I am a bit of a scatterbrain and may use ideas from other stories without realizing it, if you spot one please know it's not intentional I just think it fits with the story.

Ward Abroad

Two years had almost passed and Harry had calmed down his studies, he had plenty of time when he started school and so had began to enjoy his life a bit, due to having a massive amount of cash he did things that he had always wanted with the help of a Gringotts provided bodyguard to act as his guardian in places a child alone would arise suspicion such as Disney world, Tokyo, Paris, Florida, ect. portkeys although a little uncomfortable were much better than spending hours on a plane, and he had the added benefit that he had his house in his pocket.

Harry had returned to the original plot of land and began his studies for making his first set of Foci, he had selected to incorporate Foci bands into his clothes, one around the chest with the focus over his heart, a headband which was thing in the front so it would be hard to pick out but acted as a hair tie in the back where the focus was placed inside a gold fitting that was hidden under the ponytail, a pair of fingerless gloves colored so as to be invisible against his skin and with a small focus over each knuckle, and a pair of steel toe-capped heavy boots with a focus built into each heel, the whole set was covered on the inside with runes Harry had placed there with a set of rune-stamps allowing the clothes to change, self clean, protect, self repair, and each pocket had a standard space expanding rune-set, the focus built into each part would for a web of magic around Harry allowing him better use of wandless magic and empowering the spells to be as strong as a wand all he had to do now was wait for his magic to awaken and he could empower the set and they would be the garments he would probably wear for the rest of his life unless he was able to make something better, he was tired and sweaty but satisfied with the fruit of his effort, as he packed away his equipment he paused as he was about to put the set of rune stamps away a though had occurred to him and he called for Silky,

"How may I serve master?"

"I want a meeting with Ragnok please set it up,"

The goblin at the front desk finished dealing with the elderly wizard when a pop sounded and Director Evans bound servant handed him a small letter, he nodded and the creature popped away again.

Harry was lead into Ragnok's office by several proud guards, apparently it was an honor to escort a founder family member, apparently he was second to Ragnok himself, Ragnok looked up and smiled,

"Director Harold, glad to see your fortunes flow,"

"Director Ragnok, I hope to make your fortunes grow, and I mean that," Harry grinned,

"oh really? you have a prototype or design so soon?" Ragnok enquired his curiosity piqued,

"two actually, the first is a ward scheme but it probably won't make a profit, the second has to do with runes and how they are inscribed,"

"ah well let's deal with the red tape before we get to the profit," Ragnok stated,

Harry placed a sheet of paper before Ragnok, "this is a ward scheme I devised to detect a certain dark object and incapacitate anyone holding and intending to use it, specifically a Horcrux," Harry explained,

"why would we need that the only one we have encountered was in you and that was easily dealt with,"

"well I have been researching Hoki the original magic for soul separation, a Hoki is a soul container created when the maker undergoes deep soul searching and self reflection, once they understand themselves fully they are able to safely separate a small portion of their soul and contain it, it is a long and arduous process that can take years even decades to complete, and apparently it has been done only once by a being called Nabu, however a horcrux is a perversion of this, by committing an act so vile and disgusting that it causes the soul to be damaged can a part then be literally torn from the soul and locked away, each time this is done it damages the soul causing loss of empathy, kindness, sympathy and anything that would make someone a redeemable person, but the important part is the physical change the first time there is no difference but if it is done several times the person shows various changes,"

Ragnok looked like he didn't want to know but he still asked, "such as?"

"well in a human it would cause a loss of pigmentation, the features would become indistinct and eventually the person would have no face except for a mouth eyes and nose holes, sound familiar?" Harry asked in a depressed tone,

"unfortunately yes, so I take it you are sure he had more than one?"

"most certainly, I recommend using the ward on the doors of gringotts and casting it on each vault if there is one in a vault-"

"the vault will be seized, it gold forfeit, and the perpetrators handed to the ministry with all the evidence Gringotts can gather to make sure they are kissed!" Ragnok spat,

Harry just looked at Ragnok confused and hesitantly asked "...kissed?"

Ragnok shook his head "trust me you don't want to know and you're too young, ok let's get to the profit what do you have for me?"

"first let me ask you, how are runes inscribed?" harry asked with a smile,

"well carefully and slowly, inscribing even the simplest of rune schemes can take hours,"

Harry took out a small pouch and handed it to Ragnok, Ragnok looked it over it was a simple cloth drawstring pouch worth about a knut maybe two, he handed it back and watched as Harry took a small stamp out of a pocked and placed the pouch down on the desk and opened it, he slid the stamp in and pressed down hard for a few seconds,

"could you infuse a small amount of magic please?" he asked Ragnok who did so,

Harry then handed the pouch back to ragnok who now found that the small pouch now had a much larger amount of space on the inside, a wide grin appearing on Ragnok's face, harry handed over a booklet,

"here is a copy of the instructions on how to create rune scheme stamps, and my report,"

Ragnok took the documents, "thankyou, it has been a most profitable meeting,"

Harry smiled and began to get up when, "oh yes I had been meaning to ask what are you going to do about Hogwarts?"

Harry was confused, "what do you mean?"

"well as a British citizen with property here you have been enrolled since birth and must attend,"

"Is Dumbledore still headmaster?"

"yes he is,"

"then no way am I going there!"

"as I thought, well as I said since your family owns property in the UK you have been enrolled, you MUST attend a wizarding school by law or lose your magic, here I took the liberty of getting this for you," Ragnok handed him a folder, "have a look when you get home I think you'll understand," and with that Harry left as Ragnok had another appointment.

Harry spent some time in Diagon alley one again Fortescue was on fine form with a mint chock strawberry chocolate concoctions that didn't give him brain freeze, he passed by the healer's shop and popped 10 galleons into her tip jar when she wasn't looking, and finished his afternoon with a look around Flourish and Blotts looking for inspiration,

"no luck today Harold?" Jill the lady behind the counter asked,

"no nothing today, maybe next week," he replied,

"Actually I have something you might find interesting," she offered,

"oh really? thankyou!" Harry beamed, and she handed him a small book,

"no charge, it's nice to have someone who values knowledge," Jill winked at him,

after a polite refusal followed by a firm "it's yours now get!" Harry left with a spring in his step, and looked down at the book's title 'So You want to be an Animagus?'

Harry sat at home reading the book Jill had gifted him, the animagus potion was a simple version of the kingdom potion Harry could kick himself for making an elementary mistake, he had agonized over the potions ingredients and not it's purpose, but he knew now that his foundation was not strong enough to complete it, he needed a proper education on transfiguration and potions, potions would merely polish his skills but transfiguration would give him the insight he was lacking, it was then he remembered the packet Ragnok had given him, he pulled it out and opened it inside was a small real-estate book with property listings... in France!

Harry had a good laugh as he realized what Ragnok was getting at, if he purchased a property in France he would be eligible for the French school Beauxbatons, he didn't speak French but he could learn it easily enough, he began to glance through properties in the book, he didn't want to live in a city too many people for him to be comfortable, and living in the middle of nowhere was too much in the opposite direction, maybe on the outskirts of a city? yes that seemed best, he flicked through the book and found a place just on the coast near Querqueville a magical residence with a large plot of land called la falaise enchantée or the enchanted Cliff, not the best name but the house was small which was great as Evans cottage was his home and he could easily place it on the land without any muggles seeing as the whole area was covered by muggle repelling charms, he marked what he wanted and filled in the authorization and had Silky pop it to Gringotts.

It was as he decided to learn French he realized that he hadn't been to school in nearly two years, he would have to do something about that but would wait until he had the property in France first.

It took only a week for the property to be acquired and Harry to portkey over, he took a look around the property which seemed mainly grasslands and cliffs, the view from the cliffs was spectacular with the ocean glittering below in the sunlight, and the small beach far below visible with some rocks sticking out of the water, Harry had to catch himself as he had began to lean too far over the view was just intoxicating, it made him just want to leap off the cliff and glide among the clouds, he shook the feeling off and headed back to the cottage at the insistence of his growling belly.

Returning he found Ragnok waiting for him,

"you're late, what happened?" Ragnok asked,

"I was exploring the property and I believe I have found an inspiration point," Harry explained,

"An inspiration point? inspiration for what exactly?"

Harry realized he had not told Ragnok yet about his research, "ah yes, sorry, I have been researching a potion called 'Kingdon' it is a follow up potion to the Animagus potion, from what I can tell the kingdom potion can only be brewed by someone who is already an animagus, and not one created in the flawed method currently in use,"

Ragnok was listening with rapt attention "flawed? how?"

"Well meditation and then drinking the potion is correct but they are missing the most important part the inspiration point, for example mine is the cliffs, when i stand on them I have an urge to just leap off, now i know logically that to do so would be fatal but if i meditate on that feeling and take the potion I would hopefully gain a true animagus form, unlike the ones today a true animagus does not feel any discomfort when transforming and can do it as simply as breathing, the kingdom potion expands on this allowing a second form or at least it is supposed to but i lack the necessary foundation in transfiguration and also the ability to use magic as I'm not old enough and I have to admit the waiting is getting frustrating," Harry explained intensely,

"I see, well you shouldn't have to wait too long as your birthday approaches, anyway let's sit eat and I will fill you in on what has been happening with your favorite family and doddering old fool..."

Petunia Dursley was having a grand morning, only a few weeks ago they had managed to remove the filth from their lives and he hadn't come back yet, the crackpot old freak had come and ranted, demanded, and chided but who cares what that crackpot old fool thought, she put the last of the dirty dishes in and filled the bowl with boiling soapy water, it was a little annoying to have to do the things chores but a small price to be rid of it, she turned to go into the living room when 'cra-crack' she turned and glanced at the window, no it wasn't the sound of glass cracking so what? and then she noticed the lack of steam from the bowl and when she moved closer the soapy water had gone from boiling to frozen solid.

Vernon was getting ready for work while Dudly put his uniform on and grabbed his smelting stick both unaware of the oddness in the kitchen, and went about their days.

Dudley didn't have a very good day at smeltings he was bullying a smaller boy when one of his teachers somehow took a wrong turn and caught him in the act, as she led him to the office although he actually didn't say a word she heard the word 'B*tch' and was very angry, neither noticed the young woman in robes smile and vanish with a 'pop'.

Vernon's day was worse, he 'accidentally' knocked over a shelf of specially ordered tools for a master builder and 'somehow' all of them were broken beyond use, customers complained about his smell and when his boss went to talk to him all he could do was gag at the stench and order Dursley home for a shower, after rushing home and doing so he returned to finish his shift but now he smelled as if he had been swimming in ladies perfume it was overpowering and the entire store smelled like a flower explosion, he kept putting the wrong prices on things even though he always checked twice, on the way home he got pulled over for a broken tail light and the officer though he was intoxicated because the car smelled like whiskey, after going through a test and walking in a straight line he was allowed to go on home, as he got out of the car her spotted Dudley running hell for leather down the street past him and into the house where he slammed the door, at the end of the street a wolf hid in a bush and changed back into a wizard and vanished with a 'pop'.

Petunia however had a normal day besides the washing up incident completely unaware that the other neighbor gossips had 'seen' several men, and one woman, entering the house and kissing her as they entered.

This or similar would be the Dursley's lives for the next few years

Albus Dumbledore had pulled every trick in the book and every favor he had, that damned Skeeter woman's article had taken his carefully constructed house of cards and tossed it in a blender, he had been forced to pick between his roles he could only manage enough clout to keep one and he had chosen Hogwarts after all even though he had lost track of Harry Potter once her turned eleven he would have no choice but to come to Hogwarts, Albus had resigned from his other positions stating he had overextended himself and that was how he had failed Harry so badly, he made a good show of it for the public and managed to hang on the the Headmaster position, even if he was constantly under watch by the board of governors he could still 'guide' Harry to the self-sacrifice needed to destroy the horcrux in him and make Voldemort vulnerable.

Harry laughed over the Dursley's misery, he didn't set it up, he had nothing to do with it so felt no guilt whatsoever, it was a pity Stumbledork had kept his position as headcase, sorry, headmaster, but it was a moot point now,

Ragnok laughed at Headcase Stumbledork that would need putting under his real name in the Gringotts files, "ah yes by the way, it seems the Horcrux Stun Wards came up with a hit in one of our vaults, the Lestrange vault, a cup was found to be one also it seems the cup itself is a powerful magical item and it's craftmanship is excellent, so good in fact we are loathed to destroy it, for now it has been placed in a small high security vault until we can find a way to cleanse it rather than-"

"oh that's simple," Harry interrupted, "the killing curse will do the job and leave the original object enchantments and all untouched, after all that is what the curse does, separates the soul from it's bonds,"

Ragnok smiled at the free profit "Thankyou for that solution Director Harold, you can expect a generous bonus,"

The rest of their meeting included joking about the fate of their enemies, and some good firewhiskey for Ragnok while Harold enjoyed his transfigured cola.