The following weeks went by in a blur of activity for the Potter/Weasley Clan. Bill and Fleur moved into one of the small cottages Harry had owned near Devon, a wedding gift to them. Remus and Dora were finishing their preparations for their new home in Hogsmeade, Neville and Luna decided to remain at Longbottom Manor with Neville's parents, who were still trying to get caught up on everything they had missed.
Charlie was in the process of starting his own animal sanctuary which was being funded by the Flamel Estate and Gringotts; so far they had over one hundred animals including two Welsh Green Dragons who were very young. Charlie was enjoying himself and looking forward to the day when his sanctuary would be up and running so that he could court an old flame from his Hogwarts days.
Ron and Hermione decided to remain at Potter Manor after the new Burrow was built. After one too many loud rounds of sex, Harry kicked them out of the Manor and gave them the Little Manor to live in, which was only three miles away. Little Manor, as the Potters had named it, had two fewer bedrooms than Potter Manor. Besides that fact, they two were identical down to the smaller details.
Ron of course refused initially, but Harry reminded Ron that Hermione was Harry's sister and because of that fact, she was entitled to Little Manor.
Molly and Arthur returned to the New Burrow, though they spent many hours at the Ministry. Arthur was of course the Deputy Minister, but the surprise was Molly. Minister Bones specifically asked Molly to head up Child Protection and Welfare Unit. Molly jumped at the chance, and was making a difference.
Forge and Gred were back at the joke shop, making products and also creating new items for war. These included more of their protective clothing and other items. The twins were also working with Hermione on adapting Muggle Technology for use in the magical world.
This was something that Queen Elizabeth and Harry had talked about at length. They both knew that the Wizarding World needed to grow and change or else sooner or later the Muggles would discover their world and eradicate it.
As for the Potters themselves, well things were busy. Ginny was spending considerable amount of time either handling their philanthropic endeavors or dealing with issues as the Lady of Hogwarts. So far, Ginny, with Harry's approval, had approved Albus and Minerva's plans to completely restructure the way students re taught at Hogwarts.
Harry on the other hand was extremely busy. Besides his usual commitments as the Lord Protector of the Realm, Lord of Hogwarts, Head of eight of the most powerful houses in the wizarding world, Leader of the Order of the Phoenix, Harry also had a number of other commitments that was taking up more of his already limited amount of time.
Harry was required to attend a number of meetings over the last four weeks regarding the Order's position in the world, the hunt for Voldemort, and different matters regarding Hogwarts and the new curriculum. While Geneva was nice, Harry stayed in Flamel Chalet in Switzerland; though he preferred to be in Godric's Hollow with his wife.
After the ICW Meetings, Harry then had a number of meetings with Gringotts regarding his family investments in the bank. These meetings could not be handled by Ginny, which unfortunate because Ginny sat in on these meetings anyway. The only time Harry could almost relax when he was meeting with the queen. When they spoke, Harry felt like he was talking to a grandparent, much like how he and Albus spoke when they had time, just like with the Headmaster, the queen was giving Harry homework for their future meetings.
Queen Elizabeth and Harry both agreed that magical folk has reached the pinnacle of the civilization and were starting on a slow decline. In order to correct this issue, the queen was discussing with Harry different strategies to slowly bring the magical world up to speed with the muggle world.
Harry's homework would normally include drawing up some research and plans about how to make various muggle technologies work in highly magical areas. Luckily, most of this work Harry was able to pass off to the Research and Development Division of the Order and also Gringotts, who already had a leg up on the research.
On top of this work, Harry was still spending hours on end on his physical and magical conditioning. Sit-ups, push-ups, crunches, pull-ups, five mile runs, sword fighting, staff fight, knife fight and hand to hand combat were just a few of the exercises he was working thru everyday for hours on end. He was also dueling anyone who would dare try plus multiple opponents in the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts. To top it off, Harry continued to work on strengthening his magical core and his magical by exhausting himself magically and then letting Hogwarts heal him and also recharge his core.
To add to this insane schedule that Harry was keeping, Harry also was spending much of his time at Griffin's Den working on some sort of secret project that not even Ginny knew about. Thanks to his ability to astral project, and lots of meditation, Harry was able to do everything he needed to do into one day. However, he still had the goblin time turner for his use if he ever needed it.
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It was a few days before his birthday, and Harry was working in the Alchemy lab of Griffin's Den. Ginny, who had discreetly placed a few tracking charms on her husband, decided that her husband needed a night off. After passing off all of their jobs and responsibilities for the night, Ginny flamed to entry hall of Griffin's Den.
"Good afternoon Lady Flamel, how are you doing today?" Nicholas asked the redhead.
"Not well Nicholas. Harry is working too hard and I feel that it is my responsibility to make sure he relaxes for one night."
"I agree Mistress Ginny, Harry is working way too hard for his own good. His Astral Projection abilities are beginning to burn him out. He needs to rest for a little while."
Ginny smirked, "That is my plan. Where is my wayward husband at Nicholas?"
Nicholas smiled at the Lady of the House; he knew Harry was doomed, just like Nicholas himself would be when Perenelle gave him the same look. "He is in the Alchemy Lab finishing both of your staffs."
"HE'S WHAT?!?!? No wonder he's exhausted. Mr. Olivander said that it takes a lot of power to make wands for someone else, I can only imagine how much power Harry is using."
With that, Ginny left the entrance hall and headed to the main lab they dubbed the Alchemy Lab. When she arrived at the door, she used her phoenix powers and saw that Harry was sitting in a conjured armchair, looking exhausted. Without another thought, Ginny walked into the lab and laid into her husband.
"HARRY JAMES POTTER WHAT IN THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING!? Creating staffs without resting yourself, do you want to die?"
Harry just looked at his wife and with a tired flick of his hand; he summoned her to his chair, where she landed in his lap.
"Gin my love, when we buried Kreacher, I knew I had to do whatever I could to prepare for my last fight with Tom. I wanted every advantage I could get. So I trained harder then ever, never once faltering in my belief that this is what was needed. I also realized that we needed another ace up our collective sleeve, so I have been on these."
Harry pointed to a rack of staffs on the far wall. There were forty staffs there, all looking alike. "Those are the generic ones." Harry summoned one of them from the wall and showed it to his wife. "You see, all the order members have to do is place their wands into this hole, and the staff will then be able to amplify any spell used.
"This staffs" Harry motioned to the ones on another rack "I just finished. These are the better staffs. These are for Kingsley Shacklebolt, Alastor Moody, Fred, George, your mum and Dad, Hestia, Neville, Luna, Percy, and Penny. These staffs have two cores within the staff to help channel more power with the help of their wands. Also all of these staffs so far are not bound to the user.
"However, the staffs on the table are each individually made for their intended users. All they have to do is place the staff on a flat surface, then place their wand over then hand grip and place three drops of blood on the wand and the staff. The wand is absorbed into the staff, and the staff is then bound to the user.
"Wow" was all Ginny could say.
"Yeah, the best part is that the standard staffs can transform into a standard looking wand or the full staff. The upgraded version, which is what your mum and dad are getting to transform into three different sizes, full size, half staff, and wand; our staffs can also transform into quarter staffs too and be full staffs like I said earlier. That way, the staffs are easier to be used with weapons like swords and axes."
"What about our Harry? I assume that you would make one for each of us." Ginny asked curiously.
Harry smiled at his wife and led her over to a sealed door. After removing a number of charms and wards, Harry opened the door and walked into the room. When Ginny entered what she saw made her gasp; the room itself was easily half the size of the Great Hall of Hogwarts with a much lower ceiling. Spaced out every few meters was a bed of precious stones with a single staff sitting in the middle of the bed. The stone bed was the same type of stone as what was on the top of each staff.
Harry walked over to the bed of emeralds and removed the staff that sat there. It was then that Ginny realized that the emeralds matched Harry's eye color perfectly.
"This one is mine Ginny. I built it last. Come here and take a closer look at it."
Ginny did just that, though she never touched it, it was beautiful piece of work that must have taken Harry hours upon hours to make. "Harry, this must have taken you hours to make, have you even slept in the last four weeks? Because I sure as hell know that you have only been in bed with me a few times, and those times we did not sleep but fucked like rabbits all night."
Harry blushed at the comment about their sex lives. Yes it was true that they had sex on all night long, but Harry always made it home, eventually to sleep for the night. It was just most days; he was home well after midnight and gone before the sun rose.
"Yes well…I was a time dilation field to give myself more time. I set it at fifty to one so that I could create the staffs before the final battle. Here, let me walk you through my staff. These staffs are all built individually, but they are all generally the same design.
"The main part of the staff itself is made from holly wood, like my wand. The other staffs are made from the same wood as their owner's wands. Then each staff has different woods inserted into the main body of the staff; Yew, Oak, Walnut, Pine, Rosewood, and Holly wood are the woods that I used for these staffs. They are the most mist magical woods there is. Anyway, the wood inserts run three quarters of the way up staff from the tip of it. This helps absorb more ambient magic and spells fired directly at the staff, thus protecting it from harm. The woods take this absorbed magic and channel it into the stones around the handle. These stones are the same as the top of the staff. My staff holds a large, perfect diamond over 6 inches in diameter. Fused inside of the diamond is a 2 inch in diameter flawless emerald.
"You see diamonds do an excellent job as a conductor and as a protector for the stone within. So each other stones I grew inside of the diamond structure, which I grew as well."
"Harry what do you mean, you grew the stones? You are not supposed to be able to conjure or transform precious metals and jewels. It's supposed to be impossible." Ginny said startled. It was one of the first things that children are taught when they are young. It was why goblin made jewelry was in such high demand. The goblins were the only creatures to mine the metals why the dwarves mined the jewels.
"Well, when have normal rules of magic ever applied to me Gin? Anyway, back to my explanation;
Along the whole length of the staff are different runes. These include runes to help channel my own magic better into staff, and for the staff's power to be channeled back into me if I need it; there are also runes to make the staff shrinkable, unable to be summoned by anyway back its owner, and other runes that give the staff additional physical strength, make it lighter to carry, but also harder and heavier if you need to hit someone with it. All of the runes and symbols are drawn in gold, silver, blood of various magical animals including unicorns and griffins, and melted black onyx. The melted onyx was the hard part; I had to conjure some pretty hot fire to melt the stone.
"Now, while the outside looks remarkable, it is the inside that really makes everything work. In the middle of the staff is my original Holly and Phoenix Feather wand. When everyone bonds their wands to their staffs, they will be absorbed and placed in the same place. This serves as the primary core for the staff. Because the staff is much larger than a normal wand, it can channel more power so it needs more cores to handle the additional power.
"Around the wand are the heartstrings of both a Vipertooth and a Hungarian Horntail Dragons, both of them were elderly dragons; around the heartstrings are multiple phoenix feathers, courtesy of Fawkes and a few of his friends, two tail and two chest feathers of each. I have no idea from where so don't ask; over the phoenix feathers are the chest feather and tail feather of a Golden Griffin courtesy of the Alpha Male of the pack that lives here on the grounds. Now, binding this mix of cores together are two tail hairs and two mane hairs of a war unicorn. This keeps all the cores from ever physically separating. Are you following me so far?"
Ginny simply nodded.
"Good. Well after the cores were bound together tightly, I placed them in the center of the hollowed out outer wood of the staff. Next I took the blood of the two dragons that donated their heartstrings and poured them over the cores and into the staff. Since blood is one of the places where magic is the strongest, the blood began to bond to the core and the wood, making it all compatible with each other. From there I took blood, venom, and powered fang of a basilisk, the basilisk I defeated in the second year to be exact, and poured them into the top and bottom of the staff like the dragon's blood.
"I will say this; the magics within the two type of blood did not like each other for a little while. I had to deal with Chaotic Magic for a few hours as the magics finally settled down enough for me to continue. I then took the bloods of a War Unicorn and a filly, both of which were freely given, mixed them with the tears and ashes of a phoenix, once again Fawkes, before I poured them into the staff like the other blood. This caused the staff to glow many different colors for a little while as the different magic in the materials I used battled each other. The benefit of this battling was that the entire staff was infused with multiple magics that all finally accepted that they were all now part of one single magical item.
"Anyway…so once I had the core completed, I began to create the channeling stones that are within the staff. The channeling stone, a flawless emerald, in encased in flawless diamond. The complete stone was shaped into one cylindrical column with the emerald being two inches in diameter with the diamond being four inches in diameter. The upper column is fused to the cap stone; the lower column is fused to a smaller stone imbedded in the bottom tip of the staff. Like the other stones, it is made from an emerald encased in a diamond. All of the stones on the outside of the staff are all fused to the central stone in the same manner.
"The two focusing stones, which is the best name I could come up, within the staff, have few strands of unicorn hair and the tail hair of a thestral wrapped loosely around their ends. When they touch the magical core, the hairs bind themselves to the core and the stone, ensuring a solid physical and magical connection. Once I completed the assembly of the staff, I use three drops of blood to bind the staff and its user together. The only thing left for the other staffs are their owners to bond their wands and blood to them."
"Why are they all in beds of stone Harry?" Ginny asked, very curious about Harry's reasoning.
Harry laughed, "Well that is easy. They look pretty there don't they?" Seeing his wife's face, Harry pressed on quickly "Well actually, the stones are absorbing any leaking magic from the staffs because none of the other staffs have a wand or blood to complete them."
"Oh, well why don't I finish mine right now, then you and I are going to master suite and we are going to spend some quality time together with no interruptions for the night, Poppy's and my orders." Ginny said.
"Oh really? And what kind of quality time are we talking about?" Harry asked, sliding his hands up and down Ginny's arms.
"We'll figure it out, but first my staff please?" Ginny asked, stepping back from her husband.
"Well, if you want to play that game…guess which one is yours." Harry smirked.
Ginny began to look at the different staffs until she saw one made out of Holly with a fire ruby cap stone. "This one right?"
"Yes, you are right. The staff to your right that is made out of Vinewood with the Blue Sapphire Cap Stone is Hermione's; the Pinewood staff with Opal to your left is Remus' staff. Next to Hermione's is Ron's is the staff made of Ash with the Orange Sapphire stone. Then there is Charlie's staff which is made of Oak with a Red Topaz Captain stone. Next to Remus' staff is one of Birch which is Dora's. Her staff has what is called a Rainbow Topaz as the cap stone, I thought it was appropriate. Next to her staff are Bill's staff and the Fleur's staff. Bill staff is made from Sycamore wood with a Pale Red Ruby; Fleur's is made from Olivewood with a Pale Red Garnet for a Cap Stone."
"Whose are those on the other side of the room?" Ginny asked as she placed her staff on the table in the center of the room.
"The Dark Purple Amethyst is Albus' staff and the other one is Minerva's staff. It took me a long time to figure out how to make the stones Minerva's staff. Chrysoberyl or Cat's Eye as it is commonly referred to is relatively obscure stone and it took me a while to find one for that I knew what I was creating. They are separate because the wood that I used is…well it is rather…unique…it is from a still living lightening charred Yew tree.
"From what I was able to learn from Nicholas' books here, Albus' wand was made from a still living charred Yew tree that Nicholas and him found while talking one day. Since Albus' wand had been broken due to an accident involving firewhiskey, stairs, and a dare from Nicholas; Nicholas Flamel and Mr. Olivander made two wands from one of the branches. The second wand went to Minerva McGonagall when she first went to Olivander's.
"Anyway, when I discovered that the tree was here, I spent a lot of time looking for the tree. When I found it, I had to do some major trading with the Bowtruckle that lived in the tree in order to get two long branches that would make good staffs.
"Anyway, all you need to do is place your wand, tip up, over the handle of the staff and then cut your finger and drip three droplets of blood onto the wand and the staff."
Ginny did as she was told and watched as her wand and blood was absorbed into the staff. Once it was done, the cap stone glowed brightly before it dimmed to soft pulsating inner light.
Ginny grabbed the staff and felt the power coursing thru her whole body once again. Harry simply smiled at his wife and kissed her softly. After he broke the kiss he explained how to transform the staff into the different sizes.
From there, they took their staffs and headed out of the storeroom and back into the main lab itself. After replacing the charms and wards on the door, Harry took Ginny over to a shielded area where she could test out her new staff.
After an hour of practice, Ginny was very happy, and extremely aroused. All of her spells were stronger then ever before and she could now caste multiple charms at once including the patronus charm and her infamous bat-bogey hex.
After testing those charms, Ginny caste a charm at Harry that caused his clothes to completely disappear leaving him starkers. Though Ginny only wanted them to fall to the floor, Ginny wasn't going to complain and quickly flamed Harry and her to the master bedroom where they spent the night together.