Well it's the day of the Slytherin vs. Gryffindor game and all me and the girls can see is a door. The reason for this is because we are standing in front of the door that leads to a goal of mine. I haven't told the girls what it is because if they don't know, then the mirror will give it to them. I double check that we each have a broom and a radio.
"You guys ready?"
"Yep."
"Yes."
"Ok Hermione, do you see anything to do with magic with the door with your magic sight?"
"There is an aura around the lock, so I am assuming it's either a locking spell or a detection spell for when it's unlocked."
"Ok let's try this."
I slowly yank out the pins for the hinges since the door opens out to us using my TK. Next I slowly pull the door open from the hinged side and turn on the radio. I have already set it to a soft jazz station. Then slowly I slide the door closed.
"Well since we didn't do anything to the lock I don't see an issue. Let's wait 5 min to let the dog fall heavily asleep."
"Are you sure that will work Mark? And how do you know what's in there?"
"I heard people talking and then looked up information about Cerberus."
"Oh, well that's good."
After 5min we head in and see that it's asleep in the corner of the room, and the trap door is not blocked. i had still cast a silencing charm on us anyway beforehand, and I now cast one to the door so it makes no noise when we open it.
"Hermione was there anything on the trap door?"
"Surprisingly not, you would think to have notification wards and what not everywhere. It's like the teachers want us to do this."
"Ok well on your brooms and lets head down."
As we head down we see the devil snare. A simple Incendio and it startles the vines and they open up a whole for us. Once down after that it's a corridor to the chamber with the keys. Again it's the same as the top door and we just take off the hinges again. Even to me this is getting ridiculous. Next after that is the chess chamber and that's easy again, as we fly over with the brooms. We have yet to get off them anyways. The next is supposed to be the troll room but I guess me ripping out its eyes has confused them because there's nothing here so they must still be thinking of what to replace with it. And finally we get to the potions room. We are still flying and Hermione tells us there is magic on the floor. Well at least Snape was smart enough to add some kind of ward or spell. We just keep going to the door and Hermione says there's nothing going on here with the door, not even a lock on it. Oh for gods sake and here I thought he had a bit of a brain I guess he thought the flames would stop people. As we fly into the next room it's the mirror chamber and I ask the girls to go have a look one at a time and that I need something from the mirror.
Hermione's POV
As I look into the mirror I see an older curvy version of me with nice wavy hair. She is dressed immaculately in muggle clothes and she is holding hands with a tall older looking Mark. I notice we both have rings on our ring fingers and I can't help but smile at the thought that we look so happy together.
Halley's POV
I'm looking in the mirror and I see Mark sitting in this nice chair. I know its Mark because of his amazing blue eyes. And I see an older me in a nice black suit standing a little to his left. But then I see him hold my hand and slowly rub circles on the back of it and letting go. But then the older version of me winks and deposits something into my pocket. At the same time I feel a weight in my school clothes.
After watching them stare at the mirror for a while I started to shove them with my TK to get them away from the mirror. No need for them to get caught up with it. He sure as hell didn't want to get trapped who knows how long he would look. If the mirror ends up in the come and go room like in the movies I am so taking it and putting a cover over it that will only stay open for a certain length of time.
So did you guys feel a weight in any of your pockets?"
"I did Mark."
"Great!" she then reached inside and pulled out the stone. Both of the girls were speechless because they have heard stories of it and now they are holding it. I just took it from Halley and transfigured the fake into a copy.
"Halley can you give it back to yourself?
"I'll try."
She then walked up to the mirror and placed the stone into her reflections hand and it disappeared into the mirror.
"Well that's that lets get out of here."
We headed back and fixed everything we have done to get here. When we got to the Cerberus i decided to do something. Before we left I cast a noise making charm that was over powered on the trap door. I would love to see Voldemort's face when he tries to open it and wakes up the Cerberus. I wonder if it will eat him lol, especially if he is not ready for it.
Since this only took us 30min we headed back to the game so we would not be missed. The game happened as before and we saw Harry swallow the snitch. I have no idea what happened to the broom because it was fixed but this time not by Hermione. I guess the time line is still going somewhat normal but not really. I have yet to find out who are Harry's friends, because I don't want it to look like I care.
Also during the time since I left those books in the common room I have noticed a change in the puff's. What I have noticed is the upper years have more confidence. And they are not just studying the books for class everyone in every year is reading anything they can get their hands on. It's as if the puffs have turned into claws. But they still act as puffs because they all sit in groups and discus things with each other. Also in class we are always with the claws but the puffs still don't put up our hands all the time. It looks like the puffs are doing what we are. Just staying in the back ground and looking unnoticed. To me I think this is the real Slytherin. You don't slap people in the face with deviousness you hide in the background. But this Slytherin is a group effort I think I might toss a few books into the common room every now and again maybe even the Animagus book I found. Because I have noticed they are also not all caring about fair play anymore. I think the older years have gone over there memories and seen how the school and teachers treats them. So if they can keep this a secret I am going to give every puff an animagus book as a x-mas present.
We have made friends with everyone in our year and above, the puffs are one close group. The older year even have a stack of notebooks in the common room that have older year notes from the person with the best notes. They are very much like the musketeers. I have also been dropping hints that if another war starts we should look out for each other because the claws will go with the people with the best argument and the Griff and Slytherin will always fight each other and damn the consequences. I have said that our population is to low already and its best to pull back into the shadows and let them kill each other off because they always just look at us as the people who will fix it all afterwards like good little peons. Another thing I have asked is what people are going to do after school. The purebloods say they are going to the ministry and same with everyone else with a few say they will try something themselves. I then told them about what I found out about the muggle born and jobs for them. To say they were horrified was an understatement. All the muggle borns asked me how I found this out and what I was going to do since I was one also. I told them i have already graduated school and have been accepted into university. The puffs of all ages where god smacked and asked why I wasn't in the claws. I told them I wanted to be with friends and people I could be friends with. Not just study by myself and only read from books. I think some of the older kids where thinking I was the one to give them the books after I said I would supply the common room with all my old school books and some more. I think they see what I am doing but are saying nothing I think with reviewing your whole life and then finding out truths about what's outside of school has changed them a bit.
I think if I ever make a company I will hire these guys but it will be after the war scares them. I can then justify the secrecy and security options.
And about our house some things have changed also. I asked the RoR for a book on warding and we found one thick tomb. This book as so many horrible things that would happen to people if they did anything to the property. One of them stripped the skin off a person. Another lit them on fire. Hell another transported them 6ft straight down, so unless your 7 ft tall you're done. The only issues where that it said that if we didn't have a lay line near the property to help fuel the power for the wards, you would need a massive gem to hold power that is collected slowly over time and the bigger the better. The book said it can be helped along by flooding the gem with power also. So because of that we have gone back to the park and then used up all the diamonds we have for now in creating the biggest gem we could . It's not nicely polished or anything because it's a cube that's 40cm x 40cm and imbedded under the ward stone. I'm sure we could get lots of money for this but right now I care more about the safety of our property that's getting more and more valuable each day with the stuff the elves are putting into it.
We still haven't gotten around to buying and selling houses yet because the come and go room is taking up so much time. We are fixing items and storing them and then making room for them at our place. I did find the spell for the Fidelius but it takes way too much power that I don't have yet so I will take time till I can cast it. Must be why they had Dumbledore cast it. But I am sure we will start selling at least one before school is out now that we have 11 elves. Maggie sure is finding them everywhere and we even said we don't care if they have kids it's up to them. They were happy we were not forcing them to have kids and they got time to raise them. It looks like purebloods don't want them to have kids unless told to because one is getting old. this is because the female elf is out of commission for a month for right before and after they have one.
While repairing the furniture we had some that didn't have all the pieces. For example one has a missing leg that was nowhere to be found. But when I did it I had to use a lot more power then I normaly do and it seems repairo is a spell that does 2 things. It does permanent conjuration and also a bit of divination because it must look into the past to see what the object looked like in the past. But after some trial and error like cutting off a leg from a chair and casting repairo on it with the other part far away we got 2 perfect chairs. But the issue is that it took a lot of power to do it so it's not like I can take the front end of a car and conjure a whole car. That would take more power to do then just using that power to get enough stuff to sell to buy one. We still need to see if it lasts so those 2 chairs are placed right in the front door of our house to keep an eye on them. But on the other hand if I had a car that was smashed to hell and had all its parts with a lot of power I could fix it. The reason is because all the small parts that are broken needs to be fixed and there are many so it's more of a cumulative then a single spells worth. That and it would need to conjure all the glass that's missing. I would then have to fill all fluids back up. So it's not like 1 repairo can just be cast and I drive away. It is more used to fix simple things when it was made so no easy cash there. I will need a lot of power to go that route of fixing cars. So I will have to stick with mining and ocean mineral extraction. But now with the sorcerer's stone I will have to see what it can do. And with the elixir of life (I don't think it actually exists) I think it's just a convenient lie for how he actually does it. Plus who tell the world all that, there must be something else to it. I will have to run tests with it with the girls.
We have just gotten back from Christmas break and everyone is in the common room reading the animagus book I got them. This book is the long version but I am sure the better occlumency the quicker it is. I can see three years from now all of Hufflepuff being animagus. I put a note that if you are underage you don't have to register. But at the same time it says that you must register 60 days after you complete it so I just figured that if you finish 61 days before you turn 17 then there is no issue. Must be like that so the purebloods can become one and not have to tell anyone. Muggle borns would only find out once they graduated and then it would be too late.
As for us, we have made in our house 8 tunnels per level and 100m long, we have also made it 7 levels down. 1 is dedicated for each of us and 1 is for the elves. In mine I have put the stone and my ogre eyes, we have played with the stone as putting it into water and pouring magic into it, and nothing happened. I put it on some lead and tried again and still nothing happened. Finally I tried something from one of the stories I read before. I had some metal and tried transfiguring it into gold, as I was doing this with the stone as my focus I felt as much draw as if I was using my wand. We then put the block of gold on my desk then I tried with another and tried making it platinum. Same thing happened. If I am right the stone is like a normal philosopher's stone and permanently transfigures one object into another. But the only thing is that it shrinks it to keep the same mass of what the object it's turned into. So a giant wood block would be turned into a small block of gold. We are just waiting a year to see if it reverts and then we are going to try cast a finite on it and also melt it and do every test we can. That would mean I can just use the ocean extractor and just get aluminum with the amount of it in the water and then transfigure it.
Another thing that I have been trying is warding my house in my mind. I just assumed that it would work because your mind is connected to your magic and there should be no reason why it doesn't work. So when I tried a simple stunning ward and didn't have Hermione in my ward book. So she then crossed from the bridge to my island and 2 feet in fell down unconscious. I quickly put her in the book I was holding and enervated her. She woke up and smiled at me because this worked perfectly. Now imagine if my Rabbit of Caerbannog didn't like her. First stunned then eaten. What the hell would happen to your psyche? Would it just be as shredded as your body in my mind? None of us had a good way to try this so it would mean we would see what happens if anyone tried to get in. Hell with this we don't need to pay attention to our minds as much when we are worried someone is trying to get in. we would get a notification in our minds from a notification ward and so on. At least here I have no issues of putting every ward we found in our minds because since its imaginary space fueled by our magic then we can do anything. And with that one of our biggest worries is clear because no one would anticipate that. You would need a curse breaker to get into the grounds in our minds not including everything else we have as traps and walls.
And now onto the cats. The girl's cats are getting big and I am starting to think that they got a panther and a lioness. When I figured this out I went back to the pet store and asked them what the hell. They just told me it's my fault for buying something I didn't know anything about. I then asked them what I was supposed to do. They told me they had collars that kept them at any size of their natural growth. So no house hippos for me but that means they can stay as small as kittens if we wanted or still look like lions and panthers. I asked what mine was and after they came back with an old receipt they said they sold me a Clouded Leopard but the good thing is that it's a third of the weight and size when fully grown so it will be bigger than a kneazle but would not scare anyone. So I ended up getting 3 collars just in case we needed to shrink them all down for some reason.
The more I thought on the cats the more I thought on magical breeding. How the hell do you get a blast ended Skrewt? I don't think Manticores and Fire crabs can mate so there must be a way to create them. I will have to look in on this because I'm sure if I can find quick growing magical animals I can splice them with tasty animals and then I can raise them for food. That or make some very bad ass animals from Jurassic Park when it finally opens. With my research, the park should get its disaster this fall in time for the rainy season. That means we should be ready to head over there right when we see a big storm heading for Isla Nublar.
We have just now finished end of year exams and I have to say this year was boring in school work but interesting in what we have found and discovered. Let's list off the things that have been accomplished:
-All 3 of us have created wards in our minds but also keyed us all in also since we still share knowledge
-Cats now have size restricting collars but only Hermione and Halley use it on their cats. I let smoke run around in her normal size.
-Took a weekend to set up a box on an island close to Isla Nublar for future travel with a lot of protections on it.
-Sorcerer's stone works the way I predicted and we have an easy source of money now by selling metals. I won't be doing gold because that is heavily tracked by the goblins I bet so I will be doing Platinum, Rhodium and Osmium. All of these are used in the electronics industry and will sell.
-1 more month till we can try the potion for the animagus. I hope I don't get a goat as mine.
-Repairo does conjure material that is permanent. Tested with finite and breaking off metal and melting it and other tests.
-I have gotten my eyes to see through whatever I want and specifically on an organ if that's what I am looking for. The rest of the body just has more of a see through look to it that I barely see so that I know what I am looking at.
-All three of us have gotten to the point in our fighting that we are stronger than a full grown human.
-Our cores had a bulge one day, first with me then a bit later with the girls after that. The reasons that it bulged was that I was trying to see how fast I could get my magic circulating. I was making it go as fast as possible threw the main "arteries" of my magic circulatory system because it helped them increase in size a bit. But I think I went to fast and it hammered at my core enough to cause a bulge. The bulge did not hurt it just seems to have given me a bigger core. Just not a nice looking one anymore that was perfectly round. We think it will eventually do that but we are a bit scared so no more of that training till it is round again. Then I will try that again if this works.
-Planes are still at 30 but we are now trying to make the propellers spin and now using our fields to protect them and make them sharper also. So in the end it's just more and more refinement. Eventually I will add in missiles to fire to hole a wing.
-The Come and go room has been emptied of everything but the diadem and the broken cabinet. I will leave those for later to see what happens with the basilisk if I can get ahold of it and its venom.
-The hive in our basement has been increased to 42 levels with 8 tunnels on each level. Luck would have it a lot of things where the same and could be shrunk and put in a trunk with 1 of the items on top to show what's in it. E.g. empty potion vials, caldrons, quills, parchment, and the most common was sox. I guess everyone lost one here and there over the years.
-Dark or cursed items had their own level at level 13 because I need to learn how to break them and figure out what they do so it's best to have test items.
-Created another level for all the books we got from the come and go room and just put all of them in trunks and more trunks and it filled a level easily almost to the point of needing more room.
-3 levels were for all the books from the RoR. Made sure I didn't do duplicates by asking the room to remove all the ones we have already copied and it worked. We try for it to sort them but the best we could get was books that where at one time in the library and ones from students. With that we color coded the trunks in at least that way till we can get someone to go over it all. Thank god Hermione isn't like cannon her or she would never leave the hive.
-We have gotten so good at mining that we can now change the size of the cut we do so we can even do a straight 100m cut in one go but it drains us a lot. Still found nothing under the house but clay and rock while digging.
-Made a rune string that is carved into the tunnels walls that keeps the air "fresh" sets the temperature to always be at 25°C and at the same time lights all the runes up to add lighting.
-Flooded the common room with shelves with muggle nonfiction books. Other students added to it also. In the end I think everyone even the purebloods read them. We had everything from biographies of Winston Churchill to physics books. I think me scaring the muggle and half-bloods has gotten to everyone.
-Told the house about the goblins and them stealing for life from everyone who took out a school lone from them. This again horrified everyone and got many of them very angry. I explained to them they could only get your money if you did business with them, because they left out the clause that it would touch muggle money assuming they would not leave the wizarding world. They then asked what they should do with their gold then. I asked why don't they just hide it? If they put no magic on it no one could follow any magical signs to possibly find it. Goblins lost most of the business from the puffs. Only old families kept their money but even Susan kept her own money hidden just didn't touch the families.
-Told all the students about correspondence courses and if they gave them me all information I can have it delivered to a PO Box and I can set it out with the muggle mail in London. The purebloods and the half-bloods that where raised in the magical world asked how they could do it and I told them they would need for the goblins to set up an identity for them in the muggle world. I said it would cost 2000g for a full identity with all documentation. I told them after that they don't need to use the goblins and can choose their own bank in the muggle world. Some said they didn't have the money and with the revelation about the goblins didn't want to take out a loan but since they didn't have a muggle identity they could not get a loan from a muggle bank. It was a catch 22 for them. I told them all that had that issue to give me there information on where they lived and all that and I will see what I can do.
-We have 22 house elves between us now and we have been having them make potions and they can make most of them. They just need more practice on the harder once. All potions are put into trunks with stasis charms on them with the grade of the potion on them that is based on the color.
Finally about a week ago I had a group of puffs that where graduating come up to me. They were all muggle borns and half-bloods, they were the ones that have not gotten up to snuff to pass 5 GCSE. They still need a good year of study to give them a respectable grade. The spokesman for the group then started to talk to me.
"Hi Mark, we were wondering if you could answer some questions for us since you seem to know what's going on more than anyone else even though your only 12."
"No problem, what do you need to know?"
"Well here's the problem. We are screwed and we only know this because of you. We had these big plans to get into the ministry pay off our debt and have a happy family. From what you told us most of that won't happen now. If we do get into the ministry we won't make that much because we will be the lowest of the low even with our good grades. That when we do get a job it will only be 50% of our pay because the ministry will pay from the goblins so they will take our money right away which is fair. Because we know we have to pay back the money but what isn't fair is the 20% for life. That is not acceptable interest on the amount borrowed."
"Ok I understand that and I feel bad for you (nope). But you still haven't asked me what you want to ask me."
*sigh*
"Mark what are you doing after school?"
"I'm going to university I just haven't decided what one I want to go to."
"How are you paying for school?"
"I refused the goblins loan and my mom got one from the muggle bank for the first year."
"What do you mean the first year?"
"I have a summer job that will let me pay for school and pay my mom back."
"What's the job?"
"I made my own company."
"YOU WHAT!" he gave a strangled shout.
"I made my own company that's called Umbrella that I am the CEO of and Hermione and Halley are CFO and COO respectively."
"…."
They all looked at me like I was insane and shook their heads.
"Ok what does your company do?"
"Company secret."
"Does it have to do with magic then, because you know you can't use it out of school till you graduate or turn 17."
"Company secret."
"Is it going to pay well enough for you to pay off your first year of school and the next year of it?"
"Yes"
They all then looked at each other and nodded their heads.
"We all want in."
"What now?" I did not expect that.
"We want to work for you."
"You just said that I'm 12. Why would you want to work for a 12 year old?"
"Mark let's be honest you don't act like a 12 year old. Same with Hermione and Halley, they are always at your sides also. And from what we have seen from you this year and now about what you told us we figure you can set us up so we can have the lives we want."
"What is it you want?"
"We want to be able to be happy with our life and work. We don't need a glamourous job but we still want to feel appreciated. We won't get that at the ministry and with our low pay we cant buy anything that would make it better after work."
"So you want a job that you feel appreciated in and decent pay? How do you want to get paid?"
"What?"
"I asked how you want to get paid? I mean do you want galleons to help pay off schooling? Do you want me to pay you with helping you set up a muggle identity without getting more in-debt to the goblins. How do you want to get paid?"
"Well we were hoping in galleons and then when we earned enough we could pay the goblins off ourselves and then get our GCSE and go work in the muggle world after we get our GCSE."
"What if you made more money the harder you worked for me?"
"What are you talking about?"
"I mean if I give you a job, I will give you 40% of the profits after taxes for each thing you finish. Meaning if you get more done, and you make it good quality then you end up with more pay. After this summer I don't think you will leave."
"Well if that was all true I don't think we would leave your company." He stated hesitantly. From his point of view he was going from a summer job to help him get away from the wizarding world to a full time job.
"the only issue I can foresee being an issue from you is I am going to have you swear an oath to the company."
"…. What kind of oath? And why? I refuse to be made a slave to you with this oath."
"Nothing of the kind. This will be an oath of loyalty to the company, specifically Umbrella. It will be so you can quit whenever you want but you can't talk about anything you learn and see in the company with anyone other than company employees. Also not to use knowledge you learned at the company when you leave so that you don't compete with me or give out locations of company properties. You can still talk about things to Umbrella people when you leave you just can't use it against anyone in the company. Also there will be an oath to never do harm to anyone in the company through physical or mental purposely outside of company sanctioned events, like company football or rugby games. Basically I want everyone to be able to trust everyone in the company and not worry about what if they leave. I want a company that does the best for itself and employees."
"….. Ok I can understand that but why?"
"You know Serious Black right?"
"Yes."
"Well remember the potters thought they could trust him and then he turned on them and went to Voldemort."
"I don't want any back stabbing I want my company to be a family."
They all looked at each other and walk a bit away and talked, after 10min they came back.
"We would have to read the oath before we swore it but I don't see issues with what you said. I would do the same thing if I started a company now that you told me about it."
"No problem. You can all meet me at the Leaky Caldron on the Monday after we get back from school at noon. We can then go from there after getting a private room.
"Ok Mark we can do that. I hope you know what you're doing because we need the money and we are relying on you."
"Don't worry guys I will always do well for my employees." Now that I'm getting some, because this was not planned for anytime soon. Maybe after I graduated, not after my first year.
I then went to find the girls and let them know what was happening. After I told them about the meeting they were a bit shocked because we have only don't 2 houses. I also told them I just made them CFO and COO of the company. Then I went in on an oath and then said they would swear it also so no one had to worry that worked in the company. They also told me they would use this week to help me write it up so it protects us and our knowledge and company from anyone joining. Halley then said no one would ever leave because they were going to make stupid money and at the same time learn so much from the books we have. Because eventually we can hire someone to sort all the Hogwarts books and leave the more personal one to us. In the end if they left they would not be able to use the knowledge and also never feel the same safeness unless working with Umbrella because they would know we would keep them safe. I then let the girls know about paying them and how we would go about it. On their first pay we would give them a check in pounds to the identity they set up in the muggle world. Along with 2000g off it if needed and given to them in a purse to pay the goblins for the identity. After that they can pay the goblins off in galleons through us as the money changer and not pay the fees of the goblins. That way we can make it look like we care about them more. The gold that we will use for the changer is going to have to be made through selling stuff from the hoard we have to the magicals.
Now let's see what happens with the Sorcerer's stone, Harry and Voldemort. I know it's going to happen tonight so I guess we will see what happens in the morning.
In the morning we don't see Quirrell and harry is at the table. He doesn't look so good. Slowly a story spreads through the great hall and it's about Quirrell going into the 3rd floor corridor. Harry, Ron and Shamus were going to stop him, and when they got to the door and opened it they saw the bottom half of quarrel getting eaten and fought over by a Cerberus. I then look over at Susan and whisper.
"If the story is true, what the hell is wrong with Dumbledore keeping that at school. And any kid could have died you need to tell your Aunt again I think he's going senile."
"Yea I think your right about that I don't know what's wrong with him. First a Troll and now this, my Aunt is going to lose it."
Well that's got that solved. I wonder what will happen when the papers find out about this one too. Let alone what Amelia will try and do to him. As long as it's not me doing this it can't hurt to put doubts into Harry's and everyone's mind about him. Thank god Tonks has one more year and can have some more time to see how crazy he is. I already saw the look on her face when I mentioned muggle borns job opportunities in the ministry. I don't think she is so hyped up about going to the Aurors now especially if its Dumbledore's idea. Hope she wouldn't mind me examining her and trying to find out how to use those powers she has and give it to me and the girls.
Finally at the end of the day Gryffindor wins the cup again because of crazy points from Dumbledore even to Neville again. I can see now that while he is still concentrating on Harry he still is trying to make Neville trust him just in case. Oh well I knew this would happen. When we are all in the common room after dinner I mention that what the hell was with the crazy points Dumbledore handed out at the end there. It makes it so the cup doesn't even matter. I said nothing happens if we get no points and even if we get 100,000 points Dumbledore will now just give Gryffindor more points just to make them win now that harry is here. Everyone was thoughtful at this because before it was Slytherin all the time and Dumbledore has never given out so many points creating and upset. I asked the people if the puffs have never won in such a long time why should we care the trophy means nothing we don't even get anything for winning it. Well let's just see what changes next year because of my questioning the final points.