Author Note: This chapter is a bit shorter than recent ones but it's most filler.
Hypnosis Writer
I'll add Mutant Gothic to the pile.
War Sage
Thank you.
Mattblue
And updates you shall have.
tylermech66
If Goblins can turn silver and jewels into a sword that actually makes for a decent weapon then platinum should be even better. Its even rarer than gold and harder to mine so the Dwarves would never of found a great amount but Muggles would because they, well we, have the numbers and technology to find it.
Stuff like ebony and that Orc metal in Skyrim has no real world counterpart that worked for my story but platinum worked.
Douchiesnacks
Well I really do like harems.
Limited harems are better girls tend to get mad when you get their names mixed up because you can't remember which of you hundred odd concubines is called Shelia.
Guest
I like the Harry Potter stories that stick to cannon to start with and then go a new direction as you can see the causes of the changes as the story progresses. I derailed things from the start by destroying Tom Riddles diary but it all seems to have made sense and some cannon things are still happing if a bit differently but it seems to be working.
Justice League well Overlord Gothic did fight them but the real enemy in that story was The First Evil so having a Justice League story should be okay but I'd need you come up with some ideas like what kind of hero he could be what powers he could have.
The Gothic's can be quite ruthless when dealing with bad guys so one idea could be that he goes rogue like Huntress and maybe teams up with her. That's the kind of ideas I want pitched at me if you want that story.
Lootryx
There might not be a Ministry in America as that country didn't exist until 1776. Given that the International Statute Of Secrecy came into effect in 1692 there wasn't an United States to sign it so it might not have a Ministry at all.
However there is a Ministry of Magic for Brazil which was (like America) a colony of a European kingdom at the time so its possible that American created a Ministry at some point like Brazil must have but there's no cannon reference to it.
Also given that Damien can explore other worlds there would no reason for him to explore the rest of the Wizarding World.
He will however being going to Europe to visit a certain former Dark Lord.
A W
Its not the metal alone that matters its what magic does to it. Goblins can turn silver into armour and weapons. Godric's sword is Goblin Silver and it absorbs Basilisk venom a substance used to destroy Horcruxs. So if Goblin magic can make silver do that then what could it do to platinum?
My answer is mithril which is magically enhanced platinum.
Silver is less durable than platinum. Platinum like gold doesn't tarnish but its also slightly harder than iron were as gold and silver are not.
Iridium would be ever better than platinum but its the wrong colour to be mithril.
I'll explain about the daedric armour. The Killing Curse only made the daedra return to Oblivion. When a summoned Daedra is 'killed' it reforms back in Oblivion that's the rule. The Killing Curse sent it back to Oblivion but that Daedra wasn't killed.
Had the demon been unbound the Killing Curse would of merely knocked the Daedra down like any powerful spell would have. Then the Daedra would simple get up and kept fighting.
Your right about the ebony that metal would be even better but that has no counterpart (as far as I can see) with metals on Earth which Damien can buy from Muggles using the gold he has in surplus.
He could just buy ebony bars in Skyrim and give some to the Dwarves but that will happen later as he's not even met a Dwarf yet.
Perhaps he could also order some Daedric Armour made for him from a Black Smith in Skyrim but he would go with Dwarf made mithril more likely because it as we saw last chapter it would really impress people. Wizards ,even Damien, like to show off.
Plus there is the fact making mithril (even if its just for jewellery) would make lives better for the Dwarves and they'd owe Damien for that giving him allies. Later other metals could be added but it would be best to start off with something the Dwarves actually know something about.
The First Gothic. Book One. A Wizard In Training. Part 25.
Hogwarts School. Ravenclaw Tower. Damien's Bedroom.
I hadn't notice until Luna and I had sat down at the Ravenclaw table for the start of feast that my school house was missing a few members as were the all of the other houses.
The Carrow twins had warned me that this was going to happen and that it would form a power vacuum but I'd dismissed most of what they had said as I didn't trust anyone who wore green around here, but perhaps I should have as there were lots of ways of could take advanatge of this situation.
But that wasn't of much concern right now what was concerning me was that my dorm room was now a private room.
I'd never gotten to know my bunkmates because Ravenclaw, the boys at least, aren't that sociable with those they share a dorm with. Privacy charms and polite exchanges as we went to bed were routine here. But now that they were gone I kind of missed them.
The school's House Elves had removed the other beds and added more book shelves, which was nice of them, and I didn't mind the extra space and alone time, but it was all kinds of unsettling.
"Well this is nice" commented Luna as she entered the dorm room for the fourth year Ravenclaw boys.
Which was just me.
"How did you manage this?" my future wife inquired.
She might of foreseen that I'd end up alone in this room, that was highly likely since she was here to come see it, but that didn't mean she knew how it happened.
Rather than answer right away I cast all the privacy charms I knew in case I was being spied upon by Dumbledore. He had during the feast rather loudly said that my apology to him was accepted, and some other words which basically meant that he was thought I was showing great maturity by realising my mistakes. But this was Dumbledore so I didn't trust anything he said.
"I'm not sure how this happened" I told my girlfriend who was currently checking out the bookcases for anything she hadn't read "Our house is the smallest one and our year isn't that big either but what are the chances that every other boy in my year and house would drop out".
That hadn't been a question but she answered it anyway.
"They didn't drop out they're dead".
I didn't need to ask she explained her statement without any prompting.
"A lot of people died at the World Cup. Children died whole families died. Everyone knows everyone in our world so you did lose people you knew in that attack. Its the only answer that makes sense".
No wonder Fudge was being pressured to give the Kiss to all the captured Death Eaters.
Any guilt I had felt for supporting that action was now gone. If this was as bad this war was going to be I wasn't going to spare a Mort Muncher ever again.
"Its not as bad for the girls" informed Luna "it was mostly boys at the World Cup Final but that just means they have a lot of grief to work through".
I had noticed that the males had outnumbered the females at that event about five to one and after thinking about the girl to boy ratio at the school had shifted to favour the girls. It hadn't been that noticeable at the time as everyone wore full school uniform including the hats at the start of year feast but now, well the empty room spoke for itself.
"That many people really died" I muttered to myself.
Before I knew what was happening Luna and I were on my bed in each others arms.
"It would have been worse if not for you" she assured me.
I wasn't so sure about that. Had I never come to this world the Death Eaters would of marched but they wouldn't have come to slaughter. Then again this was alternate world so maybe things would actually be worse if I hadn't been acting to protect people.
"I knew who they were" I said mostly to myself "I know the name of nearly every Death Eater. I could of wiped them out by now if I'd really tried".
Well maybe not but I could of gone after them instead of going to Skyrim. Over the summer I could of hunted each and everyone of them down like the beasts that they are by torturing the needed names and places out of the ones I knew about until there were no more left.
No I was being silly that course of action would of resulted in my demise at worse and at best I would have been driving off this world via the Veil Of Death. I'd gotten lucky in the Forbidden Forest as for the World Cup well there I'd had time to prepare and a weapon the enemy couldn't counter.
Still all this death.
I wanted to cry about it but no tears would come because I wasn't really sad about it. Anger filled me and hate along with it.
Before I could express these feelings Luna kissed me and her eyes seemed to offer a message of assurance stronger that mere words could express but she offered those words anyway.
"The past can not be changed. You can only learn from it and try not to make the same mistakes next time. Become the Dark One, as you were meant to and stop such things from ever happening again".
Words spoken by another Dark Lord came to me
'Do what must be done. Do not hesitate. Show no mercy'.
Words for a Dark Lord to live by.
I sat up and held Luna in one arm while thinking out loud.
"This world does need a good rebellion. It needs to be torn down and rebuilt. I'm not ready to do that yet but that's okay we have time. Most of Death Eaters are either dead or worse. Voldemort isn't making any moves himself so he's not fully back yet so its going to take time for him to fully restore himself to power".
The fact that Luna couldn't see how a restored Voldemort would return to power meant that the method wasn't certain yet nor was it that close to happening.
If Riddle still wanted to capture Harry Potter to use his blood for the ritual then the Boy-Who-Lived would find himself taking part in the Triwizard Tournament. If not then I didn't have a clue what was going to happen and while that worried me it really just meant that I would have to adapt my plans as required.
"So is Hermione going to join your harem?" inquired the blonde teen lying on my bed.
"I can't see Granger joining a harem she's to strong willed to be manipulated into that, at least by me. Well not unless I really work at it".
It was possible but if I wanted Granger to do something that her morals wouldn't normally allow her to do then I needed more influence over her. Getting her to work for me as agent hadn't be to hard to accomplish because I'd convinced her that it would help to protect The-Boy-Who-Lived. Granger was loyal to Potter and I'd used that to get her partly under my control but there were limits to this control.
"You need to deal with Ronald" reminded Luna "as long as he's around you'll never really have Hermione as your own or any influence over Harry Potter".
As much as I found He-Who-Chews-With-His-Mouth-Open to be an insufferable lout killing him was a bit extreme if only because it would upset Ginny who I actually cared about.
Using the Staff Of Magnus to strip him of his magical powers would be slightly better.
I also had the amusing idea of putting Ron's name into the Goblet Of Fire. The age line shouldn't stop me as I was over seventeen.
In my view it was doubtful that the age line detected the age of the body because if that was so then ageing potion should fool it. Therefore it must be able to detect a person's true age regardless of how old the body they were in was. If so the age line shouldn't stop me.
And even if it did I could just levitate the piece of paper with Ron's name on it across the age line. Since my body wouldn't be crossing the line it should work fine. Heck you could use a fishing line to put a name in the Goblet Of Fire as that wouldn't require you to cross the line either.
Really anyone with an ounce of logic could get their name into the Goblet of Fire.
But there was no way the Goblet would chose the Ginger prat as the school's champion but then I could practice my confundus charm.
No that was a nice idea but the Weasel might just get himself killed or worse get other people killed.
Squip it was then.
"We can kidnap him and strip his magic tomorrow" I told Luna "if it works as you foresaw then we can get Ginny to slide into her brother's place. She doesn't know what the Staff can do nor will she ever find out. The Headmaster will no doubt investigate but the Tournament will distract him. If Ginny succeeds in replacing Ronald as Harry's best friend then Dumbledore won't be to concern her family is know to be loyal to him after all".
And if they should form a romantic bound then that was fine with.
Luna looked me in eye and said.
"Either plan would work my lord" assured Luna "and Ronald's death would make Ginny very sad so making him powerless is a better option. Better his memories are wiped and he is sent to living in the Muggle World than a dead brother".
My lord. That still sounded a little silly to hear but I'd get use to it.
"Of course it will work" I said with a smirk "I'm the Dark Lord".
I hadn't come up with my Dark Lord name yet but it would come to me. Once I started acting the part I'd learn the character's name.
"Well if Hermione isn't going to be in your harem then the Carrow twins will have to have your babies and quickly to".
There's a reason why I don't drink or eat anything when alone with Luna.
"Babies!"
"You need to have children as quickly as possible because using the Dark Arts can cause sterility and there's a Pureblood ideal that your children get their magic from their parents directly so the more children you have the weaker you get and that any child after the first will be weak as well".
That actually made sense to me as Dark Magic is about death not life but the second thing made no sense.
"Its silly because Ginny is more talented than Ronald but she's a seventh child so that might explain it" said Luna
Actually I doubted Ron was that magically weak he was just lazy. His twins brothers were quite talented and they worked on it so any lack of power in Ron's case was his own fault.
"But most Wizards don't seem to be very fertile even if they aren't Dark Arts users".
I wondered if there was a reason for that. Luna's Mum and Dad might have had one child because they thought they had time to have more or could it because of the weed.
As for the issue of kids well I didn't actually want any but I might lose the option if I didn't do it soon and the whole birth rate issue did worry me Hogwarts should have a lot more students in that it did. So maybe having lots of children was a good idea.
The Carrow twins might be up for that (as they were willing to obey me in exchange for power and protection) but I wouldn't be able to marry either of them. The only Wizard born out of wedlock I knew about was Voldemort which wasn't a ringing endorsement for the idea.
"Hey what about Muggles" I said to Luna "Half bloods with one Muggle parent are pretty common maybe I could impregnate some Muggle women".
"How women do you want to have sex with?" inquired my girlfriend.
I wasn't planning to have sex with them at all.
After explaining about sperm banks to the teenage witch I reminded her that while food and drink (which were organic just like semen) couldn't just be created they could be increased in volume with magic.
You could keep refilling a half drunk bottle of booze that way which was made from organic things. Hops and barley in beer and grapes in wine so if the same could be done with semen I could donate quite a lot of sperm and then donate it banks. I could end up siring a lot of Half-Bloods who eleven years later would be filling up Hogwarts. Even I couldn't go with that plan well a guy can jack off a lot at my age. Then I could go around placing my samples in banks easily done.
Luna looked at me as if I'd gone mad which given her mental state meant that I was really must of sounded crazy.
Then it hit me. My idea would actually make things worse. None of the Half-Bloods would know that they were related so they could end up marrying and then having kids with each other which worse than what was driving the Purebloods to their doom.
"Sorry guess I'm going a little crazy" I explained to the love of my life "it happens to Dark Lords sooner or later I'm just getting it over and done with early on".
That had meant to be partly a joke but it didn't sound like one.
It was no surprise to me that I was acting a bit odd it had been a long day one were I had possibly found a way to beat the Killing Curse and then gotten the Outcasts another member. Add to that I had just spent sometime recovering in St. Mungos it was quite understandable that I was acting a bit strange.
Perhaps because she sensed that I needed to relax or because she was becoming more affectionate Luna decided to slip her hand inside my boxers and start jerking me off while kissing me.
It was nice but she awful at it so I showed her a better way, a way that could actually get to me cum some time before breakfast.
Normally I wouldn't encourage my future wife to do anything sexual but handjobs were pretty harmless compared to what teenagers could get up to.
Once she got a good pace going I started to relax and simply enjoy myself letting my mind stop thinking so much which was something it normally only did when I was sleeping.
Riddle House. Little Hangleton. The Muggle World.
Far south of Hogwarts down in England another Dark Wizard was spending time alone with a Witch only they weren't having as much fun.
Mostly this was because Tom Riddle aka Lord Voldemort lacked a proper body and he was gay so Bellatrix really didn't do anything for him anyway.
"My lord I have found the boy" declared Bellatrix "he is at Hogwarts
If Voldemort could of face-palmed right now he could of but his small deformed body didn't quite have the strength he could only just about raise his wand.
"Of course the boy is at Hogwarts Bella, where else would be?".
Bellatrix's messed up mind took a moment to figure out why her master would say such a thing but she got there in the end.
"I do not mean the Potter brat my lord. I meant Mason".
Voldemort was now starting to wonder if breaking Bellatrix out of prison had been worth it but then he remembered that he had indeed been looking for a different boy.
"You refer to the boy who prevented my return to power in the Forbidden Forest?"
"Indeed I do my lord" agreed Bellatrix "his name is Damien Mason and he a student at the school".
Well the second part had been rather obvious really but Voldemort had never known this child's name until now.
"Mason I know the name" muttered the diminished Dark Lord.
"An old Pureblood family but a small one" informed Bella.
Yes Riddle remembered them now. A very wealthy but minor Pureblood family which had some political power but mostly the Masons had always kept to themselves. A few of them had been inventors of some note but there was much else worth noting.
Still of it weren't for the fact that this Damien had killed a few of the Dark Lord's minions and prevented Lord Voldemort's return then Riddle would be thinking of recruiting this boy.
But the again perhaps he could be of use.
If he is an enemy then his blood could be used to return me to power was Voldemort's next thought Potter will be better protected then ever after the World Cup and with no agent in the school there is no way of bringing Potter to me but this Mason is more vulnerable. It would be fitting to use the person who prevented my return last time as a tool for the next attempt.
That was one of the reasons why Riddle had wanted to use Potter's blood in the first place, well that it would of bypassed some of the protection the boy enjoyed, but this Mason seemed powerful enough and after he was restored he could punish Damien Mason in person for delaying the return of Lord Voldemort.
"Bella my dear who at Hogwarts would do my bidding".
The female Death Eater gave it some thought.
"There are not many true Purebloods left at that horrid school. As you know my lord my own nephew was killed there during his second year and the sons of Crabbe and Goyle were unfairly expelled".
Well they'd actually been expelled due to a combination of failing their exams and bad behaviour that Snape was no longer around to cover up for.
"However my lord Nott's boy returned to the school even after his father's death at the World Cup along with Gibbon".
The Death Eaters had taken a lot of hits recently. Bellatrix was the only inner circle member still alive and not soulless. Hence why Voldemort did already have someone in the school to do this sort of work for him.
"And could Notts' heir be of use to us?" inquired Voldemort. "is he seventeen?"
"Not yet my lord" replied Bella
Voldemort mentally cursed.
If he had an adult agent in Hogwarts that would of made things easier. The plan to get to Potter using the Triwizard Tournament didn't look like it was going to happen at this rate.
"According to what Nott told me his son his intelligent but a loner by nature, but perhaps a chance to avenge his father might bring out the proper Pureblood within him" suggested Bella.
Given that they were bigoted inbred morons with more money than sense being a proper Pureblood just made you easier to manipulate in Voldemort's view. Offering this kid the chance for revenge should be enough to make him an agent of the Dark Lord.
"Get a message to this young Nott" instructed Voldemort "tell him that I want his classmate Damien Mason brought here to me. He is to try recruiting Mason first after all our ranks do need refilling and the Mason boy could of be use, assuming his mind remains intact".
Skilled Wizards were hard to find these days. Perhaps moulding a youth into a suitable minion would be worth the time mused Voldemort.
"Should Mason refuse my offer then he is still to be brought to me alive".
Getting out of Hogwarts was a lot easier than getting in so if this child Nott was as bright as his father boasted then perhaps he could manage a kidnapping.
"If he can not find a way to get Mason to me then Nott must find a way to get you to Mason".
Bellatrixed bowed and then ran off to do her master's bidding. Voldemort went back to plotting about Potter who was still in main target for the Dark Lord along with Dumbledore who Tom Riddle really wanted dead above all others.