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Harry Potter and the Magic of Books Part 14
🕑 Added 2016-06-24 07:07:15 +0000 UTC McGonagall had been half expecting Sirius to shout gotcha or something else remarkably stupid until Lily and James had sworn on their magic that they were James and Lily Potter. Things had went from there with Harry’s explanation about his strange book magic and about the various items he’d pulled out of different books and about the item they’d be using to change back into teenagers. She looked at the bracelet that Harry had handed her. “So I just put it on?”“That’s the basic idea,” Harry replied.
Sirius frowned slightly as he glanced at McGonagall’s wand. “You should set your wand down before you put it on.”
“Why?” McGonagall asked curiously.
Lily laughed. “Because it ate Remus’s clothes when he used it.”
McGonagall raised an eyebrow as she glanced back and forth between Lily and Sirius. “Bathroom?”
Hermione giggled as she pointed toward the hallway. “Second door.”
“Thank you Miss Granger.” McGonagall leveled a glare at Sirius and picked up the green silk dress as she walked out of the room.
Lily shook her head at Sirius. “Would you have really let her use the bracelet in front of Hermione and Harry?”
Sirius shrugged. “It’s not like they don’t have access to a temple of sex fiends.”
Harry said, “What can I say, they’re useful to have around for healing and curse breaking.”
Hermione piped up, “And massage, don’t forget massage.”
James laughed. “Right.”
Sirius grinned. “Besides, Minerva is attractive as an older witch, she’s bound to be smoking hot as a young lady.”
“He has a point,” Remus admitted.
Lily looked at Remus in disbelief. “I expect that from Sirius but you?”
“Blame teenage hormones, I do.” He smirked.
James laughed. “I’d believe that except-” whatever else he was going to say was lost when he heard a gleeful shriek from the bathroom. “Looks like she’s happy with the results.”
Sarah said, “It’s a shame that we’ll be hiding her beauty behind a disguise.”
“I’m glad she’s happy with the results…” Lily trailed off when she saw McGonagall walk back into the room wearing the sexy green dress that Harry had pulled out of the catalogue. “Damn…”
Sirius said, “I’d wolf whistle but you’d hex me.”
Remus said, “If she didn’t, I would, that’s my shtick.”
McGonagall wasn’t going to mention it but she enjoyed the attention. “I haven’t felt this good in years.”
“I can relate,” Remus replied.
Sarah conjured a full length mirror. “Here.”
Minerva studied her new reflection in the mirror. The busty girl looking back at her resembled some of her old photographs though she had to say resembled because the girl looking back at her was taller and bustier than she’d been at thirteen and if she was honest with herself more attractive. Not that she would have worn the sexy looking silk dress when she was thirteen as her father would have had a heart attack but she liked it. It also felt fantastic on her skin. She held up the bracelet. “I know a couple of woman that would love to borrow this.”
“I’m sure we could work out some type of deal,” Harry replied.
Sarah piped up, “Hold out for naked pictures of the girls in their new form.”
McGonagall smiled slightly as she tossed the bracelet to Harry. “I think some of my friends would still go for it.”
Lily asked, “What are you going to tell the headmaster?”
“Nothing, he likes his mysteries. I see no reason to rob him of the chance to unravel such an impossible story. Besides, watching him try to figure it out is going to be amusing.”
James laughed. “I’m looking forward to seeing the castle again.”
“Just try not to cause me as much hassle as the last time around.”
“No promises but we’ll try not to get caught.” Sirius replied with amusement.
“I guess that’s all I can ask. What names do you want registered with the school?” McGonagall asked curiously.
“I’ll be Harry’s twin, it should confuse people but honestly the only people that know it can’t possibly be true are in this room as the nurse that delivered Harry died a couple of months later in an attack.”
Lily said, “Lily Potter, from another branch of the Potters.”
Sirius smirked. “Sirius Black junior.”
Remus shrugged. “Remus Lupin junior works.”
McGonagall shook her head. “You’re going to drive Severus mad.”
“That’s part of the fun,” Sirius replied gleefully.
Harry asked, “How easy is it to slip another name onto the list of students?”
McGonagall asked, “Why?”
“I found a book that creates magic users based on choices and who is using the book or rather it creates characters. With a little bit of trickery I could probably pull someone out of the book.”
“You said you couldn’t pull living things out of books earlier.”
Harry shrugged. “I can’t but I can pull out something important to them like a favorite dress then shrink it, put it on a doll and use a magical key and cupboard to pull that person from their world or bring them to life. I’m not completely sure if it will work or not but it’s worth a shot.”
McGonagall frowned as she glanced at Lily and James then back at Harry. “As long as your parents don’t object and you can afford the tuition, I don’t have a problem slipping another two transfer students into the rolls. It might actually help confuse things.”
Lily said, “I don’t have a problem, it’s not like we’re going to be worried about money any time soon.”
James grinned. “Having more people to help with pranks is a good thing as far as I’m concerned.”
McGonagall mock glared at James. “Don’t make me regret this.”
Sarah held out a bracelet. “Here, this should let you look like your old self.”
McGonagall asked, “Any side effects?”
“Not as far as I’m aware and I checked it over quite well, it’s just an illusion.”
McGonagall accepted the bracelet. “Thank you.”
“You’re the one doing a favor for us. Speaking of favors, can you make sure you sign Harry’s slip for a non standard familiar?”
“Thanks for reminding me. I’ll have all of the paperwork done by tomorrow.”
Lily gave McGonagall a hug. “Thank you for the help.”
“You’re welcome. I’m sorry that I didn’t listen to my gut ten years ago Harry.”
Harry let his shoulders slump. “I’m not going to say living with the Dursleys was a picnic but it worked out.”
Lily asked, “I’d been meaning to ask, why wasn’t Harry left with Alice and Frank?”
“They were attacked a couple of days after you were, they’re still in the long term spell damage ward at Saint Mungo’s for exposure to the Cruatius curse.”
“That’s terrible.”
“Barty Crouch Jr, Bellatrix and the Lestrange brothers attacked and tortured them trying to find out information about Voldemort’s death.”
“Neville?” Lily asked hopefully.
“He lives with Augusta.”
James winced as he pictured Frank’s mother trying to raise a kid without help. He looked at Harry, “Do you think the priestesses can help?”
“Probably, they can fix mental illness and curses so I don’t see why not.”
McGonagall’s eyes widened. “You can heal them?”
Harry made a mental note to ask his father who Frank, Alice and Neville were later. “There’s a decent chance that we know someone that can.”
Lily looked at Sirius, “In that case, James and I will start repairing the cottage while you and Harry head to the hospital.” She looked at Harry. “That is if you don’t mind helping out some of my old friends.”
“That’s fine.” Harry figured there would be plenty of time after that to look into who he was going to borrow from a book.
Hermione asked, “Is there anything I can do to help?”
Lily asked, “Do you want to learn how to repair things?”
“That sounds useful. I’ll just leave a note.”
Minerva said, “In that case, I’ll go start on the paperwork.”
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Harry resisted the urge to reach out and tweak the lazy security guard’s nose as he slipped past the man and made his way down the hall toward his targets. ‘You’d think they’d have invisibility detectors in a magical hospital but no, they can’t even do that correctly.’ He waited for the security guard to continue his patrol before he slipped into the room through the slightly open door where Frank and Alice Longbottom were supposed to be. He frowned slightly as he realized that they weren’t alone. Sitting next to a woman that must be Alice was a kid about his age with brown hair that was probably Neville.
Neville said, “I’m going off to Hogwarts Mum, I’m not sure if I’ll be any good but I’m going to try my best.”
Harry waited a couple of seconds to see if ‘Alice’ responded but she didn’t. He reached into his back and pulled out his module and set it on the table then reached out with his magic and pulled everyone in the room into the book.
Neville spun around and fumbled for his wand as he found himself somewhere else with his parents. “What is going on?”
Harry said, “I’m here to help.” then took a couple of steps to the left as Neville swung his wand toward where he’d been standing.
“Help how?”
“Help fix your parent’s minds.” Harry replied as he turned himself visible again.
“How?” Neville asked pointing his wand at Harry.
One of the naked priestesses walked over. “I suspect by letting us heal them.”
Neville blushed as he turned around and saw the very attractive naked woman. “Ah…” He forced himself to focus on what was important. “You can heal my parents?”
The priestess looked at them. “Of course, I can also clear up a rather nasty botched memory spell on you if you want.”
Neville asked, “How much?”
The priestess considered several ideas then settled on gold as the boy looked a bit too young to really appreciate her talents. “A thousand gold.”
Neville winced. “I don’t think-”
Harry cut him off, “Done. I’ll get the gold while you cure them, you know I’m good for it.”
“Of course.” The priestess turned her attention to Neville, “If you’ll follow me, we’ll fix you right up.”
Neville gulped as he looked between his parents and the stranger. “That’s a lot of money…”
“Don’t worry about it Neville.”
“You know who I am?”
“Sort of, my parents were friends with your parents. It’s the least I can do. I’ll explain after you and your parents are healed.”
“Thank you, I won’t forget this.” He rushed off after his parents and the priestess that were leading them deeper into the temple.
“You’re welcome.” Harry headed toward the vault where he kept the gold he’d liberated from the evil temple.
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Hermione yawned as she finished swishing her wand and repairing an old half corroded lamp that had cracked in a few different places. “This isn’t quite as glamorous as I was expecting.”
Remus chuckled. “It’s a good skill to know, if you know how to repair things you’ll never go hungry. Just walk into a second hand store, buy something that would be worth a lot more if it was in mint condition then repair it and resell it to a collector or pawn shop depending.”
“If that’s the case why do you…” Hermione trailed off as she wasn’t sure how to ask her question without offending him.
“Wear old crap?” Remus asked amusedly.
Hermione nodded. “I didn’t mean to offend but yes.”
He chuckled. “Mostly because I don’t see a reason to waste money on decent wizarding clothes when they pretty much hate me anyways or would if they knew I was a werewolf. You also met me on the full moon, there isn’t much point in wearing decent clothes that will just get torn apart if I’m not careful. I might have to work on my wardrobe now that I’m not a werewolf.”
“That reminds me, we should go school shopping again.”
Remus said, “I’ve got most of my old supplies but I’ll need to update my defense and potions books and get more potions supplies. I’m looking forward to having some fun again.”
“You weren’t having fun?”
“My life sort of fell apart that Halloween, one friend supposedly turned traitor and was tossed into prison without a trial, one supposedly died but was actually the traitor and two of them actually died. It wasn’t a good year. After that I sort of fell off the face of the world, doing odd jobs where I could to keep my hand in things and drifting.”
Hermione could see how that would toss a wrench in things. “You’ll have to tell us about some of the places that you wandered.”
“Sure, I can also show you quite a few useful defense spells.”
Hermione asked curiously, “How behind am I compared to half bloods or pure bloods?”
Remus considered the question for a couple of seconds then replied, “If the family isn’t stupid and doesn’t follow the ministry rules about not teaching their children magic, a bit when it comes to magic. If they actually follow the idiotic rules then you’re a bit behind with some of the social crap that they know by growing up in the wizarding world. Mostly though you’re better off for going to a normal school for as long as you have. We can mostly fix the social background information with a couple of weeks of training. It’s not like most of the families really agree on anything other than basic conventions so it’s not too hard to catch up.”
“Family spells? Ancient secrets?” Hermione asked curiously.
“While there is some of that, less than you’d think because of how interrelated all of the purebloods are.”
Lily piped up as she walked over, “That and a lot of the purebloods are lazy.”
“Ah.”
“However you’re an honorary Potter so we’ll be showing you quite a few interesting mostly forgotten spells if you want to learn.” James said.
Hermione said, “Thank you, I just don’t want to be behind everyone because I’m muggle-born.”
Lily laughed. “Most of the purebloods don’t actually practice much before they get to Hogwarts. In some cases, muggleborns actually practice more because for us, magic is neat and interesting and it takes a long time to really lose that wonder.”
“How long did it take you?”
“I’ll tell you when it happens.” Lily replied with amusement.
Sarah said, “You should tell people that you’re a muggleborn. That way when you crush their hopes and dreams by soundly beating their grades they can’t fall back on your blood as being the reason you’re just that much better than they are.”
“Potter is a common enough name, I could be muggleborn again,” Lily admitted.
Remus shrugged. “Works for me and gives me another reason to hex the Slytherins.”
Lily rolled her eyes. “Aren’t you supposed to be the reasonable one?”
“I’m thirteen again, so no.” Remus smirked.
James said, “He was the quiet one back at school, always in the library when he wasn’t hanging out with us. How times change.”
“I like libraries and reading.” Hermione said in defense of her favorite past time.
Lily said, “Good, I need someone to spend time with that isn’t a horrible practical joker.”
James glanced at the cottage that had most of a roof now. “At least the cottage is coming along.”
Sirius appeared with a pop alongside Harry. “We have returned.”
Harry shivered. “I hate apparition.”
“It gets better.” Lily replied.
Sirius held up two bags of burgers, “I bring good news and food. Frank and Alice are awake and sane for the first time in years and we had the priestess’s fixed a botched memory charm on Neville thus mission accomplished, let’s eat.”
James pulled out his wand and waved it, conjuring several chairs for the group. He looked at Harry, so you mentioned stealing people out of a book, who were you thinking of stealing?”
Harry said, “A pair of witches, possibly twins.” as Sirius started passing out burgers.
Sarah asked, “Using the book that is basically a twisted and kinky self contained roleplaying game?”
“That would be the one,” Harry replied before he started eating his burger.
Hermione said, “I’ve got a few ideas on how to get the most bang for your points. If a girl uses the book they can pick a supernatural Harry.”
Harry finished chewing then said, “Excellent. From there we can jump into a world with a dragon and have them use the book with the result.”
Lily frowned slightly. “Is that as twisted a plan as I think it is?”
“It might be but if we do things right we can expand our family and get some help against the dark wizards we’re likely to find at Hogwarts.”
”Not everyone in Slytherin is a dark wizard or witch,” Lily replied with some exasperation.
Sirius piped up, “Just most of them.”
Harry said, “We can work on that after lunch.”
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Harry felt a creeped out and even a little queasy to see a tiny six inch green Harry Potter like creature use himself as a flying living dildo to fuck a version of Sarah inside the image on the first page of the twisted book. “That’s just ugh.”
Sarah giggled. “That actually looks fun.”
Hermione shook her head. “No thanks.”
Sarah frowned as a character sheet popped up. “Now what?”
“Now we look at possible flaws in order to get points or advantages.” Hermione tapped the part on the book that had the disadvantage icon which brought up an entire window of flaws, some not so bad and some of them horrific. “Okay, let’s see, disfigured, cursed, missing body parts, basically anything that isn’t genetic.”
“How does this help us? The negative points will just carry over to the next generation.”
“Not if the flaws are cured before she wins,” Hermione replied matter of factly.
“I thought you said that the cure for most flaws required a quest and a lot of effort or lots and lots of experience gained from sex to buy them off?”
“That’s one way to do it. The other way to do it is to cheat. If we take the book with us into the temple and then jump a priestess into the book she should be able to cure most of the flaws with a couple of spells. If we pay her with the leftover gold from the temple then it’s not costing us much at all.”
“That’s almost cheating.” Harry gave her a smile to say he approved.
Hermione continued, “That way, all of our experience will be pure profit. Then we can do an experience run and get a bunch of points. Then we bring in a silver dragon from one of the dungeon modules and let him use the book.”
Harry asked, “Why a silver dragon?”
“Because half sister dragons are immune to cold and acid at least according to the Council of Wyrms set which is where we’ll be going to find a silver dragon.”
Sarah asked, “How are you going to get a dragon to help with this crazy project?”
Hermione grinned. “Bribery, probably a lot of it but we have gems and gold that we can trade.”
Harry said, “Okay, so let’s just pick all of the flaws that the priestesses can cure.”
“There are also a couple of flaws that have a chance to result in free points as they have a small chance to vanish in the next generation.”
“We have that luck potion we picked up in the temple, if we jump there we don’t have to damage the book. This might be a good time to use it.”
Sarah playfully pouted. “Making a character using a luck potion is just cheating.”
Hermione laughed, “Of course it is but we’re looking at our future friends and family members so it’s well worth it.”
“Let’s go.” Harry pulled his favorite module out of his backpack and set it on the chair then reached out with his magic and pulled Sarah and Hermione into the book with him. “Hermione, see if you can find out how much it would cost to fix a bunch of curses and other issues. I’ll go raid the vault as I have a feeling this is going to cost a fair amount of gold.”
Sarah said, “I’ll come with just in case you get jumped by demons.”
“Thanks.”
Hermione took the fantasy creation book and headed over to talk to one of the priestesses about how much it would cost to decurse and heal her character.
