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Mrs. J.K., Mr. M., Inspiration is bitch and not many can fuck her… don't you see the word play? Bitch, like in a female dog?… Crap, you are right, wrong expression, sigh, I am having a bad week. Meh, I do this for free, I am allowed to mess up.

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It is time I turn my eye to the other side of that ice wall, there is a blood raven that has past its expiration date, the children of the forest need some handling and most of all that Night King needs to be handled.

11 Animagus training, a Wedding, and a trip.

But first I have to get my mindset back in order, I realized I went too far with the Iron Born, there were too many innocent lives lost on Pyke, the first to suffer were the Salt Wives and Thralls with their offspring, sixty thousand mercenaries razed the Island, you can guess what I allowed to happen.

I always thought I was a kind of normal guy, leaning towards the good side, you know? To have the Moral High Ground? I must admit that I slipped up badly. Normally I kill the boss and leave the little guys alive.

One night, I told the girls about my worries about how I handled the Iron Born, "You see, I became too ruthless, causing thousands of innocent deaths did not bother me at all. Now I am planning to go beyond the wall and do the same thing. There must be another way to handle this."

Ashara commented: "Your actions saved a lot of lives here, Harry. You prevented at least three Civil wars and a few revolutions. What if the Iron Born got their way with the help of the others?"

Elia, who was visiting this night, added, "I would be dead right now, and the whole of Westeros at war. Harry, by this one-time ruthless action you prevented several future wars, there isn't one noble that thinks about standing up against me after what you did."

"You saved the North from famines, Harry, even the first year we met," said Lyanna, "you warned us of the false spring, so my father bought extra food and warned his Banners. That alone saved thousands of lives."

Hermione hugged me, "Harry, it takes a man to recognize his past mistakes, and it takes a wise man to recognize the mistakes he was about to make. You learn from it and move on."

"Oh? Who said that quote?" I asked, "That is profound wiseness."

Hermione blushed, "I read that in one of my mother's romance novels, The Princess and Her Reversed Harem. The princess was guiding her newest husband to the correct hole when he was poking… why am I telling you this?"

Luna giggled: "Because it is funny. So, Hermione, that princess didn't want to be the meat of the sandwich? How many husbands did she have?"

Alys joked, "If they all are like Harry, then she must have infinite stamina or a lot of lube."

Lysa mounted me and said, "If they all could use Magic to get her off then she would not survive one night."

I grabbed Lysa's hips and started moving, "If I did not have Magic I would not survive you girls either."

My Magic cheat is priceless, up to now I can move and handle objects in a thirty-yard radius at will, telekinesis at its best, I use it mostly as tentacles with hands at the ends, sometimes a hand with an extra big middle finger. Spreading it out like a blanket is another way, it stimulates all their senses at once, most get their buzz in less than a minute if I do that. That is the only way I can handle that many wives.

When I was in Alegeasia I could handle thirty wives with that, more when there was a celebration and the wives got me drunk. Don't look at me like that! We were in Ellesmera, the Capital City of the High Elves and even three-thousand-year-old Elves were looking steaming hot. My only regret is that I could not remember it at all… being drunk sucks. Drinking in Westeros? Never! Nine out of ten are blokes and are looking for a fight when they drink too much… I should have stayed in Ellesmera.

Xxxxx

I decided to focus on our students first, Shapeshifting aka Animagus training. After breakfast, I gathered the older students, most of them Crannog men, into the forest of Luna's Manor trunk. Her trunk is from Alegeasia, all the trees in it are from the Elves forest.

The Wolfswood from the North has some Magic, but it could not compare with the forest of the High Elves, those trees were almost sentient and radiated Magic. We amplified that with our Runes, so this forest is ideal for meditation and animagus training.

Twenty Crannog boys and girls, and five from the North, all of them teenagers or older. Alysane Mormont was the only Noble girl. Dacey would be one too, she is currently shagging her Lannister.

I started my lecture, "Let me first explain what we do differently compared to what your elders do to learn Shapeshifting. Your Elders start with Warging into animals, and once they find an animal they resonate with, they try to Shapeshift into that animal."

I raised my hand to stop the questions and continued, "In our World, we do not Warg, which was banned a few thousand years ago because we got addicted to it and lost ourselves to those animals, often our bodies died while we were Warging. We discovered that we have an inner animal, a reflection of ourselves, not in the way of evil or good, more in the way of predator, loner or herd mentality, Earth or Air affinity, those kind of traits."

"We can find out what animal it is by meditating on it, going in a trance, or using potions. Sometimes a combination of it. What works best is when you have a mindscape, a world inside your mind, our younger students are already working on it, sometimes it takes years to learn it properly."

I pointed to a raised platform, "Grab a cushion and get on the platform, get yourself into a comfortable position. We are using a potion combined with Meditation to find your animal."

Yeah right, like I want to drag those poor kids through the bullshit they taught in the wizarding world, a Mandrake leaf in your mouth for a month? Every morning saying a silly spell, then that potion you have to drink during a thunderstorm and what do you know? They still have to meditate on their animal. It is just a way to discourage animagus training.

Luna handed out the potions and said: "Meditating on your animal is not concentrating on the animal you want to be, but inviting your inner animal to show itself to you. During your meditation, let your mind wander to the habitat your animal is from, mostly it is their nesting place where they raise their young. This potion lasts for two hours and the after-effects can get you a few extra hours. So before taking the potion, there is a latrine if you need to go. Meditating with a full bladder is hard."

Once everyone was ready I gave a last advice, "If you find your animal, spend time with it, study it, hunt or forage with it. It will take days, weeks before you can change, so do not force yourself on the animal, merge with it."

Do they swallow my bullshit? Most of what I said was from Fan Fiction, we learned our dragon form in my mindscape, Lyanna, Britta, Alys, and Lysa are close, they can already change into a Valyrian Dragon in my mindscape and are close to the Alegeasia one. We can not teach that to our students, we use the method the ancient druids used ages ago. The Potter Library and a Hermione combined got us a lot of Ancient Magic that was lost in time.

While Luna and I focused on the older students, Britta and Lisa kept an eye on the kids, each day they had to Warg for two hours, it drove the guards up the wall with all the cats and dogs running through the keep doing mischief. Lyanna and Hermione took the kids from ten to twelve to the coast with a portkey to Warg into wild Seagulls to try and bond with one.

Seagulls are excellent fliers and eat almost anything so they are easy to keep. They are worth their weight in gold… no, Silver, for guarding the coast.

Xxxxx

The wedding of Ashara and me took place in Moat Cailin, the guests… the ones brave enough to come arrived with a timed portkey. We trained our guards to catch them on arrival, to prevent an embarrassing human pile on the floor. We noticed that if we used hoops as portkey people landed upright.

Oberyn and Ellaria represented the Martells, and used the occasion to visit their kids, he complained, "You are spoiling them, Lord Potter! They don't want to come home anymore. Obara told me she is going to be a Lannister Concubine when she turns sixteen… A Lannister! What have you taught them?"

I grinned, "You had to see the look on Tywin's face when Jaime told him he was making Obara his concubine. He does carry a grudge for a long time, isn't he."

Ellaria chuckled, "I would loved to see Tywin's face when he heard it. Doran keeps on grumbling about that old lion who blamed Elia for ruining his daughter's chance to be a Queen. Speaking of Elia, is she coming too?"

Lyanna answered: "She is, all tough to keep the Wardens happy, she will visit the seven capitals after the wedding. A week for each Warden, that is five weeks, the Iron Born still needs to select a new Warden, there are not a lot of volunteers for the job after what happened to the Greyjoys."

"Poor sister, imagine to spend a week with Stannis Baratheon, you will go crazy for less." said Oberyn, "Who else is coming to the wedding?"

"Most of the Nobles of the North," said Lyanna, "they are used to seeing Magic and love the comfort of our Keep. Hoster Tully and the Nobles that are loyal to Elia from the Riverlands, Stannis won't come, Robert and Renly's deaths are linked to Harry and he doesn't want to be the next one. From the Tyrells only Willas is coming as a token, the rest of the Reach are devoted to the Seven and abhor Magic. From the Vale most of the Mountain clans and Nobles, Elbert Arryn is leading them. Jaime Lannister and Dacey, with Tyrion Lannister, are the only ones from the Westerlands, the rest are too afraid of Tywin to show up."

Lyanna smiled and ended with, "Those and the Nobles from Dorne who have yet to arrive."

It was a logistic masterpiece, orchestrated by Daphne, Susan, and Hermione, every Noble brought their guards and maids along, the High Ladies had a set of Handmaidens. Moat Cailin had twenty towers in the past, we rebuilt all of them, fifteen Towers were reserved for guests, so we could host all of them.

It was fun to introduce them to the elevators, we trained lift boys for the job to keep it safe, hesitating at first, but the prospect of doing four to ten sets of stairs made the Nobles quickly adapt to the novelty. The bathrooms were popular too, with flushing toilets and toilet paper, hot and cold water on demand, the maids were discussing how they could take a washing machine back home. Alys designated a team of maids to each tower to guide the visitors into using the new technology and Magic devices.

Each tower had a kitchen and a laundry room in the basement, and a guard station on the first floor. Soon the guards found the exercise rooms and training fields, the guards that had been here before spread the news about the arena and asked to organize a small tournament. The Commander of Stark's Garrison volunteered to set it up, they are the ones who used the facilities all the time, and by doing so they could participate too.

Xxxxx

Elia and her Kings Guards arrived last and are housed in Tower Two, next to ours, She brought her kids along, a clear political statement, it was the first time the kids left the Red Keep to visit a Noble. The girls and I welcomed them, "Regent Princess Elia, Princess Rhaenys, Prince Aegon, break Bread and Salt and be our Honored Guests, Moat Cailin is yours."

Elia ate some of the bread, "Thank you for your hospitality, Lord Potter. I am sure we will enjoy our stay here. Lord Stark, Lord Tully, Ser Willas, Ser Elbert, Ser Jaime, it is a pleasure meeting all of you here. I could not miss the wedding of my most loyal Handmaiden. I am sure we could make time to meet in private to discuss state matters.

Daphne said, "Ladies and Lords, let us first settle Regent Targaryen, the Prince, and the Princess in their quarters, there will be a feast in the main hall in an hour."

Xxxxx

Our cooks were preparing food weeks in advance, we kept them in rooms with stasis spells to keep them fresh and hot. Expensive you say? Well, we cheat a lot, the trick of changing water into wine? We could do that too. We got our sheep, goats, poultry, and horses from the Dothraki, so we only had to buy the pigs and cows. The vegetables came from our Farmer Gates.

Most maids were all but begging to have a job in our Castle and cost us almost nothing, so were the guards, their quarters were better than most Noble's private rooms, their equipment was top quality and the food was edible. Anyway, we hosted close to two thousand people for a week.

The wedding was a blast, the handfasting took place in the Godswood before the Weirwood tree. Yes, the Blood Raven was watching the show, we nerfed him badly though. We warded every Castle and Weirwood tree in the North against Warging. The only thing the Blood Raven could do was watch from the tree. A few well-placed stones around the tree prevented him to Warg into little animals to spy on us.

Ashara stole the show, the girls went overboard with the dress and jewels, anyway, after the handfasting at the tree, the Seven needed their moment too. Yes, we made a temporary chapel and hired a Septon for the Job to keep the Southerners happy.

After the handfasting, the dinner happened, you know, the stereotypical wedding? A blushing bride, a groom that will be glad when it is all over so he can fuck his woman, the father-in-law that is not happy with the bastard his little girl is hooking up. Then there are the relatives, pis-drunk uncles, nephews, and nieces that are mingling with the other side. Guess what? I got them fivefold! The other girls did not have a proper wedding, so they got included in this one.

Tadaa! Here is the wedding night! Do you think you can start with the good stuff? Nah! They were a nervous wreck the whole week and had an exhausting day. Don't wrinkle my dress! So throwing her on the bed and ripping her clothes off is out, even when they won't wear the bloody thing ever again. You got stuck with a tired bride in your bed the most you can do is softly tell her sweet nothings. If your luck is bad, then her periods start the next day, and you are blue-balled for the rest of the week. Don't laugh! It happened! Twice… her sister was the same, I bet they did it on purpose.

Where was I? Ah, Ashara in my bed. Nope, I have a spell for headaches and pepper-up potions if you are tired! This man is prepared! With thirty wives it had to be, although I did not have a lot of ceremonies… now that I think about it, in the previous world, only a small one when I married Princess Galiana, NR 30. The others somehow ended up in my bed and stayed in it.

I grinned at Ashara, "Are you ready for a rough ride, love?"

Ashara grinned back at me, "Get Elia here with the other girls, and we will give you a rough ride husband, one you will not lightly forget."

Shit.

Xxxxx

The rest of the week we had a small Melee Tournament, an archery contest, and an axe-throwing game. The squires had a mall one too. Our students demonstrated what they had learned to the Lords, one cheeky kid let his bird drop one on Hoster Tully.

As host, you have to be everywhere, you don't get a moment's rest, Daphne was tired, nah, the tasks were divided among the girls, I just have to act as a figurehead and attend the meetings of Elia and the Lords.

We discussed the situation beyond the wall, "The reason I came into this world is beyond that wall of ice. The Night King is gathering forces, every dead man will give him a warrior if the body is not burned, by now he has an army of hundreds of thousands of undead. I plan on a scouting trip to evaluate the situation."

Lord Stark asked, "If that army is that big, why are they waiting to attack?"

I shrugged, "I am not sure, my guess is that the Wall is warded against the undead and they can not come close enough to destroy it. It is probably the reason your seasons are so unpredictable. A winter that lasts for years is not exactly normal."

Elia said: "We will wait on your report to make a decision, Lord Potter. I hope you are wrong about those horrors beyond the wall, but we can not always get what we want."

Xxxxx

Oberyn stayed a week longer to spend time with his daughters, they scared the crap out of him when they showed their pet sand snakes, the most venomous kind they could find. Spending warging in them for hours a day made the snakes familiar with humans and recognized the girls as family, they carried a few bottles of antidote for accidents though.

Another one who was not in a hurry to return home was Tyrion Lannister, when he was not exploring our Castle and Canal, he was drinking with the guards and hoping we did not notice him. We did not notice him, his guards and maids stood out though. Meh, a few duplicated bottles of wine and he is happy. Most of the time Tyrion witnessed the Magic classes of the children. After examining the Keep, he was curious about Magic and the possibilities with it. The Portkey to our place was special enough to convince him of the benefits, traveling on horseback for hundreds of miles or by ship with all the risks that come with it, a portkey only takes seconds, the awkward landing is a small price to pay.

Anyway, I think Tywin is glad he is gone, and Tyrion is glad he is away from Dad. The new Whorehouse at the harbor got a steady customer, at least he is good for the economy.

Xxxxx

When the honeymoon was over, I prepared for my scouting trip, for going alone, I could not take my Manor trunk along, a pocket space does not mingle well with an animagus. We tried that once and ended up with a pile of rubble and a few days in bed. A normal trunk with an apartment is the maximum an animagus can take in his transformation.

I loaded up with food and tools, enough to make some cages in case I could catch one, and said goodbye to the wives. To cut travel distances, I ported to the Umbers, changed into my dragon, and flew to the wall. To keep my presence hidden, I flew invisible at 12000 ft, any more was uncomfortable by the lack of air, yes, Dragons need air too.

That evening I landed close to Castle Black and walked the rest on foot to the Castle and knocked on the Gate, a guard looked down from the wall and asked, "What do you want, stranger? Are you here to take the Black?"

"I want you to open the gate so I can get in, and no, I don't want to take the Black, that is not my color, I am more for Autumn taints said the wives. What do I know about fashion anyway? I need to speak to your commander." I answered.

"Huh?" was the intelligent reply, "Why do you want to speak to the Lord commander?"

"Because good man, I have something to tell him, why else do you think I want to speak to him?" was my honest response.

"I can not let anyone meet the Lord Commander for some small talk, stranger. It has to be important or I get scolded."

"Huh?" what the fuck? "Hey comedian! How many people are knocking on this door every day and want to speak to your Commander? What else does he have to do all day besides to freeze his nuts off? Now open the goddamn Gate before I kick it in!"

"Who is the Comedian now? Do you think you can kick the gate in? Be my guest! Kick all you want!" mocked the guard.

I sighed, with a wave of my hand I turned the gate into sawdust and gave it a kick, the gate crumbled down. I looked up and shouted, "Thank you for giving me permission to kick the gate in mate!"

All kinds of alerts went off, soon I was surrounded by men in black, not the ones with sunglasses, these ones had animal pelts and had their swords drawn.

"Where do you get those black animal skins for your costumes?" I asked, "Bears are brown, wolves are gray or brown, ah! You guys paint it black!"

"What is the meaning of this, stranger? Why did you destroy our gate?" asked an officer

I pointed to the guard and answered, "He said I could, so I did." with a wave of my hand the gate was as good as new. "Is this better?" I asked.

Someone came back to his senses, "That is Lord Potter the Magician, Sir. Remember Benjen telling us about him?"

"What? Is my Good Brother gossiping about me? I'll kick his ass if it is something bad." I protested.

Those bastards ruined my fun and took me to the Lord Commander, "Lord Potter what can I do for you?"

"A place to sleep and a talk about the White Walkers and the Night King. "I answered.

He nodded, "We have plenty of rooms to spare, the White Walkers and Night King however are nothing more than rumors and old wives tales for as far as I can tell."

"Well, those old wive tales will be knocking on your wall in a few years," I said, "tomorrow I am going to explore beyond the Wall. If you can spare a guide that is not afraid of heights that would be helpful."

"I'll ask a volunteer tonight at dinner, there are three Rangers here at the moment, there is going to be a volunteer among them." offered Commander Mormont.

At dinner, Commander Mormont asked for a volunteer to guide me up North. A ranger wanted to know for how long. Another was curious why they don't need to be afraid of heights.

I stood up, "I reckon no more than a week, and for the vertigo, you will find out tomorrow."

"I will guide him," said one of them, he missed some fingers, that must be the half-hand what's his name.

"You have my blessing Qhorin, make arrangements with Lord Potter after dinner," said Commander Mormont.

I shrugged, "Dress warm, I'll provide the rest."

Xxxxx

The next morning after breakfast, I went outside Castle Black with Qhorin Half-Hand, I enlarged my trunk and took a big saddle out, I grinned at Qhorin, "Did you love to hear tales about Dragon Riders, Qhorin Half-Hand? If you can manage to saddle one you be the first one in a long time."

"Huh?"