It's the Christmas eve 1 a.m. at night. Everyone at Tonks house has gone to sleep after getting either drunk or tired. I casted my usual stealth package on myself ( disillusionment, silencing, and antiodour charms) and went to Dora's room where she was sleeping peacefully. I discreetly took a drops of blood from her and returned to my room, opened the window, and left the house. I already had enough access to come and go as I please. Not that they'd expect me to leave in the middle of the night. The windows enchanted to only be opened and closed from inside, so I just shut it back tightly with an overpowered sticking charm.
I apparated directly into my own luxury mansion. It was still in tip-top condition due to one extremely diligent elf.
"Jilly? I'm home." I called out, even if I knew that she already knew that I here.
"Master Chrissy's back! Happy Chrissy-mas, master Chrissy" My overexcited house Elf called, while jumping in joy.
'Sigh, some things never change.' I thought and simply hugged the elf. My house elf is over totally hygienic with a very clean and simple black and white long gown. It even had the black ribbon at the neck area. No cushion covers here. During my previous years of loneliness, I only had Jilly. So, she's kinda family.
She still calls me Chrissy and once I had casually said that Christmas was actually 'Chris'mas, celebrated in my honour. The elf thought it was very reasonable and
Anyway, that's not why I came here today though. I had miles to go before I sleep.
"Jilly, bring me all the precious stones that I've bought upto now." I had been buying precious stones for a while now, to study their magical properties and of course, for one more thing-
'How they respond to my pure magic'.
"Jilly is sorry Master. Master had put all of them into the safe, Jilly can't get them for you." replied the elf in a very disheartened tone.
"Oh right, I have given you permission to enter there. I'll go there myself, since you won't even know what to pick there."
I hadn't given Jilly the permission before because that place contains a lot of stuff that shouldn't be displaced.
I sat down on a luxurious arm chair and opened a side pannel on it with a handprint ✋ sign on it. I pressed my hand onto it and said the magic words:
"Command sequence: Slide ride,
access code: Ihavemagic609."
The comfortable armchair transformed into a recliner tobggan. A smooth tunnel opened up at floor and the sledge slid down at a high speed.
"Wooohooooo!!!" The tunnel was around 15 meters long. But when I was already half through my ride was moving with a cheeks-stretching speed, I suddenly realized, I might have f*cked up.
"SH*T!! I STILL HADN'T INSTALLED ANY BREAKS!!!!"
'What to do???'
In this kind of situation, I can't activate my trigger since that has a time lag and also needs concentration. Both of which, I'm sorely lacking right now.
I quickly took out my wand from my holster and transfigured the rear portion the armchair into rubber.
**SCREEEEEEEEECH**
My armchair/ toboggan stopped sliding after producing an extremely unpleasant noise. But I still ended up bumping into a well stacked pile of galleons, but fortunately, that's it.
Damn. I forgot that the 'Project: Secret Entrance' was still incomplete. You see, I could have just used the stairs to enter here or apparated in here. This room is under fidelius, with a lot wards set up here, so it wouldn't do me any harm even if I keep the entrance door open.
Then.....why the badass entrance procedure?
*sigh* It's man's romance. Only cultured people would understand. If I didn't fullfil all my geeky fantasies and lived like a normie, then I'd have transmigrated into a fantasy world for nothing. That's why the password was "I have magic". To remind me that since I have it, I am no longer bound by the rules, only my intelligence, effort and imagination.
Anyways, I quickly looked around the room to locate the stones. The reason I came here is to get another Christmas present for Dora. Actually, it's not a gift, but a necessity. She needs to have strong mental shields fast. Even though I didn't tell her anything too dangerous, but I'd still prefer it if her shields couldn't be so easily broken.
So, how do I make it happen? I could directly supply pure magic to her head in very small amounts like I did for myself to speed up the process. But, it's a time taking process and her shields won't be formed in just a few days or even months. So, if the Hogwarts's resident mind-rapers break through her diffenses while her shields were still not strong enough, they'd know that I can do something so freakish and useful.
Thus, I'm gonna use a different method.
I looked towards a particular corner of the room where there were some precious stones along with many kinds of wooden sticks with many runes carved on them. While I was just trying to make a suitable wand for myself, I remembered that many wizards of fantasies having staffs with precious stones on them.
So, I decided to 'relieve' some of the morally questionable rich people of their burden of having to keep such precious things and selflessly took it upon myself to keep them safe and doing some research on them while I'm at it.
Of course, I can't sell them to goblins, since goblins first have you sign a contract stating that's it's not stolen along with other things. Not that I'll sell them, *cough* I just took them for safekeeping.
But, If goblins started exchanging stolen muggle money for wizarding currency, both muggle and wizard economy might collapse if the wizards started taking advantage of that.
Think about it, every decent first year knows alohamora. Why would wizards go to the ministry to work for every knut when they can get a lot from a decent robbery.
Anyways that's why wizards don't steal from muggles. Along with the fact that most wizards still think that muggles still use horsecarts for travel i.e. there're completely ignorant. Also, the ministry keeps a track of these things. Of course, I didn't leave any trace of theft of any item behind, along with the memories of owners of the said item. They don't remember ever possessing it. So, didn't I completely 'relieved' their burden.? Ah, I'm such a kind hearted guy...
Back to the point, the results of my research of these stones, most don't work. And a few respond to pure magic in different ways. Some only respond to runes carved with pure magic.
Right now, I needed something which can handle storing and emitting pure magic.
I had a few suitable ones-
1) High Quality Jadeite: Highly prized in Chinese, Mayan, and Maori cultures, this stone hasextensive stories of having magical properties.
2) Burma Ruby: This also called pigeon's blood for some reason. Very good for blood related magic.
3) Alexandrite: It has remarkable color- changing abilities. It's colour is peacock blue in daylight.
I wore a lense on one eye and carved extremely small runes on these stones. One rune cluster for storing pure magic, one for slowly emitting the stored magic and a few others.
Then I quickly used blood magic and a droplet of Dora's blood on each of them, binding them to Nymphadora, so that only she can use these. Then I observed which one reacted the best. To my surprise, Alexandrite reacted extremely well to her blood and even strengthened the effect of other runes.
Alexandrite was the one with colour changing properties.
'Maybe it's due to Dora's metamorphagus abilities?'
Anyways, after that, I took some 22 carat gold and transmuted into a beautiful hairpin. Sigh, this task actually took more time than preparing the stones. I had to take several tries to make it look good enough. Then, after carving some runes on the Hairpin, I embedded the Alexandrite into it.
"Aaaand Success!!"
Sigh, if I had the skill- Inspect, then it's description would have been something like this.
Name: Multipurpose hairpin
Grade: Unique
Description: A beautiful artifact, crafted by the all-rounder Chris for his crush. It can help to hold your hair and also, the contents of your memory. It releases pure magic at an extremely slow rate into the head.
Effects:
1) +10 magic power, Has to be charged after use.
2) +30 affection for Chris.
3) Increases the speed occlumency defenses.
->4) The runes are concealed. Would self destruct if someone other than Nymphadora, or the creator tries to uncovered them.
5) Can make the mind feel refreshed. ( similar to the effects of having a good night's sleep)
6) If used normally, can last upto a month.
7) Can only be recharged by Chris personally (as of now).
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A.N.: You gimme powerstones and I'll get you the chapters.
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