harry's right, this just might help.'

'So how about we show you some forms of entertainment, for all ages and again adapted from muggle ideas and all work with magic and not electricity.'

Harry couldn't stop smiling as he was taken through all these new inventions, like game consoles and mobile phones but also lots of board games, that was one thing Harry found strange about the magical world, they did not have a lot of games that kids could play or even the whole family could play together.

Kingsley was also smiling at all the inventions and knew some of this stuff he would like to own himself. They all knew it would take a while to have everything available to the magical world, so they started with the computers and have enough that will supply every house hold if the need arose.

Kingsley put in a request for fifty to be sent to Hogwarts along with the magical world's version of a scanner, a small orb like device that when sat on top of a book would automatically download the entire content to the main drive of the magical computer. Amelia took the order, Kingsley signed so they could be paid then they were explained that someone will need to visit Hogwarts to set all the computers up and make sure they are linked. After seeing everything, Harry and Kingsley had lunch in the minister's private dining room.

'All that was brilliant and one thing I want at Hogwarts, but I will speak with Minerva first.'

'Do I get to know what this is about?'

'The karaoke machine, imagine having a night where any student or staff could show off their talents or in some cases, show off how terrible they are but they like to have fun. I know if Fred and George were at Hogwarts they would be the first up on stage singing to some song.'

'Yes, I could believe that of those boys. You mentioned staff though; do you really believe any of the staff would get up in front of their students and sing?'

'Maybe not, but it'd be fun and show the students that they are just like everyone else. I don't really know much about this though, I do remember my cousin watching some violent movie once but there was a small part where these people who couldn't sing and they were drunk but they were having a great time, even the audience was. I'll talk it over with Minerva, get her opinion on it. So the DNA thing I mentioned.'

'It's a great idea; they just have to adapt it to work with magical means. Imagine the aurors; it would work well if they could just match someone's blood to a crime.'

'It would, so even if the killing curse leaves not traces, sometimes a bit of the person does get left behind, like a hair or even skin.'

'That's true, but what I like is to prove rape. So many men got away with that over the last thirty years because we had no way to prove they had been near the woman or man in a few cases, unless of course their memories could be used but sadly most times those memories have been modified or erased. We have veritaserum but that needs approval and we need a healer on standby. The death eaters were well known for raping people, but again, hard to prove.'

'Apart from the woman saying she was forced which could be argued, but if she had any type of injury or bruising, it would show someone was forceful. Well, you are an auror, I'm sure those blokes can work all that out. I have my own job now, something so different I still find it hard to believe.'

'Yes, but you are already proving to be the right person for the job, now let's have lunch. Both of us are in for a few busy weeks.'

'You've got that right…Minister,' Harry smirked but this time Kingsley laughed before they both started eating. But they found that they also enjoyed each other's company which would help when they needed to work together as headmaster of Hogwarts and the minister for magic.

A couple of days later, Harry was behind his desk again, Minerva was beside the desk, they had been going over rules for students and rules for teachers. Minerva has also been explaining more about Harry's role as headmaster and how at times he may even have to take over a class if a teacher is unwell. So even though Harry has never been an official teacher, he would still be able to have the students do a quiz or go through questions from their books. So with potions that Harry admits is not his best subject, since he could not actually teach that subject then he would just opened the required book and have the students either study it or have them ask questions that Harry could answer. When the chime on the cloak struck twelve Harry instantly tensed.

'You will be fine, relax,' Minerva smiled encouragingly.

'I've been good, and even though all the staff have accepted me in this job, he's the only one that doesn't know. I'm just not sure how he will handle this.'

'He's about to find out, but if he decides he cannot work with you as his boss, that is his decision. You cannot feel guilty about that Harry, Lady Hogwarts chose you. So get yourself under control and show him that you are not a child anymore and show him that you are not just James Potter's son, but a man in your own right,' Minerva patted Harry's arm, she knew he could do it, it was just his past with Severus and the fact that Severus had been in love with his mother.