First day of summer vacation
As it was the first day of summer vacation I was pretty happy because what guy in his 30's has fun in grade 1. I wanted to bash my head off the table so much but I knew I would look insane if I did that. Luckily I brought some books in with the cover replaced by the books at school so I could read something during the day. Sure I could read it in less than an hour but took my time as I had to reason to speed threw until the internet takes off and I can get a wireless tablet of some kind. Other than reading a book I had been writing in a note book I found at the house.
What was special about this book is that I found on the front page on how it works. It came with two aluminum plates that had a rune string on them. I was to put the first one on top of a stack of paper and the other I was supposed to put on a shelf upright against the side. The way that the book worked was that it seems to be magical in a way (I don't want to destroy it trying to figure out how it works) that the one plate takes paper to fill the book with new paper and the other plate creates a notebook that is exactly 100 pages thick on the shelf using the same paper and multiple fused together for front and back cover. The book itself looks like it's an A5 journal with 100 pages. But here the thing it takes 2 pieces of paper for everyone I use. The reason for this is that I can still flip through all the books it's made because it stores them in a pocket space like the trunk but this one only for pages in the book. The book is also enchanted so that if you don't mutter a specified word before opening it, it shows a day planner for the year. It's absolutely brilliant. All the books are at the house since still no one's showed up. But I did put it on the bottom shelf on one of the book case just in case someone ever shows up so they won't notice, I hope.
When I finally get up the nerve to go to Diagon Alley I am buying another one of these books and giving it to Hermione to work with. I would love to see what she comes up with. I was to keep fostering new ideas in her and not just only what's written down. Plus I can check on her progress by looking at the shelf I set up and not let her know about that and only about the ever full part of the journal. But with Hermione I think I am going to have to get a house elf at some point so it can keep the paper stocked and buy me things from the stores when I finally find out how to get one.
When Hermione finally got here at around 9am I tell her I have something to show her and this is just as big secret as the first one we had. She agrees not to talk about it and I take her to the house. She is confused when I take her into a house at the end of a street and I don't even unlock the front door (still haven't found the key and I can't go to the hardware store myself). As she walks in she's dumb founded about the size of the house compared from the outside. It looks 3 times as big inside as it does outside at just a glance. She says one word "How." So then I proceed to tell her my version of how I found the place and that no one has shown up and what I think has happened to the owner. I don't tell her about the key to the vault or such because I don't think she will like the fact I am taking that for myself when I get the nerve to try at Gringotts. After that she asked to go read the library this place has but I told her only to read the first year / introductory books on any subject she wanted like me. I told her my reasoning behind it and she agreed after thinking about it.
After a few days of hanging out and going to the house and her finishing the first year books I told her my plan about magic. I wanted to see what was possible with magic and what wasn't and give myself my own answers. So I told her we would do it in the way of the scientific principle but just assume we can do anything from the start and just threw that, come up with our own conclusions about what works and what doesn't for what reason and principles. Because if we could already do somethings that shouldn't be able to be done, why can't we do more? While we are doing this we will create our own findings and write them down, and how we think things can be done easier or problems that we found. I also want to get her into the rune books because we can't use wands. I showed her a clay ball I made with the light rune that if I pushed my magic into it, it would light up. But it would only hold for a few hours so I still needed to find out how these things lasted longer or where permanent from other sources that I haven't found. Must be something simple I'm not getting.
The next day early in the morning I had told my mom I was just going outside before Hermione came over. But in reality I had asked her to come over by noon because this morning I was going to head to Gringotts. So I stood by the now lit fire and threw in the flow powder and said "Leaky Cauldron" and I stepped through. This was interesting because I was slowly spinning but moving past many fire places at high speed. I finally came to stop at the Leaky Cauldron and I kept walking as I did before. The spinning and all that didn't seem to be real as I physically felt nothing in there. I came out with the same foot that I was bringing in when I entered. So instead of a feeling of getting sucked into a tunnel with apparition it's a visual instead. But damned if I understand why in the fiction I read harry gets tossed around at exit. It's not like I did and this is my first time. Maybe it was reading the 2 souls and trying to make sure they didn't collide when emerging, and tried separating them for safety.
Well I made it to the Leaky and slipped into the alley behind a lady in her 30's. She didn't notice/care when I followed her in. As I made it to the wrong steps on the bank I took in a deep breath and marched in. there was only one other person at the tellers so I walked up to a free goblin in the lines that said vault access. They had many different lines, I guess to make things more efficient and save everyone some time. When I got to the goblin I asked for my key and after he inspected it asked what number. I guess this was the wizarding version of a security question. Because I can only assume they know what vault the key belongs to with their magic.
After the car ride that was very fun I was let out at my vault. The door was not big at all because not everyone can have giant vaults like the potters and blacks. It was the size of a closet door and not 4 feet left or right was another door. This must be a normal people vaults especially with such a high number as mine was. When I open the door I came into a 3x3 space with shelves everywhere with multiple bins on them, and in the bins where coins. There seemed to be a decent amount here and when I asked the goblin outside if he knew how much was in here he said he could for a fee. I thought about it and I knew I needed an answer to the question and instead of wasting time I said yes for a 5 galleon fee. The goblin then proceeded inside and looked around and nodded (I assume the owner sets it up how they want and not the goblins). He then waved his hands and muttered something under his breath. He then told me I had 38,802 galleons and 8 sickles. The last wizard that owned this vault I guess took all the lower currency and exchanged it for galleons. That would make sense because why would you want a ridiculous amounts of knuts and sickles. All that would do is take up so much more space because I guess that the bigger the vault the more fee's that would be applied. That would be one way to free up unused vaults over time of dead people. As the fee's would slowly empty the vaults of the coins and make it free for a new person to rent.
I stood there and thought about how much I should take and asked the goblin if there was a coin purse anywhere. And low and behold he happened to have a bottomless one for 50 galleons. I thought about it and then asked if there was anything else other than bottomless with it. The goblin said that since it was made by Gringotts only the owner of the purse could use it. I was cackling in my head because this solved one of my problems as to getting rid of the money and solved another one of where I should put my money for now. I told the goblin my thanks and handed him the 50 galleons and he left the vault. I then proceeded to empty all the bins into the purse. That took little less than an hour and left the bank knowing the next time they came to take the fee from the vault there would be nothing so they would close the vault. I would come back in a year or so I figure and set up some muggle accounts for myself because I would need them for my future investments and my stock market buying. There are a number that I want to buy at the IPO release if this world holds true to the last one. As I have looked through everything I can see nothing different other than a magic world. The muggle side is still cruising along with no real differences.
When I left the bank I thought about where I should go first and I decided on getting a bag to put everything in. I can't remember the name of the store that they were sold at so I walked down the alley and finally found "Storage for all occasions". Now that looks like a proper place to buy something to hold my things.
Inside the store it had trunks, tents also women's purses. I decided it would be best just to go up and ask for help then try looking around and not finding what I need. I asked the person at the counter if they sold messenger bags or back packs. They told me that they had messenger bags for going into muggle areas but not backpacks for kids. I asked what my options where and they gave me a run down on a list of options. In the end I decided to get a permanent feather light charm, indestructible, forever clean and finally the inside was expanded to the point there would be 6mx6m area inside of it. Your thinking how would I get anything other than climbing inside. The neat thing was that if you thought about something that was in the bag it would end up in your hand if it was reaching inside it. Always wondered how that would work. The bag cost a lot it cost 200g. But when you think of the options that this gives me I easily handed over the money. I looked around and asked for a trunk like Moody's and that was a crazy price unfurnished of 1,500g. That was a small room not a apartment like some stories say, those went for 8,000g. But they also had a kitchen and bedroom along with a living room area. Next I looked around for a shop that sold elves or something along those lines. I remember reading stories where there was a place that sold them. Another story had a place that rented them out for a time. Finding nothing in Diagon, I was tempted to go to knock turn but I didn't want to get kidnaped or anything. Finally I went to a side street beside the trunk store and called out.
"Is there a house elf that is around that can help me?"
"….."
"Please if there is a house elf around I would just like to ask you a question."
"….."
Just as I was about to repeat my question out loud for the 5th time an elf materialized in front of me while I was facing down the side street so no one would see the elf.
"How can Maggie answer your question?"
Wow that worked "well Maggie I was wondering how someone gets an elf to come live with them and help around the house and keep everything in order."
"OH.. That's easy just ask me" she said with a very happy smile.
"It's that easy Maggie? I would have thought you had a master?"
"Usually not but once an elf is raised and not requested or they ask to bond to the family the elf can go looking as up till then they were getting nourishment from their parents."
Wow this elf is happy and not dumb like dobby was. "So if you don't mind me asking why did you leave the house you lived in."
"Well…. The family was not very nice to my parents and they couldn't leave, and asked me to find a good family."
"Can you tell me what family your parents lived with?"
"The Travers family."
"Why did you think I would be good? I mean you don't know me?"
"Well the first reason was that you're a muggle born. I can see that from how you are dressed. Second is everyone says muggle borns treat house elves the best unlike the old families that I'm from."
Well that makes sense anyone with any current thinking from the non-magical side hates slavery and would treat a sentient creature with respect.
"Ok would you like to bond with me Maggie? My magic might not be strong since I'm young but I hope its enough."
"Oh I would love to. And don't worry I'm sure your magic Will grow and you should be good by the time you go to Hogwarts to properly supply me. Till then I just can't work as hard."
"So Maggie what do I do?"
"You just cut your hand and put your hand on my head and say your full name and wish to bond Maggie to you or your house."
I take out a penknife out of my pocket that I carry and cut my palm a bit. I then place it on her head and say "Mark Holdings would wish to bond Maggie to me as my elf." A bright light lit up her head and she squealed and hugged my waist.
"Thank you thank you. I will be the best elf ever."
"Don't worry Maggie you already are."
"Wow master you have a lot of magic how old are you?"
"What do you mean Maggie I'm 7."
"I mean your magic feels like it's that of the old families 13 year olds."
Huh must be from all the practice I have been doing.
"Well Maggie that must be because I practice with my magic all the time."
"But master many old families give their children practice wands when your young and they don't feel like you."
"I have to then assume it's because I don't use a wand and it takes more to do things without one."
"Wow master no one does wandless magic other than accidental magic anymore."
Well this confirms it that your core is like a mussel it grows when used. Also that when using a wand it doesn't strain the core enough to make it grow. Must mean if I continue like this I will eventually have a giant/strong core compared to the general population.
"OK Maggie I have a few question for you as your master now. Do you know where my house is? The one I live in and the one I use? Can you pop me around? Would you be willing to help one of my friends if she calls? Do you want revenge on your old family or never want to see them? Can you do shopping for me if I gave you money?"
"I don't know where your house is only places you have been after we have bonded. I had no idea you had two houses it will be so fun to be able to keep two places clean. Yes I can elf apperate you around especially since we don't need to worry about how much magic you have. Of course I would love to help your friends. I don't want revenge on the family but I wish my parents could get free. Most elves do the shopping for old families."
"Well I guess we should go back home anyways before my friend shows up. That way I can show you my two places and I won't need to worry about Hermione getting angry that she doesn't get to explore with me."
We walked back to the Leaky and I tossed in some flew powder I had on hand from home and said " the retreat" and stepped in. I had no issue coming to the house. That's another issue I need to solve I need to get a password somehow or wards tied to me to stop others from coming here.
"Maggie"
"Yes master?"
"This property is known as the retreat and is the house that has all my magical items at. I'm going to walk to my house that I live with my mother. The only thing is that my mother is a muggle and I don't want her to know about magic yet. You can clean the house and everything as normal just nothing that will be obvious that you are there. So no making food for us or cleaning up the table. But you can still make me and Hermione snacks and lunch when I'm not at home. Whit this house treat it as your typical house and do what you normally do or want to do."
I then walk over to my house and wait for Hermione. It takes only another 45min for her to show up but not with her parents. She now just runs from the car and comes in because I have her treat this as her other home and she's always welcome. I think my mother is glad that I have a friend again but is curious why I don't have more. Once she comes over we hang out a bit but then we head over to the other house. When we are both seated I call out for Maggie.
When Maggie showed herself Hermione almost lost her shit. It was quit funny she didn't know what to do she knew Maggie could talk based on the fact she introduced herself. First she asked who she was and how we met. Then what she was doing here and all those fun questions. Maggie bore with it with ease as if this was of no issue compared to normal day for her. Then the big question came when she asked why she called me master. And Maggie answered that's because I was her master. Hermione turned to me with the most scathing look. But unlike a future version of herself she didn't say or rant she just looked at me for an answer knowing that I am not a monster that owns slaves. To which I said one word "symbiosis". Then she looks thoughtful and asked how. I told her she feeds on my magic for food and keep her healthy.
"Oh, well that makes sense."
"Yep because she uses my magic she cleans my house that she likes to do so it's a two way benign relationship. I also told her if you ever needed her for her to go to you if you called. And also to let you know she can turn invisible and also teleport anywhere she knows where to go or to places I have been. So if you wanted you could come see me even if your parent's couldn't take you here."
"wow that sounds great Mark. Thank you Maggie that would be great."
"No problem mistress."
"Maggie can you take us to the Leaky Cauldron."
"Sure no problem."
With that I showed Hermione the Alley. She fell in love with the sights but asked first where there was a book store. I knew that was going to come around. She wandered around in the store and could not get enough of it. But finaly said to me that she wished she had money to buy some. I told her I had some magical currency since its different then muggle currency and she didn't even question it she grabbed a basket and jumped at the chance to buy books she didn't even know existed. By the time she was done she had picked up 30 books on various subjects but still kept in mind not to get into advanced wand waving subjects but anything else advanced was ok. Especially anything that had to do with internal magic's or wandless. I also picked up a lot of books on medical and anything obscure I could find. Finally at the checkout I asked if there were any more books like the one I had and they said of course but the cost of one was 60g. Hermione looked at me like I was crazy for buying one small book for that price and I told her not to worry about it because all our other books ended up costing only 40g. So the total was 100g just in this book store.
Next we went into madam Malkens because me and Hermione need to fit in and not stand out I also asked for two hooded cloaks and all of them had resizing charms so we can wait a while to come back because we are growing kids.
After that we went and to a shoe store and we both got dragon hide boots with charms on them, and they were the most comfortable things I have worn. They were both a blackish green and more hiking boot but with no laces. I also went around and tried to find a store that looked interesting and we found a glasses store. We didn't need them but I went in to find out what kind of charms could be put on them or fix your eyes. I'm curious as to why harry had his crappy glasses while going to the alley 7 times in his life. I found out they could fix your eyes no issue it only took eye drops in your eyes once every half hour for 5 hours and its done. That just blew my mind. And for charms for glasses there were lots and I mean lots anything you could think of. From x ray but that only went through 1 layer of clothing to heat vision so you could look like the alien predator.
Finally after spending a few hours there we went home with Maggie taking everything we bought home for us already. When we got home I told her how her book worked and I would have Maggie make sure we both had lots a paper ready all the time and she wouldn't have to worry. She then asked if she could keep the books I bought her here . Of course I said yes, soon afterword's her mom came and picked her up.
Later that night I called Maggie while I was in bed.
"Hey Maggie I want to ask you something and I don't want you to say yes because I asked you."
"OK master"
"I was wondering if you can still get into your old family's house?"
"Yes I can they never said I couldn't but they don't know I have left."
"Do they have books that they don't read and don't care about? That they never see or read at any of their properties they own."
"hmmmmm... yes I believe so."
"Can you take them for my library or copy ones I don't have for mine?"
"I... don't see why I can't but isn't it wrong to steal."
"I don't think it's wrong to steel from bad people Maggie especially from ones that treat your parents like crap."
"Ok I will do that for you."
"If you need money for the books to write in here is 100g. Also can you make sure they are safe for me to read and have no spells on them? If you need more space at my place please add more room and or shelves. Just do this on your time off you don't need to stress yourself."
1 month into summer break
After a month into summer vacation me and Hermione had both finished out books on how runes for and the 2 most prominent run languages. I sat Hermione down and decided to have a talk with her in what I wanted to do with all this knowledge.
"Hermione, I need to talk to you about something and I need you to keep an open mind and let me know your ideas and what you think after."
"Ok, Mark you should know you can talk to me about anything."
"Well first things first is that I am doing this to make us safe. Becau..."
"WHAT!"
"As I was saying. Because less than 10 years ago there was a bunch of crazy terrorists that thought that all half-bloods and muggle borns should die or live as slaves to the old families. The government did not do anything that was productive because most of them are old families or where bribed by them to look the other way. Lots of people died and it all finally ended because the head terrorist wanted to kill this one boy and his spell that he shot at him back fired and killed him. And even after that all his followers claimed that they were under the imperious and got off. It also helped with a nice generous bribe to the people who were in charge of the court system."
"Oh my god we need to tell are parents this and move away."
"I'm sorry Hermione it won't matter."
"Why?"
"Because they will do it again and once they are done here they will move to the next country and next and keep going." god I hate doing this to her but I need to get her in the right frame of mind and not expect everyone else to do things for you.
"But what can we do?"
"We can read and study and invent things to help us and protect us. But we need to keep it to ourselves. Because if someone finds out what we are doing they might tell someone and we would disappear because we are trying to change the status quo. "
"You can't be serious."
"Sad to say I am because no one cares about us. We are the dirt on there feet in there opinion. We cant even get a job in the government unless we are a half blood and that means only being a secretary. So we need to make money for ourselves or we will be working minimum wage jobs forever because we don't have any legal schooling documents after 11. They make it so muggle borns have no hope and only give us an education so that we can be shown how great this world is and forget about the muggle world. And once we finish school we have to try and figure out how to fit in again in the muggle world. And since we are so depressed we don't try, we work menial jobs. And our kids get a 50/50 chance of being magical also. And if we do get a magical kid we will want them to have fun and happy and not bring them down with the fact about how crapy life is."
"Oh my god we need to tell people."
"Why? Hermione they already know even the teachers they just don't tell the students."
"But but..."
"Its OK Hermione we have each other and maybe a few others we trust to join us to keep ourselves safe. Hell maybe we will make our own island and ward it to hell and give us a safe place to call home."
"Mark I'm scared now, will you always be with me?"
"Of course, I would have never told you this and my upcoming plans if I didn't plan to have you at my side for as long and you want me."
"I'll always want you with me. You're my best friend."
"Thank you Hermione, your my best friend also" and she really was. " what I think we should do is get a white board and write up our plans here and also another white board for ideas we want to do."
After that I had Maggie get us 2 giant white boards that where hung up in the library. We sat down and came up with a few ideas, some of them where.
Final outcomes
Get our own island and make sure no one else can get on it but only who we want.
Get lots of money because with money we can buy / bribe who ever we need.
Find out how to get stronger by whatever means magically or physically as long as there are no real down sides to it.
Find a way to get rid of the bad guys if they start again to protect ourselves.
Things we should make or find out
Find out if there's blood adoption potions and see if we can add whatever we want to ourselves as long as we still look human. E.g. make a blood adoption from a dragon. As long as we don't get scales or wings and we get stronger instead its all the better.
Find out or create a way to get more than 1 animagus
Find out everything we can about wards to make our new home so we don't need Gringotts.
See if magic messes with electronics. (Can't see it does because of places near Diagon alley would be broken along with places near muggle homes.)
Try and see if we can make magical constructs to protect our home or us.
Make mundane weapons better and easier for use to use if it came down to it. (better them then us)
See if we can come up with some remote viewing.
Melt Gringotts gold coins and sell to muggles.
See if we can make a flying machine that's magiced to hell by using brome magic and flying carpet magic.
See if we can make magic gate ways.
Magically copy books.
See if any other current languages can be used as runes so its easier to write them.
Find out if there's a magic was to learn languages.
Make our own port keys so we don't need to go to government.
Find out anything else we can do in our mindscapes to make them stronger and safer.
Learn telepathy.
Learn legilimency.
See if we can teleport and not apparate.
Learn to make trunks or the like with expanded space.
Find out what materials hold magic better.
See if there is a magical way to mine the ground or recycle things into base alloys or elements.
How to make magic homes.
Make a light saber.
Make a hover board.
Learn about rituals.
Try and create force powers.
See what other powers we can create.
Make sure there are no magus's only wizards and witches in this world.
Find out if there are any other magical species.
Find out about magical contracts and vows.
Learn some martial arts and try and enhance our body with magic.
Figure out a good place to either make or buy an island.
Lean to make expanded green houses.
Find out if we can get more house elves.
Find out where magicals are and not and why?