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Capítulo 53: Ch. 53 A Christmas Report

With the break upon us, my friends and I board the Hogwarts Express once again.

I was able to convince Victoria to join us again, not wanting her to spend a miserable Christmas with only her father around. Although reluctant, she was happy i insisted on it, with only her pride stopping her from really showing it, but i knew.

We reached Kings Cross as we chatted about our winter plans and apparently, the Wards decided to visit some family instead of creature finding. And James will be the same as last year, making him available for some fun. As we got off and separated, I could finally see aunt Amelia, at the sight of whom, Susan ran up for a hug. With a warm smile on my face I also gave her a hug.

"Thank you for letting me stay over again Madam Bones. I appreciate a lot and i hope I can have a wonderful time like last year." Said Victoria at the first opportunity she had.

"Of course dear. I worried about you during the summer alongside Aedan, but you insisted you were fine in your letters so I didn't force the issue. If it wasn't for that, I would have made this young man go get you." She answered and tried to loosen Tory up with her response, making her look very grateful. After which we head off.

"You know your aunts great right? She's kind of my a role model." Victoria whispered to me as everyone was walking to our transportation.

"Yeah. I know very well. That's why I love her lots. Although she's very busy, she's still basically mine and Susan's mother. You picked a pretty great role model." I whispered back.

"What are you two whispering about back there?" Then asked aunty as she noticed us.

"Just about how great you are aunty." I reply with a bright smile.

"Still good at flattering people with that face of yours I see." Was her answer, but a smile was on her face.

We got home comfortably and with Tilly being even more excited than usual this year because Susan had been away and Victoria was visiting again.

"I'm going to your room. I really want to look through your notes again." Declared Victoria as soon as she was done unpacking.

"You're free to have at it. I'll be doing some business in the office. I'm basically the head of the house in all but name, and that comes with unending paperwork. So glad i made those quills. Oh yeah, there's a few new ones added to the shelves, do give them a read if you want to." I say as I head out of my own room.

As I sat down at the desk i started going through the official documents for the Bones family.

The usual holdings of the house are doing well and are showing improvements after using my advice to better their businesses. The reconstruction of the former Bones manner is now formerly underway, with expert salvagers participating in the project in the hopes of saving anything left in the house when it was emptied. The creator of the Firebolt, Randolph Spudmore, is very excited with the progress he's taken with is masterpiece and is loving some of the suggestions I offered, meaning that this Firebolt might be even better than the original. The production lines and supply chains are already being prepared and we are expected to make an insane amount of Galleons off of this and my own broom.

Everything surrounding BonesWorks has been going brilliantly. The opening of the second and third cedar forests have gone perfectly. Everything is being run by werewolves, with more than a hundred participating in the making of the vanishing boxes and the deskwork quills, alongside some homeless house-elves we've found that had nowhere to go or way to survive. Happy to receive work and to be able to get the magic necessary for them to live, they've agreed to take part in the manufacturing. The sales of the two products have been insane, especially since the opening occurred in early November, right before holiday shopping begins. I unfortunately couldn't go, but Amelia was willing to do it on my behalf. There has actually been some difficulty keeping the shelves stocked at the moment, which will inevitably slow down once most people get a box. But the ministry itself will be a constant source of business for the quills and I've been negotiating a deal for them to purchase a set of official boxes for ministry officials, in order to send official documents and urgent matters to employees or department heads without flooding their personal ones. I've even got foreign ministries wanting to set up my store in their countries at the moment, but I need to stabilize the situation here first. It has been great to see the Galleons flood in instead of constantly flowing out. Amelia has been very proud of me for achieving such success.

Now for the unofficial reports. My personas businesses.

Starting with the Breaking Grounds Apothecary. Tim has been going from strengths to strengths. With improvements to his machines and the set up of three new manufacturing centers, he's been able to supply St. Mungo's with every potion they could need. He keeps introducing the modified potions every so often to maintain the edge of the store over others. A few masters have joined the store as they've seen the potential it has displayed and wanted to take up the challenge it was founded on. Make a better potion and well will celebrate you. And with many taking up the challenge, boosting the shops reputation, profits and recruitment of talented individuals, It has quickly been becoming a Mecca for potioneering within Britain. We've also apparently received some complaints about the constant flow of new potions giving extra work to ministry officials, but we've taken the opportunity to get more muggle-borns into the department in charge of verification and certification, killing two birds with one stone.

Natural Cultivation farms is slowly coming to dominate the market as they've begone selling a massive amount of rare and difficult to obtain ingredients at a constant pace to not devalue them. Under Melody's watchful eye, they've started three more farms around the Uk and have been trying to obtain an entire uninhabited island to transform into a paradise for Herbologists. Madam Chambers also took the opportunity to bring in other experts under her wing to help oversee the other farms and work with her to achieve her massive project. This has resulted in a massive amount of jobs, helping many in desperate straits no matter the origin. We now had squibs, half-bloods, people with non-human lineages, some sentient creatures and even four purebloods working in the management of the business. Of course every one is sworn to secrecy. The underwater farm with the merpeople tribe has also been getting some traction. We had to give some pushes in the ministry and do a lot of work to set things up, but we've been able to get the tribe to assist and learn from us. Hopefully it'll be up and running by the summer. What was the most surprising moment reported was that a group of centaurs would want to be involved in the herb island project if it is implemented. It took some negotiations since they are a very prideful people, but we don't look down on them and Melody actually wants to learn about their understanding of herbology. So it was agreed that if the project happens, they will be able to live there in peace whist also being able to use the herbs they require, in exchange for their knowledge on herbs and their assistance in maintaining the island.

For Fortress Protections it's been slower. Not because of any issues, but because we've been slowly selecting trustworthy individuals and training them to Auror standards. The rest of the people have been hired as hidden security for some various shops and businesses, while also always having a patrol hidden in Diagon alley to protect my businesses. The most important development for the company was that I let them be ordered by the darker side of our community in secret, letting them gain proper experience and giving us eyes and ears in new places. We've also developed a secret detention facility for when it becomes necessary, alongside a public office and shady office under the name of dead moon mercs for the different clients. I'm actually planing on having Geri Greyback take charge of that playing field as soon as her training is done. She will train her own team, of her choosing, alongside some members from our legit side and be a hidden card to play.

The FIRM center has been doing a wonderful job. The new merchandise has made it self-sustaining and allowed for them to hire individuals to give the seminars I wanted to have. The muggle technology did face a good amount of feedback, but the fact that it was only working properly and in some ways improved by magic, placated the witches and wizards egos enough to stop any issues from blowing up. Muggle-borns and half-bloods swarmed to the products offered and word of the calculators getting out and it's function made wizards across the globe look at the center like sharks looking at prey. Fortunately, they've started making deals to open up production lines for these new products in various countries, with the profits being split between me and the center. People other than Muggle-borns are starting to get active in FIRM activities, helping the message to stop treating those who come from non-magic origins like second-class citizens.

The Herald is still progressing nicely overall. They received a nice boost after the Umbridge debacle during the summer and their readership has grown as more people are slowly becoming aware of its intelligent and accurate reporting. The gossip Ghost column as given the paper another unique selling point as unknown or forgotten stories and places are being shared with Britain.

And lastly, my various creatures reserves, farms and sanctuaries are doing great. With new land bought in the surrounding areas to expand everything under protection, the new supplies to control, maintain and safely manage the creatures, alongside the new wards and secret keeping tools, have brought tears of joy to the workers there. They've also been very keen to follow my order to commence breeding the lot. There has been too much killing of magical creatures in the world and I want to bring them back from the brink. And I believe that with my abilities, I can do so and keep them a secret from muggles.

With everything handled, it was time for me to relax and enjoy my break with my family and friend.


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Alexander_the_grey Alexander_the_grey

I thought it was time to give a reminder on his other activities and tell what’s been happening with the community at large.

It might be less active than other chapters, but necessary regardless.

Hope you enjoy his plans and progress as he basically takes over magical Britain.

Capítulo 54: Ch. 54 Broom and Incident

The break was a lively affair. Susan was happy to be back home and was spending a lot of time in the herbology garden, tending to her favorite plants. She's also only realized how advanced and incredible the place is after receiving Hogwarts lessons on the subject. She didn't know before because this way of doing things was all she knew, as she learned it as her starting point, so the revelation was funny to see. The fact that she was also learning how unique and actually brilliant I was, due to now having a point of comparison was also nice. She now appreciated the knowledge I've been giving her since she was young and wanted to work harder to catch up to me in some way. As a loving older brother, I wanted to do everything I could to support her goals, so a made her copies of my notes, guidebooks or good published books on the subjects of Herbology and Potions, the areas she felt most comfortable.

Aside from Susan's realization, Victoria has been getting some one on one training with me.

"Haa haaa haa! Let's keep going. I want to be able to cast that battle Transfiguration spell before the holidays are done." She declared during her live combat practice.

"It can help if you've broken the ground already. For example, using a bombarda to obscure my sight can serve a dual purpose, as it breaks the ground and loosens the earth, letting you transfigure the ground in an easier fashion. It's basically using the spell to create an immediate trap and makes for a good combo involving limiting your opponents sight, movement and reaction time." I advise my very determined friend.

"Yeah, I'll try that." As she got her breath back. "Bombarda!" She shouted as she pointed her wand at the ground near my feet, trying to surprise me. Too bad for her, I have both extraordinary reflexes and I can feel what's around me without seeing it. So I just completely blocked her attempt as the chains came towards me and I turned them into mud.

"Good try Tory. On pretty much anyone else, that would have been worked splendidly." I applauded.

"Damn, still can't get you!" She exclaimed in frustration.

"You can't get me with three of you. What's been telling you it would work when you're alone?" I asked to tease her.

"Get over here you wanker and I'll show you how much I can do alone!" She shouted back at me, getting me a good laugh in response.

With another half-hour of training, she was finally able to pull off the combination fluidly, but it would take some time for her to truly be able to change the ground into her weapon.

Aside from practice, she's also been able to ask me in-depth questions on everything troubling her in our advanced learning sessions. But a lot of my modified spells need a large amount of practice to replace the standard forms. Say if you learn a standard stupefy, you'd need to overwrite your understanding of the spell by learning its arithmantic equation, then understanding the parts I've modified, then you'd need to calculate the changes in your mind after getting used to them on paper, ending up with the need to practice over and over again to ingrain it into yourself. I haven't found a way to learn them in a simple manner yet and that's why I'm not forcing Christian to learn everything, he just doesn't have an affinity with such heavy mathematics, so he focuses on some spells he's interested in and works intensively on those.

James came over twice during the holidays and both times we worked on making the new broom. We've agreed on a sleek black design, with a silver alloy blend for the metalwork, made by the goblins like the original Firebolt. It would remind some of the upcoming nimbus 2001, but this was miles ahead of it in term of performance and its look was less decorative. Due to my collaboration with Randolph, and an agreement with the man to make them together as a brand, I've saved time by getting the custom enchantments for the Firebolt. James was really excited to see the cutting edge of the industry and spent hours studying them when he was home. We spent an unknown amount of time discussing the needs of the chaser and their role on the field. We even got Christian involved with that discussion without letting him know about the broom. In the end we decided to focus on maintaining a slightly lower level of speed, to focus on subtle movements to allow for better fakes, doges and maneuvers required of the position. We are also completely revamping the comfort and weather/wind protection to reduce drag and help maintain player stamina since it is the most active position in Quidditch. We've also decided to up the acceleration to make it more versatile and hopefully making this broom more appealing to Keepers too. So we got to work. I used my goblin contacts to set up a proper supply for the metalwork, used people in the woodworking industries to obtain the testing material I would need and was workshopping everything else with James.

Victoria has no interest in this project of ours and just shook her head at her two friends talking to each other excitedly and only saying 'boys' before walking away.

But, did you know testing a developing broom involves a lot of crash landings? I mean, it's not like I expected it to go well on the first try and it was great that I was able to make a flying stick, but it was really surprise when it just stops listening to me in mid-air. So lesson learned on that one; fly lower until you know it works. Luckily, I wasn't that high and an arresto momentum was all that I needed to land safely. Victoria did find it both amusing and terrifying. She was scared at first, but it later became a story to tease me about, since it was one of the rare times I've ever made such a surprised face. But aside from that, steady progress has been made in the making of the prototype.

With the house being full of life and happy, hardworking kids, aunt Amelia had a very satisfied smile during her break. She saw her niece and nephew growing to be such good kids, and that relived her greatly. She always worried that she hasn't been there enough due to her duties in the ministry and even now, I'm the one who's handling the houses paperwork, making her feel guilty, grateful and happy I care about her enough to do it. I even caught her talking to an old family portrait of when her, my father and Susan's father were younger, with who I presumed were my grandparents behind them. She was drinking and venting about her worries, talking about what's been going on and that we've been doing good, and she cried a bit because she missed them and felt guilty she wasn't able to help them that night. The only thing I knew I could do at the moment, was to let her vent. Everyone needs to let things out at one point, just to lighten their burden and they don't need anyone to interfere. So I left her be and quietly returned to my room.

Christmas Day was a warm and relaxing affair, with nice music from the muggle world, aunty has begun to appreciate, gently resounding throughout the houses, large family meals, the three of us in the younger generation all put our studies and projects away to spend time enjoying the family atmosphere. It turned into a very nice memory with smiles and laughter.

What was less pleasant was the unending teasing I got from Victoria and the weird smiles I got from aunty and Susan after they saw the pile of chocolates and candies I received this year. I get a good amount every year yes, but it more than doubled this year. The worst part being that the senders wrote letters of admiration or proclamations of love without signing their names and the girls read them out loud to tease me. It was nightmarish.

My innocent time with my family was interrupted soon enough though. An emergency message from Oliver said they had captured a few men trying to break through the wards i had set up over all my businesses and personal properties. Like hell I was letting people destroy my things and buildings without making them work for it, and it also served as anti-theft protection. They were taken down after they started to bombard the FIRM center instead of my other holdings, meaning they probably held anti-muggle views and took enough of an offense that they wanted to destroy the place.

This was a serious enough matter, so I decided to head there personally. I used Sol to quickly travel to the Alley and headed to the center. The building was completely fine, with my wards being more than enough to stop three idiots trying to vandalize the place.

"Sir Folster! We didn't expect you so soon!" Said one of the members of Fortress.

"This is an important matter. I wished to see the twits brave or stupid enough to do this." I say seriously to the man. He nods and leads the way. We head inside Fortress Protections official office in the Alley, where people can come to hire what they need. Bringing me to an underground room, hidden from plain sight, with three men are chained in holding cells.

"You've done a very good job. All of you. As is stated in the practices of the Fortress, you shall be rewarded according to level one accomplishments. You may chose your rewards from the appropriate list." I say with an authorities voice.

""""thank you sir!"""" Was the response of those on duty.

Incidentally, what I mentioned was a system me and Oliver put in place to motivate members beyond their pays. The lowest being level one, but even that requires above perfect handling of duties, to level five, requiring immense merit during service.

"I will be handling the interrogation. If any feel uncomfortable you are free to leave. If any wish to see how legilimency can break an man, stay and learn, because it might be you suffering through this in the future and it is always good to be prepared." I then announce. None of the men present budge an inch. They knew what I meant. Many dark wizards liked to toy with their prey.

"Alright. Then let us begin. I don't have all night and I want to get this over with. I've heard you took the appropriate evidence and it is being developed yes?" I ask.

"Yes sir! The photos are being developed by Brook as we speak and we have recorded the entire event." He confirmed, as everything was handled according to protocol.

"Good." I simply say.

"Now you three gentlemen are not going to have a pleasant time. You see I hate using my gifts to harm others, but for you three I think I'll make an exception. I mean, it's not every day I get three gift wrapped death eaters to work on." I say with my devilish smile appearing on my face.

"We were found not guilty!" Yelled out the smallest one.

"These three are death eaters!?" Exclaimed one of my men. All three turned with fire in their eyes. Pretty much all members of Fortress have suffered at the hand of these inbreed barbarians calling themselves nobles.

"Oh yes, you were surely excused." I agree with them with a light voice. "But honestly, do you really believe being excused by incompetent, corrupted, biased, stupid and rushed old fools will actually let you off the hook from everyone? Because if you do, then all of you are bigger imbeciles than I could have thought."

I approach the smallest man first, with a gentle smile and shining eyes. He starts trying to struggle and fight the chains he's in. Trying to get away from me.

"No! No! Stay away from me! Stay away!" He shouted in growing panic.

"Such a brave little death eater you are. So brave and courageous when you attack the weak and helpless. But when in front of those stronger than you, you cower like a blithering baby." I say in an almost motherly tone, causing the man to start shivering.

"Now look at me little death eater. Look at me and remember what you really are." I say as our eyes meet and he freezes in horror.

The man stiffens as his brain is being forcefully broken into, analyzed and his entire life is laid bare. A few minutes later of him silently screaming, with tears and horror in his eyes, I finally let him go. He immediately collapses and assumes the fetal position as he shivers uncontrollably.

"Well now Mr. Gibbon, you truly are a piece of shit. But now I must pay attention to our other guests. Mr. Crabb and Mr. Goyle, shall we begin?" I say with a pleasant smile as I turn towards them.

A dozen minutes pass and the three are now lying on the ground trembling. I had gotten everything I wanted and what I saw disgusted me. These men were truly vile and did not deserve to be alive, much less hold any positions of importance. But I needed them alive for now. They were going to be used to create a stir in the ministry. I removed any and all memory of me and replaced it with another member of Fortress, simply changing the face they would remember since I wanted to play in the shadows for now.

"You all know what to do now. I want them detained and to file for a trial as soon as possible. I don't want to give those gits any time to mess with things. These bastards will go on trial. I've heard Edward Tonks wishes to be active in the FIRM center, he is a skilled lawyer and wishes to be a skilled barrister, so contact him and offer him to be our legal representative. We have everything we need to put them away. If palms need greasing I'll take care of it. Dismissed." I order as I set everything in motion.

'Let's see how much this'll rattle the cage.' I think to myself.


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Alexander_the_grey Alexander_the_grey

Wanted a bit of his light side and some of his darker side.

Although he truly cares for and loves his family, friends and the magical world, he despises Voldemort and his death eaters. Confirmed willing and active death eaters deserve death for him. He and too many have suffered too much at their hands, and it will not happen again.

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