Harry glanced at the unconscious man with greasy black hair that was sprawled on the ground then back over at Lily. "What happened?"

Lily took a breath then let it out slowly as she tried to calm down. "I might have gotten carried away with obliviate."

"Did you turn him into a vegetable?"

Lily shook her. "Severus should still have most of his skills but I wiped out most of the personal details of his life. I left him with some of the better moments at home and Hogwarts but not much else."

Harry made a mental note to trade part of Riddle's soul for something that could keep him from being obliviated. "Remind me not to make you angry Mum."

"Maybe if I'd tried harder back in school he wouldn't have went quite so crazy."

"He tried to do the right thing eventually even if for the wrong reasons. Maybe that counts for something in the grand scheme of things." Harry pulled the Loliblade out of his pocket then walked over and slipped it on Severus's wrist.

Lily watched as Severus changed into a decently cute naked thirteen year old albeit one with a large nose and greasy hair. "Where are you going to send her?" Lily gestured and wandlessly summoned the Loliblade to her hand.

Harry considered his options. "How much is left?"

"Most of his early memories of me, a few scattered memories of his mother and memories of his first time seeing Hogwarts and of various good things from his life."

"In that case, I have just the thing." Harry pulled a book out of his backpack. "The Hobbit."

"You're sending him to Middle Earth?"

"I have a feeling that they're going to need a hero and his magic is rather powerful compared to most of the tricks people can pull off there."

Lily asked, "What happens if he goes evil?"

Harry said, "Then Gandalf will likely deal with her. Where's his wand?"

Lily pulled Severus's wand out of her back pocket and handed it to Harry. "Here,"

Harry pulled several clothing, cooking and sporting goods magazines out of his backpack then started pulling clothes and supplies out of them for Severus. "Hopefully he'll end up a hero."

"We can hope." Lily wasn't sure how to feel about her ex-friend or about wiping out most of his bad memories and tossing him into a book to sink or swim.

0o0o0o0o0o0o0

Madam Umbridge whined under his breath, "Couldn't he have sent someone more important than a creepy house elf?"

Lucius plastered a fake smile on his face as he watched Kreacher straighten the speech that he was preparing to read. "His letter said he was quite ill but wanted to see to his wealth before he died. No doubt he ordered his elf to repeat his message exactly. Just have patience."

"The donation to the ministry better be worth it."

Draco scowled. "He better not give away my gold."

Kreacher looked over the group of forty highly influential wizards and two witches impatiently standing around the Black family dining room for his speech. Everyone that was here had been personally invited because they were some combination of family, corrupt officials, Death Eaters or helped Voldemort's cause. At least three of the board of directors of Hogwarts were here in addition to Lucius Malfoy. "Kreacher has been ordered to truthfully read the last Will and Testament of Arcturus Black. If Narcissa Black and Draco Malfoy would please come to the front of the room."

Draco stood up and strutted up to the front of the room with his chest puffed out as much as he could.

Narcissa Malfoy followed him up to the front of the room with a slight scowl on her face..

Kreacher picked up the two keys sitting on the podium that Arcturus had crafted for the occasion and handed them to Narcissa and Draco. "Keys to something precious."

Draco took the key with a smirk.

Narcissa took the key. "Tell him thank you."

"Of course, as you're not part of the game for the rest of his money, you're free to go. Portus." Kreacher announced with a wave.

Lucius's eyes widened as his wife and son vanished before his eyes. "What is the meaning of this?"

"Mister Draco and Lady Narcissa have already received their share of the Black family fortune. The rest of Lord Arcturus' vast wealth will be given to the winner of his challenge." Kreacher picked up a glass orb with fire burning inside of it off the podium.

Madam Umbridge scoffed, "You expect the Ministry to participate in some game?"

"If you want his gold then yes, he does."

Lucius snapped out, "Get on with it then."

"The challenge is simple, anyone that gets out of this room alive will be rewarded." Kreacher tossed the orb at the ground and used his elf magic to apparate out of the house through the Black family wards and back to the Black family mansion before the orb shattered on the ground.

Arcturus asked, "I trust it went as planned?"

Kreacher ignored Sirius as he looked at Arcturus. "Kreacher did as instructed sir."

Arcturus dusted his hands off. "Excellent work Kreacher. I think it's time I had a talk with the arrogant toerag that thought he was getting my gold."

Sirius smiled as he followed Arcturus toward the dungeon.

0o0o0o0

Draco glared at the various people in the room that had chained him to a chair in the middle of the dungeon. "When my father hears about this."

Sirius said, "Your father is dead."

Draco shouted, "You're lying!"

Harry said, "He's really not. I was watching the whole thing on my magic mirror."

Arcturus said, "He was burned to death after Kreacher gave you the portkey."

Draco's face lost what little color he had. "Why?"

"I could give you a few different reasons, starting with because your father was a Death Eater but I'll be honest, I had him killed because he tried to kill me. You're a pathetic disappointment, my father this, my father that. From what I've heard, you barely know how to use a wand."

"They don't let us use magic before Hogwarts."

"Your father is a piece of shit criminal, you'd think he'd get something right but no, he can't even do that correctly, too busy I assume. Your aunts knew more spells before they got to Hogwarts than most third years, sure Bella was a bit crazy but she was fun, at least until Hogwarts…" Arcturus sighed. "I still think she got cursed somewhere along the line. Her marriage to Lestrange didn't help either."

Sirius wasn't sure, she'd always been a little crazy as far back as he could remember.

"Back to your issues though, you can't ride a broom worth shit and you're spoiled rotten and haven't had to work a day in your life."

Draco looked confused. "I'm a Malfoy, Malfoys don't work."

Arcturus snorted. "Oh please, spare me your father's shit. Your father worked at making money, he worked at it a great deal, he wasn't all that good at it but he tried. You're just too stupid to understand."

"How dare you!"

"How dare I tell you that you're a pathetic piece of shit and that your father did you no favors? Ah well, I'm old, one of the perks about being old is that you get to be honest with shitheads. Now, you have three things I want."

"What's that?"

"Your family's gold. Second, your father had a compartment under his drawing room, I want the contents and third, I want your house elf freed."

Draco's eyes widened as he remembered Dobby, if his father was really dead he could order him to help. "Dobby!"

Sirius rolled his eyes as he gestured and silenced Draco a second before Dobby appeared..

Draco tried to shouted, "Kill them!" but nothing came out.

Dobby asked, "Why do you have Master Draco tied up?"

Sirius smiled at Dobby. "We're playing a game."

"Oh, he plays kick Dobby a lot sir." Dobby grabbed his ears. "Dobby shouldn't have said that."

Harry used a bit of wandless magic to untie Draco's shoes and loosen them. He smirked at Draco, "Really? Kick the house elf, how do you play that?"

Draco tried and failed to shout, "Like this." as he kicked his foot at Harry. His eyes widened in surprise as his shoe actually flew off toward Harry's face.

Harry reached out with his magic hand and pulled Dobby in front of him.

Dobby squeaked as he brought his hands up in front of his face to protect himself and caught the shoe almost by accident. "You… Dobby has been given clothes. Dobby has been given clothes! Dobby is a free elf!"

Harry smirked as he levitated Dobby back to the ground. "You're welcome Dobby."

Sirius laughed as he cancelled the silence spell on Draco. "That was beautiful Harry."

Draco glared at Harry. "You bastard! Give him back!"

Dobby glared at Draco. "Dobby is free elf. Draco shouldn't be talking about Mister Harry Potter like that."

Arcturus laughed. "I think that's the first time I've seen a house elf given clothes that way before."

Draco glared at everyone. "You still can't get into the manor without my help."

"Actually, that's not true. If you die then Narcissa gets everything. After that if she dies, then everything defaults back to me. Which means that if you don't cooperate, we have no reason to keep you alive."

Draco glared at Arcturus. "Why do you want the family gold? Father said you had almost as much as we do."

"I'd be rather surprised if I didn't have more than you, after all I didn't have to bribe my way out of Azkaban or fund a madman's doomed crusade. Now, the reason I want the drawing room vault is because he has something in there that will help me kill Voldemort."

"He's dead."

"Mostly dead actually but he killed my grandson Regulus. That type of shit isn't allowed."

Draco glared at Arcturus. "You killed my parents, why should I believe you?"

"No, I killed your worthless piece of shit father, he wasn't a Black. I kept your mother safe. In fact she's in the next cell over, she can hear everything we've been saving, she's just not able to say anything right now."

"Mum!"

"So, here's the deal, if I get everything I want, you can keep part of the gold and accept banishment. If I don't then I'll merely banish you so I can get what I want and you'll have nothing."

"You can't do that…" Draco trailed off suddenly unsure of everything for the first time in his life.

Harry asked, "Dobby, do you know a way to get things into the manor through the wards?"

Dobby smirked slowly. "Dobby is still keyed into the wards sir. If old master was alive he could change that but he is dead sir."

"Excellent, can I trust you to clear out the vault under his drawing room floor?"

Draco glared at Dobby. "Don't you dare!"

"Dobby will be right back sir." Dobby snapped his fingers and vanished with a smile.

Arcturus shook his head. "And that is why you treat house elves with respect, so that if something goes wrong, they're a valued member of your household and not a hostile powerful magical creature that wants to kill you."

"They're just property!" Draco screamed.

Arcturus sighed. "How did my family drop to this level of stupid?"

Sirius shrugged. "I'm not sure, Mum was a nutjob but at least she knew the value of teaching us magic before Hogwarts. Of course, after I was sorted into Gryffindor and removed all doubt that I'd see the 'true' path she got worse."

Harry asked, "Where should I send Draco?"

Sirius said, "Let's haul him over to where Narcissa is chained up then you can take him to some Dungeons & Dragons world, there are enough evil wizards there that it shouldn't matter." He drew his wand and hit Draco with a stunner.

Arcturus shook his head. "You'll give him a chance, right?"

"Yeah, I'll drop him off in a region that's fighting monsters too horrible to make deals with, by the time he realizes it, he'll be a hero. That might be a bit of a stretch but we'll see."

"Thanks. As much as I dislike it, he's family. Still, if he doesn't take his one chance, I'm not going to complain if you leave him there."

"Understood."

"Now if you'll excuse me, I should get back to my room in case someone stops by to ask about the tragic events at the Black House." Arcturus Black walked off toward the stairs.

Sirius watched the 'old' man leave. He was both relieved that the man would be jumping into a book world soon and saddened because the old man was starting to grow on him.

Harry unchained Draco then started hauling him toward Narcissa's cell.

0o0o0

Moody walked up to where Dawlish was gaping at the destroyed building and snapped, "What do we have?"

Dawlish looked away from the burned out remains of Number 12 Grimmauld place. "We lost over thirty prominent purebloods, including the Under Secretary Madam Umbridge in the blast. We're still working on identifying the bodies."

Moody snorted. "Do we know what caused the fire?"

"From what we can tell a spell ignited a muggle gas line and caused the whole house to explode. It's quite possible that someone protested their 'proper' share of the Black family gold. If there are any survivors we haven't found them yet."

Moody felt like slapping Dawlish for not understanding that the only way a muggle gas line would explode like he said was if there was a significant amount of gas in the house before the spell set the gas off. He also knew that if that had been the case, the smell should have alerted everyone that something was wrong unless it was a set up and someone used certain spells to mask the scent or contain the gas to ground level. "Has anyone spoken to Arcturus Black yet?"

Dawlish pulled the copy of the will Arcturus had given him from his coat. "That's the first thing we did. The man is bedridden but he was able to give us a copy of the will that was being read off as well as the guest list. I imagine a lot of the people attending were expecting him to forgive their debts."

"Idiots, the man is a Black."

"Several had substantial debts. The ministry alone owes the Blacks a quarter of a million galleons."

Moody doubted that the ministry had the coin to pay the full amount right now or even a significant fraction of that amount without drastic measures. "What did everyone else get?"

"Most of them received a lump of coal. Draco Malfoy was set to receive 500 galleons to and I quote 'get the stick removed from his ass', Narcissa 1,000 galleons to stop bleaching her hair and Andromeda 10,000 for the insult of being burned of the family tapestry by his daughter in law. The family house was supposed to go to Nymphadora Tonks. The lion's share of the Black fortune will go to Sirius Black."

"How much was that?"

Dawlish handed the lists over to Moody. "It didn't say, it just said everything he owned and the title Lord Black upon his death. The goblins would have the complete list but they won't turn that over to us. Sirius Black and Nymphadora and Andromeda Tonks weren't at the reading."

Moody looked the guest list over suspiciously. Every single one of the people on the list were a bit dodgy or related to the Blacks and thus a bit dodgy. "See if you can figure out anything else, this is probably just a case of infernal muggle technology and someone being stupid but the Minister is going to want answers as his good friend Lucius was on the guest list. I don't suppose you found his body?" He was hoping for something good to come out of this mess of paperwork.

"We recovered his cane and wand held by a crisped hand in the wreckage. They're still working on identifying everyone but it's likely he's dead. The fire was extremely hot and the damage substantial. The only positive thing was that the wards kept the fire from spreading."

"Right, keep on it. I'm going to go track down Sirius Black."

"Of course sir," Dawlish replied.

0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0

Sirius opened the door to the potter cottage. "What do you want Moody?"

Moody snorted as he stepped inside. "I want to know how you did it."

"How I did what?" Sirius asked as he closed the door behind Moody.

"Arranged the death of thirty to forty purebloods at your grandfather's house."

Sirius asked as innocently as he could, "What happened?"

Moody snorted at Sirius's innocent act. "Someone blew up a gas line or at least that's what Dawlish said happened. There is no record of that house ever getting gas though."

"Was my grandfather hurt?"

"No, he was bedridden at his manor."

"Yeah, I think he tired himself out helping Andromeda and myself pick out anything we wanted from the Black family house before he turned it over to Nymphadora."

"Cut the shit Sirius!"

Sirius shrugged. "What do you want me to say?"

"How about the truth?"

"The truth is, my Grandfather wanted to settle his affairs before he left this world. He wasn't willing to let his family legacy end up in the Malfoy vault so he wanted to publicly name me his heir so that Malfoy couldn't steal it. My grandfather has a feeling that Lucius is the one that has been killing off Blacks lately. There have been a lot of suspicious deaths the last ten years. Not that I have a lot of love for some of them but my parents died suspiciously young."

"So you're saying you had nothing to do with your grandfather's plan?"

"I might have helped with the wording of his speech. I suggested giving the Black Family's house to Nymphadora because I knew it would drive my cousin crazy."

James walked out of the kitchen. "How are you doing Mad Eye?"

Moody blinked in surprise. "Hazel eyes. You look just like James."

"Yeah, well we're related so I guess that makes sense. Harry got Lily's eyes."

Moody frowned as he looked through the kitchen wall and saw someone that looked suspiciously like Lily Potter. "What's going on?"

James smiled innocently at his old friend. "What do you mean?"

"I mean there's a girl that looks like Lily Potter in the kitchen."

Lily walked in from the kitchen. "You and that creepy eye."

Moody snorted. "This eye has helped me avoid death plenty of times."

Sirius said, "And your leg has nearly gotten you killed a few times. Have you considered retiring?"

Moody glared at Sirius. "Polyjuice?"

"Nope, would you believe that Lily knocked up James' American cousin at a party?" Lily asked.

Remus laughed as he walked out of the hallway. "You look like you're about to jump out of your skin Moody."

Moody reached for his wand over to find it missing. "What the hell?"

Sarah stepped back holding Moody's wand and turned visible. She waved her finger at him. "Sorry about that but wands are dangerous."

Moody stared at Sarah in shock. "That shouldn't be possible. My eye sees through invisibility charms."

"I'm a battle Nymph, the day some trinket magic item can see through my invisibility is the day I give up my gym card and go back to magic school."

Moody turned so that he had his back to the wall. "What do you want?"

Lily said, "You're the one that was going to draw a wand on someone in their own home."

Moody glared at Sirius. "How did you do this?"

Sirius glanced at James then Lily as he asked, "What do you think?"

James said, "We might as well tell him."

Remus walked over and sat down on the couch. "It's up to you."

Lily said, "Fine, we came back from the dead. Happy?"

Moody snorted. "That's impossible."

"Yep, completely impossible Mad Eye," James replied cheerfully. "Which means that I can't possibly know about that night on the pier where you'd drink way too much fire whiskey and ended up falling in. Or that time you spotted a gun on a woman's leg and got slapped for looking at her arse."

"How?" His eye spun to look at Sirius through the side of his head. "Did James tell you that story?"

Sirius laughed. "Just now but damn, I sort of want to hear the rest of it now."

Moody asked, "How is that even possible?"

Sarah said, "Resurrection scrolls. Harry wanted to get his parents back so we got them back."

"You can do that?" Moody asked in disbelief.

"Not anymore, I burned some fairly serious favors for those. One time deal I'm afraid." Sarah lied glibly.

"That doesn't explain why they're children again."

Harry walked in from his bedroom and looked the scarred man that his parents had told a couple of stories about over the last few days. "That would be a different magical item that reduces a person's age and regenerates them."

"You can regenerate people?"

"I once saw it rebuild a girl's missing legs. They'd been destroyed by a very nasty curse, this bracelet broke the curse and regenerated her legs and everything else physically wrong with her." Harry tossed the Loliblade to him. "Just put it on and you'll see."

Moody looked down at the bracelet. "If I do this I'll lose my magic eye."

"Considering you're an old friend of my parents, I could always make you some X-ray sunglasses."

Sirius said, "Or you could just rip your eye out again and enjoy the fact that you have your leg and tip of your nose back."

Moody scowled at the idea of causing himself that much pain. "How do I know this isn't a trick?"

James snorted. "We have wands, you don't. If we wanted you dead you would be dead."

Moody reached up and unstrapped his magical eye and pulled it out with a plop. "I don't suppose you can get me a glass?"

Lily gestured and summoned one from the kitchen then levitated it over to Moody after filling it with water with her wand. "Here."

Moody plopped his eye in the glass then set it on the table. "How does the bracelet work?"

"You just put it on."

"If this is some trick, I'm going to be really annoyed."

Harry shook his head. "It really does regenerate people."

Moody unhooked his pegleg and leaned it up against the table. "Fine."

Sarah cast a spell that swapped Moody's clothes with conjured ones and hid his real clothes behind the couch. She wasn't sure what he had in the pockets of his robes but he was going to be angry enough with them already without destroying his gear.

He put the bracelet on and twitched as he shifted and changed. He blinked as he realized that he had two eyes again and he could feel both his feet. He nearly passed out from shock as he looked down and saw that he had smallish breasts and was mostly naked. "What the hell?!"

James smirked. "We might have neglected to mention that it also turned you into a girl."

Remus rubbed his chin. "You know, giving a dangerous weapon to a conscious extremely grumpy master auror might have been a bad idea."

Moody looked down at his metal covered hands and the wicked looking claws at the ends of them. "How do I fix this?!"

Harry asked, "Which part? The claws or the fact that you're a thirteen year old girl now?"

Moody glared around the room at everyone. "All of it."

Lily had to work not to snicker as she looked at the 'cute' and seriously angry 'wizard'. "The claws are easy to deal with, you simply reach down and pull off your g-string and it turns back into a bracelet. The thirteen year old part eventually fixes itself and the female part is fixed by another magic item that we'll give you once you're not wearing the bracelet."

James conjured a robe and tossed it to Moody. "Here, you might make an okay girl but I'd rather not have you wanting to kill me."

Moody muttered, "Too late." as 'he' pulled on the robe. He reached down and pulled on the annoying piece of half underwear that was trying to go places it really shouldn't, places he really shouldn't have. He sighed in relief as the metal vanished from his hands and the annoying piece of underwear vanished. "What the hell is the point of the damned bracelet?"

Harry lifted the bracelet using a magic hand from his ring and pulled it back to him so he could put it in his bag. "You mean besides the fact that it completely regenerates a person? It actually generates a shield around you that's extremely durable. The downside is that it does a number on your clothes."

Moody scowled at Harry. "What the hell happened to my vault key?"

"Shit, sorry about that." Sirius winced.

Lily said, "See, this is why you shouldn't prank people."

"I didn't see you trying to stop them." Sarah gestured and levitated Moody's clothes from behind the couch. "Here, I swapped your clothes with conjured ones."

Moody grumbled as he accepted his clothes. "You're trying to give an old man a heart attack, aren't you?"

"Considering you're a thirteen year old girl right now, I don't think you can claim heart attack." Sirius replied.

Moody grumbled, "How do I fix the female part?"

Harry pulled the gender swapping belt out of his backpack and tossed it to him. "Walk into the bathroom and put that on then take it off after it works."

Moody scowled. "We're going to have a long talk about everything once I'm back."

Harry watched him stalk off. "I'm suddenly glad the twins are with Hermione."

Lily said, "They wanted to do a sleep over and Hermione's folks wanted to get to know them."

Sirius said, "I'm sure they'll have fun."

"Hopefully not too much fun," Remus replied.

Harry glanced toward the bathroom. "Not that I don't want to stick around to hear Moody screaming at you but I should go grab more of Riddle's little toys while I have the time. Who wants to come with me?"

"I'll go." Sarah shrank down, flew up and sat on Harry's shoulder.

Sirius glanced over at James. "I'd go but I think James would hex me for leaving him to face Moody alone."

Lily asked, "Do we need to come with you?"

Sarah shook her head. "Nah, we've got a plan that should deal with the shack's defenses without getting too close."

"Call if you need help, we're going to try to calm Moody down."

"Good luck with that, I'd rather deal with the cursed artifacts," Harry replied as he headed for the door.

0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0

Harry smiled as he came to a stop about a hundred yards from the shack he'd seen in the mirror. "I think point me is one of my favorite spells."

Sarah snickered as she flew off of Harry's shoulder and transformed back to her full size. "It certainly helps. How are you planning on getting the ring?"

"By cheating. While I'd love to eventually learn to break wards, starting with Riddle's is probably a bad idea." He reached into his backpack and pulled out a guns and military hardware magazine that he'd picked up from the bookstore. He opened the magazine, reached his hand into the magazine and pulled out a rocket launcher.

Sarah stared at the rocket. "That's going to cause a lot of noise Harry."

"That's a good point." He reached into the magazine and pulled out two pairs of ear protectors.

Sarah rolled her eyes as she caught the ear protectors Harry tossed at her. "Or I could just silence the rocket."

"No boom?" Harry mock pouted.

"No boom Harry." Sarah stuck out her tongue at Harry.

"Aww… that's half the fun at least according the Americans who wrote the magazine."

Sarah asked, "Do you even know how to use that?"

Harry frowned at the rocket launcher, thankful that his spy training had taught him the basics. "Sure, I pull that safety lever then I pull the trigger while aiming at the shack. How hard can it be?"

Sarah gestured at the rocket and silenced it then cast a flame freezing charm on Harry just in case. "Okay, I'm going to stand over here." She flew backwards a few yards.

Harry checked the directions again then dropped the magazine, put on his ear protectors and flipped the safety off before aiming at the shack. "Fire in five."

Sarah put on her ear protectors just in case her silence spell wasn't up to the task. "Ready when you are."

"Fire in the hole." Harry giggled as he pulled the trigger.

Sarah cast a shield over her and Harry then watched as the rocket hit the shack and blew it to smithereens. "Well, that happened."

Harry laughed as he watched the pieces of the shack fly everywhere. "Fuck yeah!"

Sarah shook her head as she took off the ear protectors. "You're not allowed to enchant those damn things…"

Harry took off his ear protectors. "What did you say? I couldn't hear you."

"Later." Sarah really didn't want Harry combining magic and explosives until he had a better grasp of both but figured she could cover that topic at length later. "Let's grab the box and get the heck out of here before someone comes to investigate the mess."

Harry frowned as he glanced around at the wreckage. "I don't suppose you know where the metal box went?"

Sarah sighed. "Put the rocket launcher back, turn invisible and we'll check."

Harry stuffed the rocket launcher back in the lightly charred magazine. "Sure." He turned invisible then picked up the magazine and stuffed it in his backpack.

Sarah said, "You could just use the mirror again."

"Oh right." Harry pulled out the mirror and looked for the ring.

0o0o0o0o0

Helena smiled at Harry, "What do you have for me today?"

Harry set a metal box on the ground. "A diary and a cursed ring in a box."

"Excellent, what are you looking for in trade?"

"What about expanding my knowledge of protection glyphs to include the other two unforgivables or more?"

Helena said, "I don't see a problem with upgrading your knowledge to include protection from the other two unforgivables and I'll even toss in stunning spells if you let me keep the diary once I decurse it. With that you should be able to figure out how to extend the protection to the rest of your spells."

Harry asked, "Why do you want the diary?"

"It's a magic item that lets you communicate with the soul stuck inside, sure it's cursed but it's still an interesting magic item to study, at least if you're a demon."

"Can I talk you out of your research notes on it?"

"Well, there are some rival demons I want killed so I suppose we could make a deal for the research notes once I'm done studying the Diary." She gestured at the box and opened it then dispelled the curses on the box inside of it. She waved her hand and opened that box then gestured again and dispelled the curses on the ring inside of it. "Do you need the ring back once I finish decursing it?"

Sarah raised an eyebrow. "Really? I'm sure you're aware that it's a powerful magical item."

"I'll take that as a yes then." Helena pouted, "You can't blame a girl for trying can you?"

Harry laughed. "Sure I can. What does it do?"

"The stone lets people talk to the dead, just turn it three times and think about who you want to talk to."

"I think I'll keep it for now."

"Understandable. So do we have a deal for the knowledge?" Helena asked.

Harry looked over at Sarah. "Thoughts?"

Sarah considered the deal then shrugged. "I don't see a problem with that deal."

Harry nodded. "In that case, deal."

Helena levitated the items out then kissed the ring eating the screaming soul fragment. "You know, one of these days, you should ask me for a list of names of all of the Death Eaters."

Harry shuddered as he watched the demon devour the soul fragment. "We'll see, I still have the cup to collect and the diadem so it's possible."

"I'm just saying, it's an option." Helena grinned as she tossed Sarah the ring.

Sarah gestured and levitated the ring. She started working on casting detection spells while Helena worked on eating the diary.

Harry winced as Helena snapped her fingers and more knowledge of tattooing and symbols flowed into his head. "I hate that part."

Helena shrugged. "It makes sure you don't forget it. A deal is a deal after all."

Harry said, "Thank you, we'll be back with the cup and diadem eventually."

"Good luck." Helena smiled at the little wizard. He was certainly better than her usual clientele.

0o0o0o0

Sirius looked up as Harry walked into the living room with Sarah on his shoulder. "How did it go?"

Sarah snickered as she flew off his shoulder and grew to human size. "It went well enough."

Harry glanced at Moody then back at Sirius. "Are you sure you don't want to wait?"

James said, "You might as well tell him, he's agreed to help with the rest of Voldemort's soul anchors."

"Ah, in that case, I dealt with two more which leaves the fragment in a man's turban, Hufflepuff's cup in Gringotts and Rowena's Diadem at Hogwarts. Getting the Diadem shouldn't be a problem once school starts. I'm not sure how to get the one in Gringotts short of sneaking into Azkaban and killing Bellatrix Lestrange or freeing her..." he trailed off as Moody glared at him. "Which I'm not going to do."

Moody snorted. "I can deal with the Cup, I'll just tell the goblins that I have a credible source that places one of Voldemort's horcruxes in one of the Lestrange vaults. They don't care about most cursed items but Voldemort caused them a lot of grief the last time around and they don't want him coming back either. If that doesn't work, we'll figure out something."

"No epic quest or daring plan?" Harry sighed.

"Sometimes it really is that easy."

James said, "We'll try it the easy way first."

Moody stood up. "Are you sure that you don't want to tell Albus? He'd be delighted to see you again."

"But then we couldn't go back to school and have some fun."

Sirius said, "Or make sure that Harry is safe."

Sarah tossed Moody a ring. "Here, this will let you look like your old self."

Moody looked suspiciously at the ring. "Are there any side effects?"

"Nope, it's just an illusion."

"In that case thank you."

Harry said, "We should have your sunglasses ready in a couple of days once we've had a chance to study your eye."

"I appreciate it and you better bring it back in one piece." Moody headed for the door. He paused and turned around to level a glare at everyone. "I'll keep your secrets, just try not to blow up any more upstanding members of society, the paperwork is a pain in the arse."

"You could always retire," James said.

"I'm considering it, I'm tired of paperwork and I have a feeling there will be a hell of a lot of it until school starts."

"It was nice seeing you again Moody, let us know about the goblins," Sirius said cheerfully.

"I will." Moody opened the door and left.

Harry walked over and sat down on the couch. "At least the diary and the ring are dealt with."

Sirius asked, "Did you get anything good in trade?"

"Knowledge of tattoos that block the unforgivable curses and stunning spells."

James coughed in shock. "You got what?"

Harry smiled. "I can make tattoos that make a person immune to the unforgivable curses and stunning spells."

Sirius asked, "Are there any side effects?"

"Helena said there weren't but I want to check things anyways. I also want have someone cast the spells on a lab rat or something to test them."

"It's always wise to run the numbers on untested spells or rituals. We've got a couple hours before we need to crash, if you want to get started on arithmancy?"

"Sure. The sooner we figure this out the sooner we can protect everyone."

0o0o0o0

Harry waved at Hermione, Anna and Beth as he walked into the Granger family living room with Sirius. "Did you have fun?"

Anna and Beth nodded. "Yep."

Hermione said, "We shared stories and watched Disney movies."

"I'm glad that you had fun." Sirius glanced over at Mrs. Granger as he asked, "Any problems?"

Mrs. Granger shook her head. "They were little angels."

"I'm glad to hear that." Sirius was rather relieved that they hadn't been caught doing anything inappropriate.

"Thanks for offering to tutor Hermione over the summer about things the magical world expects her to know but didn't bother writing down."

"Hogwarts has an entire class focused on the normal world in third year but for some reason giving muggleborns a guidebook about the wizarding world doesn't occur to the people in charge. Then again maybe they don't want to scare people off, wizards are a bit weird."

Mrs. Granger sighed. "I just wish they also taught some normal subjects as well as magical classes."

Hermione said, "Don't worry, I've got the homeschool packets as well. I shouldn't have a problem keeping up with my normal course work."

Sirius said, "Magical self study is a lot harder than mundane self study."

Harry spoke up, "If we run into trouble I'll find a book we can jump in that's teaching the relevant subject."

Mrs. Granger smiled at Harry. "Thank you, it's nice to see Hermione with friends."

Hermione protested, "I have friends."

"People you see occasionally at school or at the library don't count."

Beth spoke up, "Don't worry, we're not letting her go."

Mrs. Granger looked at Sirius. "Are you sure that tutoring Hermione while we're at work isn't a problem?"

"It's not a problem. Harry, Anna and Beth are working on learning the same lessons."

"Thanks again." Mrs. Granger looked at the clock. "I should get going."

Sirius pulled out a length of rope. "Everyone grab the portkey and we'll get out of Mrs. Granger's hair." He waited until Harry and the girls grabbed the portkey then said. "Beam me up Scotty." He wasn't sure why Lily had set that particular phrase but figured there was a joke somewhere in there.

Harry blinked as he appeared in the backyard of the house in Godric's Hollow with Sirius and the girls. "So, how was the slumber party?"

Anna snickered as she hugged Hermione from behind. "It was great, Hermione's nipples are tasty."

Sirius shook his head as he walked toward the house. "They grow up so fast."

Hermione huffed. "Mum almost got us caught a couple of times."

Beth reached out and trailed a finger over Hermione's left breast. "But you loved it."

"Maybe a little but I'd appreciate if you didn't try to cut it so close next time."

Anna lifted Hermione up then stuck her feet under Hermione's heels and floated off the ground two feet. "Admit it, you like that we're naughty. You like that we lick you and make you melt and all the naughty things we do to you."

Harry was just glad there were overgrown shrubs and trees blocking the view from the street. "Do tell."

Beth grinned as she reached out and touched Hermione's ankle then ran her fingers up her leg until she reached her knee. "Have I told you how ticklish she is?"

Harry grinned. "That I know."

Hermione glanced back at the house. "I'd rather not get in trouble."

"Does that mean you want me to stop?" Beth smiled as she trailed her fingers up the back of Hermione's leg. "Or should I pull you panties down, flip your dress up and make you scream for Dad?"

Hermione hissed, "Beth."

Anna snickered as she reached up and gently cupped Hermione's left breast with her right hand. "You make us wild." She pressed her crotch against Hermione's behind. "If I'm being too naughty spank me, Daddy never would." She leaned in and licked Hermione's neck. "Play with me, kiss my nose, lick my ears and wiggle your fingers in my happy place."

Beth smiled as she used the back of her hand to brush Hermione's crotch. "Can I play?"

Hermione hissed, "Harry, book now!"

Harry pulled the tropical island guide book out of his backpack then pulled them into it.

Anna grinned as she floated back to the ground and released Hermione. She snickered as she lifted Hermione's dress off her.

Harry let his gaze trail over Hermione's body. "I'm enjoying this way too much."

Beth snickered as she reached out with both hands and grabbed the sides of Hermione's panties and gently pulled them down. "That's because you're a dirty wizard."

Anna snickered as she tossed Hermione's dress on the chair. "What do you think Beth, we get her nipples why Harry fucks her silly?"

Beth grinned as she reached down and pulled her dress off. "Unless Harry wants to play with our kitties while we lick Hermione until she melts."

Harry shook his head at how warped the girls were. He wasn't sure if he should be blaming Hermione or thanking Hermione for how twisted the twins were but they were certainly cute enough. "We've got plenty of time for both before lunch."

0o0o0o0

Sirius finished his sandwich then looked over at Harry. "So, I was thinking about what Arcturus said about trying to breed more magic users."

Harry raised an eyebrow. "And you want me to grab a time machine so that we can go back in time?"

"No, I thinking about having you take us into a book that skips a lot of time and starting the experiment in a contained environment. Though that whole skipping in time-"

Lily cut him off, "No, just no. I'd rather not screw the world up via time travel."

Anna asked, "What about jumping to a parallel dimension first then jumping back in time?"

Beth snickered. "That would be awesome."

"Am I the only sane person here?" Lily asked curiously.

Hermione raised her hand. "I'm sane."

Harry shook his head as he pointed to the twins. "I love you but no, you're a bit too much of a mad scientist to be completely sane."

Hermione stuck her tongue out at Harry.

Anna snickered as she leaned up against Hermione and looked up at her with a mock pout. "Don't worry, we still love you."

James laughed. "I don't know, it sounds like it could be amusing but I think Sirius has a point, we should probably jump into a book and test the theory first. It would be a nice diversion from all of the training."

Harry paused as he considered the various books he'd looked over. "I've got a book that skips a couple of thousand years after the prologue, that should give Arcturus enough time to set up his crazy society."

Beth asked, "Which book?"

"The Eye of the World, Hermione picked it up from the bookstore."

Anna grinned brightly. "Oh, that could be fun. I've read most of the series."

Hermione frowned. "Isn't that the book that starts off with a fight between two extremely powerful and insane wizards?"

Harry said, "Yes but as long as we're invisible and careful we'll be able to flee before that becomes a huge problem."

"Right, assuming that's true, then what? The next couple of hundred years has large sections of that world being literally ripped apart and put back together by insane magic users. And you're calling me insane?"

Harry shrugged. "So we find an island without people on it and ward it to keep the insane people out."

Lily glanced between her son and Hermione. "I'm going to want a write up before we actually jump there."

Harry asked, "What type of write up?"

"I'd like a list of people of interest if possible or at least locations of interest where we can find interesting magical items." Lily looked at Anna. "Do you know any interesting places that a group could settle?"

Anna considered the Wheel of Time world, short of a small tropical island or something there weren't all that many places where they could set up shop without causing a lot of problems in the timeline. "The island of Madness might be an interesting place to settle as that's where a lot of the men that could use that world's magic went."

"Island of Madness?" James asked dubiously.

"One of the things about the world's magic is that it's split into two halves, male and female, the male half eventually drives people insane because it's tainted."

"How did they taint magic?" Sirius asked curiously.

Beth shrugged. "Dark god's counter attack, it's a recent thing in the prelude and ancient history for most of the series."

James said, "That doesn't sound all that safe or useful."

Hermione frowned as she thought about the various ways to deal with the taint. "Well we can probably figure out some type of purification ritual to deal with the taint. Even if we can't, we should be able to figure out something to keep them from going quite as crazy."

Harry spoke up, "I might be able to ward against the taint. I mean a simple Dungeons & Dragons protection from evil magic item or tattoo might cut the taint down to nothing."

Sirius asked, "Other than the time skip is there a point in using this world?"

Beth said, "They have some interesting magic. Even ignoring the shields and destruction magic they have a way to make iron into a nearly indestructible material and bridges that look like glass that last thousands of years that you can't even scratch with a hammer and chisel."

Lily tapped her fingers on the table absently. "How many people are you going to send?"

Harry rubbed his chin as he considered several options. "We're going to have to send a fair number of people if we don't want the resulting population horribly inbred by the time the novel picks up again. I've got some ideas on where to start but we'll see how it goes."

"What are you thinking?" James asked curiously.

"I want a way to download people's minds into a computer or at least their memories. We have a bunch of magic users that are going to lose an awful lot of their knowledge and abilities over the next three thousand years. I'd rather have a way to save that knowledge if at all possible."

Lily said, "They could use a pensieve to store the memories or something like it."

Harry said, "I wouldn't mind jumping to Star Trek and grabbing some of the telepathic and telekinetic humans that were created on the starbase from the episode we watched last night."

Sirius asked, "You mean the ones that made everyone older?"

"There should be a way to fix that…" Harry trailed off.

Hermione laughed. "Actually we don't need to. There's a Star Trek book that covers the starbase in question and the ethics of genetic engineering. It starts off at a point before they'd decided to introduce the aggressive immune system which means we can probably recover some of the data from before they decided to get terminally stupid."

Harry grinned. "Okay, that's helpful."

Beth said, "That would give us a replicator and a bunch of information on genetic engineering."

Lily shook her head. "What about power generation?"

Anna snickered. "An arc reactor from Iron Man should be enough to power a city. With a little luck, Harry might be able to get his design schematics or at least a scan of one of the various arc reactors as there are various comics where they're on display to the public because it's too large to move without heavy machinery."

Harry grinned. "That's a great idea. Do you have the Star Trek book in question?"

"At the house, on my shelf with the rest of my science fiction books," Hermione replied.

"Okay, in that case, we should grab the book and see what we can find."

Sirius said, "While Hermione and I grab the book, you should look for a magic item that prevents people from reading your mind. We don't need a bunch of genetically engineered children freaking out because they're in a book."

"That's a good point," Harry replied.