Chapter Six

Chapter Six

Rose woke early feeling very relaxed. She stretched slowly and carefully, before sliding out of bed, grabbing her cane and shuffled to her wardrobe to pick out a short sleeve top and a pair of overalls and slip on shoes.

She showered, washing her hair before stepping out. She ran a brush through her growing hair and twisted it up in to a bun, before doctoring her scars and pulled on her under ware and socks and slid the overalls on and slipped the shoes on. She pulled the shirt on and made her way to the dinning room, not connecting the straps of the overalls to the front so her Uncle could doctor her back before finishing getting dressed.

She set the required jar on the table and ate an easy breakfast of toast and tea and then spotted the clock. It was only six am, no one would be up for a few hours yet. With a small shrugged she pulled the overalls on properly and made her way to workroom, back to the jewellery.

When her fingers began cramping at the delicate work she set them aside and went to the middle table where Binky had set up two stacks of Jarrah wood already cut into the correct sizes. There were also mechanical pieces all set up ready to put the clocks together.

By ten she had the small mantle clock done though still looking rough. It still needed to be sanded, carved, polished and varnished. She turned back to the jewellery and counted out how many rings she had already made. She had thirty out of forty.

By the time midday came around she had finished the rings and had five bracelets done, she laid aside her tools and made her way out for lunch and again found herself on her own. Eating a sandwich that appeared in front of her and a glass of pumpkin juice and returned to her work.

By the time dinner came around she had the silver bracelets done and the small mantle clock completed, including the five hands ready to be activated. She thought that Uncle could use it in his private lab to help keep track of everyone when he locked himself away from everyone.

Dinner was filled with quiet chatter of what everyone had been doing all day.

The boys had been flying, even had a seeker to seeker game and had stayed friendly, they only had their potions homework to finish and had actually spent most of the day working together with out arguing or insulting each other.

Uncle had been working on more potions for the hospital wing and going his class lessons for the year, getting the work done early since he was already at the school.

"And you Rose?" Severus looked up from his pudding.

"I was working on the stuff for the Headmaster and I made a gift for you." She shrugged slightly.

"A gift?" He raised an eyebrow.

"I think you will find it quite useful." She smiled slightly as Binky popped in beside Severus with the clock wrapped carefully in a rag. She watched as he unwrapped it and looked it over with a slight quirk of his lips. "It only needs a hair from the people on it and it will activate."

"What is it?" Harry asked looking up.

"It's a locator clock." Draco shook his head with a slight groan.

"Why is that a bad thing?" Harry frowned.

"It means I won't be able to sneak out any more." Draco sighed and pulled a hair from his head and held it out for Severus who just smirked and took the hair and wrapped it around one of the clock hands. Harry shrugged and did the same.

"Mine is already done." She shrugged when they both looked at her. "May I be excused, Uncle?"

"You may." He nodded, as he attached his own hair strand to a handle.

As Rose began her work again a small idea worked its self around her mind, wondering how she could get it to work or if it was even possible. She reached for the nearest piece of parchment and scribbled out the idea with a few spells that could be used and picked up where she left off. Every now and then she would pause in her work to add more detail to the parchment.

"Time to turn in Rose." Her uncle's voice called.

"Coming." She called back and she finished off the last gold bracelet and made her slow pace back to her bed room, changed while her Uncle stared into the fire and braced herself for a bit of pain and then the relief of a relaxed leg.

"How many today?" He asked as he finished off her leg half an hour later.

"Hmm?" She murmured nearly asleep.

"How many pain potions?" He asked again. "Your gem went a little cold a few times during the day."

"I didn't have any." She shook her head sleepily. "Only had a few twinges when I got up too fast." She flicked her eyes open to look at him for a moment. "I have a theory that I am working on…would you be able to look at it tomorrow?" She asked drowsily.

"I can look it over for you." He agreed and pulled the covers over her body. "Goodnight Rose."

"Goodni' Unca Sev." She murmured back.

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Rose hummed to herself absently as she twisted gold wire into the required necklace, with ease charmed the gem and attached it to the finished necklace before starting another.

Once again she had woken early and eaten alone. In the last three hours she had managed to finish off the wanted Jewellery the Headmaster wanted. Each piece charmed as requested. Signalling or proten charm which sent and received, protection charms, linked to ever other piece of jewellery on the table. She conjured up Jewellery boxes and place one piece in each box to make it look like they had just been purchased from a jewellery shop. As a joke she had even added a shop name inside the boxes. Jewelled Rose.

She then cleaned and polished each piece wearing protective soft gloves and placed each piece in it's box. She then placed them in a wooden crate with Jewelled Rose stencilled on the side and the order written out all official looking, including the bill. She knew how much they cost at Diagon but she had worked it out by assembly and it had come out at nine gallons a piece and just added one gallon for labour so each piece cost an even ten gallons. Total Price one thousand gallons.

She called Binky to deliver the crate to the Headmaster's Office if he was alone or with her Uncle other wise to wait until that time.

"You said something about a theory, Rose?" Severus asked as he tapped on her door and walked in.

"Yes." She picked up the parchment she had been working on and handed it over. "I'm not sure if it is possible or be used some other way but I thought it would be ideal for Aurors in the field or people needing constant meds." She explained and halted when he raised a hand as he read through what she had written.

"It's intriguing." He nodded slowly. "Do you mind if I showed it to few people more qualified then I?"

"Not at all." She shook her head.

"How is your leg today?" He inquired looking at her carefully.

"It still twinges when I move suddenly, but it is a lot looser then it was last week." She replied with a pleased smile. "The last two days it has been easier to get up and moving first thing in the morning."

"Pain potions?" He asked.

"I had one about an hour ago." She pulled a face. "I knocked my knee on the table leg."

Severus nodded slowly. "It has been easier to get around with the treatments?"

"Yes, much better, I am not stiff in the morning and the muscles are looser so it was easier to get around. I still need the cane but I don't have to lean on it so heavily as I did last week." She nodded.

"Good, Poppy informed me that she would be down tomorrow morning to run another scan as it will have been four days since we started the treatment. We need to know if it is healing or masking." He nodded looking a little pleased himself. "I'll let you know if anything comes of this." He held up the parchment. "Are you coming out for lunch?" He asked glancing up at the clock. "You still have two hours."

"Maybe." She shrugged. "Depends if I get caught up in something."

"Alright." He nodded and left.

"What to do now?" She murmured to herself. She shrugged and continued making jewellery. Maybe she could sell it in Diagon Alley for a few gallons. She came up with a nice idea when she made a few rings to engrave them with the Hogwarts Mascots, maybe into the gems or into the rings themselves.

She made ten of each, before making a few necklaces with little gems carved in to the Mascots. The level of detail she managed to get on the little animals before they snapped was a little amazing even to herself. She charmed them to be unbreakable, a few to keep the owner calm when they got nervous or frightened, and after careful thought added one charm that was hard to do, to protect the mind of the owner from the imperious, as she had for the jewellery the headmaster had ordered…not that she would advertise that one, just say it had a few protection charms on it, like warning when there was danger near by, protection against a few minor hexes like jelly legs or a weak stupefy. They were also charmed to protect against evil, it was an old charm but knew it worked. It would repell anything evil quiet strongly and would like the anti imperio would protect the mind of the owner, if it found the wearer worthy. ie not already evil.

She wrote out a note to the headmaster asking what he thought of her idea. It didn't take long before he said it could work and he liked her packaging of the jewellery.

She shook her head with a chuckle and wrote out a introductory letter to a jewellery store she knew was good and not all that expensive, and sent a few samples along. She also charmed them so they couldn't be duplicated by magic by any one but her. She boxed them up and asked Binky to take them to the shop Manager to see if he wanted to try her idea.

She picked up a Griffin and a snake necklace and set them out in the conjured boxes and decided to give them to the boys at Dinner. It would give them another form of protection and it could also start a new fad once school started.

Binky returned after lunch with a letter from the Jewellery store Manager and Owner who had agreed to see if the necklaces would sell and was will it give the share of cost to Binky when she arrived once a week. If it really took off Rose would see about opening a proper account for it. He also asked if she had any other pieces she wanted to try and sell and would take a stock of twenty each. If they hadn't sold by mid October they would be returned. If they did he would send requests for more. He also added he would add it to his owl Catalogue and send a few pieces to his shop in Hogsmeade as well. They agreed on the cost of Twenty gallons for necklaces and bracelets and ten for the rings.

Nodding in satisfaction she absently began making more of the little Mascots while turning her mind to her choices for the year. Personally she was starting to lean towards focussing on her painting, carving and jewellery, while maybe taking a few tutorials for the few classes she wanted to take. Mainly Potions, Ancient Rune, Charms, Transfiguration and Arithmancy.

She looked at her work…then again she may have even surpassed the Charms and Transfigurations classes that was taught here…maybe she could ask for a few tests to see where she stood. She nibbled on her lip thinking as she began imbedding gems into the rings she had made. She could at least ask, the worst they could say was no after all. She noted her thoughts down on parchment and then slipped it into a pocket to give to her Uncle when she saw him next.

She finished up leaving them laid out to be polished before placed in boxes and made her way to the dinning room for a snack. She was a little surprised to find every one still at the table eating lunch, the boys were flicking through owl orders discussing what they wanted to keep boredom at bay.

She passed the parchment over to her Uncle while she picked a Chicken and Avocado roll for lunch.

"Hey Potter look at this." Draco shoved the catalogue book towards the other boy pointing at the jewellery section. "They just came in this morning!" He exclaimed.

"You mean these?" Rose asked as she slid two boxes towards the boys.

"You made them?" Harry chuckled.

"It gave me something to do." Rose shrugged, biting into her roll. "Plus it brings in a little money to help replace what I use…I'm not too sure it will take off though…" She bit her lip.

"Oh I think it will." Draco nodded. "The good thing is that they are in a students price range, plus most students are proud of their house and will do nearly anything to show that."

"I agree, I hope you have spares already made up." Harry nodded with a shake of his head.

"A few…" She nodded slowly, looking thoughtful as she took another bite of her roll. "Which do you think will be more popular, rings, necklaces or bracelets?"

"Well I think the Necklaces and Bracelets will be favoured by the girls and the rings by the guys." Harry replied finishing up his lunch. "The rings are a bit chunky for girls…from the rings I've seen women ware they are thin and delicate looking."

"Hmm." Rose nodded thoughtfully.

"You have a reasonable idea here Rose." Severus spoke up as the boys turned back to the catalogue. "I don't know how different the American schooling is to British schools…I'll talk it over with Albus and see what he says, if anything I think he will agree that you could pass your Charms and Transfigurations Newts tomorrow if they were given." He looked at her. "As to the Potions from the detail notes, tests and test results I was given you could take the Newt now and pass. I must agree that you are barely average in all your other classes and there wouldn't be much point in continuing. So if you wish to maybe have the odd tutoring session and focus of your Arts instead I will not protest."

"Thank you." She nodded slowly. "Uncle I was wondering…do you think it would be worth opening a business vault for my Arts that I choose to sell?" She inquired frowning a little. "Sure it's not a lot of money coming in but…"

"It maybe an idea, if only to keep your identity a secret." He nodded slowly. "I will talk to Albus about opening one up for you…Any particular name it should be under?"

"I used Jewelled Rose as a production stamp." She shrugged a little sheepishly.

"Actually it's a good name, I doubt any one would like it was apart of some ones actual name." Draco spoke up joining the conversation. "Any money she has coming in she can use to replace what she uses…though I am guessing you are running low on few things by now."

"A few." She nodded slowly. "Mostly the wire used to make the jewellery and the gems."

"That's not cheap." Draco winced.

"I have a few contacts." Rose smirked at him. "Though it would probably take a week to get the amount I need here from my supplier…unless I use Binky." She said thoughtfully. "It would only take a couple of hours that way…" She nodded to herself. "Yes that would work a lot better…" and then sighed. "Uncle I need money from my account to purchase anything from any one…my pouch is empty."

"You still had twenty gallons at last count last week." He frowned.

"I sent Binky out for a few large canvas's that I needed for the Conclaves." She shrugged. "Mr Potter insisted on paying for my time and talent…I don't know if he has already arranged it or not, but it's close to five hundred gallons, for just the three I did for him."

"He was going to send it to your father's account before remembering it was in America and not here so it wouldn't be much use to you, so if you do open a business one he can deposit the money there." Harry shrugged.

"I have moved a large amount of your money to the Gringotts here in London, I won't take much for me to arrange a new account for your business and a linked money pouch so you buy things as you need them and not have to worry about running out of cash on hand." Severus informed her with a sigh. "I have a feeling I'll have to co sign or something for the account as you are legally not of age for your accounts, while you are for magic."

"You are probably right." Rose nodded with a sigh of her own.

"I'll get it done later. For the moment just use Binky for money transfers. I'll let you know when I have it sorted." He nodded. "How soon will you need more wire and Jewels?"

"A few hours if I keep on going…I could change to something else for a few days." She replied, finishing her tea. "I could also see if Gems would be will to see if they could sell some of my art work…if I do some that are not personal to any one around here." She mused before wondering off absently. All three noticed that she wasn't limping as badly as she had been a few days before as she left the room.

She made her way to her back room and began looking through pieces of blocks of wood until she had a few picked out and sitting on the middle table. Settled in her chair she studied them for a few moments before choosing a light coloured wood and began spelling the wood, until she had a rough shape, then pulled a thick roll of material out from under the table and unrolled it revealing mini tools.

She then carefully chiselled and filed it down to a near perfect image. She then began sanding it down carefully until the wood was smooth. She did the same until she had four different magical animals sitting in different positions sitting in front of her. She then summoned her paint table to her and began painting them.

She left them to dry out of the way and then began a Dragon metal carving. But instead of leaving the metal flat she used a blunt tool to push in the appearance of scales and rippling muscles before turning it over and carefully pouring powder over the metal and mixing a few colours and melted it down to enamel. The wood she carved to show a mountain capped in snow. She glued the dragon together and mounted it on the wood, adding a few colours and touch up with paint.

She spelled the wooden figures with non paint chip and anti breaking charms on them, along with a varnish and polishing finish.

Done she glanced up at the clock and grabbed her cane. She limped as fast as she could for the dinning room so she wouldn't be late for dinner.

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A few days later Rose had new supplies of gold, silver and platinum wire of different thicknesses and a large selection of gems that had been bought by the Headmaster to replace the supplies she had used for his order. Her business account had been set up at Gringotts under the name of Jewelled Rose.

She had over sixty rings, necklaces and bracelets made up and packaged ready for delivery to Gems Jewellery store at Diagon Alley. They had also agreed tentatively to display her wooden figurines and a few of her metal wood paintings to see how much of a interest they got in them.

She had a bit of a surprise when her Uncle had told her that he had already put a large amount of money in her account that she could spend on supplies that she might need until some income started coming in. So with that tidbit she had bought a few small blocks of stone of different kinds, straight stone, graphite, a few blocks of glass to make more figurines.

Her appointment with Poppy had been cancelled with the medi witch had to leave for a few days on a family emergency but promised to come and check her over as soon as she returned.

She had made the large grandfather clock a few days ago and was only now completing it, adding carvings of the Hogwarts Mascots. She had originally thought to have it placed in the sitting room at the front of their quarters so everyone could use it. But now she wasn't so sure that it was for them. She shrugged a little and continued on carving. It still would be at least a day before it would be finished to her liking.

She was also working on another Dancing Competition painting on a rather large canvas, she was thinking about sending it to Bill. Maybe it would inspire him to win this years Competition and brighten up his spirits when he heard that she wouldn't be competiting this year. They had all been looking forward to it… She shook her head to refocus on the clock but eventually moved back to her paintings to finish off the last few touches on the painting, before casting the usual spells on it.

Tilting her head a little she looking over the painting carefully before turning slightly and conjuring a box that was padded to place the painting in when it was dried and the frame had been done. She also spelled it so the painting would stay dry and undamaged during delivery. Returning to her wood room she made up the frame covered in foot steps, levitated the painting in and with a delicate touch attached it to the painting. She levitated it back and gently placed it in the box before sitting at the desk and writing a letter to go with the painting.

Dear William and Ginny,

I know that it has been some time since I have written and I apologise for that. I hope that you will accept this gift as a reminder of the good times we had and of the friendships we began during our time of passionate dance.

I will not be competing this year due to an injury I received last month, to be honest I doubt that I will ever be able to compete again. I hope that the gift will inspire you to win the Grand Final for me, it should be much easier to do so this year with out Myself and Richard there to keep you on your toes. I doubt I will be able to get permission to even attend the event either, parental or medical.

While I don't like the circumstances that lead to this I am now living in Scotland with my Uncle, who I am sure you will know once I mention his name which I will not be doing in this letter. So please feel free to write to me now that I am a little closer for easy communication.

Ginny remember to keep an eye on you left high kick, you dipped too much last time I saw you :-P

Kick their asses.

Your friendly Rival no longer but hopefully good friend,

Rose Prince.

She sealed the letter and scrawled both their names on the front and addressed it to the Burrow. She smiled a little as she caught the name on the lid of the box. Jewelled Rose with a outline of a carved Jewelled Rose on it.

"What you up to?" Harry asked sticking his head in her door.

"Just finished up a letter to a friend." She smiled. "Would you mind taking it up to the Owlery for me and getting it sent off?" She asked. "I already lightened it so two owls will have no problem delivering it."

"Sure." He nodded and came into the room and picked up the sealed box. "You know Bill?"

"Sure." She pointed to the dancers and smiled.

"I forgot." He flushed. "I'll get this sent out right away." He grinned and her and hurried of to do the accepted task.

"Thanks Harry." She called out after him, she shook her head at his energy.

"Rose, Poppy is here" Draco yelled down the corridor.

"Draco don't yell." Severus's voice scolded him from some where near by.

Rose grabbed her cane and made her way to her room where Severus and Poppy met her. She let them in and made her way to the bed and sat down on the edge.

"Now how many days has it been with the treatment?" Poppy asked as she drew her wand and transfigured her pants in to shorts so she could look over the leg properly.

"Nine." Severus replied standing near by.

"Hmm." Poppy nodded and began her scans, gently running her fingers over the scar that was now only a finger thick and no longer red at all. The burns had healed leaving no sign on the skin. "Has movement been easier?"

"Much." Rose nodded. "I still have to move about slowly and use the cane, but it is no where as painful, I'm down to one or two pain potions a day, there are also days where I don't need any."

"Well, it has improved the healing of the muscles that were damaged by twenty percent." Poppy said slowly as she looked over the results. "The muscles aren't as strained as they were last week…but…" She looked at them both. "I doubt it will heal anymore then it already has, and it may get a little worse if treatment stops at this point." She sighed. "At this point the salve is dulling the pain of the small healing that is happening and it keeps the muscles relaxed which is helping. Keeping off it and not overworking it is also helping or I doubt it would be this good."

"In other words the best we can do is to keep going as we have but don't expect anymore improvements." Rose said slowly.

"Pretty much." Poppy nodded and tucked her wand away. "But you both have done excellently to get it this healed in such a short time, especially when everyone said it couldn't be done." She studied Rose for a moment. "Just keep the current pace you have now and you shouldn't have any problems."

"Thank you Poppy." Rose nodded as her shorts were returned to their original shape.

"I am a little relieved that the salve wasn't just masking things…I'll make up a large stock pile to keep in here so you can do it yourself if no one else is available to do so." Severus nodded looking relieved. "How are your pain potions stock?"

"I still have nine left from the last batch." Rose said after checking in her draw.

"I'll do up some more." He nodded.

"I'll leave you to sort everything out between you." Poppy smiled slightly. "There is nothing else I can do for Rose now." She paused and gave her healing eye a quick look. "Everything is doing nicely but my services are no longer needed."

"Thanks Poppy." Severus nodded and saw her out.

Rose made her way back to her workrooms looking at what she had stockpiled ready to be moved to Gems.

60 pieces of Jewellery.

15 wooden figurines painted and animated to move a little.

9 Metal Carvings.

She looked them over for a few moments before sitting down and running her hands over a glass piece, concentrating. It was one of the few places she could use wandless magic. Her little figurines of stone, glass and wood she could do with out her wand if she wanted, along with the mini gem figurines as well she had discovered last night.

Slowly pieces of glass began vanishing as an image of a phoenix with it's wings outstretched began appearing and the glass took on a red and golden hue but still see through. Details of individual feathers could be seen, with the beginnings of flames around the birds feet were making an appearance as she finished it and set it aside, casting dust free and unbreakable charms on it.

She made six all together, one phoenix, two Unicorns, two dragons entwined in battle and a Griffin rearing up, wings spread.

Her gaze settled on the battling dragons and raised an eyebrow at them as they tumbled around the table once she had finished charming them and shook her head in amusement.

"Rose?" Severus called out.

"In the back." She called back, chucking as the Griffin hissed at the wrestling dragons and took a swipe at them.

"Here are the notes on that theory you were working on last week." He said handing a slightly thicker packet of parchment back to her while eyeing the new creations. "If you follow the suggestions you may have a working prototype in a few days…I would like to see the results when you are done too."

"Sure thing." She nodded and began looking through the pages with interest.

"Also, Potter has been invited to a friends place for a few days, since he has finished his tutoring from his father the headmaster gave him permission and Draco is in France have a two day visit in secret with his mother…" He paused. "I am needed else where for a few days…will you be alright here on your own?"

"I should be." She nodded. "I have Binky and Twinky keeping an eye on me, Including Hogwarts, no doubt the headmaster and Remus, I think if I run into any problems I'll have more hands to help then I know what to do with." She smiled slightly. "I know my limitations, I doubt I will stray too far."

"Alright. Twinky and Binky have been given instructions to remind you when it gets late and you are still working." He nodded. "I have to leave now and the boys are already gone so, enjoy the quiet." He smirked before leaving.

"Hmm, not one for quiet." She murmured as she continued to read. "Binky, find my music globes please." She called out, even as she limped to her shelving filled with sheets of metal and began looking over the different metals. "Hmm what type to use…Silver and Iron are out so is gold…steel maybe?" She pulled out a hand width and two foot long piece of steel off the shelf with a flick of her wand and sat back down cutting off a small length she made couple of wand flicks and she had a resizable solid steel metal cuff. A few more flicks and it was polished and sanded so it wasn't sharp at the edges. "Let have a look at those spells…" she picked up her pages again and began looking through them, casting spells at the cuff as she found them that were suggested.

A few moments later the sounds of Beethoven's symphony number nine at a rather loud volume began to pulse through the workroom.

Rose slowly bobbed to the music finding her self relaxing even further then usual. Spells flew from her wand fast, some of them caused the cuff to change shapes and colour.

She noted down the spells that worked and what the botched ones ended up doing, for all she knew they could come in handy at another time.

Six hours and five cuffs later she had a semi working prototype. The cuff resized to the wrist it was placed on, the little gems on the tops showed which potion it was filled with…the only part that didn't work was the delivery system.

She set aside the part working cuff and began again adjusting spells as she went. When she got too frustrated with it she turned to making book size figurines instead of the smaller ones she had been making for the last few days. So far she had four stone dragons, beautifully carved and five unicorns.

She stretched carefully before leaving her work room for her bedroom, her music still pulsing through the rooms and ate a quick lunch at her desk and looked over the stack of parchment her Uncle had given her a few days ago telling her to do them as she liked and to send the completed ones to the headmaster with Binky when she was done.

She nibbled on turkey sandwiches for dinner even as she continued working on the parchments. From what she could tell they were seventh year midterms tests. She even sent samples of the practicals for the Transfigurations and Charms up with the finished tests. The only one she hadn't done as Severus had left her note asking her to wait so he could watch her make the practical.

She turned off the globe and went to bed early after giving her leg the massage as instructed.

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