Chapter 39: Magic battery and a bouncy house elf.
"It's beautiful!" Shouted Hermione.
"You're right it's lovely!" Added Luna.
The trio was at the moment standing on a pathway in front of the brand new Potter manor.
"It looks much better than the projects we saw on paper." Hermione added.
"And it's Huge!" Said Luna.
"I know right! I really need to give the goblins a good tip for this. And how do you like the garden?" Konrad asked.
"It amazing! You must have spend millions of galeons on this project right?! I assume that's why you were so hell bend on making gold this last few weeks? " Asked Hermione.
"Ehehe yeah you're right. Even if I'm already rich, there's no reason spend it all out." Konrad admitted.
"Wait but weren't we supposed to help you on this battery project? Why did you bring us here instead?" Luna asked.
"Ohh ...right... the truth is I actually completed it some time ago." Konrad said walking over to a fountain in the center of the courtyard. The fountain was a work of art with water being shot out in mysterious cascades from a big spherical crimson glowing crystal on the center. When the girls saw the fountain they instantly recognized the crystal and spotted an extreme amount of runes barely seen on the surface of the sphere.
"Konrad, is that...?"hermione tried to ask.
"Yep." Interrupted Konrad with a grin. "This, my ladies, is the first ever created magical battery! It stores the magic I supply to it and powers the entire property! I found out that a philosophers stone can store huge amounts of energy and energized matter inside of it so I used this ability and after researching and assign the right runes I created this Beauty! It's also the biggest philosophers stone I created ever! Had to create a special formation to reform already solidified Philosophers Stone!Because I couldn't do it normally..." the last part he muttered to himself.
"...Anyway! This battery powers up the wards and enchantments put on the garden and the mansion. I was hoping you would help me improving the mansion and it's surroundings, putting some self watering patches magically opening doors etc. this was my plan for the summer actually. I hoped we would spend time here, furnishing and enchanting the place. Ruby would love to spend more time with you Luna and I'm sure the other familiars are as excited as she to have us all here haha." Konrad said.
The girls really liked this idea, but Luna still had a question.
"So ... how are you charging this battery? And couldn't you use it to aid us in the rituals?"
"Oh... yeah you just push your magic into the crystal like this." He said as he touched the battery that conveniently stopped spraying water in his direction, and pushed his magic inside. The sphere glowed brighter than before. "The brighter it glows the more magic it holds, as for the help in rituals...it's a work in progress ehehe. I still need to find a right set of runes to connect the battery with a rune formation. At the moment I can charge Things that uses ambient magic like wards and charms on this property but I need a little help from someone to look at the problem from another direction." Konrad explained.
"Couldn't you just make the orb charge the formation like you charge the orb?" Luna asked.
"Of course i... GENIUS! I'm so stupid! Luna, you're fantastic! I could make it like this...and this and then add a push out rune...yes it would work! Like I said 'from another direction'. Luna I love you!" Konrad said in excitement and kissed the soul out of Luna making her grasp for air dreamy.
Suffice to say after that day formation usage became extremely easy, while thanks to how easy it was to spend magic in the battery Konrad and the girls started using it to speed up their magic capacity growth by expanding their magic and waiting for it to recover. It also made the battery loaded with quiet a big amount of magic. That continued for the few remaining weeks until their school year ended. Konrad realized that with how much magic they put inside the battery they would have to put it somewhere else since it illuminates the entire mansion. They brought it down to the lab where a special room had to prepared for storing the battery. They reinforced the room for safety measures because who knows what would happen if such an amount of compressed magic decided to just explode.
The rest of the school year wasn't really interesting. They spend some time with Neville and his girls that became a topic of the entire school since the boy didn't hid the fact that he snatched two witches for himself. There was actually one interesting thing tho. Because at some point Parvati joined her sister and Neville became an even greater celebrity than Konrad. When everyone took the train ride to London Konrad couldn't help but laugh and joke that Neville became a Harem protagonist! He saw the boy surrounded by three girls and started prostrating in front of him saying that student outgrown the master. He quickly stopped when Luna and Hermione smacked him on the head.
Konrad actually wasn't as much surprised that Neville was such a ladykiller. The boy really became an image of perfect Gryffindor. After gaining confidence, a better wand and constant training Neville became more manly and handsome. There was a little manipulation on konrad's side after he served Neville some basilisk meat in disguise of a normal steak that helped shape the boy. Konrad wanted Neville to become the center of attention instead of himself and he did it perfectly. With Neville going around with Three girlfriends, and showing very good marks in school, people wouldn't even bat an eye on the 'Boy Who Lived and didn't do anything interesting'.
Of course it's not as if Konrad tried to only use Neville. They really were friends and they spent a lot of time together whenever Konrad and the girls weren't working on their projects or learning new stuff.
They finally arrived on the platform, where their respective families waited for everyone. Konrad saw Sirius with the Dursleys and smiled and waved to them.
"We'll see each other in the Lab girls." Konrad said and kissed each one on their cheeks making them blush because their parents watched the exchange. Pandora saw the kiss and instantly knew that something was going on between the kids. Konrad saw her expression and smirked 'if you only knew hahaha.'
After saying goodbye, everyone went their way. Konrad was quickly snatched by Sirius in a bear hug which was followed by Vernon the Greek god, Petunia, and Dudley. After a few days at home Konrad was taken to spend some time with Sirius at his house. It turns out that Sirius did as Konrad proposed to him and renovated the Grimuald place after cleaning it from dark magic etc. The place now wore Gryffindor colors and felt really relaxing. Kreacher was still living in the basement but he became much more docile after he learned about the destruction of the locket from an anonymous source. Sirius actually freed the wretched creature but allowed him to stay and keep living in the storage where a piece of the wall with the portrait of Sirius's mother was stored until the end of his days. Sirius also bought a new young house elf in place of Kreacher. Her name was Bouncy and when Konrad first saw her he quickly came to a conclusion that she's adorable! She bounced around as her name indicated and liked to hum to herself. Sirius ordered her not to associate with Kreacher because he's a bad influence and whenever she needs to learn something from a house elf she should rather ask a Hogwarts elf instead. She agreed wholeheartedly because she met him a few times and didn't like how he behaved.
When Konrad stayed at Sirius he couldn't visit his Lab so Hermione and Luna worked on the projects alone, while keeping contact with Konrad through their three way mirrors. As Konrad was to stay at Sirius for an entire month which surprised Konrad, he asked if he could invite the girls. Sirius of course had no problem with that and soon Luna and Hermione visited. They kept visiting every now and then but they didn't want to tell Konrad what they were doing. Since Konrad was staying with Sirius, there wasn't much he could do other than train his magic and play with Sirius. Not that he didn't like it. He had a lot of fun, and Sirius was awesome, but he wanted to do something. He rarely felt that when he was staying with the girls because for him just staying with them was all he ever needed and he felt happy but now that he was seeing them rarely, he wanted to fill this emptiness somehow.
He decided to do something that he should do a long time ago. Help Dobby escape the Malfoys! And help Dobby he did! Fun fact. Wizards very rarely use anti-house elf wards. Konrad simply called Dobby who showed up easily and Konrad brought Him in on the plan without mentioning what it is about and denying when he said its something against his master. With Bouncy's help Konrad arrived at Malfoy manor and made sure Lucius grabbed a dirty sock he planted under his invisibility cloak with additional spells to hide him. He simply made it look like an accident from Lucius's side when the sock was grabbed by Dobby.
"Dobby is freeee!" And he popped away.
Konrad grinned seeing the stunned face of the older Malfoy at what just happened and while holding Bouncy the two popped away as well.
"Dobby!" Konrad called the now free elf who instantly appeared in front of Konrad.
"Great Konrad Potter Sir! Dobby is Free thanks to great Sir! What can's Dobby for Great..." Konrad stopped him.
"Call me Konrad please! We are friends right?" At those words Dobby almost had a heart attack but after a short argument they finally stopped at master Konrad. Master, because Konrad offered Dobby t become his personal house elf to which Dobby instantly agreed. Konrad would of course give him a salary and a few days off but Dobby proved to be good at bargain making Konrad accept a single Galeon salary and one day off a month. Just like this Konrad finally got himself a house elf. Why he didn't do it until now? Well, he simply didn't have any need for them, but now he had his own mansion! Dobby would be hard at work because the place still needed work and he would feel better when someone keeps an eye on the girls when he's not around. Dobby heard Konrad's instruction and took it as the most important to keep the girls safe and listen to them. Also Konrad made sure he didn't try to keep them safe like he did with Harry in the cannon. He would be also useful to take care of the familiars. Taking care of a dragon was a hard work, thank you very much.
Talking about familiars... as Konrad lied in his bed at grimuald place wondering what were the girls working on at the moment, a small black snake curled on his chest hissing peacefully.
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I decided to post a chapter every two days. There would be less pressure for me and maybe the quality is going to increase.
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