Been a tough week, didn't have time to write. Was sick for most of last week and had shit to do over the weekend. But here I am still alive in this stupid world of ours.
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The feast went on as usual even without Dumbledore. Once it was done it was time for the perfects to guide the firsties through the Castle to their dorm rooms.
"See you guys tomorrow. Trace keep an eye on Luna, if anybody thinks of even looking at her wrong. Mention that she is under my protection."
Tracy looked at Harry then at Luna who was her clueless cute self "I hope I make some new friends"
"Don't worry Harry I got it. Nobody will make trouble for Luna" Tracy said with a grin on her face as she patted Luna's head who just enjoyed the attention. She just closed her eyes and enjoyed the sensation.
She had never felt this, this protective feeling from a big sister. She was an only child and had lost her mother from a young age. The Weasleys Family were her neighbors and she played with Ginny.
Bill, Charlie and Percy were always busy. Fred and George played their pranks and Ron was just a jerk.
There was nobody else. So this was an entirely new feeling. And she liked this peaceful feeling a lot.
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After separating from Tracy and Luna, Harry's group went towards the Lord's Quarters. Harry let out a little smile once he saw the stone carvings of his familiars on the door. They were set to attack anyone trying to get in
"Wait a minute, I need to check something" Harry stared to cast diagnostic spells. He checks the defenses and was surprised that none of them were breached.
'Huh, I expected them to try at least two times before giving up. Not that they couldn't get it, but it would be to tedious to continue. Sometimes its just not worth it. Wasting hours of your day to crack a rune scheme only for another one to pop up from behind it with a nasty surprise.
Once they entered the room did a whole sweep of the place for any listening magics just in case and there were none. If they didn't enter through the door, there was a low chance of them placing spells in the room.
But Harry didn't think they were below opening up a hole in the ceiling or floor to get in. If they did a bunch of poisonous snakes and nasty traps awaited them. Once he was done turning off all the safety measures he implemented for the summer it was time for the others to come in.
"You can come in now, everything is fine"
The group of girls walked in, well Astoria ran in. "Woohoo!" she ran towards her room and jumped on the bed. Well the room she shared with Daphne whose eye was twitching as she watched her sister 'Not even five seconds inside the room and already made a mess. Probably a new record'
"You guys unpack, I'm going to check on my lab" Harry gave the girls a little wave and entered his workshop, exactly the same as when he left it'.
'Good looks like my Stasis Shelves are working just fine' Harry smiled at his little modified shelves. Wizards really were idiots. No they went a step above that, they are morons. Messing around with Time-Turners.
'I wouldn't be caught dead using those. What do you when a Time God suddenly pops up in front of you. You'd be screwed that's what. Frankly I think the only reason wizards are alive is because some Time Deity finds them amusing. Like watching a stupid dog chase after its tail.
Probably more than one wizard has fucked up when using those things. Meeting yourself in the past creating a paradox or not completing the time loop and getting stuck. Free entertainment for bored gods and if a wizard goes overboard the Gods just smite them'
Harry sat down on his chair. His very comfortable and enchanted leather office chair. 'Speaking of idiots, this was unexpected I was sure they would tamper with my defenses... Then again with all the trouble Dumbledore is in, he probably didn't have time. I'm low on his threat scale after all, just a piece to be sacrificed, willingly or not.
Judging by the notes and ideas I found from his office I have a pretty good grasp on his personality. His real personally not that senile old man act he puts on.
He wants for me to sacrifice myself, just so he can keep his hands clean and use my death to make me some sort of martyr. After I die he can just easily kill Voldemort take the reigns and become the leader of wizards in Britain and the world through politics. Carrying on Harry Potters will, the defeater of two Dark Lords. Leader of the Wizarding World. That is his goal, or something similar to that'
Harry smirked 'Dumbledore is still a threat. In Hogwarts he was a potential to be a strong High Class and he was obviously trying to kill me. But that's easier said than done. Its not like I'm just going to sit there and let him take a swing at me.
But that thing with Reginald was a mistake. A mistake that I allowed because of my aversion to politics. Even now I want nothing to do with it, it revolts me. Even if you want to sell something you need politics. That's why I just force people to do it my way or they don't get anything.
If I had information on the actions of others my safety and the safety of the others would be easier to secure. But if I'm not using politics there is only one way to do it. Spies and a whole lot of bribes.
I'm going to need more money...' Harry groaned in his hands. More work, that's just what he needed, it was already hard enough because he can't stop with his crazy research ideas that eat up his whole budget.
Harry started brainstorming ideas, his clones were doing the same thing. He couldn't explain just how much he loved his clones. That has to be the biggest achievement in his life.
Thought Projection Magic. Which frankly wasn't even projections anymore. he was just too lazy to think of a new name. They weren't even clones, they were him, it was quite literally 'All for One' like the musketeers. No bullshit Vegapunk Route that had different personalities, no Shadow Clones that popped once they were hit and caused memory overload to the user. It was real time information sync.
His progress on whatever he studies was up by 200%. If theoretically he used 5 shadow clones for 5 hours. That would be studying for 25 hours, a major improvement in a 5 hour time frame, but since those shadow clones operate independently at least half of them would be reading the same book and reached the same conclusion. So out of those 25 hours only about 12 were useful and it even that had overlapping information. Not to mention the memory overload.
A loss in mana and efficiency. His clones were the perfect thing for him. The second one clone reaches an improvement or discovery. All the other parts of himself know it too, that means they can focus on the thing that is important.
Brainstorming with them also leads to good ideas. After all each clone can use Enhanced Through Process and Parallel Thoughts magic. And each brainstorms about different things. Research, Security, Spells, possible ways to get stronger.
After fighting Reginald and going over the fight to see things he had missed Harry facepalmed. During that entire fight, he never used the Unforgivable Spells. It was a major oversight. He was more used to fighting with Magecraft and cheap shots than the usual wizarding style.
There are useful spells in there. If even one of the Unforgivables hit Reginald, even the Death Curse it would have been a game changer even if it didn't kill him. Just stunning him for a second would change the flow of the battle.
His lack of experience was obvious. There were mistakes made, but he survived and he will improve.
Harry actually started to draw inspiration from the Chinese Factions. But not about some enlightenment or anything similar to that. No, no one, absolutely no one on this planet fights as much as the Wuxia bastards.
Not the Devils, not the church, not even the Norse that beat up each other for fun. They have had wars, but the wars in Supernatural China never stopped, they just change regions and mini factions and sects. Every month there is aways some big clan waring against someone. Even recently it got so bad that the big guns had to get involved to quiet it down.
But that warlike environment has made a pretty useful mindset. The most technological achievements for humanity was during war. This was no different. They created new pill recipes and pill refinement techniques, new weapons and smithing techniques, new Formations/Arrays, Body Refinement, Cultivation Techniques and etcetera.
Now Harry already does these, they just have different names. He has Potions, he is creating Enchanted Weapons and Artifacts, Ward Schemes, his ritual to strengthen his body and magic, his Fire to devour souls.
What he needs right now is inspiration on how to improve those. Hence look at the war region and see what works best. A clone was working on that right now.
Inside Potter Manor his four clones were doing different things. The newly created 5th clone, just like all the clones before him had low magic reserves. The weakest clone was always doing something like testing potion recipes or playing around with poisons.
The other ones with larger mana reserves were either enchanting test weapons or using magic to boost their brainpower to think faster. Each tackling a different project. All of them linked together
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The second clone was sitting in the garden enjoying the night sky as ideas went through his head. He was the one theorizing on the new defenses.
'I can make a defense now, but if I make it now, I will inevitably have to upgrade it later. And in the future I assume I will have a target on my back.. for what I have no idea. But I have done a lot of sketchy shit and that is just up until now.
But when it is time to upgrade a lot of the main functions will need to be shut down and that's a heavy risk to take.'
It was quite the conundrum. The protections certainly needed an upgrade, the one he has were made by wizards that were slightly more powerful due to the age of the manor that is channeling the mana and the fact it was over two lay lines.
Any house protections when activated will function as a barrier. The better the design and materials the longer it lasts and the more beating it can take. There are dozens of languages that work with mana to create wards. And then we have Boons and Hexes which is another clusterfuck.
'I like to call them Bounded Fields, like from Fate/Stay. Its simple a domain created by the wards, boons and hexes that surrounds the house and protects it from all attacks. Would have called it a Domain but that already refers to the domain of Gods. Now that I think about it Ward Zone also works. But Meh, its just a name it can be explained in a hundred different ways. '
Harry sat there for a full hour before he lifted his head and facepalmed hard. Enough to hurt him and leave a mark on his face. 'I am sooo stupid. If one Bounded Field filled with Wards, Boons and Hexes wasn't enough just make another one.' One can stay active, while the other one is being repaired or upgraded. Even if the other one was fine it could just recharge while it was offline.
'Why stop at two? Why not three of four. Since the protections at the start are going to be weak, why not go all to bet on the future. With how I plan to make them, they might end up as something really decent.'
Harry's eyes looked around the garden as he was thinking for the perfect number of Bounded Fields. He notices the Sun Dial near him and it clicks. A clock.
Twelve Bounded Fields. One for each hour.
Twelve Original Fields then they can combine with others. You can combine two or more Bounded Fields for a greater effect, there are tens thousands of combinations since each Bounded Field will have different things in it that can be arranged for a different effect and for its strongest form combine all Twelve.
While one is active as normal, the previous one recharges. And i can constantly work on upgrading the other ones without worrying about the protections.
They will be weak at the start since it will take a lot longer to properly set it up and it can charge up to its potential.
Maybe make it so that the one that is active gets most of the mana from the lay lines and the other gets enough for a recharge.
'Ohh this is going to be a pain to design, but its also going to be so much fun! Limitless possibilities. its going to be shit at the start since all twelve have to be build up but give it a few years and its going to be a monstrous defense'
~ Hogwarts. Harry's room.
Harry blinked when he got the info. 'Damn, that's a nice idea. As expected of me. My others selves are putting in the work. So time to see what else I can get from Hogwarts'
He opened up his Archive Magic and started to type
[Plans for this year. Get Rowena to start teaching him about the Room of Innovation as she swore an oath to do so.]
'Ahh yes, I remember scamming her and the other founders. Good times, that reminds me
[Get Salazar's and Helga's Legacy that they promised me and kill the big snake in the basement.]
'I'm strong enough to make sure I don't die from the Basilisk. Ideally I would like to kill it without damaging it. Maybe a killing curse shot in its mouth? Everything that snake has is valuable. The eyes, venom, skin and even the flesh, blood and bones.'
[ Find one of the hidden rooms. The Five hidden Chambers.]
'I don't know if they even exist. I need just one, if its some stupid reward for wizards I probably won't even bother with it. But if there are old spells and treasures. Then I'll look for the rest' Harry mused as he kept typing. He was always short on time and searching the entire castle for some rooms even when he knows the approximate location sounded like a waste of time.
It all depended on who made the room and what they put in them. Harry wrote some more stuff down and closed the holographic screen and keyboard.
' I plan to stay in Hogwarts for this year and at best the next one too. In these two years I will need to get the most I can from Hogwarts. After that maybe I'll apply to one of those Magician Schools to see what they have.
After all generations of people researching a topic is bound to yield some results. And I still have so much to learn about Magecraft. I also need to start poaching some talented students and start expanding my business
I'm going to need a whole lot of money and materials in the future.'
~ Ravenclaw common room
Tracy and Luna entered the Ravenclaw common room. Professor Flitwick gave a quick speech about Ravenclaw and said if anybody needed anything they could ask a perfect or go to his Office to meet him during certain hours.
Tracy already made some friends last year, she also hung around with Blaise who was having the time of his life. In Ravenclaw there is no political bullshit, but that didn't mean there was no competition. People here are desperate for the best grades since it gives a few perks.
If you are in the top 5 of the class in your year, you get a room all to yourself and ask Flitwick to teach you a spell. Within reason of course. Hence there was a lot of backstabbing during exam days. Some petty stuff like making each other not being able to sleep, giving the wrong study notes.
Pettiness to the extreme just for good grades.
On the other hand Luna was trying to make friends and was falling. Children can be more cruller than adults in some things. The girls in her year and the second year mocked her imaginary animals and her fathers crazy newspaper conspiracy theories.
This naturally made Luna sad. But then she remembered that she has other friends so that made her feel better.
But Tracy didn't miss this. She overheard their conversation and practically stomped her way towards Luna and hugs the little girl with one arm, glaring at the older students.
"What the hell do you think you idiots are doing"
"What's it to you Davis? Shouldn't you be hanging around Potter like some little minion" A third year student sneered at her
The Ravenclaw students jealousy for Harrys talent and knowledge was clear. Especially among the older years. Harry Potter finished his magical education before he was eleven. At the school that is considered best in the world, from what they learned from new sources.
"Potter's minion am I? Well I guess i should tell him that you guys bullied Luna, someone that he announced was under his protection" Tracy raised her wand and started firing Stinging Hexes and Leglock Curses
"The Hell?!" "Are you crazy?!" "Stop that?!"
The students stumbled to grab their wands.
"You plan to retaliate. Well go on" she spread her hands giving them a clear shot " But I don't want to see you complain or apologize when Harry comes to find you tomorrow" she said with a grin. She might not be book smart, but she knows how to deal with people.
The bullies froze in place. They didn't dare to attack her. No one wanted to get on Harry Potter's bad side. That guy was a maniac who had already killed adult wizards and they overheard from their parents to avoid him as best as possible and not annoy him.
In the parent's minds Harry Potter had become another Lucius Malfoy. Rich, arrogant and powerful. Well powerful in wizarding terms, Lucius was among the most powerful Death Eaters under Voldemort's command.
The bullies didn't know what to do, they could only hop away in embarrassment. They were the ones being bullied now. Tracy was shamelessly using Harry's reputation as counter measure. The best part is Harry would just give her a thumbs up and keep up the good work.
Daphne said it best. So what if they get expelled. Harry was a great teacher and he said once she is old enough can come work for him. He gave her a very good deal. Her future was already secured.
'Hehehe. This is going to be a fun year. The reign of Tracy the Terror begins! And if anybody has any problems with that they can deal with Harry. Muhahahah'
~ A/N
The number of combinations you can make from 12 Symbols is 4096. But this is a giant barrier that can be made from different materials, languages and energies.
Anyway's opinions about the Manor Protections? I will admit I think i read something similar somewhere. The clock idea is not mine, but i read a few that had just stacked defenses. Honestly i read so much shit and just took notes for the future. I have about 200 notes on random shit and ideas. And it keeps growing every day. Not counting the ones I make for fics that I have.
I just get a random thought when I'm at work or at home and I just write it down.
I don't really have another name so I call them Bounded Fields. I have been researching Fate/Stay since they have some interesting Magecraft. But man that world is fucked up.
I don't think there are terms for separate defenses, or if there was I forgot it. Like a completed defense with Ward Schemes interconnected added with Boons and Hexes and such. I think they just call it a Barrier or Protections.
That sounds kind of lame. So Bounded Fields (A Defensive Field). Sounds simple and better.
Anyway, any other opinions about the chap?