I DO NOT OWN HARRY POTTER I would also like to say that I just noticed that my line breaks aren't appearing, which is quite annoying as I have now been trying to figure them out for the last hour. Does anyone know how to mage a line break, or a page break as some call them? Thanks, and onto the story...that might be a little confusing since there are no line breaks
"Ok, here is where the surprise starts. While the others were all asleep last night, I made a special doorway that is connected to your shop in Diagon Alley. That way, one of you can stay here, while the other manages your joke shop. Not to mention, you can secretly allow students through for pranks. Of course, none of them will be as great as you, but it'll be enough." Harry smirked, and the twins grinned.
"Thanks-"
"-Harry!" They said.
"No problem. Listen, us Dragons will be heading out to the Three Broomsticks for lunch to meet up with Tracy Davis who wants to join the Dragon Council. Will you guys be ok here?" Harry asked.
"Of course!" they chorused.
"Excellent. I gotta get going now. See ya!" Harry ran back to his dorm where he put on a white dress shirt with black slacks and shoes, along with a silver wristwatch. He walked back to the Great Hall, where the group was found waiting for him. "Let's roll."
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Upon entering the Three Broomsticks, the group spotted Tracy right away. "Lady Davis. A pleasure to meet with you." Harry said, being formal. Daphne swatted his arm, and he grinned sheepishly. The large group sat down at a table and started to glance through the menus. Madam Rosmerta bustled over and asked if they would like anything.
"A round of butterbeers, and can I have a bowl of spaghetti?" Harry asked, glancing at the other Council members.
"A caprese sandwich for me please," Ron added. The others ordered and waited until Madam Rosemerta left before saying more.
"Potter. Do you have your answer?" Tracy asked, and Harry glanced at his friends one last time for confirmation before nodding his head.
"Actually, we do have an answer. And we decided that it would be beneficial to us to have you." He grinned and Daphne elbowed him again. A slow smile grew on Tracy's face. Before Harry could say anything else, however, Daphne said,
"Tracy, we'll tell you everything once we're back inside of Hogwarts." Harry glanced at her in confusion.
"Why not here?" He asked. Daphne sighed.
"Because here, anyone can hear us. We aren't the only ones in the Three Broomsticks, and I think that we would much rather not have any random person listening in to our plans for the school. Who knows what they will tell others, and it will circle back to the Ministry most likely." Daphne explained, slightly exasperated at how he wasn't thinking. Realization dawned on him, lighting up his face.
"I get it," Harry said and switched to a different topic as the food arrived.
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Once the group was back inside of Hogwarts, Harry said, "Alright. What else do we need to do?"
"I think we should clean up the Chamber of Secrets," Ron said after exchanging a look with Harry.
"Wait, so the chamber isn't just some legend?" Draco blurted out, eyes widening to the size of dinner plates.
"Nope." The Gryffindors grinned. Justin looked excited to be able to see the legendary Chamber of Secrets, and Susan's expression showed that she too was interested. Harry snickered quietly before starting towards the girls' bathroom on the second floor.
"Say, Ron, what do you think will happen once the school year starts again?"
Ron paused. "Well, I think Hermione is just going to keep trying to bring you down, to be honest. The rest of the students are probably going to be happy, and at the same time frustrated that they didn't get all the cool classes in their years." He frowned.
Harry nodded. "That's to be expected." He said, entering the bathroom, confusing everyone as he hissed §Open§. The sink lowered, opening up the entrance to the legendary Chamber of Secrets. He paused before saying, §Stairs, torches§ Slimy and disgusting stairs appeared, and they all carefully walked down using the torchlight to see. They reached the bottom easily, and Harry waved his hand at the cave in, repairing the hallway instantly. Once they reached the main room, they all paled upon seeing the basilisk Harry had killed. "Harry, you do realize that you can harvest the basilisk and sell parts of it for money right?" Daphne asked, and he looked at her curiously.
"You mean you didn't know? Well, basilisk parts are very rare, and their hide is the toughest material yet, the best armor. Their venom is extremely sought after, especially in potion making. Their eyes are also valuable, for many reasons. Basilisk meat is also a delectable dish." Daphne explained, and he blinked slowly.
"So I can make a huge profit off of this thing?" Harry asked incredulously. Daphne sighed and nodded. "Alright then, I'm going to call Dobby, but I also want a group of us in here to help clean and repair this room. The other group will be with me exploring more because there is no way that Slytherin only left behind a giant room with only statues of himself there."
"I'll stay behind and clean Harry," Ron said, with Terry, Susan, and Justin volunteering as well.
"Thanks, guys. Dobby!" Harry called, and the house elf popped in, bouncing on the balls of his feet at being summoned.
"Master Harry Potter sir calls for Dobby?" he asked excitedly, and Harry smiled kindly at the elf.
"Can you please pop into Gringotts, and tell Ragnok that I have a basilisk here that I would like to have harvested. Wait for him to assemble a team, and then pop them all back in here." Harry ordered, and Dobby nodded with his ears flopping about.
"Dobby can do that Master Harry Potter sir!" Dobby exclaimed, popping out of the room. Harry looked over his group and nodded before turning back to the statue that held the basilisk. §Speak to me Slytherin, greatest of the Hogwarts four!§ he hissed, the mouth opened up, just like how it did in the second year. He held out his hand, palm facing up, and a small ball of light appeared. They looked around to find that it seemed to be a long, empty, pipe.
"Lumos!" Harry said, and his wand lit up, with the others copying the action. Daphne snarled in disgust, and muttered a few scourgifies at the walls of the pipe.
"Harry...is that a door?" Neville asked, squinting in the light. Harry frowned, and cautiously walked over to the spot Neville was pointing at. He ran his hand over the clean section and knocked. It sounded hollow.
"I think it is." he said, surprised. "I'm going to open it, but be ready for anything." They all nodded, wands slipping into their hands. Harry flicked his wand at the door, muttering, "Bombarda!" The door crashed to the ground, and Harry ran inside with his wand aglow as he looked for a threat. Luckily, there was none. He slowly lowered his wand. §Torches§ he hissed, and torches lit up, lighting up the room. There, before them, was a massive library. At the end of the library were four doors, each one having the symbol of a Hogwarts house on it.
"There are countless books on lost magic here! Potions, rituals, curses, spells, everything! They're all written by the founders!" Draco hissed, his fingers grazing over the dusty book covers. Neville took a look, and his eyes widened.
"There are some written by Merlin himself!" he breathed.
Harry nodded, his green eyes scanning over everything. "Alright, be very careful in here. These books are extremely old and priceless. Make a copy of every one of them so that we can leaf through everything without worries. Explore everything, and start cleaning. I'm going to search what's behind these doors." The group nodded. Daphne conjured up some cleaning supplies, making everyone frown in confusion.
"I think we shouldn't do too much magic in here, just in case," she explained and they all nodded, grabbing supplies.
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Harry gently opened up the door that had Slytherin's symbol on it, and to his surprise, he saw an office. Everything looked as if it had been bought yesterday, and the room was well lit. Papers were spread about on the desk, priceless documents with calculations on potions that would have saved multiple lives had they been published. Harry immediately knew each door was an office for each founder. Harry decided that while he was the heir to three of the founders, each office would go to each house group on the Counsel. He exited the room to find Daphne glaring at Draco, who had spilled water on the floor, almost hitting the priceless books.
"I'm sorry!" Draco squeaked, Daphne glared at him once more before handing him a towel and walking away.
Harry snickered, earning himself a glare from the Malfoy heir. "Each door leads to the offices of each founder. I was thinking of making my own office, while each house group on the Council gets their own house office."
Luna then spoke up. "Shouldn't you put all the important documents in your office, Harry? That way, everything will be in one place, and everyone's offices can be more like themselves."
Harry thought about it. "First, let's clean this place up along with the offices, then we can get into the specifics."
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Ron pointed his wand at the smashed pillar. "Reparo!" he muttered, and the rubble surrounding the broken pillar flew up, repairing the column. Terry, Susan, and Justin copied the action and soon, all the pillars were repaired. All that was left were random piles of rubble, a load of dust, destroyed statues, and cracked walls. Not counting the huge basilisk that still had yet to be harvested. Speaking of which….a loud pop echoed around the chamber, startling the small group.
"Ah...Lord Potter-Black Gryffindor Slytherin Ravenclaw really did get a big one, didn't he? Too bad the eyes were destroyed, but we can't do anything about it." said the one and only Goblin King. Behind him stood a team of goblins with plenty of tools, ready for harvesting. Dobby then popped away after seeing that his job was done. Terry shook himself and continued to repair the walls and floor. Justin busied himself with vanishing all the piles of rubble, Susan started to clean up the dust, and Ron started with repairing the statues. The goblin team set on the basilisk, tearing it apart.
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Harry skillfully dusted off every book, the shelves, and added better lighting. Draco swept the floor, with Luna right behind him with a sopping wet mop, and behind her was Neville drying everything up with a whole bunch of towels. Luna started to cautiously make copies of each book, Dobby popping in every now and then to take the pile of copies to an abandoned classroom. Soon, the library was sparkling clean, and all the books had copies. Harry placed each book under stasis so they wouldn't get destroyed, and then started on making his own office.
Daphne and Draco started on organizing Slytherin's office and took all the documents before handing them off to Harry. They first looked at the books before realizing that they were just pleasure reading, not textbooks. Harry sat down behind Slytherin's desk and began to leaf through all the potion calculations, slowly beginning to edit them with the modern day ingredients.
"Wow!" Neville breathed as he saw the sketches of plants he never knew existed. He handed them to Harry, who placed it on the corner of the desk, and everyone watched in mild awe at the amount of ease that Harry showed in dealing with paperwork.
"He's just a natural at things like this, isn't he." Draco deadpanned.
Daphne shrugged with a smirk. "Well, he will probably be the best Headmaster Hogwarts ever will have. He's going to kick Wizarding Britain back into shape."
Harry looked up from his work, and said, "If we're all done here, why don't we clean up the pipes. I won't tolerate my school being an unclean mess. I'll stay here, looking through and editing everything."
"Yes sir!" they chorused jokingly, running out the door. Harry sighed, rubbing his temples. He pulled out a file and glared at the information he had discovered in it. He whipped out a pen and started to write. There was some proof that needed to be brought to light.
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Daphne waved her hand at the grimy and dark pipe. "Scourgify!" only a section of the long pipe was clean. She growled, scaring the group slightly. "Dobby!"
"Mistress Daffy?" the house elf asked the moment he popped in. Daphne ignored the snickers that the others were giving, as well as Tracy's amused glance.
"I need you and a team of house elves to help us clean up this disgusting pipe," she said, once again starting the clean up the pipe with magic. The group members shivered before following suit. A few seconds later, a group of house elves appeared, and their expressions were horrified at how disgusting the pipe was. Neville shook his head.
"Here we go," he said, snickering as the elves went on a cleaning rampage.
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"So….what should we do with a clean pipe?" Tracy asked, startling the group slightly as she hasn't said anything since they had arrived at the Chamber.
Daphne thought about it. "Well, we could transform it into some kind of passage."
"That would lead to what exactly?" Draco raised an eyebrow.
"I was thinking of some kind of business. After all, I doubt Harry will want to just stop here at Hogwarts. Especially after seeing how far behind we are compared to the rest of the magical world. He's going to want to keep going and change the entire Wizarding Britain. And what better way to do that, then through multiple businesses?" was her reply. Draco and Neville nodded, setting up some lights.