Yeay another week of pointless busy work. But at least I still have a job so can't complain. Probably won't get another chapter out after xmas till new year when I get back here, but I might get one more out before the 23rd.
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It's so nice sitting here looking over the beautiful water garden while throwing some fish food to the koi. I have been sitting here for 6 hours just relaxing and thinking on the fact that I never have to go back to school. Hell I don't even know where the girls disappeared to, but I don't care. It's just so nice sitting on this muskoka chair under the shade of a tree that was bought from a garden center in Canada. I was not going to waste time for stuff to grow around my place.
I realize I never got rid of Snape, but at the same time he didn't stand out to me. Sure he still called kids names, but he never verbally attacked anyone since everyone died. I think that issue took a lot of stress off him and I am at a point where I could care less about him. Unless he does something to get my attention I will leave him alone. Same with most magicals in the world, the only one I care about getting is the monster who is making these slaves. Because I know I am not getting all of them and I hope I killed him when the group of death munchers died. I guess I will only know that if Tonks and her group don't find anymore girls, because this group was much less then that first one.
I think I might send Harry a letter this week asking where he ended up, I wonder if he took my idea of Hawaii? If he did I am going to laugh when I see him in some board shorts because he is going to be so pale. I wonder if he knows that magicals don't burn if they have enough power, that and they passively heal and don't get cancer. Meh I will tell him when I see him if he's putting some on.
The only thing I need to try and do is get him to talk to Black and get the cup and locket. The cup should be in his vault because he is head of house Black and I'm sure he can claim…. Oh shit I haven't checked at all what these crazy elves have stolen have I? The only thing I know that I have to get is the locket and maybe all of those books from the black library. I wonder if I can get Harry to get ahold of Black so I can just buy the damn house off him or offer to buy him a house near a nude beach.
Well I guess I have been here long enough just relaxing and should at least find out if I do have the cup. If I do then I can go look in on some soul magic and see if I can mess with this piece or the whole of the man.
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After I had just gotten back from the new hive that I had created, it started deeper than anything I had done before to keep things safe. I was a bit flabbergasted on when was down there. I had never been down there to explore things because I never felt the need to. I had so much nonsense that I think I am actually going to cry when I get around to dealing with the things down there.
The reason for this is because I have so much galleons, sickles and knuts I might cry trying to count it and sort it. Hell I don't need this money and it's just sitting there from getting robbed by everyone with my elves. I feel like with this I could just pay my employees and never have to sell anything and I could do it for a century. I think I will need an accounting spell to count the stuff.
Then we get to the dark shit. Walking down those hallways just scares me; I will need to get crazy good at just magical diagnostics before I even attempt to touch anything there. But I did end up finding the cup in my explorations and with that knowledge I will go hunt some books before anything else. I want to just toss some venom on it and be done with it but I want to first see if I can mess him up some more just in case I can't get to the locket.
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During the week that I waited for me to have a talk with Pansy, I had gone through the books and found a spell that when cast destroys the memories of the soul. It does not just obliviate them, it works on the souls memories. It takes 6x the amount of power that's why it was changed to obliviate because it's easier to cast and no one thought you needed to mess with a soul just to get rid of memories. Another book I found said all of the pieces of a soul are linked in a way. So that's why you should only make one, because any more and the stress of keeping them still intrinsically linked in some fashion will stress the sanity / consciousness of the whole of it. So in the end I am hoping that I can just keep casting this curse at the cup repeatedly and hope that it messes with him if he is still out there in some fashion. When I do get the locket they are getting venomed right away though. Thank god I still have the tape recorder of parseltongue to open the locket.
I had also gotten hold of all the puffs that left and swore them into the company and told them about the new dorm house so they can add their ideas. Later I plan to get everyone's wishes in a perfect job they want and what they want to do and think they can add to the company. Then I think I will have to sit down with the girls and plan this all out to either send people to school, or start a multiple small businesses that handle what these people want to do. Then I need to assign someone to watch over these businesses because me and the girl do actually need to go to school for at least business management and then on someone we actually want to do. I think I will keep medicine as a hobby and go into computer programing / architecture.
The reason I am thinking this, is I need to know how to run this company and also I will probably need to code my own programs to handle all the information that is going to be sent to me. Also I kind of want to make my own server farm since cooling and electricity are all taken care of, so it will be relatively cheap if I invest in solid state drives when they come out. Right now they haven't gotten to that point but in 2007 in my old reality they started to take off. But with the tech that IGN was using I am going to assume it will be sooner.
With that and in mind I have started to map out locations where internet trunk lines are located in the world, and how much it would be to add myself into it so I had a direct connection to the trunk line. I just don't want it in the US because of their crazy net neutrality laws.
My 2 researchers did find out something interesting though when they were messing around and combining things for the hell of it. They somehow got an access box to combine with an expanded container so there where 2 openings not 1, and having to close the door to switch places. They then just ripped off the door and saw what happened. They actually made a poor man's version of a portal that has a way station of an expanded space. The only issue with this is that one side needs more ambient magic to power depending on the size of the opening, if the doors are left off. If the doors are in place and close then it doesn't draw anything more than an access box.
When they told me about this I was floored. This solves many battery issues for anything I build because I can just send powerlines through one end and the other can be inside something that would need batteries. Add to the fact that they can be made any size and I can put them anywhere. Hell the whole server farms could be put here in a very low tunnel or have it on a mobile shuttle that's expanded to make it able to sit on lay lines in the ocean.
I think that will be the plan since I need more magic to run it. I will create a "shuttle" the size of an attack sub, rune it to hell and back to handle ocean depths and then expand the inside as large as possible. I will even add some sapphire batteries to it on the outside to help soak up mana from the lay lines on the ocean floor.
I figure the sub alone with all the work will take a month, but could be quicker if I get some people to help me. I think I will make a production facility that can make these things. I will first get someone from a university to design the best shape possible of something that will be able to move in the water and handle pressure and what thickness the walls would need to be. The reason I will do this is so that all my rune work on the inside will just add to the strength and stealth. And since the propulsion doesn't need any external influence then it will be perfect because there doesn't need to be holes in it to get in. I can make as many as I need and have them litter the ocean floor on lay lines. Hell I can place farms on the ocean floor with this that can move if anything bad was coming. As for them seeing things I will add a sand table to them also.
Wow I just solved all my space issues. Now I just need to breed a lot of magical animals and plants to help refill the worlds magic so the amount I take from it. The reason for this thought process is that in heavy magic areas there are lots of magical plants and then animals move in and that makes the ambient magic more potent. Even though I don't know if I can take all the worlds magic, hell I need to check if there's magic on the moon. If there's magic on the moon then I have no idea what creates magic. If there is no magic on moon but magic on mars then it doesn't have to do with a molten center and more with rotation in some way. *Sigh* so many things to check to see if there is magic outside of earth and if not how to add it to a planetary body.
For now though I will head off to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and have them make me 2 shapes. One will be for what I described another will be for a stationary shape. I don't think it will take too long and will give me something to work with. I will have some people try and come up with a way to make nice fertile soil. Everything else looks like I will be able to make because of the multiple stones I now have. I only have 4 right now, one is in a safe place and we 3 have one each. I won't be making more because I don't want it getting to crazy and a spare getting out, so it will stay like this for now.
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I had sent an owl for this meeting to take place at a different hotel conference room. I didn't want it to be the same in case they were followed or they brought people with them that would try something. As I was sitting down and waiting for 12:00 to roll around I was wondering if they would agree to the crazy oath they would take. The reason I am doing this harsh oath is that I don't want any back stabing and power plays. If I can ever make a government if needed it will be a Technocracy so idiots can't make up stupid laws based on 5% knowledge of a subject. Also I will make it so I can slap down any retarded things that get through. This kind of thing has only been tried in books but if I can get everyone linked into a network then I can see how it works on a small scale. I just need to keep it at the 5 smartest people with the most degrees and see how it goes from there. I know it's not ideal but I hope with me being able to slap things down we can iron out any issues.
When it was 12:22 I was about to get up but then a whole stream of girls and women entered the room. It wasn't just pansy and her mom. This was about 30 young girls and to women in their ending years. Who knows how old they actually where since they looked 80, or more. They all were looking around and then taking seats. I am happy they only had large rooms at this place because it looked like I needed it.
When I finally found Pansy in the mix of these women I just raised my eyebrow and said "explain." She looked me dead in the eyes and proceeded to tell me about how it wasn't just her that was looking to leave England. And once this meeting was heard about by Pansy's mom then all the women leaving demanded a chance to listen in. There was no way I was going to be able to handle all these women if I don't make that new dorm house bigger and now warded to hell and back.
"Ok. So you are all here because you heard something about how me and a lot of puffs have left the island of crazy people."
I looked around and everyone was nodding.
"Well first off I want to let you know that I have made a company that I employ everyone at, and we use muggle and magical means. If you can't handle that then by all means please leave."
All of the women were looking at each other and not moving.
"Well I have to say that this is a surprise to me, but I assume that you don't care about that since you are already trying to get out of the country. Can I assume the rest of your family was "dark", and they have disappeared and you are getting out while you can?"
About half where nodding their heads.
"Ok here's the thing I don't know any of you, and I don't know if I can trust you. I have had all my employees swear an oath before they were told anything about this company, what we do or where we are located. Sorry to say for you guys the oath I will make you swear is a bit harsher and I also want you all to work for me and not sit around and do nothing. I know some of you want to just settle down but I want everyone who works for me to do something and not just laze around. If you just want to sit around and relax then by all means move to Australia or something and enjoy the sunshine."
Still no one moved.
"Ok this is a bit weird that all of you are ok so far with this. Can someone tell me what is going on and why you are all being accommodating?"
When no one said anything and I was about to lose it, then Pansy started to talk.
"The thing is Mark, that we are just tired of it all. All the women with me have had it rough either through their family, or marriages that just ended. We all just want out and enjoy life as it should be, not having to wonder if we are going to get poisoned or married off to some rapist. The idea of having to work doesn't bother us because most of us were not allowed to work once we got married. We were just expected to stay at home and look as nice as possible when people came over to visit. What you're saying and offering isn't bad at all to us. The only thing we are waiting for is the wording of the oath that you want us to take."
"Ok thanks for clueing me in on what's happening Pansy so here is the oath."
The oath basically made it that they couldn't take any action against anyone in the Umbrella family either physically, emotionally or mentally. Also all their knowledge of what happened from as of right now would be lost as soon as they left the company. Also that they would never talk about where they lived or hinted or clued people in that where not Umbrella employees. It was basically you socialize with people outside the company but they would know nothing about your living conditions or what you do for the company. I didn't want any of them leading other family members to me until I had a strong enough force to make anyone I deem a threat a smear on the ground.
All the women there just looked at the oath and talked to each other and continued to reread the oath. Pansy asked if I could swear an oath saying I wouldn't be turning them into slaves with this. I did it in front of them right there to prove it. Because who wants slaves, that just builds a population in your group that are going to knife you in the back eventually. The elves being slaves was bad enough.
After I swore the oath to them they all agreed to the oath and took it. From there I told them all about my company and the correspondence courses for muggle education, and my different divisions. I also told them about the slaves hoping someone would know who's doing it. They told me they personally didn't but knew of the slave situation from hushed conversations of their male members. I then asked them if they could go to the bank and put ¾ of their money into a muggle account and load the rest up into an expanded space and store it on them for now so they didn't have to come back to the country later. I also asked if any had house elves and if they did to share between themselves so they could pack everything. I then asked if they could put all the books they had access to into some expanded trunks and I would give them it back after I added them to the library I had. I wanted my elves to take them to Hogwarts and then have the room copy them so there was no crazy spells on them to hurt people.
I asked them if they could have all this ready in say 3 weeks, and I could take them all away at once. Or if someone had to I could take them as soon as they were ready if they could send me an owl. Two actually said they needed to leave right now and already had everything they owned on them. I told them it was no issue and I would take them with me.
With that done all the women left and the two witches in there 20's came with me to the dorm house where I let everyone know of what was happening. Those girls where quickly escorted away by a group of girls telling them about the new life they would have. This house had so many people in it there was always something going on. When I asked if they had a house design done for the new dorm house they said yes and gave it to me. It is kind of hard to show a house to the right size with expansion charms, but they got around this by showing me a before charms and what was to be expanded and by how much.
I decided to take this house design and build it at my island, because with the amount of wards already here I figure it's the safest place right now and I can always make it better.
When I got home I called for the elves and asked them if they could help me in building the new dorm house. Since Halley already had them help build our place it wasn't that big of an issue. After I get the main part of the house done I will let people move in and expand the places to their hearts content, and dress up the yard and beach themselves. The house will be located at the south east side of the island away from the experimenting island and far enough away from me so I don't see them if I don't want to.
With the girls and the elves help it only took 2 weeks to get the house done as people wanted. In the end it was huge and had still more room for people if everyone I knew moved in. It was also made so I could add other places near it for more people. When people only need their own room to relax and store there things they don't need much. People aren't to down on the fact of eating and sharing space with others when they can retreat to their own room or the library on the island to read.
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Summer break is soon over and me and the girls are ready to go back to school. I am going for computer programing and architecture along with some courses in business admin. Hermione is going for a new course on genetic engineering thanks to IGN and there dinosaurs that are now playing havoc in South America. She has had the great idea to clone extinct and very valuable magical creatures with parts from wands or other things that can be bought. She will also be taking some side courses in business admin. Halley on the other hand is going full on business courses, because she says she wants to know everything to make this company work.
All those women that joined the island where being put through the occlumency lessons and everything else the Hufflepuffs normally went through at school. While they were doing that they were found in the library reading everything they could or they were doing correspondence courses for their muggle education. I never heard a peep from them about this they were all just happy to have their own place and could do what they wanted. Pansy was even learning from the books I had on healing trying to become a healer. I think she is happy she can do what she always wanted; when she gets better I will show her what I discovered with the vegetables.
Speaking of those vegetables I experimented on I learned something new. I can do wandless transfiguration of their bodies and as long as I kept it human and something close to the original I can reshape their bodies permanently as long as I do bones, mussels and skin separately.
What I am thinking and hoping is that we either get to the point where we can transfigure ourselves to a younger version that will keep us young. And the whole still dying of old age because of degrading Telomeres might be wrong. Because with people who look old to me, I noticed there cores look smaller then what they could be for their age. I guess with people ageing they don't push their magic anymore or let it slide or don't practice like us.
So now I am going to see what happens to those older women who joined us and I make them try as hard as they can in doing those exercises. If there core grows and same with their magic circuits, and they don't look younger then I was wrong. If they do get younger then I don't think a wizard/witch will ever die of old age. It's probably more to do with boredom or an accident, because let's face it us wizards aren't the safest in what we do. We fly on brooms and fight each other with hexes that would cause a normal person to collapse a lung with the impacts.
Another thing I have done is dig out a straight tunnel down the ground that was only a meter in diameter and line it with sapphire. At the bottom of this pipe, I have hooked up a water turbine generator that I bought. After that it leads to a giant bowl of distilled water that held a vast amount of water. At the bottom of the bowl was a portal with a pocket door attracted. The other end of the door is at the top of the pipe. This thing is made so that if at any point the door is closed, then all the water that drained into the pipe would settle in the bowl making repairs possible. This is a self-contained water generator that is relying on gravity, with the only magic used is as a portal. If I need more power I can add more of these. The sapphire lining everything will keep it from getting worn out and keep the distilled water clean.
The thing with this system, is that I need to buy some power regulation equipment to help me regulate the power and transform it into proper AC and DC voltages I need. I will probably put that into a sub to keep all the heat and everything out of my island because it will take up a lot of room. I can use small portals to move electricity through cables coming back and forth from here to the sub.
That project alone took 2 weeks of my time to do. But I have had my researchers look at the generator and see if they can add runes or charms to it to make it work better or have a longer life. For now the island can run off the wind turbines I have going to give us power. The reason for not having more wind turbines is that they take up more room; this and they give less power. Also I don't want my island to be covered in them. I can place these water generators anywhere in the world I want underground, and not have to worry. The excess power I will have routed into the lightning ward to try and help power the hearth stone on the island also, since every little bit helps.
Another thing I have accomplished is I bought connections to the internet trunk lines in multiple places in the world. I don't have anything installed yet, but I plan to take those connections and put mini portals there and run fiber optic connections for the fastest speed to a server farm that I am going to make. I will do this all on my off time or get one of my employees to do it while I am at school. All this infrastructure building will take time and I will have to give a lot over to my employees while I'm at school. Especially since the time zone difference will make it so me and the girls will be on the complete opposite time, like instead of 7am for us it will be 7pm. So I will be getting a place in Germany for us to live in near the school.
Also I spent time with Harry and also met his god father. During that time Harry looked healthy and happy. He had already tried surfing with Sirius joining him. Apparently Sirius had decided to live with harry, and was enjoying going to the beach with his god son and trying to teach him how to pick up girls. I joined them one day and I couldn't stop laughing when Sirius got shot down all the time. Harry on the other hand had girls touching him when he talked to them because of his eyes and earnest personality. I told Sirius that he needed a shave and a hair cut to fit in for the girls to take him seriously. As to their money situation Harry told me that he did put most of it into muggle money but kept some galleons for emergency's. I told him I could cast the fidelius on a safe he bought and make him the secret keeper and he could move it where ever he wanted. He liked the idea and I did that the next time I came over. With the whole issue with black town house, I finally got him to sell me it for 400,000 galleons with everything in it because he said he couldn't risk going back to England. I told him if he ever wanted me to get his money for a 10% cut I will go clear out the black bank account and put it into muggle money under his name. He agreed to this laughing the entire time and gave me a key that was always around his neck and was charmed so only he could ever remove it.
After that was done with I headed to England and got that all done. While I was doing the bank stuff with the goblins grumbling, I had the elves go and clean out the house of all books and everything. The pictures I told them to burn them all and if Kreature was alive he was to be told he was free, but only after they got the locket.
The books and everything else was brought to Hogwarts by the elves again, and copied by the room again. Once that was done all the dark artifacts where tossed into the tunnels that held others and others sorted accordingly.
Me and harry usually hung out on Saturday nights at his place for that summer just relaxing and playing video games and eating on the beach. I think Harry became my first guy friend I actually wanted to hang out with outside of school.
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Well me and the girls just finished the first year of our university lives and we had so much fun there. Since we were older than 11 when we first could have been there, we fit in more with the students and with the grades all four of us had we got in no problem. The reason I say four is because Luna came with since she had done all her muggle education documents. And since we all came as a group, the administration was very happy to have me and Hermione and took a look at the other girls.
Luna took classes in high end physics. The reason for this was because she likes to think out of the box and she thought it would be interesting to learn about string theory and super gravity theory and others. All of us got two years' worth education within one year because of our occlumency.
Over that year the island had taken on a change. The dorm house now had some add on buildings near it like my part of the island. They had created a boat house and a dock for the boats they had bought with combined money. They had also added some tiki houses on the beach with lawn chairs. A large building was created near the other dock, the dock that has a shipping container boat that can hold 8 containers. The reason for the building was because we could store sheets of sapphire that we were shipping to Fiji to be shipped to Japan. We had gotten a deal for certain size and dimensions to be bought by a company that would use lasers to cut them into appropriate thicknesses to be used from safety glass to screens on monitors. They also had government contracts to supply them with basically clear aluminum. That was the reason for the larger building, because I could store a large supply of the sheets in the building. When a container is brought into the building my employees levitate sheets into it from the stock I make on the weekends. All this was to keep the satellites that had to be watching the island, from finding out what the hell was done to make them.
Because of this scrutiny I have improved the wards so even if they tried to get anyone onto the island they would be confused, and unable to stand if they touched the land on the island. I don't know if anyone had tried that was part of the government, but on my sand table there had been seen boats who had tried to get to the island. So I am assuming they are trying to do industrial espionage about my sapphire, because of the price I am selling at because its cheaper then anyone else can do. Because of this we are making a killing along with my Japanese contacts I am selling to. They are selling to many countries that are aligned with Japan, I am going to have to buy a bigger boat and make my dock longer. Luckily the warehouse is already expanded inside and can be increased, and since it is all covered we were using magic to move around everything and in some cases transfiguring it into other shapes when a special order came.
With the new influx of money into the corporate account, a whole bunch of lawyers and accountants were hired and housed in a new building that was built for Umbrella near Nullica Australia near Port of Eden. The Umbrella law firm was growing at a nice rate and was getting business from other companies that did business with Japan from Australia. With the amount of money flowing around all of Umbrellas owned companies and employees had the most up to date equipment that was available. The reason for the location is that the community was close to port but land prices were much better than being nearer the port. Also when the community was told I was going to build mostly underground they were happy to house us because we would not be "spoiling the natural environment".
The community did say that we would be able to build a single airstrip for small planes near the edge of the Boydtown boundary so if we wanted we could have smaller planes / helicopters land there.
What I will be doing is only making one sublevel under the law firm, any more created and sever space, will be located elsewhere and that is where people will be working. I was thinking to add the servers and all underground complexes located in the mountains or Antarctica. But the hives where everyone will work will be located so far down in the ground that no one will be able to find them. I might even add a top layer coving of lead at the top. I have already located some earthquake wards that will be put in place that just takes the incoming energy and place it into stabilization and motion dampening runes that will litter the location. The reason for Antarctica is that I don't want any magicals bugging me and the portals turn out such little magic that it won't alert anyone especially ones in the sapphire cubes. Since its Antarctica and it's so in hospitable no one will mine it and maybe catch us, especially with all the treaties.
Access to lower floors will actually be through a "double door" to another elevator. But this access will be able to be destroyed leading to an empty room if anything where to assault the location or a raid happened. Multiple such scenarios will be put into place all over to make it that my company can never be purged from the world if someone doesn't like me messing with things *goblins*.
With regards to the internet connected server farm two pure blood witches actually did all they could to learn about muggle computers and took on the project and getting it working. They asked me to create a giant room under the Australian law firm that would house it all. The reason for this is because if we needed to bring muggles in they wouldn't know that it shouldn't be possible for the space down there to be available. In the room it was littered with those normal runes for air and temp but all the walls and floor where spelled white and LED light strips illuminated it all. The temperature runes where set to 15°c on the walls and then painted over. On all the equipment in there along with the housing cases in there, had that same rune all over it. All the heatsinks also had them, the fans still worked but the real cooling was the runes. Along with the room being so cool there was no issue with cooling problems with the equipment.
We started another company called Umbrella Electronic Storage, and we hired many students that had just graduated from local universities in Australia to help run and program it. For right now it is just a company that does local business backups, and hosts website domains.
This next year we will be creating fiber access to our main servers. Also access to the internet through our connection to the internet trunk lines. We will be creating a box made out of blue sapphire in a solid piece of 50cm³, with fiber and Ethernet ports. Inside will have a rune string that will destroy everything inside, if it in anyway breached including the mini portal that will transmit data to us without the needed infrastructure. These will only be rented to businesses and government centers for access for high-speed internet. There will be a huge fee for damage of them. From there we will see if we expand to other countries, supplying remote places with internet connections that need something better than satellite.
The house renovating situation has come to the point where all over the Fiji Islands we are building and renovating places. We are chosen because all we ask for is everyone to leave the house, this lets the people go all out on the house to make things done quickly. The only things that take a while are things that are done outside incase people are watching. Because of this our people do outside work during the night with no light sources near so no one can watch. When working, the workers cast night vision spells on themselves to do the work. All in all with the Umbrella name we are much respected and our work is guaranteed.
I had even gotten more letters from Hufflepuff informing us of what the reactions where at the school now that there were no Hufflepuff upper years. The school was in an uproar but all the puffs said they didn't know where everyone went and they stuck to that story. That was a bald faced lie, and after the new first years learned occlumency they were brought into the secret. I let them know it was ok to tell them that they would work for Umbrella, some of the muggle borns knew about it because it had been mentioned a bit and they let the others know. With this knowledge going through the puffs I had a steady influx of new magical employees after they were done with OWLS.
With the situation with the subs we had created 5 so far. All of them where disillusioned and were warded to high hell along with all the spells on the shuttle. With the size and weight of them they couldn't fly but what they could do is run in the water at 30 knots and dive and rise in all the depths of the ocean. The only place I have not tried sending it remotely is the Mariana Trench, but I am in no rush to waste one right now since I only have 5. The subs looked in the shape of a Virginia class attack sub but instead of a protrusion at the top that would hold a periscope and access ways to the sub it was just a sapphire dome so people could look out if they want even though it's dark under water. The front of the sub also was made out of sapphire to make a nice lookout if the sub was ever in shallow water to see out.
One of the subs is right now on the closest lay line and is housing all the equipment to turn all the electricity from the turbine into usable electricity. Another is holding all the access portal connections getting power from lay lines. The other 3 have been expanded and are ready to house magical plants and animals. The only issue with this is that we have not come up with a way to get soil easily. The tunnels under the island have most of it covered in soil stolen from all over the world; the pests were removed so no strange bug will show up there.
So that means that the subs are sitting empty till we need them, as of right now there is a large amount of magical plants growing under the island. The subs I will put magical animals just in case something goes wrong I can make it implode under the water, that will kill off anything that might be causing that much issues. Hopefully they will be full of extinct or super rare animals when Hermione knows how to clone them.
Also I will have to see if I can get people to mess with the lightning rune, and change it to heat. The reason I can see no one did it before in England at least was that it never had active volcanos to try it. The thing is with Antarctica not having active volcanos I can still dig straight down into a shaft till I get a decent amount of heat. Might take a long time to dig, but I think I could make a permanent magic creating ward from that. The reason I am thinking this is because I don't know if there are lay lines in Antarctica.
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During that summer after our first years I ended up buy multiple parts that could holding DNA from magical creatures and having them labeled and stored under stasis charms for when Hermione got around to cloning. I also sent a letter to the Longbottom's and asked Neville to meet me in the alley at Fortescue's. He agreed since it was out in the open, and I met him there after a week.
When he showed up I gave him one of the books that would copy itself to one on a shelf I had, I told him I would buy him any plants he wanted. All he had to do would be to write down every magical plant I could ever want and need and how to take care of them. I told him to treat it as a magical plant sanctuary incase anything happened in the wild and money wasn't an object. His eyes just lit up at the idea and I could see him ready to rush off. Before he did, I told him if he ever wanted to get a job taking care of these plants for me he could have it when he graduated. The only stipulation would be he had to leave England. He looked so downcast that when I told him I knew of his parents and that I could have them moved to a muggle hospital or have home care done if he wanted that I could arrange it. He looked at me funny and I think he was thinking of his grandmother. I figure it will be a small price to pay for someone so dedicated to plants as he is always depicted.
I went around to those new pureblood women and the older ones are actually looking a little younger so I think my idea is right. But all of them have mastered occlumency and are starting to work on getting high school equivalents from Australia. They don't want to have anything to do with England. Pansy has been learning all she can about healing from books, and even got the elves to get any magical vaccines and knowledge on how to make them.
In regards to the social workers they finally got a pea sized core growing and is slowly increasing in size. I will teach them how to train it when I see the core size stop growing, because I think I could mess things up horribly if I start screwing with it in its forming stage. Because of this knowledge I think I can tell everyone that wants to marry a muggle it won't be an issue. This also makes it easier on my idea of interviewing disabled military vets that are stable and would be willing to work for me either in military R&D or with Tonks so I can have them swear a vow, so that me and the company are protected from them if they try anything.
To say Mark's summer was less busy then the school year was completely wrong with how much I was hopping all over the world to get plants for the tunnels under the island. During this summer he still hung out with Harry who had ended up having many girlfriends over the year and also going to muggle school on the island. Sirius on the other hand had cleaned himself up, with healthy eating and playing on the beach he had regained most of his muscle mass and had a much healthier skin color.
Unknown to me because of me forgetting about it, the potions shop was doing massive amounts of business in Europe and had owl orders coming in from everywhere. They were constantly doing business with apothecary's over the world for stock for the ingredients and had even started to plant magical plants on the island in large batches. The elves with this much business reached out to elves that where not just in Brittan to join mark and have a good working environment. They made sure there was never too many for mark to handle with his core, but with his core always being drained by the magic to support the amount of elves that actually work for him his core was constantly improving with the amount it can generate. And with that generation during the day and nothing draining it the process grew his core slightly. All in all mark would be shocked to know it but he had 104 elves working for him and having families. The reason he didn't know was because they came and went so often he didn't realize new ones showed up and subtlety bonded to him or the girls.
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After the second year of university more things had progressed for the company and on my island. The first thing is that the social workers have had their cores finish growing. After I found that I had them swear an oath and then brought them in on everything. They were very happy after they found out everything and where happy, they could stay here on the island for as long as they wanted and now they were full time employees and not on contract.
The magical plants had taken off in the tunnels and Neville had decided to come work here along with moving his parents. The reason this worked is because he had just finished his NEWTS but at the same time his gran had passed away when he was at school. Since he didn't know what to do now, he just agreed to come work here since he felt lost. His parents were given a nice view of the beach and the house elves took care of their bodies.
The next thing is that had progressed, is that I had some of those women that came with Pansy start to hollow out Antarctica. With them knowing how the hive looks, they had started about 500m into the mountains of Antarctica. It took them 3 weeks to fly there with the shuttle and set it up a starting shaft, that will be filled in. after that they took a month to make one layer of tunnels that are expanded, lighted and breathing charms. The reason it took so long is that there cores are still slowly being expanded. The tunneling will help expand it with constant use to almost draining. All the material was stored in expanded trunks so we will always have materials to work with.
On the floor on the weekends I was creating a trunk line and silver spider webs all over everything along with a deepening the center shaft. Then creating a small room off the side to make a hearth stone there with massive blocks of sapphire that are 4 times the size of the island. Since it worked so well on the island I will add all the wards and as many deadly ones I can put it on. I will even ask if people can find or make more. I want this place to be impenetrable to anyone not in the company or people not allowed.
We will make Antarctica the place where we hold everything maybe even some dorm housing. All surface structures that belong to umbrella will have stairs that lead into the ground but will actually lead to different parts of Antarctica that correspond to what they would need. But access will be double wared and have a failsafe of destroying the access portal if breached or purposely told to be destroyed.
As to the island some people have gotten it into their heads to make this place as nice as they can and are going wild with their transfigurations and the water gardens are expanding all over the island, people thought it was beautiful from what they can see out of the library windows.
Speaking of the library, thanks to everyone adding magic before going to bed the library has had no issue in expanding. The only thing is that the place is enormous on the inside thanks to people bringing in muggle books and elves bringing in magical books.
On the law firm in port Eden it has become nice and busy dealing with many things related to japan import and export along with corresponding contracts.
The internet connection for big business call Umbrella Net has taken off to the point that all major companies in eastern Australia have a blue cube. There are even mining companies in the outback that are using them. With the size of Australia and the spread-outness of it we have become the default internet provider of Australia especially with our speeds. We have a reseller that just wires residential houses into cubes we supply, because we don't want to deal with residential customers and there problems. We would rather only have to deal with IT departments.
All this had made it so we have had more people join the company called Umbrella Net and deal with the software side, but the hardware side is still dealt with by those girls that started it because it's still located in a warded area. With the speed of acceptance from everyone who has dealt with our speeds I can see within 4 years we will own the Australian internet access. Add to the fact the prices we charge and no one can even compete. We are even getting asked for more and more storage space on our servers from companies to hold backups of their files. This is just snowballing to the point that Australia is becoming an IT haven in the world because of network access and cheap storage spaces.
We are already planning on expanding the law firm to deal with the government because we don't want monopoly laws put in place on us or any other hindering nonsense. We have already let it be known that if needed we will close and move to another country if this happens, because all of our stuff is wireless. With that threat we have become the unspoken about stepchild that no government agency wants to provoke as long as we keep low prices and don't make waves.
This year we have also bought a large spot in the outback to create a UAV creation company that will make unmanned drones that can be sold to the military or the civilian side. A separate section of the lawyers are working with the government to get the appropriate paperwork to be able to do this and make it all legal along with airspace clearance around our area we buy, so that we don't need to worry about commercial flights breaching airspace around us. Military craft will still enter but no civilian. The Australian government is very interested in this because to them only America could produce this on a worthwhile scale, and probably we will fail and they can just scoop it up for a song.
When the legal applications and that entire minutia are done I will hire a company to install multiple runways and aircraft hangers along with a control tower. I figure once that's done we can go to town inside, and underground magically. The company I want to slowly createso all is perfect, and I will hire as many college / university graduates who want in on this field and also pure research projects. This place will be my skunkworks'.
The news from England is interesting though. It looks like the disappearance of all the puffs and those 30 girls, has gotten the government to look closely at the Hufflepuffs at school. But there wasn't anything they could think of to do, and it didn't help that we had taught everyone occlumency so they couldn't be interrogated that way. Since they still had the other 3 houses to get people from they were just curious instead of frightened, because they just don't care, we are still taking in people. So far no one has left and a lot of people have finished their schooling.
With the original maids and new ones they were all happy on my island, and spent a lot of time in the library. They were the main workforce expanding my island water garden, they thought it was only proper since I liked it and I owned the island.
Another thing I create was a scholarship for anyone who had grades to make it into any of the engineering programs that matter to me to go to school for free along with books and housing. I figure I can just buy some university housing to rent out if no one is at the school during that time. The only stipulation will be that they have to work for me for 10 years and they will get paid normal pay but if they stay longer then there pay will increase after the 10 years. I hired an advertising company to promote this at mostly at low income and schools that are in the "wrong neighborhood". In my way of thinking I figure I will get some grateful kids who will have a reason to give it their all for working for me. Sure it will be a long term idea, but I figure if I can stipulate that they need to learn English then I can get them from all over and work together. I will even throw in the incentive of co owning any patents they come up with and my company will file them and supply them with materials.
Over the course of the second year of university I had gotten so many things accomplished for the company and my schooling was finished up for all the degrees I had chosen. I love occlumency, I figure to get a better hang of this I will take a year off and choose something new after that. During my year off I think I will play with the stuff I learned in university to get it drilled into my head instead of just theory.
The girls on the other hand are still going back to school because there courses are longer even with occlumency. I have no issue with this because I want them to be happy and hope I can provide for them, so they can do whatever they want to do with their time. They have all said they are going to work in the company eventually but they need to know more. Me I am just going to go where I please and throw ideas and materials at people and see what happen. I might even get people to look around for research proposals and as long as they can help my company or increase the human races scientific knowledge, I think I will fund them and buy them what they need. If it doesn't work out the stuff can be used else ware or sold off, I'm sure there are many scientists that would jump at that. This would allow them to get there stuff published and accredited in the scientific field of their choice.
I have been able to buy a chunk of the Gibson Desert North in Australia where I plan to create Umbrella Works and put everything there for R&D and the UAV launch and testing area. The area I have gotten measures 110km by 120km. It's a ridiculous amount of land but I will be paying to government back over a number of years but the price and area of the land bought is at a reasonable price. I think the fact that I would be employing people and using space no one else wanted helps. I am going to have to invest with so much money to create a road out here and landing and takeoff airstrips along with helicopter pads. Most of the stuff in the beginning will be trucked in until I get those airstrips installed.
I will spend the year in choosing a place to put this project and from there introduce a trunk line network. Along with a ward that does simple things but most of all magical aversion and suppression so the magicals of Australia don't get it in their heads to come and investigate. I also figure that I can put in some enchantments to cool it down to 27-34°c in the hot season instead of the 33-46°c range. Also so that the ground temperature never gets lower than 10°c or higher then 55°c.
One thing though I will accomplish this summer, is find someone to bribe in the ministry to clear everyone out on Christmas / Winter solstice at night and raid the hell out of the lower levels where the time room is and anything else. Not my fault if it's just a matter of money to clean them out, it will be just me and the elves who do it so no one else can get caught or blab. All the loot will be sent to Antarctica so it can't be tracked.