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Hogwarts Courtyard Somewhere in Highlands, Scotland, Great Britain:
Harry watched as the skeleton of the dead students and the Hogsmeade residents, one by one, went inside the incinerator, which had a magical fire burning which would burn the body so completely that not even ashes would be left.
He was standing in the courtyard of Hogwarts, where an incinerator had been set up with some modifications. The metal body had multiple runes carved into it so that it would be able to withstand the intense heat the magical fire was creating. The fire is also due to the rune.
The Potentia of Atlantis Base is powering the whole system. This left the Atlantis Base running on stored power and the ley lines, which was just enough to run the essential computers, it was okay with Harry, as he could not bring himself to cast Fiendfyre on this body the only other way he knew to destroy the body and the disease with it.
Right now, Harry was standing in the courtyard with around four thousand elves, both of this universe Hogwarts and the ones he had brought with him, as well as Carter watching as the bodies (skeletons) were magically brought and put in the incinerator the whole process was automated. So no one came in contact with the body. He did not want any unnecessary contact if he could help himself, as Harry still did not know what type of disease it was and did not have the expertise to find out. It had been a tiring two days.
A Day earlier
Dis led Harry throughout the basement; the Elves had re-decorated the whole basement. The Hufflepuff dorms had been converted to the living quarter for the elves, and the magical door guarding the dorms had been removed.
As he sat down on one of the chairs in Hufflepuff's common room, He could feel multiple eyes on him and by multiple, he meant thousands. At least two thousand elves must be looking at him with those adoring big elves' eyes. He mentioned Dis to sit with him, and this caused Dis to bursts into noisy tears, at being treated like an equal by a wizard.
Harry let out a sigh. It looked like a century without any contact with witches and wizards, and a whole new generation of elves was still not enough for elves to forget about this annoying habit of bursting into tears at a show of kindness from wizards and witches. He really needed to study the elves' history and what had happened to them for them to be this dependent on wizards and witches. The only problem was that not many books on elves' history were written or had not survived in his time.
Harry quickly wrapped Dis in his arms and tried to comfort him almost instinctively, as you would do to a child crying his eye out, which only increased the noisy tears. Harry quickly separated himself. He needed to remember that house elves were a completely different species and stop comparing everyone to human ethics.
This will become more important when he returns to space and where he will definitely encounter multiple species with their own cultures and ethics, which could be completely different from humans. This was an issue when we interacted with one another; for Merlin's sake, Harry found a headache approaching just by the thought. Well, this was a problem for another time—baby step, Harry, baby step, he said to himself.
"Dis, are you calm now? Can we talk?" He said in a calm voice.
Dis quickly whipped his eye, brought himself in control, and said, "Elder always Master and Mistress were all kinds, and if Dis were fortune enough to meet them, Dis would understand, but even then, Dis did not expect the Great Master is treating Dis as his equal by allow Dis to sit with him. Oh, how kind the Great Master is. How could Dis serve the Great Master." looking at Harry with his big eye, which seemed to get bigger as if it was possible.
"Dis, from where I came, I have multiple elves. Can I call two of them," Harry asked and immediately knew he had made a mistake by the tears that began to fall from Dis.
"The Great Master asked Dis if The Great Master could do something. The Great Master is too kind. Of course, The Great Master could call his elves. Dis and others are excited to meet the Great Master's other elves." Dis replied between tears. Harry could see other elves also nodding.
Harry just shook his head and called aloud, "Hugo Dobby." nothing happened for a few minutes, and Harry thought that He had exceeded the range for him to summon them, but two pops sounded, and Hugo and Dobby appeared.
"Master called Dobby..." Dobby began to say but stopped as he looked around.
Harry did not say anything. It was as if he was invisible anyway. Hugo and Dobby were staring at the elves, and they were staring right back. He saw some female elves gathering the children and guiding them to the dorms. Harry found it odd they were completely fine letting their young play when Harry, a stranger from a different species, was here, but when two strangers of their kind came, they were guiding their young away.
"Dis, everyone, they are Hugo and Dobby. Hugo, Dobby, meet Dis and everyone." Harry made introduction
"Great Master Harry Potter, can Dobby call others as well?" Dobby asked.
"Yes, Dobby, you can if they agree," Harry replied. Dobby turned to Dis, and after receiving Dis's nod, he popped away.
After a few minutes, he reappeared, but this time on the opposite side of the chair, Harry was sitting. Soon there were multiple pops as more and more elves appeared around Dobby. Even Kreacher had come, and he knew how unsocial the elf was. Kreacher had even brought Sam with him, but the most surprising thing was how Sam was dressed. She was covered from head to tail with bulla corpus charm, a variation bubble head charm. It looks like Kreacher had started to really like Sam and was very protective of her. Dobby must have mentioned the disease spread here. How Dobby knew Harry had no idea. Dobby was only here a few minutes before popping away to get others, and no words were spoken on this by anyone.
Harry realized, he had just become the international border. On one side, which contained the door, were the elves from his universe, and on the other side, which included the dorms were the elves of this universe, Hogwarts. Both sides were staring at one another, but from their side, no one was speaking. Until a young elf made the first move and extended his hand in some signal, and like a dam that broke, everyone started talking at once. Harry noticed they were not speaking English but a different language he could not understand. Harry felt ashamed that he did not know that elves had their language. He always thought they spoke English.
These were the elves who prepared his food, did his laundry and cleaned the dorm for the six years he was in Hogwarts, and Harry never knew and did not care to find how they communicated with one another. Hell, this taught never even entered his mind.
Harry approached Sam and said, "Miss Carter let them get acquainted in peace. Come, I will show you around." Harry waved his wand, and bulla corpus expanded to cover himself also.
As Sam and Harry made their way out of Hufflepuff dorms toward the stairs, Sam, the scientist, broke the silence and said, "How can you do all this? That equipment in your hand must be very powerful to perform many tasks. It's so small. It looks like a stick."
"What this?" Harry smiled teasingly, waving the wand in front of Sam.
"Yes, that. If I do not know any better, I would say that it was a wand of how it looks, but that is crazy magic does not exist. Oh..." Harry had just caught her arm and prevented her from falling as they had reached the end of the basement, and the stairs were not in place. If Sam had been a witch, the enchantment at the end of the corridor would have stopped her and not allowed her to go further, but as she was a muggle, it did not have any effect on her. Sam, whose attention was on Harry as she walked a few steps ahead, did not notice.
"Pay attention, Captain Carter. You are a military woman, are you guys not taught always to be aware of your surroundings." Harry said.
Sam's face reddened with embarrassment, and she said, "Yes, we are, but I was distracted. It would not happen again. And why is there a big hole here? Has the stair collapsed or something?" Sam tried to look down the hole expecting to find stones of which stair must have been made.
"Oh no, the stair has not collapsed. It has just moved to look like it is coming back," Harry said, pointing a the stair that was coming back.
The look on Sam's face was a sight to see. Shocked, wonder astonished were some of which Harry could decipher. "How is it moving? I do not see any pully or such machinations." Sam asked, looking around.
"It's magic," Harry said teasingly and stepped on the stairs after it had docked, leaving a stunned Sam behind.
"Hey, wait a minute, there is no such thing as magic," Sam said.
"Of course there is," Harry said.
"There is not."
"There is."
"There is not. All things we considered magic could be explained by science." Sam argued.
"Let's disagree on that," Harry said. Both were so occupied with their argument that they did not notice they had arrived at the Entrance Hall.
To be continued...
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