[Mind speak] (used for Beastspeak)
*Elvin*
"Glomerian"
#Gobbledegook#
~Mermish~
!Dwarfian!
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Meeting with elves (Part 2)After about one and a half hours one of the female council members met up with the group as they were just about to head back to the council building.
*I am sorry for the way the council acted, we are not all like that but you must understand it has been a while since the last time we saw a non-elf for some of the elves they have never seen any other race but the elves. I am Olerule one of the oldest members of the council. I am not nearly one of the oldest of my kind though. One thing I did notice was that the girl on your arm is an elf Lord Emrys and I am most curious as to how you came to have an elf with you when none of our race have left the borders of the city since we went in to seclusion.* Olerule finished curiously.
*Well that is something you will find out about when I give my reasons for telling your entire race from the town square that Potters wood sanctuary is re-open and in fully working order. No one who means harm to any of those seeking sanctuary may enter and you may not ask for any to be forced out no laws apply except sanctuary laws. It is neutral territory that I still have the binding magical contract signed by every member of every Elven family on their blood. This means that it binds the entire Elven race new and old. There is no breaking the contract as it is spelled by my ancestor, yours, the goblins and the dwarfs and I hope to add the vampires to the contract when I get the time to meet with them. But I assure you that any that try to enter sanctuary for any reason but to stay or visit, will suffer most painfully.* Harry said before he walked back to the Council building for his briefing of the council.
When they arrived at the council building they entered to see not only the council members who were available but also many other elves that seemed to be here to see who the strangers in their land were. As Harry lead those who had come with him to the guest speakers area before he went to take the podium to address the council and gathered elves. He caught movement out of the corner of his eye that caught his attention for some reason. As he turned round he realised why his attention had been drawn walking towards where he had just left Lucy was her uncle and he looked like a raging bull in a china shop.
*Luciferum you little brat where have you been do you realise the trouble you have caused me!* He roared as he grabbed her upper arm and prepared to slap her across the face. By this point, the hall had become silent and everyone froze, as did Lucy's uncle mid movement as something caught his arm. Before he even looked, he began to feel like an insect trapped like prey he felt a burning feeling on his wrist and when he looked around the smell of urine permeated the air as his eyes caught sight of the person in front of him. Standing in front of Lucy's Uncle was an enraged Harry. His aura was extended to about 50 percent power and still people could only just look at it but that combined with his aura of intimidation that was at full power making those around except those he loved who were immune to the aura unless directed at them were cowering in their seats. What really did it though were his eyes, Never had anyone seen such a bright but at the same time dark green. His eyes were shining with power as he increased his grip using some of the strength he gained from his dragon and merman forms to crush the elves wrist and bring him to his knees.
*You would do well to know that Lucy is under my protection and any who even think to bring harm to her will be dealing with me; those who succeed in causing her harm will no longer be dealing with anyone. Do. I. Make. Myself. Clear?* Lucy's uncle just nodded dumbly and released Lucy's arm and she ran over to Harry's side and clung to his arm. This made Harry even more annoyed as he felt he quivering on his arm. He led her back over and placed her between James and Sirius staring at them until they both nodded and shuffled protectively closer to her. Harry returned to the podium and released a low powered concussion charm that immediately silenced the crowd.
*I came here today to try to reaffirm the relations between my house and the Elven people. I have already reaffirmed my standing with King Ragnock of the goblin nation. I stand here and I have to say I am not impressed by the race that once called themselves great; your isolation has made you frankly unimpressive. I will tell you this; You still have the ability within you to be great. Work together with the oldest members of your community and the youngest and make sure you know how your race used to be. I would like the opportunity to learn your ways from you just like my ancestor did before me. However, at this time, I do not believe that you, yourselves even know most of the things you used to. The elders of your community will be able to teach you, and I will come back in a few years and see if you have gained back any of the respect you once held. Now I will make an announcement to the city from the square.* as Harry left he left behind a shocked audience some of the oldest ones shameful and some of those who grew up isolated angry that he had insulted them this way. However, when they snapped out of the shock there was a rush to the town square, but there was not need as they soon found out.
*THIS IS A MESSAGE TO ALL OF THE ELVES IN THIS CITY. I KNOW SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE LEFT THE CITY FOR TRAINING AND I BELIVE THAT THAT WILL APPLY MOSTLY TO THE GUARDS OR WARRIORS AMOUNG YOU. HOWEVER, YOU ALL MAY LEAVE AND FIND SANCTUARY AT POTTERS WOOD IF YOU NEED IT NO MATTER YOUR AGE THE SANCTUARY OF MY ANCESTORS WILL ACCEPT YOU AND PREVENT YOU FROM HARM. IT IS NEUTRALTERRITORY SO NO ONE WILL BE ABLE TO TAKE YOU FROM IT OR ENTER IT IF THEY MEAN YOU HARM. THERE IS NO VIOLENCE ALLOWED EXCEPT TOWARDS NON-SENTIENT AND EVEN THEN IT MUST BE LIMITED TO OBTAINING FOOD. I SAY THIS ESPECIALLY FOR THE CHILDREN WHOE NOT BEING LOOKED AFTER PROPERLY OR ARE BEING ABUSED, YOU ARE NOT ALONE COME AND WE WILL HELP YOU. THANK YOU!* with that said Harry stepped down and went over to his group. Lucy had been translating for Harry so everyone in the group understood what had been said and that they were probably going to leave.
When they arrived back at gringotts Ragnock must have been alerted to their return as he walked in the room just after their arrival. After taking in the thunderous expression on Harry's face he chuckled which seemed the wrong response as Harry turned and glared at him.
"I apologise milord I meant no offence. It is just that your face tells me that the meeting with the elves did not go well, for them that is." Ragnock said with an inward gulp at the glare but still managed to finish his sentence with a chuckle. Harry's glare softened but Ragnock could see the annoyance that was still present on his face.
"No Ragnock, It is I who must apologise it is not your fault that the elves are arrogant and do not care for their own people. They are so isolated that they do not even realise that they are limiting themselves hopefully knowing that sanctuary is open again and the alliance is reforming will make the elders begin to actually teach the race to become what they once were."
"They started to slack on their training even before they went into seclusion it was after sanctuary was closed they became lazy and felt superior. The war between us and the wizards just convinced them that they were better off themselves." With that said Ragnock lead, them to his office where he poured them all a glass of goblin wine a smaller glass for Harry and Lucy and Harry told him all that had happened.
"Well I do know that there are more elves than you think that travel outside the city they all travel to the magic institute that you will be going to. It allows all manner of sentient beings to attend as long as the pass the entrance exam and the ages of those attending vary as some graduates like to return to brush up on a subject or to learn a new one. The entrance exam will test your knowledge in every area as well, as how well you can perform the tasks you will then be put in a level from 1-50. 50 being the worst and 1 being a master of that subject I myself attended when I was a young goblin it was there that I gained a mastery in goblin magic's but the teach every subject there is there is no bias against any specific subject and every teacher is a master of their specific field. Time is getting late and I am sure you all want to return home so I will say good bye and get back to work." With that said Ragnock got up and bowed to Harry who bowed back and opened the door and was just about to leave when he decided now was the time to go and get some more books from his vaults.
"Ragnock could you have someone take me to my vaults I would like to pick up some books and visit my guardians."
"Of course Griphook here is a new addition to our manager ranks but he shows some promise. He could use the experience of travelling so far into the vaults he has never been past the mid 100's which if I'm not mistaken is the Malfoy vault." Ragnock said with a subtle wink at his slip of showing how old the Malfoy's, who claim to be Ancient really are.
After the visit to the vault Harry returned home with some books on more advanced levels of all topics along with Merlin's Grimoire. The first thing he did when he returned was went to his safe and stored the Grimoire and the more rare books he had brought back. He then began to study and brush up on the potter family wards and the most advanced wards he could find so as to be able to protect his possession's and maybe upgrade the wards around the manor as there is no such thing as too protected. Ariel and Elysia both had followed him from his room to his study and began to talk to each other about the benefits of running and flying which Harry idly listened to as he continued reading about a blood wards. He was specifically looking at wards for books that prevented copying, touching or if they get round that removing from whatever surface, it was left by the person that warded it, or even opening it. Technically, it was considered dark magic but to Harry magic is magic and it is the person that used it that is dark or light not the magic itself.
The next week was back to a new schedule:
0500 – Wake up and run as many times round the lake as possible in an hour.
0600 – 100 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 50 pull-ups, weight training.
0700 – Shower and breakfast.
0800 – Theory revision and expansion all topics.
1200 – Lunch.
1300 – Dodging exercise in training room with dummies number and speed of casting to be increased bi-daily.
1430 – Spell casting practice (Speed and Precession training)
1530 – New spell Trial/Silent casting (one day one, one day the other.
1700 – Occlumency and legitimency reading (one day one, one day the other.)
1800 – Legitimency Training.
1900 – Dinner
2000 – Potions and Herbology Practical.
2200 – Any other reading. (I.e. Grimoires, New subjects of interest.)
2300 – Sleep.
Both Harry and Lucy followed this schedule. Although it was a little lighter for Lucy since she was not as advanced, and did not have knowledge given to her. Harry had decided that after he had learned a few more topics and crafted her wand he would transfer his knowledge to her and then they could both choose new topics to study and teach each other when they had some spare time.
Saturdays were a more lax day where Harry could do what he liked after lunch. He usually used this time to learn more about wand crafting. What he had learned so far made him slightly un-happy he had wanted Lucy's wand to be a surprise but it appeared the way to get the best results was to have the person present to choose the materials as their magic would react to those that were both suited to the user. It also said that ingredients from the animagus form were exactly like that of the actual creature they just had some of that persons DNA mixed. This turned out to be a good thing with both Harry and Lucy having completed their forms.
On Saturday Harry decided he knew enough to make Lucy's wand so he went to Merlin's vault first thing in the morning and retrieved a trunk containing one block of every wood and a trunk filled with every kind of core. He then went home to his crafting room and laid all of the blocks side by side leaning against the wall and all of the cores lined out on the table.
"Now Lucy, what I want you to do first is concentrate on your magic like I showed you using your Occlumency. Once you have a hold of it, direct a stream to your hand to make it glow and then move your hand over all of the woods and tell me which makes you feel best." For the next 10 minutes Lucy walked around the room with a glowing had that would occasionally give a slight pulse. Then she stopped at the Hazel wood and spoke.
"This one feels the best it feels cool and spontaneous, homely but it also makes me feel free and alive." She said enthusiastically.
"That's good. That wood is Hazel. In addition, it is good for elemental magic's particularly Fire, air and water. Therefore, I think the fire made you feel homely the air free and the water cool and spontaneous. The Hazel tree is also thought of as the tree of knowledge and is supposed to be able to ward off evil spirits." As Harry spoke he lifted the block of wood and moved Lucy over to the cores where he placed the block on the crafting table as Lucy repeated the process with the cores. There were many different cores many more than there were woods and it took an hour before Lucy had found a core and only one had appealed to her but Harry's research said this could be because her magic had not fully developed yet this was also the reason she was getting a wand and not a staff. A staff would drain too much of Lucy's energy as she did not have a very big reserve at the moment and she also did not have full control of how much she put into her spells.
"This is interesting," said Harry as he took the jar containing the core of Lucy's choice.
"You have chosen an Areodactyl fang, this shows that you are defiantly meant to be my soul mate. This core id very rare the few in my vault are probably some of the last but what I find good but interesting id that this is thought to be best core for the so called darkest magic's. I am going to also add 2 more cores to your wand that will come from you. If you transfer into your animagus I can get started." Harry said with a smile. So Lucy transformed and Harry asked her to draw some blood with her horn and add it to the vile he was holding. Once she had done so asked permission to remove a single hair from her beautiful tail. Harry swore that if unicorns could blush, she would be. She nodded and he removed the hair and she transformed back still with a slight blush.
"The reason I was so interested with your choice was that now your wand will be completely balanced. One of the darkest creatures and one of the lightest ones are now part of your wand." Harry said.
"Now you can stay and watch or you can go and play with Ariel and Elysia I think they are feeling a bit left out I will need to go for a fly and a run with them soon."
With that said and done Lucy decided to leave and at least make the finished product a surprise. The first thing Harry did was to put all of the parts on the same table and concentrate using his mage sight to see how the magic's would best connect and work and how much of the wood was needed. He started with the wood first he held the block in his hand and allowed his magic to envelope the wood and imagined what the best design for the wood, would be. There was a flash of magic and in Harry's hand was a 13 and a quarter inch wand that looked like a unicorn horn and on the handle was a pattern of trees and grass for a grip. Harry then used a spell to hollow out the wand and picked up the fang that was about as thick as his little finger in width at the widest par and about 3 inch long he then dipped the hair in the blood and wrapped it tightly around the fang. Next, he poured half of the blood into the opening in the hollow wand and then placed the hair wrapped fang and poured the rest of the blood on top. Lastly, he levitated the wand and spoke L liga L (Bind). With a final flash of magic, the wand sealed and Harry could no longer touch it or it would not be as attuned to Lucy's magic as it could. Therefore, without touching it he engraved runes to make it un-breakable, anti-summoning and to bind it to Lucy by blood to prevent others being able to touch it, as it would discharge stored residual magic into the person trying to touch it. The addition of foreign magic to a witch or wizard is the same as what causes the cruciatus curse to be as painful although it directs the magic to the nerve endings. There was a better way to bond the focus but it required an energy store that only a staff had to be able to function so this was second best but it was still very un known and dark because of its likeness to the cruciatus. When he was finished, he gasped in awe at the wand it was only his first attempt but if he could only get better then he would be able to get more custom than Olivanders. Although Olivander is a wand maker so he makes wands and matches wizards whereas Harry matches the wand to the wizard perfectly. Now that he was finished, he looked over the wand and called Mindy to get everyone gathered in the family room.
When everyone was gathered in the family room Harry entered with the wand levitated in front of him. He walked to the table in the middle and lowered the wand in front of Lucy everyone gasped at the sight the runes he had carved he had one continuously along the length that kept its look of a unicorn horn but had runic writing along the spirals the handle proudly displaying the grasslands and trees.
"Where did you get that wand?" asked an awed Sirius with Remus nodding along beside him while James and Lily just smiled proudly in the background having already known that Harry planned to make Lucy a wand. Lucy for her part had not took her eyes off the wand and looked too scared to damage the wand to touch it.
"I crafted it why?" Harry asked innocently, causing James to snicker and lily to giggle at the awestruck faces of their two closest friends.
"Y..y..yo..o..ou crafted that." Remus asked reverently. Only to receive a nod from Harry.
"Yes, beautiful isn't it just like the person it is intended for." He said softly looking at Lucy.
"Now Lucy before you touch the wand you have to do something." He said removing a silver ritual dagger from its sheath at his side and handing it to her. You have to slice your finger to draw blood and wipe it along the runes carved in its length this will ensure that you are the only person ever able to touch it." Harry smiled reassuringly at her as she hesitated before closing her eyes and slicing her finger and coating the runes in her blood which the wand seemed to absorb leaving the surface the soft flawless cream colour it was previously.
"Now I want you to sit down and pick it up by the handle. The reason I want you to sit down is you won't be used to the proper outlet that this wand will give it is perfectly in tune with you magic unlike those made by a wand maker a wand crafter suits it perfectly not just the best fit will do kind of thing. So when you are ready pick it up and tell us how you feel and if it feels ok to you remember this is my first try so when your core is fully matured I will craft you a staff that will work even better than the wand will." When Harry finished speaking everyone in the room subconsciously held their breaths not daring to breath. Lucy reached out and picked up the wand and as she did a sea, blue glow surrounded her and a blast of refreshing water vapour also exploded from her and the wand.
"Wow" it was only a whisper but after the aura had died down everyone was so silent that it could be heard just as well as if it had been shouted.
"You said it. That was amazing; I do not think I have ever seen a wand have that good of reaction to anyone. I you really made this wand Harry then you could make a real living out of it." Sirius said surprising everyone by being the first to speak.
"Well, there would be no set price on the wands if I did as the materials used would vary from person to person so it would be a custom wand for a custom price." Harry replied admiring his work.
After that, everything went back to normal with Harry and Lucy progressing well. Harry was not able to beet both James and Sirius separately in a duel. Harry had advance well in all areas of his teachings and according to lily had enough access and had revised all of their knowledge enough that he would be able to get EE if not an O on all of the subjects even the ones not recognised by Britain.
After Christmas was over and Harry had received his father's invisibility cloak James and Lily were summoned by Dumbledore to come to a meeting. Everyone knew what this would mean so with a heavy heart Harry went to the elves quarters and told them all that they would have to keep potter manor running without him for 2 years at least as they all had to go away. It had been decided that Lucy would stay at potter manor in Harry's rooms and Harry would lock down the rest of potter manor so that only the house elves could move around the house Lucy would stay in Harry's area and Harry would visit through his rings portkey at least once a week. James and Sirius had given them both a two-way mirror that would allow them to talk and see each other every night. Harry was also leaving Ariel and Elysia to keep Lucy Company until they were able to meet up again. Sanctuary would remain open so that any seeking a safe haven would be able to get it. Harry and Lucy shared their first real kiss the night that they were planning to move to the cottage it was a desperate, needy kiss but it was also a show of love and although neither felt they could properly say it and mean it, it was implied by the look in each other's eyes. With a heavy heart Harry de-aged himself to his actual age of two before they flooed to the cottage to set up wards and make it look lived in before Dumbledore was to arrive that night.
It was December 29th of the year 1982 and Albus Dumbledore was getting on in age although he would never admit it besides the average wizard lived 2times longer than muggle's and let's face it he was not the average wizard so he would still have a while yet. Tonight he would be visiting two families one of which had sired the saviour of this war, whom he would make look up to him for guidance as then the according to the prophesy when he was to die Dumbledore would step in to make it look like he was the one to take down Voldemort. It was for the greater good that he was able to mould the wizarding world to his ideas. It would mean that he would be able to control how powerful everyone got and what they learned meaning that he would not be over powered by some new comer muggle born trying to change the world to be more like the muggle world. Albus Dumbledore was not a purists but he did think that muggleborn's should be controlled so as to not, change the wizarding world from what it has always been. He walked up the path of the potter's residence where he would be meeting both families it was a average sized cottage located at the outskirts of Godrics hollow, nothing big or impressive though Dumbledore as he knocked on the door.
When he entered, he was greeted by James who took him to the living room where he was then greeted by Lily, Frank and Alice. He also saw baby Harry and Neville playing on the ground bashing things off the ground. 'Ah how ignorant and innocent' he thought not realising that the blank mind he was receiving from his probes of Harry's mind was not just his baby ignorance but his expertly developed Occlumency skills.
"Well, now that we are all here. What is this meeting about Albus?" asked James feigning ignorance.
"Ah James, I have some disturbing news for you all. I have kept this to myself until now but I can no longer do so. There was a prophesy made before Harry and Neville were born that I now am sure involves one of them, It said;
'The one with the power to vanquish the dark lord approaches,
Born to those who have thrice defied him,
Born as the seventh month dies,
The dark lord shall think him ignorant,
But he will have power the dark lord knows not,
The dark lord will attempt to remove him but he will fail,
After a time he will attempt to return but he will not get all he wants,
He will enhance his body and mind but will it be enough,
To conquer the guardian.'
I have checked and those born closest to the end of the month are Neville and Harry. I believe the guardian refers to their guardian at the time as it seems as if Voldemort will vanish for a time only to reappear much later."
"So why is it you keep this from us for 2 years and now decide to tell us? What has happened that has made you decide we need to know now?" asked Frank with the others nodding along.
"Ah that is the worse news. Voldemort was told the prophesy by someone who over heard it but he only heard the first three lines before he was ushered away so Voldemort only knows the first three as well. Just recently he was able to get someone to break into the records department and all of the births from July of 1980 were stolen so I have to presume that he now knows that Harry and Neville are the only two born at the end of the month." Dumbledore sighed and acted convincingly tired … Almost.
"So what do we do now? Do we go into hiding or just live our lives as normal and try to pretend we don't know what's happening?" asked a tearful Alice.
"I think it would be best to just act normal and I will position some order members at each of your houses to try and corner Voldemort when the time comes." With that said everyone left with Frank muttering about just taking Neville and Alice and leaving Britain to one of their holiday homes.
Once they were all gone, Harry aged to around 12 and became thoughtful;
"So if I will be unable to kill him the first time. I will need to find away to put him in a position that he will not be able to do anything for some time." He said to the silent room as they all went to their rooms for the night as it would be a quick 10 months and Harry was determined to know his parents as much as possible.
AN:
Well everyone that was another chapter finished I don't think it was my best work the end was not as good as it could be I couldn't decide how bad or good to make Dumbledore but I like Neville so I didn't want him to be turned into the poncy git he is in some fanfics. I did have it as Dumbledore was working with Grindelwald but decided that made him too bad so this was the final outcome and I'm not very proud of it it's not what I wanted but it will do it is just setting the scene I think next chapter will be his parents death and then the goblins because I don't want Harry too powerful or too educated or there would be nothing much that he could learn in later years currently for an update he is going on to newt level on all Hogwarts subjects but has the knowledge to master them from the transfer, all he just has to revise the knowledge before he has full access to it. There is many more subjects that I want to have him learn plus the things he already has groundings in not taught at Hogwarts like warding, blood magic etc. Anyway, I am rambling but I hope you enjoy it, as much as you can next chapter should be a lot better.
