After moving into Camelot not much changed for Magnus. His life was as before, busy. Meetings around the world, checking other world powers and making sure they fall in line.
Emma was absolutely healthy, she was being spoiled by Grace and Martha, fed health potions, balanced diet and made to do exercise every day. Drinking or any kind of food that can harm the child was avoided. Heck, Abe and George were forced to take advanced classes on how to care for a baby.
It was going to be Magnus' blood, even he knew that it be a boy or a girl, the child is going to be gifted with power. Dragon blood may be diluting with this next iteration but dragon blood is still dragon blood.
Magnus wanted to do all the work he could in this time so he could spend time with his child and truly teach them his values so they never go wrong.
As Emma's belly looked more and more developed, Magnus started to feel a bit more urgency to work harder. His next target was the USSR, the biggest thorn in world peace.
Ruling USSR like he did with the USA was impossible because of extreme corruption and the ability of a few powerful people to take away power from the General Secretary if they want to.
~It's time the Berlin wall falls,~ he muttered before heading to Germany.
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Severus' House,
It was nighttime and Severus was hard at work. He rarely slept whenever he was working on something important. Usually, he creates potions or makes previous ones better. His patents earned him enough money that he could sit back and enjoy the money rolling in.
But he was a restless man, doing nothing was his poison. In addition, Ragnar's anti-sleeping pills were good enough to not mess up his mind.
Narcissa helped him from time to time but she also had Draco to attend to. The boy was more than 2 years old now and crawls everywhere. Narcissa was pretty strict with him however and surprisingly he would run to Severus to get saved as Narcissa never acted not lady-like in front of him.
~I should go to sleep now,~ he yawned and thought. He had already finished writing his new book for the potions curriculum of his Hogwarts school. It was written in the best way possible, telling kids tricks and methods to make potions better. [A/N: Basically his Half-Blood Prince book but now mass-produced.]
He closed his lab and headed to his bedroom on the main floor of the mansion. However, just as he was passing by he saw Narcissa sitting in front of the fireplace on the floor, the rest of the living room was dimly lit.
"Narcissa? What are you doing here?" He asked her, having a hint of worry after seeing her face.
"Nothing... just couldn't sleep," she replied.
Severus took a seat beside her, "Bad memories?"
She nodded and sighed. She was trying to leave all the trauma and bad memories in the past but every now and then the nightmares would come and wake her up all sweaty and breathless.
Severus patted her shoulder, "I can give you a sleeping potion to clear your mind. What you have been through would have broken anybody, the fact you survived shows you are strong-willed. Maybe... Bellatrix couldn't hold on to the sanity after whatever happened to her."
"She was insane before the marriage, the marriage just made her evil." She said.
Severus sighed and told her about his life, "My father used to hit me and my mother a lot when I was small. Although they married in love, mother never told him she was a witch. So when she did after I was born, the man went 16th-century mode. He blamed my mother and me for all misfortune.
"He started drinking and lost his job, then blamed us again. That was until Magnus came and did something to him. I have no idea where he is anymore and neither do I care. I do have some bad dreams of my most vulnerable days. I honestly don't know where I would have been if I had not met Magnus and Ragnar. Maybe I'd be one of the dead ones among the bad guys.
"These bad memories are just the ghosts of the past that will always haunt us, we can only learn to live with them."
She glanced at him, he looked particularly different when he said this, "You know, you should go out more and date or something. You are much wiser for your age, women like a man like this."
He shrugged and got up, "The thing is, I am too mature for girls around my age. I tried going on a date, but got disappointed by her stupidity. Let's go, I should get you a sleeping potion."
He gave her his hand to hold and get up. She hesitated for a second and took it, smiling, "I don't think I will need that anymore, talking to you was a big relief."
"Glad I could help. You can come talk whenever you want. Good night," he left soon after. The guy was a numbskull when it came to taking hints that someone was interested in him.
...
The year 1984 had so much to bring to Magnus' life. The GAR was going to be completed in Africa. The mining on the moon would scale up. Bobby would test the Fusion reactor and finally, he will have a child.
Just being 24, he felt he had hurried a bit to have a baby, but beggars can't be choosers. He wholeheartedly welcomed the changes to his life. Always caring for Emma when she slept beside him. Make sure none of the minerals decreases in her body.
"Don't you have any work? Go, stop spoiling me like a baby." She would say this all the time. But she was actually loving it. She too felt it was too early for a child but cared not for it anymore.
Magnus continued his work in Berlin. He destabilised the region by provoking the crowd on both sides. He showed each side a dream of a united Germany. Destroying the Berlin wall was symbolic, Germany won't unite until the fall of the USSR.
On the 7th month of Emma's pregnancy which was in July of 1984, the Berlin wall fell. Magnus saw everything from his home on television. It was the people of East Berlin themselves who did it, of course, Magnus ensured that no mass shootings happened by the guards.
"Yes, send rations and medical aid to the region. Let them know that they are not alone in this fight." he put down the phone. He had just ordered the UN chief to get actively involved.
"AH! She moved again," Emma exclaimed suddenly.
Magnus caressed her belly, "Hehe, of course, she would, she's gonna be a strong queen when she grows up."
It was not hard to find out if they were having a girl or a boy. Martha had revealed to them that it's a girl in the first month of pregnancy.
"ARGH! It's so hard to decide on one." Ragnar was sitting close by with a blank notebook and pen. He wrote something again and again and threw them away.
"What are you even doing?" Magnus inquired.
"Deciding on a name for her. I want it to be something beautiful and also meaningful. It's so hard and frustrating. Help me Mag, or I might just name her potato." Ragnar requested.
Emma barked, "Don't you dare suggest that or I will bald you in your sleep."
"Huh, that's jealousy speaking, Emma. You are jealous of my silky smooth blonde hair. Women go crazy over them." Ragnar boasted.
"Yet you don't date them. When will you bring me the good news now, Rag?" Grace appeared and hugged Ragnar's neck from behind the sofa.
Ragnar shook his head in disappointment, "Mum, I don't want to bring a basic chick home. I want one with history, personality and strengths."
"Then I guess I will have to be happy with my granddaughter only. Girl you are looking for does not exist in today's day and age." Grace sighed sadly and took a seat on Emma's other side.
They had a new giant living room on the top floor of Camelot just beside the terrace. By giant, it meant giant enough to allow Duck to enter and rest inside. Even now he was sleeping happily in the background. He was so happy every day that he'd tire himself out playing.
It was a good time.
[A/N: I won't be writing a lot of chapters about Magnus' daughter. After her birth, we will have chapters with short time skips eventually taking us 11 years in the future.]
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Magnus was invited by Bobby to witness the creation of history, the first complete test run of the Fusion reactor. It was a small reactor the size of a truck, it can theoretically power a small city of a hundred thousand people. For a city as big as London, New York and Tokyo, a few bigger full-size reactors would be needed.
Magnus arrived without much attention and took a seat in a visitors cabin. Bobby soon joined him and sat beside him. "You look fresh, it seems the happiness of your daughter being born soon is going to make you explode."
Magnus chuckled, "What can I say, this is something I always wanted. And you know my condition, this is nothing short of a miracle,"
"Congratulations, your majesty," Just then Adrian arrived.
Basically, all big names were invited to see. The Prime Minister, Adrian from MEDA, Edgar from Emrys Construction, Ted from Tonks & Tonks, Tom as Secretary of Defence. All from Order of the Merlin. Ragnar, Severus were there too. Grace wanted to come but she and Emma remained at Camelot. Adam was here though, helping with the experiment.
"Thank you, everyone. Because of all your combined effort, the nation is better than ever before and the world is less shitty." Magnus welcomed them.
Ted chuckled, "A snake can have as many heads as one can imagine but without the one head that has all the brains, the snake won't last long. You are the smart snake."
"No, not today. Today the smart snake is Bobby. Let's hope his plans work out and the reactor is a success. If it is then he will be changing the entire world." Magnus didn't want to take the limelight from Bobby.
"It's because of you that we were able to bring Helium 3 from space. I'd say it's a win for the Order of Merlin, without our combined strength we won't be able to do anything." Bobby said.
Everyone silently nodded. This was a reality. MEDA provides amazing security, not just to the labs but also to the key scientists. Emrys Construction built all the facilities needed for the project. Magnus provided money. Tonks & Tonks fought court cases after cases that were thrown on FutureTek to stop the tests, the cases came from various environment nazis. Fools lacked the brain to realise that creating this reactor would singlehandedly solve Earth's energy needs for centuries to come and all of it would be green energy.
"Initialisation is complete and the reaction will be observed in 30 minutes." A voice resounded on the speakers and the digital clock started the reverse countdown.
Magnus took out his staff at that instant. He was going to stay prepared for any kind of complications, no man should die here as that would put the project years back. If there was any problem, he could always reparo the whole reactor and allow them to test again.
But, it seemed that was not needed. The test they were going to conduct was not a stress test. This meant their basic purpose was to see if the reactor can reach the energy produced where it can sustain itself without needing energy from outside.
This was one of the main reasons why making it was so hard. 2 entire Thorium reactors were working full time to start up this single Fusion reactor.
"Am I late?" Harrison Ford arrived from the United States. There was also the King of Bhutan and Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister of Pakistan, India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Chief of African Union and the President of Argentina. All these were members of the Order of Merlin, meaning they were completely aligned with the goals of Magnus and had signed the contract paper.
"Just in time. It's about to start," Magnus invited him to sit beside him. In the room, he was the most powerful man, heck, he was the most powerful in the world, in both magical and political strength.
"You look tired," Magnus noted.
President Harrison sighed, "Soviets. Fools refuse to mend the relationship. They want all sanctions dropped for the negotiation to even start, how am I supposed to do that before they start showing the world their goodwill?"
"Just ignore that, I have something going on in secret, their fall is near. They will most likely be collapsing into various smaller states." At that Magnus looked back at all the other seats occupied by other heads of state or kings, "Heard that? The Soviet Union will be falling apart, this means a lot of their things will be up for sale as they fight poverty. Buy all the weapons and equipment you want, but make sure you help all the smaller nations that collapse out of the union and turn them into capitalist society, I will be behind all of it. Remember, our goal is the fall of communism."
All of them took mental notes, some wanted to buy ships, some tanks and some industrial machinery. Soviets had plenty of decent quality, second-hand meant saving money.
"Aye, anybody wants some oil, I'm open to all? This Magnus, he's going to turn the world electric with this reactor, how will I swim in gold then?" King Faisal all of a sudden spoke in a joking but secretly serious manner. He was too old at this point to care about others, the Order of Merlin was like a family and joking was no big deal.
In an instant, a few heads from nations with poor natural resources took his personal card. After all, it will still take time for Magnus to create a world grid of electricity with the nuclear reactors, until then oil was the gold that ran economies.
Amidst their small talk and laughs, Adam took to the mic inside the experiment hall where everyone else looked from a glass window cabin.
Adam addressed the people, "Do you know the best thing about being the British King's father? It's that I don't feel any pressure or anxiety for being in presence of 50% of the world's GDP sitting in that box. Welcome to the first real test of the Helium-3 Nuclear Reactor.
"Now, why is this a big deal and why is it better? Fusion occurs when two atoms slam together to form a heavier atom, like when two hydrogen atoms fuse to form one helium atom. This is the same process that powers the sun and creates huge amounts of energy.
"Many of you might wonder, why are we wasting money here? We already have a reactor, well, that's because those we have can't drive humanity to the future. Let me tell you some comparison between the current Nuclear Fission reactors we have and in this Fusion one here." Adam moved to turn on the projector.
"Why is Fission reactor so dangerous? Simple, radioactive. Fission is done by splitting heavy. The missing mass converts to energy. This process begins when a heavy element, like a uranium atom, for instance, absorbs a neutron. Having an extra neutron, it becomes an isotope of uranium, and even heavier. Now unstable, the atom then falls apart into two smaller atoms, releasing heat energy in the process. It is this heat that turns water into steam, which turns a turbine, creating electricity.
"During radioactive decay, alpha and beta particles and high-energy gamma-ray photons are spontaneously emitted. These particles and gamma rays are what make up the radiation. In simple terms, just imagine your body's atoms destroying themselves. That's radiation, we saw it in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
"The big question is, what makes Fusion so good? Here on the screen, you see all of them." Adam turned serious now as this was the end of the presentation to these people who will decide if it's worth waiting for this tech or not. Magnus may control these people's goals, but the roads they took were theirs to choose from. He only makes people heads of states who are reasonable and smart, hence, as long as Fusion was proven to be good, they will try to spread its positive sides to their nations.
"Number one reason is abundant energy. Fusing atoms together in a controlled way releases nearly four million times more energy than a chemical reaction such as the burning of coal, oil or gas and four times as much as nuclear fission reactions (at equal mass). Meaning, just 19 tonnes of Helium-3 could power the United States for an entire year." As soon as Adam said this, Harrison Ford moved in his seat. This sounded too good to be true, but here he was.
"The next reason is sustainability. Fusion fuels are widely available and nearly inexhaustible. Deuterium can be distilled from all forms of water, while tritium will be produced during the fusion reaction as fusion neutrons interact with lithium. Meanwhile, sea-based reserves of lithium will fulfil needs for millions of years. But we don't need to destroy our seas, we got the moon, it's even better as its fusion with deuterium is more efficient than deuterium-tritium.
"The third reason is no CO₂. Fusion doesn't emit harmful toxins like carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Its major by-product is helium: an inert, non-toxic gas. We can even harvest helium and build helium-based engines.
"The fourth and one of the biggest reasons is no long-lived radioactive waste: Nuclear fusion reactors produce no high activity, long-lived nuclear waste. First of all, the radiation in a Nuclear Reactor only stays inside its chamber, in the future when you decommission a reactor, the land will be radioactive for about 50 to 100 years, this is much less than the current thousands of years that take waste from fission reactors. The radioactivity of the products. U-235 has a half-life of 703.8 million years, so do the math.
"Another big reason is that fusion doesn't employ fissile materials like uranium and plutonium. Means no nukes, but that's already been achieved with Thorium reactors. The sixth reason is that there can be no nuclear meltdown because the production of neutrons ceases within milliseconds. This means even if some mad man dropped a bomb on a fusion reactor facility, no radiation will spread to the surroundings. We don't have much data about how far the radiation can spread, but Japan gave us a sample in the 40s.
"The last reason is cost. Of course, at the start, the cost of a reactor will be high. But, let's say in 5 years, we will be able to simplify the process of building it and be able to produce it around the world at a cost less than the current fission reactors. The simple reason is that to operate a fission reactor you need too many things, not just staff but people and places to move the radioactive waste to. Then you need security to make sure that waste remains locked for eternity. With this reactor, we just need to build it and be done with it.
"Now, any questions?"
[A/N: Wanna know why I explained all this? Chernobyl is about to happen. XD]
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