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Capítulo 36: Ch. 36 Holidays and Reports

As the break began in earnest for me and Victoria, it took her some time to get used to things

The eating schedule was mostly fine as she adjusted to it. She liked spending time in the library when I was busy, but was flustered by Susan when she wanted to do things together, it was funny to watch. What weirded her out was Tilly actually. The thing with living within a death wanker family is that they tend to treat magical creatures even worse than they would muggle-borns. So her seeing our really energetic and happy Tilly really threw her off. She was helpful, concerned, determined and proud of her work. It couldn't be further from the house-elves she'd seen in other noble families homes. She actually came in the office one day to ask me some questions about our family home.

Knock knock.

"Come in." I say without looking up from the paper.

"Are you too busy to talk?" Asked a slightly nervous Victoria.

"Nah it's fine. This is a project I'm overseeing and I'm just making sure everything is on track." I said to relax her.

"That's good, just wanted to ask some questions." She said with a sigh.

"Shoot." I say simply.

"How come your house-elf is so..." she started asking but couldn't figure out the right way to say her question.

"Enthusiastic?" I try to help her finish it.

"Yeah! She's always trying to make sure everyone's ok, looking for work, preparing food, drinks or whatever. She keeps asking if I have everything I need or if anyone needs anything done." She then says.

"Ah. I get it. You're not used to seeing a happy house-elf right? You're used to seeing them afraid, meek, basically broken, slightly insane, or self-harming right?" I ask to confirm to which she nods.

"Well it's pretty simple. We treat Tilly like family, or a friends, or assistant, or like a maid, or pretty much a combination of all of them. We gently correct her on how we like things and praise her when she does the right ones, with some rewards she likes when she goes above and beyond. So instead of a slave we take for granted, we try to provide an environment which lets her thrive, which in turn makes the best environment for us. Do you kinda get the idea?" I explained.

"I think so. It's basically keeping her happy and healthy in exchange for the best result." She replied.

"It's a cold way of summarizing it, both essentially yes. We just care for her and want her to be happy. It just so happens that she's happy taking care of those who care for her." I slightly correct her, but she's not wrong.

"Makes sense i guess. My other question has to do with those notes you talked about, the ones in the books downstairs. How old were you when you wrote those?" She then asked curiously.

"I think it was around five or six, right before I had started formal tutoring. I got into reading everything in the library and tried to make improvements based of what I had read alone. If I go back to them now I'll probably correct my corrections, but there are still some nice pieces of information in those. The notes in my room are real good though." I say to her whilst reminiscing a bit.

"You wrote those at the age of 5!?" Exclaimed a very surprised Victoria. "I've never thought about the stuff you wrote even now!"

"I think that's a reason not many people have actually noticed a lot of the things I've corrected. The mindset was already set from their families viewpoints and commonsense. I read those with the ability to memorize pretty much all of it and had an outsiders viewpoint, hence an objective correction. It's actually what convinced my aunt to get me some proper tutors." I explain to the girl.

"I want to see those notes!" She then demanded with fire in her eyes.

"Sure, come on. I'll put this on hold for a bit and introduce you to them. There's a lot, but I modified my room to let me organize everything without filling it up with shelves." I say while getting up and walking to my door.

"Welcome. You're the first girl in here. Really didn't expect it to be you." I say with a little chuckle to myself.

"Oh, who'd you expect then?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Dunno. First girlfriend would have been my guess." I stated with a shrug to which Victoria gets stunned at my answer.

"Alright come here." I say to snap her out of it.

"Right the shelves are set to Ancient Runes due to that being the latest project I've finished working with. It's currently shelf four on the subject. I have two dials; one for subject, the other for the shelf number. The lower the number, the older the research and notes. Pretty easy to understand right?" I turn around asking to see her following along.

"Wait. If what you said is true. Then don't you have at minimum 12 shelves in there!? How'd you fit them all?!" Exclaimed Victoria as she thinks about how many subject are taught in Hogwarts.

"I get where you have your minimum, but after understanding divination to a point i let it go since I don't have any gifts in the art and spending so much time to see possibles futures isn't my thing. I also don't have anything on muggle studies since I decided to simply experience it first hand and study their own knowledge. This was after I had noticed any books on the subject was either over a hundred years behind the actual thing or completely idiotic." I explained to the the girl.

"So you started with ten shelves then?" She asked to be clear.

"No." I answered to her surprise. "Because instead of those two I studied Dueling, warding and Healing. With Curse-breaking on the side to understand both sides of warding perfectly."

"So it's actually 13 minimum!" She finally understood.

"Well yes, but I think it's closer to 40 now. It's not just filled with my notes, but also with good books on subjects, with solid information or theories, practical advice or to serve as good reference points to understand my own theories. Everything is categorized chronologically for my notes and alphabetically for the actual books. Some of my theories or ideas were disproven so they've been crossed out, I've also crossed out completely false or misleading information in the books." I explained my system to my guest who's mouth hung open.

"How does it work?" She managed to get out.

"Basically a very large space expansion on the wooden surroundings of the shelf, assigning specific codes to all the shelves so that they respond to the dial, modified summon charm to make them come and leave to their designated spot in the expanded space. Pretty nifty. Got the idea from a muggle movie about the future." I explained in a very simplified manner.

"And you're giving me permission to read all of these?" She then asked doubtfully. I mean who would let others just read their life's work?

"Of course! Knowledge is meant to be shared. If you can think about improvement for my ideas and results feel free to take one the the empty notebooks and write. I love seeing new ideas!" I answered with a bright smile, stunning the girl.

"You can either read here or anywhere else, but I'm gonna go back to work now." I said, leaving the girl alone.

I got back to my office and started to read my reports for the heir of house Bones and Micheal Folster.

The biggest project for me was the creation of a lumber production area, made using the daisugi method of lumbering, with every piece originating from a single tree. I've talked to Geri, who is still in training, and got her advertise the job to trustworthy werewolves. Their pay would be about 40 galleons a month. The pay was calculated by taking into account the Wolfsbane potion, which is still expensive to produce even with some adjustments and the production of some of the ingredients, the living quarters offered, meals and properly prepared underground area to silently transform in. Even then it was leagues beyond what any werewolf would get paid for any work, most time they get paid in Wolfsbane potion. They have to sign confidentiality agreements added into their contracts and be taught the way to do the job from the experts we hired from Japan, but they will have stable jobs after this. The forest is growing well under the prepared conditions we set for the cedar trees, with no issues cultivating the trees with magically accelerated growth.

My reports from the Micheal side were also promising.

The first being the potions shop, Breaking Grounds apothecary. The appearance of so many modified or simply improved potions in the shop stunned those that bought from the store. The ministry had a field day to test everyone of them and when the news broke that everything worked as was indicated, well it sent waves across the potions making world, the market and the ministry itself as they doubled their efforts to find the elusive Micheal Folster. Due to our outstanding product at very reasonable prices, it had been approached to supply potions to St. Mungo's which was accepted, but it would take time to set up the proper production line, hire and screen new employees. People were trying to argue against so many new potions being introduced into the market, but they were simply drowned out. Some important families were trying to make trouble for the shop but everything was taken care of by greasing some hands. Two can play this game and even after all my investments on this side of things, my bank account is quickly growing to be the largest in magical Britain.

The Herald is slowly getting its name out there, with extremely accurate news, reliable coverage, credible sources and fact based reporting. It's not nearly as popular as the Prophet, but it is building its own influence. I've planned to make the bigger expansions of readership when the Harry Potter canon begins properly.

My ingredient farms, Natural Cultivation, is finally up and running. At the moment it is not selling anything of the market, since I am in need of a lot of ingredients, but I am paying for them myself. The employees have been trained in the growing of a single type of herb for each plantation, spreading the knowledge out, even without counting on the magical contracts they've signed stating that even if they leave, they can never use or spread that knowledge without mine, Scott's or Madam Chambers say so.

Fortress Protection added another ten recruits to their roster. After some proper training under Oliver, three were considered to be at hit-wizard level, and they were assigned in the vicinity of the FIRM center and the Breaking Grounds as protection against potential property damage or harassment. Oliver has been very happy with the facilities I've prepared.

Ms. Elaine Summers training has been doing very good as well. After I've basically outbid the prick trying to get her to quit, I got her back on active duty and she's been a role. I've been giving her some support by purchasing information from the goblins and helping her chose safe but impressive targets to boost her career.

Finally the FIRM center is becoming a stable welcoming ground for any Muggle-born trying to find a stable job in either my businesses or with a few others around Diagon Alley that had agreed to hire some more hands. These wizards and witches were quite happy to have a pension system we put in place like the muggle world, they had seen many old wizards and witches loosing everything and did not want to end up like them. The center has also been a good first contact point for muggles new to the wizarding world, helping them understand this side properly.

Mr. Scott said the safe houses I had wished to purchase are all ready to be warded properly, which will have to wait till summer. My investments on the muggle side were doing phenomenal. He had take the liberty to purchase some buildings in Diagon Alley and reserved one for the Bones family, since I need one to display my magical creations. He also informed me he was undergoing some training with Oliver after getting my consent, to sharpen himself. It had thrown him off when I revealed that the Dork Lord still lived. He'd also mentioned that he and Geri were starting to get along properly, but there was still some distance between them before it could be called trust.

Putting away my reports and preparing to turn in for the night, I turn off any lights in the room and head to my room. I had forgotten that I told Victoria she could read in my room, so when I came in I was surprised to see her so intensely focusing on a book as she sat on my reading chair. She did not even notice my arrival.

So with an evil grin I decided to startle her. I crept closer until I was next to her.

"What are you reading there?" I asked in her ear. You should have seen her jump and heard her yelp. It was priceless.

"Don't you knock you bloody git!" She yelled in anger and embarrassment.

"It's my room, didn't think you'd still be here." I replied trying to keep a straight face.

"Doesn't matter if it's your room or not. You knock next time someone might be in it!" She fired back angrily.

I could see this was going to be an impossible battle, no matter how right or logical I was, so I took the better part of valor and surrendered.

"Alright, I'll knock next time." I said as I rose my hands up in surrender.

"Good." She simply said letting me off the hook.

"Now tell me. How the bloody hell did you come up with all this stuff? I can't fathom it. You wrote and made things that wizards haven't thought up with centuries of living with magic, but a prepubescent child without a wand does all that and I've just scratched the surface. I can't understand." Said Victoria looking completely defeated.

"I get why you're feeling what you're feeling. The reason I believe I can do so much is simply because I don't think magic is anywhere near perfect or in its final form. No spells, recipes or methods have reached perfection in my mind and something can always be improved, you just have to find out what." I try to explain.

"Teach me." She replied.

"What?" I couldn't believe what I had heard.

"I want you to teach me how you do all this. I want to create my own spells like you do and be the best I can be." She answered with determination.

"You'll need to understand that you won't be able to do everything I can, even if I teach you. My magical reserves are frankly ridiculous for my age and give me an unfair advantage. Knowing that, do you still want to learn from me?" I asked, making sure she knew what she was getting into.

"Yes." Was the answer. But that one word held a fire that would not be swayed.

"Alright then. I'll try to hammer the basics into you by the time the breaks done." I said, accepting her resolve.


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Alexander_the_grey Alexander_the_grey

Little update on how his secret stuff is going and some development for Victoria as she expands her views.

Good overall little bit.

Capítulo 37: Ch. 37 Holiday Warmth

After agreeing to teach Victoria the way I handle magic, my first step was fixing her beaten and battered body. Malnourished, beaten, incorrectly fixed, heavily strained and badly maintained. Needed to fix that. So before Christmas came i decided to talk to the girl.

"Alright. I know that you want to jump right into how I do things, but i need to talk to you about your body first. I probably know its current condition better than you do. I don't know how or when the injuries happened and they are for you to know, but I know how bad it is at this moment. So I want to fix everything. Without the strong body you will have a lower cap for your magic. In the end it's your decision." I say calmly to my new friend.

"If I agree to it, what is the treatment course?" She asks to understand before agreeing or rejecting.

"I'm going to start on the fractures, incorrectly healed bones and sprains in your body. This will take a day as I will selectively remove the bad bones, followed by skelegrow. I'll also fix the areas of concern. You would be unconscious for a whole day in order to not feel the pain. Following that I believe a month of nourishment potions will fix your issues in the area suitably. I will also make you do physical exercise to gain the necessary muscle mass for a girl your age." I explained to the girl.

"So I sleep for a day, drink some potions and exercise? Sounds easy enough. Let's do this." She declared.

"Easy but tedious." I replied with a small smile. "So let's get started. We'll do it in the guest room. I'll inform aunt Amelia, Susan and Tilly you'll be out for the day and that you'll begin treatment." I informed the girl.

"Alright. I'll trust you to do this just because I know how pervertedly brilliant you are. If you mess up I'm getting revenge though." She declared as she laid properly.

"I promise you'll feel better than ever after You wake up." I said with a reassuring smile.

With a wave of my hand she feel into a deep sleep. I quickly got to work by specifically vanishing the damaged bones in her body, and unlike that idiot Lockhart I'm almost a master in the field. With that quickly done, I use my wand to finely control the potion down her throat to avoid her choking on it. I then quickly move to heal the various surface injuries, sprains, scar tissue and any other injuries I could find on the girl. I did my best to make sure not one scar from the abuse remained. She didn't need the reminder.

With all of the immediate treatment done, I let out a breath of relief and let myself relax. It took a good amount of focus and energy to fix everything in a single day, but I think it'll be quite worth it. The only problem left was the malnourishment she had suffered, but after a month that'll be fixed and with exercise she would experience a good growth spurt.

A day later, an excited Victoria came downstairs for breakfast and actually rushed me. I was startled because I didn't expect it, leaving me unsure about how to react because I wasn't feeling any negative emotions from her and I was sitting at the table, so if I tried to react quickly I would either tumble to the floor or flip the entire table, so I was stuck in indecision. But surprisingly she hugged me.

"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I haven't felt this great in I don't know how long, thank you so much Aedan." Said was saying quickly.

"No problem Victoria." I say with a wry smile at the situation. I catch Susan giving me a wide grin and aunty looking at the scenario with a smile.

"Now come on. Take the potion Tilly has for you and grab some food, you're going to want to eat something after drinking it." I say in my best doctor voice.

I didn't lie, potions never taste good. They can smell or feel good due to their effects, but don't taste good. So after chugging it like a champ, she had a weird look on her face and immediately sat down to eat.

A few minutes later I spoke up.

"Now that you're done eating I'll explain a bit how things are gonna go. Until after Christmas, which is tomorrow you will be recovering from the heavy burden your body was under as you were healed. This will be a time to let your body and mind unwind. So no intense studying or exercise will be done. This is my order as your attending healer." I say seriously.

"But you promised to teach me how you do magic." Replied Victoria with reluctance in her voice.

"I did and I will." I reply. "But you need to understand this well Victoria. You are human. And humans have limits, wizards and witches are not exempt from this. We can push the issue back or mitigate it for a time, but all humans will snap after a certain point. Your body and mind at this moment are very close to that limit. You need some time away from stressful thoughts and let your body recover by using less magic for a few days and doing something fun. For that I invited James to go out with us and tour the muggle entertainment venues today. Something I'm sure you've never done. It will do you good and let you bond a bit more with a member of the group. Christian will not be joining us since his parents took him to Greece in their hunt of older creatures living there." I explained to the girl patiently.

"Alright I get." She sighed not hiding her disappointment.

"Don't you worry, I'll properly drill you in my ways after Christmas and we have another 3 and 1/2 years to learn from each other. Not even mentioning after since we are friends. There's no rush for this." I say with a smile.

"Ok, ok. You can stop with the convincing." She said with a small chuckle.

"You're going to love the muggle games! They're so fun! And those movies are so cool to watch!" Finally spoke out an excited Susan who couldn't hold it in anymore. "You have to take me with you, please big brother!" She beg with her eyes turned at me.

I gotta say she knows how to get me to go along with her.

"Only if aunty agrees." I answer deflecting the cuteness to the big boss.

"Alright fine. Tilly will chaperone while hidden to protect you all. I know you can take care of yourself very well Aedan, but this is for the safety of others as well." Relented Amelia, but was laying down her own deal.

"That's perfectly fine aunty." I answer with a smile.

I had to get Tilly to buy some proper muggle clothing for Victoria quickly because as a born and raised pureblood, those were not things she owned.

I wore a simple pair of jeans, grey winter boot, white long-sleeve shirt, with a nice shearling jacket. But when Victoria came down I did have to do a double take. Tilly got her nicely fitted jeans, with a pair of knee high boots, warm looking white shirt and long black winter jacket to match her hair. It really gave of the feeling of 'I'm better than you'. It was impressive.

"Well now, Tilly really knows her stuff. That look actually makes me feel like you could be nobility. Don't know why we still have to wear those robes all the freaking time, so impractical and it's hard to take someone in bright purple robes, fumbling around in them seriously." I said, trying to make her smile for two reasons.

"Haha, thanks. Now you can see my greatness!" She proclaimed in fake haughtiness. And I know it's fake, because although she has pride in her lineage, she doesn't like rubbing in the faces of others. She wants her results to prove she's better.

"Yes noble lady. Now will you let this lowly peasant accompany you?" I asked in a over-exaggerated manner.

"You may escort me and lady Bones." She said continuing the skit as my cute little sister runs down the stairs in her fluffy white jacket and boots, looking very much like a bunny.

"Let's go big brother, I can't wait!" She exclaimed very energetically.

"Yes yes, don't worry we are going." I say with a laugh.

"See you later aunty, we'll be back a bit after supper because of the movie." I tell her.

"I know. Have fun and be careful. I know you're used to the muggle world, but Victoria is not. If she get into trouble out there, you get into trouble in here. Understood young man?" She said with a glare, but I know it's cause she cares.

"Yes Madam Bones." I reply with a salute.

We left and met up with James at one the malls not too far from the Leaky Cauldron. It made it easy for everyone to get there.

It was fun introducing muggle arcade games to Victoria, mostly because she tried to keep her 'above-it-all' aura going, but after we got her to play she quickly became very competitive in many of the games like air hockey and overreacted quite cutely to some of the video games when she lost. She also demonstrated that witch or not, every woman has the instinct to shop for clothes, shoes and makeup. So i let her do as she pleased with Susan as I chatted with James. I talked to him about my plan to use data I obtained through my dissection of many brooms, data on the firebolt which should be ready a year earlier with my funding (that was until I gave the creator some new ideas on the matter), and my studying of a chasers needs and roles during the game, to create a specialized broom for the position. The firebolt will be the ride of choice for Beaters and Seekers, but this broom I was designing will be the best of the best for Chasers.

Me and James chatted while the girls shopped, that was until it was time to go to the movie. Since we had Susan with us, the future Christmas classic Home Alone was chosen, an it brought laughter and tears to the girls eyes, while it brought nostalgia for me.

After that we said goodbye and Merry Christmas to James, headed home with happy hearts.

Christmas Day was a very relaxed affair. We woke up lazily, ate good food and enjoyed some time together as a family, making sure Victoria felt included. As for presents; James sent me some works of fiction and an orphaned wizard who goes to magic school (no idea how he found that very prophetic book), Christian sent some books on Mediterranean plants he'd found in Greece, Amelia got a very nice set of robes for more formal occasions and even Victoria had bought a nice shirt she had found on our trip yesterday.

Returning the favors to everyone; James got my new guide on how to enchant, Christian actually got one of Sol's feathers, Amelia got my desk-work quill, Susan a brand new pair of gardening gloves with her initials on them, and I got Victoria a vanishing box that I made from some of the wood I hadn't used for my prototypes, making it link to mine, James', Christian's and Amelia's.

Everyone was happy with what they had received and I think Victoria almost cried of happiness at being able to experience such a warm and caring break. Where people care for each other, are thoughtful of one another and simply want those present to be happy.

I really love my family.


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Alexander_the_grey Alexander_the_grey

I feel like I might’ve rushed the chill days a bit, but this ain’t a slice of life. Gotta show some actual progress.

Also yes I added some existential shot right in there. Enjoy.

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