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Harry Potter and the Magic of Books Part 21
🕑 Added 2016-07-25 06:54:30 +0000 UTC Lily looked up from the creatures book so was reading when Harry and Sarah reappeared near the open miniature Dungeons & Dragons module for the magic shop that moved locations. “Any luck?”Harry sighed as he noticed that the edges of the module was lightly charred. “Damn, I was hoping that buying the magic items would help.”
“Charred?” Lily asked.
“Lightly, I can probably make one more trip, maybe two depending. It probably has something to do with the fact that it was a miniature module rather than a full setting.”
Sarah shrugged. “Mission accomplished though, we got two amulets that should protect us from telepathy. I also picked up a ring of nourishment and regeneration that should help with Harry’s project.”
Hermione looked up from the Star Trek book she was rereading. “At least you got the amulets.”
“Yep.”
Harry asked, “Did you have any luck figuring out a good place to jump into the story so we can get the telepaths and telekinetics we need?”
Hermione asked, “I reread the first part and the ending then skimmed the rest. Near the beginning of the story is probably the best place to recruit the ‘advanced’ teenagers from unless we want to jump in after they introduce the advanced immune system crap and try to ‘fix’ it so we get the best of both worlds but I’d rather not.”
Sarah said, “I’d rather not get anywhere near a plague that can cause people to die of advanced age within a few days or weeks, thank you very much.”
Lily said, “I have to agree with Lily on this one.”
“Agreed. I’d rather just jump in then jump out with what we need,” Harry replied.
Hermione said, “You should take Anna or Beth with you, they’re better at computers and have seen more Star Trek than I have.”
“I’ll go see if one of them wants to go.”
0o0o0o0
Sara Kingsley blinked as a slender black haired younger man and a red haired female child of eleven or twelve appeared out of thin air without the telltale transporter effect. He looked a bit young to be wearing the red and black of command but stranger things had happened. The child was dressed in a black and yellow Starfleet outfit. “What are you doing here? Who are you?”
Anna replied, “I’m special agent Anna.”
“I’m with the high command. Do you have any telepaths and telekinetics available for an important mission?” Harry pulled out his magic wallet and showed the scientist his identification as he hit her with a wandless confusion charm so she’d be more likely to help him without questioning things overly much. He felt a touch bad about it but at the same time, the children would have more of a life with him than they would on the station.
She gulped as she looked at his identification, “Harry Potter of the Temporal Guard… None of them are trained in field operations. If you can wait another couple of months we’ll have additional children with advanced immune systems that grow and mature rapidly.”
Anna said, “The current batch of telepaths and telekinetics will do just fine.”
“I want a copy of all of the teaching programs, gene twists and tech schematics loaded into a runabout as quickly as possible. We’ll need them if we want to take your research to the next level and save the Federation.”
Sara asked nervously, “What happened?”
“This is need to know only but in ten years, a wormhole opens up and a telepathic alien race will show up and start destroying entire worlds with their Death Stars. Normally we wouldn’t interfere but it was deemed bad enough that we stepped in. Can I trust you to get everything loaded while I look over the data for the children I’ll be recruiting?” Harry had to work fairly hard not to smirk or anything out of character.
“Of course sir.” Sara Kingsley hurried over to the terminal and pulled up the current information she had on the smartest and best children they had. “I’ll have some of the other scientists load up the runabout.”
“Thank you.” Anna started looking through the profiles on the children and picking out people that looked interesting and had high telepathy and telekinetic scores. She wasn’t sure what this whole process was supposed to accomplish but it was an interesting summer project.
Harry kept a discreet watch on the various scientists as they hustled around transferring data and various bits of tech.
0o0o0o0
Hermione smiled as Harry and Anna reappeared in the middle of the living room next to the Star Trek book sitting on the table. “How did it go?”
Anna giggled. “Better than I was expecting. Did you know Harry has a magic wallet that creates fake identification?”
Hermione nodded. “I’m aware.”
Anna pouted. “Oh.”
Harry shrugged. “I used the wallet and a mild confusion charm to pass myself off as a special agent then I simply told the doctor what she wanted to hear, that her project was going to save the Federation. After that she was more than willing to help by copying all of her research files to data storage devices I could stick in my bag. We have a runabout with twelve female telepathic and telekinetic teenagers waiting for us to come back and pick them up.”
“How are you getting them out of the book?” Lily asked.
“I have clothes and hair samples. We can probably shrink the runabout and bring it with us, if not then we can rip out the replicator and transporter and bring them with us.”
“How much time do we have in the prologue for the Eye of the World?”
Hermione said, “Less than ten minutes I’d say. It shouldn’t be a problem though, all we have to do is stay quiet and hidden until the two magic users leave.”
Lily asked, “How dangerous are we talking about here?”
Harry winced. “Dangerous enough that one of them calls up a volcano at the end of the prologue.”
“A volcano? As in they created an actual volcano?” Lily asked in disbelief.
“Yeah, which is why I’d rather not have them notice us. Once we jump out after that point, we’re not coming back until the next scene which is about 3,000 years. Then we’ve got a little time, half a day or so then it jumps about ten years until the start of the story.”
“Which means that anyone that comes here for the main jump and doesn’t jump out when you do will be cut off and likely dead by the time we jump back into the story.”
Sarah said, “Most likely but they should leave an interesting culture behind.”
Lily said, “In that case, we should probably stock up on supplies and books on how to enchant everything under the sun as well as a way to record books on something a bit more durable than paper.”
Harry nodded. “The problem is that time flows while we’re in the story which means that we’ll have a touch less than two months to set things up before we have to jump out to make it to Hogwarts on time.”
Hermione frowned. “I’m not sure my parents will let me take a two month long vacation knowing that I’ll be gone for the rest of the year.”
Lily said, “We’re going to need at least a week to track down all of the supplies we need and to recruit enough people to make this worthwhile.”
Harry said, “And if we come back with two weeks left of the summer then we’ll only be gone a bit over a month. You might be able to talk your parents into that.”
“It’s worth discussing it with them.” Lily was looking forward to seeing what type of society developed over the timeskip.
“In that case, let’s get to work making what we need. The master enchanter should be able to help design the memory storage device and some comprehend language rings.”
Hermione sighed. “I’m just hoping that my parents let me stay.”
“We’ll work something out. Let’s go talk to the master enchanter and see what we need to work on.” Harry looked at Lily, “Do you want to come with us?”
“Of course,” Lily replied with amusement.
0o0o0o0
Tony Stark coughed as a wild haired youth that reminded him a bit too much of Loki appeared out of thin air. “What do you want?”
Harry stared at the white haired old man in the hospital bed, “Fuck, you got old.”
Tony asked, “Do I know you?”
“Wow, my own father and you don’t even remember me.”
Tony snorted. “Nice try but I don’t believe you.”
“Ah well, would you believe that I’m a magic user from another world and I’d like to make you an offer you can’t refuse.”
“What’s the offer?” Tony asked dubiously.
Harry said, “I’m setting up a city on an island on a different world, I could use your help to set up the power grid and do some city planning as the rest of my team are wizards and not the best when it comes to intelligent logical design work.”
Tony coughed. “In other words you want my tech?”
“Nah, just an arc reactor and your expertise on setting things up, in exchange, I’ll restore your youth.”
Tony asked, “Monkey paw deal?”
“Nah, you’ll be thirteen, that’s really the only downside, mostly.”
“Mostly?”
“Yeah, the magic item I’m going to use to restore your youth turns you into a thirteen year old girl.”
“So I’d have to stay a girl?” Tonk shook his head. “Look kid, I might be dying but I’m rather fond of my cock. I’ve lived with it a long time.”
“Seriously, you’re on your deathbed and you’re angling for a better deal?”
“I’m still alive.”
“Blah, you’ll be a girl for like a minute or two max if you want. I’ve got a magical belt that will change you back.”
Tony smirked. “In that case, when do we leave and how much can I take with me?”
“Your laptop and a couple of crates should be easy enough.”
“Not that I don’t trust you but I don’t trust you.”
Harry pulled out the Loliblade and tossed it to Tony. “Here.”
Tony caught the bracelet. “And I’m supposed to do what with this?”
“I’d say walk into the other room and put it on but I don’t think you’re walking anywhere.”
“Not after my legs were broken a few years ago at any rate. I don’t suppose this will fix my legs?”
“Your legs, your heart-”
Tony cut him off, “My liver?”
“Normally I’d say yes but you’re Tony Stark.” Harry replied with amusement.
“Oh sure, be a smart ass with a dying man,” Tony complained.
“Tony, just put the damned bracelet on.”
Tonk slipped the bracelet on and felt everything twist and change. The first thing he noticed was that he could feel his feet and toes again. The next was that he had perky breasts the size of oranges and certain other equipment was missing. A second look showed him that his hands were also covered in metal claws. “You neglected to mention the metal claws kid.”
Harry looked away from the scantily clad girl that until a moment ago had been an old man. “Right, well that’s the item. Once you take it off the claws will go away.”
“How do I take the item off?”
Harry turned his back on Tony. “Just remove your g-string and it will turn back into a bracelet.”
Tony removed the g-string and smiled as it turned into a bracelet. “That’s a pretty decent trick you have there. Now about the gender swapping belt?”
“As soon as you give me the bracelet back.” Harry turned around. “You make a rather cute girl, which is all sorts of creepy.”
Tony tossed him the bracelet. “You’re the one that goes around turning people into girls.”
Harry put the bracelet away in his pocket. “Yeah well it’s the best way I’ve found to make someone younger.” He pulled out the belt and tossed it to Tony then turned around again.
Tony caught the belt. “Actually, do you have twenty minutes? I mean if I didn’t at least catch a shower as a girl, I’d lose my man credit.”
Harry laughed. “Take all the time in the bathroom you need, I need to hit a bookstore.”
“There’s one across the street that’s pretty good or so I hear.” Tony walked into the bathroom and shut the door behind him.
“Have fun playing with yourself.” Harry smiled as he left the room on his way to the bookstore to see if they had Wheel of Time books.
0o0o0
Hermione glanced at the fake plastic laptop and the two large crates that Harry had put in the closet next to the teenage mannequin. “Do you really think this will work?”
Harry set Tony’s arc reactor in the mannequin's hand. “Only one way to find out.” He stepped back and closed the door then inserted his magic key and locked and unlocked the door. “Tony?”
Tony called out, “Why is it dark in here?”
Harry opened the door. “Because it’s a closet.”
Tony looked at Harry and Hermione then winked at Hermione, “You’re new.”
Hermione rolled her eyes. “Apparently he’s a diehard flirt.”
Harry laughed. “He’ll fit right in.”
Tony stepped out of the closest and looked around. “Where am I?”
“Godric’s Hollow in England.”
“I’m going to need a desk.”
Hermione gestured toward the table. “I’ve got Arcturus’ notes on what he wants, maybe we can turn it into something reasonable.”
“I said I’d give it a shot and I will,” Tony replied.
Harry said, “I’m going to go make sure the twins have the list of objectives.”
0o0o0o0o0
Harry looked over the twenty five ex-werewolves that he’d mostly cured by having them wear the Loliblade then pulling them into a book during the fullmoon. After that it was a simple matter to hand the ex-men the gender flipping belt then pay the temple to break the curse while they weren’t wolf girls which left everyone with a female wolf girl form and a male or female normal form as appropriate. He turned his attention to the five female and fifteen male purebloods that Arcturus had recruited that wanted an island where they didn’t have to hide their magic. He didn’t blame them for wanting a place where they could practice their magic.
He turned his attention to Tony Stark and the twelve telepathic and telekinetic teenagers that he’d pulled into the world via lifesize dolls and his magic key. Thankfully it hadn’t taken them all that long to figure out what the deal was and come to terms with being pulled out of a book via magic. He guessed that being able to feel a person’s sincerity helped them believe the unbelievable.
He glanced over at Kreacher who was trying to watch over several crates filled with sleeping magic rabbits and owls. They’d decided against taking a lot of the stupid magical creatures though they were taking a couple of kneazles and things that weren’t pests. They were also taking several crates worth of seeds for various useful magical plants. He’d vetoed several of the old idiots’ desire to take things like mandrakes and anything that could be considered a pest. Thankfully Sirius was really good at sniffing that crap out because there had been a couple of attempts at importing things that didn’t need to come with them.
Everyone was loaded up with expanded featherlight bags that contained several months worth of supplies. “I’ll go over this one last time. Sarah will be making everyone invisible and silent, it should last ten to twenty minutes, we shouldn’t need more than five. Once I bring you to the other world, your job is to quietly spread out and wait for everyone to get there and for the two dangerous magic users to leave.”
One of the female ex-werewolves asked, “How dangerous are they?”
“One of them makes Voldemort look like an innocent five year old and the other is that world’s most powerful magic user and quite insane. Both can and will kill you as easily as I can snap my fingers.”
Tony muttered. “Great…”
Harry nodded, “Yeah, which means that everyone needs to stay silent. I’ll be jumping in and out until everyone is brought into the world. Once the two rather dangerous wizards leave we’ll loot the palace then fly south to an island where a number of the world’s magic users have settled. Once we’re there, we’ll set up the base camp then see about recruiting some local talent.”
Moody spoke up, “Stay silent,” he glared at Tonks, “and don’t knock anything over. Actually, it’s better if you don’t even move once we get there until the magic users are gone.”
Nymphadora sighed. “I’m not that bad.”
“Just try not to get us killed.”
Sarah gestured and turned the lot of them and the crates silent and invisible to everyone other than themselves. “We’re ready.”
Harry set the book down on the table and opened it to the first page. “Let’s do this.” He reached out with his magic and pulled the first group of werewolves and Moody into the book. He pointed his wand at the dirty looking middle aged man with more white in his hair than brown and relaxed slightly when the man didn’t seem to notice their group. He gestured for everyone to spread out then jumped back for the next group.
Moody gestured toward two of the werewolves and pointed his wand at the middle aged wizard just in case he noticed him and the plan went to shit.
Anna blinked as she appeared with the next group of magic users. She twitched as the man in black appeared with a shimmer. Certain things would be so much better if the Betrayer of Hope were dead but she wasn’t sure he was killable by them and they certainly didn’t have what it would take to kill him permanently. She twitched as Lews Therin started screaming in agony. ‘Please don’t notice us, please don’t notice us.’
Arcturus took a chance and silently cast a monster breeding spell to collect a sperm sample from the screaming magic user. The fact that it was banned by the ministry didn’t really matter all that much to him because the Ministry no longer mattered. He was just hoping the magic was different enough that the men didn’t notice. He was relieved when the man in black didn’t even glance his way.
Lily twitched as she watched the scene play out before her. It was hard not trying to ‘help’ but as Anna explained, it set the tone for the entire series.
Harry popped back in with the last group and smiled slightly when he saw Lews Therin open a gate and step through. He briefly considered blasting the man in black but didn’t want to deal with the butterflies that would cause. He watched until the man vanished before he took a deep breath and let it out.
One of the telepathic girls spoke up. “They’re gone.”
“Thank you.” Harry gestured around the ruined palace. “Now we loot the place to the ground. Take any books, tapestries or paintings.”
Lily said, “Feel free to take anything else that looks interesting.”
Anna spoke up, “If something feels magical use tongs and take it. Don’t leviate it or use other magic on it as we’re not sure if we can activate this world’s magic items and I’d rather not find out on something dangerous.”
Moody said, “You heard her, stay alert and be careful.”
“You have ten minutes to loot everything to the ground, I want to be out of here before anyone shows back up.”
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Chichi son
Sarah said, “I’d rather not get anywhere near a plague that can cause people to die of advanced age within a few days or weeks, thank you very much.” Lily said, “I have to agree with Lily on this one.” *Raised eyebrow*
Chichi son
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Alex Wierzbicki
good work
