บท 133: Chapter 130

Harry instantly knew that Dobby would be forced to do what Lucius directly commanded, even if it was to kill himself. He turned and snapped a Petrificus Totalus at Dobby, freezing the elf before he could even move towards the butter knife that lay on a nearby desk.

He then angrily slammed Lucius in the head with his fist, knocking him out before pulling out his wand and incanting, "Obliviate" erasing all of the past few minutes from his mind.

Making sure the man was unconscious using an observe, he immediately moved to where Dobby was lying petrified.

It was obvious that the Slave Bond was forcing Dobby to obey the direct order from Lucius. To help Dobby, he would have to remove the Slave Bond status. With a curse, he remembered that Dobby was more than 10 levels above him, which meant that Harry couldn't use the Healing Touch on him. So with no way out left, he tried his normal healing skill.

Ping!

You are attempting to heal somebody with several ailments! Please chose one to heal:

Low bone density

Slave Bond

Harry selected the Slave Bond, and to his surprise, an unfamiliar window popped up.

WARNING: Slave Bond has status Ancient Magic on it, increasing cost of removal by 2000MP.

Total Cost - 2300MP

Harry stared at the window in shock before pulling up his own stats.

HP - 1675/1675

MP - 1425/1425

He floundered for a second, clueless about what to do before he figured it out and activated the Wardstone perk, remembering that he was outside Hogwarts and could use the ludicrously overpowered perk now.

Wardstone perk activated!

Grants +1000 HP and +1000 MP when activated it at the cost of -25 MP per minute. All wounds are healed. All ailments cured. +20 Str,+20 Vit, +20 Dex.

And then he finally pressed his healing mana into Dobby.

Ping!

Do you wish to heal - Status: Slave Bond

YES/NO?

Harry pressed yes, and with a small flash of light, the bond disappeared. He freed Dobby from the Petrification Charm.

Dobby stilled for a second before his large eyes widened even more, and he found his voice "Harry Potter freed Dobby! Dobby is free!" the little elf yelled as he leaped to his feet and went around doing a little jig, making Harry smile.

"Is there anything Dobby can do for sir? Anything?" the newly free elf asked.

"Just promise you'll stop your plans to keep me out of Hogwarts. I can handle myself, as you saw, and I can't let whatever Lucius has planned hurt my friends."

Dobby's eyes teared up a bit, "Dobby promises Harry Potter sir."

"Good," Harry said with a smile, "Now is there any way you could get me out of here and back home? I don't want to be late for my own birthday."

It was breakfast time at the Flamel house next morning, and Harry was a bit preoccupied with the thoughts of what had happened. After he'd been popped back to his room by Dobby, he hadn't been the best company he could have been in his birthday party. There had been a few books and packets of candy given as gifts and they'd played a few games, but he couldn't help but feel uneasy about what Lucius Malfoy had said. Or rather not said.

"Harry?" said Nicholas suddenly, looking up from a letter he was reading through, breaking Harry out of his musings, "The Weasleys want to take all of you kids to the Diagon to shop for school supplies today."

"Us kids?" Harry asked.

"You, Hermione Granger, Terry Boot and Dean Thomas. Along with all of their bunch." Nicholas replied.

"I think you should go. Make a little group outing out of it." Perenelle said with a smile. A window popped up in front of Harry.

Ping!

Quest Alert!

Buy all your school supplies with the Weasleys!

Reward,

10,000 Exp

Failure,

Failure at Hogwarts

YES/NO?

"I think I'll do that." Harry agreed with Perenelle with a smirk, after pressing yes "Save you, two senior citizens, the pain of going outside."

Perenelle proceeded to swat Harry across the head.

"Well you better get ready and grab some money from Perenelle." said Nicholas "The letter said the Floo address is the Burrow. Just give the doorman near the fireplace a sickle and he'll give you the Floo powder."

Harry ran upstairs and changed, making sure Hedwig's bowl was full of chocolate and fruit to keep her comfortable while he was gone. The upcoming Burning day was really taking a toll on her.

Taking the small bag of gold from Perenelle, Harry dropped it into the massive supply of money he had in his inventory just to keep up pretenses. He waved goodbye to the Flamels, and walked over to the end of the hallway into the small room which held the Floo station. Handing the doorman a sickle as per instructed, Harry collected a handful of Floo powder.

"The Burrow!" he said out loud, stepping into the fire.

After a few seconds of flashing lights and darkness, he shot right out of the fireplace at the Weasley household with tremendous force. Luckily, he had a very high Dex, and was much more balanced than he was ever before.

Flipping himself mid-air, he landed on his feet.

The sound of some applause filled his ears. He looked to his right to see Ron, Terry and what looked like two older and cooler versions of Ron clapping, looking quite impressed with Harry's acrobatic skills.

Harry gave a small bow and made his way over to them, noticing the chessboard on the small table they were sitting at. He pulled out a chair and sat down.