10 The cats Den (part two)

Harry and Tonks took the Floo to Diagon Alley.

They walked towards his shop while stopping for ice cream on the way, Tonks had chosen a Coffee instead of ice cream she hasn't got over the Hagrid's Favorite incident. He thought that she was weak.

Harry and Tonks were in front of the shop.

The shop was five shops after Gringotts and it was close to Vertic Alley entrance, it was honestly a really big shop taking the whole corner, the problem was that it was completely broken, the windows were missing or hanging, the door was completely rotten while some of the bricks were at one wind blow to fall.

Tonks was looking at the really dirty place and said, "Is this the shop?"

Harry nodded his head, inside though he was thinking about his past life, this shop had been the same where Weasley's Wizards Wheezes had been, the store of the twins. He honestly didn't know what to think of them, from one side they had nothing to do with the love potions, but on another, they knew about it and they do nothing. When he asked why they responded that they were scared of what he would do to their family, they choose neutrality, but the problem with neutrality is that more often than not it helps the evil side. In this case, they had helped their family by not telling him, he of course had broken any relationship with them. And the store? It had been destroyed in the war, to the point that it had been best to just buy another one. Seeing the four-story-high shop, he was a little sad, even if he had broken any relationship with the twins the store had been marvellous and give Diagon Alley a well-needed laugh.

He kept getting lost in the past until he felt Tonks hugging him, "What's wrong?" She asked gently.

"Nothing. Let's make this garbage can a great home"

Tonks kiss his cheek, "Let's do it!" Making him chuckle.

Stop thinking about the past was hard, it had been his life after all, but he knew that having people like Nymphadora, showering in affection, was making him get better. Maybe in a couple of years, he would finally let go. The first step would make this place home.

Harry summon his wand, and took a deep breath, he was going to use a lot of magic, not enough to be harmed but enough to concentrate for it.

He took position and while looking like a Music director he started to move his wand.

At first, he cast basic constructions charms, those spells were so that the building would support the transformation that was coming, the whole shop now looked still, as if frozen in time

His foot was firmly on the ground and while moving more magic he cast an overpowered Reparo.

The building grumble, like a beast waking up, and started to move. The broken bricks contracted, getting in place, the missing ones appeared again. While this was happening Harry started to move his wand, he was using cleaning charms, mendings charms, he even cast Colour charms on the building, making change the grey bricks into bright red ones. By the end of it the whole building looked newly built, it was not only clean, but the building itself was straight and it didn't look as if it was about to fall.

He open his eyes and looked at it with a frown, it was boring, and he thought that four floors were too many. In need of a second opinion, he looked at Tonks.

Tonks was with mouth open not knowing what to say, she knew that Harry was powerful, seeing the battle against Mad-eye and all, but this was insane.

"Tonks!"

"What!?"

"I asked you if you want to modify the building, I was thinking of making the roof taller, and eliminating the third floor, what do you think?"

She blinked in disbelief, "You want to do what!?"

"It needs more windows too…"

She shook her head and say to herself, 'is Harry Potter, just deal with it'

Thinking for a little she said, "Maybe we should enter and draw a design?"

He nodded his head, it was always better to have a good image of what you wanted.

The two enter the building, the door didn't even make a sound and looked new.

Inside, the building was nasty, not only it was full of spider webs, but there were also rats running.

*Boom!* There was rats running, apparently Tonks didn't like rats. He neither.

He sights seeing all the dirt and again started to move his wand, this time it was less magic than the ones cast outside. Cleaning and repairing the whole building foundations, plus conjuring missing bricks was on another scale.

All the insects of dirt of the building started to float and move to the middle of the room, pieces of the rotten wooded floor were flying to it, while the rats and spiders followed, they were too many.

He closed his eyes and cast the same charms to the other floors.

*Thud Thud Crash* the second floor broke and as a waterfall, it started to pour pieces of rotten pipes, light bulbs, parchment and a wooden desk.

The two of them needed to take some steps back, the ball of trash was getting too big.

While this was happening a poof sound was heard, followed by black smoke coming from the floating trash.

Tonks pointed her wand while exclaiming, "Boggart!"

He on the other hand frowned and look at it.

When the boggart saw Harry, it started to transform.

Tonks narrow her eyes, the boggart had transformed into a bright golden woman.

The woman walked slowly towards Harry, and with a beautiful voice said, "Keep entertaining me, Harry Potter!"

He scowled and snapped at Tonks, "Tonks!"

"Riddikulus!" From the woman hair started to grow, making her fall to the floor.

Harry and Tonks snorted, "Finish it, Tonks!"

She nodded her head and cast a silent Confrigo Curse making the Boggart explode.

Before the blood could touch the duo, it started to fly into the enormous ball of floating garbage.

Tonks looked at Harry, "What was that?"

He shook his head, "I don't know…" He, of course, knew what it was, Fate, the bitch who use him for entertainment and haven't given him a single day of rest. He thought that it made sense, he was really scared that the bitch would keep sending him into unwanted problems and with it harm his loved ones.

'Fucking Fate'

Tonks didn't ask anymore, and instead said, "What are you gonna do to the Trash Ball?"

"Trash Ball? We might just call it Mr Fudge"

Tonks snorted, "Not that fat Harry"

Seeing that there wasn't any more Trash coming, "Gravissgravitta!" from his wand a white bubble appear and floated toward the trash aka Mr Fudge when the ball touched it, it expanded swallowing it whole, then the bubble started to contract and press the garbage into a dense ball.

*Crack*

A solid ball falls to the floor, making the wooden floor crack.

"What was that spell?"

He chuckled, it was one of his favourites spells for fighting, deadly and easy to cast, "It's the Gravissgravitta, it cast a bubble that swallows whatever you throw at it and then it increases the gravity, with enough control you can make the bubble contract or even send a lot of them at the same time. This spell was one of his arsenals, he had made it himself and it was the one who he used to win the World Dueling Championship.

"Look. Gravissgravitta!" From Harry's wand started to appear small bubbles as if a bubble soap gun.

At first, they looked harmless but he started to move them towards the floor *Crack Crack Crack* every place that the bubbles touched would crack for the increasing weight.

He looked at Tonks that had Sparkling eyes, "Imagine if they touched a wizard, you can use them for restrain and if needed it…"

Tonks nodded her head, "Is dangerous but cool"

"Yes, you should practice it well, it might save your life if battling against a group"

She hugged him, "Aww little Harry is worried for his big sister?"

He hugged her back, and mumble, "Yes I am, please take care okay?"

She smiled and while ruffing his shaved head say, "Don't worry I will practice good okay?"

He send him a stinky glare, "You better", he pointed his wand at Mr fudge and said, "Good bay Fudge" And vanished.

"Let's put this shop in place, any cool design?"

The duo walked towards an old wood counter at the left of the shop, just in front of the stairs, Tonks casted a cleaning charm while Harry open up his trunk and grabbed some parchment, he wanted to frame the design as a store decoration.

Tonks look at the paper, "Let's do this!

"I think we should put a whole crystal ceiling for the apartment, and big windows…"

"Metal for decoration?"

"Good, what about this?"

"Hoooo, and a big arch for the entrance?"

"Nice! And some stairs? In here and some lights over her...maybe a garden?"

The two went at it for half an hour, by the end of it the building design was made, they decided to eliminate one of the floors, and instead make taller ruff for the second floor were the the common rooms and kitchen was going to be.

While the third floor, which had a whole crystal roof in a pyramid shape was going to be their two rooms, one at each side, while the middle was going to be a common room and open library. The building didn't have too many rooms, and instead, they decided to make the bathrooms really big and put in there whatever they wanted, they had also decided to not use Expansion charms, both of them wanted to stay closer, the only exception was the bathroom, they had both designed the perfect baths and they were really big.

Harry ones was a full Greek Bathhouse, with Pillars and statues of his Animagus forms and Hedwig. While Tonks wanted something as big as him but instead she went for an Egyptian one, with torches changing colours, plants and sand at the side for ambience.

It was really weird and extravagant, but they thought that the face of whatever person entered their bathroom was going to be priceless.

Tonks look at the drawing with proud eyes, but after a while, she grumbled, "It's going to take a lot of work and money"

He shrugged, they would need to buy the materials, and a lot of bricks, the ones he had conjured for a quick repair won't last forever, and they couldn't be enchanted for long.

In his head, he was also planing where the warding central stone and the private vault was going to be. He wanted to go to use the Central Potter ward stone in Godic's Hollow's but after seeing this design he thought that it would be great to live here in the future, at least while he was single. He could change the Ward stone for another one later.

He looked at Tonks, "go buy the things while I will start to destroy the floor, and make a basement" he summon a pouch from his trunk and filled it up with gold.

Tonks nodded, "Don't go anywhere!"

He chuckles, "if I'm not here look for me at Malkin's. Don't worry I won't leave Diagon, kay?"

She frowned but nodded, "See you later short stuff!"

"See you"

He looked back at the drawing of the building and saw that there was an empty sign in the front of the building, with a smile he write [The Cats Den], he also draw two cats, one was constantly changing colour and looked older, while the other was a black kitty and would duplicate every time he stumbles with some of the letters of the sign. The cats were running around, scratching the letters of the signs, peeing at them, and sleeping on top, they would also play with each other. The Background of the Wooden sign would also change stations.

Seeing his work he duplicated the drawing of the building design, the original was kept in his trunk while the new one had been framed and stick on the wall.

He went outside the store, outside some people were seeing the newly repaired building, this part of Diagon Alley was deserted, the reason was the lack of stores, Having Vertic Alley close by making a lot of people not come to this part leaving a couple of stores empty, after all, most of the rich pure-blood would use the Floo or apparate there, making them bad shop locations for business, not that he minded, after opening his store and with all the people that would come it was a fact that they would start to renting the other places.

He walked towards Madam Malkin's while walking he noted that there were a lot of people, most of them were families with kids buying their things for Hogwarts, seeing this make him have a melancholy face, but it was not enough to erase his smile, his future Den made him giddy.

*Tiring*

"Hello!"

Malkin's wasn't inside, but Rose was and looking at him she exclaimed, "Harry! Good to see you!"

"Rose, how was your days off?"

"They were relaxing, what do you need?"

"I'm looking for your boss, and I need some acromantula silk underwear, full enchanted"

Rose frown a little, "Sorry but we don't have too much Silk and the ones we have are reserved for some of the rich students.

"You will need to go to Twilfitt and Tatting's" Rose put on a scowl while mentioning the shop, Harry was the same.

"Ugh, I don't want to talk with that pompous piece of sh-"Language!"

"My favourite seamstress!"

Madam Malkin's shook her head, "I leave the store to you Rose, Harry and I need to take some pictures and speak about his last ordeal" she started walking towards the stairs.

Harry sweated a little but follow her.

"Now let's talk" Harry nodded, he didn't mind speaking about his sewing techniques, "First, Amelia told me how much you know, younger Animagus in history? We are proud of you Harry and we know your parents are too"

Hearing this he smiled a little, it was nice that someone told him that without him needed to save their lives first. Honestly, he would also be proud of whatever person saved his life.

"Thanks, it's meant a lot"

Malkin's smiles at him and caressing his shaved head said, "I know dear.

"Now, I been studying your coat and especially the jumper, it's really simple but a really original and new way, I still couldn't make it work with the other charms as you did, it would be nice if you can teach me that.

"Still, I can't sell them without asking permission first."

Harry raised an eyebrow at that, he honestly didn't care if she stole the idea, the Hufflepuff that had invented this way of enchanting had made a whole book of patterns, so everyone who liked to learn could just buy the book. "I don't mind, but I think it will be a good idea to introduce this way of enchanting with my clothing line first, also I want your collaboration to make a book, you can invent the patterns and all that, while I will write the method, you could even make a monthly magazine with new patterns"

Hearing this Madam Malkin's got a little giddy, "Ho my, I love those ideas! You want the poster, he?"

He flush a little, he really wanted that poster, It would be great for their new home. Thinking about this he needed to start an order for fabrics, especially silks for decorations.

"Now let's take those pictures so you can take the poster with you, we can talk about the rest later"

The duo started to take pictures, a lot of them, one for every team, the Madam had also made one with a small thunderbolt that changed colours for every team of the League Thirteen, The final result had been great pictures that looked as if Harry was flying in the stadium with the rest of the League. The picture had taken a lot of time and by the end of it, it was already dinner time (A/n: The Uk calls lunchtime, dinner. I call it comilona, but that is in Spanish). They decided to eat something light in the shop while talking.

By the end of the meal, they had made a full contract, he would write the whole theory behind the charm, except for his way of using multiple fabrics at the same time. Malkin's would design some nice patterns and take pictures for the book. She would also make a monthly magazine, the name was going to be [The Warm Home Club], with a demographic of old married couples, fathers and mothers.

From the book he would take the whole money, Malkins didn't have any problem making some patterns for free, he will put her as a co-author. While from the magazine he would only take a 10%. The rest was going to Malkin's and the publishing house.

it was good that he didn't need to speak with The Nimbus Racing Broom Company before doing the deal with the madam, they decided to do their own thing without Nimbus, it was a little of a bummer that he couldn't have a special edition broom with a thunderbolt but he didn't want to keep doing the business talk, it was honestly not necessary and he was sure that for a picture they would send him a personalized broom. He was also lucky enough that the Nimbus Company was from England and they knew about him, if it had been from another country they might not even receive his letter. He wasn't famous around the world, the Boy Who Lived thing was only something from the UK.

Not that it mattered, Tonks had already shown him the worldwide scholarly journal Transfiguration Today, where it had a whole segment only for him and his Animagus, not only he was the younger in history but it was also the first recorded Magical Creature Animagus, this had put a whole lot of theories in jeopardy. He honestly didn't care, being famous was not close to being a priority to him.

After the contract was sent to Ted for revision they started to make designs, Malkin's had loved the thunder animation that made the words Harry Potter write, it was honestly pretty cool.

They also made one of his Animagus form, Harry had the cool idea of enchanting the t-shirt by making the matagot multiply every time the wearer laughed. The matagots of course had a thunderbolt on their head.

They ended up with three designs for each season.

By the end of it It was already 15:00, and he wanted to buy his underwear and his weed pipe, he hadn't forgotten, maybe he could buy a big two-person hookah, he never buy one and he was honestly curious at what types of enchantment they might have.

He walked towards Vertic Alley, passing by the front of the Cats Den, Tonks wasn't there yet, he thought that she might need to travel a little for some of the building materials, especially the marble for the extravagant baths.

He walked by the gosht part of Diagon Alley, just at the corner was his shop was, this place had six shops long, and was all empty, the floor was also in a really bad state, he never understood the real reason as of why it was empty.

Yes, the entrance to Vertic Alley was close by, but it wasn't a big excuse, maybe he could buy them in the future and make a nice little shopping corner.

While he walking to the entrance of Vertic he was thinking about what shops he could put in there, it was honestly a great place for a bank branch.

He walked until the ground started to become nicer, looking up, the whole gosht like Alley become really different.

The floors were white, the buildings were full of marble, gold and silver. They were lamps with Gubraithian Fire or how most people call it, everlasting fire. He frowned a little, for him, this Alley was the worst, the image of luxury was something that he never would understand, he wasn't against good things, it was that most of the wizards here had their whole identity based on it. It was to the point that most pure-bloods didn't even work, he thought that it was awful, even more, when there was something so amazing as magic.

He kept walking while looking around, there were a lot of different stores, jewellery enchantments, real estate, there was even an auction house. The most impressive building was the Theatre, it was massive, with the walls completely black and one really big arch as an entrance. This was the place where most magical in the Uk came for entertainment, not only bands were playing but also plays.

He remembered that in his past life there was one play of him called [Harry Potter Good and Evil], it was a really biased play trying to tarnish his name, funny enough the play had completely backfired after he decided to sell a whole collection of evil vs good Harry toys, they had been the most popular toys in the market. Of course, he had also used the opportunity to make himself look way more buff than he was.

He kept thinking about random things while trying to ignore the look of the posh wizards sending frowning noses at him, it was not his fault that Madam had gifted him a whole set of Puddlemere United merchandise, he was in a full outfit to watch a game.

He looked at the shop name, [Smokes & Coughs] this place will be raided in the future after Hermione decided that having too much fun was illegal and any Drug should be illegal, it was honesty pure stupidity, magical drugs weren't addictive, and a good purging potion would let you walk as new, but the excuse was that Muggleborns couldn't control themselves and ended up doing none magical drugs. It had been one of the first laws he put down in his one year minister career. He still could hear the sound of the Wizengamot clapping, all of them missed their line of pixie dust for a good party night.

He entered the shop, this shop didn't have the little bells that most Alley shops had, they used wards to know when there was a client.

Seeing that there was no one, he started to look around the shelves of the store. This shop had a particularly large collection of pipes and a wall full of small bags with pipe-weed, it was really neat.

There were two categories of pipes, one was the normal wood with silver inside for enchantments, while the other was one made of full magical wood. The full magical wood pipe was like looking for a wand, not as intimate and way worse for channelling magic, but they were good enough to make some neat spells with the smoke. He had asked Fleur to make him a nice repertoire of spells after watching The Lord of The Ring for the first time. He not only started to smoke thanks to the movies but he had never seen Dumbledore the same. He was sure that the old goat had gotten inspired by Gandalf. He knew that he, himself, did.

He keep looking around until his magic felt a strong pull towards one of the middle shelves. There it was a piece of Sycamore wood, he chuckled a little, that was wood for him, a wood for those that can't do boring things.

"What do you need?" The voice of an old woman was heard, the tone was very rude.

Harry looked up, in front of him an old grandma was frowning at him. The grandma was dressed oddly, with a big diamond necklace, and old-style clothing dating to a century back, she had a long pink pipe on his hand and was blowing a purple of smoke from it. It clearly was enchanted because the smoke would dissipate before he could smell it. The woman cough two times making him say, "I want a pipe with this wood" He pointed to the Sycamore and before the Grandma commented he continued, "I also want a hookah for two people, show me the possible enchantments. Do you sell rechargeable boxes?"

Rechargeable boxes were subscription boxes, normally used for supply shops, they were sent monthly with whatever ingredient you needed.

The grandma snide at him, "What does a boy as you wants here, where are your parents?"

He rolled his eyes and pointed at his scar, "Dead thanks to saving hags like you"

The grandma twitched her mouth, this time of the year was full of Hogwarts students that wanted to have some fun, the problem was that the little pest would start causing havoc for not having self-control, so she always try to send them away.

"Harry Potter, I wouldn't think that The Boy Who Lived would smoke, imagine what the prophet would give me for such juicy news"

He snorted, "Try another one. I also want a rechargeable box of Southern Star and Southlinch, black premium. What do you recommend for the hookah?"

The grandma laughed, "haha, you know your stuff, okey the box would be 200 G per month, we send them by owl" She was honestly surprised by the brand choice, those were some strong pipe-weed, not in effect but flavour, but more importantly they were a really specific brand that was normally consumed by Curse-breakers to be more relaxed.

"For the hookah…it depends how much fun you want to have"

He frowned a little, "No hallucinogens, like weed-pipe but stronger, something to have fun?"

The grandma nodded and went to grab a small pink box, it had the image of a chubby fairy with pointed grey hair and it was waving a small wand with a star at the point.

The box writes, [Happy Ever After, True Laughter], he grabbed the box with a dumbfounded face and started to examine it, under the box was a label that said [Fairy Godmother Company], he open the box, and inside there was a small teabag full of pink leaves.

"Is it good?"

"Of course! The best for a little fun and cherry-flavoured!"

He nodded, "What about the hookah?"

"Follow me!"

The duo went into a door at the back of the store.

Inside It was full of deferents Hookahs, some were big with estranging creatures inside, some had animals skulls, while others were really simple. There were of all sizes. Seeing all of them he ended up choosing a three hose one that looked ancient, it was made of wood and the base was made of Imperial jade it was carved by hand for a full big piece and was more Tham 1000 years old.

"What about the enchanting?"

"This is the enchanting list" he grabbed a high-quality parchment that had a long list written, some of them were basics like, self-cleaning, self-repair, colour changing, etc.

Others were new for him, like the extendable hose, enchanted smoke, dream watching and the most amazing of all was a ritual circle for seers. He knew that Grindelwald use an ancient Hookah in the form made of a human skull.

"I want all of them, except for the flavour changes"

The Grandma raised an eyebrow at that, "That's going to cost a lot"

"How much?"

She started writing in parchment and a minute later she responded, "With the wood pipe, the monthly pipe-weed and the true laughter…" she give him the full list of things, from her charcoal recommendation to a dragon fire furnace to burn it.

Seeing the price He frowned but nodded his head, it was expensive, but money was for having fun, and the true laughter weed sounded like enough fun for him.

"Can I have the pipe today?"

The grandma frowned, "Sure why not, follow me"

They walked to the front of the store to grab the piece of wood, then they went to a second floor.

"This is my workshop, I repair and made all the pipes and other things in here" She went to another door, after opening the door a strong magical pressure appear making him frown, "Is the ritual room, If the wood chooses you itself, then you can make a bonded ritual...don't tell the Aurors"

He chuckled, rituals were forbidden, every single one, it didn't make sense, they knew it, so normally they wouldn't say anything, the really dangerous ones and Darks were the ones that were controlled. The other if you got caught would at most give you a fine or just a couple of Galleons to the poor Auror that wasted his time for you.

They entered the room, the grandma put the wood in a circle rounded by lit candles, she then poor some silver substance, for the shine of it he was sure that it was Goblins, he didn't know where she found it, but honestly, he didn't care, fuck the goblins, She then, was going to grab a vial that was painted black, but hesitated, he saw this and asked, "What's the vial?"

"There are two rituals, one by blood sacrifice and the other with only your blood, the first one will make the pipe a true foci, not like your wand, but there is a chance that after some years it might have some special ability.

He grumble, he hated blood rituals, too many Dark Tossers liked to use them and they were a chore for cleaning, "What blood?"

"Your pipe seek for adventure and only the lucky ones live long, the blood is from a Golggolden sheep"

"Damm, aren't they almost extinct?"

The grandma smiled, "This one is raised by the only golden shepherd in the world, of course, is not by the law, but at least is less illegal than hunting the one from the sanctuaries"

He honestly didn't mind, magical creatures got as much extinct as new species appears, "Sure no problem"

The grandma smiled wider, he understood why, if he didn't accept the blood then it would put her in an uncomfortable situation, after all, she just tells him that she had illegal magical blood from her illegal magical rituals. Now that he accepted? He was an accomplice.

He twitched his mouth and jokingly said, "I didn't see any blood if you didn't see me buy weed-pipe"

"Hahaha, is a deal!"

She continued with the ritual, this time he poor the blood into the wood.

"Sit in the middle and grab the wood"

He do as told when he grabbed the wood, it hum with magic and stick into his hands.

"Don't worry, a couple of chants and done"

She started chanting in Latin.

He didn't press any attention to the words, the wood morphing by itself was a way better show.

The wood fuse with the blood and silver, making it change its colour to a nice white, "ouch!" The wood pricks his finger, and after soaking itself in a little blood it started to change the form, *crack crack* the wood enlarged and become thin, then it expanded at the end giving the hole to burn the weed, by the end of it he had a long white wooden pipe, with a really thin body. He smiled, the connection with it was nice, and he could easily channel his magic through it. It wasn't a wand that was almost sentient, but it had a character that longed for adventure and playfulness. He was going to enjoy casting smoke spells with it.

Caressing the pipe he mumbles, "Thanks"

The grandma smiled, "I see that you are already friends with it, now grab your weed and leave my store! I need to rest after that ritual!"

He chuckles, "Goodbye old hag!"

"Go away brat!"

He left the shop caressing his pipe, he would need to craft something by himself to keep it safe, maybe a belt with a wand holster enchantment.

After buying the pipe he went to Twilfitt and Tatting's, this one hadn't been as pleasant and fun as the last shop, the owner had called him half-blood as if it was an insult, even so, he bought his Acromantula silk underwear, and fabrics for the shop, he didn't enchant them, he was planning to give them to Malkin's, he didn't trust the snobbish tailor to keep his little friend safe. He left the store, behind him there was a scream of pain, the twisted nipples jinx was painful, more when cast into a Wizards nuts. He deserved it though, no one insulted him without a petty vengeance from him.

He went back to The Cats Den, he was going to start the demolition of the third floor and make the foundation for the taller ceilings, plus the basement.

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Entering the shop, he looked around, the wooden floors were completely broken thanks to the Fudge ball of before.

He frowned and summoned his wand, pointing at the wood counter, where he and Tonks had drawn the design of the building.

Having a good enough image of what to do he started casting charms around, the counter broke into pieces and started to pile itself at the back, while the floor wood also started to tear off the ground and float into another pile.

The ground was now dirt, it was perfectly straight thanks to magic, but it was dirt and rock.

He frowned and closed his eyes.

The floor started to crack and with a hum It become mud, Harry moved the mud into a bag, leaving a big square hole. Casting another charm the mud become harder.

He jumped down while slowing himself with an Arresto Momentum charm.

Once inside the hole he started to flatten all the ground, by the end of it the mud had become grey stone, he had transfigured the counter and the floor wood into big sturdy pillars that he was going to use to make a ruff, he also transfigured a stair to go up.

seeing the newly built basement he smiled. He grabbed the bag full of mud, and as a hose, the mud started to pour.

Before the mud went down into the hole he would make it float and then transfigure into stone, he had enough volume of mud to make a compact and hard stone, with enough magic he could probably transform it into marble. He knew that what he was doing was really on the line for his body, multiple charms, transfiguration, conjuring missing materials plus making it all levitated was way harder than it looked. There were probably no more than ten magical that could do what he was doing. It showed the perfect control he had with his magic.

By the end of it, the floor had been covered again, of course, where it was wooden floors there was now a stone floor. Seeing the ugly stone he cast another charm making the floor move like a moving serpent, every time it moved it would change into a cobblestone floor.

At the back of the store, it was the hole to go into the basement. He leave it like that, one thing was to conjure a couple of missing wood or bricks, another thing was to conjure a whole basement of materials, he needed to stop here, there were spells to change conjured materials for real ones, that's why he had fixed the outside building before, but the problems with conjured materials were that they couldn't be enchanted for long, and have a really small life pan, the more enchanted you give them the less it would be.

Still, he could start making the central ward stone in the basement.

Going down again he could see anything, so he cast three Lumos charms in succession.

He now had three light orbs floating around the room, he started to cast spells at the ruff of the basement, making it more sturdy. He then start to cast privacy wards, especially wards that would make the big magic of the Ward stone, not scape, he was making a bubble.

Seeing all good, he expanded his trunk, seeing it he cursed, "Bloody hell, I keep forgetting to buy a trunk!", he shook his head, and from inside the trunk summon a one meter tall red stone. The stone was full inscribed with runes, and it looked ancient. This had been the one from his parents home, his mom had really charmed the whole house.

He was planning to use it here at least until he moved out to his future house. The reason he didn't make one new was that Central Stones would get stronger the more years they had, it was more so if they were on land with constant magical use. Seeing the stone he put a small smile, this was the hearth of his family, it recognized a Potter and defended their home, in a couple of years it might even start to change the building by itself, making random passages or rooms. That was the reason that Hogwarts felt alive and had so many hidden rooms and passages, no one build them, they appear alone. It was one of the many wonders of magic. He also took a hundred normal central stones, he had bought them from the Adventure Shop.

Seeing the pile of stones he transfigured all of them into a big one, he then summon his rune kit, and while pumping magic into it, he started to carve the stone. It was really easy to carve stone with a professional rune engraving the tool, it literally feel like wood.

He did this for a whole hour.

The engraving weren't wards but a special alchemy formula to make Transfigured objects permanent, they would take a couple of months, but being close to a real big ward stone would make it faster. This way of making big central ward stones was a secret of the only manufactured in the world, they used a really big central Ward stone to make the other stronger.

Seeing it good he made a hole into the stone floor and put it in place, it looks like a statue.

Then he did the same with the Potter Ward Stone, seeing the both of them done, he cut his hand and started to bleed. He kept bleeding for a couple of minutes and then put both of his hands on the Potter stone, the blood started to move like a viscous substance and covered the stone. While this was happening he started to chant in Latin, Egyptian, Chinese and other old languages. The blood keep pouring, already covered the stone, and was now covering the floor. This went for a whole hour until the whole basement was covered in blood, making it look like a red room.

He opened his eyes, his face was pale and his lips were blue.

"custodire hanc domum-custodire hanc domum-custodire hanc domum-custodire hanc domum"

The stone pulse with a red light, under the blood the runes started to light in white colour.

*Thud* *Thud*….

*Thud* *Thud*…

*Thud* *Thud* *Thud*

The stone pulsed more and more like the hearth of a beast waking up.

While at the same time the blood that was covering the whole room started to be absorbed by the stone.

Harry stop grabbing the stone and quickly summon a Blood replenishment potion. He then took a pepper up potion, making smoke come from his ears like a boiling kettle. His face took colour again and he sigh while stretching a little, "Bloody hell, Old families wards are intense"

The stone had absorbed the whole blood and was still pulsing.

He looked at it with sad eyes and while caressing it with a finger he mumble, "Welcome back"

The stone sends a pulse of magic as if saying 'I'm back'.

He chuckled, and keep caressing it, the warmth that emanated from it felt like home.

"Okey, I need to upgrade your old wards, and activate the root boundaries". The root boundaries were the limit where the stone would protect the land, it normally used the walls of the house and the ground, literally the heart and veins of the house.

He couldn't activate the boundaries fully yet, but he could activate them in the basement, making the stone start getting active and stronger. He also needed to upgrade the wards into more modern ones, He had a whole list of amazing wards, the anti imperius, anti-dark mark were some of the normal ones, there were others for nourishment that would absorb ambient magic and enchant the walls of the house, shields that could annul almost every single Dark Spell and the ones it couldn't weren't invented yet. Honestly, his wards in this era were impenetrable, the only problem with this kind of wards is that they needed time, at least the most stronger ones, the Central stone needed to nourish the whole house first and make it stronger.

Before going he connected a vein of the ward into the newly made central ward stone, "teach him well, he would need to protect the Potter shop in the future. The Potter stone again pulsed in response.

He then cast the Screen spell, making appear a blue translucid screen. He started to cast a set of special spells, this was an easier way of magic programming, and he needed to do this to make a special vein system.

The system was going to have a special vein going into the whole house, it would be needed to make things like the future magical T.v or Magical the Weeb word, it was the equivalent of an electric system. From it you could control the ward stone without the need to go down, you could even connect to a Data-pad and control your home from outside, of course, he didn't have a data-pad yet, but it was nice to already made put it in place.

Seeing all done he started to summon all of his family history and wealth into the room. He would make another underground vault later, but in the meantime, he would not be scared of a random spell hitting his trunk and making him die by the literal weight of his ancestors...gold was heavy.

Seeing the basement full to the bring he chuckled, sending a tendril of magic into the ward he activated special security for the basement, only he could enter, not even seer could see or enter the basement now. He had even put an illusion into the hole to enter the basement and a better version of the notice-me-not charm.

Going up the basement he was thinking how much stronger his body was now, doing all the magic he had done today would have put him in bed for a whole day, yet, he was nice. He was sure that after doing the whole building his body would ache for a couple of days.

He shook his head and went for ice cream, Tonks would come any second now and he still needed to start the other floors.

He had also sent a big Bombarda to the third floor, making it crash into the ground. Of course, he had walked off the building before people start asking questions.

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Woooow 22k of chapters long.

There are probably a lot of questions to be made, ask away and I will respond.

I wanted to clarify the enchantment system a little.

An artefact is a magical enchantment that will never die out, they are normally unbreakable too.

A magical object or enchanted object is every item that had been charmed with spells or runes.

Runes make it more durable and give a longer life span, but you can enchant with spells alone, like Harry's trunk.

A good way would be to cast the spells and then use runes to make them stay longer.

The problem with enchanting conjured objects is that they are made full of magic, and they cant support other spells. if you are good enough like Andromeda did when conjuring a flask to save the red light it would not be a problem. at tops, she will need to recast the conjuring again.

But a whole building is another thing.

About transfiguration, to change material into another is really easy, the problem is that that it is not permanent. you can combine the same materials to make one bigger but if you want to change their original characteristics you need to use alchemy or wait for it to be destroyed.

Gold can't be transfigured not conjured, you can do fake gold, but not the real magical gold that is good at transmitting magic.

I think that's all. if you have a question please ask, I will respond just stop with the Harem crap, there won't be Luna x Harry, not Hermione x Harry, etc.

The next chapter is going to be a short time skip to the Flamel's meeting, and then hogwarts.

-F3f3