Chapter 55: Christmas Gifts and Wands
It was perhaps the hardest thing he'd created till this day.
A small ring that he'd enlarged to the size of a table and then filled it with various kinds of runes for protection, for sensing the wearer's mood, for connecting it with blood so that no one else would be able to use it. For sending him a message when the wearer was in danger. For enchanting it like the magical mirrors so that the wearer would be able to talk with him through the ring. Among many, many other enchantments.
In the end, he created three rings after spending almost a week on them.
In a way, there was nothing really innovative about it.
Most the charms and runes he'd carved in the rings had already been created and have been in use in some way or another. But he very much doubted that there were artifacts like this in the wizarding world.
He had also wanted to enchant the ring so that it would gather the wearer's magical power over time and give it back to them during a battle so that they would have an advantage but he didn't really know how to do that and researching something like that might take weeks if not months so he had drop that idea for the time.
In the end, he finished writing all the instructions on a notepad and the duplicated the notepad so that there would be one notepad for each of the rings before he removed the enlargement charm from it.
It looked like the 'One ring' from the Lord of the rings. And it should considering how it was made of pure gold and how he had purposefully enchanted it to look that way.
He smiled in satisfaction at this work before he wore one the rings and packed the other two in a small box along with the notepad and a warning to not take it the wrong way.
It would a disaster if Hermione's mother opened her gift and thought that some boy was sending her an engagement.
After all, when a boy gives a girl a ring, there's a lot of chance that it would be taken the wrong way so a warning was needed.
It had been hard for him to hide this new project from Hermione and Penelope and he suspected that they already knew that he was working on a gift for them. They were frighteningly perceptive sometimes.
But he had finally made the necessary gifts for his two friends and learned a great deal more about runes and enchantments while he was at it.
So, win, win.
He took out a piece of stone from his collection of stones and set it down on the ground before getting to work.
Transfiguring the stone into wood. Changing it's size and shape to represent two boxes. Turn the joints into iron but let it look like a wood from the outside. Add a shiny ruby in the center that he found from the Room of Hidden things. Draw a few simple but elegant designs annnnnd… done.
Oh wait, one last permanent enchantment. Wouldn't want to box to turn back into a stone now would we.
After finishing the two beautiful and elegant wooden boxes, he put the two rings and the the manual notepad inside it before wrapping it all up in a transfigured extra shiny wrapper.
Annd… done.
There, Christmas present is done.
Now if only there way a way to look at their father's expression when they find that some boy had gifted a ring to their daughter.
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Harry stunned the rat animagus before levitating him inside the trunk.
Christmas was about to arrive and despite the assurances that Betty would be able to take care of the rat-man, he had decided to take Peter back with him. After all, Amelia has still not sent him a reply and if she did came to him to find answers, it would be better to have Peter in hand than not.
The 7 room trunk that was once filled with various assortments was now filled to the brim with books copied from the Room of Requirement.
There were more than twenty thousand books in the Room of Requirement. Till now, he had not even managed to copy three thousand. Of course, he could have copied more books if he had spent more time and energy in the task but he was too preoccupied with all his personal projects and had not given much time to copying the books.
Regardless, he was going to stay in the school till the end of 2nd or 3rd year before leaving so he had more than enough time to copy all the book inside Hogwarts.
The trunk also contained a room filled with all sort of jewellery and other expensive magical items that people lost in Hogwarts over the last couple of hundred years.
Including the Vanishing cabinet.
He would never forget how useful such a thing could be.
In the last war, usually when a death eaters attacked someone's home, they set up wards around the house for anti apparition and anti portkey along with disabling the floo before attacking. Because of that, most people are not able to escape but he already knew that Vanishing cabinet can bypass such wards easily because that was exactly how the death eaters entered Hogwarts in the movie.
So once he studied the cabinet and learned how to create one himself, he would have a method of travelling that would keep him safe from any death eaters.
Not to say that he was afraid of them but he knew his limits and knew that if he was attacked by a bunch of death eaters, then he would most probably die.
So until he becomes strong, he would have to make sure that he's untouchable.
Right now if someone entered his trunk, they would find that all of the rooms were filled with books and one of the room with various jewelleries. No one would find the hidden room that was filled with five prison cells.
He opened one of them and chucked Peter inside of it.
He never planned to keep the trunk back in Privite Drive near his home so he'll have to find a new place, hopefully an underground basement to hide the prisoner and open a lab.
He threw the loaf of bread and the water bottle into the corner of the prison cell and closed the door before conjuring a few highly venomous snakes and giving them the order to guard the prisoner.
He had also carved runes in the new prison to stop an animagus from transforming but if somehow Peter still succeeded in doing so then he'll go to an early grave because of the venomous snakes guarding the prisons.
With all that done, he left.
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Harry stared at Voldemort's wand in fascination.
This was a wand that had been the medium for the death of countless people.
This was a wand that was used by the second most powerful wizard in all of Britain if not all of Europe.
This was a wand that worked for him almost as well as his own wand.
Maybe it was because it was a brother wand to his own wand.
Or maybe it worked so well for him because he held a part of Voldemort's soul within him.
Whatever the reason, the fact remained that he had now found a wand that worked for him just as well as his own wand and this wand didn't have any trace either.
Which meant that this winter, he would be able to perform magic as he wished without facing any problems.
Not that the trace ever stopped him before as he has used his magic without any problem.
But continuing his research without a proper wand would have been annoying as he couldn't be very precise without a wand. Perhaps he should thank the rat for bringing this wand to him.
And now that he thought about it, how did that even worked.
How was the rat able to keep the wand inside his rat body for a whole decade.
When he was working on the rings for Hermione and Penelope, he had thought of shrinking a wand and keeping it inside the rings so that if they're ever captured, they would still have a spare wand inside their rings.
But he was not able to shrink the wands.
He did not know if there was some kind of enchantment that stopped him from shrinking the wands or if wands were generally magic proof but he knew that wands cannot be changed in size.
Or at least that's what he thought.
But then he found Peter carrying both his and Voldemort's wand with him when he captured the rat so how did that work.
Did the wand shrink with him when he transformed into a rat. If so, then were did he kept the wands.
Inside his body?
An interesting theory to check in the future.
Perhaps he would be able to hide a spare wand inside their rings after all.
CREATORS' THOUGHTS 
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Fortunate_Soul Yes, Harry is giving enchanted rings to his two friends which could probably save their lives in emergency and he really doesn't mean anything by it.
In fact, he even sees Penelope as an elder sister figure at this point and Hermione is too young for him to be having such thoughts about her :)
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