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Chapter 14
The next week was far less hectic. Parvati established her section and a lot of her stress went away with that. She set her best friend, Lavender Brown, as her senior secretary and set her up a desk just outside the main control room. Harry and Padma just had the reports sent directly to their pads and workstations. Harry also forced the gate network to accept a new address for their gate so they could make better use of it. He owled Arthur Weasley and proposed the proxies to him and had heard back immediately. He got him a pad and sent him instructions on how to use it and a pay scale for doing this for him. It was the same as he got for working for the Ministry of Magic as a department head. He'd agreed and the two of them laid out the policy and politicking approach Arthur was to take.
They now had 3 Aurora class ships with crews patrolling their claimed space. They also had 15 Destiny II and three each of the Asclepius class and Pallas class. The Auroras stood at the Zeus, Hera, and Achelous. The Asclepius class had the Asclepius, Aeolus, and Aristaeus. The Pallas class had the Pallas, Aether, and the Aeolus. The Destiny class drones were simply numbered as to their order of completion.
They also had a new city ship they called the Olympus. 10,000 emigrants and the entire Veela population, other than representatives that went into each section of the government, went with them to establish the place and prepare it for a thriving economy of its own. With each city ship boasting over 10,000 occupants both cities were off to a good start.
More people trickled in from Eastern Europe ten or so at a time, all wanting to be a part of this magical expansion into space. With each system having an Asclepius and Pallas class ship, they had space for all their medi witches and wizards and healers. The medical personnel found that they had little to do most of the time so they poured over the forgotten medical information in the Lantean library and began to branch out into specialties. One small group went into psychology and made sure they were spread out across the claimed systems.
With seven active captains, and over 100 to test well enough to be captains, they expanded the training facilities as the tent city dwindled through the week. Things went smoother when they built a temporary counsel chamber for meetings between the Chancellors. Hermione was happy to be put in charge of research and development and somehow redoubled her efforts. She'd moved herself and her section to Atlantis and a hard light projector was set at her place at the table so she didn't have to use the gate every day just to sit her seat.
With so much still to do, the trio stayed on the Potter properties to keep coordinating the placement of people. The Ministry of Magic was being payed to provide portkeys to the property so that anyone wanting to join up/emigrate could do so. Magical crimes were down as the magicals could now find gainful employment and that made the Wizengamut happy with the Minister of Magic's decision to declare New Lantea a magical nation unto itself and an ally.
They were only a week into the training of the Lantean Marines and Aurors but it was turning out well. They had decided that, instead of working with them for three years in an basic apprenticeship they would instead train them all at once with instructors. The training would only be a few weeks and they were all expected to keep up with the workouts they were given in the basic instruction in order to pass fitness tests every two months unless on deployments. It was decided that the Asclepius class would be the troop carrier as that ship class would be deployed for every invasion they would ever do.
The Potter Facilities could now house 5,000 so only 3,000 were outside in the tent city and Personnel was working on plans to add another floor onto the facilities as it was. They rightly decided that building out wasn't as smart as building up. The facility was already two floors high and, with Harry's go ahead, would be three floors pretty soon.
With both industrial sites going New Lantea was brining in nearly a half million in gold every month and the banks in each city were working with the influx of capital. They had no taxes, the government of New Lantea supported itself. When the numbers leaked the Goblin High Counsel tried and executed Ragnok for forcing the Potter-Black accounts out of the bank so that they wouldn't have a share in the profits. They asked that some goblins be allowed to apply to move to the cities and work in the banks and also offered apologies for the unfair treatment under Ragnok. They were discouraged to find that the bank was run entirely by computer so there were no fees. The goblins complained that banks should make money and not just hold it for their clients but the banking system of New Lantea stood as it was.
Harry sat in the Counsel Chamber in the chair designated for him. The table was round and there was a hard light projector for each one of them on the off chance that all of them couldn't make it to the chamber on Earth. At the moment, only Hermione used hers. The intelligence division had also moved to Atlantis but Padma stayed on Earth to help with shuffling people around.
Hermione's image appeared in a seat while Padma and Parvati bustled in and closed the door behind them. Joel Packard had been voted senior captain so his image also shimmered into a seat as Chancellor of the Navy. The marines and aurors would pick once training was done and all ranks assigned. Once the twins were seated and set their pads on the table the meeting was under way. Padma always went first in these meetings.
"On the intelligence side of things, not much has changed. The System Lords are still smacking down the lessor lords and cracking down on their slaves. There's talk that a planet of Jaffa have rebelled and are fortifying the planet against attack. It's deep in Apophis's space so it should be the first stop if we ever go on the offensive. she said in Lantean for continued practice.
"We have the fleets almost rounded out with 10 drone ships each when this next batch is done. Then we can start thinking about a striking fleet. We won't be able to stay defensive forever. I know we are only preparing for defense now but we must consider it. The captains agree that it's time to slow down on ship production. We need to take more time to train crews. The captains keep their crews drilling in combat simulations constantly to keep from getting bored out here." said Joel.
"We can and have to slow down. An untrained military, especially of the size we would boast if we don't slow down, is dangerous. I know we have more hulls coming available but the leadership of the Navy would like to see more competence in everyone's particular specialties more than we need seat warmers. On the job training is fine to a degree but the amount we seem to need is staggering.
"Both the Asclepius and Pallas classes are about double the size of the Zeus and any other Aurora. The Pallas boasts 10,000 squads of droid fighters about half the size of a car and look like flat arrow heads. The crews for those ships are only about 50% effective right now. The Asclepious because of the lack of trained medical personnel right now and the lack of active marines. The Pallas captains have coordination issues with their coordinators. The ships are about twice the size of the Asclepius class and four times the size of the Aurora and that means she's slower as well. We can field about half of the coordinator's squadrons at a time without too many issues but any more than that and space gets too congested." Joel finished.
"Okay. I expected the control problems with the Pallas. Field what you can and use the rest as reserves. With that we are prepared to fight off invasions now, at least small scale ones. We will soon have 30 Destinys to flesh out the fleets some. Allocate the control of them to whichever Aurora ship you please captain. Instead of a striking fleet, persay, we'll go with a patrol fleet. It will get fleshed out in the next construction. We will have the Auroras building now put on standby until properly trained crews are ready. Anything else?" Harry asked.
"In personnel, we have almost 10,000 in training and more trickling in daily. The invite has finally made it around the world. In India, the lower classes are gathering up what they can and preparing to come to us to get out from under the caste system. The British squibs, or at least those that know that their squibs are signing up for all of the jobs we have in New Lantea. America never threw their squibs and mundane born out or forced them out so they seem happy where they are but there still have been a few feelers from across the pond. We nearly have a sustainable population now as we number just under 40,000. Western Europe, the Middle East, and China have relatively small wizard populations because of how their current cultures dislike differences. I managed to smuggle some pads into those countries so the mundane governments won't be tracking the owls back and forth and the reports I get will be forwarded to the intelligence division." said Parvati. Padma nodded to her gratefully.
"In research and development we have been looking at the ward schemes and want to add some to the cities. We could move Atlantis to Earth and no one would so much as look up at her when she entered the atmosphere with the wards powered by three potentia. But we realized that Atlantis is likely to stay where she is so we've also been working on new weapons for the Lantean Fleet and Marines. We have new missiles, based on the mutiphasic drones, that can actually stun a whole continent. They can be fired from orbit at a planet or even at unshielded enemy ships and take them out of the fight with less loss of life. We, of course, leave the use of them up to the captains in the Fleet. It was difficult to find out how to add spells to the unstable potentia that the mutiphasic drones are but we finally managed it. We also are working to get some with more damage output as well but I pushed the non lethal option out first." said Hermione.
"I understand not wanting to kill the slave soldiers but the way to save them is to convince them that their gods aren't gods without taking the place of their gods. If the Jaffa just had their own communication systems we could educate them through data bombing them but they can barely read and write, if the way the Goauld treat their slaves is universal. We would see more use from the increased damage of the multiphasic drones than stun drones." Harry said with a smirk.
"Very well. But we were also going through the library and found plans for a Dyson Sphere. We could easily build one panel around one of our claimed stars and let the energy to matter constructors handle the rest. It could build ships for us out of the captured energy of an entire sun. The only problem would be personnel. We could churn out a thousand ships a week this way but we would also have to crew them. We just don't have enough Lanteans or Lantean blood to make that work. The sphere could do other things for us as well. We could actually put magical races and species on it and encapuslate an atmosphere and not have to go shopping for materials anymore. We would actually produce our own. Another idea was to terraform Mars and place a city there. We could do the same thing I just said for the Dyson Sphere to Mars instead and open our own reserves." she pushed. Harry frowned.
"Okay. Send me you data. Most of these ideas would have to wait until we are much more established. We know we can't replicate potions with the replicator technology we have. Could you put someone on that please? If we could actually replicate some things, like magical animal parts, it would be a big help. Mind you, I'm not saying no. I'm saying we should wait for a bit. We've barely been going as a magical country, or designated as one, for a week. Lets not overreach just yet." he responded. She sighed and nodded.
"Do we have anything else?"
"Yes. It's the last week of training for the aurors and marines and people are starting to chafe under law enforcement by bots. We also need a court system to try cases. We have a prison available in Atlantis and Olympus but we don't have any courts at all. That and our exports are doing very well. It will be a while before there are medical scanners in every magical hospital and every kid has our toy ships." said Parvati. He nodded.
"Send out feelers then. We want a system that could work by next week when the aurors are ready. Is there any more new business?" he asked. When no one spoke up he stood.
"Well I guess I'll let everyone get back to it then. Remember to CC the rest of the counsel when you make a discovery like the ones you had today. I know you don't like to tell anything unless you completely understand something but this is about keeping things running smoothly." he said. Hermione grimaced and nodded.
The hard light projectors switched off and he relaxed. He turned to the twins and smiled and opened his arms. They smiled back and walked right up and shared the embrace with their fiance. Stretching a bit, they both planted kisses on his cheeks and he squeezed them about their lower backs.
"Now how are you two doing? We haven't had much us time in this last week, especially you Parvati." he said looking into her eyes. She leaned up and kissed him deeply and manually moved his hand to her arse.
"I'll be better once we get the people off the lawn. We've got more food scanned into the replicators. Instead of a collection of molecules that taste like mushed meat you get something that tastes close to the real thing. The civilians finally realized that food and water and a place to live are all available for free. It's just that you have to work if you want to have more than that. I'm transmitting that out in all of my little feelers. Personally...I could use a little more 'Harry Time'." she admitted when they broke the kiss. Then she perked up a bit.
"Oh yeah! One of the emigrants has opened a clothing store and tailoring service and stated that we should really have uniforms for our armed forces. She designed battle robes and they look good. So far we've been using a mundane cut standard for the armed forces. Should I have CC'ed that to everyone?" she teased.
"No. Let the military handle how they want to do uniforms. She can design our Chancellor robes though. Right now, we're wearing whatever. Has the gold at Grimwald been moved yet?" he asked as he leaned down to nibble at her ear a little.
"Mmm...yes. You now have an electronic account. Your 31 million galleons of starting money is being supplemented by a steady paycheck just a little higher than the Minister of Magic. The rest of the mined gold and wealth is going into the Lantean Bank as the national budget. In a few years there will be almost a planet's worth of gold in there. We also had the Lantean budget pay you back for what you spent to get started." she moaned. His hand on Padma's back was relocated to her arse and his face grabbed and turned as she kissed him.
So far the trio had been hesitating to take their relationship further than snogging with heavy petting. They were sure they were not ready to be married yet and their time together was curtailed by having so many people living on Harry's lawn right now. Everyone wanted a job and not to be on the government dime/sickle. They made due with the time they had.
"If you switch us into robes it will take more effort to feel us up, you know." Padma said after she released his lips. He blushed.
"You haven't directed me to do more than grab you arses right now. They are very nice and I don't want to stop it but you two really should remember the agreement. You two set the pace, not me. That and I doubt you want me grabbing your bits in public." he said as he nibbled her neck.
She moaned her agreement. Parvati slipped out of his grasp and took his hand. Guiding it to the hem of her sisters shirt, she shoved his hand under it and guided it up to grasp a breast. Padma shivered and moaned louder as her eyes shut firmly. He squeezed and kneaded the fleshy globe in his hand and found that her nipple hardened so he played with it a little as well. Parvati had removed her own hand to get out of the way and stepped aside to wait her turn. She watched as he switched breasts and kissed his way back to her lips. Finally, Padma pulled back and he removed his hand from under her shirt. She had a definite blush on her golden cheeks and was breathing heavily.
"You just stop that right now buster or we're getting married on the counsel table." she breathed as she stepped back. Parvati stepped forward and wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him into a kiss.
When he wouldn't grab anything she rolled her eyes and guided his hands while breaking the kiss.
"You have permission. Explore me. I'm yours. Act like it you noble git." she admonished gently. What followed was much the same as what had just happened to her sister. She found herself very hot and bothered and wanting to rip his clothes off. Reluctantly, she pulled back as well smirking because ,unlike her sister, she wasn't wearing a bra today.
She'd been hoping to get him at least mostly alone and have some of her way with him. She wasn't ready to be Lady Black just yet either. She just wanted him to realize that he could get his hands on them and they wouldn't mind. He was just too much of a gentleman sometimes.
"We should probably get out of her and get back to work." he said nervous and breathless.
"Just give us a moment to straiten our clothes up a bit and we'll go. It's okay to want us, you know. We're engaged. I think we should move into your room at Grimwald Place tonight. We'll be using that until you move to Atlantis where we will forgo our rooms as Chancellors and move in with you. You have to get used to us and we want more time with you. Are you going to turn us away?" said Padma, taking one of his hands while Parvati took the other.
He looked scared and they realized that they may have come on a bit too strong. But he swallowed that and nodded stiffly. What they'd just said and done was obviously on his mind and he wanted more of it. He didn't know where he'd picked up his overly gentlemanly behavior but they were actually asking him to come on to them sometimes and to sleep in the same bed and that almost made his brain short circuit.
Two minutes later found them exiting the room and going their separate ways somewhat. Parvati went to interview another candidate for Chancellor of Medicine. She had it down to three candidates and they would all likely be working closely with each other. But she still had to interview them today.
Harry and Padma went strait to their workstations to check in on any alerts or reports. Padma was quickly deep into a psychological profile, or as close as one could get without meeting the snake, of Apophis. She wanted everyone to be as prepared for the strike as could be. Harry was quickly absorbed with the analysis of the current laws of Magical Britain and corresponding with Mr. Weasley as how to vote on certain issues. He wanted the man to be able to argue the point if he needed to. The trio met up again for lunch and Parvati had something for him.
"I was trying to find candidates for Chancellor of Medicine and it came down to our three senior healers. Then they decided for me. They decided for the youngest one of them as she was having the easiest time with the technology and the library. I told them that we needed an immunization plan for the whole of New Lantea because there was a pure Lantean frozen in the ice and that we wanted to revive and cure her of the bio-weapon grade virus she has. She immediately went for the library to see if there even was a cure and vaccine and found a way to make it arrisol so it can be pumped into the air in Atlantis and Olympus. The vaccine she simply replicated a hypo-spray. That was where I was all morning. Her name is Antonia Shultz and she's kind of short. This would put her in an active administrator position but the healers say she's the best all around." she said. He nodded and pulled out his pad and she sent him the data.
He looked over the application as he ate. She was known for including mundane ideas into the care of her patients and it always worked. She was on record as saying: 'We're human too so techniques to treat humans will work on us as well'. She was known to prescribe balanced diets and exercise to her patients and when she ran the Outcasts Hospital in Munich. She treated mostly mundane born, as the Munich Magical wouldn't treat them, and turned out a much better patient turn around than any other hospital in the Magical World. She already had a medical screening and treatment plan if he accepted her.
"How's her attitude? Is she likely to turn into a jerk when she sees how young we are and talk down to us or will she stay cool? Because other than a psyche profile, she's hired and we don't quite require one for the chancellors so far." he said.
"I'll send her the message then and tell her to pack up and get ready to move to chancellor chambers in Atlantis. She has a son that decided to join the Aurors so there's that." said Parvati.
He nodded and sent the approval on the spot. He waited for a minute and her plans came available for approval so he looked them over as well before signing off on them as well. He finished his lunch and found that they weren't allowed to leave the social hall until the medics had given them all the vaccine. He checked his pad and found that it was being added in arrisol form to the air in Atlantis and Olympus while they waited in line. Then the Lantean would be transported to the medical lab at the Potter Facilities and revived after being given the cure. She would be given the vaccine, to be safe, after she exhibited no symptoms.
After sending a message to all the chancellors that their robes, except the military guys, were to be ordered through Madam Zurich with measurements and such to have them made or daily or counsel use. The woman was happy to make them but still thought they should have robes for everyone. She was also a pureblood that had married a mundane born and kicked out of her family for it.
Mrs. Tonks showed up with Teddy one day and claimed the adjacent housing in Atlantis from Harry's suites for herself and little Teddy. She then signed the child up for childcare and joined the medical corps of Atlantis. She would be working under the new Chancellor of Medicine. Andromeda was just happy that she was able to work again, especially with Harry paying the child care bills.
It took the Chancellor of Medicine exactly 3 hours to get everyone under New Lantea's government vaccinated with the cure on standby and one hour to transport the woman out of the ice and revive her while slipping her the cure.
Harry, Padma, and Parvati along with the new Chancellor of Medicine were waiting on the woman to wake up. (an: I forgot what the woman's name is so I'm going to rename her and I don't care if you don't like it.) She wore strange robes and had a very slight build. Her hair was black and he couldn't place her anywhere as far as nationality was concerned but she was from before there were mundanes and countries to begin with. Silver eyes fluttered open and looked at the people arrayed around her in panic.
"Please tell me you have cured me and vaccinated yourselves?" she said in accented Lantean.
"We have. We found you in the ice in the polar caps, not far from the outpost. We are currently attempting to return to space after being badly defeated by the Wraith." Harry said.
"Defeated? Wraith? I don't understand. And you all speak funnily. It is Atlantean but the accent is strange." she questioned.
"That's because there want much drift in the language over the million years you were frozen in that ice. But the language drifted enough that it sounds strange to you. You sound a little strange to us as well and Lantean is not our first language. We used repositories to teach ourselves." he said. Her eyes widened.
"But that is dangerous!"she exclaimed.
"Only if you don't make specialized ones. I found it irresponsible to put all of that knowledge in a lethally delivered repository and leave them laying around. You're actually the purest Lantean on this planet." he responded.
"Why would purity matter?" she was getting really confused.
"I guess we should start with the fact that Atlantis left this planet and galaxy to escape the plague. They seeded another galaxy and settled down on Lantea. There, over the next million years or so, they began to call themselves Lanteans and observed the seeded life of the Pegasis galaxy. Over the years a race rose to power and by the time the Lanteans thought to interfere the race, calling themselves the Wraith, greatly outnumbered them. In the war that followed, the Lanteans were pushed back to Lantea. They created a rouse to make the wraith believe that they destroyed Atlantis then sunk and anchored Atlantis to the sea bed of Lantea. They then used the Astria Porta to transit back to Earth in the hopes that the plague had burned itself out as they had seeded the galaxy with life again on their way out. They found a race that was very similar to themselves on Earth and so settled in again.
"Then debates started about whether they should endeavor to keep the Lantean genome pure. One group decided that they would do all that they could to keep the genome as pure as it could be but remain strong while the other decided, or discovered, that the Lantean genes were the dominant ones and that we wouldn't breed it magic out. You see, the Lanteans had evolved the ability to manipulate zero-point energy directly without the use of technology and were afraid to loose the ability to make themselves comfortable on the new/old world. Comfort became more important than discovery and science and survival among the people became the main focus. Over the next ten thousand or so years they spread out across the globe and the Lantean genes can be found in every population in the world. Some are still obsessed with purity but have forgotten why. That is the quick summary. Now does that help? And what's your name?" said Harry. She nodded.
"That helps tremendously. I've been frozen so long! Erm... well my name is Aila Larees and I am a researcher. Or, I used to be." she said.
"You can apply to join the research and development division then. We are probably more militarized than you remember you people being but that may very well be the human in us as well as the fact that the galaxy is mostly ruled by a race of slavers. We need to be able to defend what little claimed territory we have. We are currently based in three systems and if it weren't for the city ships two of the systems would be uninhabitable. You would work under the Chancellor for Research and Development, Hermione Granger. They are currently trying to find a way to combine the magical or zero-point energy manipulation we've been using for the last 10,000 years with the Pegasis era technology." said Padma. Parvati handed her a pad she'd brought with her for this meeting.
"This will help you apply to the correct section. Of course, research and development is on Atlantis so you'd have to use the gate. Once you register your signature, and you do have a magical signature and Lantean genes, Atlantis or Olympus will find you a domicile and an account will be made available for you at the Lantean Bank." Parvati said as she wanted to see if the woman could figure out the pad on her own. When Aila did she gave her a brilliant smile.
"Banks and commerce were done a way with in our history, somewhere far back. Are you telling me we've backslid that much socially?" said Aila.
"The bank isn't some evil money lending entity. The mundanes, or humans to you I guess, have an economy that produces things like music that we sometimes want and there has to be a way to earn enough money to buy it. The bank simply keeps track of your money for you instead of having to designate a room for the storage of whatever wealth you have. You'll get paid too but you really won't need to to live in Atlantis. But I'm sure you'll want to look into potions and alchemy as that was just make believe when you went into the ice but there are such things as magic potions now. I'm sure if we know the exact why they work, we can learn to replicate them and we would be mostly happy with that." said Harry. He took an elbow to the ribs from Padma.
"Don't try to influence where she applies herself. Let that be up to her and Hermione, who I'm betting already has a team assigned to replicating potions ingredients. We never really introduced ourselves either. I am Padma Patill, Chancellor of Intelligence. This is my sister, Parvati Patill, Chancellor of Personnel. Overseeing your treatment is Chancellor of Medicine, Antonia Shultz. And this is Harry Potter-Black, High Chancellor of the New Lanteans." Padma told her.
"You're pretty young to be High Chancellor." Aila said with a raised eyebrow.
"Appearently the Lanteans changed the requirements. All you need is to be able to wear the gauntlet and be able to absorb the knowledge of our race's entire history. I even have your personal logs in here somewhere. You name is actually known to me, once you identified yourself." he pulled his pad and made a few keystrokes. "There. You now have access to all of your old work. I think there were probably a few additions that need to be met but I have the complete repository to a few thousand years ago in my head. I'm wearing the repository and its different from the old set and forget as this one is a complex enchantment. It's also a nanno-computer. That's all I will say on the subject." he finished.
She nodded and went to her pad to see where in her research she'd stopped. Because of her illness the last few entries didn't make much sense as she was obviously delusional at the time. She realized that he'd taken her journals off of the historical record and back into active so she wouldn't loose all of her work and people wouldn't be able to build on it and claim it for their own. She sighed in relief that she was the first person to access her files since she'd been frozen.
"Well at least you know what we've done before and shouldn't do again." she joked.
"Like seeding life in a new or old galaxy when you encounter or leave one? We played god with the seeding of life and that life decided to kick us around in the Wraith. Those ones literally eat your life force from your body. Then the Goauld take over your body and pose as gods. The latter is the one we're currently in build up mode for. One of the mundane nations poked them and we are playing catch-up to be ready before they come to enslave us all." he said
"Oh. I guess that makes since. If it's caused us problems down the road, twice, then it's likely we shouldn't do it again. What of our allies? The Asgard, the Furling, the Nox?" she asked, genuinely curious.
"I don't know. Everyone retreated from that plague, which we highly suspect was engineered, and we haven't heard much of any of them. I was beginning to wonder whether they all died out when we picked out something called the Protected Planets Treaty between the Goauld and the Asgard. So we know that the Asgard, at least, are still there somewhere. We have the Nox home-world on record but we'd have to go through Goauld territory to get there or use the Astria Porta. The records say that both of them were as hands off as they could possibly be so asking them to join, even in a defensive war would likely be a waste of time." he said, sadly. "I may be making assumptions and I really shouldn't do that. But, from the looks of things we could probably go to the other edge of Goauld space and poke about at one of the protected planets. There will probably be some way to contact them that we can use."
She sighed. She didn't know why she was so sad to hear the state of this galaxy, but she was. There wasn't a lot of technology trading done between the four races but there was enough that each race got something from it. The Nox traded outdated cloaking technology for medical techniques that they then took further than anyone before had. The Furling had given little but medical techniques that the Atlantis didn't have and the Asgard gave the math for a better intergalactic hyperdrive. They'd taken it and run with it. It might not be quite as fast as the Asgard but that was because their ships were heavier. It took more power to move them to begin with. Asgard ships still required fuel in some form so everything evened out.
"Then, High Chancellor, I will fit in where I am able. I was a researcher before, and I thank you for giving my work back to me, so I would like to be so again. I see you have hotlines set up...and you've already contacted the Chancellor for Research on my behalf. You have my gratitude." she said with a brilliant smile.
"Well, we'll let you get your rest. Keep the pad, it's yours. We doubt you will need much along the lines of training but we'd like to match you with a wand if your magical core is strong enough?" the last question was directed at the Mrs. Shultz.
"She has a core. It's weak and very fragile for a magical core but it's there. Please tell me we managed to pick up a wand crafter and started a school?" said Mrs. Shultz. Harry blushed.
"We haven't gotten that far yet. We've only been recognized for a week so...that means we'll need someone for education. Parvati, you know the drill. Instead of only magical education starting at the age of eleven they'll be continuing Lantean sciences as well." said Harry said as he brainstormed on the spot.
"I like that you like my suggestion, it shows you have a good head on your shoulders. But could you please leave my patient in peace to recover please?" she said gently with a smirk. Harry shot her a blushing smile and led the twins out of the room.
They went to their workstations for the remaining hours as Parvati sent out feelers for a Chancellor of Education. It had to be someone that would teach potions basics, Lantean language, sciences, society and government, ethics, magic (they were to be experimenting with wandless magics) , and all of that from an early age through adulthood. The idea was to not use the repositories on their developing minds. There would have to be school established for each city and the training of the Aurors, Marines, and Navy would become his or her area of responsibility. As it was, Parvati was doing a bit of everything that they didn't have a Chancellor for. She quickly established schools for the children that needed them by finding the teachers and setting aside some space for the classes. Then she started sending out to see who had run schools before but found none. She found plenty of former teachers who would be happy to go back to teaching and work on lesson plans to teach what they each got in the repositories.
Finally the choice came down from between the teachers and who answered her questions the best. When does the education start for the children? Would you continue Lantean sciences through their magic schooling? Which comes first, the science or the magic? All of these questions were important and the answers more so. In the end her best candidate was a squib from London who 50 years old and nearly ready to retired from his old teaching career to join up to begin with. Now he would be an administrator to all education efforts.
Harry approved Edward Muller pretty quickly. He had a history as a fair teacher, if his jacket of 'teacher of the year' some 15 years in a row was any indication. By the end of the night Parvati had passed off all of the education work to Edward who smiled and immediately went to speak with all the trainers and educators. Summer breaks were still going so New Lantean students caught a reprieve for now. But come September 1st they were back in classes with and learning to catch up with their parents downloaded knowledge the old fashioned way.
Harry turned to the girls with a thoughtful expression.
"Do you think the Marines and the Navy, and the Aurors each need their own chancellor or should we roll the Navy and Marines in together, which will be more work for Joel and get a Chancellor for Law and put the Aurors and legal system under them?" Parvati blinked at him and smiled brightly.
"Yes! The last one. I know its more work for Joel but it's a lot less work for me. I've been learning how to do everything because I'm personnel and social. People is my job. This way I have to find just one more person, until we find the need for another chancellor. Establishing a legal system is hard work. Especially when you have to manage all the other areas as well and run your own section at the same time. That's also why you have to sign off on so much from me. I don't have the access codes to do most of the things I'm setting up. And you, Harry, busy balancing High Chancellor with the Wizengamut so you're also super busy most of the time. The only thing that keeps me at it is that I know that we're just setting up and I'll be able to hand off these extra sections relatively quickly." he pulled her into a hug just outside of the entrance hall.
"I didn't know just how much you were doing. I would have taken over some of that for you." he said as he kissed the top of her head. He wasn't very tall but he was at least taller than them.
"And if I allowed that you would be doing all of those jobs yourself, forever. It may be a long time before someone comes along that's able to safely take that whole repository. I bet it adds your knowledge to the thing so everything you've learned since you put it on is in there too. You need the chancellors so don't complain. Soon I will only have to deal with placing people where they want to go. As long as their willing to work, I'm willing to place them. You get to send the message to Joel letting him know that he's absorbed the Marines as well. I've got to find a retired judge or a super experienced lawyer." he kissed the top of her head in response and stepped back to hold her at arms length and look her in the eyes.
"Still...you should have told me. Maybe you would have got me to give the jobs up when you found people to fill the slots, yeah?" he said gently. She snorted.
"Yeah right! You would stoicly suffer like the noble git you are just so I could get a little more sleep." he blushed as he knew she was right. "So are we transporting or flooing?"
"Transporters don't spit me out with too much momentum or throw me to the ground."
They appeared at Grimwald Place at a more presentable time for dinner and the Tipsy was waiting for them. She'd made Chinese food as was eager to serve it. They thanked her then took bites before complementing her. She'd done an excellent job. They were deep into dinner when Harry stopped and looked around before sighing. The twins paused.
"What's wrong?" asked Padma.
"What are we going to do with this house? I was going to keep the gold here but we found a better place for that. We're only living here until the training facilities can house all of the trainees instead of having people on the lawn." he said.
"Keep it for when we're on Earth." said Parvati.
"And the elf?" he asked.
"We take her with us. No need to leave her with little to do in an empty house." said Padma. He looked at them for a moment.
"We should get her an elf sized pad and teach her how to use it. That way she could have access to our schedules and could keep our wardrobes ready for any quick changes and the chancellor's quarters do have small kitchenettes..." he paused when Parvati took a pad out of her beaded bag that she's commissioned from Hermione and smiled. "Tipsy, we have something for you!"
The little elf always seemed to be scared she was going to be punished or dismissed. She appeared and trembled lightly.
"Tipsy we want to give you this magic tablet that is, or will be soon, hooked directly into our schedules. You can set out changes of clothes, remind us to eat on time and such. The reason we are doing this is that we may not be living in this house for long. We would be moving into the High Chancellor's suite in Atlantis and taking you with us. We don't make bad messes but I've noticed you give a thorough cleaning behind us just for good measure. Some day we will fulfill the contracts in the basement and that means that someday there will be children involved as well. But you must treat these two as if they were the ladies of my houses until then. And you have to find or make a robe to wear so you can look like a proper elf. Can you do that?" he said.
"There be little monies in the vault but there bees enough for this. How does the thingy work?" asked the little elf.
"It works on magic so magic won't mess it up you could shrink it and put it in a pocket and it would still work when you unshrunk it. Come sit up here by me while I show you how to use it." said Parvati as she'd given plenty of tutorials on the functions of the pads already.
Harry turned to Padma with a smile on his face. He'd almost forgotten that he could run things by the two of them. He didn't immediately need to have all the answers because he could and should bounce ideas off of them. He didn't actually have long for reflection as Tipsy happened to be a very smart elf and picked up the functions she would need more immediately and promised to tinker around with it some more on her own time. She popped away with the pad.
They finished dinner and retired to the couch to talk and snog. He found himself being more adventurous with the way they had been talking to him about touching them lately. They explored each other as much as they could without stripping each other and calmed down enough to retire to separate rooms to change for bed.
The girls still planned on joining him in his. He was a little leery of his pajamas, as they were just a pair of boxers, but he would just be too uncomfortably hot wearing more than that. That went double with having two extra bodies in the bed. He went ahead and climbed into bed as he'd left the door open a crack as an invitation. They seemed to arrive at the same time and let themselves in since it was already open and he knew they were coming.
"Why don't you hold Parvati tonight while I hold you. We'll pick the sides." they both wore a short night shirt that barely fell to mid thigh.
He nodded dumbly and spooned Parvati after she'd climbed in while Padma spooned him tonight. They'd both brought their pads and set them on the bedside tables and all alarms were set to 6:00. That was the time they all agreed on to start getting ready for the day. They were also set to wake them if some sort of emergency arose. Harry marveled at how comfortable he felt and how natural it felt to sleep with someone. It wasn't long before he was out like a light.